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This description of the application of the RAND Corporation's PortMan portfolio analysis and management method and Delphi consensus-building method for the National Security Agency (NSA) Information Sharing Services (ISS) division highlights how these methods enable the data-driven analysis of project portfolios and the allocation of research and development (R&D) and operations and maintenance (O&M) resources according to value, risk, and cost.

Der germanische Choraldialekt war während dreier Dezennien ein Forschungsgegenstand, der über die Musikwissenschaft hinausreichte. Er wurde liturgiewissenschaftlich, missionstheologisch und kulturkundlich, ja selbst identitätspolitisch rezipiert und war in der katholischen und in der evangelischen Liturgie beheimatet. In der Studie werden das Entstehen dieser Forschungsrichtung und Konflikte nachgezeichnet, die daraus für die Choralrestauration erwuchsen. Auch wird erklärt, warum bald nur noch Fachleute darüber Bescheid wussten. Im Zentrum der Untersuchung stehen das Schaffen von Michael Hermesdorff (Trier), Peter Wagner (Fribourg) und Ephrem Omlin (Engelberg), das Schweizer Benediktinerantiphonar sowie die Kiedricher Choralschule mit ihrer noch heute gepflegten Gesangspraxis.

The paper aims at dealing with didactics of Resistance through the relationship between the historical wtnesses and younger generations. As the first has lived the historical events he is going to narrate, younger generations constitute ideally the depositary of a rich and fragile set of informations. Based from this perspective, the paper is going to speak about a students' cycle of meetings organised in some schools in the province of Pistoia, between 2016 and 2018: the vocational institute "Martini" and the technical institute "Marchi". Meetings were held by SIlvano Sarti, who fought as partisan in the "Brigata Sinigaglia" in 1944 and who was appointed ANPI provincial president in Florence.

Hacia finales del siglo XVIII, un selecto grupo de acaudalados se interesó por conseguir algún título de nobleza con el fin de aumentar su honor y prestigio, valores de una alta estima en aquélla época. De esta forma, la sociedad novohispana quedó coronada con condes y marqueses que impusieron un código de comportamiento que fue imitado y reproducido por el resto de los grupos sociales. Esta es una historia que se basa, principalmente, en las últimas voluntades de estos hombres y mujeres: los testamentos. Su rigor científico llamará la atención entre los lectores por su novedad, por la ambición de su planteamiento, por su acertado enfoque crítico, por su estilo narrativo y por sus valiosos aportes a la historia social y de las mentalidades en México. El interés de esta historia reside principalmente en que tiende un puente entre la formación de la nobleza y el ritual que rodeaba a la muerte.

social research & statistics; psychological methodology

Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management; Ecology; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis

The research described in this book searches for the answers on how learners learn in todays open and networked learning environments and how learners, educators, institutions, and researchers can best support this process. There is sufficient data available on virtual learning environments, provided by learning analytics, on student and teacher behaviour and performance, but there is no common practice among teachers in higher education for using this data to improve the learning and teaching process. Learning analytics and data may inform and improve open and online learning from the point of view of teacher and learner awareness about their behaviour and their learning and teaching methods. The idea of describing learning analytics as a metacognitive tool, suggesting a development of metacognitive decision-making skills in teacher education, and focusing on learning design in higher education by using data from learning analytics served as the main focus of this research. The aim of the research was to create the model of application of learning analytics method as a metacognitive tool to enhance student success. The aim of the research was reached through theoretical and empirical objectives, namely: describing the learning analytics method as a metacognitive tool revealing teacher metacognitive practices in application of learning analytics in teaching and learning, as well as learning design and creating the model of application of learning analytics as a metacognitive tool to enhance student success. This research study is the result of the research project “Open Online Learning for Digital and Networked Society (3.3-LMT-K-712-01-0189)”.

Cet ouvrage aspire à renouveler la lecture de l'œuvre de Leopoldo Alas Clarín à partir d'une analyse stylistique de l'intégralité de ses écrits en prose, sans perspective hiérarchique. Son objet est de montrer que l'ironie est une catégorie esthétique, et que l'esthétique clarinienne est ironique. Il fait appel aux références culturelles de l'auteur et aux échos internes à son œuvre pour décrire son vitalisme intellectuel et explorer le phénomène d'intimité textuelle. Traditionnellement, le...

Ce volume se propose de réunir et de confronter des travaux concernant trois domaines de la sémantique pragmatique du français qui sont habituellement séparés: la médiativité, la modalité et la polyphonie. Au-delà des différences et des spécificités de chacun de ces domaines, la problématique qui les unit est une même interrogation quant au rapport entre l’auteur d’un énoncé ou d’un discours et le contenu de son dire : l’auteur déclaré d’un énoncé peut-il ne pas être à l’origine de toutes les...

