LEADS WP 3 WORKSHOP SUMMARY: BEST PRACTICES FOR ALIGNING HIGHER EDUCATION CURRICULA TO ADS DYNAMIC DEMAND

The Leading European Advanced Digital Skills (LEADS) program aims to provide insights into the changing advanced digital skills (ADS) demands within a dynamic technological development context. It also aims to provide insights, in the context of current digital transformation, on how best to equip skills suppliers (education and training) with the knowledge, guidance and best practices to shape the future of European ADS talent. WP 3: “Ecosystem Formation” aims to iteratively develop a series of practical guidelines for addressing the current and future supply of ADS whilst addressing the challenges of working to achieve the optimum contexts

La España minera y metalúrgica

Escuela Especial de Ingenieros de Minas: La escuela desde su creació

Libro de Actas del VI Congreso de estudiantes universitarios de Ciencia, Tecnología e Ingeniería Agronómica

Compendio de los trabajos presentados en el VI Congreso de estudiantes universitarios que organiza la Escuela de Agrónomo

Libro de Actas del IX Congreso de estudiantes universitarios de Ciencia, Tecnología e Ingeniería Agronómica

Compendio de 26 trabajos presentados por estudiantes de la ETSIAAB

Industriales Research Meeting 2016

Industriales Research Meeting 2016 (IRM16) is an event to show the research activities at the School of Industrial Engineering (ETSII) of the Technical University of Madrid (UPM). The main purpose of this event is to present the ongoing research carried out by professors and researchers of the Institutes, Research Centres, Research Groups and Departments of this School, through funded research projects in close collaboration with public and private institutions and companies, some of them from IBEX-35. This book contains the 138 posters presented from different branches of engineering such as: acoustic, aerospace, bioengineering, chemical, electrical, electronics, automation, energy, environmental, management and industrial organization, laser technology and industrial organization, laser technology and applications, materials, mathematics, statistics, mechanics, manufacturing, structures, nuclear technology, seismic, vehicles and railways

Proyectos Fin de Carrera en Cooperación para el Desarrollo. Actas de las Jornadas. Madrid 11 y 12 de Junio 2008.

Las Jornadas sobre Proyectos Fin de Carrera en cooperación para el desarrollo, celebradas los días 10 y 11 de Junio en la ETSI de Minas de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), reunieron a estudiantes y profesores universitarios, representantes de las contrapartes de los proyectos y de las oficinas de cooperación de las universidades, para compartir experiencias y lecciones aprendidas en la realización de proyectos fin de carrera (PFC) en contextos de cooperación para el desarrollo. Estas actas recogen sus aportaciones, desde los marcos teóricos que dan sentido a estas actividades, hasta las experiencias concretas de PFC realizados en Mozambique, Panamá, Kenia, El Salvador, Tanzania, Honduras… y España. En ellas se refleja la complejidad de este tipo de actividad, pues ha de adaptarse a los modos y contextos de trabajo en cooperación para el desarrollo y los resultados han de ser pertinentes para sus objetivos, y la necesidad de una alta dosis de ilusión y compromiso personal e institucional. La experiencia muestra que este esfuerzo es compensado con creces por los resultados obtenidos

The Distinctive Effects of Glucose-Derived Carbon on the Performance of Ni-Based Catalysts in Methane Dry Reforming

International audienceThis study aimed to investigate the effect of carbon derived from glucose (C) on the physicochemical characteristics and catalytic activity of Ni, supported over SiO2, ZSM-5, and TiO2 in methane dry reforming. Among the Ni catalysts without C, Ni/SiO2 exhibited the highest CH4-CO2 conversion and stability at all experimented temperatures. On the other hand, the C-incorporated catalysts prepared by glucose impregnation, followed by pyrolysis, showed dissimilar performances. C improved the stability of Ni/SiO2 in the reforming at 650 °C and 750 °C and increased the CH4 and CO2 conversion to the level close to the thermodynamic equilibrium at 850 °C. However, this element did not substantially affect the activity of Ni/ZSM-5 and exerted a retarding effect on Ni/TiO2. Characterizations with H2-TPD, XRD, EXAFS, and STEM-EDS revealed that the different influences of C by the supports were attributed to the extent of metal dispersion and metal-support interaction

