Indigenous Knowledge (IK) of Water Resources Management in West Sumatra, Indonesia

This study was aim to describe the indigenous knowledge of farmers at Nagari Padang laweh Malalo (NPLM) and their adaptability to climate change. Not only the water scarcity is feared, but climate change is also affecting their food security. Local food security can be achieved if biodiversity in their surrounding area is suitable to the local needs. The study was conducted by using Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) such as observation and discussion. The combination of in depth interview, life history, semi structure questionnaire, pictures, mapping and expert interviews was implemented. Data was analyzed by using MAXQDA 10 and F4 audio analysis software. The result shows awareness of the people and scarcity of water conditions has allowed the people of NPLM to face this challenge with wisdom. Aia adat (water resources controlled and regulate by custom) is one of their strategies to distribute the water. The general rule is that irrigation will flow from 6 pm – 6 am regularly to all farm land under supervision of kapalo banda. When rains occur, water resources can be used during the day without special supervision. They were used traditional knowledge to manage water resources for their land and daily usage. This study may be helpful for researcher and other farmers in different region to learn encounter water scarcity.

KAM: Automatic Planning and Interpretation of Numerical Experiments Using Geometrical Methods

KAM is a computer program that can automatically plan, monitor, and interpret numerical experiments with Hamiltonian systems with two degrees of freedom. The program has recently helped solve an open problem in hydrodynamics. Unlike other approaches to qualitative reasoning about physical system dynamics, KAM embodies a significant amount of knowledge about nonlinear dynamics. KAM's ability to control numerical experiments arises from the fact that it not only produces pictures for us to see, but also looks at (sic---in its mind's eye) the pictures it draws to guide its own actions. KAM is organized in three semantic levels: orbit recognition, phase space searching, and parameter space searching. Within each level spatial properties and relationships that are not explicitly represented in the initial representation are extracted by applying three operations ---(1) aggregation, (2) partition, and (3) classification--- iteratively.

Image Based Rendering Using Algebraic Techniques

This paper presents an image-based rendering system using algebraic relations between different views of an object. The system uses pictures of an object taken from known positions. Given three such images it can generate "virtual'' ones as the object would look from any position near the ones that the two input images were taken from. The extrapolation from the example images can be up to about 60 degrees of rotation. The system is based on the trilinear constraints that bind any three view so fan object. As a side result, we propose two new methods for camera calibration. We developed and used one of them. We implemented the system and tested it on real images of objects and faces. We also show experimentally that even when only two images taken from unknown positions are given, the system can be used to render the object from other view points as long as we have a good estimate of the internal parameters of the camera used and we are able to find good correspondence between the example images. In addition, we present the relation between these algebraic constraints and a factorization method for shape and motion estimation. As a result we propose a method for motion estimation in the special case of orthographic projection.

El cine como recurso formativo en el ámbito de la salud

En los procesos formativos conviene tener en cuenta la diversidad de métodos y medios de soporte educativos disponibles con el objetivo de facilitar la comunicación y la comprensión: visuales, sonoros, audiovisuales. Los medios audiovisuales son los que presentan un mayor desarrollo y utilización, destacando entre ellos el cine. El cine, como medio de comunicación, nos permite interpretar y descubrir lo que nos quiere comunicar a partir de la narración o historia que plantea, temas que luego la sociedad debate, bien sea presentando hechos que pueden ser reales o ficciones que podrían darse en la realidad. Se pretende asimismo analizar alguna filmografía que en su temática trate aspectos relacionados con la enfermería y la salud mental, tema este último que ha generado grandes películas y que sigue siendo un foco de interés para el público. Por tanto la buena o mala utilización marca estereotipos positivos o negativos que pueden llegar a mantenerse en el tiempo. Todo ello puede permitir con una cierta distancia: . Promover debate y discusión entre profesionales de la salud. . Motivar el análisis y crítica en estudiantes de pregrado y postgrado. . Facilitar actividades de promoción y educación para la salud en grupos o comunidades. Para ello utilizaremos una metodología para ir más allá del visionado de la película: . Orientamos un debate, analizando la estructura de la película, su contenido, los personajes y las relaciones que establecen. Es importante identificar las películas adecuadas que permitan observar, analizar los contenidos que interesen trabajar

El Cine és de les dones... i dels homes, però això ja ho sabem = El Cine es de las mujeres... y de los hombres, pero eso ya lo sabemos

En aquest monografic dedicat al cine hem recollit articles de directores de dues generacions perque ens expliquin la seva experiencia de fer pel.licules i també hem convidat a un crític perque ens parli, des de la seva diferencia de ser home, del cinema fet per dones

La Asignatura Metodología de la investigación mediante el cine sobre violencia contra la mujer

El cine es una de las recreaciones humanas más extraordinarias que se conoce desde la perspectiva de la comunicación. En el contexto del cine como recurso formativo, se inscribe la asignatura optativa Metodología de la Investigación mediante el cine, que ya cuenta con seis ediciones en la Diplomatura de Enfermería (Universidad de Barcelona). En cada edición se ha escogido, como objeto (sujeto) de estudio, un problema de salud diferente: cáncer, trastornos de la nutrición, Violencia Contra la Mujer (VCM), etc. La VCM es la expresión de un orden social basado en la desigualdad, que deriva de la asignación de roles diferentes a los hombres y a las mujeres, en función de su sexo. El cine como ficción muestra la realidad de la VCM de diversas formas, pero hace falta trascender el simple visionado de las imágenes para escuchar y mirar la VCM científicamente. Este trabajo describe el plan docente de la optativa Metodología de la Investigación mediante el cine, que incluye el taller: Análisis cinematográfico aplicado a la VCM. Este taller se considera como la intervención correspondiente a un diseño preexperimental de comparación con grupo estático y cuyos resultados se presentan en este trabajo

