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THE EDUCATIONAL PLATFORM OF CABARET PROJECT (WP7)

The CABARET (Capacity Building in Asia for Resilience EducaTion) Project is funded by the European Union under the Erasmus+ program, to foster regional cooperation for more effective multihazard early warnings and increased disaster resilience among coastal communities. The goal of the Project is to strengthen the evidence-base in support of the implementation of the new framework. The participants constructed of a consortium of 14 European and Asian higher education institutions from nine countries - four from Europe and five from Asia. The Project covers three years period and intend many meetings among participants for data and knowledge exchange. The MGU (Mining and Geology University, Sofia, Bulgaria) and MNU (Maldives National University, Male, Maldives) participations are active as co-chairs of the WP7 – “Learning and teaching tools methodologies and approaches to the MHEW (Multihazards Early Warning Systems)” and sustainable development of the resilience. The progress and achievements of the WP7 co-chaired by MGU and MNU are presented and the developments of MOOC’s (Major Online Open Courses) are under discussion. The new concept about the Educational Platform targeted to the wider audience is proposed. In conclusion several topics are underlined:  The international bilateral cooperation between MGU and MNU is established in the frame of the co-chairmanship of the WP7 – CABARET Project.  Project is displayed including educational platform development and MOOC’s skeleton and schedule.  First results of MOOC’s are available. Educational platform includes curriculum of Philippines for De La Sale University (DLSU) and Ateneo De Manila University (ADMU).  New concept for further development of the structure of the Educational Platform of the CABARET Projects is proposed. Intended international cooperation among participants of the Project is an essential topic for the coastal resilience educational platform development. Keywords: Educational Platform, new concept, hazards, warnings.

Luhrmann, Baz. The Great Gatsby. EUA, 2013, 2h 23 min

A resenha versa acerca das escolhas tradutórias feitas na adaptação fílmica realizada por Baz Luhrman, em 2013, da obra literária The Great Gatsby, publicada por F. Scott Fitzgerald em 1925. Trazendo considerações de estudiosos como Even-Zohar (1990), Xavier (2003), Lucas (2007), entre outros, de a modo a expor como o contexto histórico-social interfere no processo tradutório de uma obra para as telas.

Simulation of Water Infiltration Process into a Porous Unsaturated Soil: Application on Tangier’s Bay Region-Morocco

The study is focused on numerical simulation of the infiltration process of polluted water originating from a wadi into the unsaturated soil of a bay. This study addresses the linkage between unsaturated zone and groundwater and it discusses the ability of the unsaturated soil to receive the water dried at once by the wadi and the bay. The simulation requires a number of trials, something that is experimentally expensive and sometimes impossible. The infiltration process is governed by the Richard’s equation. To solve this later, the knowledge of soil water properties such as pressure head, water content and hydraulic conductivity is needed. Hence, the water retention and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity curves near saturation have been established for a range of water content going from h = (− 25 m; 25 m) to h = (− 175 m; 175 m). These curves are obtained using the simulating computer program Hydrus 2D/3D. Numerical results have been calibrated with the Musy and Soutter (Physique du sol (soil physics), Universite de Technologie Compiegne, Lausanne, 1991) type relationships. It has been explained that the infiltration process from the saturated zones to the unsaturated zone is relatively slow depending on the soil structure.

Profile of Rodolphe Barrangou

CRISPR, the Instapot of genome editing tools, has its origins in a bacterial immune system that recognizes and slices the genetic material of invading phages. Rodolphe Barrangou, a professor of food science at North Carolina State University, demonstrated the original function of the characteristic repeating genetic sequences long before it became a household word. Barrangou is now turning CRISPR inward, using bacterial cells’ own machinery to edit bacteria. “Unfortunately, bacteria do not typically have good DNA repair mechanisms, so self-targeting usually turns out to be lethal,” explains Barrangou, who was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018. In his Inaugural Article, Barrangou outlines how repurposing the existing type I-E CRISPR-Cas3 system of Lactobacillus crispatus and inserting repair templates can enable targeted editing of this common member of the human microbiome (1). Photograph of Rodolphe Barrangou. Image courtesy of North Carolina State University/Marc Hall. Probiotic bacterium L. acidophilus NCFM. Image courtesy of North Carolina State University/Courtney Klotz, Valerie Lapham, and Charles Mooney. Born in France in 1975, Barrangou found his appetite for science relatively late, when he decided to major in chemistry at the Universite Rene Descartes in Paris. After earning a bachelor’s degree in 1996, he pursued a master’s degree in biological engineering at the Universite de Technologie Compiegne. Barrangou could not envision spending “10 to 20 years working on 1 molecule, 1 project,” as an organic chemist, and engineering was not quite the right fit either. A microbiology class on fermentation propelled him toward a second master’s degree in food science and the field he has helped shape for the past 2 decades. “The living part of microbes was a whole different dimensionality.” Barrangou found the shorter life cycle of projects in the food industry compelling and thinks some of the appeal is a nod to …

