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Cloud droplet formation at the base of tropical convective clouds: closure between modeling and measurement results of ACRIDICON–CHUVA

2021

Aerosol–cloud interactions contribute to the large uncertainties in current estimates of climate forcing. We investigated the effect of aerosol particles on cloud droplet formation by model calculations and aircraft measurements over the Amazon and over the western tropical Atlantic during the ACRIDICON–CHUVA campaign in September 2014. On the HALO (High Altitude Long Range Research) research aircraft, cloud droplet number concentrations (Nd) were measured near the base of clean and polluted growing convective cumuli using a cloud combination probe (CCP) and a cloud and aerosol spectrometer (CAS-DPOL). An adiabatic parcel model was used to perform cloud droplet number closure studies for fl…

Onset of Convection in an Inclined Anisotropic Porous Layer with Internal Heat Generation

2019

The onset of convection in an inclined porous layer which is heated internally by a uniform distribution of heat sources is considered. We investigate the combined effects of inclination, anisotropy and internal heat generation on the linear instability of the basic parallel flow. When the Rayleigh number is sufficiently large, instability occurs and a convective motion is set up. It turns out that the preferred motion at convection onset depends quite strongly on the anisotropy ratio, &xi

Protection against Discrimination under the European Convention on Humau Rights―A Second-Class Guarantee?

2002

School mediation in institutional plans and programmes of school coexistence in Spain

2014

Las primeras experiencias de mediación escolar en España datan de mediados de la década de los noventa. País Vasco, Cataluña y Madrid fueron las comunidades autónomas pioneras en la implementación de programas de mediación y, desde entonces, sigue extendiéndose por todo el territorio nacional, siendo cada día más numerosos los centros educativos que disponen de un servicio de mediación. A su vez, la mayoría de comunidades autónomas - en uso de sus competencias educativas-  elaboraron, durante la primera década de 2000, sus propias normas y sus propios planes o programas institucionales de convivencia escolar. Simultáneamente, en algunas comunidades también se firmaron acuerdos o pactos soci…

Area-efficient FPGA-based FFT processor

2003

A novel architecture for computing the fast Fourier transform on programmable devices is presented. Main results indicate that the use of one CORDIC operator to perform the multiplication by all the ‘twiddle factors’ sequentially leads to an area saving up to 35% with respect to other cores.

Neuro-Dynamic Programming for Cooperative Inventory Control

2004

The resources and obstacles of creative collaboration in a long-term learning community

2008

Abstract In the framework of a subject-centred socio-cultural approach, this study investigates creative collaboration and the resources for and obstacles to it in a long-term learning community of ten teacher students. The study focuses on five different learning situations over a 2-year period. The data were taken from teacher students’ evaluations and accounts (on given criteria) of their videotaped group-learning sessions, and their reports of the obstacles to creative collaboration. Using the students’ evaluations of the five videotaped group learning situations, the sessions they assessed as the least and most creative were compared, the aim being to discover the most important situat…

2018

This study investigated participants’ conceptions of the ideal mentor and mentee in the Finnish model of peer-group mentoring (PGM). Existing mentoring research emphasises dyadic practices, yet the...

Flipping and Blending : An Action Research Project on Improving a Functional Programming Course

2016

This article reports on an action research project on improving a functional programming course by moving toward a practical and flexible study environment—flipped and blended classroom. Teaching the topic of functional programming was found to be troublesome using a traditional lectured course format. The need to increase students’ amount of practice emerged while subsequent challenges relating to students’ independent practical coursework were observed. Particular concerns relating to group work, learning materials, and the attribute of flexibility were investigated during the third action research cycle. The research cycle was analyzed using a qualitative survey on students’ views, teach…

E-learning: Web-based education

2006

Purpose of review This review introduces state-of-the-art Web-based education and shows how the e-learning model can be applied to an anaesthesia department using Open Source solutions, as well as lifelong learning programs, which is happening in several European research projects. Recent findings The definition of the term e-learning is still a work in progress due to the fact that technologies are evolving every day and it is difficult to improve teaching methodologies or to adapt traditional methods to a new or already existing educational model. The European Community is funding several research projects to define the new common market place for tomorrow's educational system; this is le…