[Ressenya del llibre] Agenda 21 de la cultura. Cultura, gobiernos locales y objetivos de desarrollo del milenio

Ressenya del llibre 'Agenda 21 de la cultura. Cultura, gobiernos locales y objetivos de desarrollo del milenio' dels autors: Ingre Ruigrok, Amareswar Galia, José Antonio González Mancebo i Nil Sismanyazici-Navaie, publicat l'any 2009

[Ressenya del llibre] Metodología de investigación en cooperación para el desarrollo

Ressenya del llibre ‘Metodología de investigación en cooperación para el desarrollo’ de Enara Echart Muñoz, Rhina Cabezas Valencia i José Ángel Sotillo Lorenzo, publicat l’any 2010 per Catarata editorial i la Universidad Complutense de Madrid

[Ressenya del llibre] Cultura y desarrollo: evolución y perspectivas

Ressenya del llibre 'Cultura y desarrollo: evolución y perspectivas', de Maider Maraña, publicat al 2010 per UNESCO ETXEA

[Ressenya] Audiovisual Seminario Internacional Cultura y Desarrollo

Ressenya de l' Audiovisual del 'Seminario Internacional Cultura y Desarrollo', dirigit per Alfons Martinell i Gemma Carbó i realitzat per Lluís Masachs

[Ressenya de la] Revista Observatório Itaú Cultural Núm. 11

Ressenya de la 'Revista Observatório Itaú Cultural' Núm. 11

[Ressenya del llibre] Cultura y desarrollo : un compromiso para la libertad y el bienestar

Ressenya del llibre 'Cultura y desarrollo : un compromiso', editat l'any 2010 per Fundación Carolina i Siglo XXI

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The Pedagogical Congresses of Portuguese Secondary Teaching : the participation of female teachers (1927-1928)

This paper was written within the context of the research project “The development of teacher’ associative organizations and unionism (1889-1990)” funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Foundation for Science and Technology). Five important congresses about secondary education were organized in Portugal between 1927 and 1931. These congresses served to claim the rights of teachers and the consolidation of the class, as well as to promote the discussion of scientific and pedagogical problems. In these congresses, the presence of female teachers was residual. However, the few teachers who participated had a significant contribution to the definition of secondary education during the following decades. Among other issues, it contributed to the discussion of female education and to analyze the importance of Biology and Physical Education in high schools. This paper presents the analysis of the minutes of the 1927s and 1928s Congresses. This analysis allowed the assessment of the important role played by a group of teachers to define, at the end of the first third of the 20th century, the future guidelines of Portuguese secondary education. It also reported that these teachers were pioneers who opened the way for the increasing number of teachers in secondary education during the 20th century.

Understanding safety and production risks in rail engineering planning and protection

Much of the published human factors work on risk is to do with safety and within this is concerned with prediction and analysis of human error and with human reliability assessment. Less has been published on human factors contributions to understanding and managing project, business, engineering and other forms of risk and still less jointly assessing risk to do with broad issues of ‘safety’ and broad issues of ‘production’ or ‘performance’. This paper contains a general commentary on human factors and assessment of risk of various kinds, in the context of the aims of ergonomics and concerns about being too risk averse. The paper then describes a specific project, in rail engineering, where the notion of a human factors case has been employed to analyse engineering functions and related human factors issues. A human factors issues register for potential system disturbances has been developed, prior to a human factors risk assessment, which jointly covers safety and production (engineering delivery) concerns. The paper concludes with a commentary on the potential relevance of a resilience engineering perspective to understanding rail engineering systems risk. Design, planning and management of complex systems will increasingly have to address the issue of making trade-offs between safety and production, and ergonomics should be central to this. The paper addresses the relevant issues and does so in an under-published domain – rail systems engineering work.

An overview of Meniere's Disease for the CID graduate student

This paper provides an overview of Meniere's Disease.

Two daily smoke maxima in eighteenth century London air

Varied electrostatics experiments followed Benjamin Franklin's pioneering atmospheric investigations. In Knightsbridge, Central London, John Read (1726–1814) installed a sensing rod in the upper part of his house and, using a pith ball electrometer and Franklin chimes, monitored atmospheric electricity from 1789 to 1791. Atmospheric electricity is sensitive to weather and smoke pollution. In calm weather conditions, Read observed two daily electrification maxima in moderate weather, around 9 am and 7 pm. This is likely to represent a double diurnal cycle in urban smoke. Before the motor car and steam railways, one source of the double maximum smoke pattern was the daily routine of fire lighting for domestic heating.

Habitat associations of the Small Red Damselfly (Ceriagrion tenellum) (De Villiers) in heathland in southern England (Zygoptera : Coenagrionidae)

The Small Red Damselfly (Ceriagrion tenellum) (De Villiers) (Odonata: Coenagrionidae: Ceriagrion) is classed as vulnerable (Shirt, British Red Data Book, Nature Conservancy Council, Peterborough, UK, 1987) throughout the UK, and is included in certain Local Biodiversity Action Plans (LBAPs) in the south. A large proportion of any Biodiversity Action Plan is concerned with the requirement of conservation and management programmes. In order to guide them, information about the habitat preferences of the species concerned is vital. Detailed habitat information was collected to include a variety of physical parameters particularly vegetation, both in-channel and bankside. The species was found to be primarily associated with in-channel emergent broad-leaved plants, bankside grasses and rushes, and shallow, narrow channels with dark organic substrate. The consequences of these findings are discussed in relation to the conservation and management of C. tenellum.