Conjunto de actividades educativas y físicas para mejorar el control metabólico de los pacientes diabéticos, de la tercera edad del\tconsultorio #154, del Consejo Popular Celso Maragoto Lara del municipio Pinar del Río

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Raydel Gámez García

2009-06-01

Full Text Available El profesor de educación física en su interacción con personas de la tercera edad se encuentra con uno de los problemas de salud de la actualidad: la diabetes mellitus. La diabetes mellitus es una enfermedad crónica, heredable y es considerada una enfermedad grave, cuyo tratamiento exige de educación y ejercicio físico. Teniendo en cuenta esta problemática nos proponemos un conjunto  de  actividades  educativas  y  físicas  para mejorar  el  control metabólico de los pacientes diabéticos de la tercera edad, del  consultorio #154, del consejo popular Celso Maragoto Lara del  municipio Pinar del Río.

El consejo de administración y las memorias de sostenibilidad

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Lázaro Rodríguez-Ariza

2014-01-01

Los resultados obtenidos muestran que las grandes compañías que disponen de consejos de administración de mayor tamaño y diversidad en su composición son las más activas en relación con la emisión de información sostenible relevante y comparable. Afirmación que puede extenderse a la frecuencia con que se reúne su consejo de administración.

El poder de voto en el Consejo Nacional de Seguridad Social en Salud

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Sandra Milena Rodríguez A.

2007-07-01

Full Text Available Este trabajo examina el Consejo Nacional de Seguridad Social en Salud como organismo de regulación y concertación del sistema de salud colombiano. Con ayuda de la teoría de juegos simple, analiza el poder de voto de los integrantes del Consejo y calcula los índices de Banzhaf, Shapley-Shubik y Coleman. Muestra que las decisiones del Consejo responden a un consenso falaz que revela los intereses de agentes particulares, que los índices de poder son sensibles a la cuota de mayoría aprobatoria y que la proporción de votos no refleja apropiadamente el poder de sus miembros.

Antonio Gramsci: el consejo de fábrica, germen de la sociedad futura

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Martín Prestía

2015-06-01

Full Text Available El propósito general del presente trabajo es realizar una reflexión y problematización en torno de la concepción de Antonio Gramsci del “consejo de fábrica” desde tres dimensiones que se vinculan orgánicamente: el consejo de fábrica en tanto forma político-organizativa; la problemática de la escisión entre hombre y ciudadano propia de la modernidad y la resolución que, a partir del consejo, es posible darle; y, por último, el consejo de fábrica como instancia a partir de la cual es posible construir un orden alternativo, prefigurando la sociedad de nuevo tipo. A modo de conclusión, se incluye una recapitulación de las principales claves interpretativas utilizadas en el análisis de los desarrollos gramscianos, a la vez que se propone la identificación de algunas tensiones hacia el interior de la propia argumentación del militante sardo.

Las reformas al consejo de la magistratura: oportunidades perdidas para un Poder Judicial democrático y popular

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Méndez Montenegro, Patricio

2013-12-01

Full Text Available El ensayo hace un análisis de las diferentes reformas al Consejo de la Magistratura, sobre todo en su composición, atribuciones y métodos de elección de consejeros. Se enfoca en la última reforma y el fallo de la Corte Suprema que la invalidó, declarándola inconstitucional. De la mano del estudio de las leyes y dicho fallo, se analiza la reforma desde la teoría interpretativa procedimentalista y se concluye que se han perdido varias oportunidades de crear un órgano de selección, remoción de jueces y de administración del presupuesto del Poder Judicial que promueva la diversidad ideológica dentro de ese poder, fomente la participación y control ciudadano en dicho órgano y transparente la elección de los jueces. Finalmente se proponen algunas reformas en ese sentido, que sí respetan los principios rectores de la institución.

Los consejos escolares de los colegios de educación primaria analizados por sus miembros

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José Fernando González Granda

2004-01-01

Full Text Available En este trabajo presentamos la valoración que de los consejos escolares de los colegios de educación primaria de la Comunidad Autónoma de Asturias realizan sus miembros. Se analizan las principales características de los consejeros así como la información y atención que éstos prestan a sus representados. Se valora el funcionamiento de los consejos y cómo cumplen éstos las competencias que tienen asignadas. También recogemos la valoración que los consejeros realizan de los problemas que tienen en el cumplimiento de sus tareas. Los consejeros valoran cómo los consejos mejoran el funcionamiento de los colegios y diversos aspectos relacionados con la participación, asi como la satisfacción de los distintos miembros de la comunidad escolar respecto al funcionamiento de los consejos escolares.

La Sociedad, el Debate sobre la Actividad del Estado y la Ley: Consejos Municipales

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Cristiane Catarina Fagundes de Oliveira

2016-06-01

Full Text Available En trabajo se aborda la discusión en la sociedad posmoderna, centrándose en el debate que tiene lugar en los consejos municipales. El estudio compara el debate que era común en el origen de los parlamentos, en su origen en el Parlamento de Inglaterra. Este trabajo describe el Parlamento Inglés en su origen histórico y su función discusión, que es adoptado por los consejos municipales modernos en los municipios brasileños. Este trabajo muestra la participación política que no se centra en la votación, pero los consejos locales se describen y su objetivo de promover el control social de las actividades estatales.

Alternativa pedagógica para favorecer la rehabilitación física de niños (as de edad preescolar con\tdesviaciones físico – motoras del consejo popular Celso Maragoto Lara

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Gladys Hernández Albisa

2009-06-01

Full Text Available Este trabajo consiste en diseñar una alternativa pedagógica para favorecer  la rehabilitación física de niños (as con  desviaciones físico-motoras de edad preescolar  del Consejo Popular Celso Maragoto Lara encaminada a propiciar la actividad físico deportiva que cumple tres funciones esenciales en la vida del niño: una la función biológica determinada por el necesario desarrollo de las capacidades motrices tan vitales para el desarrollo del cuerpo humano; una función psicológica determinada por la garantía de la armonía, la estabilidad, la confianza y la seguridad en si mismo y  una función social encaminada a desarrollar estilos sanos de vida y una personalidad humana integral más su integración social en la vida adulta independiente. A partir de un estudio previo se caracterizó el proceso de rehabilitación física de niños (as con desviaciones físico-motoras de edad preescolar, se determinaron las deficiencias, las cuales sirvieron  de  indicadores  para  diseñar  una    alternativa  pedagógica  para  la rehabilitación física, a través del uso de programas de la revolución, proporcionar  actividades a la familia brindándole  el apoyo afectivo necesario , ofreciéndole información que le permita crear un ambiente familiar armónico y equilibrado al conocer el valor de la rehabilitación física de sus hijos. Esta alternativa pedagógica   además se convierte en un material de apoyo a la docencia,  por  cuanto  facilita  al  docente  variadas  formas  en  que  puede contribuir  en  sus  alumnos  a la  rehabilitación  física a  partir  del  carácter interdisciplinario  y  las  potencialidades  que  brinda  el  contenido  docente  el trabajo hacia ese fin.   La alternativa pedagógica fue aplicada en el Consejo Popular Celso Maragoto Lara de forma experimental, por lo que se tendrán en cuenta las valoraciones, considerando que la misma pueda ser enriquecida

Propuesta metodológica para la planificación, implementación y evaluación participativas en Áreas de Salud - Consejos Populares

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Irma Sosa Lorenzo

Full Text Available Introducción: la participación comunitaria es un componente clave para mejorar la salud y permanentemente ha sido un pilar dentro del Sistema de Salud cubano, sin embargo no se ha garantizado totalmente la participación de líderes formales e informales comunitarios dentro de la planificación de salud y específicamente en la elaboración del Análisis de Situación de Salud (ASIS, lo cual limita el potencial de empoderamiento comunitario. Objetivo: proponer una metodología de planificación-implementación-evaluación de salud para incrementar la participación comunitaria y el empoderamiento a nivel local. Método: se propone la aplicación de la Metodología Integral Participativa de Planificación y Evaluación en Salud por sus siglas en Inglés CPPE (Comprehensive Participatory Planning and Evaluation de uso internacional en proyectos de desarrollo, y adaptada al contexto cubano, para ser utilizada en los servicios de salud, partiendo de una fase piloto dentro de un proyecto de investigación-acción. Conclusiones: se propuso una metodología de planificación-implementación-evaluación de salud para incrementar la participación comunitaria y el empoderamiento a nivel local, donde se analizó el potencial que encierra para lograr sus propósitos. Si la implementación de la metodología fuera exitosa nosotros podríamos proponer su introducción y generalización dentro del sistema de salud, como una alternativa para la planificación en el trabajo conjunto de áreas de salud-consejos populares.

Targeting Net Zero Energy at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar: Assessment and Recommendations

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Booth, S.; Barnett, J.; Burman, K.; Hambrick, J.; Helwig, M.; Westby, R.

2010-12-01

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is the largest energy consumer in the U.S. government. Present energy use impacts DoD global operations by constraining freedom of action and self-sufficiency, demanding enormous economic resources, and putting many lives at risk in logistics support for deployed environments. There are many opportunities for DoD to more effectively meet energy requirements through a combination of human actions, energy efficiency technologies, and renewable energy resources. In 2008, a joint initiative was formed between DoD and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to address military energy use. This initiative created a task force comprised of representatives from each branch of the military, the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP), and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to examine the potential for ultra high efficiency military installations. This report presents an assessment of Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Miramar, selected by the task force as the initial prototype installation based on its strong history of energy advocacy and extensive track record of successful energy projects.

Desigualdad numérica entre hombres y mujeres en los consejos de administración en grandes empresas mexicanas

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Ignacio Javier Cruz

2018-01-01

Full Text Available El objetivo de esta investigación es mostrar la desigualdad numérica existente en los consejos de administración de grandes empresas mexicanas que favorece al género masculino. El ascenso laboral femenino es focalizado como instrumento para alcanzar un puesto en dichos consejos. Se lleva a cabo un conteo del número de mujeres miembros de consejos de administración dividido por tipo de consejeros. Los resultados indican que las mujeres ocupan entre 3.8 y 8% de los lugares existentes en consejos de administración, cifras que están muy por debajo de la evidencia internacional.

ACG55/2: Convocatoria de elecciones de representantes en Juntas de Facultades y Escuelas y Consejos de Departamento.

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Universidad de Granada

2012-01-01

Convocatoria de elecciones de representantes en Juntas de Facultades y Escuelas y Consejos de Departamento. Aprobado en sesi??n extraordinaria del Consejo de Gobierno de la Universidad de Granada celebrada el 24 de febrero de 2012.

Tres consejos para un viaje sano y salvo

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2008-02-01

La subdivisión de la salud del viajero y de importación de animales se complace en presentar estos consejos de viaje y les desea a todos un viaje sano y salvo.  Created: 2/1/2008 by National Center for the Prevention, Detection and Control of Infectious Diseases (NCPDCID).   Date Released: 2/27/2008.

El papel del Consejo de Administración en la creación de valor en la empresa

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María Consuelo Pucheta-Martínez

2015-07-01

Full Text Available El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar si el Consejo de Administración de las empresas cotizadas españolas crea valor en las mismas. Para ello, planteamos diferentes hipótesis que abordan la relación que existe entre el porcentaje de consejeros independientes y dominicales, así como el tamaño, actividad y dualidad de poder del Consejo de Administración con la creación de valor en la empresa. Esta la mediremos a través de la rentabilidad económica de la empresa y el ratio market-to-book. Utilizando una muestra de empresas cotizadas desde 2004 hasta 2011, ambos inclusive, los resultados han revelado que tanto la actividad como determinado tamaño del Consejo de Administración contribuyen a crear valor en la empresa. Concretamente, las conclusiones revelan que el número de reuniones del Consejo de Administración se asocia positivamente con la creación de valor, así como el tamaño del mismo, pero hasta cierto punto, ya que llegado a este, el incremento de un miembro adicional en el Consejo de Administración hace disminuir la creación de valor en la empresa. Por otra parte, los resultados han documentado que la presencia de consejeros independientes y dominicales, así como la dualidad de poder en el Consejo de Administración, no influyen en la creación de valor en la empresa.

Propuesta de un conjunto de actividades Físico-Recreativas para la ocupación del tiempo libre de los adolescentes de la Circunscripción # 135, de la Comunidad perteneciente al Consejo Popular “Puerta de Golpe

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Raciel Sánchez Echevarria

2009-06-01

Full Text Available En  el  presente trabajo  investigativo  titulado:  Propuesta  de  un  conjunto  de actividades Físico-Recreativas para la ocupación del tiempo libre de los adolescentes de la Circunscripción # 135, de la Comunidad perteneciente al Consejo Popular “Puerta de Golpe.” Como Tiempo Libre se conoce al espacio restante después de concluir la realización de actividades docentes, laborales, domésticas, fisiológicas y de transportación, en el que se realizan actividades de libre  elección   a  voluntad  de  los  propios  implicados.  En  nuestro  país  las investigaciones sobre el Tiempo Libre surgen  como una necesidad indispensable a consecuencia del proceso de desarrollo económico y social a partir del Triunfo Revolucionario y la consolidación alcanzada en estos años por las relaciones socialistas de producción. Estas transformaciones se manifiestan en todos los aspectos del modo de vida y provocan cambios sustanciales en los hábitos, en la cultura y la ideología de las masas y por tanto en las necesidades espirituales y materiales de las mismas. Esta investigación tiene  como objetivo: Proponer un conjunto  de  actividades  físico-recreativas  en  función  de  lograr  una  mejor ocupación  del  tiempo  libre de  los  adolescentes de  12-  15  años  de  la Circunscripción # 135, de la Comunidad perteneciente al Consejo Popular ¨Puerta de Golpe¨. del municipio antes mencionado. Para la realización del mismo se tuvo en cuenta el método dialéctico–materialista de cual se derivan los métodos teóricos y métodos empíricos, en los primeros podemos encontrar el Análisis- Síntesis, Histórico-Lógico y El Trabajo con Documentos y en los segundos la Encuesta, la Observación, para a través de los mismos recopilar datos que contribuyan  en el desarrollo satisfactorio de la investigación. La investigación es ubicada dentro de la Recreación vinculada con el Deporte y

El valor del consejo en el Libro del caballero Zifar

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Patricia ROCHWERT-ZUILI

2011-11-01

Full Text Available El propósito de este artículo es mostrar el valor que cobra en el Libro del caballero Zifar la definición del consejo como elemento fundamental del molinismo. El análisis permite distinguir no solo la afirmación de una palabra linajística ejemplar sino también la importancia del consejo del verdadero amigo, y en particular, el de la mujer o del caballero. A través de la valoración de la prueba que le tiene que imponer el rey al consejero se vislumbra además la imagen de este consejo privado que se impuso bajo el reinado de Alfonso XI y cuyo papel no fue sino confortar el poder de la realeza.Le propos de cet article est de montrer l’importance que revêt dans le Livre du chevalier Zifar la définition du conseil comme trait essentiel du molinisme. L’analyse permet non seulement de mettre en évidence l’affirmation d’une parole lignagère exemplaire mais aussi de distinguer le conseil de l’ami véritable, en particulier celui de la femme ou du chevalier. À travers la valorisation de l’épreuve que le roi se doit d’imposer au conseiller, on entrevoit en outre l’image du conseil privé qui s’imposa sous le règne d’Alphonse XI et dont le rôle fut de conforter le pouvoir de la royauté.

EL GOBIERNO CORPORATIVO Y LA RESPONSABILIDAD SOCIAL CORPORATIVA EN EL SECTOR BANCARIO: EL PAPEL DEL CONSEJO DE ADMINISTRACIÓN

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Martínez-Ferrero, Jennifer

2015-09-01

Full Text Available El artículo muestra una investigación conjunta sobre el consejo de administración de los bancos y sus prácticas en materia de responsabilidad social corporativa. Así, diversas características del consejo de administración de los bancos, concretamente la independencia y diversidad, pueden impactar en su compromiso socialmente responsable. Haciendo uso de una muestra de 159 bancos pertenecientes a nueve países para el periodo 2004-2010, nuestra evidencia sugiere que los bancos caminan por una senda de comportamiento socialmente responsable vinculado a la independencia y diversidad del consejo.

¿SON EFECTIVOS LOS CONSEJOS DE ADMINISTRACIÓN? LA EFICACIA DEL CONSEJO Y LOS RESULTADOS DE LA EMPRESA / ARE THE BOARDS OF DIRECTORS EFFECTIVE? THE BOARD’S EFFICIENCY AND THE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF THE COMPANY

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2010-01-01

Numerosos trabajos han estudiado la influencia del consejo de administración en las decisiones y resultados de sus empresas. No obstante, la enorme popularidad alcanzada en el campo del gobierno corporativo por estos estudios, no viene acompañada por sus resultados, que han sido ambiguos y, a veces, conflictivos En esta investigación proponemos que la efectividad de los consejos depende de las experiencias y conocimientos de los consejeros que lo conforman, así como de la estructura de estos ...

La actividad física mediante juegos tradicionales adaptados para mejorar la incorporación del adulto mayor a los círculos de abuelos del consejo popular Celso Maragoto Lara

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Owen Emilio Castro Lázaro

2011-03-01

Full Text Available En el presente trabajo se dan a conocer los resultados de la aplicación de juegos tradicionales adaptados para mejorar la incorporación del adulto mayor a los Círculos de Abuelos de la comunidad perteneciente al consultorio # 217 del consejo popular Celso Maragoto Lara del municipio Pinar del Río. Como paso previó se realizó un diagnóstico inicial pudiéndose constatar: . La poca incorporación del adulto mayor a la actividad física. . No se sienten motivados por las actividades físicas que se realizan en los Círculos de Abuelos y . A los adultos mayores incorporados a la realización de actividades físicas les gustaría mucho realizar juegos tradicionales como parte de sus clases en el Círculo de Abuelos. Sobre la base de las dificultades detectadas, se elaboró y aplicó durante seis meses un plan de juegos tradicionales para hacer más dinámica y entretenida la clase con estos adultas mayores que necesitan atención por parte del profesor de Cultura Física, así como del médico de la familia contribuyendo a elevar la autoestima y las relaciones sociales. La aplicación de estas actividades tuvo un resultado positivo, pues se incremento la participación de los adultos mayores al Círculo de Abuelos.

Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear: the Spanish safety authority

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Gonzalez, E.

1993-01-01

The Spanish Authority in Nuclear Safety and Radiological Protection was created by special law in 1981. The Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear (CNS) was established independent of the Government and reporting direct to Congress. This five-member commission is responsible for assisting the Government and other institutions in safety matters, with the the authority to impose safety conditions on all activities related to radioactive materials, and particularly on the nuclear power plants. (author) 1 fig

Sistema de actividades físico recreativas para contribuir a la educación sexual en los adolescentes de 12-15 años del Consejo Popular Cuba Libre del Municipio Pinar del Río

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Deysi Milhet Cruz

2011-06-01

Full Text Available En el municipio Pinar del Río el consejo popular Cuba Libre es uno de los que más casos de infecciones de transmisión sexual y VIH tiene. La población más vulnerable son los adolescentes de la circunscripción 8 en quienes no existe una educación sexual adecuada sumándosele la carencia de actividades que la promuevan a nivel comunitario; por tal razón se consideró necesario desarrollar esta investigación que se sustenta sobre bases psicológicas, sociológicas y de trabajo comunitario para propiciar un desarrollo sociocultural y educativo que promueva un progreso en la comunidad donde los adolescentes participen como agentes transformadores de cambio al modificar roles, actuaciones y conductas lográndose una mejoría en la educación sexual en los mismos que se irradie al resto de la comunidad, permitiendo una visión holística en aspectos relacionados con la sexualidad humana. Este trabajo es de utilidad para entrenadores, profesores de Educación Física así como personal que en el ámbito comunitario se disponga a participar en esta batalla por la vida de los adolescentes.

Conjunto de actividades físicas recreativas para el aprovechamiento del tiempo libre del Adulto Mayor de la Circunscripción # 188, Consejo Popular “Hermanos Cruz”

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Edel Duque Estevez

2009-06-01

Full Text Available Debido al envejecimiento de la población a nivel mundial existe una prioridad en la necesidad de la participación cada vez más activa del Adulto Mayor en las diferentes esferas sociales en que pueda dar su aporte manteniendo la calidad de vida que le permita transmitir sus experiencias a las nuevas generaciones. La realización de actividades físico–recreativas  en el Adulto Mayor propicia el aprovechamiento  de  su tiempo  libre,  permitiendo, entre  otras  cosas  que cumplan  con  satisfacción la  función  del  individuo  como  miembro  de  la Sociedad.  Son   las   personas que forman parte de esta las máximas responsables de que este miembro llegue  con más salud a esta etapa de la vida. Resulta importante propiciar el aprovechamiento del tiempo libre  para lo cual se proponen un conjunto de actividades físico-recreativas para el Adulto Mayor perteneciente  a  la  Circunscripción  #  188  del  Consejo  Popular “Hermanos Cruz”,. La investigación se sustenta en las teorías más actualizadas y se establecen los fundamentos teóricos de dicho conjunto de actividades con  la participación de la  familia y la comunidad  Resultando novedosa dada su utilidad para las comunidades de la provincia, el Ministerio de Salud Pública y el INDER  encargados del trabajo con el Adulto Mayor

Conjunto de juegos de mesa para el funcionamiento de las Ludotecas Escolares pertenecientes al Consejo Popular ¨10 de Octubre¨ del Municipio Pinar del Río

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Carlos Luís Maya Camejo

2009-06-01

Full Text Available El uso y funcionamiento de las ludo tecas es una temática que reviste una gran importancia, su principal objetivo es llevar a cabo la recreación a todos los centros estudiantiles a nivel mundial. El presente trabajo se relaciona con el fundamento de la ludoteca escolar y su uso racional.El objetivo de este trabajo es proponer un conjunto de juegos recreativos en función de la ocupación del tiempo libre de los estudiantes de las escuelas primarias pertenecientes al Consejo Popular “10 de octubre¨, del Municipio Pinar del Río ,lo cual traerá consigo el     aumento de conocimientos y habilidades y por consiguiente un desarrollo de la personalidad. Este estudio se inicio con la aplicación de una encuesta, apoyada en una guía de observación para conocer las condiciones del lugar y la ofertas de juegos que se brindaban en sus respectivos centros escolares, las que evidenciaban que eran limitadas, por lo que nos dimos a la tarea de confeccionar una propuesta de juegos de mesa, que respondieran a sus gustos y preferencias, así como a otros objetivos sociales en especifico. En el desarrollo de la investigación empleamos métodos empíricos y    teóricos, , dentro de los teóricos y los empíricos utilizamos el análisis síntesis, histórico lógico, observación, entrevista, encuesta, trabajo con documentos, y en el matemático- estadístico, estadística descriptiva e inferencial para la tabulación de resultados arrojados por los métodos utilizados, los cuales responden de forma objetiva a las necesidades, intereses, preferencias y gustos de los educandos.

El consejo de administración y las memorias de sostenibilidad

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Lázaro Rodríguez-Ariza

2014-06-01

Full Text Available Aun cuando la elaboración de memorias de sostenibilidad no es obligatoria, el papel del consejo de administración puede ser importante en la emisión de información relevante para la toma de decisiones. En la actualidad, y debido al creciente interés por el comportamiento medioambiental y social de los negocios y su impacto en la supervivencia empresarial a largo plazo, la función del consejo de monitorizar la información económico-financiera se ha ampliado a las memorias de sostenibilidad. El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar el papel que determinadas características del consejo de administración, tales como su tama˜no, el nivel de actividad, la independencia y la diversidad de sus miembros, tienen en la elaboración y en la divulgación de un informe de responsabilidad social corporativa. La evidencia empírica previa en relación con las nuevas responsabilidades de este órgano de control es limitada y sujeta a análisis transversales a nivel país y periodo temporal, lo que limita las conclusiones que pueden derivarse de los mismos. En ese artículo, el análisis se realiza para una muestra de 690 empresas cotizadas pertenecientes a 10 países europeos para los ejercicios 2004 a 2009. Los resultados obtenidos muestran que las grandes compa˜nías que disponen de consejos de administración de mayor tama˜no y diversidad en su composición son las más activas en relación con la emisión de información sostenible relevante y comparable. Afirmación que puede extenderse a la frecuencia con que se reúne su consejo de administración. Although the disclosure of sustainability report is not compulsory, the role of the board of directors could be quite important in the publishing relevant information for decision making. Nowadays, and as a result of growing interest in environmental and social aspects of business performance and their impact on the company’s long-term survival, the board’s monitoring function over the

Propuesta de un conjunto de actividades físico-recreativas para la ocupación del tiempo libre en los adolescentes entre 12-15 años de la Circunscripción # 87 de la comunidad\tperteneciente al Consejo Popular “10 de Octubre” del municipio Pinar del Río

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Yunieski Blanco Alfonso

2009-12-01

Full Text Available El objetivo de este trabajo es proponer un conjunto de actividades físico- recreativas en función de la ocupación del tiempo libre de los adolescentes de la circunscripción # 87 de la comunidad perteneciente al Consejo Popular “10 de Octubre del municipio Pinar del Río. El mismo se esta realizando en estos momentos y su propósito es llevar a vías de hecho un conjunto de actividades que incrementen la satisfacción recreativa de dichos adolescentes garantizando una correcta ocupación del tiempo libre a través de disímiles actividades recreativas. Este estudio se inicio con la aplicación de una encuesta, apoyada en una guía de observación para conocer el grado de satisfacción recreativa de los adolescentes de la referida comunidad y las ofertas que se le brindaban, las que evidenciaban que eran limitadas por lo que nos dimos a la tarea de confeccionar una propuesta de actividades recreativas a partir de las realizadas anteriormente en el lugar, que respondieran a sus gustos y preferencias, así como a otros objetivos sociales en especifico. En el desarrollo de la investigación empleamos métodos empíricos y teóricos, además del, dentro de los teóricos y los empíricos utilizamos el análisis síntesis, histórico lógico, observación, entrevista, encuesta, trabajo con documentos, y en el matemático-estadísticos vamos a emplear la estadística descriptiva e inferencial para la tabulación de resultados arrojados por los métodos utilizados, los cuales responden de forma objetiva a las necesidades, intereses, posibilidades y recursos de este consejo popular. La propuesta recreativa además de servir como mediador en el trabajo realizado por el personal que labora en la localidad señala direcciones para mejorar la calidad del mismo, así como la satisfacción recreativa de los adolescentes de dicha localidad.

Consejos para los adolescentes latinos que adoptan ambas culturas (Tips for Latino teens)

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Podcast para los adolescentes latinos: Este podcast ofrece consejos útiles a los adolescentes latinos sobre cómo encontrar un equilibrio entre su cultura de origen y la cultura estadounidense, con el fin de disfrutar de una vida más feliz y saludable.

"Consejo" as a Literacy Event: A Case Study of a Border Mexican Woman

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de la Piedra, Maria Teresa

2013-01-01

Drawing on sociocultural approaches to literacy and literature on the communal spaces of teaching and learning of Latino/as, I share one Mexican border women's life story and analyze her literacies and ways of knowing in relation to the literacy event of giving "consejo." Using data gathered through individual interviews and…

Microartrópodos como indicadores de disturbio antrópico en entisoles del área recreativa de Miramar, Argentina Microarthropods as indicators of anthropic disturbance in entisols in a recreational area of Miramar, Argentina

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Natalia A Fredes

2009-06-01

Full Text Available En áreas recreativas el tránsito humano provoca alteraciones en el horizonte superficial del suelo, destruyendo parte o la totalidad de éste, reduciendo la porosidad y modificando el microambiente edáfico. La mesofauna edáfica, por habitar principalmente en los horizontes superficiales del suelo, resulta ser un buen indicador de este impacto antrópico. Se evaluó la distribución de ácaros oribátidos y colémbolos de suelo frente al impacto del tránsito humano en el área recreativa del Vivero Dunícola "Florentino Ameghino" de Miramar, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Se consideraron tres zonas de impacto: máximo, medio y mínimo. Se extrajeron los microartrópodos y se determinaron hasta nivel de especie colémbolos y oribátidos. Se calculó riqueza específica, diversidad y paridad por sitio y horizonte. Se realizó un análisis de correspondencia y se elaboró un índice de impacto teniendo en cuenta los diferentes horizontes y la frecuencia de especies. Se hallaron 29 especies de ácaros oribátidos y 19 especies de colémbolos. La diversidad (H´ fue significativamente diferente entre los sitios de máximo y de mínimo impacto. El análisis factorial de correspondencia definió tres grupos de acuerdo al grado de alteración de los horizontes superficiales y las características pedológicas (horizonte orgánico o mineral. El índice de impacto (II M en la zona de mayor tránsito fue II M=9 mientras que en la de mínimo impacto fue II MHuman trampling in recreational areas causes alterations in the soil surface horizon, partially or totally disrupting soil structure, reducing porosity and modifying the edaphic microenvironment. Soil mesofauna, is a good indicator of this human impact since it inhabits mainly soil surface horizons. We evaluated the changes in edaphic oribatid mite (Acari and springtail (Collembola communities sufferering from the impact of human trampling in the recreational area of Vivero Dunícola "Florentino Ameghino

El Consejo de Europa y la abolición total de la pena de muerte en Europa

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Bou Franch, Valentín

2002-01-01

1. Introducción.- 2. La parca reglamentación de la pena de muerte.- 3. La superación práctica de una mala disposición.- 3.1 .Por el Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos.- 3.2. Por la práctica de los Estados Miembros del Consejo de Europa.- 3.3. Por la práctica de los órganos del Consejo de Europa.- 4. La abolición de iure de la pena de muerte en Europa.- 4.1. La prohibición de la pena de muerte en tiempo de paz.- 4.2. La abolición de la pena de muerte en todas las circunstancias:- 5. Consider...

Conjunto de actividades físicas recreativas para contribuir a utilizar de forma sana el tiempo libre de adolescente de 12 a 14 años del Consejo Popular Punta de la Sierra del municipio Guane

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Yusniel Echevarria Hernández

2009-12-01

Full Text Available Este trabajo surge por la necesidad de ocupar de manera más contructiva y de forma sana el tiempo libre de los adolescentes y jóvenes del consejo popular Punta de la Sierra. En esta etapa de la vida de todos los seres humanos ocurren cambios muy significativos no solo desde el punto de vista anatomofisiologico sino también desde el punto de vista psicológico, en estas edades se reafirman los rasgos de la personalidad que tendrá el individuo en la adultes, de ahí la importancia que se le concede al trabajo educativo en esta etapa de la vida. El propósito de este trabajo es mantener a los adolescentes vinculados a la sociedad de manera sana mediante actividades físicas recreativas de manera que se desarrollen simultáneamente las cualidades y valores morales y las capacidades físicas de los participantes. Para ello se ha elaborado un conjunto de actividades físicas recreativas teniendo en cuenta las necesidades y motivaciones de los adolescentes y jóvenes en cuestión. Es importante destacar que este trabajo surge como necesidad después de realizar varias observaciones, encuestas y constatar que existe un gran numero de adolescentes que ocupan su tiempo libre en actividades delictivas, vicios, juegos ilícitos que atentan contra sus propias vidas como el tabaquismo, alcoholismo etc., de ahí la importancia que le conferimos a este trabajo investigativo.

Sistema de actividades encaminadas a la incorporación de los abuelos al círculo del adulto mayor en el consultorio № 38 delConsejo Popular del Reparto Hermanos Cruz del municipio Pinar del Río

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Berta Alejandra Junquera Gutiérrez

2009-06-01

Full Text Available Es un deber de toda la sociedad y muy especialmente de los relacionados con la Cultura Física garantizarle al Adulto Mayor, la realización sistemática de las actividades físicas, que practicadas de forma regular sean un pilar para mejorar la salud desde los puntos de vista ya que con el proceso de envejecimiento. El Adulto Mayor sufre cambios a nivel físico, psíquico y social. Las actividades físicas tienen un papel fundamental que es el mejoramiento de su salud, el bienestar del  Adulto Mayor  favorece su calidad de vida en los umbrales del Tercer Milenio. En un mundo donde prima la tendencia globalizadora y neoliberal gestada en los centros de poder, que ofrece una imagen virtual del desarrollo, realmente no puede concebirse el desarrollo si no es sostenible y como un proceso integral, en consecuencia, es preciso crear un paradigma totalmente nuevo que coloque al ser humano en el centro de su preocupación El presente trabajo aborda un tema de vital importancia y siempre actual, ya que se relaciona con la incorporación del Adulto Mayor a las actividades físicas, relacionados con la calidad de vida de la población adulta del Consultorio N0. 38 del Consejo Popular Hermanos Cruz, específicamente para aquellos que están en la 3era edad, los cuales se consideran por ellos mismos y por muchas personas de la comunidad como personas acabadas

La membresía de México en el Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas

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Guadalupe Vautravers-Tosca

2012-01-01

Full Text Available El propósito de esta investigación es analizar, desde las perspectivas histórica y jurídica, las cuatro participaciones de México en el Consejo de Seguridad del máximo foro universal. En particular, los beneficios y costes que los gobiernos mexicanos han recibido, como es el reconocimiento a nivel universal de que el país contribuye en forma activa a los esfuerzos en favor de la prevención, solución de conflictos y amenazas a la paz, así como el deterioro temporal de la relación bilateral con algunos miembros permanentes del Consejo, en especial, Estados Unidos de América, durante el bienio 2002-2003. Los periodos para los cuales nuestro país ha sido elegido como miembro no permanente son: 1946; 1981-1982; 2002-2003 y 2009-2010.

IMPACTO DE LA AUSENCIA DEL CONSEJO NACIONAL DE BIOÉTICA COLOMBIANO

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Gabriela Rueda Martínez

2015-01-01

Full Text Available El presente trabajo objetiva sustentar teóricamente el impacto de la ausencia del Consejo Nacional de Bioética (CNB en la normatividad sobre investigación en seres humanos de Colombia (Resolución 8430/1993 del Ministerio de Salud. Para tal fin, fue dividido el abordaje del tema en tres partes: la primera trata sobre la experiencia previa del país en relación con la implementación del CNB; la segunda revisa la normatividad colombiana actual sobre experimentación en humanos, y la tercera analiza críticamente el contenido de la resolución referida. En Colombia, los debates sobre temas que exigen la reflexión bioética se dan a nivel del Estado, sin la asesoría de un consejo nacional de bioética que facilite una orientación desde dicha perspectiva. Por esta razón, es urgente la reglamentación de la Ley 1374/2010 que crea el CNB; además, considerando la protección de los sujetos participantes de las investigaciones, es pertinente que la bioética en Colombia transforme su fundamentación epistemológica, adoptando referenciales bioéticos consonantes con su realidad social. Por lo tanto, se propone la Declaración Universal sobre Bioética y Derechos Humanos de la Unesco como directriz bioética internacional de la investigación en seres humanos.

El Consejo Nacional de la Publicidad (CNP. La “voz” empresarial mexicana en tiempos no democráticos (1959-2000

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G. Georgina Sosa Hernández

2016-05-01

Full Text Available El Consejo Nacional de la Publicidad (cnp, antecedente del Consejo de la Comunicación (cc, es un organismo del sector empresarial que se fundó en 1959 y que aglutinaba a los empresarios dedicados a la publicidad. Entre ese año y el 2000, generó y difundió 49 campañas publicitarias que reflejaban su visión del país e indicaban, de una manera medianamente clara, su relación con el gobierno en turno. En este artículo me propongo estudiar la acción del cnp a través de estas campañas, teniendo en cuenta que se gestaron en un contexto anterior a la democracia (primero autoritario, después en transición a la democracia. Hago una revisión de algunos de los mensajes más importantes que transmitió el Consejo a partir de su vínculo con el contexto a fin de establecer cuál era su lectura que los empresarios hacían de la coyuntura específica por la que atravesaban.

La justiciabilidad de los derechos sociales en el Consejo de Europa

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Nivard, Carole

2016-01-01

Los derechos sociales están generalmente menos protegidos que los derechos civiles y políticos. Sin embargo, en el ámbito del Consejo de Europa, los sistemas de la Carta social europea y del Convenio europeo de los derechos humanos ofrecen las condiciones para un avanzar hacia la justiciabilidad de los derechos sociales. El Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos evoluciona y adopta una interpretación dinámica que amplía los derechos del Convenio europeo hasta la esfera social. Por otra parte, e...

Sistema de actividades físico recreativas para contribuir a la educación sexual en los adolescentes de 12-15 años del Consejo Popular “Cuba Libre” del Municipio Pinar del Río

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Deysi Milhet Cruz

2011-12-01

Full Text Available En el municipio Pinar del Río el consejo popular “Cuba Libre” es uno de los que mayores casos de infecciones de transmisión sexual y de VIH tiene. Lo anterior está corroborado por los datos recogidos en el departamento de ITS-VIH y son los siguientes, VIH -16 pacientes, blenorragia -20, sífilis-7, condiloma-10 y herpes genital - 3. La población más vulnerable son los adolescentes de la circunscripción 8 en quienes no existe una educación sexual adecuada sumándosele la carencia de actividades que la promuevan a nivel comunitario. Esta investigación se sustenta sobre bases psicológicas, sociológicas y de trabajo comunitario. Basada en métodos teóricos y empíricos, propicia un desarrollo sociocultural y educativo que promueve un progreso en la comunidad donde los adolescentes participen como agentes transformadores de cambio al modificar roles, actuaciones y conductas logrando una mejoría en la educación sexual de los mismos y que se irradie al resto de la comunidad, permitiendo una visión holística en aspectos relacionados con la sexualidad humana, la cual parte de los adolescentes y se irradia en el entorno comunitario: a la vez que patentiza la necesidad de introducir esta temática como alternativa a la profilaxis y educación de determinadas enfermedades. Es de utilidad para entrenadores, profesores de educación física así como personal que en el ámbito comunitario se disponga a participar en esta batalla por la vida de los adolescentes.

Les institucions. El Consell de Garanties Estatutàries: drets sense garanties? - Instituciones. El Consejo de Garantías Estatutarias: ¿derechos sin garantías?

