Esta informacion fue validada mediante el uso de una tabla de cotejo para el analisis de los cursos y de la informacion obtenida de las entrevistas. El estudio determina y concluye que existen discrepancias entre los prontuarios de los cursos del curriculo y las competencias requeridas por la agencia de revalida. Segundo, que el Departamento de Ciencias Basicas es el. Escuela de la Frontera Border School. This article features Lourdes Catholic School, a small Catholic school where students grapple with life and learning in the shadow of two nations. The school, which is governed by the Minim Daughters of Mary Immaculate, is located in Nogales, a desert mountain town straddling the line that separates Arizona from the Mexican state of Sonora.

Discusses teenage pregnancy in the two contexts of Hispanic cultural values and educational alternatives available to teen parents in Milwaukee; the school-community partnership; and arguments for…. In the present work, in order to supply the lacks of practical activities related to the content of Kepler's Laws in high school physics textbooks, we present a practical activity to determine the shape of the orbit of Mars.

In this activity the student can experience the discovery the shape of the orbit of Mars in a way similar to that realized by Johannes Kepler combining the physical concepts with geometry. We applied the activity to eighteen high school teachers participating in a Postgraduate Course in Science Education. Rules of traffic safety constitute the theme of this booklet, intended as reading material for Spanish speaking elementary school children.

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Both the Spanish language and content have been controlled to provide linguistically and culturally…. La Metamorfosis de la Escuela. The Metamorphosis of the School. The author attacks present school systems as hindrances to education, arguing that everyone has a right to an equal part of a nation's educational budget. One solution he proposes is to offer everyone an equal share of public resources by providing both children and adults with one month of intensive education each year, and supplementing this….

English Learners and Access to School Choice. School choice has emerged as the linchpin of President Trump's urban education reform plan, but it remains unclear how school choice policies will shape the educational experiences of the most underserved student groups, particularly English learners ELs. Using quantitative data from one large urban school district, we examine EL participation…. Astronomy in High School: The aim of this article is to present part of the results obtained by the intervention made from the author's Master degree project, which consisted in the development of a set of Astronomy classes for first year of High School students from a private school in the "Distrito Federal", Brasilia, Brazil, making use of a didactical material called mini-planetarium MP as the main resource.

Using Paulo Freire's contextualization and dialogicity ideas as a theoretical framework guided by these lessons, it was proposed to the students the assembly and application of that resource in a planetarium session. During the project, some subjects such as the apparent trajectory of stars through Brasilia's sky, the location of the cardinal points beginning from the Southern Cross constellation, the color of stars and the stars being seen from a particular place were emphasized.

It was found that the students showed an improvement of their understanding about these subjects, as well as a significant excitement with the developed methodology. A test with 20 multiple-choice questions was applied to indentify the most common conceptions expressed by the students. This test was elaborated based on the literature about misconceptions and covered the following topics: Though a small progress was verified in the proportion of scientifically acceptable answers when comparing the eighth grade of middle school to the fifth, and the third grade of high school to the first, there was an overall predominance of alternative conceptions regarding most of the explored subjects, which persisted up to the last year of secondary school.

The comparison to data found in this research made in other socio-cultural contexts revealed, in many aspects, similar notions and difficulties revealed by the students. Solar Physics Topics in High School: The course was elaborated by the authors with the intention of investigating student's concepts about the Sun, teaching topics of modern physics related to the Sun and providing students with knowledge about our star as well. The methodology of data gathering consisted of audio and video records of classes and of semi-structured interviews, and analysis of answers to written questionnaires.

The results showed that most high school students conceived the Sun as made of fire, while sunspots were thought to be holes in the Sun.

Even though some students did know that a spectrum is formed using a prism or diffraction grating, most of them ignored the nature of the observed spectral lines. Through the course, this topic was developed by means of a practical approach with solar and lamp spectra observations. The results obtained in the course point to the importance of science centers as partners in formal education.

In this specific case, the Solar Room at the Dietrich Schiel Observatory is as a favorable environment for teaching modern physics in high school. Across the United States, schools and communities have found ways to turn the tide in the battle against drugs. This guidebook describes the methods they have used and the actions they have taken. The first section, "Children and Drugs" outlines the nature and extent of the drug problem and summarizes the latest research on the effects of drugs on…. In this paper we examine discourse and interaction during Saturday morning religious instruction classes in a Gitano Spanish Romani evangelist church.

The focus is on adults as literacy mediators for the children in the process of learning ways to use and interpret the Bible. The analysis centres on two aspects: The kit looks at how to organize community interest in least-toxic Integrated Pest Management policy, and…. This book on educational management, is a collection of works that were presented at a international seminar. The papers are divided into three sections. The first section, the management in the crossroads of our time, contains three articles: La Equidad de Genero de Escuela Elemental: Percepcion de los Maestros.

The purpose of this qualitative methodology study was to explore and examine the contributions the Puerto Rico Public Education system has made in relation to promote and transmit gender equity, examine the knowledge of the elementary school teachers with this concern and to explore how elementary school teachers promotes gender equity through the…. Volcano Monitoring in Ecuador: In an agreement with the Instituto Ecuatoriano de Electrificacion strengthened the monitoring of Tungurahua and Cotopaxi volcanoes with real-time SP seismic networks and EDM lines.

Thus, background activity levels became established, which was helpful because of the onset of the eruptive activity at Tungurahua and Guagua Pichincha. Unrest at Cotopaxi volcano was detected in , but waned. In Reventador began its eruptive period which continues to the present and is closely monitored by the IG. In permanent seismic BB stations and infrasound sensors were installed at Tungurahua and Cotopaxi under a cooperative program supported by JICA, which allowed us to follow Tungurahua's climatic eruptions of and subsequent eruptions up to the present.

Programs supported by the Ecuadorian Secretaria Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia and the Secretaria Nacional de Planificacion resulted in further expansion of the IG's monitoring infrastructure. Thermal and video imagery, SO2 emission monitoring, geochemical analyses, continuous GPS and tiltmeters, and micro-barometric surveillance have been incorporated. An agreement with the Secretaria de Gestion de Riesgos fortifies the communication flow to society, officials, and risk managers.

Today the IG has the challenge of offering real-time information through a web-based net of virtual observatories. Prevencion de la violencia en las escuelas School Violence Prevention. Tactics to deal with growing violence in schools have usually relied on removal of the offender by suspension or placement outside of the mainstream classroom.

However, educators and psychologists are considering the prevention of violent behavior as both a more humane and cost-effective response to the problem. The relationship between school…. During the Spanish Second Republican government April July , there was an institutional initiative in the country called "Misiones Pedagogicas", deeply based in the early Deweyan conception of Progressive Education.

The aim of this project was bringing access to culture, entertainment and some sort of progress to rural areas…. Do you feel that schools are only for teachers, principals, and people who have special training in education? Well, Centennial schools need help from parents. You don't need any special skills or training. All you have to do is care about making schools better places for children to learn. How can you help your children's schools do a better job? This handbook is designed to help parents learn more about what is taking place in the schools their children attend and to help parents evaluate the effectiveness of the school's academic program.

It offers tips for locating important information and identifies where assistance can be obtained. A checklist is provided to help parents identify the…. This guide presents questions that parents frequently ask about their children's school along with answers to those questions. The questions and answers were prepared based on the results of studies conducted by the Partnership for Family Involvement in Education, the U. Noting that parents play an important role in the school success of their elementary- and middle-school-aged children, this booklet offers research-based tips to provide both practical guidance and information about a range of education-related topics.

Presented in a question-answer format in both English and Spanish versions, the booklet provides…. Participacion de los padres en las escuelas Father Involvement in Schools. Until recently, fathers were the hidden parents in research on children's well-being. Research stimulated by the new interest in fathers suggests that fathers' involvement in their children's schools does make a difference in their children's education. Between Community and State: This article analyses the changing role of the principal in Mexico, during a period, , in which the configurations sustaining and surrounding schooling were profoundly transformed.

It compares the experience of three "directores" working in towns that differed in their expectations and relationship to state and federal…. Video Created with Sketch. Serena Serena , a mom of three and a midwife, shares why it's never too early to start talking about sex, love, and realtionships with the young person in Early theories of fluid migration in unsaturated fractured rock hypothesized that matrix suction would dominate flow up to the point of matrix saturation.

However, experiments in underground laboratories such as the ESF Yucca Mountain, NV have demonstrated that liquid water can migrate significant distances through fractures in an unsaturated porous medium, suggesting limited interaction between fractures and unsaturated matrix blocks and potentially rapid transmission of recharge to the sat- urated zone.

