Integrating Community Services and Research: A Livelihood Needs Assessment at the Countryside of the Philippines

This study assessed the integration of community services and research through the livelihood needs assessment of a countryside in the Philippines particularly Sitio Malanas, Lettac Sur, Santol, La Union as basis of the actions in addressing the needs.  Specifically, the livelihood situation and needs were determined and proposed actions for the improvement of the livelihood situation of the community.  Thirty five members of the community participated in the research.  A focused group discussion was utilized in gathering the data.  The residents of the community were found to be engaged in farming, sold agricultural products, and had only three variety stores getting its supplies from other places. They encountered livelihood problems mostly related to marketing and transportation.  They wanted additional livelihood program, to improve sales, and be provided with seminar-workshops on business-related activities.  The findings show that there is a need for a program to improve their livelihood needs.  It is recommended that actions have to be taken for the improvement of the livelihood situation of the community in cooperation with the local government unit and the school extending relevant community services based on research. Keywords: Integrating community services and research, livelihood situation, livelihood needs, proposed action

Fair Coexistence of Scheduled and Random Access Wireless Networks: Unlicensed LTE/WiFi

We study the fair coexistence of scheduled and random access transmitters sharing the same frequency channel. Interest in coexistence is topical due to the need for emerging unlicensed LTE technologies to coexist fairly with WiFi. However, this interest is not confined to LTE/WiFi as coexistence is likely to become increasingly commonplace in IoT networks and beyond 5G. In this article we show that mixing scheduled and random access incurs and inherent throughput/delay cost, the cost of heterogeneity. We derive the joint proportional fair rate allocation, which casts useful light on current LTE/WiFi discussions. We present experimental results on inter-technology detection and consider the impact of imperfect carrier sensing.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures, journa

Analysis of a public repository for the study of automatic fall detection algorithms

The use of publicly available repositories containing movement traces of real or experimental subjects is a key aspect to define an evaluation framework that allows a systematic assessment of wearable fall detection systems. This papers presents a detailed analysis of a public dataset of traces which employed five sensing points to characterize the user’s mobility during the execution of ADLs (Activities of Daily Living) and emulated falls. The analysis is aimed at analysing two main factors: the importance of the election of the position of the sensor and the possible impact of the user’s personal features on the statistical characterization of the movements. Results reveal the importance of the nature of the ADL for the effectiveness of the discrimination of the falls.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Root Infinitives in Child L2 Spanish

This thesis aims to develop an understanding of the Root Infinitive (RI) phenomenon in child L2 Spanish. Previous research has investigated this phenomenon in Spanish first language acquisition and in adult L2 Spanish, but much less attention has been given to this phenomenon in children learning Spanish as a second language. This thesis focuses on whether children learning Spanish as a second language go through a RI stage. It also examines which morphological forms and types of predicates appear in the RI stage of these children. The data for this study were collected via natural production in oral and written form, using a wordless book by Mercer Mayer: A BOY, A DOG and A FROG. There were 30 child subjects, all native speakers of English, who received Spanish immersion instruction at the Missoula International School in Missoula, Montana. As hypothesized, the results of this study suggest that children learning Spanish as a second language go through a RI stage. The RI stage for child L2 Spanish was found to be closely related to the RI stage in LI Spanish. The RI forms in child L2 Spanish appear mainly as bare stems and overgeneralizations. Few morphological infinitives exist in the production of these children. The quantitative results show that the RIs forms manifest primarily with event-denoting predicates. The presence of the RI stage in child L2 Spanish raises fundamental questions about the acquisition of verbal morphology. One question is whether the RI stage can be described as a natural development attributed to cognitive processes, transfer from LI English or the type of instruction. The results of this study suggest three stages in the acquisition of verbal morphology in child L2 Spanish

La modelización espacial de las zonas litorales, una herramienta para el análisis de la sostenibilidad en las zonas costeras. Aplicación a la zona litoral del Mar Menor.

El artículo analiza la importancia de disponer de sistemas de representación y modelización de las zonas costeras y la franja litoral, que sean consistentes con los modelos terrestres y que permitan analizar con mayor rigor los efectos que la actividad humana genera en el medio marino. La investigación se ha centrado en el desarrollo de un prototipo de visualizador tridimensional del medio marino para el área de la Reserva Marina de Cabo de Palos-Islas Hormigas en el Mar Menor

Ontology of knowledge from the inter dialogic stage between don Simón Rodríguez and José Martí

PublishedThe commemoration of the birth of Simon Rodriguez (October 28) “THE MASTER OF LIFE”, is presented as an ideal situation in which, Simon Rodri-guez and Jose Marti, are invited to talk to the manner of a Platonic dialogue, in a pedagogical humanistic dialogue, under the dynamic view of knowledge with a variety of approaches fleeing strategies and absolute mechanisms that somehow involves our educational present

Desarrollo Productivo Familiar y Comunitario desde la Unión de Campesinos Organizados en las Cuencas de San Dionisio (UCOSD), en la Comunidad Los Limones durante el año 2016

El presente seminario tiene como tema, El desarrollo comunitario y familiar desde la Unión de Campesinos Organizados de la Cuenca de San Dionisio (UCOSD) durante el año 2016, en la comunidad: Los Limones. Su principal objetivo es dar respuestas a los problemas organizativo, por los cuales atraviesa la UCOSD y sus comunidades asociadas, la restauración de suelo a través del proyecto ASA escuelas de campo ECAS dirigidas por el programa de CRS en conjunto con ayuda de la UNAN. En el proceso investigativo se empleó la metodología de investigación acción participativa (IAP). Para desarrollar cada objetivos los socios fueron participantes de asamblea comunitaria, macro encuentros, donde expresaban sus necesidades a nivel comunitario y nivel grupal El estudio se realizó en dos fases, la primera Identificar las transformaciones en el desarrollo a escala humana propuesta por Max-Neef, la segunda etapa facilitar escuelas de campo del proyecto ASA (Agricultura, Suelo y Agua). Se obtuvo que la UCOSD estar contribuyendo al desarrollo comunitario y productivo de cada socio al incorpóralos a este proceso investigativo, donde se reconoce las carencias y potencialidades de la comunidad. El propósito está en reconocer que la UCOSD está atravesando problemas organizativo, de confianza y comunicación. Se identificaron los problemas en las parcelas de 10 productores que son participes del proyecto ASA, escuelas de campo ECAS. En conclusión la investigación realizada servirá para dar a conocer las partes más débiles y vulnerables que atraviesa la UCOSD y en que se debe mejorar tanto en la parte organizativa y las técnicas para cultivar la tierra. Palabras claves: Desarrollo a escala humana, Investigación de Acción Participativa, Escuelas de Camp