Journals
2011 EN
Christopher R. Edginton · Ming-Kai Chin · Michał Bronikowski
Health and physical education: a new global statement of consensus (from a Polish perspective) Physical education has found itself in a difficult position; increasingly more voices are questioning its legitimisation on school curricula. There is an obvious need for performance standards and ways to measure the impact of physical education. Linking the benefits and outcomes of physical education to 21st Century core learning areas such as critical thinking, problem solving, the ability to operate with agility and adaptability, the ability to analyse information, communicate effectively and the ability to act innovatively, will be essential. One of the ways of enhancing its social value (and recognition) might be including and relaying more on health education. This paper draws some lines of direction for the pedagogy of these both subjects in the 21st Century referring to the Global Forum on Physical Education Pedagogy 2010 (GoFPEP 2010) and presenting its Statement of Consensus.
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2011 EN
Kshitij Mohan · Ajai Srivastava · Praveen Rai
Ground Water in the City of Varanasi, India: present status and prospects The city of Varanasi is short of water. The city obtains a total of 270 million litres water from the river Ganga and tubewells. Yet every fifth citizen lacks drinking water. The ground water is polluted due to nitrate and faecal coliform. A further problem is the plan to settle the growing population in a new township nearby under the integrated development plan of Greater Varanasi, a part of the Jawajarlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission. To fulfill the growing demand of fresh water, new water bearing horizon of the most affected part of the city i.e. southern part is to be identified. This paper reports a study of the variation in the grain size attributes of an aquifer material taken from different depths from the affected region in order to establish the generalized hydrological properties and recommend the depth of the well accordingly. From the grain size analysis and hydrological study it may be concluded that water bearing zones are mainly found in three horizons at the depths 44-56 m; 56-87 m; and 87-165 m. The third water bearing horizon (total thickness being 78 m) can act as a good potential ground water horizon for a new township. Due to its greater depth, the water would be relatively fresh being characterized by very low concentration of dissolved solids. Therefore, this horizon is strongly recommended for utilizing the water resource for the township.
Journals
2011 EN
Kim Janssen · Piet Wit
This paper describes a recently developed training module on the “ecosystem approach”, with the military as target group. Initiated by NATO-affiliated Civil-Military Co-operation Centre of Excellence (CIMIC COE), the module fits into a multidisciplinary new training approach, in which the military learns to integrate specific concepts into their missions, such as environmental issues. In developing the training module, a combination of the Rapid Ecological Assessment (REA) and Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA) techniques has been formed into a stepwise approach for military to enable them to quickly scan and analyse important environmental issues in their mission environments. The result of the training module is an instructive publication and an attached instruction card, the latter being a tool commonly used by military
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2011 EN
M. Simko
The Icon in the Byzantine Liturgy The icon is very connected with the liturgical mystery, therefore it can not be separated in any ways and looked for out of this mystery. It is an integral part of the liturgy in which the mission of the Church is revealed. In the church the icon, that speaks to the believer in spiritual language, helps the believer occurs higher, sublime world surrounded by heavenly beings. As we meet in the church with the world of the visible and the invisible, it is necessary to have boundary between these two worlds. However, this separation is only possible with the facts, which have dual possibilities of perception. And it is the iconostasis which is the boundary between the world of the visible and the invisible. This altar barrier divided two worlds, gives a vivid picture of understanding, indivisible Board of Saints which surrounds the throne of God. The iconostasis shows the Eucharist space. It reveals the entrance to another world and proclaims the kingdom of the heaven to the deaf ears. It is windows that reveals the fourth dimension to us. This an inseparable component of Byzantine churches is the Church's liturgical expression and history, too.
Journals
2011 EN
Rispens S. · Bouman J.
The aim of ESA's satellite mission GOCE is to determine the Earth's gravity field with high accuracy and resolution. To achieve this aim, GOCE carries a gravitational gradiometer that needs calibration. Existing global gravity field models in combination with GOCE star sensor data may be used to synthesize reference differential accelerations with which the common and differential accelerations, as derived from the gradiometer measurements, can be calibrated. We present a new method in which the data are transformed from the time to the frequency domain, which allows accounting for the coloured noise on the measurements. The weight matrix is iteratively adjusted and we apply our method to real GOCE data. With our method, the gravitational gradient trace significantly reduces as compared with the currently available in-flight calibrated measurements.
