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Chapter Protecting Vagueira (Portugal) waterfront: preserving natural, recrea…
Vagueira is a Portuguese village located on the northwest coast of the country. The waterfront of the coastal settlement hosts relevant economic activities and the beach is well visited by tourists, hence concerning a diversity of assets of interest to protect
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Chapter Promotion of high-quality textiles by prize competitions during the E…
Preisaufgabe, or «prize competitions» were implemented in Saxony in 1764 to promote industry after the Seven Years’ War. We investigated the purpose of them and by whom, by analysing primary historical texts to uncover four criteria: (1) the best quality prototypes; (2) equivalent quality to foreign products; (3) establishment of training facilities, and (4) manufacture of new products. The…
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Chapter Promoting 21st century skills in Higher Education through collaborati…
The paper presents a model of university teaching where students are involved in concrete activities and collaborate while developing key competences for the academic and working future. 52 students of the Degree Course in Psychology at the Sapienza University of Rome participated to the activity.
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Chapter Prolusione
Divided into ten points, this paper aims to illustrate how fashion produced modernity, understood as valuing the present, especially its progressive and evolving elements. A process that focused on amplifying “personal visibility”, and in which the abilities of tailors played a crucial role.
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Chapter Project Hope
Art & Design schools, coming into the 21 century realized the growing need to keep up with advancing technologies, the global consumer markets, and especially how people are learning. The global pandemic served an inevitable disruption across all industries. It was necessary to adapt and figure out ‘Hybrid’ learning methods
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Chapter Progress in Polymer Thermoelectrics
This chapter addresses recent progress in the field of polymer thermoelectric materials. It covers a brief introduction to intrinsically conductive polymers and its motivation for thermoelectric utilization. A review about important and recent literature in the field of p-type and n-type polymers for thermoelectric applications is summarized here
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Chapter Profiling visitors of a national park in Italy through unsupervised c…
Cluster analysis has for long been an effective tool for analysing data. Thus, several disciplines, such as marketing, psychology and computer sciences, just to mention a few, did take advantage from its contribution over time. Traditionally, this kind of algorithm concentrates only on numerical or categorical data at a time
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Chapter Profiling students’ satisfaction towards university courses with a …
Academic institutions require students to participate every year in specific surveys, aiming at gathering their viewpoint about the organisation of the single courses, and the feelings about the traits and the effectiveness of the teaching activity.
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Chapter Professionalization of Teachers and Problematization Processes
This article presents the path and the results of research aimed at developing innovative teaching approaches in the context of academic courses for in-service teachers as regards their professional training.
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Chapter Professionalisation of Adult Education in Slovenia from a Multi-level…
The adult education (AE) research community emphasise the importance of well-qualified personnel working in the field of AE. However, the field is facing with challenges achieving this aim. This chapter research professionalisation of AE from a multi-level perspective in one European Union member state – Slovenia.
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