48 research outputs found
Mexico = 墨西哥
No full textModerator : Claudia Yadira CABALLERO BORJA (Barter Community Mixiuhca and Ecomun Network, Mexico)
Speakers : Laura COLLIN (Tlaxcala University, Mexico) David BARKIN (Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico) Jorge SANTIAGO (Author of Solidarity Political Economy) María Eugenia SANTANA (Chiapas Autonomous University, Mexico) Oscar GONZÁLEZ (Mexico City Autonomous University, Mexico
Factors that contribute to academic success for students from low socio-economic backgrounds: a comparative study of two selected schools; one in Saskatoon, Canada, and the other in Barkin-Ladi (GWOL), Nigeria
No full textMy thesis research addresses the factors that contribute to students' academic performance with special reference to children that come from low socio-economic backgrounds. It is a comparative study of two schools: one in Saskatoon, Canada, and the other in Barkin-Ladi, Nigeria. As a child who came from a low socio-economic background, and later as an adult who worked in a school with many students from low socio-economic backgrounds, I wanted to write on this topic. The sampled schools in Saskatoon and Barkin-Ladi were purposively chosen as those that have a considerable number of children from low socio-economic backgrounds. The basic question I tried to answer in my study is how students who come from low socio-economic backgrounds can best be helped to achieve academically.
In my study, I have learned that the insightful and helpful steps on helping students in the sampled school in Saskatoon are the early focus on literacy, responding to data-driven record keeping, the online survey on What Did You Learn In School Today(WDYLIST), the Child Hunger Education Program (CHEP), and the Safety, Teamwork, Attitude, Responsibility, and Respect (STARR) program. In my research findings with the sampled school in Barkin-Ladi, Nigeria, scouting for financial sponsorship, subsidizing school fees, providing educational learning materials, and organizing competitions, debates, and quizzes are essential for helping students from impoverished backgrounds excel in academics.
I discovered in my study that for participants in the sampled school in Saskatoon, Canada, teaching is viewed primarily as a vocation rather than only as a profession. Teacher perception of the profession is important in regards to being dedicated to meeting the needs of students. The study has also showed that there is a strong sense of community and unity of purpose in both sampled schools.
In the sampled school in Barkin-Ladi, Nigeria, the school being a Catholic mission helped makes a big difference in the moral upbringing of the students. As well, the examination promotion policy kept the students alert and working hard so as not to be retained or repeated in the same class. The poverty level in Nigeria cannot be compared to that of Canada. The poverty in Nigeria is so visible that there can be no mistake about who is poor and who is rich even when looking at the schools that the children attend. I have gathered from my study and my life in Nigeria that the government has a good national policy on Education but poor implementation. The sourcing for sponsorship is a big need for children from poor families to be engaged in school. Implementing the Child Hunger and Education Program (CHEP) and Safety, Teamwork, Attitude, Responsibility, and Respect (STARR) programs in the schools in Nigeria will assist students coming from low socio-economic backgrounds.Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-151).
"A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Education for the partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education.
An evaluation of methods and assumptions used in potential flow modelling of swirl recovery vanes
No full textVarious potential flow methods with different assumptions are available to quantify the efficiency increase and thrust provided by a swirl recovery vane (SRV). In this paper, thrust coefficients and efficiency results obtained by different potential flow methods for the same SRV geometry at different advance ratios are presented. The methods include two VLM and four lifting line (LL) models with different assumptions. The models are compared in terms of accuracy with respect to RANS results and computational cost. This makes it possible to evaluate the benefits and drawbacks of neglecting or accounting for the presence of certain effects and modelling choices. The effects taken into account or deliberately neglected in different models include; finite propeller-SRV distance, nacelle presence, wake and free stream nonalignment, flow interaction between vane blades, the Kutta condition and SRV sweep. The wake angle behind the SRV is also varied and its effect on thrust coefficient is observed. In conclusion, accounting for the presence of a nacelle and finite slipstream distance respectively leads to 7.28% and 16.39% improvement in accuracy of the SRV thrust coefficient with negligible increase in CPU time. Not aligning the SRV wake with free stream direction has little impact on the computed thrust coefficient but causes the CPU time to increase steeply. Using a VLM based model rather a LL model and modelling vane interaction significantly increases CPU time whilst yielding the highest improvements in thrust coefficient accuracy (25.43% and 35.16%).Aerospace Engineerin
All is Fair in Lust and Gore
No full textThe Dionysisaca, a Greek Epic from late 5th century, is the longest extant Greek poem from antiquity and has only two English translations. This thesis adds to that short list english prose translations of three vignettes from books 5, 6, 11, and 12. Each vignette was chosen for shared themes and narrative features: romantic or sexual interaction, physical transformation, dismemberment, and consumption. Accompanying these translations, the author has also illustrated five pieces depicting scenes from the vignettes.</p
Smart trunk design for light commercial vehicles of craftsmen with a human-centric approach
