El círculo Darwin' : Lyell, Hooker, Gray y Huxley.

Resumen tomado de la publicación

Música y filosofía contemporánea : de John Cage a Peter Sloterdijk.

Resumen basado en el de la revista

Los amigos de Peter.

A través de la película de Kenneth Branagh 'Los amigos de Peter' se ofrecen propuestas educativas de experiencia, reflexión y acción común para ser realizadas en el aula. Además de la ficha técnica y el argumento se presentan una serie de actividades relacionadas con la película. Se ofrecen una serie de cuestiones o preguntas en las cuales se indaga sobre aspectos relacionados con la sociedad, la política, las ciencias o la lucha por las libertades durante 1982-1992, sobre la evolución de la persona y sobre el SIDA.

Validación española del Modelo de Gray de relatos sociales en una muestra de alumnos del espectro autista.

El objetivo del proyecto es averiguar si los alumnos autistas se pueden beneficiar del seguimiento del programa de relatos sociales específicos para personas con autismo de Carol Gray. Otros objetivos son adaptar al español estos materiales didácticos; y ofrecer una primera validación de este método con una muestra de alumnos de autismo de la Asociación Nuevo Horizonte y observar las mejoras alcanzadas en el ámbito de competencia social y de las relaciones interpersonales. El profesorado participa de forma activa en la validación de un nuevo instrumento psicopedagógico. En cuanto a la metodología, se adquiere la batería de intervención en Estados Unidos; se realiza un seminario en el que se explica el funcionamiento del proyecto; se nombra una Comisión redactora del Proyecto integrada por los profesores del Centro; se entregan los materiales a la Comisión y se traducen; se redacta un protocolo de intervención pedagógica y se aplica el programa a una muestra de alumnos. Las actividades consisten en la adquisición de la batería de relatos sociales y en la traducción al castellano del material 'My Social Stories Book' y 'The New Social Store Book', con el propósito de elaborar una muestra de relatos sociales adaptados al medio cultural español y al entorno de los alumnos con autismo para enseñarles cómo comportarse adecuadamente. Finalmente, los resultados obtenidos se publicarán en una revista especializada.

Promoción de la salud en los centros de educación secundaria de Europa : guía práctica.

Guía pensada para servir de ayuda a los coordinadores de educación para la salud a la hora de desarrollar, planificar, implantar y evaluar programas de promoción de la salud en los centros de educación secundaria. Se puede utilizar como material de apoyo en el ámbito de la promoción de la salud en general, aunque esta guía está especialmente indicada para programas orientados a la prevención del cancer. El contenido aborda aspectos fundamentales de la promoción de la salud, incluye actividades prácticas que favorecen el intercambio de opiniones y el contraste de valores, así como la realización de planes de actuación efectivos. Asimismo, recoge siete experiencias realizadas en el ámbito de la educación sobre el cáncer y una breve lista de referencias bibliográficas y de lecturas complementarias.

Merry christmas, Peter Rabbit : a touch-and feel book.

Libro con texturas para los más pequeños en el que Peter Rabbit y sus amigos se divierten en Navidad.

Peter the pumpkin-eater.

Cuando Peter decide participar en la competición anual cultivar y mostrar de la Sociedad de Jardines, planea cultivar cactus. No sólo le gustan sus nombres, sino que ha oído que cualquier aficionado puede cultivarlos. Lamentablemente, cualquier aficionado, no parece incluir a Peter. Aunque Peter no tiene suerte con sus cactáceas, accidentalmente consigue un cultivo de calabazas gigantes. Ahora sólo tiene que encontrar la forma de deshacerse de ellas.

Martha Nussbaum, Peter Euben y la educación socrática para la ciudadanía.

Resumen basado en el de la publicación. Monográfico con el título: 'Equidad y calidad en educación'

Being, becoming and breaking-free : Peter Mclaren and the Pedagogy of Liberation. 'Ser libre, actuar con libertad y liberarse : Peter Mclaren y la pedagogía de la liberación'.

Monográfico con el título: 'Pedagogía crítica del S. XXI'. Resumen basado en el de la publicación

Red, black, yellow, Peter, John, Mary...

Alumnos y alumnas de tres años empiezan a aprender un idioma nuevo en las aulas. Esta enseñanza de idiomas desde edades tempranas se manifiesta como la mejor fórmula para favorecer el aprendizaje de una lengua extranjera, en un ambiente donde los más pequeños sienten el placer de escuchar y practicar, aprendiendo a través del juego.

[Ressenya del llibre] Gould, Peter. Becoming a Geographer. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1999; XIV + 350 p

Comentari al llibre de Peter Gould, titulat 'Becoming a Geographer' i publicat l' any 1999 per Syracuse University Press. Llibre que es pot considerar el testament de Peter Gold ja que conté una recopilació de textos escrits des del 1965 fins els anys 90, i que reflecteixen la seva formació acadèmica i les seves opinions sobre la pràctica de la geografia

Gray-cheeked Thrush (Catharus minimus minimus) distribution and habitat use in a montane forest landscape of western Newfoundland, Canada