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Joan Vintró

2010-07-01

Full Text Available El Consell de Garanties Estatutàries (181-184Joaquín Tornos MasEls dictàmens vinculants del Consell de Garanties Estatutàries (185-190Joan Vintró CastellsEl Consejo de Garantías Estatutarias (181-184Joaquín Tornos MasLos dictámenes vinculantes del Consejo de Garantías Estatutarias (185-190Joan Vintró Castells

Capital social y consejos de salud en Brasil: ¿un círculo virtuoso? Social capital and health councils in Brazil: a virtuous circle?

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Maria Eliana Labra

2002-01-01

Full Text Available El artículo discute, en primer lugar, concepciones relativas al capital social, sus aplicaciones y limitaciones. En segundo lugar, aborda esas concepciones como recurso teórico utilizado por académicos para reflexionar sobre posibles salidas frente al desencanto y a la apatía ciudadana con las frágiles instituciones políticas que han acompañado los procesos de redemocratización en América Latina. En tercer lugar, examina los consejos de salud de Brasil buscando escudriñar en qué medida esa amplia y rica experiencia de movilización y participación popular contribuiría al fomento del capital social y, por tanto, a la adhesión a valores cívicos y a la cooperación generalizada.This article begins by discussing the concept of social capital and its applications and limitations. Second, it examines these theoretical contributions as approaches actually used by scholars to analyze the disenchantment with the fragile political institutions and citizens' apathy that emerged together with re-democratization processes in Latin America. Third, it focuses on the role of the Brazilian health councils, seeking insights from this vast and rich experience of popular mobilization and participation to shed light on the councils' contributions in fostering behaviors inherent to social capital, such as civic values and cooperation.

Preliminary assessment of Miramar Petrochemical Harbor as PAH source to Guajará bay (Belém-PA-Brazil surface sediments

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Silvana do Socorro Veloso Sodré

Full Text Available Abstract A preliminary study on a petrochemical harbor as a potential source of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH to surface sediments of Guajará bay, located in Belém City, Pará State, Brazil, over the last 10 years is presented here. The 16 priority USEPA PAH were identified and quantified. Surface sediment samples, collected at 5 sites in the bay, near Miramar Petrochemical Harbor (TEMIR, were extracted and analyzed by high performance liquid chromatography with a diode array detector. Total PAH concentration ranged from 533.0 to 3123.3 ng g-1 dry weight with a mean concentration of 1091.9 ng g-1. The most contaminated places were those where muddy sediments were found with highest concentrations of organic matter. The priority PAH with low molecular weight represented 54.4% of the total abundance and indicate that the main source of contamination of the sediments was petrogenic, indicative of the relevant contribution of the petrochemical harbor activity to the input of PAH to Guajará bay. However, pyrolytic PAH coming from fuel combustion, household waste combustion and untreated sewage discharge are also potential contamination sources to this environment.

Consejos para los adolescentes latinos que adoptan ambas culturas (Tips for Latino teens)

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2009-08-19

Podcast para los adolescentes latinos: Este podcast ofrece consejos útiles a los adolescentes latinos sobre cómo encontrar un equilibrio entre su cultura de origen y la cultura estadounidense, con el fin de disfrutar de una vida más feliz y saludable.  Created: 8/19/2009 by Centro Coordinador de Salud Ambiental y Prevención de Lesiones (CCEHIP).   Date Released: 8/19/2009.

Los consejos de salarios en Uruguay con el gobierno de la izquierda

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Luis Ibarra

2008-05-01

Full Text Available http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2178-4582.2008v42n1-2p61El artículo analiza los Consejos de Salarios organizados en Uruguay por el gobierno de izquierda. Procura demostrar que no son simplemente una vuelta atrás, desde la desregulación laboral hacia la institución clásica del compromiso social. Envuelven, por el contrario, una inversión de las relaciones del trabajo con el estado y el capital.

Propuesta de un conjunto de juegos deportivos que tienen como base el (Baloncesto- Béisbol-Voleibol destinado a la recreación sana y saludable de la juventud en todas las edades comprendidas entre 15 y 18 años de la Circunscripción 205 del Consejo Popular La Conchita

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Yudith Falcón Castillo

2009-06-01

Full Text Available Este  trabajo  fue  realizado  en  la  comunidad  de  la  circunscripción  205  del Consejo Popular La Conchita, debido a la carencia existente de actividades deportivas recreativas en los jóvenes con edades comprendidas entre 15 y 18 años de edad. Por lo que la propuesta de juegos deportivos recreativos que tienen como base (el béisbol, baloncesto, y el voleibol pueden ser una vía soluble para desarrollar la recreación sana y saludable de estos jóvenes en la comunidad y contrarrestar algunos problemas existentes en ellos de ingestión de alcohol, juegos prohibidos, compra y venta de productos ilícitos etc. Con la aplicación de los diferentes métodos y técnicas investigativas se pudo constatar la dificultad existente de actividades deportivo – recreativas, en su planificación organización, así como su dirección .Además los juegos deportivos-recreativos son acogidos y con gran expectativas en la comunidad.

Gestión ambiental como alternativa para la participación comunitaria en el Consejo Popular Altamira Environmental management as an alternative for the community participation in Altamira People's Council

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Maria Caridad Menéndez Pérez

2012-07-01

Full Text Available Se realizó un estudio observacional y descriptivo, basado en 113 habitantes y 44 trabajadores de las empresas más contaminantes del Consejo Popular Altamira de Santiago de Cuba, durante el 2008, para caracterizar los riesgos ambientales más importantes en el área desde los puntos de vista industrial y comunitario e identificar su nivel de conocimientos sobre la percepción al respecto. Se evidenció que estos habitantes desconocían sobre salud ambiental, así como tenían baja percepción de riesgo e insatisfacciones por servicios relacionados con la seguridad ambiental; asimismo, se confirmó que el bajo nivel de conocimientos que poseían los trabajadores de las empresas sobre el daño ambiental provocado, los factores de riesgo a que se exponían y la baja cobertura de medios protectores, las convertían en ambientes inseguros. El desconocimiento de la población, los trabajadores, directivos y cuadros de las empresas sobre el tema obligó a diseñar estrategias de capacitación e intervención comunitaria en función del mejoramiento del medio y la calidad de vida de los pobladores.A descriptive, observational study was carried out, based on 113 people and 44 workers from the most polluting enterprises in Altamira People's Council of Santiago de Cuba during 2008, to characterize the major environmental risks in this area from the industrial and community points of view and to identify their knowledge of the perception in this respect. It was evidenced that these people were unaware of environmental health and had low risk perception and dissatisfactions with services related to environmental security. It was also confirmed that the low level of knowledge of environmental damage held by the workers, exposure to risk factors and inadequate protection means converted these enterprises into unsafe environments. Ignorance of population, enterprise workers, managers and cadres on the subject forced to devise strategies of community

Jose Maria Albareda (1902-1966) and the Formation of the Spanish Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas

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Malet, Antoni

2009-01-01

Jose Maria Albareda (1902-1966) was an applied chemist and a prominent member of the Roman Catholic organization, Opus Dei, who played a crucial role in organizing the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientficas (CSIC), the new scientific institution created by the Franco regime in 1939. The paper analyses first the formative years in…

La educación ambiental en el tiempo libre de los niños de 8-11 años de la Circunscripción 84 en el Consejo Popular “Aguas Claras”

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Eddy A. del Llano Frontela

2009-12-01

Full Text Available Nuestro Consejo Popular “Aguas Claras” abarca una zona rural y montañosa. Esta última se localiza en los kilómetros 13 y 14 de la Carretera a Viñales, con una vegetación abundante, de gran variedad en especies de plantas y animales propias de estas zonas. El río Paso Viejo atraviesa una extensa área, llevando su cauce hasta la presa del mismo nombre, portando en sus aguas una gran diversidad de peces. La población del lugar está constituida por personas que no poseen un nivel cultural elevado y las nuevas generaciones tienden a desviarse en su tiempo libre a otras actividades que no son las adecuadas para su edad. Partiendo de la importancia de crear en las nuevas generaciones una cultura ambiental donde se logra fomentar valores y comportamientos necesarios para afrontar los problemas ambientales actuales, acercándose a la idea de un desarrollo sostenible que garantice las necesidades de las generaciones actuales y futuras, es que nos dimos la tarea de realizar un diagnóstico en esta zona montañosa donde ha decaído la recreación en los niños y el ambiente natural se ha afectado considerablemente con la acción del hombre. Para ello utilizamos diferentes métodos que nos llevaron a obtener resultados preliminares en esta investigación, se realizaron encuestas y entrevistas a los niños y pobladores para verificar el nivel de conocimientos que estos tenían sobre los temas del medio ambiente, también se realizó una guía de observación para conocer el estado en que se encontraba la zona y las actividades que realizaban los niños los fines de semana, todo esto nos condujo proponer un conjunto de actividades físico-recreativas para propiciar una cultura ambiental en el tiempo libre de los niños de este asentamiento poblacional.

UCR ALERTA (Resumen de la posición del Consejo Universitario sobre Crucitas)

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Kioskos Ambientales

2010-01-01

Artículo--Universidad de Costa Rica, Vicerrectoria de Acción Social, Oficina de Divulgación e Información. 2010. Para mayor información puede escribir a La minería de oro a cielo abierto es una actividad de alto impacto social y ambiental. La Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR), mediante su Consejo Universitario, solicitó mantener la “moratoria” a esta actividad, es decir suspender los permisos para futuros proyectos mineros. UCR::Acción Social

Aplicación del modelo multicriterio WARPLAM DSS, en el ordenamiento de cuencas hidrográficas para la definición del consejos de recursos hídricos en el Perú, 2015

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Baldoceda Ponce, Yordan Américo

2015-01-01

El presente trabajo de investigación titulado: “Aplicación del Modelo Multicriterio WARPLAM DSS, en el Ordenamiento de Cuencas Hidrográficas para la Definición del Consejos de Recursos Hídricos en el Perú, 2015”, está orientado a establecer las relaciones e interacciones entre cuencas hidrográficas y números de consejos de recursos hídricos. OBJETIVO: Determinar el número de consejos de recursos hídricos en el Perú, para la adecuada implementación de la Gestión Integral de Recursos hídric...

Consejos educativos útiles a la familia para desarrollar el sistema nervioso de los niños preescolares en el hogar

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Eugenia Díaz Favier

2017-11-01

Full Text Available En el artículo se proponen algunos consejos de utilidad para la familia de niños y niñas de edades temprana y preescolar, que contribuyen a la educación adecuada del sistema nervioso en estas edades. Los consejos están dirigidos a la educación de hábitos alimentarios, del sueño, del control de esfínteres, de la conducta, a la preparación ante la llegada del nuevo hermano o hermana, a alertar a los padres acerca de la influencia de diferentes situaciones que se producen con estos niños, que de una u otra forma afectan el normal desarrollo de su sistema nervioso, e inciden en la formación de la personalidad

Análisis jurídico del gobierno electrónico en el marco de la interoperabilidad entre los Consejos Comunales y la Alcaldía de Maturín-Venezuela

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Yamila Gascón

2014-04-01

Full Text Available La presente investigación tuvo como objeto efectuar un análisis crítico desde una prospectiva jurídica, sobre las diferentes normativas que rigen el gobierno electrónico y abierto en el marco de la interoperabilidad, para generar reflexiones sobre la relación futura de los Consejos Comunales con la Alcaldía de Maturín-Venezuela. Para ello, se desarrollo una investigación analítica con diseño de fuente mixta de campo y documental con un nivel aprehensivo, la población fue estratificada representada en 1.017 Consejos Comunales del Municipio Maturín y un segundo estrato conformado por las unidades de alto nivel de la Alcaldía de Maturín, sumando un total de 35 personas. Se realizó un muestreo al azar simple para ambos estratos, dando como resultado 23 trabajadores de la Alcaldía, y para los Consejos Comunales fue de 64 colectivos. Asimismo, se aplicó un sub-muestro intencional aleatorio por los investigadores, como resultado se estudiaron 15 Consejos Comunales . Se determinó, a través de la aplicación de la matriz de análisis estructural la desarticulación entre los Consejos Comunales y la Alcaldía de Maturín, en función del análisis realizado al marco jurídico venezolano desde la carta magna en su artículo 108, 141, Decreto 825, Ley Especial contra Delitos Informáticos, Ley sobre el Acceso e Intercambio Electrónico de Datos, Información y Documentos entre los Órganos y Entes del Estado, Ley Orgánica de la Administración Pública, y la Ley Orgánica de los Consejos Comunales , entre otras

Funciones del Consejo Educativo Institucional y la gestión administrativa en instituciones educativas públicas del distrito de La Perla, Región Callao, 2011

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Ucañán Velásquez, Verónica Noemí

2015-01-01

En la presente investigación “Funciones del Consejo Educativo Institucional y la Gestión Administrativa en Instituciones Educativas Públicas de La Perla, Región Callao, 2011 ”, el objeto de la investigación fue determinar la relación existente entre las funciones del Consejo Educativo Institucional y la Gestión Administrativa en Instituciones Educativas Públicas de la Perla, Región Callao, 2011 . La investigación se desarrolló bajo el método descriptivo – correlacional. Los ...

Coste-utilidad del consejo médico para dejar de fumar en la Región de Murcia

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Angel López-Nicolás

2017-08-01

Conclusiones: A largo plazo, el consejo breve médico es una intervención más eficiente que a corto plazo y, dependiendo del umbral coste-utilidad para España, se recomendaría su financiación pública desde el punto de vista de la eficiencia.

EL CONSEJO DE HOMBRES BUENOS, PATRIMONIO ORAL E INMATERIAL DE LA REGIÓN DE MURCIA

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Elena Montaner Salas

2008-01-01

Full Text Available El Consejo de Hombres Buenos de la Huerta de Murcia y el Tribunal de las Aguas de Valencia son tribunales consuetudinarios, reconocidos por una Ley Orgánica, que ejercen funciones jurídicas entre los regantes, con un procedimiento breve pero con garantía. Dada su antigüedad se ha presentado ante la UNESCO toda la documentación necesaria para que sean proclamados Obra Maestra del Patrimonio Oral e Inmaterial.

A Amazônia imaginada nos memoriais enviados ao Consejo de Indias no século XVII

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Francismar Alex Lopes de Carvalho

Full Text Available Resumo: Por todo o século XVII, colonos e missionários exploraram assiduamente as terras baixas amazônicas, localizadas a leste do vice-reinado do Peru. Nos memoriais que enviaram ao Consejo de Indias, em que solicitavam mercês, apresentaram diversas imagens dos índios, relacionando-os com ricos territórios que imaginavam existir na Amazônia, como o El Dorado e o Paititi. Este artigo propõe uma análise mais aprofundada dessas imagens, entendidas não tanto como a permanência de uma predisposição mítica, mas como uma estratégia discursiva na dura negociação por mercês, honras e privilégios que os referidos atores estabeleciam com a Coroa espanhola. Embora os memoriais permitissem ao Consejo de Indias ter notícia de regiões distantes e de como colonos e missionários atuavam nelas, a própria função política do documento influía poderosamente no tipo de imagens que apresentavam dos indígenas e das paisagens fronteiriças.

First results of the research project MIRAMAR, Innovative Methodologies for Coastal Environmental Monitoring and Analysis

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Rovere, A.; Casella, E.; Vacchi, M.; Mucerino, L.; Pedroncini, A.; Ferrari, M.; Firpo, M.

2013-12-01

A large part of the Mediterranean coastlines are strongly affected by coastal erosion. This is mainly due to human impact, natural hazards and their mutual interaction. All along the Regione Liguria coastlines (Northwestern Mediterranean), significant problems of coastal erosion are reported since the '60s. In this study, we focus on the coastal area between Albenga and Savona, where dramatic coastal retreat of ~2 m y-1 has been inferred from comparison of historic maps and older aerial pictures. Beach monitoring is essential in order to understand the mechanisms of evolution of soft coasts, and the rates of erosion. Traditional beach monitoring techniques involve topographic and bathymetric surveys of the emerged and submerged beach, and/or aerial photos repeated in time and compared through geographical information systems. A major problem of this kind of approach is the high economic cost. This often leads to increase the time lag between successive monitoring campaigns to reduce survey costs, with the consequence of fragmenting the information available for coastal zone management. MIRAMar is a project funded by Regione Liguria through the PO CRO European Social Fund, and it has two main objectives: i) to study and develop an innovative technique, relatively low-cost, to monitor the evolution of the shoreline using low-altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) photos; ii) to study the impact of different type of storm events on a vulnerable coastal tract subject to coastal erosion using also the data collected by the UAV instrument. To achieve these aims we use a drone with its hardware and software suit, traditional survey techniques (bathymetric surveys, topographic GPS surveys and GIS techniques) and we implement a numerical modeling chain (coupling hydrodynamic, wave and sand transport modules) in order to study the impact of different type of storm events on a vulnerable coastal tract subject to coastal erosion. Aerial picture of one of the beaches studied

conjunto de actividades\tfísicas recreativas para estimular\tla recreación en los niños de 3-4 anos de l consejo popular Guane -2 del municipio de Guane

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Caridad Ramos Prieto

2009-06-01

Full Text Available El proceso recreativo en estas edades ofrece múltiples posibilidades para estimular el desarrollo de las actividades físicas recreativas en los niños y niñas durante toda la etapa preescolar y específicamente en el tercer ciclo donde ya han adquirido experiencias del ciclo anterior para accionar con los implementos  con mayor precisión y destreza y donde reciben otros contenidos que  amplían  sus  conocimientos;  pero  no  siempre  se  aprovechan  estas posibilidades porque les falta preparación a la fuente de información   para accionar en ese sentido. A  través  de  una metodología  dirigida  a  las  familias  para  estimular  las actividades  físicas  recreativas  en  los  niños  y  niñas  en las  diferentes actividades recreativas. Se utilizaron métodos del nivel empírico, del nivel teórico y matemático. La metodología elaborada permitirá la preparación de la familia para estimular  las actividades físicas recreativas  en  niños y niñas, lo que incidirá en una mejor preparación de estos para aprendizajes superiores.La investigación se desarrolla con las familias  de los niños y niñas de 3-4 años que inciden en el consejo popular “Guane -2” del municipio Guane en la provincia  de Pinar del Río. Investigaciones realizadas en la esfera de las ciencias psicológicas y pedagógicas han estado relacionadas con la psicomotricidad, tal es el caso de la obra “Patología de la imaginación y motricidad” de Ernesto Dupre (1913 publicada en 1925, donde manifiesta su convicción de las estrechas  relaciones existentes entre la motricidad y la psiquis, a partir de aquí surge una nueva idea acerca de la imagen y percepción del propio cuerpo. Rossell German (1982 es de la opinión de que la educación psicomotriz es la educación del control mental de la expresión motora.

Actividades Deportivo-Recreativas para la ocupación del tiempo libre de los adolescentes en edades entre 11 y 12 años de la Circunscripción # 39 del Consejo Popular Bahía Honda Este

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Eddy Emigdio Rivera Solano

2010-09-01

Full Text Available Las comunidades como asentamientos de personas con variados hábitos y necesidades presentan características psíquico-cognoscitivas que son manifiestas en cada una de sus vivencias. El estudio sociológico de estas comunidades y dentro de ellos acerca del empleo del tiempo libre, determina en gran medida su crecimiento social y económico, lo que determinara también un crecimiento en los servicios, aspecto importante para alcanzar un nivel de aceptación en la calidad de vida de la población. Estos estudios se pueden considerar importante pues el buen empleo de tiempo libre influye en la formación de la personalidad del hombre lo cual se hace manifiesto en su modo de vida, de igual forma provoca cambios en sus hábitos, ideología y cultura social de cómo emplear su tiempo libre en actividades de su gusto y preferencia aspecto del cual carece la comunidad motivo de investigación, esto ha provocando manifestaciones negativas en el conducta de los adolescentes en lo individual y colectivo. Por esta razón, conociendo a través de la observación diaria la situación de esta comunidad y en especial de los adolescentes se realizó un diagnóstico de la situación concreta del lugar, el cual contempla un grupo de aspectos como: datos socio-demográficos y generales de la población objeto de estudio, ofertas recreativas, así como las necesidades e intereses de estos adolescentes, por lo que se hizo necesario implementar un grupo de acciones encaminadas a transformar aquellas conductas que son proclives para el buen desarrollo humano con actividades físico-recreativas para la ocupación del tiempo libre de los adolescentes entre las edades comprendidas 11-12 años de la circunscripción #39 Consejo Popular Bahía Honda Este.

Individual Popularity, Peer Group Popularity Composition and Adolescents' Alcohol Consumption.

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Gommans, Rob; Müller, Christoph M; Stevens, Gonneke W J M; Cillessen, Antonius H N; Ter Bogt, Tom F M

2017-08-01

Previous studies have convincingly shown associations between popularity and adolescent drinking. This study examined whether the popularity composition of the peer group and the relative difference in popularity between adolescents and their peers are also associated with adolescent drinking. Participants were 800 adolescents (M age  = 14.73; SD age  = 1.00; 51.6 % girls) from 31 classrooms who completed peer ratings of popularity and self-reports of alcohol consumption. Results showed that drinking was higher among popular than unpopular adolescents, higher among popular adolescents surrounded by less popular classmates, and lower in classrooms with more variability in popularity. Thus, beyond individual popularity, peer group popularity composition also should be taken into account when investigating antisocial and health risk behaviors in adolescence such as drinking.

Constructing the popular: challenges of archiving ugandan 'popular ...

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Constructing the popular: challenges of archiving ugandan 'popular' music. ... on the intention of the one defining, the popular is also time- and culture-specific. ... in Uganda is commercially determined – by the media and the music industry.

Propuesta de un conjunto de actividades recreativas para el rescate de\tlos juegos tradicionales en los niños de 6 a 12 años del Consejo Popular “Celso Maragoto Lara”

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Rosa María Vargas Gómez

2009-06-01

Full Text Available El objetivo que se persigue en nuestro trabajo investigativo es demostrar  como mediante los juegos tradicionales  hay una ocupación eficiente del tiempo libre  teniendo en cuenta las necesidades de la población investigada, los niños de 6 a 12 años del Consejo Popular “Celso Maragato Lara”, tomando en consideración que el juego es un tipo peculiar de actividad que tiene un gran significado, formador y educativo en la vida del hombre,  su mayor importancia en la infancia es una actitud activa del niño hacia el medio ##que lo rodea, son actividades consecuentes en la cual los niños realizan su necesidad de actividad que aún no puede expresarse en forma de trabajo y si en actividades físicas recreativas En nuestro trabajo se propone diversas actividades que están en función de rescatar los juegos tradicionales, ocupación del tiempo libre, ofertar actividades según  demanda, las costumbres las características del lugar escogido de los niños seleccionados que están ubicados en la segunda fase de la infancia donde, comúnmente dura desde 5-6 años hasta 11-12 años, en este periodo los juegos adquieren un carácter colectivo donde no existe una disciplina rigurosa ni un control social y las actividades pueden ser opcionales Con este trabajo se responde a la necesidad de buscar satisfacción a las intereses de los diferentes factores y miembros de esta comunidad, en todas las edades, estos demandan la  acción  física  de  niños,  jóvenes  y  adultos  de  ambos  sexos,  haciendo  realidad  las demandas con la realización de actividades, según las costumbres, lugar de residencia, composición  de  la  flora,  la  fauna  ofertando  actividades  netamente  recreativas  que produzcan satisfacción y un desarrollo multilateral .Se comprueba que con la utilización del tiempo libre en actividades recreativas  la vida es más sana y saludable, se evita la ingestión o regulación de medicamentos, aumenta

Diagnóstico y propuesta de plan de mejoramiento en el área financiera para el Sistema de Cooperativas de Ahorro y Crédito del Segmento Uno, reguladas por la Superintendencia de Economía Popular y Solidaria, durante el período 2011- 2014

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Pacheco Guevara, Ximena Patricia

2016-01-01

La presente investigación se enfoca en una propuesta de mejora en el área financiera para el sistema de cooperativas de ahorro y crédito del segmento uno, reguladas por la Superintendencia de Economía Popular y Solidaria, durante el período 2011-2014. Bajo este contexto, se revisaron una serie de metodologías aplicadas a nivel internacional, definiendo la creada por el Consejo Mundial de Cooperativas de Ahorro y Crédito WOCCU como la más apropiada, al analizar específicamente cooperativas de ...

Actividades físico-recreativas para la ocupación del tiempo libre de los adolescentes comprendidos en la edad de 12 a 15 años pertenecientes a la circunscripción # 124 del Reparto 26 de julio, Consejo Popular Hermanos Cruz

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Alexis Rodríguez Madera

2009-12-01

Full Text Available La investigación está encaminada a realizar un estudio sobre el aprovechamiento del tiempo libre de los adolescentes de la circunscripción # 124 del Reparto 26 de julio del Consejo Popular Hermanos Cruz. Con la misma se propone un sistema de acciones físicos – recreativos a partir de la participación consciente de los adolescentes para mejorar el aprovechamiento del tiempo libre de estos. Teniendo en cuenta que el tiempo libre constituye una condición obligatoria en la reproducción espiritual ampliada de la personalidad en aras de contribuir a su completo desarrollo físico e intelectual y las actividades físico recreativas son aquellas de carácter físico, deportivo, o turístico a los cuales el hombre le dedica voluntariamente en su tiempo libre para el desarrollo activo, diversión y desarrollo individual, teniendo como objetivo principal la satisfacción de necesidades de movimiento del hombre para lograr como resultado final salud y alegría. Es por tanto, que a partir del diagnóstico realizado en la circunscripción y detectados los problemas de las necesidades del aprovechamiento del tiempo libre de los adolescentes nos propusimos esta investigación con el fin de promover un uso útil del tiempo libre de estos. La planificación, programación y el éxito de estas actividades dependen en gran medida de la edad de los participantes, los gustos e intereses de estos así como la cultura requerida para su realización. La programación y ofertas es de la preferencia de la sociedad, a fin de que responda a los intereses comunes e individuales, lo cual tributa a la conservación del carácter motivacional y recreativo.

La imagen de España en el mosaico cultural paneuropeo:retos y compromisos del Consejo de Europa en la cooperación intercultural.

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Chiara Atzori

2007-07-01

Full Text Available ENGLISH:Since 1949, the Council of Europe is engaged to defend democracy and human rights in its member States. Today’s global economy – more than ever – leads the Council to focus its mediation role in the intercultural co-operation, to protect and preserve thelarge variety of languages and cultures that live within its territory. After the adoption of the Declaration on Cultural Diversity in 2000, Council of Europe cultural policies’, in which Spain is also actively involved, call the attention on the richness of the European cultural heritage. This heritage, thanks to new creative entrepreneurships, is becoming the real engine of the local economies.SPANISH:Desde 1949, el Consejo de Europa se compromete a defender la democracia y los derechos humanos de los Estados miembros. Hoy día, la nueva economía global, más que nunca lleva al Consejo a centrar su papel de mediador en la cooperación intercultural, para defender y conservar la variedad de lenguas y culturas que habitan su territorio. Tras la aprobación de la Declaración sobre la Diversidad Cultural en 2000, las políticas culturales del Consejo de Europa, en las que España participa activamente, hacen hincapié en la riqueza del patrimonio cultural. Gracias a nuevas y creativas formas decapacidad empresarial, este patrimonio se está convirtiendo en el verdadero motor de las economías locales.

Los laudos de Consejos de Salarios y su regulación por la Ley 18.566

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Jorge Rosenbaum Rimolo

2014-01-01

Full Text Available Introducción. Rol de la ley 18.566 respecto del sistema de negociación colectiva. El laudo de los Consejos de Salarios como fuente normativa. La homologación de los laudos. La reglamentación de la ley 18.566. Principales particularidades. Proceso de negociación de los laudos. Las materias laudadas. Entrada en vigencia del laudo. Alcances del laudo. Los laudos en el ámbito de las fuentes del Derecho laboral. Extensión temporal de los laudos. Conclusiones. Una experiencia típicamente uruguaya

La potestad del Consejo de Seguridad para solicitar a la Corte Penal Internacional la suspensión de una investigación o de un enjuiciamiento

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Alma C. Borjas M.

2011-12-01

Full Text Available El presente artículo analiza la potestad concedida al Consejo de Seguridad por el Estatuto de Roma, establecida en su artículo 16, referida a la posibilidad de solicitar a la Corte la suspensión de una investigación o de un enjuiciamiento. En la práctica, ya se ha hecho uso de dicha facultad, pero en circunstancias que podrían considerarse cuestionables. Por ello serán objeto de análisis las resoluciones 1422 (2002 y 1487 (2003 del Consejo de Seguridad como manifestaciones del abuso de esta potestad. Para ello se tomarán como punto de referencia los requisitos que el Estatuto establece para el ejercicio de esta potestad; se advierte en estas resoluciones el incumplimiento de aquéllos. En este sentido, se constató la ausencia de la determinación de una amenaza a la paz y a la seguridad internacionales, requisito indispensable para el uso de los poderes de este órgano en el marco del capítulo VII de la Carta; la ausencia de un caso específico y el hecho de querer usar esta potestad como una forma de inmunidad general, como se advierte de la exclusión de los miembros de misiones de mantenimiento de paz de la jurisdicción de la Corte, entre otros aspectos. Por lo antes planteado, se expone la posibilidad que tendría la Corte de revisión judicial de las solicitudes de suspensión del Consejo. La Corte no está vinculada por la Carta de las Naciones Unidas y, en este sentido, no le es aplicable el contenido del artículo 25 de ésta, por lo que no existiría un límite legal para que la Corte revisara la conformidad de las peticiones del Consejo con el Estatuto e incluso con la Carta de Naciones Unidas.

Los Consejos De Guerra Durante La Última Dictadura Militar Argentina (1976–1983

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Débora D´Antonio

2016-10-01

Full Text Available En este trabajo me propongo explorar el funcionamiento de los Consejos de Guerra o tribunales militares que actuaron en los límites del aparato represivo legal de la última dictadura militar argentina. Estos tribunales fueron concebidos hacia fines del siglo XIX como fueros diferenciados destinados a mantener la disciplina de las Fuerzas Armadas. Sin embargo, desde comienzos de la década del sesenta, más tarde en los primeros años setenta y especialmente desde el golpe de Estado militar de marzo de 1976 se convirtieron en cuerpos extrajudiciales concentrados en acusar y juzgar a civiles por medio de la figura del delito político. La historiografía argentina aún no ha reconocido el papel significativo que desempeñaron los Consejos de Guerra al contribuir con el proceso de judicialización de la represión política, con la redefinición de una legalidad autoritaria y con una nueva racionalidad política. Abstract In this paper I will explore the mechanisms by which the councils of war or military courts that were involved in the last military dictatorship in Argentina, acted on the border between legality and illegality within the framework of the legal repressive apparatus of that time. These courts were conceived in the late nineteenth century as distinct jurisdictions intended to maintain discipline in the armed forces. However, since the early sixties, later in the early seventies and especially since the March 1976 coup, they became extrajudicial bodies that judged and prosecute civilians for political crimes. Argentina’s historiography has not yet fully recognized the significant role played by these councils of war as contributors to the process of judicialization of political repression, the redefinition of authoritarian legality and a new political rationality.

Mejoramiento de los procesos administrativos y de servicios en el Honorable Consejo Provincial del Cañar

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Buestán Toral, José Remigio; Urgilés Pauta, Diego

2006-01-01

Como conclusión el autor manifiesta que el sistema organizacional del H. Consejo Provincial del Cañar, mantiene una estructura vertical, tadicional ya que está en función jerárquica, y no permite alcanzar efectividad y eficiencia en los principales procesos administrativos y operativos, a su vez imposibilita a sus servidores actuar en función del cliente, cumpliendo sus actividades en base a órdenes y prácticas institucionales que han sido repetitivas en cada administración

Actividades físico - recreativas para la ocupación del tiempo libre en los jóvenes de 17 a 19 años de la zona 54 del Consejo Popular Urbano de San Juan y Martínez

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Elia Ledesma Márquez

2009-12-01

Full Text Available Tras la creación del INDER el deporte cubano único en América Latina que se caracteriza por más hondo sentido humano ha encaminado todos sus esfuerzos para llevar la E:Física ,el deporte y la Recreación a los mas recónditos lugares. .La planificación y programación de estas actividades depende en gran medida de aspectos tan importantes como la edad de los participantes, los gustos e intereses, así como la cultura requerida para su realización. A partir de la aplicación de las técnicas y métodos de investigación nos percatamos que las ofertas recreativas para la ocupación del tiempo libre son limitadas en la zona 54 del consejo popular urbano de San Juan y Martínez, según los resultados se notaron un alto grado de alcoholismo, riñas callejeras, la tendencia a un grado de deserción de los estudios por parte de los jóvenes comprendidos entre la edad de 17 a 19 anos tanto del sexo femenino como masculino, se destaco la maternidad precos,poco desarrollo de las Actividades físicas recreativas para la ocupación del tiempo libre. A través de la puesta en práctica de la propuesta de actividades físicas recreativas para la ocupación del tiempo libre de los jóvenes de la zona 54 se ha podido disminuir costumbres negativas. La zona desde el punto de vista social tiene una población de 156 jóvenes .Esperamos que dichos integrantes desarrollen sus potencialidades durante su tiempo libre, a través de actividades físicas – recreativas y formulen el habito en un ambiente sano que contrarreste las tendencias crecientes .Todo esto estará proporcionando la transformación en una comunidad mas fortalecida y unida

Memoria anual de gestión 2016: Consejo de Recursos Hídricos de Cuenca Chancay - Huaral

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Autoridad Nacional del Agua. Consejo de Recursos Hídricos de la Cuenca Chancay - Huaral

2017-01-01

Compila los resultados de la gestión del Consejo de Recursos Hídricos de Cuenca Chancay – Huaral, durante el año 2016, identificando los principales avances y desafíos en la implementación del Plan de Gestión de Recursos Hídricos de Cuenca, a través ejes temáticos como: aprovechamiento de recursos hídricos, calidad del agua y saneamiento, conservación y caudales ecológicos, institucionalidad, cultura del agua y, riesgos y cambio climático. A la vez, se constituye como un documento de registro...

Supervisión del consejo de administración y estructura de propiedad como determinantes de la retribución de la alta dirección

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María Encarnación Lucas Pérez

2013-02-01

Full Text Available RESUMEN: Este trabajo analiza el papel que desempeña el consejo de administración y la estructura de propiedad sobre la supervisión y determinación del sistema retributivo de los altos directivos. El análisis se realiza para el conjunto de empresas españolas que cotizan en el mercado bursátil durante el periodo 2004-2010. Los resultados muestran que el paquete retributivo de los altos directivos se caracteriza por un escaso peso de la parte variable y por un bajo empleo de las opciones sobre acciones. Asimismo, se evidencia que las características de los consejos de administración no ejercen una influencia significativa en la retribución vinculada a resultados, siendo el tipo de propietario mayoritario quien determina la eficacia supervisora del consejo sobre el diseño retributivo. ABSTRACT: This paper examines the role of board of directors and ownership structure on the effectiveness of executive pay design. An analysis performed on the whole Spanish listed firms in the period 2004-2010 showed that executive pay is characterized by a low variable compensation proportion –both bonus and stock options- as well as by the lack of connection with firm performance. Also, results evidence that boards’ monitoring do not exert significant influence on variable compensation, being the type of majority owner, through the board, who mainly determine executive pay effectiveness.

El derecho de veto en el Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas: la historia de la válvula de seguridad que paralizó el sistema

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María Isabel Torres Cazorla

2008-10-01

Full Text Available Este artículo pretende realizar un análisis del derecho de veto en el Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas, comenzando por sus orígenes y las razones que motivaron su creación, para estudiar posteriormente el uso y en múltiples ocasiones el que cabría calificar como “abuso” en la utilización de este privilegio por parte de algunos de los miembros permanentes del Consejo de Seguridad. Dado que la mayor parte de los trabajos doctrinales que tratan de esta cuestión datan de hace varias décadas, resulta de sumo interés realizar un análisis del derecho de veto desde que la organización comenzó su andadura, hasta el momento actual.

La aspiración de Brasil al asiento permanente en el Consejo de Seguridad de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas: un breve panorama

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Renata de Melo Rosa

2009-12-01

Full Text Available Este artículo analiza la posición de Brasil frente a la aspiración de un asiento permanente al Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas. Los esfuerzos entabulados por Brasil en el escenario internacional, los discursos del primer rango del gobierno, así como un protagonismo más acelerado frente a los vecinos latino-americanos confirman esta aspiración. Pero, Brasil aún enfrenta serios problemas internos de seguridad nacional y tendrá que enfrentar otros compañeros regionales también, aspirantes a un assiento de miembro permanente en el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU, como Canadá, por ejemplo. La ocupación del assiento temporario en el bienio de 2010-2011 también es uno de los factores analizados en este trabajo.

Individual popularity, peer group popularity composition and adolescents' alcohol consumption

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Gommans, R.; Müller, C.M.; Stevens, G.W.J.M.; Cillessen, A.H.N.; Bogt, T.F.M. ter

2017-01-01

Previous studies have convincingly shown associations between popularity and adolescent drinking. This study examined whether the popularity composition of the peer group and the relative difference in popularity between adolescents and their peers are also associated with adolescent drinking.

Individual Popularity, Peer Group Popularity Composition and Adolescents? Alcohol Consumption

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Gommans, Rob; M?ller, Christoph M.; Stevens, Gonneke W. J. M.; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; Ter Bogt, Tom F. M.

2016-01-01

Previous studies have convincingly shown associations between popularity and adolescent drinking. This study examined whether the popularity composition of the peer group and the relative difference in popularity between adolescents and their peers are also associated with adolescent drinking. Participants were 800 adolescents (M age?=?14.73; SDage?=?1.00; 51.6?% girls) from 31 classrooms who completed peer ratings of popularity and self-reports of alcohol consumption. Results showed that dri...

