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An African Dream Play = Isivuno Sama Phupha : reconstructing the spirit of ubuntu in the contemporary urban 'village' through theatre
No full textIncludes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 43-44).My project proceeds from the question: What might an African Dream Play be for the 21 st Century? Or how might dreams be used to generate content and presentational form as well as to influence the way in which the audience experience or participate in the performance event? My interest in the African Dream Play lies in a belief that it might provide a means of reconstructing the spirit of ubuntu through theatre. It seeks - both in process and presentation - to include in this reconstruction, that which is popularly known as moral regeneration - which I see rather as spiritual regeneration. My contention is that we, and particularly young people, are living in a social and spiritual crisis and the African Dream Play attempts a trans formative intervention within the dynamic fabric of the contemporary urban 'village'-a space of many cultures, languages, ideologies and levels of economic status. This explication sets my practical research and the production Isivuno Sama Phupha in particular, in a theoretical framework and performance historical context. It draws on the theories of Victor Turner, specifically his concepts 'liminality' and 'communitas' and his idea of the social drama. It then traces the evolution of my theatrical research: first through an interest in cultural and religious practices prevalent in the townships around Cape Town and how they might be used to generate material for the theatre and an aesthetics of presentation that could stimulate the communitas experience for both the performers and the audience; then, on to dreams and how they might provide the stimulus for my envisaged theatre by utilizing an experience of their essential liminality
Premios Joaquín Sama 2004 a la innovación educativa
No full textSe recopilan los trabajos premiados en la X edición de los Premios Joaquín Sama a la innovación educativa: 'Cuentos medievales' de Juana María García González y Beatriz Osés García; 'Es que, ¿sabes?, yo soy hombre' de Clara García Alonso, Elisa Almazán Blanco, María Isabel Barbacho Jabato, Guadalupe Casas Peña, Juan Manuel Martínez Rubio, Gracia Megías Rodríguez, Raúl Muñoz Martínez, Rosa María Rodríguez Díaz, David Rodríguez Yáñez, Aurora Torres Torres y Victoria Velasco Gutiérrez; 'La piel del alma, una propuesta didáctica sobre la discriminación y el racismo' de Antonio Méndez Rodríguez; 'Jugamos y nos comunicamos: programa para la prevención de los trastornos del lenguaje oral a través de la educación en valores' de Alicia Jiménez García; 'La educación ambiental en Educación Infantil: propuestas para su trabajo en las aulas extremeñas' de Sebastián Martín Ruano; 'La aplicación : problemas de matemáticas' de Mariano Real Pérez y Ángela Eugenia Iglesias Moreno; 'Los hongos: un reino fascinante' de Cándido R. Vicente Calle y 'Alimentación y nutrición: comida rápida, casera y saludable' de José Antonio Regodón Mateos y Paula Mañas Núñez.Consejería de Educación. Dirección General de Política Educativa; Calle Delgado Valencia, 6; 06800 Mérida (Badajoz); +34924006714; +34924006716; [email protected]
Premios Joaquín Sama 1997 a la innovación educativa
No full textSe recogen los trabajos premiados en la III edición de los Premios Joaquín Sama a la innovación educativa: 'Estudio de un pueblo de la costa' de Juan Antonio Serrano Pereira y Valentina Marín Vera; 'Ayudar termina en r de reutilizar' de José María Hormigo Morgado; 'Extremadura en la Edad Media: el condado de Feria' de Agustín Torres Leal; 'La Vía de la Plata. De Mérida a Cáparra. Viaje en bici por la calzada romana en Extremadura' de Antonio Muriel Bernal, Antonio López Tejada y Pilar González-Quijano Díaz; 'Proyecto de innovación interdisciplinar para ESO. Área de Lengua Castellana y Literatura y Educación Plástica y Visual' de Araceli Bravo Yuste y Rafael López Corrales; 'Vive tu comunidad: convivencia en Monfragüe' de Juan Antonio Serrano Pereira; 'Adolescentes: propuesta de educación en valores con los medios audiovisuales' de José Manuel Muñoz Real; 'Unidad didáctica: las legumbres. Educación para la salud' de Antonio Sánchez Gil y 'Por las Sierras del Sur de Extremadura: Jerez-Tentudía' de Miguel Caballero Peñas.Consejería de Educación. Dirección General de Política Educativa; Calle Delgado Valencia, 6; 06800 Mérida (Badajoz); 924006714; 924006716; [email protected]
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
Rearrangement dynamics of fishbonelike Turing patterns generated by spatial periodic forcing
No full textExternal forcing can greatly affect the evolution of Turing patterns in reaction-diffusion (RD) media. Here, we employ spatially periodic illumination in a photosensitive RD system to create Turing structures that are repetitive in one direction. We then study their relaxation in the absence of light. These unforced, fishbonelike configurations undergo self-reorganization and establish stationary arrangements, some of which fully exhibit, while others partially or completely lose, the symmetry of the initially imposed pattern
"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.
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
Optimal scheduling and routing of free-range AGVs at large scale automated container terminals
No full textThis work tackles the problem of controlling operations at an automated container terminal. In the context of large supply chains, there is a growing trend for increasing productivity and economic efficiency. New optimization models and algorithms are provided for scheduling and routing equipment that is moving containers in a quay area, loading/unloading ships, transporting them via Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) to Automated Stacking Cranes (ASCs), organizing them in stacks. In contrast with the majority of the approaches in the related literature, this work tackles two dynamics of the system, a discrete dynamic, characteristic of the maximization of operations efficiency, by assigning the best AGV and operation time to a set of containers, and a continuous dynamic of the AGV that moves in a geographically limited area. As an assumption, AGVs can follow free range trajectories that minimize the error of the target time and increase the responsiveness of the system. A novel solution framework is proposed in order to tackle the two system dynamics. Various metaheuristic algorithms are tested to solve the problem in a near-optimal way. Computational experiments are presented in order to show the feasibility of the proposed framework on a practical case study, and to assess the performance of advanced scheduling and routing algorithms on numerous system settings
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