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Migration strategies, performance and annual activity budget in a short‐distance migrant, the common starling Sturnus vulgaris

Journal of Avian Biology, 2023
Migratory birds typically separate energetically demanding parts of the annual cycle like breeding, moult and migration with some species engaging in so‐called moult‐migration.
Viesturs Vīgants, Oskars Keišs, Ivo Dinsbergs, Valts Jaunzemis, Elza Marija Zacmane, Ance Priedniece, Martins Briedis   +6 more
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Digital competencies in the EFL classroom: What is (or isn't) part of the curriculum for pre‐service primary EFL teachers at Spanish universities?

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The digital age has revolutionized many aspects of citizens' everyday lives, including educational systems, as Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have been integrated into the curriculum at all educational levels. In the case of English as a foreign language (EFL), many studies support that ICTs contribute positively to the ...
María Felicidad Tabuenca Cuevas, Francisco Pradas Esteban, María Ribes Lafoz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geolocalization in Smart Environment

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Sensor Networks, 2019
Nowadays, wireless indoor positioning systems have become very familiar, and widespread all over the world. They are successfully used in many applications including tracking objects e.g. Firemen who usually face life-threatening situations. Indoor positioning systems become critically convenient in such scenarios. This paper deals with the tracking of
Joseph Merhej, Jacques Demerjian, Karla Fares, Jacques Bou Abdo, Abdallah Makhoul   +4 more
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Classroom boundaries and teacher agency: Challenges of implementing Ireland's new primary curriculum

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reports on a doctoral study examining teacher agency in one Irish primary school at a timely moment ahead of the implementation of the new Primary Curriculum Framework in September 2025. The framework embeds teacher agency as a central professional principle, yet findings from this study reveal a more cautious and bounded reality.
Máiréad Nally, Carmel O. Sullivan, Karin Bacon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perceived importance and didactic difficulty of chemistry education: Insights from Czech teachers

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This empirical study examines how chemistry teachers in lower and upper secondary schools in the Czech Republic evaluate the content of the chemistry curriculum, focussing on its perceived importance and didactic difficulty. Based on a quantitative survey (N = 146), the study provides insight into the pedagogical content knowledge of ...
Jitka Lorenzová, Blanka Jirkovská, Martin Čapek Adamec, Jan Havlík, Petr Holzhauser, Daniela Nováková, Karel Němejc   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Character education as curriculum‐making in the humanities: A scoping review

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This scoping review examines how character education is conceptualised and enacted within humanities curricula across international contexts. While character education is widely promoted as supporting the development of ethical, civic and relational dispositions, its place within curriculum design remains contested, particularly in subjects ...
Jonathon Sargeant, Kylie Trask‐Kerr
wiley   +1 more source

Thresholds: The metaphorical foundations of powerful knowledge

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper advances a theoretical account of threshold concepts as metaphorical‐relational structures that reorganise meaning across contexts. Building on conceptual metaphor theory, we propose that threshold concepts can be understood as sites of schema‐level reorganisation: deep, embodied patterns of relational logic that scaffold abstract ...
Maria Karrol, Elizaveta Lyssova‐Golomzina   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geolocation error compensation method for geocoded SAR images using pixel-offset series without control points

International Journal of Digital Earth
SAR spatial geolocation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is crucial for SAR/interferometric (In)SAR applications. Geolocation errors often arise owing to factors such as platform instability, instrument degradation, and environmental variations. Current
Liqun Liu, Zhiwei Li, Yan Zhu, Yifan Zhang, Chenglong Cao, Xun Du, Kun Han, Haiqiang Fu   +7 more
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Perceptions about Ethnozootechny in Animal Science education in Brazil

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study analysed the knowledge and perceptions of students, professors and coordinators regarding Ethnozootechny in Animal Science education in Brazil. A quantitative, descriptive‐exploratory study was conducted using a structured questionnaire applied to 316 participants from Animal Science courses across all five regions of the country ...
Thiago Vasconcelos Melo, Anderson Alvarenga Pereira, Diego Azevedo Mota, Ezequiel Redin, Luciane da Costa Barbe   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Increase in plant productivity in the tundra in Sweden is not related to increasing presence of warm‐adapted vascular plant species

Ecography, EarlyView.
Over the past decades, Arctic and alpine biomes have warmed faster than the global average. Substantial vegetation changes have been reported as a response to this warming, including increased productivity and the spread of warm‐adapted (thermophilic) species that are less resistant to grazing pressure into higher latitudes and altitudes.
Tim Horstkotte, Jakob Assmann, Henrik Hedenås, Signe Normand, Johan Olofsson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source