Emergency life support training for school children: exploring local implementation and outcomes of the Heartstart UK school programme within the context of the National Healthy School Standard

This project discusses the implementation of Heartstart UK - an initiative co-ordinated by the British Heart Foundation to increase emergency life support training - in a number of schools in Cheshire.British Heart Foundation

Chart Your Course

Library instruction is most effective when thoughtfully developed with faculty and integrated in a course. But how do you determine which faculty partnerships will have the most impact? In this poster, we discuss the process of curriculum mapping in an agriculture program, how it reveals new opportunities for library instruction, and pitfalls to avoid when charting your course. In fall 2016, librarians at the University of Tennessee Hodges Library and Pendergrass Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Library developed learning outcomes for library instruction and services using feedback from staff and the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy. We mapped or coded the outcomes to learning objectives in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (CASNR) at the department and course level. We analyzed frequency patterns in the data to determine (a) which library outcomes are most important to CASNR undergraduate and graduate programs and (b) which departments and courses have the greatest overlap with library objectives. The patterns identified key players who would benefit most from additional library instruction, as well as gaps in instruction and resources. Finally, we developed visual mind maps to illustrate how library instruction supports the college and to serve as an outreach tool. Curriculum mapping is a useful exercise but not without challenges. Lessons learned include: be willing to train library staff on writing effective learning outcomes; investigate your institution’s ability and willingness to provide their objectives; and be flexible and consider alternative ways to connect with the curriculum

Beggars, Brides, and Bards: The Political Philosophy of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew

To do justice to Shakespeare’s comprehensive moral and political thought this paper seeks to discover what we can learn from the political philosophy of his largely neglected comedy, Taming of the Shrew. Not only does this endeavor provide a valuable forgotten link within the critical analyses of the theorists, but it also corrects the various misinterpretations of the play among contemporary critics. I argue that the play surveys various key themes that are rooted in classical political philosophy – such as education, the problems of anger, and the dynamic between nature and convention – and takes into consideration how they apply to modern man. Shakespeare borrows Plato’s idea that eroticism is central to education and explicitly references Ovid’s love books to reexamine our conceptions about one’s formation of character, the proper standards for judging the ideal mate, and the effects of these issues on the stability of the community. I also submit an innovative explanation of the relation between the induction and the main plot. Taken together they exhibit a critique of the role of the poet and his art in modern civil society

