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Teacher Educators’ Professional Identity in English-Medium Instruction at a Finnish University
2021
Publisher Copyright: © 2021, University of Ljubljana. All rights reserved. Although different forms of English-medium instruction (EMI) are being recognised, the different ways in which EMI can impact the pedagogical activities and expertise of higher education educators have received less attention. Using face-to-face and written interviews with nine teacher educators at a Finnish university, this study examines the most important aspects teacher educators perceive in their work through EMI and how these aspects connect to the understanding of their professional identity. The study is theoretically premised on the interconnected concepts of pedagogical doing, pedagogical being, pedagogical…
La dimensión social del lenguaje como una oportunidad educativa para la promoción del diálogo intercultural en el aula de Educación Superior
2021
[EN] For some time, it has been considered the need to approach the educational experience to the student sociocultural reality in the context of a classroom in Higher Education. This need is even more evident in the context of international exchange programs, in which the main objective is precisely to provide a space for mutual enrichment between the student's culture of origin and the host culture. In this sense, the “Grup d’Acompanyament Lingüístic” (GRUPal) works to promote the intercultural dialogue that inevitably and spontaneously takes place in and outside the classroom. The purpose of this paper is to present a didactic intervention based on inclusion and cooperative exchange as w…
Metodología Aprendizaje-Servicio adaptada al confinamiento por COVID-19: Utilización en la prevención de adicciones
2021
[EN] In the Faculty of Pharmacy, the activity "Specific Service Learning (SL)" is carried out. SL allows a team of the center's teaching staff to work voluntarily and in a coordinated manner in the training of people who study the five degrees taught at the center. The suspension of all face-to-face educational and training activities in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic completely altered the continuation of the tasks and actions related to the SL projects. The objective of this work is to describe the design and implementation of a SL project on addictions that had to be adapted to the digital field for a receiving group with certain characteristics. It will also be described how a …
Cine y ética en contabilidad: una experiencia sobre la mejora en sensibilidad ética
2021
[EN] In this paper we present a learning experience in which for the first time we introduce cinema as a teaching methodology in a higher level accounting course to explore the concept of ethical sensitivity. Our study shows that the ethical sensitivity achieved with the viewing of the film positively impacts the student's grade. The students most satisfied with this learning methodology were the ones who got a good answer for the question on ethics in the questionnaire- which would imply a greater ethical motivation and ethical character. However, no conclusions can be drawn about the significance of the impact on the qualification of ethical motivation or the ethical character developed i…
Do IMC and ecological knowledge drive value co-creation? The new way to loyalty in hospitality
2021
Despite co-creation being considered a valuable strategy for incremental changes towards more sustainable activities and consumers’ declared interest, hospitality businesses still did not experience the expected level of client engagement in their service interactions. Therefore, the primary purpose of this paper is to examine the nature of value co-creation and its antecedents and consequences within the hotel industry context through the lens of sustainability. Integrated marketing communication (IMC) and ecological knowledge are examined as factors that enhance value co-creation. Satisfaction is observed as a mediator of the relationship between value co-creation and customer loyalty. A …
Estrategia de enseñanza y aprendizaje de programación basada en la idea de ’hackathon’
2021
[EN] The acquisition of programming and data analysis skills in higher education is increa-singly necessary in all areas of Science and Engineering. In this paper we present a methodology for the motivation of programming learning, mainly focused on the deve-lopment of machine learning algorithms. This methodology is based on the hackathon idea and will have different levels. On the one hand the basic level where a competition is proposed in an improvised way during the development of the class. A second level where a programmed hackathon is proposed but within the classroom environment and using learning management systems such as Moodle. The last level consists of parti-cipation in an exte…
Las clases prácticas de Fisiología Humana y el trabajo previo del estudiante utilizando la plataforma MOODLE: un estudio a pie de aula
2021
[EN] Among the most novel transformations our educational model has undergone, we find the introduction of innovative teaching methodologies that seek to promote the autonomous work of the student. In the subject of Human Physiolgy, practical teaching is essential. However, students need an extensive theoretical review previous to the practical lesson that consume a significant part of the time allocated to practical learning. In this work, we have developed an innovative teaching methodology that encourages students of the Degree in Optics and Optometry of the University of Valencia to prepare practical lessons in advance by solving previous questionnaires in MOODLE. This enhances their ab…
Linee Guida della Società Italiana di Medicina del Lavoro: “Ruolo del medico del lavoro nella gestione e prevenzione della tubercolosi in ambito occu…
2021
Linee Guida della Società Italiana di Medicina del Lavoro sul ruolo del professionista Medico del lavoro nella gestione e prevenzione della tubercolosi nei vari ambiti lavorativi
El método del caso como herramienta de aprendizaje activo en arqueología
2021
[EN] The case study, like other methodologies that enhance the active participation of the students, greatly favours the teaching-learning process. Here we present the design, application and results of the cases implemented in two Archaeology subjects (History Degree, University of Valencia). Within the framework of a Teaching Innovation Project (METARQ), we have implemented, in six different groups, two cases related to two subjects: Archaeological Methodology (3rd year-2nd semester, three groups) and Mediterranean Archaeology (4th year-1st semester, three groups). Both the learning results and the general opinion of the students were very positive. In addition, the application of this po…
El descubrimiento de nuevos fármacos, concepto umbral en farmacología.