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2011 EN
Ján Sarnovský · Ján Liguš
This paper presents results of modelling and analysis of Network Control Systems (NCS) using the reconfiguration strategies in case of individual networks faults. In general the NCS as all systems follows its mission which should be accomplished with guarantee. The system mission can be disturbed or interrupted by failures which occur with some probability. A primary requirement in order to benefit from network reconfigurations is to prepare some reconfiguration mechanisms which are executed just after the network failure, when the communication of some of the components has to be retransmitted through other non-failed networks. The implementation of a suitable reconfiguration strategy allows significant improvement of the dependability attributes and parameters.
Technical University of Košice
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2011 EN
Janja Nograšek
Change Management as a Critical Success Factor in e-Government Implementation Change management in e-government implementation is a very complex issue. E-government services are frequently distributed over different IT systems and organizations. There are also events from outside the public administration that cause changes such as government policies and legislation, public-private partnership, etc., and finally a huge resistance to change exists in public administration proverbial. Another problem is that the e-government is predominantly seen only as a technology mission and not as an organizational transformation issue. Those are probably the main reasons that the existing literature about change management in e-government is still missing at large. There are articles dealing with some aspects of changes affected by the new technology implementation, however, there is no comprehensive framework that would identify changes that have to be managed in e-government implementation. Therefore, the main aim of the paper is to identify a comprehensive set of changes that have to be considered in e-government implementation and the role of leadership in such processes. Finally, the paper proposes a conceptual model of change management in e-government implementation.
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2011 EN
Rosa BrunoJofré · Carlos Martínez Valle
The article examines how and to what extent the ideas of John Dewey were adopted and adapted by the political and educational elite of post-revolutionary Mexico and the consequences of that adoption. It provides the political, cultural, and socio-economic context of reception as well as the various points of entry of Dewey`s ideas including the relation between the Secretary of Education, the Universidad Nacional de México and Columbia University (in particular Teachers College) and the influence of the Protestant missionaries. The article discusses the issues and ideas that characterized the political and educational debates of the time and mediated the traveling and reception of international pedagogical ideas. It pays particular attention to the building of Mexicanidad (nation building) through the incorporation or the integration (depending on the dominant current thought) of the rural and indigenous population in a contradictory and eclectic modernizing project. It does not neglect the negative consequences of the translation of some progressive ideas. The introduction of Dewey`s ideas are discussed within the context of the various political and educational tendencies inside the Secretary. The last part of the paper is devoted to Rafael Ramírez, a progressive educator, a central protagonist, who served in the Secretary for a long time in spite of political changes and who devoted his life to rural education and its civilizing mission. He wrote about education and we can trace his reading of Dewey.
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2011 EN
Concepción Naval Durán · Rafaela García · José María Sans Puig
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Recent decades have seen growing international concern about the lack of social commitment among young people, shown in their failure to participate in social affairs, scant interest in formal politics, and low turnout at elections.
First, the international framework which forms the background to our paper is outlined. The ethical and civic education which university students receive is discussed, in the context of the social mission of the university and the European Higher Education Area. We then move on to examine one of the most promising initiatives in this field: service learning. We conclude with a proposal containing some suggestions of relevance to higher education. The need for ethical and civic education underpins the whole article, since this is the key to promoting social commitment among young people.
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2011 EN
W. Spencer Smith
This paper presents a document driven strategic planning process for academic units. Details are provided on the steps in the process that will lead, with a reasonable investment of time and effort, to a quality strategic plan document that incorporates input from all stakeholders. The resulting plan consists of a mission statement, vision statement, goals, objectives and implementation ideas. The specific organization of the elements of the plan and tables for systematically presenting the details on definitions, relationships between components, evaluation criteria and timelines are presented using a template. The proposal for the template approach is motivated by the success of this approach in software engineering practise. The template facilitates producing a document that is complete, consistent, understandable and maintainable. The process and the final product are illustrated using examples from Engineering 1 at McMaster University.
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