Determining the conditions under which this rapid recharge may take place is an important factor in understanding deep percolation processes in arid areas with thick unsaturated zones. Planning for the tests is based on an analytical model and curve-matching method, originally developed to evaluate data from injection tests at Yucca Mountain Fairley, J. We briefly review the analytical approach and its application to test planning and analysis, and describe the proposed tests and their goals.

Please note that the carryall passes. Los estudiantes que se mudan de escuela y el logro academico Student Mobility and Academic Achievement. Student mobility students moving from one school to another for reasons other than being promoted to the next school level is widespread in the United States. This Spanish-language Digest examines the research on the academic consequences of mobility for elementary school students and discusses what schools and parents can do to mitigate the…. Mexican immigrant farm-worker mothers' class, race, citizenship status, and jurisdictional status of their town in a Northern California community rendered them invisible.

However, when the school board decided to close the elementary school the mothers mobilized. Drawing on these mothers' "'fototestimonios" we examine how they, as…. Educacion Ambiental en las Escuelas: Creando una Programa que Funcione! Environmental Education in the Schools: Creating a Program That Works!

This book is a manual that enables teachers to formulate an effective program of environmental education across multiple grade levels and cultural settings. A section provides tips for using the book, followed by nine chapters dealing with different aspects of developing and implementing an environmental education program. Chapter 1 presents a…. Idiomas, Escuelas y Radios en Bolivia. Cuadernos de Investigacion 3. Languages, Schools and Radios in Bolivia. Investigative Notes Number 3.

Bolivia has a multilingual population divided among three language families: Spanish, Quechua, and Aymara. In practice, however, the country has a monolingual system, since Spanish is the language of government, education, and professional and technical fields, and dominates in urban areas. Quechua and Aymara prevail in rural areas and in native….

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Guia para Padres y Estudiantes. Intended for handicapped students and their parents, the booklet presents a guide in Spanish to special education services in the Boston public schools. Chapter , the Massachusetts law guaranteeing free appropriate public education to every child, is focused on. Section 1 discusses such evaluation aspects as early childhood screening, referral,…. Ayudando a los padres a comunicarse mejor con las escuelas Helping Parents Communicate Better with Schools. The digest discusses the importance of parents' level of comfort at school and in talking to….

No High School Diploma? If a student completes high school but is unable to graduate, there are still options. The student can still get a high school diploma whether he or she dropped out, failed the California High School Exit Exam, or did not have enough course credits. As many know, a high school diploma is a passport to a more interesting and better paying job. Some examples are the National School Astronomy Congress and the International Amateur Astronomy Congress in , each with the participation of students, teaches and general public.

Expedition 56 Crew Gree. The hatches opened at Federal Register , , , , Esto fue seguido por un tsunami que en el posterior tsunami. This book is a contribution to the dialogue that is maintained today around the problems of education. The book contains four parts: En Los Estados Unidos In the United States It's Our School Too.

This guidebook for Hispanic parents advises that children's success in school may depend on the home environment during the formative years. Hispanic youth drop out of school at a rate of 40 percent; 25 percent of those who graduate are not qualified for good jobs. In Latin American countries, parents are expected to leave education to the…. This activity book for middle school students on coral reefs is divided into 10 sections. Section 1 is the introduction.

Section 2 describes what coral reefs are while section 3 describes how coral reefs reproduce and grow. Section 4 describes where coral reefs are found, and section 5 describes life on a coral reef. Section 6 describes the…. Postschool outcomes for youth with disabilities vary depending on culture, ethnicity, race, gender, and socioeconomic status. The aim of this study was to identify and describe the needs of youth with disabilities from Latino backgrounds who are transitioning from school to adulthood in Oregon.

Using a conceptual model that included community…. Discipline in Schools That Work. Disciplina en Escuelas Efectivas. Un Folleto para los Padres de Chicago. This bilingual handbook, in English and Spanish on facing pages, is intended to provide general information to Chicago Illinois public school parents about school discipline. After two brief introductory chapters that set forth the scope of the issue, the third chapter provides the following general guidelines for discipline programs in…. This bilingual guide English and Spanish provides information for migrant students on postsecondary education.

The guide includes information on: This curriculum guide for intermediate schools in Argentina begins with a discussion of the historical development of such schools and of their place in the overall educational scheme. The section on the curriculum provides detailed information on objectives, content, and activities; philosophical, political, sociological, methodological, and…. This Spanish-language brochure suggests that parents, schools, and community members may contact the National Center for Homeless Education at SERVE for information related to the education of homeless children.

The brochure identifies some facts that parents in homeless families should know about their children's right to education. El recreo en la escuela primaria: Que indica la investigacion? Recess in Elementary School: What Does the Research Say? Compared to the rest of the school day, recess is a time when children have more freedom to choose what they want to do and with whom. In light of the current climate of school accountability, this Spanish-language Digest discusses research on recess and its relationship to learning, social development, and child health, as well as research on….

This guide, in English and Spanish, is designed to provide teachers with a scientific basis for identifying myths and distortions about men and women. A pre-test and post-test are included to measure the user's awareness of stereotypes. Object lessons address the following areas: La conexion entre el mejoramiento de la escuela rural y el desarrollo comunitario.

Available in English or Spanish, this resource guide aims to help rural schools and communities learn ways of supporting each other so that both can thrive. Background information and basic tools are provided for starting a joint school-community development effort. Building Local and Transnational Feminisms: This program was created and initially led by Dr.

Rose-Marie Avin, a faculty member in the economics department and an affiliate member of both…. First Module of a Series for Elementary Teachers. This guide for teachers, in English and Spanish, examines the role of stereotypes within the context of contemporary beliefs, ideas, and attitudes. Object lessons cover the following topics: A Problem-Solving Handbook for Parents. Designed to help parents communicate with teachers about the school problems of their children, the handbook provides strategies which can guide parents to collect accurate information about a problem and to use it to initiate an open exchange with the teacher.

The strategies can be used whether parents are becoming aware of a problem or have been…. Enfoque en las horas despues del dia en escuela para la prevencion de violencia Focus on After-School Time for Violence Prevention. Perhaps 8 million children spend the after-school hours at home alone. In the absence of adult supervision, many of these youth are likely to engage in delinquent or other high-risk activities. This Spanish-language digest reveals research that suggests after-school programs can help to prevent youths from engaging in these activities in two ways: From the " Escuela Moderna" to the "Tyovaen Opisto": In working class education, one of the primary goals in addition to basic literacy was the formulation of class-based interpretations of society.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, as literacy programs began to filter into the lives of proletariat, an attempt to expand the definition of literacy past basic reading and writing skills…. Lo Que el Trabajo Requiere de las Escuelas. Fundamental changes in the nature of work were identified; these changes were found to hold…. Los Rizos y el Beisbol. This guide for teachers, in English and Spanish, examines how assigned sex roles affect grade school girls in competitive sports, simple games, pastimes, and other extracurricular activities. A pre-test and post-test are included to measure the user's awareness of sexual stereotypes.

Five object lessons cover the following topics: Guia para padres hispanos. These two documents pertain to the "Parents and Schools: Success through Partnership" program. The presentation guide for school administrators and Teachers" is intended to help school personnel present the program and its associated video, which addresses common culturally-based causes of misunderstandings between Hispanic American parents and…. Guia para Padres con Alumnos en la Escuela Superior. The guide's first section deals with how to select the right high school. This is followed by a lengthy section on the high school years, which covers the following topics: Perspectivas sobre las escuelas charter: Una resena para padres de familia Perspectives on Charter Schools: A Review for Parents.

Recently, charter schools have gained popularity with parents, students, and others as alternatives to public schools, but what are charter schools and what effects are they having? This Spanish-language Digest defines charter schools and clarifies some of the administrative and legal details surrounding such schools. The Digest also lays out some…. Informacion importante para el exito de su hijo en la escuela This glossy folder is intended for parents to keep important papers related to their children's school.

On the inside flaps of the folder are written in Spanish: The study provides an examination of leadership practices, instructional strategies, and professional…. Immigration has played an important role in the history of the United States of America. As a country founded by immigrants more than two hundred years ago, it continues to attract individuals from across the globe. People journey to the United States in search of political and economic freedom as well as opportunities that may have been….

Practical Astronomical Activities during Daytime. Austin and Other Cities, TX Too Soon for Sex? This story, one of three in The Sexuality Decision-Making Series for Teens, contains several different possible plot lines depending on the decisions the reader makes for the characters at various "choice points. Serena and James are in love and need to face the realities of their sexual….

It also promote full access of all people in the Region of Coquimbo to their facilities the subject of astronomy. A View from Within: A collection of essays on Chinese heritage community language schools in the United States addresses these topics: Infrared image shows bright spot, aftermath of the impact of the first fragment of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on the planet Jupiter.