2021
[EN] The so-called “threshold concepts” are present in all areas of study. Its acquisition by the student represents a milestone in the advancement of the conceptual understanding of a subject. They are often difficult to learn, but when they are overcome they generate a reconceptualization that allows progress and deepening in the subject of study. We present an activity designed to develop a key threshold concept in pharmacology, the drug discovery process. To do this, we develop a practical laboratory project that will integrate both the extraction and search for active ingredients and the simulation of some aspects of their clinical trials in the phase I.
The evolution of splicing: transcriptome complexity and transcript distances implemented in TranD
2021
AbstractAlternative splicing contributes to organismal complexity. Comparing transcripts between and within species is an important first step toward understanding questions about how evolution of transcript structure changes between species and contributes to sub-functionalization. These questions are confounded with issues of data quality and availability. The recent explosion of affordable long read sequencing of mRNA has considerably widened the ability to study transcriptional variation in non-model species. In this work, we develop a computational framework that uses nucleotide resolution distance metrics to compare transcript models for structural phenotypes: total transcript length,…
La experiencia docente del Observatorio de derechos humanos en la formación de juristas comprometidos
2021
[EN] The Human Rights Observatory is a pilot experience based on the teaching-learning methodology that allows, in an open, dynamic and participatory way. It monitors international current affairs and opens up a space for discussion and debate in the classroom on all those phenomena that, to a greater or lesser extent, condition International Law in the contemporary world. For this purpose, the Observatory will raise questions about issues of interest, highly topical subjects, complex problems, controversial processes and, above all, new approaches that encourage, not only through autonomous work but also through critical reflection, to deepen and complement the theoretical content of the d…
Common and separable behavioral and neural mechanisms underlie the generalization of fear and disgust
2021
Generalization represents the transfer of a conditioned responses to stimuli that resemble the conditioned stimulus (CS). Previous studies on generalization of defensive avoidance responses have primarily focused on fear and have neglected disgust generalization, which represents a key pathological mechanism in some anxiety disorders. In the present study we examined common and distinct mechanisms of fear and disgust generalization by means of a fear or disgust multi-CS conditioning and generalization paradigm with concomitant event-related potential (ERPs) acquisition in n = 62 subjects. We demonstrate that compared to fear, disgust-relevant generalized stimuli (GS) elicited larger expecta…
Aprender finanzas conductuales experimentando
2021
[EN] In an ever-changing economic and business environment, it is especially interesting that students learn, and experiment with their own decision-making, about behavioral finance. This experience will provide them with a better understanding of the economic agents’ behavior in different real- life situations (auctions, pricing, negotiations, investing and financing decisions). By experimenting, they acquire solid knowledge about biases, rational and irrational behaviors, and motivations that govern economic life. Controlled economic experiments in the classroom, a gamification learning methodology, allow students to better understand complex economic-financial concepts such as the herdin…
Material multimedia para la integración de contenidos en asignaturas y grados del Área de la Salud: Transporte de membrana
2021
[EN] Multimedia material supports both teachers and students in the teaching-learning process, obtaining satisfactory results. The current educational system uses a mechanical and rigid mechanism in which teaching is fragmented and disconnected by subjects. Our work aims to report a new academic proposal where a new integrative multimedia material is developed about membrane transport between different subjects and degrees in the Health Area. The results were very satisfactory because the students' opinion about the video was very positive and well-rated. This work clarified the need for a change in the educational system.
