Promoting self-regulated learning in technology enhanced learning environments : keeping a digital track of the learning process

Tese de doutoramento (co-tutela), Psicologia (Psicologia da Educação), Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra, Technial University of Darmstadt, 2014

Embodying Self-Determination: Re-placing Food Sovereignty through Everyday Geographies of Indigenous Resurgence

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2015

“I’m Not Waving, I’m Drowning”: An Autoethnographical Exploration of Biographical Disruption and Reconstruction During Recovery From Prescribed Benzodiazepine Use

Benzodiazepines are group of drugs used mainly as sedatives, hypnotics, muscle relaxants, and anti-epileptics. Tapering off benzodiazepines is, for some users, a painful, traumatic, and protracted process. In this article, I use an autoethnographic approach, adopting the metaphor of water, to examine heuristically my experience of iatrogenic illness and recovery. I draw on personal journals and blog entries and former users’ narratives to consider the particular form of biographical disruption associated with benzodiazepines and the processes involved in identity reconstruction. I emphasize the role of the online community in providing benzodiazepine users such as myself with a co-cultural community through which to share a voice and make sense of our experiences. I explain how the success stories of former users provided me with the hope that I, the “medical victim,” could become the “victor” and in the process construct a new life and fresh identity.

O reconhecimento e a mensuração dos activos fixos tangíveis

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Contabilidade e Finanças Orientador: Professor Doutor, José Manuel Veiga Pereira

Aplicação de zeólitos hierárquicos a reacções de acilação de Friedel-Crafts

Trabalho Final de Mestrado para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Química

Sparse matrix multiplication on a reconfigurable many-core architecture

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SMVM) is a fundamental operation in many scientific and engineering applications. In many cases sparse matrices have thousands of rows and columns where most of the entries are zero, while non-zero data is spread over the matrix. This sparsity of data locality reduces the effectiveness of data cache in general-purpose processors quite reducing their performance efficiency when compared to what is achieved with dense matrix multiplication. In this paper, we propose a parallel processing solution for SMVM in a many-core architecture. The architecture is tested with known benchmarks using a ZYNQ-7020 FPGA. The architecture is scalable in the number of core elements and limited only by the available memory bandwidth. It achieves performance efficiencies up to almost 70% and better performances than previous FPGA designs.

Portal de Eventos

Na última década tem-se assistido ao aparecimento de várias redes sociais, no entanto, apesar de maior parte delas terem suporte para a promoção de eventos, estas não têm grandes funcionalidades úteis, relacionadas com o tema, como ferramentas de apoio aos promotores, procura de eventos baseados em geolocalização, integração com outros sistemas, gestão de entradas, bilheteiras… Nesta dissertação é documentado o desenvolvimento de um sistema que tem como objetivo colmatar esses problemas.

Lexicultura na Língua Chinesa e na Lexicografia Bilingue de Chinês-Português

No contexto de internacionalização de hoje, acompanhando os contactos cada vez mais intensos entre o mundo chinês e o mundo lusófono, é exigida a maior atenção à questão da lexicultura na comunicação interlingual e intercultural, pois o que preocupa as partes envolvidas não é apenas descodificar os signos meramente linguísticos, mas também perceber a cultura que a língua, nomeadamente as unidades lexicais transportam, visando um comportamento culturalmente correto e adequado nessa comunicação. Partindo desta preocupação, este trabalho tenta, através da abordagem e análise da língua, da escrita e do léxico chineses, comprovar que o chinês, devido às suas peculiaridades inexistentes em outras línguas do mundo, constitui o vivo exemplo que exemplifica e alarga o conceito de lexicultura, pois a própria língua, sobretudo a sua escrita e as suas unidades lexicais, além de refletirem a cultura popular e partilhada, também contam verdadeiras histórias da Humanidade e da China. Baseando-se nesta abordagem e análise, a tese apresenta um novo modelo de dicionário cultural chinês-português, com propostas concretas de seleção de vedetas para a sua macroestrutura e de definição de vedetas na sua microestrutura, ao serviço da comunicação entre os dois mundos em questão.

Recueil de copies de pièces portant pour titre : « Discours des rangs et seances. Meslanges de diverses ceremonies ».

