654 research outputs found
The first EntreCompEdu Pioneer School: Dafen Primary, Wales
No full textThe session will offer an interesting case study on the opportunities offered by EntreCompEdu to schools. Tracey Singleton, Faith Muldoon & Dr Felicity Healey-Bensonshowcase Dafen Community Primary School, the very first EntreCompEdu Pioneer School, as a whole school approach to EntreCompEdu and its value in addressing national curriculum expectations. This is part of the EntreComp Cafe series set up to supplement the Erasmus + EntreCompEdu innovative guided learning online course. In this session, opened by Elin McCallum (Bantani Education), teachers and educators from all across the globe join to develop their entrepreneurial education skills
Father‘s first car
No full textEpisodes 1-3 of 'Father‘s first car' by Hugh Tracey, read by the author from the book published by Routledge & Kegan PaulThe book is based on extracts from the motoring diary of Hugh Tracey's father, Dr Eugene Tracey, who owned the first motor car in their village of Willand near Cullompton, Devon, in 1907For further details refer to the ILAM Document Collection: Hugh Tracey Broadcast
JobPlan --- a new integrated representation and planner for batch job workflow automation
No full textThis dissertation presents a new representation and action logic for integrated planning, scheduling, execution monitoring and sensing. These features were motivated by the problem of computer batch job management but are applicable to any domain entailing these forms of reasoning. The existing planning literature has primarily focussed on providing highly efficient representations and algorithms which address specific aspects of planning and sensing. However no single planning framework currently combines the requisite integrated abilities of managing durative triggered actions in an open world environment. The dissertation's contributions are a multi-purpose planning and sensing representation and an associated partial order action logic to support these features. Plans and beliefs are represented as a workflow state machine governed by a clearly defined dynamics. Time based goals are handled by treating time as a fluent. The implementation and evaluation of a prototype planner ``JobPlan" on key domain scenarios illustrating these features is presented.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Tracey D. Lal
Academic Integrity: A Global Community of Scholars
No full textSlides from a keynote presentation at Canadian Symposium on Academic Integrity, held at the University of Calgary, April 17-18, 2019. In this session, Dr. Tracey Bretag examined how academic integrity research, policy and advocacy work is undertaken around the world, discussion the implications for Canadian educational contexts. These slides have been submitted by Sarah Elaine Eaton, Co-Chair of the symposium, with the permission of the author, Dr. Tracey Bretag
Academic Integrity and Embracing Diversity
No full textSlides from the Pre-conference for the Canadian Symposium on Academic Integrity, held at the University of Calgary, April 17-18, 2019. In this session, Dr. Tracey Bretag examined the issue of academic integrity and diversity, focusing specifically on international students and those who speak languages other than English (LOTE). These slides have been submitted by Sarah Elaine Eaton, Co-Chair of the symposium, with the permission of the author, Dr. Tracey Bretag
Review of \u3ci\u3eGuerrilla Gardening: A Manualfesto\u3c/i\u3e, by David Tracey
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David Tracey, author of Guerrilla Gardening: A Manualfesto, summarizes the philosophy of guerrilla gardening in a simple statement: Every plant is political (32)
Understanding Singleton Secondary Science Teachers’ Professional Learning Needs: A Multiple Case Study
No full textChanges made to the federal (USDOE, 2015) and state laws (Ga Rules & Regs., 2015) governing teacher professional development required Georgia public school systems to discontinue the professional learning unit (PLU) system (USDOE, 2015) and to implement a continuous, job-embedded professional development structure delivered through a school learning community such as a professional learning community (USDOE, 2015). Because singleton teachers are those who are the only ones teaching a course or grade-level in a school building, they may not be participating in a community that serves their professional learning needs. In this multiple-site multiple case study, the researcher described four singleton secondary science teachers’ professional learning experiences using data collected from semi-structured interviews, observations of the learning community, and additional documents. The within-case and cross-case analyses produced the findings of this study, which show that the participants received pedagogical content knowledge from the training received for their respective singleton courses; however, they lacked collegial collaboration, time, and content knowledge from the available professional learning in the singleton courses. The researcher anticipates the findings to be of value to district and school professional learning coordinators making decisions for singletons’ professional learning needs. Ultimately, the correct placement for these teachers into an ongoing, job-embedded professional community will increase their learning, which will then lead to an increase in their students’ learning
An analysis of Sartre's and Beauvoir's views on transcendence: exploring intersubjective relations
Get PDFAn upper bound on the Chebotarev invariant of a finite group
Get PDFA subset {g1,.., gd} of a finite group G invariably generates {g1x1,..,gdxd} generates G for every choice of xi ∈ G. The Chebotarev invariant C(G) of G is the expected value of the random variable n that is minimal subject to the requirement that n randomly chosen elements of G invariably generate G. The first author recently showed that C(G)≤β|G| for some absolute constant β. In this paper we show that, when G is soluble, then β is at most 5/3. We also show that this is best possible. Furthermore, we show that, in general, for each ε > 0 there exists a constant cε such that C(G)≤(1+∈)|G|+c
Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor-Induced Gene Expression Reveals Novel Actions of VGF in Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity
No full textSynaptic strengthening induced by brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is associated with learning and is coupled to transcriptional activation. However, identification of the spectrum of genes associated with BDNF-induced synaptic plasticity and the correlation of expression with learning paradigms in vivo has not yet been studied. Transcriptional analysis of BDNF-induced synaptic strengthening in cultured hippocampal neurons revealed increased expression of the immediate early genes (IEGs), c-fos, early growth response gene 1 (EGR1), activity-regulated cytoskeletal-associated protein (Arc) at 20 min, and the secreted peptide VGF (non-acronymic) protein precursor at 3 hr. The induced genes served as prototypes to decipher mechanisms of both BDNF-induced transcription and plasticity. BDNF-mediated gene expression was tyrosine kinase B and mitogen-activated protein kinase-dependent, as demonstrated by pharmacological studies. Single-cell transcriptional analysis of Arc after whole-cell patch-clamp recordings indicated that increased gene expression correlated with enhancement of synaptic transmission by BDNF. Increased expression in vitro predicted elevations in vivo: VGF and the IEGs increased after trace eyeblink conditioning, a hippocampal-dependent learning paradigm. VGF protein was also upregulated by BDNF treatment and was expressed in a punctate manner in dissociated hippocampal neurons. Collectively, these findings suggested that the VGF neuropeptides may regulate synaptic function. We found a novel function for VGF by applying VGF peptides to neurons. C-terminal VGF peptides acutely increased synaptic charge in a dose-dependent manner, whereas N-terminal peptide had no effect. These observations indicate that gene profiling in vitro can reveal new mechanisms of synaptic strengthening associated with learning and memory.Peer reviewe
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