Power Blades ND Inc. Software Tools for Software Maintenance. Obama was sworn-in as the nation's 44th President earlier in the day. La teoria de evolucion biologica TEB por seleccion natural es uno de los conceptos unificadores mas importantes del curriculo de Biologia. La politica publica educativa actual establece mediante documentos normativos como los Estandares de contenido y Expectativas de grado del Programa de Ciencias [Puerto Rico Core Standards] la ensenanza de esta teoria.

Sin embargo, no se encontraron preguntas sobre la seleccion natural en los ejercicios de practica provistos por el Departamento de Educacion para las pruebas estandarizadas lo cual puede influir para que no se ensene adecuadamente. Las preguntas de investigacion fueron 1. Entendiendo el cambio biologico que mide concepciones y CA sobre la TEB por seleccion natural, con las de la traducida al idioma espanol? Se utilizo el metodo cuantitativo con un diseno de investigacion transversal por encuesta.

La tecnica principal para recopilar los datos fue una prueba con doce items, que formo parte de un instrumento para el cual se recopilaron diversas fuentes de evidencia acerca de su validez. Las muestras estuvieron formadas por 69 estudiantes de Ciencias Naturales y por 16 estudiantes futuros maestros y maestras del nivel secundario de la UPR-RP. Se utilizaron estadisticas descriptivas, analisis de Ji cuadrado y se calcularon los coeficientes alfa de Cronbach y de Spearman. Estos demostraron que la prueba es confiable para medir las concepciones y CA de la TEB por seleccion natural.

Aunque los estudiantes escogieron conceptos relacionados con esta teoria, mantienen en sus procesos de razonamiento CA sobre la seleccion natural que no se limitan a la lamarckiana y a la teleologica. Matematica Para La Escuela Secundaria: Traduccion Preliminar de la Edicion Inglesa Revisada. Mathematics for High School: Preliminary Translation of the Revised English Edition. This is part two of a two-part SMSG mathematics text for high school students. This is the student text for part one of a three-part SMSG algebra course for high school students.

The principal objective of the text is to help the student develop an understanding and appreciation of some of the algebraic structure as a basis for the techniques of algebra. Chapter topics include congruence; numbers and variables; operations;…. Traduccion Preliminar de la Edicion en Ingles Revisada.

This is the teacher's commentary for part two of a three-part SMSG algebra text for high school students. Chapter topics include addition and multiplication of real…. Translation of the Revised English Edition. This is the teacher's commentary for part one of a three-part SMSG algebra text for high school students. Chapter topics include congruence; numbers and variables;…. This is part two of a three-part SMSG algebra text for high school students.

Chapter topics include addition and multiplication of real numbers, subtraction and division…. This is Part 1 of the teacher's commentary for the grade 4 mathematics program. Part 1 includes the commentary for chapters 1 through 5. Topics covered include congruence, numbers and number bases, subtraction of numbers, division of numbers, and elementary geometry. References to the student text are cited. This is part one of a two-part SMSG mathematics text for high school students.

Topics include plane geometry, real numbers, triangles and angles, congruence, construction, parallel lines, perpendicular lines, and parallelograms. The text is written in Spanish. This is Part 2 of the teacher's commentary for the grade 4 mathematics program. Part 2 includes the commentary for chapters 6 through Topics covered include addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, geometrical figures, lines and lineal measurement, and fractions.

The participants included …. Dona Ana No Esta Aqui. This guide in English and Spanish examines the roles assigned to women in social studies textbooks and the omission of women from history books. It analyzes the topics, textbooks, pictures, and narrations in use, and offers alternatives to these biased materials. A pre-test and post-test are included to measure the user's awareness of textbook…. Vamos juntos a la escuela: Consejos para ayudar a los padres a asegurar el exito academico de sus hijos Let's Go to School Together: Noting research showing that when parents are involved in their children's learning, students achieve more and are less likely to drop out of school, this videotape kit offers Spanish-speaking parents tips to help them become involved in their children's learning, from infancy through adolescence.

The kit is intended for use in schools,…. Building on the theorem that a positive self-identity is fundamental to completion of an education, a study was conducted to learn how schools with differing backgrounds affected the ethnic identity of students. Two schools in Denver Colorado were selected for this case study. El Odio Se Cura: Designed for use in middle schools and youth organizations, this curriculum, in Spanish, deals with the extent of hate crime in the United States and presents strategies for reducing hate crimes among our youth.

This flexible nine-unit curriculum is based on the principles that violence and prejudice are learned and therefore preventable, and that…. Mi Primer Libro de Maquinas Simples: Intermediate School Grades 7, 8, and 9. This is the first book in a five-book physical science series on simple machines. The books are designed for Spanish-speaking junior high school students. This volume defines force and work by suggesting experiments and posing questions concerning drawings in the book which illustrate scientific principles.

Answers to the questions are provided;…. Mi Quinto Libro de Maquinas Simples: This is the fifth book in a five-book physical science series on simple machines. This volume explains the principles and some of the uses of inclined planes, as they appear in simple machines, by suggesting experiments and posing questions concerning drawings in the book…. Mi Tercer Libro de Maquinas Simples: La Rueda y la Polea. The Wheel and the Pulley. This is the third book in a five-book physical science series on simple machines. This volume explains principles governing wheels and pulleys by suggesting experiments and posing questions concerning drawings in the book which illustrate the scientific principles.

Como Prepararse a Tiempo para la Universidad: This Spanish language booklet, also available in English, provides "los cuatro pasos"--four steps that parents and children can take to ensure that students properly prepare for college. Step one discusses why it is important to go to college; reasons include better job opportunities, more earning potential, and the increased variety of jobs one….

Mi Cuarto Libro de Maquinas Simples: Otras Modificaciones de la Rueda. Other Modifications of the Wheel. This is the fourth book in a five-book physical science series on simple machines. This volume explains further refinements of the wheel which is introduced in volume three. The fourth volume explains principles behind gears and the relationship between velocity and force by…. Mi Segundo Libro de Maquinas Simples: We utilize the IBM chip to realize protocols in quantum error correction, quantum arithmetic, quantum graph theory, and fault-tolerant quantum computation by accessing the device remotely through the cloud.

While the results are subject to significant noise, the correct results are returned from the chip. This demonstrates the power of experimental groups opening up their technology to a wider audience and will hopefully allow for the next stage of development in quantum information technology. Full Text Available The purpose of research refers to comparison of Ukrainian and the USA standards of preparation and presentation of governmental entities financial reports with the aim of implementation of foreign experience regarding financial data disclosure of a governmental entity activity in domestic reporting system of budgetary resources disposers.

In order to achieve the aim the author applied the following general methods of cognition: Special economic methods include grouping, tabular, graphical, information and logical analysis. The research resulted in detailed analysis of the standards of the USA governmental entities financial reports presentation and comparison of their statements with domestic governmental accounting standards. As a result of performed research, the key differences in the Ukrainian and the USA rules of presentation of governmental entities financial reports are considered. The author determined the dependence of structure and a public level of the financial reports on the character of the state political and economic systems.

We present the first data analysis with 7. The background rates in the neutrinoless double-beta decay region of interest 2. The latter result represents a factor of 6 improvement from a predecessor experiment , Cuoricino. The obtained energy resolution full width at half maximum in the region of interest is 5.

Based on themeasured background rate and energy resolution in the region of interest, CUORE-0 half-life sensitivity is expected to surpass the observed lower bound of Cuoricino with one year of live time. This paper presents a performance study that targets a specific remote access architecture implemented within a universities operational environment.

This particular RAL system provides globally authenticated and arbitrated remote access to virtualized computers as well as computer controlled hardware experiments. This paper presents system performance results that have been obtained utilizing both a set of automated and human subject tests. Principle objectives of the study were: To gain a better understanding of the nature of network traffic caused by experimental activity usage; to obtain an indication of user expectations of activity performance ; and to develop a measure to predict Quality of Experience , based on easily measurable Quality of Service parameters.

The study emulates network layer variation of access-bandwidth and round-trip-time of typical usage scenarios and contrasts against user perception results that allow classifying expected user performance. It demonstrates that failure rate is excellent measure of usability, and that round-trip-time predominantly affects user experience. Thin-client and remote desktop architectures are popular to separate the location of users and the actual data processing and use similar structures, hence results of this study to be applied in these application areas as well.

Perform light and optic experiments in Augmented Reality. In many scientific studies lens experiments are part of the curriculum. The conducted experiments are meant to give the students a basic understanding for the laws of optics and its applications. Most of the experiments need special hardware like e. Therefore it is not possible for the students to conduct any of the experiments outside of the university's laboratory.

