VICARIA: An e-Learning System for Risk Assessment

An e-learning system in the risk assessment engineering domain has been developed by a consortium led by Ligeron® in the context of the Vicaria project (Leonado da Vinci – N° PP 118018). The e-learning platform: www.vicaria.fr has been implemented and hosted by OVH in compliance with SCORM (Shareable Content Object Reference Model) standard. The Vicaria modules contents have been defined according to an investigation performed in different European countries, particularly in France, to gather the user requirements. The Vicaria contents dedicated mainly to the environmental risks and ICPE are now available for use in French. The issue of the performed work and the e-learning system specifics are partly summarized in this pape

Cooperative Lattice Coding and Decoding

A novel lattice coding framework is proposed for outage-limited cooperative channels. This framework provides practical implementations for the optimal cooperation protocols proposed by Azarian et al. In particular, for the relay channel we implement a variant of the dynamic decode and forward protocol, which uses orthogonal constellations to reduce the channel seen by the destination to a single-input single-output time-selective one, while inheriting the same diversity-multiplexing tradeoff. This simplification allows for building the receiver using traditional belief propagation or tree search architectures. Our framework also generalizes the coding scheme of Yang and Belfiore in the context of amplify and forward cooperation. For the cooperative multiple access channel, a tree coding approach, matched to the optimal linear cooperation protocol of Azarain et al, is developed. For this scenario, the MMSE-DFE Fano decoder is shown to enjoy an excellent tradeoff between performance and complexity. Finally, the utility of the proposed schemes is established via a comprehensive simulation study.Comment: 25 pages, 8 figure

Experiential Learning: How It can Have Effect on Iranian EFL Learners’ Language Growth and Personal Development

The present study was carried out to determine the effect of experiential learning on a group of Iranian EFL learners' language growth and personal development. A group of male and female sophomore learners of English (N=30) participated in the study. After receiving the treatment in the form of experiential learning in the first session, the participants were given questionnaires, the content of which was about this type of learning. The purpose was to collect their comments about experiential learning and to see which types of experiential activities were more popular among the participants. In the second session, they were randomly divided into two groups who were exposed to different methods of teaching, content-based traditional method and experience-based method. Then they were given a reading test, the result of which indicated which method of teaching was more successful. The quantitative analysis of the data with regard to the questionnaires showed that most of the students showed a positive feeling towards experiential learning. The quantitative analysis of the data also indicated that those who received experience-based method of teaching significantly outperformed the other group

Simulation of Impedance Discontinuities Resulting from Degradation of Interconnections on Printed Circuit Boards

Numerical simulation of impedance discontinuities resulting from degradation of interconnections on printed circuit board

“¡Se Va a Caer, Se Va a Caer!” (It´s Going to Fall, It´s Going to Fall!): The Power of Marxist Feminism for a Political Critique of Patriarchal Capitalism

In this paper, we are interested in recovering some current reflections on the possible articulations betweenmarxism and feminism: on one hand, from the theoretical concern for the particular forms of exploitation ofwomen and the LGTBQ comunity within the frame of a neoliberal global hegemony that acquires a new intensityin Latin America, on the other, from the political commitment to the feminisms and activisms of sex-genderdissidence, social movements that in recent times have achieved a surprising political and social mobilization,articulating diverse demands and heterogeneous resistance practices, constituting a powerful laboratory ofpolitical experimentation. While these political and intellectual strategies could be read as particular, scattered,fragmentary or discontinuous criticisms, their power lies in their ability to update and articulate historical contentand marginalized political languages, disqualified, discarded by the neoliberal-neoconservative hegemony. Thepurpose of this paper is to analyze and put into discussion these practices of resistance -its legacies andchallenges-, not only from the political creativity that they bring to the scene, but also from their constitutiveheterogeneity. Our proposal seeks to recover the diversity and complexity of political languages, politicizingways of subjectivation, emancipatory imaginaries and resistance practices of feminist activism and sex-genderdissidence that have multiplied in Argentina in recent times.Fil: Azarian, Fidel. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones Jurídicas y Sociales. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones Jurídicas y Sociales; Argentin