Investigación sobre los cambios promovidos por las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación en las universidades europeas : el caso de los entornos virtuales de aprendizaje.

Contribuir a una mayor comprensión de los fenómenos y prácticas emergentes en el área de las innovaciones institucionales, pedagógicas y interculturales producidas en las universidades europeas con una creciente introducción de los entornos virtuales de aprendizaje. Contribuir a la discusión del cambio en las políticas universitarias y en las estrategias institucionales de cara a una eliminación de los límites educativos, y en las estrategias de enseñanza y aprendizaje. Estudiar los factores clave que intervienen en el proceso de transformación de las universidades tradicionales en nuevas formas basadas en la implantación de entornos de aprendizaje virtual, y las consecuencias de los factores socio-culturales y de aprendizaje. Ocho universidades europeas y una compañía de formación a distancia de seis países, escogidas por haber implementado entornos virtuales de aprendizaje a través de un proyecto, que este proyecto tenga algún tipo de dimensión internacional, que el proyecto esté acabado o en sus últimas etapas y por su distribución geográfica. Éstas son: Universitat de Barcelona, UNED, University of Wales-Bangor (Reino Unido), University of Nottingham (Reino Unido), University of Crete (Grecia), EUROPECE2000 (Consorcio de Universidades Europeas, Bélgica), IET Ltd. (Innovation in Education and Training Ltd., Grecia), University of Saarland (Alemania) y la University of Oulu (Finlandia). Se recopila información y se sigue una metodología que estudia el fenómeno de manera holística, inductiva-deductiva e ideográficamente, optando por un estudio de caso múltiple. Triangulación de investigadores y de métodos. Los mayores obstáculos al cambio organizacional y para la institucionalización de las innovaciones sobre aprendizaje basado en la tecnología se sitúan en el ámbito de la viabilidad tecnológica y de los análisis de costos-beneficios. Se observa que las instituciones con una larga trayectoria de innovaciones son más idóneas para cambiar hacia diferentes niveles de virtualidad. Para que las instituciones emprendan entornos virtuales de aprendizaje se requiere: la atención de los diferentes actores institucionales y el apoyo a equipos de profesores. Las implicaciones de los entornos virtuales de aprendizaje son: desarrollar nuevas estrategias para enseñar/tutorizar, apoyar el desarrollo de unidades de innovación, buscar un balance entre el modelo pedagógico y las herramientas potenciales tecnológicas, diseñar materiales específicos para la enseñanza y establecer nuevas condiciones de trabajo para el personal universitario.

Thin place

This publication is a full colour bi-lingual catalogue for the exhibition Thin Place, curated by Ciara Healy for Oriel Myrddin. It includes artwork by five interdisciplinary artists based in West Wales, the West of Ireland and London. The exhibition, symposium and education programme, funded by the Arts Council of Wales aims to show how the fields of art, literature, science and theology are interconnected, especially when considering the nature of reality, the concept of an otherworld and the prospect of an afterlife. Included in the catalogue are texts especially commissioned for the exhibition by professionals who work in disciplines outside of the art world. It also includes an introductory essay by Ciara Healy.

Dual semiosis analysis model managing customer-focused service innovation

Customers will not continue to pay for a service if it is perceived to be of poor quality, and/or of no value. With a paradigm shift towards business dependence on service orientated IS solutions [1], it is critical that alignment exists between service definition, delivery, and customer expectation, businesses are to ensure customer satisfaction. Services, and micro-service development, offer businesses a flexible structure for solution innovation, however, constant changes in technology, business and societal expectations means an iterative analysis solution is required to i) determine whether provider services adequately meet customer segment needs and expectations, and ii) to help guide business service innovation and development. In this paper, by incorporating multiple models, we propose a series of steps to help identify and prioritise service gaps. Moreover, the authors propose the Dual Semiosis Analysis Model, i.e. a tool that highlights where within the symbiotic customer / provider semiosis process, requirements misinterpretation, and/or service provision deficiencies occur. This paper offers the reader a powerful customer-centric tool, designed to help business managers highlight both what services are critical to customer quality perception, and where future innovation

Por que precificação de carbono faz sentido para os negócios?

Essa questão foi explorada em evento realizado pela International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), junto ao The Price of Wale’s Corporate Leaders Group (CLG) e Ministério do Meio Ambiente do Peru. Fez parte da agenda a apresentação da simulação do Sistema de Comércio de Emissões da Plataforma Empresas pelo Clima (SCE EPC), como única iniciativa do tipo em andamento no Brasil. O evento contou com as considerações de Dirk Forriester, presidente da IETA, David Hone, Conselheiro em Clima da Shell, e do Secretátio de Meio Ambiente do Peru com moderação de Nicolette Bartlett, CLG. Nesse vídeo, você confere as falas finais de cada participante, que responderam a pergunta de Nicolette: o que foi destaque na primeira semana de negociações da COP 20 e qual sua perspectiva sobre precificação de carbono?

