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Inclusive Didactics at the University: innovation and training success of students with Special Educational Needs
Creators: name: De Anna, Lucia
name: Covelli, Alessio
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2018

description: The evolution of university teaching towards inclusive didactics is a complex issue that requires reflection about strategies to be taken involving university teachers for developing innovative and open contexts to the diversities. We need to rethink traditional transmission models because, as evidence proved, generating innovation for all implies going beyond the individual approach to Special Educational Needs (SEN). We describe some practical proposals based on guidance, reception and accompaniment devices provided for students with SEN, focusing on teaching and the use of ICT. These best practices derive from the research carried out by the group of Pedagogy and Special Education of University of Rome “Foro Italico” and by the work of the CNUDD group “Improving the quality of inclusive education”. According to the Universal Design approach, these devices and strategies promote not only inclusion and access of students with SEN, but they are a resource for all student population supporting training success. La Didattica inclusiva nell’Università: innovazione e successo formativo degli studenti con Special Educational Needs L’evoluzione degli insegnamenti universitari verso una didattica inclusiva è una questione complessa che impone una riflessione su quali strategie attuare, coinvolgendo maggiormente i docenti universitari nello sviluppo di contesti innovativi e aperti alle diversità. I risultati suggeriscono che generare innovazione per tutti significa sia ripensare i modelli trasmissivi tradizionali, sia andare oltre la logica dell’approccio individuale agli Special Educational Needs (SEN). Sono descritte alcune proposte operative basate sull’utilizzo dei dispositivi di orientamento, accoglienza e accompagnamento previsti per gli studenti con SEN, con attenzione alla didattica e all’utilizzo delle TIC. Queste buone prassi derivano dalle ricerche del gruppo di Pedagogia e Didattica Speciale dell’Università di Roma “Foro Italico” e dai lavori del gruppo CNUDD “Miglioramento della qualità della didattica inclusiva”. Secondo la logica dell’Universal Design, tali dispositivi e strategie oltre a favorire l’inclusione e l’accesso degli studenti con SEN, si rivelano una risorsa per l’intera popolazione studentesca ai fini del successo formativo.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 18 No. 1 (2018): University education: quality, effectiveness, teacher training
Callichimaeridae Luque & Feldmann & Vernygora & Schweitzer & Cameron & Kerr & Vega & Duque & Strange & Palmer & Jaramillo 2019, fam. nov.
Creators: name: Luque, J.
name: Feldmann, R. M.
name: Vernygora, O.
name: Schweitzer, C. E.
name: Cameron, C. B.
name: Kerr, K. A.
name: Vega, F. J.
name: Duque, A.
name: Strange, M.
name: Palmer, A. R.
name: Jaramillo, C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Decapoda
Callichimaeridae

