Towards a real-time vision-based navigation system for a small-class UUV

This paper deals with the problem of navigation for an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) through image mosaicking. It represents a first step towards a real-time vision-based navigation system for a small-class low-cost UUV. We propose a navigation system composed by: (i) an image mosaicking module which provides velocity estimates; and (ii) an extended Kalman filter based on the hydrodynamic equation of motion, previously identified for this particular UUV. The obtained system is able to estimate the position and velocity of the robot. Moreover, it is able to deal with visual occlusions that usually appear when the sea bottom does not have enough visual features to solve the correspondence problem in a certain area of the trajectory

The Challenges of didactics on scholar inclusion: specialized teachers perceptions

This study is a section of the GP-FOREESP - Formation of Human Resources and Learning in Special Education Group’s agenda. This Group is engaged in the development of researches with the intent to contribute on the process to universalize the access to school as well as on the improvement of education system that is currently available to the target population of Special Education. Nowadays, the inclusion process subject has been prioritized by that research group, as they consider that, along with other reasons, the efforts to establish an inclusive education system would be the unique alternative to solve the problem regarding the access to school, which is currently limited, and also to improve the quality on special education, since the level presented in the country is low. Guided by such premise, the present work is a supplementary project developed within the group extent to generate knowledge on school inclusion matter

Class Test Generator

A combination of perl scripts and LaTeX files, this generates multiple multiple choice class tests from a single set of questions. You input a list of questions and answers into a text file. The script then produces any number of class tests that can be used, together with master answer sheets, by scrambling the order of the questions and the answers. Includes a detailed README file, but best just to try it and see.

Collection - class exercise in group presentations with associated materials

slides plus mark scheme and link to group work videos

System Design: UML Class Diagrams

In this session we look at UML Class Diagrams and how they fit into both the family of UML models, and also the software engineering process. We look at some basic features of class diagrams including properties, operations, associations, generalisation, aggregation and composition.

La influencia de factores educativos y familiares sobre el aprendizaje de una segunda lengua, y los efectos sobre la inteligencia y cognición

Actualmente, la investigación científica acerca de la influencia de los factores educativos y familiares en el aprendizaje de una segunda lengua (L2) es limitada. En comparación, los efectos que tiene la L2 en la inteligencia y cognición han sido más estudiados. Por esta razón, el artículo presenta una revisión de la literatura empírica existente que relaciona lo mencionado anteriormente, ampliando así la temática del bilingüismo. Se buscaron artículos en cuatro bases de datos (PSICODOC, ISI Web of knowledge y SCOPUS), usando palabras claves específicas, en el periodo de 1990 hasta el 2012. De 79 artículos encontrados, 34 cumplieron con los criterios de inclusión para la revisión. Asimismo, se tuvieron en cuenta dos libros, de los cuales se revisó un capítulo por cada uno según los mismos criterios. En conjunto, los resultados arrojaron importantes datos teóricos y de investigación que relacionan el éxito en el aprendizaje de una L2 con la inteligencia y cognición, según la influencia de los factores educativos y familiares. En conclusión, se identificaron más factores educativos que familiares; lo cual a concepto de la autora evidencia la limitada investigación que se ha hecho sobre los factores familiares en el bilingüismo actualmente.

Systems Design: Class modelling using Visual Paradigm

This lab follows the lectures 'System Design: http://www.edshare.soton.ac.uk/6280/ http://www.edshare.soton.ac.uk/9653/ and http://www.edshare.soton.ac.uk/9713/ Students use Visual Paradigm for UML to build Class models through project examples: Aircraft Manufacturing Company, Library, Plant Nursery.

