La dirección por objetivos y la evaluación en la educación noruega.

Se desarrollan dos modelos teóricos para poder distinguir entre las distintas finalidades que deben cumplir la dirección y la evaluación educativas dentro del sistema educativo noruego. La dirección por objetivos se describe como una dirección que se sirve de los objetivos y la evaluación, donde la educación está más abierta a la sociedad, lo que da lugar a un cambio en la orientación educativa. El modelo se basa en la dirección nacional y garantiza que los derechos y los objetivos fundamentales no se subordinan a intereses específicos. Se desarrolla el proyecto EMIL, cuyo objetivo es analizar qué evaluación de la educación abarca los problemas concretos que afronta el sistema educativo noruego, y en relación con la competencia que existe en noruega en el ámbito de la evaluación educativa.

A emoção no mundo virtual - Novas subjetividades... Novos distúrbios psicológicos... Um estudo baseado em conceitos de Pierre Lévy. 'La emoción en el mundo virtual - Nuevas subjetividades... Nuevas perturbaciones psicológicas... Un estudio basado en los conceptos de Pierre Lévy'.

Monográfico con el título: 'Estudio de los comportamientos emocionales en la red'. Resumen basado en el de la publicación

Un proyecto lúdico de APS que da libertad : intervención educativa en el tiempo libre mediante el juego en los centros penitenciarios.

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La conducta antisocial desde una psicopedagogia positiva (una aproximación desde la Logoterapia y la Resiliencia).

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Burebista y la fundación del Estado dacio.

Título anterior: Boletín de la Comisión Española de la UNESCO

Por que é cidadão o jornalista cidadão ? história das mídias e jornalismo cidadão de base comunitária na Maré

Afinal, por que é cidadão o jornalista cidadão? Foi esta a pergunta que desencadeou todo um esforço de pesquisa no sentido de identificar práticas comuns nas diferentes experiências de jornalismo cidadão. Para desenvolver e tentar ampliar o conceito trabalhado, a opção foi de analisar o espectro da comunicação comunitária, sobretudo em veículos que tiveram origem na área da Maré, no Rio de Janeiro, nas últimas três décadas. Assim, mapeando algumas dessas experiências e selecionando casos entre os que chamaram mais atenção pela propriedade com que trabalham os aspectos relacionados ao jornalismo cidadão, esta dissertação se detém sobre o significado da cidadania para o cidadão-jornalista e a contribuição à identidade local prestada pela comunicação comunitária. Minha idéia é demonstrar como experiências deste gênero são capazes de não apenas de pautar meios tradicionais de mídia, mas sobretudo de ajudar a estabelecer dentro da própria comunidade uma cultura de mídia e uma esfera pública local, desenvolvendo uma reapropriação da identidade da favela e de seus moradores e contribuindo para a busca e/ou exercício da cidadania.(Dissertação Mestrado Museologia, Fundação Getúlio Vargas RJ)

Characterisation of amorphous and nanocrystalline molecular materials by total scattering

The use of high-energy X-ray total scattering coupled with pair distribution function analysis produces unique structural fingerprints from amorphous and nanostructured phases of the pharmaceuticals carbamazepine and indomethacin. The advantages of such facility-based experiments over laboratory-based ones are discussed and the technique is illustrated with the characterisation of a melt-quenched sample of carbamazepine as a nanocrystalline (4.5 nm domain diameter) version of form III.

Assessing behavioural manifestations prior to clinical diagnosis of Huntington disease: "anger and irritability" and "obsessions and compulsions"

The Functional Rating Scale Taskforce for pre-Huntington Disease (FuRST-pHD) is a multinational, multidisciplinary initiative with the goal of developing a data-driven, comprehensive, psychometrically sound, rating scale for assessing symptoms and functional ability in prodromal and early Huntington disease (HD) gene expansion carriers. The process involves input from numerous sources to identify relevant symptom domains, including HD individuals, caregivers, and experts from a variety of fields, as well as knowledge gained from the analysis of data from ongoing large-scale studies in HD using existing clinical scales. This is an iterative process in which an ongoing series of field tests in prodromal (prHD) and early HD individuals provides the team with data on which to make decisions regarding which questions should undergo further development or testing and which should be excluded. We report here the development and assessment of the first iteration of interview questions aimed to assess "Anger and Irritability" and "Obsessions and Compulsions" in prHD individuals.

Association of vitamin D status with arterial blood pressure and hypertension risk: a mendelian randomisation study

BACKGROUND: Low plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) concentration is associated with high arterial blood pressure and hypertension risk, but whether this association is causal is unknown. We used a mendelian randomisation approach to test whether 25(OH)D concentration is causally associated with blood pressure and hypertension risk. METHODS: In this mendelian randomisation study, we generated an allele score (25[OH]D synthesis score) based on variants of genes that affect 25(OH)D synthesis or substrate availability (CYP2R1 and DHCR7), which we used as a proxy for 25(OH)D concentration. We meta-analysed data for up to 108 173 individuals from 35 studies in the D-CarDia collaboration to investigate associations between the allele score and blood pressure measurements. We complemented these analyses with previously published summary statistics from the International Consortium on Blood Pressure (ICBP), the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) consortium, and the Global Blood Pressure Genetics (Global BPGen) consortium. FINDINGS: In phenotypic analyses (up to n=49 363), increased 25(OH)D concentration was associated with decreased systolic blood pressure (β per 10% increase, -0·12 mm Hg, 95% CI -0·20 to -0·04; p=0·003) and reduced odds of hypertension (odds ratio [OR] 0·98, 95% CI 0·97-0·99; p=0·0003), but not with decreased diastolic blood pressure (β per 10% increase, -0·02 mm Hg, -0·08 to 0·03; p=0·37). In meta-analyses in which we combined data from D-CarDia and the ICBP (n=146 581, after exclusion of overlapping studies), each 25(OH)D-increasing allele of the synthesis score was associated with a change of -0·10 mm Hg in systolic blood pressure (-0·21 to -0·0001; p=0·0498) and a change of -0·08 mm Hg in diastolic blood pressure (-0·15 to -0·02; p=0·01). When D-CarDia and consortia data for hypertension were meta-analysed together (n=142 255), the synthesis score was associated with a reduced odds of hypertension (OR per allele, 0·98, 0·96-0·99; p=0·001). In instrumental variable analysis, each 10% increase in genetically instrumented 25(OH)D concentration was associated with a change of -0·29 mm Hg in diastolic blood pressure (-0·52 to -0·07; p=0·01), a change of -0·37 mm Hg in systolic blood pressure (-0·73 to 0·003; p=0·052), and an 8·1% decreased odds of hypertension (OR 0·92, 0·87-0·97; p=0·002). INTERPRETATION: Increased plasma concentrations of 25(OH)D might reduce the risk of hypertension. This finding warrants further investigation in an independent, similarly powered study.

