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National survey of reading comprehension in Finland

2001

As a part of an extensive project for the evaluation of the Finnish comprehensive school, a recently developed reading comprehension measure; a hierarchy-rating test, and a more conventional multiple-choice task were used to assess reading comprehension skills in population-based samples of 2,891 sixth-graders (12‐13 years old) and 1,953 (15‐16 years old) ninth-graders. The hierarchy-rating task was constructed within the theoretical framework proposed by W. Kintsch and van Dijk (1978). It was designed to examine the cognitively high-level text processing, or macroprocessing, of expository passages. The multiple-choice task and the hierarchy-rating task showed only a moderate intercorrelati…

Effects of air pollution on dementia over Europe for present and future climate change scenarios.

2020

The scientific literature is scarce when referring to the influence of atmospheric pollutants on neurodegenerative diseases for present and future climate change scenarios. In this sense, this contribution evaluates the incidence of dementia (Alzheimer's disease, AD, and dementia from unspecified cause, DU) occurring in Europe associated with the exposure to air pollution (essentially NO2 and PM2.5) for the present climatic period (1991-2010) and for a future climate change scenario (RCP8.5, 2031-2050). The GEMM methodology has been applied to air pollution simulations using the chemistry/climate regional model WRF-Chem. Present population data were obtained from NASA's Center for Socioecon…

A Population-Based Approach to the Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem

2004

We present a population-based approach to the RCPSP. The procedure has two phases. The first phase handles the initial construction of a population of schedules and these are then evolved until high quality solutions are obtained. The evolution of the population is driven by the alternative application of an efficient improving procedure for locally improving the use of resources, and a mechanism for combining schedules that blends scatter search and path relinking characteristics. The objective of the second phase is to explore in depth those vicinities near the high quality schedules. Computational experiments on the standard j120 set, generated using ProGen, show that our algorithm produ…

Ikääntyvien opiskelu ja koulutus

1994

Right up to the present, study by the elderly has focused mainly on general adult education. Consequently, marginalisation in this area has been particularly harmful to this section of the population, the people who have received the least education in our society. The motives and points of departure concerning the elderly have not yet been clearly formulated in adult education. This state of affairs is exemplified by the facts that adult education policy statements almost entirely by-pass the issue of education for the elderly and that an educational policy aimed at the elderly simply does not exist. The elderly can no longer be expected to be satisfied with mere activities for the sake of…

2018

Summary Background Population estimates underpin demographic and epidemiological research and are used to track progress on numerous international indicators of health and development. To date, internationally available estimates of population and fertility, although useful, have not been produced with transparent and replicable methods and do not use standardised estimates of mortality. We present single-calendar year and single-year of age estimates of fertility and population by sex with standardised and replicable methods. Methods We estimated population in 195 locations by single year of age and single calendar year from 1950 to 2017 with standardised and replicable methods. We based t…

Bounded Rationality for “Just In Time” Education

2011

Abstract If you cannot get answers keep putting questions The paper has three targets: a) Taken per se , it advances the research presented in a series of seven papers about education in a post-industrial (i.e., service-oriented) society broadening the scope from engineering to any kind of education reachable through reachable through permanent endeavour. b) Regarded as part of a “EU 2020 research cluster” with the aim to pro pose affordable approaches to education for sustainable development, the paper reveals bounded rationality (BR) as common denominator of, mechanism for, and connection between the two facets of permanent education: e- teaching and e- learning , the research aiming to m…

Wymiary efektywności projektu w świetle multiplikacji perspektyw poznawczych

2017

Artykuł koncentruje się na problemie poszukiwania odpowiedzi na pytanie badawcze: w jaki sposób definiowanie efektywności może wpływać na jej pomiar w aspekcie niejednorodnych perspektyw postrzegania projektu? Efektywność działań podejmowanych w trakcie realizacji projektu jest ściśle skorelowana z pojęciem sukcesu projektu. Za rynkowy wymiar efektywności odpowiada skuteczność, która jest pojęciem prakseologicznym, natomiast sprawność prezentuje zazwyczaj ekonomiczne ujęcie wskaźników oceny. W pracy przedstawiono rekomendowane systemy pomiaru efektywności w projektach ze szczególnym odniesieniem do trzech perspektyw ewaluacji projektu: 1) jako tymczasowej organizacji; 2) jako struktury prod…

On the Absence of Direct Effect of the WTO Dispute Settlement Body's Decisions in the EU Legal Order

2012

This chapter talks about the Absence of Direct Effect of the WTO Dispute Settlement Body's Decisions in the EU Legal Order. It covers five main sections: (1) The Domestic Validity and Rank of Decision (2) Their Internal Effects (3) The 'Scope for Manoeuvre' Argument: An Assessment from the Perspective of the WTO Legal System (4) The 'Scope for Manoeuvre' Argument: An Assessment from the Perspective of the EU Legal System and (5) The Pragmatic Role Played by Direct Effect in the Protection of the Autonomy of the EU Legal Order and Its Costs. According to established case law, while the binding character of international agreements is sufficient to use WTO law as a standard for reviewing the …

Source unreliability decreases but does not cancel the impact of social information on metacognitive evaluations

2015

International audience; Through metacognitive evaluations, individuals assess their own cognitive operations with respect to their current goals. We have previously shown that non-verbal social cues spontaneously influence these evaluations, even when the cues are unreliable. Here, we explore whether a belief about the reliability of the source can modulate this form of social impact. Participants performed a two-alternative forced choice task that varied in difficulty. The task was followed by a video of a person who was presented as being either competent or incompetent at performing the task. That person provided random feedback to the participant through facial expressions indicating ag…

La participación de la ciudadanía en los procesos de diseño de las políticas públicas de empleo. El caso del litoral sur de Alicante

2019

La presente investigación tiene como finalidad describir cómo la ciudadanía ha contribuido a la elaboración de un Diagnóstico Territorial de Empleo (DET) promovido por la Generalitat Valenciana, previo al diseño de futuras políticas públicas para el fomento del empleo, en tres municipios alicantinos. Se consiguió a través de una Investigación-Acción-Participación (IAP). Se realizaron talleres participativos y grupos focales que sirvieron para que la ciudadanía conociese de la existencia del proyecto y sus fines, además de aportar su experiencia, opinión y plantear posibles soluciones a la problemática del empleo en estos municipios. Se puede concluir que la ciudadanía está capacitada para a…