The Role of Popularity Goal in Early Adolescents' Behaviors and Popularity Status

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Dawes, Molly; Xie, Hongling

2014-01-01

The effect of popularity goal on the use of 3 popularity-related behaviors and later popularity status was examined in a diverse sample of 314 6th-grade students (176 girls and 138 boys) in both fall (Time 1) and spring (Time 2) semesters. Popularity goal and the use of popularity-driven behaviors (e.g., "I change the way I dress in order to…

Sistema de tareas para el fortalecimiento del\tvalor patriotismo en los adolescentes (13- 15 años de la comunidad 30 de noviembre del Consejo Popular Celso Maragoto en el municipio de Pinar del Río

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Evidia Fe Abascal Monterrey

2009-09-01

Full Text Available Este trabajo presenta sistema de tareas para el fortalecimiento del valor patriotismo en los adolescentes de la comunidad 30 de Noviembre del consejo Popular Celso Maragoto del Municipio de Pinar del Río, además proporciona un grupo de fundamentos psicológicos, sociológicos, y pedagógicos sobre los valores que influye en el desarrollo de la personalidad integral de los adolescentes, el trabajo es un sistema de tareas dirigida desde la Comunidad a fortalecer el valor patriotismo visto desde un grupo de acciones, aportando la definición del patriotismo desde la perspectiva de ser mejores ciudadanos, es decir identidad nacional, cubania, amor incondicional por su patria, conocimiento de la historia local, y glorias deportivas de su localidad, las actividades que se proponen serán evaluadas mediante instrumentos y acciones que medirán como se comporta el sujeto desde lo actitudinal y su influencia futura en el mejoramiento social, además uno de los aportes prácticos de esta investigación son los resultados alcanzado que proporcionaran vías y modo de actuación de los adolescentes de la comunidad de forma que generen cambios positivos en la conducta social En las diferentes observaciones al accionar en la conducta de estos adolescentes en la comunidad, así como entrevistas, encuestas al técnico y familiares de ellos se ha detectado dificultades en el trabajo político ideológico y la formación de valores, lo que ha sido objeto de señalamiento en distintas reuniones preocupación y recomendación de búsqueda de un sistema de tareas para fortalecer el valor patriotismo en la circunscripción. Los instrumentos y métodos con una base materialista dialéctica que se ha utilizado para diagnosticar la situación han arrojado lo siguiente. –Existe dificultad en cuanto al accionar de la familia en la educación de valores y sobre todo en el fortalecimiento del valor patriotismo. – Existen fisuras en el técnico de la comunidad de c

Los Consejos de Justicia en el actual proceso de reformas estatutarias y sus perspectivas de futuro

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Miguel Ángel Cabellos Espiérrez

2011-01-01

Full Text Available En el actual proceso de reformas estatutarias se ha puesto de manifiesto el problema de la relación entre Poder Judicial y modelo de Estado, y los diversos estatutos hasta ahora reformados han incorporado previsiones dirigidas a abordar esta cuestión. El objeto de este trabajo es analizar las relativas a los consejos de justicia, y estudiar asimismo el tratamiento que de esta cuestión ha hecho el Tribunal Constitucional en su sentencia 31/2010, con la consecuencia ya conocida de la declaración de inconstitucionalidad de buena parte de los preceptos alusivos a dicho consejo en el Estatuto de Autonomía de Cataluña. Para ello, y tras analizar brevemente las propuestas existentes antes del inicio de los procesos de reforma estatutaria, se pondrá de manifiesto cómo los estatutos recogen en realidad dos modelos distintos de consejo de justicia, solo uno de los cuales tiene relación realmente con el gobierno del Poder Judicial. En lo relativo al caso catalán y a su examen por el TC, se analizará con carácter previo la noción de colaboración internormativa entre Estatuto y LOPJ, presupuesto de la regulación contenida en el Título III del Estatuto, para concluir que el TC la admite en todos los ámbitos regulados en dicho Título III excepto en el caso del Consejo de Justicia. Asimismo, se indicará cómo la decisión del TC sobre aquél está presidida por una cierta confusión en cuanto a la naturaleza del órgano enjuiciado, y cómo la solución finalmente adoptada, de mantener el órgano pero cambiando totalmente su naturaleza tras la declaración de inconstitucionalidad de buena parte de la regulación del mismo, constituye una solución sorprendente y no exenta de problemas. Finalmente, se identifican las perspectivas de futuro en el ámbito analizado. In the current statutory reform process has highlighted the problem of the relationship between the Judiciary and the model of State. The reformed statutes have included rules to

Defining popular iconic metaphor.

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Columbus, Peter J; Boerger, Michael A

2002-04-01

Popular Iconic Metaphor is added to the cognitive linguistic lexicon of figurative language. Popular Iconic Metaphors employ real or fictional celebrities of popular culture as source domains in figurative discourse. Some borders of Popular Iconic Metaphor are identified, and Elvis Presley is offered as a prototype example of a popular iconic source domain, due to his ubiquity in American popular culture, which affords his figurative usage in ways consistent with decision heuristics in everyday life. Further study of Popular Iconic Metaphors may serve to illuminate how figurative expressions emerge in their localized contexts, structure conduct and experience, and affect mediation of cultural and personal meanings.

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Acción popular de moralidad administrativa

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Ernesto Matallana Camacho

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Full Text Available La Acción Popular de Moralidad Administrativa es una acción de origen constitucional (art. 88 que tiene un desarrollo legal con la expedición de la Ley 472 de 1998, que tenía dentro de sus características un incentivo económico del 15%, el cual fue eliminado por el último artículo de la Ley 1425 de 2010. Dentro de las reformas propuestas en el nuevo Código Contencioso Administrativo se encuentra el superar el debate jurisprudencial si a través de la acción se pueden anular actos o contratos, lo cual es prohibido de entrada por el artículo 144 de la Ley 1437 de 2011, que además crea un requisito de procedibilidad, en donde el accionante debe dirigirse primero a la entidad y plantearle la posible violación del derecho colectivo. La jurisprudencia tiene definida la moralidad administrativa como el derecho que tiene la comunidad a que el patrimonio público sea manejado de acuerdo con la legislación vigente, con la diligencia y cuidado propio de un buen funcionario. Si bien la posición del Consejo de Estado es que no es posible la acumulación de procesos, creemos que puede ser revisable al eliminarse el incentivo económico. Adicionalmente la doctrina de juez de lo contencioso considera que la acción popular al tener un objeto jurídico a proteger que el derecho colectivo, la hace autónoma respecto de otras acciones y además tiene un carácter principal por esa misma razón. Otra jurisprudencia aborda el criterio de ponderación a la hora de tomar una decisión de protección de un derecho colectivo, cuando se enfrenten principios donde ninguno tiene un carácter absoluto, que se encuentren sustentando instituciones jurídicas y el juez popular deberá decidir a cuál deberá dársele mayor prioridad. La Administración dentro de la gestión pública puede sacrificar unos principios por la aplicación de otros cuando está ejecutando una norma, en esa medida; o bien, la Administración efectuó una inadecuada ponderación y en

Communication of the popular

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Božilović Nikola

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Full Text Available The article deals with the problems of the communication of popular culture. It considers the more specialized meaning of popular culture, which primarily encompasses the works of artistic forms which have a popular character - easily understandable and entertaining contents and wide audience. The aesthetic communication of the popular through popular literature, film, pop and rock music is examined. The paper is divided into three parts. The first parts deals with the aesthetics of the communication of popular culture. It contains the analysis of the major formal-aesthetic procedures embedded in the creative expression of the popular. In the part which is dedicated to social aspects of the communication of popular art, the author examines the industrial, market and commercial principles upon which this whole culture is based. It is a time of new technologies and mass consumption, which represent, in the words of Eric Hobsbawm, a 'cultural landscape' that has transformed the manner in which a new audience experiences the artistic. Finally, popular culture stars are observed as communicators. The author adds them as a new, even crucial, link in the already known chain of communication comprising the author, the work and the audience. Stars (film, popular music are active factors of communication as well as its bearers. They are the intermediaries through which the audience establishes relationships with the authors (writers, directors, composers and the works in which those stars appear. Stars as 'new Olympians' (Morin are, indeed, another significant category that distinguishes the communication of popular culture.

Propuesta de un conjunto de actividades físicas recreativas para la ocupación del tiempo libre de los adolescentes en edades de 12-14 años de la circunscripción no. 184 del Consejo Popular Hermanos Cruz del municipio de Pinar del Río

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Reinaldo Rosales Del Pino

2009-12-01

Full Text Available La formación para el tiempo libre es una parte fundamental de la formación integral del hombre. Las actividades físicas de tiempo libre se consideran en la actualidad una necesidad para todos los seres humanos que posibilita calidad de vida y creación de un estilo de vida en la población, que benefician al hombre en su capacidad física, en la salud, en la economía, en los niveles de comunicación, en el desarrollo humano, tiene además un carácter preventivo de algunos de los males que aquejan a la sociedad. En los adolescentes se presenta un marcado interés en lo motor, por actividades que se presten al auto-examen, a la superación y a la competencia, así como se produce un afianzamiento de las posibilidades de participación en equipos deportivos. A través de la observación de las actividades física recreativas en el tiempo libre de los adolescentes, la realización de encuestas y entrevistas se comprobó que carecen de ser de la preferencia de ellos, son reiterativas y carecen de divulgación; Esto conlleva a que estos adolescentes emplee su tiempo libre en la realización de actividades que poco aportan a su educación y formación de su personalidad, por lo que proponemos un conjunto de actividades físico recreativas para contribuir a la ocupación del tiempo libre en los adolescentes de edades de 12-14 años de la circunscripción 184 del Consejo Popular Hermanos Cruz del municipio de Pinar del Río. Este trabajo será de utilidad y de servicio a los actores sociales de la circunscripción y adolescentes.

Popular "Problems": Deviantization and Teachers' Curation of Popular Music

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Kallio, Alexis Anja

2017-01-01

Despite many music classrooms welcoming popular musics in striving towards an inclusive and democratic education, there has been relatively little research into teachers' decisions regarding which popular musics are included and which are excluded from classroom activities. This is of particular interest taking into account arguments that the…

Las organizaciones locales en contextos de desarrollo: el caso de los consejos comunitarios del tramo construido de la carretera las ánimas-Nuquí (Chocó

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Liliana Gracia Hincapié

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Full Text Available En este artículo se muestra el funcionamiento y la dinámica de las organizaciones étnico-territoriales, como son los consejos comunitarios, en contextos de modernización y desarrollo, como es la carretera Las Ánimas-Nuquí en el departamento del Chocó. Esta carretera ha impuesto una nueva dinámica y ha generado impactos en la vida local, como la amenaza a la seguridad alimentaria, grupos armados, cultivos ilícitos, prostitución y dependencia económica de las poblaciones a la carretera, que afectan también el funcionamiento de las organizaciones locales de comunidades negras que habitan los territorios del trazado vial. Se presenta unas reflexiones acerca de la difícil situación de los consejos comunitarios en la carretera, sus debilidades, fortalezas, amenazas y estrategias organizativas, así como prácticas de apropiación, reelaboración y/o resistencia de las organizaciones locales como respuesta a la carretera.

Consejo Mayor Comunitario del Porce -AZA- (Antioquia por la defensa del Territorio. Experiencia organizativa por la dignidad

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Yeny Pino Franco

2016-07-01

Full Text Available En los municipios de Amalfi, Anori y Zaragoza del departamento de Antioquia (Colombia, se ha venido desarrollando el proyecto hidroeléctrico Porce IV, desde el 2006, con los estudios preliminares por parte de la Empresa Pública de Medellín (EPM; en el desarrollo de las primeras etapas del proyecto, las comunidades se agruparon y constituyeron lo que hoy es el Consejo Mayor Comunitario AZA (CMC, el cual, les facilitara una negociación con EPM con justicia social y dignidad para todos, donde las comunidades pudieran participar con propuestas para la negociación en los temas de indemnización y principalmente el tema de compensación.

Public and popular history

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De Groot, Jerome

2013-01-01

This interdisciplinary collection considers public and popular history within a global framework, seeking to understand considerations of local, domestic histories and the ways they interact with broader discourses. Grounded in particular local and national situations, the book addresses the issues associated with popular history in a globalised cultural world, such as: how the study of popular history might work in the future; new ways in which the terms 'popular' and 'public' might inform one another and nuance scholarship; transnational, intercultural models of 'pastness'; cultural translat

La jurisprudencia del Consejo de Estado y sus recientes aportes al derecho disciplinario

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David Alonso Roa Salguero

2012-07-01

Full Text Available En este artículo se ofrecen algunas consideraciones frente a las últimas sentencias (de 2010 en adelante del Consejo de Estado, Sección Segunda, proferidas en ejercicio del control de legalidad de los actos administrativos sancionatorios, expedidos por el juez disciplinario respecto de los sujetos pasivos de la acción disciplinaria, al término de una actuación de la misma naturaleza, con ocasión de las demandas de nulidad y restablecimiento del derecho presentadas por estos contra dichos actos. Como se plantea, el máximo órgano de lo contencioso administrativo deja clara una nueva posición jurisprudencial en relación con el alcance y los límites del objeto de examen de las providencias contentivas de sanción disciplinaria impuestas por el funcionario con potestad disciplinaria, distinta a la línea que mantenía, hasta 2009, al resolver estos asuntos, la que permitía su comprensión en términos, ni más ni menos, de una tercera instancia disciplinaria.

La jurisprudencia del Consejo de Estado y sus recientes aportes al derecho disciplinario

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David Alonso Roa Salguero

2012-06-01

Full Text Available En este artículo se ofrecen algunas consideraciones frente a las últimas sentencias (de 2010 en adelante del Consejo de Estado, Sección Segunda, proferidas en ejercicio del control de legalidad de los actos administrativos sancionatorios, expedidos por el juez disciplinario respecto de los sujetos pasivos de la acción disciplinaria, al término de una actuación de la misma naturaleza, con ocasión de las demandas de nulidad y restablecimiento del derecho presentadas por estos contra dichos actos. Como se plantea, el máximo órgano de lo contencioso administrativo deja clara una nueva posición jurisprudencial en relación con el alcance y los límites del objeto de examen de las providencias contentivas de sanción disciplinaria impuestas por el funcionario con potestad disciplinaria, distinta a la línea que mantenía, hasta 2009, al resolver estos asuntos, la que permitía su comprensión en términos, ni más ni menos, de una tercera instancia disciplinaria.

Consejo Genético En El Cáncer De Mama Y En El Cáncer De Colon

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2011-07-01

Se aboga por la creación de una Unidad de Cáncer Familiar en la CAPV y se avanzan las características a tener en cuenta en el proceso clínico asistencial que desarrollaría esa Unidad, en tres aspectos claves: la identificación de los pacientes y la consulta de consejo genético, el estudio genético y el seguimiento de pacientes y familiares. Se señalan los recursos humanos y organizativos que se consideran necesarios para esa Unidad de Cáncer Familiar y se recomienda su coordinación con otras unidades asistenciales del sistema sanitario público, como son los Servicios de Oncología, Ginecología, Digestivo y laboratorios implicados.

Los consejos municipales: una nueva articulación del poder local en la retaguardia republicana

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Rafael Quirosa-Cheyrouze y Muñoz

2008-12-01

Full Text Available Como consecuencia del colapso provocado por la fallida sublevación militar de 1936, surgieron múltiples comités obreros por toda la zona leal a la República, organismos que se convirtieron en poderes paralelos a los oficialmente constituidos. En este trabajo se pretende analizar las características que definieron a las nuevas instituciones locales y, sobre todo, las consecuencias que su implantación generó en la dinámica política de la zona por el proceso de atomización del poder que causó. Los consejos municipales fueron, por tanto, la fórmula planteada por el Gobierno de Largo Caballero para reorganizar el poder local a partir de 1937. Tras una complicada evolución en tiempos de paz, una vez desencadenado el conflicto bélico, los ayuntamientos de la República habían perdido muchas competencias en la práctica cotidiana. Pero los comités locales, nuevos protagonistas de la situación, no pasaron de ser un poder paralelo y, en términos generales, no sustituyeron oficialmente a las corporaciones existentes antes de iniciarse la guerra. Guerra Civil, ayuntamientos, consejos municipales, poder local, Largo Caballero.________________ABSTRACT:As a result of the collapse caused by the unsuccessful military revolt of 1936, many trade unions arose in the areas loyal to the Republic; organisms, those, that became parallel powers to the ones officially constituted. In this work it is analyzed the characteristics that defined the new local institutions and, mainly, the consequences that its implantation generated in the political dynamics of those areas by the process of atomization of power that it caused. The municipal councils were, therefore, the formula utilized by the Government of Largo Caballero to reorganize the local power starting from 1937. After a complicated evolution, in the days of peace, once triggered the warlike conflict, the city councils of the Republic lost many of the daily competencies they used to have. And the

Lake sediment cores as indicators of historical metal(loid) accumulation – A case study in Mexico

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Hansen, Anne M.

2012-01-01

To examine and compare historical accumulation of metal(loid)s in Mexican lakes and reservoirs, 210 Pb and 137 Cs dated sediment cores were evaluated: two from the remote Zempoala and Miramar Lagoons and three from Lake Pátzcuaro, and the Intermedia and Silva dams that are affected by human activities. Sediment ecotoxicology was assessed using consensus-based sediment quality guidelines for freshwater ecosystems. The +100 a sediment core from the remote Miramar Lagoon had the highest concentrations of Cr and Ni these being higher than the Probable Effect Levels (PELs). Zinc concentrations were also higher in the Miramar Lagoon compared to the other lakes and reservoirs, with concentrations higher than the Threshold Effect Level (TEL). Mercury concentrations from this lagoon were comparable to those for the Intermedia dam that receives water from urban, industrial and agricultural areas. The higher metal concentrations in the core from the Miramar Lagoon suggest that metal concentrations in the rocks of the watershed are high. Another explanation for the higher metal concentrations is the slow sediment accumulation that causes metals to be accumulated over longer time-periods at the sediment–water interface. A decrease in the concentration of As in the Intermedia dam was observed in sediments corresponding to the last decades. This may be due to an increase in sediment accumulation rate or to the reduction in sources of this metalloid in the watershed. In the Miramar Lagoon, an increase was observed in concentrations of As and Cr in more recent sediments, probably related to increased deforestation in the area or the eruption of El Chichonal volcano in 1982. Concentrations of Pb showed a decreasing tendency over the past decades in the Lake Pátzcuaro, Miramar and Zempoala Lagoons sediment cores while such behavior was not be observed for the Intermedia dam. This reduction in concentrations of Pb was attributed to the decrease in use of leaded gasoline.

Las políticas de ciudadanía en los estados del Consejo de Cooperación del Golfo

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Zaccara, Luciano; Saldaña, Marta

2017-01-01

Este artículo explora los marcos legales de ciudadanía y naturalización de los seis estados del Consejo de Cooperación del Golfo, y analiza cómo han sido utilizados desde el establecimiento de los estados modernos hasta la actualidad, con especial atención a los acontecimientos posteriores a la Primavera Árabe. En este contexto, se investiga en qué medida ha afectado el carácter rentista de los estados del Golfo al diseño de sus políticas de ciudadanía y naturalización; cuáles son los princip...

Actividades físicas recreativas culturales para ocupar el tiempo libre del adulto mayor en edades comprendidas entre 56 y 76 años del cdr numero 5 de la zona 28 de la circunscripción 28 del Consejo Popular Carlos Manuel del Municipio Pinar del Río

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Vidal E. Arencibia Llanes

2009-06-01

Full Text Available La investigación realizada tiene como objetivo la propuesta de un Plan de actividades físicas recreativas culturales en función de la ocupación del tiempo libre del adulto mayor entre del CDR número 5 de la zona 28 de la Circunscripción 28 del Consejo popular Carlos Manuel del municipio Pinar del Río. La  misma se inició desde el 2007 a partir de las necesidades de la comunidad de  realizar  actividades  físicas  recreativas  culturales  para  la  ocupación  del tiempo libre, a través del  diagnóstico se constató el nivel de ofertas recreativas que se le brindaban, las que evidenciaban que eran limitadas y con escasa frecuencia,  por  lo  que  nos  dimos  a  la  tarea  de  confeccionar  una  plan  de actividades con características físicas recreativas culturales, a partir de las realizadas anteriormente que respondieran a sus gustos, edades y preferencias. Se selecciona a la comunidad comprendida entre 56-76 años como el mejor de los escenarios donde se desarrolla los problemas sociales, pero también el lugar donde se expande la subjetividad humana en su máxima expresión en la búsqueda de soluciones a los problemas. Este plan de actividades que se propone contribuye al aprovechamiento del tiempo libre  orientado lo que trae beneficios para elevar la calidad de vida propiciando un mejoramiento de las relaciones interpersonales y del sentido de pertenencia de estas personas por su territorio. Cuestiones estas que fueron detectadas durante la aplicación de los diferentes instrumentos de investigación como observación, encuestas, entrevistas, así como la utilización de técnicas estadísticas y participativas.

La resistencia a la constitucionalización del Derecho administrativo en Colombia: el Consejo de Estado y el caso de los actos discrecionales que ordenan el retiro

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Vicente F Benítez-Rojas

2010-01-01

Full Text Available El objetivo del presente artículo es analizar la intensidad de la constitucionalización del Derecho administrativo en Colombia, especialmente de los actos administrativos discrecionales que ordenan el retiro de miembros de las Fuerzas Militares, la Policía Nacional, el Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad (DAS y el Instituto Nacional Penitenciario y Carcelario de Colombia (Inpec. Para lograr lo anterior ¿a través del análisis estático y dinámico de jurisprudencia¿ se comparan las dos lecturas contrapuestas que han sido elaboradas por el Consejo de Estado y la Corte Constitucional, y se sostiene que la postura del Tribunal Constitucional es más conveniente en términos jurídicos y de eficiencia en la administración de los recursos públicos y, por esa razón, debe ser aceptada por el Consejo de Estado. El análisis de la conveniencia toma como puntos de referencia 1 algunos principios constitucionales; 2 el Estado Constitucional; 3 la doctrina administrativista nacional y extranjera; y 4 algunos pronunciamientos de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos sobre el particular.

Auditoría por riesgos de la gestión de la continuidad de negocio para el Consejo de Transporte Público

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Esquivel Asenjo, Karla

2015-01-01

Tesis de maestría -- Universidad de Costa Rica. Posgrado en Administración y Dirección de Empresas. Maestría Profesional en Auditoría de Tecnologías de Información, 2015 El presente estudio de auditoría evalúa la razonabilidad de la Gestión de la Continuidad del Negocio de acuerdo con las políticas y mejores prácticas aplicables para asegurar la disponibilidad de la información en el Consejo de Transporte Público. Los resultados del análisis efectuado, se realizan basados en el program...

Characterizing popularity dynamics of online videos

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Ren, Zhuo-Ming; Shi, Yu-Qiang; Liao, Hao

2016-07-01

Online popularity has a major impact on videos, music, news and other contexts in online systems. Characterizing online popularity dynamics is nature to explain the observed properties in terms of the already acquired popularity of each individual. In this paper, we provide a quantitative, large scale, temporal analysis of the popularity dynamics in two online video-provided websites, namely MovieLens and Netflix. The two collected data sets contain over 100 million records and even span a decade. We characterize that the popularity dynamics of online videos evolve over time, and find that the dynamics of the online video popularity can be characterized by the burst behaviors, typically occurring in the early life span of a video, and later restricting to the classic preferential popularity increase mechanism.

Uncovering the popularity mechanisms for Facebook applications

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Li, Sheng-Nan; Guo, Qiang; Yang, Kai; Liu, Jian-Guo; Zhang, Yi-Cheng

2018-03-01

Understanding the popularity dynamics of online application(App) is significant for the online social systems. In this paper, by dividing the Facebook Apps into different groups in terms of their popularities, we empirically investigate the popularity dynamics for different kinds of Facebook Apps. Then, taking into account the influence of cumulative and recent popularities on the user choice, we present a model to regenerate the growth of popularity for different App groups. The experimental results of 917 Facebook Apps show that as the popularities of Facebook Apps increase, the recent popularity plays more important role. Specifically, the recent popularity plays more important role in regenerating the popularity dynamics for more popular Apps, and the cumulative popularity plays more important role for unpopular Apps. We also conduct temporal analysis on the growth characteristic of individual App by comparing the increment at each time with the average of historical records. The results show that the growth of more popular App tends to fluctuate more greatly. Our work may shed some lights for deeply understanding the popularity mechanism for online applications.

Educational intervention on pregnancy in adolescence. “San Francisco” Consejo Popular. Venezuela

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Niurka Fleites Santana; Yosmel Álvarez González; Iván Arlé González Duque; Jayce Díaz Díaz

2015-01-01

Background:The studies accomplished in the worldwide space on pregnancy in adolescence demonstrate the need of an integral attention that would help the family in young people's education.Objective: to implement a program of educational intervention that contribute to modify young people's knowledges on pregnancy in adolescence.Methods: Study of educational intervention in teens of San Francisco community, belonging to the Municipality of Agua Blanca, San Francisco clinic, Portuguesa State, d...

Agents of Popular Sovereignty

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Wolkenstein, Fabio

2018-01-01

Popular sovereignty requires that citizens perceive themselves as being able to act and implement decisions and be causally connected to mechanisms of decision-making. I argue that the two most common understandings of the exercise of popular sovereignty — which centre on direct decision making...... by the people as a whole and the indirect exercise of democratic agency by elected representatives, respectively — are inadequate in this respect, and go on to suggest a complementary account that stresses the central role of internally democratic and participatory political parties in actualising popular...... sovereignty. The argument defended contends that popular sovereignty ceases to be a mere fiction only when the people are active makers of decisions and not just passive recipients of the decisions of others; and they can only be active decision-makers when they engage in internally democratic parties...

Behavioral Correlates of Prioritizing Popularity in Adolescence.

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van den Broek, Nina; Deutz, Marike H F; Schoneveld, Elke A; Burk, William J; Cillessen, Antonius H N

2016-12-01

Little is known about individual differences in adolescents' motivation to achieve and maintain popularity. This study examined the moderating effects of prioritizing popularity on the associations between popularity and adjustment outcomes in late adolescence. Participants were 314 Dutch eleventh-grade students (M age  = 16.83 years; 52 % male) who completed measures of popularity, prioritizing popularity, and prosocial, antisocial, and risk behaviors. It was hypothesized that associations between popularity and adjustment outcomes are stronger for adolescents who prioritize popularity. The results indicate that the combination of being popular and valuing popularity was strongly related to antisocial and risk behaviors, but not to prosocial behaviors. Adolescents' social status motivations thus play an important role in the association of popularity with antisocial and risk behaviors in late adolescence.

Popular Music and Society

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2007-01-01

the collapse of the Soviet Union: What present trends can be observed?  How has the Soviet context influenced the popular music of today?  How is music performed and consumed?  How has the interrelationship between cultural industry and performers developed?  How are nationalist sensibilities affecting popular......Fifteen years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, popular music is thriving in the former Soviet territories and covers a broad variety of genres.  Among these are rock bands formed in the Soviet era, surviving legends of Soviet pop, and younger bands and performers of the 1990s and 2000s.......   Local and foreign musics blend as new impulses arrive from without and arise from within the region.  Thanks to the most recent wave of Russian emigrants, these popular musics have also spread to various localities around the world, as exemplified by the phenomenon of "Russendisko" in Berlin...

Advice given to women in Argentina about breast-feeding and the use of alcohol Consejos dados a las mujeres en Argentina acerca de la lactancia materna y el consumo de alcohol

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M. Yanina Pepino

2004-12-01

total de 167 mujeres que estaban amamantando o que habían amamantado recientemente. A las madres se les preguntó qué tipo de consejos, en caso de haberlos, les dieron los profesionales de la salud y sus parientes y amistades acerca del consumo de alcohol. También se plantearon preguntas sobre la bebida tradicional argentina, el mate -infusión muy popular en América del Sur que se prepara con las hojas de la planta Ilex paraguayensis- y la clase de consejos que recibieron las mujeres acerca de la lactancia materna y los cuidados neonatales en general. RESULTADOS: De las 167 mujeres estudiadas, 96,4% indicaron que el médico les había aconsejado que amamantaran a su hijo. Además, 93,4% afirmaron que habían frotado con alcohol el muñón umbilical del niño. Menos de la mitad de las mujeres (46,7% indicaron haber recibido del médico asesoramiento acerca del consumo de bebidas alcohólicas durante el embarazo, y un porcentaje aun menor (25,7% indicó haber recibido este tipo de asesoramiento durante la lactancia. Los parientes y amigos mostraron aproximadamente la misma propensión a aconsejar acerca del consumo de bebidas alcohólicas durante el embarazo (42,6% y la lactancia (47,9%. No obstante, el tipo de consejo fue distinto en uno y otro caso, en el sentido de que los parientes y amigos mostraron una proclividad mayor (en grado estadísticamente significativo a alentar a la mujer a consumir bebidas alcohólicas durante la lactancia que durante el embarazo (P < 0,001. Los parientes y amigos también alentaron el consumo de mate para estimular la producción de leche. CONCLUSIONES: Como en otros contextos culturales, en Argentina existe la creencia de que el alcohol mejora la lactancia. Sin embargo, la mayoría de las mujeres entrevistadas no habían recibido asesoramiento profesional acerca del consumo de bebidas alcohólicas durante el embarazo y la lactancia. Se necesitan estrategias profesionales orientadas a lograr que las mujeres cobren mayor conciencia

Teaching Japanese Popular Culture

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Deborah Shamoon

2010-04-01

Full Text Available Japanese popular culture has arrived on American college campuses as never before. Student interest in Japanese manga (comic books, anime (animated films and television shows, and video games drives much of the enrollment in Japanese courses and Japanese majors and minors. In response to student interest, as well as the establishment of popular culture as a topic of serious academic scholarship, the demand for courses on Japanese popular culture has never been higher. Yet the number of scholars specializing in the study of popular culture is still relatively small. This can potentially create problems, as faculty teach outside their expertise, and perhaps face an uncomfortable situation in which the students know more about the topic than the professor. In this article, I will offer some suggestions and advice for faculty creating a popular culture course for the first time, based on my experiences teaching undergraduates at the University of Notre Dame. The course I developed reflects my background in Japanese literature and film, and is but one example of many possible approaches to the topic. The sample syllabus and list of resources at the end of this article provide citations for all text and media sources mentioned.

Classifications in popular music

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van Venrooij, A.; Schmutz, V.; Wright, J.D.

2015-01-01

The categorical system of popular music, such as genre categories, is a highly differentiated and dynamic classification system. In this article we present work that studies different aspects of these categorical systems in popular music. Following the work of Paul DiMaggio, we focus on four

Popular music from Greenland

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Otte, Andreas Roed

a sense of place in popular music. The second probes different strategies for co-branding popular music and Greenland. The third is concerned with music consumption patterns among Greenlandic youth. And the fourth article engages with an alternative form of nationalism found within the Nuuk underground...

Sistema de actividades físico-recreativas para la ocupación del tiempo libre de los adolescentes con edades de 14 a 17 años pertenecientes a la Circunscripción # 88 del Consejo Popular “Aguas Claras” del municipio Pinar del Río

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Otoniel Veliz Padrón

2009-12-01

Full Text Available El Tiempo libre constituye una condición obligatoria en la reproducción espiritual ampliada de la personalidad, por eso organizarlo racionalmente constituye una tarea de gran trascendencia social, ya que no solo resulta importante cómo se planifican las horas de estudio, sino que resulta de vital importancia una eficaz planificación del mismo en los adolescentes en aras de contribuir a su completo desarrollo físico e intelectual. El objetivo del trabajo es proponer un sistema de actividades físico-recreativas para la ocupación del tiempo libre de los adolescentes de la circunscripción # 88 del Consejo Popular “Aguas Claras” del municipio de Pinar del Río. Este trabajo se está llevando a cabo con el propósito de llevar a vías de hechos un sistema de actividades físico-recreativas para la ocupación del tiempo libre de los adolescentes de la referida circunscripción, garantizando una correcta ocupación del tiempo libre a través de mismas. Este estudio se inició con la aplicación de una encuesta a los propios adolescentes para constar si ellos conocían las actividades y con qué frecuencia las realizaban, las misma evidenciaban que eran de poco conocimiento de ellos por lo que nos dimos a la tarea de confeccionar una propuesta de actividades físico- recreativas a partir de las realizadas anteriormente en el lugar que respondieran a sus gustos y preferencias, así como a otros objetivos sociales en específico. En el mismo empleamos métodos teóricos, empíricos y estadísticos, permitiéndonos no solo la recopilación de datos sino el procesamiento de los mismos, nuestra propuesta sirve como mediador del personal que labora en la localidad y señala direcciones para enfocar el trabajo de los mismos, lo que constituye su aporte teórico, por lo que esperamos obtener resultados satisfactorios en cuanto a una mejor ocupación del tiempo libre de los adolescentes de la referida circunscripción garantizando.

Popularity and Debut

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Winther, Christian Dahl

This paper focuses on two firms' optimal entry strategies in an emerging market characterized by word-of-mouth effects. Consumers can be of two types depending on which firm's brand they prefer. Firms are asymmetric in their popularity as given by the probability of meeting a fan of its brand. Word......-of-mouth communication influences popularity in the two periods of competition by increasing the likelihood of the late consumer having an affinity towards the brand adopted at the first stage. In this environment firms strategically choose their timing of product introduction knowing that fast introduction is costly. I...... study the subgame perfect equilibria of the game to observe how they connect to firms' popularities, strength of word-ofmouth network effects, and the level of product differentiation. The model shows under what conditions asymmetries in the duopoly should be expected to increase or decrease over time...

Prevalencia y factores asociados a la práctica del consejo clínico contra el consumo de drogas entre los especialistas internos residentes de Andalucía (España

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María de la Villa Juárez-Jiménez

2015-12-01

Conclusión: Hay una alta oferta de consejo contra el consumo por los EIR, aunque llamativamente menor para drogas ilegales. Los factores que influyen son tanto elementos formativos de su propia especialidad como el consumo personal de alcohol y tabaco, que deben ser tenidos en cuenta para una mejora de esta actividad preventiva.

Popular education in the mirror of the Popular University in France in the early XXth century

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Lucien MERCIER

2013-11-01

Full Text Available The Popular Universities at the end of the XIXth century are a major reference in the history of popular education. The movement of the Popular Universities attracted militant workers and intellectual —writers, scientists, teachers and artists—, to educational dynamics which owe a lot to the Dreyfus Affair. This encounter of the morning coat with the workman's overalls didn't last long. The Popular Universities died because they were unable to imagine this mutual education which was everybody's dream. This failure marked people's minds for a long time, and the period between the two wars, full of experiences of working-class and proletarian education, constantly refers to the Popular Universities of the 1900^ to find a model to follow or to reject.

Are Atypical Things More Popular?

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Berger, Jonah; Packard, Grant

2018-04-01

Why do some cultural items become popular? Although some researchers have argued that success is random, we suggest that how similar items are to each other plays an important role. Using natural language processing of thousands of songs, we examined the relationship between lyrical differentiation (i.e., atypicality) and song popularity. Results indicated that the more different a song's lyrics are from its genre, the more popular it becomes. This relationship is weaker in genres where lyrics matter less (e.g., dance) or where differentiation matters less (e.g., pop) and occurs for lyrical topics but not style. The results shed light on cultural dynamics, why things become popular, and the psychological foundations of culture more broadly.

Popularity Contagion among Adolescents

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Marks, Peter E. L.; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; Crick, Nicki R.

2012-01-01

This study aimed to support the theory of popularity contagion, which posits that popularity spreads among friends spontaneously and regardless of behavioral changes. Peer nominations of status and behavior were collected annually between 6th and 12th grades from a total of 1062 adolescents. Longitudinal hypotheses were mostly supported using path…

Análisis de las organizaciones de integración económica como mecanismo de estabilidad regional, aplicado al caso del Consejo de Cooperación del Golfo (2003-2011)

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Trujillo Márquez, Julliett Johan

2012-01-01

El Consejo de Cooperación del Golfo (CCG) se estableció como una organización internacional gubernamental a nivel regional fundada en bases de desarrollo económico, pero gracias a los riesgos que generan inestabilidad en la región, cambio su objetivo, logrando una evolución en el eje de seguridad y defensa.

Characterizing popularity dynamics of online videos

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Ren, Zhuo-Ming; Shi, , Yu-Qiang; Liao, Hao

2016-01-01

Online popularity has a major impact on videos, music, news and other contexts in online systems. Characterizing online popularity dynamics is nature to explain the observed properties in terms of the already acquired popularity of each individual. In this paper, we provide a quantitative, large scale, temporal analysis of the popularity dynamics in two online video-provided websites, namely MovieLens and Netflix. The two collected data sets contain over 100 million records and even span...

Toward Predicting Popularity of Social Marketing Messages

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Yu, Bei; Chen, Miao; Kwok, Linchi

Popularity of social marketing messages indicates the effectiveness of the corresponding marketing strategies. This research aims to discover the characteristics of social marketing messages that contribute to different level of popularity. Using messages posted by a sample of restaurants on Facebook as a case study, we measured the message popularity by the number of "likes" voted by fans, and examined the relationship between the message popularity and two properties of the messages: (1) content, and (2) media type. Combining a number of text mining and statistics methods, we have discovered some interesting patterns correlated to "more popular" and "less popular" social marketing messages. This work lays foundation for building computational models to predict the popularity of social marketing messages in the future.

Mandatos y consejos en la filosofía práctica moderna

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Fonnesu, Luca

2008-12-01

Full Text Available This paper addresses the traditional distinction between commands and advices in modern practical philosophy as doctrine of duties. The distinction plays an essential role in Christian Thomasius’ thought for his differentiation between distinct spheres of practical life, iustum, honestum and decorum, i. e. the spheres of law (iustum, proper ethics (honestum and incoercible external behaviour – with ethical meaning –, including good manners (decorum. In Kant’s practical philosophy, the distinction between commands and counsels corresponds to the distinction between morality and prudence as pursuit of happiness. Moral life is ruled by moral law and by the idea of duty, that organizes in its own perspective the other aspects of practical activity and the different kinds of duties. As time passed, Kant is more and more interested to the historical realization of morality as Moralisierung through promotion of its external conditions such as pacific coexistence through the juridical law and improvement of intersubjective relations through Zivilisierung and good manners. Kant’s and eighteenth century’s doctrine of duties leave no space for a morality beyond duty as supererogation, a concept that has received a new attention in contemporary moral debate and can still be discussed in a Kantian perspective.