Simple optical software simulators enabling the students to virtually perform lens experiments already exist, but are mostly desktop or web browser based. Augmented Reality AR is a special case of mediated and mixed reality concepts, where computers are used to add, subtract or modify one's perception of reality. As a result of the success and widespread availability of handheld mobile devices, like e. Augmented reality can be easily used to visualize a simulated optical bench. The students can interactively modify properties like e. Light rays can be visualized and promote an additional understanding of the laws of optics.

The authors will present their experience with handheld augmented reality applications and their possibilities for light and optic experiments without the needs for specialized optical hardware. Influence of step complexity and presentation style on step performance of computerized emergency operating procedures. With the development of information technology, computerized emergency operating procedures EOPs are taking the place of paper-based ones. However, ergonomics issues of computerized EOPs have not been studied adequately since the industrial practice is quite limited yet.

This study examined the influence of step complexity and presentation style of EOPs on step performance. A simulated computerized EOP system was developed in two presentation styles: Step complexity was quantified by a complexity measure model based on an entropy concept. Forty subjects participated in the experiment of EOP execution using the simulated system. The results of data analysis on the experiment data indicate that step complexity and presentation style could significantly influence step performance both step error rate and operation time.

Regression models were also developed. The regression analysis results imply that operation time of a step could be well predicted by step complexity while step error rate could only partly predicted by it. The result of a questionnaire investigation implies that step error rate was influenced not only by the operation task itself but also by other human factors.

These findings may be useful for the design and assessment of computerized EOPs. Initial experience with a group presentation of study results to research participants. Full Text Available Abstract Background Despite ethical imperatives, informing research participants about the results of the studies in which they take part is not often performed.

This is due, in part, to the costs and burdens of communicating with each participant after publication of the results. Methods Following the closeout and publication of a randomized clinical trial of saw palmetto for treatment of symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia, patients were invited back to the research center to participate in a group presentation of the study results.

Reaction to the experience of the group presentation was very positive among the attendees. Conclusion A group presentation to research participants is an efficient method of communicating study results to those who desire to be informed and was highly valued by those who attended. Prospectively planning for such presentations and greater scheduling flexibility may result in higher attendance rates. Trial Registration Number Clinicaltrials. Dissociation of past and present experience in problem solving using a virtual environment. An interactive 3D desktop virtual environment task was created to investigate learning mechanisms in human problem solving.

Participants were assessed for previous video game experience , divided into two groups Training and Control , and matched for gender and experience. The Training group learned specific skills within the virtual environment before being presented a problem. The Control group was presented the problem only. Completion time was faster for the Training group and was affected by level of previous video game experience. Results indicated problem solving was a function of specific and general experience and demonstrated a method for dissociating these two facets of experience.

Following long 54 month refurbishment outage at Point Lepreau Generating Station, operational performance had fallen below industry standards in a number of areas. Leadership development and succession planning had stalled. Operational focus was low primarily due to the construction focus during refurbishment. Condition of balance of plant was poor including several long standing deficiencies. In order to improve performance , the site implemented a framework based on INPO Focus on Improving Behaviours; Set common goals and demonstrate results; Align and engage the organization; Drive to achieve high levels of performance and sustain performance.

How stimuli presentation format affects visual attention and choice outcomes in choice experiments. This study analyses visual attention and part-worth utilities in choice experiments across three different choice stimuli presentation formats. Visual attention and choice behaviour in discrete choice experiments are found to be strongly affected by stimuli presentation format. One surgeon's Army experience with "wound shock" from Pearl Harbor to the present. The Army has had extensive experience in the study and treatment of shock, beginning with the American Civil War and continuing to the present.

This is the story of one Army surgeon's experience , both in research and treatment of shock, from Pearl Harbor to the present. High performance Fortran HPF is a relative new addition to the Fortran dialect It is an attempt to provide an efficient high-level Fortran parallel programming language for the latest generation of been debatable Sniffin' Sticks have become a popular procedure to measure overall olfactory functionality with 3 subtest: However, several procedural components specified by the original paper have not been tested nor has the impact of deviations been measured.

The aim of the present work was to measure olfactory performance under modified testing procedures.


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Next, the possible impact of background noise and positive concurrent feedback were assessed. A total of individuals participated in the study where the 3 conditional experiments , each involving 40 participants, were completed. Additionally, nonverbal background noise lowered overall olfactory performance while concurrent feedback modulated threshold performance. These results emphasize the importance of testing parameters where olfactory perception and tasks may be modulated by adaptation and attentional distraction, respectively.

This study helped furthermore to demonstrate that the investigated 3 deviations from the standard procedure revealed a significant impact on the performance outcome in olfactory assessment using the Sniffin' Sticks. Published by Oxford University Press. For permissions, please e-mail: Full Text Available Contemporary theatre, and performing arts in general, no longer seems to be interested in the representation of illusion and reality. And, thus, the mainstream is moving towards the aesthetics of performance art and happenings, where recurrence is shunned and improvisation is emphasized on one hand, while the boundary between performance and reality is obscured on the other.

In the light of the aforementioned, this paper attempts to answer the following questions: In order to answer these questions, the complicated relationship between art and reality as well as issues intrinsic to realist theatre are analysed. The author attempts to prove that it is difficult to find anything fundamentally new in 21st century theatre practice.

A lot of the currently fashionable strategies are further developments of older waves, such as realism, or experiments placed in a new temporal and cultural context. Considering the physical relationship between performing arts and reality, the third section of the paper analyses three strategies of re- presenting reality: Presenting the elements of reality on stage: Giving reality an artistic framework: Prior and present evidence: Full Text Available Vibrotactile discrimination tasks have been used to examine decision making processes in the presence of perceptual uncertainty, induced by barely discernible frequency differences between paired stimuli or by the presence of embedded noise.

One lesser known property of such tasks is that decisions made on a single trial may be biased by information from prior trials. An example is the time-order effect whereby the presentation order of paired stimuli may introduce differences in accuracy. Subjects perform better when the first stimulus lies between the second stimulus and the global mean of all stimuli on the judged dimension "preferred" time-orders compared to the alternative presentation order "nonpreferred" time-orders.

This has been conceptualised as a "drift" of the first stimulus representation towards the global mean of the stimulus-set an internal standard. We describe the influence of prior information in relation to the more traditionally studied factors of interest in a classic discrimination task. Sixty subjects performed a vibrotactile discrimination task with different levels of uncertainty parametrically induced by increasing task difficulty, aperiodic stimulus noise, and changing the task instructions whilst maintaining identical stimulus properties the "context".

The time-order effect had a greater influence on task performance than two of the explicit factors-task difficulty and noise-but not context. The influence of prior information increased with the distance of the first stimulus from the global mean, suggesting that the "drift" velocity of the first stimulus towards the global mean representation was greater for these trials. Awareness of the time-order effect and prior information in general is essential when studying perceptual decision making tasks.

Implicit mechanisms may have a greater influence than the explicit factors under study. It also affords valuable insights into basic mechanisms of information. Meeting performance goals by the use of experience data. For SSCs to be acceptable, it must be demonstrated that there is a sufficiently low probability of failure of those SSCs consistent with established performance goals.

For new design, NPH loads are taken from probabilistic hazard assessments and coupled with response and evaluation methods to control the levels of conservatism required to achieve performance goals. For components qualified by test, performance goals are achieved by specifying a test response spectrum that envelops a required response spectrum coupled with minimal acceptance standards. DOE Standard adapts both of these approaches to ensure that the required performance goals are met for new installations. For existing installations these approaches are generally not applicable.

There is a need for a simple approach for use in verifying the performance of existing equipment subject to seismic hazards. A simple set of screening rules, keyed to a generic bounding spectrum forms the basis of the USNRC approach. A similar approach is being adapted for use in the DOE. The DOE approach, however, must also ensure that appropriate performance goals are met when the general screens are met.

This paper summarizes research to date on the topic of meeting performance goals by the use of experience data. The paper presents a review of the background material, a summary of the requirements for existing components, a summary of the approach used in establishing the performance goals associated with experience data approaches, and a summary of results to date.

Simplified criteria are proposed. Financing arrangements for nuclear power projects - Past and present experience , future expectations. Nuclear energy is a clean, safe, and economical industrial electricity source, with many environmental benefits. It does not emit greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change, or combustion by-products and acid gases that cause air, water resource and land pollution.

Nuclear energy has also many benefits in the areas of medicine, industry, agriculture, and research. Moreover, the results are revealing. Over the past 12 years, from to , the global 'energy availability factor' - representing the percentage of time that nuclear power plants worldwide were up and running - increased from At the same time, based on statistics gathered by the World Association of Nuclear Operators - WANO, the number of industrial accidents has gone down, radiation exposure has dropped sharply and the annual volume of radioactive waste produced has been reduced substantially.

