72,504 research outputs found
Algar do Bom Santo: a Middle Neolithic necropolis in Portuguese Estremadura
No full textA research project on the Algar do Bom Santo necropolis started in 2010. This paper presents a preliminary synthesis on the exhumed human population and a first insight into the funerary practices recorded during the site excavations in the 1990s, as well as palaeodiet reconstitutions
GESTÃO DE TALENTOS E O BOM PROFESSOR PARA ALUNOS DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM ADMINISTRAÇÃO: UMA ANÁLISE DE CLUSTERS
No full textEsse artigo foi desenvolvido com o objetivo de analisar quais são os talentos dentre professores de cursos de pós-graduação lato sensu da área de Administração a partir dos tipos de bons sob a ótica de seus alunos. Buscou-se comprovar a tese de que não existe um tipo universal de bom professor, mas tipos diferentes entre si. As pesquisas sobre o bom professor em geral se limitam a apontar suas características. A síntese da revisão da literatura consolidou um modelo que considera, por parte do professor, três dimensões: formação, didática e personalidade. Por parte do aluno, foram consideradas as seguintes dimensões: características pessoais, nível socioeconômico, disponibilidade para estudo e características relacionadas ao curso. Foi realizada uma pesquisa de campo, de caráter descritivo e quantitativo, com a aplicação de um questionário a 188 alunos de três cursos de pós-graduação lato sensu da área de Administração. Foi pedido a eles que nomeassem o melhor professor que tiveram ao longo do curso e que respondessem o questionário tendo esse professor como referência. A pesquisa quantitativa realizou a análise de clusters, com características dos alunos e dos bons professores, e revelou cinco tipos de bons professores: Relacional, Tradicional, Acadêmico Relacional, Acadêmico Relacional de Mercado e Artista. A pesquisa quantitativa corroborou a tese de que não há um tipo universal de bom professor e sua principal contribuição para a literatura é apresentar os cinco tipos encontrados. Isso significa que elencar as características de bons professores só faz sentido quando se sabe de que tipo de professor se está falando
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
A New Design Hope: Designing Sustainability for All and the LeNS world open network
No full textThe concept of sustainable development has entered the international scene since the beginning of the 90s. Most of the authors agreed that we are “beyond all limits” and close to the collapse of the eco-system. Indeed, the system is about to collapse, which implies it is required a system discontinuity, i.e. an urgent radical change, and to act in preventive terms and not after the damage have been created. It is far obvious, and it is recognised that this calls for an active role of the designers, to envision and design radically new sustainable solutions for all.
It is in this framework that the LeNS – the Learning Network on Sustainability, was funded in 2007 and has expanded since then not only with the financed partners of the 3 consecutive EU projects, but also with many other institutions joining the LeNS Network without a financial support. Such growth was supported and facilitated by a very inclusive strategy and vision of the LeNS community that allows new members to join, without any cost and any obligation, as well as by the following win-win opportunities:
• knowledge-building as open access resources speed up the learning-by-sharing for researching and teaching i.e. through allowing remix/reuse of others’ resources;
• improved opportunities for public fundraising of a new established regional LeNS due to being part of such a wide and successful international network.
The incredible growth of the LeNS network could be explained with the following main drives:
• as sustainability is being incorporated in the worldwide agenda, and in all levels, there is a clear perceived growing demand of design for sustainability;
• and as open access education is increasingly being adapted in the education system throughout the world, and it is increasingly accepted as being vitally important to tackle the many issues the humanity is facing now.
LeNS is characterised by being open (because its contents are freely available for teachers, students, designers, companies, NGOs and interested persons; and they can be downloaded, altered and reused), multi-polar (because there is no hierarchy and any person can talk with anyone belonging to the network, interconnected (because there is a continuous exchange and sharing of contents and didactic materials), and regenerative (because the same web-platform can be downloaded and reconfigured to meet specific needs).
LeNS allows a process of mutual learning, facilitating a readily access, exchange, review and update of knowledge. In this sense, LeNS is intended as a sort of cross-learning mechanism among design researchers and educators. For this reason, LeNS can potentially speed up the achievement of research results on one hand, and their dissemination on the other.
LeNS, fostering a new generation of design researchers and educators, resulted over the years of its evolution and expansion, in being an effective project to contribute to the promotion of a new generation of designers effectively capable of having a role as catalysers and enablers of the transformation of our consumption and production patterns, with consequent positive implications for the whole society. LeNS, envisioning a new ethos for the HEIs of design worldwide, and reaching nearly 140 universities in 29 countries form all the continents since its foundation in 2007, represents a “New design hope”. For a sustainable society that is OPEN, MULTI-LOCAL and FOR ALL
Measurement of the ratio of prompt χ c to J / ψ production in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV
No full textThe prompt production of charmonium χ c and J / ψ states is studied in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 7 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. The χ c and J / ψ mesons are identified through their decays χ c → J / ψ γ and J / ψ → μ + μ - using 36 pb - 1 of data collected by the LHCb detector in 2010. The ratio of the prompt production cross-sections for χ c and J / ψ, σ (χ c → J / ψ γ) / σ (J / ψ), is determined as a function of the J / ψ transverse momentum in the range 2 < p T J / ψ < 15 GeV / c. The results are in excellent agreement with next-to-leading order non-relativistic expectations and show a significant discrepancy compared with the colour singlet model prediction at leading order, especially in the low p T J / ψ region
Molecular structure of highly excited resonant states in Mg-24 and the corresponding Be-8+O-16 and C-12+C-12 decays
No full textExotic Be-8 and C-12 decays from high-lying resonances in Mg-24 are analyzed in terms of a cluster model. The calculated quantities agree well with the corresponding experimental data. It is found that the calculated decay widths are very sensitive to the angular momentum carried by the outgoing cluster. It is shown that this property makes cluster decay a powerful tool to determine the spin as well as the molecular structures of the resonances.Physics, NuclearSCI(E)7ARTICLE5null8
Letter from J. R. Eakin to Arthur G. Ringland
No full textLetter (copy) from J. R. Eakin to Arthur C. Ringland about the alignment of 40 acres near the Buggeln ranch
Letter from Joseph R. Goodman to Claude C. Cornwall, Central Utah Relocation Center, January 13, 1943
No full textLetter from Joseph R. Goodman to Claude C. Cornwall, containing a reference letter regarding William Shiro Hoshiyama. Goodman writes that Hoshiyama and his brother John operated a grocery store before forced removal.Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Bom e bem e suas multifunções na fala da região sul do Brasil
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística.Particularmente centrados nos pressupostos teóricos do Funcionalismo Lingüístico e da Teoria da Variação, procuramos nesta pesquisa descrever o comportamento discursivo das palavras bom e bem na fala de informantes da região sul do Brasil. Para isso, utilizamos dados extraídos de uma amostra composta por 288 entrevistas, pertencente ao Banco de Dados do VARSUL (Variação Lingüística Urbana no Sul do Brasil). A partir de uma análise qualitativa, apresentamos as atuações de bom e bem nos diversos contextos discursivos e caracterizamos suas respectivas funções. Ligados à propriedade comum de chamada de atenção para a informação, tratamos as lexias como variantes de uma mesma variável lingüística e, conseqüentemente, dispensamos às formas uma análise quantitativa
- …