Mapping the cytoskeletal prestress

Park CY, Tambe D, Alencar AM, Trepat X, Zhou EH, Millet E, Butler JP, Fredberg JJ. Mapping the cytoskeletal prestress. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 298: C1245-C1252, 2010. First published February 17, 2010; doi: 10.1152/ajpcell.00417.2009.-Cell mechanical properties on a whole cell basis have been widely studied, whereas local intracellular variations have been less well characterized and are poorly understood. To fill this gap, here we provide detailed intracellular maps of regional cytoskeleton (CSK) stiffness, loss tangent, and rate of structural rearrangements, as well as their relationships to the underlying regional F-actin density and the local cytoskeletal prestress. In the human airway smooth muscle cell, we used micropatterning to minimize geometric variation. We measured the local cell stiffness and loss tangent with optical magnetic twisting cytometry and the local rate of CSK remodeling with spontaneous displacements of a CSK-bound bead. We also measured traction distributions with traction microscopy and cell geometry with atomic force microscopy. On the basis of these experimental observations, we used finite element methods to map for the first time the regional distribution of intracellular prestress. Compared with the cell center or edges, cell corners were systematically stiffer and more fluidlike and supported higher traction forces, and at the same time had slower remodeling dynamics. Local remodeling dynamics had a close inverse relationship with local cell stiffness. The principal finding, however, is that systematic regional variations of CSK stiffness correlated only poorly with regional F-actin density but strongly and linearly with the regional prestress. Taken together, these findings in the intact cell comprise the most comprehensive characterization to date of regional variations of cytoskeletal mechanical properties and their determinants.

Low-Frequency Noise in Field-Effect Devices Functionalized With Dendrimer/Carbon-Nanotube Multilayers

Low-frequency noise in an electrolyte-insulator- semiconductor (EIS) structure functionalized with multilayers of polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimer and single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) is studied. The noise spectral density exhibits 1/f(gamma) dependence with the power factor of gamma approximate to 0.8 and gamma = 0.8-1.8 for the bare and functionalized EIS sensor, respectively. The gate-voltage noise spectral density is practically independent of the pH value of the solution and increases with increasing gate voltage or gate-leakage current. It has been revealed that functionalization of an EIS structure with a PAMAM/SWNTs multilayer leads to an essential reduction of the 1/f noise. To interpret the noise behavior in bare and functionalized EIS devices, a gate-current noise model for capacitive EIS structures based on an equivalent flatband-voltage fluctuation concept has been developed.

Derived tame local and two-point algebras

We determine derived representation type of complete finitely generated local and two-point algebras over an algebraically closed field. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Att bygga en folkhemsstad : En studie av förnyelse- och moderniseringsarbetet i Oxelösund under perioden 1956 till 1973 ur ett folkhemsideologiskt perspektiv

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur arbetet med att utveckla och modernisera samhället Oxelösund gick till under expansionsåren 1956 till 1973. Frågeställningarna som studien ska formas kring utgår från följande frågor: Hur såg det konkreta arbetet ut? Vilka åtgärder ansåg man sig tvungen att vidtaga? Hur återspeglas folkhemsideologin i arbetet med att förnya Oxelösund? Det primära materialet till uppsatsen är generalplanen för Oxelösund som låg färdig 1959 och de protokoll som finns bevarade från generalplanekommittéerna, vilka arbetade med att utveckla och förverkliga generalplanen. Undersökningen sker utifrån ett antal nedslagspunkter i planeringsarbetet. Poängen med de olika nedslagspunkterna är att de speglar många olika aspekter på förändringsarbetet, samt kanske framförallt, att de tillsammans ger en övergripande bild av hur man tänkte sig det nya Oxelösund. Resultatet visar att utvecklingen och moderniseringen av Oxelösund i många fall utgick från folkhemsideologins aspekter. Planeringen för det nya samhället genomfördes inte bara som ett lokalt projekt utan även regionala instanser samt instanser på riksnivån var inblandade i arbetet. Stor tilltro fästes också vid experter. Även när det gällde genomförandet av själva arbetet slår folkhemstanken igenom på många sätt. ABC-tanken, där man skilde mellan arbetsplatser, bostäder och centrumfunktioner är genomgående. Analysen av bostadsaspekterna visar att utformningen av dessa var starkt klassrelaterade. Stor ansträngning lades från planerarnas sida på att utforma sociala mötesplatser exempelvis idrottsplatser, lekparker och andra fritidsrelaterade funktioner