La enseñanza primaria y media en Alemania.

Se analiza la Ley sobre la Enseñanza Obligatoria de 6 de julio de 1938 en Alemania, cuya misión era proporcionar enseñanza primaria y secundaria a los niños alemanes desde los 6 a los 17 años. Primero eran los jardines de infancia, donde los niños estaban hasta los seis años. Después se incorporaban a la escuela primaria durante tres o cuatro años. Los más preparados o con mejores aptitudes continuaban en escuelas secundarias, que conducía la Bachillerato elemental y que ocupaba una posición media entre una escuela de formación general y una escuela de formación profesional; al Instituto de segunda enseñanza o a otras escuelas en dónde regían los establecimientos pedagógicos y políticos, y también estaban las escuelas de 'Adolf Hitler', que conducían al bachillerato universitario. En cada una de estas escuelas tenían que permanecer una serie de años. La asistencia era obligatoria, gratuita y a los niños sin recursos se les proporcionaba gratuitamente los medios de enseñanza. Las tareas escolares proporcionaban los conocimientos teóricos y prácticos necesarios y los niños con deficiencias físicas o mentales disponían de escuelas especiales para que se formaran a su ritmo, según sus necesidades.

Segunda Ley de Newton con un huevo que no se rompe.

El artículo forma parte de un monográfico dedicado a trabajos prácticos de investigación

L'an??lisi de la llum

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Com sona l'ESO : mil veus in crescendo...

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Arreta goiztiarreko eredua Euskal Autonomia Erkidegorako

Existe una versi??n en espa??ol, con el t??tulo "Modelo de atenci??n temprana para la Comunidad Aut??noma del Pa??s Vasco"

El laboratori de f??sica Mentora Alsina : sorprendre's amb experiments cient??fics

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House in the Shape of a Stretcher

In an essay from 1910 the architect and critic Adolf Loos distinguishes between buildings that are for everyday practical use and buildings made for contemplation. The latter type he asserts may be considered as both architecture and works of art. He refers to only two types of contemplative architecture namely the tomb and the monument. There are certain paintings made in the early part of the twentieth century that do not observe this separation such as certain works by Hopper and de Chirico. Here the commonplace is simultaneously experienced in the way a tomb might be. This mortifying gaze condemns building by inducing a sense that space has become inhospitable and alienating. It could be argued that these and other paintings made around this time such as Carlo Carra The Abandoned House 1916 are like premonitions of what will occur when building observes the prescription laid down by Loos and omit an aesthetic dimension. However it might also suggest that buildings need their tombs or at least some space that is not completely assimilable by the daily, practical and functional needs of an inhabitant.

CMS physics technical design report, volume II: Physics performance

CMS is a general purpose experiment, designed to study the physics of pp collisions at 14 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider ( LHC). It currently involves more than 2000 physicists from more than 150 institutes and 37 countries. The LHC will provide extraordinary opportunities for particle physics based on its unprecedented collision energy and luminosity when it begins operation in 2007. The principal aim of this report is to present the strategy of CMS to explore the rich physics programme offered by the LHC. This volume demonstrates the physics capability of the CMS experiment. The prime goals of CMS are to explore physics at the TeV scale and to study the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking - through the discovery of the Higgs particle or otherwise. To carry out this task, CMS must be prepared to search for new particles, such as the Higgs boson or supersymmetric partners of the Standard Model particles, from the start- up of the LHC since new physics at the TeV scale may manifest itself with modest data samples of the order of a few fb(-1) or less. The analysis tools that have been developed are applied to study in great detail and with all the methodology of performing an analysis on CMS data specific benchmark processes upon which to gauge the performance of CMS. These processes cover several Higgs boson decay channels, the production and decay of new particles such as Z' and supersymmetric particles, B-s production and processes in heavy ion collisions. The simulation of these benchmark processes includes subtle effects such as possible detector miscalibration and misalignment. Besides these benchmark processes, the physics reach of CMS is studied for a large number of signatures arising in the Standard Model and also in theories beyond the Standard Model for integrated luminosities ranging from 1 fb(-1) to 30 fb(-1). The Standard Model processes include QCD, B-physics, diffraction, detailed studies of the top quark properties, and electroweak physics topics such as the W and Z(0) boson properties. The production and decay of the Higgs particle is studied for many observable decays, and the precision with which the Higgs boson properties can be derived is determined. About ten different supersymmetry benchmark points are analysed using full simulation. The CMS discovery reach is evaluated in the SUSY parameter space covering a large variety of decay signatures. Furthermore, the discovery reach for a plethora of alternative models for new physics is explored, notably extra dimensions, new vector boson high mass states, little Higgs models, technicolour and others. Methods to discriminate between models have been investigated. This report is organized as follows. Chapter 1, the Introduction, describes the context of this document. Chapters 2-6 describe examples of full analyses, with photons, electrons, muons, jets, missing E-T, B-mesons and tau's, and for quarkonia in heavy ion collisions. Chapters 7-15 describe the physics reach for Standard Model processes, Higgs discovery and searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model.

The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector is described. The detector operates at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. It was conceived to study proton-proton (and lead-lead) collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 14 TeV (5.5 TeV nucleon-nucleon) and at luminosities up to 10(34)cm(-2)s(-1) (10(27)cm(-2)s(-1)). At the core of the CMS detector sits a high-magnetic-field and large-bore superconducting solenoid surrounding an all-silicon pixel and strip tracker, a lead-tungstate scintillating-crystals electromagnetic calorimeter, and a brass-scintillator sampling hadron calorimeter. The iron yoke of the flux-return is instrumented with four stations of muon detectors covering most of the 4 pi solid angle. Forward sampling calorimeters extend the pseudo-rapidity coverage to high values (vertical bar eta vertical bar <= 5) assuring very good hermeticity. The overall dimensions of the CMS detector are a length of 21.6 m, a diameter of 14.6 m and a total weight of 12500 t.