description: Callichimaeridae fam. nov. LSID. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: A5D6688D-756B-4FB7-8098- 5EB066C38383 Included genus. Callichimaera gen. nov. Diagnosis. As for type genus and species.
description: Published as part of Luque, J., Feldmann, R. M., Vernygora, O., Schweitzer, C. E., Cameron, C. B., Kerr, K. A., Vega, F. J., Duque, A., Strange, M., Palmer, A. R. & Jaramillo, C., 2019, Exceptional preservation of mid-Cretaceous marine arthropods and the evolution of novel forms via heterochrony, pp. 1-15 in Science Advances 5 (4) on page 3, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav3875, http://zenodo.org/record/5902784
Multilayer metamaterial absorbers inspired by perfectly matched layers
Creators: name: Pastuszczak, Anna
name: Stolarek, Marcin
name: Antosiewicz, Tomasz J.
name: Kotynski, Rafal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive periodic multilayer absorbers with effective uniaxial properties similar to perfectly matched layers (PML). This approximate representation of PML is based on the effective medium theory and we call it an effective medium PML (EM-PML). We compare the spatial reflection spectrum of the layered absorbers to that of a PML material and demonstrate that after neglecting gain and magnetic properties, the absorber remains functional. This opens a route to create electromagnetic absorbers for real and not only numerical applications and as an example we introduce a layered absorber for the wavelength of $8$~$μ$m made of SiO$_2$ and NaCl. We also show that similar cylindrical core-shell nanostructures derived from flat multilayers also exhibit very good absorptive and reflective properties despite the different geometry.
Interactions of incoherent localized beams in a photorefractive medium
Creators: name: Zhang, Yiqi
name: Belić, Milivoj R.
name: Zheng, Huaibin
name: Chen, Haixia
name: Li, Changbiao
name: Xu, Jianeng
name: Zhang, Yanpeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate numerically interactions between two bright or dark incoherent localized beams in an strontium barium niobate photorefractive crystal in one dimension, using the coherent density method. For the case of bright beams, if the interacting beams are in-phase, they attract each other during propagation and form bound breathers; if out-of-phase, the beams repel each other and fly away. The bright incoherent beams do not radiate much and form long-lived well-defined breathers or quasi-stable solitons. If the phase difference is $π/2$, the interacting beams may both attract or repel each other, depending on the interval between the two beams, the beam widths, and the degree of coherence. For the case of dark incoherent beams, in addition to the above the interactions also depend on the symmetry of the incident beams. As already known, an even-symmetric incident beam tends to split into a doublet, whereas an odd-symmetric incident beam tends to split into a triplet. When launched in pairs, the dark beams display dynamics consistent with such a picture and in general obey soliton-like conservation laws, so that the collisions are mostly elastic, leading to little energy and momentum exchange. But they also radiate and breathe while propagating. In all the cases, the smaller the interval between the two interacting beams, the stronger the mutual interaction. On the other hand, the larger the degree of incoherence, the weaker the interaction.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
University teaching innovation and ICT
Creators: name: Bruschi, Barbara
name: Torre, Emanuela
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2018

description: The University of Turin has activated in the academic year 2017/2018 a project, called Iridi (Incubatore di Ricerca Didattica per l’Innovazione) aimed at starting a process of teaching innovation in the Piedmontese University. As part of this project, a training course was organized – for fifty teachers – in blended learning mode. This paper aims to illustrate the preliminary results of two actions that have accompanied the planning and implementation of this research-training path: 1. the results of a survey on the representations and use of technologies by the participants; 2. the methods according to which the e-portfolio was used. Innovazione della didattica universitaria e ICT L’Università di Torino ha attivato nell’a.a. 2017/2018 un progetto, denominato Iridi (Incubatore di Ricerca Didattica per l’Innovazione) teso ad avviare un processo di innovazione della didattica nell’Ateneo Piemontese. Nell’ambito di questo progetto è stato organizzato un percorso formativo – rivolto a cinquanta docenti – in modalità blended learning. Il presente contributo intende illustrare gli esiti preliminari di due azioni che hanno accompagnato la progettazione e l’attuazione di tale percorso di ricerca-formazione: 1. un’indagine sulle rappresentazioni e l’impiego delle tecnologie da parte dei partecipanti; 2. l’impiego dell’e-portfolio per la documentazione e la riflessione sull’esperienza da parte dei partecipanti.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 18 No. 1 (2018): University education: quality, effectiveness, teacher training
Qualifying faculty teaching competences. The pilot experience at Politecnico di Torino
Creators: name: Serbati, Anna
name: Felisatti, Ettore
name: Da Re, Lorenza
name: Tabacco, Anita
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2018

