Aprendizaje incidental de pares asociados de palabras en función de la emotividad y de la viveza de imagen.

Estudiar ciertos aspectos concretos sobre la capacidad de memorizar algunas imágenes mentales. 154 alumnos (92 mujeres y 62 varones) de primero de BUP. del instituto 'Ramón Otero Pedrayo' de Orense. Estudio acerca de la emotividad positiva, negativa y neutra de las palabras castellanas en el recuerdo de pares asociados, según el sexo y la viveza de la imagen de los sujetos y según el tiempo transcurrido desde el momento del aprendizaje al de recuerdo. Variables independientes: 1)memoria; 2) sexo; 3) viveza de la imagen; 4) tiempo transcurrido para el recuerdo; 5) edad; 6) nivel de escolarización; 7) nivel de concreción-abstracción de las palabras. Variable dependiente: número de palabras recordadas. Los instrumentos utilizados para la recogida de datos han sido dos: para medir la viveza de imagen de los sujetos fue seleccionado el Cuestionario de viveza de Imágenes Visuales de Marks (VVIQ) y para medir el número de palabras recordadas por los sujetos tras los diversos intervalos de tiempo se confeccionó una lista de 60 palabras con distinta emotividad. 1) Existen diferencias significativas entre el número de palabras neutras y emotivas que pueden recordar los sujetos. Éstos recordaron un mayor número de palabras neutras, pero esto independiente de que el recuerdo se produjera a corto o largo plazo. 2) No existe aún claridad sobre el hecho de si las imágenes son algo funcional (como puede serlo la memoria) o si son puramente elementos materiales que utiliza nuestra mente como herramientas en las que apoyarse para funcionar. 3) Existen diferencias significativas entre el número de palabras que recuerdan los varones y las mujeres. Se ha comprobado que las mujeres recuerdan un número significativamente mayor de palabras, en contra de lo que las escasas investigaciones realizadas sobre el recuerdo de imágenes verbales aparecían apuntar. 4) La consecuencia más importante de la investigación sobre las imágenes y los procesos verbales está en relación a los problemas de la educación. desde esta perspectiva educativa, el mayor interés se centra en la aplicación de estos conocimientos para la mejora del proceso educativo. 5) Teniendo en cuenta que evolutivamente las imágenes visuales preceden a las verbales y también que el material verbal (concreto o abstracto) está precedido por el visual, la actividad docente con los niños más pequeños deberá centrarse principalmente en información de tipo visual, de igual manera que el aprendizaje de significados y formas verbales deberá estar precedido, o al menos apoyado, por material de tipo visual. 6) El conocer que el lenguaje con carga emotiva es más fácilmente recordado que el lenguaje neutro, deberá condicionar el tipo de vocabulario utilizado por el docente y el que se debe emplear en la redacción de libros de texto y otro material didáctico escrito.

Del dibujo a la realidad : decoraci??n del aula de juegos del IES Teobaldo Power

Se pone en com??n una actividad realizada con alumnado de 4.?? de la ESO del ??rea de Educaci??n Pl??stica y Visual realizada en un centro educativo de Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Consiste en fomentar el uso del aula de juegos mediante un tratamiento est??tico integral que va desde la promoci??n y publicidad (carteler??a, folletos???) hasta la decoraci??n interior y exterior del aula, a trav??s de murales, cuadros y dibujos decorativos, Se desarrollan las capacidades perceptivas, expresivas y est??ticas propias del ??rea, a partir del conocimiento te??rico pr??ctico, as?? como diversas competencias seg??n los niveles de intervenci??n del proyecto propuesto.

Automatic diagnosis of voltage disturbances in power distribution networks

This thesis proposes a framework for identifying the root-cause of a voltage disturbance, as well as, its source location (upstream/downstream) from the monitoring place. The framework works with three-phase voltage and current waveforms collected in radial distribution networks without distributed generation. Real-world and synthetic waveforms are used to test it. The framework involves features that are conceived based on electrical principles, and assuming some hypothesis on the analyzed phenomena. Features considered are based on waveforms and timestamp information. Multivariate analysis of variance and rule induction algorithms are applied to assess the amount of meaningful information explained by each feature, according to the root-cause of the disturbance and its source location. The obtained classification rates show that the proposed framework could be used for automatic diagnosis of voltage disturbances collected in radial distribution networks. Furthermore, the diagnostic results can be subsequently used for supporting power network operation, maintenance and planning.

The light representation of religion and power in sound

The thematic and anathematic in music-making a reflection occurring after listening to an art song and a pop song from the 19th and 20th century Levantine music. Bach’s Orchestral Suites keep popping up, elegantly unveiling “the truth”.

Memory and power : two movements

The institutions that work with the preservation and diffusion of cultural heritage - be them archive, libraries, museums, art galleries or cultural centres - present a certain discourse about reality. To understand this discourse, composed by sound and silence, by fullness and emptiness, by presence and absence, by remembrance and forgetting, an operation is implied, not only with the enunciation of speech and its gaps, but also the comprehension of that which causes to speak, of who is speaking and of the point whence one speaks. Preservation and destruction, or, in another way, conservation and loss, walk hand in hand in the arteries of life. As suggested by Nietzsche (1999, p.273), it is impossible to live without loss, it is entirely impossible to live avoiding destruction to play its game and drive the dynamics of life on. However, by means of a kind of tautological argument, one often justifies preservation by the imminence of loss and memory by the threat of forgetting. Thus, one ceases to consider that the game and the rules of the game between forgetting and memory are not fed by themselves and that preservation and destruction are not opposed in a deadly duel, but instead they complement one another and are always at the service of subjects that build themselves and are built through social practices. To indicate that memories and forgettings can be sown and cultivated corroborates the importance of working towards the denaturalisation of these concepts and towards the understanding that they result from a construction process also involving other forces, such as: power. Power is a sower, a promoter of memories and forgettings.