Estabilidade de sistemas dinâmicos: Estudo do memristor

Pós-graduação em Matematica Aplicada e Computacional - FCT

Regime nazista: as teorias ideológicas e educacionais moldando a formação do indivíduo nazi

O período correspondente ao Terceiro Reich alemão (1933-1945), quando a Alemanha esteve sob o domínio do Regime Nazista, foi caracterizado pelo alto grau de violência, de dominação e de exterminação em massa, e, também, pelo envolvimento “voluntário” de crianças e jovens na luta por um ideal que não lhes pertencia, as quais foram, desde a mais tenra idade, doutrinadas para matar e morrer em nome desse ideal. Para atingir esse fim, teorias, supostamente comprovadas, foram concebidas e incorporadas a educação de modo a fazer dela o grande veículo condutor da dominação que se pretendia. Por este motivo, o seu estudo se torna de grande importância para se pensar na educação – do presente e do futuro -, no sentido de sua utilização para atingir fins que não possuem como premissa a formação do sujeito livre e emancipado, capaz de agir de forma reflexiva e autônoma no mundo em que vive. No presente trabalho, pretende-se apresentar o resultado de uma pesquisa desenvolvida a partir da revisão bibliográfica, sobre o contexto histórico, social, econômico e educativo da Alemanha nazista com a finalidade de proceder ao levantamento e a análise de dados e informações em torno dos principais fatores que contribuíram para a ascensão do Partido Nazista, na figura de seu líder, Adolf Hitler. O objetivo maior deste trabalho foi buscar argumentos que possibilitassem a compreensão em torno dos motivos que levaram os jovens e as crianças a seguirem Hitler e o seu ideal até as últimas consequências. Como metodologia utilizou-se a pesquisa bibliográfica, com base qualitativa e em caráter historiográfico e exploratório. O material bibliográfico analisado trouxe diversas possibilidades que, apesar de não conclusivas, permitiram a compreensão em torno da eficácia dos mecanismos educativos... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)

A Alemanha no período entre-guerras: um estudo sobre a hiperinflação e a ascensão do nazismo

Este trabalho tem como finalidade estudar a situação econômica vivida pela Alemanha entre as duas guerras mundiais, compreendendo, portanto, o intervalo entre os anos de 1918 e 1939. No início é apresentada uma visão histórica do período, mostrando o caminho percorrido pelo povo germânico até a formação da atual Alemanha. O desencadeamento da Primeira Guerra Mundial e seu trágico fim para o povo alemão, teve como resultado principal o Tratado de Versalhes, extremamente prejudicial para a economia alemã, pondo fim ao império e iniciando-se a República de Weimar. O trabalho também trata das razões que levaram à hiperinflação, uma das maiores e mais fenomenais de toda a História, como, por exemplo, a ocupação do vale do Ruhr por tropas francesas, e seu desfecho, com a introdução de uma nova moeda chamada Rentenmark. Em seguida explora os Planos Dawes e Young, bem como a crise da bolsa de Wall Street em Nova Iorque, no ano de 1929 e suas conseqüências para a Alemanha, como o terrível índice de desemprego em 1932, que chegou a seis milhões de trabalhadores. A partir de então, a ascensão do Nazismo torna-se o assunto central, devido, principalmente, à crise enfrentada pela Alemanha após o ano de 29, sob o comando de Adolf Hitler, cujo objetivo maior era investir na indústria bélica e transformar a Alemanha novamente em uma potência militar, desencadeando na Segunda Guerra Mundial

Last stop expulsion - The minority question and forced migration in East-Central Europe: 1918-49

This article deals with the European minorities in the period between the two world wars and with their final expulsion from nation-states at the end of World War II. First, the tensions which arose between the organised minorities and the successor states of the Habsburg Monarchy are accounted for primarily by the argument that the various minorities located within the successor states had already undergone a comprehensive processes of nationalisation within the Habsburg Empire. Therefore they were able to resist assimilation by the political elites of the new titular nations (Czechs, Poles, Rumanians, Serbs). A second topic is that of the use made of the minorities issue by Adolf Hitler to help achieve his expansionist aims. The minorities issue was central to the international destabilisation of interwar Europe. Finally, the mass expulsion of minorities (above all, Germans) after the end of the war is explained by strategic considerations on the part of the Allied powers as well as involving the nation-state regimes. It is argued, against a commonly held view, that German atrocities during the period of occupation had little to do with the decision to expel most ethnic Germans from their territories of settlement in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. The article shows that it is necessary to treat national minorities in the first half of the twentieth century as a single phenomenon which shares similar features across the various nation-states of East-Central Europe.

Control of muscle relaxation during anesthesia: a novel approach for clinical routine

During general anesthesia drugs are administered to provide hypnosis, ensure analgesia, and skeletal muscle relaxation. In this paper, the main components of a newly developed controller for skeletal muscle relaxation are described. Muscle relaxation is controlled by administration of neuromuscular blocking agents. The degree of relaxation is assessed by supramaximal train-of-four stimulation of the ulnar nerve and measuring the electromyogram response of the adductor pollicis muscle. For closed-loop control purposes, a physiologically based pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic model of the neuromuscular blocking agent mivacurium is derived. The model is used to design an observer-based state feedback controller. Contrary to similar automatic systems described in the literature this controller makes use of two different measures obtained in the train-of-four measurement to maintain the desired level of relaxation. The controller is validated in a clinical study comparing the performance of the controller to the performance of the anesthesiologist. As presented, the controller was able to maintain a preselected degree of muscle relaxation with excellent precision while minimizing drug administration. The controller performed at least equally well as the anesthesiologist.