Tutorial SGP: Sistemas Gestor de Publicações da Embrapa Informática Agropecuária. Versão 2.0

O Sistema Gestor de Publicações - SGP é uma ferramenta que tem como objetivo principal registrar todos os passos do processo das publicações internas da Embrapa Informática Agropecuária. Baseado nos softwares de submissão mais utilizados pela comunidade científica internacional, contempla as funções de submissão de documentos, acompanhamento, emissão de relatórios e pareceres, além do acompanhamento, pelo autor, do andamento do trabalho de seu trabalho. Todas suas funções serão detalhadas, porém separadas em processos mais complexos do menu principal: Trabalhos, Acompanhamento e Administração. Este manual, apesar de ser utilizado por vários usuários - autor, revisor, membros do CP, Administrador do sistema, Bibliotecário e Revisor de Português, terá sua linguagem direcionado para a(o) Secretária(o) e Presidente do Comitê de Publicações. Que, pela natureza de suas funções, serão a interface principal entre todos usuários e a real utilização do sistema.

Tutorial TaxTools.

A ferramenta TaxTools foi desenvolvida pelo Laboratório de Inteligência Computacional (Labic) do Instituto de Ciência Matemática e de Computação (ICMC) da Universidade de São Paulo (USP), campus de São Carlos, SP, com o objetivo de auxiliar no processo de mineração de textos. Atualmente, ela tem sido mantida e evoluída pelo Laboratório de Inteligência Computacional (LabIC) da Embrapa Informática Agropecuária. Esse tutorial abrange apenas as opções disponíveis na TaxTools, que completam o processo de obtenção de uma taxonomia de tópicos (MOURA et al., 2008); como clusterização, cálculos de medidas intercluster e de joinability, métodos de podas, métodos de visualização de resultados e algumas opções auxiliares.

Tutorial do comando Awk.

Mesmo que o Windows ainda seja, disparado, o sistema operacional mais utilizado e conhecido pelas pessoas no mundo todo, o Linux vem se difundindo cada vez mais em diversos nichos da população, sejam profissionais de informática ou não. Uma das grandes vantagens do Linux sobre seu concorrente é a diversidade de comandos que seu terminal shell (interface de linha de comando) possui, o que se tornou uma característica forte deste sistema operacional. O awk é um desses comandos que faz o terminal shell do Linux ser a marca forte desse sistema. É um comando tão importante e com tantas funcionalidades que muitos o confundem com uma linguagem de programação. O presente trabalho procura fazer uma pequena introdução sobre as principais possibilidades de utilização do awk, desde a construção de simples linhas de comando até a programação de pequenos scripts para execução no shell do Linux.

DSpace Basic Tutorial

PDF of powerpoint slides presented at DSUG 2007 Roma

El sistema tutorial AgentGeom y su contribución a la mejora de las competencias de los alumnos en la resolución de problemas de matemáticas

En esta comunicación presentamos el sistema tutorial inteligente, al que hemos llamado AGENTGEOM, y analizamos cómo interactúa con un alumno en la resolución de un problema que compara áreas de superficies planas. En esta interacción, el alumno llega a apropiarse de habilidades estratégicas y argumentativas en la resolución de problemas. Observaremos que estas apropiaciones son consecuencia de las formas de comunicación alumno-AGENTGEOM, en las que se combinan construcciones gráficas y sentencias escritas que siguen las normas del lenguaje matemático, y la emisión de mensajes escritos en lenguaje natural.

La acción tutorial en los trabajos de investigación en el bachillerato

En este artículo presentamos un modelo de acción tutorial de los trabajos de investigación en el bachillerato, que estamos poniendo en práctica. Clasificamos los diferentes tipos de investigaciones y analizamos los puntos más significativos de tal modelo, cuya finalidad es la de mejorar las capacidades de investigación del alumnado.

A survey of teaching and assessment methods employed in UK higher education programmes for HCI course

A survey of teaching and assessment methods employed in UK Higher Education programmes for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) courses was conducted in April 2003. The findings from this survey are presented, and conclusions drawn.