Role Conflict and Coping Behaviour of Married Working Women

ABSTRAK Penyelidikan ini mengkaji konflik di antara peranan keija dan keluarga bagi wanita yang telah berkahwin, serta strategi pengurusan konflik tersebut. Data dari 82 wanita profesional dari enam institut penyelidikan menunjukkan wanita-wanita ini mengalami konflik di antara peranan keija dan keluarga dengan intensiti yang berbeza, dalam usaha untuk memenuhi tuntutan setiap peranan. Mereka mengurangkan konflik dengan mengguna strategi reaktif serta mengubah sikap dan persepsi diri terhadap tuntutan peranan. Kedua-dua strategi ini lebih selalu digunakan berbanding dengan strategi pendefinisian semula peranan secara struktur yang melibatkan pengubahan harapan ahli-ahli dalam set peranan seperti ahli keluarga, rakan-rakan dan ketua di tempat keija, dan masyarakat. Implikasi hasil kajian terhadap wanita yang berkeija serta cadangan penyelidikan selanjutnya dibincangkan. ABSTRACT This study examined the conflict that married women experienced between work and family roles, and analysed the coping behaviour. Data from 82 professional women from six research institutes revealed that married women experienced work-family conflict with varying intensities in trying to meet the expectations of work and family roles. In managing the work-family conflict, the women tended to cope through reactive role behaviour, and personal role redefinition by changing their own attitudes and perceptions of role expectations. These two strategies were more frequently adopted than structural role redefinition, which entails changing the expectation of members in the role set such as family members, colleagues and leaders at the work place, and society. Implications of these findings for working women and suggestions for further research are discussed. IN T R O D U C T IO N M arried working w om en are faced with problem s in perform ing different roles, such as the wife, m other, hom em aker an d em ployee roles. T he m ajor role problem a wom an faces is the conflict arising from m ultiple roles. A ccording to Katz and Khan (1978), the fact th at m ultiple roles operate at the same tim e should lead to greater role conflict. T he expectations su rro u n d in g any o f these roles can g en erate in te rro le conflict w hen they involve pressures to d o m in ate the tim e o f the focal person an d in terfere with fulfilling the expectations associated with the o th e r roles. Tim e utilisation studies have shown that m arried wom en spend substantial am ounts o f their time perform ing m ultiple roles (H ing 1984; Airmy et a l 1991; A m inah and N arim ah 1992; Van Der Lippe et a l 1992). Also, the role theory postulates that multiple roles can lead to interrole conflict and, in turn to symptoms of strain (Katz and Khan 1978). W om en in m ultiple role situations hence n eed to reduce the am ount o f conflict they experience by using coping strategies. Many researchers have studied role conflict (H olahan and G ilbert 1979; Pleck et a l 1980; Beutell & G reenhaus 1983; K oppelm an et a l 1983; Cook and Rousseau 1984; G ood et al 1990; Duxbury a n d Higgins, 1991; G utek et a l 1991; Higgins and Duxbury 1992), and coping behaviour (Hall 1972; Beutell and G reenhaus 1983; Gray 1983; A lpert and C ubertson 1987; Long 1989; Skinner and M cCubbin 1991), especially focusing on w om en in W estern cultures. Am inah Ahm ad In Malaysia, with th e in crease in th e percentage of women entering the work force, from 36.3% in 1970 to 46.8% in 1990 (Siti R o h a n i 1 9 9 3 ), a n d th e ir a tta c h m e n t to em ploym ent becom ing m uch m ore perm anent, it is p e r tin e n t th a t th e d iv e rs ifie d ro le expectations and coping strategies u n d ertak en by women be explored empirically. A study of role conflict am ong m arried w orking w om en in Malaysia by Fatim ah (1985) suggested the need for fu rth er studies on work-family conflict an d coping behaviour o f m arried w orking women. Work-family conflict, as defined by Kahn et a l (1964), is a form of interrole conflict in which the role pressures from the work and family dom ains are mutually incom patible in some respects. Each role within the family and work environm ent imposes dem ands requiring time, energy and com m itm ent. Hall (1972) has id en tified th re e types o f copin g b eh av io u r fo r d ealin g with in te rro le conflict. T he th re e types o f c o p in g b eh av io u r w ere lo g ic a lly d e riv e d fro m th r e e ro le co m p o n e n ts by Levinson (1 9 5 9 )-stu ctu rally im posed dem an d s, p erso n al role c o n c e p tio n an d role b ehaviour. Type I co p in g (stru ctu ral role re d e fin itio n ) innvolves an active a tte m p t to deal directly with role sen d ers a n d lessen the conflict by m u tu al a g re e m e n t on a new set o f ex p ectatio n s. O n e way o f ch an g in g stru ctu ral d em an d s w ould be to relo cate an d share o n e 's role tasks (clean in g , w ashing, an d child care, for ex am p le). Type II coping (personal role redefinition) involves ch an g in g o n e 's p ersonal c o n cep t o f role d em ands received from o thers. It entails c h an g in g th e e x p e c ta tio n s them selves. An exam ple is