EMI at Tertiary Level in Spain

2020 ◽  
pp. 232-256
Author(s):  
Francisco Zayas Martínez ◽  
José Luis Estrada Chichón
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Initial Implementation ◽  
Spanish Universities ◽  
First Time

This chapter examines the state-of-the-art of EMI lecturing at Cadiz University, Spain. The rationale of the research lies in the lecturers' main challenges for issues related to the use of EFL and EMI methodologies. Data were collected from a questionnaire to which EMI lecturers responded (N=22; 69%) and from a focus group carried out with a cross-sectional sample of participants (N=6). The conclusion sheds light on the following: For the first time, Spanish universities have started to design language policies aimed at using English for lecturing, although the initial implementation shows diverse effects, depending on whether EMI teaching takes place in one scientific area or another. This panorama suggests an adaptation of EMI training. Secondly, lecturers are committed to EMI training not only for language but also for methodological issues. They also demand greater recognition for teaching courses in EFL. Potential solutions and recommendations are proposed.

A NEW LAYOUT DESIGN SYSTEM FOR MULTICHIP MODULES

1995 ◽  
Vol 06 (03) ◽  
pp. 509-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
BERNHARD M. RIESS ◽  
ANDREAS A. SCHOENE
Keyword(s):  
Efficient Algorithm ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Layout Design ◽  
The State ◽  
Design System ◽  
Multichip Modules ◽  
Analytical Technique ◽  
Cut Method ◽  
First Time ◽  
Three Components

A new layout design system for multichip modules (MCMs) consisting of three components is described. It includes a k-way partitioning approach, an algorithm for pin assignment, and a placement package. For partitioning, we propose an analytical technique combined with a problem-specific multi-way ratio cut method. This method considers fixed module-level pad positions and assigns the cells to regularly arranged chips on the MCM substrate. In the subsequent pin assignment step the chip-level pads resulting from cut nets are positioned on the chip borders. Pin assignment is performed by an efficient algorithm, which profits from the cell coordinates generated by the analytical technique. Global and final placement for each chip is computed by the state-of-the-art placement tools GORDIANL and DOMINO. For the first time, results for MCM layout designs of benchmark circuits with up to 100,000 cells are presented. They show a small number of required chip-level pads, which is the most restricted resource in MCM design, and short total wire lengths.

Come Dine with me! Exploring the Behavioural Involvement of Culinary Tourists in Zimbabwe

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (10(5)) ◽  
pp. 1655-1669
Author(s):  
Edinah Tendani ◽  
Magdalena Petronella (Nellie) Swart ◽  
Cine Van Zyl
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Economic Downturn ◽  
Recovery Strategy ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Travel Restrictions ◽  
Convenience Sampling ◽  
Hospitality Managers ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

Restaurants in Zimbabwe have various gastronomic opportunities as Zimbabwean cuisine as it is represented by different ethnic groups, presenting an array of traditional cuisine. At the same time, gastronomic tourism needs to be innovative to survive the harsh travel restrictions and economic downturn caused by the Coronavirus pandemic. As Zimbabwe’s culinary tourism is still in its infancy it will require a post-pandemic recovery strategy. As aspect of this is the attitudes of diners. Thus, the purpose of this study is an examination of the relationship between the Culinary Tourist Value Scorecard (CTVSC) and the behavioural involvement of culinary tourists after visiting Zimbabwean ethnic restaurants. A cross-sectional survey, using a seven-point Likert scale, was employed to generate the data from 500 culinary tourists through convenience sampling. The scores between CTVSC and Culinary Tourist Behavioural Involvement (CTBI) were statistically significant (r = .80, n = 500, p<.001). Thus, hospitality managers must monitor and improve their culinary products while also meeting the needs of first-time and returning diners. It is recommended that state-of-the-art ethnic cuisine menus and refined the service offerings are adopted.

Introduction

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Jackson
Keyword(s):  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Medical History ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
History Of ◽  
Critical Account

This article gives a critical account of shifting approaches to prominent theoretical, conceptual, and methodological issues within the history of medicine in recent decades. It offers a synthetic account of the state of the art, an opportunity to take stock of where the history of medicine has been and where it now resides. It attempts to establish, and promote discussion about some of the major challenges facing future historians of medicine in terms of the questions, sources, and methods that should direct and animate the evolution of the discipline. This article hopes to provide both seasoned and aspiring scholars with a substantial empirical and theoretical platform for future research and with a constructive basis for more informed discussion of the intellectual place and ideological purpose of medical history.

scholarly journals Assessment of Chlorhexidine use for cord care at Kangundo level 4 Hospital

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clarice Ambale ◽  
Brian Ngatia ◽  
Jonathan Nthusi
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Standard Operating Procedure ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Ethical Approval ◽  
Hospital Cleaning ◽  
First Time