description: The paper presents evidence from a staff development project implemented by Politecnico di Torino in 2017. The project was an institutional activity aimed at promoting and enhancing teaching competences of junior faculty. Theoretical and methodological strategies, training model and approach are described as well as results from evaluative research carried out to identify participants’ satisfaction about specific program dimensions and to investigate changes of teaching perspectives as a result of the program. Results are discussed and interpreted, highlighting elements and identifying areas of improvement for a future edition of the program. La qualificazione didattica dei docenti universitari. L’esperienza pilota del Politecnico di Torino Il presente articolo documenta l’esperienza di formazione alla didattica condotta dal Politecnico di Torino, che nel 2017 un’azione di sistema per il miglioramento delle competenze didattiche di giovani ricercatori dell’Ateneo. Vengono presentate le scelte teorico-metodologiche e il modello formativo adottato nonché gli esiti della ricerca valutativa condotta allo scopo di rilevare il gradimento dei partecipanti rispetto ad alcune specifiche dimensioni di interesse e la variazione delle prospettive di insegnamento dei partecipanti prima e dopo la frequenza al percorso. I risultati vengono discussi e interpretati, identificando i fattori di successo ed esplicitando le aree di miglioramento per una futura edizione del percorso formativo.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 18 No. 1 (2018): University education: quality, effectiveness, teacher training
Iterative approach for engaging students in longitudinal self-assessment of program competencies
Creators: name: Marriott, Lisa
name: Mitchell, Ruby
name: McLemore, Kevin
Publisher: name: Oregon Health and Science University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Research Design
subject: Research methods and models
subject: Educational research

description: The purpose of the workshop is to share question construction protocols for the creation of virtual objective structured clinical examinations (OSCE)as a means of evaluation and guidance regarding clinical judgment and critical thinking skills.
eTwinning Traineeship: An Internationalization Model for the Study Course in Primary Education
Creators: name: Boffo, Vanna
name: Mancini, Francesca
name: Bellandi, Margherita
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2018

description: This text illustrates the most relevant aspects of the didactic-formative model designed to develop and implement the eTwinning Teacher Training pilot project within the study course in Primary Education at the University of Florence. The characteristics of the model focus on indirect and direct training, on which the project was pivoted, to represent an international and intercultural preparation course for the initial training of infant and primary school teachers. eTwinning Traineeship: Un Modello di Internazionalizzazione per il Corso di Studio in Scienze della Formazione Primaria Il presente testo illustra gli aspetti salienti del Modello Didattico-Formativo ideato per sviluppare il progetto pilota eTwinning per la formazione iniziale dei docenti presso il Corso di Studio in Scienze della Formazione Primaria all’Università degli Studi di Firenze. Le caratteristiche del Modello si concentrano sul tirocinio indiretto e diretto, all’interno del quale il Progetto è stato incardinato, per rappresentare un percorso di preparazione internazionale e interculturale per la Formazione iniziale degli insegnanti della Scuola dell’Infanzia e Primaria.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 18 No. 1 (2018): University education: quality, effectiveness, teacher training
title: Arbre_12
Creators: name: Ségolène Delamare
name: Galinand, Cyrille
name: Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Publisher: name: Archeovision
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: arborglyphe

description: arborglyphe
description: 1 fichier 3D (ply), 45 fichiers image (jpg)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 223.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 14.09.1987, 07:30, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1987

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 4.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Study on the Vibration Displacement Distribution of a Circular Ultrasonic Motor Stator
Creators: name: Ri, Chol-Su
name: Kim, Myong-Jin
name: Kim, Chol-Su
name: Im, Song-Jin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper is presented a theoretical consideration on the stator's displacement distribution, which is one of the most important problems in defining the structure of the circular ultrasonic motor stator. The results are compared with results obtained utilizing holographic interferometer, laser vibrometer and a FEM (finite element method) simulation. They are in a good agreement with each other.
Homeownership as an Urban Development Tool
Creators: name: Hrycyk, Nicole
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005

description: Shortages of affordable housing remain a problem for urban areas throughout the country. One popular remedy is to promote homeownership opportunities among low- and moderate-income and minority households. This article will discuss the problem of affordable housing shortages and its importance in urban development. Then, it will illustrate how homeownership can be used as a tool for urban development, examining both historical and contemporary applications. Finally, the analysis will evaluate the success of these initiatives in urban development and discuss the policy implications of emphasizing homeownership initiatives as urban development tools.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 201.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 22.08.1987, 08:00, erstellt von Marco Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1987

