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Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) Neurologist

Erasmus Darwin was the founder of evolutionary biology, a renown poet, an inventor, and a general medical practitioner. Erasmus Darwin wrote specifically about the evolutionary and phylogenetic development of the nervous system, neuroembryology, psychiatric illness (including delusions and depression), and electrical therapy for childhood hemiplegia. He conducted experiments in neuro-ophthalmology and wrote about color vision, afterimages, the blind spot, and visual memory.

Like grandfather, like grandson: Erasmus and Charles Darwin on evolution

Last year (2009) marked the bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birth and the sesquicentenary of The Origin of Species. This article examines the influence of Erasmus Darwin on Charles's evolutionary thought and shows how, in many ways, Erasmus anticipated his much better-known grandson. It discusses the similarity in the mindsets of the two Darwins, asks how far the younger Darwin was exposed to the elder's evolutionary thought, examines the similarities and differences in their theories of evolution, and ends by showing the surprising similarity between their theories of inheritance. Erasmus's influence on Charles is greater than customarily acknowledged, and now is an opportune time to bring the grandfather out from behind the glare of his stellar grandson.

The genius of Erasmus Darwin

The Genius of Erasmus Darwin provides insight into the full extent of Erasmus Darwin's exceptional intellect. He is shown to be a major creative thinker and innovator, one of the minds behind the late eighteenth-century industrial revolution, and one of the first, if not the first, to perceive the living world (including humans) as part of a unified evolutionary scenario. The contributions here provide contextual understandings of Erasmus Darwin's thought, as well as studies of particular works and accounts of the later reception of his writings. In this way it is possible to see why the young Samuel Taylor Coleridge was moved to describe Darwin as 'the first literary character in Europe, and the most original-minded man'. Erasmus Darwin, Charles Darwin's grandfather, was one of the leading intellectuals of eighteenth-century England. He was a man with an extraordinary range of interests and activities: he was a doctor, biologist, inventor, poet, linguist, and botanist. He was also a founding member of the Lunar Society, an intellectual community that included such eminent men as James Watt and Josiah Wedgwood. Contents: Introduction; Setting the scene, Jonathan Powers; Prologue 'Catching up with Erasmus Darwin in the New Century', Desmond King-Hele. Section 1: Medicine: Physicians and physic in 17th and 18th century Lichfield, Dennis Gibbs; Dr Erasmus Darwin MD FRS (1731–1802): England's greatest physician?, Gordon Cook; William Pale (1743–1805) and James Parkinson (1755–1824): two peri-Erasmatic thinkers (and several others), Christopher Gardner-Thorpe; The vertiginous philosophers: Erasmus Darwin and William Charles Wells on vertigo, Nicholas Wade. Section 2: Biology: The Antipodes and Erasmus Darwin: the place of Erasmus Darwin in the heritage of Australian literature and biology, John Pearn; Erasmus Darwin on human reproductive generation: placing heredity within historical and Zoonomian contexts, Philip Wilson; All from fibres: Erasmus Darwin's evolutionary psychobiology, C.U.M. Smith; Two special doctors: Erasmus Darwin and Luigi Galvani, Rafaella Simili. Section 3: Education: But what about the women? The lunar society's attitude to women and science and to the education of girls, Jenny Uglow; The Derbyshire 'Darwinians': the persistence of Erasmus Darwin's influence on a British provincial literary and scientific community, c.1780–1850, Paul Elliot. Section 4: Technology: Designing better steering for carriages (and cars); with a glance at other inventions, Desmond King-Hele; Mama and papa: the ancestors of modern-day speech science, Philip Jackson; Negative and positive images: Erasmus Darwin, Tom Wedgwood and the origins of photography, Alan Barnes; Section 5: Environment: Erasmus Darwin's contributions to the geological sciences, Hugh Torrens; The air man, Desmond King-Hele; Erasmus Darwin, work and health, Tim Carter; Section 6: Literature: The progress of society: Darwin's early drafts for the temple of nature, Martin Priestman; The poet as pathologist: myth and medicine in Erasmus Darwin's epic poetry, Stuart Harris; 'Another and the same': nature and human beings in Erasmus Darwin's doctrines of love and imagination, Maurizio Valsania. Epilogue: 'One great slaughter-house the warring world': living in revolutionary times, David Knight; Coda: Midlands memorabilia, Nick Redman; Appendix: The Creation of the Erasmus Darwin Foundation and Erasmus Darwin House, Tony Barnard; Index.