In other words, the safety, performance and economic competitiveness of the nuclear industry are at an all time high, reflecting a mature and vibrant enterprise. These are several reasons why a prospective host nation and other nations around the world may be attracted by nuclear power generation.

Nuclear power can be and has been financed by world capital markets. The crucial question is whether host governments and interested utilities are willing to take the steps required to attract investment with reasonable assurance of success, and whether the nuclear industry is willing and able to become competitive in increasingly deregulated financial and electricity markets. The present paper will have the following structure: The latter will treat the past experience as provided by the financing scheme of Cernavoda NPP Unit 1, the present experience , i.

Goals and experience of performance improvement. Performance improvement was achieved by reasonable arrangement of planned window for related work and optimization of time for important maintenance items, outage quality and duration. Unplanned output loss has been reduced through routine unit management and improvements to both personnel skill and equipment reliability. Planned power generation loss is reduced by controlling planned duration and quality of forced shutdowns and outages, to ensure safe and stable plant operation.

It is not known whether the clinical experience of the assessor or photographic presentation have an influence on the assessment of perceived age, which the present study aimed to investigate. In a cross-sectional study of women aged years, Intra- and inter-assessor agreements between photographic presentations were similar among both assessor groups.

The accuracy in age assessment was significantly influenced by the photographic presentation but not by the clinical experience of the assessor. The difference in the mean perceived A regression towards the mean age was seen. The assessment of perceived age was influenced by the photographic presentation but not by the clinical experience of the assessor Experiences in Performing Posterior Calvarial Distraction. The use of posterior calvarial distraction PCD for the management of craniosynostosis is well recognized.

The advantages of using this technique include increased cranial volume, decreased intracranial pressure, relief of posterior fossa crowding, improved cerebrospinal fluid CSF circulation at the cranio-cervical junction with cessation, and possible resolution of syrinx.

The authors retrospectively review their first 50 patients who have undergone PCD under the senior author's care in our unit. The demographics, diagnoses, intraoperative approach with techniques in distractor placement and outcomes of each patient were obtained through an electronic craniofacial database and written patient records. Analysis of complication rates bleeding, distraction problems, CSF leaks, and infection was included. A total of 31 boys and 19 girls underwent the procedure between October and September with a median age was Of those 50 children, 34 of the cohort were proven to be syndromic by genetic testing.

The median length of inpatient stay was 9. Complications including CSF leaks, bleeding, distractor problems, and severe complications recorded in 3 patients are discussed. Favorable outcomes included resolution of Chiari, syrinx, and raised intracranial pressure in the majority of patients where distraction was successful. The authors recommend that PCD should be considered the primary treatment for increasing calvarial volume. The authors discuss our experiences and technical innovations over the past decade.

The contributing role of stereotype threat ST to learning and performance decrements for stigmatized students in highly evaluative situations has been vastly documented and is now widely known by educators and policy makers. These negative experiences are associated with important outcomes such as decreased persistence and domain identification, even among students who are high in achievement motivation. Furthermore, I will give also an outlook on a possible upgrade of the ALICE ITS which is presently being studied, in order to extend its physics performance by improving the measurements of charmed hadrons and accessing new physics items like the measurement of the beauty hadrons.

Present it like it is here: Creating local presence to improve online product experiences. Advanced online product presentation technologies such as virtual mirrors enable consumers to experience products like they are actually present with them in the real world. This study is one of the first to address the mechanism underlying this phenomenon. Inspired by literature on media technology.

Double Beta Decay Experiments: Present Status and Prospects for the Future. The review of modern experiments on search and studying of double beta decay processes is done. Results of the most sensitive current experiments are discussed. The results emphasize the importance of SNS use for tourists to seek support from their social network while traveling. The study clarifies the importance of SNS use for tourism experience , in that the more engaged tourists are in social interaction facilitated with SNS while traveling, the more Foster care represents a non-traditional family structure that warrants research attention in terms of technology.

Using a multicultural feminist framework, the present study explores the past and present technological experience of a woman 30 years old who was raised in the foster care system. The results are presented as a case study documenting her technological experience in foster care, as she transitioned out of the foster care system, and as she has taken on the roles of wife and mother.

Results indicated that the participant had limited access to technology while in the foster care system, and this limited technology access related to her current use and perceptions of technology. Directions for future research are provided. The impact of presentation format on visual attention and choice in discrete choice experiments. Discrete choice experiments in which participants choose between alternatives differing on attribute levels are an important research method for preference elicitation.

In such experiments choice stimuli is typically presented in tables with verbally described attributes, in tables So far little is known about how presentation formats affect visual attention patterns and choice behavior. This study addresses the question by analysing visual attention and part-worth utilities in choice Operating experience and performance at Narora Atomic Power Station. These are Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors, fuelled by natural uranium, moderated and cooled by heavy water. NAPS was the first opportunity to apply operating experiences in design, keeping in view the evolving safety and seismicity requirements, ease of maintenance, inservice inspection needs, improved construction ability and standardization.

Both the units of NAPS are having improved safety standards of current international levels. All the equipment are indigenous with improved quality and reliability. The first unit of the station went critical in March and synchronized to the grid in July The second units followed with its criticality in October and synchronization in January Considering the initial stabilizing period, the performance of both units of NAPS has progressively improved over the years.

The annual capacity factor for NAPS - 1 was This paper presents an analysis of the performance during the last three years and measures taken to improve it. The study used a mixed within-between subjects design in which A strong relationship between attention and choice was observed so that attributes with a higher importance for participant choices also received a higher Colliding beam experiments in the Siberian Institute for Nuclear Physics Present status and prospects.

Present status of construction of colliding electron, positron, proton, antiproton and muon beam facilities is described. Full Text Available private to public. In this paper the experience of directors is examined to determine the extent of the role they play in ensuring a successful listing. Unique data from IPOs on the Swedish Stock Exchange have been examined in a search for the effect of director experience on aftermarket performance. Specific aspects of director experience within a board, such as interlocking directorships and average tenure, are connected to the underpricing of Swedish IPOs.

Contrary to expectations, no statistically significant relationship was found between long-run aftermarket performance and director experience at the time of an IPO. This suggests that the previous experience of directors, as measured in earlier studies, is less relevant to long-term aftermarket performance in Sweden compared to other countries studied in the literature review. This emphasises the importance of examining different institutional contexts. A series of measurements have been performed in ZED-2 to investigate voiding in a simulated NRU loop site containing uniform and non-uniform UO 2 fuel strings.

The objective of the measurements was to provide experimental data to validate NRU reactor physics codes. The report describes and presents the results of the experiments and is the second of a two part set of reports on this series of measurements. High performance distributed objects in large hadron collider experiments. This dissertation demonstrates how object-oriented technology can support the development of software that has to meet the requirements of high performance distributed data acquisition systems. The environment for this work is a system under planning for the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at CERN that shall start its operation in the year The long operational phase of the experiment together with a tight and puzzling interaction with custom devices make the quest for an evolvable architecture that exhibits a high level of abstraction the driving issue.

The question arises if an existing approach already fits our needs. The presented work casts light on these problems and as a result comprises the following novel contributions: Software components at this level must be characterised by high efficiency and extensibility at the same time. We conclude that state-of-the-art middleware cannot meet the required efficiency of the planned data acquisition system. Although new tool generations already provide a certain degree of configurability, the obligation to follow standards specifications does not allow the necessary optimisations.

We identified the major limiting factors and argue that a custom solution following a component model with narrow interfaces can satisfy our requirements. This approach has been adopted for the current design. Macular pigment and its contribution to visual performance and experience. There is now a consensus, based on histological, biochemical and spectral absorption data, that the yellow colour observed at the macula lutea is a consequence of the selective accumulation of dietary xanthophylls in the central retina of the living eye. The current epidemic of age-related macular degeneration has directed researchers to investigate the protective hypothesis of MP, while there has been a conspicuous lack of work designed to investigate the role of MP in visual performance.

The aim of this review is to present and critically appraise the current literature germane to the contribution of MP, if any, to visual performance and experience. Full Text Available There is now a consensus, based on histological, biochemical and spectral absorption data, that the yellow colour observed at the macula lutea is a consequence of the selective accumulation of dietary xanthophylls in the central retina of the living eye.

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Motivating students to perform an experiment in technological design contexts. In a teaching-learning sequence on the subject of energy we have tried technological design contexts to motivate students by using only context-based reasons to perform experiments on the subject of energy. We use these experiments to have the students reinvent practical laws of energy conservation. Presentation and interpretation of field experiments of gaseous UF6 releases in the atmosphere.