Once abundant, the Newfoundland Gray-cheeked Thrush (Catharus minimus minimus) has declined by as much as 95% since 1975. Underlying cause(s) of this population collapse are not known, although hypotheses include loss of winter habitat and the introduction of red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) to Newfoundland. Uncertainties regarding habitat needs are also extensive, and these knowledge gaps are an impediment to conservation. We investigated neighborhood (i.e., within 115 m [4.1 ha]) and landscape scale (i.e., within 1250 m [490.8 ha]) habitat associations of Gray-cheeked Thrush in a 200-km² study area in the Long Range Mountains of western Newfoundland, where elevations range from 300-600 m and landcover was a matrix of old growth fir forest, 6- to 8-year-old clearcuts, coniferous scrub, bogs, and barrens. Thrushes were restricted to elevations above ~375 m, and occurrence was strongly positively related to elevation. Occurrence was also positively related to cover of tall scrub forest at the neighborhood scale, and at the landscape scale showed curvilinear relations with the proportion of both tall scrub and old growth forest that peaked with intermediate amounts of cover. Occurrence of thrushes was also highest when clearcuts made up 60%-70% of neighborhood landcover, but was negatively related to cover of clearcuts in the broader landscape. Finally, occurrence was highest in areas having 50% cover of partially harvested forest (strip cuts or row cuts) at the neighborhood scale, but because this treatment was limited to one small portion of the study area, this finding may be spurious. Taken together, our results suggest selection for mixed habitats and sensitivity to both neighborhood and landscape-scale habitat. More research is needed on responses of thrushes to forestry, including use of older clearcuts, partially harvested stands, and precommercially thinned clearcuts. Finally, restriction of thrushes to higher elevations is consistent with the hypothesis that they have been impacted by squirrels, because squirrels were rare or absent at these elevations.

The Convective Storm Initiation Project

The Convective Storm Initiation Project (CSIP) is an international project to understand precisely where, when, and how convective clouds form and develop into showers in the mainly maritime environment of southern England. A major aim of CSIP is to compare the results of the very high resolution Met Office weather forecasting model with detailed observations of the early stages of convective clouds and to use the newly gained understanding to improve the predictions of the model. A large array of ground-based instruments plus two instrumented aircraft, from the U.K. National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) and the German Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK), Karlsruhe, were deployed in southern England, over an area centered on the meteorological radars at Chilbolton, during the summers of 2004 and 2005. In addition to a variety of ground-based remote-sensing instruments, numerous rawin-sondes were released at one- to two-hourly intervals from six closely spaced sites. The Met Office weather radar network and Meteosat satellite imagery were used to provide context for the observations made by the instruments deployed during CSIP. This article presents an overview of the CSIP field campaign and examples from CSIP of the types of convective initiation phenomena that are typical in the United Kingdom. It shows the way in which certain kinds of observational data are able to reveal these phenomena and gives an explanation of how the analyses of data from the field campaign will be used in the development of an improved very high resolution NWP model for operational use.

Perturbation growth at the convective scale for CSIP IOP18

The Met Office Unified Model is run for a case observed during Intensive Observation Period 18 (IOP18) of the Convective Storms Initiation Project (CSIP). The aims are to identify the physical processes that lead to perturbation growth at the convective scale in response to model-state perturbations and to determine their sensitivity to the character of the perturbations. The case is strongly upper-level forced but with detailed mesoscale/convective-scale evolution that is dependent on smaller-scale processes. Potential temperature is perturbed within the boundary layer. The effects on perturbation growth of both the amplitude and typical scalelength of the perturbations are investigated and perturbations are applied either sequentially (every 30 min throughout the simulation) or at specific times. The direct effects (within one timestep) of the perturbations are to generate propagating Lamb and acoustic waves and produce generally small changes in cloud parameters and convective instability. In exceptional cases a perturbation at a specific gridpoint leads to switching of the diagnosed boundary-layer type or discontinuous changes in convective instability, through the generation or removal of a lid. The indirect effects (during the entire simulation) are changes in the intensity and location of precipitation and in the cloud size distribution. Qualitatively different behaviour is found for strong (1K amplitude) and weak (0.01K amplitude) perturbations, with faster growth after sunrise found only for the weaker perturbations. However, the overall perturbation growth (as measured by the root-mean-square error of accumulated precipitation) reaches similar values at saturation, regardless of the perturbation characterisation.

Stratospheric temperature and radiative forcing response to 11-year solar cycle changes in irradiance and ozone

The 11-yr solar cycle temperature response to spectrally resolved solar irradiance changes and associated ozone changes is calculated using a fixed dynamical heating (FDH) model. Imposed ozone changes are from satellite observations, in contrast to some earlier studies. A maximum of 1.6 K is found in the equatorial upper stratosphere and a secondary maximum of 0.4 K in the equatorial lower stratosphere, forming a double peak in the vertical. The upper maximum is primarily due to the irradiance changes while the lower maximum is due to the imposed ozone changes. The results compare well with analyses using the 40-yr ECMWF Re-Analysis (ERA-40) and NCEP/NCAR datasets. The equatorial lower stratospheric structure is reproduced even though, by definition, the FDH calculations exclude dynamically driven temperature changes, suggesting an important role for an indirect dynamical effect through ozone redistribution. The results also suggest that differences between the Stratospheric Sounding Unit (SSU)/Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) and ERA-40 estimates of the solar cycle signal can be explained by the poor vertical resolution of the SSU/MSU measurements. The adjusted radiative forcing of climate change is also investigated. The forcing due to irradiance changes was 0.14 W m−2, which is only 78% of the value obtained by employing the standard method of simple scaling of the total solar irradiance (TSI) change. The difference arises because much of the change in TSI is at wavelengths where ozone absorbs strongly. The forcing due to the ozone change was only 0.004 W m−2 owing to strong compensation between negative shortwave and positive longwave forcings.