Vittorio Bodini, “a brilliant translator, a brilliant man, a brilliant poet”

The present note sets out to review several publications on the figure of Vittorio Bodini, a poet, a hispanist, and a cultural activist for Italy's Mezzogiorno , who died in 1970. Its main object are the proceedings of the international study conference Vittorio Bodini fra Sud ed Europa (1914-2014) , edited by Antonio Lucio Giannone; it also considers several volumes of a series which under the title «Bodiniana» offers new editions of his publications, together with unpublished material from the Archivio Bodini. The contributions to the one-day conference Vittorio Bodini tra l’Italia e la Spagna , which took place at the Universitat de Valencia in March 2018, are also considered in the paper.

Trends in Synthetic Diamond for Electrochemical Applications

Trends in Synthetic Diamond for Electrochemical Applications

Report of the IVth Workshop of the Spanish National Network on Mycotoxins and Toxigenic Fungi and Their Decontamination Processes (MICOFOOD), Held in Pamplona, Spain, 29-31 May 2019.

The present publication collects the communications presented in the IV Workshop of the Spanish National Network on Mycotoxins and Toxigenic Fungi and their Decontamination Processes (MICOFOOD), held in the School of Pharmacy and Nutrition of the Universidad de Navarra (Pamplona, Spain) from the 29 to the 31 May 2019. More than 70 professionals from academia, the industry and public services have participated. The scientific program included: five sessions: sponsors (presentation and services), toxigenic fungi, toxicology, analysis and control, and reduction and prevention strategies. In total, 18 oral communications and 24 posters were presented. It is worth mentioning the high participation and quality of the communications from PhD students. The invited conference, entitled: “Mycotoxins within the framework of exposure assessment: past present and future”, was given by Dr. Barbara de Santis (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy). The meeting ended with the roundtable: “From feed to fork: safe food without mycotoxins”, where representatives of feed and agrofood companies and public administrations discussed about the current situation and problems related with mycotoxins. Different prizes were awarded for the best oral presentation (Effect of Staphylococcus xylosus on the growth of toxigenic moulds in meat substrates, by E. Cebrian et al., University of Extremadura), and the best posters (Combined toxicity of aflatoxins and ochratoxin A: A systematic review by M. Alonso-Jaúregui et al., Universidad de Navarra; and Application of natamycin in products affected by toxigenic fungi by Torrijos et al., Universitat de València). The participants had the opportunity to learn about the history and gastronomy of Pamplona. Situated in the north of Spain, Pamplona is a city of Roman origin featuring a large gothic cathedral complex and a Vauban citadel of the 16th century.

Porque diez años no son nada: de @tic revista d’innovació educativa a Research in Education and Learning Innovation Archives

Research in Education and Innovation Innovation Archives (REALIA) is the new name of the journal that from 2008 to 2018 published the Servei de Formació i Innovació Educativa of the Universitat de València. As others have done before, in 2019 @tic revista d'innovació educativa changed its name. In this text we review the ten years of @tic revista d'innovació educativa, we explain the reasons for this change and introduce new features and some future prospects.

Twenty Years Working with Neighbours. Citizen Participation, Is It Possible? What We Have Learned in 20 Years