Developing a robust self evaluation framework for active learning:the first stage of an ERASMUS+ project (QAEMarketPlace4HEI)

In ensuring the quality of learning and teaching in Higher Education, self-evaluation is an important component of the process. An example would be the approach taken within the CDIO community whereby self-evaluation against the CDIO standards is part of the quality assurance process. Eight European universities (Reykjavik University, Iceland; Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland; Aarhus University, Denmark; Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Finland; Ume? University, Sweden; Telecom Bretagne, France; Aston University, United Kingdom; Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom) are engaged in an EU funded Erasmus + project that is exploring the quality assurance process associated with active learning. The development of a new self-evaluation framework that feeds into a ?Marketplace? where participating institutions can be paired up and then engage in peer evaluations and sharing around each institutions approach to and implementation of active learning. All of the partner institutions are engaged in the application of CDIO within their engineering programmes and this has provided a common starting point for the partnership to form and the project to be developed. Although the initial focus will be CDIO, the longer term aim is that the approach could be of value beyond CDIO and within other disciplines. The focus of this paper is the process by which the self-evaluation framework is being developed and the form of the draft framework. In today?s Higher Education environment, the need to comply with Quality Assurance standards is an ever present feature of programme development and review. When engaging in a project that spans several countries, the wealth of applicable standards and guidelines is significant. In working towards the development of a robust Self Evaluation Framework for this project, the project team decided to take a wide view of the available resources to ensure a full consideration of different requirements and practices. The approach to developing the framework considered: a) institutional standards and processes b) national standards and processes e.g. QAA in the UK c) documents relating to regional / global accreditation schemes e.g. ABET d) requirements / guidelines relating to particular learning and teaching frameworks e.g. CDIO. The resulting draft self-evaluation framework is to be implemented within the project team to start with to support the initial ?Marketplace? pairing process. Following this initial work, changes will be considered before a final version is made available as part of the project outputs. Particular consideration has been paid to the extent of the framework, as a key objective of the project is to ensure that the approach to quality assurance has impact but is not overly demanding in terms of time or paperwork. In other words that it is focused on action and value added to staff, students and the programmes being considered.

Las prácticas en la formación de los estudiantes de Magisterio del grupo bilingüe a través del programa europeo Erasmus: Nuevos modelos, nuevos contextos, nuevos destinos.

La planificación y puesta en marcha del 2014-15 Erasmus+ EU Prácticas para los estudiantes del Grado Bilingüe de Educación Primaria fue un reto para los tutores de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Educación. Dentro de este proyecto es importante la labor desempeñada por el profesor tutor de la UCM que ha tenido que llevar a cabo una estrecha supervisión de los estudiantes a distancia, orientada sobre todo a fomentar la reflexión crítica sobre el propio proceso de aprendizaje. De esta manera pretende contribuir al desarrollo de un programa de prácticas docentes internacionales, que se espera tenga una continuidad en los próximos cursos académicos. Para ello se analizó los beneficios que la realización del periodo de prácticas en el extranjero reporta a los estudiantes, para detectar sus necesidades reales, con los posibles problemas que puedan surgir y sus causas, y además crear a partir de ello un modelo de Prácticum que se ajuste a los nuevos retos a los que deberán enfrentarse nuestros alumnos como futuros docentes dentro de un contexto global y multi-cultural.

European student mobility and intercultural learning at a portuguese university

The purpose of this study is to understand, impact and evaluate the development of intercultural communicative competencies among European credit-seeking exchange students and other sojourners through purposeful intercultural pedagogy. This pedagogy encompasses intentional intercultural- educational approaches which aim to support and enhance sojourners’ intercultural learning throughout the study abroad cycle (pre-departure, in-country and reentry phases). To test and validate these pedagogies a 20-hour intervention was designed and implemented among two cohorts of 31 sojourners during the in-country phase of their sojourn in Portugal. The process to develop and validate the intercultural intervention was driven by a mixed-methods methodology which combined quantitative and qualitative data to triangulate, complement and expand research results from a pragmatic stance. The mixed methods research design adopted is multi-phased and encompasses a multi-case study and an evaluative component. The multi-case component is embodied by sojourner cohorts: (1) the primary case study involves 19 incoming students at the University of Aveiro (Portugal) as participants in the European exchange program Campus Europae; (2) the second case study comprises three incoming Erasmus students and nine highly skilled immigrants at the same university. All 31 sojourners attended two intermediate Portuguese as Foreign Language classrooms where the intervention was employed. Data collection was extensive and involved collecting, analyzing and mixing quantitative and qualitative strands across four research phases. These phases refer to the: (1) development, (2) implementation and (3) evaluation of the intervention, as well as to (4) a stakeholder analysis of the external value of the intervention and of the Campus Europae program. Data collection instruments included pre and posttest questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. Results confirm the intercultural effectiveness of the intervention and the positive impact upon research participants’ intercultural gains. This impact was, however, greater in case study 2. Among explanatory variables, three stand out: (1) participant meaning-making abilities, (2) host language proficiency and related variables, and (3) type of sojourn or exchange programs. Implications for further research highlight the need to systematize purposeful intercultural pedagogy in sojourner populations in general, and in European credit student mobility in particular. In the latter case, these pedagogies should be part of the design and delivery of credit-bearing exchange programs in pre- departure, in-country and re-entry phases. Implications for practice point to the urge to improve intercultural practices in: macro (higher education institutions), mezzo (exchange programs) and micro (sojourner language classrooms) contexts where this research took place, and wider social scenarios they represent.

