Recognizing aboriginal oral tradition through blended learning: a success story

The Aboriginal Health and Community Administration Program (AHCAP) is a certificate program developed through the partnership of the Institute for Aboriginal Health and Continuing Studies at the University of British Columbia. This paper examines factors in the program’s blended design and development which have contributed to the exceptionally high completion rate and the strongly positive responses and outcomes for widely diverse learner cohorts. Factors which appear to contribute to the program success include: 1) a holistic approach compatible with traditional Aboriginal oral traditions of teaching and learning; 2) a university partnership that taps into unique networks and capacities; 3) incorporating the 4 R’s of Aboriginal education: relevance, reciprocity, respect and responsibility generated throughout the learning and teaching, both online and face-to-face; and 4) making the program accessible to geographically and technologically diverse communities of learners.\u

Persistent physics-based crisis management framework: A case study of traffic in the Nantes city due to flood exposure

In the context of crisis, the characteristics of the crisis area and the operational measures of the community play key roles in managing the crisis. The Nantes ring road in France is always exposed to flooding and its disruptions. To anticipate the disruptions and timely preventive actions for this frequent phenomenon, the main challenges are (i) forecast of vehicles' flows, (ii) capacity of the ring road to handle the traffic (iii) evaluate the performance of alternate routes during the flooding. The flooded area as a system has components of (i) the flood (e.g. time of onset, magnitude, intensity, etc.), (ii) the area (e.g. geographical features, temporary perimeter barriers, dam, diversion canals), and (iii) the community (e.g. reaction time, emergency strain, evacuation delay). The approach chosen to conduct this anticipative study consists of collecting data about forecasts and using simulation models to work simultaneously on evaluating the performance of the ring road and its alternative routes

Hierarchical Full Reversal

The Full Reversal Algorithm of Gafni and Bertsekas has been traditionally used to solve problems in distributed computing, such as leader election, resource allocation, and routing problems [1]. Full reversal generally works in a decentralized manner, only taking advantage of locality by reorienting edges that are incident on a node and surrounding neighbors, depending on the distributed problem being solved. The fact that Full Reversal looks at edges that are surrounding isn't troublesome; what is that is that it looks at all of these edges, no matter the cost of reversing that edge. This can lead to sub-optimal resolutions that do not minimize the cost of link reversal in a distributed problem. This thesis explores the case where: (1) there are differing costs on edges; (2) these costs are derived naturally from a hierarchical organization of the network. To minimize the cost in link reversals, in such cases, we propose an algorithm, called Hierarchical Full Reversal that takes advantage of information that may arise in neighboring nodes in the form of hierarchical cliques. The algorithm is then analyzed and compared to the traditional Full Reversal Algorithm via cases of routing problems to a leader within a graph. For hierarchical graphs, the algorithm does achieve a reduction. The experiments we conducted over a set of different graph structures show that there can be a reduction in cost, sometimes as much as by 48%, but with a reduction of 30% for general examples we tried

Study of Tunnel Vision and Rotation as Aspects of Web Site Visibility

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El habla y el lenguaje en niños con Síndrome de Down. Propuesta de intervención

El lenguaje es, evidentemente, no sólo la facultad más genuinamente humana, sino también la facultad más compleja. De ahí, el que la mayor parte de las dificultades experimentadas por las personas que sufren una discapacidad intelectual, especialmente si esta deficiencia es severa, como en el caso del Síndrome de Down o trisomía 21, estén asociada a esta facultad. De hecho, las limitaciones específicas del Síndrome de Down y las del funcionamiento intelectual hacen que la adquisición del lenguaje se vea gravemente alterada. Además, estas perturbaciones dificultan notablemente el desarrollo individual y la integración social de los niños y de los adultos con Discapacidad Intelectual.Grado en Educación Primari