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Distributed pedagogical leadership in support of student transitions
2012
This article examines how, through uncovering collaborative leadership, the whole school staff is able to understand its common endeavours to support heterogeneous students’ fluent learning paths. For this, a notion of distributed pedagogical leadership (DPL) is drawn upon. DPL concerns everyone in the school community, not only leaders and management. It means abandoning role, instrumental or process centricity and moving towards leadership that is characterized as the innermost qualities of a professional learning community. This kind of leadership is best described with 10 ‘keys’ as 10 key attributes. To understand DPL in practice, quantitative data both from a nationwide Finnish survey…
Practiced musical style shapes auditory skills
2012
Musicians' processing of sounds depends highly on instrument, performance practice, and level of expertise. Here, we measured the mismatch negativity (MMN), a preattentive brain response, to six types of musical feature change in musicians playing three distinct styles of music (classical, jazz, and rock/pop) and in nonmusicians using a novel, fast, and musical sounding multifeature MMN paradigm. We found MMN to all six deviants, showing that MMN paradigms can be adapted to resemble a musical context. Furthermore, we found that jazz musicians had larger MMN amplitude than all other experimental groups across all sound features, indicating greater overall sensitivity to auditory outliers. Fu…
The link between induced emotions, the humor style and the sense of life quality
2015
The study showed that there is a link between induced emotions, the humor style and the sense of life quality. According to Martin’s [1] theory stating that there are four humor styles: affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive and self-defeating, the humor style of people belonging to groups in which one of the following emotions: sadness, aversion, satisfaction and joy, had earlier been induced and the control group was checked by means of the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ). Moreover, in case of each analyzed group,the level of the sense of life quality was measured. The results of this analysis show that the fact of inducing such emotions as joy or sadness is connected with decreasing or…
As We Think We May Teach: Ideologies on IT in the Classroom
2015
The extended use of IT devices has raised scholars’ awareness to its impact on the organization of classroom interactions. Studies claim that the intensive use of IT in the classroom has the potential of revolutionizing education in a way that it increases students’ ownership and control over their learning processes (Ryberg 2013). Others claim that devices such as interactive whiteboards contribute to the emergence of an “effective style” of teaching (Gillen et al. 2007: 254). Further, Lotherington & Ronda (2014) emphasize the role of IT, multimedia, multimodality, collaborative communication, agentive participation and multitasking for a contemporary understanding of what they call “commu…
Day-ahead forecasting for photovoltaic power using artificial neural networks ensembles
2016
Solar photovoltaic plants power output forecasting using machine learning techniques can be of a great advantage to energy producers when they are implemented with day-ahead energy market data. In this work a model was developed using a supervised learning algorithm of multilayer perceptron feedforward artificial neural network to predict the next twenty-four hours (day-ahead) power of a solar facility using fetched weather forecast of the following day. Each set of tested network configuration was trained by the historical power output of the plant as a target. For each configuration, one hundred networks ensembles was averaged to give the ability to generalize a better forecast. The train…
Does Sedentary Behavior Predict Academic Performance in Adolescents or the Other Way Round? A Longitudinal Path Analysis.
2016
This study examined whether adolescents’ time spent on sedentary behaviors (academic, technological-based and social-based activities) was a better predictor of academic performance than the reverse. A cohort of 755 adolescents participated in a three-year period study. Structural Equation Modeling techniques were used to test plausible causal hypotheses. Four competing models were analyzed to determine which model best fitted the data. The Best Model was separately tested by gender. The Best Model showed that academic performance was a better predictor of sedentary behaviors than the other way round. It also indicated that students who obtained excellent academic results were more likely t…
Female Leadership in Software Projects—A Preliminary Result on Leadership Style and Project Context Factors
2017
Women have been shown to be effective leaders in many team-based situations. However, it is also well-recognized that women are underrepresented in engineering and technology areas, which leads to wasted efforts and a lack of diversity in professional organizations. Although studies about gender and leadership are rich, research focusing on engineering-specific activities, are scarce. To react on this gap, we explored the experience of female leaders of software development projects and possible context factors that influence leadership effectiveness. The study was conducted as a longitudinal multiple case study. Data was collected from survey, interviews, observation and project reports. I…
La lettre galante et l'esprit géométrique : expression métaphysique et métaphysique des langues, ou la philosophie du discours de Fontenelle
2015
International audience; Il n'est paradoxal qu'en apparence d'affirmer que Fontenelle est un philosophe pour qui la question du style ne se pose pas. Pour le dire simplement, Fontenelle est pour une large part étranger à l'idée que la philosophie puisse constituer un corpus distinct d'objets et de thèses à propos duquel se poserait spécifiquement la question de son écriture ou de son expression. Fontenelle ne pose pas tant la question de savoir comment il convient d'écrire la philosophie, ni telle philosophie, y compris la sienne propre, qu'il ne défend par sa pratique scripturaire l'idée d'une écriture ou d'une récriture philosophique de tout ce qui s'écrit : oeuvres drama-tiques, lettres g…
Staging Life — Interpretation of Life in Kierkegaard’s
2000
“Whether custom and social life in England is of the stuff of primieval rock or whether it consists in seams and glacial debris will become more and more apparent in the course of a few years. At times, the wanderer is overcome by a sensation comparable to that felt when climbing Rosstrappe [an elevation near Magdeburg in present-day Saxony-Anhalt], where the eye ascends over millions of seemingly loose chunks of slate”.1 These lines, published on the 21st of May, 1870 in the German newspaper Neue Preussische Zeitung by the observer Theodore Fontane, might seem, at first sight, to not be a matter of special interest to readers a century apart (unless we are interested in the literary styles…
PROTEZIONE E MIGLIORAMENTO DELLE PRESTAZIONI ANTINCENDIO NEI TEATRI ALL’ITALIANA. FIRE PROTECTION AND PERFORMANCE UPGRADE IN ITALIAN STYLE THEATRES
2018
Se storicamente gli incendi sono stati la causa principale di distruzione di molti teatri all’italiana, ancora in un recente passato interventi di conservazione, restauro e adeguamento alle norme antincendio, in alcuni casi incolti e irrispettosi, ne hanno stravolto gli elementi architettonico-costruttivi caratterizzanti. Come per ogni edificio storico, ancor più nei Teatri, in cui l’effimero connota molte parti della costruzione, è necessario garantire oltre alla salvaguardia delle vite umane, la protezione dell’edificio e del suo valore intrinseco. Il processo per raggiungere livelli adeguati di prestazioni e sicurezza antincendio pone pertanto molte sfide per i legislatori, i progettisti…