Trainee teachers’ perceptions on cyberbullying in educational contexts

This paper analyzes the perceptions of teachers in training regarding cyberbullying in schools. The objectives of the study were: to ascertain their perceptions regarding their concern and their commitment to cyberbullying, their agreement with the measures to address it in educational contexts, as well as the assessment of their capabilities to act and the training they have received and they would like to receive; to determine if the perceptions differ according to gender, age and degree pursued and if there are relationships between the perceptions; and, to define pre-service teachers’ profiles based on perceptions. With a survey research design, 408 students from different undergraduate and graduate education-related degree programs at Spanish public universities participated. Findings highlight the coexistence of three different teacher in training profiles. All profiles exhibit a high level of concern and recognize cyberbullying as a problem. They strongly agree with all the proposed prevention and management measures. Two of the three profiles perceive themselves as highly confident and willing to respond. On the contrary, participants in the third profile do not feel confident enough to act and consider their training insufficient, coinciding with the second profile. The need to approach this issue in the initial training of future education professionals is a main conclusion

Dynamic Daylight Metrics for Electricity Savings in Offices: Window Size and Climate Smart Lighting Management

Daylight performance metrics provide a promising approach for the design and optimization of lighting strategies in buildings and their management. Smart controls for electric lighting can reduce power consumption and promote visual comfort using different control strategies, based on affordable technologies and low building impact. The aim of this research is to assess the energy efficiency of these smart controls by means of dynamic daylight performance metrics, to determine suitable solutions based on the geometry of the architecture and the weather conditions. The analysis considers different room dimensions, with variable window size and two mean surface reflectance values. DaySim 3.1 lighting software provides the simulations for the study, determining the necessary quantification of dynamic metrics to evaluate the usefulness of the proposed smart controls and their impact on energy efficiency. The validation of dynamic metrics is carried out by monitoring a mesh of illuminance-meters in test cells throughout one year. The results showed that, for most rooms more than 3.00 m deep, smart controls achieve worthwhile energy savings and a low payback period, regardless of weather conditions and for worst-case situations. It is also concluded that dimming systems provide a higher net present value and allow the use of smaller window size than other control solutions

Francesco da Barbarino y el Zibaldone Colocciano 3217

El códice Vat. Lat. 3217, perteneciente al humanista italiano Angelo Colocci, que pasó a la biblioteca de Fulvio Orsini (el cual escribe de su propia mano el título que lo encabeza: “Index verborum seu vocum collectus per Angelum Collotium ex Petrarca Siculo Rege Roberto Barbarino”2), es un manuscrito de 368 folios no numerados (la numeración, tipográfica, es posterior) que contiene índices de palabras ordenadas alfabéticamente3 y anotaciones, de mano de Colocci y de un copista, extraídos de los autores citados en el título, es decir, Petrarca, Siculi (índices extraídos del Vat. Lat. 4823), Roberto d’Anjou y Francesco da Barberino, además de un elenco de nombres de autores portugueses, catálogos de libros y referencias e incipit de composiciones de otros autores italianos4. Nuestra contribución a este congreso pretende centrarse en Francesco da Barberino, uno de los autores que merecen la atención de Angelo Colocci y de cuya obra se extraen los índices de palabras que encontramos entre los folios 265r y 299r del Vat. Lat. 3217. El porqué de este interés y un primer acercamiento a los términos anotados en los índices, bajo la etiqueta de Barbarino, serán el tema que nos va a ocupar a lo largo de las siguientes líneas5

La educación social y la web 2.0: Nuevos espacios de innovación e interacción social en el Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior

La Educación Social en el Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES) requiere de nuevos procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje para ubicarse en el escenario del desarrollo de la sociedad del conocimiento y la información. Para ello, las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TICs), y especialmente las prácticas formativas de corte socio-constructivista e investigador que utilicen aplicaciones web 2.0, jugarán un papel muy significativo en la innovación y la mejora de la Educación Social. El presente trabajo realiza una aproximación conceptual al concepto de web 2.0 y analiza las implicaciones didácticas de la segunda generación web en el proceso de convergencia con Europa en materia de Educación Superior.Social Education at European Higher Education Area requires new teaching and learning processes to be located on the knowledge and information society scene. For that purpose, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) - especially social-constructivism and researcher formative practices using web 2.0 applications- will play a significant role in the innovation and improvement Social Education. This article analyzes didactic implications through a conceptual approximation about web 2.0 and the second generation in the convergence process with Europe in terms on Higher Education

Algunas reflexiones acerca de la representatividad de las asociaciones empresariales

Este artículo plantea un análisis jurídico acerca de aspectos centrales en el asociacionismo empresarial. De manera más concreta, trata de las motivaciones que impulsan a los empresarios a asociarse; la representatividad en el marco de nuestra sociedad democrática, la determinación del grado de capacidad de organización y de representación colectiva que tienen estas asociaciones, y en último lugar, la capacidad de las asociaciones empresariales para crear un estado de opinión y de voluntad colectivas que influya en el comportamiento de los representadosThis article proposes a legal analysis about central aspects in business associationism. More specifically, it deals with the motivations that drive entrepreneurs to associate; representativeness in the framework of our democratic society, the determination of the degree of organizational capacity and collective representation that these associations have, and lastly, the capacity of business associations to create a state of collective opinion and will that influences in the behavior of those represente

Catalizadores basados en materiales carbonosos para procesos de oxidación húmeda con peróxido de hidrógeno

Tesis Doctoral inédita leída en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Química Física Aplicada. Fecha de lectura: 30-01-201