Este artículo trata de la distinción entre órdenes y consejos en la filosofía práctica moderna como doctrina de deberes. La distinción juega un papel esencial en el pensamiento cristiano de Thomasius por su diferenciación entre las distintas esferas de la vida práctica, iustum, honestum y decorum, por ejemplo, las esferas de la ley (iustum, ética correcta (honestum e incoercible comportamiento externo —con significado ético—, incluyendo las buenas maneras (decorum. En la filosofía práctica de Kant, la distinción entre mandatos

Popular Music Memories : Places and Practices of Popular Music Heritage, Memory and Cultural Identity

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A.J.C. van der Hoeven (Arno)

2014-01-01

markdownabstract__Abstract __ Ever since the late 1950s, people have grown up with popular music as an important element of their daily lives. This dissertation explores the connections between popular music memories, cultural identity and cultural heritage, looking at the different ways in

Aggressive effects of prioritizing popularity in early adolescence.

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Cillessen, Antonius H N; Mayeux, Lara; Ha, Thao; de Bruyn, Eddy H; LaFontana, Kathryn M

2014-01-01

This study examined the moderating effects of prioritizing popularity on the association between early adolescents' popularity and their aggressive, leadership, and prosocial behaviors with peers. Participants were 288 14-year-olds from The Netherlands who completed a sociometric instrument and an assessment of how much they prioritized popularity over other personal goals. Results indicated that prioritizing popularity was distinct from actual popularity in the peer group. Further, prioritizing popularity moderated the association of popularity with aggressive and leadership behaviors, with adolescents who were both popular and who prioritized popularity being particularly aggressive and scoring high on leadership behaviors. This trend was especially true for boys. The same moderating effect was not found for prosocial behaviors. Motivational and social-cognitive factors in the dynamics of peer popularity are highlighted. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

What Drives Politicians’ Online Popularity?

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Nielsen, Rasmus Kleis; Vaccari, Cristian

2013-01-01

The number of website visits, Facebook friends, or Twitter followers that politicians attract varies greatly, but little is known about what drives politicians' online popularity. In this article, we use data from a systematic tracking of congressional candidates' popularity on four web platforms...... in the 112 most competitive congressional districts in the 2010 U.S. midterm elections to address that question. Using multivariate regression models, we show that while district-level socioeconomic characteristics have little effect on candidates' online popularity, challengers and candidates in open......-seat races tend to attract larger audiences online, as do candidates who are more visible on political blogs. Surprisingly, how intensely candidates are covered in news media, how popular they are in opinion polls, and how much money they spend during the campaign show no significant effect. These findings...

Conjunto de actividades para la estimulación del desarrollo físico en los niños de 4-5 años atendidos en el programa “educa a tu hijo” en la circunscripción # 185 del consejo popular 10 de octubre del municipio la Pinar del Río

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Adelina Saldañas Carmona

2009-12-01

Full Text Available La necesidad de preparar a los promotoras y ejecutoras para orientar a la familia en la estimulación temprana en los niños con el propósito de concebir un proceso educativo y desarrollador en las condiciones de vida y educación me motivaron a proponer actividades físico para niños de 4-5 años, atendidas por el Programa “Educa a tu Hijo”. Como punto de partida se realizó una valoración de cómo se desarrolla la atención a los niños y niñas de estas edades atendidas por el Programa “Educa a tu Hijo” con énfasis en la estimulación al desarrollo físico de los mismos, realizando un diagnostico a la situación actual de esta actividad en el consejo popular, entrevista- encuesta a los promotores , ejecutoras,a los líderes comunitarios así como organizaciones tales como el INDER municipal , Ministerio Educación municipal pudiéndose constatar que existe un bajo nivel de participantes, poca sistematización , pobre desarrollo de esta actividad lo que sin duda redunda en detrimento del desarrollo y estimulación del desarrollo físico de estos niños Por lo anteriormente expuesto se proponen actividades físicas, asequibles con ejemplos precisos y variados en aras de estimular el desarrollo en los niños de 4-5 años atendidos en este programa educativo. Como novedad se ha puesto al alcance de ejecutoras y promotores un soporte digital DVD que permite brindar mejor orientación a las ejecutaras y promotores en la organización de estas actividades , facilitando la estimulación y desarrollo físico e intelectual, de manera oportuna consciente y organizada favoreciendo la preparación del niño para su ingreso en la escuela.

Mass Media and the Popular Arts.

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Rissover, Fredric; Birch, David C.

This anthology consists of journalistic essays on each of these popular arts: advertising, journalism, cartoons, radio and television, photography and motion pictures, popular literature, popular music, and public education. Examples of most of the art forms are also included. The book is aimed at junior college students. Its purpose is to…

Propuesta de un conjunto de Actividades Recreativas para la ocupación del tiempo libre en los adolescentes en la edad comprendida de 12 a 15 años de la Circunscripción 18. Consejo Popular Carlos Manuel de Céspedes” del municipio Pinar del Río

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Elisa Isabel Vázquez Molina

2009-12-01

Full Text Available Nuestro trabajo se realizó con el fin de desarrollar actividades que estuvieran en correspondencia con las características de la población seleccionada, en los adolescentes en edad comprendida de 12 a 15 años de la ESBU Julio A. Mella del Consejo Popular Carlos Manuel de Céspedes del municipio de Pinar del Río La necesidad de proporcionar una generación saludable, físicamente, multilateral y armónicamente desarrollada resulta cada vez más una exigencia de nuestra sociedad. Cada día la Cultura Física y sus distintas salidas como la Educación Física, Deporte y Recreación se convierten en una necesidad de cada individuo y de toda humanidad. Con independencia a estos logros es evidente que las actividades de la Recreación Física de una planificación que responda a los intereses recreativos implican una forma de recreación activo, que tiene como finalidad el desarrollo multifacético de los niños, jóvenes y adultos Es evidente que muchas de las actividades recreativas que realizan, son los jóvenes los que las llevan a cabo, aunque existen irregularidades que limitan las opciones que se brindan para el disfrute de la juventud, la realidad exige que existía una buena planificación partiendo de las posibilidades reales para el desarrollo óptimo de sus programas recreativos, de ahí que las bases del desarrollo social estén encaminados a satisfacer las necesidades cada vez más crecientes de la población. La planificación y programación de estas actividades dependen en gran medida de aspectos tan importantes como: la edad de los participantes, los gustos e intereses, así como la cultura requerida para su realización. La programación y oferta de las actividades recreativas debe ser de la preferencia de la sociedad a fin de que responda a los intereses comunes individuales, lo cual tributa a la conservación del carácter motivacional y recreativo de las actividades estando en correspondencia con la zona de residencia

Las manifestaciones del poder constituyente y el poder constituido en la construcción de consejos comunales en el Estado Táchira, Venezuela (2005 - 2012)

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Ito Cerón, Juan Camilo

2014-01-01

La presente monografía busca proveer elementos de análisis acerca del proceso de construcción de consejos comunales que ha tenido lugar en la Venezuela contemporánea. Por sus rasgos diferenciadores y llamativos, el caso particular escogido es el del Estado Táchira. El trabajo se enfocará en las características y modos de operación de los actores que ostentan un rol preponderante en el proceso. De igual modo, se recurrirá a los planteamientos teóricos fundamentales de Antonio Negri en lo relac...

La selección de sentencias para la unificación de la jurisprudencia. Tres historias paralelas entre la Corte Constitucional, el Consejo de Estado y la Sala de Casación Civil de la Corte Suprema de Justicia

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Juan Carlos Guayacán

2010-12-01

Full Text Available En este artículo se comparan la selección de fallos de tutela para revisión eventual hecha por la Corte Constitucional, la selección de sentencias realizada por la Sala de Casación Civil de la Corte Suprema de Justicia, y la selección que efectúa el Consejo de Estado respecto de los fallos proferidos por tribunales en acciones populares y de grupo. Se destacan los puntos diversos y los aspectos que tiene en común esta facultad de selección en cada uno de los altos tribunales; se hace notar que a dicha potestad no se le reconoce la misma naturaleza jurídica en todos los casos, y se reseña el perfil propio que ha ido consolidando el derecho vivo en cada uno de ellos. En la segunda parte se propone la unificación de dicha naturaleza jurídica y se advierte que si la decisión de no seleccionar una sentencia no debe ser motivada, la función de la selección no puede ser de nomofilaquia sino de simple unificación de la jurisprudencia, por lo que el contenido de la providencia revisada debería permanecer incólume.

Arte Popular y Feminismo

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Eli Bartra

2000-01-01

Full Text Available En este artículo se lleva a cabo, en primer lugar, una propuesta metodológica de cómo abordar el estudio del arte popular desde un punto de vista feminista. A continuación se realiza un acercamiento a un ejemplo específico de arte popular mexicano que se halla en estrecha relación con el arte elitista y se puede considerar que se trata de un proceso de sincretismo cultural un tanto sui generis: las friditas de Josefina Aguilar como recreaciones de la obra plástica de Frida Kahlo. Con base en este “close up” se intenta mostrar un posible método para conocer el arte popular contemplando las divisiones sociales por género, etnia y clase.

CNRS researchers' popularization activities: a progress report

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Yves Croissant

2007-09-01

Full Text Available We have analyzed the popularization activities undertaken by ten thousand CNRS researchers by means of their annual reports for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006. This is the first time that such an extensive statistical study on science popularization practices is carried out. Our main findings are : - the majority of researchers is not involved in popularization (51% has not done any popularization over the three-year period, two thirds have been involved in no more than one popularization action. - popularization practices are extremely diverse, both at the individual level (we have identified three subpopulations that feature distinctive attitudes towards popularization, and at the level of scientific disciplines (researchers in Humanities are twice as active as the average, as well as in laboratories or geographical regions. - the number of actions reported in 2005 greatly increased compared to 2004 (+ 26%, while they slightly diminished in 2006.

Pure and Public, Popular and personal

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Eriksson, Birgit

2013-01-01

In the article I reexamine the traditional aesthetical and political critiques of popular culture and reevaluate the social and communicative potential of bestselling cultural artifacts such as highly popular television series. First, I sketch the alleged aesthetic and social problems of popular...... and the exclusions of the public sphere. I argue that the ideals of a pure aesthetic and a public sphere neglect issues that are crucial to the type of commonality at stake in popular cultural artifacts: personal issues, social conflicts, and what is pleasurable to the senses or has to do with emotions. Third, I...

El teatro en el trabajo popular. La eficacia, un desafío para el trabajo popular

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Ana Hirsz

2015-01-01

Full Text Available Todas las personas e instituciones dedicadas al trabajo popular se plantean la necesidad de la eficacia en su labor. ¿Cómo, de qué manera ser más útiles a los sectores populares? ¿Qué instrumentos les pueden servir para la acción transformadora que deben realizar? Estas preguntas han generado una multiplicidad de métodos, de formas, de técnicas. El Centro al Servicio de la Acción Popular (CESAP en 17 años de trabajo incesante ha creado una metodología inductiva y participativa que, a través de diferentes áreas, intenta generar el desarrollo de las potencialidades y capacidades del pueblo. El Servicio de Comunicación y Cultura Popular constituye otra herramienta ofrecida por CESAP a los grupos y organizaciones populares, pues capacita a los grupos para que ellos estén en condiciones de producir sus propios medios de comunicación comunitarios, con fines de información, concientización y movilización de las comunidades. Junto a esa finalidad organízatíva, estos Talleres estimulan la autoexpresión y la creatividad popular y el desarrollo de una cultura propia y transformadora.

Social Costs for Wannabes: Moderating Effects of Popularity and Gender on the Links between Popularity Goals and Negative Peer Experiences.

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Breslend, Nicole Lafko; Shoulberg, Erin K; McQuade, Julia D; Murray-Close, Dianna

2018-02-05

Youth in early adolescence are highly concerned with being popular in the peer group, but the desire to be popular can have maladaptive consequences for individuals. In fact, qualitative work suggests that youth with high popularity goals who are nonetheless unpopular have negative experiences with their peers. However, little quantitative work has examined this possibility. The purpose of the current study was to examine if popularity goals were linked with physical (e.g., being hit) and relational (e.g., being excluded) victimization and peer rejection, particularly for individuals who strived for popularity but were viewed by their peers as unpopular. Late elementary and early middle school participants (N = 205; 54% female) completed self-reports of popularity goals and peer nominations of popularity and peer rejection. Teachers reported on students' experiences of relational and physical victimization. Peer nominated popularity and gender were moderators of the association between popularity goals and negative peer experiences. Consistent with hypotheses, girls who were unpopular but wanted to be popular were more likely to experience peer rejection and relational victimization. Unexpectedly, boys who were unpopular but did not desire to be popular were more likely to be rejected and relationally victimized. The findings suggest that intervention and prevention programs may benefit from addressing the social status goals of low status youth in a gender-specific manner.

Las causales exonerativas de la responsabilidad extracontractual. ¿Por qué y cómo impiden la declaratoria de responsabilidad? Aproximación a la jurisprudencia del Consejo de Estado

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Héctor Patiño

2011-07-01

Full Text Available El artículo, de la mano de la jurisprudencia del Consejo de Estado colombiano, y de alguna de la Corte Suprema de Justicia, señala el alcance general y la comprensión que se le debe dar a los conceptos de nexo causal, imputación y causales de exoneración y presenta los lineamientos actuales de la jurisprudencia colombiana sobre esas cuestiones.

Edward Said on Popular Music

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Capitain, W.H.P.

2017-01-01

Although Edward Said, generally known as one of the founders of postcolonial studies, has written extensively on music, he almost completely ignores popular music. However, the few moments in which he does reflect on popular music are highly revealing. In this article I provide a comprehensive

Behavioral Correlates of Prioritizing Popularity in Adolescence

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van Den Broek, Nina; Deutz, Marike H F; Schoneveld, Elke A.; Burk, William J.; Cillessen, Antonius H N

2016-01-01

Little is known about individual differences in adolescents’ motivation to achieve and maintain popularity. This study examined the moderating effects of prioritizing popularity on the associations between popularity and adjustment outcomes in late adolescence. Participants were 314 Dutch

Popularity and Novelty Dynamics in Evolving Networks.

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Abbas, Khushnood; Shang, Mingsheng; Abbasi, Alireza; Luo, Xin; Xu, Jian Jun; Zhang, Yu-Xia

2018-04-20

Network science plays a big role in the representation of real-world phenomena such as user-item bipartite networks presented in e-commerce or social media platforms. It provides researchers with tools and techniques to solve complex real-world problems. Identifying and predicting future popularity and importance of items in e-commerce or social media platform is a challenging task. Some items gain popularity repeatedly over time while some become popular and novel only once. This work aims to identify the key-factors: popularity and novelty. To do so, we consider two types of novelty predictions: items appearing in the popular ranking list for the first time; and items which were not in the popular list in the past time window, but might have been popular before the recent past time window. In order to identify the popular items, a careful consideration of macro-level analysis is needed. In this work we propose a model, which exploits item level information over a span of time to rank the importance of the item. We considered ageing or decay effect along with the recent link-gain of the items. We test our proposed model on four various real-world datasets using four information retrieval based metrics.

Rethinking Popular Culture and Media

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Marshall, Elizabeth, Ed.; Sensoy, Ozlem, Ed.

2011-01-01

"Rethinking Popular Culture and Media" is a provocative collection of articles that begins with the idea that the "popular" in classrooms and in the everyday lives of teachers and students is fundamentally political. This anthology includes outstanding articles by elementary and secondary public school teachers, scholars, and activists who…

Women and Popular Church

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Maria Brendalí Costa; EST

2013-01-01

From the early 1960s, the Popular Church organized and influenced the actions, ideas and objectives of the Brazilian civil society. From the Feminist Theology, the article reflects on the different ways which this praxis influenced, through principles, worldviews and methodologies, the actions performed by women in the 1980s who engaged in the Urban Popular Church in suburbs of cities which belonged to the diocese of Caxias do Sul. The study is bibliographic, documental and is analyzed throug...

La aspiración de Brasil al asiento permanente en el Consejo de Seguridad de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas: un breve panorama

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Renata de Melo Rosa; Ana Carolina Gomes Lira Linhares

2009-01-01

Este artículo analiza la posición de Brasil frente a la aspiración de un asiento permanente al Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas. Los esfuerzos entabulados por Brasil en el escenario internacional, los discursos del primer rango del gobierno, así como un protagonismo más acelerado frente a los vecinos latino-americanos confirman esta aspiración. Pero, Brasil aún enfrenta serios problemas internos de seguridad nacional y tendrá que enfrentar otros compañeros regionales también, aspir...

Popularity versus similarity in growing networks.

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Papadopoulos, Fragkiskos; Kitsak, Maksim; Serrano, M Ángeles; Boguñá, Marián; Krioukov, Dmitri

2012-09-27

The principle that 'popularity is attractive' underlies preferential attachment, which is a common explanation for the emergence of scaling in growing networks. If new connections are made preferentially to more popular nodes, then the resulting distribution of the number of connections possessed by nodes follows power laws, as observed in many real networks. Preferential attachment has been directly validated for some real networks (including the Internet), and can be a consequence of different underlying processes based on node fitness, ranking, optimization, random walks or duplication. Here we show that popularity is just one dimension of attractiveness; another dimension is similarity. We develop a framework in which new connections optimize certain trade-offs between popularity and similarity, instead of simply preferring popular nodes. The framework has a geometric interpretation in which popularity preference emerges from local optimization. As opposed to preferential attachment, our optimization framework accurately describes the large-scale evolution of technological (the Internet), social (trust relationships between people) and biological (Escherichia coli metabolic) networks, predicting the probability of new links with high precision. The framework that we have developed can thus be used for predicting new links in evolving networks, and provides a different perspective on preferential attachment as an emergent phenomenon.

Actividades físico-recreativas vinculadas al ajedrez para la ocupación del tiempo libre de niños entre 8-10 años de la Circunscripción 34 del Consejo Popular “Hermanos Barcón” del municipio Pinar del Río

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Marisel Piñeiro Gomez

2009-06-01

Full Text Available Tomando como sustento que la comunidad resulta un contexto importante del trabajo social por ser en ella donde se dinamizan los procesos de participación para reafirmar los valores, la identidad es que se pretende proponer un conjunto de  actividades  físico  recreativas  vinculadas  al  ajedrez  para  la  ocupación  del tiempo libre de los niños y niñas entre 8/10 años de la Circunscripción 34 del Consejo Popular “Hermanos Barcón” del      municipio Pinar del Río. Sonrelacionadas con el ajedrez teniendo en consideración que sus propósitos generales están encaminados a desarrollar en el individuo una actitud favorable hacia el ajedrez que permita apreciarlo como elemento generador de cultura; desplegar su potencial intelectual a partir del estímulo de la esfera cognitiva; garantizar la adquisición de conocimientos, habilidades y destrezas básicas necesarias para la incorporación a la vida activa; permitir el establecimiento de vínculos entre los conocimientos, experiencias ajedrecistas y la vida cotidiana. Se realizó con una unidad de análisis desglosada en  32 del sexo masculino (39,5% y 49 del femenino (60,4%; para la muestra se escogieron a los niños y niñas que deseaban  ocupar  su  tiempo  libre  con  la  realización  de  actividades  físico recreativas vinculadas al ajedrez, quedando como sigue: Sexo masculino: 19 (59,3%  de  la  población; 79,1%  de  la  unidad  de  análisis, sexo  femenino: 23 (46,9% de la población; 63,8% de la unidad de análisis. La importancia de este trabajo es que fomentará hábitos de salud, disciplina, compañerismo, cooperación, responsabilidad; desarrollará habilidades de liderazgo; favorecerá a la integración, la comprensión, reconocimiento, desarrollo de agilidad mental, la capacidad para la solución de problemas, la creatividad, imaginación, curiosidad infantil, permitirá intercambiar ideas y experiencias durante su desarrollo.

Implementación del sistema de descripción, clasificación y valoración de cargos por competencia del Consejo Nacional de Competencias

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Parra Pino, Imelda Alexandra

2015-01-01

El sistema de descripción, clasificación y valoración de cargos por competencia para el Consejo Nacional de Competencias, se define como un instrumento técnico que permitirá mitigar el problema que actualmente presenta la institución al momento de ejecutar los subsistemas de talento humano. Este sistema no es más que una herramienta que brinde el soporte técnico que facilite la ejecución de los subsistemas de talento humano, a través del planteamiento de una metodología que permite identifica...

LO POPULAR NO-RATING SOBERANÍA DE LA COMUNICACIÓN POPULAR EN AMÉRICA LATINA

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Víctor Adrián Díaz Esteves

2009-01-01

Full Text Available A partir de un enfoque popular en construcción, este ensayo se propone reflexionar en torno a la noción original de comunicación humana. Asimismo, se aproxima al debate sobre las culturas populares en América Latina, construidas desde los sujetos, caracterizados por dos elementos aparentemente enfrentados, que se entremezclan. Por un lado, los sujetos son consumidores de la oferta rentable y global de los medios masivos; cuya hegemonía responde al rating y al capital. Por otro lado, son productores culturales de sentido e imágenes simbólicas propias, resistentes y en ocasiones, contradictorias. La comunicación popular favorece la producción local y regional; la participación ciudadana, la integración y el cambio social; la igualdad y la democracia. Esta mirada popular de la comunicación, es parte de las mutaciones que la modernidad ha introducido en los países latinoamericanos, y a la vez, define a las culturas populares, no como esa masa homogénea, pasiva y dominada por los mass media, sino conscientes del entrecruzamiento de expresiones sociales, orígenes, gustos, modas y costumbres diversas, en busca de la construcción de comunidades culturales de sentido y respeto en materia de derechos.

Feminismo, estudios culturales y cultura popular

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Hollows, Joanne

2005-01-01

This paper explores the movement of feminism into academic life in general and the study of popular culture in particular. Assumptioms about the effects of popular culture on women had been a commonsense of second-wave feminism; however, by the mid-1970’s, questions about how gendered identities were culturally produced and reproduced became the topic of much more in-depth feminist research and discussion. This essay examines two main ways in which feminist research into popular culture enter...

Popular Culture in the Junior College Library

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Lonergan, David; Ayers, Meredith

2015-01-01

Popular culture is extremely influential in both academe and society at large. However, formal disciplinary study of popular culture lags far behind that influence. Anthropology, film studies, history, musicology, and sociology are only some of the disciplines that frequently include popular culture as a research focus. This article advises on how…

Characterizing and modeling the dynamics of online popularity.

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Ratkiewicz, Jacob; Fortunato, Santo; Flammini, Alessandro; Menczer, Filippo; Vespignani, Alessandro

2010-10-08

Online popularity has an enormous impact on opinions, culture, policy, and profits. We provide a quantitative, large scale, temporal analysis of the dynamics of online content popularity in two massive model systems: the Wikipedia and an entire country's Web space. We find that the dynamics of popularity are characterized by bursts, displaying characteristic features of critical systems such as fat-tailed distributions of magnitude and interevent time. We propose a minimal model combining the classic preferential popularity increase mechanism with the occurrence of random popularity shifts due to exogenous factors. The model recovers the critical features observed in the empirical analysis of the systems analyzed here, highlighting the key factors needed in the description of popularity dynamics.

Identificación de posibles talentos para el deporte de atletismo en las edades de 8 a 11 años, desde la realización de actividades deportivas- recreativas en la circunscripción numero127 del Consejo Popular Capitán San Luis

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Antonio Sánchez Bustamante

2009-06-01

del Consejo Popular  Capitán San Luis los posibles talentos, por los resultados de las pruebas físicas y las mediciones así como otras informaciones de carácter psicosocial, médicas  y hereditarias

Classifications in Popular Music: Discourses and Meaning Structures in American, Dutch and German Popular Music Reviews

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A.T. van Venrooij (Alex)

2009-01-01

textabstractPopular music is one of the cultural fields – together with film, photography, and jazz – which in the second half of the twentieth century have apparently gained much in status and recognition (Janssen, 1999; Janssen, Kuipers & Verboord, 2009). Popular music has become ‘aesthetically

Cultura popular e nacionalismo musical: uma discussão das ideias folcloristas sobre a música popular no Brasil * Popular culture and musical nationalism: a discussion of folklorists ideas about popular music in Brazil

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ISMAEL DE OLIVEIRA GEROLAMO

2014-02-01

Full Text Available Resumo: Neste trabalho discutimos como a noção de cultura popular torna-se elemento central para os debates em torno do nacionalismo nas esferas cultural e artística. Exploraremos, mais especificamente, as ideias de Mário de Andrade sobre o nacionalismo musical, tendo em vista a importância dessas ideias e suas possíveis ressonâncias nas discussões acerca da música popular no Brasil durante o século XX. A busca por uma “essência do povo” que constituiria a base de uma nação é ponto de referência para esse debate. Essas ideias, surgidas na Europa, ainda no século XIX, ligadas ao movimento romântico e a atuação dos folcloristas, ganham força no Brasil principalmente a partir do século XX e irão permear inúmeros debates em momentos distintos da história republicana do país.Palavras-chave: Nacionalismo Musical – Mário de Andrade – Música Popular. Abstract: In this paper, we discuss how the idea of popular culture becomes central to debates about nationalism in culture and art. We will explore more specifically the ideas of Mário de Andrade on musical nationalism, regarding the importance of these ideas and their possible resonances in discussions of popular music in Brazil during the twentieth century. The search for a "people's essence" that form the basis of a nation is in the core of this debate. These ideas emerged in Europe in the nineteenth century and are connected to the Romantic movement and actions of folklorists and will bulk in Brazil mostly from the twentieth century, when they will be part of numerous debates in distinguished moments in the country’s history.Keywords: Musical Nationalism – Mário de Andrade – Popular Music.

The Popularity of Karinding among Bandung Society

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Hinhin Agung Daryana

2017-12-01

Full Text Available The study focuses on the impact of the karinding popularity on Bandung society. In trying to understand its focus, the study uses interdisciplinary approaches including soci- ology and anthropology. It employs qualitative research method including data collection from oral and wri!en sources. Since being played by a band called Karinding A!ack, karin- ding became popular in Bandung. Further, the popularity of karinding gave some impacts on Bandung people, both its practitioners and its audience. Some programs and activities considered as the result of the popularity of karinding include multiple activities such as tourism activities, networking development, educational activities, revitalization of tradi- tional arts other than karinding, music development, literacy development, and the develop- ment of the creative economy.   Keywords: impact, popularity, karinding, Bandung, interdisciplinary approach

[Popular education in health and nutrition: literature review].

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Mueses De Molina, C

1993-01-01

This literature review of popular education in health and nutrition is intended to provide the necessary theoretical framework for proposals and programs for human resource development in food and nutrition. The work contains a summary of the objectives, purposes, and methodology of popular education in general, a discussion of applications of popular education techniques to health and nutrition education, and a description of some projects based on popular education. Popular education was developed in Latin America by Paulo Freire and others as a response to political domination. Its basic objective was to make the oppressed masses aware of their condition and able to struggle for the transformation of society. Popular education views community participation, development of consciousness, and integration with social and economic activity as fundamental attributes. Participation should be developed through community organizations and should continue for the duration of the educational intervention. The right of all persons to participate in a plane of equality should be recognized. Community or popular education should be conceived as a process of permanent education that will continue throughout the lifetime of individuals and groups. Popular education is directed toward population sectors excluded from participation in employment, family, community, mass communications, education, and leisure activities. Such population sectors are concentrated in the urban periphery and in rural areas. Abandonment of traditional educational techniques and assumption of an active role by community members are elements in development of the methodology of popular education. Steps in the methodology include investigation of possible themes, selection of themes to serve as points of departure, definition of the problem, and action programs. Popular education in nutrition and health begins by asking what problems need to be remedied. The entire process of training and education in

Popularity Modeling for Mobile Apps: A Sequential Approach.

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Zhu, Hengshu; Liu, Chuanren; Ge, Yong; Xiong, Hui; Chen, Enhong

2015-07-01

The popularity information in App stores, such as chart rankings, user ratings, and user reviews, provides an unprecedented opportunity to understand user experiences with mobile Apps, learn the process of adoption of mobile Apps, and thus enables better mobile App services. While the importance of popularity information is well recognized in the literature, the use of the popularity information for mobile App services is still fragmented and under-explored. To this end, in this paper, we propose a sequential approach based on hidden Markov model (HMM) for modeling the popularity information of mobile Apps toward mobile App services. Specifically, we first propose a popularity based HMM (PHMM) to model the sequences of the heterogeneous popularity observations of mobile Apps. Then, we introduce a bipartite based method to precluster the popularity observations. This can help to learn the parameters and initial values of the PHMM efficiently. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the PHMM is a general model and can be applicable for various mobile App services, such as trend based App recommendation, rating and review spam detection, and ranking fraud detection. Finally, we validate our approach on two real-world data sets collected from the Apple Appstore. Experimental results clearly validate both the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed popularity modeling approach.

Popularization of the role of nuclear power construction

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Zhang Ying

2010-01-01

Scientific popularization shall be promoted in advance before nuclear power development. Since it was founded, Jiangsu Nuclear Power Corporation (JNPC) has always focused on the popularization of nuclear power knowledge to enable the public understand and access to nuclear power. Adhering to the center 'Popularizing nuclear power knowledge, correct steering of the public, serving the construction of TNPS and promoting the corporation development', the way of 'going out and coming in' for publicizing nuclear power knowledge has been gradually formed in line with the principle of 'close to the society, close to the people and close to the life'. The scientific popularization resources have been deeply dug out, and the education mode innovated. The healthy and continuous development of scientific popularization and education work are recognized and appraised highly by all circles of the society. Nowadays, a good atmosphere of 'everyone contends to popularize nuclear power knowledge' has formed in JNPC, and internal and external popularization and education work have yielded good results, which have created favorable social environment for the safe, proper and fast development of Tianwan Nuclear Power Station. (author)

Gender messages in contemporary popular Malay songs

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Collin Jerome

2013-07-01

Full Text Available Gender has been an important area of research in the field of popular music studies. Numerous scholars have found that contemporary popular music functions as a locus of diverse constructions and expressions of gender. While most studies focus on content analyses of popular music, there is still a need for more research on audience’s perception of popular music’s messages. This study examined adult Malay listeners’ perceptions of gender messages in contemporary Malay songs. A total of 16 contemporary Malay songs were analysed using Fairclough’s (1992 method of text analysis. The content of the songs that conveyed messages about gender were the basis for analysis. The results showed that the messages revolve mainly around socially constructed gender roles and expectations in romantic relationships. Gender stereotypes are also used in the songs to reinforce men’s and women’s roles in romantic relationships. The results also showed that, while listeners acknowledge the songs’ messages about gender, their own perceptions of gender and what it means to be a gendered being in today’s world are neither represented nor discussed fully in the songs analysed. It is hoped the findings from this, particularly the mismatch between projected and perceived notions of gender, contribute to the field of popular Malay music studies in particular, and popular music studies in general where gender messages in popular songs and their influence on listeners’ perceptions of their own gender is concerned.

VOCAL SEGMENT CLASSIFICATION IN POPULAR MUSIC

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Feng, Ling; Nielsen, Andreas Brinch; Hansen, Lars Kai

2008-01-01

This paper explores the vocal and non-vocal music classification problem within popular songs. A newly built labeled database covering 147 popular songs is announced. It is designed for classifying signals from 1sec time windows. Features are selected for this particular task, in order to capture...

Islam and the Alleged Incompatibility with Popular Culture

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Pierre Hecker

2017-01-01

This paper critically reflects upon the alleged incompatibility of Islam and popular culture, the antipathy toward the study of popular culture in the field of Islamic studies, and the question of what it is that puts "the popular" into culture.

Popularity versus similarity in growing networks

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Krioukov, Dmitri; Papadopoulos, Fragkiskos; Kitsak, Maksim; Serrano, Mariangeles; Boguna, Marian

2012-02-01

Preferential attachment is a powerful mechanism explaining the emergence of scaling in growing networks. If new connections are established preferentially to more popular nodes in a network, then the network is scale-free. Here we show that not only popularity but also similarity is a strong force shaping the network structure and dynamics. We develop a framework where new connections, instead of preferring popular nodes, optimize certain trade-offs between popularity and similarity. The framework admits a geometric interpretation, in which preferential attachment emerges from local optimization processes. As opposed to preferential attachment, the optimization framework accurately describes large-scale evolution of technological (Internet), social (web of trust), and biological (E.coli metabolic) networks, predicting the probability of new links in them with a remarkable precision. The developed framework can thus be used for predicting new links in evolving networks, and provides a different perspective on preferential attachment as an emergent phenomenon.

Sentidos del Buen Vivir –Ubuntu– que configuran las mujeres lideresas afrodescendientes del Pacífico colombiano en el Consejo Comunitario de Zacarías – Buenaventura (Valle del Cauca)

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Angulo Jara, Cynthia; Sánchez Méndez, Juliana Paola; Zambrano Jojoa, Octavio Fernando

2017-01-01

Tesis (Maestría en Educación desde la Diversidad). Universidad de Manizales. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas. Instituto Pedagógico, 2016 El presente es un estudio cualitativo con metodología de Investigación Acción Colectiva (IAC), cuyo objetivo primordial fue comprender los sentidos del Buen Vivir Ubuntu , configurados por mujeres lideresas, afrodescendientes del Consejo Comunitario de Zacarías, de Buenaventura. Este estudio hace parte del proyecto denominado “Ubuntu: El pensamien...

Neural mechanisms tracking popularity in real-world social networks.

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Zerubavel, Noam; Bearman, Peter S; Weber, Jochen; Ochsner, Kevin N

2015-12-08

Differences in popularity are a key aspect of status in virtually all human groups and shape social interactions within them. Little is known, however, about how we track and neurally represent others' popularity. We addressed this question in two real-world social networks using sociometric methods to quantify popularity. Each group member (perceiver) viewed faces of every other group member (target) while whole-brain functional MRI data were collected. Independent functional localizer tasks were used to identify brain systems supporting affective valuation (ventromedial prefrontal cortex, ventral striatum, amygdala) and social cognition (dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, precuneus, temporoparietal junction), respectively. During the face-viewing task, activity in both types of neural systems tracked targets' sociometric popularity, even when controlling for potential confounds. The target popularity-social cognition system relationship was mediated by valuation system activity, suggesting that observing popular individuals elicits value signals that facilitate understanding their mental states. The target popularity-valuation system relationship was strongest for popular perceivers, suggesting enhanced sensitivity to differences among other group members' popularity. Popular group members also demonstrated greater interpersonal sensitivity by more accurately predicting how their own personalities were perceived by other individuals in the social network. These data offer insights into the mechanisms by which status guides social behavior.

Spanish Federation of Popular Universities (FEUP)

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Serrano, Isabel Garcia-Longoria

2006-01-01

This article features the Spanish Popular Universities, which are defined as "a project of cultural development that acts in the municipality, whose objective is to promote social participation, education, training, and culture in order to improve life quality" (Federation of Popular Education Universities, 2000). A century of history of…

Popular Music and the Instrumental Ensemble.

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Boespflug, George

1999-01-01

Discusses popular music, the role of the musical performer as a creator, and the styles of jazz and popular music. Describes the pop ensemble at the college level, focusing on improvisation, rehearsals, recording, and performance. Argues that pop ensembles be used in junior and senior high school. (CMK)

Living-History Villages as Popular Entertainers.

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Geist, Christopher D.

1994-01-01

Discusses the furor created when Walt Disney Studios announced plans to develop a "historic amusement park" near the Manassas (Virginia) National Battlefield Park. Maintains that the public debate over the popular understanding of history reflects an ongoing tension between academic historians and the purveyors of popular history. (CFR)

Culícidos transmisores del virus del Nilo Occidental en el municipio de Jesús Menéndez

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Marco A. Cruz Cruz

2015-02-01

Full Text Available Se realizó un estudio descriptivo de la población de culícidos en el municipio de Jesús Menéndez, Las Tunas, durante el año 2012; con el objetivo de determinar la presencia de nuevas especies de mosquitos que pueden intervenir en la transmisión del virus del Nilo Occidental. El universo lo constituyeron los doce consejos populares del municipio. La captura de larvas y de adultos se realizó de acuerdo a las técnicas normadas en Cuba y según la metodología de la Organización Mundial de la Salud. Se identificaron cinco nuevas especies que son capaces de transmitir el virus: Aedes albopictus (2,1 %, Culex erraticus (0,25 %, Mansonia titillans (0,04 %, Orthopodomia signifera (0,01 % y Uranotaenia lowii (0,05 %. Los consejos populares con más distribución fueron los urbanos: El Batey (48,02 %, Pueblo Viejo (26,7 % y El Canal (16,4 %, donde existe mayor acumulación de agua por parte de la población en diferentes depósitos y criaderos naturales dentro de la zona urbana

Feminismo, estudios culturales y cultura popular

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Joanne Hollows

2005-01-01

Full Text Available This paper explores the movement of feminism into academic life in general and the study of popular culture in particular. Assumptioms about the effects of popular culture on women had been a commonsense of second-wave feminism; however, by the mid-1970’s, questions about how gendered identities were culturally produced and reproduced became the topic of much more in-depth feminist research and discussion. This essay examines two main ways in which feminist research into popular culture entered academic life: first, it examines the “images of women” debate, and second, it examines the Cultural Studies tradition and the feminist cultural analysis.

Bullying, Social Power and Heteronormativity: Girls' Constructions of Popularity

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Duncan, Neil; Owens, Larry

2011-01-01

Literature on girls' popularity posits a strong association between popularity, social power and bullying behaviours, some of which conflate the concepts "bully" and "popular". This study explores that association through links to concepts of popularity among girls in two demographically different high schools. Data are presented that were derived…

A Guide to Using Popular Culture to Teach Composition.

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Smelstor, Marjorie, Ed.

The purpose of this guide is to offer possible answers to questions concerning popular culture that teachers might have and to offer suggestions on utilizing popular culture materials that are available. Lesson plans are presented using materials from advertising, newspapers, comics, film, television, popular music, radio, popular literature,…

Photo Albums as the Instrumentality of building a popular Myth

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Dragan Ćalović

2014-05-01

Full Text Available The article analyzes the popular myth production. The popular myth is seen as the result of a popular production that uses the material of metalanguage as a secondary semiological system. Unlike the mytification of the myth (Barthes, or the popular use of myth (in the manner of John Fiske, popular myth develops by popular use of the potentials of metalanguage. Popular myth uses the mechanisms of meaning production, that metalanguage develops, to transform its forms into empty signifiers. In that way, the popular myth neutralize the effects of metalanguage, inaugurating an era in which weakens the potentials of ideological textual production.

