The management of schools’ websites in Cantabria, Spain

School websites are not only sources of information and documentation, but also means of communication that are increasingly being accessed by members of society, especially by the different educational communities, thanks to the democratisation of Internet access. This paper deals with a qualitative research project in which information and communication technology coordinators of infant and primary publicly funded private schools (concertados) and state schools in urban, rural and semi-urban/rural areas within the Region of Cantabria (Spain) were interviewed in order to understand how school websites are managed. The findings show a range of views and practices in the schools’ management of their websites, some positive developments in their uses and functions, and numerous opportunities for improvement. School websites are essential communication tools, which need to be continuously improved/updated by their managers, with the support of the education authorities

Spatial projection of input-ouput tables for small areas

Studies on regional economy have achieved a huge expansion in the last decades. In particular, from an input-ouput optic many efforts have been devoted to carring out a suitable methodology, which enable us to cover the overall and exhaustive knowledge of the economic reality of one region. Given that a input-output table (IOT) gathers both intersectorial relationships and the final demand of the economy, it allows us to provide a reliable picture of one economy in a certain moment of time. Nonetheless, the elaboration of a IOT is a complex task, which needs many human and economic resources. Thus, most of the tables elaborated using direct methods have as a benchmark frame either a country or a region, although it is difficult to find matrices related to smaller geografic spaces like, for instance, counties. So, if we attempt to perform a deeper study of both spaces, it would be of great help if we could dispose of estimation methods, which enable us to make tables with less information, i.e, indirect (semidirect) methods of estimation. Let´s say that the economy of a region is determined by the relations among productive structures of their counties, therefore a previous knowledge of these productive structures can be interesting. The basic aim of this work consists of estimating a TIO for each one of the eight Asturian Counties in 1995, since this is the last period in which we possess published information relative to regional accounts. To this end, a technique focused on mathematical theory of the information: cross entropy, will be employed. Such a technique has lately been applied to the construction of regional tables, largely for two reasons: one, flexibility as regards the information it needs; the other, to produce some rather suitable empiric results. From the tables estimates by this method we will be able to know the characteristics of economic structures of the counties. To achieve this scope, tools related to the graph theory, have been applied. Their application in input-output analisis has a great potential to provide a simple vision of the relations between the different sectors, as well as being able to integrate matters as important as the relative positions of the sectors, their orientation or paths in which drive the economic influence inside the corresponding structure.

Plan estratégico integral aplicado al Centro de Salud del Cantón Guachapala

El cantón Guachapala cuenta con un Centro de Salud, el mismo que brinda a toda la población los diferentes servicios de salud, cumpliendo con los programas y proyectos que establece el Ministerio de Salud Pública. En el siguiente proyecto de Tesis se realizará un Plan Estratégico Integral aplicado al Centro de Salud del cantón Guachapala, el mismo que tendrá por objetivo apoyar la gerencia o dirección del Centro de Salud. Realizaremos la Planificación Estratégica iniciando con el Diagnóstico Situacional en el cual recopilaremos información referente a la Institución y la salud del cantón; identificaremos y priorizaremos el problema central realizando la lluvia de ideas, se hará un análisis de las causas y efectos que produce el problema; elaboración de la Misión, Visión y Valores de la Institución; análisis FODA, y se plantearán los objetivos estratégicos y líneas estratégicas. Para cumplir con nuestro proyecto de Tesis, utilizaremos algunas herramientas importantes de Proyectos como son las entrevistas a las autoridades del cantón y al personal del centro de salud, y encuestas a la población del cantón Guachapala. También se utilizarán herramientas de la Administración como es el análisis FODA con su matriz de confrontación, la priorización de problemas, el árbol de problemas para el análisis causa-efecto y los organigramas para definir procesos y niveles jerárquicos, será necesario utilizar herramientas Estadísticas y de Excel para analizar y realizar los diferentes cuadros y gráficos de información.Ingeniero ComercialCuenc

Return times of hot and cold days via recurrences and extreme value theory

International audienceIn this paper we introduce a model evaluation and comparison metric based on the methodology introduced in Faranda et al (2013) to assess biases and their potential origins in a historical model simulation against long-term reanalysis. The metric is constructed by exploiting recent results of dynamical systems theory linking rare recurrences to the classical statistical theories of extreme events for time series. We compute rare recurrences for 100 years daily mean temperatures data obtained in a model with historical greenhouse forcing (the Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, IPSL-CM5 model) and compare them with the same quantities obtained from two datasets of reanalysis (20 Century Reanalysis and ERA 20C). The period chosen for the comparison is 1900-2000 and the focus is on the European region. We show that with respect to the traditional approaches, the recurrence technique is sensitive to the change in the size of the selection window of extremes due to the conditions imposed by the dynamics. Eventually, we study the regions which show robust biases with respect to all the techniques investigatin

Modèles de langue en recherche d'information

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal