На граматичних вершинах

On the Ivan Vykhovanets’life and career the famous Ukrainian linguist and founder of Ukrainian school grammarians

REACHING OUT: INVOLVING USERS IN INNOVATION TASKS THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

Integrating social media into the innovation process can open up the potential for organizations to utilize the collective creativity of consumers from all over the world. The research in this paper sets out to identify how social media can facilitate innovation. By taking a design science approach this research has come up with a new method for matching innovation tasks with social media characteristics. This supports the selection of best suitable social media and can help organizations to achieve their innovation goals. At the core of the method is a honeycomb model which describes seven social media characteristics on three dimensions: audience, content and time. The method has been evaluated by using an approach called scenario walkthrough that is applied in a real-life spatial planning project. This research concludes that there is no one-size-fits-all answer to the question how social media can be of value for the innovation process. However, organizations that want to know how it can benefit their own innovation process can use the Social Media Innovation Method presented in this research as a way to provide an answer to that question, uniquely tailored to each innovation task for which social media is to be used

Innovació a l'ensenyament de la Geografia

"Los profesores de Geografía, la innovación de la enseñanza y su profesionalización: el lugar de los materiales curriculares", la tesi doctoral de Viviana Zenobi, llegida al Departament de Didàctica de la Llengua i la Literatura, i de les Ciències Socials de la UAB, pretén conèixer quin és el paper de determinats materials que s'utilitzen en l'ensenyament de la Geografia en l'elaboració de propostes innovadores dins dels currículums d'aquesta matèria. A més, també vol ajudar als organismes de gestió en la presa de decisions sobre la producció d'aquests materials millorant així la formació dels professors i incentivant aquesta innovació."Los profesores de Geografía, la innovación de la Enseñanza y su profesionalización: El lugar de los materiales curriculares", la tesis doctoral de Viviana Zenobi, leída en el Departamento de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura, y de las Ciencias Sociales de la UAB, pretende conocer cuál es el papel de determinados materiales que se utilizan en la enseñanza de la Geografía en la elaboración de propuestas innovadoras dentro de los currículos de esta materia. Además, también quiere ayudar a los organismos de gestión en la toma de decisiones sobre la producción de estos materiales mejorando así la formación de los profesores e incentivando esta innovación."Los profesores de Geografía, la innovación de la Enseñanza y su profesionalización: El lugar de los materiales curriculares", Viviana Zenobi's thesis, read at the Department of Language and Literature education, and Social Sciences education at the UAB, pretends a better understanding of the role of certain teaching materials used in geography in the development of innovative curricula in this area. In addition, this thesis also attempts to help management agencies in the decision making on the production of these materials, improving teacher's training and encouraging this innovation

Aerosolized Amiloride for the Treatment of Lung Disease in Cystic Fibrosis

To the Editor: The April 26 issue of the Journal presented encouraging results by Knowles et al. regarding the beneficial effects of aerosolized amiloride in the treatment of cystic fibrosis.1 The introduction and discussion sections of this article described the function of amiloride as an inhibitor of sodium transport in the airway epithelium, and the authors suggested that the beneficial effects observed were exerted “at least in part by increasing the clearance of secretions.” Although the results of this investigation were promising in terms of the improvement in the decline of forced vital capacity in patients with cystic fibrosis, this

The Target Silicon Detector for the FOCUS Spectrometer

We describe a silicon microstrip detector interleaved with segments of a beryllium oxide target which was used in the FOCUS photoproduction experiment at Fermilab. The detector was designed to improve the vertex resolution and to enhance the reconstruction efficiency of short-lived charm particles.Comment: 18 pages, 14 figure