Popularity Trajectories and Substance Use in early Adolescence.

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Moody, James; Brynildsen, Wendy D; Osgood, D Wayne; Feinberg, Mark E; Gest, Scott

2011-05-01

This paper introduces new longitudinal network data from the "Promoting School-Community-University Partnerships to Enhance Resilience" or "PROSPER" peers project. In 28 communities, grade-level sociometric friendship nominations were collected from two cohorts of middle school students as they moved from 6(th), to 9(th) grade. As an illustration and description of these longitudinal network data, this paper describes the school popularity structure, changes in popularity position, and suggests linkages between popularity trajectory and substance use. In the cross-section, we find that the network is consistent with a hierarchical social organization, but exhibits considerable relational change in both particular friends and position at the individual level. We find that both the base level of popularity and the variability of popularity trajectories effect substance use.

Transient Universe: Popular, Not so Popular & Knowable Unknowns

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Bildsten, L.; Fryer, C.; Kulkarni, S.

2006-03-01

MOTIVATION & PURPOSE: This informal two day workshop is intended to bring together astronomers who monitor the sky for transient phenomena - a field which is poised to take off in the optical band, thanks to the exponential growth in the availability of giga pixel detectors, rapid computing and communication. For somewhat similar technological reasons, decimeter and decameter radio astronomy is also poised to grow in this area. The workshop will focus on astronomical opportunities with ongoing searches and discuss the possibilities with planned facilities in the near term. We hope to rapidly review the status of 'popular' sources (e.g. GRB afterglows, Supernovae, Machos), less popular events (e.g. Novae, geysers and gushers) and then move onto 'odd' but not hopelessly rare events. The spirit is to anticipate some of the discoveries by extending the astrophysical parameter space of known (or knowable) classes of transients. This workshop is part of the ongoing KITP Program "The Supernova Gamma Ray Burst Connection" and has received funding Los Alamos National Laboratory. We will follow the well honed KITP tradition of having fewer talks at the expense of long discussions. All talks will be recorded (per KITP tradition) and made available on the web for enjoyment, education and posterity. In lieu of a traditional poster sessions with old-fashioned easels we offer the Virtual Presence (organized by J. Bloom).

La Influencia del Consejo de Administración en la Adopción de un Código Ético

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Isabel M. García Sánchez

2008-12-01

Full Text Available La ética empresarial, como uno de los componentes de la responsabilidad social corporativa, debe ser promovida desde el órgano superior de control de las organizaciones empresariales, el Consejo de Administración. En este sentido, la incorporación de un código ético supondría el establecimiento formal de los principios corporativos de la compañía que afectan a la responsabilidad con empleados, accionistas, consumidores, al entorno o a cualquier otro aspecto de la sociedad. La evidencia empírica previa pone de manifiesto efectos contradictorios entre la participación accionarial de los consejeros y su efecto sobre los intereses económicos de los accionistas, así como un reducido interés por parte de los consejeros independientes sobre temas éticos. En esta línea, el presente trabajo tiene como objetivo determinar el efecto de estas dos características del Consejo de Administración en la incorporación de un código ético por las empresas españolas no-financieras que cotizan en Bolsa. Los resultados obtenidos muestran que la participación accionarial provoca un atrincheramiento de la alta dirección, provocando una divergencia entre los intereses éticos de propietarios y directivos. En esta situación, la presencia de consejeros independientes se torna necesaria para reducir tales conflictos.Business ethics as a component of the corporate social responsibility, should be promoted from the Board of Directors. In this sense, the drawing up of a code of ethics would imply the formal statement of corporate principles which affect the responsibility with employees, shareholders, customers, the environment and every aspect of the society. Previous empirical evidence has emphasized the contradictory effect between the ownership of shares by directors and its effect on the shareholders’ economic interests, and a low concern with ethics issues by independent directors. In this line, this paper aims at establishing the effect of

ANALYSIS ON POPULARITY STATUS OF GUITAR

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Huseyin Yilmaz

2016-09-01

Full Text Available The main objective of this study is to analysis the popularity status of guitar instrument in terms of university students’ views. In this study, it is used the general survey model; ıt is developed the a questionnaires consisting of 14 items by the researcher in order to determine the university students views. The target population of this study is 11.440 university students enrolled for 2013 – 2014 academic years in Kafkas University. The sample of this study is consisting of 314 university students in various departments in Kafkas University. It is evaluated the frequency (f and percentage (% values to analysis the popularity status of guitar instrument in terms of university students’ views. It is tried to find out using chi-square test for gender, department and grades whether there is the significant differences among the students’ views on the popularity status of guitar instrument. As a result of research data, it is seem that the students evaluate the guitar as a popular instrument. However; it is seem that the students eager to participate in the guitar activities.

Idoneidad de los dirigentes del poder popular para cooperar con la atención primaria de salud

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Meinardo Zayas Vinent

1997-10-01

Full Text Available El presente trabajo constituyó una investigación operacional de campo inscrita dentro de los estudios acerca del desarrollo de los Sistemas Locales de Salud (SILOS, con el propósito de determinar la idoneidad de un grupo de dirigentes de base de los Órganos del Poder Popular del Consejo Popular "Los Olmos" en el municipio Santiago de Cuba, en el cual se aplicaron varios instrumentos de la práctica epidemiológica, como son: revisión documental, encuestas, entrevistas, discusión grupal y otros. El estudio puso de manifiesto que las limitaciones más importantes estuvieron dadas por la necesidad de definir y dirigir la atención de la salud con un enfoque epidemiológico que integre los aspectos biomédicos con los sociales y psicológicos; los problemas sociales son identificados como fuente de trastornos de salud en la comunidad, pero los actores sociales no se encuentran lo suficientemente adiestrados para realizar acciones que lleven a su modificación, a la vez que se ignora a la comunidad como fuente de solución de sus propios problemas de salud. El mayor obstáculo hallado fue la falta de voluntad política en algunos dirigentes de los Órganos del Poder Popular, los que a pesar de tener los conocimientos adecuados impiden lograr la intersectorialidad, multisectorialidad y multidisciplinariedad necesarias para mejorar la eficacia, eficiencia y efectividad en los Sistemas de Servicios de Salud.The present paper constituted an operational field investigations incuded in the studies about the development of the Health Local System (HLS aimed at determining the competence of a group of base leaders from the People's Power Governamental Bodies of "Los Olmos" People's Council in the municipality of Santiago de Cuba, where the following instruments of the epidemiological practice were applied: documental revien, surveys, interviews, group debated, etc. This study showed that the most important limitations resulted from the need to define

What types of astronomy images are most popular?

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Allen, Alice; Bonnell, Jerry T.; Connelly, Paul; Haring, Ralf; Lowe, Stuart R.; Nemiroff, Robert J.

2015-01-01

Stunning imagery helps make astronomy one of the most popular sciences -- but what types of astronomy images are most popular? To help answer this question, public response to images posted to various public venues of the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) are investigated. APOD portals queried included the main NASA website and the social media mirrors on Facebook, Google Plus, and Twitter. Popularity measures include polls, downloads, page views, likes, shares, and retweets; these measures are used to assess how image popularity varies in relation to various image attributes including topic and topicality.

Subtle Nonlinearity in Popular Album Charts

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Bentley, R. Alexander; Maschner, Herbert D. G.

Large-scale patterns of culture change may be explained by models of self organized criticality, or alternatively, by multiplicative processes. We speculate that popular album activity may be similar to critical models of extinction in that interconnected agents compete to survive within a limited space. Here we investigate whether popular music albums as listed on popular album charts display evidence of self-organized criticality, including a self-affine time series of activity and power-law distributions of lifetimes and exit activity in the chart. We find it difficult to distinguish between multiplicative growth and critical model hypotheses for these data. However, aspects of criticality may be masked by the selective sampling that a "Top 200" listing necessarily implies.

ECOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY THROUGH POPULAR SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES

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Ketevan KUPATADZE

2017-07-01

Full Text Available Popularization of Ecological Chemistry is the aim of scientific-popular articles, which are published in the online journal for teachers. With the articles of this type Ecological Chemistry is linked with literature and history. Due to this linkage articles, this module turns into an easily comprehensible one and it becomes fun. In all articles there is also included very useful and interesting information pertaining to Ecological Chemistry. It must be underlined the titles of such articles, because they should not only show the common meaning of article, but they should also attract readers.The utmost interest is generated by the historical papers, where chemical issues are connected with history. The period of alchemy is more popular and that’s why the alchemical stories are described in the articles.The outcome of the pedagogical experiment has made it clear, that such a method of teaching of Ecological Chemistry with scientific popular articles affects positively on school students motivation and changes their attitude towards the environmental pollution.CHIMIA ECOLOGICĂ ÎN ARTICOLELE ȘTIINȚIFICO-POPULAREPopularizarea Chimiei ecologice este scopul articolelor științifico-populare, care sunt publicate în reviste online pentru profesori. Prin intermediul articolelor de acest tip, Chimia ecologică este legată de literatură și istorie. Datorită respectivelor publicaţii, acest modul este ușor de înțeles și el devine distractiv. Toate articolele conțin informații foarte utile și interesante referitoarela Chimiaecologică. Trebuie de subliniat importanţa titlurilor acestor articole, deoarece ele ar trebui nu doar să redea succint înțelesul articolului, dar şi să atragă cititorul.Un interes deosebit trezesc documentele istorice, în cazul în care problemele chimiei sunt legate de istorie. Perioada alchimiei este mai populară, de aceea şi sunt descrise în articole poveștile alchimice.Rezultatul experimentului

La composición del consejo de administración y la estructura accionaria como factores explicativos de la transparencia en el gobierno corporativo en Latinoamérica: evidencia en empresas cotizadas de Argentina, Brasil, Chile y México

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Guadalupe del Carmen Briano Turrent

2015-07-01

Full Text Available El objetivo del trabajo consistió en obtener evidencia empírica de la relación entre la estructura del consejo de administración y la composición de la propiedad, y el nivel de transparencia de gobierno corporativo en empresas de mayor cotización bursátil en Latinoamérica. Para esto se realizó una investigación de tipo correlacional con un análisis longitudinal utilizando datos de las empresas de mayor cotización bursátil en Argentina, Brasil, Chile y México, durante el periodo 2004-2010. A partir de lo anterior, los resultados ponen de manifiesto que el nivel de transparencia es más elevado en empresas con consejos de administración de mayor tamaño y con un porcentaje mayor de consejeros independientes. Por su parte, la concentración de la propiedad inhibe el nivel de transparencia en el gobierno corporativo, mientras que la presencia familiar en el accionariado motiva a una mayor divulgación de información corporativa.

ABSTRACT——Current Situation and Future Direction of Marxism Popularity Research

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2012-01-01

In recent years, academic circles has made important progress in the following studies on the basic connotation of Marxist popularity, the relations between popularity of Marxism and sinicization, the relations between popularity of Marxism and epochal character, the realizing method of popularity of Marxism. Next, study on popularization of Marxism has to make efforts in the following two aspects： the relationship between the popularity of Marxism and socialist theory system with Chinese characteris- tics, and integration of the popularity of Marxism and the ideological and political education. Meanwhile the efforts should be made to deepen the study of Marxism popularity through the process of sinicization of Marxism, to study Marxism popularity from the viewpoint of the three dimensional perspective of the development of Marxism, also to strengthen the research of basic princi- ples of Marxism popularity and deepen the studies of basic forms of Marxism popularity, thus to build a study system of Marxism popularity.

Conflict behaviors and their relationship to popularity.

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Tezer, E

2001-01-01

This study examined conflict behaviors (self, other) among 127 Turkish college students. Differences in five conflict behaviors (forcing, avoiding, accommodating, compromising, and collaborating) were then explored in relation to popularity and unpopularity. Results indicated that the students engaged in more avoiding and compromising behaviors, while perceiving more forcing behavior in others. Further, the unpopular group was found to engage in more compromising behavior, and perceived more forcing behavior in others, as compared with the popular group. Constructive and destructive conflict strategies, and their implications for popularity, are discussed.

Studying Popular Culture in Japan

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Moeran, Brian

, ceramics, fashion magazines and folk art as both products and as processes of design, manufacture, distribution, appreciation and use, which must all be taken into account. Precisely because popular cultural forms are both cultural products and commodities, they reveal the complementary nature of the two...... categories of culture and the economy. The paper outlines and analyses the different ways in which social, cultural, symbolic and economic capital are converted by those participating in advertising, ceramic, fashion magazine and folk art worlds, and suggests that popular culture may best be seen as a name...

Popular en la UAM-X

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María Isabel Arbesú García

2008-01-01

Full Text Available El propósito de este trabajo es analizar la forma en que se vinculan en un módulo en el Sistema Modular Xochimilco las tres actividades sustantivas que realiza la universidad: docencia, investigación y servicio. Se toma como caso de estudio al Taller de Vivienda popular ya que este permite que los estudiantes de arquitectura cursen su último año de estudios de la licenciatura y se especialicen en el diseño de problemas relacionados con la vivienda popular.

Developmental trajectories of adolescent popularity: a growth curve modelling analysis.

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Cillessen, Antonius H N; Borch, Casey

2006-12-01

Growth curve modelling was used to examine developmental trajectories of sociometric and perceived popularity across eight years in adolescence, and the effects of gender, overt aggression, and relational aggression on these trajectories. Participants were 303 initially popular students (167 girls, 136 boys) for whom sociometric data were available in Grades 5-12. The popularity and aggression constructs were stable but non-overlapping developmental dimensions. Growth curve models were run with SAS MIXED in the framework of the multilevel model for change [Singer, J. D., & Willett, J. B. (2003). Applied longitudinal data analysis. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press]. Sociometric popularity showed a linear change trajectory; perceived popularity showed nonlinear change. Overt aggression predicted low sociometric popularity but an increase in perceived popularity in the second half of the study. Relational aggression predicted a decrease in sociometric popularity, especially for girls, and continued high-perceived popularity for both genders. The effect of relational aggression on perceived popularity was the strongest around the transition from middle to high school. The importance of growth curve models for understanding adolescent social development was discussed, as well as specific issues and challenges of growth curve analyses with sociometric data.

Characterizing and modeling the dynamics of activity and popularity.

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Full Text Available Social media, regarded as two-layer networks consisting of users and items, turn out to be the most important channels for access to massive information in the era of Web 2.0. The dynamics of human activity and item popularity is a crucial issue in social media networks. In this paper, by analyzing the growth of user activity and item popularity in four empirical social media networks, i.e., Amazon, Flickr, Delicious and Wikipedia, it is found that cross links between users and items are more likely to be created by active users and to be acquired by popular items, where user activity and item popularity are measured by the number of cross links associated with users and items. This indicates that users generally trace popular items, overall. However, it is found that the inactive users more severely trace popular items than the active users. Inspired by empirical analysis, we propose an evolving model for such networks, in which the evolution is driven only by two-step random walk. Numerical experiments verified that the model can qualitatively reproduce the distributions of user activity and item popularity observed in empirical networks. These results might shed light on the understandings of micro dynamics of activity and popularity in social media networks.

Characterizing and modeling the dynamics of activity and popularity.

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Zhang, Peng; Li, Menghui; Gao, Liang; Fan, Ying; Di, Zengru

2014-01-01

Social media, regarded as two-layer networks consisting of users and items, turn out to be the most important channels for access to massive information in the era of Web 2.0. The dynamics of human activity and item popularity is a crucial issue in social media networks. In this paper, by analyzing the growth of user activity and item popularity in four empirical social media networks, i.e., Amazon, Flickr, Delicious and Wikipedia, it is found that cross links between users and items are more likely to be created by active users and to be acquired by popular items, where user activity and item popularity are measured by the number of cross links associated with users and items. This indicates that users generally trace popular items, overall. However, it is found that the inactive users more severely trace popular items than the active users. Inspired by empirical analysis, we propose an evolving model for such networks, in which the evolution is driven only by two-step random walk. Numerical experiments verified that the model can qualitatively reproduce the distributions of user activity and item popularity observed in empirical networks. These results might shed light on the understandings of micro dynamics of activity and popularity in social media networks.

Altruism and Popularity

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Egilmez, Eda; Naylor-Tincknell, Janett

2017-01-01

Popularity, as a manifestation of social status, has been widely researched and determined by group members. Prosocial behaviors are actions with intention of benefiting others or society as whole with little or no personal gain and may include helping, cooperating, and other voluntary works. Altruism is a type of prosocial behavior that could…

Using Popular Culture to Teach Quantitative Reasoning

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Hillyard, Cinnamon

2007-01-01

Popular culture provides many opportunities to develop quantitative reasoning. This article describes a junior-level, interdisciplinary, quantitative reasoning course that uses examples from movies, cartoons, television, magazine advertisements, and children's literature. Some benefits from and cautions to using popular culture to teach…

Cultura popular e Turismo: O Ceará nos anos 1970 / Popular Culture and Tourism: Ceará, Brazil, in the 70’s

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Ana Amélia Rodrigues de Oliveira

2015-04-01

Full Text Available Normal 0 21 false false false PT-BR X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 O artigo analisa o processo de atribuição de valor econômico à cultura popular, a partir da sua vinculação à atividade turística. Até a década de 1950, a cultura popular era entendida socialmente, apenas como um elemento constitutivo da identidade brasileira, calcada nos ideais de pureza e autenticidade. Com a criação de órgãos como o Banco do Nordeste e a Sudene, o governo federal tenta inserir o Nordeste na lógica de desenvolvimento capitalista, e começa a ver na produção popular uma possibilidade de gerar renda a partir do investimento na produção artesanal. O desenvolvimento do turismo influenciará na inserção das tradições populares no circuito econômico como atrativo turístico. Popular Culture and Tourism: Ceará, Brazil, in the 70’s - This paper analyzes the process of assigning economic value to popular culture and its link to tourism. Until the 1950's, popular culture was understood socially in an ideal of purity and authenticity, as a constitutive element of national identity. With creation of institutions such as Banco do Nordeste and Sudene, federal government intends to include the Brazilian Northeast in the capitalist development logic, and see the popular production as a possibility to generate income from investment in craft production. Tourism development will mark the insertion of popular traditions in the economic circuit as a tourist attraction.

Popularity differentially predicts reactive and proactive aggression in early adolescence.

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Stoltz, Sabine; Cillessen, Antonius H N; van den Berg, Yvonne H M; Gommans, Rob

2016-01-01

Previous research has indicated that peer popularity is associated with aggressive behavior. However, it is not yet clear whether popularity is uniquely related to different functions of aggression. In this study, we examined associations between peer-perceived popularity, and reactive and proactive aggression using a cross-sectional and a longitudinal design. Yearly sociometric measures of popularity, and reactive and proactive aggression were gathered from 266 seventh and eight grade adolescents (Mage grade 7 = 12.80, SDage  = .40). Popularity was positively correlated with proactive aggression and negatively correlated with reactive aggression, both concurrently as over time. Curvilinear trends indicated that a significant minority of low versus high popular adolescents showed both functions of aggression. Somewhat stronger effects of popularity on proactive aggression were found for boys than girls. Stably popular adolescents showed the highest levels of proactive aggression, whereas stably unpopular youth showed the highest levels of reactive aggression. Implications and directions for future research are discussed. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Effects of popular exemplars in television news

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Lefevere, J.; De Swert, K.; Walgrave, S.

2012-01-01

Common people that are apparently randomly selected by journalists to illustrate a news story (popular exemplars) have a substantial effect on what the audience think about the issue. This effect may be partly due to the mere fact that popular exemplars attract attention and act as attention

Popularity Evaluation Model for Microbloggers Online Social Network

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Xia Zhang

2014-01-01

Full Text Available Recently, microblogging is widely studied by the researchers in the domain of the online social network (OSN. How to evaluate the popularities of microblogging users is an important research field, which can be applied to commercial advertising, user behavior analysis and information dissemination, and so forth. Previous studies on the evaluation methods cannot effectively solve and accurately evaluate the popularities of the microbloggers. In this paper, we proposed an electromagnetic field theory based model to analyze the popularities of microbloggers. The concept of the source in microblogging field is first put forward, which is based on the concept of source in the electromagnetic field; then, one’s microblogging flux is calculated according to his/her behaviors (send or receive feedbacks on the microblogging platform; finally, we used three methods to calculate one’s microblogging flux density, which can represent one’s popularity on the microblogging platform. In the experimental work, we evaluated our model using real microblogging data and selected the best one from the three popularity measure methods. We also compared our model with the classic PageRank algorithm; and the results show that our model is more effective and accurate to evaluate the popularities of the microbloggers.

Significance and popularity in music production

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Monechi, Bernardo; Gravino, Pietro; Servedio, Vito D. P.; Tria, Francesca; Loreto, Vittorio

2017-07-01

Creative industries constantly strive for fame and popularity. Though highly desirable, popularity is not the only achievement artistic creations might ever acquire. Leaving a longstanding mark in the global production and influencing future works is an even more important achievement, usually acknowledged by experts and scholars. `Significant' or `influential' works are not always well known to the public or have sometimes been long forgotten by the vast majority. In this paper, we focus on the duality between what is successful and what is significant in the musical context. To this end, we consider a user-generated set of tags collected through an online music platform, whose evolving co-occurrence network mirrors the growing conceptual space underlying music production. We define a set of general metrics aiming at characterizing music albums throughout history, and their relationships with the overall musical production. We show how these metrics allow to classify albums according to their current popularity or their belonging to expert-made lists of important albums. In this way, we provide the scientific community and the public at large with quantitative tools to tell apart popular albums from culturally or aesthetically relevant artworks. The generality of the methodology presented here lends itself to be used in all those fields where innovation and creativity are in play.

Popular Science Articles for Chemistry Teaching

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Ketevan Kupatadze

2017-07-01

Full Text Available The presented paper reviews popular science articles (these articles are published in online magazine “The Teacher” as one of the methods of chemistry teaching. It describes which didactic principles they are in line with and how this type of articles can be used in order to kindle the interest of pupils, students and generally, the readers of other specialties, in chemistry.  The articles review the main topics of inorganic/organic chemistry, biochemistry and ecological chemistry in a simple and entertaining manner. A part of the articles is about "household" chemistry. Chemical topics are related to poetry, literature, history of chemistry or simply, to fun news. The paper delineates the structure of popular science articles and the features of engaging students. It also reviews the teachers' and students' interview results about the usage of popular science articles in chemistry teaching process. The aforementioned pedagogical study revealed that the popular science articles contain useful information not only for the students of other specialties, but also for future biologists and ecologists (having chemistry as a mandatory subject at their universities. The articles are effectively used by teachers on chemistry lessons to kindle students' interest in this subject. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17807/orbital.v9i3.960 

Significance and popularity in music production.

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Monechi, Bernardo; Gravino, Pietro; Servedio, Vito D P; Tria, Francesca; Loreto, Vittorio

2017-07-01

Creative industries constantly strive for fame and popularity. Though highly desirable, popularity is not the only achievement artistic creations might ever acquire. Leaving a longstanding mark in the global production and influencing future works is an even more important achievement, usually acknowledged by experts and scholars. 'Significant' or 'influential' works are not always well known to the public or have sometimes been long forgotten by the vast majority. In this paper, we focus on the duality between what is successful and what is significant in the musical context. To this end, we consider a user-generated set of tags collected through an online music platform, whose evolving co-occurrence network mirrors the growing conceptual space underlying music production. We define a set of general metrics aiming at characterizing music albums throughout history, and their relationships with the overall musical production. We show how these metrics allow to classify albums according to their current popularity or their belonging to expert-made lists of important albums. In this way, we provide the scientific community and the public at large with quantitative tools to tell apart popular albums from culturally or aesthetically relevant artworks. The generality of the methodology presented here lends itself to be used in all those fields where innovation and creativity are in play.

Academic Self-Presentation Strategies and Popularity in Middle School

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Zook, Joan M.; Russotti, Justin M.

2013-01-01

This study examined early adolescents' beliefs about which academic self-presentation strategies hypothetical hard-working, high-achieving students should use with popular peers, adolescents' own use of self-presentation strategies, and links between popularity and self-presentation strategies. In response to scenarios in which popular classmates…

Songs that resonate: the uses of popular music nostalgia.

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A.J.C. van der Hoeven (Arno)

2018-01-01

textabstractThis chapter explores the phenomenon of popular music nostalgia. In the cultural and heritage industries, nostalgia is widely used to make an affective connection to music consumers. Popular music nostalgia can be defined as a longing for the past that is evoked through popular music’s

Lights, Camera, Action: Integrating Popular Film in the Health Classroom

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Diez, Keri S.; Pleban, Francis T.; Wood, Ralph J.

2005-01-01

This article discusses the benefits as well as the important considerations that should be taken into account in integrating popular films in health education classes. Use of popular films in the classroom, termed "cinema education," is becoming increasingly popular in teaching health education. As a matter of convenience, popular films are easy…

The association between valuing popularity and relational aggression : The moderating effects of actual popularity and physiological reactivity to exclusion

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Shoulberg, Erin K.; Sijtsema, Jelle J.; Murray-Close, Dianna

The association between having a reputation for valuing popularity and relational aggression was assessed in a sample of 126 female children and adolescents (mean age = 12.43 years) at a 54-day residential summer camp for girls. Having a reputation for valuing popularity was positively related to

Estudio de alternativas tecnológicas para el tratamiento básico del agua lluvia de uso doméstico en el Consejo Comunitario de la comunidad negra de Los Lagos, Buenaventura

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Arboleda Montaño, Nixon

2014-01-01

Tesis (Maestría en Desarrollo Sostenible y Medio Ambiente). Universidad de Manizales. Facultad de Ciencias Contables, Económicas y Administrativas, 2014 La presente investigación de tipo exploratorio y descriptivo se desarrolló en cuatro fases puntuales. En la fase inicial, se llevó a cabo un análisis situacional de las condiciones en las cuales se realiza la captación del agua lluvia en el Consejo Comunitario de la Comunidad Negra Los Lagos, siendo fundamental para ello las visitas al lu...

Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture

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Plate, L.; Smelik, A.M.

2013-01-01

This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. The authors take their cue from the observation that art and popular culture enact memory and generate processes of memory. They do memory, and in this

Popular democracy and waste management

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Wallis, L.R.

1986-01-01

The US has moved from representative democracy to popular democracy and public scrutiny is unrelenting. Any hope of success on their part in resolving the nuclear waste question hinges on their ability to condition themselves to operate in a popular democracy environment. Those opposed to the siting of high- and low-level waste repositories have already developed a set of recurring themes: (1) the siting criteria are fatally flawed; (2) the criteria are not adequate; (3) the process is driven by politics not science; (4) unrealistic deadlines lead to dangerous shortcuts; (5) transportation experience is lacking; (6) the scientific community does not really know how to dispose of the wastes. They must continue to tell the public that if science has brought us problems, then the answer can be only more knowledge - not less. Failure by their profession to recognize that popular democracy is a fact and that nuclear issues need to be addressed in humanistic terms raises the question of whether America is philosophically suited for the expanded use of nuclear power in the future - or for that matter for leadership in the world of tomorrow

O "Popular" em Egberto Gismonti

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Rúrion Soares Melo

2007-07-01

Full Text Available Nossa música, rica e moderna, não pode ser integralmente enquadrada em tipologias. Este artigo destaca a importância do material musical e da autonomia nos procedimentos composicionais, e propõe que a compreensão das obras de Egberto Gismonti não pode se restringir aos elementos propriamente "brasileiros" do "nacional-popular".Brazilian music, rich and modern, cannot be integrally fit in typologies. This article detaches the importance of the musical material and the autonomy in the compositional procedures, and considers that the understanding of the work of Egberto Gismonti cannot be restricted to strictly "Brazilian" elements of the "nacional-popular".

RELIGIOSIDADE POPULAR E FENOMENOLOGIA RELIGIOSA

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Waldomiro O. Piazza

1980-01-01

Full Text Available Antes de tudo, é preciso ter presente que religiosidade popular não é o mesmo que fenomenologia religiosa, embora estejam intimamente vinculadas entre si. A fenomenologia religiosa é uma ciência que estuda o significado profundo das várias atitudes religiosas que o homem toma motivado por uma experiência religiosa. A religiosidade popular é o complexo destas atitudes condicionadas por alguma estrutura cultural, como a dos primitivos, que se dedicavam à caça, à pesca, à coleta de frutos, ou a dos povos sedentários, dedicados às técnicas agrárias e industriais.

Abraham Lincoln in European Popular Culture

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John Dean

2016-05-01

Full Text Available This article argues that Lincoln is not a universal hero, but rather an indigenous, U.S., ethnocentric one. Lincoln has generally been absent as a model in European social and public life, rarely emphasized as an essential part of education or in the public forum. Among the reasons given for this difference are inaccurate references to his ecumenical qualities and the often negative attitude in Europe towards a U.S. popular taste culture which is an expression of values, a vital, half-wild, half-tame, communal expression of ‘We, the People of the United States.’ Especially in the 20th century, U.S. popular culture and popular icons have often been regarded in Europe as an expression of lowbrow entertainment. But in the U.S., ‘popular’ is much closer to ‘grassroots’ in the full, Whitmanesque meaning of the term. Some things don’t translate.

Saber popular: sua existência no meio universitário Saber popular: su existencia en el medio universitario Popular wisdom: its existence in the university environment

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Maria Alves Barbosa

2004-12-01

Full Text Available Mitos e crendices estão presentes hodiernamente, apesar do desenvolvimento da ciência e da tecnologia, principalmente na busca por soluções de problemas que fogem ao entendimento humano. Objetivou-se verificar na comunidade universitária a existência de crendices e mitos, investigando suas origens, influências, adoção e credibilidade, correlacionando-os com o nível de conhecimento dos indivíduos. Pesquisa descritivo-analítica desenvolvida em Unidades de Ensino da Área de Saúde da Universidade Federal de Goiás. Seguiu-se a técnica de análise de conteúdo para análise dos dados. Foram criadas duas categorias: Atitudes Pessoais Relacionadas a Crenças e Influências e Superação das Crenças. Concluiu-se que há colisão entre os saberes popular e científico, gerando a exclusão do saber popular, sua manutenção "velada", ou mesmo, a aliança dos saberes.Mitos y creencias están presentes actualmente, a pesar del desarrollo de la ciencia y de la tecnología, principalmente en la búsqueda por soluciones de problemas que escapan al entendimiento humano. El estudio tuvo como objetivo verificar en la comunidad universitaria la existencia de creencias, mitos y otras prácticas populares, investigando sus orígenes, influencias, adopción, credibilidad y correlacionándolos con el nivel de conocimiento de los individuos. La investigación cuya naturaleza es descriptiva-analítica, fue desarrollada en Unidades de Enseñanza del Área de Salud de la Universidad Federal de Goiás. El grupo se constituye de profesores y estudiantes de los cursos del área de salud. Los resultados posibilitaron la creación de dos categorías, la primera, Actitudes personales relacionadas a Creencias, evidenció el poder de las prácticas populares y de las creencias sobre el comportamiento humano y la segunda, Influencias y Superación de las Creencias, permitió la comprensión del contento social y cultural del grupo investigado. Se concluye que

Popularity Trajectories and Substance Use in early Adolescence1

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Moody, James; Brynildsen, Wendy D.; Osgood, D. Wayne; Feinberg, Mark E.; Gest, Scott

2010-01-01

This paper introduces new longitudinal network data from the “Promoting School-Community-University Partnerships to Enhance Resilience” or “PROSPER” peers project. In 28 communities, grade-level sociometric friendship nominations were collected from two cohorts of middle school students as they moved from 6th, to 9th grade. As an illustration and description of these longitudinal network data, this paper describes the school popularity structure, changes in popularity position, and suggests linkages between popularity trajectory and substance use. In the cross-section, we find that the network is consistent with a hierarchical social organization, but exhibits considerable relational change in both particular friends and position at the individual level. We find that both the base level of popularity and the variability of popularity trajectories effect substance use. PMID:21765588

La cultura popular anglofona en el curriculum del ingles a nivel superior (Popular Anglophone Culture in the English Curriculum at the College Level).

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Zoreda, Margaret Lee

This paper examines the rationale for introducing popular culture into college-level English-as-a-Second-Language instruction in Mexico, drawing on research and theory in second language instruction, and it offers specific suggestions for classroom presentation of popular cultural content. It is argued that content in popular culture can enhance…

Resources for Popular Education.

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Heaney, Tom

1992-01-01

Popular education, with its agenda for social change, often lacks access to traditional financial support. Strategies for resource development include volunteers, small proportion of public funding, an umbrella organization to distribute funds, and collaboration with adult educators in mainstream institutions. (SK)

Comprensión lectora en la formación inicial docente: estudiantes de educación general básica en una universidad del Consejo de Rectores

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Ana Carolina Maldonado Fuentes

2012-07-01

Full Text Available El presente artículo entrega los resultados obtenidos del estudio sobre el logro de la habilidad de comprensión lectora, en estudiantes de Formación Inicial Docente de la carrera de Pedagogía en Educación General Básica de una universidad del Consejo de Rectores.El presente artículo entrega los resultados obtenidos del estudio sobre el logro de la habilidad de comprensión lectora, en estudiantes de Formación Inicial Docente de la carrera de Pedagogía en Educación General Básic de una universidad del Consejo de Rectores en función de la descripción de niveles de logro explicitad en los Mapas de Progreso del Aprendizaje (MINEDUC, 2007a. El estudio parte tipificando las habilidades y variables asociadas a la comprensión lectora descritas en el documento oficial del Ministerio de Educación de Chile, ";;Mapas de Progreso del Aprendizaje: Sector Lenguaje y Comunicación, Mapa de Progreso de Lectura ";; (Ministerio de Educación de Chile, 2007a. A partir de lo anterior, se construyó y validó un instrumento de evaluación, para luego determinar los niveles de porcentaje general de logro y, en particular, los logros en las habilidades medidas en dos grupos de estudiantes con diferencia de un año de estudios universitarios. Finalmente, se comparó el rendimiento de los mismos estudiantes en tiempos distintos en una submuestra. El principal resultado encontrado es la no existencia de diferencia significativa en las habilidades de comprensión lectora, entre estudiantes con dos o tres años de Formación Inicial Docente en la carrera estudiada.

Popularity and user diversity of online objects

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Wang, Jia-Hua; Guo, Qiang; Yang, Kai; Zhang, Yi-Lu; Han, Jingti; Liu, Jian-Guo

2016-11-01

The popularity has been widely used to describe the object property of online user-object bipartite networks regardless of the user characteristics. In this paper, we introduce a measurement namely user diversity to measure diversity of users who select or rate one type of objects by using the information entropy. We empirically calculate the user diversity of objects with specific degree for both MovieLens and Diggs data sets. The results indicate that more types of users select normal-degree objects than those who select large-degree and small-degree objects. Furthermore, small-degree objects are usually selected by large-degree users while large-degree objects are usually selected by small-degree users. Moreover, we define 15% objects of smallest degrees as unpopular objects and 10% ones of largest degrees as popular objects. The timestamp is introduced to help further analyze the evolution of user diversity of popular objects and unpopular objects. The dynamic analysis shows that as objects become popular gradually, they are more likely accepted by small-degree users but lose attention among the large-degree users.

El dilema del arte popular en Bolivia

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Lupe Cajas

2015-01-01

Full Text Available Aborda la comunicación desde las tres interpretaciones más importantes: la tradicionalista, la militar y mercantilista y el arte popular tan inestable, cuestionado y cambiante. Canclini cuestiona la compartamentalización de cultura: popular y de medios y esboza los problemas que plantea la tradicional miopía de no reconocer la universalización y ubicuidad de la cultura de masas. Se agregan otros temas como: ¿Re-intelección de los medios? apuntes sobre un libro de los Mattelart, ¿"Ética" o "Deontología" de la comunicación social?, El lenguaje del vestido y de la fiesta,Talleres de cultura Popular en Santiago de Chile, El dilema del arte popular en Bolivia,¿Sobrevivirán las artesanías aborígenes argentinas?, Los tejedores de El Tintorero, Tecnologías de computación y Tercer Mundo, La cobertura del terremoto en México, La comunicación como quehacer y como problema, la comunicación planificada sirve al desarrollo

Significance and popularity in music production

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Gravino, Pietro; Servedio, Vito D. P.; Tria, Francesca; Loreto, Vittorio

2017-01-01

Creative industries constantly strive for fame and popularity. Though highly desirable, popularity is not the only achievement artistic creations might ever acquire. Leaving a longstanding mark in the global production and influencing future works is an even more important achievement, usually acknowledged by experts and scholars. ‘Significant’ or ‘influential’ works are not always well known to the public or have sometimes been long forgotten by the vast majority. In this paper, we focus on the duality between what is successful and what is significant in the musical context. To this end, we consider a user-generated set of tags collected through an online music platform, whose evolving co-occurrence network mirrors the growing conceptual space underlying music production. We define a set of general metrics aiming at characterizing music albums throughout history, and their relationships with the overall musical production. We show how these metrics allow to classify albums according to their current popularity or their belonging to expert-made lists of important albums. In this way, we provide the scientific community and the public at large with quantitative tools to tell apart popular albums from culturally or aesthetically relevant artworks. The generality of the methodology presented here lends itself to be used in all those fields where innovation and creativity are in play. PMID:28791169

The Association between Valuing Popularity and Relational Aggression: The Moderating Effects of Actual Popularity and Physiological Reactivity to Exclusion

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Shoulberg, Erin K.; Sijtsema, Jelle J.; Murray-Close, Dianna

2011-01-01

The association between having a reputation for valuing popularity and relational aggression was assessed in a sample of 126 female children and adolescents (mean age=12.43 years) at a 54-day residential summer camp for girls. Having a reputation for valuing popularity was positively related to relational aggression. This association was moderated…

Space activities and global popular music culture

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Wessels, Allison Rae; Collins, Patrick

During the "space age" era, space activities appear increasingly as a theme in Western popular music, as they do in popular culture generally. In combination with the electronics and tele-communications revolution, "pop/rock" music has grown explosively during the space age to become an effectively global culture. From this base a number of trends are emerging in the pattern of influences that space activities have on pop music. The paper looks at the use of themes and imagery in pop music; the role of space technology in the modern "globalization" of pop music; and current and future links between space activities and pop music culture, including how public space programmes are affected by its influence on popular attitudes.