Implementación del Programa Get Heard National Action Plan on Social Inclusion 2006 de Reino Unido a victimas del desplazamiento interno forzado radicadas en Bogotá experiencia de aplicación a 20 líderes desplazados en la ciudad de Bogotá

Como objetivo general se propone: apropiar la experiencia del programa Get Heard: National Action Plan on Social Inclusion 2006 de Reino Unido, para evaluar la efectividad de la implementación de políticas públicas para la atención de desplazados por el conflicto interno en la ciudad de Bogotá. Con este objetivo en mente, el primer capítulo de esta investigación, se enfocara básicamente en la contextualización del problema del desplazamiento forzado en Colombia y sus correspondientes políticas publicas. En el segundo capitulo se describirá el proceso de evaluación de la Politicas Publicas del Programa Get Heard: National Action Plan on Social Inclusion 2006 de Reino Unido, (el cual sirvió como marco de referencia para la realización del Dialogo Mayor de la Universidad del Rosario: “Desplazamiento forzado: Soluciones desde la responsabilidad) con líderes representativos de la población desplazada en la ciudad de Bogotá y formularan recomendaciones que sugiero por parte de los desplazados para el mejoramiento de la Política Pública distrital y para la incorporación de mecanismos de seguimiento y evaluación de las Políticas Públicas.

Shared HLA Class II in Six Autoimmune Diseases in Latin America: A Meta-Analysis

The prevalence and genetic susceptibility of autoimmune diseases (ADs) may vary depending on latitudinal gradient and ethnicity. The aims of this study were to identify common human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class II alleles that contribute to susceptibility to six ADs in Latin Americans through a meta-analysis and to review additional clinical, immunological, and genetic characteristics of those ADs sharing HLA alleles. DRB1∗03:01 (OR: 4.04; 95%CI: 1.41–11.53) was found to be a risk factor for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), Sjogren’s syndrome (SS), and type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D). DRB1 ¨ ∗04:05 (OR: 4.64; 95%CI: 2.14–10.05) influences autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and T1D; DRB1∗04:01 (OR: 3.86; 95%CI: 2.32–6.42) is a susceptibility factor for RA and T1D. Opposite associations were found between multiple sclerosis (MS) and T1D. DQB1∗06:02 and DRB1∗15 alleles were risk factors for MS but protective factors for T1D. Likewise, DQB1∗06:03 allele was a risk factor for AIH but a protective one for T1D. Several common autoantibodies and clinical associations as well as additional shared genes have been reported in these ADs, which are reviewed herein. These results indicate that in Latin Americans ADs share major loci and immune characteristics.

Study habits inventory of physical therapy students in a decisions making class

Objective. To present the results of Study Habits Inventory, administered to students of the signature Decision Making IV, of Physiotherapy Program of the Rosario University. Methodology. It was investigated in the second half of 2006, study habits and conditions that influence how students of the subject assumes its university activity. The instrument used was the Inventory of Study Habits - described by Pozar, which let to know how the student engages in his studio, materials, environment and planning in its efforts to exercise their academic role. It was administered to a sample of 46 students enrolled in the 54 subjects at 85% of the total population. Results. 33% of students found that the environmental study is not satisfactory to the learning process, similar to the 41% who said that the planning study is insufficient, the use of materials was evaluated by 61% of students as a positive factor as well as 93% in the category of assimilation of content. This calls to validate the need to confront the meaning and significance for students and professors “content assimilation” as the study shows that it is reverse to academic performance. Discussion It is necessary to implement strategies that strengthen habits in students to achieve academic success and personal training considering the particular conditions of each group of students.

Overcoming Gender Disadvantages. Social Policy Analysis of urban middle-class women in Colombia