Velocidad de nombrar y conciencia fonol??gica en el aprendizaje inicial de la lectura

Resumen tomado de la publicaci??n

Sin City: cuando el cine se rinde a los pies del cómic

Proposta didàctica que se situa entre els llenguatges del còmic i del cinema per a promoure la reflexió sobre la cerca de noves formes de narrar. El fil conductor és Sin City i es proposen, també, 10 activitats per als alumnes

María Antonieta, la última reina: sinopsis fílmica y reseña literaria [Ressenya del llibre María Antonieta: la última reina, d'Antonia Fraser; Ressenya de la pel·lícula María Antonieta, de Sofia Coppola]

Sinopsi fílmica i ressenya literària d’aquestes dues obres sobre la figura de la última reina de França, amb 8 suggeriments didàctics que tenen com a fil conductor ambdues obres

Aula oberta

Ressenya sobre la conferència “Els arguments universals al segle XXI” que va pronunciar Jordi Balló a la Facultat de Lletres en motiu de la cloenda de l'assignatura sobre teoria literària impartida pel professor Xavier Pla

Cine y educación: explotación didáctica y algunas experiencias educativas

El cine, desde sus orígenes, es espectáculo, diversión, arte y un factor muy poderoso para formar el imaginario cultural, ideológico y cultural de la sociedad. Pero además constituye una herramienta muy útil y versátil en muchos niveles educativos y en todas las áreas, especialmente si consideramos la historia (Flores Auñón, 1982: 22-24; Monterde, 1986:67-132; 191-206) y la educación en valores

Colour image of the thorax and abdomen

This is an image taken from Anatomy tv, an interactive resource for teaching and learning in anatomy and physiology which the University Library subscribes to. This image may not be changed, but you may take a copy and present it with other materials and resources you are using so long as they are password protected for access by members of the University only. "All products and all images within the products are protected by copyright. The products and images can only be used for private educational purposes, unless a specific license is purchased for any other usage. For any commercial usage of the images, please contact Primal Pictures Limited. The products allow members of the University of Southampton to ‘copy and paste’ all of the text as well as the images in the 3D-model window and all of the slides. These can then be pasted into nearly any other word-processing or graphics program, including Powerpoint. These resources can be made available to members of the University of Southampton via a password-protected service. This again is designed solely as a service for private educational uses. Like any publisher, Primal Pictures protects itself against copyright infringement. Please do contact Debra Morris in the University Library before using these resources to ensure that conditions are respected. ©Primal Pictures Limited 2007

Human heart

A colour image of the human heart. This is an image taken from Anatomy tv, an interactive resource for teaching and learning in anatomy and physiology which the University Library subscribes to. This image may not be changed, but you may take a copy and present it with other materials and resources you are using so long as they are password protected for access by members of the University only. All products and all images within the products are protected by copyright. The products and images can only be used for private educational purposes, unless a specific license is purchased for any other usage. For any commercial usage of the images, please contact Primal Pictures Limited. The products allow members of the University of Southampton to ‘copy and paste’ all of the text as well as the images in the 3D-model window and all of the slides. These can then be pasted into nearly any other word-processing or graphics program, including Powerpoint. These resources can be made available to members of the University of Southampton via a password-protected service. This again is designed solely as a service for private educational uses. Like any publisher, Primal Pictures protects itself against copyright infringement. Please do contact Debra Morris in the University Library before using these resources to ensure that conditions are respected. ©Primal Pictures Limited 2007

Networked Life: Module CIS 112, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 2008

What kind of science is appropriate for understanding the Facebook? How does Google find what you're looking for... ...and exactly how do they make money doing so? What structural properties might we expect any social network to have? How does your position in an economic network (dis)advantage you? How are individual and collective behavior related in complex networks? What might we mean by the economics of spam? What do game theory and the Paris subway have to do with Internet routing? What's going on in the pictures to the left and right? Networked Life looks at how our world is connected -- socially, economically, strategically and technologically -- and why it matters. The answers to the questions above are related. They have been the subject of a fascinating intersection of disciplines including computer science, physics, psychology, mathematics, economics and finance. Researchers from these areas all strive to quantify and explain the growing complexity and connectivity of the world around us, and they have begun to develop a rich new science along the way. Networked Life will explore recent scientific efforts to explain social, economic and technological structures -- and the way these structures interact -- on many different scales, from the behavior of individuals or small groups to that of complex networks such as the Internet and the global economy. This course covers computer science topics and other material that is mathematical, but all material will be presented in a way that is accessible to an educated audience with or without a strong technical background. The course is open to all majors and all levels, and is taught accordingly. There will be ample opportunities for those of a quantitative bent to dig deeper into the topics we examine. The majority of the course is grounded in scientific and mathematical findings of the past two decades or less.

www.interfase32.com

Proyecto de investigación realizado en plataforma web con programación HTML5. Esta investigación es la reconstrucción de 7 años de actividades (2003-2010) generadas en un centro cultural ubicado en la calle 32 con carrera 13 en la ciudad de Bogotá. Este proyecto contiene textos periodísticos, académicos, entrevistas, archivos de audio y fotografías. Además de reconstruir la historia de lo ocurrido en este edificio, la investigación estudia las relaciones entre colectivos artísticos, políticos y juveniles en el contexto social bogotano.