One Hundred Years of the Concert Marimba: American and Japanese Innovation and Convergence, 1915 to 2014

Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Washington, 2016-06

Systemic absorptive capacity: creating early-to-market returns through R&D alliances

For most complex emergent technologies, product-market success depends on efficient linkages between changing lead innovators within the R&D process. In this paper, our unit of analysis is a complex high technology product and the system of alliance linkages formed to progress a product through R&D milestones. We present a model and evidence for advancing our understanding of how achieving early-to-market returns depends on systemic absorptive capacity. This systemic absorptive capacity is the cumulative efficiency in the use of absorptive capacity to link changing lead innovators across successive milestones in R&D product development. We advance propositions of how systemic absorptive capacity can explain performance differences between rival product development systems competing for early-to-market returns with similar products through accelerating speed to market, cost and quality advantages. These explanations are contrasted with the conclusions of previous studies that have focused on absorptive capacity of single firms or single alliances in RD.

Data compilation on the biological response to ocean acidification: environmental and experimental context of data sets and related literature

The exponential growth of studies on the biological response to ocean acidification over the last few decades has generated a large amount of data. To facilitate data comparison, a data compilation hosted at the data publisher PANGAEA was initiated in 2008 and is updated on a regular basis (doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.149999). By January 2015, a total of 581 data sets (over 4 000 000 data points) from 539 papers had been archived. Here we present the developments of this data compilation five years since its first description by Nisumaa et al. (2010). Most of study sites from which data archived are still in the Northern Hemisphere and the number of archived data from studies from the Southern Hemisphere and polar oceans are still relatively low. Data from 60 studies that investigated the response of a mix of organisms or natural communities were all added after 2010, indicating a welcomed shift from the study of individual organisms to communities and ecosystems. The initial imbalance of considerably more data archived on calcification and primary production than on other processes has improved. There is also a clear tendency towards more data archived from multifactorial studies after 2010. For easier and more effective access to ocean acidification data, the ocean acidification community is strongly encouraged to contribute to the data archiving effort, and help develop standard vocabularies describing the variables and define best practices for archiving ocean acidification data.

Un modèle d'implantation d'une politique institutionnelle d'évaluation de l'enseignement

L'évaluation constitue le sujet de l'heure en éducation. Qui plus est, il s'agit davantage de l'évaluation des enseignants que de l'évaluation globale des systèmes éducatifs. Pour le dire en un mot, tout se passe comme si un très grand nombre d'intervenants croyait que si les enseignants étaient évalués, vraiment, tous les problèmes trouveraient leurs réponses. Il y a là une forme de conception "magique" de l'évaluation. Ludwig et Raddeau (cité par Costa,1987, p. 146) vont même plus loin en affirmant que "le genre humain est en quête de trois objectifs illusoires: la Fontaine de jeunesse, le Saint-Graal et le système d'évaluation parfait." Arthur Costa (Costa, 1987, p. 169) met en évidence, sur la base des diverses recherches faites en éducation , que "l'un des grands mythes de notre profession (éducation) a été que les pratiques d'évaluation de l'enseignement ont amélioré l'enseignement aux élèves. La plupart des politiques d'évaluation des districts ont cet énoncé comme préambule. Mais nous n'avons pas d'évidence que tel est le cas (Glickman cité par Costa, 1986). Pourtant l'évaluation constitue une nécessité, nous aurons l'occasion de le démontrer, aussi bien au plan de la gestion qu'à celui d'une intervention professionnelle de qualité. [...]

Nociones de afecto en niños de tercero de primaria en el colegio Antonio Jose Uribe (I.E.D.)

Tesis (Maestría en Docencia).-- Universidad de La Salle. Facultad de Ciencias de La Educación. Maestría en Docencia, 2014

Detección de Lugares con Camaras RGB-D. Aplicación a Cierre de Bucles en SLAM

En este trabajo se propone un método que combina descriptores de imágenes de intensidad y de profundidad para detectar de manera robusta el problema de cierre de bucle en SLAM. La robustez del método, proporcionada por el empleo conjunto de información de diversa naturaleza, permite detectar lugares revisitados en situaciones donde m´etodos basados solo en intensidad o en profundidad presentan dificultades (p.e. condiciones de iluminación deficientes, o falta de geometría). Además, se ha diseñado el métod cuenta su eficiencia, recurriendo para ello al detector FAST para extraer las características de las observaciones y al descriptor binario BRIEF. La detección de bucle se completa con una Bolsa de Palabras binarias. El rendimiento del método propuesto se ha evaluado en condiciones reales, obteniéndose resultados muy satisfactorios.