Modelagem analítica da vazão de redes sem fio baseadas na norma IEEE 802.11ah

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Tecnologia, Departamento de Engenharia Elétrica, 2018.Inúmeras tecnologias promissoras foram desenvolvidas desde a concepção da Internet das Coisas (IoT, do inglês Internet of Things) que poderão modificar diferentes aspectos em nosso cotidiano. Tendo em vista o rápido crescimento da IoT, foi criado o grupo de tarefa IEEE 802.11ah para o desenvolvimento de uma nova norma Wi-Fi para lidar com os principais desafios da IoT, que são a conectividade de muitos dispositivos com recursos de energia limitados a um único ponto de acesso e o aumento do alcance das transmissões para distâncias muito maiores do que aquelas tipicamente utilizadas em redes locais sem fio. Assim, esse padrão traz novos mecanismos nas camadas física e de enlace para atender aos requisitos da IoT. Na camada física, houve modificações para operação em faixas de frequências abaixo de 1 GHz e, na camada MAC, o padrão traz novos mecanismos de economia de energia para ter um melhor desempenho em redes densas, sendo um deles o acesso restrito ao canal (RAW, do inglês Restricted Access Window). Recentemente, há muitos trabalhos sobre o IEEE 802.11ah, entretanto, a maior parte deles trazem ideias de agrupamento ou modelagem analítica para descobrirem o tamanho ótimo do RAW para obter maior desempenho da rede. No entanto, para um melhor entendimento dos efeitos dos diversos parâmetros e mecanismos do IEEE 802.11ah, esta dissertação apresenta um modelo analítico da função de coordenação distribuída do IEEE 802.11ah para o caso em que as estações estão distribuídas uniformemente em diversos slots RAW e possuem a mesma prioridade de tráfego, sob condições de tráfego saturado e canal ideal. Em nosso modelo, consideramos que cada intervalo de beacon possui somente um RAW o qual é dividido em slots RAW, e estudamos o impacto no desempenho da vazão ao variar o número de slots RAW e o número de estações na rede. Além disto, introduzimos ao modelo Markoviano uma probabilidade de término do slot RAW e propomos duas expressões empíricas para o cálculo desta probabilidade. Por fim validamos o modelo analítico com simulações no simulador de redes NS3 e, a partir das simulações computacionais, encontramos uma constante de ajuste para aproximar o modelo das simulações.Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES).Many promising technologies have been developed since the conception of the Internet of Things (IoT) that can modify different aspects of our daily lives. In light of the rapid growth of IoT, it was created the IEEE 802.11ah Task Group to develop a newWi-Fi standard to address IoT’s key challenges, which are the connectivity of many devices with limited power resources to a single access point and the increase in the transmissions range for distances much greater than those typically used in wireless local area networks. Thus, this standard brings new mechanisms in the physical and link layers to meet IoT requirements. In the physical layer, there were modifications to permit the operation in frequency bands below 1 GHz and, in the MAC layer, the standard brings new power saving mechanisms to perform better in dense networks, one of which is the restricted access to the channel (RAW). Recently, there have been a lot of work on IEEE 802.11ah, however, most of them bring grouping or analytical modeling ideas to find out the optimal RAW size for a higher network performance. On the other hand, for a better understanding of the effects of the various IEEE 802.11ah parameters and mechanisms, this dissertation presents an analytical model of the distributed coordination function of IEEE 802.11ah for the case where the stations are evenly distributed in several RAW slots and have the same traffic priority, under conditions of saturated traffic and ideal channel. In our model, we consider that each beacon interval has only one RAW which is divided into RAW slots, and we study the impact on throughput performance by varying the number of RAW slots and the number of stations in the network. In addition, we introduce to the Markovian model a probability of reaching the end of a RAW slot and propose two heuristic expressions for this probability calculation. Finally we validate the analytical model with simulations in the networks simulator NS3 and, from the computational simulations, we find an adjustment constant to approximate the model of the simulations

SELLO DE CALIDAD DE TURISMO RURAL PARA PARQUES ECOTURÍSTICOS INDÍGENAS DEL ESTADO DE MÉXICO COMO PROPUESTA DE DESARROLLO LOCAL

Tesis de MaestríaEl turismo como actividad económica continúa retomando importancia por los múltiples beneficios que genera en el lugar donde se desarrolla, motivo por el que su impulso en los territorios rurales ha sido clave para minimizar las problemáticas sociales, ambientales, económicas y culturales que los envuelve. Aunque no necesariamente las iniciativas reflejan los beneficios esperados, tal es el caso de los Proyectos de Turismo de Naturaleza en Zonas Indígenas en el estado de México, denominados como parques ecoturísticos indígenas, las razones son diversas, una de ellas es la ausencia de calidad en los servicios turísticos. En el marco de la presente investigación se propuso desarrollar un Sello de Calidad de Turismo Rural para parques ecoturísticos indígenas del estado de México como propuesta de desarrollo local que contribuya a la minimización de los impactos negativos y a la maximización de los positivos. La metodología de investigación utilizada fue: Investigación-Acción Participativa (IAP) con el objetivo de crear una propuesta útil para mejorar la situación colectiva de las comunidades, en las que los actores locales además de participar directamente en la propuesta son los agentes que harán posible la aplicación del instrumento.CONACy

Teaching Primary Grade Students Perfectionism Through Cartoons Compared to Bibliotherapy

This experimental study compared concept acquisition and enjoyment of learning about perfectionism under two conditions: bibliotherapy (control) and analysis and construction of cartoons (experimental) in first, second and third grade students (N=46). Posttest results showed students learned significantly more content in the experimental condition with a medium effect size. Students were more engaged in the cartoon condition, appreciating the humor and opportunity to be creative. Most students reported liking the bibliotherapy but some complained of boredom. The authors recommend that both bibliotherapy and cartoon analysis be used in lessons about perfectionism to maintain student interest and comprehension of concepts