An exploration of students’ perceptions and attitudes towards creativity in engineering education

Thesis (Master, Mechanical and Materials Engineering) -- Queen's University, 2016-09-29 17:45:16.051

The significant role of third-party logistics (3pl) operators as fosterers of organizational performance in colombian companies

La eliminación de barreras entre países es una consecuencia que llega con la globalización y con los acuerdos de TLC firmados en los últimos años. Esto implica un crecimiento significativo del comercio exterior, lo cual se ve reflejado en un aumento de la complejidad de la cadena de suministro de las empresas. Debido a lo anterior, se hace necesaria la búsqueda de alternativas para obtener altos niveles de productividad y competitividad dentro de las empresas en Colombia, ya que el entorno se ha vuelto cada vez más complejo, saturado de competencia no sólo nacional, sino también internacional. Para mantenerse en una posición competitiva favorable, las compañías deben enfocarse en las actividades que le agregan valor a su negocio, por lo cual una de las alternativas que se están adoptando hoy en día es la tercerización de funciones logísticas a empresas especializadas en el manejo de estos servicios. Tales empresas son los Proveedores de servicios logísticos (LSP), quienes actúan como agentes externos a la organización al gestionar, controlar y proporcionar actividades logísticas en nombre de un contratante. Las actividades realizadas pueden incluir todas o parte de las actividades logísticas, pero como mínimo la gestión y ejecución del transporte y almacenamiento deben estar incluidos (Berglund, 2000). El propósito del documento es analizar el papel de los Operadores Logísticos de Tercer nivel (3PL) como promotores del desempeño organizacional en las empresas colombianas, con el fin de informar a las MIPYMES acerca de los beneficios que se obtienen al trabajar con LSP como un medio para mejorar la posición competitiva del país.

Evaluating social and environmental impacts at Embrapa.

A strategic planning process has been implemented at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Agency (Embrapa) to introduce sustainable development objectives in all steps of agricultural Research and Development. An essential component of the institutional mission statement hence devised has called for the systematic assessment of social and environmental impacts (in addition to the traditionally studied economic ones) of all technology innovations resulting from R&D. The proposed approach emphasizes the interest of promoting close interaction between R&D teams and technology-adopting producers, under actual field contexts, in order to improve both the technology development and the demand probing processes. Given the multiplicity of technological applications ensuing from Embrapa?s very broad research encompassment, and the variety of environmental and productive contexts involved, a customized impact assessment system has been proposed. Directed at the appraisal of agricultural technology development research projects (ex-ante) as well as their ensuing innovations (ex-post), the Ambitec-Agro System comprises a set of integrated socio-environmental indicators, constructed in modules suited to Agricultural, Animal husbandry, and Agro-industrial activities, besides a specific module for Social Impact Assessment. The system has been routinely applied in technology appraisal in all of Embrapa?s Units, as a basis for their institutional performance evaluations, and toward the formulation of the annual Social Balance Report. Following the inception of this institutional technology appraisal initiative, several methodological innovations have been proposed within Embrapa, including technical improvements and applicability adaptations of the Ambitec-Agro system, and approaches to further-reaching objectives, such as the sustainable development of rural communities, and the environmental management of agricultural activities.

Comunicação rural e comunitária - instrumentos para transferência de tecnologia - estudo de caso do desenvolvimento da bananicultura nas comunidades do Ramal ZF-9 em Rio Preto da Eva, Estado do Amazonas.

Este trabalho objetivou relatar que, possivelmente, o uso da comunicação rural e de práticas de comunicação comunitária adequadas à realidade local, pelos técnicos de assistência técnica/Instituto de Desenvolvimento Agropecuário e Sustentável do Estado do Amazonas (Idam), foi determinante para a adoção da bananicultura (cultivar Thap Maeo, resistente à sigatoka-negra e mais produtiva) como alternativa econômica ao produtor rural assentado no Ramal ZF-9, Distrito Agropecuário da Suframa, Rio Preto da Eva, no Estado do Amazonas, em substituição à prática insustentável de produção de carvão. Os relatos citados são frutos de observações ex post facto, registradas durante as avaliações de impacto econômico, social e ambiental da Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa), realizadas nos anos de 2012, 2013 e 2014. A metodologia foi exploratória, realizada por meio de entrevistas e aplicação de questionário. Com os dados obtidos foi possível concluir que estabelecer parâmetros dialógicos e utilizar instrumentos de comunicação adequados à estrutura psicossocial, tecnológica e à vivência da comunidade facilita e oportuniza a adoção de tecnologias recomendadas pela pesquisa.

