La asignatura Educación Física de Base y una propuesta de adaptación al Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior.

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Expresión corporal en clase de Educación Física.

Pretende clarificar, unificar y ordenar para presentar una expresión corporal accesible. Y ser una herramienta que permita al profesor introducir con toda naturalidad la expresión en sus clases. Para ello con este libro se dota al profesor de Educación Física de un marco teórico que le posibilite comprender y entender el complejo, ambiguo y desordenado andamiaje teórico y conceptual de la expresión corporal. Pretende, así, despojar a la expresión corporal de toda su parafernalia acercándola a la terminología, los conceptos y la metodología propia del mundo de la Educación Física.

El salto al aprendizaje : cómo obtener éxito en los estudios y superar las dificultades del aprendizaje.

Se exponen diversos conocimientos sobre los procesos de aprendizaje, investigaciones y experiencias prácticas a los que pueden acceder aquellos que busquen nuevas formas de aprender, asimilar, de aplicar en la práctica del aula, en los centros psicopedagógicos, en la familia y en la educación de cualquier edad. Tiene como finalidad aportar un modelo de aprendizaje que reúna y sintetice procedimientos prácticos para orientar los estudios y el desarrollo personal a cualquier edad, de forma que se pueda obtener el máximo rendimiento de los talentos, prevenir dificultades o resolverlas cuando aparecen y trabajar con autoestima y seguridad personal. En cada capítulo se exponen actividades prácticas, ejemplos de actuaciones reales y recursos tecnológicos y bibliográficos que facilitan la aplicación práctica del contenido del libro.

Pequeña memoria recobrada : libros infantiles del exilio del 39.

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Biology now! 11-14.

Cumple con los requisitos del curriculum nacional inglés para la etapa 3 de la secundaria (Key stage 3).Pero, además, del conocimiento de hechos, métodos, principios y teorías sobre la ciencia de la biología este texto pretende otros objetivos: presentarla como una actividad humana, y desarrollar en los alumnos habilidades para la comprensión, aplicación, análisis, síntesis, evaluación y discusión de hechos científicos tanto actuales cómo futuros. Este libro del alumno se apoya en un libro/recurso para el profesor.

Educación física y nuevas tecnologías en el ámbito educativo.

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Nueva apuesta por la creación de empleo estable para los docentes.

La Consejería de Educación y Cultura de Castilla-La Mancha oferta 1.060 plazas en concurso-oposición para maestros, nueva oportunidad para acceder a un puesto de empleo fijo en el 2003.

Evangelización y religiosidad indígena en Puerto Viejo en la Colonia

Puerto Viejo, situado al sur de lo que hoy es Manabí, Ecuador, fue el epicentro de la confederación de mercaderes que controló el intercambio de productos entre los pueblos prehispánicos del Pacífico. A partir de la conquista española, Puerto Viejo fue el escenario de un complejo proceso de interacción entre invasores e invadidos, dos grupos humanos culturalmente distintos, localizados en una área de frontera o de paso, y al mismo tiempo periférico en relación a los núcleos económicos y a los centros de poder de las Indias. Esta obra intenta responder a la pregunta sobre la manera en que se produjo el proceso de evangelización de los indios de Puerto Viejo y la forma en que se reconfiguró la religiosidad de este grupo humano, como parte de la integración cultural más amplia que se desarrolló durante la Colonia. Este estudios se ocupa del problema de la religiosidad tanto en la dimensión de sus prácticas, como en la de sus representaciones.

Gestión de Recursos Humanos por Competencias para Industrias Gráficas

El desarrollo de esta tesis se fundamenta en una visión sistémica sobre la Gestión de Recursos Humanos por Competencias. Su alcance se orienta hacia la Industria Gráfica de la ciudad de Quito. Su aplicación y desarrollo investigativo se centra en la captación, mantenimiento, capacitación y desarrollo del principal de sus recursos, el capital humano. El propósito fundamental de este trabajo es el definir un modelo de Gestión de Recursos Humanos por Competencias que le permita a la Industria Gráfica el logro de sus objetivos estratégicos, para ello: 1. Define las competencias requeridas para los cargos estratégicos de la industria; 2. Desarrolla, a través del enfoque de competencias los componentes básicos del sistema integral de Gestión Humana; 3. Propone una metodología de evaluación del talento humano con miras a su desarrollo; 4. Define un plan integral de desarrollo que permita mantener y potenciar las competencias del Talento Humano. Esta investigación es una propuesta que pretende establecer un modelo de Gestión que involucre a todos los subsistemas de Recursos Humanos bajo un mismo denominador. Este denominador en la empresa son las competencias de los cargos, y parte de la gestión es promover para que las competencias de las personas se ajusten a esos cargos. Paralelamente es necesario establecer los mecanismos de aplicabilidad a la propia realidad de cada Industria. En otras palabras se habla de una técnica constructiva participativa que tiene su origen en el conocimiento de los objetivos estratégicos de la Industria Gráfica.

