Using an Outdoor Learning Space to Teach Sustainability and Material Processes in HE product Design.

The world is facing environmental changes that are increasingly affecting how we think about manufacturing, the consumption of products and use of resources. Within the HE product design community, thinking and designing sustainability’ has evolved to become a natural part of the curriculum. Paradoxical as the rise in awareness of sustainability increases there is growing concern within HE product design of the loss of workshop facilities and as a consequence a demise in teaching traditional object-making skills and material experimentation. We suggest the loss of workshops and tangible ‘learning by making skills’ also creates a lost opportunity for a rich learning resource to address sustainable thinking, design and manufacture ‘praxis’ within HE design education. Furthermore, as learning spaces are frequently discussed in design research, there seems to be little focus on how the use of an outdoor environment might influence learning outcomes particularly with regard to material teaching and sustainability. This 'case study' of two jewellery workshops, used outdoor learning spaces to explore both its impact on learning outcomes and to introduce some key principles of sustainable working methodologies and practices. Academics and students mainly from Norway and Scotland collaborated on this international research project. Participants made models from disposable packaging materials, which were cast in tin, in the sand on a local beach, using found timber to create a heat source for melting the metal. This approach of using traditional making skills, materials and nature was found to be a relevant contribution to a sustainable discourse.

260 Copas precolombinas de la cultura Nariño material arqueológico.

3 hojas : ilustraciones, fotografías a color.

C 192 INST-D 2013. 373 Procesos de hilados manuales y con rueca, de la lana y el algodón y organización del material en madejas.

26 fotografías a color.

Supplementary Material: PREMATURE EXPRESSION OF AN AGE-ASSOCIATED MUSCLE SENESCENCE PATHWAY IN HIV INFECTION

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Changes in the McGurk Effect Across Phonetic Contexts

To investigate the process underlying audiovisual speech perception, the McGurk illusion was examined across a range of phonetic contexts. Two major changes were found. First, the frequency of illusory /g/ fusion percepts increased relative to the frequency of illusory /d/ fusion percepts as vowel context was shifted from /i/ to /a/ to /u/. This trend could not be explained by biases present in perception of the unimodal visual stimuli. However, the change found in the McGurk fusion effect across vowel environments did correspond systematically with changes in second format frequency patterns across contexts. Second, the order of consonants in illusory combination percepts was found to depend on syllable type. This may be due to differences occuring across syllable contexts in the timecourses of inputs from the two modalities as delaying the auditory track of a vowel-consonant stimulus resulted in a change in the order of consonants perceived. Taken together, these results suggest that the speech perception system either fuses audiovisual inputs into a visually compatible percept with a similar second formant pattern to that of the acoustic stimulus or interleaves the information from different modalities, at a phonemic or subphonemic level, based on their relative arrival times.

Contemporary pilgrimage in Ireland: a cultural geographic perspective

Using the lenses of contemporary cultural geography, this research develops an understanding of pilgrimage as a relational and reciprocal process that co-produces self and world. Drawing on the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty, I argue that through the performances and experiences of contemporary pilgrimage in Ireland, participants and locations emerge as pilgrims and pilgrimage places. This approach unites different strands of cultural geography, including the mobilities field, more-than representational concerns, discussions of embodiment and practice, emotional and affective geographies, and religious and spiritual geographies. I explore how pilgrimage is an active process in which self and world, belief and practice, and the numinous and material entwine and merge. An autoethnographic methodology is enacted as an embodied, intersubjective, and reflexive research approach that incorporates the motivations, experiences, and beliefs of research participants, alongside my own descriptions and reflections. The methodology is focused on encountering and documenting pilgrimage practices as they occur in place and relating these embodied spatial practices to the accounts of pilgrims. The insights generated by engagements with research participants and through my own pilgrimages, offer new appreciations of the enduring appeal of pilgrimage in Ireland as a religious-spiritual and cultural activity that allows people to express personal intentions, to develop their faith, and to seek numinous encounters. Through the pilgrimages at Lough Derg, Croagh Patrick, and three holy wells, I produce a layered account of the empirical circumstances of the practices. The presentation of these places and events is enhanced by the use of evocative images and audiovisual recordings. By centring my study on the practices and experiences of different pilgrimages in present-day Ireland, and critically deploying strands of cultural geography and pilgrimage studies, this research produces new qualitative understandings of pilgrimage and contributes to discussions concerned with the relationships between self and world.