1.° Eusebii Pamphili, Caesareensis, chronicon : sancto Hieronymo interprete. — 2.° Brevis chronologia ex Hieronymo et Severo collecta. — 3.° Opusculum cujus titulus est : Consules ordinarii post opus sancti Hieronymi constituti, quorum ultimus est Basilius. — 4.° Excerpta quaedam ad monasticam vitam pertinentia.

Colbertinus, antea Petri Pithoei

Post-abscission, pre-dispersal seeds of Digitalis purpurea remain in a developmental state that is not terminated by desiccation ex planta

Seed quality may be compromised if seeds are harvested before natural dispersal (shedding). It has been shown previously that slow or delayed drying can increase potential quality compared with immediate rapid drying. This study set out to investigate whether or not there is a critical moisture content, below which drying terminates maturation events for seeds harvested after mass maturity but before dispersal. Seeds of foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) in the post-abscission pre-dispersal phase were held at between 15 and 95 % RH for 4 or 8 d, with or without re-hydration to 95 % RH for a further 4 d, before drying to equilibrium at 15 % RH. In addition, dry seeds were primed for 48 h at -1 MPa. Subsequent seed longevity was assessed at 60 % RH and 45 degrees C. Rate of germination and longevity were improved by holding seeds at a wide range of humidities after harvest. Longevity was further improved by re-hydration at 95 % RH. Priming improved the longevity of the seeds dried immediately after harvest, but not of those first held at 95 % RH for 8 d prior to drying. Maturation continued ex planta in these post-abscission, pre-dispersal seeds of D. purpurea dried at 15-80 % RH at a rate correlated positively with RH (cf. ageing of mature seeds). Subsequent re-hydration at 95 % RH enabled a further improvement in quality. Priming seeds initially stored air-dry for 3 months also allowed maturation events to resume. However, once individual seeds within the population had reached maximum longevity, priming had a negative impact on their subsequent survival.

De inferis rebusque post mortem futuris ex Hebraecorum et Graecorum opinionibus libri duo

scripsit Fridericus Boettcher

Jacobi Cujacij ... Opera omnia in decem tomos distributa quibus continentur tam priora, sive quae ipse superstes edi curavit : quam posteriora, sive quae post obitum ejus edita sunt; jam à Carolo Annibale Fabroto J. C. disposita. Accessere in hac novissima editione ab eruditissimo viro graecorum versio locorum hactenus ab omnibus desiderata ... praeterea dissertatio Emundi Merillii, & interpretatio ab eodem facta variantium ex Cujacio observatarum, quae per totum opus suo quae que loco variante notantur; postremo controversiae Joannis Roberti ejusdemque notae in responsiones à Cujacio nomine Antonii Mercatoris editas; quae majori eruditorum commodo in ipsis observationibus afferuntur, studio & diligentia Liborj Ranii ...

Binder's title: Civiacii opera, tom. XI.

Modus Baptizandi, preces et benedictiones, quibus ecclesia aethiopum vtitur, cum sacerdotes benedicunt puerperae, vna cum in sante ecclesiam ingredienti post quadragesimum puerperij diem ; item orationes, quibus iidem vtuntur in sacramento Baptismi [et] Confirmationis ; item missa qua communiter vtuntur, quae etiam canon vniuersalis apellatur, nunc primum ex lingua chaldaea siue aethiopica in latinan conuersa.

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Thesaurus graecarum antiquitatum : in quo continentur effigies virorum ac foeminarum illustrium ... item variarum regionum miranda ... omnia ex veris sincerisque documentis petita et pro serie temporum disposita, adjecta brevi descritione singulorum ...: volumen tertium, memorabilia verae historiae post Alexandrum Magnum complectens /

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C. Corn. Tacitus ex recensione Iusti Lipsii, Nec non I Isaci Pontani post Lipsium aliosque

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Basilii Zanchii Bergomatis Verborvm Latinorum ex variis authoribus (quorum Catalogum proxima post Praefationem pagina reperies) Epitome.

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Codex Claromontanus; sive, Epistulae Pauli omnes graece et latine, ex codice parisiensi celeberrimo nomine Claromontani plerumque dicto sexti ut videtur post Christum saeculi,

Greek & Latin in parallel columns.

Apotelesma; hoc est, Corpvs perfectvm scholiorvm ad Institutiones Istinianeas pertinentium. Post adiectvm ex postrema recognitione Arnoldi de Reyger ... passim ius nouissimum ... Accesservnt hvic postremae, recens avctae, emendatae & ab omni offensiuâ doctrinâ vindicatae editioni ... remissiones plurimae ad ipsius Mynsingeri, nec non Andreae Gaillii obseruationes ...

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Scholia in Homeri Iliadem : quae in codice bibl. Paull. Acad. Lips. legentur post Villoisonum et Imm. Bekkerum nunc primum ex ipso codice integra edidit ac recensuit.

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