Work in progress - learning through role play games

It is commonly accepted that the educational environment has been undergoing considerable change due to the use of the Information and Communication tools. But learning depends upon actions such as experimenting, visualizing and demonstrating through which the learner succeeds in constructing his own knowledge. Although it is not easy to achieve these actions through current ICT supported learning approaches, Role Playing Games (RPG) may well develop such capacities. The creation of an interactive computer game with RPG characteristics, about the 500th anniversary of the city of Funchal, the capital of Madeira Island, is invested with compelling educational/pedagogical implications, aiming clearly at teaching history and social relations through playing. Players interpret different characters in different settings/scenarios, experiencing adventures, meeting challenges and trying to reach multiple and simultaneous goals in the areas of education, entertainment and social integration along the first 150 years of the history of Funchal. Through this process they will live and understand all the social and historical factors of that epoch.

Del papel al celuloide: la adaptación cinematográfica de la novela Las tres ratas, de Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco (Del Fabulador)

En este ensayo el autor analiza la manera en que fue adaptada, en 1946, la novela Las tres ratas, describe aspectos de las dos narrativas (literaria y fílmica), para determinar qué elementos de la novela fueron conservados en la adaptación argentina, y cuáles fueron cambiados u omitidos. Sostiene que la película fracasa en la reconstrucción de la esencia de la obra, principalmente porque se omite el segundo nivel discursivo de la novela (la aproximación a la caída del liberalismo en el Ecuador), además, se cambia el carácter de varios personajes (la hermana mayor, el novio de Ana Luisa, o el usurero Don Horacio), cuyos rasgos son importantes pues aportan al conflicto, al tono y ambiente de la historia, finalmente, la adaptación omite la recreación del ambiente de fracaso del proyecto político liberal, para inscribir la historia en clave de melodrama.

A "mão pronta" e a divina: manifestações da justiça em contos rosianos

Pós-graduação em Estudos Literários - FCLAR

A "mão pronta" e a divina: manifestações da justiça em contos rosianos

Pós-graduação em Estudos Literários - FCLAR

Literatura y vida. Una lectura de Victoria Ocampo

La relación entre la literatura, el escritor y la vida, más específicamente, la manera en que se comprende la vida en el marco de esta relación constituye una pieza clave para la definición del peculiar modo de leer la literatura de Victoria Ocampo, tal como se puede ver en el ensayo que dedica a Emily Brontë. Aunque priorice la dimensión biográfica sobre la estética, Ocampo no adopta el método biográfico ni tampoco identifica el sentido de la vida con el de la biografía del escritor, ya que busca la clave de interpretación en fuerzas naturales como el "carácter" y el "destino" (en lugar de hacerlo en relación con el medio social e histórico al modo positivista). Es así como identifica la experiencia vital de la naturaleza (el páramo) como la clave tanto de la personalidad de la escritora como de su novela Cumbres borrascosas.

Literatura y vida. Una lectura de Victoria Ocampo

La relación entre la literatura, el escritor y la vida, más específicamente, la manera en que se comprende la vida en el marco de esta relación constituye una pieza clave para la definición del peculiar modo de leer la literatura de Victoria Ocampo, tal como se puede ver en el ensayo que dedica a Emily Brontë. Aunque priorice la dimensión biográfica sobre la estética, Ocampo no adopta el método biográfico ni tampoco identifica el sentido de la vida con el de la biografía del escritor, ya que busca la clave de interpretación en fuerzas naturales como el "carácter" y el "destino" (en lugar de hacerlo en relación con el medio social e histórico al modo positivista). Es así como identifica la experiencia vital de la naturaleza (el páramo) como la clave tanto de la personalidad de la escritora como de su novela Cumbres borrascosas.

Literatura y vida. Una lectura de Victoria Ocampo

La relación entre la literatura, el escritor y la vida, más específicamente, la manera en que se comprende la vida en el marco de esta relación constituye una pieza clave para la definición del peculiar modo de leer la literatura de Victoria Ocampo, tal como se puede ver en el ensayo que dedica a Emily Brontë. Aunque priorice la dimensión biográfica sobre la estética, Ocampo no adopta el método biográfico ni tampoco identifica el sentido de la vida con el de la biografía del escritor, ya que busca la clave de interpretación en fuerzas naturales como el "carácter" y el "destino" (en lugar de hacerlo en relación con el medio social e histórico al modo positivista). Es así como identifica la experiencia vital de la naturaleza (el páramo) como la clave tanto de la personalidad de la escritora como de su novela Cumbres borrascosas.

The innovation process of a privately-owned enterprise and a state-owned enterprise in China

This study compares the innovation process of a privately-owned enterprise and a state-owned enterprise in China using their patent data. Huawei and ZTE were selected for this study because they experienced the same historical environment in the same industry from the same region in China leaving their owner types as their critical difference. This study investigates the difference in the innovation process in R&D between a privately-owned and a state-owned enterprise by analyzing (1) domestic and international patent application pattern, (2) co-application and co-applicants, (3) knowledge accumulation inside Huawei and ZTE, and (4) knowledge spillover to domestic and foreign firms.

