This paper presents the method for the performance calibration of AACMM (articulated arm coordinate measuring machines) according to ASME B89.4.22 Standard. The growing use of this class of measurement equipment has...This paper presents the method for the performance calibration of AACMM (articulated arm coordinate measuring machines) according to ASME B89.4.22 Standard. The growing use of this class of measurement equipment has been accompanied by an absence of authorized laboratories to provide calibration certificates for its performance. Due to ASME B89.4.22 and VD12617-9 are nowadays the unique standards in the field of AACMM verification, IK4 Tekniker has compared both of them in order to develop internal test procedures to yield reliable performance calibration results. As a result, IK4 Tekniker has been recognized by the Spanish Accreditation Body (ENAC) in the field of AACMM calibration. Internal test procedures and uncertainty evaluation analysis have been developed as well as ENAC certificated reference test equipments have been acquired to ensure a suitable AACMM calibration process.展开更多
This study was carried out within the European research project "Biology, Health and Environmental Education for Better Citizenship". It is a comparative analysis of textbooks from eight Mediterranean countries whic...This study was carried out within the European research project "Biology, Health and Environmental Education for Better Citizenship". It is a comparative analysis of textbooks from eight Mediterranean countries which differ by their cultures, their socio-economical levels, and their religions. This work is focused on the sensitive educational topic "Human Reproduction and Sex Education". And 43 biology textbooks are analyzed among eight countries: four are in Europe and four in Africa and Middle East. Grids were built to identify implicit values in the texts and images. It is a more precisely explicit or implicit presence of cultural, socio-economical, and ethical dimensions. The investigation concerns whether the authors of textbooks present differently this theme depending on the socio-cultural, ethical, and religious contexts. The content of the textbooks was analyzed as reflecting the conceptions of their authors and publishers. The outcomes of the analyses show that several textbooks present images of human beings restricted to only one ethnic type, usually white-skinned and with fair hair. The social, cultural, economical, and ethical dimensions were generally absent, except for some interest for them in few European textbooks.展开更多
A society of knowledge has a mission based on information dissemination and its usage, but its purpose cannot be completely realized without library as an institution that collects, processes, archives, protects and p...A society of knowledge has a mission based on information dissemination and its usage, but its purpose cannot be completely realized without library as an institution that collects, processes, archives, protects and provides library collections to the public. Elementary- and high-school libraries, as well as the academic ones, are ubiquitous as associates and promoters of importance of information in the Digital Age. Information literacy becomes a foundation of an individual's literacy in general and leads him/her toward lifelong learning that becomes a philosophy on the way to a society of knowledge. The paper presents research results of informatics and information literacy among students with a purpose of improving the library mission and vision within future education. Data were collected by poll and the pollees were high-school and university students of Slavonski Brod and Osijek. This study found that although the trend of Internet usage in a library is not high, the percentage of those possessing a basic Information and Communication Technology OCT) literacy level is high. Another significant fact is that the number of those unskilled in ICT usage (online database and catalog search) is high which represents a challenge to the libraries and ICT experts who are the incumbents of great responsibility.展开更多
The force of the development in the university academic ecosystem depends on the academic subject, the discipline, courses, research projects and other key ecological factors. In this paper, it re-examines the influen...The force of the development in the university academic ecosystem depends on the academic subject, the discipline, courses, research projects and other key ecological factors. In this paper, it re-examines the influence of the development of the university academic ecosystem and points out how libraries play an important role in the academic ecosystem construction in the perspective of academic ecological development.展开更多
The main purpose of this research is to draw insights from Nigeria to find out how language serves as the key to global research and challenges in the 21 st century. This research is necessitated by the fact that apar...The main purpose of this research is to draw insights from Nigeria to find out how language serves as the key to global research and challenges in the 21 st century. This research is necessitated by the fact that apart from the point that globalization will be very difficult if not impossible without language, language is also a major tool to fix every challenge of life since solution to problems of life arises through thought. The researcher draws her data from bill boards, television, posters, and other secondary sources of data like textbooks, journals, internet, etc. and adopts a descriptive framework for the analysis of data. The investigation portrays the fact that language is an indispensable tool not only for global research but for resolving all the challenges facing Nigerians in the 21 st century. The study shows that there are challenges in the health, security, educational, social, economic, and political sectors in Nigeria. It equally reveals that through language, solution to the health, security, educational, social, economic, and political challenges in Nigeria is provided.展开更多
This text introduces the concept of local literature and collection range, explains the significance of literature collection and explores building programs of local university library. Currently, university library g...This text introduces the concept of local literature and collection range, explains the significance of literature collection and explores building programs of local university library. Currently, university library generally put a strong emphasis on collection of academic literature, but has less attention on literature collections which reflect the situation of university location, or even worse, simply don' t launch business in this field. For the university library, it is a great loss of literature information resources, as well as a great regret of library work. First, what is the local literature? It is literature data which document a region' s past and present issues like politics, economy, culture, education, history, geography and other aspects like important characters and events, customs, folklore etc.展开更多