Convectively coupled equatorial waves: A new methodology for identifying wave structures in observational data

Convectively coupled equatorial waves are fundamental components of the interaction between the physics and dynamics of the tropical atmosphere. A new methodology, which isolates individual equatorial wave modes, has been developed and applied to observational data. The methodology assumes that the horizontal structures given by equatorial wave theory can be used to project upper- and lower-tropospheric data onto equatorial wave modes. The dynamical fields are first separated into eastward- and westward-moving components with a specified domain of frequency–zonal wavenumber. Each of the components for each field is then projected onto the different equatorial modes using the y structures of these modes given by the theory. The latitudinal scale yo of the modes is predetermined by data to fit the equatorial trapping in a suitable latitude belt y = ±Y. The extent to which the different dynamical fields are consistent with one another in their depiction of each equatorial wave structure determines the confidence in the reality of that structure. Comparison of the analyzed modes with the eastward- and westward-moving components in the convection field enables the identification of the dynamical structure and nature of convectively coupled equatorial waves. In a case study, the methodology is applied to two independent data sources, ECMWF Reanalysis and satellite-observed window brightness temperature (Tb) data for the summer of 1992. Various convectively coupled equatorial Kelvin, mixed Rossby–gravity, and Rossby waves have been detected. The results indicate a robust consistency between the two independent data sources. Different vertical structures for different wave modes and a significant Doppler shifting effect of the background zonal winds on wave structures are found and discussed. It is found that in addition to low-level convergence, anomalous fluxes induced by strong equatorial zonal winds associated with equatorial waves are important for inducing equatorial convection. There is evidence that equatorial convection associated with Rossby waves leads to a change in structure involving a horizontal structure similar to that of a Kelvin wave moving westward with it. The vertical structure may also be radically changed. The analysis method should make a very powerful diagnostic tool for investigating convectively coupled equatorial waves and the interaction of equatorial dynamics and physics in the real atmosphere. The results from application of the analysis method for a reanalysis dataset should provide a benchmark against which model studies can be compared.

Anticholinesterase-induced epileptiform activity in immature rat piriform cortex slices, in vitro

Purpose: Acute in vitro brain slice models are commonly used to study epileptiform seizure generation and to test anti-epileptic drug action. Seizure-like activity can be readily induced by manipulating external ionic concentrations or by adding convulsant agents to the bathing medium. We previously showed that epileptiform bursting was induced in slices of immature (P14–28) rat piriform cortex (PC) by applying oxotremorine-M, a potent muscarinic receptor agonist. Here, we examined whether raising levels of endogenous acetylcholine (ACh) by exposure to anticholinesterases, could also induce epileptiform events in immature (P12–14) or early postnatal (P7–9) rat PC brain slices. Methods: The effects of anticholinesterases were investigated in rat PC neurons using both extracellular MEA (P7–9 slices) and intracellular (P12–14 slices) recording methods. Results: In P7–9 slices, eserine (20 μM) or neostigmine (20 μM) induced low amplitude, low frequency bursting activity in all three PC cell layers (I–III), particularly layer III, where neuronal muscarinic responsiveness is known to predominate. In P12–14 neurons, neostigmine produced a slow depolarization together with an increase in input resistance and evoked cell firing. Depolarizing postsynaptic potentials evoked by intrinsic fibre stimulation were selectively depressed although spontaneous bursting was not observed. Neostigmine effects were blocked by atropine (1 μM), confirming their muscarinic nature. We conclude that elevation of endogenous ACh by anticholinesterases can induce bursting in early postnatal PC brain slices, further highlighting the epileptogenic capacity of this brain region. However, this tendency declines with further development, possibly as local inhibitory circuit mechanisms become more dominant.

