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Inégalités homme-femme, le conditionnement des genres dès le milieu scolaire: Entretien
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Applications of Universal Grammar (UG) in the EFL/ESL Classroom
No full textThe article proposes Stern's (1983) framework for classifying issues related to instruction in order to ascertain the relevance of Universal Grammar (UG) in the EFL/ESL classroom. Issues related to: (a) L_1 transfer; (b) teaching rules and giving error correction versus presenting structures by analogy; and (c) the extent to which the focus should be content rather than language are discussed in this article, particularly as UG pertains to them. The article will be of interest especially to foreign language teachers and also second language acquisition (SLA) researchers. The author draws on some examples in English and French, but then presents his conclusion along with further issues he raises based on his recent experience in universities of the Sapporo region
Fabrication d’une station de recharge solaire mobile pour véhicules électriques légers, par les étudiants de l’IUT de Kourou en Génie Electrique.
No full textWhile the previous decade saw an explosion in the use of smartphones, the current decade seems to be distinguished by the boom in light electric vehicles. To alleviate the problem of electricity consumption, solar-powered recharging is an attractive, low-cost alternative.Si la décennie précédente s’était illustrée par une explosion de l’utilisation des smartphones, la décennie actuelle semble se distinguer par l’essor des véhicules électriques légers. Pour pallier au problème de la consommation électrique, la recharge à l’énergie solaire est une alternative intéressante à moindre coût
Virtual patients design and its effect on clinical reasoning and student experience : a protocol for a randomised factorial multi-centre study
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Virtual Patients (VPs) are web-based representations of realistic clinical cases. They are proposed as being an optimal method for teaching clinical reasoning skills. International standards exist which define precisely what constitutes a VP. There are multiple design possibilities for VPs, however there is little formal evidence to support individual design features. The purpose of this trial is to explore the effect of two different potentially important design features on clinical reasoning skills and the student experience. These are the branching case pathways (present or absent) and structured clinical reasoning feedback (present or absent).
Methods/Design
This is a multi-centre randomised 2x2 factorial design study evaluating two independent variables of VP design, branching (present or absent), and structured clinical reasoning feedback (present or absent).The study will be carried out in medical student volunteers in one year group from three university medical schools in the United Kingdom, Warwick, Keele and Birmingham. There are four core musculoskeletal topics. Each case can be designed in four different ways, equating to 16 VPs required for the research. Students will be randomised to four groups, completing the four VP topics in the same order, but with each group exposed to a different VP design sequentially. All students will be exposed to the four designs. Primary outcomes are performance for each case design in a standardized fifteen item clinical reasoning assessment, integrated into each VP, which is identical for each topic. Additionally a 15-item self-reported evaluation is completed for each VP, based on a widely used EViP tool. Student patterns of use of the VPs will be recorded.
In one centre, formative clinical and examination performance will be recorded, along with a self reported pre and post-intervention reasoning score, the DTI. Our power calculations indicate a sample size of 112 is required for both primary outcomes
ENTRETIEN : Ouahcène Nait-Rabah, D’ingénieur à chef du département “Génie civil et construction durable”
No full textOuahcène Nait-Rabah is a lecturer and researcher at the University of French Guiana (UMR EcoFoG) and Head of the Civil Engineering and Sustainable Construction Department at the Kourou IUT. His research, which focuses on building materials in the Amazonian environment, has numerous industrial applications.Ouahcène Nait-Rabah est enseignant - chercheur à l’Université de Guyane (UMR EcoFoG) et Chef du département Génie civil et construction durable à l’IUT de Kourou. Ses recherches, qui portent sur les matériaux de construction en milieu amazonien, ont de nombreuses applications dans le domaine industriel
Study of the Process of Turbine Blade and Fixture Design Based on UG and ANSYS
No full textThis paper made an analysis on the process of turbine blade, and completed the three-dimensional design of milling and cutting fixture used in the process on the UG software. After the stress analysis of the workpiece is completed, the author made a finite element analysis on both the blades and the main parts of the fixture with the help of ANSYS software, the results of the research provide theoretical basis for the development of reasonable processing technology and reliable workpiece assembly.</jats:p
Evolution of cost recovery levels in the Portuguese water supply and wastewater industry 1998-2005
No full textThis paper assesses the situation in Portugal in 2005 regarding cost recovery in the water supply (WS) and wastewaterdrainage and treatment (WWDT) industry by type of system (bulk and retail water and wastewater), by type of utility and by NUTS III, halfway between the publication of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and the meeting of the 2010 deadline. For that purpose, we build on the previous contribution by Monteiro (2007), which reported the situation in 2002, by updating the indicators to 2005 and assessing the evolution since 1998. We also present a brief historical overview of the presence of the cost recovery principle in Portuguese law regarding the industry. The main conclusions that stand out are: the introduction of the cost recovery principle is prior to the WFD and the more recent Water Law, although it lacked practical implementation; the level of revenues collected by the WS and WWDT utilities is insufficient to meet the financial costs of their activities; the situation is worse for wastewater than for WS systems, revealing evidence of cross-subsidization within the utilities which manage both systems; the situation has worsened in recent years; cost recovery levels are lower in the less densely populated and poorer inland regions; finally, we find no evidence associating cost recovery levels and the type of utility.Water Supply Systems; Wastewater Drainage and Treatment; Cost Recovery; Water Framework Directive; Water Law
Issues in the syntax of Marathi : a minimalist approach
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Elutriation and agglomerate size distribution in a silica nanoparticle vibro-fluidized bed
No full textFluidization of nanoparticle agglomerates is a promising technique to process nanoparticles. However, possible elutriation of small agglomerates may cause significant loss of bed material. To obtain the elutriation behavior under stable operation, in this study the elutriation fraction of silica nanoparticle agglomerates is measured in a vibro-fluidized bed, which is operated for several hours. Among conditions with different fluidizing gas velocities, Ug, and vibration strength, Λ, the lowest elutriation fraction measured is around 5% after 7-hour fluidization. The elutriation fraction increases significantly with Ug, while varies slightly with Λ. To help elucidating the elutriation behavior, the agglomerates at three different locations (bed surface, splash zone, and bed outlet) are sampled and their size distributions are determined. The elutriation rate constant is found to be much smaller than the literature results for ordinary particles, and the reasons are discussed in detail. Finally, an empirical correlation considering size distribution is proposed to fit the elutriation rate constant for the conditions in this study.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.ChemE/Product and Process Engineerin
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