18 research outputs found
Ibigkas!: The Iterative Development of a Mobile Collaborative Game for Building Phonemic Awareness and Vocabular
Filipino learners’ lack of English language proficiency is a major barrier to higher
education opportunities and participation in high-value industries. Computer-based learning
systems have the potential to increase educational quality, equity, and efficacy in the Global
South. However, a key challenge is to design systems that are developmentally and socioculturally appropriate and engaging for the target learners. In this paper, we describe the design,
development, and preliminary testing of Ibigkas!, a collaborative, mobile phone-based game
designed to provide phonemic awareness and vocabulary building support to Filipino learners
aged 10-12
Francisella tularensis novicida proteomic and transcriptomic data integration and annotation based on semantic web technologies
This paper summarises the lessons and experiences gained from a case study of the application of semantic web technologies to the integration of data from the bacterial species Francisella tularensis novicida (Fn). Fn data sources are disparate and heterogeneous, as multiple laboratories across the world, using multiple technologies, perform experiments to understand the mechanism of virulence. It is hard to integrate these data sources in a flexible manner that allows new experimental data to be added and compared when required
The WASCAL hydrometeorological observatory in the Sudan Savanna of Burkina Faso and Ghana
Watersheds with rich hydrometeorological equipment are still very limited in West Africa but are essential for an improved analysis of environmental changes and their impacts in this region. This study gives an overview of a novel hydrometeorological observatory that was established for two mesoscale watersheds in the Sudan Savanna of Southern Burkina Faso and Northern Ghana as part of the West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) program. The study area is characterized by severe land cover changes due to a strongly increasing demand of agricultural land. The observatory is designed for long-term measurements of >30 hydrometeorological variables in subhourly resolution and further variables such as CO2. This information is complemented by long-term daily measurements from national meteorological and hydrological networks, among several other datasets recently established for this region. A unique component of the observatory is a micrometeorological field experiment using eddy covariance stations implemented at three contrasting sites (near-natural, cropland, and degraded grassland) to assess the impact of land cover changes on water, energy, and CO2 fluxes. The datasets of the observatory are needed by many modeling and field studies conducted in this region and are made available via the WASCAL database. Moreover, the observatory forms an excellent platform for future investigations and can be used as observational foundation for environmental observatories for an improved assessment of environmental changes and their socioeconomic impacts for the savanna regions of West Africa
Influence of nutrient intake on antioxidant capacity, muscle damage and white blood cell count in female soccer players
Hydrological predictions for small ungauged watersheds in the Sudanian zone of the Volta basin in West Africa
Study region: Hydrological observation networks in the West African region are not dense and reliable. Furthermore, the few available discharge data often present significant gaps. The Volta basin, the second largest transboundary basin in the region, is a typical example of a basin with inadequate hydrological networks.
Study focus: In this study, a prediction approach to determine monthly discharge in ungauged watersheds is developed. The approach is based on the calibration of two conceptual models for gauged watersheds and an estimation of models’ parameters from the physical and climatic characteristics of the watersheds. The models’ parameters were determined for each ungauged watershed through two different methods: the multiple linear regressions and the kriging method. The two methods were first validated on five gauged watersheds and then applied to the three ungauged watersheds.
New hydrological insights for the region: The application of the two hydrological models on the eight watersheds helped to produce relevant monthly runoff and to establish the annual hydrological balances from 1970 to 2000 for both gauged and ungauged watersheds. The developed method in this study could therefore help estimate runoff time series, which are of crucial importance when it comes to design hydraulic structures such as small reservoirs
ASSESSMENT OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP CHARACTERISTICS FOR THE LEADERS OF ECSD DESIGN + BUILD
The main aim of this study is to determine the level of characteristics of the leaders of ECSD Design + Build in relation with the eight characteristics of a transformational leadership. A quantitative method used to analyze the current study. 30 workers were involved in this study to assess their leaders which consist of one architect and two engineers. The results revealed that the highest value level out of eight characteristics was performer which averaged to 6.64. The highest trait for the architect leader was being energetic which results to a score of 6.74 while both engineers produced the highest characteristic which is being a performer and it produces a score of 6.63 and 6.98, respectively
Introduzione. Governare le paure
Il capitolo presenta i contenuti generali del volume motivandone la scelta alla luce delle principali trasformazioni del sistema politico italiano nel corso del 2008. Vengono poi presentate alcune interpretazioni che fanno da sfondo alla scelta degli eventi trattati nel volume e si considera inoltre il significato di alcuni altri avvenimenti non specificamente coperti nel volume