Supporting Higher Education—Hospital Transition through Blended Learning

The purpose of this paper is to present two exploratory studies that have a potential for identifying research-based blended learning tools for CBME. The studies focus on the development of a group of medical students’ professional image (in Genova and Rome) during their hospital internship. The paper addresses three related questions: 1. How does their professional representation change in the transition from university to hospital? 2. Which competences emerge from the students’ reports? 3. Which competences are still under represented

From a postcolonial to a transmodern world social forum discourse

The 2013 edition of the World Social Forum took place in Tunis, March 26th-30th. While Mediterranean Education actors rarely refer to Frantz Fanon when challenging the neo-liberal educational agenda, among the Latin American, Asia and African popular education actors there is a noticeable trend to “read” local practice in relation to regional specificities and to endorse the epistemic de-linking and disobedience from the linkages between rationality/modernity and coloniality as advocated by transmodern scholars Quijano and Mignolo.peer-reviewe

Effect Of U-9mo/Al Fuel Densities On Neutronic And Steady State Thermal Hydraulic Parameters Of Mtr Type Research Reactor

The objectives of this research work are to carry out a detailed neutronic and steady state thermal hydraulics analysis for a MTR research reactor fuelled with the low enrichment U-9Mo/Al dispersion fuels of various uranium densities. The high density uranium fuel will increase the cycle length of the reactor operation and the heat flux in the reactor core. The increasing heat flux at the fuel will causing increase the temperature of the fuel and cladding so that the coolant velocity has to be increased. However, the coolant velocity in the fuel element has a limit value due to the thermal hydraulic stability considerations in the core.  Therefore, the neutronic and the steady state thermal hydraulic analysis are important in the design and operation of nuclear reactor safety.  The calculations were performed using WIMS-D5 and MTRDYN codes. The WIMS-D5 code used for generating the group constants of all core materials as well as the neutronic and steady state thermal hydraulic parameters   were determined by using the MTRDYN code. The calculation results showed that the excess reactivity increases as the uranium density increases since the mass of fuel in the reactor core is increased.  Using the critical velocity concept, the maximum coolant velocity at fuel channel is 11.497 m/s.  The maximum temperatures of the coolant, cladding and fuel meat with the uranium density of 3,66 g/cc are 70.85°C, 150.79°C and 153.24°C, respectively.  The maximum temperatures are fulfilled the design limit so reactor has a safe operation at the nominal power

Bilingualism and conversational understanding in young children

The purpose of the two experiments reported here was to investigate whether bilingualism confers an advantage on children’s conversational understanding. A total of 163 children aged 3 to 6 years were given a Conversational Violations Test to determine their ability to identify responses to questions as violations of Gricean maxims of conversation (to be informative and avoid redundancy, speak the truth, and be relevant and polite). Though comparatively delayed in their L2 vocabulary, children who were bilingual in Italian and Slovenian (with Slovenian as the dominant language) generally outperformed those who were either monolingual in Italian or Slovenian. We suggest that bilingualism can be accompanied by an enhanced ability to appreciate effective communicative responses

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING UNTUK MENINGKATKAN PEMAHAMAN KETRAMPILAN DAN MINAT BELAJAR SISWA DALAM MELAKUKAN INSTALASI SISTEM OPERASI DASAR DI KELAS X TKJ 1 SMK NEGERI 1 LUMAJANG

The objective of this study is to develop an innovative instructional strategy through the implementation of collaborative learning to develop the students’ understanding and learning motivationon the subject of the installation of basic operating system (SOD). In this study, the researcher employed classroom action research (CAR) as the research design in which the researcher carries out the cyclical procedure of the study: planning, implementing, observing, and reflecting on the action.This study was carried out in three cycles. The subject of this study is the students of class X TKJ 1, SMK Negeri 1 Lumajang, in the academic year 2013/2014. Test and observation used as the data collection methods in this study. On the basis of research findings, it can be concluded that collaborative learning strategy could be able to improve the students’ activity in the productive subject of TKJ. In addition, the study could be able to improve the students’ academic achievement.Keywords: Collaborative learning, academic achievement

Uncovering the Social Deficits in the Autistic Brain. A Source-Based Morphometric Study

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that mainly affects social interaction and communication. Evidence from behavioral and functional MRI studies supports the hypothesis that dysfunctional mechanisms involving social brain structures play a major role in autistic symptomatology. However, the investigation of anatomical abnormalities in the brain of people with autism has led to inconsistent results. We investigated whether specific brain regions, known to display functional abnormalities in autism, may exhibit mutual and peculiar patterns of covariance in their gray-matter concentrations. We analyzed structural MRI images of 32 young men affected by autistic disorder (AD) and 50 healthy controls. Controls were matched for sex, age, handedness. IQ scores were also monitored to avoid confounding. A multivariate Source-Based Morphometry (SBM) was applied for the first time on AD and controls to detect maximally independent networks of gray matter. Group comparison revealed a gray-matter source that showed differences in AD compared to controls. This network includes broad temporal regions involved in social cognition and high-level visual processing, but also motor and executive areas of the frontal lobe. Notably, we found that gray matter differences, as reflected by SBM, significantly correlated with social and behavioral deficits displayed by AD individuals and encoded via the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule scores. These findings provide support for current hypotheses about the neural basis of atypical social and mental states information processing in autism