(Un)veiling desire: re-defining relationships between gendered adult education subjects and adult education programmes

My underlying argument, in this paper, is that conceptualisations of power as a commodity, through which the 'disempowered-as-illiterate' subject moves towards becoming an 'empowered-as-literate' subject, forces constructs of identities into a powerful/powerless dichotomy which does not always do justice to diverse experiences. The claimed 'empowering' intentions of adult education programme and policy practice may, in reality, contribute to the dominance of restrictive disciplining and regulatory discursive practices. Moving away from emancipatory trajectories of adult education programmes that allege only liberation from domination, through 'literacy', can promise freedom points to another position of hope. Drawing on Foucauldian analysis, I explore sites of resistance as possibilities of transforming 'structures of understanding' at different levels. Officially validated and recognised transformations, in adult education programme as well as policy understandings, of the 'illiterate' subject may also hope to include choices in postures of autonomy (see Spivak 1996) made by programme participants in other 'fields' of socio-cultural practice linked to their material realities. Subsequently, 'empowerment' of the 'illiterate Indian village woman' cannot solely be imagined as a product of laws, policies and institutional discursive practices (see, for example, Gouws 2005; Rai 2003 on gender mainstreaming and Mosse 2005 on aid policy and practice). The 'illiterate Indian village woman' represented as a site of resistance, throughout this paper, displaces homogeneous representations of the 'illiterate' which situate her in the role of 'dependent' or 'victim', as failed attempts to rob her of her historical and political agency (Mohanty 1996). Through narrating other 'images' of refusal in my ethnographic vignettes, I hope to recognise different individuals' sense of agency, at all levels, as embedded in and evolving through forms of collective action that activate differences in order to develop possibilities and sustain hope for transforming historically rooted discursive practices of inequality. I provide ethnographic accounts of resisting 'literacy' programme participants, based in different villages in Bihar (Northern India), as accounts of resistance impacted on by notions of norms, translating and interpreting Others, networks and empowerment.

A randomised study of two training programmes for general practitioners in the techniques of shoulder injection

Training on patients in addition to conventional mannequins increased GPs shoulder injection activity and their level of confidence.Hospital injection clinicsa may provide a suitable setting in which to train GPs interested in developing their shoulder joint injection skills

Economic modelling of antenatal screening and ultrasound scanning programmes for identification of fetal abnormalities

Objective Within the framework of a health technology assessment and using an economic model, to determine the most clinically and cost effective policy of scanning and screening for fetal abnormalities in early pregnancy. Design A discrete event simulation model of 50,000 singleton pregnancies. Setting Maternity services in Scotland. Population Women during the first 24 weeks of their pregnancy. Methods The mathematical model was populated with data on uptake of screening, prevalence, detection and false positive rates for eight fetal abnormalities and with costs for ultrasound scanning and serum screening. Inclusion of abnormalities was based on the relative prevalence and clinical importance of conditions and the availability of data. Six strategies for the identification of abnormalities prenatally including combinations of first and second trimester ultrasound scanning and first and second trimester screening for chromosomal abnormalities were compared. Main outcome measures The number of abnormalities detected and missed, the number of iatrogenic losses resulting from invasive tests, the total cost of strategies and the cost per abnormality detected were compared between strategies. Results First trimester screening for chromosomal abnormalities costs more than second trimester screening but results in fewer iatrogenic losses. Strategies which include a second trimester ultrasound scan result in more abnormalities being detected and have lower costs per anomaly detected. Conclusions The preferred strategy includes both first and second trimester ultrasound scans and a first trimester screening test for chromosomal abnormalities. It has been recommended that this policy is offered to all women in Scotland.

Instrumental and interpretive methods in evaluating urban programmes

The turn within urban policy to address increasingly complex social, economic and environmental problems has exposed some of the fragility of traditional measurement models and their reliance on the rational paradigm. This article looks at the experiences of the European Union (EU) Programme for Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland and its particular attempt to construct new District Partnerships to deliver area-based regeneration programmes. It highlights the need to combine instrumental and interpretative evaluation methods in an attempt to explain the wider contribution of governance to conflict resolution and participatory practice in local development. It concludes by highlighting the value of conceptual approaches that deal with the politics of evaluation and the distributional effects of policy interventions designed to create new relationships within and between multiple stakeholders.