scholarly journals The impact on education of Astronomical Olympiads and the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics

2019 ◽  
Vol 200 ◽  
pp. 01011
Author(s):  
Greg Stachowski ◽  
Aniket Sule
Keyword(s):  
Common Goal ◽  
School Students ◽  
Astronomy Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Valuable Element ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Astronomy And Astrophysics ◽  
International Events ◽  
Global Reach

Astronomical Olympiads and similar competitions for highschool students have been run in some countries for more than half a century, and last year marked the tenth anniversary of the largest such competition with global reach, the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics. The effect of these has been to reach out to a large number of school students who might not otherwise have considered astronomy as a subject; help maintain a high, guided standard of astronomy education even in countries where astronomy is not (or no longer) on the curriculum; and to encourage those students who participate to strive harder and pursue astronomy further by giving them goals to aim for, rewarding their efforts with medals, recognition and participation in the international events in interesting locations and, above all, showing them that there are many other students just like them both in their own country and around the world. Many of the students go on to careers in astronomy education or research. We believe that Astronomy Olympiads are a very valuable element in the astronomy education framework which can be used to further the common goal of sustaining and growing the astronomical community.

scholarly journals Sciences and audiences along the last century: the impact of Astronomy Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (S349) ◽  
pp. 474-478
Author(s):  
Rosa M. Ros ◽  
Beatriz Garca
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Teachers ◽  
Astronomy Education ◽  
Interest In Science ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Made In ◽  
Science Activities

AbstractJust as in the past, the development of the natural sciences and in particular of astronomy has changed the history of humanity. If we think about the role of our discipline into the future, it shows its enormous power in the field of education, owing to the possibility of awakening interest in science in very varied audiences. Within the framework of the enormous progress made in the technologies related to astronomy, many of them of daily use, the role of the astronomer in the era of Communications acquires fundamental importance.In this presentation, we will try to make a journey through the different ways of presenting astronomical topics for different audiences over the last 100 years. In turn, we will show some specific achievements, associated with education programmes of the discipline. We discuss the impact produced by proposals that are both rigorous in terms of content, and also appeal to the development of the human being in an integral manner, within the framework of citizen science activities.For this research, we have taken into account the uninterrupted development of the NASE programme, which has performed 112 courses in 24 countries throughout the world and in different languages. NASE has involved 4966 secondary teachers in the last eight years.

Political Ideologies

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Global Reach

Political Ideologies provides a broad-ranging introduction to both classical and contemporary political ideologies. Adopting a global outlook, it introduces readers to ideologies' increasingly global reach and the different national versions of these ideologies. Importantly, ideologies are presented as frameworks of interpretation and political commitment, encouraging readers to evaluate how ideologies work in practice, the problematic links between ideas and political action, and the impact of ideologies. Regular learning features encourage readers to think critically about ideologies, and view them as competing and contestable ways of interpreting the world. A unique ‘stop and think’ feature calls for readers to reflect on their own ideological beliefs. Topics include liberalism, conservatism, socialism and communism, anarchism, nationalism, fascism and the radical right, feminism, environmentalism, multiculturalism, religion and fundamentalism.

scholarly journals Effect of the "Common House" program on the ecological awareness of regular basic education students in Lima

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3C) ◽  
pp. 177-186
Author(s):  
Santos Teolinda Silva Chanta ◽  
Percy Martín Laucata Alarcón ◽  
Carmen Vivar-Bravo ◽  
Walter Arturo Quispe Cutipa
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Rank Statistic ◽  
School Students ◽  
Ecological Awareness ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Common House

This research shows the benefits of applying the innovative program "Common House" that allows students to develop knowledge, attitudes and behaviors that demonstrate and consolidate a fraternal relationship with Sister Nature. Fourteen sessions were held in the experimental group and there was a control group that served to compare the impact of the program. The sample consisted of 50 high school students from an Educational Institution in Lima. To measure the level of ecological awareness, a Likert scale was created that was validated by expert judgment and reached a reliability of Cronbach's Alpha = .910. The results of the program were estimated by the non-parametric rank statistic of U Mann Whitney (p < α = 0.05). It is concluded that the “Common House” program is effective in developing levels of ecological awareness in secondary school students.

scholarly journals Insights into rainfall undercatch for differing raingauge rim heights

