"Relaciones de saber-poder y colonialidad en el Internado Fray Javier de Barcelona, de Araracuara, Caquetá".

Este trabajo investigativo centra su atención en los procesos de colonización por los que han atravezado los habitantes de Araracuara Caquetá y como estos han interferido en la educación propia y escolarizada del pueblo Muina o Uitoto. Nace a partir de los contenidos vistos en la linea de investigación "Etnicidad, Interculturalidad y Decolonialidad", del énfasis "Educación Comunitaria, Intercultural y Ambiental" entre los años 2012 y 2014, en la que se reflexiono acerca de la importancia de generar procesos educativos propios en las comunidades denominadas como minorias étnicas, por lo que en esta investigación se elaboraron una serie de estrategias acordes con la visión de mundo Muina a partir del contacto con esta comunidad en la población de Araracuar

Preliminary Findings of an Elk Brucellosis Surveillance and Epidemiology Project in Southwestern Montana

Brucellosis is a bacterial disease that causes abortions in cattle, bison (Bison bison) and elk (Cervus elaphus). Transmission of the disease from wildlife to cattle has serious financial implications to producers and the livestock industry in Montana. Brucellosis in elk populations of southwestern Montana results in reduced tolerance for elk on private property and can influence management of elk populations. In the winter of 2010/2011, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks initiated a five-year project with the goals of delineating the geographical distribution of brucellosis in elk populations, enhancing our understanding of how brucellosis functions in elk populations, and evaluating factors that may influence the spread and prevalence of brucellosis in elk. One-hundred adult female elk were captured in hunting districts (HD) 324 and 326 in the winter of 2010/2011 with eight testing positive on blood tests(seropositive) in the field for exposure to Brucella. Ninety-three adult female elk were captured in HD 325 in the winter of 2011/2012, five of which were seropositive. Elk testing positive in the field were fitted with a GPS collar and, if pregnant, implanted with a vaginal implant transmitter (VIT). Seropositive pregnant elk were tracked from the ground and air 2-3 times/week in order to locate birth or abortion sites. B. abortus was not cultured from VITs or samples collected at birth sites in the first year of the project. B. abortus was cultured from tissues or VITs associated with two aborted calves in 2012. The known distribution of brucellosis in elk has expanded based on information obtained in this study

Ability-Based Methods for Personalized Keyboard Generation

This study introduces an ability-based method for personalized keyboard generation, wherein an individual's own movement and human-computer interaction data are used to automatically compute a personalized virtual keyboard layout. Our approach integrates a multidirectional point-select task to characterize cursor control over time, distance, and direction. The characterization is automatically employed to develop a computationally efficient keyboard layout that prioritizes each user's movement abilities through capturing directional constraints and preferences. We evaluated our approach in a study involving 16 participants using inertial sensing and facial electromyography as an access method, resulting in significantly increased communication rates using the personalized keyboard (52.0 bits/min) when compared to a generically optimized keyboard (47.9 bits/min). Our results demonstrate the ability to effectively characterize an individual's movement abilities to design a personalized keyboard for improved communication. This work underscores the importance of integrating a user's motor abilities when designing virtual interfaces.Comment: 20 pages, 7 figure

Characteristics of expertise in teaching: Differences in levels of expert teachers in solving classroom management problems

The present study examined characteristics of expertise and how teachers at different levels of expertise solve classroom management problems differently. Eighty-four public school teachers and fourteen public school administrators participated in this study. Three groups of expertise were formed via cluster analysis using information provided by public school administrators on the teachers who participated in this study. The groups included: high experts, average experts, and low experts. Performance between groups was compared on classroom management problems, years of teaching experience, and number of college credits taken beyond certification, and three additional exploratory instruments. Exploratory comparisons included: creativity, metacognition, and self-monitoring. Groups differed significantly on the classroom management problem solving task. The high experts scored significantly higher than the low experts; however, there were no other significant differences between groups. No significant differences were found between groups for years of teaching experience. The high experts and the low experts did differ significantly for number of college credits taken beyond certification. Results of the exploratory analyses indicated that there were no significant differences between groups for creativity or self-monitoring. There was a significant difference between groups on the metacognition task. Follow-up procedures revealed that high experts differed significantly on goal achievement, as it relates to metacognition from the low experts. An additional follow-up procedure revealed that high experts scored significantly higher than average experts on self-awareness as it relates to metacognition. In summary, it appeared that high expert teachers performed classroom management tasks better than low expert teachers. In addition, high expert teachers displayed characteristics unique to their group. Scenarios of typical teachers at each level of expertise are included in this study

Arbetsrelaterad stress hos nyexaminerade sjuksköterskor. En litteraturstudie.

Bakgrund: Sjuksköterskeyrket kan vara krävande, stressande och kan ha en negativ inverkan på välbefinnandet hos nyexaminerade sjuksköterskor. Hög arbetsbelastning orsakar ofta trötthet och utmattning, vilket kan vara överväldigande för nyexaminerade sjuksköterskor. Att nyexaminerade sjuksköterskor upplever stress när de övergår från att vara studenter till yrkesverksamma är ett universellt problem. Syfte: Studiens syfte var att belysa arbetsrelaterad stress hos nyexaminerade sjuksköterskor. Metod: En litteraturstudie med integrerad analys genomfördes och resulterade i ett urval av elva vetenskapliga artiklar. Resultat: Efter analys och bearbetning framkom fyra teman som visar på arbetsrelaterad stress hos nyexaminerades sjuksköterskor: övergång från teori till praktik, upplevelser av arbetssituation, att vara ny i teamet och viljan att lämna arbetet. Slutsats/kliniska implikationer: Arbetsrelaterad stress hos nyexaminerade sjuksköterskor är ett problem då det kan leda till att de väljer att lämna professionen för att få en hanterbar arbetssituation