An experimental programme concerning the behaviour of UF 6 released in gaseous phase in the atmosphere has been conducted in the years by the french Atomic Energy Commission and Eurodif. These experiments permitted to get informations about the kinetics of the hydrolysis reaction of the UF 6 , the behaviour of the hydrolysis products in the atmosphere and the granulometry of the solid particles.

Theoretical explanation of present mirror experiments and linear stability of larger scaled machines. A quasilinear model for the evolution of the 2XIIB mirror experiment is presented and shown to reproduce the time evolution of the experiment. By computing the stability boundary of the DCLC mode, with warm plasma stabilization, the electron temperature is predicted as a function of radial scale length.

In addition, the effect of finite length corrections to the Alfven cyclotron mode is assessed. Fuel performance experience at TVO nuclear power plant. Most of the problems encountered have been related to leaf spring screws and channel screws. The experience indicates that satisfactory fuel performance can be achieved when utilizing strict operational rules and proper control of fuel design and manufacture.

Frictional behaviour of high performance fibrous tows: Tow friction is an important mechanism in the production and processing of high performance fibrous tows. The frictional behaviour of these tows is anisotropic due to the texture of the filaments as well as the tows. This work describes capstan experiments that were performed to measure the.

Critical Performative Pedagogies, the idea that "The nature of drama as a once removed creative experience turns non-critical implicit classroom identity formation into explicit identity performance as it asks participants to actively reflect upon how identity is created and engaged within fictional social interactions.

The mechanical maintenance component of the ASVAB predicted hands-on performance , job knowledge, and training grades quite well, but experience was more predictive of…. This functionality is being used by many online monitoring applications which can run in a WEB browser, providing real-time monitoring information about the ATLAS experiment over the globe. This paper describes the design and implementation of the IS and presents performance results which have been taken in the ATLAS operational environment.

Alliance capability as a mediator between experience and alliance performance. This study centers around the way in which firms can enhance alliance performance through the development of alliance capabilities. Whereas most research has focused on inter-firm antecedents of alliance performance , research on intra-firm antecedents pointing to prior experience and internal The survey covers over alliances for the period This study not only finds that alliance capabilities partially mediate between alliance experience and alliance performance , but also yields novel insights into the micro-level building Present status of storage ring free electron laser experiment at ETL.

Outline is described of the present status of the ETL storage-ring free electron laser project. The structure and the performance of the ETL-type transverse optical klystron are given. A modification of the dispersive section has decreased the degradation of the shape of the spontaneous-emission spectrum due to energy spread of the electron beam. Relevant parameters of the stored beam are presented.

Measurement of the optical-cavity loss is under way. This report describes a field study designed to measure the effects of an auditory versus a visual presentation of position information on soldier performance of land navigation and target acquisition tasks Crafting, Rehearsing, and Presenting the ePortfolio Persona. Crafting, Rehearsing, and Presenting the ePortfolio Persona" exposes vital intersections between pedagogy and performance to reveal how using ePortfolio encourages not only student-centered learning, but facilitates collaboration through cooperative exchanges.

Productive interactivity with audiences who actively influence…. Cancers diagnosed following visits to emergency departments ED or emergency admissions emergency presentations are associated with poor survival and may result from preventable diagnostic delay. To improve outcomes for these patients, a better understanding is needed about how emergency presentations arise.

This study sought to capture patients' experiences of this diagnostic pathway in the English NHS. Roman, 4oi Innocent 1. Greek 4 18 Boniface I. Roman, Gelestinus I. Tivoli- Benedict IV. Roman Benedict VII. Roman, John XIX. Roman, 43 Ceieslin II. Chronology of the popiSf. Julius II, De la Rovere. XX Chronology of the fopes. I joo Clement XI, Alhani. Birth Death laSo Cimabue. J Sao Michael Angelo Buonarolti. Sienn Benvenulo Tifi , il Garofolo. Licinius , il Pordenone.

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A pound of gold is worth 21 6 piastres, 22 bsi- joccbi and 9 denari. The monies of the country are ba- sed on the decimal system. The copper monies are. The old coins were also originally decimal but their value has been successively changed; the sequin is now worth 2 dollars and 2 paajg,, the doppia dol- lars 3, The foreingn coins eurrent ia the state are. Ounce from 1 81 8 r-,?. Vespers in the same cbape-1 at 3 PM. At lo hieh mass as aboye; at 4 p'ocessioa in the church of Aracoeli Anlonio at his church near S. Blessing of horses and other animals. Peter-,,at lopontificalchapel at S.

Purification of the Madonna. At 10 pontifical chapel in the Apostolic paLice in which the candles are blessed and distribuled.. Thomas Aquinas at the Minerva; the- holy college of cardinals is present at high mass. Francesca Romana at her chiuxh neair the archof Tilus. Annunciation of the B Virgin. The pope and car- dinals are present at high mass at the Minerva, pro- cession of young- girls who have received a do-wry from the fraternity of the Ahniinciatibii.

The j ope blesses and distributes palms in the Sixtine chapel ; high mass. About 5 Miserere in the Sixtine chapel. High mass in the same chapet ; the pope de- poses the holy Sacrament in the PaoUna chapel ;. JVom the balcony of the Vatican he reads the bull in Coena Domini, gives his blessing to the people j washes the feet and serves at table twelve poor priests of different nations. At 5 o' clock Miserere in the Sixtine ehspel. After sun set the pontifical altar in S. In the afternoon the ofSce and Miserere as on the preceding days.

In many churches and oratories is celebrated the three hours agony in commemo- vaiion of the three hours that Christ passed on the cross. At the church of S. The pope himself celebrates mass at S. Pe- ter's at 10 o'clock; at la he gives his blessing fromi the balcony of the facade.

MoiiJay, tuesday and Sunday folio-wing, pontifical cha- pel in the apostolic palace. Mark the evangelist , at his church palazzo cli Venezia. At 8 o'clock a procession of all the clergy repairs from this church to S- Peter's to implore the pardom of sins , for this reason it is called Litaniae maiores. Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria and doctor of the church. High mass according to the service of the greek church at S. Filippo Nert the apostle of Rome Pontifical chapel at the Ghiesa Nuova; the pope and sacred college are present.

On Ascension day the pope repairs to S. At Pentecost papal chapel at lo at the apostolic palace or at S. In the afternoon females are permitted to visit the subterranean chiircb of S. Peter's at the Vatican. Corpus Domini, at 8 o' clock commences the proces- sion of the holy Sacrament allendod by the pope, the cardinals and all the clergy at Rome. John Lateran the following Sunday and thursday, or of octave, are attended by the pope and cardinals. High mass at lO' o'clock at S. John Lateran in presence of the pope- and oiU'dinala. Eve of Ihe festival of SS.

At 6 pontifical vespers at S. The subterraneous church is opened to the piety of the faithful. Chapel of cardinals at the Santi Apostoli, in honour of S. Grand festival at the Gesu in honour of S. At the church on the Esquiline the chains of S. Peter are exposed du- ring eight days to public veneration. Assumption bf the B. High pontifical miss at S. Major followed by the blessing from iha balcony.

Nativity of the B. High mass in presence of the pope and cardinals at S. Pontifical mass at the V atican at i o o' clock. At 3 vespers for the deceased. This day, sacied in the catholic churc-h to the memory of the deceased, the pope and cardinals are present at high mass in the Sixtine chapel. On the 3d and. Passages from scri- pture or fro. Ti ecck'siastical history analogous to the subject, are represented in wax in difTerent churches, particularly at S. Trastevere, at the hospital of Santo Spirito, the Gonsolazionej Ecckmtstical ceremonies. Carlo Bon;omeo; the pope and cai'di- iials repair to the- church of S.

The first Sunday of Advent,, papal johapel at the Vati- can at 10 o'clock. Vespers in the papal chapel. Ma- ria Maggiore and the holy cracUe- is- exposed all day on the high altar. Frma this day till the 1st January the birth of our Sttviour is represented in figures in difierent churches; that of Aracoeli is the most interesting. Papal chapd at 10 in honour of S. YJa di Pietrat Hotel d'-Angleterre. Corsoj the yia BabbuinO.

Eostacbio near the Pantheon,. There are several others of minor note ip different parts of the: H' artifefes of" consvimptibn are abund'ant andof excelr. The Aiie Maria is always at the 24th. The first establishriient of this kirtd in Rome, that of Mr. Annexed to the establishment there is a circulating library ef English, French and Italian works, Mr.