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 4.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Die Lehnspyramide – ein Wiedergänger des Geschichtsunterrichts
Creators: name: Bernhardt, Markus
Publisher: name: Universita' degli Studi di Salerno
Year: 2014

description: Der 1998 verstorbene Mediävist Hartmut Boockmann hat 1992 in der GWU einen Topos der Mittelalterdarstellungen in den Schulbüchern dekonstruiert: die Lehnspyramide. Seine Kritik richtete sich gegen die zahlreichen bunten Zeichnungen in den Schulbüchern, welche die mittelalterliche Gesellschaft in einem spitz zulaufendem Dreieck als drei- oder viergliedrige Ständeformation widerzuspiegeln vorgaben: König – Kronvasallen – Untervasallen – Hörige und leibeigene Bauern. In einer überzeugenden Argumentation, die auch immer die Möglichkeiten der schulischen Vermittlung im Blick behielt, hat Boockmann die Herkunft der Lehnspyramide analysiert. Doch auch 20 Jahre später findet sich die Pyramide, nun als Sinnbild der Ständegesellschaft, in den meisten Schulbüchern wieder.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 296.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 26.12.1987, 08:30, erstellt von Marco Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1987

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 4.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Insights into some onygenalean fungi from freshwater sedi-ments in Spain and description of novel taxa
Creators: name: Torres-Garcia, Daniel
name: Gené, Josepa
name: García, Dania
name: Cano-Lira, José F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: In the course of a project to explore the culturable Ascomycota diversity in freshwater sediments in Spain, we isolated 63 strains of cycloheximide-resistant fungi that belonged to the order Onygenales. These well-known fungi, which can infect both humans and animals, are commonly found in terrestrial habitats, colonizing keratin-rich soils or dung, but little is known about their diversity in aquatic environments. Combining morphological features and sequence analyses of the barcode regions (i.e., internal transcribed spacer region─ITS, and the large subunit─LSU gene) of the nuclear rDNA, we identified 14 species (i.e., Arachniotus albicans, Aphanoascus crassitunicatus, Aphanoascus fulvescens, Aphanoascus reticulisporus, Arthroderma curreyi, Arthropsis hispanica, Emmonsiellopsis tuberculata, Gymnoascoideus petalosporus, Leucothecium emdenii, Malbranchea chinensis, Malbranchea ostraviensis, Malbranchea reticulata, Malbranchea umbrina, and Myriodontium keratinophilum). However, eight sediment strains could not be allocated to any known species and were therefore described as five new fungi in the Onygenales. Three new species were delineated in the family Malbrancheaceae (Malbranchea echinulata, Malbranchea irregularis, and Malbranchea sinuata). Phylogenetic analyses of Arachniotus albicans and Arthropsis hispanica allowed us to recognize these fungi as novel genera, proposed respectively as Albidomyces, typified with Albidomyces albicans comb. nov., and Neoarthropsis, typified with Neoarthropsis hispanica comb. nov. The novel species Neoarthropsis sexualis was characterized in this latter genus and differentiated morphologically from its counterpart by the production of a sexual morph. The genera Albidomyes, Apinisia, Arachnotheca, Myriodontium, and Neoarthropsis were phylogenetically related and clustered in a well-supported, undescribed lineage placed distant from other lineages representing known families in Onygenales. Since they also shared phenotypic and ecological traits, the novel family Neoarthropsiaceae was proposed for all those genera. Because one of the unidentified strains was found to be related, although phylogenetically distant, to the genera Amaurascopsis and Polytolypa, a new genus Pseudoamaurascopsis, typified with Pseudoamaurascopsis spiralis sp. nov., was also introduced here. We traced the ecology and global distribution of the novel taxa through ITS environmental sequences deposited in the GlobalFungi database. Studying the fungal diversity from freshwater sediments not only contributes to filling gaps in the relationships and taxonomy in the Ascomycota, but also gives us insights into the fungal community that might represent a putative risk to the health of animals and humans inhabiting or transient in aquatic environments.
Addressing the issue of non-unitarity in anisotropic quantum cosmology
Creators: name: Pal, Sridip
name: Banerjee, Narayan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present work we show that the widely believed pathology of the non-unitarity of anisotropic quantum cosmological models cannot be a generic problem. We exhibit a non trivial example, a Bianchi-I model with an ultrarelativistic fluid, that has a well behaved time independent norm. We also show that a suitable operator ordering should produce time independent norms for the wave packets in the case of other more realistic fluids as well.
description: 6 two column pages, no figure, accepted for publication in Physical Review D
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 142.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 22.06.1987, 07:15, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1987

