Higher Education for People with Disabilities – Romanian Education Experience

AbstractImplementation of a project which aimed was having access to a quality higher education to prospective students with disabilities has been a successful complex situations, obstacles, fears, future projections etc. Among the obstacles that hamper their access to higher education are: high costs, almost prohibitive for universities to provide suitable means for assimilation of the curriculum for these people with disabilities, physical barriers (inability to move at the college in order to pursue these courses or to access course materials in print format standard), material and financial matters such as, lack of qualified staff for educational mentoring people with disabilities, lack of guidelines/ proper supervision with mentors help for a smooth learning and motivation processes. The need to implement the project comes from the identification of target groups. Like all others citizens, people with disabilities are entitled to the same rights under the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states that all human beings are free and equal as dignity and rights. To achieve this goal, we should take into account the diversity of each community, and people with a disability to be sure that they can enjoy all human rights: civil, political, social, economic, cultural, all recognized the national and international institutions. This project is important to understand in what way universities are prepared in terms of cultural, scientific and organizational to receive students with disabilities, in what way the content of university courses take into account the internal reality, made up of people with disabilities or not

The structure of paired boson superfluids

Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (p. 31).This paper investigates classical and quantum mechanical models of superfluids and superfluid vortices using the Ginsburg Landau energy equation. Specifically, two types of superfluids are considered, ordinary superfluids where single bosons condense to form a strongly correlated system and superfluids where pairs of bosons condense to form a strongly correlated system while the single bosons remain uncondensed. First, the classical minimum energy configuration for an ordinary superfluid with and without a vortex was calculated. Additionally, the phase diagram for the exotic superfluid created by treating single bosons separately from pairs of bosons was determined as was the minimum energy state for each phase. Using these results, I then quantized the Ginsburg-Landau energy and investigated the possibility of excited states by creating small quantum mechanical oscillations about the classical minima. In the uniform superfluid, both the ordinary and exotic superfluids are able to support low energy excitations in the form of sound waves. In addition, the exotic superfluid has a gapped excitation that is a remanant of the uncondensed boson. Finally, the formalism for studying the modes of small oscillation about the classical minimum was developed for the superfluid vortex.by Mara S. Daniel.S.B

Description of interhemispheric disconnection syndrome in a patient with Marchiafava-Bignami disease

Interhemispheric disconnection syndrome (IDS), described by Sperry, Gazzaniga and Bogen, is characterized by the presence of visual and tactile anomia, absence of interhemispheric transference of unilateral somatosensory stimulation of both hands, hemialexia and unilateral left-side apraxia. Subsequently, changes were also observed in the sensory interhemispheric transfer and in tests of crossed motor control. In Marchiafava-Bignami disease (MBD) there have been descriptions of partial IDS. The aim is to describe the dissociations in IDS that are presented in a patient with MBD, using a specialized assessment methodology. Patient and Method: A 54-year-old patient, righthanded, with 11 years of schooling, presented with antecedent chronic alcoholism. Neuropsychological tests were administered for general assessment along with specific tests of interhemispheric transference. Results: Borderline changes were found in visual memory, visual-constructive abilities and attention and executive functioning. In tasks of interhemispheric transference the patient showed changes in: the imitation of hand poses; inter-manual pressure point localization (tactile stimulation); reading aloud of words by visual hemifield; and movement control. Conclusion: Our patient showed a wide lesion of the Corpus Callosum (CC) with relative preservation of the splenium, accompanied by partial disconnection syndrome in the context of a global cognitive deterioration from his chronic alcoholism.Fil: Politis, Daniel Gustavo. Provincia de Buenos Aires. Ministerio de Salud. Hospital Interzonal de Agudos "Eva Perón"; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Tirigay, Romina Mara. Provincia de Buenos Aires. Ministerio de Salud. Hospital Interzonal de Agudos "Eva Perón"; ArgentinaFil: Gómez, Pablo Guillermo. Provincia de Buenos Aires. Ministerio de Salud. Hospital Interzonal de Agudos "Eva Perón"; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Tabernero, María Eugenia. Provincia de Buenos Aires. Ministerio de Salud. Hospital Interzonal de Agudos "Eva Perón"; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin

City Information Modeling – Potenziale für eine intelligente Stadtplanung

Dreidimensionale Darstellungen haben sich in der Stadtplanung als unverzichtbares Kommunikationsmedium etabliert. Primär fungieren sie derzeit als unterstützendes Instrument in Bürgerbeteiligungsprozessen und bei der Darstellung von Planungsalternativen als Entscheidungshilfe. Moderne computergestützte Architekturmodelle erfahren seit jüngster Zeit eine Weiterentwicklung der herkömmlichen Planungsmethoden. Unter dem Begriff des Building Information Modeling zusammengefasst, lassen sich mit dieser neuen Methode virtuelle Modelle erzeugen, deren Informationsgehalt gegenüber klassischen virtuellen Modellen um ein Vielfaches höher ist. Zudem finden sie nicht nur in einzelnen Planungsphasen Anwendung, sondern begleiten ein Projekt über den gesamten Gebäudezyklus hinweg. Um die Vorteile und Potenziale solch intelligenter Modelle ausschöpfen zu können, gilt es nun diesen Ansatz auch für die Stadtplanung weiterzuentwickeln und auf diese zu übertragen. Mit diesem Ansatz des City Information Modeling ist es beispielsweise möglich, über die reine Erfassung geometrischer Formen hinaus, Bilanzen zu erstellen, versorgungsinfrastrukturelle Daten einzupflegen, objektspezifische Informationen zu hinterlegen und diese anschließend in automatisierten Prozessen auszuwerten und zu analysieren. Das hier vorgestellte Paper ist eine Kurzfassung der Arbeit „City Information Modeling – Potenziale für eine intelligente Stadtplanung“ (MÜLLER 2015) die am Fachgebiet CPE der TU Kaiserslautern entstanden ist. Die im Rahmen dieser Arbeit untersuchten Anwendungen zeigen auf, dass es mittels aktueller Software möglich ist, den Informationsgehalt von Planungen deutlich zu erhöhen

Sociografia e educaçao da diferença com Georges Perec

Este texto visa pensar uma educaçao da diferença a partir de processos de criaçao literária -como atividades de traduçao transcriadora- voltados para uma pesquisa da vida cotidiana. Para tanto, recorre à literatura de Georges Perec como um procedimento transcriador ao modo de uma constituiçao sociográfica de um espaço na escritura. Ao falar em uma sociografia estamos concebendo que a observaçao de processos sociais e do próprio observador pode e é concebida por uma escrita (grafia). Entretanto, lembramos que toda escrita está coadunada a uma leitura e estas, escrita e leitura (escrileituras), sao atividades constitutivas da cotidianeidade; seus discursos e narrativas, gestos e imagens. E importante ressaltar que uma sociografia difere de uma sociologia na medida em que permuta uma postura interpretativa dos fenômenos sociais por uma escrita descritivo/inventiva de tais fenômenos vistos como associaçoes interativas. A escrita de Georges Perec assume desde seu primeiro livro Les choses, um aspecto autobiográfico e está de acordo com a ideia de uma sociografia. Ele a faz como se buscasse olhar para a vida cotidiana por meio de uma espécie de descriçao de associaçoes interativas, de si e dos objetos, transformando os espaços em que se vive a cotidianidade, como as cidades, em artefatos que personificam seus textos e, em reciprocidade, recriam o próprio espaço textual como um espaço de associaçoes recíprocas, ou seja, como um espaço social e, portanto, um espaço de relaçoes que, escritas, tornam-se sociografias. Salientamos, ainda, que recorremos à literatura de Perec como um modo de perspectivar um espaço de educaçao da diferença, no sentido de nos apropriar de suas produçoes e tomá-las como propiciadoras do novo pela incitaçao, em sala de aula, de uma escrita autobiográfica tomada como atravessamento possível para a transcriaçao de forças e materiais para fazer formas constitutivas e constituidoras de um currícul

The Development of Students’ Metacognitive Competences. A Case Study

In the information society metacognitive competencies are essential. Based on some activities from the Enrichment Instrumental Program elaborated by professor Reuven Feuerstein we have designed a program for developing the students capacities of selfcontrol, selfknowing and intelectual learning strategies. The case study presents the formation of students’ metacognitive competences at the "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, "Hermann Oberth" Faculty of Enginereeing, Department of Computers Sciences. A Web based application has been developed in order to enable students to self-evaluate their metacognitive competencies and to acquire self-regulatory abilities

In Georgia, vote by mail isn’t working for many new, young, Black, Hispanic, and Asian voters

Georgia has been in the news in recent weeks because of new legislation which effectively restricts the ability of many communities to vote. Using data from the 2018 General election in Georgia, Enrijeta Shino, Mara Suttmann-Lea, and Daniel A. Smith find that ballots from newly registered, young, and Black, Hispanic, and Asian voters were more likely to be rejected by election officials. They write that some of these rejections may be down to individual factors, but also that a lack of voter education and outreach resources for communities with larger populations of racial and ethnic minority voters may equally be at fault

Insights into manufacturing techniques of archaeological pottery: Industrial X-ray computed tomography as a tool in the examination of cultural material

The application of X-radiography in ceramic studies is becoming an increasingly valued method. Using the potential of industrial X-ray computed tomography (CT) for non-destructive testing as an archaeometric or archaeological method in pottery studies, especially regarding aspects such as manufacturing techniques or pottery abrics, requires controlled data-acquisition and post-processing by scientific computing adjusted to archaeological issues. The first results of this evaluation project show that, despite the difficulties inherent in CT technology, considerable information can be extracted for pottery analysis. The application of surface morphology reconstructions and volumetric measurements based on CT data will open a new field in future non-invasive archaeology