Durability to marine environment of innovative products for consolidation and chromatic reintegration of historical renders

9th International Masonry Conference 2014, 7-9 July, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães

Past environment from historical sources /

"PB-231 711."

Anthropogenic influences in a lagoonal environment: a multiproxy approach at the valo grande mouth, Cananéia-Iguape system (SE Brazil)

The Cananéia-Iguape system, SE Brazil, consists of a complex of lagoonal channels, located in a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Biosphere Reserve. Nevertheless, important environmental changes have occurred in approximately the last 150 yrs due to the opening of an artificial channel, the Valo Grande, connecting the Ribeira de Iguape River to the lagoonal system. Our objective is to assess the historical record of the uppermost layers of the sedimentary column of the lagoonal system in order to determine the history of environmental changes caused by the opening of the artificial channel. In this sense, an integrated geochemical-faunal approach is used. The environmental changes led significant modifications in salinity, in changes of the depositional patterns of sediments and foraminiferal assemblages (including periods of defaunation), and, more drastically, in the input of heavy metals to the coastal environment. The concentrations Pb in the core analyzed here were up to two times higher than the values measured in contaminated sediments from the Santos estuary, the most industrialized coastal zone in Brazil.

Short report: historical analysis of a near disaster: Anopheles gambiae in Brazil

Attributed to human-mediated dispersal, a species of the Anopheles gambiae complex invaded northeastern Brazil in 1930. This event is considered unique among the intercontinental introductions of disease vectors and the most serious one: "Few threats to the future health of the Americas have equalled that inherent in the invasion of Brazil, in 1930, by Anopheles gambiae." Because it was only in the 1960s that An. gambiae was recognized as a species complex now including seven species, the precise species identity of the Brazilian invader remains a mystery. Here we used historical DNA analysis of museum specimens, collected at the time of invasion from Brazil, and aimed at the identification of the Brazilian invader. Our results identify the arid-adapted Anopheles arabiensis as being the actual invading species. Establishing the identity of the species, in addition to being of intrinsic historical interest, can inform future threats of this sort especially in a changing environment. Furthermore, these results highlight the potential danger of human-mediated range expansions of insect disease vectors and the importance of museum collections in retrieving historical information

Nomenclature for congenital and paediatric cardiac disease: Historical perspectives and The International Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Code

Clinicians working in the field of congenital and paediatric cardiology have long felt the need for a common diagnostic and therapeutic nomenclature and coding system with which to classify patients of all ages with congenital and acquired cardiac disease. A cohesive and comprehensive system of nomenclature, suitable for setting a global standard for multicentric analysis of outcomes and stratification of risk, has only recently emerged, namely, The International Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Code. This review, will give an historical perspective on the development of systems of nomenclature in general, and specifically with respect to the diagnosis and treatment of patients with paediatric and congenital cardiac disease. Finally, current and future efforts to merge such systems into the paperless environment of the electronic health or patient record on a global scale are briefly explored. On October 6, 2000, The International Nomenclature Committee for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease was established. In January, 2005, the International Nomenclature Committee was constituted in Canada as The International Society for Nomenclature of Paediatric and Congenital Heart Disease. This International Society now has three working groups. The Nomenclature Working Group developed The International Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Code and will continue to maintain, expand, update, and preserve this International Code. It will also provide ready access to the International Code for the global paediatric and congenital cardiology and cardiac surgery communities, related disciplines, the healthcare industry, and governmental agencies, both electronically and in published form. The Definitions Working Group will write definitions for the terms in the International Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Code, building on the previously published definitions from the Nomenclature Working Group. The Archiving Working Group, also known as The Congenital Heart Archiving Research Team, will link images and videos to the International Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Code. The images and videos will be acquired from cardiac morphologic specimens and imaging modalities such as echocardiography, angiography, computerized axial tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, as well as intraoperative images and videos. Efforts are ongoing to expand the usage of The International Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Code to other areas of global healthcare. Collaborative efforts are under-way involving the leadership of The International Nomenclature Committee for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease and the representatives of the steering group responsible for the creation of the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases, administered by the World Health Organisation. Similar collaborative efforts are underway involving the leadership of The International Nomenclature Committee for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease and the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation, who are the owners of the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine or ""SNOMED"". The International Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Code was created by specialists in the field to name and classify paediatric and congenital cardiac disease and its treatment. It is a comprehensive code that can be freely downloaded from the internet (http://www.IPCCC.net) and is already in use worldwide, particularly for international comparisons of outcomes. The goal of this effort is to create strategies for stratification of risk and to improve healthcare for the individual patient. The collaboration with the World Heath Organization, the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation, and the healthcare Industry, will lead to further enhancement of the International Code, and to Its more universal use.