A framework for estimating difficulty and exclusion from tasks during inclusive design

Measuring capability variations within the population isanimportant process that can be used to support decision making regarding the inclusivity of design for all users, thus allowing the level of exclusion tobe defined veryearly and throughout the design process. Our hands often represent a central feature of the human-task interaction, and therefore, variations in the capabilities of the hands has the potential to exclude people from all or part of the tasks they perform. Data is presented from the performance of 15 people in one of three age groups (18-40, 41-64 and 65+). Using a classification system for defining hand actions the prevalence of different grips in response to a range of physical task demands was mapped in a way that allowed capability to be measured against other variables such as task quality. This was found toenhance thegranularity with which exclusion could be both measured and predicted.

利用力致分子动力学模拟方法构建剪切流场

<正>在传统计算力学的研究领域,利用Fluent等软件实现连续介质流体的模拟,已有很成熟的经验及范例;同时,分子动力学模拟也在其擅长的微观结构分析及预测领域有了长足的发展。但是到目前为止,连续介质力学仍无法和分子动力学方法有机地结合起来。因此,仍无法在分子动力学模拟体系构建理想的(即速度梯度和温度可控的)剪切流场。Grattona与Delgado-Buscalioni等的研究表明,在分子动力学模拟中,利用

Avaliação de estratégias de produção em agricultura irrigada no perímetro de irrigação do Jaíba.

2007

Zoneamento agroecológico da cana-de-açúcar: expandir a produção, preservar a vida, garantir o futuro.

2009

Extração de DNA genômico de nematóides entomopatogênicos na Embrapa Trigo.

2009

Doença de Crohn

Projeto de Pós-Graduação/Dissertação apresentado à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ciências Farmacêuticas

Desarrollo de diez (10) líneas de productos, a partir del rescate del producto artesanal tradicional, que conformen subcolecciónes y que involucren los oficios, técnicas y materias primas artesanales identificadas con mayor potencial para los mercados objetivo : municipios de Almaguer, Bolivar, Sotará, Inza, Piendamó.

[165] hojas : ilustraciones, fotografías.

Informe Fase No 2 : Sede: Pasto; Cauca - Municipios del sur: Bolívar, San Sebastián, La Vega, Almaguer.

[158] hojas : ilustraciones, fotografías.

Asesoría en talla de piedras semipreciosas : Suárez, departamento del Cauca.

[39] hojas : ilustraciones, fotografías.

Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon: global prices, deforestation, and mercury imports.

Many factors such as poverty, ineffective institutions and environmental regulations may prevent developing countries from managing how natural resources are extracted to meet a strong market demand. Extraction for some resources has reached such proportions that evidence is measurable from space. We present recent evidence of the global demand for a single commodity and the ecosystem destruction resulting from commodity extraction, recorded by satellites for one of the most biodiverse areas of the world. We find that since 2003, recent mining deforestation in Madre de Dios, Peru is increasing nonlinearly alongside a constant annual rate of increase in international gold price (∼18%/yr). We detect that the new pattern of mining deforestation (1915 ha/year, 2006-2009) is outpacing that of nearby settlement deforestation. We show that gold price is linked with exponential increases in Peruvian national mercury imports over time (R(2) = 0.93, p = 0.04, 2003-2009). Given the past rates of increase we predict that mercury imports may more than double for 2011 (∼500 t/year). Virtually all of Peru's mercury imports are used in artisanal gold mining. Much of the mining increase is unregulated/artisanal in nature, lacking environmental impact analysis or miner education. As a result, large quantities of mercury are being released into the atmosphere, sediments and waterways. Other developing countries endowed with gold deposits are likely experiencing similar environmental destruction in response to recent record high gold prices. The increasing availability of satellite imagery ought to evoke further studies linking economic variables with land use and cover changes on the ground.

Considering the role of social dynamics and positional behavior in gestural communication research.

While the hominin fossil record cannot inform us on either the presence or extent of social and cognitive abilities that may have paved the way for the emergence of language, studying non-vocal communication among our closest living relatives, the African apes, may provide valuable information about how language originated. Although much has been learned from gestural signaling in non-human primates, we have not yet established how and why gestural repertoires vary across species, what factors influence this variation, and how knowledge of these differences can contribute to an understanding of gestural signaling's contribution to language evolution. In this paper, we review arguments surrounding the theory that language evolved from gestural signaling and suggest some important factors to consider when conducting comparative studies of gestural communication among African apes. Specifically, we propose that social dynamics and positional behavior are critical components that shape the frequency and nature of gestural signaling across species and we argue that an understanding of these factors could shed light on how gestural communication may have been the basis of human language. We outline predictions for the influence of these factors on the frequencies and types of gestures used across the African apes and highlight the importance of including these factors in future gestural communication research with primates.

Rehabilitación de suelos salino - sódicos : evaluación de enmiendas y de especies forrajeras

La salinización de los suelos es uno de los problemas más graves de degradación en el mundo. En la Argentina hay aproximadamente 85.000.000 ha afectadas por exceso de sales y sodio. La generación de productos orgánicos como residuo de procesos industriales es vista con interés para la recuperación de suelos salino-sódicos. Por otra parte, en producciones extensivas se generan productos orgánicos con potencial de bioremediación como los biosólidos de Feedlot (BF) y los Efluentes de Tambo (BT). El objetivo de esta tesis fue investigar posibles estrategias de rehabilitación de suelos salino-sódicos, a través de la evaluación de la aplicación de enmiendas biológicas (Biosólidos de feedlot y Efluentes de tambo) y químicas (Yeso) con el fin de modificar las propiedades químicas de suelos Natracuoles y mejorar la productividad primaria de gramíneas forrajeras perennes. Para esto, se llevaron a cabo dos ensayos, uno bajo condiciones de invernáculo y otro a campo. En los dos ensayos los tratamientos fueron: testigo (T), aplicación de 8 t de materia seca (MS) ha-1 de BT, aplicación de 8 t MS ha-1 de BF y aplicación de 12 t ha-1 de Y. En invernáculo se evaluó la respuesta en biomasa aérea y radical de Thinopyrum ponticum (agropiro alargado). En el ensayo de campo se evaluó el comportamiento de las enmiendas sobre las propiedades químicas del suelo, utilizándose cobertura vegetal de cebada (Hordeum vulgare L.) y sorgo para silaje (Sorghum sudanense). En invernáculo se comprobó que los BT, los BF y el Y incrementaron la MS aérea y radical de T. ponticum. En el ensayo a campo, se comprobó que los BT, los BF y el Y, no tuvieron efecto alguno sobre las propiedades químicas del suelo. La variabilidad observada en la materia seca (MS) de S. sudanense se explicó en un 49 por ciento por el Porcentaje de Sodio Intercambiable (PSI) del suelo y la profundidad del horizonte A. Se concluye que los BT, los BF y el Y incrementaron la MS aérea y radical de agropiro bajo condiciones de invernáculo, pero a campo, no fueron efectivos en la remediación de la salinidad y la sodicidad del suelo debido a la elevada variabilidad edáfica y a la sequía ocurrida durante el período experimental, condiciones que impidieron la lixiviación de sodio intercambiado por calcio y el exceso de sales solubles, y la consecuente remediación. La falta de respuesta observada a campo fue atribuida, además a la decobertura superficial del suelo por la labranza, particularmente en suelos con delgado horizonte A