Sound as Popular Culture

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The wide-ranging texts in this book take as their premise the idea that sound is a subject through which popular culture can be analyzed in an innovative way. From an infant’s gurgles over a baby monitor to the roar of the crowd in a stadium to the sub-bass frequencies produced by sound systems...... in the disco era, sound—not necessarily aestheticized as music—is inextricably part of the many domains of popular culture. Expanding the view taken by many scholars of cultural studies, the contributors consider cultural practices concerning sound not merely as semiotic or signifying processes but as material......, physical, perceptual, and sensory processes that integrate a multitude of cultural traditions and forms of knowledge. The chapters discuss conceptual issues as well as terminologies and research methods; analyze historical and contemporary case studies of listening in various sound cultures; and consider...

El español coloquial en clase de E/LE. Actividades y consejos

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David Giménez Folqués

2016-11-01

Full Text Available : En clase de E/LE resulta fundamental, además de trabajar el léxico general, realizar un aporte del aspecto lexicológico coloquial, en cuanto a voces y locuciones fraseológicas que supongan para el alumno un conocimiento de este ámbito, que por otro lado resultará imprescindible en el empleo del español. En primer lugar, es importante que el profesor de E/LE conozca la definición exacta de lo que significa el «español coloquial». Una vez delimitado este concepto, el siguiente paso es el de elegir y emplear actividades que resulten significativas para sus destinatarios. De esta manera, se pretende ofrecer a los docentes de esta área herramientas en forma de consejos y actividades para que puedan llevar a cabo esta labor y enseñar al alumno la importancia de aprender el léxico coloquial en su vida diaria. Palabras clave: español coloquial, lexicología coloquial, actividades E/LE.   Colloquial Spanish in E/LE class. Activities and advices   Abstract: Colloquial Spanish is essential for students of Spanish as a foreign language, in order to acquire the colloquial lexicon of the Spanish language and use it in their daily lives. Firstly, it is very important that the teacher knows the exact definition of "colloquial Spanish". The next step is to know how to choose and use activities that are significant for their students. In this sense, we want to offer useful tools and activities that they can use to teach their students the importance of learning the colloquial lexicon. Keywords: colloquial Spanish, colloquial lexicology, E/LE activities.

Peer status and aggression as predictors of dating popularity in adolescence.

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Houser, John J; Mayeux, Lara; Cross, Cassandra

2015-03-01

Research has identified links between dating and aversive behavior such as aggression and bullying in adolescence, highlighting the need for studies that further our understanding of romantic relationships and their dynamics during this period. This study tested the associations between dating popularity and overt and relational aggression, social preference, and peer popularity. Of particular interest were the moderating roles of social preference and peer popularity in the association of aggression with dating popularity. Further moderation by gender was also explored. Participants were 478 ninth-graders (48% girls) with peer nomination scores for peer status, aggression, and dating popularity. Dating popularity was positively correlated with popularity, social preference, and overt and relational aggression. Regression models indicated that popular, overtly aggressive girls were seen as desirable dating partners by their male peers. Relational aggression was associated with dating popularity for both boys and girls, especially for youths who were well-liked by peers. These findings are interpreted in light of developmental-contextual perspectives on adolescent romantic relationships and Resource Control Theory.

Educación popular

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Ortiz, Pedro P.

2009-01-01

Reflexiones sobre la relación entre la educación popular con el individuo, la sociedad, la moral, la religión, la industria y la riqueza pública - La educación i el individuo - La educación i la sociedad

Vocal handicap index in popular and erudite professional singers.

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Loiola-Barreiro, Camila Miranda; Silva, Marta Assumpção de Andrada E

To compare the voice handicap index of popular and erudite professional singers according to gender, age, professional experience time, and presence or absence of self-reported vocal complaints. One hundred thirty-two professional singers, 74 popular and 58 erudite, who responded to a questionnaire with regards to identification, age, gender, professional experience time in singing, musical genres (for popular singers), vocal classification (for erudite singers), presence of self-reported vocal complaints, and the specific protocols for popular (Modern Singing Handicap Index - MSHI) and erudite (Classical Singing Handicap Index - CSHI) singing. Higher proportion of women and higher incidence of vocal complaints were observed in the popular singers compared with the erudite singers. Most of the popular singers belonged to the genre of Brazilian Popular Music. Regarding the classification of erudite singers, there was greater participation of sopranos and tenors. No statistical differences were observed with respect to age and professional experience time between the groups. Comparison of the MSHI and CSHI scores showed no statistically significant difference between these scores and genre or age in both groups of singers. Professional experience time was related to the total score and the subscales disability and impairment in the MSHI, only for popular singers with vocal complaints. There was no correlation between these variables and the CSHI for erudite singers. The impact of vocal difficulty/problem interferes differently in these two musical genres when related to vocal complaint and professional experience time. The MSHI and CSHI protocols proved to be important tools not only for the identification of problems, but also for the understanding of how these individuals relate their voices with this occupational activity.

Aggressive effects of prioritizing popularity in early adolescence

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Cillessen, A.H.N.; Mayeux, L.; Ha, P.T.; Bruyn, E.H. de; LaFontana, K.M.

2014-01-01

This study examined the moderating effects of prioritizing popularity on the association between early adolescents' popularity and their aggressive, leadership, and prosocial behaviors with peers. Participants were 288 14-year-olds from The Netherlands who completed a sociometric instrument and an

Folclore e medicina popular na Amazônia Folklore and popular medicine in the Amazon

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Márcio Couto Henrique

2009-12-01

Full Text Available Discute as relações entre folclore e medicina popular na Amazônia, tendo como referencial de análise o conto "Filhos do boto", de Canuto Azevedo. Aponta que os contos folclóricos estão saturados de elementos da realidade cultural e podem ser utilizados como testemunhos históricos que expressam embates entre diferentes tradições. Os registros folclóricos são fruto do diálogo muitas vezes conflituoso entre folcloristas, cientistas sociais, médicos, pajés e seus seguidores, e sua análise deve ser acompanhada de reflexão sobre as condições de sua produção. Neste caso específico, trata-se de refletir, com base no imaginário de sedução e cura em torno do boto, sobre a possibilidade de ampliar o conhecimento sobre a medicina popular praticada na Amazônia, região de forte presença da pajelança cabocla.This discussion of the relations between folklore and popular medicine in the Amazon takes Canuto Azevedo's story "Filhos do boto" (Children of the porpoise as an analytical reference point. Replete with elements of cultural reality, folk tales can serve as historical testimonies expressing clashes between different traditions. Folk records are fruit of what is often a quarrelsome dialogue between folklorists, social scientists, physicians, and pajés and their followers, and their analysis should take into account the conditions under which they were produced. Based on the imaginary attached to the figure of the porpoise - a seductive creature with healing powers - the article explores how we might expand knowledge of popular medicine as practiced in the Amazon, where the shamanistic rite known as pajelança cabocla has a strong presence.

Predicting the future trend of popularity by network diffusion

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Zeng, An; Yeung, Chi Ho

2016-06-01

Conventional approaches to predict the future popularity of products are mainly based on extrapolation of their current popularity, which overlooks the hidden microscopic information under the macroscopic trend. Here, we study diffusion processes on consumer-product and citation networks to exploit the hidden microscopic information and connect consumers to their potential purchase, publications to their potential citers to obtain a prediction for future item popularity. By using the data obtained from the largest online retailers including Netflix and Amazon as well as the American Physical Society citation networks, we found that our method outperforms the accurate short-term extrapolation and identifies the potentially popular items long before they become prominent.

Predicting the future trend of popularity by network diffusion.

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Zeng, An; Yeung, Chi Ho

2016-06-01

Conventional approaches to predict the future popularity of products are mainly based on extrapolation of their current popularity, which overlooks the hidden microscopic information under the macroscopic trend. Here, we study diffusion processes on consumer-product and citation networks to exploit the hidden microscopic information and connect consumers to their potential purchase, publications to their potential citers to obtain a prediction for future item popularity. By using the data obtained from the largest online retailers including Netflix and Amazon as well as the American Physical Society citation networks, we found that our method outperforms the accurate short-term extrapolation and identifies the potentially popular items long before they become prominent.

The role of attractiveness and aggression in high school popularity

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Borch, C.; Hyde, A.; Cillessen, A.H.N.

2011-01-01

This study examines the effects of physical attractiveness and aggression on popularity among high school students. Previous work has found positive relationships between aggression and popularity and physical attractiveness and popularity. The current study goes beyond this work by examining the

The Role of Respect in the Relation of Aggression to Popularity

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Kuryluk, Amanda; Cohen, Robert; Audley-Piotrowski, Shannon

2011-01-01

Can aggressive children be popular with peers? Generally, sociometric popularity (liking nominations) has been shown to be negatively associated with aggression, and perceived popularity (popularity nominations) has been shown to be positively associated with aggression. The thesis of the present research was that being respected by peers…

Popular cinema and lesbian interpretive strategies.

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Dobinson, C; Young, K

2000-01-01

In its examination of the relationship between popular film and lesbian viewing practices, this study attempts to more fully elucidate current ideas around audience engagement and forms of cultural reception. Drawing on 15 in-depth interviews conducted in Western Canada in 1996, the results clearly demonstrate the existence of active lesbian viewers, whose interpretations of popular film are intimately informed by lesbian-specific life experiences and cultural competencies. Although the social conditions which create the need for resistant viewing are themselves oppressive, subversion of mainstream film holds out some possibility of empowerment for lesbian viewers.

Evaluation of Spam Impact on Arabic Websites Popularity

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Mohammed N. Al-Kabi

2015-04-01

Full Text Available The expansion of the Web and its information in all aspects of life raises the concern of how to trust information published on the Web especially in cases where publisher may not be known. Websites strive to be more popular and make themselves visible to search engines and eventually to users. Website popularity can be measured using several metrics such as the Web traffic (e.g. Website: visitors’ number and visited page number. A link or page popularity refers to the total number of hyperlinks referring to a certain Web page. In this study, several top ranked Arabic Websites are selected for evaluating possible Web spam behavior. Websites use spam techniques to boost their ranks within Search Engine Results Page (SERP. Results of this study showed that some of these popular Websites are using techniques that are considered spam techniques according to Search Engine Optimization guidelines.

Vocação de criar: anotações sobre a cultura e as culturas populares Vocation to create: notes on culture and popular cultures

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Carlos Rodrigues Brandão

2009-12-01

Full Text Available O artigo examina diferentes dimensões da cultura e das polêmicas que envolvem o termo para dizer da(s cultura(s popular(es como derivação também controvertida. Diferentemente dos estudos sobre o eixo cultura-cultura popular, num exercício de memória, busca-se o processo de criação dos movimentos de cultura popular dos anos 1960 no Brasil para, então, aproximá-lo dos tempos atuais e mostrar como a cultura e a cultura popular foram levadas ao campo da prática política e integraram nelas um novo sentido dado à própria educação. Trata-se da discussão entre cultura e educação como espaços francamente abertos e dialógicos que se abrem à difícil e complexa arte da criação, da partilha e do intercâmbio de e entre culturas populares, do papel do saber e da reprodução do saber como questão substantiva no eixo entre cultura e educação.This article examines different dimensions of culture and the controversies surrounding this term when used to refer to "popular culture(s";. Unlike studies on the axis culture-popular culture, an attempt is made to return to the beginning of the Brazilian popular culture movements in 60's, in order to bring them closer to the present time. In doing so, it will be possible to show how culture and popular culture were taken to the field of political praxis, integrating in them a new meaning given to education itself. The discussion points out that a substantive issue to be considered is if culture and education are conceived as spaces overtly open and dialogical in nature, typical of the difficult and complex art of creating, sharing and interchanging of (and between popular cultures the role of knowledge and of the knowledge reproduction.

La presencia española en consejos y comités de redacción de revistas científicas internacionales: un instrumento para la promoción de nuestra ciencia

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Granadino, Begoña

2006-09-01

Full Text Available The main objective of this work is to determine the correlation between the Spanish scientific output covered by the first 100 SCI journals ranking with the highest impact factor, and the presence of Spanish researchers in the editorial boards of these journals. The analysis of the editorial boards indicated that the presence of scientists of European scientific institutions as memberships of these editorial boards is very low, being these boards mainly represented by US and British researchers. The presence of Spanish scientists in the editorial boards mentioned is rather low at European and world wide level. From the 3474 members identified, only 16 are Spanish scientists and they are present in editorial boards of 9 journals. These 9 journals, however, do not show higher Spanish scientific production than that of other European countries with similar scientific characteristics, as Italy and The Netherlands. These indicators can be useful for the proposal of measures to enhance the Spanish presence in the editorial boards of the main international scientific journals.

Este trabajo tiene por objetivo determinar la posible correlación existente entre la producción científica española cubierta por las 100 revistas SCI con mayores factores de impacto y la presencia de investigadores españoles en los consejos o comités científicos de dichas revistas. El análisis de la composición de los consejos editoriales ha permitido constatar que la adscripción de instituciones científicas europeas en los comités o consejos editoriales de las 100 primeras revistas del JCR es muy reducida, estando estos órganos mayoritariamente constituidos por investigadores norteamericanos y británicos. La presencia de miembros de instituciones científicas españolas en los comités editoriales es significativamente escasa, tanto desde una perspectiva mundial como a escala europea. De los 3.474 miembros identificados, únicamente 16 son investigadores

and popular organization (research notes

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Paulo J. Krischke

2006-01-01

Full Text Available This paper discusses some interfaces between the approaches to political learning, and their reference to situations of social exclusion, conflict and popular organization. The first part of the paper discusses the approach to the study of political learning among the elites; the second part examines approaches to research of political culture among the masses; and the third part outlines an alternative approach to political learning derived from Jürgen Habermas’s theory of “communicative action”. In the paper these approaches are applied to the study of a territory of exclusion, conflict, and popular organisation (a group of favelas in downtown Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Finally, the paper outlines some procedures to achieve a more general understanding of political learning

The Role of Attractiveness and Aggression in High School Popularity

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Borch, Casey; Hyde, Allen; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.

2011-01-01

This study examines the effects of physical attractiveness and aggression on popularity among high school students. Previous work has found positive relationships between aggression and popularity and physical attractiveness and popularity. The current study goes beyond this work by examining the interactive effects of physical attractiveness and…

Who is Everyone's Darling in Cyberspace? The Characteristics of Popular Online Daters

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Chih-Chien Wang

2010-06-01

Full Text Available Online dating current is a popular activity in cyberspace. More and more people make new friends and find their partners through online dating web sites. There is an interesting observation that some people are more popular than others in online dating web sites. The current study focuses on the personal profile characteristics that make one a popular dater. By two field surveys, this study discusses the relationship between online daters' personal profiles and their popularity. The first survey investigated 800 online daters' profiles from dating web sites. The statistical analysis results indicated thatphysical body types and looks, education level, occupation, personality, and interests were characteristics that influenced the popularity of online daters, while significant gender differences were found in the characteristics that related to popularity of online daters. The second survey searched 960 online daters with profiles of popular and unpopular characteristics. By observing the popularity of these online daters, it was found that those with "popular" characteristics also were the popular daters and those with "unpopular" characteristics were the unpopular daters. This may serve as evidence that the found personal profile characteristics were indeed factors influencing the popularity of the online daters.

The evaluation of popular music in the United States, Germany and the Netherlands: a comparison of the use of high art and popular aesthetic criteria

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van Venrooij, A.; Schmutz, V.

2010-01-01

Popular music has apparently gained much in status and artistic legitimacy. Some have argued that popular music criticism has assimilated the evaluative criteria traditionally associated with high art aesthetics to legitimate pop music as a serious art form, while others have claimed that popular

Composing, Songwriting, and Producing: Informing Popular Music Pedagogy

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Tobias, Evan S.

2013-01-01

In forwarding comprehensive popular music pedagogies, music educators might acknowledge and address expanded notions of composition in popular music that include processes of recording, engineering, mixing, and producing along with the technologies, techniques, and ways of being musical that encompass these processes. This article advances a…

Incorporating popularity in a personalized news recommender system

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Nirmal Jonnalagedda

2016-06-01

Full Text Available Online news reading has become a widely popular way to read news articles from news sources around the globe. With the enormous amount of news articles available, users are easily overwhelmed by information of little interest to them. News recommender systems help users manage this flood by recommending articles based on user interests rather than presenting articles in order of their occurrence. We present our research on developing personalized news recommendation system with the help of a popular micro-blogging service, “Twitter.” News articles are ranked based on the popularity of the article identified from Twitter’s public timeline. In addition, users construct profiles based on their interests and news articles are also ranked based on their match to the user profile. By integrating these two approaches, we present a hybrid news recommendation model that recommends interesting news articles to the user based on their popularity as well as their relevance to the user profile.

Emergence of Long-Term Memory in Popularity

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Soh, Hyungjoon; Hong, Joo Hyung; Jeong, Jaeseung; Jeong, Hawoong

2017-01-01

Popularity describes the dynamics of mass attention, and is a part of a broader class of population dynamics in ecology and social science literature. Studying accurate model of popularity is important for quantifying spreading of novelty, memes, and influences in human society. Although logistic equation and similar class of nonlinear differential equation formulates traditional population dynamics well, part of the deviation in long-term prediction is stated, yet fully understood. Recently,...

Social Intelligence and Academic Achievement as Predictors of Adolescent Popularity

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Meijs, Noortje; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; Scholte, Ron H. J.; Segers, Eliane; Spijkerman, Renske

2010-01-01

This study compared the effects of social intelligence and cognitive intelligence, as measured by academic achievement, on adolescent popularity in two school contexts. A distinction was made between sociometric popularity, a measure of acceptance, and perceived popularity, a measure of social dominance. Participants were 512, 14-15 year-old…

The performance of identity in Chinese popular music

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Groenewegen, Jeroen

2011-01-01

Popular music in Chinese languages both reflects and influences how its audiences perceive themselves and their position in the world around them. This book analyses the role of popular music in identity formation through detailed comparisons of the pop star Faye Wong, the rock band Second Hand Rose

Hábitat popular. Resistencia cultural materializada

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Paula Peyloubet

2006-01-01

Full Text Available En este artículo se presenta un enfoque alternativo acerca del valor del hábitat popular. Se considera su producción como un valor en sí mismo, intangible, donde se expresa el acervo cultural de los diversos pueblos que componen el Hábitat Popular materializado en Arquitectura de alto contenido simbólico. Se construyen los argumentos de este enfoque a partir de concepciones sociológicas y antropológicas que dilucidan la semiótica de esta expresión física tan singular y siempre presente en nuestras ciudades latinoamericanas.

Popular culture and tourism: the case of music tourism

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Metodijeski, Dejan; Stojanoski, Hristo

2014-01-01

The subject of research in this paper is the popular culture and tourism analysed from the perspective of the music aspect of tourism. Although tourism and music can be characterized as a popular culture, these two terms are not analysed individually. Instead, this research is taking into consideration their mutual relation and synergy. This paper is making an attempt to define the popular culture, tourism and music tourism through numerous examples of music tourism around the globe. In ad...

Competition-induced criticality in a model of meme popularity.

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Gleeson, James P; Ward, Jonathan A; O'Sullivan, Kevin P; Lee, William T

2014-01-31

Heavy-tailed distributions of meme popularity occur naturally in a model of meme diffusion on social networks. Competition between multiple memes for the limited resource of user attention is identified as the mechanism that poises the system at criticality. The popularity growth of each meme is described by a critical branching process, and asymptotic analysis predicts power-law distributions of popularity with very heavy tails (exponent α<2, unlike preferential-attachment models), similar to those seen in empirical data.

Competition-Induced Criticality in a Model of Meme Popularity

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Gleeson, James P.; Ward, Jonathan A.; O'Sullivan, Kevin P.; Lee, William T.

2014-01-01

Heavy-tailed distributions of meme popularity occur naturally in a model of meme diffusion on social networks. Competition between multiple memes for the limited resource of user attention is identified as the mechanism that poises the system at criticality. The popularity growth of each meme is described by a critical branching process, and asymptotic analysis predicts power-law distributions of popularity with very heavy tails (exponent α <2, unlike preferential-attachment models), similar to those seen in empirical data.

Question popularity analysis and prediction in community question answering services.

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Liu, Ting; Zhang, Wei-Nan; Cao, Liujuan; Zhang, Yu

2014-01-01

With the blooming of online social media applications, Community Question Answering (CQA) services have become one of the most important online resources for information and knowledge seekers. A large number of high quality question and answer pairs have been accumulated, which allow users to not only share their knowledge with others, but also interact with each other. Accordingly, volumes of efforts have been taken to explore the questions and answers retrieval in CQA services so as to help users to finding the similar questions or the right answers. However, to our knowledge, less attention has been paid so far to question popularity in CQA. Question popularity can reflect the attention and interest of users. Hence, predicting question popularity can better capture the users' interest so as to improve the users' experience. Meanwhile, it can also promote the development of the community. In this paper, we investigate the problem of predicting question popularity in CQA. We first explore the factors that have impact on question popularity by employing statistical analysis. We then propose a supervised machine learning approach to model these factors for question popularity prediction. The experimental results show that our proposed approach can effectively distinguish the popular questions from unpopular ones in the Yahoo! Answers question and answer repository.

Homepage of the Philosophy Meets Popular Culture Initiative

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Grund, Cynthia M.

2008-01-01

-modern students, whose knowledge of various aspects of popular culture often is as encyclopedic as their classical liberal arts background is limited (some might say impoverished).   One goal of the PHILOSOPHY meets POPULAR CULTURE homepage (launched on October 7, 2008)  is to provide a forum for researchers, teachers...

Popular Media, Critical Pedagogy, and Inner City Youth

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Leard, Diane Wishart; Lashua, Brett

2006-01-01

In this article, we explored ways youth, traditionally silenced, engaged with popular culture to voice experiences and challenge dominant narratives of public schools and daily lives. We also considered how educators use popular culture as critical pedagogy with inner city youth. Through ethnographic bricolage and case study methods, and drawing…

Diseño, desarrollo e implementación de un sistema de control e inventario para el centro de difusión y documentación del Consejo Nacional de las Mujeres

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Guanochanga Guzmán, Ana Lucía; Rueda Macas, Diego Fernando

2011-01-01

El proyecto con tema "Diseño, Desarrollo e Implementación de un Sistema de Control e Inventario para el Centro de Difusión y Documentación del Consejo Nacional de las Mujeres" busca establecer la problemática así como su solución en el ingreso y egreso de los datos sobre los materiales donados y difundidos que producen el trspapeleo e ingreso erróneo de documentos a la organización, de esta forma optimizando de mejor manera en el manejo del inventario sobre los materiales con los que se cuent...

Los Consejos de Amalia a su hija Laura. Propaganda moral y construcciones genéricas en un texto escolar a comienzos del siglo XX en Argentina

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Adrián Cammarota

2012-01-01

Full Text Available El trabajo analiza un texto escolar utilizado en las escuelas primarias a principios del siglo XX. El texto, que no fue único en su tipo, da cuenta de una serie de tópicos sostenidos asiduamente en las escuelas para firmar una supuesta naturaleza “femenina” y “masculina”. Los Consejos delimitaban el rol de las niñas en la futura vida social, acorde con los preceptos que estructuraron la denominada teoría de la domesticidad. Consideramos que esta obra tenía como finalidad defender un supuesto legado natural. Este parecía peligrar ante los avatares del proceso de modernización por el cual atravesó la Argentina a fines del siglo XIX, con el crecimiento urbano y su ingreso en el mercado mundial.

Alcances y límites del principio de la responsabilidad de proteger: actuación del consejo de seguridad frente al conflicto en libia en el 2011 y Siria durante el periodo 2011-2014.

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Perilla Silva, María del Pilar

2016-01-01

El propósito de este estudio de caso es determinar los alcances y límites de la Responsabilidad de Proteger, tomando como ejemplo la actuación del Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas ante el conflicto en Libia y Siria. Para esto es necesario analizar fuentes primarias documentos oficiales y secundarias como artículos académicos, para así comprobar que la evolución del concepto de soberanía ha permitido que se legitimen las intervenciones con fines humanitarios, ya que todos los Estados ti...

Fashion vs. function in cultural evolution: the case of dog breed popularity.

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Ghirlanda, Stefano; Acerbi, Alberto; Herzog, Harold; Serpell, James A

2013-01-01

We investigate the relationship between characteristics of dog breeds and their popularity between years 1926 and 2005. We consider breed health, longevity, and behavioral qualities such as aggressiveness, trainability, and fearfulness. We show that a breed's overall popularity, fluctuations in popularity, and rates of increase and decrease around popularity peaks show typically no correlation with these breed characteristics. One exception is the finding that more popular breeds tend to suffer from more inherited disorders. Our results support the hypothesis that dog breed popularity has been primarily determined by fashion rather than function.

Fashion vs. Function in Cultural Evolution: The Case of Dog Breed Popularity

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Ghirlanda, Stefano; Acerbi, Alberto; Herzog, Harold; Serpell, James A.

2013-01-01

We investigate the relationship between characteristics of dog breeds and their popularity between years 1926 and 2005. We consider breed health, longevity, and behavioral qualities such as aggressiveness, trainability, and fearfulness. We show that a breed's overall popularity, fluctuations in popularity, and rates of increase and decrease around popularity peaks show typically no correlation with these breed characteristics. One exception is the finding that more popular breeds tend to suffer from more inherited disorders. Our results support the hypothesis that dog breed popularity has been primarily determined by fashion rather than function. PMID:24040341

The sociology of popular music, interdisciplinarity and aesthetic autonomy.

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Marshall, Lee

2011-03-01

This paper considers the impact of interdisciplinarity upon sociological research, focusing on one particular case: the academic study of popular music. 'Popular music studies' is an area of research characterized by interdisciplinarity and, in keeping with broader intellectual trends, this approach is assumed to offer significant advantages. As such, popular music studies is broadly typical of contemporary intellectual and governmental attitudes regarding the best way to research specific topics. Such interdisciplinarity, however, has potential costs and this paper highlights one of the most significant: an over-emphasis upon shared substantive interests and subsequent undervaluation of shared epistemological understandings. The end result is a form of 'ghettoization' within sociology itself, with residents of any particular ghetto displaying little awareness of developments in neighbouring ghettos. Reporting from one such ghetto, this paper considers some of the ways in which the sociology of popular music has been limited by its positioning within an interdisciplinary environment and suggests two strategies for developing a more fully-realized sociology of popular music. First, based on the assumption that a sociological understanding of popular music shares much in common with a sociological understanding of everything else, this paper calls for increased intradisciplinary research between sociologists of varying specialisms. The second strategy, however, involves a reconceptualization of the disciplinary limits of sociology, as it argues that a sociology of popular music needs to accept musical specificity as part of its remit. Such acceptance has thus far been limited not only by an interdisciplinary context but also by the long-standing sociological scepticism toward the analysis of aesthetic objects. As such, this paper offers an intervention into wider debates concerning the remit of sociological enquiry, and whether it is ever appropriate for sociological

Resistance to Western Popular and Pop-Culture in India

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Algis Mickūnas

2017-03-01

Full Text Available The essay is designed to present the phenomena of popular culture, its difference from pop culture, both products of modern West, and their impact on film and advertisement media in India. First, the discussion focuses on the Critical School which proposed the initial thesis of commodification of culture with a resultant “lowering” of standards to appeal to “the masses”, and an appeal to the “average” tastes. In the essay an argument is presented that pop culture is a “critique” of popular culture and is an elitist position attempting to shock popular mores and media content. Given this setting, it is argued that while India has followed both the globalizing popular and pop cultures, neither are adequate to encompass Indian media, specifically their film content.

A Contribution to the Definition of the Concept of Popular Culture: An Empirical Inquiry into the Epistemological Shortcomings of Popular Conceptions about Pretrial Detention in Serbia

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Saša Nedeljković

2016-02-01

Full Text Available In an attempt to ascertain the functionality of certain definitions of the concept of popular culture, or rather, to point out certain methodological options for the study of popular culture through analyzing certain popular conceptions, I have sought out those areas of social life which are under-represented in popular culture. I consider their avoidance symptomatic, worthy of attention and suitable for analysis. Discovering pretrial confinement as one such neglected area or topic, and trying to indirectly discover what might be the cause of this, I have analyzed and systematized those of its characteristics and elements which do not fulfill the requirements of the syndrome of popularity as it is typically understood.

Popular Music in Malaysia: Education from the outside

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Shah, Shahanum Mohamad

2006-01-01

The musical preference of most Malaysian young people, their knowledge of music in general and popular music in particular are shaped through informal music education. Factors that contribute to this include the wide dissemination of popular music, the status of music in the school curriculum, and the perception of most Malaysians towards music.…

Vulgarization of popular music tradition in Serbia

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Božilović, Nikola

2011-01-01

The vulgarization of tradition in this paper implies the alteration, false representation, and adaptation of tradition in line with the interests of certain individuals or groups in power. The author observes popular music in Serbia (jazz, pop, rock) under a sociological magnifying glass, attempting to explain and motivate the thesis which proposes a valid historical foundation of popular culture and music in the social life of Serbia. In his opinion, this kind of tradition is being 'swept un...

The Process’s Effectiveness in Popular Actions

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Alencar, Rafael Vieira de; Albuquerque, Felipe Braga

2016-01-01

The aim of this work the study of the limits and possibilities of the known " general power of realization of judicial protection ". Concomitantly were delineated the structural goals of executory judge's powers, notably with the aim of establishing a study related to the procedure of displaying documents in popular action, the application of a daily fine for noncompliance and the presumption of veracity of the facts narrated in the popular original. As regards the methodology, it has been ca...

Personalized Popular Blog Recommender Service for Mobile Applications

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Tsai, Pei-Yun; Liu, Duen-Ren

Weblogs have emerged as a new communication and publication medium on the Internet for diffusing the latest useful information. Providing value-added mobile services such as blog articles is increasingly important to attract mobile users to mobile commerce. There are, however, a tremendous number of blog articles, and mobile users generally have difficulty in browsing weblogs. Accordingly, providing mobile users with blog articles that suit their interests is an important issue. Very little research, however, focuses on this issue. In this work, we propose a Customized Content Service on a mobile device (m-CCS) to filter and push blog articles to mobile users. The m-CCS can predict the latest popular blog topics by forecasting the trend of time-sensitive popularity of weblogs. Furthermore, to meet the diversified interest of mobile users, m-CCS further analyzes users’ browsing logs to derive their interests, which are then used to recommend their preferred popular blog topics and articles. The prototype system of m-CCS demonstrates that the system can effectively recommend mobile users desirable blog articles with respect to both popularity and personal interests.

THE CURRENT SYRIAN POPULAR VIEW OF THE JEWS

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Alejandra Álvarez Suárez

2013-12-01

Full Text Available The remaining small Jewish communities of Syria run the risk of disappearing completely due to the marginalization suffered as a consequence of the political situation since 1948. The Eli Cohen affair (1965, the Six-­Day War (1967, and the Yom Kippur War (1973 made the Baathist authorities of the country consider definitively the Syrian Jews as suspected Zionists or Zionist sympathizers. Nevertheless, in Syrian popular perceptions, the view of the Jews and Judaism did not always coincide with the ideology and propaganda emanating from the regime. In fact it is very interesting to note how good memories of times past, about an erstwhile coexistence with members of the Jewish community, still survive among many Syrians, both Muslims and Christians, belonging to the so-­called “urban middle class.” This paper evaluates some examples, in the forms of anecdotes, popular sayings and proverbs, dealing with the Jews, and popularized in Syrian colloquialisms, in order to reveal some of the popular views of Judaism and Jews within Syrian society.

Life Expectancy and Cause of Death in Popular Musicians: Is the Popular Musician Lifestyle the Road to Ruin?

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Kenny, Dianna T; Asher, Anthony

2016-03-01

Does a combination of lifestyle pressures and personality, as reflected in genre, lead to the early death of popular musicians? We explored overall mortality, cause of death, and changes in patterns of death over time and by music genre membership in popular musicians who died between 1950 and 2014. The death records of 13,195 popular musicians were coded for age and year of death, cause of death, gender, and music genre. Musician death statistics were compared with age-matched deaths in the US population using actuarial methods. Although the common perception is of a glamorous, free-wheeling lifestyle for this occupational group, the figures tell a very different story. Results showed that popular musicians have shortened life expectancy compared with comparable general populations. Results showed excess mortality from violent deaths (suicide, homicide, accidental death, including vehicular deaths and drug overdoses) and liver disease for each age group studied compared with population mortality patterns. These excess deaths were highest for the under-25-year age group and reduced chronologically thereafter. Overall mortality rates were twice as high compared with the population when averaged over the whole age range. Mortality impacts differed by music genre. In particular, excess suicides and liver-related disease were observed in country, metal, and rock musicians; excess homicides were observed in 6 of the 14 genres, in particular hip hop and rap musicians. For accidental death, actual deaths significantly exceeded expected deaths for country, folk, jazz, metal, pop, punk, and rock.

Caminando el territorio desde la diversidad social, poblacional, territorial y cultural. el consejo territorial de planeación distrital, ctpd, piensa la ciudad en el año de la planeación en bogotá d. c.

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Contreras Santos, Maira Judith

2014-01-01

El libro es un resultado del proyecto de extensión solidaria “participación y acción territorial por una ciudad incluyente” suscrito entre la Facultad de Artes de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia y la Secretaría Distrital de Planeación, para acompañar el despliegue del plan de acción del Consejo Territorial de Planeación Distrital —CTPD—, que se desagrega en tres capítulos.

Caminando el territorio desde la diversidad social, poblacional, territorial y cultural. El Consejo Territorial de Planeación Distrital, CTPD, piensa la ciudad en el año de la planeación en Bogotá D. C.

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Maira Judith Contreras Santos

2014-01-01

El libro es un resultado del proyecto de extensión solidaria “participación y acción territorial por una ciudad incluyente” suscrito entre la Facultad de Artes de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia y la Secretaría Distrital de Planeación, para acompañar el despliegue del plan de acción del Consejo Territorial de Planeación Distrital —CTPD—, que se desagrega en tres capítulos. 

Books and the popularization of science

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Buchanan, R.

1991-01-01

This article discusses best-selling science books, the characteristics of the audience for popular science books, and the role of books within science popularization and science education. Best-selling science books have been rare, but generally readable. Regional books, also important sources of scientific information, aim at much smaller, far more price-sensitive audiences. Many successful regional, nontechnical science books are readable, heavily illustrated, and in some cases, cross-disciplinary. To increase the attentive audience for scientific information, improvement in science education is necessary, and the most efficacious role for scientific institutions may be the production of materials that can be easily incorporated into school curricula. ?? 1991 Springer.

Los Juegos Olímpicos Populares

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Aguado Navarro, Carlos; Campos Mesa, María del Carmen

2013-01-01

Se presenta un trabajo dentro del Máster de Educación Secundaria, donde se plantea una innovación a la hora de dar tratamiento práctico al trabajo de la condición física utilizando los juegos populares, dinamizándolo todo desde la temática de los Juegos Olímpicos, realizando los Juegos Olímpicos Populares. Nos ubicamos dentro del Área de Educación Física en la Educación Secundaria, concretamente en el primer curso. Se realizarán diferentes jornadas de competición, como en los Juegos Olímpi...

Understanding the Exhibitionary Characteristics of Popular Music Museums

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Charles Fairchild

2017-03-01

Full Text Available The literature on the popular music museum has primarily focused on the study of heritage and cultural memory with a secondary focus on tourism. Given the unprecedented expansion of the museum sector worldwide in recent decades, which has produced an increasing number of major museums dedicated to popular music, it is an opportune time to expand this range of analytical concerns. Specifically, the development of popular music museums has not yet been closely examined within the broader historical trajectory of the so-called ‘new museum.’ This article seeks to outline the range of exhibitionary types commonly used in a range of high-profile popular music museums in pursuit of this line of inquiry. The goal is not simply to produce a generic survey or typology of displays, but to place the use of different forms of museum display within the specific historical trajectory that has produced steadily larger numbers of these kinds of museums in recent years. I organize these exhibitionary types into two broad streams of museum exhibition practice implied in the historical survey presented here: a populist-vernacular stream of museum display and an institutional-educational one. I seek to place the exhibitionary practices of contemporary popular music museums in a broader and longer trajectory of similar practices in order to get a more grounded sense of the more important characteristics of these kinds of museums.

Style popularity and the comovement of stocks

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Wouters, T.; Plantinga, A.

2006-01-01

We examine to what extent the popularity of an investment style can be attributed to style investing. The style investing hypothesis predicts that assets in the same style show strong comovement with respect to their underlying fundamentals and that reclassifying assets into a new style raises its correlation with that style. We test this prediction by studying how comovement varies with proxies of popularity. We use different kinds of data, such as data on stocks, mutual funds, IPO?s and fin...

O Banco Popular Português do Porto

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Hugo Silveira Pereira

2012-01-01

Full Text Available In the midst of the First World War, an entrepreneur in Porto decided to create a new bank, a different bank that should fill in a void in the Portuguese financing system, a popular bank. Emulating what was being done in Central Europe this popular bank had one great objective: to lend money to those who normally couldn’t afford to borrow money. Unfortunately, the good intentions of those investors went up in smoke when they realized that such good intention weren’t profitable nor could they be able to keep the bank running. Quickly did this popular bank became a commercial bank like so many others that were operating in the Portuguese market at the time. After a promising start, the bank suddenly went through some hardships, due to the crisis of the 1920’s and to bad investments, and eventually was shut down, after eleven years of activity.

Guitar hero: From icon of popular culture to nostalgic self-design

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Popadić Milan

2013-01-01

This paper aims to interpret the transformations of the “guitar hero”, from the icon of popular culture to models of nostalgic selfdesign, meaning transformations from generally recognizable figure in the context of popular culture to mimetic patterns based in medium of contemporary technologies. The phrase “guitar hero”, in its basic meaning represents a specific phenomenon in popular culture and popular music of the second half of the twentieth century. Guitar hero is a performer with...