Interstitial insertion of varying amounts of ABL-containing genetic material into chromosome 22 in Ph-negative CML.

We studied the cells from three selected patients with Ph-chromosome-negative chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) by Southern blotting, polymerase chain reaction, and in situ hybridization of informative probes to metaphase chromosomes. All three patients had rearrangement of M-BCR sequences in the BCR gene and expression of one or other of the mRNA species characteristic of Ph-positive CML. Leukemic metaphases studied after trypsin-Giemsa banding were indistinguishable from normal. The ABL probe localized both to chromosome 9 and 22 in each case. A probe containing 3' M-BCR sequences localized only to chromosome 22, and not to chromosome 9 as would be expected in Ph-positive CML. Two new probes that recognize different polymorphic regions distal to the ABL gene on chromosome 9 in normal subjects localized exclusively to chromosome 9 in two patients and to both chromosomes 9 and 22 in one patient. These results show that Ph-negative CML with BCR rearrangement is associated with insertion of a variable quantity of chromosome 9 derived material into chromosome 22q11; there is no evidence for reciprocal translocation of material from chromosome 22 to chromosome 9.

Jamming for a 2D granular material

This paper focuses on the nature of jamming, as seen in two-dimensional frictional granular systems consisting of photoelastic particles. The photoelastic technique is unique at this time, in its capability to provide detailed particle-scale information on forces and kinematic quantities such as particle displacements and rotations. These experiments first explore isotropic stress states near point J through measurements of the mean contact number per particle, Z, and the pressure, P as functions of the packing fraction, . In this case, the experiments show some but not all aspects of jamming, as expected on the basis of simulations and models that typically assume conservative, hence frictionless, forces between particles. Specifically, there is a rapid growth in Z, at a reasonable which we identify with as c. It is possible to fit Z and P, to power law expressions in - c above c, and to obtain exponents that are in agreement with simulations and models. However, the experiments differ from theory on several points, as typified by the rounding that is observed in Z and P near c. The application of shear to these same 2D granular systems leads to phenomena that are qualitatively different from the standard picture of jamming. In particular, there is a range of packing fractions below c, where the application of shear strain at constant leads to jammed stress-anisotropic states, i.e. they have a non-zero shear stress, τ. The application of shear strain to an initially isotropically compressed (hence jammed) state, does not lead to an unjammed state per se. Rather, shear strain at constant first leads to an increase of both τ and P. Additional strain leads to a succession of jammed states interspersed with relatively localized failures of the force network leading to other stress-anisotropic states that are jammed at typically somewhat lower stress. The locus of jammed states requires a state space that involves not only and τ, but also P. P, τ, and Z are all hysteretic functions of shear strain for fixed . However, we find that both P and τ are roughly linear functions of Z for strains large enough to jam the system. This implies that these shear-jammed states satisfy a Coulomb like-relation, τ = μP. © 2010 The Royal Society of Chemistry.

Improving cold chain technologies through the use of phase change material

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An Investigation into the Efficacy of a pH-Sensitive Material for Milk Spoilage Detection

Ambiguous expiration dates on milk cartons can mislead consumers into prematurely disposing unspoiled milk and potentially drinking spoiled milk. These misconceptions can lead to wastage that harms the environment, or potential discomfort and illness. The incorporation of pH-sensitive indicators into plastic milk cartons has the potential to replace stamped expiration dates as the traditional method of milk spoilage indication. We studied the correlation between bacteria count and milk pH to establish pH measurement as an effective indicator of milk quality. We then developed a method for incorporating bromothymol blue, a pH-sensitive color-changing dye, into a hydrogel made of polyacrylamide. This hydrogel can be added to existing packaging for milk or other products with detectable pH changes. Additionally, we conducted a consumer survey and analyzed current food packaging trends in the market. Our research indicates that a spoilage-indicating milk carton could have strong market potential as food industries increasingly adopt intelligent packaging designs.

