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Sostenibilidad y laboratorios escolares
2018
<span>Actualmente no es ninguna exageración afirmar que estamos viviendo una situación de verdadera emergencia planetaria, marcada por toda una serie de graves problemas estrechamente relacionados entre sí, tales como: superpoblación, contaminación, agotamiento de recursos naturales, cambio climático, pérdida de biodiversidad, lluvia ácida y destrucción de la capa de ozono. Dichos problemas, lejos de disminuir, son cada vez más intensos y extienden su impacto sobre todo el planeta. Así, en cuanto al calentamiento global, se afirma que la gravedad es tal, que si no se pone freno antes de una decena de años, después será ya demasiado tarde (Gore, 2007).</span>
La motivación de los estudiantes y la enseñanza de la Química. Una cuestión controvertida
2018
<span>El tema de la motivación de los estudiantes hacia el aprendizaje de cualquier materia científica constituye una seria preocupación para el profesorado. En primer lugar, porque los docentes constatan una falta general de interés de los alumnos hacia las disciplinas científicas como la Física y la Química. Esta percepción ha sido corroborada por los propios estudiantes en diferentes trabajos de investigación. En efecto, los propios estudiantes señalan como principales causantes de su actitud desfavorable, de su desinterés hacia la ciencia y su aprendizaje, a la enseñanza de una ciencia descontextualizada...</span>
Dificultades para la incorporación a la enseñanza de los hallazgos de la investigación e innovación en didáctica de las ciencias
2018
<span>La importancia social concedida, desde hace ya décadas, a la educación científica (Dewey 1916; Langevin, 1926) ha ido creciendo y ha experimentado, últimamente, un cambio cualitativo. En efecto, la tradicional importancia concedida a las inversiones en educación científica y tecnológica, para hacer posible el desarrollo futuro de un país, ha dejado paso al convencimiento de que la alfabetización científica de todos los ciudadanos y ciudadanas ha pasado a constituir una exigencia urgente, un requisito también para el desarrollo inmediato.</span>
Elucidating the Influence of the Activation Energy on Reaction Rates by Simulations Based on a Simple Particle Model
2020
An application for visualizing the dynamic properties of an equimolar binary mixture of isotropic reactive particles is presented. By introducing a user selectable choice for the activation energy, the application is useful to demonstrate qualitatively that the reaction rate depends on the above choice and on temperature. The application is based on a 2D realistic dynamic model where atoms move because of their thermal energies and the trajectories are determined by solving numerically Newton’s laws according to a Molecular Dynamics (MD) scheme. Collisions are monitored as time progresses, and every time the collision energy is larger than the selected activation energy, a reactive event oc…
Transnational bodies: Embodiment of transnational settings
2016
AbstractThe everyday life of more and more people is characterized by transnationalism. People increasingly interact across borders and in a network of transnational relationships. While interactions may be border-crossing, the actors’ body remains situated and limited in time and space. However, the thesis of this paper is that transnationalism processes are embodied. Thus, we speak of an embodiment of transnational settings. We focus on symbolic interactionism – Charles H. Cooley and George H. Mead in particular provide a large repertoire of concepts – to theoretically conceive transnational bodies. To show how transnational embodiment can manifest itself we use the example of young peopl…
Superiority of Optimized Portfolios to Naive Diversification: Fact or Fiction?
2017
Abstract DeMiguel, Garlappi, and Uppal (2009) conducted a highly influential study where they demonstrated that none of the optimized portfolios consistently outperformed the naive diversification. This result triggered a heated debate within the academic community on whether portfolio optimization adds value. Nowadays several studies claim to defend the value of portfolio optimization. The commonality in all these studies is that various portfolio optimization methods are implemented using the datasets generously provided by Kenneth French and the performance is measured by means of the Sharpe ratio. This paper aims to provide a cautionary note regarding the use of Kenneth French datasets …
Optimal Dynamic Portfolio Risk Management
2016
Numerous econometric studies report that financial asset volatilities and correlations are time-varying and predictable. Over the past decade, this knowledge has stimulated increasing interest in various dynamic portfolio risk control techniques. The two basic types of risk control techniques are: risk control across assets and risk control over time. At present, the two types of risk control techniques are not implemented simultaneously. There has been surprisingly little theoretical study of optimal dynamic portfolio risk management. In this paper, the author fills this gap in the literature by formulating and solving the multi-period portfolio choice problem. In terms of dynamic portfoli…
Analysis of salivary detection of P16INK4A and RASSF1A promoter gene methylation and its association with oral squamous cell carcinoma in a Colombian…
2019
Background Epigenetic factors play a fundamental role in the etiopathogenesis of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). This study evaluated if salivary detection of P16INK4A/RASSF1A gene promoter methylation might be linked to the clinical/histological features of OSCC in a Colombian population. Material and Methods Methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction (MSP-PCR) was used to detect the methylation frequency of P16INK4A/RASSF1A genes in DNA obtained from whole saliva collected of 40 healthy controls (HC) and 43 OSCC patients. Determination of the clinical performance of MSP-PCR assay was based on standard algorithms derived from two-way contingency table analysis. The association of …
The 1430s: a cold period of extraordinary internal climate variability during the early Spörer Minimum with social and economic impacts in north-west…
2016
Changes in climate affected human societies throughout the last millennium. While European cold periods in the 17th and 18th century have been assessed in detail, earlier cold periods received much less attention due to sparse information available. New evidence from proxy archives, historical documentary sources and climate model simulations permit us to provide an interdisciplinary, systematic assessment of an exceptionally cold period in the 15th century. Our assessment includes the role of internal, unforced climate variability and external forcing in shaping extreme climatic conditions and the impacts on and responses of the medieval society in north-western and central Europe. Climate…