In 1999, the Governing Council of the Universitat de Barcelona approved the creation of the POLIS Research Center. Later, in 2016, the Center was ratified after passing an assessment of the Catalan Accreditation Agency (AGAUR). The Centre has an interdisciplinary vocation and brings together researchers from different research groups at the University of Barcelona and cooperates with nine European and Ibero-American universities in the fields of Arts, Architecture and Human and Social Sciences. Academically, the Centre has promoted the doctoral program Public Space and Urban Regeneration (1998–2017) and the Master’s Degree in Urban Design: Art, City, Society (since 2007) and the publication of the journal On the w@terfront. The research object of the Centre is the city and its public space and, more specifically, the role of citizens in the production of Public Art and Urban Design. For this reason, the work of the Centre covers the topics related to Urban Regeneration, Sustainability, Urban Governance, Civic Remembrance, Heritage. Throughout its twenty-year history, the Centre has developed a series of projects for citizen participation in various areas of the periphery of Barcelona: River Besòs (municipality of Sant Adrià de Besòs) La Mina neighbourhood (municipality of Sant Adrià de Besòs) and the Barcelona’s neighbourhoods of Baró de Viver and Bon Pastor. A characteristic of the work of the centre has been, and is, the endorsement of citizen participation, through an innovative approach based on enabling the creative empowerment of the neighbours within the framework of Participatory Action Research. This approach is based on a project methodology, as it is understood in various project disciplines from Art to Architecture, from Design to Engineering. This article, associated with the itinerant exhibition “20 years working with neighbours,” reviews the founding project carried out by the Centre, “Social Uses of the River Besòs” (1997–1999), analysing the lessons learned, with the aim of clarifying the research criteria that the Centre follows for the development of citizen participation projects.

Entornos virtuales de aprendizaje: modelo ampliado de aceptación de la tecnología

Dentro de la actual renovación de las metodologías docentes, las universidades están impulsando el uso de entornos virtuales de aprendizaje como una herramienta básica en la enseñanza presencial, ya que permite flexibilizar e individualizar la educación. El objetivo del presente trabajo es aportar evidencia empírica sobre la percepción que tienen los alumnos respecto a la mejora en su aprendizaje, al adoptar y utilizar entornos virtuales en la enseñanza presencial, a partir del Modelo de Aceptación de la Tecnología ampliado. La población objeto del estudio son 251 casos de estudiantes de primer grado de la Facultad de Economía de la Universitat de Valencia. Se ha evidenciado empíricamente, mediante los resultados obtenidos a través de ecuaciones estructurales, la relación e influencia positivas entre la utilidad percibida y la norma subjetiva hacia la variable intención de uso, siendo ésta determinante en el aprendizaje percibido por los estudiantes.

Valoración del alumnado sobre el uso de clickers y vídeo tutoriales en la educación superior

The implementation of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Spanish universities has been accompanied by a review of the teaching methodologies used. These methodologies incorporating, in many cases, new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The ICT of Audience Response Systems (ARS), Clickers, and videos (mUVies) were used in a quantitative subject of a degree offered by the Universitat de València (UV), in an attempt to mitigate the low teaching load of the same and provide students with support material inside and outside the classroom. The work presented examines the students' perception of the use of these ICTs in their learning process and also the volume of work involved in its implementation. Using descriptive and inferential analyses of the opinions obtained in the ICT surveys and the results of the continuous assessment and the final exam, we conclude that the students valued the use of both ICTs very positively with average score higher than 8 (out of 10), rating better the VIDEOS-mUVies than Clickers. As for the volume of work that the implementation of ICTs, this is estimated at about 7.5 hours for students and about 132.5 hours for teachers.

Assessment of the maximal aerobic speed in young elite soccer players: Université de Montréal Track Test (UM-TT) vs. treadmill test

Summary Objective The main aim of this study was to examine the association between the Maximal Aerobic Speed (MAS) measured by the Universite de Montreal Track Test (UM-TT) and on a running treadmill test in young elite soccer players. Equipment and methods Fourteen U-16 male soccer players (mean ± SD: age = 15.5 ± 0.7 years; height = 1.76 ± 0.5 m; weight = 67.7 ± 4.5 kg) from a Spanish First Division club academy participated in the study. The participants were submitted to the Universite de Montreal Track Test (UM-TT) and an intermittent treadmill test with a one-week interval. Results The MASs, the speed at the last completed stage (16.6 ± 0.8 km h−1) and calculated using the formula of Kuipers et al. (17.2 ± 0.7 km h−1), were substantially higher (Effect size > 0.8) than that measured on the treadmill (15.9 ± 0.9 km h−1). The MAS measured by the UM-TT correlated highly (r > 0.6) with the MAS measured on the treadmill. Conclusion Despite the large association between both values, the MAS measured by the UM-TT differs considerably from the MAS measured on a running treadmill in young elite soccer players. It suggests that, in soccer training, caution should be applied when using the velocity of the MAS measured on the UM-TT or in a laboratory interchangeably.