Die versammelten Beiträge widmen sich literarischen Darstellungen des Teufels der Vormoderne im Hinblick auf ihre in der Forschung wenig beachteten produktiven Potentiale: Was kann der Teufel – trotz oder vielleicht gerade wegen seiner non-konformen Bosheit – als Figur im Text, was andere Figuren nicht können? Wozu ermächtigt der Einsatz dieser Figur, was ermöglicht sie?

In this chapter, we draw on an analysis of English policy documents and focus groups with students at three English higher education institutions, to explore some of the complexity in the ways in which the concept of student-as-consumer is discussed by both those formulating policy and the intended recipients. In relation to policies, this is evident in some of the apparent contradictions within government documents which, on one hand, emphasise strongly many aspects of a consumer discourse (foregrounding ideas around investment, choice and ensuring value of money) but, on the other hand, also discuss in some detail the vulnerability of students and their need of protection– which is clearly at odds with the notion of an ‘empowered consumer’. With respect to students, a similar degree of complexity can be seen in their differential awareness of the student-as-consumer discourse, and their varied responses to it.

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM. Drawing on the rich personal archive of the geographer Josué de Castro, this book tells a new history of geography by following one of the twentieth century's most influential and creative Brazilian intellectuals from the estuarine city of Recife to the halls of the UN, the chambers of Brasília, and exile amid the political fervour of the universities of Paris in 1968. This is the first English language book on the absorbing life of Josué de Castro. It follows modern anticolonial geographical thought in formation, re-reading Castro's metabolic, humanist geography as the anchor of a utopian practice of freedom: the demand for a world without hunger. Starting from Castro's life and work, the book offers new takes on the history of nutrition, translation in geography, Brazilian modernist art and practice in post-war internationalism, the radical geographical intellectual, the problem of the region in the Brazilian Northeast, and the birth of political ecology and critical environmental thought. At once a biographical intellectual history and a work of geographical theory, this innovative book tells the story of 20th century geography from a new angle and in new company.

The 1st Tank Regiment was the very first military unit in the whole history of the Polish army, which was full fitted out with tanks. Created on March 15, 1919 by order of the Command of the Polish Army in France, it went to the independent Poland in June of the same year. Equipped with 120 modern tanks, the Renault FT took an active part in the war with Bolshevik Russia. A little-known card in his history are relations with Łódź, where he was stationed for the first two years. Łódź was the place from the fighting vehicles went to the fronts of the war, here they also went from the battlefields for renovation. In Łódź, armoured soldiers quartered, continued their military training and participated in language courses. Some aspects of the regiment’s relationship with the city were reflected in the local press of the time: „Straż Polska”, „Kurier Łódzki”, „Głos Polski”, „Rozwój”, „Praca”. News, some small ads and press announcements supplemented with individual archives from the resources of the State Archive in Łódź such as iconography, files and ephemeral prints allowed to broaden knowledge about some important aspects connected with: the reviews of tanks organized for the local population, among whom they aroused great interest; participation of the regiment in parades accompanying state and military ceremonies or church devotions; minor incidents and accidents in the city involving soldiers and drivers; a volunteer enlistment to the unit conducted among the inhabitants of Łódź in the summer of 1920 and the ceremony of decoration of officers and privates from the 1st Tank Regiment Kris Virtuti Militari in June 1921.

This collection reports on the state of the art in fundamental discipline application in hydrocarbon production and associated challenges in geoengineering activities. Zheng et al. (2022) report an NMR-based method for multiphase methane characterization in coals. Wang et al. (2022) studied the genesis of bedding fractures in Ordovician to Silurian marine shale in the Sichuan basin. Kang et al. (2022) proposed research focusing on the prediction of shale gas production from horizontal wells. Liang et al. (2022) studied the pore structure of marine shale by adsorption method in terms of molecular interaction. Zhang et al. (2022) focus on the coal measures sandstones in the Xishanyao Formation, southern Junggar Basin, and the sandstone diagenetic characteristics are fully revealed. Yao et al. (2022) report the source-to-sink system in the Ledong submarine channel and the Dongfang submarine fan in the Yinggehai Basin, South China Sea. There are four papers focusing on the technologies associated with hydrocarbon productions. Wang et al. (2022) reported the analysis of pre-stack inversion in a carbonate karst reservoir. Chen et al. (2022) conducted an inversion study on the parameters of cascade coexisting gas-bearing reservoirs in coal measures in Huainan. To ensure the safety CCS, Zhang et al (2022) report their analysis of available conditions for InSAR surface deformation monitoring. Additionally, to ensure production safety in coal mines, Zhang et al. (2022) report the properties and application of gel materials for coal gangue control.