Background: Sexual deviance is regarded as an important risk factor for sexual offending. However, little is known about the development of deviant sexual interests. The transfer of arousal between emotions, i.e., excitation transfer, could attribute sexual salience to stimuli that would otherwise not be sexual in nature. As such, excitation transfer could contribute to the very beginning of unusual or deviant sexual interests. The current protocol proposes a study to investigate to what extent excitation transfer occurs, i.e., to what extent genital and subjective sexual arousal to sexual stimuli is higher in an emotional state than in a neutral state. Following a prior pilot study, several adjustments were made to the study protocol, including a stronger emotional manipulation by using 360-degree film clips and the inclusion of a larger and more sexually diverse sample. Methods: We will recruit 50 adult male volunteers with diverse sexual interests. We will induce sexual arousal in four different emotional states (aggression/dominance, endearment, fear, disgust) and a neutral state. Sexual arousal will be measured genitally using penile plethysmography and subjectively via self-report. Using paired samples t-tests, sexual arousal in the emotional states will be compared with sexual arousal in the neutral state. Discussion: We aim to show that arousal in response to emotional stimuli that are initially nonsexual in nature, can enhance sexual arousal. These findings have potentially important implications for the development of unusual and/or deviant sexual interests and possibly for the treatment of such sexual deviant interests in people who have committed sexual offenses.
Explicit language objectives are included in the Swedish national curriculum for mathematics. The curriculum states that students should be given opportunities to develop the ability to formulate problems, use and analyse mathematical concepts and relationships between concepts, show and follow mathematical reasoning, and use mathematical expressions in discussions. Teachers’ competence forms a crucial link to bring an intended curriculum to a curriculum in action. This article investigates a professional development program, ‘Language in Mathematics’, within a national program for mathematics teachers in Sweden that aims at implementing the national curriculum into practice. Two specific aspects are examined: the selection of theoretical notions on language and mathematics and the choice of activities to relate selected theory to practice. From this examination, research on teacher learning in connection to professional development is proposed, which can contribute to a better understanding of teachers’ interpretation of integrated approaches to language and mathematics across national contexts.
Researchers in CSCL have used a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods to track students' cognitive involvement during collaboration. However, neither individual method suffices the need to capture the dynamic evolvement of students' epistemic engagement in CSCL. We developed Epistemic Synchronization Index (ESI) to quantify students' epistemic engagement and evolvement. ESI reveals the knowledge elaboration process of groups, and it helps researchers as well as teachers to distinguish epistemic involvement between members within one group.
DOK4CT (in Dutch: Digitale Onderwijsmiddelen en Kennisontsluiting for Control Towers)In this project the practical applied knowledge, derived from innovative projects within the “Topsector logistiek”, is made accessible by Breda University and Deltago. This online Control Tower Course is specifically meant for logistic professionals and students in logistic orientated education. The project was made accesible and supported by the NWO, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. The scope of this project is limited to the area of Cross Chain Control Centers (4C) / Control Towers. The educational valorisation will be executed by the development of digital materials. These are used for student education as well as dissemination towards professionals in the logistics sector. Hereby, the interaction between students and professionals is an important additional benefit under the name of “social learning”. For example the interviews that Marcel Wouterse (Deltago and lecturer at Breda University of Applied Sciences) has created with key partners in the logistics sector were recorded and edited by students. By the use of digital educational tools and serious games, the benefits of Control Towers are now visible for students and professionals. The next phase is to introduce the gained knowledge in future organisations in order to support the Netherlands in the top of the logistics sector.Project goalThe goal of this project is to improve the exploitation of fundamental- and applied knowledge in the expertise area of Cross Chain Control Centers (4C) and Control Towers (CT).The tasks are divided in five subprojects:1. Preparations to transfer existing materials in digital learning tools;2. Shape digital education material (Webinars, online platform, knowledge clips and e-learnings)3. Develop and/or use several serious games (Convoy game / Synchromania)4. Promotion of the course to specified target groups (professionals / international students)5. Project managementExcising knowledge regarding Cross Chain Control Centers and Control Towers is used in this project. New knowledge will not be generated. The project focus lies on the disclosure of acquired knowledge by digital learning tools.
Wie een raket, vliegtuig of grote autotunnel wil ontwikkelen is jaren bezig om te zorgen dat alle belanghebbenden blij zijn met het ontwerp. Wetgeving, elektronica, milieubelangen, mechanisch ontwerp worden meegenomen om veiligheid, functionaliteit en gebruiksgemak veilig te stellen. Om dit goed te doen zijn bij grote bedrijven heel duidelijke procedures en werkvormen gemaakt om goed te ontwerpen terwijl er veel tegenstrijdige en veranderende belangen zijn. Dit werkterrein heet systems engineering. In het werkterrein van Systems Engineering is de afgelopen jaren veel aan het veranderen; ontwikkelcycli worden korter, en zelfs het ontwerpen van raketten gaat tegenwoordig niet meer zoals het de afgelopen 40 jaar ging, zie de snelle ontwikkeling van de Falcon-X van SpaceX. De ontwikkelproblematiek van een raket of grote tunnel heeft zeker overeenkomsten met datgene wat MKB bedrijven en ontwikkelafdelingen van grootbedrijven doen; het afwegen van veranderende belangen, en proberen de beste ontwerpkeuzes te maken. De vergelijking met grote projecten gaat nu meer dan ooit op, omdat door “Smart Industry” er steeds meer klantspecifieke producten komen die steeds vaker uit deelsystemen bestaan die ook allemaal hun klantspecifieke opties hebben. Een grote uitdaging is dan het ontwerp duidelijk en beheersbaar te houden, niet alleen voor de ingenieurs en klanten van nu, maar ook voor de servicetechnici die de komende jaren met deze ontwerpen moeten werken. Er komen vanuit wetenschap, grote bedrijven en softwareleveranciers wel nieuwe methoden en gereedschappen voor de productontwikkeling, bij het MKB is de vraag welke methodes passen bij hun proces In dit project geeft de Universiteit Twente kennis over de theoretische kant van het Systems Engineering, en zullen de 3 robotica bedrijven (Riwo, Hencon, HollanderTechniek) ervaringen uitwisselen over hun eigen methodieken en uitdagingen. Het lectoraat mechatronica van Saxion zal evalueren welke methoden voor de bedrijven toegepast kunnen worden.
