La gesti??n de personas en los recursos residenciales de atenci??n a la infancia : descripci??n del puesto de trabajo del educador/a social

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Caminos de aprendizaje en la formaci??n de profesores de matem??ticas : objetivos, tareas y evaluaci??n

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La coordinaci??n docente en la Universidad : retos y problemas a partir de Bolonia

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En torno al concepto de competencia : un an??lisis de fuentes

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Development of a decision support system for the integrated control of membrane bioreactors

The work presented in this PhD thesis includes various partial studies aimed at developing a decision support system for membrane bioreactor integrated control. The decision support systems (DSS) have as a main goal to facilitate the operation of complex processes due to the multiple variables that are processed. For this reason, the research used has focused on aspects related to nutrient removal, and on the development of indicators or sensors capable of facilitating, automating and controlling the filtration process in an integrated way with the biological processes that taking place. Work has also been done on the design, development, implementation and validation of tools based on the knowledge made available by the automatic control and the supervision of the MBRs

Criatividade e estatutos identitários em alunos do ensino superior

O estado actual da sociedade, transporta-nos para uma realidade de constantes alterações e cada vez mais ofertas. Esta é uma realidade que exige, ao mesmo tempo uma capacidade de adaptação e um conhecimento de si que permita definir a sua identidade. Estas características encontram-se associadas à de identidade e à criatividade, pelo que se torna cada vez mais pertinente estudar estas variáveis no contexto da educação. Esta investigação tem como objectivos caracterizar os estatutos de identidade e os níveis de criatividade em jovens do primeiro ciclo do ensino superior, fazer uma comparação dos níveis de criatividade nos diferentes cursos e analisar a relação entre estatutos de identidade e criatividade. Para realização deste estudo utilizou-se o instrumento de avaliação dos estatutos de identidade - EOMEIS - 2 de Adams e Bennion (1986) e o Test for Creative Thinking – Drawing Production, forma A de Urban e Jellen (1996) para avaliar a criatividade. Foi recolhida uma amostra de 319 sujeitos do ensino superior e obteve-se como principais resultados que os alunos mais velhos apresentam mais frequentemente um estatuto de identidade achievement; os alunos da área das artes apresentam maiores níveis de criatividade, assim como os sujeitos do estatuto de identidade difusa; e, não foram observadas relações entre os estatutos de identidade e os níveis de criatividade.

Implications of newborn hearing screening: counseling parents of newborns with hearing loss

This paper reviews parental reactions to their newborn newly diagnosed with a hearing loss.

A Multi Bearer Adaptable Communication Demonstrator for Train-to-Ground IP Communication to Increase Resilience

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El Extra: las marcas de la infamia; aproximaciones a la prensa sensacionalista

Este trabajo explora el carácter “popular” y ambivalente del sensacionalismo. Analiza al Extra: las relaciones entre su producción y consumo, las prácticas y relaciones que se dan en y a propósito de él. En la primera parte, la hipótesis central es que este diario hace una incorporación distorsionante de lo popular, como negocio y negociación cultural, que produce una sintaxis “popular”. Además, hay una visibilización ambivalente de los sectores populares: son protagonistas cotidianos de la noticia, pero con un enfoque estigmatizador. Sin embargo, el Extra tiene una función impugnadora por la exposición masiva del lado oscuro de la sociedad. En la segunda parte se hace una aproximación al newsmaking del Extra para entender la lectura que el medio hace del acontecer y la lógica de sus representaciones de los sectores populares; también al consumo y percepciones de sus lectores y no-lectores para establecer la negociación del diario con las matrices culturales y expectativas populares, sus conexiones con la complejidad y tensiones de la cultura popular y sus prácticas; y a los gustos y disgustos que su consumo provoca. En suma, el autor propone que, si bien en el Extra hay una sintaxis “popular” y tiene un carácter impugnador, también infama a los sectores populares desde la picota de una visibilización abyecta. Y, en el proceso, ubica a la estigmatización de su consumo como una marca de la infamia.

