La inclusi??n como 'North Star' y las perspectivas de la vida cotidiana : consideraciones sobre las preocupaciones, transformaciones y necesidades de la inclusi??n en las escuelas en Alemania

Monogr??fico con el t??tulo: "La Educaci??n Inclusiva: reflexiones y experiencias para la mejora escolar"

Los Massive Open On line Courses (MOOCs) como extensi??n universitaria

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Counterpoise-corrected geometries and harmonic frequencies of N-body clusters: application to (HF)n (n=3,4)

A study was conducted on the methods of basis set superposition error (BSSE)-free geometry optimization and frequency calculations in clusters larger than a dimer. In particular, three different counterpoise schemes were critically examined. It was shown that the counterpoise-corrected supermolecule energy can be easily obtained in all the cases by using the many-body partitioning of energy

Clusters como modelo para alcanzar la productividad y competitividad industrial en el Ecuador

El desarrollo de una industria no puede ser impulsado desde un sentido únicamente económico, debe contemplar el desarrollo social como un factor fundamental. Un clúster es una opción para involucrar a diferentes sectores de la población en procesos de crecimiento social y económico. El nivel de la calidad de vida de una nación está determinado por la productividad con la cual utiliza su talento humano, recursos naturales y capital, y esto implica planificar procesos institucionales, educacionales y tecnológicos de una manera seria y responsable, considerando el largo plazo y el bienestar de la población. La productividad depende del valor de los productos y servicios en términos de diferenciación, calidad, y de la eficiencia con la que se producen. Si es que todos estos elementos se manejan estratégicamente, lo más lógico es alcanzar la competitividad industrial. Un análisis previo a la propuesta de clusters en el Ecuador es necesario, para definir las mejores condiciones que permitan tener éxito el momento de implementar un proceso productivo como el que se pretende definir con el estudio de los clusters competitivos. Raúl Prebisch precisó tres conceptos para definir el subdesarrollo: la heterogeneidad estructural, la especialización productiva, y, el desarrollo desigual. Desde este punto de vista, la generación de clusters es una alternativa que debe buscar fortalecer un desarrollo más equitativo, involucrando a todos los actores económicos. Esta visión integral del desarrollo va más allá de la complementariedad de las políticas sociales, económicas y ambientales y el ordenamiento democrático, entre capital humano, bienestar social, desarrollo sostenible y ciudadanía: debe interpretarse como el sentido mismo del desarrollo (CEPAL, 2000).

La protection des données à caractère personnel dans le cadre des activités d’une mission civile de gestion de crise ou la recherche de « l’inaccessible étoile » ? Data Protection within the context of one ESDP Mission - The search for the unreachable star

La question de la protection des données à caractère personnel posée dans le cadre des activités d’assistance et de soutien des missions civiles de gestion de crise ne semble guère avoir suscité l’intérêt des instances en charge de leur gestion et ce en dépit de son importance majeure au regard des tâches exécutées quotidiennement par les agents de ces missions dans le domaine de la coopération policière et judiciaire en matière pénale. S’appuyant sur une expérience de terrain, l’auteur s’efforcera, dans ces lignes, de démontrer la nécessité d’entamer une réflexion de fond sur ce sujet afin, le cas échéant, de prendre les initiatives utiles destinées à porter remède aux difficultés qui, en ce domaine, pourraient apparaître.

Relationships between lightning and properties of convective cloud clusters

Satellite observations of convective system properties and lightning flash rate are used to investigate the ability of potential lightning parameterizations to capture both the dominant land-ocean contrast in lightning occurrence and regional differences between Africa, the Amazon and the islands of the maritime continent. As found in previous studies, the radar storm height is tightly correlated with the lightning flash rate. A roughly second order power-law fit to the mean radar echo top height above the 0C isotherm is shown to capture both regional and land-ocean contrasts in lightning occurrence and flash rate using a single set of parameters. Recent developments should soon make it possible to implement a parameterization of this kind in global models. Parameterizations based on cloud top height, convective rain rate and convective rain fraction all require the use of separate fits over land and ocean and fail to capture observed differences between continental regions.

New insights on growth mechanisms of protein clusters at surfaces: an AFM and simulation study

Despite its relevance to a wide range of technological and fundamental areas, a quantitative understanding of protein surface clustering dynamics is often lacking. In inorganic crystal growth, surface clustering of adatoms is well described by diffusion-aggregation models. In such models, the statistical properties of the aggregate arrays often reveal the molecular scale aggregation processes. We investigate the potential of these theories to reveal hitherto hidden facets of protein clustering by carrying out concomitant observations of lysozyme adsorption onto mica surfaces, using atomic force microscopy. and Monte Carlo simulations of cluster nucleation and growth. We find that lysozyme clusters diffuse across the substrate at a rate that varies inversely with size. This result suggests which molecular scale mechanisms are responsible for the mobility of the proteins on the substrate. In addition the surface diffusion coefficient of the monomer can also be extracted from the comparison between experiments and simulations. While concentrating on a model system of lysozyme-on-mica, this 'proof of concept' study successfully demonstrates the potential of our approach to understand and influence more biomedically applicable protein-substrate couples.

New radiocarbon accelerator dates on artefacts from the early Mesolithic site of Star Carr, North Yorkshire

For the well-known early Mesolithic site of Star Carr, dating of organic artefacts by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) has been hampered by treatment of bone and antler recovered during the original excavations with preservatives. Some, untreated, artefacts were, however, collected after Clark's excavation in 1950. Four of these artefacts were AMS dated in 1995, but two of the dates were significantly younger than the others, and were questionable due to their low collagen yields. These suspect samples have now been re-analysed, demonstrating that all four artefacts are of similar date. The significance of these dates for the chronology of Star Carr is discussed.

Strategy clusters and sources of knowledge in French L2 listening comprehension

This article reports on an exploratory investigation into the listening strategies of lower-intermediate learners of French as an L2, including the sources of knowledge they employed in order to comprehend spoken French. Data from 14 learners were analysed to investigate whether employment of strategies in general and sources of knowledge in particular varied according to the underlying linguistic knowledge of the student. While low linguistic knowledge learners were less likely to deploy effectively certain strategies or strategy clusters, high linguistic knowledge levels were not always associated with effective strategy use. Similarly, while there was an association between linguistic knowledge and learners’ ability to draw on more than one source of knowledge in a facilitative manner, there was also evidence that learners tended to over-rely on linguistic knowledge where other sources, such as world knowledge, would have proved facilitative. We conclude by arguing for a fresh approach to listening pedagogy and research, including strategy instruction, bottom-up skill development and a consideration of the role of linguistic knowledge in strategy use.