Research on Global Citizenship Education in Asia: Conceptions, Perceptions, and Practice

This edited book provides new research highlighting philosophical traditions, emerging perceptions, and the situated practice of global citizenship education (GCE) in Asian societies. The book includes chapters that provide: 1) conceptions and frameworks of GCE in Asian societies; 2) analyses of contexts, policies, and curricula that influence GCE reform efforts in Asia; and 3) studies of students’ and teachers’ experiences of GCE in schools in different Asian contexts. While much citizenship education has focused on constructions and enactments of GCE in Western societies, this volume re-centers investigations of GCE amid Asian contexts, identities, and practices. In doing so, the contributors to this volume give voice to scholarship grounded in Asia, and the book provides a platform for sharing different approaches, strategies, and research across Asian societies. As nations grapple with how to prepare young citizens to face issues confronting our world, this book expands visions of how GCE might be conceptualized, contextualized, and taught; and how innovative curriculum initiatives and pedagogies can be developed and enacted.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/facbooks/1031/thumbnail.jp

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A WIRELESS QUEUING SYSTEM

This study aims to provide a solution to a physical queue in some service departments of Adventist University of the Philippines using a wireless queuing system that is easy to manage, flexible, easy to install and it has low power consumption.   The wireless queuing system is divided into hardware and system software. The hardware consists of two section, controller section, and a receiver section. The controller section has four controllers which are responsible for setting and transmitting  queue numbers. The receiver section is responsible for receiving the data, data processing, and displaying queue numbers in display monitor. Each counter controller is powered by an Atmega 328P microcontroller, a single radio transceiver that operates at 2.5 GHz  frequency,  a 32-character  liquid crystal display,  and a 12-button keypad. While  the receiver is powered by a single-board computer Raspberry Pi 2, Atmega 328P microcontroller,  single radio transceiver and it is connected to a display that has an HDMI (High-Definition   Multimedia Interface) input. The implementation of the system software is classified into four parts: the receiver device configurations,  the graphical user interface (GUI), the controller and the receiver. These software divisions complement each other to create a functional queuing system. The wireless queuing system is also capable of posting advertisements to promote ideas, products, and services

Social Assistance in Developing Countries Database Version 5.0

The Social Assistance in Developing Countries Database is a user-friendly tool that provides summary information on social assistance interventions in developing countries. It provides a summary of the evidence available on the effectiveness of social assistance interventions in developing countries. It focuses on programmes seeking to combine the reduction and mitigation of poverty, with strengthening and facilitating household investments capable of preventing poverty and securing development in the longer term. The inclusion of programmes is on the basis of the availability of information on design features, evaluation, size, scope, or significance. Version 5 of the database updates information on existing programmes and incorporates information on pilot social assistance programmes in Latin America, Asia and Africa. It also adopts a new typology that distinguishes between social assistance programmes providing pure income transfers; programmes that provide transfers plus interventions aimed at human, financial, or physical asset accumulation; and integrated poverty reduction programmes. This new typology has, in our view, several advantages. It is a more flexible, and more accurate, template with which to identify key programme features. It provides a good entry point into the conceptual underpinnings of social assistance programmes

Desviación respecto al óptimo teórico de la estructura de capital del sector de generación eléctrica colombiano

En el presente trabajo se realizaron estudios y análisis pertinentes para establecer la dispersión que existe entre las compañías del sector de generación eléctrica colombiano con respecto a la estructura óptima de capital calculada para el sector teniendo en cuenta información con corte a diciembre de 2008. Se basaron en los estados financieros y las notas correspondientes de ocho compañías diversas que componen casi el 79% de la capacidad de generación de energía del sistema interconectado nacional. La agregación de las cifras de estas ocho compañías constituyen una aproximación a los estados financieros del sector al cual se le ejecutaron los estudios de estructura óptima de capital. Entre la diversidad mencionada se encuentran termoeléctricas, hidroeléctricas, empresas públicas, empresas privadas y empresas con diferentes niveles de endeudamiento.Los resultados obtenidos son realmente importantes para el país ya que permite a los empresarios tener una base crítica para la toma de decisiones de financiación en el sector de generación de energía eléctrica colombiano de tal forma que, de acuerdo con modelaciones propias para cada compañía, se identifique la posibilidad de incrementar el valor de mercado de las compañías por medio de las decisiones de endeudamiento. El trabajo surge de una carencia de estudios e investigaciones públicas del sector de generación de energía eléctrica en Colombia desde el punto de vista financiero y más específicamente desde el punto de vista de endeudamiento y de estructura óptima de capital.This paper is based on the study and analysis done (with data as of December 2008) in order to determine the actual dispersion that exists between Colombian power generation companies and the industry in terms of the optimal capital structure. It is based on the financial statements and supplementary data for eight companies that account for almost 79% of the power generation capacity of Colombia’s interconnected system. The Industry’s financial statements used to calculate optimal capital structure are the result of the aggregated financial reports from the eight companies. Some of the companies include: thermoelectric, hydroelectric, public companies, private companies and companies with different debt levels. The results from this study are really important for the country, since it allows the entrepreneurs and business managers to have a useful tool in the financing decision making process for the Colombian power generation industry, that along with their own developed financial models will help them lo identify different options to get an optimal capital structure that will result in a higher market value for the company. This work arises from a lack of research and public studies for the power generation sector in Colombia from the financial point of view and more specifically from the point of view of debt and optimal capital structure

Assessment of carbonation-induced corrosion of vertical structures in Binondo using half-cell potential

In this paper, selected structures in the Binondo area were assessed for carbonation-induced corrosion risk with the aim of acquiring a general idea of the corrosion risk probability that affected the area. Corrosion risk was measured using silver chloride half-cell potential, and these were compared to their depths of carbonation, obtained using the phenolphthalein indicator spray-test method. The researchers focused on old buildings, as much as possible investigating those that were the most exposed to pollution to attain more pronounced results during testing. The structures evaluated for the study were classified into two groups buildings in service and abandoned buildings. The researchers expected to encounter highly negative potential values since the buildings were quite old and some of them displayed signs of cracking and spalling, and the exposed reinforcing steel bars seen in the abandoned buildings were corroded. However, the potential values obtained were significantly more positive than expected. The data were even more unanticipated when compared to the carbonation depths obtained. Although some of the buildings showed to the carbonation had occurred deeper than the concrete cover depth, the potential values still indicated only low to intermediate carbonation risk. Through this study, the researchers hoped to get a better idea of the extent of the effect of corrosion on structural steel and that this information would serve as knowledge for future researchers to encourage further studies into corrosion, most especially in the field of construction