Relational cohesion between users and smart voice assistants
2021
Purpose This study aims to examine users’ affective relationships with smart voice assistants (SVAs) and aims to analyze how these relationships explain user engagement behaviors toward the brands of SVAs. Drawing on relational cohesion theory, it proposes that cohesion between users and SVAs influences brand engagement behaviors, that is, continuing purchasing other products of the brand, providing knowledge to the brand and referring the brand. Design/methodology/approach Data from a survey of 717 US regular SVA users confirm the validity of the measurement scales and provide the input for the covariance-based structural equation modeling. Findings The results demonstrate that frequent u…
The importance of kinematic twists and genuine saturation effects in dijet production at the Electron-Ion Collider
2021
We compute the differential yield for quark anti-quark dijet production in high-energy electron-proton and electron-nucleus collisions at small $x$ as a function of the relative momentum $\boldsymbol{P}_\perp$ and momentum imbalance $\boldsymbol{k}_\perp$ of the dijet system for different photon virtualities $Q^2$, and study the elliptic and quadrangular anisotropies in the relative angle between $\boldsymbol{P}_\perp$ and $\boldsymbol{k}_\perp$. We review and extend the analysis in [1], which compared the results of the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) with those obtained using the transverse momentum dependent (TMD) framework. In particular, we include in our comparison the improved TMD (ITMD…
Associations Between Lipoprotein Subfractions and Area and Density of Abdominal Muscle and Intermuscular Adipose Tissue: The Multi-Ethnic Study of At…
2021
Skeletal muscle quantity and quality decrease with older age, which is partly attributed to ectopic fat infiltration and has negative metabolic consequences. To inform efforts to preserve skeletal muscle with aging, a better understanding of biologic correlates of quantity and quality of muscle and intermuscular adipose tissue (IMAT) is needed. We used targeted lipidomics of lipoprotein subfractions among 947 Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis participants to provide a detailed metabolic characterization of area and density of abdominal muscle and IMAT. Serum lipoprotein subfractions were measured at the first visit using 1H-Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy. Muscle and IMAT area (…
Serum Uric Acid and Kidney Disease Measures Independently Predict Cardiovascular and Total Mortality: The Uric Acid Right for Heart Health (URRAH) Pr…
2021
Background: Serum uric acid predicts the onset and progression of kidney disease, and the occurrence of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality. Nevertheless, it is unclear which is the appropriate definition of hyperuricemia in presence of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Our goal was to study the independent impact of uric acid and CKD on mortality.Methods: We retrospectively investigated 21,963 patients from the URRAH study database. Hyperuricemia was defined on the basis of outcome specific cut-offs separately identified by ROC curves according to eGFR strata. The primary endpoints were cardiovascular and all-cause mortality.Results: After a mean follow-up of 9.8 year, there were 1,582 (7.2…
Leveraging Uncertainty Estimates to Improve Segmentation Performance in Cardiac MR
2021
International audience; In medical image segmentation, several studies have used Bayesian neural networks to segment and quantify the uncertainty of the images. These studies show that there might be an increased epistemic uncertainty in areas where there are semantically and visually challenging pixels. The uncertain areas of the image can be of a great interest as they can possibly indicate the regions of incorrect segmentation. To leverage the uncertainty information, we propose a segmentation model that incorporates the uncertainty into its learning process. Firstly, we generate the uncertainty estimate (sample variance) using Monte-Carlo dropout during training. Then we incorporate it …
Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials and Individual Patient Data Comparing Minimally Invasive With Open Oesophagectomy for Cancer
2021
