The unsteady path : towards meaningful participation of organisations of persons with disabilities in the implementation of the CRPD and SDGs. A pilot study by Bridging the gap

Resumen: Siguiendo el modelo del nivel único de participación de la sociedad civil en su negociación, la Convención sobre los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad (CDPD) estipula claramente las obligaciones de Los Estados Partes consultarán e involucrarán a las personas con discapacidad a través de su representante (OPD), en la implementación y seguimiento de la CDPD (artículo 4(3) y 33(3)). Este énfasis en la participación de las personas con discapacidad ha sido una respuesta a su exclusión sistemática de los mecanismos de consulta y toma de decisiones relacionados con diseño, planificación y seguimiento de políticas, programas y servicios que inciden en sus vidas y sus comunidades

Bridging the gap: a celebratiom of humanity: a photo project by Christian Tasso = Acortando distancias: una celebración de la humanidad: un proyecto fotográfico de Christian Tasso

Resumen: La necesidad de garantizar la plena inclusión y participación de las personas con discapacidad en la sociedad empujó a la Unión Europea a poner en marcha Bridging the Gap, un proyecto gestionado por un consorcio de agencias de cooperación europeas y organizaciones de personas con discapacidad que FIIAPP tiene el privilegio de liderar. Trabajar en países de África y América Latina con este objetivo nos ha permitido aprender mucho, fortalecer y ampliar nuestro compromiso con el desarrollo inclusivo, e incorporar un objetivo no siempre presente en la acción para el desarrollo

From Causal Theories to Successor State Axioms

In this paper we describe a system that can be used to generate action effect specifications. Unlike those like STRIPS commonly used in AI planning, our system uses an action description language that allows one to specify the effects of actions using domain rules, which are state constraints that can entail new action effects from old ones. Declaratively, an action domain in our language corresponds to a nonmonotonic causal theory in the situation calculus. Procedurally, such an action domain is compiled into a set of propositional theories, one for each action in the domain, from which fully instantiated successor state-like axioms and STRIPS-like systems are then generated. Theoretically, we show that the procedural semantics is sound with respect to the declarative semantics. Empirically, we have successfully tested our system on many benchmark planning domains, including most of those in McDermott's library of PDDL action domains. 0 1 Introduction We describe a sys..

Proceedings of the NACCQ 2000 Wellington NZ www.naccq.ac.nz 235

This concise paper describes the introduction of a technology unit into the BAppIS degree programme at UCOL trading as Manawatu Polytechnic. The reasons for its introduction are provided. The unit is described in terms of its content, assessment method and performance criteria. The unit is evaluated from the perspective of unit content, student outcomes, performance criteria and student feedback evaluations. The concise paper fully details an implementation plan for the introduction of the unit into other degree programmes complete with the technology and software requirements. Finally, proposed improvements to the unit will be discussed. 236 4. PRACTICAL COMPONENTS A robot was purchased to bring the theoretical elements into experiential context. The robot is recipient of information via a simplex communications channel from a PC. The robot also has different sensors. The simplex channel is used to download robot programmes to control the robot's actuation elements and use the sensors as a feedback mechanism for these elements. The robot is a self-contained unit it does not need the PC once the correct program has been downloaded. Many theoretical elements of hardware integration can be experienced by the students: multiple feedback control, transduction, actuation, error-self-correcting sequences, simplex communications, robot construction and protection. The students construct a thermocouple device from scratch, as well as analogue to digital, digital to analogue, operations amplification and power amplification. This operation shows the students the difficulty of constructing instrumentation from scratch. The students experience the construction of digital electronic circuits: moving Boolean algebra from a theoretic to applied context. The diagnostics of the self-..

Markers of local and global discourse structure in dialogue: from production to prediction

This paper looks into the results of the exploration of corpus data from PRESEEA for "y" and perceived lenghtened "y" in order to determine if there is a relation between perceived durational lengthening and topic shift in Spanish conversations