setting priorities am o n g an d w ithin roles, b eing sure th at certain dem an d s are always m et (for exam ple, the needs o f sick c h ild re n ), while o th ers have lower priority (such as d usting fu rn itu re ). Type III coping (reactive role behaviour) entails attem pting to improve the quality o f role perform ance with no attem pt to change the structural or personal definition o f o n e 's roles. Implicit in coping through role behaviour is the assu m p tio n th a t o n e 's ro le d e m a n d s a re unchangeable and that the p erso n 's main task is to find ways to m eet them; this coping strategy involves a passive or reactive orientation toward o n e 's roles. Recognising that the dem ands of m ultiple roles result in role conflict and, in turn, strain, and the need to adopt certain coping strategies to m anage the conflict, this study investigated the intensity of work-family conflict experienced by m arried working women and analysed their coping behaviour using H all's (1972) m odel of coping with role conflict. M ETHOD Subjects and Procedure Subjects in this study were women who (a) were m arried and living with their husbands; (b) had at least on e child; an d (c) w ere full-tim e researchers by occupation or officers responsible for research an d are em ployed in research institutions. These criteria were established to ensure that the women in the sam ple had quite similar responsibilities in perform ing family and w ork ro le s. O n e h u n d r e d a n d sixty-five professional women m eeting these criteria from six selected research institutions were m ailed questionnaires to com plete and return envelopes. O f the 165 m ailed q u estio n n aires 82 were retu rn ed within a period of nine weeks. T he women in the sam ple averaged 38.8 years o f age (SD = 5.50). T here was an average o f 2.9 (SD = 1.46) children in the family and an average of 2.7 (SD -1.38) children living at h o m e . S e v en ty -n in e o f th e w o m en w ere researchers by occupation while th ree were m edical officers who were also engaged in research work. T he majority of the w om en had M aster's (59.3%) and Ph.D. and M.D./M.B.B.S (24.7% ) degrees; only 16.0% o f th em had Bachelor's degree. They earn ed an average gross incom e of RM3241.00 p er m onth. Those who had children below four years old constituted 46.4%. Fifty seven percent of the women reported that they had dom estic helpers. A m ong those who had dom estic helpers, a m ajority (85.1%) had full-time helpers. W om en who sent their children to child-care centres constituted 24.1%. Instruments C onflict intensity was m easured using the interrole conflict scale by Pleck et a l 1980. This scale consists of eight items based on the three most prevalent aspects of work-family conflict, namely excessive work time, schedule conflicts, and fatigue or irritability. T he response options for the questions o r items were five-point scales ranging from strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (5). T he reliability coefficient (alpha) for this work-family conflict scale was 0.90. Coping was assessed using an adapted version of role-coping inventory by Hall and Hall (1979). This inventory has 22 coping strategies o r items fo r th re e types o f c o p in g -s tr u c tu r a l ro le redefinition (Type I), personal role redefinition (Type II) and reactive role behaviour (Type III). T he response options for the items were fivepoint scales ranging from never (1) to nearly all the tim e (5). O ne o f the items for Type II coping was deleted since it was in ap p ro p riate to the subjects based on co n te n t validation. T he item deleted was "Elim inate certain roles (e.g., deciding to stop w orking)". A nother item was deleted from the Type III coping scale because of lack o f variance and low item-total correlation b a se d o n th e re lia b ility te st via in te r n a l consistency. T he item d eleted was "Do n o t attem pt to cope with role dem ands and conflicts. Let role conflicts take care o f themselves". T he inventory for this presen t study consisted o f 20 items, 12 items for Type I, six item s for Type II and two items for Type III coping. T he reliability coefficient (alpha) for Type I coping scale was 0.69, Type II 0.77 an d Type III 0.78. W ithin the Type II coping (personal role redefinition), the women tended to rep o rt most frequently the use of the strategy "Establish priorities am ong your different roles, so that you are sure the most im portant activities are d o n e " (M = 4.1; SD = 0.74) ( T he women reported frequent use o f both the strategies for Type III coping (reactive role beh av io u r) a lth o u g h "Plan, sc h e d u le , an d organise carefully" (M = 4.0; SD = 0.85) was m ore frequently used than "W ork hard to m eet all role dem ands. Devote m ore tim e and energy so you can do everything expected o f you" (M = 3.8; SD = 0.9) ( In m anaging the work-family conflict, overall, the Type III coping (reactive role behaviour) with a m ean o f 3.9 (SD = 0.78) was m ost frequently used by the women whereas the least frequently used strategy was the Type I coping (structural role redefinition) with a m ean o f 2.5 (SD = 0.45) ( DISCUSSION Role theory pred