Providing Diverse Trainees an Early and Transparent Introduction to Academic Appointment and Promotion Processes.

IntroductionThe growth in number of medical schools and increased numbers of faculty tracks have combined with evolving criteria for promotion to trigger a call for greater transparency of academic appointment and promotion processes. Most vulnerable to confusion about these changes are first-generation and diverse medical students and residents, the upstream pipeline of the academic medicine workforce. Diverse medical students have expressed diminished interest in academia because of perceived obstacles in appointment and promotion processes.MethodsThis workshop was designed to utilize didactics and career reflection exercises to help trainees learn: (1) how to define core terms related to academic appointment and promotion processes, (2) how to compare data elements for different CVs and portfolios, (3) common steps in submitting a promotion package, and (4) that they can immediately begin to document content for academic CVs, portfolios, and promotion packages.ResultsOne hundred forty-five diverse participants completed an evaluation at eight conferences across the U.S. More than 90% strongly agreed or agreed that the aforementioned objectives were met. Participants commented that the workshop was "illuminating," was "very informative," and "provided an inside look of how faculty are evaluated." Results showed an immediate impact on participants' self-reported confidence to negotiate appointment and promotion processes.DiscussionIncreases in self-rated confidence to negotiate appointment and promotion processes may help sustain trainees' interest in becoming future faculty. Further monitoring will be needed to determine if early exposure to these concepts improves probability of seeking, obtaining, and maintaining appointments

Aproximación del arte de acción a la Educación Infantil. Otras formas de interrelación en el contexto educativo

This Artistic research project was created in order to test how to put into practice approaches between Contemporary Art and University daily life. In this particular case, between Action Art and the students at the Early Childhood Education University in Alicante. The generalized lack of awareness about changes which took place in Art in the XX century, demonstrates the lack of interest on the part of students about Contemporary Art, and therefore, it is still remarkable, the distance between Art and life. Thus, as artists and teachers, the chance to carry out specific experiments is open within everyday educational life. Therefore, through Action Art a communicative interaction is possible to be achieved as an active learning process and, in such way, change the usual existing relationships in a predetermine context, creating this way, future Contemporary Art consumers and transmitters.Este trabajo de investigación artística, se crea con el propósito de experimentar sobre cómo llevar a la práctica aproximaciones entre el arte contemporáneo y la vida cotidiana universitaria. En este caso, más concretamente, entre el arte de acción y el alumnado de Educación Infantil de la Facultad de Educación de Alicante. El desconocimiento generalizado sobre los cambios acontecidos en el arte durante el siglo XX, evidencia la falta de interés del alumnado sobre el arte contemporáneo, y por consiguiente, sigue estando vigente, la separación entre arte y vida. Por ello, como artistas y docentes, abrimos la posibilidad de realizar experimentos concretos dentro de la vida cotidiana educativa, para que a través del arte de acción, se llegue a una interacción comunicativa como proceso activo de aprendizaje, y así, cambiar las relaciones habituales que se tienen en un contexto determinado, con el otro y consigo mismo, generando futuros consumidores y transmisores de arte contemporáneo

Incorporación de metodologías participativas al proceso de formación del alumnado universitario

Con el objetivo de mejorar la participación del alumnado en las aulas y la calidad del proceso enseñanza-aprendizaje, se han utilizado técnicas participativas en el desarrollo dela asignatura de Agricultura Ecológica en la Escuela de Ingeniería Técnica Agrícola. Las técnicas empleadas proceden del ámbito del Diagnóstico Rural Participativo, la Educación Social y la Animación Sociocultural. Los resultados nos han permitido concluir que, a pesar de la escasa formación previa de los alumnos en la materia, la adopción de técnicas participativas estimula al alumnado y mejora el proceso de aprendizaje y su interés por la asignatura. Es interesante seguir trabajando en la aplicación de estas metodologías en la docencia universitaria porque facilitan al alumnado la adquisición de un conocimiento holístico en la materia y habilidades para el trabajo en grupo

Disseny d'una peça de plàstic reciclat: Metodologia i aplicació

El disseny d'una peça de plàstic és un procés complex que implica el coneixement de les característiques mecàniques, elèctriques i físiques de la peça, i també dels processos de transformació. La principal tasca del dissenyador és traduir una sèrie de requeriments i idees prèvies en les dimensions i formes finals de la peça. Per aconseguir-ho de manera òptima, el dissenyador ha de fer ús, a banda de l'experiència i els coneixements propis, d'una metodologia de disseny adquada. L'objectiu d'aquest article és posar de manifest els passos a seguir quan s'aborda un disseny i la seva aplicació a una peça de plàstic fabricada en material reciclat