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 4.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Health Care Reform: Strategies and Successes of the Campaign for Better Health Care
Creators: name: Taylor, Andréa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005

description: This article explores the strategies and successes of the Campaign for Better Health Care (CBHC), arguing that the CBHC is employing effective organizing strategies to build a strong coalition across many domains, both public and private, in order to increase health care for the poor. By forging improbable relationships among disparate groups, the CBHC successfully addresses many traditional critiques of community organizing efforts. While the legislative goals of the CBHC still face significant challenges, the campaign provides a critical model for community organizing in a modern context.
Evaluating online learning: a review of studies on e-testing in the university context
Creators: name: Nardi, Andrea
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2018

description: Nowadays, the class size and the growing number of undergraduate students generate unprecedented problems of management, monitoring and evaluation of learning. From this point of view technologies may provide opportunities which deserve to be investigated for their potential to contribute to solve problems related to the management of large size classes. Since many teachers show resistance towards the replacement of traditional exams with e-assessment, little effort has been made for the innovation of the evaluation procedures at the university level. However, several studies have been carried out in this field. This paper provides an overview of the current electronic evaluation activity in the university context. Data shows benefits related to students’ monitoring for the simplification of procedures and the reduction of teachers’ cognitive load. Moreover students appreciate the electronic mode for the possibility to obtain immediate feedback. The challenges concern the technological infrastructure, the scalability and safe use. Valutare l’apprendimento online: una rassegna degli studi sull’e-testing nel contesto universitario Oggigiorno le dimensioni delle classi e il numero crescente di studenti in ambito universitario pongono inediti problemi di gestione, monitoraggio e valutazione degli apprendimenti. La tecnologia da questo punto di vista rappresenta un’opportunità che necessita di essere indagata perché potenzialmente in grado di contribuire alla risoluzione delle problematiche connesse alla gestione di una grande mole di iscritti. Poiché molti docenti manifestano diffidenza verso la sostituzione degli esami tradizionali con modalità elettroniche di valutazione, pochi sforzi sono stati compiuti in questi anni per l’innovazione delle procedure valutative. Tuttavia, molti sono gli studi realizzati in questo campo. Questo lavoro fornisce una panoramica dell’attuale attività di valutazione elettronica nel contesto universitario. Dai dati raccolti emergono benefici in relazione al monitoraggio degli studenti per la semplificazione delle procedure e la riduzione del carico di lavoro dei docenti. Inoltre gli studenti apprezzano la modalità elettronica per la possibilità di ottenere feedback immediati. Le sfide riguardano l’infrastruttura tecnologica, la scalabilità e la sicurezza.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 18 No. 1 (2018): University education: quality, effectiveness, teacher training
A study of the design and documentation skills of industry-ready CS students
Creators: name: Kumar, Mrityunjay
name: Choppella, Venkatesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: An engineer in a product company is expected to design a good solution to a computing problem (Design skill) and articulate the solution well (Expression skill). We expect an industry-ready student (final year student or a fresh campus hire) as well to demonstrate both these skills when working on simple problems assigned to them. This paper reports on the results when we tested a cohort of participants (N=16) for these two skills. We created two participant groups from two different tiers of college, one from a Tier 1 college (who were taking an advanced elective course), and another from Tier 2 colleges (who had been hired for internship in a SaaS product company). We gave them a simple design problem and evaluated the quality of their design and expression. Design quality was evaluated along three design principles of Abstraction, Decomposition, and Precision (adapted from the Software Engineering Book of Knowledge). Expression quality was evaluated using criteria we developed for our study that is based on the diversity and density of the expressions used in the articulation. We found the students lacking in design and expression skills. Specifically, a) they struggled with abstraction as a design principle, b) they did not use enough modes of expressions to articulate their design, and c) they did not use enough formal notations (UML, equations, relations, etc.). We also found significant difference in the performance between the two participant groups.
description: Accepted at COMPUTE '22
European preschools in nature. Principles and evidence in international references
Creators: name: Antonietti, Maja
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2018