We intend to establish how species diversity is dealt with, within the study of the ecosystem, in books for the 4th year of Compulsory Secondary Education, ESO (15-16 year-old students). The analysis was carried out...We intend to establish how species diversity is dealt with, within the study of the ecosystem, in books for the 4th year of Compulsory Secondary Education, ESO (15-16 year-old students). The analysis was carried out using a key issues dossier based on school science, which not only provides a description of reality, but also introduces a theoretical explanatory framework. Regarding species diversity, we focused on the descriptive approach, considering the link between diversity and trophic relationships, ecological succession and ecosystem stability through change, consequences for biodiversity of human activities and mechanisms to face such consequences; and on the explanatory perspective, which provides an interpretative answer for all the aspects previously mentioned. The findings drawn from textbooks show that biodiversity is linked both to the study of the ecosystem and to the impact of human societies on its maintenance. However, such study is particularly focused on the descriptive, rather than on the explanatory level. So, teachers should improve the study of biodiversity foresting a balance between descriptive and explanatory level.展开更多
Nowadays, global warming is a major environmental concern. Climate change is dominating the environmental agendas, especially in developed countries at first, but by now, around the world. Several initiatives have bee...Nowadays, global warming is a major environmental concern. Climate change is dominating the environmental agendas, especially in developed countries at first, but by now, around the world. Several initiatives have been undertaken to reduce the effect of increasing atmospheric GHGs (greenhouse gasses) concentrations. Emerging carbon emissions trade under the Kyoto Protocol serves to market the carbon quotas among the countries, thus, it helps to increase their level of GNP (gross national product). Emissions trade is being performed in the voluntary and compliant markets. Increasing interest in emission trade emerged carbon and energy exchanges markets in the world. Turkey is located in the voluntary markets, and organizations buying carbon offset credits in order to achieve their voluntary emission reduction goals. GS (gold standard) and VCS (verified carbon standard) are mainly being used to finance renewable energy projects in Turkey. In the GS, there are 209 projects which are currently in the approval process or in the application, such as wind energy, hydroelectric power plant and biogas energy production. In addition to these, in the VCS, there are 61 projects which are mainly energy industries, in the approval process or in the application. Most environmental issues require long-term plans which include international cooperation, especially climate change. The Kyoto Protocol marks the beginning of a new era to combat global climate change. Voluntary markets are very popular and forty percent of the total global GS projects and around nine percent of VCS projects are implemented in Turkey. These projects are initial steps for future implementations of compliant markets in Turkey.展开更多
In this paper, the authors deeply studied 12 moxibustion pictures in Jiujing Tu 《灸经图》, Illustration of Moxibustion), one of Dunhuang book relics, and described the academic thoughts of health maintenance contain...In this paper, the authors deeply studied 12 moxibustion pictures in Jiujing Tu 《灸经图》, Illustration of Moxibustion), one of Dunhuang book relics, and described the academic thoughts of health maintenance contained in the book. It was considered that the health maintenance thoughts of humanistic thought, common maintenance of body and spirit, balanced interaction, and maintenance of essence, qi and spirit contained in the book were very sophisticated to greatly constitute the academic thoughts of modern health maintenance.展开更多
文摘This paper presents the method for the performance calibration of AACMM (articulated arm coordinate measuring machines) according to ASME B89.4.22 Standard. The growing use of this class of measurement equipment has been accompanied by an absence of authorized laboratories to provide calibration certificates for its performance. Due to ASME B89.4.22 and VD12617-9 are nowadays the unique standards in the field of AACMM verification, IK4 Tekniker has compared both of them in order to develop internal test procedures to yield reliable performance calibration results. As a result, IK4 Tekniker has been recognized by the Spanish Accreditation Body (ENAC) in the field of AACMM calibration. Internal test procedures and uncertainty evaluation analysis have been developed as well as ENAC certificated reference test equipments have been acquired to ensure a suitable AACMM calibration process.
文摘This study was carried out within the European research project "Biology, Health and Environmental Education for Better Citizenship". It is a comparative analysis of textbooks from eight Mediterranean countries which differ by their cultures, their socio-economical levels, and their religions. This work is focused on the sensitive educational topic "Human Reproduction and Sex Education". And 43 biology textbooks are analyzed among eight countries: four are in Europe and four in Africa and Middle East. Grids were built to identify implicit values in the texts and images. It is a more precisely explicit or implicit presence of cultural, socio-economical, and ethical dimensions. The investigation concerns whether the authors of textbooks present differently this theme depending on the socio-cultural, ethical, and religious contexts. The content of the textbooks was analyzed as reflecting the conceptions of their authors and publishers. The outcomes of the analyses show that several textbooks present images of human beings restricted to only one ethnic type, usually white-skinned and with fair hair. The social, cultural, economical, and ethical dimensions were generally absent, except for some interest for them in few European textbooks.