Contient : 1 à 4 Rangs et préséances ; 1 « Memoire pour les rangs des princes et grands » ; 2 « Discours des rangs et preseances de France. Année 1605 » ; 3 « Du differend qui, en l'an 1434, survint au concile de Basle pour la preseance entre les ducz de Bourgongne et de Bretaigne » ; 4 « Preseance entre les ambassadeurs de France et d'Espagne, à Rome, lors de la canonisation de S. Ignace, en aoust 1609 » ; 5 « Extrait de l'Histoire du roy Philippe III par LOUIS CABRERA de Cordoue, historiographe de Castille, lib. V, cap. 13, imprimée à Madrid », en « 1619 » ; 6 « Diverses ceremonies observées aux entrées, sacres des roys, enterremens et autres, et l'ordre de chacun officier de la couronne » ; 7 à 9 Cérémonies ; 7 « Creation de l'office de grand maistre des ceremonies par le roy HENRY III, en janvier 1585, pour le Sr de Rhodes, Guillaume Pot, prevost et maistre des ceremonies » des « deux ordres » du roi ; 8 « Don fait par le roy HENRY [IV] au Sr de Rodes, filz du deffunt Sr de Rhodes, de l'office de grand maistre des ceremonies, en juin 1603 » ; 9 « Don fait par le roy LOUIS XIII à François Pot, sieur de Rhodes, de l'office de deffunt Guillaume Pot, sieur de Rhodes, son pere, en febvrier 1616 » ; 10 et 11 Rangs et préséances ; 10 « Ordonnance du roy CHARLES IX, par laquelle il declare que les officiers de la couronne precederont les ducz, marquis et comtes creez depuis le trespas de son pere le roy Henry II. A Moullins, le 18 mars 1566 » ; 11 « Lettres patentes du roy HENRY III pour la preseance des officiers de la couronne sur les ducz et pairs non princes du sang, à la reserve des quatre maisons de Longueville, Savoye, Lorraine et Mantoue. En l'an 1582 » ; 12 « Habitz royaux et pieces de la royauté » ; 13 « Maistres des ceremonies et prevost de l'ordre » ; 14 « Fault faire advertir ceux qui s'ensuit (sic) d'avoir la robbe longue et chapperon sur l'espaulle... ». Ordre pour une audience d'ambassadeurs ; 15 à 19 Rangs et préséances ; 15 « Reiglement fait par le roy [LOUIS XIII] pour le rang et sceances des princes enfans naturels des roys et de ceux issus des maisons souveraines estrangeres... Fontainebleau, le 15 septembre 1629 » ; 16 « Declaration du roy LOUIS [XIII], que l'arrest du 15 septembre 1629, touchant les rangs des princes autres que du sang de France, ne porte aucun prejudice au rang, preeminence et dignité de M. le duc de Longueville,... Fontainebleau, le 20 octobre 1629 » ; 17 « Declaration du roy CHARLES IX, par laquelle il recongnoist Mre Leonor d'Orleans, duc de Longueville, pour prince du sang, veult que luy et ses enfans masles soyent reputez pour telz et ayent le premier lieu apres les autres princes du sang. Duretal, decembre 1571 » ; 18 « L'ordre qui sera observé jeudy que le roy donnera audience aux ambassadeurs » ; 19 « Memoire touchant la preseance entre evesques et parlemens » ; 20 à 50 Cérémonies ; 20 « Ceremonie observée quand le roy se communie » ; 21 « Ceremonies observées le jour du jeudy saint, au lavement des piedz des pauvres » ; 22 « Ceremonie observée quand le roy touche les malades des escrouelles » ; 23 « Forme que l'on observe pour servir le roy, lorsqu'il est au lit malade » ; 24 « Ceremonie qui s'observe lorsque le roy donne le bonnet à un cardinal » ; 25 « Ceremonie observée par la royne mere [Marie de Médicis], en donnant le bonnet à M. le cardinal de Berulle, le mardy 26 octobre 1627, à Paris » ; 26 « Ceremonies observées à la canonisation de S. Jaques d'Alcala, celebrée en l'eglise de S. Pierre, le 2 juillet 1588 » ; 27 « Ceremonies observées à la canonisation de S. Charles Boromée, le 1 novembre 