Minimally invasive oesophagectomy (MIO) for oesophageal cancer may reduce surgical complications compared with open oesophagectomy. MIO is, however, technically challenging and may impair optimal oncological resection. The aim of the present study was to assess if MIO for cancer is beneficial.A systematic literature search in MEDLINE, Web of Science and CENTRAL was performed and randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing MIO with open oesophagectomy were included in a meta-analysis. Survival was analysed using individual patient data. Random-effects model was used for pooled estimates of perioperative effects.Among 3219 articles, six RCTs were identified including 822 patients. Three-yea…
Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity Are Unrelated to the Magnitude of Benefits from Object- and Dimension-Based Retro-Cues
2021
Lapsiperheiden hyvinvointi koronapandemian aikana: Osaraportti 2: Noin viisivuotiaiden hoito- ja varhais-kasvatusjärjestelyt
2021
Tämä osaraportti esittelee Jyväskylän yliopiston yhteistyössä Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitoksen (THL) kanssa toteuttaman Varhaiskasvatus ja koronapandemia -hankkeen kyselytutkimuksen perusteella noin viisivuotiaiden lasten hoito- ja varhaiskasvatusjärjestelyitä vuoden 2020 aikana. Hanketta rahoittaa Jyväskylän yliopiston osalta Opetus ja kulttuuriministeriö. THL:n osalta rahoitus perustuu lisämäärärahaan, jonka eduskunta myönsi THL:lle koronaepidemian yhteiskunnallisten vaikutusten tutkimukseen. Kysely ajoittui vuosien 2020–2021 vaihteeseen, ja sen kohderyhmänä olivat 1.10.2014–30.9.2015 välisenä aikana syntyneiden lasten vanhemmat. Kyselyssä tarkasteltiin lasten hoito- ja varhaiskasvatus…
Observation of Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes at Mid Latitude
2021
We present a sample of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs) observed at mid latitudes by the Atmosphere Space Interaction Monitor (ASIM). The events were detected between June 2018 and August 2020 in the latitude bands between 35° and 51° in both hemispheres, which we hereafter refer to as “mid latitudes.” The sample includes the first observations above urn:x-wiley:2169897X:media:jgrd57293:jgrd57293-math-0001 and consists of 14 events clustered in four geographical regions: north-west Atlantic and eastern USA; Mediterranean Sea; the ocean around South Africa; and north-eastern China and Siberia. We examine the characteristics of each event, both standalone and in the context of the global …
Theta power and theta-gamma coupling during formation of novel representations in the infant brain
2021
Item does not contain fulltext Building object representations is crucial for understanding the visual world, but it is not yet understood how infants start to form these representations. In adults, theta power is higher during presentation of stimuli that were later remembered, compared to those later forgotten (Friese et al., 2013), and the coupling between theta phase and gamma amplitude has been shown to be responsible for binding perceptual features to form representations. Theta-gamma coupling has been observed, for example, during the formation of visual associations (Köster, Finger, Graetz, Kater & Gruber, 2018), and was again higher for remembered than forgotten stimuli. Theta-gamm…
SARS-CoV-2 vaccination modelling for safe surgery to save lives: data from an international prospective cohort study
2021
Abstract Background Preoperative SARS-CoV-2 vaccination could support safer elective surgery. Vaccine numbers are limited so this study aimed to inform their prioritization by modelling. Methods The primary outcome was the number needed to vaccinate (NNV) to prevent one COVID-19-related death in 1 year. NNVs were based on postoperative SARS-CoV-2 rates and mortality in an international cohort study (surgical patients), and community SARS-CoV-2 incidence and case fatality data (general population). NNV estimates were stratified by age (18–49, 50–69, 70 or more years) and type of surgery. Best- and worst-case scenarios were used to describe uncertainty. Results NNVs were more favourable in su…
Solution of universal nonrelativistic nuclear DFT equations in the Cartesian deformed harmonic-oscillator basis. (IX) HFODD (v3.06h) : a new version …
2021
We describe the new version (v3.06h) of the code HFODD that solves the universal nonrelativistic nuclear DFT Hartree-Fock or Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov problem by using the Cartesian deformed harmonic-oscillator basis. In the new version, we implemented the following new features: (i) zero-range three- and four-body central terms, (ii) zero-range three-body gradient terms, (iii) zero-range tensor terms, (iv) zero-range isospin-breaking terms, (v) finite-range higher-order regularized terms, (vi) finite-range separable terms, (vii) zero-range two-body pairing terms, (viii) multi-quasiparticle blocking, (ix) Pfaffian overlaps, (x) particle-number and parity symmetry restoration, (xi) axializatio…
