Theology, News and Notes - Vol. 05, No. 03

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Digitale Medien in der Eltern-Lehrer*innen-Kooperation

Obwohl positive Aspekte von Kooperationen zwischen Eltern und Lehrer*innen nachgewiesen sind, zeigen sich Problemfelder in der täglichen Praxis, etwa bei bestehenden sozialen Disparitäten, asymmetrischen Kommunikationsstrukturen oder Einstellungen gegenüber der anderen „Partei“. Während Lehr-/Lernprozesse in der Pandemiezeit weitgehend in den digitalen Raum überführt oder durch diesen unterstützt werden konnten, blieb eine entsprechende Substitution oder Unterstützung der Kooperationen zwischen Eltern und Lehrer*innen weitgehend aus. Dieses Forschungsdesiderat versucht dieser theoretische Beitrag zu untersuchen. Er beschreibt zunächst Indikatoren einer gelingenden Eltern-Lehrer*innen-Kooperation (ELK) und ergänzt diese anschließend mit Überlegungen, wie digitale Medien diese unterstützen können. (DIPF/Orig.

A desmaterialização de processos no âmbito do sistema de homologação de produtos fitofarmacêuticos

Este trabalho de projecto pretende exemplificar, no quadro da evolução do papel do Estado e da administração pública, o desenvolvimento de um sistema tecnológico de informação e comunicação de suporte a uma actividade de licenciamento (neste caso de produtos fitofarmacêuticos), tendo em conta os preceitos do New Public Management e do New Public Service. Procura-se exemplificar as opções a tomar no âmbito da procura de ganhos de eficiência e da melhoria de prestação de serviços ao cliente (no âmbito do NPM), bem como no aperfeiçoamento da divulgação de informação a todos os stakeholders, tendente ao seu envolvimento, no espírito do NPS. É caracterizada a gestão da informação no sistema de homologação de produtos fitofarmacêuticos em Portugal, são identificados os constrangimentos da organização e propostas medidas de resolução, designadamente através da reengenharia de procedimentos e da utilização das tecnologias de informação e comunicação, no sentido da máxima desmaterialização de um conjunto de procedimentos de licenciamento, que são exigentes dos pontos de vista técnico e legal, tanto para as entidades requerentes, como para a entidade reguladora. É abordada a questão da necessidade de interligação de sistemas de gestão documental, de gestão de fluxo de trabalho e de gestão de conteúdos, como requisito essencial, não só numa perspectiva dos procedimentos de licenciamento em causa, mas também da sua integração na actividade da organização, nomeadamente com o sistema de avaliação de desempenho organizacional e individual. Finalmente, são expostos os resultados esperados do sistema tecnológico de informação proposto, designadamente no tocante às melhorias esperadas na eficácia, na eficiência e na qualidade da governança do sistema de homologação de produtos fitofarmacêuticos. É apresentada uma análise ambiental (ou SWOT), são elencadas as metas já alcançadas e propostos desenvolvimentos futuros.This work aims at exemplifying, in the scope of the evolution of the roles of State and public administration, the development of a technological information and communication system to support a licensing activity (in this case of plant protection products), having in mind the precepts of New Public Management and New Public Service. It is intended to show the options to make in the search for efficiency gains and the amelioration of the services provided to the costumer (in the sense of NPM), as well as in the improvement of the transmission of information to all stakeholders, aimed at their involvement, in the logic of NPS. The management of information in the Portuguese plant protection system is described, constraints of the organisation identified and resolution measures proposed, namely through process reengineering and use of information and communication technologies in the direction of the maximum dematerialisation of a set of licensing procedures, that are demanding from the technical and from the legal points of view, either for the applicants or for the regulating authority. The need of interconnection of document, workflow and website management is discussed as an essential prerequisite, not only in a perspective of the licensing procedures contemplated, but also their integration in the activity of the organization, namely with the organizational and individual performance evaluation system. Finally, the expected results of the technological information system proposed are discussed, namely the improvements expected regarding efficacy, efficiency and quality of governance of the authorisation system of plant protection products. A SWOT analysis is presented, already achieved milestones are detailed and future developments proposed

Scholarship in Review 87(1)

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Millimeter wave radiation-induced magnetoresistance oscillations in the high quality GaAs/AlGaAs 2D electron system under bichromatic excitation

Millimeter wave radiation-induced magnetoresistance oscillations are examined in the GaAs/AlGaAs 2D electron system under bichromatic excitation in order to study the evolution of the oscillatory diagonal magnetoresistance, R-xx as the millimeter wave intensity is changed systematically for various frequency combinations. The results indicate that at low magnetic fields, the lower frequency millimeter wave excitation sets the observed R-xx response, as the higher frequency millimeter wave component determines the R-xx response at higher magnetic fields. The observations are qualitatively explained in terms of the order of the involved transitions. The results are also modeled using the radiation-driven electron orbit theory

Decoding odor quality and intensity in the Drosophila brain

To internally reflect the sensory environment, animals create neural maps encoding the external stimulus space. From that primary neural code relevant information has to be extracted for accurate navigation. We analyzed how different odor features such as hedonic valence and intensity are functionally integrated in the lateral horn (LH) of the vinegar fly, Drosophila melanogaster. We characterized an olfactory-processing pathway, comprised of inhibitory projection neurons (iPNs) that target the LH exclusively, at morphological, functional and behavioral levels. We demonstrate that iPNs are subdivided into two morphological groups encoding positive hedonic valence or intensity information and conveying these features into separate domains in the LH. Silencing iPNs severely diminished flies' attraction behavior. Moreover, functional imaging disclosed a LH region tuned to repulsive odors comprised exclusively of third-order neurons. We provide evidence for a feature-based map in the LH, and elucidate its role as the center for integrating behaviorally relevant olfactory information

Forecasting the impact of diabetes mellitus on tuberculosis disease incidence and mortality in India.

Background: In context of the rapidly expanding diabetes mellitus (DM) epidemic in India and slowly declining tuberculosis (TB) incidence, we aimed to estimate the past, current, and future impact of DM on TB epidemiology. Methods: An age-structured TB-DM dynamical mathematical model was developed and analyzed to assess the DM-on-TB impact. The model was calibrated using a literature review and meta-analyses. The DM-on-TB impact was analyzed using population attributable fraction metrics. Sensitivity analyses were conducted by accommodating less conservative effect sizes for the TB-DM interactions, by factoring the age-dependence of the TB-DM association, and by assuming different TB disease incidence rate trajectories. Results: In 1990, 11.4% (95% uncertainty interval (UI) = 6.3%-14.4%) of new TB disease incident cases were attributed to DM. This proportion increased to 21.9% (95% UI = 12.1%-26.4%) in 2017, and 33.3% (95% UI = 19.0%-44.1%) in 2050. Similarly, in 1990, 14.5% (95% UI = 9.5%-18.2%) of TB-related deaths were attributed to DM. This proportion increased to 28.9% (95% UI = 18.9%-34.1%) in 2017, and 42.8% (95% UI = 28.7%-53.1%) in 2050. The largest impacts originated from the effects of DM on TB disease progression and infectiousness. Sensitivity analyses suggested that the impact could be even greater. Conclusions: The burgeoning DM epidemic is predicted to become a leading driver of TB disease incidence and mortality over the coming decades. By 2050, at least one-third of TB incidence and almost half of TB mortality in India will be attributed to DM. This is likely generalizable to other Asian Pacific countries with similar TB-DM burdens. Targeting the impact of the increasing DM burden on TB control is critical to achieving the goal of TB elimination by 2050