Abstract Background: Sepsis continues to be an important cause of morbidity and mortality in neonates. One of the most important portals of entry for infections is the umbilical cord. Proper care of the cord can prevent many of these cases of sepsis and hence reduce neonatal mortality rates. In Kenya, the use of chlorhexidine digluconate (CHX) gel was introduced to scale in 2016 and received with mixed reactions in some hospitals with reports of medication errors and ineffectiveness being received. This study sought to find out the knowledge, practices and attitude on its use in Kangundo Level 4 hospital. Methodology: The study was carried out at Kangundo level 4 hospital between June and August 2019. It was a descriptive cross-sectional study with both quantitative and qualitative components. A questionnaire was used for the quantitative data collection while focus group discussions were held for the qualitative data collection. Ethical approval was sought prior to commencement of data collection. Results: A total of 19 clients and 24 healthcare workers were interviewed and two focus group discussions held. All the 19 clients had delivered in the hospital and only three were first-time mothers. Education on how to use chlorhexidine (CHX) was given to 16/19 (84%) of the clients interviewed. Duration of application varied among clients; 4 days 5/19(26%), 7 days, 12/19 (64%) and until the stump falls off, 2/19 (10%). Twenty of the 24 HCWs (83%) interviewed advised the patients on cleaning the cord prior to application of CHX, frequency of application varied from OD 15/24 ( 62%), BD 3/24 (13%) and TID 6/24( 25%). Two FGDs were held for HCW; lack of training and clear instructions on how to use the gel as major contributors to ineffectiveness of CHX. Conclusion and recommendation: There was poor understanding on the use of CHX among both clients and HCWs at Kangundo level 4 hospital. Cleaning of the stump prior to gel application is important to prevent accumulation of the dry gel and allow contact with the wound. There is need for training and development of a standard operating procedure on use of CHX.

scholarly journals Proposal of a Methodology for the Estimation of Slope, Water Depth and Cross-sectional Area by Using the State Function, Ф (T): Testing With the Measurements Made by H. Fischer in M. Keck Channel Laboratory of Caltech University

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 213-219
Author(s):  
Carlos Peña-Guzmán ◽  
Alfredo Constain ◽  
Gina Peña-Olarte
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Thermodynamic Potential ◽  
Dispersion Coefficient ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Accurate Estimation ◽  
State Function ◽  
Average Difference ◽  
Longitudinal Dispersion Coefficient ◽  
Cross Sectional

A basic topic in river studies, whether in hydrodynamics or water quality, is the accurate estimation of both geomorphological and geometric characteristics in cross sections in streams or channels. Many measurements or methodologies that are within the state of the art, are not direct or easy by several aspects. For this reason, this article analyses the application of a state function, Ф (t), which, acting as a thermodynamic potential, allows the magnitudes of the cross sections, depth of the water sheet, slope and longitudinal dispersion coefficient to be obtained directly, using NaCl as a tracer. In order to apply and validate this new method properly, an experiment conducted in 1966 by H.B. Fischer in the W.M. Keck Laboratory of Caltech in USA was studied on two points of the canal. It found average differences of 0.016 m2 (with reference) in the area of the canal, 0.015 m of the height of the water sheet and an average difference of -0.00015 in the slope of the canal

Starch-Cellulose-Based Triboelectric Nanogenerator Obtained by a Low-Cost Cleanroom-Free Processing Method

MRS Advances ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (23) ◽  
pp. 1315-1320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Ccorahua ◽  
Alexsandra Cordero ◽  
Clemente Luyo ◽  
María Quintana ◽  
Emir Vela
Keyword(s):  
Film Thickness ◽  
Chemical Modification ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Processing Method ◽  
The State ◽  
Triboelectric Nanogenerator ◽  
Micro Fabrication ◽  
Complex Equipment ◽  
First Time

To date only few low-cost bio-based materials have been reported to be useful as TENGs. However, they still keep employing costly nanofabrication techniques. Herein, a new bio-based starch-cellulose TENG is fabricated without using complex equipment for the first time. Our results showed that, depending on the film thickness, electric outputs varied from 60 mV to 300 mV per 4 cm2 area. The thicker the film, the lower the electrical outputs, and vice versa. Moreover, FTIR-ATR analysis also showed that no chemical modification was made on the surface of starch after casting. Therefore, starch remained unmodified at the time of characterization, being this performance proper of a pristine starch. In addition, though organic starch isolation, fabrication of the proposed TENG was entirely handmade, thus avoiding use of complex equipment of nano- and micro-fabrication which resulted in the development of an eco-friendly TENG with very good performance according to the state-of-the-art.

scholarly journals A Novel SAT-Based Approach to Model Based Diagnosis

2014 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 377-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Metodi ◽  
R. Stern ◽  
M. Kalech ◽  
M. Codish
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Minimal Cardinality ◽  
Model Based ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Way

This paper introduces a novel encoding of Model Based Diagnosis (MBD) to Boolean Satisfaction (SAT) focusing on minimal cardinality diagnosis. The encoding is based on a combination of sophisticated MBD preprocessing algorithms and the application of a SAT compiler which optimizes the encoding to provide more succinct CNF representations than obtained with previous works. Experimental evidence indicates that our approach is superior to all published algorithms for minimal cardinality MBD. In particular, we can determine, for the first time, minimal cardinality diagnoses for the entire standard ISCAS-85 and 74XXX benchmarks. Our results open the way to improve the state-of-the-art on a range of similar MBD problems.

