The EduSenior is a project of the Lifelong learning programme of the European Commission nearly to conclude. Its main products are a guide and an evaluation toolkit aimed to be applied on educational institutions. This toolkit is composed by 38 indicators grouped in several dimensions (pedagogies, models, subjects, activities, staff, organisation and premises) and it is based on the impact of the education to senior learners' quality of life; well-being, inclusion, participation, social...

Pol Arias in ISCO Research Seminar

El propósito del seminario es presentar los resultados finales de la investigación " El Impacto de Internet en el Capital Social de las Comunidades Aisladas en Chile ", dirigido por el expositor y financiada por el Fondo de Ciencia y Tecnología (FONDECYT) del Gobierno de Chile. La investigación se concentra en evaluar el impacto que tuvo la llegada de Internet en la formación y acceso al capital social individual y comunitario en localidades con niveles críticos de aislamiento geográfico en...

In this research we build upon a Markov-switching vector autoregression model to study how a shock in the credit default swaps market becomes an important chain in the propagation of shocks through the entire financial system in the euro area. To this end, we use daily data from 22/03/2005 to 21/06/2013 on the euro area banks' and sovereign credit default swap spreads, the EUROSTOXX stock market index and the VSTOXX volatility index. The estimation results obtained using a Gibbs sampler...

Urbanization causes various challenges for home health care providers. Arising problems are congestions, limited parking spaces and an increase in the number of staff without driver's permits. While public transport can be applied in certain settings, it often lacks the flexibility of a privately owned vehicle fleet. Motivated by these challenges, solution procedures for this real-world routing and scheduling problem are developed. A transport service delivers technicians of different...

Aquest 25 de setembre de 2014 hem celebrat el III Seminari Els Reptes de l'Edició Digital (#EdicióDigital), en el marc del Màster d’Edició Digital de la UOC. Us convidem a veure les presentacions dels ponents que van participar-hi. LUIS COLLADO, Director de Google Books i Google News a Espanya i Portugal RAQUEL XALABARDER, Catedràtica de Propietat Intel·lectual als Estudis de Dret i Ciència Política de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya PATRÍCIA RIERA, Cap de la delegació de Catalunya...

September 25, 2014. The III Seminar on Challenges of Digital Publishing, organized by the Master of Digital Publishing, was held at the Open University of Catalunya (UOC), in Barcelona. We invite you to view the presentations of the speakers who took part in it. See #EdicióDigital & #EdiciónDigital. ADRIAAN VAN DER WEEL, Professor of Book and digital media studies, Leiden University http://llibredigital.blogs.uoc.edu/2014/06/02/iii-seminari-els-reptes-de-ledicio-digital/

Este 25 de septiembre de 2014 hemos celebrado el III Seminario Los Retos de la Edición Digital (#EdiciónDigital), en el marco del Máster de Edición Digital de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). Os invitamos a ver las intervenciones de los ponentes. José Antonio Cordón-García, Profesor titular de la Facultad de Traducción y Documentación de la Universidad de Salamanca y del Máster de Edición Digital de la...

Este 25 de septiembre de 2014 hemos celebrado el III Seminario Los Retos de la Edición Digital (#Edición Digital), en el marco del Máster de Edición Digital de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). Os invitamos a ver las intervenciones de los ponentes. ASUN MUÑOZ, editora d’AucaDigital IRENE FORTES, responsable de continguts digitals de Penguin Random House ELENA MOLINA, coordinadora del projecte digital de Linkgua PABLO BARRIO, editor de Ganso y...

Twin seers, the burning prophetic visions of marshall mcluhan and northrop frye: the global village on fire with the currents of electricity, the words on the page fired with spirit. "Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye are Canada's central cultural figures and visionaries of the Post-Modern Era. Their unique juncture forms a highly original alternative model of insight and perception to the dominant European modes of the mid and late 20th century, a model rooted in communications and...

This session is aimed at exploring and discussing different political issues around P2P. Peer production (short for mass-online commons-based peer production) refers to the particular way of open collaboration behind information-centred initiates like free software and Wikipedia, though in the late years it has been exported to other production realms (from hardware to building and farming). Many authors believe it represents in fact an emerging mode of production with disruptive...

"En models animals, l'estimulació cerebral profunda s'ha constituït com un mètode molt eficaç per a la facilitació de diferents processos cognitius i fins i tot per a la compensació del dèficit associat a l'envelliment o a la lesió cerebral. En éssers humans aquest tipus de tècniques s'han utilitzat per al tractament de diferents alteracions i han mostrat efectivitat per facilitar la formació de la memòria i per modificar l'activitat de les estructures cerebrals crítiques per a aquesta...

The EduSenior is a project of the Lifelong learning programme of the European Commission nearly to conclude. Its main products are a guide and an evaluation toolkit aimed to be applied on educational institutions. This toolkit is composed by 38 indicators grouped in several dimensions (pedagogies, models, subjects, activities, staff, organisation and premises) and it is based on the impact of the education to senior learners' quality of life; well-being, inclusion, participation, social...

The speaker plans to introduce ideas about technology forecasting and developments in mobile commerce, mobile marketing and location based services, then have a discussion about what we can forecast together for Marketing 3.0.

This research proposal charts the life cycle of a social media marketing conversation. Redbedlam are a games production company based in Brighton, with a track record of successful multi-player games. In 2010 they approached author Chris Brookmyre to design a game: Bedlam. The paper will chart a two year long cycle: from the initial idea for the game, through development of the game and the strategy for social media marketing, to an analysis of the impact of the social media initiatives....

Where are actual existing creative practices evolving towards? In recent years, there has been urban policy shift in Europe towards fuelling smart communities. That is, communities and cities that transform themselves to achieve carbon neutral, competitive neighbourhoods and cities through the use of information and communication technologies (UE 2011). In doing so, city strategies have been stressing the necessity to construct spaces that foster creative communities, co-production processes...

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