The Impact of Community Social Capital on the occurrence of Injuries in adolescents and falls in older adults: Population-based Studies Conducted in Canadian samples

The objectives of this thesis were to study specific Canadian populations in order to examine; (1) relationships between the neighbourhood-level social capital and injuries in youth, as well as (2) falls in older adults, and; (3) to address methodological issues relevant to the study of such relationships. The thesis is comprised of four manuscripts. The first addresses methodological issues surrounding the validation of neighbourhood-level variables for the study of adolescent health, and demonstrates the existence of structural confounding in the study of related etiological relationships. Informed by the latter, the second manuscript examines the association between neighbourhood-level social capital and injuries in youth, and demonstrates that lower levels of social capital are protective factors for girls but not for boys. Manuscript 3 uses an international database focused on older adults, and shows that our existing measure of social capital is valid at neighbourhood levels, but also that there is a high possibility for the existence of structural confounding among Canadian older adults. The fourth manuscript then examines the association between neighbourhood-level social capital and the occurrence of falls in older adults and determines that differences between neighbourhoods are important factors in the occurrence of falls, and that higher levels of social capital are a risk factor for falls. Taken together, results from this thesis provide a better understanding of the role of neighbourhood-level social capital on the occurrence of injuries in Canadian youth and on the occurrence of falls in older adults. Our contributions were important both methodologically and etiologically.

Socratic flipped classroom : What types of questions and tasks promote learning?

Socratic questioning stresses the importance of questioning for learning. Flipped Classroom pedagogy generates a need for effective questions and tasks in order to promote active learning. This paper describes a project aimed at finding out how different kinds of questions and tasks support students’ learning in a flipped classroom context. In this study, during the flipped courses, both the questions and tasks were distributed together with video recordings. Answers and solutions were presented and discussed in seminars, with approximately 10 participating students in each seminar. Information Systems students from three flipped classroom courses at three different levels were interviewed in focus groups about their perceptions of how different kinds of questions and tasks supported their learning process. The selected courses were organized differently, with various kinds of questions and tasks. Course one included open questions that were answered and presented at the seminar. Students also solved a task and presented the solution to the group. Course two included open questions and a task. Answers and solutions were discussed at the seminars where students also reviewed each other’s answers and solutions. Course three included online single- and multiple choice questions with real-time feedback. Answers were discussed at the seminar, with the focus on any misconceptions. In this paper we categorized the questions in accordance with Wilson (2016) as factual, convergent, divergent, evaluative, or a combination of these. In all, we found that any comprehensible question that initiates a dialogue, preferably with a set of Socratic questions, is perceived as promoting learning. This is why seminars that allow such questions and discussion are effective. We found no differences between the different kinds of Socratic questions. They were seen to promote learning so long as they made students reflect and problematize the questions. To conclude, we found that questions and tasks promote learning when they are answered and solved in a process that is characterized by comprehensibility, variation, repetition and activity.

The Notion of the “Concept Instance”: Problems in Modeling Concept Change in SKOS

The U.S. National Science Foundation metadata registry under development for the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) is a repertory intended to manage both metadata schemes and schemas. The focus of this draft discussion paper is on the scheme side of the development work. In particular, the concern of the discussion paper is with issues around the creation of historical snapshots of concept changes and their encoding in SKOS. Through framing the problem as we see it, we hope to find an optimal solution to our need for a SKOS encoding of these snapshots. Since what we are seeking to model is concept change, it is necessary at the outset to make it clear that we are not talking about changes to a concept of such a nature that would require the declaration a new concept with its own URI.In the project, we avoid the use of the terms “version” and “versioning” with regard to changes in concepts and reserve their use to the significant changes of schemes as a whole. Significant changes triggering a new scheme version might include changes in scheme documentation that express a significant shift in the purpose, use or architecture of the scheme. We use the term “snapshot” to denote the state of a scheme at identifiable points in time. Thus, snapshots are identifiable views of a scheme that record the incremental changes that have occurred to concepts, relationships among concepts, and scheme documentation since the last snapshot. Aspects of concept change occur that we need to capture and make available both through the registry and through potentially in transmission of a scheme to other registries. We call these capturings “concept instances.”