icts th a t th e e x p ec tatio n s surrounding each of the different roles a person perform s can generate interrole conflict when 1978) since each of these roles imposes dem ands requiring time, energy, and com m itm ent. The fact that women in this study experienced work-family conflict with varying intensities as they perform ed different roles as a wife, m other, hom em aker and employee are supportive of the role theory and findings of studies by B eutell a n d G re e n h a u s (1983), A lthough Type III coping is th o u g h t to be less effective (Hall 1972) and less successful (Beutell and G reenhouse 1983), the attem pt to be a "superm o th er" appears to be a com m on strategy am ong m arried women with relatively m o re tr a d itio n a l a ttitu d e s (B e u te ll a n d G reenhaus 1983). Elman and G ilbert (1984) reported that reactive role behaviour, which involved working m ore efficiently and planning their time m ore carefully with the idea o f trying to fit everything in, was the most highly endorsed coping strategy by the professional women in their study. The second most frequently adopted coping type was Type III c o p in g (p e rs o n a l ro le redefinition). Type II coping involves changing the p e rso n 's perceptions o f his or h e r role dem ands rath er than attem pting to change the environm ent. In o th e r words, the wom en in this study tended not to redefine the expectations held by other people and tended not to negotiate a new set of expectations from their role senders as would be the case with Type I coping. Instead, the women tried to change the perceived role by seeing their own behaviour or the external expectations in a different light. By doing so, they attem pted to reduce the am ount o f conflict actually experienced. Specific exam ples o f Type II coping strategies commonly used by the women in this study included establishing priorities, p artitio n in g a n d sep aratin g roles, re d u c in g standards o r choosing n o t to m eet certain role dem ands, changing attitudes tow ard certain roles and ro tating atten tio n from one role to an o th er. C om prom ising as a way o f red u cin g strain and m aking the lifestyle m anageable is a com m on behavioural response (S kinner and M cC ubbin 1991). D o m estic o v e rlo a d , fo r instance, may be m anaged th ro u g h com prom ise by deliberately lowering standards. An individual com prom ises h o u sehold standards because o f the constraints o f tim e and energy to achieve them (H olm strom 1973). Type I coping (structural role redefinition) was the least frequently adopted coping type am ong the women. It involves redefining the expectations held by o th er people so th at fewer conflicting dem ands are placed up o n the person and a new set o f role behaviours is expected from that person by m em bers of the role set. Such coping requires com m unicating with o n e 's role senders an d n eg o tiatin g a new set o f expectations which will be mutually agreed upon. This m eans ch an g in g the received role as opposed to changing the perceived role alone, as would be the case with Type II coping. The lack of help obtained from family m em bers in red u cin g work loads an d resolving conflict suggests that the redistribution o f roles within the family to m atch increased role responsibilities outside the hom e has not been widely practised. T he less freq u en t use o f Type I coping could, to a certain extent, be due to the notion that Type I coping seems m ore directly related to long-term conflict reduction and satisfaction th a n Type II o r T ype III c o p in g . Acknowledging that m arried working women experience work-family conflict, it it p e rtin e n t that employers an d policy m akers pay special attention to improve the welfare of em ployees through im proved facilities and su p p o rt services such as day-care on site, flex-time an d 90-day m aternity leave, to help them cope with th eir m ultiple roles. Besides em ployers, policy makers, extension p lan n ers a n d family d ev elo p m en t practitioners an d educators, husbands also have a role to play since spousal su p p o rt is a crucial variable for the reduction o f interrole conflict for working w om en (H olahan and G ilbert 1979). It is im portant that researchers concerned with the problem s o f m arried career women avoid seeing the problem o f work in isolation from the total life space o f women. A nother stream o f research th a t w arrants c o n tin u e d investigation is that of role conflict experienced by o th er groups of working wom en and their coping behaviour, and how organisations can facilitate the developm ent o f individual coping strategies through hum an resource developm ent program m es. F u rther research concerning workfamily conflict needs to address the m anipulation o f organisational policies to reduce the strain p roduced by dual roles o f the hom e and work environm ents. Researchers need to investigate adjustm ents m ade by organisadons which actually reduce the stresses arising from the m utual dem ands of the work and family dom ains. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Beekeeping : Malaysia Research and Development (1987-1990)

