Understanding Others: How Cultural Awareness Affects Teaching Practices

There are many factors that can affect a teacher’s classroom practices. The increase in awareness of diversity in classrooms, in recent years, has brought up the importance of assessing teachers’ level of cultural understanding. In this paper, the effect of cultural awareness on a student teacher’s classroom practices in a third grade general education classroom and a learning support classroom. The data for this self-study was conduct by analyzing daily journal entries that chronicled how teaching practices were impacted by awareness of the cultural diversity in the classroom. Four codes were used to organize the data taken from the journal entries. The four codes that were used were the use of visuals, use of gestures, use of native language, and understanding of others’ cultures. These four codes describe how a teacher’s classroom practices were affected by their own understanding of their students’ cultural identities

Eeuwig edict, 1600-2011: op weg naar meer rechtszekerheid

This booklet is the catalogue of an exhibition held at the Belgian State Archives and focusing on the Edictum Perpetuum of the Archdukes. Subjects are the genesis of this legislative act, it's publication and fame and it's part in the boosting role of written documents in law and justice administration

Edit perpétuel: vers plus de sécurité juridique: 1611-2011

This booklet is the catalogue of an exhibition held at the Belgian State Archives and focusing on the Edictum Perpetuum of the Archdukes. Subjects are the genesis of this legislative act, it's publication and fame and it's part in the boosting role of written documents in law and justice administration

Four wave mixing oscillation in a semiconductor microcavity: Generation of two correlated polariton populations

We demonstrate a novel kind of polariton four wave mixing oscillation. Two pump polaritons scatter towards final states that emit two beams of equal intensity, separated both spatially and in polarization with respect to the pumps. The measurement of the intensity fluctuations of the emitted light demonstrates that the final states are strongly correlated.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures In this strongly revised version several new experimental data are adde

Structural health monitoring of an innovative timber building

A main focus in timber construction research is the development of innovative, sustainable and reliable structures. In order to determine the long-term structural behaviour of these novel structures, structural health monitoring is a valuable tool. In the past two years an innovative timber-hybrid pilot building has been conceived, designed and realized at ETH Zürich. The building contains four innovative structural systems, a post-tensioned timber frame, two timber-concrete hybrid floor systems using beech LVL, and a biaxial pure timber floor in beech wood. In order to fully understand the combined structural behaviour of these innovative systems an extensive monitoring system was set up. The dense sensor network was implemented along with the construction progress, in order to also quantify the effects of important construction stages on the structural behaviour (addition of significant loads, addition of stiffening elements, extreme changes in environmental climate, etc.). The installed setup includes 16 load cells, measuring the changes in the post-tension force in the frame, absolute deformation measurements, temperature and relative humidity sensors, as well as measurements of the moisture content of timber. The monitoring campaign is planned to be continued for several years beyond the completion of construction, in order to quantify the long-term behaviour during the use phase of the building

Generalized Spherical Principal Component Analysis

Outliers contaminating data sets are a challenge to statistical estimators. Even a small fraction of outlying observations can heavily influence most classical statistical methods. In this paper we propose generalized spherical principal component analysis, a new robust version of principal component analysis that is based on the generalized spatial sign covariance matrix. Supporting theoretical properties of the proposed method including influence functions, breakdown values and asymptotic efficiencies are studied, and a simulation study is conducted to compare our new method to existing methods. We also propose an adjustment of the generalized spatial sign covariance matrix to achieve better Fisher consistency properties. We illustrate that generalized spherical principal component analysis, depending on a chosen radial function, has both great robustness and efficiency properties in addition to a low computational cost

Propuesta para la implementación de un sistema de costos ABC en el centro de distribución (CEDI) Funza de la Cooperativa Colanta

46 Páginas.Se plantea un modelo de costeo basado en actividades (ABC), para el centro de distribución (CEDI), Funza, Cundinamarca de la cooperativa Colanta; se presenta una herramienta en Excel para la consolidación de la información de dicho modelo. La herramienta permite ingresar los costos directos e indirectos y su participación en cada una de las actividades; el modelo genera como resultados datos sobre los costos totales de cada actividad y consolida los mismos por tipología de cliente