Certificado del Delegado del Gobierno de Euzkadi en Bayona, Javier de Gortazar, expedido a Luis Ruiz de Aguirre, en el que se hace constar que forma parte del personal del Departamento de Agricultura del Gobierno de Euzkadi

Fecha: 1-9-1937 / Unidad de ínstalación: Carpeta Rectorado - F-3 / Nº de hojas: 1. Mecanografiado y firma manuscrita

A personal perspective on literature searches in remote areas

The article is focused on the author's personal perspective on literature searches in remote areas. Topics covered are: literature searching; collection of key articles; catalog local fisheries library holdings; budgets; documentation of research results; and the author's thought for the future.

Gestão do conhecimento na EaD corporativa: tensões e possibilidades da transferência do conhecimento tácito nas comunidades e redes sociais

A partir da metade do século 20 o recurso meramente material deixou de ser considerado como a maior fonte de riqueza de uma instituição ou sociedade para ceder lugar à superestimação do ativo intelectual. Essa alternância de paradigma provocou no seio corporativo a preocupação de desenvolver estratégias e ferramentas gerenciais que fossem capazes de propiciar um meio oportuno para a geração e socialização do conhecimento organizacional. Na sociedade da nova economia, ancorada na valorização dos recursos intangíveis, o gerenciamento do conhecimento tácito, altamente pessoal e subjetivo, é concebido como importante tática para prover vantagem competitiva à empresa, inclusive àquelas que prestam serviços educacionais, concedendo lhe status de inovação apontada para o futuro. Uma das estratégias sugeridas pela literatura especializada reside na criação de redes de relacionamentos sociais que visem ampliar e potencializar a interação entre os partícipes no processo de compartilhamento de conhecimentos e troca de experiências para a apreensão da aprendizagem social colaborativa. Portanto, buscou-se examinar, nesta pesquisa, por intermédio de um estudo de caso particular, se uma importante e renomada instituição de ensino superior (IES) atuante no segmento de educação a distância online cumpre os fatores idiossincráticos e organizacionais relevantes para a transferência do conhecimento tácito, bem como se propicia aos docentes inseridos na comunidade virtual de professores (CVP) uma ambientação favorável para tal. O presente estudo sustenta-se em farto e consistente aparato bibliográfico sobre (i) conhecimento; (ii) gestão do conhecimento e (iii) redes, comunidades virtuais e novo social learning e objetiva confrontar as inflexões teóricas apresentadas com as análises realizadas quantitativa e qualitativamente dos dados coletados da unidade de amostra selecionada, na tentativa de prover elucidações capazes de satisfazer as hipóteses formuladas na pesquisa.

A study on rural women's empowerment through participation in aquaculture

The study was undertaken to understand the rural women's (i) extent of participation in some selected aquaculture practices and (ii) extent of empowerment through participation in aquaculture program. Data were collected from 200 selected rural women of two districts - Sherpur and Kishoreganj. Each of the families where the selected rural women who were involved in aquaculture under the supervision of two partner NGOs of DSAP, namely- Foundation for Human Development (FHD) and Center for Rural and Environmental Development (CRED). Both conventional and participatory methods of data collection were employed where structured questionnaire and Focus Group Discussion (FGD) were used as the tools. The data collection procedure took five-months spanning from September 2004 to January 2005. Appropriate scales were developed and used in order to determine the focus variables of the study, while most analyses regarding women empowerment were done using 'before' and 'after' method. Empowerment of women was measured by five dimensions such as decision making ability, spending ability, social participation, cosmopoliteness, access to assets and resources. The ten selected aquaculture practices were: fish feeding, eradication of aquatic vegetation from fish pond, disease detection, application of fertilizer, liming, harvesting of fry and fish, fish stock management, pond excavation, use of insecticides, and sale of fry and fish. The study also aimed at determining some selected characteristics of rural women and determining relationship between their extent of empowerment and the selected characteristics. The characteristics of rural women included: age, personal education, average family education, family size, family farm size, area under aquaculture, extension media exposure, training exposure, knowledge in aquaculture, and family income. The findings revealed an overall low level of participation by rural women in aquaculture activities. However, significant level of improvement was identified regarding overall status of empowerment during the course of participation in aquaculture program under DSAP.

Selecting a multi-agent system development tool for industrial applications: A case study of self-serving aircraft assets

Industrialists have few example processes they can benchmark against in order to choose a multi-agent development kit. In this paper we present a review of commercial and academic agent tools with the aim of selecting one for developing an intelligent, self-serving asset architecture. In doing so, we map and enhance relevant assessment criteria found in literature. After a preliminary review of 20 multiagent platforms, we examine in further detail those of JADE, JACK and Cougaar. Our findings indicate that Cougaar is well suited for our requirements, showing excellent support for criteria such as scalability, persistence, mobility and lightweightness. © 2010 IEEE.

A 5GHz low power WLAN transceiver SiGe RFIC for personal communication terminal applications

A low-cost low-power single chip WLAN 802.11a transceiver is designed for personal communication terminal and local multimedia data transmission. It has less than 130mA current dissipation, maximal 67dB gain and can be programmed to be 20dB minimal gain. The receiver system noise figure is 6.4dB in hige-gain mode.

Public feedback - but personal feedforward?

Academic feedback is taken here as the reporting to student writers of the strengths and weaknesses of their submitted draft work, while academic feedforward refers to constructive advice regarding possible strengthening of students’ next work. Both originate from a tutor’s initial judgement of a student’s work. Feedback and feedforward on work showing need for improvement are problematic in a Confucian Heritage Culture. Even gently constructive advice within a programme seeking evidence for assessment of critical thinking may lead to perception of hurtful criticism by Taiwanese students. Some could withdraw from class activity accordingly. So the writers adjusted their response style. They now choose between different approaches featuring tutorial feedback or feedforward, depending on the standard of work being judged. When individual postings feature poor critical thinking, the writers opt for private messages concentrating on constructive feedforward. For better postings, they provide positive feedback with reasons for their judgements, and summarise to the class these exemplars of generic strengths in critical thinking. They also offer private prompting when they see scope for further enrichment of an able student’s critical thinking. This might also be a useful practice when tutoring solely in the West. (192 words) Keywords: Confucian Heritage Culture, public feedback, private feedforward, assessment