878 resultados para Project 2001-008-C : Project Team Integration: Communication, Coordination and Decision Support
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From the Divercity project, the article reflects on methodology, good practices and indicators useful for community art practices. At first term, social exclusin is defined as well as community art, and which features it presents. Subsequently, the article reviews the indicators that are being used to measure the success or achievement of community arts practice, raising criticism from equality and including indicators that measure the well-being of women.
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This paper discusses some aspects of hunter-gatherer spatial organization in southern South Patagonia, in later times to 10,000 cal yr BP. Various methods of spatial analysis, elaborated with a Geographic Information System (GIS) were applied to the distributional pattern of archaeological sites with radiocarbon dates. The shift in the distributional pattern of chronological information was assessed in conjunction with other lines of evidence within a biogeographic framework. Accordingly, the varying degrees of occupation and integration of coastal and interior spaces in human spatial organization are explained in association with the adaptive strategies hunter-gatherers have used over time. Both are part of the same human response to changes in risk and uncertainty variability in the region in terms of resource availability and environmental dynamics.
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Since its excavation in the summer of 1973, El Nio cave has been considered a key site to understand the process of production economy and pottery technology introduction in South-eastern Iberian Peninsula, and especially to approach how such process could have affected people already settled in the Segura mountains. However, data from El Nio cave was very fragmentary, due to the lack of a broad study of Neolithic occupations of the site. In this paper, we present the analysis of pottery, lithic industry and faunal remains, as well as the existing dates from the sites Holocene levels. The review of different evidence from the site allows suggesting that El Nio cave would have probably acted as a hunting and shepherding station, being a logistical site of larger places. However, limitations due to the fact that we are dealing with a 40- year-old excavation, prevent specifying how the process of Neolithic introduction in the Segura Mountains occurred.
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The detailed, rich and diverse Argaric funerary record offers an opportunity to explore social dimensions that usually remain elusive for prehistoric research, such us social rules on kinship rights and obligations, sexual tolerance and the role of funerary practices in preserving the economic and political organization. This paper addresses these topics through an analysis of the social meaning of Argaric double tombs by looking at body treatment and composition of grave goods assemblages according to gender and class affiliation. The Argaric seems to have been a conservative society, scarcely tolerant regarding homosexuality, and willing to celebrate ancestry associated to certain places as a means of asserting residence and property rights.
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This paper is a study about the way in which se structures are represented in 20 verb entries of nine dictionaries of Spanish language. There is a large number of these structures and they are problematic for native and non native speakers. Verbs of the analysis are middle-high frequency and, in the most part of the cases, very polysemous, and this allows to observe interconnections between the different se structures and the different meanings of each verb. Data of the lexicographic analysis are cross-checked with corpus analysis of the same units. As a result, it is observed that there is a large variety in the data which are offered in each dictionary and in the way they are offered, inter and intradictionary. The reasons range from the theoretical overall of each Project to practical performance. This leads to the conclusion that it is necessary to further progress in the dictionary model it is being handled, in order to offer lexico-grammatical phenomenon such as se verbs in an accurate, clear and exhaustive way.
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The article presents a study of a CEFR B2-level reading subtest that is part of the Slovenian national secondary school leaving examination in English as a foreign language, and compares the test-taker actual performance (objective difficulty) with the test-taker and expert perceptions of item difficulty (subjective difficulty). The study also analyses the test-takers comments on item difficulty obtained from a while-reading questionnaire. The results are discussed in the framework of the existing research in the fields of (the assessment of) reading comprehension, and are addressed with regard to their implications for item-writing, FL teaching and curriculum development.
