654 research outputs found
La ricerca empirica in educazione: questioni aperte
No full textCurrently facing the issue of empirical research in education is about being faced with a reality decades and a number of open questions. It is these issues that focuses the attention of the author. This is because it is impossible to develop a rigorously scientific discourse on the recent past empirical research in education in Italy because of lack of analytical studies for reconstruction of the processes so far developed. And also because we are in the midst of a transition, characterized to speeches by the presence of a culture able to problematize the history of education. The author follows the suggestion made effective by Rorty and tries to promote the conversation as a method for keeping an open dialogue within the research community is the condition necessary to fertilize the culture of research
The ethic of delicacy in phenomenological research.
No full textIn this article, the author works out the conceptual framework of the phenomenological method. The core idea of the article
is that the phenomenological method is important in human research because it avoids the logic of control of positivism and
adopts a logic of delicacy towards the lived experience of the other. Indeed, it is because of this logic that the
phenomenological method is particularly suited to research related to health and well-being, since whenever dealing with
suffering and endeavoring to improve the quality of life, accuracy and delicacy are essential. First, the article defines the
essence of the phenomenological method in the light of phenomenological philosophy; second, it identifies and investigates
what mental acts must be developed in order to put into practice the essence of the phenomenological method. These
include paying open attention, being-not-in-search, emptying the mind, experiencing cognitive placelessness, having
empathy for the other and caring for the other. The detailed description of these cognitive postures is necessary so that the
core of the phenomenological method can be clearly understood
Eccomi pronto : implementation of a Socio-Emotional Development curriculum in a South Korean elementary school
No full text‘Eccomi Pronto’ (EP), an elementary school socio-emotional learning curriculum that
was originally developed and evaluated in Italy was translated in Korean and
implemented and evaluated in 4th grade classrooms of a primary school in South Korea.
Qualitative data from teachers indicated that EP improved the self-reflection and selfdirection
of students, resulted in pedagogically useful insights into the psychological
functioning of students, and enhanced the quality of teacher-student interaction.
However, statistically significant changes in students’ engaged, academic behavior (as
measured by an 8-item survey) were not noted. Teachers reported that the core of the EP
curriculum was appropriate for the South Korean educational context. Teachers also
recommended modifications in the follow-up learning activities to make these activities
more consistent with South Korean education practices.peer-reviewe
Theory of Functional Connections Extended to Fractional Operators
No full textThe theory of functional connections, an analytical framework generalizing interpolation, was extended and applied in the context of fractional-order operators (integrals and derivatives). The extension was performed and presented for univariate functions, with the aim of determining the whole set of functions satisfying some constraints expressed in terms of integrals and derivatives of non-integer order. The objective of these expressions was to solve fractional differential equations or other problems subject to fractional constraints. Although this work focused on the Riemann–Liouville definitions, the method is, however, more general, and it can be applied with different definitions of fractional operators just by changing the way they are computed. Three examples are provided showing, step by step, how to apply this extension for: (1) one constraint in terms of a fractional derivative, (2) three constraints (a function, a fractional derivative, and an integral), and (3) two constraints expressed in terms of linear combinations of fractional derivatives and integrals
Supporting data for "3D Bioprinted In Vitro Metastatic Models via Reconstruction of Tumor Microenvironments"
No full textA full description of the data set is included in the file "Readme_Meng_Tumor_Model.txt".The data set includes the experimental data and the corresponding code files for " 3D Bioprinted In Vitro Metastatic Models via Reconstruction of Tumor Microenvironments", Fanben Meng, Carolyn M Meyer, Daeha Joung, Daniel A Vallera, Michael C McAlpine, Angela Panoskaltsis‐Mortari, Adv. Mater. 2019, 31 (10), 1806899. The development of 3D in vitro models capable of recapitulating native tumor microenvironments could improve the translatability of potential anticancer drugs and treatments. Here, 3D bioprinting techniques are used to build tumor constructs via precise placement of living cells, functional biomaterials, and programmable release capsules. This enables the spatiotemporal control of signaling molecular gradients, thereby dynamically modulating cellular behaviors at a local level. Vascularized tumor models are created to mimic key steps of cancer dissemination (invasion, intravasation, and angiogenesis), based on guided migration of tumor cells and endothelial cells in the context of stromal cells and growth factors. The utility of the metastatic models for drug screening is demonstrated by evaluating the anticancer efficacy of immunotoxins. These 3D vascularized tumor tissues provide a proof-of-concept platform to i) fundamentally explore the molecular mechanisms of tumor progression and metastasis, and ii) preclinically identify therapeutic agents and screen anticancer drugs.National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health (Award No. 1R21EB022830)A seed grant from the UMN Institute for Engineering in MedicineA Pilot Project award from the UMN Prostate and Urologic Cancer Translational WorkgroupNational Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health (Award No. 1DP2EB020537)Cancer Bioengineering Fellowship, UMN Physical Sciences in Oncology Center (PSOC)Meng, Fanben; Meyer, Carolyn M; Joung, Daeha; Vallera, Daniel A; McAlpine, Michael C; Panoskaltsis-Mortari, Angela. (2020). Supporting data for "3D Bioprinted In Vitro Metastatic Models via Reconstruction of Tumor Microenvironments". Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://doi.org/10.13020/xxnh-v194
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