No full textThis thesis project aims at improving inventory management and awareness of craftsmen in their light commercial vehicles, specifically in the trunk area. The term commercial vehicle is used to identify a vehicle which main purpose is to transport goods or materials. The light commercial vehicle market, comprising vans and trucks, in Europe is growing rapidly every year and craftsmen are one of the important customers of them. They see their vans as trustworthy colleagues that help them to bring their materials everywhere. However the current state of their vans with different storage solutions do not contribute for solving the issues that they face during intense work days. Those built storage solutions are only focusing on providing space for carried materials and does not contribute to craftsmen’s work performance in any way. In fact this approach reveals major user and context related issues that downgrades the productivity due to the lack of practicality. This status quo is questioned and a smarter solutions to improve inventory awareness and accessibility developed with this graduation thesis. The particular topic is analysed with a human-centric approach. Interviews were conducted with multiple craftsmen to define the problems that they face with, understand their actual needs and observe their van’s trunk area with carried materials. Deficiency in inventory management which is a symptom of several major difficulties faced within the trunk, results as disruptions to the workflow. Having a low-stock of a certain material, travelling additionally to the supplier to cover the deficiency and physically effortful routine controls for the inventory are some of the aspects that causes the disruptions and impracticalities.The project’s outcome is a product and service design that offers automated control system dedicated for consumables which are small sized materials with high frequency of use. Screws, bolts, fasteners, elbows are some of them that are always carried in the trunk area. The concept utilises accessible sensor technologies integrated to a tangible unit in order to provide momentarily and accurate informations regarding the state of consumables. It enables the connectivity between the inventory, the van and the craftsman by enabling continuous monitoring. The flexibility of the system results as an adaptation to craftsman’s way of work by offering personal settings and configuration in order to be able to procure relevant and suggestive feedbacks, to ultimately improve their inventory management and work efficiency.Integrated Product Desig
In the lion's mouth: Advocacy and investigative reporting about the environment in the early 21st century
No full textThis study explores what might qualify investigative reporting about the environment as advocacy. It applies a phenomenological approach to gathering and sorting data, which resulted in the identification of several essences of investigative reporting about the environment. This study further analyzes data using grounded theory. According to grounded theory, categories emerge from interview data and, through a process of reduction, produce a mid-range theory. Adhering to method and theory, this work identifies a new kind of investigative reporting the author terms integrated investigative reporting. It appears environment reporters are leading the way on this emerging form.
Some investigative reporters writing about the environment go two steps beyond the approach endorsed by Investigative Reporters & Editors, known as The Paul Williams Way. A pioneering finding, those steps have roots deep in phenomenology, a process of meaning making dating back to Aristotle. In that respect, the use of phenomenological process seems to point to a constructivist approach taking hold in news reporting today.
This dissertation also reveals that personal narrative is fast becoming a component of investigative reporting, particularly in the form of online diaries. Several more bridges also surfaced in this study. One connects professional and academic research approaches. Another demonstrates an innovative approach to a literature review, which the author calls a literature synthesis. Another shows how to combine objectivist grounded theory with Charmaz's interactionist approach to grounded theory, which study participants described doing in their investigations.
This writing refutes the professional idea that training investigative reporters in how to work an environment story requires that more attention be paid to the scope of the story than the process of story collection. Rather, this study reveals that the study participants tease out scope by going two steps beyond standard investigative reporting practice.
Challenges to some tenets of journalism appear in this study as well, including Lippmann's notion that "there is but one kind of writing possible in a world as diverse as ours. It is a unity of method" and Kovach and Rosenstiel's notion that journalism of assertion is weakening the methodology of verification journalists have developed
All is Fair in Lust and Gore
No full textThe Dionysisaca, a Greek Epic from late 5th century, is the longest extant Greek poem from antiquity and has only two English translations. This thesis adds to that short list english prose translations of three vignettes from books 5, 6, 11, and 12. Each vignette was chosen for shared themes and narrative features: romantic or sexual interaction, physical transformation, dismemberment, and consumption. Accompanying these translations, the author has also illustrated five pieces depicting scenes from the vignettes.</p
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No full textIn The Absence of Language: Modeling a Transformative, Short-Term Abroad Experience
No full textThis essay explores models for short-term, faculty-led study abroad in cases where language skills cannot be expected of students, focusing on issues of local immersion and relationship-building. It explicates three models undertaken by the author, detailing the strengths and weaknesses of common trip structures and related course outlines, and offers recommendations for successful trip modelling. It further explores the relationship between short-term abroad trips and cultural tourism, focusing on a model that allows students a pedagogical space to reflect critically on anthropological stereotypes. </jats:p
