ESTUDO DE FERRAMENTAS DE SOFTWARE LIVRE PARA ENSINO À DISTÂNCIA

Este artigo trata de um estudo de ferramentas de software livre para ensino à distância, que compõem os Ambientes Virtuais de Aprendizagem (AVA). Pretendemos com esse artigo mostrar o estudo feito com os AVA´s mais utilizados no Brasil e que possuem seu código aberto. Pois a utilização de software de código aberto ou livre no Brasil tem aumentado consideravelmente nesse século, agregando valor principalmente no ensino à distância nas instituições de ensino, tanto públicas quanto privadas. O critério utilizado na escolha das ferramentas de EAD foi ter seu código fonte aberto e sua escala de uso em termos de quantidade de instalações no Brasil. Como resultado obtivemos a coleta de quatro AVA´s: Amadeus, ATutor, Moodle e Teleduc. Sendo que o mais utilizado no Brasil e no mundo é o Moodle. Com isso, gostaríamos de nortear possíveis estudos de escolhas de ferramentas de ensino à distância de fácil acesso e implantação, com custos reduzidos

Copyright and Political Campaigns: How Much Control Should a Copyright Owner Have Over the Use of Their Musical Work in a Political Campaign

Music often tells a powerful story, driving emotional connections. As a result, politicians rely on music in every aspect of their political campaigns from political advertisements to campaign rallies. There is a long history of such political uses of music, often without an artist’s permission. While most disputes over such uses have ended in either settlement or the campaign stopping use of the infringed work, former President Donald Trump’s unauthorized use of music on the campaign trail sparked countless artist complaints. The complaining musicians feared any implication that they endorsed Trump and did not want any association with a political figure who they did not support. Politicians and campaigns argue their right to use copyrighted works for political purposes is fair use, they are protected by the First Amendment, or that they are the owner of a valid license in a particular work through a blanket license. Recently, in Grant v. Trump, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York denied Trump’s motion to dismiss copyright infringement, finding Trump’s use of a song in his campaign advertisement did not constitute fair use. Politician’s use of a song must not constitute fair use when no change is made to the work, and politicians must ask for permission when using a copyrighted work. This comment will analyze the recent ruling in Grant v. Trump declining dismissal of a copyright infringement claim based on fair use, consider constitutional rights in copyright, discuss the role music has played in political campaigns and recent suits on the matter, and examine ways to protect copyright owners

Bridging the divide

Party systems research has proceeded along two parallel lines of inquiry, one predominantly “qualitative” and the other “quantitative.” This article attempts to bridge this divide in two ways. First, by showing that qualitative information can be valuable in the construction of quantitative measures. Second, by showing that the results from applying theoretically- sensitive measurement tools can be useful for qualitative classification. These analyses are performed using an original dataset of party system changes in Sub-Saharan Africa

Current and future friends of the earth: assessing cross-national theories of environmental attitudes

Empirical studies of public opinion on environmental protection have typically been grounded in Inglehart’s post-materialism thesis, proposing that societal affluence encourages materially-sated publics to look beyond their interests and value the environment. These studies are generally conducted within, or at best across, Western, democratic, industrialized countries. Absence of truly cross-cultural research means the theory’s limitations have gone undetected. This article draws on an exceptionally broad dataset—pooling cross-sectional survey data from 80 countries, each sampled at up to three different points over 15 years—to investigate environmental attitudes. We find that post-materialism provides little account of pro-environment attitudes across diverse cultures, and a far from adequate explanation even in the affluent West. We suggest that unique domestic interests, more than broad value systems, are driving emerging global trends in environmental attitudes. The environment’s future champions may be the far from ‘post-material’ citizens of those developing nations most at risk of real material harm from climate change and environmental degradation

Bridging the divide

Party systems research has proceeded along two parallel lines of inquiry, one predominantly “qualitative” and the other “quantitative.” This article attempts to bridge this divide in two ways. First, by showing that qualitative information can be valuable in the construction of quantitative measures. Second, by showing that the results from applying theoretically- sensitive measurement tools can be useful for qualitative classification. These analyses are performed using an original dataset of party system changes in Sub-Saharan Africa

Risks faced by Agrobank Berhad in managing the business of banking / Siti Norain Mat Zim

Risk is an integral part of business. Risk is any events or possibility of an event which can impair corporate earnings or cash flow over short, medium or long term horizon. The risk will affect an organization performance nowadays or in the future. All organizations deal with risks, though the nature and magnitude may differ for each type of organization. They act as financial intermediaries in any economic system. Since they help in credit creation by means of loans and advances, they faced many risk. This risk may affect the Agrobank performance and customer convenience towards it. According to this problem, this study was done, where the main purpose is to observed whether the risk manage by Agrobank has relationship with risk occurred in that organization. This study was conducted at Agrobank Berhad. Four variables were developed which are credit risk, market risk, operational risk and funding risk. From the finding, the researcher had made observation at the company about the risk management practices with theory. Researcher also finds the gap between bank exercises with theory related. For recommendation, organization should work together with the organization to conduct the solutions and risk mitigate with bank to get a better performance and increase the bank qualities