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 1564-1576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Muchan ◽  
Harry Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Ground Surface ◽  
Ground Level ◽  
Field Trials ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Operational Practices ◽  
South East England ◽  
The Uk ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The measurement of rainfall has a long history, but despite its apparent simplicity it is difficult to quantify accurately. The common installation of raingauges with rims above the ground surface results in a difference between the rainfall caught and the amount reaching ground level, termed undercatch. The UK standard installation of raingauges is for their rim to be sited at 0.305 m above the ground; however, the use of weighing gauges installed at a minimum rim height of 1 m has increased in recent years. The installation of these weighing raingauges raises complex questions of homogeneity in rainfall data across space and time. Here, we investigate the impact of these changes using field trials of commonly deployed UK raingauges at a site in south-east England. This paper discusses the results of the trial, exploring the variation in and potential drivers of undercatch with differing gauge sitings. With varying standards for gauge heights around the world and new rainfall measurement technologies coming to the market all the time, improved understanding of undercatch is needed to inform evolving operational practices and explore the possibility of developing catch correction algorithms to remove arising inhomogeneity in precipitation datasets.

Knowledge Management Initiatives in Indian Public Sector

2014 ◽  
pp. 53-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeta Baporikar
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Km Strategy ◽  
Public Sector Organizations ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Impact

Today, knowledge management has come to be accepted and recognized as a source of competitive advantage in the private sector. Although Knowledge Management (KM) has been gaining attention all over the world, KM as a discipline is still in its infancy, and adoption of KM is still at its nascent stage when it comes to the Public Sector. It is vital for any organization to understand the concept of KM so as to align its KM strategy with the organization’s strategy. This is all the more important when it is the Public Sector because the impact of Public Sector organizations directly affects the common man. Knowledge creation, generation, and application are a continuous process. Without thorough understanding and awareness of KM, the Public Sector may not be able to reap true and full benefits. This chapter aims to bring a comprehensive understanding of KM application to the Public Sector and through cases recognizes the initiatives of KM in the Indian Public Sector.

scholarly journals Sonochemical Degradation of Phenol and Para-Chlorophenol in an Ultrasonic bath in the Presence of Inorganic Salts and H2O2

2018 ◽  
pp. 53-63
Author(s):  
Md. Helal Uddin ◽  
Md. Jahangir Hossain ◽  
Md. Shaharul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Phenolic Compounds ◽  
Degradation Rate ◽  
Water Environment ◽  
Inorganic Salts ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
Ultrasonic Bath ◽  
The World ◽  
Scientists And Engineers ◽  
The Common ◽  
Natural Decay

Phenol (Ph) and some of its derivatives such as para chloro-phenol (PCP) have received considerable attention from environmental scientists and engineers, due to their undesirable effects in the water environment, where they end up as a result of improper disposal methods. As a consequence, research has been conducted all around the world with the common goal of reducing their concentrations to allowable limits or converting them to non-toxic, non-hazardous forms that may easily be handled by natural decay processes. This report describes a system developed to degrade these substances using sonochemical reactions. Sonochemical degradation of phenolic compounds were carried out in the presence and absence of NaCl, Na2SO4, Na2CO3, NaNO3 and H2O2. In sonochemical degradation of phenol in sonicatior hight degradation rate was obtained in the presence of additives H2O2 and followed the order: Ph+H2O2 > Ph+Na2SO4 ? Ph+NaCl > Ph (0 mM salt & additive) ? Ph+NaNO3 > Ph+Na2CO3. Whereas, in case of parachlorophenol (PCP) hight rate was obtained in the presec of H2O2 and they followed the order: PCP+H2O2 > PCP+NaCl > PCP+Na2SO4 ? PCP (0 mM salt & additive) > PCP+Na2CO3 > PCP + NaNO3.

scholarly journals On the impact of publicly available news and information transfer to financial markets

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 202321
Author(s):  
Metod Jazbec ◽  
Barna Pàsztor ◽  
Felix Faltings ◽  
Nino Antulov-Fantulin ◽  
Petter N. Kolm
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Economic Significance ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Impact

We quantify the propagation and absorption of large-scale publicly available news articles from the World Wide Web to financial markets. To extract publicly available information, we use the news archives from the Common Crawl, a non-profit organization that crawls a large part of the web. We develop a processing pipeline to identify news articles associated with the constituent companies in the S&P 500 index, an equity market index that measures the stock performance of US companies. Using machine learning techniques, we extract sentiment scores from the Common Crawl News data and employ tools from information theory to quantify the information transfer from public news articles to the US stock market. Furthermore, we analyse and quantify the economic significance of the news-based information with a simple sentiment-based portfolio trading strategy. Our findings provide support for that information in publicly available news on the World Wide Web has a statistically and economically significant impact on events in financial markets.