Establecimiento de sistemas silvopastoriles : efecto de la edad del material de multiplicación y manejo del pastoreo con bovinos

El establecimiento de un sistema silvopastoril (SSP) en plantaciones de álamo (Populus deltoides `Australiano 106/60´) requiere de nuevas estrategias de manejo. En este contexto, la combinación del tipo de material de multiplicación utilizado y su palatabilidad pueden resultar determinantes del éxito de la instalación del sistema. El objetivo general del estudio fue generar una nueva tecnología para la instalación de un SSP con álamos orientado a la producción de madera para múltiples destinos. El primer objetivo consistió en evaluar los cambios que se producen en diferentes distancias de plantación sobre la dimensión y características morfológicas de las guías de álamo, materiales de multiplicación potencialmente aptos para instalar un SSP, y el segundo, determinar el efecto del tamaño y/o edad de las guías sobre el crecimiento del componente arbóreo y la sensibilidad al daño de las mismas frente al pastoreo de ganado bovino en un SSP de álamo. Los resultados indican que los mayores distanciamientos ensayados produjeron las mejores guías de uno, dos y tres años de edad, con mayor DAP, altura total, biomasa aérea, rectitud, conicidad y estabilidad del fuste. Se determinó además que es posible acelerar el ingreso del ganado de cría al SSP utilizando guías con un DAP igual ó mayor a los 6 cm, con una respuesta positiva durante los primeros años de plantación. Las hojas y ramitas tiernas de álamo, productos de una poda de primavera, constituyeron por su buena disponibilidad de PB, P y K y su DE un buen complemento de la dieta animal. Se concluye finalmente que, utilizando guías de álamo como material de multiplicación, es posible producir anticipadamente madera de álamo para usos múltiples, pasturas naturales espontáneas y carne vacuna en los SSP del bajo Delta del Río Paraná.

Establecimiento de sistemas silvopastoriles : efecto de la edad del material de multiplicación y manejo del pastoreo con bovinos

El establecimiento de un sistema silvopastoril (SSP)en plantaciones de álamo (Populus deltoides `Australiano 106/60´)requiere de nuevas estrategias de manejo. En este contexto, la combinación del tipo de material de multiplicación utilizado y su palatabilidad pueden resultar determinantes del éxito de la instalación del sistema. El objetivo general del estudio fue generar una nueva tecnología para la instalación de un SSP con álamos orientado a la producción de madera para múltiples destinos. El primer objetivo consistió en evaluar los cambios que se producen en diferentes distancias de plantación sobre la dimensión y características morfológicas de las guías de álamo, materiales de multiplicación potencialmente aptos para instalar un SSP, y el segundo, determinar el efecto del tamaño y/o edad de las guías sobre el crecimiento del componente arbóreo y la sensibilidad al daño de las mismas frente al pastoreo de ganado bovino en un SSP de álamo. Los resultados indican que los mayores distanciamientos ensayados produjeron las mejores guías de uno, dos y tres años de edad, con mayor DAP, altura total, biomasa aérea, rectitud, conicidad y estabilidad del fuste. Se determinó además que es posible acelerar el ingreso del ganado de cría al SSP utilizando guías con un DAP igual ó mayor a los 6 cm, con una respuesta positiva durante los primeros años de plantación. Las hojas y ramitas tiernas de álamo, productos de una poda de primavera, constituyeron por su buena disponibilidad de PB, P y K y su DE un buen complemento de la dieta animal. Se concluye finalmente que, utilizando guías de álamo como material de multiplicación, es posible producir anticipadamente madera de álamo para usos múltiples, pasturas naturales espontáneas y carne vacuna en los SSP del bajo Delta del Río Paraná.

El papel como material didáctico en la construcción de la geometría plana

La geometría en el currículo de secundaria se introduce con la intención de proporcionar al alumno una mayor capacidad de comprensión de la organización espacial del mundo que nos rodea, exigiendo para ello un aprendizaje sistematizado. Con este propósito, el ``Grupo PI' trabaja en el desarrollo de actividades para el aula utilizando un material económico y de fácil adquisición como es el papel. El objetivo es proporcionar al profesor un material eficaz para el trabajo en el aula y aproximar a los alumnos a la Geometría Plana a través de una serie de tareas estructuradas que logran una mayor significatividad del proceso de aprendizaje. Se emplearán axiomas del origami para crear secuencias que permitan la construcción de representaciones significativas en los procesos de aprendizaje. Por último, intentaremos mostrar a los profesores la utilidad del papel como material didáctico en la construcción de conocimiento geométrico.