This study examines the pedagogical training process of medical professors at a Brazilian university, the meanings attributed to it, and the positive and negative aspects identified in it. This is a descriptive-exploratory study, using a qualitative approach with a questionnaire utilizing open-ended and closed questions and a semi-structured interview. The majority of queried individuals had no...

For students working on realistic modelling problems as autonomously as possible the support by a tutor is indispensable. However, how this support can be realised is a still not sufficiently answered question. In the paper we describe a study in which students are working on complex, realistic, authentic modelling problems over three days supported by tutors. The tutors participated in a teach...

The scope of this research is to discuss the relevance and need for pedagogical training of university lecturers in the Public Health field. The contention is that college teaching is a practice that requires specific training, since it is characterized by complex elements that transcend the mastery of given content. Considering stricto sensu graduate studies as an important stage in the traini...

Disciplinarity” and “interdisciplinarity” have become keywords for knowledge and education in the twenty-first century. This development requires that administrators, curriculum planners, and teachers at all levels of the educational system have a common understanding of both terms and their relationship. The primary case study is the school level in the United States. Yet, comparisons with oth...

This paper reports on two phases of a study of a group of advanced TEFL (teachers-of-English-as-a-foreign-language) students. To raise their awareness of the importance of discourse intonation while they were receiving teacher training, this study focuses on examining their sociocultural and psychological inclinations in the choice of phonological models. The first phase is an exploration of th...

purpose : to evaluate usefulness of anterior segment optical coherence tomography (as-oct) in evaluation of filtering bleb functionality and to correlate its findings with clinical bleb examination methods : in this cross-sectional, descriptive study 55 eyes with apparently functional bleb were evaluated. following a comprehensive ophthalmic examination, filtering bleb grading was performed bas...

Multilayer mirrors capable of > 99.9% reflectivity in the far infrared (70-200 microm wavelengths) were constructed using thin silicon etalons separated by empty gaps. Calculations indicate that only three periods are required to produce 99.9% reflectivity because of the large difference between the index of refraction of silicon (3.384) and the vacuum (1). The mirror was assembled from high-pu...

The performance of solar cells (SCs) can be enhanced significantly by employing 2D photonic crystals (2D-PCs). They can either be used as omnidirectional, broadband antireflection coatings (ARCs) or applied to thin-film SCs (where PC effects are much more significant than in generic SCs). Although multilayer ARCs are commonly used, problems related to material selection, thermal mismatch, sensi...

Real-time severe weather algorithms that are used to identify various storm attributes can be adversely affected by the presence of meteorological and non-meteorological contaminants such as anomalous propagation (AP), ground clutter (GC), clear-air return or biological scatters in the radar reflectivity data. We examine the Quality Control Neural Network, a new algorithm which classifies preci...