Highly scalable aggregate computations in cyber-physical systems: physical environment meets communication protocols

In this paper, we focus on large-scale and dense Cyber- Physical Systems, and discuss methods that tightly integrate communication and computing with the underlying physical environment. We present Physical Dynamic Priority Dominance ((PD)2) protocol that exemplifies a key mechanism to devise low time-complexity communication protocols for large-scale networked sensor systems. We show that using this mechanism, one can compute aggregate quantities such as the maximum or minimum of sensor readings in a time-complexity that is equivalent to essentially one message exchange. We also illustrate the use of this mechanism in a more complex task of computing the interpolation of smooth as well as non-smooth sensor data in very low timecomplexity.

Emotion-oriented interventions for environment and the facilitation of pro-environmental behavior

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Doutor em Ambiente, pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Models and approaches for environmental education in Iowa, 1999

This guide provides a variety of tools that can help an educator, building staff or school district decide how to include environmental education in their curriculum.

Field effectiveness of stimulus equivalence for teaching reading skills to children with autism

Stimulus equivalence involves teaching two conditional discriminations that share one stimulus in common and testing all possible conditional discriminations not taught (Saunders & Green, 1999). Despite considerable research in the laboratory, applied studies of stimulus equivalence have been limited (Vause, Martin, Marion, & Sakko, 2005). This study investigated the field-effectiveness of stimulus equivalence in teaching reading skills to children with Autism. Participants were four children with Autism receiving centre-based intensive behavioural intervention (lBI) treatment. Three of the participants, who already matched pictures to their dictated names, demonstrated six to eight more emergent performances after being taught only to match written words to the same names. One participant struggled with the demands of the study and his participation was discontinued. Results suggest that stimulus equivalence provided an effective and efficient teaching strategy for three of the four participants in this study.

100 + ideas for teaching thinking skills.

Contiene actividades y juegos que pueden utilizarse a lo largo de todo el curriculo para ayudar a los profesores a estimular la inteligencia de los alumnos y a entender cómo piensan.

Noise exposure impact in a manufacturing environment: A hearing conservation program needs assessment

This paper examines a study conducted to evaluate the impact of occupational noise exposure and the role of a hearing conservation program in the occupational setting.

Depleting the curriculum: teaching digital platforms and curricular impoverishment

The paper aims at showing how curricular complexity tends to be depleted by the use of digital platforms based on the SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) standard, which was created with the main purpose of recycling content as it is supposed to be independent both from the context of learning and the supporting technology also deemed to be neutral, all surrounded by a rhetoric of innovation and “pedagogical” innovation. The starting point of the discussion is García Perez’s model of Traditional Didactics as a simple tool to show almost graphically that any ancient didactic model is far richer in terms of complexity than the linearity, in disguise most of the times but still visible under a not so sophisticated critical lens, of the interaction human-(reusable) content that is the basis of the SCORM standard. The paper also addresses some of the more common deliberate mix-ups related to those digital platforms, such as learning and teaching, content and learning object, systems of automatic teaching and learning management systems.

Physical environment modulates the behavioral responses induced by chemical stimulation of dorsal periaqueductal gray in mice

In order to investigate the relationship between behaviors elicited by chemical stimulation of the dorsal periaqueductal gray (dorsal PAG) and spontaneous defensive behaviors to a predator, the excitatory amino acid D,L-homocysteic acid (5 nmol in 0.1 mu l), was infused into the dorsal PAG and behavioral responses of mice were evaluated in two different situations, a rectangular novel chamber or the Mouse Defense Test Battery (MDTB) apparatus. During a 1-min period following drug infusion, more jumps were made in the chamber than in the MDTB runway but running time and distance traveled were significantly higher in the runway. Animals were subsequently tested using the standard MDTB procedure (anti-predator avoidance, chase and defensive threat/attack). No drug effects on these measures were significant. In a further test in the MDTB apparatus, the pathway of the mouse during peak locomotion response was blocked 3 times by the predator stimulus (anesthetized rat) to determine if the mouse would avoid contact. Ninety percent of D,L-homocysteic treated animals made direct contact with the stimulus (rat), indicating that D,L-homocysteic-induced running is not guided by relevant (here, threat) stimuli. These results indicate that running as opposed to jumping is the primary response in mice injected with D,L-homocysteic into the dorsal PAG when the environment enables flight. However, the lack of responsivity to the predator during peak locomotion suggests that D,L-homocysteic-stimulation into the dorsal PAG does not induce normal antipredator flight. (c) 2006 Published by Elsevier B.V.

Tourism-environment-development: the role of an environmental impact assessment and beyond

Analiza la importancia de una evaluacion del impacto ambiental de los proyectos de desarrollo turistico en la region.

A atuação do assistente social como educador ambiental nos Projetos de Trabalho Técnico Social (PTTS)

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Educação ambiental em Canaã dos Carajás: o programa de educação ambiental desenvolvido pela Vale na escola Adelaide Molinari

A presente Dissertação, intitulada Educação Ambiental em Canaã dos Carajás: o Programa de Educação Ambiental desenvolvido pela Vale na Escola Adelaide Molinari, insere-se no contexto da Linha de Pesquisa Políticas Públicas Educacionais do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação (PPGED) da Universidade Federal do Pará. O Programa de Educação Ambiental (PEA) da empresa Vale constitui-se no fenômeno pesquisado, instituindo-se como objetivo específico a análise do Programa de Educação Ambiental desenvolvido pela Vale na Escola Municipal de Ensino Fundamental Adelaide Molinari, situada na Vila Planalto, município de Canaã dos Carajás-PA. A pesquisa possui abordagem qualitativa como aporte metodológico, com observações in loco na Escola Adelaide Molinari, estabelecendo-se as falas dos sujeitos entrevistados como as bases de análise do PEA da Vale. O resultado da pesquisa demonstra que o Programa de Educação Ambiental desenvolvido na Escola Adelaide Molinari trata a questão ambiental nos aspectos meramente físicos e naturalísticos em detrimento da questão socioambiental. Esse fato favorece implicitamente a Empresa Vale que, por meio de sua orientação de conteúdo trabalhado dentro da Escola, não enseja questionamentos da comunidade quanto às ações degradantes promovidas pela empresa. A pesquisa apontou a ausência da efetivação da Política Municipal de Educação Ambiental pelo poder público local. Constatou-se também que essa ausência favorece a ação da Vale, que insere suas atividades educativas no Sistema Municipal de Ensino sob a alegação da parceria existente entre a empresa e o poder público local, o que faz com que o referido Programa de Educação Ambiental deixe sua condição de atividade a ser desenvolvida na perspectiva da educação não formal e se transforme numa diretriz de educação ambiental formal no Município.