La educación en la República de Corea.

Aunque en 1885 se constituyera en Corea del sur la primera escuela moderna habrá que esperar hasta después de la segunda guerra mundial para que se desarrolle la educación moderna, en concreto a 1953 y se pensó que la educación era la llave del futuro. Desde ese momento el esfuerzo gubernamental unido al clamor popular ha logrado un desarrollo importante. La base de su edificación se funda en una filosofía democrática que al dar iguales oportunidades a todos respeta a la vez las personales. Además de proporcionarles conocimientos básicos, se propone desarrollar en el estudiante los valores y capacidades que pueden cooperar en la regeneración de la nación. En muy pocos años Corea se ha levantado de la pobreza a la industrialización en medio de una gran complejidad social. La meta de su educación no es sólo ayudar al estudiante a formar parte activa en la sociedad, sino enseñarle a juzgar según los tradicionales valores, de piedad filial y patriotismo. Otra meta es promover en sus estudiantes una conciencia.

Resonant (P+RES) controller applied to voltage source inverter with minimum DC link capacitor

Voltage source inverters use large electrolytic capacitors in order to decouple the energy between the utility and the load, keeping the DC link voltage constant. Decreasing the capacitance reduces the distortion in the inverter input current but this also affects the load with low-order harmonics and generate disturbances at the input voltage. This paper applies the P+RES controller to solve the challenge of regulating the output current by means of controlling the magnitude of the current space vector, keeping it constant thus rejecting harmonic disturbances that would otherwise propagate to the load. This work presents a discussion of the switching and control strategy. © 2011 IEEE.

Prometheus on Mars: Nineteenth-Century Science Fiction and the Language of Romanticism

The development of astrophysics in the nineteenth century drew mankind closer to the planets. For the first time, it was possible to give serious scientific consideration to the possibilities for life on other planets. The greatest leap, however, was in recognizing what was not known, and acknowledging the limits of human intuition. ‘Ideas,’ wrote Agnes M. Clerke, ‘have all at once become plastic’. As the scientific community tested the limits of scientific understanding, it became the role of science-fiction writers to imagine the universe beyond these limits. This paper will examine the ways in which nineteenth-century science fiction used the inheritance of the poetic language of Romanticism to reinstate the centrality of human being in the universe. I will explore the ways in which writers such as Edward Bulwer-Lytton (The Coming Race, 1871) and W. S. Lach-Szyrma (Aleriel, 1883) extended the Byronic hero to envisage extra-terrestrial utopias. The Hegelian systematic mythology described by Byron and Shelley had reimagined paradise and redemption on earth. Through science fiction, this mythology extended out towards the stars. A discourse on the possibilities of extra-terrestrial life became a Romantic discourse on the possibilities of being. The Byronic hero could now find a home not by escaping the shackles of religion, but as an angelic citizen of Venus or Mars. In this way, the paper will explore how science-fiction writers appropriated the language of Romantic poetry to build a bridge between the framework of scientific knowledge and the extent of human imagination.

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