Trabalhar no grupo e com o grupo: uma estratégia para a inclusão de uma criança com atraso global do desenvolvimento

Este projecto de intervenção no âmbito da investigação-acção surgiu perante a problemática de uma criança considerada com necessidades educativas especiais, mais propriamente com um atraso global do desenvolvimento, tendo grandes problemas de socialização com as outras crianças do grupo de A.T.L. a que pertence. Desta forma, o objectivo deste projecto foi conseguir, através de práticas de educação inclusiva e de aprendizagem cooperativa, com a criança e com o grupo, alcançar uma melhor inclusão desta criança no grupo e do grupo com a criança. As técnicas e os instrumentos utilizados para a pesquisa de dados foram: a pesquisa documental, a sociometria, a entrevista e a observação. Todas estas técnicas foram utilizadas conforme as regras dos autores de referência, tal como a análise dos dados retirados da utilização destas técnicas. Com realização deste projecto chegámos à conclusão que através das estratégias que implementámos, nomeadamente a aprendizagem cooperativa, foi possível verificar que a criança em questão conseguiu ultrapassar algumas das suas dificuldades e apesar de o trabalho necessitar de ser continuado, este é o caminho para a sua melhor inclusão.

Os talentos nas organizações

O estudo sobre o conceito do talento revela-se pertinente no enquadramento competitivo socioeconómico actual, com o objectivo de elucidar e orientar os profissionais que estejam interessados a entender quais as exigências do mundo laboral e da utilidade na sociedade, bem como de minimizar os obstáculos dos caminhos que não se vêm as metas; o rio chega ao mar a contornar os obstáculos e não a forçá-los. Foi efectuada pesquisa bibliográfica sobre principais conceitos de talento, as características genéticas e quais os factores impulsionadores que geram sentimento para ter vontade de seguir determinado caminho. Foram realizadas entrevistas a profissionais sobre o conceito de talento e os seus comportamentos e foram referidas as características dos seus percursos profissionais e as suas aptidões. Como suporte, o estudo refere a técnica da entrevista semi estruturada, optando pela análise de conteúdo de Laurence Bardin. Como conclusões principais, é necessário, o sentimento, o grande impulsionador para percorrer um caminho que aos olhos dos outros se torna um sacrifício, os atributos genéticos são também características que sustentam a mais valia face ao talento. Não é suficiente descobrir qual a chave da porta para poder entrar no caminho certo, porque o caminho faz-se caminhando. É necessário fluir, caminhar sempre. A este percurso chama-se talento.

Test-retest reliability of distortion product otoacoustic emissions in high-risk registry neonates

This paper studies the test-retest reliability of distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAE) in newborns in a neonatal intensive care unit.

The Lindamood Auditory Conceptualization Test and its use with hearing-impaired children

This paper discusses the Lindamood Auditory Conceptualization Test and whether it is suitable for hearing-impaired children.

Boundary integral methods in high frequency scattering

In this article we review recent progress on the design, analysis and implementation of numerical-asymptotic boundary integral methods for the computation of frequency-domain acoustic scattering in a homogeneous unbounded medium by a bounded obstacle. The main aim of the methods is to allow computation of scattering at arbitrarily high frequency with finite computational resources.

Producing Inequalities: Regional Sequences in Later Prehistoric Southern Spain

This paper presents regional sequences of production, consumption and Social relations ill Southern Spain from the beginning of the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age (c. 5600-1550 BC). The regions Studied are southeast Spain, Valencia, the southern Meseta and central/western Andalucia. The details presented for each region and period vary in quality but Show how Much our knowledge of the archaeological record of southern Spain has changed during the last four decades. Among the Surprises are the rapidity of agricultural adoption. the emergence of regional centres of aggregated population in enclosed/fortified settlements of up to 400 hectares in the fourth and third millennia BC. the use of copper objects as instruments of production, rather than as items With 11 purely symbolic of 'prestige' value, large-scale copper production in western Andalucia in the third millennium BC (as opposed to the usual domestic production model), and the inference of societies based oil relations of class.

Onset of recent rapid sea-level rise in the western Atlantic Ocean

A high-resolution record of sea-level change spanning the past 1000 years is derived from foraminiferal and chronological analyses of a 2m thick salt-marsh peat sequence at Chezzetcook, Nova Scotia, Canada. Former mean tide level positions are reconstructed with a precision of +/- 0.055 in using a transfer function derived from distributions of modern salt-marsh foraminifera. Our age model for the core section older than 300 years is based on 19 AMS C-14 ages and takes into account the individual probability distributions of calibrated radiocarbon ages. The past 300 years is dated by pollen and the isotopes Pb-206, Pb-207, Pb-210, Cs-137 and Am-241. Between AD 1000 and AD 1800, relative sea level rose at a mean rate of 17cm per century. Apparent pre-industrial rises of sea level dated at AD 1500-1550 and AD 1700-1800 cannot be clearly distinguished when radiocarbon age errors are taken into account. Furthermore, they may be an artefact of fluctuations in atmospheric C-14 production. In the 19th century sea level rose at a mean rate of 1.6mm/yr. Between AD 1900 and AD 1920, sea-level rise accelerated to the modern mean rate of 3.2mm/yr. This acceleration corresponds in time with global temperature rise and may therefore be associated with recent global warming. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

A glacier inventory for the Buordakh Massif, Cherskiy Range, northeast Siberia, and evidence for recent glacier recession

The Buordakh Massif, in the Cherskiy Range of northeast Siberia, contains mountains over 3000 in and, despite its and climate, numerous glaciers. This paper presents a glacier inventory for the region and documents some 80 glaciers, which range in size from 0.1 to 10.4 km(2) (total glacierized area is ca. 70 km(2)). The inventory is based on mapping derived from Landsat 7 ETM+ satellite imagery from August 2001, augmented with data from field investigations obtained at that time. The glaciers in this region are of the 'firn-less,' cold, continental type, and their mass balance relies heavily on the formation of superimposed ice. The most recent glacier maximum extents have also been delineated, and these are believed to date from the Little Ice Age (ca. A.D. 1550-1850). Glacier areal extent has reduced by some 14.8 km(2) (ca. 17%) since this most. recent maximum. Of the 80 glaciers catalogued, 49 have undergone a measurable retreat from their most recent maximum extent.

Contemporary (2001) and ‘Little Ice Age’ glacier extents in the Buordakh Massif, Cherskiy Range, north east Siberia

The Buordakh Massif of the Cherskiy Range of sub-arctic north east Siberia, Russia has a cold continental climate and supports over 80 glaciers. Despite previous research in the region, a georeferenced map of the glaciers has only recently been completed and an enhanced version of it is reproduced in colour here. The mountains of this region reach heights in excess of 3,000 m and the glaciers on their slopes range in size from 0.1 to 10.4 km2. The mapping has been compiled through the interpretation of Landsat 7 ETM+ satellite imagery from August 2001 which has been augmented by data from a field campaign undertaken at the same time. The glaciers of the region are of the cold, ‘firn-less’ continental type and their mass balance relies heavily on the formation of superimposed ice. Moraines which lie in front of the glaciers by up to a few kilometres are believed to date from the Little Ice Age (ca. 1550-1850 AD). Over half of the glaciers mapped have shown marked retreat from these moraines.