Shared physical custody (SPC)1, the care arrangement in which a child lives from30% to 70% of the time with each parent after their separation or divorce, has beenon the rise in most Western regions in the last two decades (Smyth2017). Prevalenceand incidence of SPC vary substantively by context though. While the percentage ofSPC among divorced and separated parents grew from 12% to 50% between…
This open accesspublication presents a global panorama of institutional strategies, academic programs, scholarly insights as well as teaching and learning practices taking stock of the Future Skills Turn taking place in higher education. Future Skills have evolved to be one of the most important priorities for the development of higher education institutions globally. Students and graduates lea…
The term "gender" was first distinguished from "sex" in the 1950s, when psychologists began to discuss the idea of "gender roles"--behaviors and responsibilities given to people by a society rather than flowing from their biology. Over the last two decades, transgender people have expanded our understanding of gender even further, introducing to the mainstream the concept of "gender identity," …
Robots have the connotation of a futuristic technology. In fact, however, theyhave been around for quite a while: Simple self-operating machines,so-calledautomata, existed already in ancient Greece, and the manufacturing tradi-tion continued on into medieval times (Truitt, 2015). In the fifteenth century,Leonardo da Vinci drew plans for a humanoid robot (Moran, 2006), and inthe eighteenth centu…
The story behind this book has its origins in some work that I began in 1981, with a group of students classed as requiring ‘Special Education’ – that is to say, students who had spent more than three years in school, but had still not learned to read or write. The events took place at a public school, the Escola Paula Brito, in the Rocinha favela of Rio de Janeiro.I had a…
Functional analyses are the focus of this study. They were conducted partly using classical methods of use-wear analysis like macroscopical and microscopical optical analyses. The use of tactile analyses on the other hand is new. Also new are methods to differentiate between products of cereal processing and meals made of cereals, and quantification methods of wear.…
his hard challenge has been addressed mainly through the transfer of knowledge and competencies in the field of the cultural heritage by members of the A l-banian Diaspora in Italy (university students, young ar-chitects and researchers) to their home country. This is a key element of the research project that allowed the mo-tivational element to be combined with the direct acc…
Io, come sapete, sono stato Soprintendente di Firenze per poco meno di venti anni, dal 1988 al 2006; e in un periodo così lungo ho avuto rapporti frequenti di amicizia e di collaborazione con Detlef Heikamp, questo tedesco di Bre-ma, cittadino del mondo, che ha scelto Firenze come città della vita e degli studi. Essendo per lui la vita e gli studi una unità inscindibile.Ricordo il 1994, il 2…
The Albertian paradigm of architecture as an allographic1practice implies that architectural design comprises forms of notation and representation. It would seem that mediums2 are all that architects engage with. Architecture is primarily a cultural, visual practice that operates through design, understood as composition and the arrangement of relations. While architects work with drawings and …
dia stands tall as a space power!” tweeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi just weeks before securing a second, spectac-ular landslide win in India’s general election in Spring 2019 by an even bigger margin than many had expected. Minutes earlier, he had announced in a rare televised speech that India had just succeeded in shooting down one of its own sate…