description: The study focuses on the ten-years experiences of nature pre-schools in Europe, grounding on the theoretical and empirical studies carried out at internal level. The examples discussed in the article provide a consolidated educational model to look at carefully, also for the attention gained by this topic in Italy in the very recent years and for the lack of studies in this field in our Country. Scuole dell’infanzia in natura. Principi e riscontri empirici nella letteratura internazionale Lo studio mette al centro della riflessione le esperienze decennali di scuole dell’infanzia in natura presenti in Europa, riportando studi internazionali relativi ai principi teorici e ai riscontri empirici che ne sostengono il fondamento. Tali proposte rappresentano un modello formativo consolidato oltralpe al quale guardare con attenzione anche per il recente interesse che intorno a questo tema si è attivato in Italia e per la carenza di studi empirici in questo settore nel nostro Paese.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 18 No. 1 (2018): University education: quality, effectiveness, teacher training
Qualitative syntheses of research in the field of higher education: methodological perspectives, heuristic procedures and practical applications
Creators: name: Fabbro, Francesco
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2018

description: Qualitative syntheses are a set of emerging secondary research methods that allow to compare and re-interpret primary studies. In the past ten years qualitative synthesis have been carried out more and more, also in the field of higher education. On one hand the paper introduces some key aspects of the qualitative synthesis by focusing on the meta-ethnographic method and the seven steps of the synthesis’ process. On the other hand it shows how and with what results the meta-ethnographies – and more broadly the qualitative synthesis – can contribute to the research about academic teaching. Finally, the paper discusses some critical issues related to the meta-ethnographic approach and then suggests how alternative methods of synthesis could be adopted to explore a central topic in the higher education field, namely the innovation of learning and teaching methods. Le sintesi qualitative della ricerca nel campo dell’Alta Formazione: prospettive metodologiche, procedure euristiche, applicazioni pratiche Le sintesi qualitative sono un insieme di metodi emergenti di ricerca qualitativa secondaria che consentono di comparare e re-interpretare le ricerche primarie. Negli ultimi dieci anni le sintesi qualitative sono state condotte sempre più spesso anche nel campo dell’Alta Formazione. Da un lato l’articolo introduce alcuni aspetti chiave delle sintesi qualitative, focalizzandosi in particolare sul metodo meta-etnografico e le sette fasi del processo di sintesi. Dall’altro mostra in che modo e con quali risultati le meta-etnografie - e più in generale le sintesi qualitative – possano contribuire alla ricerca sulla didattica universitaria. Infine, il saggio discute alcune criticità dell’approccio meta-etnografico, per poi suggerire quali metodi alternativi di sintesi potrebbe essere impiegati per esplorare un tema centrale in ambito accademico, ovvero l’innovazione dei metodi d’apprendimento e insegnamento.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 18 No. 1 (2018): University education: quality, effectiveness, teacher training
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 288.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 18.12.1987, 10:00, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1987

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 85.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 15.04.1987, 07:15, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1987

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 4.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Investigating the radiative properties of LHAASO J1908+0621
Creators: name: Wu, Keyao
name: Zhou, Liancheng
name: Gong, Yunlu
name: Fang, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: LHAASO J1908+0621 has been recently detected as a source emitting $γ$-rays with energies above 100 TeV, and the multiband observations show that a break around 1 TeV appears in the $γ$-ray spectrum. We have reanalyzed the GeV $γ$-ray properties for the 100 TeV source using 14 years of data recorded by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT). The spectrum in the energy range range 30-500 GeV has an index of 1.50 $\pm$ 0.26, which is much smaller than that detected in the TeV $γ$-rays. Additionally, the radiation properties of this source are investigated based on a one-zone time-dependent model. In the model, LHAASO J1908+0621 is associated with a pulsar wind nebula (PWN) powered by the pulsar PSR J1907$+$0602. High-energy particles composed of electrons and positrons are injected into the nebula. Multiband nonthermal emission is produced via synchrotron radiation and inverse Compton scattering (ICS). Taking the effect of radiative energy losses and adiabatic cooling into account, the spectral energy distribution from the model with a broken power-law for the distribution of the injected particles can explain the detected fluxes in the $γ$-ray bands. The results support that LHAASO J1908+0621 originates from the PWN powered by PSR J1907$+$0602, and the $γ$-rays with energy above 100 TeV are produced by the electrons/positrons in the nebula via ICS.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures, MNRAS accepted
The “transversal skills” in academic teaching practices
Creators: name: Magnoler, Patrizia
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2018