A new perspective on blocking

It is argued that the essential aspect of atmospheric blocking may be seen in the wave breaking of potential temperature (θ) on a potential vorticity (PV) surface, which may be identified with the tropopause, and the consequent reversal of the usual meridional temperature gradient of θ. A new dynamical blocking index is constructed using a meridional θ difference on a PV surface. Unlike in previous studies, the central blocking latitude about which this difference is constructed is allowed to vary with longitude. At each longitude it is determined by the latitude at which the climatological high-pass transient eddy kinetic energy is a maximum. Based on the blocking index, at each longitude local instantaneous blocking, large-scale blocking, and blocking episodes are defined. For longitudinal sectors, sector blocking and sector blocking episodes are also defined. The 5-yr annual climatologies of the three longitudinally defined blocking event frequencies and the seasonal climatologies of blocking episode frequency are shown. The climatologies all pick out the eastern North Atlantic–Europe and eastern North Pacific–western North America regions. There is evidence that Pacific blocking shifts into the western central Pacific in the summer. Sector blocking episodes of 4 days or more are shown to exhibit different persistence characteristics to shorter events, showing that blocking is not just the long timescale tail end of a distribution. The PV–θ index results for the annual average location of Pacific blocking agree with synoptic studies but disagree with modern quantitative height field–based studies. It is considered that the index used here is to be preferred anyway because of its dynamical basis. However, the longitudinal discrepancy is found to be associated with the use in the height field index studies of a central blocking latitude that is independent of longitude. In particular, the use in the North Pacific of a latitude that is suitable for the eastern North Atlantic leads to spurious categorization of blocking there. Furthermore, the PV–θ index is better able to detect Ω blocking than conventional height field indices.

The two-dimensional anharmonic oscillator I: vibration-rotation constants of fulminic acid, HCNO

The lowest-wavenumber vibration of HCNO and DCNO, ν5, is known to involve a largeamplitude low-frequency anharmonic bending of the CH bond against the CNO frame. In this paper the anomalous vibrational dependence of the observed rotational constants B(v5, l5), and of the observed l-doubling interactions, is interpreted according to a simple effective vibration-rotation Hamiltonian in which the appropriate vibrational operators are averaged in an anharmonic potential surface over the normal coordinates (Q5x, Q5y). All of the data on both isotopes are interpreted according to a single potential surface having a minimum energy at a slightly bent configuration of the HCN angle ( 170°) with a maximum at the linear configuration about 2 cm−1 higher. The other coefficients in the Hamiltonian are also interpreted in terms of the structure and the harmonic and anharmonic force fields; the substitution structure at the “hypothetical linear configuration” determined in this way gives a CH bond length of 1.060 Å, in contrast to the value 1.027 Å determined from the ground-state rotational constants. We also discuss the difficulties in rationalizing our effective Hamiltonian in terms of more fundamental theory, as well as the success and limitations of its use in practice.

The influence of winter oilseed rape (Brassica napus ssp oleifera var. biennis) canopy size on grass weed growth and grass weed seed return

Four experiments conducted over three seasons (2002-05) at the Crops Research Unit, University of Reading, investigated effects of canopy management of autumn sown oilseed rape (Brassica napus L. ssp. oleifera var. biennis (DC.) Metzg.) on competition with grass weeds. Emphasis was placed on the effect of the crop on the weeds. Rape canopy size was manipulated using sowing date, seed rate and the application of autumn fertilizer. Lolium multiflorum Lam., L. x boucheanum Kunth and Alopecurus myosuroides Huds. were sown as indicative grass weeds. The effects of sowing date, seed rate and autumn nitrogen on crop competitive ability were correlated with rape biomass and fractional interception of photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) by the rape floral layer, to the extent that by spring there was good evidence of crop: weed replacement. An increase in seed rate up to the highest plant densities tested increased both rape biomass and competitiveness, e.g. in 2002/3, L. multiflorum head density was reduced from 539 to 245 heads/m(2) and spikelet density from 13 170 to 5960 spikelets/m(2) when rape plant density was increased from 16 to 81 plants/m(2). Spikelets/head of Lolium spp. was little affected by rape seed rate, but the length of heads of A. myosuroides was reduced by 9 % when plant density was increased from 29-51 plants/m(2). Autumn nitrogen increased rape biomass and reduced L. multiflorum head density (415 and 336 heads/m(2) without and with autumn nitrogen, respectively) and spikelet density (9990 and 8220 spikelets/m(2) without and with autumn nitrogen, respectively). The number of spikelets/head was not significantly affected by autumn nitrogen. Early sowing could increase biomass and competitiveness, but poor crop establishment sometimes overrode the effect. Where crop and weed establishment was similar for both sowing dates, a 2-week delay (i.e. early September to mid-September) increased L. multiflorum head density from 226 to 633 heads/m(2) and spikelet density from 5780 to 15 060 spikelets/m(2).