Decision-making process in Portuguese Erasmus student mobility: case study

With the evolution of nowadays knowledge-based economies, the labour class becomes more competitive. As a way of getting skills that bring benefits to their careers, university students take advantage of the many opportunities available and go abroad to study. This study develops and empirically tests a structural model that examines the antecedents that influence the decision-making process of an Erasmus student under mobility for studies (EMS) in Aveiro, Coimbra and Porto (2014-2015). Reliability analysis, exploratory factor analysis and linear regressions were used to evaluate the model. Based on a survey with a sample of 872 valid responses, this study has demonstrated that EMS students are also influenced by touristic factors, which gives support to what has recently been approached by other authors. Conclusions and suggestions can be applied by other organizations, mainly Higher Education Institutions in order to attract more EMS students.

Desativação de infraestruturas rodoviárias: metodologias utilizadas em países europeus

Dissertação para a obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Civil na Área de Especialização de Vias de Comunicação e Transportes

Paralisia periódica hipocaliémica: uma causa rara de tetraparésia em europeus

A paralisia periódica hipocaliémica é uma complicação neurológica do hipertiroidismo, especialmente na doença de Graves, rara em não asiáticos. Caracteriza-se por episódios auto-limitados recorrentes de fraqueza muscular que afecta sobretudo os músculos proximais dos membros inferiores. Acompanha-se de hipocaliémia, potencialmente grave. Apresenta-se o caso de um doente de 39 anos, caucasiano, com doença de Graves, medicado com carbimazol. Durante 3 meses, teve episódios recorrentes de tetraparésia de predomínio proximal, de curta duração, que surgiam após períodos de repouso, motivo pelo qual foi internado. Por manter episódios de agravamento da tetraparésia, associados a hipocaliémia e hipomagnesiémia, e por, laboratorialmente, apresentar hipertiroidismo, admitiu-se a hipótese de paralisia periódica hipocaliémica e iniciou terapêutica com tiamazol, corticoterapia, propranolol e reposição iónica, verificando-se melhoria progressiva. O caso exposto é um exemplo de uma situação incomum, em que a suspeita clínica é fundamental, porque o diagnóstico pode ser difícil. A terapêutica precoce do hipertiroidismo é imprescindível.

Depois dos 35 anos, quais as intenções reprodutivas dos sul europeus?

Sendo a baixa fecundidade comum aos países do sul da Europa e considerando que nas últimas décadas tanto homens como mulheres têm vindo a adiar o nascimento do primeiro e, consequentemente, do segundo filho, interessa estudar os determinantes das intenções de fecundidade, em particular, dos sul europeus com mais de 35 anos, idade a partir da qual se considera que aqueles que não têm filhos ou que têm apenas um adiaram os seus projetos de fecundidade. Recorrendo à base de dados do Eurobarómetro (2011) e a modelos de regressão logística, analisámos os fatores que determinam a intenção de permanecer sem filhos ou com apenas um filho e se questões relacionadas com valores, percepções e expectativas ganham uma maior relevância face às características sociodemográficas. Deste modo, damos especial enfoque ao efeito que os valores e atitudes podem ter no contexto da fecundidade. Os resultados mostram que as percepções dos indivíduos em relação à sua vida e ao estado do país são determinantes para explicar a intenção de permanecer sem filhos ou com apenas um filho. Para os sul europeus, percepções e expectativas negativas em relação ao estado do país são inibidoras no processo da tomada de decisão de ter (mais) filhos, especialmente quando a decisão em causa é transitar para o segundo filho. Este trabalho reporta para a importância de considerar valores e expectativas dos indivíduos em relação à sua vida no geral a ao estado do país como preditores do comportamento reprodutivo. Because low fertility is common in southern European countries and considering that in recent decades both men and women have been postponing the birth of the first and therefore the second child, it is of our interest to study the determinants of reproductive decision-making, particularly of southern Europeans older than 35, age from which it is considered that those who don’t have children or have only one have postponed their fertility intentions. Using the Eurobarometer data (2011) and logistic regression models, we analyse the factors that determine the intention of remaining childless and with only one child. Also, we study if variables related to values, perceptions and expectations gain greater relevance than a set of background variables. Thus, we give a special attention to the effect that values and attitudes can have in the context of reproductive decision-making. The findings show that respondent’s perceptions about their lives and the environment of their country are crucial to explain the intention of remaining childless or with only one child. For southern Europeans, negative perceptions and expectations about the situation of the country inhibit the process of decision-making to have a/another child, especially when the decision at issue is transitioning to the second child. This paper reports to the importance of considering values, perceptions and expectations of individuals regarding their lives and the environment of their country as predictors of fertility behaviour.

Europeus e indígenas na América portuguesa

Neste artigo pretendemos analisar, numa perspectiva histórica, aspectos dos intercursos culturais vivenciados entre o Velho Mundo e o Novo Mundo, descoberto e inventado no alvorecer dos tempos modernos. A expansão europeia e a formação dos impérios coloniais a partir do século XVI propiciaram a criação de mercados transnacionais, relações sociopolíticas diversificadas e, sobretudo, dinâmicas culturais, envolvendo europeus, africanos, asiáticos e populações indígenas do Novo Mundo, especialmente da América Portuguesa, as quais despertaram inquietações religiosas e científicas nos círculos intelectuais da época.