Sämi Ludwig, Resurrecting the First Great American Play: Imperial Politics and Colonial Ambitions in Frontier Detroit

Sami Ludwig, Professor of American Studies at the Universite de Haute Alsace (Mulhouse, France), successfully takes up any author’s challenge to pique his potential readers’ curiosity from the front cover. His enigmatic title Resurrecting the First Great American Play. Imperial Politics and Colonial Ambitions in Frontier Detroit acts as an incentive for any inquiring minds who would immerse themselves in the book to unravel the mystery about the forgotten original American dramatic piece. We ...

Gone With the Wind, 80 ans d’images. Entretien avec Pierre Berthomieu

In an interview with Gaumont’s artistic director Denis Peyrat, a journalist came to the conclusion that “film posters do not obey any miracle recipe.” However, when we consider the many posters of Gone With the Wind or when we talk about the film itself—a film that has survived the years and has never been the object of any remake—we can legitimately wonder if there are not any secret ingredients that would actually account for its longevity. These are some of the questions addressed in this interview with film scholar Pierre Berthomieu (Universite de Paris), author of Hollywood, le temps des geants (Pertuis, Rouge profond, coll. “Raccords,” 2009).

Session II: The Impact of International Copyright Treaties and Trade Agreements on the Development of Domestic Norms

These remarks are a transcript of a talk that was given on October 14, 2016, at the Kernochan Center Annual Symposium at Columbia Law School. Session II addressed how international copyright treaties and FTAs affect national IP laws in the U.S. and elsewhere. Session Panelists: Krista Cox, Director of Public Policy Initiatives, Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Ysolde Gendreau, Professor, Universite de Montreal Eric J. Schwartz, Partner, Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp LLP and Counsel to the International Intellectual Property Alliance Karyn Temple Claggett, Associate Register of Copyrights and Director of Policy & International Affairs, U.S. Copyright Office

Efecto e impacto de las prácticas curriculares de los Grados de Educación Infantil y Primaria: la perspectiva de estudiantes, tutores y coordinadores

El presente artículo analiza el efecto e impacto que las prácticas curriculares (Practicum) de los Grados de Educación Infantil y Primaria generan en las personas y en las instituciones implicadas (escuelas y Facultades de educación) en opinión de responsables institucionales, tutores y estudiantes. Desde una perspectiva cualitativa y descriptiva, se ha llevado a cabo un estudio de casos múltiple en 16 centros educativos que acogen estudiantes en prácticas de tercero y cuarto curso de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona y de la Universitat de Lleida en los ya mencionados casos. La recogida de datos ha contemplado la realización de entrevistas semiestructuradas (N = 102) a coordinadores, estudiantes y tutores de centro y facultad de ambos grados, el análisis de 28 memorias de prácticas y la celebración de 2 grupos de discusión para contrastar y analizar los hallazgos. El enfoque mixto de codificación y categorización ha sido empleado para el análisis de datos. Los resultados informan que el Practicum contribuye al desarrollo de competencias de los estudiantes e impacta positivamente en el desarrollo profesional de los tutores de escuela y de facultad que tutorizan estudiantes en prácticas. Por el contrario, el impacto que podría generar el Practicum a nivel de las instituciones implicadas es menor del que cabría esperar. El Practicum genera dinámicas de trabajo que impactan principalmente en un aula, pero no en el centro; en las facultades, genera un impacto indirecto a través de los tutores de facultad, siempre y cuando éstos actualicen los contenidos que imparten; y se generan pocas sinergias entre escuelas y facultades en el contexto de las relaciones establecidas entre profesionales de ambas instituciones.

The structural classification of field boundaries in Mediterranean arable cropping systems allows the prediction of weed abundances in the boundary and in the adjacent crop

