Educaci??n y futuro digital

En parte, es conitinuaci??n de: Educaci??n y futuro : revista de investigaci??n aplicada y experiencias educativas, ISSN 1576-5199

Mais saber, melhor enfermagem : a repercussão da formação na qualidade de cuidados

Esta tese de doutoramento procurou desenhar um quadro conceptual para implementar um novo modelo formativo, que permita melhorar a qualidade dos cuidados de enfermagem. Partindo da pergunta “qual o contributo da formação inicial para a qualidade percebida pelos utentes?”, procuramos perceber a relação entre a formação escolar, a emergência de competências profissionais, em sede de exercício, e a qualidade percebida pelos utentes. Este estudo é estruturado em dois momentos: o estudo nuclear assente numa metodologia qualitativa, com aproximação à Grounded Theory que permitiu perceber a importância da formação para a qualidade dos cuidados e a formulação do modelo inicial de investigação; e um estudo complementar de carácter descritivo-transversal, enquadrado numa metodologia quantitativa e em análise documental que nos permitiu avaliar a satisfação dos clientes sobre a qualidade dos cuidados e a construção de um novo modelo sobre os factores mais relevantes para a satisfação do cliente. Os resultados obtidos possibilitam a identificação de um conjunto de variáveis que influenciam, directa e indirectamente, a qualidade dos cuidados e a satisfação dos clientes e permitem a elaboração do modelo final de análise do problema formulado, realçando sobretudo o estatuto da emergência das competências como variável mediadora.

A set of lectures concerning an educational approach towards the young hearing impaired child

This paper is a review of educational approaches for young hearing impaired children in South Africa.

Evaluation of auditory-visual speech perception in individuals diagnosed with dementia of the Alzheimer's type

Auditory-visual speech perception testing was completed using wordandconsonant-level stimuli in individuals with known degrees of dementia of theAlzheimer’s type. The correlations with the cognitive measures and the speechperception measures (A-only, V-only, AV, VE or AE) did not reveal significantrelationships.

Kipus: revista andina de letras. 12 (Reseñas)

Presenta las reseñas de los siguientes libros: Alexandra Astudillo, NUEVAS APROXIMACIONES AL CUENTO ECUATORIANO DE LOS ÚLTIMOS 25 AÑOS, Quito: Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar / Corporación Editora Nacional, 1999; Serie Magíster, vol. 8; 134 pp. -- Armando Muyulema Calle, LA QUEMA DE ÑUCANCHIC HUASl (1994): LOS ROSTROS DISCURSIVOS DEL CONFLICTO SOCIAL EN CAÑAR, Quito: Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar / Corporación Editora Nacional, 200 1; Serie Magíster, vol. 11; 97 pp. -- Julio Pazos, ARTE DE LA MEMORIA: SUSTENTOS DE LA VIDA DIARIA, Quito: Paradiso, 1998. -- Luis Aguilar Monsalve, EL UMBRAL DEL SILENCIO, 2a. ed., Libresa, Colección Crónica de sueños, 1999. -- Mario Vargas Llosa, LA FIESTA DEL CHIVO, Madrid: Alfaguara, 2000. -- Leonardo Valencia Assogna, EL DESTERRADO, Barcelona: Debate, 2001. -- Raúl Serrano Sánchez, LAS MUJERES ESTÁN LOCAS POR MI, 2a. ed., Quito, Eskeletra, 2000, 144 pp. -- María del Carmen Porras, APROXIMACIÓN A LA INTELECTUALIDAD LATINOAMERICANA: EL CASO DE ECUADOR y VENEZUELA, Quito: Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar / Corporación Editora Nacional; 2000; Serie Magíster, vol. 10; 116 pp. -- Roy Sigüenza, OCÚPATE DE LA NOCHE, Colección Triformidad, Cuenca: Universidad de Cuenca / Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Núcleo del Azuay, 2000. -- Sofía Paredes, TRAVESÍA DE LO POPULAR EN LA CRÍTICA LITERARIA ECUATORIANA, Quito: Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar / Corporación Editora Nacional, 2000; Serie Magíster, vol. 12; 66 pp. -- Cristóbal Zapata, BAJA NOCHE, Quito: Eskeletra, 2000; 58 pp. -- Violeta Luna, UNA SOLA VEZ LA VIDA, Quito: Eskeletra, 2000.