Evaluation of portable Raman spectroscopy and handheld X-ray fluorescence analysis (hXRF) for the direct analysis of glyptics

In archaeometry, the advantages of a combined use of Raman spectroscopy and X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy are extensively discussed for applications such as the analysis of paintings, manuscripts, pottery, etc. Here, we demonstrate for the first time the advantage of using both techniques for analysing glyptics. These engraved gemstones or glass materials were originally used as stamps, to identify the owner, for instance on letters, but also on wine vessels. For this research, a set of 64 glyptics (42 Roman glass specimens and 22 modern ones), belonging to the collection of the museum ‘Quinta das Cruzes’ in Funchal (Madeira, Portugal), was analysed with portable Raman spectroscopy and handheld X-ray fluorescence (hXRF). These techniques were also used to confirm the gemological identification of these precious objects and can give extra information about the glass composition. Raman spectroscopy identifies the molecular composition as well as on the crystalline phases present. On the other hand, hXRF results show that the antique Roman glass samples are characterised with low Pb and Sn levels and that the modern specimens can be discriminated in two groups: lead-based and non-lead-based ones.

Les livres VI à VIII du traité des Simples de Galien. Tradition du texte et traduction annotée

La thèse se propose d’offrir la première traduction française des livres VI à VIII du traité des Simples de Galien portant sur la flore à intérêt pharmacologique. Afin de comprendre l’esprit et le but de l’œuvre, nous avons situé le médecin dans son contexte historique et culturel, le IIe siècle de notre ère, et nous avons fourni les données fondamentales de sa biographie et de sa production littéraire et, plus particulièrement, des textes pharmacologiques. Nous avons également étudié le rôle des plantes médicinales dans la médecine d’époque romaine, ainsi que les sources de l’œuvre, en particulier Dioscoride. Malgré le succès du traité au cours des siècles qui ont suivi, il n’a pas fait l’objet d’études approfondies et l’édition la plus récente demeure celle de K. G. Kühn du XIXe siècle. Une édition critique s’impose et c’est dans cette perspective que nous avons entrepris de dresser la liste définitive des manuscrits transmettant le texte galénique. Nous espérons que ces recherches permettront de comprendre un peu mieux l’importance des simples dans la pharmacologie de Galien et qu’elles seront un point de départ pour d’autres travaux sur le traité des Simples.

Les Femmes Fortes de la Scene Medievale : Martyres entre Ciel et Terre Etude comparative des heroines du theatre francais des XIVe-XVIe siecles

Le travail offre une vision d’ensemble des représentations du Moyen Âge tardif (XIVe-XVIe siècles), consacrées à des héroïnes féminines, en vue d’une étude de synthèse encore manquante sur le sujet. Le domaine culturel examiné est français, mais le panorama est élargi aux représentations provençales et toscanes quand on a de traces de représentation en France, même si le texte original est perdu. Les protagonistes des drames conservés sont des héroïnes de la foi : l’étude se focalise en particulier sur les drames qui mettent en scène des martyres. En outre, sont analysés d’un côté deux dialogues dramatiques latins de Hrotsvita (Xe siècle), qui constituent l’exemple le plus ancien d’un drame médiéval consacré à une sainte martyre, dans une perspective comparatiste qui prend aussi en compte la diachronie ; de l’autre côté, sont proposés des excursus sur le culte et l’iconographie ainsi qu’une comparaison avec les légendes hagiographiques. Le commentaire des textes du corpus révèle non seulement leurs qualités poétiques et leurs potentialités performatives, mais il présente aussi les constantes dramaturgiques qui les relient ainsi que les singularités qui les distinguent. Enfin, la comparaison avec deux exemples de drames européens de la même époque qui mettent en scène respectivement une héroïne historique et une figure légendaire, placées dans un horizon mondain et non saint, vient enrichir la lecture de l’héroïne martyre. La thèse se donne pour perspective de montrer que les problèmes posés par les textes (la stigmatisation du sujet féminin libre, la répression de la résistance au pouvoir, la contradiction entre un corps vulnérable et une parole puissante) sont d’un intérêt considérable non seulement pour le lecteur expert, mais aussi pour un spectateur et un metteur en scène potentiels, de sorte que se trouve justifiée la redécouverte de ces représentations médiévales par et sur les scènes d’aujourd’hui.