SummaryBoundary structure can hinder or facilitate disturbance of the boundary vegetation by farming practices, such as herbicide and fertiliser drift and occasional cultivation; this may affect their potential role as a weed reservoir. It would be relevant for researchers, farmers and legislators to know whether relationships exist between boundary structure and weed abundance and frequency in boundaries and adjacent fields. In this study, we present a classification of arable field boundaries based on five descriptors: presence of a bank, width, percentage cover of woody and evergreen perennials (WEP), presence of a stonewall and presence of trees. Five types of boundaries are identified, ranging from structurally simple ones (flat, narrow, dominated by annual species) to structurally complex ones (presence of a bank, more than 3 m wide, dominated by WEP). Data from three Spanish regions were used to validate this classification, and the five boundary classes contained different plant communities. Structurally simple, flat and narrow boundaries contained many of the weed species found also in the field centre and with high abundance. More complex, wider boundaries with a slope and a WEP >60%, had a lower probability of hosting the main weeds present in the field centres. Assessment of weed frequency and abundance gave complementary information. The proposed classification of field boundaries may be easily used by farmers and allows adjustment of field margin management to risks posed by the field boundary, in terms of hosting common weeds of arable crops.

A program to further integrate mental health into primary care: lessons learned from a pilot trial in Tunisia

# Background Tunisia is a lower-middle-income country located in North Africa. Since the 2010-2011 Revolution, a campaign of civil resistance to protest high levels of youth unemployment, difficult living conditions, and government corruption, a rise in mental health problems, substance use disorders, and suicide attempts/deaths has been recorded. To address untreated mental health symptoms, a mental health training program was offered to primary care physicians (PCPs) working in the Greater Tunis area of Tunisia, a collaboration between members of the Tunisian Ministry of Health, the *School of Public Health* at the *Universite de Montreal* (Quebec, Canada), the *World Health Organization* (*WHO*) office in Tunisia, and the *Montreal WHO-PAHO Collaborating Center (CC) for Research and Training in Mental Health* (Quebec, Canada). # Program description The training was based on the *Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) Intervention Guide (IG)*, a program developed by the *WHO* to help further develop the mental health competencies of non-specialists working in non-specialized settings. Our team adapted the *mhGAP-IG* training to the primary care realities of the Greater Tunis area, offered the training program to PCPs between February and April 2016, and evaluated the program using a randomized controlled trial and implementation analysis. # Discussion The adaptation, implementation, and evaluation of the training program equipped our team with important lessons learned, supported by evidence in the field of *Global Mental Health*. First, developing partnerships helped create a feasible program that met the practical and research needs of the country. Second, benefitting from political commitment to mental health facilitated the development of partnerships, the implementation of the training program, and the training's accompanying evaluation. Third, piloting the program helped identify challenges attributed to the training program and its implementation, the mental health care system, and the research tools, information that may be used to build back better. Last, sharing research findings collaboratively helped ensure their validity and encouraged greater knowledge uptake. # Conclusion We hope that sharing such lessons learned will aid other countries with similar profiles to develop and/or adapt, implement, and evaluate programs that target untreated mental health symptoms in primary and community-based settings and hence address priorities in *Global Mental Health*.

Conference Report: Transnationalism and Imperialism: New Perspectives on the Western

This two-day conference, whose topic expands on the Agregation externe d’anglais curriculum, was organized by Herve Mayer (EMMA, EA741, Universite Paul-Valery Montpellier 3), David Roche (CAS, EA801, Universite Toulouse II Jean Jaures) and Marianne Kac-Vergne (CORPUS, EA4295, Universite de Picardie Jules Verne) in November 2018, and is a follow-up to a symposium organized by Herve Mayer at Universite Paul Valery Montpellier 3, on December 8, 2017, entitled “Politics of the Western: a Revision...

A Modified Oedometer Setup for Simultaneously Measuring Hydromechanical Stress-Strain Paths for Soils in the Unsaturated State

This article reports a modified setup for an automatic oedometer apparatus that was designed at the Universite de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. The proposed setup can be used to simultaneously measure the superimposed volume change of a soil specimen caused by mechanical loading and suction imposition along with continuous measurement of water exchange. The combined use of air and water volume/pressure controllers allows the operator to use the axis translation technique to impose matric suction. The setup can also be used to carry out the conventional negative water column technique using a single burette or the water volume/pressure controller to apply suction within the range of 0 kPa to 25 kPa under atmospheric air pressure conditions. A modified Tempe cell was designed to ensure the airtightness of the cell and enhance the freedom of the specimens to move vertically during one-dimensional loading and soil-water retention tests, which is particularly of interest for practical cases in which accurate vertical deformation measurement (as low as 0.02 %) is required. Details of the calibration and test procedures are described and discussed. The test results of reconstituted specimens of a fine sand mixture and Ascot Corner silt are also presented to demonstrate the key features of the modified apparatus.