Uncertainties in future projections of extreme precipitation in the Indian monsoon region

Uncertainties in changes to the spatial distribution and magnitude of the heaviest extremes of daily monsoon rainfall over India are assessed in the doubled CO2 climate change scenarios in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. Results show diverse changes to the spatial pattern of the 95th and 99th subseasonal percentiles, which are strongly tied to the mean precipitation change during boreal summer. In some models, the projected increase in heaviest rainfall over India at CO2 doubling is entirely predictable based upon the surface warming and the Clausius–Clapeyron relation, a result which may depend upon the choice of convection scheme. Copyright © 2009 Royal Meteorological Society and Crown Copyright

Storm prediction research and its application to the oil/gas industry

The accurate prediction of storms is vital to the oil and gas sector for the management of their operations. An overview of research exploring the prediction of storms by ensemble prediction systems is presented and its application to the oil and gas sector is discussed. The analysis method used requires larger amounts of data storage and computer processing time than other more conventional analysis methods. To overcome these difficulties eScience techniques have been utilised. These techniques potentially have applications to the oil and gas sector to help incorporate environmental data into their information systems

Impairment in movement skills of children with autistic spectrum disorders

We undertook this study to explore the degree of impairment in movement skills in children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) and a wide IQ range. Movement skills were measured using the Movement Assessment Battery for Children (M-ABC) in a large, well defined, population-derived group of children (n=101: 89 males,12 females; mean age 11y 4mo, SD 10mo; range 10y-14y 3mo) with childhood autism and broader ASD and a wide range of IQ scores. Additionally, we tested whether a parent-completed questionnaire, the Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire (DCDQ), was useful in identifying children who met criteria for movement impairments after assessment (n=97 with complete M-ABCs and DCDQs). Of the children with ASD, 79% had definite movement impairments on the M-ABC; a further 10% had borderline problems. Children with childhood autism were more impaired than children with broader ASD, and children with an IQ less than 70 were more impaired than those with IQ more than 70. This is consistent with the view that movement impairments may arise from a more severe neurological impairment that also contributes to intellectual disability and more severe autism. Movement impairment was not associated with everyday adaptive behaviour once the effect of IQ was controlled for. The DCDQ performed moderately well as a screen for possible motor difficulties. Movement impairments are common in children with ASD. Systematic assessment of movement abilities should be considered a routine investigation.

Efficient calculation of two-dimensional periodic and waveguide acoustic Green’s functions

New representations and efficient calculation methods are derived for the problem of propagation from an infinite regularly spaced array of coherent line sources above a homogeneous impedance plane, and for the Green's function for sound propagation in the canyon formed by two infinitely high, parallel rigid or sound soft walls and an impedance ground surface. The infinite sum of source contributions is replaced by a finite sum and the remainder is expressed as a Laplace-type integral. A pole subtraction technique is used to remove poles in the integrand which lie near the path of integration, obtaining a smooth integrand, more suitable for numerical integration, and a specific numerical integration method is proposed. Numerical experiments show highly accurate results across the frequency spectrum for a range of ground surface types. It is expected that the methods proposed will prove useful in boundary element modeling of noise propagation in canyon streets and in ducts, and for problems of scattering by periodic surfaces.

Are greenhouse gas signals of Northern Hemisphere winter extra-tropical cyclone activity dependent on the identification and tracking algorithm?

For Northern Hemisphere extra-tropical cyclone activity, the dependency of a potential anthropogenic climate change signal on the identification method applied is analysed. This study investigates the impact of the used algorithm on the changing signal, not the robustness of the climate change signal itself. Using one single transient AOGCM simulation as standard input for eleven state-of-the-art identification methods, the patterns of model simulated present day climatologies are found to be close to those computed from re-analysis, independent of the method applied. Although differences in the total number of cyclones identified exist, the climate change signals (IPCC SRES A1B) in the model run considered are largely similar between methods for all cyclones. Taking into account all tracks, decreasing numbers are found in the Mediterranean, the Arctic in the Barents and Greenland Seas, the mid-latitude Pacific and North America. Changing patterns are even more similar, if only the most severe systems are considered: the methods reveal a coherent statistically significant increase in frequency over the eastern North Atlantic and North Pacific. We found that the differences between the methods considered are largely due to the different role of weaker systems in the specific methods.

IMILAST: a community effort to intercompare extratropical cyclone detection and tracking algorithms

The variability of results from different automated methods of detection and tracking of extratropical cyclones is assessed in order to identify uncertainties related to the choice of method. Fifteen international teams applied their own algorithms to the same dataset—the period 1989–2009 of interim European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Re-Analysis (ERAInterim) data. This experiment is part of the community project Intercomparison of Mid Latitude Storm Diagnostics (IMILAST; see www.proclim.ch/imilast/index.html). The spread of results for cyclone frequency, intensity, life cycle, and track location is presented to illustrate the impact of using different methods. Globally, methods agree well for geographical distribution in large oceanic regions, interannual variability of cyclone numbers, geographical patterns of strong trends, and distribution shape for many life cycle characteristics. In contrast, the largest disparities exist for the total numbers of cyclones, the detection of weak cyclones, and distribution in some densely populated regions. Consistency between methods is better for strong cyclones than for shallow ones. Two case studies of relatively large, intense cyclones reveal that the identification of the most intense part of the life cycle of these events is robust between methods, but considerable differences exist during the development and the dissolution phases.