The World Bank Report 2012 starts with this statement: “Gender equality matters in itself andit matters for development because, in today’s globalized worlds, countries that use the skillsand talents of their women would have an advantage over those which do not use it.” With theframe that suggest that gender equality matters, this paper describes some policy alternativesoriented to overcome gender disadvantages in the formal labor market incorporation of theurban middle class women in Colombia. On balance, the final recommendation suggest that itis desirable to adopt policy alternatives as Community Centers, which are programs orientedto a social redistribution of the domestic work as a way to encourage women participationin the formal labor market with the social support of the members of their own community.The problem that the social policy needs to address is the segregation of women in the formallabor market in Colombia. Although the evidence shows that the women overcome theeducational gap by showing better performance in education that their male peers, womenare still segregated of the labor market. The persistence of high rates of unemployment on thefemale population, the prevalence of the informal labor market as a women labor market, andthe presence of the payment difference between men and women with similar professionaltrainings are circumstances that sustain the segregation statement. These circumstances areinefficient for the society because an economic analysis shows that the cost of maintain the statuquo is externalized in the social security system that includes health, pension and maternityleave regimens. Therefore, the women segregation involves a market failure.This paper evaluates five policy alternatives each directed to the progress of a different causaldimension of the problem: (i) Quotas in the private market, (ii) Flexible working hours,(iii) replace the maternity leave with a family leave, (iv) Increase the Community Centers forredistributing the care work, and (v) Equal payment enforcement. The first alternative looksto increase women’s participation in the formal labor market. The second, third, and fourthalternatives constitute a package addressed at redistributing care work by reducing women’sresponsibility for reproductive work in the household with the help of husbands and the localgovernment. The fifth alternative intervenes to resolve the equal payment problem.After a four criteria evaluation that measure effectiveness, robustness and improbability inimplementation, efficiency and political acceptability or social opposition, the strongest alternativeis the fostering of Community Centers that promote a redistribution of care work. Thispolicy performs well in the assessment process because it combines gender focus with importantindirect effects: child support and human capabilities. The policy also shows a bottomup implementation process that overcomes the main adoption difficulties in the gender focusprograms and is supported by strong evidence of success in the Colombian context; this evidenceis produced by both transnational actors as a World Bank and also in local accountabilityreporters executed by local institutions like Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF).

Tensiones socio-espaciales por las ventas ambulantes en el espacio público en Bogotá a partir del decreto 456 de 2013. Estudio de caso: Plazoleta del Rosario

El aprovechamiento económico del espacio público constituye un fenómeno que pone a prueba la definición de lo público y lo privado. Esta distinción es una de las bases de la institucionalidad del Estado moderno, por lo que desafiarla genera tensiones que repercuten en su administración. Por su parte, los actores involucrados en la discusión de la racionalidad sobre la que se fundamentan los cimientos de nuestra democracia liberal, son agentes marginalizados a través de las diferentes clasificaciones que se aplican a ellos estigmatizándolos socialmente. Es a partir de esta dicotomía entre lo formal y lo informal y su manera de relacionarse, que se entra a discutir la construcción social del espacio público y las ambivalencias de los derechos de una población que actúa al margen del sistema.

Extra activities for the English class in the first cycle of Primary School. 'Actividades extra para la clase de inglés del primer ciclo de Educación Primaria'.

Resumen basado en el de los autores. Trabajo al que se le concedió una ayuda para la creación de materiales curriculares interactivos en el año 2003

The use of the video camera in the English class. 'La utilización de la cámara de vídeo en la clase de inglés'.

Seminario realizado por cuatro profesoras de distintos centros educativos de Vizcaya para la elaboración de cinco 'projects', cada uno con ejercicios para diferentes niveles, que tienen como objetivo inmediato la práctica de estructuras del lenguaje en un marco comunicativo y como objetivo global la realización de una filmación sobre el tema básico del project. Los temas tratados son: el uso de la cámara de vídeo, las noticias, los anuncios (publicidad), video clips, cuentos y narraciones. Los resultados se valoran como muy positivos debido a la motivación de filmar el producto final.

How to get the Reform in the English class room. 'Cómo conseguir la Reforma en el aula de Inglés'.

Documento que recoge la experiencia del profesorado perteneciente al grupo de trabajo de Lengua Extranjera Inglesa de Bachillerato LOGSE durante los dos primeros años de su experimentación en la Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco. Se presentan los instrumentos utilizados para la evaluación inicial, los materiales utilizados en el aula, y los criterios para evaluar el proceso de aprendizaje de los alumnos, así como los resultados de esta evaluación. Se describe el proceso de introducción del aprendizaje autónomo y de los proyectos de trabajo como método para la introducción del Diseño Curricular Base en el aula, así como la experiencia de intercambio de alumnado con un centro americano de Educación Secundaria, realizado gracias a la concesión de una beca por la Diputación Foral de Bizkaia y a los contactos mantenidos entre el profesorado de ambos centros. Se recoge, también, la revisión que se realizó, tanto de la metodología como de los materiales utilizados en el aula. Por último, tras una introducción teórica sobre los proyectos de trabajo, se describe con detalle el proyecto de elaboración de una revista escolar. El grupo hace una autoevaluación muy positiva del trabajo realizado y del apoyo con que han contado tanto para llevarlo a cabo como para su propia formación.