Psychotropic treatments were more complex, and metabolic measures more abnormal among bipolar disorder than schizophrenia patients. Intensive psycho-education, clinical monitoring, and encouragement of weight-control for six months were associated with improvements in metabolic measures (but not to BMI), and more realistic attitudes about medication.

Abstract-The interplay teacher regulation and student self-regulation of learning is an important topic in contemporary theories of teaching and learning. The pervasiveness of the boredom experienced by many students, along with its deleterious effects, clearly implies that educators, and teachers responsible for the design of academic settings should pay more attention to this emotion. With regard to the prevention or reduction of boredom, the present findings suggest that specific measures could focus on increasing the perceived values of activities in achievement settings. This study used mixed methodologies, including a student perception inventory and observations, to investigate whether teachers differ in their regulation mode during flipped lesson. This paper is an attempt to examine the impact of flipped classroom model on student's learning with particular focus on teacher's reflections on their learning process. The contribution of this research is that it qualifies the instructional practices to shift from content acquisition act to knowledge expression and creation act. In addition, the paper would give a contribution to people looking for pedagogical applications of virtual and blended learning environments for developing multiple ways to express what learners know and be able to do.Index Terms-Boredom, flipped, observations of teacher practices, self-regulation. I. INTRODUCTIONSeveral motivation theories may be relevant to a discussion of boredom in learning environments: these include attribution theory, self-regulated learning, and goals theory.Researches on self-regulated learning show that self-regulation is an important factor in student learning.Recent studies have gone beyond the effect of boredom on achievement. These studies indicate that boredom is relate to: students' stress, impulsivity, procrastination, and it has significant consequences leading to truancy and school dropout (etc.).Since schools were first established, educators from the inside and reformers from the outside, have tried to change schools for the better. Question are frequently asked why Manuscript received October 12, 2015; revised December 23, 2015. This work was supported in part by the Research Project of National Interest (PRIN, 2010(PRIN, /2011) -Success training, inclusion and social cohesion: innovative strategies, ICT and valuation models‖ (Scientific Coordinator of the National Research Programme is Professor Gaetano Domenici). Starting from the standard measurement of learning, achieved through an external evaluation integrated with the internal evaluation prepared by the teachers, the Research Unit of Palermo, coordinated by Professor Giuseppe Zanniello, aims at both improving individual performance of pupils and teachers' professional skills.The authors are with the Educational Department, University of Palermo, 90100Italy (e-mail: alessandra.lamarca@unipa.it, leonarda.longo@unipa.it).some students are successful in some schools while in others they are not. Why do some students do not complete schooling?...

The Red Palm Weevil (RPW) Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier 1790) is an invasive pest from southeastern Asia and Melanesia that in the last 30 years has spread widely in the Middle East and Mediterranean Basin. Its stem-boring larvae cause great damage to several palm species of the Arecaceae family, many of which are economically important for agricultural and ornamental purposes. Therefore, great attention has recently been focused in studying this species to identify sustainable and effective eradication strategies, such as sterile insect technique (SIT). The rapid spread of RPW is associated with its high reproductive success. To evaluate the suitability of a SIT strategy, particular physiological and behavioral aspects of RPW reproduction, such as the presence of polyandry and post-copulatory sperm selection mechanisms, were investigated. To determine paternity of progeny from multiply mated females, double-crossing experiments were carried out confining individual females with either a wild-type male or a γ-irradiated male (Co-60). Fecundity and fertility of females were scored to evaluate post-copulatory sperm selection. Results showed that progeny were almost exclusively produced by the sperm of the second male, suggesting that a last-male sperm precedence is expressed at high levels in this species, and providing interesting insights for an area-wide RPW management strategy such as the SIT.

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