Investigation of Theories Supporting Engagement of Resistant Learners in Formal Academic Settings and Curriculum

This study sought to explore ways to work with a group of young people through an arts-based approach to the teaching of literacy. Through the research, the author integrated her own reflexivity applying arts methods over the past decade. The author’s past experiences were strongly informed by theories such as caring theory and maternal pedagogy, which also informed the research design. The study incorporated qualitative data collection instruments comprising interviews, journals, sketches, artifacts, and teacher field notes. Data were collected by 3 student participants for the duration of the research. Study results provide educators with data on the impact of creating informal and alternative ways to teach literacy and maintain student engagement with resistant learners.

La educación no formal de adultos en Costa Rica : un panorama de instituciones y sus programas

Tesis (Maestría en Educación de Adultos) (UANL)

Educación formal y sexualidad en adolescentes en Guadalupe, Nuevo León.

Tesis (Maestría en Enfermería, con Especialidad en Salud Comunitaria) UANL

Hacia una propuesta de educación no formal : la formación del educador de adultos para el programa Educación para todos en Ptzcuaro, Mich., México

Tesis (Maestría en Formación y Capacitación de Recursos Humanos) UANL

La evaluación educativa dentro de un proyecto de educación no formal

Tesis (Maestría en Formación y Capacitación de Recursos Humanos) UANL

Estilos de liderazgo formal y estudio relativo en empresas de la ciudad de Linares, Nuevo León

Tesis ( Maestría en Formación y Capacitación de Recursos Humanos) U.A.N.L.

Análisis de la congruencia interna formal de un plan de estudios de licenciatura en enfermería

[Tesis] ( Maestría en Metodología de la Ciencia ) U.A.N.L.

Implementación de un método de intervención activo y formal denominado ECO (equipo de clima organizacional), para el incremento del nivel de satisfacción del clima organizacional; de una empresa de transporte federal de pasajeros.

Tesis (Maestría en Psicología Laboral y Organizacional) UANL, 2012.

Elementos de expresión formal y composición arquitectónica : apuntes de trabajo

UANL

Amparo promovido por el Lic. Antonio de la Fuente, contra la ejecutoria del Sr. Magistrado de la 1a. sala del S. Tribunal de Justicia del estado de Coahuila que declaró procedente el auto de formal prisión dictado por el juez 1o. de letras de Monclova en la acusación que sobre quiebra fraudulenta, ante él hicieron, el Lic. J.M. Palacios y Don José Gaymard contra los señores G.M. Elizondo y Cía. S. en C. que formaron la razón social mercantil residente en Monclova, Coah.

UANL

Economic integration in North America: Formal, Informal and Spatial Aspects.

An exemination of a series of indicators of economic integration in the western hemisphere (Canada-USA-Latin America) indicates that it is proceeding under the influence of formal trade agreements and informal forces including technological change, multinational firm rationalization and location strategies, etc.

Production Linkages Between Informal and Formal Activities Considering Domestic and Imported Inputs: an Application of the Minimal-Flow-Analysis Method to Senegal.

We apply to the Senegalese input-output matrix of 1990, disagregated into formal and informal activities, a recently designed structural analytical method (Minimal-Flow-Analysis) which permits to depict the direct and indirect production likanges existing between activities.

On Vessiot's Theory of Partial Differential Equations

The object of research presented here is Vessiot's theory of partial differential equations: for a given differential equation one constructs a distribution both tangential to the differential equation and contained within the contact distribution of the jet bundle. Then within it, one seeks n-dimensional subdistributions which are transversal to the base manifold, the integral distributions. These consist of integral elements, and these again shall be adapted so that they make a subdistribution which closes under the Lie-bracket. This then is called a flat Vessiot connection. Solutions to the differential equation may be regarded as integral manifolds of these distributions. In the first part of the thesis, I give a survey of the present state of the formal theory of partial differential equations: one regards differential equations as fibred submanifolds in a suitable jet bundle and considers formal integrability and the stronger notion of involutivity of differential equations for analyzing their solvability. An arbitrary system may (locally) be represented in reduced Cartan normal form. This leads to a natural description of its geometric symbol. The Vessiot distribution now can be split into the direct sum of the symbol and a horizontal complement (which is not unique). The n-dimensional subdistributions which close under the Lie bracket and are transversal to the base manifold are the sought tangential approximations for the solutions of the differential equation. It is now possible to show their existence by analyzing the structure equations. Vessiot's theory is now based on a rigorous foundation. Furthermore, the relation between Vessiot's approach and the crucial notions of the formal theory (like formal integrability and involutivity of differential equations) is clarified. The possible obstructions to involution of a differential equation are deduced explicitly. In the second part of the thesis it is shown that Vessiot's approach for the construction of the wanted distributions step by step succeeds if, and only if, the given system is involutive. Firstly, an existence theorem for integral distributions is proven. Then an existence theorem for flat Vessiot connections is shown. The differential-geometric structure of the basic systems is analyzed and simplified, as compared to those of other approaches, in particular the structure equations which are considered for the proofs of the existence theorems: here, they are a set of linear equations and an involutive system of differential equations. The definition of integral elements given here links Vessiot theory and the dual Cartan-Kähler theory of exterior systems. The analysis of the structure equations not only yields theoretical insight but also produces an algorithm which can be used to derive the coefficients of the vector fields, which span the integral distributions, explicitly. Therefore implementing the algorithm in the computer algebra system MuPAD now is possible.

Exploration tools in formal concept analysis

The development of conceptual knowledge systems specifically requests knowledge acquisition tools within the framework of formal concept analysis. In this paper, the existing tools are presented, and furhter developments are discussed.