description: Initial training, both in schools and universities, and labour market have the common need of letting students develop transversal competences or attitudes and behaviours, also defined as key competences. The way to truly embed acquisition of those competences in higher education pathways still remains a challenge that should be addressed at the level of curriculum development for university degrees. This paper addresses the concept of transversality, in order to identify at theoretical level conditions enabling the achievement of a transversal intention (Rey, 2003) through different experiences of group work. The research has been based on the analysis of portfolios of 69 students engaged in the process of experiences’ de-construction and re-construction. Theoretical constructs have been confirmed, while some relationships between task, activity, group and time that can guide the design of a curriculum to learn group working, have emerged. Le “competenze trasversali” nelle pratiche formative universitarie La formazione iniziale, scolastica e universitaria, trova un suo punto di incontro con il mondo del lavoro nella necessità di far sviluppare un particolare tipo di competenze, quelle definite trasversali, o competenze chiave o ancora posture, atteggiamenti. Ma come sia realmente possibile indurne l’evoluzione all’interno dei percorsi universitari rimane una sfida che va affrontata a livello di curricolo del corso di studio. Il contributo riprende il concetto di trasversalità per individuare a livello teorico le condizioni che rendono possibili la maturazione di un’intenzione trasversale attraverso differenti esperienze di lavoro di gruppo. La ricerca effettuata si è basata sull’analisi dei portfoli di 69 studenti impegnati in processi di de-costruzione e ri-costruzione dell’esperienza. Si rilevano conferme di costrutti teorici e la scoperta di alcune relazioni tra compito, attività, gruppo e tempi che possono guidare la progettazione di un curricolo per apprendere a lavorare in gruppo.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 18 No. 1 (2018): University education: quality, effectiveness, teacher training
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 3.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 03.01.1987, 09:45, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1987

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 2.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
The light curve simulations of the 2021 anomalous event in SS Cygni
Creators: name: Kimura, Mariko
name: Osaki, Yoji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The prototype dwarf nova SS Cyg unexpectedly exhibited an anomalous event in its light curve in the early few months of 2021 in which regular dwarf nova-type outbursts stopped, but small-amplitude fluctuations occurred only. Inspired by this event, we have performed numerical simulations of light curves of SS Cyg by varying mass transfer rates and varying viscosity parameters in the cool disk. We have also studied the effect of gas-stream overflows beyond the outer disk edge in the light curve simulations. We have confirmed that the enhanced mass transfer is unlikely responsible for the 2021 anomalous event and its forerunner. We have found that the enhancement of the viscosity in the disk may reproduce the forerunner of that event but may not be enough to explain the 2021 anomalous event, although the latter result might be particular to our thermal equilibrium curve used. Within our simulations, a model of the gas stream overflow with a slightly higher mass transfer rate than that of our standard model reproduces light curves similar to the 2021 anomalous event. We suggest that the gas-stream overflow is necessary to reproduce that event. The gas-stream overflow may also be responsible for the abnormally high X-ray flux during the normal quiescent state in SS Cyg.
description: Accepted for publication in PASJ. 18 pages, 21 figures
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 117.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 23.05.1987, 08:00, erstellt von Marco Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1987

