Letters, sounds, and rhymes. Photocopy masters book 2 : stages 4-9.

Ayuda a desarrollar en los niños las habilidades para la lectura y la ortografía, a conocer los fonemas vocales y a distinguir entre fonema y grafema. Todo esto con el apoyo fónico de las historias, de esta misma serie, contadas para las etapas escolares de la cuatro a la seis y de la siete a la nueve. Cumple con los requisitos del plan de estudios del Reino Unido, y, en particular, con la Estrategia nacional de alfabetización (National Literacy Strategy).

Planning your literacy hour : trunk stories stages 1-9.

Está diseñado para ser utilizado para trabajar con toda la clase, el profesor puede organizar el trabajo, en grupo, y de forma independiente, y cuenta con el apoyo de materiales didácticos. Incluye planificación de lecciones, que abarcan el trabajo de toda la clase, guía del grupo en lectura y escritura, grupo de trabajo independiente. Proporciona directrices, libro por libro, sobre la mejor manera de utilizar los materiales a la hora de la lectura.

Literacy hour, word level work : stages 1-9.

Contiene actividades pensadas para sesiones de trabajo en clase durante quince minutos sobre fonética y ortografía. Cumple con los objetivos señalados en la National Literacy Strategy Framework (Estrategia nacional marco de alfabetización). Se sugiere la lectura compartida de historias, que pertenecen a la misma serie que este libro, para las etapas uno al nueve; y se hacen listas de palabras y oraciones para cada actividad, que pueden ser reducidas o ampliadas por el profesor para adaptarse a las limitaciones de tiempo.

The national curriculum : handbook for primary teachers in England : key stages 1 and 2.

Este manual es el documento oficial del Programa Nacional de Estudios (National Currículo) para las escuelas primarias, desde septiembre de 2000. En él se establece, de forma legal, el derecho a la educación para todos los alumnos; se determina el contenido de lo que se enseña, y garantiza el cumplimiento de unos objetivos: los niños de edades comprendidas entre cinco y once años, deben aprender unos conocimientos esenciales de lectura, escritura, comprensión y aritmética. Igualmente, dispone que la forma de ejecución de este programa de estudios sea evaluable, y procedan informes al respecto.

Teacher's handbook stages 9-16 : practical support for teaching reading with your juniors.

Libro del profesor con material de apoyo al fomento de la lectura en las etapas de educación primaria y educación secundaria (niveles del 2 al 5 del Curriculum Nacional en Inglaterra). Presenta lecturas recomendadas y adaptadas a los distintos niveles educativos y ejercicios relacionados para el reconocimiento de palabras y desarrollo del lenguaje, compresión del lenguaje, y habilidades lectoras y de escritura.

Assessing organizational climate : Psychometric properties of the CLIOR Scale

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Organizational injustice : Third parties’ reactions to mistreatmentof employee

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Spanish version of Colquitt's Organizational Justice Scale

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Organizational analysis of building projects

The principles of organization theory are applied to the organization of construction projects. This is done by proposing a framework for modelling the whole process of building procurement. This consists of a framework for describing the environments within which construction projects take place. This is followed by the development of a series of hypotheses about the organizational structure of construction projects. Four case studies are undertaken, and the extent to which their organizational structure matches the model is compared to the level of success achieved by each project. To this end there is a systematic method for evaluating the success of building project organizations, because any conclusions about the adequacy of a particular organization must be related to the degree of success achieved by that organization. In order to test these hypotheses, a mapping technique is developed. The technique offered is a development of a technique known as Linear Responsibility Analysis, and is called "3R analysis" as it deals with roles, responsibilities and relationships. The analysis of the case studies shows that they tended to suffer due to inappropriate organizational structure. One of the prevailing problems of public sector organization is that organizational structures are inadequately defined, and too cumbersome to respond to environmental demands on the project. The projects tended to be organized as rigid hierarchies, particularly at decision points, when what was required was a more flexible, dynamic and responsive organization. The study concludes with a series of recommendations; including suggestions for increasing the responsiveness of construction project organizations, and reducing the lead-in times for the inception periods.

Modelling the construction projects using plans of work

An overview of organization in the construction industry is identified from plans of work published in the UK. This provides a basis for identifying the essential steps through which any construction project must pass. It is shown that all construction projects pass through a set of stages of work, consisting of inception, feasibility, scheme design, detail design, contract formation, construction and commissioning. Although there may be changes to the sequence and importance of these stages, their identification helps in making judgements about organizational structure on construction projects.

Contemporary organizational theory in the management of construction projects

The level of insolvencies in the construction industry is high, when compared to other industry sectors. Given the management expertise and experience that is available to the construction industry, it seems strange that, according to the literature, the major causes of failure are lack of financial control and poor management. This indicates that with a good cash flow management, companies could be kept operating and financially healthy. It is possible to prevent failure. Although there are financial models that can be used to predict failure, they are based on company accounts, which have been shown to be an unreliable source of data. There are models available for cash flow management and forecasting and these could be used as a starting point for managers in rethinking their cash flow management practices. The research reported here has reached the stage of formulating researchable questions for an in-depth study including issues such as how contractors manage their cash flow, how payment practices can be managed without damaging others in the supply chain and the relationships between companies" financial structures and the payment regimes to which they are subjected.

Global scale water stages from SAR imagery (GlosSARi) to support global flood forecasting

Despite the success of studies attempting to integrate remotely sensed data and flood modelling and the need to provide near-real time data routinely on a global scale as well as setting up online data archives, there is to date a lack of spatially and temporally distributed hydraulic parameters to support ongoing efforts in modelling. Therefore, the objective of this project is to provide a global evaluation and benchmark data set of floodplain water stages with uncertainties and assimilation in a large scale flood model using space-borne radar imagery. An algorithm is developed for automated retrieval of water stages with uncertainties from a sequence of radar imagery and data are assimilated in a flood model using the Tewkesbury 2007 flood event as a feasibility study. The retrieval method that we employ is based on possibility theory which is an extension of fuzzy sets and that encompasses probability theory. In our case we first attempt to identify main sources of uncertainty in the retrieval of water stages from radar imagery for which we define physically meaningful ranges of parameter values. Possibilities of values are then computed for each parameter using a triangular ‘membership’ function. This procedure allows the computation of possible values of water stages at maximum flood extents along a river at many different locations. At a later stage in the project these data are then used in assimilation, calibration or validation of a flood model. The application is subsequently extended to a global scale using wide swath radar imagery and a simple global flood forecasting model thereby providing improved river discharge estimates to update the latter.

Organizational effects of fetal testosterone on human corpus callosum size and asymmetry

Previous theory and research in animals has identified the critical role that fetal testosterone (FT) plays in organizing sexually dimorphic brain development. However, to date there are no studies in humans directly testing the organizational effects of FT on structural brain development. In the current study we investigated the effects of FT on corpus callosum size and asymmetry. High-resolution structural magnetic resonance images (MRI) of the brain were obtained on 28 8-11-year-old boys whose exposure to FT had been previously measured in utero via amniocentesis conducted during the second trimester. Although there was no relationship between FT and midsaggital corpus callosum size, increasing FT was significantly related to increasing rightward asymmetry (e.g., Right>Left) of a posterior subsection of the callosum, the isthmus, that projects mainly to parietal and superior temporal areas. This potential organizational effect of FT on rightward callosal asymmetry may be working through enhancing the neuroprotective effects of FT and result in an asymmetric distribution of callosal axons. We suggest that this possible organizational effect of FT on callosal asymmetry may also play a role in shaping sexual dimorphism in functional and structural brain development, cognition, and behavior.