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Barriers and Bridges for Landscape Stewardship and Knowledge Production to Sustain Functional Green Infrastructures

2018

Sustainable landscapes and regions require both stewardship and management to sustain the composition, structure and function of ecosystems as a base for delivering human benefits. This complex is captured by the topic of ecosystem services. To deliver these, the concept green (or blue) infrastructure emerged as a tool for spatial planning of networks of natural and semi-natural areas. Such planning requires evidence-based knowledge about both ecological and social systems. For ecosystems, states and trends need be monitored, and improved knowledge must be developed about ecological tipping points for assessment of sustainability, as well as measures for conservation, management and restora…

Reflektiivisyys ja ajattelun ajatteleminen lukiofilosofiassa

2023

Filosofian oppiaineeseen on aina liitetty lupaus ajattelutaitojen ja itsereflektiivisen ajattelun harjaannuttamisesta. Myös kasvatuksen teoriassa kriittiselle itsereflektiolle on annettu suuri merkitys niin oppimisessa yleisesti kuin uskomusten ja tottumusten uudistumiseen vaikuttavassa kokemuksellisessa oppimisessa erityisesti. Perustelemme reflektiivisyyden tärkeyttä filosofianopetuksessa John Deweyn ja Jack Mezirowin näkemyksillä. Filosofian opettajille on ollut tarjolla vain vähän ainedidaktisia välineitä tukea opiskelijoiden ajattelun itsereflektiota. Analysoimme artikkelissa filosofianopetuksen kokeilua, jossa lukiolaisia ohjattiin ajattelutaitojen itsereflektioon käyttämällä filosofi…

Postgraduate Students’ Experience of Using a Learning Management System to Support Their Learning: A Qualitative Descriptive Study

2021

Introduction Educational institutions worldwide have implemented learning management systems (LMSs) to centralise and manage learning resources, educational services, learning activities and institutional information. LMS has mainly been used by teachers as storage and transfer of course material. To effectively utilise digital technologies in education, there is a need for more knowledge of student experiences with digital technology, such as LMSs and especially regarding how LMSs can contribute to student engagement and learning. Objective This study aimed to gain knowledge about postgraduate nursing students’ experiences with the use of LMS in a subject in an advanced practice nursing ma…

Monitoring Water Surface and Level of a Reservoir Using Different Remote Sensing Approaches and Comparison with Dam Displacements Evaluated via GNSS

2018

Remote sensing allowed monitoring the reservoir water level by estimating its surface extension. Surface extension has been estimated using different approaches, employing both optical (Landsat 5 TM, Landsat 7 ETM+ SLC-Off, Landsat 8 OLI-TIRS and ASTER images) and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images (Cosmo SkyMed and TerraSAR-X). Images were characterized by different acquisition modes, geometric and spectral resolutions, allowing the evaluation of alternative and/or complementary techniques. For each kind of image, two techniques have been tested: The first based on an unsupervised classification and suitable to automate the process, the second based on visual matching with contour lines…

Designing de novo: interdisciplinary debates in synthetic biology

2013

Synthetic biology is often presented as a promissory field that ambitions to produce novelty by design. The ultimate promise is the production of living systems that will perform new and desired functions in predictable ways. Nevertheless, realizing promises of novelty has not proven to be a straightforward endeavour. This paper provides an overview of, and explores the existing debates on, the possibility of designing living systems de novo as they appear in interdisciplinary talks between engineering and biological views within the field of synthetic biology. To broaden such interdisciplinary debates, we include the views from the social sciences and the humanities and we point to some fu…

Evaluating Fleet and Maintenance Management Strategies through System Dynamics Model in a City Bus Company

FLEX: ESA's Earth Explorer 8 candidate mission

2012

In this paper we present the scientific objectives of the FLEX mission and the underlying rationale. It sketches the basic ideas of the new measurement concept, which is making use of the tandem configuration of FLEX with GMES/Sentinel-3, and outlines the most important instrument and system requirements. We will describe the envisaged instrument configuration that is in line with the measurement objectives, and which is supported by the latest results of the scientific investigations.

Role of extension and compression in the evolution of the eastem margin of Iberia: the ESCI- València Trough seismic profile

1994

Carlos.Santisteban@uv.es The ESCI-València Trough deep seismic reflection profile crosses the eastern margin of Iberia and can be divided into three regions according to crustal structure. From NW to SE they are: a) the Ebro Basin, whit a 33 km thick continental crust wich remained almost undeformed during the Cenozoic and is very reflective in its lower part; b) the Continental Margin, made up of the Catalan-Valencian Domain and the Balearic Promontory with a thin (12 to 30 km thick) continental crust wich was deformed during the Cenozoic, extensional structures predominating the first domain and contractional structures in the second; and c) the Algerian Basin, with a 9 km thick oceanic c…

Hand verification for flexural strength of existing R.C. floors subject to degradation phenomena

2015

Abstract In the present paper, a simplified model for hand verification of the flexural and shear strength of existing corroded T beams cast in place of lightened R.C. orthotropic slabs forming floors is presented and discussed. Diffused and pitting corrosion on steel bars, compressive concrete strength degradation and concrete bond strength degradation are included in the model. The original contribution of the paper is evaluation of the flexural and shear strength considering both the cases of strain compatibility and absence of compatibility and considering the main parameters governing the corrosion process. An arch-resistant model for the calculus of the flexural and shear strength of …

Design procedure for prestressed concrete beams

2014

Abstract. The theoretical basis and the main results of a design procedure, which attempts to provide the optimal layout of ordinary reinforcement in prestressed concrete beams, subjected to bending moment and shear force are presented. The difficulties encountered in simulating the actual behaviour of prestressed concrete beam in presence of coupled forces bending moment - shear force are discussed; particular emphasis is put on plastic models and stress fields approaches. A unified model for reinforced and prestressed concrete beams under axial force - bending moment - shear force interaction is provided. This analytical model is validated against both experimental results collected in li…