Estudo eritroleucométrico e proteinograma sérico do sangue do cordão umbilical e jugular de eqüinos ao nascimento e de suas respectivas mães

Colheram-se amostras de sangue do cordão umbilical (SCU) e do sangue circulante de cinco eqüinos neonatos, imediatamente após o nascimento, e o sangue da própria mãe, utilizando-se um sistema a vácuo. O material foi submetido à contagem global de hemácias e leucócitos e à determinação do volume globular e da concentração de hemoglobina; à contagem diferencial de leucócitos em esfregaços sangüíneos; e ao cálculo dos índices eritrocitométricos. Foram realizadas a dosagem de proteínas séricas totais e a eletroforese das proteínas séricas em gel de agarose. Não houve diferenças significativas entre os parâmetros do SCU e do sangue da jugular dos potros. No SCU dos potros observaram-se valores mais elevados para contagem global de hemácias (9,75x10(6)/µl), dosagem de hemoglobina (14,65g/dl) e concentração de hemoglobina corpuscular média (37,23g/dl); e valores menores para volume corpuscular médio (40,50fl), proteína total (4,37g/dl), alfa-globulinas (0,65g/dl), beta-globulinas (1,10g/dl), gama-globulinas (0g/dl) e contagens global (5,40 x 10³/µl) e diferencial de leucócitos, exceto contagem de neutrófilos bastonetes e monócitos, quando comparados com os valores obtidos no sangue de suas mães.

Fabricação de malha de trama utilizada como pré-formas na indústria de compósitos e avaliação das propriedades mecânicas

In the manufacture of composite, textile materials are being used as reinforcement. Generally, the combination of the matrix with the textile material in the form of fibres or yarns is used depending on their distribution in the web. In the present work, in place of fibres or yarns, a knitted structure in the form of the final product which is defined as preform. The preform is weft knit manufactured with polyester filaments. In the manufacture of composite, polyester resin was used as matrix. The physical and mechanical properties as well as the formability of the weft knit were analysed. The physical and mechanical properties as well as the formability of the knitted structure were analysed. The results obtained on the analysis show that the courses and wales of the weft knit structure and the tensile properties help the formability of the structure and the impregnation of the resin. It could be clearly observed that composite structure in the direction of the courses support more tension than in the direction of the wales. In relation to the three points flexural tests it was possible to note that there was more flexion in the direction of wales, what was expected. It was also possible to note that there are other advantages such as reduction in the loss of materials used, homogeneity in the distribution of the knitted structure in the mould, reduction in the preparation time and also in the reduction in the cost of manufacture

O mundo criado pelas imagens: paisagens e espaços coloniais na obra do holandês Frans Post

The aims of this dissertation is to study formation of the Dutch view seeing the colonial scenery in screens by Frans Post, as well as, to perceive a colonial world constitution through landscape paintings by him with his natural and human representation. The artist was the first to portray South American views, after he landed in Pernambuco with retinue of Dutch governor of colony, John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen. Post, by his 24 years old, was designated to represent for Dutch people their colony. The text reflects on visual construction of natural and human aspects in landscapes by Dutchman and how that aspects were included in colonizer imaginary about the strange world of America. European (Dutch) look about their conquered possessions in the New World was charged with exoticism and imagination. In order to understand that view, it`s paramount to study imaginary pictures reared by Frans Post, on his return to the Netherlands, and notions of landscape and exotic, wild and unspoiled nature which the Dutch people had when they thought about the Dutch colony in America. Our principal (visual) sources of research are six paintings: Vista da Sé de Olinda (1662), Vista das ruínas de Olinda (undated), Engenho (undated), Engenho (1660), Vista da cidade Maurícia e do Recife (1653), e Paisagem com rio e tamanduá (1649), all these canvases were painted when Frans Post returned to Europe. We seek to work through a methodology that focuses on investigation of primary visual and textual material, because these textual and pictorial representations reflect the 17th-century colonial view of colonial history themes of the - here called - Dutch America

L'Amour dácadent em dramas de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam e Maurice Maeterlinck

Pós-graduação em Estudos Literários - FCLAR

La inmortalidad de Drácula: historia, leyenda, ideaciones…

[ES]drácula es un personaje real del siglo XV: príncipe de Valaquia, valiente luchador contra el imperio otomano por la independencia de su país, justo, pero muy cruel con los enemigos, cualidades que le confieren la inmortalidad de los personajes históricos. protagonista de creaciones literarias ya en su vida, se convierte en leyenda y adquiere la inmortalidad del vampiro gracias a stoker. Y, a la vez, la inmortalidad de los persona - jes de leyenda, literarios, pictóricos, musicales y cinematográficos, gracias a las numerosísimas creaciones artísticas inspiradas en su figura.

Francesco Platone de' Benedetti, il principe dei tipografi bolognesi. Annali tipografici (1482-1496).

This work is focused on the reconstruction of the intellectual biography of Francesco Platone de' Benedetti, prince of the Bologna's printers (1482-1486), that is the same with his typographical outputs. The research had been divided in two parts: the first, with his life, invesitigated by archive documents, and the second part, focused on the census of his editions, with a particular attention to his types. The research on the typographical types had been developed with Adobe Photoshop, that had allowed me to virtually reconstruct the cases of the Gotic and Roman types used by de' Benedetti.