Piale has on sale a large assortment of books in various lan- guages, maps of Rome, engravings, guide books for Rome, Naples and Sicily, the most -recent publications of London and Paris. Lists pf large and small apartments to be let; a diary of the, cereijaqnies and sights of the week. Piale is ready to give all general information, as vrell. Peter's, ,the Villas Adriana, Albani, and other estabUshments. Piale and Cecchetfi have at -N.

The names and address of the prilieipal Physicians ate found in the library. Jjpwe76 Piazza di Spagna, the. Barfoot Via Babuino. Carriages scvld, repaired, 'and exchanged. Hamilton, 74 Via Babiiitio. InnoCenti, 14 Via Condotti. Amdfigst the best mosaic manufactories in Rome is tjiat of L. Orders of every kind are punctually attended to and carefully executed. Plowden Cholmely and C. Packenham Hooker and C. Works of art are packed and forwarded to aiiy part of Great Britain or of the United States at fixed rsLtos.

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Peter's, the government manufactory of mosaic works, require tickets which are delivered by Mr. Piale, the proprietor of the Library "and Reading Rooms. Open to the public on mondays only, from 12 to 3. Open evWy day after II. Apply to the keepdy. Theatres open daily exfiept on fndays; the price 'of admittance varies according to the reputation of the performers. TChe Stapds afe on the Piazze. Lorenzo and Monte Citorio. The charge is 4 pauls for the first and 3 for every successive hour; that of the Course from 2 to 4 pauls.

Omnibus, Piazza di Venezia to St. Paul's church Avithout the walls, fare 6 baiocchi to go and 6 to retifrn. Public carriages for CivitaVecch'a at the Piazza Nicosia. Albaho price 5 pauls, near the Argentina theatre. Frascati 5 pauls, piazza di Venezia. The Bureau is situated at the Post-Office. Friday, at 7 in the tnorning sleeping at Terraqina; the journey performed in 34 hours. Payment ip cash comprising fees to the Postilions.

Payment in cash comprising the railroad and pos- tilions. Bologpa — 14 scudi. The Custom-house visit takes place, in the Diligence This establishment provides. Post horses for private carriages, and carriages with 2, 4, and 6 places, for Naples, Florenee, Ancona, and Bologna at the tariff prices, fcee of otheiJ charges.

The- proprietor provides rich services in plate, gilt bronzes,, iinen and glass wares. In ancient times it was called Molvius , or Milvius. The modern name is evidently a corruption of the word Mol- vius , the name of an adjacent hill.

It is not, however, improbable that the bridgti was subsequently restored by Scaurus. The arrest of the Allobrogi Envoys implica- ted in Catiline's conspiracy , and the battle fought in its vicinity , between Constantine and Maxentius, have given to it a certain celebrity. A part of the bridge is ancient. John and of the Conception were erected on the side towards Rome. Those re- presenting our Saviour and S.

John Baptist were raised subsequently. The old tower was redu- ced to the form of a Roman arch , by Valadier. On the left of the road leading to Rome is a small round temple decorated with a statue of S. Andrew, aad built by Pius II on the spot where he received that apostle's head when it was brought to Rome from the Peloponesus. A mile further on is the church built by Julius in in memory of S.

Andrew, and of the Pope's liberation from the Imperialists in 1 It is by Vignola , and its architecture is con- sidered as one of the best of modern Rome. The Casino called Papa Giulio , was also built by Vignola. In the larger palace to the left are some fine fresco paintings by Zuccari. Under Leo XII it was used as a veterinary school; the vicis- situdes of the times, the state of neglect in which the building was left during several years, have caused great injury to its various ornaments.

It was on tbe top of the hill in a strong but inconvenient position. Maria del Popolo, Under Pius IV in the external facade was decorated by Vignola on the designs of Michael Angelo Buonaroti - This decoration consists of four doric columns two pf granite , and two of veined marble ; between the columns are the statues of S. Between two large semicircles stands a su- perb Egyptian Obelisk; on the sides are four buildings of the same style of architecture; on the right the Custom house, the exposition room of the fine arts, the barracks behind which is the public slaughter house.

On the left the August- inian convent ; the other two are private hou- ses , all built by Valadier. The semicircles are embellished with fountains furnished by the aqueduct of the acqua Vergine , and adorned with groups by Ceccarini, one representing Rome between the Tiber and the Anio; the other Neptune between two Tritons; on the four pe- destals which terminate the semicircles, are the seasons: In front of the gate, between two churches of a similar design , and adorned with a tetra style pronaus, three spacious streets lead to the city.

The obelisk is placed on a quadrangular base with four lions of modern work in the Egyptian style at the angles, which pour water into four cups. It is of red granite co- yered with hieroglyphics, and with the pedestal is palms high, without it It was ori- ginally raised by Rhamses , the Sesostris of the Greeks , at Heliopolis in Lower Egypt, to serve as a decoration to the temple of the Sun to which the obelisk itself was dedicated. In 1 Sixtus V excavated it from the ruins of the Circus where it was found bro- ken in to three parts, and after its restoration raised it in its present place under the direction of the architect Domenico Fontana.

Of those existing at Rome three only are of the first period: In it is said to have been rebuilt by the Roman peo- 6 Pirst day pie from whom it derived the appellation subse- quently extended to the adjoining gate and piaz- za. The interior is divided into three naves. In the first chapel from the right entrance, dedi- cated to the Virgin and to S. Jerome by Cardi- nal Domenico delta Rovere, the paintings by Pin- turicchio are remarkable by the lightness and delicacy of the contours. The second , the Cibo chapel, was built in the shape of a greek cross, the vestibule in front has rendered it a latin cross.

It contains sixteen corinthian columns of Sicilian Jasper, and is lined with Phrygian and Thessalic marble and with alabaster. It is one of the richest chapels of Rome, and was built by Cardinal Alderano Cibo who died in Q,- his tomb is on the left side , the architecture is by Fontana. The painting on the left represents the martyrdom of S. Lorenzo by Morandi,on the right that of S. Catherine by Daniel; over the altar Carlo Maratta has represented the conception of the Virgin with S.

August- ine and S. The cupola , of a fine proportion, was painted by Gozzo. The third chapel built by Sixtus IV and dedicated to the Virgin and to other Saints was painted by Pinturicchio ; it has an elegant balustrade. On the altar of the fourth chapel is a basso rilievo of S. The ancient pic- ture of the Virgin placed over the high altar is one of those that are said to have been painted hj S. The painting under the cross of the choir is by Pinturicchio ; the two fine marble tombs ornamented with statues and fine carvings by Sansoyino , are considered to be the best spe- cimens of modern ornaments in Rome , both in their design and execution.

The assumption in the following chapel is a fine work of Annibal Ca- racci ; the side paintings representing the cru- cifixion of S. Peter and the conversion of S. Paul, are by Caravaggi; those of the roof designed by the same artist, are by Tacconi and Novarra. The chapel of the crucifixion, belonging to the Soderini family, suffered so much from damp and neglect that the fine frescoes on the walls had nearly disappeared. They have been resto- red in when the chapel came into pos- session of the Soderini, and represent the dis- covery and exaltation of the cross.

The Chigi chapel was designed by Raphael who made the cartoons for the mosaic of the cu- pola, the paintings of the freize,and the picture over the altar which was begun by Sebastian del Piombo and finished by Francesco Salviati who painted the remainder of the chapel, excepting the David arjd Aaron in the lunettes, which were coloured by Vanni.

These paintings have been greatly injured by damp. In the angles of this splendid chapel are four statues: Daniel in the lion's den, Abacuc and the angel; the tombs of Agostino and Sigismondb Chigi are by Bernini. The statue of Elias, that of Jonas seated on the 8 First day whale, by Lorenzetto; the Jonas is highly esteem- ed from having been modelled by Raphael and executed under his direction.

On the right pilaster of the adjoining arch is the tomb of the Princess Odescalchi Chigi, designed by Paolo Posi. This church contains many curious sepulch- ral monuments of various epochs. Near the right door one with two portraits in oil by Rosa; Opposite the Cibo chapel that of the painter Gaspard Celio, with a portrait of Gar- dinstl Albani, the sculpture by Yalsado ; in the third chapel that of Alberloni; in the left nave that of Monsignor Rondanini designed and exe- cuted by Domenico Guidi; that of Ermola Rar- baro a distinguished scholar of the XV century. Near to the left door that of Gislemi a painter and architect by Quaranta; within the transept those of Cardinals Lonato and Podocatario.

In the sacristy is a painting on wood of the school of Giotto, found in in excavat- ing the Pincio , and several other moaumeuts of a fine style of sculpture. First day 9 The entrance to it is between two charches of the same style of architecture by Rainaldi. They hare disappeared and four modern very inferior pictures have been substi- tuted in their place. The stucco works are by Papaleo, a Sicilian. In the third chapel is a holy family by Nicholas Berettoni a pupil of Maratte.

