The state of Terengganu has been long recognised as Malaysia’s national capital of brassware handicrafts. Here, traditional knowledge and wisdom are made manifest by skilled artisans who use local materials to create culturally distinctive products. These products and practices …
1 Introduction and research overview “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” Charles Darwin | English Naturalist and Geologist (1809 – 1882) The world is changing: Digital…
O presente relatório resulta da implementação de uma unidade didática numa turma de 30 alunos do 7.º ano de escolaridade do Ensino Básico, no Colégio de Santa Doroteia, em Lisboa, realizada no decorrer da Iniciação à Prática Pedagógica, do Mestrado em Ensino de Artes Visuais no …
This thesis examines the challenges for environmental research in UK archives and presents possible solutions for archivists to implement. It is the result of a collaboration between the University of Liverpool (jointly between the departments of Geography and History) and the S…
In dieser Arbeit entwickeln wir schnellere exakte Algorithmen (schneller bezüglich der Worst-Case-Laufzeit) für Spezialfälle von Graphproblemen. Diese Algorithmen beruhen größtenteils auf dynamischem Programmieren und auf 2- SAT-Programmierung . Dynamisches Programmieren beschre…
Agile methods are being adopted in the software development industry increasingly and even beyond this sector. Outsourcing software development from developing countries in the Global South is increasing in the industry. With Lebanon being the hub for outsourcing software for th…
O presente Ensaio visa refletir sobre o imaginário usado para representar grupos vulneráveis e marginalizados da sociedade e considerar novas formas de abordagem. Adotam-se formas alternativas de autoria na produção de imagens, a partir de um projeto fotográfico participativo qu…
O presente Relatório de Estágio denominado Uma aprendizagem partilhada: aprender olhos nos olhos em tempo de pandemia reflete a identidade profissional docente construída e adquirida ao longo da unidade curricular de Prática Educativa Supervisionada do Mestrado em Ensino do 1.º …
Background: The first 1,000 days of life are a unique period for the brain architecture. The development of perceptual, sensorimotor, social and language systems depend crucially on environmental stimulation. Multiple factors influence the acquisition of competencies, including …
This thesis is an exploratory study of moves and movements of the design discipline towards social and activist critical practices. It departs from a growing concern for design as a socially committed activity that has been around since the 1960s. The social turn, as we describe…
Climate variability and its impacts on the agriculture system is clearly evident in Ghana. Weather and seasonal climate forecast information service has been in operation for some time in the country. However, farmers generally do not find the information useful for their farm-l…
Brain aging is a poorly understood process widely understood to be a major causative factor in age-associated neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). Proteins are involved in brain aging and neurodegeneration in many ways, and their functions and dysfunction…
The manufacturing industry is often plagued with high volume of return of goods, and most organisations are saddled with the problem of what to do with the returns which has led to some of them disposing of them in landfills. Which in recent times, have been stated that the worl…
This reprogramming of the home and redefining of domestic terms resurrects the more historical conception of the Salon, derived from the Italian salone, meaning ‘living room’ which “served society and not the house” (Habermas 1991:28). The Salon was more formal, public and centr…
This dissertation is devoted to exploring Armenian Üsküdar (an Anatolian side municipality of Istanbul) and its surroundings within the lenses of “conviviality” as conceptualized by Freitag (2014). Armenian neighborhoods in Üsküdar had all its relevance within the Ottoman rule i…
In this study I use Foucauldian theory to illuminate and analyze the use of surveillance, observation, hierarchical observation, normalizing judgment, and examination by federal and state governments’ education departments in Illinois’ ESSA policy. I conduct a discourse analysis…
This qualitative study explored student affairs knowledge-sharing influences through Clark and Estes’s (2008) knowledge, motivation, and organizational (KMO) influence framework. The study was conducted at a 4-year higher education institution involving a diverse group of partic…
The thesis explores methods for integration of structural analysis, design and production in a digital design environment. The somewhat ambiguous title implies the ambition to make such integration in relation to the explorative phase of the design process which is described by …
This dissertation seeks to recover the relational quality of the Holy Spirit who is the Lord and the Giver of life as enshrined in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed (381). Neo-Scholastic theology had utilized the conceptual categories of Aristotelian metaphysics with its orien…