La reversión de la carga del Onus Probandi en la responsabilidad civil extracontractual

La base de contenido de este trabajo constituye la supremacía de los derechos fundamentales del hombre, su conceptualización marca el norte de la investigación - violentados los derechos, éstos merecen tutela a través de su reparación - el primer capítulo precisa e identifica el objetivo y la razón de ser del derecho en general - constituir el medio idóneo de alcanzar la justicia - la postura destaca las posiciones de vanguardia garantistas actuales que reflejan la preferencia irrestricta de respeto de los derechos humanos, dentro del ámbito proteccionista constitucional sus implicaciones prácticas, distintivas entre derechos patrimoniales e inmateriales. Una segunda parte, desarrolla la descripción conceptual, iniciación y evolución doctrinaria de las funciones de la responsabilidad civil, características y aplicaciones del derecho resarcitorio y sus variantes que incluyen la responsabilidad patrimonial Estatal. Cerramos esta panorámica revisando el sistema probatorio civil común, pero a la vez se refuerza la construcción de nuevas aplicaciones, mecanismos y formas de la prueba judicial, novel concepción que radica en alcanzar creativas y específicas formas de ejercicio de la prueba procesal dentro del sistema integral de resarcimiento del daño derivado de responsabilidad civil extracontractual, analizada bajo una óptica diferente, el renovado prisma del daño y no desde el agotado ángulo del dolo y la culpa. El trabajo destaca permanentemente los principios sobre los que se asienta la concepción de un nuevo sistema de resarcimiento integral, llamado a materializarse en el país - un naciente Derecho de Daños - materia de especialización impulsada por este medio.

Promoting the health of marginalized populations in Ecuador through international collaboration and educational innovations

This paper examines two innovative educational initiatives for the Ecuadorian public health workforce: a Canadian-funded Masters programme in ecosystem approaches to health that focuses on building capacity to manage environmental health risks sustainably; and the training of Ecuadorians at the Latin American School of Medicine in Cuba (known as Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina in Spanish). We apply a typology for analysing how training programmes address the needs of marginalized populations and build capacity for addressing health determinants. We highlight some ways we can learn from such training programmes with particular regard to lessons, barriers and opportunities for their sustainability at the local, national and international levels and for pursuing similar initiatives in other countries and contexts. We conclude that educational efforts focused on the challenges of marginalization and the determinants of health require explicit attention not only to the knowledge, attitudes and skills of graduates but also on effectively engaging the health settings and systems that will reinforce the establishment and retention of capacity in low- and middle-income settings where this is most needed.

The chlorine isotope composition of Earth's mantle

Chlorine stable isotope compositions ( delta Cl-37) of 22 mid- ocean ridge basalts ( MORBs) correlate with Cl content. The high-delta Cl-37, Cl- rich basalts are highly contaminated by Cl- rich materials ( seawater, brines, or altered rocks). The low-delta(37) Cl, Cl- poor basalts approach the composition of uncontaminated, mantle- derived magmas. Thus, most or all oceanic lavas are contaminated to some extent during their emplacement. MORB- source mantle has delta(37) Cl <= -1.6 per mil (%), which is significantly lower than that of surface reservoirs (similar to 0 parts per thousand not equal). This isotopic difference between the surface and deep Earth results from net Cl isotopic fractionation ( associated with removal of Cl from the mantle and its return by subduction over Earth history) and/ or the addition ( to external reservoirs) of a late volatile supply that is Cl-37- enriched.

Soil geochemical analyses as an indication of metal working at the excavation of a house in the Roman City at Silchester (UK)

Silchester is the site of a major late Iron Age and Roman town (Calleva Atrebatum), situated in northern Hampshire (England (UK)) and occupied between the late first century BC and the fifth or sixth century AD. Extensive evidence of the nature of the buildings and the plan of the town was obtained from excavations undertaken between 1890 and 1909. The purpose of this study was to use soil geochemical analyses to reinforce the archaeological evidence particularly with reference to potential metal working at the site. Soil analysis has been used previously to distinguish different functions or land use activity over a site and to aid identification and interpretation of settlement features (Entwistle et al., 2000). Samples were taken from two areas of the excavation on a 1-metre grid. Firstly from an area of some 500 square metres from contexts of late first/early second century AD date throughout the entirety of a large 'town house' (House 1) from which there was prima facie evidence of metalworking.