1618 » ; 28 « Les ceremonies observées à la solemnisation de la paix faite en l'eglise N. D. de Paris, le 21 juin 1598 » ; 29 « Tiré du ceremonial de la chambre des comptes. La paix. Ce jourd'huy 12 juing 1598, Mrs ayans esté advertis du Te Deum que l'on alloit dire en l'eglise de N. D.... » ; 30 « Ceremonies de la confederation entre les royaumes de Hongrie et de Boheme et les provinces incorporées et haulte et basse Austriche, le 25 avril 1620, à Prague » ; 31 « Extrait des lettres de M. DE STE CATHERINE, agent de France » en Allemagne. « Du 6 may 1610 » ; 32 « Ceremonie observée à la procession generalle faite par le roy pour implorer l'ayde de Dieu contre les heretiques. Du mercredy 29 septembre 1568 » ; 33 « Ordre que le roy veult estre gardé et observé en la procession generalle que S. M. entend faire dimanche prochain 26 de ce mois... Fait à Paris, le 23 octobre 1614 » ; 34 « Discours des entreveues. Les roys et princes font quelquefois non seulement des entrées dans les villes de leurs royaumes... » ; 35 « Entreveues du roy Louis XII et de Philippe, archiduc d'Austriche, pere des empereurs Charles V et Ferdinand. A Blois, l'an 1501 » ; 36 Même sujet. Extrait de JEAN D'AUTON ; 37 « Seance du roy Louis XII et du roy Ferdinand d'Arragon, à la messe qu'ils ouirent ensemble à Savonne, le jour de la feste S. Pierre et S. Paul, le 29 juin 1507, celebrée par le cardinal Ste Praxedde, lors legat en Lombardie » ; 38 « Sacre et couronnement du roy Louis XI. L'an 1461, le 14 jour d'aoust, entra Louis, roy de France... » ; 39 « L'ordre tenu au couronnement du roy Jean d'Albret et Catherine de Navarre. Au nom du Seigneur tout puissant, le Pere, le Fils et le S. Esprit, trois personnes en une essence... en tesmoignage de verité, requis de ce faire... ». 1494 ; 40 « L'ordre du sacre et couronnement du roy Henry III pour roy de Polongne. Apres avoir fait son entrée à Cracovie... » ; 41 « L'ordre qui s'observe au sacre et couronnement des roys de Polongne... In primis enim convocantur primores et consiliarii regni... ». En latin ; 42 « Ceremonies observées au sacre et couronnement du roy Henry IV, à Chartres. 1594. Sa Majesté se desirant conformer aux louables coustumes de plusieurs roys, ses predecesseurs... » ; 43 « C'est l'ordre et les rangs que le roy veut estre tenus au sacre et couronnement de la royne. Faict à Paris, le 16 avril 1610 » ; 44 « Les ceremonies du sacre et couronnement du tres chrestien roy de France et de Navarre Louis XIII. Bien qu'en France les roys sont couronnez... Voilà tout ce qui s'est passé de plus remarquable en cette année » ; 45 « Lettres du roy LOUIS XIII à la chambre, pour la resjouissance de son sacre. Tiré du cerimonial de la chambre des comptes. Ce jourd'huy, 22 octobre 1610... » ; 46 « Fonctions de la dame d'honneur au sacre des roynes. Mme de Guiercheville a de la naissance... » ; 47 « L'ordre et façon des Carintiens au couronnement de leurs princes. En ceste province de Carintie, il y a une grande plaine... » ; 48 « Chambre de parade pour le baptesme des enfans de France. La chambre de parade de Monsieur doibt estre tapissée... » ; 49 « Memoire de ce qui s'est passé au baptesme de M. le prince de Piémont, où a esté envoyée Mme de Carnavalet pour representer la personne de la royne mere du roy. Pour satisfaire au commandement que la royne mere du roy a fait au Sr de Storis,... » ; 50 Pièce imprimée de 16 pages, portant pour titre : « L'ordre et triumphe du baptesme de tres hault et tres puissant prince Mgr Loys, second filz de France, duc d'Orleans, faict à S. Germain en Laye, le XIX jour du moys de may M.D.XLIX »