Relative influence of gaze and static arm position in the Superior Parietal Lobule of the macaque monkey during reaching

The superior parietal lobule (SPL) of macaques is classically described as an associative cortex implicated in visuospatial perception, planning and control of reaching and grasping movements (De Vitis et al., 2019; Galletti et al., 2003, 2018, 2022; Fattori et al., 2017; Hadjidimitrakis et al., 2015). These processes are the result of the integration of signals related to different sensory modalities. During a goal-directed action, eye and limb information are combined to ensure that the hand is transported at the gazed target location and the arm is maintained steady in the final position. The SPL areas V6A, PEc and PE contain cells sensitive to the direction of gaze and limb position but less is known about the degree of independent encoding of these signals. In this thesis, we evaluated the influence of eye and arm position information upon single neuron activity of areas V6A, PEc and PE during the holding period after the execution of arm reaching movement, when the gaze and hand are both still at the reach target. Two male macaques (Macaca fascicularis) performed a reaching task while single unit activity was recorded from areas V6A, PEc and PE. We found that neurons in all these areas were modulated by eye and static arm positions with a joint encoding of gaze and somatosensory signals in V6A and PEc and a mostly separate processing of the two signals in PE. The elaboration of this information reflects the functional gradient found in the SPL with the caudal sector characterized by visuo-somatic properties in comparison to the rostral sector dominated by somatosensory signals. This evidence well agree also with the recent reallocation of areas V6A and PEc in Brodmann’s area 7 depending on their similar structural and functional features with respect to PE belonging to Brodmann’s area 5 (Gamberini et al., 2020).

Preparação profissional em educação fisica : das leis a implementação dos curriculos

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

Uso de álcool e drogas e contextos sociais da violência

Contextos de violência e de consumo de álcool e drogas são nesse texto tratados a partir dos conceitos de sociedade de risco e reflexividade social, são expostas e discutidas pesquisas empíricas que relacionaram as duas situações, destacando-se a necessidade de não se estabelecer determinações entre esses contextos. Conclui-se que há necessidade de aprofundar a discussão da redução de riscos sociais tanto em relação ao consumo como em relação à violência

Educational brokers in global education markets

This article undertakes a text analysis of the promotional materials generated by two educational brokers, the British Council’s Education Counselling Service (ECS) and Australia’s International Development Programme (IDP-Education Australia).By focusing on the micropractices of branding, the constructions of the "international student" and "international education" are examined to uncover the relations between international education and globalisation.The conclusion reached here is that the dominant marketing messages used to brand and sell education are unevenly weighted in favour of the economic imperative.International education remains fixed in modernist spatiotemporal contexts that ignore the challenges presented by globalisation.Developing new notions of international education will require a more critical engagement with the geopolitics of knowledge and with issues of subjectivity, difference, and power.Ultimately, a more sustained and comprehensive engagement with the noneconomic dimensions of globalisation will be necessary to achieve new visions of international education.

"Golden Goa is Really a Romanticized Myth"

Interview with Maria de Lima Pereira, Herald reporter on the eve of the release of the new edition of *Medieval Goa* in Panjim, Goa

Azorean Agriculture Efficiency by PAR

Copyright © 2013 Springer Netherlands.

Promover a compreensão leitora na infância : estudos de caso na Educação Pré-Escolar e no 1.º ciclo do Ensino Básico

Mestrado, Educação Pré-Escolar e Ensino do 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico, 24 de Junho de 2015, Universidade dos Açores.

Prática de ensino supervisionado no 1.º e 2.º ciclo do ensino básico: de que forma o ensino explícito das estratégias de leitura contribui para uma melhor produção escrita do texto descritivo

Relatório de Estágio apresentado à Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa para obtenção de grau de mestre em Ensino do 1.º e 2.º Ciclos do Ensino Básico

Escrever para aprender estudo do meio

Dissertação apresentada à Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa para obtenção de grau de mestre em Didáticas Integradas em Língua Portuguesa, Matemática, Ciências Naturais e Sociais