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Lobjectif de la prsente thse est de gnrer des connaissances sur les contributions possibles dune formation continue lvolution des perspectives et pratiques des professionnels de la sant buccodentaire. Prnant une approche centre sur le patient, la formation vise sensibiliser les professionnels la pauvret et encourager des pratiques qui se veulent inclusives et qui tiennent compte du contexte social des patients. Lvaluation de la formation sinscrit dans le contexte dune recherche-action participative de dveloppement doutils ducatifs et de transfert des connaissances sur la pauvret. Cette recherche-action aspire contribuer la lutte contre les iniquits sociales de sant et daccs aux soins au Qubec; elle reflte une proccupation pour une plus grande justice sociale ainsi quune prise de position pour une sant publique critique fonde sur une science des solutions (Potvin, 2013). Quatre articles scientifiques, ancrs dans une philosophie constructiviste et dans les concepts et principes de lapprentissage transformationnel (Mezirow, 1991), constituent le cur de cette thse. Le premier article prsente une revue critique de la littrature portant sur lenseignement de lapproche de soins centrs sur le patient. Prenant appui sur le concept dune pistmologie partage , des principes ducatifs porteurs dune transformation de perspective lgard de la relation professionnel-patient ont t identifis et analyss. Le deuxime article de thse sinscrit dans le cadre du dveloppement participatif doutils de formation sur la pauvret et illustre le processus de co-construction dun scnario de court-mtrage social raliste portant sur la pauvret et laccs aux soins. Larticle dcrit et apporte une rflexion, notamment sur la dimension de co-formation entre les diffrents acteurs des milieux acadmique, professionnel et citoyen qui ont constitu le collectif lcoute les uns des autres. Nous y dcouvrons la force du croisement des savoirs pour gnrer des prises de conscience sur soi et sur ses prjugs. Les outils dvelopps par le collectif ont t intgrs une formation continue axe sur la rflexion critique et lapprentissage transformationnel, et conue pour tre livre en cabinet dentaire priv. Les deux derniers articles de thse prsentent les rsultats dune tude de cas instrumentale valuative centre sur cette formation continue et visant donc rpondre lobjectif premier de cette thse. Le premier consiste en une analyse des transformations de perspectives et daction au sein dune quipe de 15 professionnels dentaires ayant particip la formation continue sur une priode de trois mois. Larticle dcrit, entre autres, une plus grande ouverture, chez certains participants, sur les causes structurelles de la pauvret et une plus grande sensibilit au vcu au quotidien des personnes prestataires de laide sociale. Larticle comprend galement une exploration des effets paradoxaux dans lapprentissage, notamment le renforcement, chez certains, de perceptions ngatives lgard des personnes prestataires de laide sociale. Le quatrime article fait tat de barrires idologiques contraignant la transformation des pratiques professionnelles : 1) lidentification lidologie du march priv comme vhicule dorganisation des soins; 2) lattachement au concept dgalit dans les pratiques, au dtriment de lquit; 3) la prdominance du modle biomdical, contraignant ladoption de pratiques centres sur la personne et 4) la catgorisation sociale des personnes prestataires de laide sociale. Lanalyse des perceptions, mais aussi de lexprience vcue de ces barrires dmontre comment des facteurs systmiques et sociaux influent sur le rapport entre professionnel dentaire et personne prestataire de laide sociale. Les consquences pour la recherche, lducation dentaire, le transfert des connaissances, ainsi que pour la rgulation professionnelle et les politiques de sant buccodentaire, sont examines partir de cette perspective.
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This project supported the planning and conduct of a two-day Iowa Department of Transportationhosted peer exchange for state agencies that have implemented some or all of the suggested strategies outlined in the Second Strategic Highway Research Programsponsored project R10, Project Management Strategies for Complex Projects. Presentations were made by participating states, and several opportunities were provided for directed discussion. General themes emerging from the presentations and discussions were identified as follows: To implement improvements in project management processes, agency leadership needs to decide that a new approach to project management is worth pursuing and then dedicate resources to developing a project management plan. The change to formalized project management and five-dimensional project management (5DPM) requires a culture shift in agencies from segmented silo processes to collaborative, cooperative processes that make communication and collaboration high priorities. Agencies need trained project managers who are empowered to execute the project management plan, as well as properly trained functional staff. Project management can be centralized or decentralized with equal effect. After an agencys project management plan and structure are developed, software tools and other resources should be implemented to support the plan and structure. All projects will benefit from enhanced project management, but the project management plan should specify appropriate approaches for several project levels as defined by factors in addition to dollar value. Project management should be included in an agencys project development manual.
Drawing in Duos: The Journeys and Intersections Collaboration Project Between Istanbul and Worcester
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This paper focuses on a collaborative drawing project carried out between two undergraduate drawing courses, one in stanbul and the other in Worcester, during the Fall 2015 semester. Duos -teams of two working remotely- took turns to work on the same drawing in correspondence for three months by means of communication and sharing the changing images on-line with one another. The project introduced a collaborative method of learning based on drawing, initiated cultural exchange and cooperation. The role of drawing in the project was critical due to the direct but gradual nature of transmitting meaning onto paper. Outcomes of this project consisted of a flexible and playful creation process for students making use of the element of chance. They sought alternate ways to finalize a drawing and experienced the benefits of artistic co-production. The project has the capacity to inspire artists, instructors and others interested in creative partnership in different disciplines and can be of value as an educational model.