The community museum: a space for the exercise of communal power

This paper discusses two key elements in the field of museums: a summary of the concept of the community museum, on the one hand, and, on the other, a proposal as to how this concept is put into practice, especially in the early stages of the creation of the museum, when the social basis for the project is being established. We will discuss how the community museum combines and integrates complex processes aimed at strengthening the community as a collective subject, asserting its identity, improving its quality of life and building alliances between communities. In the second part, which has a methodological focus, we will discuss how the museum is born out of community aspirations to strengthen its identity and integrity, the initial process of consensus-building, the roles of different agents, both internal and external to the community, as well as some factors that foster or prevent community appropriation. To conclude we will emphasize the potential of community museum networks as a strategy to generate a broader field of action, in which communities can exercise greater autonomy, by collectively developing and appropriating projects of regional and even international scope.

Subjective preference for a high power hearing aid utilizing a directional microphone

This paper discusses the use of a directional microphone by hearing aid users.

Towards a Theoretical Understating of How to Study the State: Governmentality, Power and Governmental Regimes

Artículo teórico que se origina a partir de un proyecto más amplio que investiga la construcción del Plan Nacional del Buen Vivir 2013-2017 (PNBV 2013-2017) en Ecuador. Su primordial preocupación teórica es responder a la siguiente pregunta: cómo estudiar los procesos de formación del Estado en Ecuador desde el año 2008. El documento responde a esta amplia cuestión argumentando, a nivel general, que el Estado se reproduce en parte mediante la creación de espacios donde efectivamente puede intervenir en la sociedad. Este trabajo se refiere, por lo tanto, con el examen de las formas particulares en que los Estados penetran la sociedad a través de regímenes gubernamentales. En términos más específicos, este trabajo sostiene que los procesos de intervención del Estado pueden ser ampliamente entendidos por la observación de tres procesos complementarios e interrelacionados: a. La forma en la que el Estado busca legitimar su presencia en la sociedad; b. Prácticas gubernamentales: las formas en las que el Estado aprende, organiza, distribuye y en última instancia crea campos específicos de intervención; c. El ejercicio de diferentes y complementarias modalidades de poder. En base a los citados elementos analiza la construcción de un "régimen gubernamental".

The Gulf Cooperation Council as a New Regional Power: Time for the EU to Propose a Strategic Partnership. Bruges Regional Integration & Global Governance Papers 3/2012, November 2012

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is a de facto regional power in the Arab world. Its role has been crucial in some of the outcomes of the Arab Spring. The GCC countries have been very pragmatic in dealing with the uprisings, avoiding any revolutionary spill-over throughout the Gulf region. This paper examines to what extent the policies of the European Union (EU) in the Gulf have changed since the beginning of the Arab Spring. It argues that despite the calls by the European Parliament and by the High Representative Baroness Ashton to improve the relationship, the EU’s support for a new policy in the Gulf after the Arab Spring is stalling, and little new or concrete has been achieved. The paper concludes that the Union needs a reinforced partnership that merges the various EU policies in the region into a single strategic partnership with the Arab countries.

Avian mortalities due to transmission line collisions: a review of current estimates and field methods with an emphasis on applications to the Canadian electric network

Birds are vulnerable to collisions with human-made fixed structures. Despite ongoing development and increases in infrastructure, we have few estimates of the magnitude of collision mortality. We reviewed the existing literature on avian mortality associated with transmission lines and derived an initial estimate for Canada. Estimating mortality from collisions with power lines is challenging due to the lack of studies, especially from sites within Canada, and due to uncertainty about the magnitude of detection biases. Detection of bird collisions with transmission lines varies due to habitat type, species size, and scavenging rates. In addition, birds can be crippled by the impact and subsequently die, although crippling rates are poorly known and rarely incorporated into estimates. We used existing data to derive a range of estimates of avian mortality associated with collisions with transmission lines in Canada by incorporating detection, scavenging, and crippling biases. There are 231,966 km of transmission lines across Canada, mostly in the boreal forest. Mortality estimates ranged from 1 million to 229.5 million birds per year, depending on the bias corrections applied. We consider our most realistic estimate, taking into account variation in risk across Canada, to range from 2.5 million to 25.6 million birds killed per year. Data from multiple studies across Canada and the northern U.S. indicate that the most vulnerable bird groups are (1) waterfowl, (2) grebes, (3) shorebirds, and (4) cranes, which is consistent with other studies. Populations of several groups that are vulnerable to collisions are increasing across Canada (e.g., waterfowl, raptors), which suggests that collision mortality, at current levels, is not limiting population growth. However, there may be impacts on other declining species, such as shorebirds and some species at risk, including Alberta’s Trumpeter Swans (Cygnus buccinator) and western Canada’s endangered Whooping Cranes (Grus americana). Collisions may be more common during migration, which underscores the need to understand impacts across the annual cycle. We emphasize that these estimates are preliminary, especially considering the absence of Canadian studies.