Capt. Mellish and Dr. Gibson

In a special visit to Canada, Captain Michael Mellish of Guernsey - O. B. E. Secretary, A. D. C. to the Lieutenant-Governor, and great nephew of Isaac Brock - donates a photo album containing photographs of a number of Isaac Brock related items to the university in June of 1965. He also brings several of the artifacts themselves to show to the university. The item Capt. Mellish is holding here is a ceremonial wooden tomahawk presented to General Sir Isaac Brock by the native chief Tecumseh. Pictured here from left to right are: Capt. Mellish and Dr. Gibson.

The effect of calculators on the numerical problem-solving skills and attitudes of primary students towards mathematics /

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect that calculators have on the attitudes and numerical problem-solving skills of primary students. The sample used for this research was one of convenience. The sample consisted of two grade 3 classes within the York Region District School Board. The students in the experimental group used calculators for this problem-solving unit. The students in the control group completed the same numerical problem-solving unit without the use of calculators. The pretest-posttest control group design was used for this study. All students involved in this study completed a computational pretest and an attitude pretest. At the end of the study, the students completed a computational posttest. Five students from the experimental group and five students from the control group received their posttests in the form of a taped interview. At the end of the unit, all students completed the attitude scale that they had received before the numerical problem-solving unit once again. Data for qualitative analysis included anecdotal observations, journal entries, and transcribed interviews. The constant comparative method was used to analyze the qualitative data. A t test was also performed on the data to determine whether there were changes in test and attitude scores between the control and experimental group. Overall, the findings of this study support the hypothesis that calculators improve the attitudes of primary students toward mathematics. Also, there is some evidence to suggest that calculators improve the computational skills of grade 3 students.

Making it "click": collaborative perceptions of creative practice in art education /

Making it "Click": Collaborative Perceptions ofCreative Practice in Art Education examined the teaching practice of 6 art educators who conducted their work through the Niagara Falls Art Gallery's (NFAG) in-schools and Children's Museum programmes. These community resources service the elementary levels of participatory Public, Catholic and French schools in the Niagara Peninsula. The goal of this research was to find ways in which these teachers could explore their creative potential as art educators. The "click," a term introduced by participants indicating the coming together of all positive factors towards creativity, became the central theme behind this study. Research revealed that the effective creative process was not merely a singular phase, but rather a series of 4 processes: 1 , gathering knowledge; 2, intuitive and experiential; 3, the informal presentation of information in which creativity as a process was explored; and 4, formal presentation that took the analysis of information to a deeper, holistic level. To examine the ways in which experience and knowledge could be shared and brought together through a collaborative process, this study employed data collection that used literature research, interviews, focus group discussions, and personal journal entries. Follow-up discussions that assessed the effectiveness of action research, took place VA months after the initial meetings. It is hoped that this study might assist in creative educational practices, for myself as a member of the NFAG teaching team, for colleagues in the art programmes, art educators, and other teachers in the broader disciplines of education.

A case study of a high functioning autistic female in a games setting

This study detennined whether or not a high functioning autistic girl can develop game structure strategies that may allow her to become an active participant in a game or sport environment. This qualitative case study involved the in-depth observation and description of one high functioning autistic student whose experience in a game setting would be studied. The type of case study carried out was a combination of descriptive and evaluative. This experience was investigated through structured, individual programming. Through on-site observation, journal entries, and hands on instruction, I was able to describe what progress the autistic student made in tenns of skill development. The results of the study demonstrated that a high-functioning autistic female has the potential to develop the necessary motor skills to participate in the chosen sport of basketball. The observation results and field notes contributed to a movement profile which described her habits of body. Teaching strategies and frameworks utilized during the study were described and listed. Insights and commentary are further provided. A thorough examination of autism and games programming is provided in the literature review.

An inquiry into the barriers to participation within the fitness industry for people living with mobility challenges

This qualitative study was designed to inquire about the barriers to participation within the fitness industry for people living with mobility challenges. i\n examination of the insights, stolies~ and experiences with barriers through interviews gi ven by 4 people living with mobility challenges (PMC) formed the core of the research. An analysis of the interviews from the 4 PMC informants was performed at t\\/O levels. First, a content analysis served to identify general and specific categories related to barrier issues within various fitness environments. Secondly, in-depth thematic analyses of the entries related to the insights and stories from the 4 informants which emerged from the content analysis of the data gave rise to fi ve thematic statements. From the thematic statements a fitness industry awareness protocol was created in the fonn of a statement response questionnaire. The protocol, which was given to 4 fitness assessors/trainers, \vas used to provide a snapshot of the fitness industry's readiness to work vvith disability. Throughout the process, the four PNIC informants formed a collaborati vely involved group of coresearchers, adding their voices to the narrative of the fitness-barrier experience. The result of the study suggests that barriers to participation within the fitness industry for PMC exist in various forms and levels of severity. The results also suggest that the fitness industry needs to better prepare their people and environment for working with people with physical disabilities, such as PMC, and provide a more open and positi ve environment for participation. Within the context of any fitness-related environment, recognizing that barriers to participation do exist, and acknowledging and accepting people with disabilities for who they are as indi viduals, will serve to develop a relationship where fitness practitioners and people with disabilities can work towards creating an inviting, inclusive, accessible, and barrier-free fitness environment for all.