Teachers’ Social Representations in Relation to EJA: affectivity and teacher training. The aim of this article is to present Youth and Adult Education – EJA teachers’ social representations, concerning their teacher training and affectivity in the teaching-learning process. The participants were teachers who work at the Youth and Adult Education Center – CEJA and the Youth and Adult Education S...

BACKGROUND: HealthWise South Africa: Life Skills for Adolescents (HW) is an evidence-based substance use and sexual risk prevention program that emphasizes the positive use of leisure time. Since 2000, this program has evolved from pilot testing through an efficacy trial involving over 7,000 youth in the Cape Town area. Beginning in 2011, through 2015, we are undertaking a new study that expand...

A socio-cultural theory of learning places importance on the social and cultural context of the learning as well as the interaction between a more expert other and the learner. Scaffolding at the level of interaction may be defined as micro-scaffolding, and support which can be found in the context of the learning can be referred to as macroscaffolding. This paper reports on research carried ou...

The aim of this article is twofold. First, the final results of two research projects, which investigated the impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on primary schools teachers in disadvantaged areas in Brazil (BET k-12) and South Africa (MELISSA), are presented and discussed. Second, the Self-Efficacy construct is proposed as a tool to measure how teachers’ perception of bein...

OBJECTIVE To examine the perceived effect of teaching clinical skills and associated teacher training programmes on general practitioners' morale and clinical practice. DESIGN Qualitative semistructured interview study. SETTING General practices throughout north London. SUBJECTS 30 general practitioners who taught clinical skills were asked about the effect of teaching and teacher trainin...

In this paper, Standard Sampled Grating array is designed and 2D simulation is performed with Finite difference method. Implementation of Different types of subwavength Grating structures are discussed and analyzed with simulation result. The power Reflectivity at different wavelength under the variation of different grating parameters is demonstrated on the simulation. Grating periods, grating...

Optical reflectivity of the retro-reflector installed in LHD as the first mirror was reduced seriously by plasma wall interaction. In order to understand the mechanism of the reflectivity reduction, optical and material properties of the mirror surfaces have been examined extensively. It was found that the deposited impurity layers caused the serious reduction of the reflectivity. Formation of ...

Sonoda et al. reported a new aspect of diagnostic imaging by optical coherence tomography (OCT) in their manuscript, ‘‘Correlation between reflectivity of subretinal fluid in OCT images and concentration of intravitreal VEGF in eyes with diabetic macular edema.’’ Neudorfer and the authors found that OCT reflectivity is variable in subretinal fluid in diabetic macula edema cases. They have alrea...