Popular Music Policy

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Frith, Simon; Cloonan, Martin

2008-01-01

This special issue of Popular Music has its origins in a seminar organised at the University of Stirling in 2004. This meeting, one of a series on cultural policy, brought together researchers from a number of European countries who were asked to describe state music policy in their respective countries and to reflect on what differences, if any, such policies had made to recent national music history. As the seminar’s organisers, we were interested in a couple of issues: first, how policy ap...

Analysis of user activities on popular medical forums

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Kamalov, M. V.; Dobrynin, V. Y.; Balykina, Y. E.; Martynov, R. S.

2017-10-01

The paper is devoted to detailed investigation of users’ behavior and level of expertise on online medical forums. Two popular forums were analyzed in terms of presence of experts who answer health related questions and participate in discussions. This study provides insight into the quality of medical information that one can get from the web resources, and also illustrates relationship between approved medical experts and popular authors of the considered forums. During experiments several machine learning and natural language processing methods were evaluated against to available web content to get further understanding of structure and distribution of information about medicine available online nowadays. As a result of this study the hypothesis of existing correlation between approved medical experts and popular authors has been rejected.

Hedging in Popular Scientific Articles on Medicine

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Csongor Alexandra

2013-04-01

Full Text Available Introduction: The aim of this study is to investigate the process of rewriting medical research papers for the lay public. The latest findings of medical research often appear in the popular media. It is interesting to see what happens to a scientific text when it is transmitted to a new audience. Hedging is usually interpreted as a characteristic feature of scientific discourse. This study focuses on hedging, which also tends to be applied in popularized articles in the field of medicine.

Autism Spectrum Disorder in Popular Media: Storied Reflections of Societal Views

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Belcher, Christina; Maich, Kimberly

2014-01-01

This article explores how storied representations of characters with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are typified in a world that is increasingly influenced by popular media. Twenty commercially published children's picture books, popular novels, mainstream television programs, and popular movies from 2006-2012 were selected using purposive,…

Popularity Prediction Tool for ATLAS Distributed Data Management

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Beermann, T.; Maettig, P.; Stewart, G.; Lassnig, M.; Garonne, V.; Barisits, M.; Vigne, R.; Serfon, C.; Goossens, L.; Nairz, A.; Molfetas, A.; Atlas Collaboration

2014-06-01

This paper describes a popularity prediction tool for data-intensive data management systems, such as ATLAS distributed data management (DDM). It is fed by the DDM popularity system, which produces historical reports about ATLAS data usage, providing information about files, datasets, users and sites where data was accessed. The tool described in this contribution uses this historical information to make a prediction about the future popularity of data. It finds trends in the usage of data using a set of neural networks and a set of input parameters and predicts the number of accesses in the near term future. This information can then be used in a second step to improve the distribution of replicas at sites, taking into account the cost of creating new replicas (bandwidth and load on the storage system) compared to gain of having new ones (faster access of data for analysis). To evaluate the benefit of the redistribution a grid simulator is introduced that is able replay real workload on different data distributions. This article describes the popularity prediction method and the simulator that is used to evaluate the redistribution.

Popularity prediction tool for ATLAS distributed data management

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Beermann, T; Maettig, P; Stewart, G; Lassnig, M; Garonne, V; Barisits, M; Vigne, R; Serfon, C; Goossens, L; Nairz, A; Molfetas, A

2014-01-01

This paper describes a popularity prediction tool for data-intensive data management systems, such as ATLAS distributed data management (DDM). It is fed by the DDM popularity system, which produces historical reports about ATLAS data usage, providing information about files, datasets, users and sites where data was accessed. The tool described in this contribution uses this historical information to make a prediction about the future popularity of data. It finds trends in the usage of data using a set of neural networks and a set of input parameters and predicts the number of accesses in the near term future. This information can then be used in a second step to improve the distribution of replicas at sites, taking into account the cost of creating new replicas (bandwidth and load on the storage system) compared to gain of having new ones (faster access of data for analysis). To evaluate the benefit of the redistribution a grid simulator is introduced that is able replay real workload on different data distributions. This article describes the popularity prediction method and the simulator that is used to evaluate the redistribution.

Popular Music in Southeast Asia : Banal Beats, Muted Histories

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Barendregt, Bart; Keppy, Peter; Schulte Nordholt, Henk

2017-01-01

'Popular Music in Southeast Asia: Banal Beats, Muted Histories' offers a cultural history of modern Southeast Asia from the original vantage point of popular music since the 1920s up to the present. By creatively connecting indigenous musical styles with foreign musical genres, Southeast Asians

Popularity and Adolescent Friendship Networks : Selection and Influence Dynamics

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Dijkstra, Jan Kornelis; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; Borch, Casey

This study examined the dynamics of popularity in adolescent friendship networks across 3 years in middle school. Longitudinal social network modeling was used to identify selection and influence in the similarity of popularity among friends. It was argued that lower status adolescents strive to

Popularity and Adolescent Friendship Networks: Selection and Influence Dynamics

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Dijkstra, J.K.; Cillessen, A.H.N.; Borch, C.

2013-01-01

This study examined the dynamics of popularity in adolescent friendship networks across 3 years in middle school. Longitudinal social network modeling was used to identify selection and influence in the similarity of popularity among friends. It was argued that lower status adolescents strive to

Popular NREL-Developed Transportation Mobile App Launches on Android

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Platform | News | NREL Popular NREL-Developed Transportation Mobile App Launches on Android Platform Popular NREL-Developed Transportation Mobile App Launches on Android Platform May 23, 2017 More since the new Android version of the Alternative Fueling Station Locator App launched last week. The U.S

THE REFLECTIONS OF POPULAR CULTURE IN POSTER DESIGN

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İbrahim Gökhan CEYLAN

2015-09-01

Full Text Available Poster is a product of graphic prepared for ıntorducing a culture or goods; or tranmitting a message. We can come across a poster almost in anywhere. As a product of graphic, a poster hav found its own place in many art movements and that’s why one should have the same concern for it as for others in the aspects of design and artistic view. The most important target of a commercial or advertisement is to reach the exact target audience at the exact time. Poster from its very begining, has became an area that needs a speciality in appliyng. Poster design aims to leave the neccessary effect whether by introducing the idea/product or by directing the target audience to the idea/ product. It is for sure that while moving the target audience to the aimed idea/ product, it is more easily-remembered using the popular cultural ıbjects which have a profound effect on the target audıence. Popular culture is mass culture. It is aimed to move the massive population by using the popular people, products and etc. In fact popular culture is a society to burden the creatvity and prodcution. It also a reason to resemble the society each other and it is a unit of constant changing. It is a consumption society in another saying. It supports consumption. In poster designs, it can be seen that designs are done under the effect of these popular culture. It is via this poiciy that consumers are directed to the target message or product.

The Popularity of Picture Books with Television Tie-in

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Patricia R. Ladd

2011-06-01

Full Text Available This study analyzes circulation statistics of television tie-in picture books from the Wake County Public Library System in North Carolina to determine their popularity among patrons. Caldecott winning picture books were used as a point of comparison. This study also examined OPAC holdings from North Carolina public libraries to determine television tie-in picture book popularity among collection builders. The findings of the study show that television tie-in picture books are found to some degree in the vast majority of North Carolina public libraries, and are more popular than award winners in the Wake County system.

Vestígios da cultura popular em Angela Lago

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Silva, Celso Sisto

2004-01-01

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-graduação em Literatura A presente dissertação elabora, sob o domínio da cultura popular, e configura, sob o viés do conto popular recontado, a leitura de algumas obras da escritora brasileira para crianças, Angela Lago. Pretende-se, em primeiro lugar, identificar nos recontos da escritora, a persistência dos modelos narrativos que a tradição popular de cunho escrito mantev...

Implicit Associations with Popularity in Early Adolescence: An Approach-Avoidance Analysis

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Lansu, Tessa A. M.; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; Karremans, Johan C.

2012-01-01

This study examined 241 early adolescents' implicit and explicit associations with popularity. The peer status and gender of both the targets and the perceivers were considered. Explicit associations with popularity were assessed with sociometric methods. Implicit associations with popularity were assessed with an approach-avoidance task (AAT).…

Música popular brasileira, indústria cultural e identidade

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José Roberto Zan

2001-01-01

Full Text Available This text shows an overview approach of Brazilian popular music raise, connected with the development of the phonograph industry and its market in Brazil. It includes a tentative periodical division of Brazilian popular music history, in order to enlarge the understanding of how different ways symbolic elements related to the issue of identity were translated and reproduced by that cultural expression.

Does Humor Explain Why Relationally Aggressive Adolescents Are Popular?

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Bowker, Julie C.; Etkin, Rebecca G.

2013-01-01

The association between relational aggression and popularity during early adolescence is well established. Yet, little is known about why, exactly, relationally aggressive young adolescents are able to achieve and maintain high popular status among peers. The present study investigated the mediating role of humor in the association between relational aggression and popularity during early adolescence. Also considered was whether the association between relational aggression and humor varies according to adolescents’ gender and their friends’ levels of relational aggression. Participants were 265 sixth-grade students (48% female; 41% racial/ethnic minority; Mage = 12.04 years) who completed peer nomination and friendship measures in their classrooms at two time points (Wave 1: February; Wave 2: May). The results indicated that Wave 1 relational aggression was related to Wave 1 and 2 popularity indirectly through Wave 1 humor, after accounting for the effects of Wave 1 physical aggression, ethnicity, and gender. Additional analyses showed that relational aggression and humor were related significantly only for boys and for young adolescents with highly relationally aggressive friends. The results support the need for further research on humor and aggression during early adolescence and other mechanisms by which relationally aggressive youth achieve high popular status. PMID:24136377

Temporal associations of popularity and alcohol use among middle school students.

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Tucker, Joan S; Miles, Jeremy N V; D'Amico, Elizabeth J; Zhou, Annie J; Green, Harold D; Shih, Regina A

2013-01-01

The goal of this study is to better understand the longitudinal cross-lagged associations between popularity, assessed through self-rating and peer nominations, and alcohol use among middle school students. The analytical sample comprises 1,835 sixth- to eighth-grade students who were initially recruited from three California middle schools and surveyed in the fall and spring semesters of 2 academic years. Students reported on their background characteristics, past-month alcohol use, and perceived popularity. Additionally, students provided school-based friendship nominations, which were used to calculate peer-nominated popularity. A cross-lagged regression approach within a structural equation modeling framework was used to examine the longitudinal relationship between popularity (self-rated and peer-nominated) and alcohol use. There was a statistically significant (p = .024) association between peer-nominated popularity and the probability of alcohol consumption at the subsequent survey, but not vice versa. Our results suggest that in a scenario where 8% of students are past-month drinkers, each increase of five friendship nominations is associated with a 30% greater risk of being a current drinker at the next wave. We found no evidence of longitudinal associations between past-month alcohol consumption and self-rated popularity. Popularity is a risk factor for drinking during the middle school years, with peer-nominated popularity being more predictive of use than self-perceptions of popularity. To inform alcohol prevention efforts for middle school students, additional research is needed to better understand why adolescents with a larger number of school-based friendship ties are more inclined to drink. Copyright © 2013 Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Donkeys and Superteachers: Structural Adjustment and Popular Education in Latin America.

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Fischman, Gustavo

1998-01-01

Explores the challenges and possibilities of popular education by examining the educational field after the application of structural adjustment programs in Latin America. Presents a critique of Gramsci's model of the organic intellectual as understood by many within popular education. Offers the specific example of a popular-education workshop in…

Misrepresentation of UK homicide characteristics in popular culture.

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Brown, J; Hughes, N S; McGlen, M C; Crichton, J H M

2014-03-01

The homicide statistics of a popular UK television fictional crime series and the former Lothian & Borders police force region, Scotland were compared. This comparison was used to consider the implications for public attitudes which may influence the adoption of public health interventions to reduce homicide. 217 homicides were identified by 105 perpetrators in the television series 'Midsomer Murders' between 1997 and 2011; these were compared to 55 homicides by 53 perpetrators in the regional sample between 2006 and 2011. The numbers of serial killings (p homicides, female perpetrators (p homicide by kitchen knives (p homicide rates. If the popular perception of UK homicides is influenced by popular culture, the importance of such a public health intervention may not be apparent. Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ltd and Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine. All rights reserved.

El Consejo Nacional de Población a 40 años de la institucionalización de una política explícita de población en México

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Carlos WELTI-CHANES

2014-01-01

El artículo tiene como objetivo hacer una reflexión sobre el papel del Consejo Nacional de Po - blación de México, en un recorrido por los 40 años de existencia del organismo, creado en 1974 a partir de la expedición de una Ley General de Población que tuvo como objetivo central incidir sobre el crecimiento poblacional a partir de una política explícita en la materia. El texto trata de hacer evidentes las limitaciones para incidir en la evolución de las variables demográficas, más allá de red...

The Popular Front elections in the province of Alicante | Las elecciones del Frente Popular en la provincia de Alicante

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Juan Martínez Leal

2012-12-01

Full Text Available The Popular Front elections were the last and most critical one made during the Second Spanish Republic. Confronted the Spanish in two major electoral blocks, these elections were experienced with particular intensity in the province of Alicante, where the Republic had taken deep roots, especially in the industrial towns and in the capital. For the first time, according to the official canvass of the Provincial Electoral Board, results on scrutiny of votes are sorted out by town in order to compose a comprehensive electoral map of the whole province. The Popular Front won the elections in a clear but tight manner, although, above all, it was a democratic and clean process. | Las elecciones del Frente Popular fueron las últimas y más decisivas realizadas durante la Segunda República Española. Confrontados los españoles en dos grandes bloques electorales, estas elecciones se vivieron con una especial intensidad en la provincia de Alicante, donde la República había echado hondas raíces, especialmente en los pueblos industriales y en la capital. Por primera vez, en base al Acta del Escrutinio Oficial de la Junta del Censo Electoral Provincial se recogen los resultados ordenados pueblo a pueblo para componer un completo mapa electoral de toda la provincia. El Frente Popular venció en los comicios de forma clara pero ajustada y, sobre todo, de forma limpia y democrática.

La reemergencia del discurso nacional-popular en la nueva izquierda latinoamericana

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Cancino, Hugo

2012-01-01

En este artículo analizamos la reemergencia del discurso nacional-popular. Los movimientos nacional-populares son un fenómeno recurrente en la historia de América Latina. Las revoluciones y los movimientos sociales más significativos del siglo XX fueron los movimientos nacional-populares. Para...... nuevo Estado, a través de la democracia radical, los cuales sustituyen la oligarquía del Estado y de la Nación Criolla que excluyeron indígenas y mestizos del poder y de la riqueza. Palabras claves: Discurso; Nacional-popular; Izquierda...

Indexing of Popular Periodicals: The State of the Art

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Aveney, Brian; Slade, Rod

1978-01-01

Nine indexing services of popular periodicals are discussed in terms of content, coverage, and characteristics: Access, Consumers Index, Index to Free Periodicals, New York Times Information Bank, Magazine Index, Monthly Periodicals Index, New Periodicals Index, Popular Periodical Index, and Readers Guide. A table indicates coverage for each index…

El Consejo de Cruzada durante el reinado de Felipe III: los comisarios Juan de Zúñiga, Felipe de Tassis, Martín de Córdoba y Diego de Guzmán y Benavides

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Hortal Muñoz, José Eloy

2014-06-01

Full Text Available The Council of Crusade of the Spanish Monarchy has been scarcely studied, due, among other things, to its own structure and the difficulties to find archival sources to study it. Nevertheless, its relevance was out of doubt, though it must manage enormous incomes, that became ordinaries after its primigenious extraordinary condition. Its process of development towards the XVI and XVIIth century was closely linked as to the factional fights as to the relations that the Spanish monarchs maintained with the Pope. Thus, in the moments of triumph of the groups that mantained the hegemony of the castillian against those more universalist or close to the Pope, the Council of Finances had more chances to intervene in the incomes proceeding from the “Tres Gracias”. As long as, when the triumphants were those close to Rome, its independence was closer, as it happened during the majority of the reign of Philip III. The aim of the present article is to contribute to a better understanding of this council during Philip III reign trough a prosopographical study of its principal members, mainly the 4 commissaries of Crusade that it had during those years.El Consejo de Cruzada de la Monarquía Hispana apenas ha sido estudiado con anterioridad, debido, entre otras cuestiones, a su propia estructura y a la dificultad en encontrar fuentes para su estudio. Sin embargo, su relevancia está fuera de toda duda, ya que se encargaba de gestionar unos enormes ingresos, que pasaron a convertirse en ordinarios, pese a su aparente y primigenia condición de extraordinarios. El devenir de este Consejo a lo largo de los siglos XVI y XVII, estuvo íntimamente ligado tanto a las luchas faccionales como a las relaciones que los monarcas Austrias mantuvieron con el Papado. Así, en los momentos de triunfo cortesano de aquellos grupos que propugnaban una hegemonía de lo castellano frente a aquellos más universalistas, el Consejo de Hacienda tuvo mayores posibilidades de

Desarrollo de actividades recreativas en la comunidad a través de la Práctica Laboral Investigativa

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Élida Balbuena Imbernón

2007-09-01

Full Text Available Este trabajo expondrá algunos criterios y experiencias que se han ido acumulando a través de la Práctica Laboral Investigativa en una de las esferas de actuación de la Cultura Física: la recreación, la cual constituye una necesidad para la sociedad como satisfacción espiritual, física y mental de las personas. El consejo popular se encuentra situado en la comunidad rural de Gastón municipio Majibacoa donde existe un amplio consumo de alcohol, desempleados, cuenta con un nivel cultural medio. Con la ayuda del Presidente del Consejo Popular, la FMC, el Técnico de Recreación y la PNR se logró encaminar un trabajo que tuvo como punto de partida los gustos y preferencias de los pobladores, lográndo la realización de actividades recreativas - deportivas con niños en edad escolar quienes mostraron sus habilidades técnicas y alto nivel volitivo por participar. También se desarrollaron encuentros recreativos entre centros de trabajo para motivar la competitividad de forma sana, el deseo de jugar, así como las relaciones cordiales entre sus miembros. Dentro de las vivencias observadas la de mayor impacto fue la relacionada con las personas que consumen alcohol pues, mediante estas actividades se creo un espacio adecuado para que olvidaran parcialmente el consumo. Todo esto contribuyó a la formación de valores humanos como la honestidad, la solidaridad, respeto mutuo, junto con capacidades intelectuales y físicas entre otras potencialidades que propician el buen estado de ánimo mediante la práctica de juegos, deportes populares y tradicionales.

O constitucionalismo popular em uma leitura Rawlsiana

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Carlos

2014-12-01

Full Text Available O desenvolvimento da atividade política do Judiciário ao longo do século XX despertou posicionamentos críticos na teoria constitucional, podendo se destacar o Constitucionalismo Popular. Entre seus apontamentos, o Legislativo possuiria legitimidade para atuar com base em uma Constituição popular diariamente construída. Perante algumas imperfeições deixadas por esta vertente, utiliza-se a obra de John Rawls para indicar (I que questões políticas são enfrentadas pelas instituições democráticas que compõem a estrutura básica de uma sociedade bem-ordenada; e (II o papel desta Constituição popular pode ser exercido por elementos da teoria rawlsiana, quando os princípios de justiça identificam um parâmetro legitimador das deliberações democráticas e a razão pública permite que a atuação destas instituições seja acompanhada continuamente pelos cidadãos em nome das gerações futuras.

LECTURA DE CONTEXTO: LA EDUCACIÓN POPULAR COMO PRÁCTICA LIBERTARIA

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Diego Alejandro Muñoz Gaviria

2013-06-01

Full Text Available This research article seeks to present the concept of popular education as a dynamic of pedagogical tradition and cultural movement, emphasizing its diverse, multidirectional, nondeductive character; that is to say, that there is not a foundational moment in which some general principles, conceptual or doctrinal foundations, were set out, from which subsequent political and pedagogical practices were generated and what there has been is a sort of popular educational field - where there are different perspectives of what is popular. El presente artículo de investigación pretende presentar la Educación Popular como una dinámica de la tradición pedagógica y movimiento cultural, resaltando su carácter diverso, multidireccional, no deductivo, es decir que, no existe un momento fundacional en el que se propusieron unos principios generales, unas bases conceptuales o doctrinales, desde las cuales se generaron unas prácticas pedagógicas y políticas posteriores y lo que ha existido es una suerte de campo educativo – popular donde existen diferentes perspectivas de lo popular.

Aportes feministas a la Educación popular: entradas para repensar pedagógicamente la popularización de la ciencia y la tecnología Feminist approaches to popular Education: avenues to rethink pedagogically the popularization of science and technology

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Tania Pérez Bustos

2010-04-01

Full Text Available Este artículo busca plantear una reflexión pedagógica sobre la popularización de la ciencia y la tecnología, desde una perspectiva crítica feminista. Inicialmente presenta cómo la popularización se ha centrado en promover una imagen del conocimiento científico tecnológico anclada en paradigmas androcéntricos, desde los que no se cuestiona el estatuto epistemológico de estos conocimientos ni las subjetividades que desde allí se promueven. Propone retomar algunos de los planteamientos de la educación popular, que pueden ser de utilidad para repensar educativamente la popularización de la ciencia y la tecnología. Particularmente hace énfasis en la importancia y necesidad de rescatar la dimensión ético y política de lo popular en la concepción pedagógica de la popularización con el objetivo de fortalecer sus potencialidades críticas. En relación a esto argumenta, retomando la pedagogía feminista, especialmente aquella que se apoya en los enfoques sobre el conocimiento situado, como son las que derivan de los feminismos de frontera o decoloniales, que una lectura feminista de lo propuesto por Freire, es decir, que reconozca el papel de las experiencias de vida de hombres y mujeres popularizadores de la ciencia y la tecnología en la puesta en escena de estas prácticas educativas, puede enriquecer la legitimación ético-política-epistemológica de lo popular en una idea de popularización como práctica educativa transformadora.This article aims to contribute, from a feminist critical perspective, to the pedagogical reflection about the popularization of science and technology. It starts by describing how popularization has centered on promoting an image of scientific and technological knowledge steeped in androcentric paradigms, in which there is no room for questioning either the epistemological statute of this knowledge or the subjectivities promoted thereby. It is proposed here that reinstating some of the claims of

Scientific Discovery through Citizen Science via Popular Amateur Astrophotography

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Nemiroff, Robert J.; Bonnell, Jerry T.; Allen, Alice

2015-01-01

Can popular astrophotography stimulate real astronomical discovery? Perhaps surprisingly, in some cases, the answer is yes. Several examples are given using the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) site as an example venue. One reason is angular -- popular wide and deep images sometimes complement professional images which typically span a more narrow field. Another reason is temporal -- an amateur is at the right place and time to take a unique and illuminating image. Additionally, popular venues can be informational -- alerting professionals to cutting-edge amateur astrophotography about which they might not have known previously. Methods of further encouraging this unusual brand of citizen science are considered.

Popularity and Adolescent Friendship Networks: Selection and Influence Dynamics

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Dijkstra, Jan Kornelis; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; Borch, Casey

2013-01-01

This study examined the dynamics of popularity in adolescent friendship networks across 3 years in middle school. Longitudinal social network modeling was used to identify selection and influence in the similarity of popularity among friends. It was argued that lower status adolescents strive to enhance their status through befriending higher…

Readers' Knowledge of Popular Genre

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Dixon, Peter; Bortolussi, Marisa

2009-01-01

This research examined readers' knowledge of popular genres. Participants wrote short essays on fantasy, science fiction, or romance. The similarities among the essays were measured using latent semantic analysis (LSA) and were then analyzed using multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis. The clusters and scales were interpreted by searching…

Communicating science: professional, popular, literary

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Russell, N

2010-01-01

... patterns of communication among scientists, popular communication to the public and science in literature and drama. This three-part framework shows how historical and cultural factors operate in today's complex communication landscape, and should be actively considered when designing and evaluating science communication. Ideal for students and p...

Popular Musician Responses to Mental Health Treatment.

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Berg, Lloyd; King, Benjamin; Koenig, Jessica; McRoberts, Roger L

2018-06-01

Popular (i.e., nonclassical) musicians have higher rates of mental health disorders and mental health service utilization than the general population. Little is known, however, about how popular musicians perceive mental health interventions in terms of overall satisfaction and therapeutic benefit. An online client satisfaction survey was sent to all musicians and family members who received mental health services through a nonprofit mental health organization in Austin, Texas, between July 2014 and June 2015 (n=628). 260 individuals (41.4%) responded to the survey, of whom 94% (n=244) were musicians. A majority of musician respondents were male (60%) and white (82%). 87% received counseling, 32% received psychiatric medication treatment, and 8% received addiction recovery services. 97% of musicians (205/211) rated their counselor as 'very good' or 'excellent,' 88% (64/79) rated their psychiatric providers as 'very good' or 'excellent,' and 94% (17/19) rated their addiction recovery specialists as 'very good' or 'excellent' (nonsignificant between all categories, p>0.05). 89% of musicians receiving counseling, 84% receiving psychiatric medication treatment, and 95% receiving addiction recovery services agreed or strongly agreed that their symptoms and overall functioning improved as a result of their treatment (nonsignificant between all categories, p>0.05). Popular musicians express strong provider satisfaction and overall benefit when mental health interventions are accessible, affordable, and delivered by professionals familiar with their concerns. More research is needed to understand the unique psychosocial stresses popular musicians face to inform treatment planning for this high-risk, underserved population.

¿Regeneración democrática? Algunas reflexiones sobre la nueva ley orgánica 4/2013, de 28 de junio, de reforma del Consejo General del Poder Judicial // Democratic regeneration? The new O. Law 4/2013, 28th june on reform of the G. Council of the Judiciary

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Rosa María Fernández Riveira

2014-12-01

Este trabajo analiza la nueva ley Orgánica 4/2013, de 28 de junio de reforma del Consejo General del Poder Judicial, órgano de gobierno de jueces y magistrados. La primera parte estudia los problemas de técnica legislativa en la elaboración de la ley y la segunda, los problemas materiales que plantea como: la modificación y reducción de competencias del Consejo y en especial su Potestad reglamentaria, el nuevo sistema para elegir a sus vocales, las nuevas situaciones y licencias en su proceso de renovación que incitan a la no renovación, la posibilidad de estar en activo en la carrera judicial por parte de algunos vocales del Consejo o la nueva estructura y régimen de actuaciones, entre otros. Todos estos cambios se analizan y estudian observando cierta inconstitucionalidad en algunos. No en vano recientemente se ha presentado un Recurso ABSTRACT This research studies the new Basic Law reform, 4/2013, 28th June of the General Council of the Judiciary which is the governing board of Judges and Magistrates. In one first part analyzes the drafting law problems and other second part discusses about essential aspects in Law like: modification and abridgements of its competences, in especial its traditional regulation competency, the new system to select their members, the new ways to renew the Council encouraging not to renew it, the new compatibilities system or too, the new structure and the different system adopting resolutions, among other problems of course. All mentioned aspects are been studied taking into account their possible unconstitutionality, particularly since the Basic Law has been recently appealed to the Constitutional Court.

Can music progress?: Reflections on the history of popular music

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Frit Sajmon

2007-01-01

Full Text Available This paper considers schematically the various discourses through which popular music history is understood. My proposal is that five accounts of musical history (the business model, the musicological model, the sociological model, the historical model and the art history model are commonly deployed in popular music discourse. One implies, superficially at least, that popular music evolves, gets better; four implies that, at least in the longer term, it does not. The concept of ′progress′ is shown to be problematic.

Water heating solar system for popular houses; Sistema solar de aquecimento de agua para residencias populares

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Mogawer, Tamer; Souza, Teofilo Miguel de [Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Guaratingueta, SP (Brazil). Centro de Energias Renovaveis], e-mail: teofilo@feg.unesp.br

2004-07-01

In this paper we present a case study for the design of a low cost solar heating system for a popular residence in an isolated rural community in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. This scaling can be extended to several rural communities that are in the same situation in Brazil as well as the wider use of solar power between the low-income people who do not have the benefits of electricity in their homes or want to have a lower cost of electricity. In this context, there are very interesting alternatives, among which is the replacement of electric heating bath water by heating by solar energy. According to several sources the electric shower, as it is now simple and extremely cheap, is the villain of the national electrical system. It is used in peak hours of consumption, something like 10% of electric generating capacity installed in Brazil, forcing many industries to switch off the machines because of the high cost of electricity during this period. Using the heating by solar energy, we can reduce consumption of electric shower and also increase the use of clean energy in popular homes and in isolated rural communities. This paper will address the use of solar energy with the basic purpose of heating water for bathing in popular residences and in isolated rural areas, using low cost systems, built with easily materials that is found in any area of the country. (author)

Social Influences on Paranormal Belief: Popular versus Scientific Support

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Ridolfo, Heather; Baxter, Amy; Lucas, Jeffrey W.

2010-01-01

Paranormal claims enjoy relatively widespread popular support despite by definition being rejected by the scientific community. We propose that belief in paranormal claims is influenced by how popular those claims are as well as by dominant scientific views on the claims. We additionally propose that individuals will be most likely to be…

'From War Cacophonies to Rhythms of Peace': Popular Cultural ...

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The materials being collected for the Popular Culture Archives at the Centre for Basic Research in Kampala are the point of departure for this paper. It focuses on the development of popular music genres in Uganda since 1986, places this in the context of political history since independence, and discusses the particular ...

Nigerian Popular Music: Its Problems and Prospects in Development ...

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There is hardly any aspect of life without the involvement of any of the diverse arrays of styles existing in Nigerian popular music scene. The appeal of this genre cuts across class, ethnicity, age, sex and faith, thus affecting millions of lives. Consequently, the contribution of Nigerian popular music cannot be quantified.

Teaching Popular Music: Investigating Music Educators' Perceptions and Preparation

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Springer, D. Gregory

2016-01-01

The purpose of this study was to investigate in-service music teachers' perceptions of popular music in the classroom and to examine their own preparation to teach popular music. A sample of music teachers, drawn from two regional chapters of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, completed a researcher-designed survey instrument. Results…

Rhythm-based segmentation of Popular Chinese Music

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Jensen, Karl Kristoffer

2005-01-01

We present a new method to segment popular music based on rhythm. By computing a shortest path based on the self-similarity matrix calculated from a model of rhythm, segmenting boundaries are found along the di- agonal of the matrix. The cost of a new segment is opti- mized by matching manual...... and automatic segment boundaries. We compile a small song database of 21 randomly selected popular Chinese songs which come from Chinese Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The segmenting results on the small corpus show that 78% manual segmentation points are detected and 74% auto- matic segmentation points...

The murga: voice and popular feeling

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Franca Roibal Fernández

2016-03-01

Full Text Available Murga is, in its simplest terms, popular musical theater of Uruguayan Carnival, but in reality it is much more than this. It is theater, music, identity, myth, political criticism; it is the voice of the people. The murga is a group of popular musical theater whose members sing and act on various tablados –neighborhood makeshift stages– and it is the most political component of Uruguayan Carnival. The murga criticizes, satirizes and questions society, politicians and situations constantly, but it never defines itself as political nor theoretical. It is simply a form of popular art. It is a way to take the issues, which affect everyone, to the masses, to the tablados which are filled every night of Carnaval. During the dictatorship, which brought with it censorship of every sort, murgas were censored just like all artistic endeavors. However, murgas were able to subvert the censorship of their lyrics, permitting them to criticize the outrages and crimes of the government with the music itself. Although the political situation has now changed dramatically, the murga is still a necessary element of Uruguayan socio-political discourse. This article aims to summarize the history of Carnival in Uruguay and specifically the murga, as well as to analyze song lyrics from historically important shows from two different eras.

On the Dynamics of Social Media Popularity: A YouTube Case Study

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Figueiredo, Flavio; Almeida, Jussara M.; Gonçalves, Marcos André; Benevenuto, Fabrício

2014-01-01

Understanding the factors that impact the popularity dynamics of social media can drive the design of effective information services, besides providing valuable insights to content generators and online advertisers. Taking YouTube as case study, we analyze how video popularity evolves since upload, extracting popularity trends that characterize groups of videos. We also analyze the referrers that lead users to videos, correlating them, features of the video and early popularity measures with ...

Os movimentos populares no Brasil: elementos sócio-históricos e desafios atuais * The popular movements in Brazil: elements historic social and current challenges

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MICHELLY FERREIRA MONTEIRO ELIAS

2014-12-01

Full Text Available Resumo: Este artigo reflete sobre alguns desafios dos movimentos sociais de caráter popular no contexto atual da luta de classes no país. Consideram-se os movimentos populares como manifestações das lutas sociais que possuem determinações específicas de acordo com o movimento histórico. Diante das lutas que se configuraram da década de 1980 até os anos 2000, atualmente os desafios colocados para os movimentos populares estão permeados pela fragilidade do movimento operário; pela permanência da reestruturação produtiva e predominância do capital financeiro no contexto imperialista; pela continuidade de uma correlação de forças desfavoráveis para as lutas da classe trabalhadora e por uma conjuntura política caracterizada pelo Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT no comando do Governo Federal.Palavras-chave: lutas sociais; movimentos populares; realidade brasileira.Abstract: This article reflects about some challenges of social movements of popular character in the current context of class struggles in the country. Consider the popular movements as expressions of social struggles which have specific determinations in accordance with the historical movement. Faced of the struggles that have taken shape of the decade from 1980 until the year 2000, currently the challenges posed to the popular movements are permeated by the weakness of the labor movement; the permanence of productive restructuring and the predominance of financial capital in the context imperialist; by continuity of a correlation of forces unfavourable for the struggles of the working class and by a political situation characterized by the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT in command of the Federal Government.Keywords: social struggles; populars movements; Brazilian reality.

Teaching through Film: Utilizing Popular Criminology in the Classroom

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Atherton, M.

2013-01-01

As technology and media become more popular pedagogical tools for instructors, the discussion of using films as a way to help students understand criminological concepts is also growing. Using a conceptual framework of popular criminology, the author set out to explore the ways in which films can be incorporated into a unique course aimed at…

Control de la glucemia en el postoperatorio de cirugía cardíaca: Informe del Consejo de Emergencias de la Sociedad Argentina de Cardiología

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Mariano N. Benzadón

2012-02-01

Full Text Available La hiperglucemia en el postoperatorio de cirugía cardÍaca es un hallazgo frecuente asociado a peor evolución, que afecta tanto a diabéticos como no diabéticos. A pesar de las múltiples publicaciones disponibles, aún no existe un abordaje universalmente aceptado a este problema. En una iniciativa originada en el Consejo de Emergencias de la Sociedad Argentina de Cardiología, se convocó a expertos de nuestro medio con el propósito de debatir cómo debe ser el manejo de la glucemia en el paciente crítico cardiovascular. Este documento refleja lo discutido en este evento académico con la intención de resumir los principales aspectos del control de la glucemia en el postoperatorio de cirugía cardíaca.

READING TEXT POPULAR SONG INDONESIA: STUDY SEMIOTIC-HEURISTIC

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Rika Widawati

2015-02-01

Full Text Available Abstract. This paper is the result of the research that based on the phenomenon in Indonesia today. The texts of Indonesian popular songs that part of the literature which create new vocabularies or make the modification of old language. The structure of this work seems to be odd. It means the new vocabulary is different from the standard of Indonesian structure. The aim of this descriptions are the correction of (1 the mistake of the phenomenon in the text of Indonesian popular songs (2 the meaning of indonesian popular songs must be based on reading of semiotics and heuristic.  To describe this purpose, we use semiotic theory and structuralism. While the sources of this research are adopted from the texts of Indonesian popular songs which are published in 2000-2010 periode. Both Indonesian popular songs, either good songs or odd songs which has the value of good literature, namely which consist of good structure, poetic, romantic with symbolic style. Heuristically readings of the two text Indonesian songs indicate violations of linguistic rules either syntagmatic, paradigmatic, meaningfulness relations and composition. Keywords: the text of Indonesian popular song, semiotic, heuristic Abstrak. Tulisan ini merupakan hasil penelitian yang didasari oleh fenomena bahwa dewasa ini teks lagu populer Indonesia sebagai bagian dari karya sastra banyak menampilkan kosakata baru ataupun modifikasi kosakata lama, dengan komposisi yang dipandang “menyimpang” dari kaidah tata bahasa baku maupun konvensi sastra. Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan (1 fenomena struktur kebahasaan dalam teks lagu populer Indonesia dan (2 makna teks lagu populer Indonesia berdasarkan pembacaan semiotik-heuristik. Untuk mendeskripsikan hal tersebut digunakan teori semiotik dan strukturalisme. Sementara sumber data penelitian ini adalah teks lagu populer Indonesia tahun 2000 – 2010. Baik lagu-lagu yang dipandang menyimpang dari kaidah atau konvensi sastra maupun

Popular Culture and the Rituals of American Football

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Axelrod, Mark

2001-01-01

In his article, "Popular Culture and the Rituals of American Football," Mark Axelrod reflects on meanings of cultural practice in American popular culture. Before globalization -- driven by economics -- became a fact of life with profound implications, there were myths and rituals that provided a kind of insulation from the mysteries of life. These practices were ritualized by "primitive" men and women who, seemingly, did not understand the universe as well as we moderns do. But in fact one o...

Sex Role Identity, Communication Skills, and Group Popularity

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Loredana Ivan

2017-01-01

Using two groups of undergraduate students (N = 71) the present paper argues about the importance of sex role identity (Bem, 1981) as a potential predictor of group popularity. The results show that participants with psychological androgine identity tend to use better their communication skills and become popular among their peers. Contray to previous studies (e.g. Hall, 1984; Saarni, 1999) focused on gender gap in communication skills, the current study emphasis on the importance of the sex ...

Shinsengumi - a historical and modern popular culture phenomenon

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Rinkevičiūtė, Laura

2016-01-01

Shinsengumi - a Historical and Modern Popular Culture Phenomenon Shinsengumi was a special police force, which existed between 1864 and 1869 years. Shinsengumi means „Newly selected troops“. Nowadays they get a lot of attention in popular culture – films, shows, documentary, books, manga and anime. Because of it's existence in late Tokugawa period, Shinsengumi is often called „the last samurais“. They have become the object of various screening since the middle of twentieth century. After NHK...