Diseño de una pieza de plástico reciclado: Metodología y aplicación

El mecanismo por el que se diseña una pieza de plástico es un proceso complejo que implica el conocimiento de las características mecánicas, eléctricas y físicas de la pieza y también de los procesos de transformación. La principal tarea del diseñador es traducir una serie de requerimientos e ideas previas en las direcciones y formas finales que tendrá la pieza. Para conseguirlo de forma optimizada el diseñador debe hacer uso de su experiencia, conocimientos y de una metodología de diseño adecuada. El objeto de este trabajo es poner de manifiesto los pasos a seguir cuando se aborda un diseño y la aplicación a una pieza de plástico fabricada en material reciclad

On the structure of the sets of mutually unbiased bases for N qubits

For a system of N qubits, spanning a Hilbert space of dimension d=2^N, it is known that there exists d+1 mutually unbiased bases. Different construction algorithms exist, and it is remarkable that different methods lead to sets of bases with different properties as far as separability is concerned. Here we derive the four sets of nine bases for three qubits, and show how they are unitarily related. We also briefly discuss the four-qubit case, give the entanglement structure of sixteen sets of bases,and show some of them, and their interrelations, as examples. The extension of the method to the general case of N qubits is outlined.Comment: 16 pages, 10 tables, 1 figur

Pilot plant for the capture of ammonia from the atmosphere of pig and poultry farms using gas-permeable membrane technology

Gas-permeable membrane (GPM) technology is a possible solution to reduce ammonia (NH3) emissions from livestock housing. This paper presents the results obtained with an NH3-capture prototype based on the use of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) membranes in real conditions in a gestating sow house and a free-range laying hen house, comparing them with the results obtained in controlled laboratory conditions for the same type of waste. The NH3 present in the air of the livestock housing was captured by reaction with an acidic solution flowing inside the membranes. The periods of continuous operation of the pilot plant were 232 days at the pig farm and 256 days at the poultry farm. The NH3 recovery rate at the end of those periods was 2.3 and 0.4 g TAN·m−2·d−1 in the pig and the poultry farms, respectively. The limiting factor for the capture process was the NH3 concentration in the air, with the highest recovery occurring in the most concentrated atmosphere. Differences in NH3 capture were observed between seasons and farms, with capture efficiencies of 1.62 and 0.33 g·m−2·d−1 in summer and 3.85 and 1.20 g·m−2·d−1 in winter for pig and poultry farms, respectively. The observed differences were mainly due to the higher ventilation frequency in the summer months, which resulted in a lower NH3 concentration inside the houses compared to the winter months. This is especially important when considering the real applicability of this technology. The results obtained suggest that GPM technology holds promise for limiting NH3 emissions from livestock housing with NH3 ambient concentrations close to 20 ppm or as part of manure storage facilities, given that it allows for recovery of nitrogen in a stable and concentrated solution, which can be used as a fertilizer

Quantum phases of a qutrit

We consider various approaches to treat the phases of a qutrit. Although it is possible to represent qutrits in a convenient geometrical manner by resorting to a generalization of the Poincare sphere, we argue that the appropriate way of dealing with this problem is through phase operators associated with the algebra su(3). The rather unusual properties of these phases are caused by the small dimension of the system and are explored in detail. We also examine the positive operator-valued measures that can describe the qutrit phase properties.Comment: 6 page

Optimizing omnidirectional reflection by multilayer mirrors

Periodic layered media can reflect strongly for all incident angles and polarizations in a given frequency range. Quarter-wave stacks at normal incidence are commonplace in the design of such omnidirectional reflectors. We discuss alternative design criteria to optimize these systems.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures. To be published in J. Opt. A: Pure and Applied Optic

A measurable entanglement criterion for two qubits

We propose a directly measurable criterion for the entanglement of two qubits. We compare the criterion with other criteria, and we find that for pure states, and some mixed states, it coincides with the state's concurrency. The measure can be obtained with a Bell state analyser and the ability to make general local unitary transformations. However, the procedure fails to measure the entanglement of a general mixed two-qubit state.Comment: 5 page