The stuccoes are by Naldini. In the third chapel to the left is a picture representing S. James before the Virgin , the work of Carlo Maratte ; the side paintings are by Gazzi and Daniel; the following chapel is adorned with paintings relative to the history of S. Maddalena de' Pazzi, by Gemignani; the stuccoes were modelled by Carcani , the picture over the altar Is by Puccini. The picture representing S. Anthony on the left entrance is by Guascard. The four aiigels supporting the picture of the Madonna are by Rarggi. The bronze busts on the Gastaldi tombs are by Lucenti, the two virtues, hope and pru- dence, and the genii supporting the Gastaldi arms, are by Razzi.

The statues of faith and charity by Lucenti. The ceiling was painted by Michel Angelo of Malta; that in the adjoining chapel represent'- ing S. Sosalia, by Sottino of Palermo. Following the Gorso,to the right is the Ron- daniai palace which once contained a fine col- lection of ancient monuments some of which are still ia its yard and on the stair case. It contains several tombs of the Bolognetti family. The paintiKg over the high altar and those on the ceiling, are by Brandir In the sacristy the altar piece audi frescoes are by Lanfranc. First day 1 1 J. In the second chapel on the right is a bas relief by Legros represent- ing S.

Francis de Paule praying to the Virgin for the cure of some sick person; this work is well executed though of indifferent composition. The paintings near it represent subjects rela- ting to the same saint by Passeri. In the adjoining Vicolo S. Giacomo, is the studio once occupied by Canova who contri- buted so much to the restoration of sculpture.

The studio now belongs to his pupil Rinaldi , a distinguished artist. Female children are educated by the ladies of this convent. At his death it was con- 12 First day tinued bj Bis son, and the interior finished by Pietro da Cortona. The front was built by Menicucci and Canepina a capuchin, to the ex- clusion of several architects one of whom was Rainaldi.

The interior is composed of three naves di- vided by Corinthian pilasters and ornamented with paintings and gilt stuccoes. The chapel to the right under the cross built by Poli is the finest, being decorated with marble , gilt bronze works , and sculptures. The picture over the altar , representing in mosaic the conception of the. Madonna, is a copy from theCarloMaratta in the church of S.

Ma- ria del popolo. The statue of David on the right is by Pacilli, the Judith on the left by Lebrun. These works have all the defects of the period and when placed in comparison with those of Ganova, the merit of this great artist cannot be too highly appreciated in having brought the art back to its true principles in the midst of such aberrations.

The high altar piece representing S. Char- les presented by the Madonna to our Saviour is also by Maratte and is considered as one of his best works. The paintings of the large nave , of the tribune and chapel, are by Brandi.. In the small nave behind the tribune is an altar containing the heart of S. The paintings on the ceiling are by Ascensi and Bonocore. First day 13 Oyer tbe altar of the oratory is a depo- sition with two Sjbils standing beneath , the work of Giacomo della Porta. It shortly afterwards came into the possession of Cardi- nal Caetani who made the balcony, the cornice, and the grand stair case which forms the firincipal ornament of the palace.

It now bel- ongs to the Ruspoli family. The ground floor now forms the largest cofiee house in Rome. These rooms were painted by two french artists Leonardo and, Francesco. Near the entrance from the Corso is the church dedicated to the most holy Trinity built in by Rodriguez a Portuguese , and finished by Hermosilla a Spaniard.

It is of the elliptic form and contains seven chapels wi h paintings by good artists. On the right in this street is the Nunez palace , now the property and residence of Doa Marino Torlonia , Duke of Bracciano. On the left that of the order of Malta. This church is said to have been built in under Sixtus III but though no proofs are given of such antiquity it is certain that it existed in the VI century.

Paul V gave it to the minori regolari by whom it was restored under the direction of Cosimo of Bergamo. The paintings on the ceiling are by Greuter a Neapolitan ; others in the church are by Spa- darino and Piccione. Lorenzo in the first chapel , dedicated to S. Anthony of Padua, was designed by Rainaldi. The principal figure of the saint is by Stanzioni a Neapolitan. The church contains some very fine marbles and four columns of nero antico.

Over the high altar is Guide's celebrated picture representing the crucifixion, left to this church by the Marquis Angelelli. The following chapel, dedicated to S. Mar- gherita di Cortona and to S. Francis, was paint- ed, according to general opinion, by Marco Be- nafiel. The bas relief represents the discovery of Sappho's tomb in Arcadia, a subject treated also by Poussin, The palace adjoining this church belongs to the Ottoboni, dukes of Fiano.

Between this pal- ace and the corner of the via delia Vite for- merly existed the triumphal arch of the Empe- ror Marcus Aurelius , ornamented with bas re- liefs and verde antico columns. The bas reliefs belonging to it were placed in the Capitol , on the second flight of steps in the palace of the Gonservatori.

The col- umns were transferred to the Gorsini chapel at S. An inscription in the street commemorates this alteration made by Alexander VII. It was restored anew in , and assumed its present form in 16 Pirit day under the direction of the architect De Rossi; The paintings on the ceiling which represent the assumption of the Virgin , S. Silvester and other saints, are by Braudi ; those under the arches by Roncalli, those of the tribune by Gemignani; the paintings of the other chapels are very inferior excepting that ofths crucifixion. It once contained a fine collection of ancient sculptures some of which are now in the Vatican , but it still preserves the celebrated fresco paintings of Albano representing the planets and hours finely composed and executed and which have been frequently engraved.

The vestibule is grand, the yard large and handsome. A magnificent stair case leads to the first apartment in which are four rooms filled with paintings by celebrated artists. At the entrance of the second story js a dog in marble, similar in size and style to those First day 17 of the hall of animals at the Vatican. In the room to the right are two marble works of Bernini representing life and death in the form of a skull and sleeping child. This room contains the follow- ing pictures: Peter curing the lame man , Carlo Yeneziano ; A sketch by Titian; Joseph in prison explaining the dream, Joseph sold by his brothers, Cer- quozzi.

A perspective with nymphs at the bath, of the flemish school; A small landscape by Agostino Tassi; Two small Flemish pieces; Two battle pieces , school of Borgognone; Two dogs and a negro by Baglioni, In the adjoining room are three fine antique statues: It was found on the Coelian hill facing the Palatine in the Gornovaglia gardens. It is of Parian marble and of the finest execution. The second is a Mercury with the wand. The head , which is modern, is in plaster and instead of legs it terminates in a square block.

The drapery is Tery beautiful and the work in all its details belongs to the most flourishing period of art. The third statue , also of Parian marble, repre- sents Apollo with the laurel and the serpent; It is well designed and executed but cold in expression , and may be attributed to the time of Hadrian. In the same room are some fine paintings. John Baptist drinking at a spring-, Caravaggio. A Magda- ien , Guercino. John , Dossi Dosso. Cecilia in the manner oi Guido. A Nativity and bambocciata by an unknowa author. A fresco painting of the Vir- gin , Fiiippo Lippi.

The portrait of- Mantegna j by himself. The infant Jesus in fresco , Lippi. A copy of the portrait of Raphael by one of his school. A guardian angel, Pietro da Cortona. Peter and Christ , Anaibal Garacci. The adul- tress, Carlo Veneziano. Samson killing the lion a sketch by Gennari , or according to others bj Andrea Sacchi. A sacrifice to Bacchus, Ro- manelli. A battle , Salrator Rosa. The Virgin with saints by Proccacini. An infant Jesus , with angels holding the emblems of his passion by Albani.

A Madonna and two angels Paris of Pe- rugia. A holy family , Beccafumo. The blessed Bernardo Tolomei , Andrea Sacchi. A standard with S. Francis on both sides by Annibal Ga- racci. The adoration of the Magi , an excellent painting by Mazzolino of Ferrara. Jesus at the column , Luini. A portrait supposed to be that of Laura , Paul Veronese.

A small picture with Venus and Cupid of the Parma school. On the front of the windows Joseph and Puliphar by an unknown author. A pieta , Elisabeth Sirani. A cupid , Baglioni. Be" yond the room containing the portraits of the Chigi fanlily and in the large gallery over the door is a Basiccio. On the right our saviour showing a piece of money to the Pharisee by Titian, badly restored; A madonna of Carlo Maratte ; On the opposite side the procession of the ark by Palma the younger.

Thomas', Antonio Caracci; A madonna and child , Albani. A magdalen of the lombard school; the portrait of Pietro Aretino by Titian. A satyr disputing with a philosopher , by Salvator Bosa.