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Estrategias de la neurodidáctica en el desarrollo infantil en los estudiantes de una institución educativa inicial Lima 2024
Get PDFLa investigación tuvo como objetivo analizar cómo las estrategias de la
neurodidáctica, específicamente aquellas relacionadas con la emoción, la
motivación y la atención, fomentaron el desarrollo infantil en estudiantes de una institución educativa inicial en Lima durante el 2024. En un contexto en el que las metodologías tradicionales no lograban captar adecuadamente el interés de los estudiantes, se planteó la importancia de integrar enfoques innovadores basados en los conocimientos de neurociencia para optimizar los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje. Se empleó un enfoque cualitativo y un diseño fenomenológico, explorando las percepciones y experiencias de docentes y estudiantes en la
implementación de estrategias neurodidácticas. La muestra intencional,
compuesta por 12 niños de una sola aula divididos en dos grupos, permitió
profundizar en cómo estas estrategias afectaron su desarrollo cognitivo y
emocional. Los resultados destacaron avances significativos en habilidades
cognitivas, socioemocionales y motoras, así como una mayor motivación y
regulación emocional
The influence of pasture crude protein intake on dairy cattle conception efficiency : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Veterinary Clinical Sciences at Massey University
Get PDFExcessive dietary rumen degradable protein and high blood
urea nitrogen (BUN) levels are reported to depress conception
efficiency in dairy herds. High protein levels occur in New
Zealand dairy pastures. This study explores the association
of pasture protein and energy levels, and cow BUN, protein
and energy measures with conception efficiency in dairy cows
in the Manawatu region of New Zealand.
A survey study was conducted on 10 dairy farms on which
samples of blood and vaginal mucus were collected from 745
cows within 2 hours before artificial insemination. Blood was
analyzed for BUN, serum albumin (ALB), glucose (GLUC), Bhydroxybutyrates
(BOHB) and non-esterified fatty acids (NEFA)
while vaginal mucus was analyzed for urea nitrogen content
(MUN). Pasture samples were collected weekly during the
animal sampling period and analyzed for crude protein,
metabolizable energy and dry matter content. Reproductive
records, including results of pregnancy diagnosis conducted
8 to 15 weeks after services at which samples were collected,
were obtained from the farms and entered into the DairyCHAMP
computer program.
Pasture crude protein levels ranged from 13% to 28%. The
associations between dietary crude protein levels classified
as high, medium and low and weekly conception rates indicated
that as pasture crude protein increased, fertility decreased
(P<0.005) in cows in their fourth or greater lactation. There
was little variation in pasture metabolizable energy content
and no significant association existed with conception rate.
The association of the probability of conception with BUN and
MUN, and blood levels of ALB, GLUC, BOHB and NEFA when tested
by logistic regression analysis, revealed a significantnegative association between BUN and fertility (P<0.005). MUN
was positively associated with the probability of conception
(P<0.05).
Dietary crude protein from pasture and BUN had a similar
negative influence on fertility in pastured cattle as was
observed in heavily supplemented or fully fed cattle in the
northern hemisphere
Modernization and development as part of the globalization process: Holistic participatory community development in a community in the Mantaro Valley, Peru
Get PDFDevelopment has been conventionally defined as directional change towards nationally organized economic growth. Currently, however, with the emergence of the global marketplace, the focus of development efforts has gone from nationally organized to globally organized economic growth (McMichael 2000). Bhattacharyya (2004) defines community development as the process of creating or increasing solidarity and agency. Community development involves building the capacity of people, encouraging them to create their own dreams and learn new skills and knowledge.;There are three community development issues that can impact the direction community development practice might take: structure (social practices and organizations: social capital), power (relationships with those who control resources: political capital) and shared meaning (social meaning: cultural capital) (Hustedde and Ganowicz 2002). According to Pichon et al. (1999), in Latin America development towards economic growth has focused on the top-down dissemination of modern technology that was presumed adapted to any type conditions. The process of modernization in rural Latin America was an attempt to "improve" people's quality of life and standard of living. However modernization can set development against preservation of the environment (Pichon et al. 1999) natural capital. Given the evident failure of many countries to achieve development through the adoption of "modern" technology provided by first world countries, and the growing worldwide awareness of the pressure being put on the environment, the development project is shifting by bringing sustainability to the foreground (McMicheal 2000).;Rural communities in Latin America are experiencing a modernity that stresses the individual rather than community values. This focus led to changes in social stratification and increased social mobility produced by urbanization (Roberts and Woods 2005). The challenge faced by development processes is to put sustainability in the forefront combining "modern" knowledge with "traditional" knowledge and recognizing the importance of community in building development strategies to achieve sustainability, thus the importance of the idea of community development linked with sustainability. Strategies to curb environmental threats have been incorporated in to the development agenda (Chambers 1997, Dunlap et al. 2002, Martens and Rotmans 2002, McMichael 2000, Roberts 2005, Edwards 1994, Kaimowitz et al. 1999). One such strategy is that of community-based conservation (Agrawal and Gibson 1999). But, as Chambers (1997) points out, adoption of such strategies involved the revaluation of traditional knowledge within community as well as a willingness of outside agents involved in the development process to learn from local people.;My research looks at one rural peasant community in Peru, the community of Colpar, and analyzes ten years of participatory community development during which members of the community have engaged in actions directed towards more sustainable livelihoods. I use the community capitals framework to analyze the state of each capital in the community at different periods in time. The community capitals framework (CCF) developed by Flora et al. (2004) focuses on natural, human, social, financial, built, cultural and political capitals; availability and distribution of assets within and among communities, and the interaction between these different types of capitals in adding to or detracting from each other. As the same authors point out, this framework can also be a method of determining stratification and exclusion by looking at the structure of opportunity that emerges from the availability of or lack of access to resources/capitals. Thus, the CCF is a useful tool for analyzing social changes in the community (and at household level thus taking into account heterogeneity) as related to their ability or lack of ability to invest or build certain assets to respond to external or internal events.;My study analyzes the sustainability of holistic participatory community development in the face of modernization and facilitated mainly by Grupo Yanapai, a non-government organization working in the area for the last twenty years utilizing participatory action-research methodology. I look at the capacity of the community to face constant socio-economic change (positive and negative) due to modernization.;I use Bhattacharyya's (2004) and Hustedde and Ganowicz's (2002) definitions of community development to guide my analysis of the different processes that took place in the community of Colpar. Results from this research can be used to learn more about the sustainability of development processes in the face of modernization in peasant rural communities taking into account nestedness and heterogeneity within community.</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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