Beekeeping, a traditional subsistence industry, integrates well in the culture of the rural folk in Malaysia. This is seen by the use of honey in traditional medicines, their folklore on bees (e.g. "The Tiger and the Gong of Prophet Solomon"}, the incantations relating to the harvesting of honey from wild bees, the diverse methods employed in the honey-hunting of the Giant Honey bee (A. dorsata) and the regious belief in the virtues of honey. Malaysia imports most of its honey from Australia, China and U.S.A. Local honey supply from honey-hunting does not meet local demand and fetches premium prices at the market as compared to imported treated pure foreign honey. Local honey is preferred to foreign honey because of the local taste preference. Therefore, there is a tremendous market tor local honey production in Malaysia. Despite the availability of abundant species of nectar and pollen floral sources, the full potential of modern beekeeping has yet to be realised. Beekeeping, if promoted, would enable the rural poors to participate and supplement their income because it requires small investment of time and money, the operation and labour scale is flexible, and even the landless can raise bees. Honeybees are considered the most accessible microlivestock in coconut small-holdings. Feral colonies of A. cerana are easily found in coconut tree trunks, outhouses, coconut kilns and dwellings in these areas. They are there readily to be hived into boxes for rearing which otherwise are left unattended. The fact that there are several indigenous species of honeybees (A. cerana, A. dorsata and A. florea) in Malaysia, augers well for the beekeeping industry to flourish in Malaysia

BCIAUT-P300: A Multi-Session and Multi-Subject Benchmark Dataset on Autism for P300-Based Brain-Computer-Interfaces

There is a lack of multi-session P300 datasets for Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI). Publicly available datasets are usually limited by small number of participants with few BCI sessions. In this sense, the lack of large, comprehensive datasets with various individuals and multiple sessions has limited advances in the development of more effective data processing and analysis methods for BCI systems. This is particularly evident to explore the feasibility of deep learning methods that require large datasets. Here we present the BCIAUT-P300 dataset, containing 15 autism spectrum disorder individuals undergoing 7 sessions of P300-based BCI joint-attention training, for a total of 105 sessions. The dataset was used for the 2019 IFMBE Scientific Challenge organized during MEDICON 2019 where, in two phases, teams from all over the world tried to achieve the best possible object-detection accuracy based on the P300 signals. This paper presents the characteristics of the dataset and the approaches followed by the 9 finalist teams during the competition. The winner obtained an average accuracy of 92.3% with a convolutional neural network based on EEGNet. The dataset is now publicly released and stands as a benchmark for future P300-based BCI algorithms based on multiple session data