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La enseñanza del concepto de número real en ambientes virtuales interactivos

En este documento, se presentarán las etapas para diseñar un Modelo Instruccional en ambientes virtuales interactivos para la enseñanza de los números Reales, que tiene en cuenta: la formación matemática de los estudiantes, sus “niveles”, sus ritmos de aprendizaje, sus obstáculos en el aprendizaje y el tiempo oficial propuesto por la institución educativa para abordar los temas. Además, se explicitan, organizan y relacionan muchos de los elementos que se conjugan, y se camuflan, en la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de los temas matemáticos. Este diseño plantea ciertos elementos para el análisis del Discurso Matemático, del discurso didáctico y toma ciertos resultados de las investigaciones en Educación Matemática (Taxonomía SOLO y la Teoría de Súperítemes entre otras) para poner en relación los niveles en el discurso didáctico con los niveles de abstracción de los estudiantes.

H. M. S. Coxeter, poliedros en la cuarta dimensión

A los 93 años, edad que alcanzó según él mismo afirmaba gracias a su dieta vegetariana y a las cincuenta flexiones que hasta casi los 90 años realizaba diariamente, ha muerto el 31 de marzo de 2003, Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, mago de la geometría.

Pinter as celebrity

Harold Pinter's artistic achievements and political activities have made him a celebrity and, like other processes of enlargement or amplification, fame can distort that to which it draws attention.

Pinter and style

This short article considers Harold Pinter’s dramatic style, looking at the ways in which it has been defined, imitated and parodied over the years, and concludes with an exploration of the way in which some of Pinter’s work may be seen as self-parody. [From the Author]

Sequence variation in the CHAT locus shows no association with late-onset Alzheimer's disease

There is substantial evidence for a susceptibility gene for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) on chromosome 10. One of the characteristic features of AD is the degeneration and dysfunction of the cholinergic system. The genes encoding choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) and its vesicular transporter (VAChT), CHAT and SLC18A3 respectively, map to the linked region of chromosome 10 and are therefore both positional and obvious functional candidate genes for late-onset AD. We have screened both genes for sequence variants and investigated each for association with late-onset AD in up to 500 late-onset AD cases and 500 control DNAs collected in the UK. We detected a total of 17 sequence variants. Of these, 14 were in CHAT, comprising three non-synonymous variants (D7N in the S exon, A120T in exon 5 and L243F in exon 8), one synonymous change (H547H), nine single-nucleotide polymorphisms in intronic, untranslated or promoter regions, and a variable number of tandem repeats in intron 7. Three non-coding SNPs were detected in SLC18A3. None demonstrated any reproducible association with late-onset AD in our samples. Levels of linkage disequilibrium were generally low across the CHAT locus but two of the coding variants, D7N and A120T, proved to be in complete linkage disequilibrium.

Spatial Demultiplexing in the sub-millimeter wave band using multlayer free-standing frequency selective surfaces

In this paper, we show that a multilayer freestanding slot array can be designed to give an insertion loss which is significantly lower than the value obtainable from a conventional dielectric backed printed frequency selective surface (FSS). This increase in filter efficiency is highlighted by comparing the performance of two structures designed to provide frequency selective beamsplitting in the quasioptical feed train of a submillimeter wave space borne radiometer. A two layer substrateless FSS providing more than 20 dB of isolation between the bands 316.5â??325.5 GHz and 349.5â??358.5 GHz, gives an insertion loss of 0.6 dB when the filter is orientated at 45 incidence in the TM plane, whereas the loss exhibited by a conventional printed FSS is in excess of 2 dB. A similar frequency response can be obtained in the TE plane, but here a triple screen structure is required and the conductor loss is shown to be comparable to the absorption loss of a dielectric backed FSS. Experimental devices have been fabricated using a precision micromachining technique. Transmission measurements performed in the range 250â??360 GHz are in good agreement with the simulated spectral performance of the individual periodic screens and the two multilayer freestanding FSS structures.

Micromachined 300GHz high Q resonant slot frequency selective surface filter

The design of a low loss quasi-optical beam splitter which is required to provide efficient diplexing of the bands 316.5-325.5 GHz and 349.5-358.5 GHz is presented. To minimise the filter insertion loss, the chosen architecture is a three-layer freestanding array of dipole slot elements. Floquet modal analysis and finite element method computer models are used to establish the geometry of the periodic structure and to predict its spectral response. Two different micromachining approaches have been employed to fabricate close packed arrays of 460 mm long elements in the screens that form the basic building block of the 30mm diameter multilayer frequency selective surface. Comparisons between simulated and measured transmission coefficients for the individual dichroic surfaces are used to determine the accuracy of the computer models and to confirm the suitability of the fabrication methods.