Evaluation of the 26RFa/GPR103 peptidergic system in a mouse model of insulinopenia
2021
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Using HOESY NMR Spectroscopy to Characterize Prenucleation Aggregates
2021
Does More Context Help? Effects of Context Window and Application Source on Retrieval Performance
2021
We study the effect of contextual information obtained from a user’s digital trace on Web search performance. Contextual information is modeled using Dirichlet–Hawkes processes (DHP) and used in augmenting Web search queries. The context is captured by monitoring all naturally occurring user behavior using continuous 24/7 recordings of the screen and associating the context with the queries issued by the users. We report a field study in which 13 participants installed a screen recording and digital activity monitoring system on their laptops for 14 days, resulting in data on all Web search queries and the associated context data. A query augmentation (QAug) model was built to expand the or…
Zum Zusammenspiel von Fach und Text. Vergleichskonstruktionen in Börsenberichtenein holistischer Ansatz
2021
International audience; Im Mittelpunkt des Beitrags steht das (Fach-)Textmuster “Börsenbericht“, so wie es in deutschsprachigen Fachzeitungen des Typs Handelsblatt oder auf Webseiten wie https://www.boerse.de/ realisiert wird. (Fach-)Textmuster wird hier, in Anlehnung an die früheren Arbeiten insbesondere von Ulla Fix und Kerstin Adamzik und nach den Vorschlägen von Gautier (2008) gerade für Fachdiskurse als ein 4-Ebenen-Modell mit folgenden Bestandteilen aufgefasst: -handlungstypisch-illokutive Grundelemente, -inhaltlich-propositionale Grundelemente, -syntaktische linearisierungsmotivierte Grundelemente -stilistisch-formulative Grundelemente. In diesem Rahmen sollen zwei Arbeitshypothesen …
The driving factors of new particle formation and growth in the polluted boundary layer
2021
Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Mao Xiao et al. New particle formation (NPF) is a significant source of atmospheric particles, affecting climate and air quality. Understanding the mechanisms involved in urban aerosols is important to develop effective mitigation strategies. However, NPF rates reported in the polluted boundary layer span more than 4 orders of magnitude, and the reasons behind this variability are the subject of intense scientific debate. Multiple atmospheric vapours have been postulated to participate in NPF, including sulfuric acid, ammonia, amines and organics, but their relative roles remain unclear. We investigated NPF in the CLOUD chamber using mixtures of anthropogenic vap…
Cardinal estimates involving the weak Lindelöf game
2021
AbstractWe show that if X is a first-countable Urysohn space where player II has a winning strategy in the game $$G^{\omega _1}_1({\mathcal {O}}, {\mathcal {O}}_D)$$ G 1 ω 1 ( O , O D ) (the weak Lindelöf game of length $$\omega _1$$ ω 1 ) then X has cardinality at most continuum. This may be considered a partial answer to an old question of Bell, Ginsburg and Woods. It is also the best result of this kind since there are Hausdorff first-countable spaces of arbitrarily large cardinality where player II has a winning strategy even in the weak Lindelöf game of countable length. We also tackle the problem of finding a bound on the cardinality of a first-countable space where player II has a wi…
Chinese-manufactured commodities and African agency in the democratization of consumption: the example of electronic devices in Cameroon
2021
Performing visual tasks by children with amblyopia.
2021
Image is everything! Professional football players’ visibility and wages: evidence from the Italian Serie A
2021
Sport is one of the most popular forms of entertainment and its worldwide spread has turned athletes into icons who have economic impact and international visibility as global brands. In our paper we would like to show how marketing strategies in the sports industry, amplified by social networks, have put the athlete at the centre of media attention In the world of football, football players have come to play a key role, since their image is the face of their clubs, and this can affect the number of digital fans, that is, fans who are not bound to a club by constant passion but who can change team depending on the athletes that have been lined up. This could explain why the teams playing in…