scholarly journals Transient events in bright debris discs: Collisional avalanches revisited

2018 ◽  
Vol 609 ◽  
pp. A98 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Thebault ◽  
Q. Kral
Keyword(s):  
Optical Depth ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Chain Reaction ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Self Consistent ◽  
Transient Events ◽  
Transient Structures ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Ideal

Context. A collisional avalanche is set off by the breakup of a large planetesimal, releasing vast amounts of small unbound grains that enter a debris disc located further away from the star, triggering there a collisional chain reaction that could potentially create detectable transient structures. Aims. We investigate this mechanism, using for the first time a fully self-consistent code coupling dynamical and collisional evolutions. We also quantify for the first time the photometric evolution of the system and investigate whether or not avalanches could explain the short-term luminosity variations recently observed in some extremely bright debris discs. Methods. We use the state-of-the-art LIDT-DD code. We consider an avalanche-favoring A6V star, and two set-ups: a “cold disc” case, with a dust release at 10 au and an outer disc extending from 50 to 120 au, and a “warm disc” case with the release at 1 au and a 5−12 au outer disc. We explore, in addition, two key parameters: the density (parameterized by its optical depth τ) of the main outer disc and the amount of dust released by the initial breakup. Results. We find that avalanches could leave detectable structures on resolved images, for both “cold” and “warm” disc cases, in discs with τ of a few 10-3, provided that large dust masses (≳1020−5 × 1022 g) are initially released. The integrated photometric excess due to an avalanche is relatively limited, less than 10% for these released dust masses, peaking in the λ ~ 10−20 μm domain and becoming insignificant beyond ~40–50 μm. Contrary to earlier studies, we do not obtain stronger avalanches when increasing τ to higher values. Likewise, we do not observe a significant luminosity deficit, as compared to the pre-avalanche level, after the passage of the avalanche. These two results concur to make avalanches an unlikely explanation for the sharp luminosity drops observed in some extremely bright debris discs. The ideal configuration for observing an avalanche would be a two-belt structure, with an inner belt (at ~1 or ~10 au for the “warm” and “cold” disc cases, respectively) of fractional luminosity f ≳ 10-4 where breakups of massive planetesimals occur, and a more massive outer belt, with τ of a few 10-3, into which the avalanche chain reaction develops and propagates.

scholarly journals Analysis of the Satisfaction Degree of Students at Spain’s Physiotherapy Universities in Relation to Online Teaching during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 13628
Author(s):  
Isabel Escobio-Prieto ◽  
Raquel Sobrino-Sánchez ◽  
José Antonio Mingorance ◽  
Manuel García-Marín ◽  
Antonio Matas-Terrón ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
The State ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
Spanish Universities ◽  
Physiotherapy Students

Student satisfaction is a crucial aspect in the quality assessment of higher education. The aim of the present study was to assess the degree of satisfaction among students in the Faculties of physiotherapy throughout Spain concerning online teaching during the State of Emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This was a quantitative study with a cross-sectional observational design. The online questionnaire DISFISCOVID was distributed to 24 physiotherapy faculties across Spain. A sample of 348 physiotherapy students from 14 Spanish universities completed the questionnaire. It showed high reliability evidence, achieving Cronbach’s alpha indices higher than 0.870, alongside a McDonald’s ωH of 0.876. On the whole, students were not satisfied with online learning during the State of Emergency, considering it unsuitable for their learning in either the theoretical or practical field of subjects in the degree of physiotherapy. In conclusion, the perception of physiotherapy students concerning the teaching they received, as far as practical contents and assessment methods are concerned, was not very satisfactory in those Faculties in which online learning platforms were not being used beforehand, and was more satisfactory when teaching was carried out in-person in the classroom.

scholarly journals Swallowable medical devices for diagnosis and surgery: The state of the art

2010 ◽  
Vol 224 (7) ◽  
pp. 1397-1414 ◽  
Author(s):  
J L Toennies ◽  
G Tortora ◽  
M Simi ◽  
P Valdastri ◽  
R J Webster
Keyword(s):  
Medical Devices ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Integrated Systems ◽  
Gi Tract ◽  
Human Visual Perception ◽  
Surgical Tools ◽  
Future Potential ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
First Time

The first wireless camera pills created a revolutionary new perspective for engineers and physicians, demonstrating for the first time the feasibility of achieving medical objectives deep within the human body from a swallowable, wireless platform. The approximately 10 years since the first camera pill has been a period of great innovation in swallowable medical devices. Many modules and integrated systems have been devised to enable and enhance the diagnostic and even robotic capabilities of capsules working within the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. This article begins by reviewing the motivation and challenges of creating devices to work in the narrow, winding, and often inhospitable GI environment. Then the basic modules of modern swallowable wireless capsular devices are described, and the state of the art in each is discussed. This article is concluded with a perspective on the future potential of swallowable medical devices to enable advanced diagnostics beyond the capability of human visual perception, and even to directly deliver surgical tools and therapy non-invasively to interventional sites deep within the GI tract.

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