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 4.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Nonlinear photonic disclination states
Creators: name: Ren, Boquan
name: Wang, Hongguang
name: Kartashov, Yaroslav V.
name: Li, Yongdong
name: Zhang, Yiqi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Higher-order topological insulators are unusual materials that can support topologically protected states, whose dimensionality is lower than the dimensionality of the structure at least by 2. Among the most intriguing examples of such states are zero-dimensional corner modes existing in two-dimensional higher-order insulators. In contrast to corner states, recently discovered disclination states also belong to the class of higher-order topological states, but are bound to the boundary of the disclination defect of the higher-order topological insulator and can be predicted using the bulk-disclination correspondence principle. Here, we present the first example of the nonlinear photonic disclination state bifurcating from its linear counterpart in the disclination lattice with a pentagonal or heptagonal core. We show that nonlinearity allows to tune location of the disclination states in the bandgap and notably affects their shapes. The structure of the disclination lattice is crucial for stability of these nonlinear topological states: for example, disclination states are stable in the heptagonal lattice and are unstable nearly in the entire gap of the pentagonal lattice. Nonlinear disclination states reported here are thresholdless and can be excited even at low powers. Nonlinear zero-energy states coexisting in these structures with disclination states are also studied. Our results suggest that disclination lattices can be used in the design of various nonlinear topological functional devices, while disclination states supported by them may play an important role in applications, where strong field confinement together with topological protection are important, such as the design of topological lasers and enhancement of generation of high harmonics.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, to appear in APL Photonics
Laparoscopic repair of paediatric indirect inguinal hernia: modified flip flap technique
Creators: name: Garzi, Alfredo
name: Prestipino, Marco
name: Calabrò, Eleonora
name: Di Crescenzo, Rosa Maria
name: Rubino, Maria Serena
Publisher: name: Universita' degli Studi di Salerno
Year: 2020
Subjects: Herniotomy
Herniorrhaphy
Minimal invasive surgery
Flip flap technique

description: In paediatric age, indirect inguinal hernia represents more than 95% of the hernial disease. It is a congenital type, in contrast with adulthood in which acquired forms are more frequently found (1). The laparoscopic correction of indirect inguinal hernia is one of the most common surgeries performed in paediatric age. In recent years, various techniques have been introduced for the videolaparoscopic correction of this disease. The aim of this study is to provide an assessment of the efficacy and safety of the execution of a modified Flip-Flap technique, using tissue glue for filling of Peritoneal-vaginal duct (DPV), performed in order to ensure greater suture tightness and reduce the incidence of postoperative hydrocele. The Authors present a retrospective review of their record of cases, considering a total of 187 patients aged between 18 months and 14 years. For the correction of the hernial defect, the modified VLS FlipFlap technique was carried out. The evaluation of safety, efficacy, operating time, relapse rate and development of short-term complications (such as postoperative hydrocele, scrotal hematoma or ecchymosis, atrophy or iatrogenic testicle ascension) was considered in a mean follow-up of 6 months. The Authors suggest that this variant of the peritoneal Flip-Flap technique is simple to perform; its safety, reproducibility and effectiveness is proven and has a percentage of relapses and complications overlapping with the “open” approach and superior to other laparoscopic techniques.
Primary and pre-primary teacher initial education and training in Bergamo in the European context: feature and challenges
Creators: name: Casaschi, Cristina
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2018

description: Primary and pre-primary teacher’s initial education and training is a strategic focus for a country’s development prospect, as generally highlighted on international scale. It is a powerful personal pedagogical opportunity as well as a social responsibility as training can also be a personal self-education chance when organized in an integrated way. This essay is clearly showing the way University of Bergamo has taken on this challenge and what it is putting in place as answers in terms of work-based learning paradigma: academic procedures, organization and educational side. La formazione dell’insegnante di scuola dell’infanzia e primaria a Bergamo nel quadro del contesto europeo: peculiarità e sfide La formazione dell’insegnante di scuola dell’infanzia e primaria è, come sottolineato a livello internazionale, uno snodo strategico per le prospettive di sviluppo di un Paese. Oltre che una responsabilità sociale, è anche una potente opportunità pedagogica personale in quanto la preparazione alla professione può essere, se impostata in modo integrato, occasione di autoformazione della persona. Il contributo presenta come l’Università degli Studi di Bergamo abbia accolto questa sfida e quali risposte di carattere ordinamentale, organizzativo e didattico, riassumibili nel paradigma dell’alternanza formativa, stia mettendo in campo.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 18 No. 1 (2018): University education: quality, effectiveness, teacher training