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Virtual Reality (VR) in Special Education: Cooking Food App to Improve Manual Skills and Cognitive Training for SEN Students Using UDL and ICF Approaches
No full textVirtual reality (VR) enters educational processes today as a tool capable of promoting immersive learning experiences and facilitating the engagement and participation of all students, including those with Special Educational Needs (SEN). This paper aims to present a case study concerning the use of VR to improve manual skills and promote immersive and enjoyable cognitive training for students with disabilities. A VR cooking food preparation app is introduced to illustrate how VR serves as a tool for skill training on one hand and as a genuine digital learning environment on the other. In addition to presenting the technical features of the app, the International Classification of Functioning (ICF) approach by the World Health Organization (WHO) will be discussed. This approach is useful for identifying the best strategies to promote learning for students with cognitive disabilities who participated in this case study. Furthermore, the perspective of universal learning design (UDL), also known as Universal Design for Learning (UDL) by CAST, will be explored to guide teachers and trainers in designing digital and innovative learning activities that can accommodate all students
Die Konstruktionen mit verba dicendi und sentiendi
No full textRassegna delle costruzioni sintattiche delle frasi argomentali dell'ittito che riflettono una struttura fortemente implicita legata alla natura nominale di alcune forme verbali infinite che fingono da argomento del verbo della principale. Diversamente dalle altre lingue indoeuropee, le costruzioni completive con kuit (kat. quod), si sviluppano meno e in fase molto tarda
Google Earth in VR, for Students with Special Needs
No full textVirtual Reality (VR) is one of the major technology trends right now and will increase much more in the future. This technology promotes a new way of interaction, communication, and productivity. This paper aims to allow students with special needs to work and interact with Google Earth using VR. The theoretical framework used, the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) perspective and checklists, allows us to identify the best way to propose an interactive and funny learning process for students with Special Educational Needs (SEN). By means of ICF, the definition of the proper technological tools and of the main steps in which the learning process can be divided is possible. This approach, indeed, leads to the translation of cognitive tasks that can result too complex for students with cognitive fragilities into concrete experiences more easily to do for all, promoting inclusion and equity in our modern digital society. In the present work, the inclusive VR-based technology is tested on a group of 10 students with SEN in Google Earth environment, and the final outcomes in terms of system usability are presented
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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