Expresionismo tecnológico: Norman Foster en Hampstead

En 1978, Norman y Wendy Foster proyectan su propia vivienda en el barrio londinense de Hampstead. A caballo entre el Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts y el Banco de Hong Kong, esta casa, que no llegó a realizarse, representa el primer y único intento de aplicación en el campo de la arquitectura doméstica de un modelo, “la nave bien servida”, desarrollado por el Team 4 y posteriormente por Foster Associates durante los años sesenta y setenta. La casa de los arquitec- tos —como en tantos otros casos— permite rastrear, mejor que ninguna otra obra, los referentes, las obsesiones, los sueños y las frustraciones de sus autores. El desarrollo del proyecto refleja la evolución del estudio, inmerso en un intenso debate entre el funcionalismo fabril de “la nave bien servida” y el expresionismo tecnológico del denominado movimiento High-Tech.

The First Child In A Chinese Family Who Could Read Prior To Entry Into Elementary School: A Qualitative Intrinsic Case Study

ABSTRACT This study is an account of the literacy-related human environment a Chinese girl experienced as the first person in the history of her family who was able to read prior to entry into elementary school. Temporally speaking, the study spanned more than a decade from the initial, tentative research question to the formal, primary research question. Spatially speaking, it crossed three cultures: the Chinese, Korean, and American cultures. The study was inspired by the Zero Project in China, known as the "Project of Quality Education and Implementation for Children Aged Zero (fetus) to Six." The significance of the content issue in a child's literacy curriculum was explored in an interdisciplinary way. Case study served as a holistic research approach and provided the researcher with free temporal and spatial distance to pursue the indefinably multi-dimensional intricacies of a child's early literacy acquisition among generations in the family. Interpretation of the case was based on the relevant concepts within the scope of the researcher's knowledge of Chinese culture. Major findings revealed that the child's literacy acquisition was inseparably related to her parents' background as well as their awareness of and attitudes towards literacy, and that the foundation of all this was the harmony of the family. Through the lens of generational attitudes towards literacy and especially the lens of the researcher's multicultural life experiences, this study contributes to the field of curriculum studies in general and early literacy curriculum in particular by stimulating people to reconsider what to read to children, besides how to read to them. It calls attention once again to the classic curriculum question, "What knowledge is of most worth?" as well as what is the most essential spiritual food human beings need besides physical needs. This study suggests that Chinese philosophy should be included in a child's early literacy curriculum in China and calls for dialogues on the content issue of curriculum to gain a deeper understanding of human nature so that humans might co-live peacefully with all beings in the universe.

Corporate social responsibility: a European perspective. Jean Monnet/Robert Schuman Paper Series Vol. 13 No. 6, June 2013

From the Introduction. CSR grows at different rhythms. CSR varies from continent to continent, country from country, sector from sector and corporation from corporation. The Responsible Competitive Index (RCI) from the UK NGO Accountability and the Brazilian Business School, Fundaçao Dom Cabral, looks at how countries are performing in their efforts to promote responsible business practices and issues periodical indexes about such performances. The RCI’s index for 2007 analysed 108 countries (96% of global GDP). The analysis showed that more advanced economies do better in this area. The top 20 countries, by the ranking order of best performance, were the following: 1 Sweden, 2 Denmark, 3 Finland, 4 Iceland, 5 UK, 6 Norway, 7 New Zealand, 8 Ireland, 9 Australia, 10 Canada, 11 Germany, 12, Netherlands, 13 Switzerland, 14 Belgium, 15 Singapore, 16 Austria, 17 France, 18 USA, 19 Japan, and 20 Hong Kong, etc. However, it is important to bear in mind that advanced economies have often moved their more dirty industries to other parts of the world where there are less stringent environmental and social standards. As a result, other countries may be polluting on their behalf, and the indexes do not factor those in.2

O Risco Percebido e Coberto pelas Seguradoras

Os Portugueses desde imemoráveis tempos gostam de partir à descoberta de mundos novos, fazemo-lo pelas mais variadas razões, no entanto, neste trabalho iremos apenas analisar os riscos associados ao turismo de lazer. Os atentados de Nova Iorque em 11 Setembro 2001, Síndrome Respiratório Grave em HongKong em Fevereiro de 2003, o Tsunami no oceano Indico em Dezembro 2004, a erupção vulcânica na Islândia em Abril de 2010 ou os atentados de Paris em 13 de Novembro 2015, estas datas ficaram marcadas para sempre, lemos e relemos inúmeros depoimentos de pessoas que se encontravam de férias nestas cidades e pensamos e se fossemos nós? Os primeiros registos da atividade seguradora datam do ano 5.000 A.C. inicialmente seguravam transportes de mercadorias, hoje em dia podem cobrir “qualquer coisa”. Com a perceção dos riscos que hoje em dia podem ocorrer numa viagem, será que as Seguradoras estão preparadas para minimizar os mesmos? E qual a perceção dos riscos para quem viaja. Para o efeito realizou-se um estudo exploratório por suporte a uma amostra de conveniência que reuniu 152 observações. Análises descritivas e testes não paramétricos foram aplicados para definir quais os riscos mais percebidos e quais os que os turistas portugueses pretendem ver cobertos. Concluiu-se que as pessoas que dão maior importância aos Risco de Saúde e Financeiro são os que efetuam seguros de viagem, já as que dão maior importância aos Risco Equipamento, Risco Politico, Risco Psicológico e Risco de Satisfação são as que optam por não fazer seguro.

Dictionnaire Cambodgien-Français /

In French and Khmer.

Xiu zhen Lüsong Hua wen he bi zi dian = Diccionario espanol-chino /

Mode of access: Internet.

Sea-power, and other studies,

Ten of the essays included in this volume first appeared in the Encyclopaedia britannica, the Times, the Morning post, the National review, the Nineteenth century and after, the Cornhill magazine, and the Naval annual ... The paper on "Naval strategy and tactics at the time of Trafalgar" was read at the Institute of naval architects, and that on "The supply and communications of a fleet" at the Hong-Kong United service institution.

Bei tang shu chao : [160 juan] /

On double leaves, oriental style, in 3 cases.

Xinhua news bulletin

Mode of access: Internet.

English and Chinese dictionary : with the Punti and Mandarin pronunciation /

In four parts.

Meteorological observations.

Includes appendix to 1903.

Song ming chen yan xing lu : [qian ji 10 juan, hou ji 14 juan, xu ji 8 juan, bie ji 26 juan, wai ji 17 juan] /

Block print.

Journal of oriental studies.

"Published...on behalf of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the University"