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Lobjectif de la prsente thse est de gnrer des connaissances sur les contributions possibles dune formation continue lvolution des perspectives et pratiques des professionnels de la sant buccodentaire. Prnant une approche centre sur le patient, la formation vise sensibiliser les professionnels la pauvret et encourager des pratiques qui se veulent inclusives et qui tiennent compte du contexte social des patients. Lvaluation de la formation sinscrit dans le contexte dune recherche-action participative de dveloppement doutils ducatifs et de transfert des connaissances sur la pauvret. Cette recherche-action aspire contribuer la lutte contre les iniquits sociales de sant et daccs aux soins au Qubec; elle reflte une proccupation pour une plus grande justice sociale ainsi quune prise de position pour une sant publique critique fonde sur une science des solutions (Potvin, 2013). Quatre articles scientifiques, ancrs dans une philosophie constructiviste et dans les concepts et principes de lapprentissage transformationnel (Mezirow, 1991), constituent le cur de cette thse. Le premier article prsente une revue critique de la littrature portant sur lenseignement de lapproche de soins centrs sur le patient. Prenant appui sur le concept dune pistmologie partage , des principes ducatifs porteurs dune transformation de perspective lgard de la relation professionnel-patient ont t identifis et analyss. Le deuxime article de thse sinscrit dans le cadre du dveloppement participatif doutils de formation sur la pauvret et illustre le processus de co-construction dun scnario de court-mtrage social raliste portant sur la pauvret et laccs aux soins. Larticle dcrit et apporte une rflexion, notamment sur la dimension de co-formation entre les diffrents acteurs des milieux acadmique, professionnel et citoyen qui ont constitu le collectif lcoute les uns des autres. Nous y dcouvrons la force du croisement des savoirs pour gnrer des prises de conscience sur soi et sur ses prjugs. Les outils dvelopps par le collectif ont t intgrs une formation continue axe sur la rflexion critique et lapprentissage transformationnel, et conue pour tre livre en cabinet dentaire priv. Les deux derniers articles de thse prsentent les rsultats dune tude de cas instrumentale valuative centre sur cette formation continue et visant donc rpondre lobjectif premier de cette thse. Le premier consiste en une analyse des transformations de perspectives et daction au sein dune quipe de 15 professionnels dentaires ayant particip la formation continue sur une priode de trois mois. Larticle dcrit, entre autres, une plus grande ouverture, chez certains participants, sur les causes structurelles de la pauvret et une plus grande sensibilit au vcu au quotidien des personnes prestataires de laide sociale. Larticle comprend galement une exploration des effets paradoxaux dans lapprentissage, notamment le renforcement, chez certains, de perceptions ngatives lgard des personnes prestataires de laide sociale. Le quatrime article fait tat de barrires idologiques contraignant la transformation des pratiques professionnelles : 1) lidentification lidologie du march priv comme vhicule dorganisation des soins; 2) lattachement au concept dgalit dans les pratiques, au dtriment de lquit; 3) la prdominance du modle biomdical, contraignant ladoption de pratiques centres sur la personne et 4) la catgorisation sociale des personnes prestataires de laide sociale. Lanalyse des perceptions, mais aussi de lexprience vcue de ces barrires dmontre comment des facteurs systmiques et sociaux influent sur le rapport entre professionnel dentaire et personne prestataire de laide sociale. Les consquences pour la recherche, lducation dentaire, le transfert des connaissances, ainsi que pour la rgulation professionnelle et les politiques de sant buccodentaire, sont examines partir de cette perspective.