文摘A society of knowledge has a mission based on information dissemination and its usage, but its purpose cannot be completely realized without library as an institution that collects, processes, archives, protects and provides library collections to the public. Elementary- and high-school libraries, as well as the academic ones, are ubiquitous as associates and promoters of importance of information in the Digital Age. Information literacy becomes a foundation of an individual's literacy in general and leads him/her toward lifelong learning that becomes a philosophy on the way to a society of knowledge. The paper presents research results of informatics and information literacy among students with a purpose of improving the library mission and vision within future education. Data were collected by poll and the pollees were high-school and university students of Slavonski Brod and Osijek. This study found that although the trend of Internet usage in a library is not high, the percentage of those possessing a basic Information and Communication Technology OCT) literacy level is high. Another significant fact is that the number of those unskilled in ICT usage (online database and catalog search) is high which represents a challenge to the libraries and ICT experts who are the incumbents of great responsibility.
文摘The force of the development in the university academic ecosystem depends on the academic subject, the discipline, courses, research projects and other key ecological factors. In this paper, it re-examines the influence of the development of the university academic ecosystem and points out how libraries play an important role in the academic ecosystem construction in the perspective of academic ecological development.
文摘The main purpose of this research is to draw insights from Nigeria to find out how language serves as the key to global research and challenges in the 21 st century. This research is necessitated by the fact that apart from the point that globalization will be very difficult if not impossible without language, language is also a major tool to fix every challenge of life since solution to problems of life arises through thought. The researcher draws her data from bill boards, television, posters, and other secondary sources of data like textbooks, journals, internet, etc. and adopts a descriptive framework for the analysis of data. The investigation portrays the fact that language is an indispensable tool not only for global research but for resolving all the challenges facing Nigerians in the 21 st century. The study shows that there are challenges in the health, security, educational, social, economic, and political sectors in Nigeria. It equally reveals that through language, solution to the health, security, educational, social, economic, and political challenges in Nigeria is provided.
文摘This text introduces the concept of local literature and collection range, explains the significance of literature collection and explores building programs of local university library. Currently, university library generally put a strong emphasis on collection of academic literature, but has less attention on literature collections which reflect the situation of university location, or even worse, simply don' t launch business in this field. For the university library, it is a great loss of literature information resources, as well as a great regret of library work. First, what is the local literature? It is literature data which document a region' s past and present issues like politics, economy, culture, education, history, geography and other aspects like important characters and events, customs, folklore etc.
文摘We intend to establish how species diversity is dealt with, within the study of the ecosystem, in books for the 4th year of Compulsory Secondary Education, ESO (15-16 year-old students). The analysis was carried out using a key issues dossier based on school science, which not only provides a description of reality, but also introduces a theoretical explanatory framework. Regarding species diversity, we focused on the descriptive approach, considering the link between diversity and trophic relationships, ecological succession and ecosystem stability through change, consequences for biodiversity of human activities and mechanisms to face such consequences; and on the explanatory perspective, which provides an interpretative answer for all the aspects previously mentioned. The findings drawn from textbooks show that biodiversity is linked both to the study of the ecosystem and to the impact of human societies on its maintenance. However, such study is particularly focused on the descriptive, rather than on the explanatory level. So, teachers should improve the study of biodiversity foresting a balance between descriptive and explanatory level.
文摘Nowadays, global warming is a major environmental concern. Climate change is dominating the environmental agendas, especially in developed countries at first, but by now, around the world. Several initiatives have been undertaken to reduce the effect of increasing atmospheric GHGs (greenhouse gasses) concentrations. Emerging carbon emissions trade under the Kyoto Protocol serves to market the carbon quotas among the countries, thus, it helps to increase their level of GNP (gross national product). Emissions trade is being performed in the voluntary and compliant markets. Increasing interest in emission trade emerged carbon and energy exchanges markets in the world. Turkey is located in the voluntary markets, and organizations buying carbon offset credits in order to achieve their voluntary emission reduction goals. GS (gold standard) and VCS (verified carbon standard) are mainly being used to finance renewable energy projects in Turkey. In the GS, there are 209 projects which are currently in the approval process or in the application, such as wind energy, hydroelectric power plant and biogas energy production. In addition to these, in the VCS, there are 61 projects which are mainly energy industries, in the approval process or in the application. Most environmental issues require long-term plans which include international cooperation, especially climate change. The Kyoto Protocol marks the beginning of a new era to combat global climate change. Voluntary markets are very popular and forty percent of the total global GS projects and around nine percent of VCS projects are implemented in Turkey. These projects are initial steps for future implementations of compliant markets in Turkey.
文摘In this paper, the authors deeply studied 12 moxibustion pictures in Jiujing Tu 《灸经图》, Illustration of Moxibustion), one of Dunhuang book relics, and described the academic thoughts of health maintenance contained in the book. It was considered that the health maintenance thoughts of humanistic thought, common maintenance of body and spirit, balanced interaction, and maintenance of essence, qi and spirit contained in the book were very sophisticated to greatly constitute the academic thoughts of modern health maintenance.