scholarly journals RELATIONS BETWEEN UKRAINIAN PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS IN CANADA IN 1918–1939: CONFLICTS ON IDEOLOGICAL AND CONFESSIONAL GROUND

2019 ◽  
pp. 66-71
Author(s):  
Olesia Dzyra
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Political Organizations ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Press ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Ukrainian Catholic

The article describes the division of the Ukrainian community of Canada in the interwar period into a number of public and political organizations. The focus is on the national and patriotic bloc, which opposed the communist one. The basis of this bloc constituted liberal the Ukrainian self-reliance league of Canada, nationalist the Ukrainian war veterans association in Canada, the Ukrainian national federation of Canada, conservative the Ukrainian catholic brotherhood of Canada, and the United hetman organization. The basis of the various conflicts in the bloc, including differences in ideological postulates of liberal, nationalist and conservative societies and views on the religion of Orthodox and Greek Catholics who were members of the organizations mentioned above are analyzed in the study. It is described how opposing parties resisted against each other, and what role the press played in those conflicts. The article also enlightens attempts of agreements between public organizations and mentions joint actions to support the Ukrainian issue in the world. The common goal could reconcile the national and patriotic public associations at the time of the formation of the Ukrainian Canadian Committee on November 7, 1940, which marked a new stage in the social and political life of the Ukrainian Diaspora, as it was emphasized in the article. The reasons that hindered Ukrainian societies from reaching a mutually acceptable consensus and promoted further aggravation of relations were elucidated. The main consequences of conflicts in the environment of national and patriotic public organizations were identified, namely how it was reflected in the social and political life of the Ukrainian diaspora during the interwar period, how it was perceived by the ruling circles of Canada, and how it was used by the communist groups.

Le Symbole du feu dans la vie des adolescents et dans leur univers religieux

1972 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 445-458
Author(s):  
Paul Winand
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
School Level ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
School Students ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Impact

This study concentrates on the impact of this major symbol on teenagers, as may be perceived in the religious context through free associations and impromptu stories, and in the religious context through biblical and liturgical references. The sampling was done according to three variables (sex, age, school) and hoped to reach the highest degree of homo geneity concerning life environment and curricula. For computational reasons, 400 answers were examined so as to have 200 for each series. The aim of this paper is to introduce briefly our findings, taking into consideration the two variables, sex and school. The prospections of the secular context through the analysis of free associations and impromptu stories reveal, from the point of view of sex, that boys experience the world of things as means or obstacles. Girls, on the other hand, being more sensitive to the surroundings and aesthetic overtones perceive the world as values and enter the symbolic domain more easily. As far as ' school ' is concerned, it appears that the evocation of the Fire Symbol is experienced by students according to the characteristic trends of each set up. In the religious context one sees that in general teenagers have a better knowledge of the Bible than of the Liturgy. Courage and strength being attractive, boys refer to « power theophanies » while girls stress the quality and depth of theophanies which may be termed « personal and intimate ». They know the liturgy better and are touched by the words of the liturgy, whereas the boys lose themselves in the rite itself and its materiality. As for the educational variable, the biblical and liturgical culture of state school students is characterised by a statistically broader amplitude. The pupils of the denominational network seem to be more under the influence of a primary-school-level catechesis. Comparison of the two contexts : The symbolic structure in tegrates the same harmonics in both contexts. On the contrary, the choice and polarization of the harmonics differ. The religious overdetermination smoothes out the sexual and educational differential stresses which come out in the natural context. Conclusion : In our contemporary culture, the young are alive to symbols. The Firc Symbol, in the Bible as well as in the Liturgy, has a powerful and positive impact, but its resonance is relative to various stresses in both contexts. secular or religious.

The Revival of Mexican Religions: The Impact of Nativism

Numen ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yolotl González Torres
Keyword(s):  
Religious Movements ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
Social Crisis ◽  
Geographical Mobility ◽  
Mexican Society ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

AbstractAbout thirty years ago, there was a deep transformation in Mexican society due, among other things, to the introduction of capitalist technologies and a geographical mobility of population which generated a generalized social crisis which allowed the massive penetration and proliferation of religious movements in Mexico. These were mainly Protestant in its different versions as well as groups of Eastern origins. Somewhat, as a counterpart movement, the “Mexicanidad”-Mexicaness, started to increase in popularity. The “Mexicanidad” is formed by three main groups which differentiate in many aspects, but have as their common goal the restoration of Mexico as the spiritual center of the world. We try to analyze the three different groups and its associations with each other.

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