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To analyze the characteristics and predict the dynamic behaviors of complex systems over time, comprehensive research to enable the development of systems that can intelligently adapt to the evolving conditions and infer new knowledge with algorithms that are not predesigned is crucially needed. This dissertation research studies the integration of the techniques and methodologies resulted from the fields of pattern recognition, intelligent agents, artificial immune systems, and distributed computing platforms, to create technologies that can more accurately describe and control the dynamics of real-world complex systems. The need for such technologies is emerging in manufacturing, transportation, hazard mitigation, weather and climate prediction, homeland security, and emergency response. Motivated by the ability of mobile agents to dynamically incorporate additional computational and control algorithms into executing applications, mobile agent technology is employed in this research for the adaptive sensing and monitoring in a wireless sensor network. Mobile agents are software components that can travel from one computing platform to another in a network and carry programs and data states that are needed for performing the assigned tasks. To support the generation, migration, communication, and management of mobile monitoring agents, an embeddable mobile agent system (Mobile-C) is integrated with sensor nodes. Mobile monitoring agents visit distributed sensor nodes, read real-time sensor data, and perform anomaly detection using the equipped pattern recognition algorithms. The optimal control of agents is achieved by mimicking the adaptive immune response and the application of multi-objective optimization algorithms. The mobile agent approach provides potential to reduce the communication load and energy consumption in monitoring networks. The major research work of this dissertation project includes: (1) studying effective feature extraction methods for time series measurement data; (2) investigating the impact of the feature extraction methods and dissimilarity measures on the performance of pattern recognition; (3) researching the effects of environmental factors on the performance of pattern recognition; (4) integrating an embeddable mobile agent system with wireless sensor nodes; (5) optimizing agent generation and distribution using artificial immune system concept and multi-objective algorithms; (6) applying mobile agent technology and pattern recognition algorithms for adaptive structural health monitoring and driving cycle pattern recognition; (7) developing a web-based monitoring network to enable the visualization and analysis of real-time sensor data remotely. Techniques and algorithms developed in this dissertation project will contribute to research advances in networked distributed systems operating under changing environments.
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This study analyzes the manifestation of the dimensions of Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) and Project Management Systems (PMS). We used a qualitative approach to conduct exploratory research through a study in literature and a pilot case in a software company. Data was collected from semi structured interviews, documents, and records on file, then triangulated and treated with content analysis. The model proposed for the relationship between the types of PMS (ad hoc, Classic PM, innovation, entrepreneurship/intrapreneurship) and the dimensions of EO (innovativeness, risk-taking, proactiveness, competitive aggressiveness, and autonomy), was partially corroborated by empirical studies. New studies are suggested to validate the applicability and setup of the model.
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Similar to what occurs in Human Medicine, also in Veterinary Medicine, the prevalence of oncological diseases has significantly increased. The evolution of Veterinary Medicine, in last decades has brought changes in clinical paradigms, particularly concerning the relationship with the animal and also with the owner. More than any other specialty, members of the Veterinary Medical Team that work in the oncology field, are unavoidably forced to break bad news. This paper proposes the adaptation of the ABCDE model from Human Medicine to Veterinary Medicine. The adaptation of the ABCDE model for Veterinary Medicine improves communication with the owner and offers all the members of the Veterinary Medical Team better communication skills.
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Since 1999, the South Carolina Arts Commission, the South Carolina Department of Education, and later the Arts in Basic Curriculum Project (ABC) have co-sponsored the Arts Education Research Project to track the progress and effects of arts education reform efforts in various ABC schools across the state. This report addresses the specific purposes of the Arts Education Research Project which were to (a) document the arts instruction in place prior to reform implementation, (b) determine the effects of increased, modified, or integrated arts instruction, and (c) identify potential influences that promote, inhibit, or sustain changes in schools that implemented arts reform.
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The Marine Park Prof. Luiz Saldanha, in the coast of Arrabida, is the first marine park in continental Portugal. This area is a Nature 2000 site and is considered to be a hotspot for European marine biodiversity. In 2005, the management plan of the park was implemented, ending several habitat menaces, thereby allowing an application to the LIFE-NATURE Programme. The LIFE-BIOMARES project aimed at the restoration and management of the biodiversity of the marine park through several actions. The restoration of the seagrass prairies that were completely destroyed by fishing activities and recreational boating, was one of the most challenging. It included the transplanting of seagrasses from donor populations and the germination of seagrass seeds for posterior plantation to maintain genetic diversity in the transplanted area. One of the most popular actions was the implementation of environmental friendly moorings to integrate recreational use of the area with environmental protection. Several dissemination and environmental education actions concerning the marine park and the project took place and contributed to the public increase of the park acceptance. The seabed habitats were mapped along the park and a surrounding area to 100 m depth in order to create a habitat cartography of the park and to help locate alternative fishing zones. Biodiversity assessments for macrofauna revealed seasonal variations and an effect of the protection status. Preliminary results are presented and show that the marine park regulations are having a positive effect on biodiversity conservation and sustainable fisheries, thereby showing that these kind of conservation projects are important to disseminate coastal conservation best practices. The Biomares project is a model project that can be followed in the implementation of marine reserves and the establishment of the Natura 2000 marine network.
