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On standards and values: Between finite actuality and infinite possibility
This article explores the relation between subjects and standards in a way that is informed by a process orientation to theoretical psychology. Standards are presented as objectifications of values designed to generalize and stabilize experiences of value. Standards are nevertheless prone to becoming âparodicâ in the sense that they can become obstacles to the actualization of the values they were designed to incarnate. Furthermore, much critical social science has mishandled the nature of standards by insisting that values are nothing but local and specific constructions in the mundane world of human activity. To rectify this problem, this article reactivates a sense of the difference between the idea of a finite world of activity and a world of value which points beyond and exceeds passing circumstance. Resources for the reactivation of this differenceâ which is core to a processual grasp of self, memory, and valueâare found in the thinking of A. N. Whitehead, Max Weber, Marcel Proust, and Soren Kierkegaard
Effect of heating rate on gas emissions and properties of ïŹred clay bricks and ïŹred clay bricks incorporated with cigarette butts
In general, the ïŹring process of clay bricks generates a range of gas emissions into the atmosphere. At high
concentrations, these volatile emissions can be a serious source of environmental pollutions. The main purpose
of this study was to evaluate the effect of different heating rates on gas emissions and properties during the ïŹring of clay bricks and clay bricks incorporated with cigarette butts (CBs). In this investigation, four different heating rates were used: 0.7 °C minâ1â1, 2 °C minâ1, 5 °C minâ1 and 10 °C min. The samples were ïŹred in solid form from room temperature to 1050 °C. During the ïŹring cycles, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides,hydrogen cyanide and chlorine emissions were measured at different heating rates. All bricks were also tested for their physical and mechanical properties including dry density, compressive strength, tensile strength, water absorption and initial rate of absorption. Results show that gas emissions were reduced signiïŹcantly
with higher heating rates (10 °C min) followed by 5 °C minâ1â1
and 2 °C min for both types of brick samples.
Higher heating rates also decrease the compressive strength and tensile strength value but demonstrate an
insigniïŹcant effect on the water absorption properties respectively. In conclusion, a higher heating rate is preferable in terms of decreasing gas emissions and it is also able to produce adequate physical and mechanical properties especially for the CB brick
Research, Analysis and Insight into National Standards (RAINS) Project Final Report: National Standards and the Damage Done
This is the final report of the Research Analysis and Insight into National Standards (RAINS) project, a three-year study of the enactment of the National Standards policy in six diverse primary and intermediate schools. This report provides an overview discussion of the pros and cons of the National Standards policy as experienced by staff, children and parents in the RAINS schools. It summarises the policy and methodological background to the research and the findings of the two previous RAINS reports. The report is also being accompanied by online case studies and other data files
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Research, Analysis and Insight into National Standards (RAINS) Project. First Report: Researching Schoolsâ Enactments of New Zealandâs National Standards Policy
This is the first report of the Research, Analysis and Insight into National Standards (RAINS) project, one year into a three-year study of the introduction of National Standards into New Zealand primary and intermediate schools
Research, Analysis and Insight into National Standards (RAINS) Project. Second Report: Understanding New Zealandâs Very Local National Standards
This is the second report of the Research, Analysis and Insight into National Standards (RAINS) project, a three-year study of the introduction of National Standards into New Zealand primary and intermediate schools
Meeting Standards Through Integrated Curriculum: Point of View by Sussan M. Drake and Rebecca C. Bruns
Through an integrated curriculum, it is expected that the fulfillment of a maximum standard of learning for students' problems while learning, the integrated curriculum will determine the content, processes, materials, and learning materials that teachers do to students in the classroom. Students who have problems are expected to be able to overcome the problem both those who lack achievement and are left behind, the evaluation carried out is also expected to be able to measure the ability of students to improve learning that has been done, besides it can be compared between one school to another with an evaluation. So we need a standard-based approach and an integrated curriculum, the second offers several strategies in developing an integrated curriculum that has been proven in its implementation, thirdly to validate an integrated curriculum by offering examples of integrated curricula that have proven to be successful
Keeping the promise of global accounting standards
Accounting provides a fundamental underpinning for capital markets, and the worldwide spread of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) marks one of the most advanced attempts to develop globally consistent financial rules.
The financial crisis has generated heated debate on the economic role of fair-value accounting and other IFRS principles. Underlying these controversies are differing views about the mission and governance of accounting standard-setters, and how standards interact with other public policy instruments. Choices are made more difficult by the absence of relevant precedents for the unique institutional features of the global standard-setting organisation, the IFRS Foundation.
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