Popular weight-management apps: Their use and quality

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Juliana Chen

2015-09-01

Conclusions: While greater popularity of apps was associated with higher quality, the overall quality of commercial dietary weight-management apps remains suboptimal. Popular weight-management apps are useful for self-monitoring, however are lacking in the recognised behavioural change techniques that may facilitate changes in health behaviours. With the majority of these apps designed for self-directed management, strategies to improve the rigour of these apps are warranted and commercial app developers could benefit from collaboration with behavioural researchers.

Use of Popular Culture Texts in Mother Tongue Education

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Bal, Mazhar

2018-01-01

The aim of this study was to associate popular culture texts with Turkish language lessons of middle school students. For this purpose, a model was proposed and a suitable curriculum was prepared for this model. It was aimed to determine how this program, which was the result of associating popular culture texts with Turkish language lesson…

Popular support for progressive taxation

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Marhuenda Hurtado, Francisco; Ortuño Ortín, Ignacio Isidro

1995-01-01

The popular support obtained by two parties who propose two qualitatively different tax schernes is analyzed. We show that if the median voter is below the mean, then any progressive proposal always wins over a regressive one, provided it leaves the poorest agent at least as well off as the latter does.

The social image of food: Associations between popularity and eating behavior.

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König, Laura M; Giese, Helge; Stok, F Marijn; Renner, Britta

2017-07-01

One factor that determines what we eat and why we eat is our social environment. In the present research, two online studies examined the relationship between food intake and social images. Specifically, the present research assessed the relationship between the food intake university students ascribed to peers who varied in popularity and own self-reported food intake, and whether this relationship was moderated by identification with the peer group. Participants (N = 97 in Study 1; N = 402 in Study 2) were randomly presented with one of four (Study 1) or two of eight (Study 2) vignettes describing a popular or unpopular student (male or female) from their university without receiving any information about the peer's eating behavior. Subsequently, healthy and unhealthy eating ascribed to the peers and own self-reported eating behavior were assessed. Results indicated that popular peers were perceived to eat more healthily than unpopular peers. Moreover, eating behavior ascribed to popular peers were associated with own healthy and unhealthy eating. Importantly, the relationship between healthy eating behavior ascribed to popular peers and own healthy eating behavior was moderated by identification with the student group - the more participants identified with their peers, the more their own eating was aligned with the healthy eating ascribed to a popular peer. Hence, the popularity of others seems to shape perceptions of the food they eat and may facilitate healthy eating via social influence. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Programación de actividades - recreativas para la ocupación del tiempo libre de los adolescentes del Consejo Popular Capitán San Luís del municipio Pinar del Río

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Yaima Fernández Izquierdo

2009-06-01

Full Text Available Las actividades físico-recreativas y por consiguiente el tiempo libre antes del triunfo de la revolución casi no existían en Cuba. La prevención y la actividad social prevalecían desde la época colonial, resaltándose en esta época el predominio de la corrupción, la codicia, la violencia y la criminalidad existente entre gobernantes y gobernados, aunque en           algunos gobiernos se implantaron algunos planes que desde una posición represiva constituyeron en algún grado a controlar la  delincuencia y los  vicios, también se  crearon instituciones que no cumplían con  su  objetivo, debido a que los males de esa época  evidencian por si mismo la inexistencia de una correcta política social y de programas de prevención y atención social en función de reducir la vulnerabilidad y problemas sociales existentes. La necesidad de proporcionar una generación saludable física multilateral, y armónicamente desarrollada,son las exigencias  de nuestro  territorio  y sociedad. El objetivo de este trabajo es proponer un grupo de actividades en función de la ocupación del tiempo libre y la satisfacción recreativa de los adolescentes del Consejo Capitán San Luís del Municipio Pinar del Río. El mismo es realizado durante los años 2006 y 2008,su propósito es llevar a vías de hechos un grupo de actividades que incrementen la satisfacción recreativa  de  los  adolescentes  garantizando  una  correcta  ocupación  del tiempo libre a través de actividades recreativas disímiles.Este estudio se inicio con la aplicación de una encuesta para conocer el grado de satisfacción o insatisfacción recreativa de los vecinos de la referida comunidad y las ofertas que se le brindaban, las que evidenciaban que eran limitadas por lo que nos dimos a la tarea de confeccionar una programación de actividades recreativas a partir de las realizadas anteriormente en el lugar que respondieran a sus gustos u

Atores religiosos populares e midiático-consumismo católico / Popular religious actors and catholic media-consumerism

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Emerson Sena da Silveira

2010-01-01

Full Text Available Propõe-se, com o presente artigo, refletir sobre as implicações da cultura de consumo bem como da mídia sobre os atores religiosos populares, a partir do estudo de uma comunidade católico-carismática de estrato popular. Perpassarão as reflexões questionamentos tais como as mediações entre os atores religiosos, por meio de suas atividades, e a dimensão das forças midiáticas e do consumo. Partindo dessas considerações, constata-se que os fluxos e fronteiras entre mídia, consumo e carismatismo católico põem em pauta novas formas de hibridação entre religião e mundo pós-moderno. / This article aims to reflect upon the implications of the culture of consumerism as well as the media for popular religious actors, starting from the study of a poor Catholic Charismatic community. The reflections will touch questions such as the mediations between the religious actors, through their activities, and the dimension of media forces and consumerism. Starting from these considerations, it is noticed that the flows and boundaries between media, consumerism and Catholic Charismaticism put in debate new forms of hybridization between religion and post-modern world.

Analysis of Marine Corps Renewable Energy Planning to Meet Installation Energy Security Requirements

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2013-12-03

monitoring grid interruptions at each installation and their impact on operations. Collecting interruption data will assist in obtaining an accurate...zero energy status is within reach if Miramar implements the recommended measures, replaces all remaining natural gas with biogas , and completely

Popular Education in Solidarity Economy

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de Melo Neto, José Francisco; da Costa, Francisco Xavier Pereira

2015-01-01

This article seeks to show the relation between popular education and solidarity economy in experiences of solidarity economy enterprises in Brazil. It is based on diverse experiences which have occurred in various sectors of this economy, highlighting those experiences which took place in João Pessoa with the creation of a Cooperative of Workers…

AÇÃO POPULAR: REQUISITO DA LESIVIDADE

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Ramos Junior, Adilson

2010-01-01

A ação popular nasceu no Direito Romano e se sabe que ela apareceu primeiramente no Brasil na Constituição do Império. O seu objetivo sempre foi o de possibilitar aos cidadãos a defesa da res pública (coisa pública). Contudo, muito tempo já passou desde a vigência da Lei nº 4.717, de 1965, e ainda hoje existem divergências sobre a necessidade ou não de se preencher o requisito da lesividade para que seja possível o julgamento da ação popular. A dissertação busca justamente a...

A Cultura clerical e a folia popular

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Gaeta Maria Aparecida Junqueira Veiga

1997-01-01

Full Text Available Este artigo aborda o confronto entre um catolicismo autoritário, tridentino e romanizador, que penetrou no Brasil na segunda metade do século XIX e se consolidou nas primeiras décadas do século XX, e o catolicismo tradicional vigente, de fortes raízes populares. Em sua obsessão pela unanimidade, o ultramontanismo negou as outras formas de ser católico, estabelecendo as dicotomias entre o velho e o novo, o bom e o mau. Entretanto, as velhas formas de religiosidade popular resistiram, mantendo ainda hoje uma inesgotável fonte de devoção e de fé.

Archaeoastronomical Concepts in Popular Culture

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Krupp, Edwin C.

Broad public embrace of archaic astronomy probably began in the eighteenth century with awareness of the summer solstice sunrise's affiliation with Stonehenge. Since that time, Stonehenge has retained an astronomical mystique that attracts crowds mobilized by the monument's supposed cosmic purpose. They are committed to witness prehistoric heritage operating in real time and with enduring function. More recently, mass media have intermittently thrown a spotlight on new archaeoastronomical discoveries. While the details, ambiguities, and nuances of disciplined study of astronomy in antiquity do not usually infiltrate popular culture, some astronomical alignments, celestial events, sky-tempered symbols, and astral narratives have become well known and referenced in popular culture. Places and relics that command public interest with astronomical connotations are transformed into cultural icons and capture visitors on a quest for the authenticity the past is believed to possess. Monuments and ideas that successfully forge a romantic bond with the past and inspire an imagined sense of sharing the experience, perspective, and wisdom of antiquity persist in the cultural landscape.

Borgesian Libraries and Librarians in Television Popular Culture

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Iana Konstantinova

2013-01-01

Full Text Available In the works of Jorge Luis Borges, the library appears frequently as a metaphor representative of life and its secrets. It becomes a metaphysical location, posing questions about the nature of time, life, and the universe itself. The librarian becomes a metaphysical figure, leading the search for answers to life’s questions. This article examines the way in which the Borgesian library metaphor has crossed over from the realm of literature into the realm of popular television. By examining two episodes of the BBC series Doctor Who , the TNT franchise The Librarian , and several episodes of Joss Whedon’s cult television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer , it demonstrates that the metaphysical questions posed by the library and its librarian in Borges’s short stories are quite similar to the metaphysical questions posed by the library and its librarians in popular television, demonstrating that the Borgesian library has crossed over into the realms of popular culture.

Understanding Adolescent Delinquency: The Role of Older Siblings’ Delinquency and Popularity with Peers

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Craine, Jessica L.; Tanaka, Teri A.; Nishina, Adrienne; Conger, Katherine J.

2009-01-01

The present study examined delinquency concordance and the moderating effects of younger sibling perceptions of older sibling popularity in a sample of 587 adolescent sibling pairs. Using a social learning framework, and taking dyad composition into account, perceptions of popularity were hypothesized to strengthen siblings’ concordance for delinquency. Older sibling delinquency significantly predicted younger sibling delinquency. Older sibling popularity was not important in predicting boys’ delinquency. However, perceptions of older sibling popularity directly predicted reduced delinquency for girls with older sisters. A significant interaction effect was found for girls with older brothers. Older brother delinquency predicted girls’ delinquency for girls who perceived their older brother to be relatively popular. There was no delinquency concordance for girls who perceived their older brothers to be less popular. PMID:20305731

Predicting Key Events in the Popularity Evolution of Online Information.

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Hu, Ying; Hu, Changjun; Fu, Shushen; Fang, Mingzhe; Xu, Wenwen

2017-01-01

The popularity of online information generally experiences a rising and falling evolution. This paper considers the "burst", "peak", and "fade" key events together as a representative summary of popularity evolution. We propose a novel prediction task-predicting when popularity undergoes these key events. It is of great importance to know when these three key events occur, because doing so helps recommendation systems, online marketing, and containment of rumors. However, it is very challenging to solve this new prediction task due to two issues. First, popularity evolution has high variation and can follow various patterns, so how can we identify "burst", "peak", and "fade" in different patterns of popularity evolution? Second, these events usually occur in a very short time, so how can we accurately yet promptly predict them? In this paper we address these two issues. To handle the first one, we use a simple moving average to smooth variation, and then a universal method is presented for different patterns to identify the key events in popularity evolution. To deal with the second one, we extract different types of features that may have an impact on the key events, and then a correlation analysis is conducted in the feature selection step to remove irrelevant and redundant features. The remaining features are used to train a machine learning model. The feature selection step improves prediction accuracy, and in order to emphasize prediction promptness, we design a new evaluation metric which considers both accuracy and promptness to evaluate our prediction task. Experimental and comparative results show the superiority of our prediction solution.

Predicting Key Events in the Popularity Evolution of Online Information.

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Ying Hu

Full Text Available The popularity of online information generally experiences a rising and falling evolution. This paper considers the "burst", "peak", and "fade" key events together as a representative summary of popularity evolution. We propose a novel prediction task-predicting when popularity undergoes these key events. It is of great importance to know when these three key events occur, because doing so helps recommendation systems, online marketing, and containment of rumors. However, it is very challenging to solve this new prediction task due to two issues. First, popularity evolution has high variation and can follow various patterns, so how can we identify "burst", "peak", and "fade" in different patterns of popularity evolution? Second, these events usually occur in a very short time, so how can we accurately yet promptly predict them? In this paper we address these two issues. To handle the first one, we use a simple moving average to smooth variation, and then a universal method is presented for different patterns to identify the key events in popularity evolution. To deal with the second one, we extract different types of features that may have an impact on the key events, and then a correlation analysis is conducted in the feature selection step to remove irrelevant and redundant features. The remaining features are used to train a machine learning model. The feature selection step improves prediction accuracy, and in order to emphasize prediction promptness, we design a new evaluation metric which considers both accuracy and promptness to evaluate our prediction task. Experimental and comparative results show the superiority of our prediction solution.

Personal, Popular and Information Portals

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Liu, Jun

2010-01-01

to persist in gathering Olympic Games information. In other words, does the relationship between demographics and knowledge about the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games differ according to the use of mobile phones among migrant workers? Results indicate that television became the primary source of Olympic Games news...... of people to enjoy the Olympic Games, and popularizing knowledge....

Personal, Popular and Information Portals

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Liu, Jun

2011-01-01

to persist in gathering Olympic Games information. In other words, does the relationship between demographics and knowledge about the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games differ according to the use of mobile phones among migrant workers? Results indicate that television became the primary source of Olympic Games news...... of people to enjoy the Olympic Games, and popularizing knowledge....

Guitar hero: From icon of popular culture to nostalgic self-design

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Popadić Milan

2013-01-01

Full Text Available This paper aims to interpret the transformations of the “guitar hero”, from the icon of popular culture to models of nostalgic selfdesign, meaning transformations from generally recognizable figure in the context of popular culture to mimetic patterns based in medium of contemporary technologies. The phrase “guitar hero”, in its basic meaning represents a specific phenomenon in popular culture and popular music of the second half of the twentieth century. Guitar hero is a performer with skills and appearance that transcends and transforms common patterns of guitar performances, thus creating a new and distinctive form of musical and performative statement. Seen in this way, a guitar hero is close to heroic models of antique and romanticism. On the other hand, contemporary products of cultural industries and the entertainment industry to some extent changed this basic meaning of the phrase “guitar hero”. Creation and popularization of video games like Guitar Hero or Rock Band, as well as the availability of high quality replicas of instruments of “original” guitar heroes, carried the meaning of this phrase more explicit in the field of consumerism, fetishism, and virtualization. Guitar hero in its basic meaning undoubtedly belongs to the history of the twentieth century popular culture. However, his legacy is still very much present. Specific heritage of a guitar hero in contemporary popular culture lies primarily in the dissemination of the original model through the mechanisms of consumer society, and then in the mimetic patterns based in media of contemporary technology. Thanks to these characteristics, the phenomenon of guitar hero was transformed from icon of popular culture to nostalgic self-design over the original model. Whether it is a replica of instruments of guitar hero or empathy in virtual reality of video games as Guitar Hero or Rock Band, guitar hero heritage confirms its place in modern popular culture, despite

Popular Music: An Untapped Resource for Teaching Contemporary Black History.

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Cooper, B. Lee

1979-01-01

This essay suggests two innovative instructional approaches for using popular Black music as a model for historical study in the classroom: (1) biographies of popular music artists; and (2) lyrical demonstration of social themes. A list of lyric and album resources is provided. (Author/EB)

Assessing the Level of Popularity of European Stag Tourism Destinations

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Iwanicki Grzegorz

2016-09-01

Full Text Available The primary objective of this article is to determine the degree of popularity of stag tourism destinations in Europe. Research was based on the search engine method, involving an analysis of the highest positioned offers of travel agencies in the most commonly used search engines in Europe (Google, Bing, Yahoo. The analysis divided the studied cities into four categories in terms of popularity. Conducting the said analysis is strongly justified, because academic publications have so far not provided studies which have determined the degree of popularity of stag destinations on a continental scale.

The Roles of Popular Music in Video Games

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Frydenlund, Jørgen

2015-01-01

This thesis explores the roles of popular music in video games. It draws on the analytical tools used in ludomusicology, film music studies and studies of music videos. Unlike other audiovisual media, video games are based on interactivity and a range of narrativity based on genre. Some games focus on gameplay and others are more inclined with telling a good story. Implementation of popular music in video games has history stretching all the way back to the 80's, and is currently becoming an ...

Nebulous networks: Virginia Woolf and popular astronomy

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Henry, Holly Grace

This study investigates Virginia Woolf's fascination with advances in astronomy and telescopic technologies of the 1920s and 30s. Grounded in the cultural studies of science, and the work of theorists such as Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour, the dissertation reconstructs the complex interconnections between Woolf's fiction and prose writing and an explosive popular interest in astronomy and cosmology. Woolf's aesthetic and political practices were shaped by emerging visualization technologies ranging from astronomical telescopes to the hand-held camera. While her writing provides a focus for this investigation, the dissertation offers close readings of fiction and essays by multiple British authors and science writers in the context of these converging phenomena. As a result of glimpsing tiny worlds through her own telescope, Virginia Woolf formulated a global aesthetic and a global politics. Gazing at the moon and stars reminded her that earth is a planet in space, and that earth's inhabitants must rely on this small, fragile globe for their future survival. The opening chapter establishes the cultural context for the study. In 1923, the American astronomer Edwin Hubble determined that the Andromeda galaxy was located far beyond the limits of the Milky Way, then believed to comprise the entire universe. Hubble's radical reconfiguration of the universe contributed to a pervasive sense, in the modern period, of a decentering and re-scaling of humans in the universe. In the chapters that follow, the dissertation offers readings of Woolf's novels and short fiction in relation to her fascination with astronomy and explores how the wildly popular British cosmologist and science writer, Sir James jeans, had a shaping effect on popular culture and on Woolf's narrative practices and pacifist politics. Despite his oblique connections to what became Bloomsbury, jeans and his popular science texts were to play a considerable role in Woolf's formulation of a global aesthetic.

Alcohol brand appearances in US popular music.

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Primack, Brian A; Nuzzo, Erin; Rice, Kristen R; Sargent, James D

2012-03-01

The average US adolescent is exposed to 34 references to alcohol in popular music daily. Although brand recognition is an independent, potent risk factor for alcohol outcomes among adolescents, alcohol brand appearances in popular music have not been assessed systematically. We aimed to determine the prevalence of and contextual elements associated with alcohol brand appearances in US popular music. Qualitative content analysis. We used Billboard Magazine to identify songs to which US adolescents were most exposed in 2005-07. For each of the 793 songs, two trained coders analyzed independently the lyrics of each song for references to alcohol and alcohol brand appearances. Subsequent in-depth assessments utilized Atlas.ti to determine contextual factors associated with each of the alcohol brand appearances. Our final code book contained 27 relevant codes representing six categories: alcohol types, consequences, emotional states, activities, status and objects. Average inter-rater reliability was high (κ = 0.80), and all differences were easily adjudicated. Of the 793 songs in our sample, 169 (21.3%) referred explicitly to alcohol, and of those, 41 (24.3%) contained an alcohol brand appearance. Consequences associated with alcohol were more often positive than negative (41.5% versus 17.1%, P brand appearances were associated commonly with wealth (63.4%), sex (58.5%), luxury objects (51.2%), partying (48.8%), other drugs (43.9%) and vehicles (39.0%). One in five songs sampled from US popular music had explicit references to alcohol, and one-quarter of these mentioned a specific alcohol brand. These alcohol brand appearances are associated commonly with a luxury life-style characterized by wealth, sex, partying and other drugs. © 2011 The Authors, Addiction © 2011 Society for the Study of Addiction.

Fragmentation, Intertextuality and Hyperreality: The Postmodern and Popular Filipino Films

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Erwhin Clarin

2016-05-01

Full Text Available Watching popular films can help students take certain arguments in the theory of knowledge more seriously. Such claims bring to fore what the postmodernist critic Frederic Jameson (1998 refers to as the erosion of distinction between high culture (as represented by philosophy and the act of philosophizing and popular culture (embodied by popular films as when these products of mass culture are used as texts for philosophical and literary studies. The present study was designed to analyze popular Filipino films as text, in order to achieve the researcher’s aims: one is to prove that movies can truly be philosophic and literary, by highlighting the dominant features of postmodernist fiction discernible in the selected contemporary films, and how these features were related to the over-all narrative structure, characterization, and thematic content, and more importantly, to participate in the effacement of the line between high art and commercial art, demonstrating in the end that "le postmoderne" has finally reached the Philippines.

The History of Popularization of Science in France

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Marina D. Romanova

2015-01-01

Full Text Available The article discusses the process of popularization of science in France in terms of bilateral cooperation between scientists and the media. Mediator in the relationship of the two parties is a science journalist. The long history of interaction between researchers and journalists in France can serve as a theoretical model applicable to the Russian media system. Science journalist, acting primarily as a popularizer of science, is intended to bring to the uninitiated reader scientific facts in an accessible form. In this connection, still the question remains about the specialized education of science journalists: whether he should specialize in a particular field or possess the basics of writing and be able to transpose the complex scientific language. French popular science magazines are not only popular among scientists themselves who are willing to cooperate with publishers and participate in the preparation of the editions, but also among readers. Relations between science journalists and scientists should be considered at the theoretical and practical levels. The paper analyzes in detail the first level, which includes the history of the emergence of scientific journalism in France since the first edition of the scientificjournal in Europe, as well as peculiarities of the educational system in this field. A special role in shaping ideas about the role of science journalists belongs to the Association of Science Journalists of informational press, organization, which is actively involved in the development of trust between scientists and journalists.

Independent Comparison of Popular DPI Tools for Traffic Classification

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Bujlow, Tomasz; Carela-Español, Valentín; Barlet-Ros, Pere

2015-01-01

Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) is the state-of-the-art technology for traffic classification. According to the conventional wisdom, DPI is the most accurate classification technique. Consequently, most popular products, either commercial or open-source, rely on some sort of DPI for traffic classifi......Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) is the state-of-the-art technology for traffic classification. According to the conventional wisdom, DPI is the most accurate classification technique. Consequently, most popular products, either commercial or open-source, rely on some sort of DPI for traffic......, application and web service). We carefully built a labeled dataset with more than 750K flows, which contains traffic from popular applications. We used the Volunteer-Based System (VBS), developed at Aalborg University, to guarantee the correct labeling of the dataset. We released this dataset, including full...

Cyril Ponnamperuma Memorial. Trieste conference on chemical evolution, 4: Physics of the origin and evolution of life. Summaries

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1995-08-01

The document includes 19 summaries of papers presented at the Trieste Conference on Chemical Evolution, 4: Physics of the Origin and Evolution of Life (Cyril Ponnamperuma Memorial), Miramare, Trieste, 4-8 September 1995. The abstracts have been indexed individually. 3 refs, 1 fig

Is popularity associated with aggression toward socially preferred or marginalized targets?

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Peets, Kätlin; Hodges, Ernest V E

2014-08-01

This study was designed to test whether aggression toward easy or challenging targets is more likely to be associated with popularity. More specifically, we tested two alternative hypotheses with a sample of 224 adolescents (12- and 13-year-olds): (a) whether aggression toward highly disliked peers is associated with popularity (the easy target hypothesis) or (b) whether aggression toward highly liked peers is associated with popularity (the challenging target hypothesis). Support was found only for the challenging target hypothesis. In particular, our results indicate that aggressiveness toward peers who are liked by many others has social benefits in the form of greater popularity (particularly for highly preferred adolescents) without social costs (i.e., is unrelated to social preference). In contrast, aggressiveness toward peers who are disliked by many others is associated with lower social preference but bears no association with popularity. These results highlight the importance of studying contextualized aggression in order to understand the conditions under which aggression is most, and least, likely to be associated with social power and dominance. Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Remembering the 1960s: popular music and memory in Europe

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2015-01-01

textabstractFollowing the increasing attention paid to popular music in heritage discourses, this article explores how the popular music culture from the 1960s is remembered in Europe. I discuss the role of heritage organizations, media and the cultural policy of the EU in the construction of a

The communicative functions of post-2000 Shona popular songs: A ...

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This article proposes a typology of Shona popular songs employing a systemic functional linguistics (SFL) informed genre theory, which distinguishes texts on the ... Although some studies have been carried out on these songs in the context of popular music, none have attempted a linguistically-grounded analysis of the ...

Maro EMIELU Abstract Despite its popularity

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music pedagogy in African schools but should be based on students' learning experiences, felt needs, motivation and meeting societal need. Keywords: ... neither wholly African nor wholly foreign in nature, its pedagogical approaches are ... International Conference on Popular Music in Amsterdam was announced in.

Law and Popular Culture : International Perspectives

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Brown, K.J.; Asimow, Michael; Papke, David Ray

Commentators have noted the extraordinary impact of popular culture on legal practice, courtroom proceedings, police departments, and government as a whole, and it is no exaggeration to say that most people derive their basic understanding of law from cultural products. Movies, television programs,

Popular theatre and nonformal education in the Third World: Five strands of experience

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Kidd, Ross

1985-09-01

Popular theatre is gaining increasing attention in the Third World as a tool for popular education and community organizing. It finds expression in a number of forms including drama, music dance, puppetry and poetry and is performed for — and often by — ordinary peasants and workers. Popular theatre is used as a means of bringing people together, building confidence and solidarity, stimulating discussion, exploring alternative options for action, and building a collective commitment to change: starting with people's urgent concerns and issues, it encourages reflection on these issues and possible strategies for change. Popular theatre, however, is not a unified discipline. It is used by different groups for different interests, ranging from a technocratic, message-oriented `domestication theatre' at one end of the spectrum to a process of consciousness-raising, organization-building and struggle at the other end. Five main strands of popular theatre can be distinguished: (a) the struggle for national liberation; (b) mass education and rural extension; (c) community or participatory development; (d) `conscientization' or popular education; and (e) popular education and organizing. At its best, popular theatre is not an isolated performance or a cathartic experience, but part of an ongoing process of education and organizing, aimed at overcoming oppression and dependence, and at securing basic rights.

A Probabilistic Analysis of Data Popularity in ATLAS Data Caching

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Titov, M; Záruba, G; De, K; Klimentov, A

2012-01-01

One of the most important aspects in any computing distribution system is efficient data replication over storage or computing centers, that guarantees high data availability and low cost for resource utilization. In this paper we propose a data distribution scheme for the production and distributed analysis system PanDA at the ATLAS experiment. Our proposed scheme is based on the investigation of data usage. Thus, the paper is focused on the main concepts of data popularity in the PanDA system and their utilization. Data popularity is represented as the set of parameters that are used to predict the future data state in terms of popularity levels.

Overcoming Impossible Bodies: Using Media Literacy to Challenge Popular Culture.

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Graydon, Shari

1997-01-01

Media education can be taught by analyzing the ways popular media represent the sexes. Discusses stereotyped gender images in popular culture and outlines classroom activities investigating modeling poses, images of ideal and successful males and females, gender sensitive language, sex role portrayal, and violence for a media literacy unit using…

La reivindicación de competencias de Colombia Compra Eficiente por el Consejo de Estado: ¿nuevo alcance de la potestad reglamentaria o interpretación extensiva de la ley por la jurisprudencia?

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Mónica Safar Díaz

2017-12-01

Full Text Available La discusión sobre la naturaleza jurídica de los documentos expedidos por la Agencia Nacional de Contratación no es un asunto del todo tranquilo en la academia y la doctrina, pero con ocasión de un reciente pronunciamiento del Consejo de Estado sobre las competencias de Colombia Compra Eficiente es importante dimensionar el alcance de los mismos a partir del estudio de la naturaleza jurídica de la entidad, la órbita de la potestad reglamentaria en la atribución de funciones a dicha entidad y el impacto que ello puede tener en el concepto de la descentralización territorial.

Diabo e cultura popular

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Sílvia Maria Azevedo

1985-01-01

Full Text Available O presente trabalho focaliza a figura do diabo participando de duas expressões da chamada cultura popular medieval. Por meio de espetáculos como o Carnaval, a Festa dos Loucos, a Festa do Asno, procurei aprender, através da figura demoníaca, o intercâmbio entre duas formas de cultura - uma, séria, religiosa, feudal - relacionada com o mundo das instituições medievais - outra, cômica, irreverente, profana - ligada ao mundo medieval não institucionalizado.

Medios y sectores populares

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Blasco Fernando Checa Montúfar

2015-01-01

Full Text Available El CIESPAL desarrolló un estudio sobre los usos y preferencias de los medios de información y de los mensajes en algunos sectores populares del Ecuador. La mayoría de los campesinos escuchan la radio pero aman la televisión. El Comercio de Quito y el Universo de Guayaquil son los diarios preferidos. En Quito se leen menos periódicos que en Guayaquil y las redes comunitarias funcionan muy bien en la costa del país.

Noninsect Arthropods in Popular Music

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Joseph R. Coelho

2011-05-01

Full Text Available The occurrence of noninsect arthropods in popular music was examined in order to explore human attitudes toward these species, especially as compared to insects. Crustaceans were the most commonly referenced taxonomic group in artist names, album titles and cover art, followed by spiders and scorpions. The surprising prevalence of crustaceans may be related to the palatability of many of the species. Spiders and scorpions were primarily used for shock value, as well as totemic qualities of strength and ferocity. Spiders were the most abundant group among song titles, perhaps because of their familiarity to the general public. Three noninsect arthropod album titles were found from the early 1970s, then none appear until 1990. Older albums are difficult to find unless they are quite popular, and the resurgence of albums coincides with the rise of the internet. After 1990, issuance of such albums increased approximately linearly. Giant and chimeric album covers were the most common of themes, indicating the use of these animals to inspire fear and surprise. The lyrics of select songs are presented to illustrate the diversity of sentiments present, from camp spookiness to edibility.

Noninsect Arthropods in Popular Music.

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Coelho, Joseph R

2011-05-26

The occurrence of noninsect arthropods in popular music was examined in order to explore human attitudes toward these species, especially as compared to insects. Crustaceans were the most commonly referenced taxonomic group in artist names, album titles and cover art, followed by spiders and scorpions. The surprising prevalence of crustaceans may be related to the palatability of many of the species. Spiders and scorpions were primarily used for shock value, as well as totemic qualities of strength and ferocity. Spiders were the most abundant group among song titles, perhaps because of their familiarity to the general public. Three noninsect arthropod album titles were found from the early 1970s, then none appear until 1990. Older albums are difficult to find unless they are quite popular, and the resurgence of albums coincides with the rise of the internet. After 1990, issuance of such albums increased approximately linearly. Giant and chimeric album covers were the most common of themes, indicating the use of these animals to inspire fear and surprise. The lyrics of select songs are presented to illustrate the diversity of sentiments present, from camp spookiness to edibility.

Comportamiento de la gingivitis crónica en adolescentes de la Secundaria Básica “Jesús Fernández”. Santa Marta, Cárdenas

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Zaldívar Bernal, Hilda Lídice; Cid Rodríguez, María del Carmen; Sánchez Gay, Juana María; Montes de Oca Ramos, Rebeca

2014-01-01

La gingivitis es la enfermedad periodontal más frecuente que afecta tanto a los adolescentes como a los pacientes adultos. Se realizó un estudio observacional descriptivo transversal con el objetivo de conocer la prevalencia de gingivitis en adolescentes entre 12 y 14 años de edad de la ESBU “Jesús Fernández Rodríguez”, del Consejo Popular Santa Marta, municipio Cárdenas, en el período comprendido de enero a julio de 2011. Los adolescentes fueron caracterizados según variables sociodemográfic...

El patrimonio identitario de la comunidad de San Andrés

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Carlos Córdova Martínez

2006-01-01

Full Text Available La identidad y el patrimonio son elementos recurrentes si se quiere defender la cultura frente a un mundo globalizado. Dicha labor debe realizarse de lo local a lo nacional y viceversa. El trabajo aborda el patrimonio de una pequeña comunidad holguinera, el Consejo Popular de San Andrés, cuyo centro es el poblado homónimo. Con un largo devenir histórico, que se remonta a fines del siglo XVI. San Andrés atesora un rico patrimonio, que puede incluirse fundamentalmente dentro de la cultura campesina.

Popularity Prediction Tool for ATLAS Distributed Data Management

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Beermann, T; The ATLAS collaboration; Stewart, G; Lassnig, M; Garonne, V; Barisits, M; Vigne, R; Serfon, C; Goossens, L; Nairz, A; Molfetas, A

2013-01-01

This paper describes a popularity prediction tool for data-intensive data management systems, such as ATLAS distributed data management (DDM). It is fed by the DDM popularity system, which produces historical reports about ATLAS data usage, providing information about files, datasets, users and sites where data was accessed. The tool described in this contribution uses this historical information to make a prediction about the future popularity of data. It finds trends in the usage of data using a set of neural networks and a set of input parameters and predicts the number of accesses in the near term future. This information can then be used in a second step to improve the distribution of replicas at sites, taking into account the cost of creating new replicas (bandwidth and load on the storage system) compared to gain of having new ones (faster access of data for analysis). To evaluate the benefit of the redistribution a grid simulator is introduced that is able replay real workload on different data distri...

Popularity Prediction Tool for ATLAS Distributed Data Management

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Beermann, T; The ATLAS collaboration; Stewart, G; Lassnig, M; Garonne, V; Barisits, M; Vigne, R; Serfon, C; Goossens, L; Nairz, A; Molfetas, A

2014-01-01

This paper describes a popularity prediction tool for data-intensive data management systems, such as ATLAS distributed data management (DDM). It is fed by the DDM popularity system, which produces historical reports about ATLAS data usage, providing information about files, datasets, users and sites where data was accessed. The tool described in this contribution uses this historical information to make a prediction about the future popularity of data. It finds trends in the usage of data using a set of neural networks and a set of input parameters and predicts the number of accesses in the near term future. This information can then be used in a second step to improve the distribution of replicas at sites, taking into account the cost of creating new replicas (bandwidth and load on the storage system) compared to gain of having new ones (faster access of data for analysis). To evaluate the benefit of the redistribution a grid simulator is introduced that is able replay real workload on different data distri...

Ideological and political conflicts about popular music in Serbia

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Đurković Miša

2004-01-01

Full Text Available The paper is focused on ideological and political conflicts about popular music in Serbia, as a good example of wrong and confused searching for identity. Basic conflict that author is analyzing is about oriental elements (such as asymmetric rhythmic patterns and melismatic singing and the question if they are legitimate parts of Serbian musical heritage or not. Author is making an analysis of three periods in twentieth century, in which absolutely the same arguments were used, and he's paying special attention to contemporary conflicts, trying to explain why all of the theories are ideologically based. Author is insisting on role market played in development and modernization of popular music in Serbia. The article is ending with some recommendations for better understanding of cultural identity in Serbia, and for recognizing popular music as specific field of interest and research.

La representación popular y los desafíos del sistema electoral salvadoreño, 25 años después de la firma de los Acuerdos de Paz, un extracto

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Félix Ulloa Garay

2017-07-01

Full Text Available Un cuarto de siglo después de la firma de los Acuerdos de Paz, El Salvador enfrenta una serie de desafíos democráticos que demandan reformas a su sistema político y electoral. Para comprender la urgencia de dichas reformas, se requiere un análisis prospectivo que proyecte ese nuevo sistema; pero que, a su vez, integre la visión retrospectiva donde se explican los hechos del pasado que dieron origen al conflicto armado. El sistema electoral fue uno de los 7 puntos de la Agenda de Caracas que guio la negociación hasta el acuerdo final de paz. Su desarrollo más pragmático que doctrinario, comprendió las reformas a la Constitución en 1991, cuando se creó la actual autoridad electoral, mediante un Tribunal Supremo Electoral, que sustituyó al viejo Consejo Central de Elecciones y un Código Electoral, que estableció rudimentarias reglas con las cuales se administraron cuatro elecciones presidenciales y seis elecciones legislativas y municipales. En este artículo se plantea la preocupación por la calidad de la representación popular y los mecanismos para su obtención, finalizando con recomendaciones para garantizar legítimamente su ejercicio. Estas propuestas, por venir del jurista italiano Luigi Ferrajoli, adquieren un valor universal y una aplicación a cualquier modelo de democracia liberal.

Black Voices, German Rebels: Acts of Masculinity in Postwar Popular Culture

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Layne, Priscilla Dionne

2011-01-01

This dissertation examines practices of embodying Black popular culture in Germany. My analysis is based on close readings of texts from a variety of media including novels, films and musical theater from West and East Germany of the 1950s to the reunified Germany of the 1990s. Black popular culture, particularly popular music, has appealed to Germans since the 19th century, when the Fisk Jubilee singers toured Europe. In most of my analyses, music plays a prominent role as a gateway to Black...

Comparação de hábitos de bem estar vocal entre cantores líricos e populares A comparison between vocal habits of lyric and popular singers

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Ana Paula Dassie-Leite

2011-02-01

Full Text Available OBJETIVO: comparar hábitos de bem estar vocal entre cantores líricos e populares. MÉTODOS: foi realizado um trabalho exploratório descritivo, com a participação de 30 cantores líricos e 30 populares, estudantes da Universidade Livre de Música. Todos responderam um questionário com 13 questões objetivas sobre hábitos vocais e utilização profissional da voz. Os dados foram tabulados e analisados estatisticamente RESULTADOS: cantores líricos e populares têm hábitos semelhantes de alimentação, tabagismo, etilismo e uso de drogas recreacionais. Cantores populares têm menos horas de sono/repouso ao dia, sendo esta uma diferença estatisticamente significante. Este grupo também se diferenciou dos cantores líricos por terem, em sua maioria, outro trabalho com a utilização profissional da voz falada. Também foi estatisticamente significante a maior carga horária no uso da voz cantada em líricos, bem como o maior uso de recursos considerados mitos para melhorar a voz. Cantores populares conhecem menos o trabalho fonoaudiológico junto aos profissionais da voz. Os cantores líricos aquecem a voz com maior frequência em relação aos populares, embora este segundo grupo, tenha demonstrado que este hábito tem sido adquirido. Tanto cantores líricos quanto populares não desaquecem a voz sistematicamente, depois da atividade profissional. CONCLUSÃO: Cantores líricos e populares com formação musical específica têm, em geral, hábitos de bem estar vocal semelhantes e diferenciam-se principalmente em relação à carga horária de trabalho semanal, à utilização de mitos na tentativa de melhorar a voz, ao conhecimento sobre o trabalho fonoaudiológico e à prática de aquecimento e desaquecimento vocal.PURPOSE: to compare vocal welfare habits of lyric and popular singers. METHODS: it is a descriptive exploratory work, with the participation of 30 lyrical singers and 30 popular singers. All answered a questionnaire with 13

Impact of Bursty Human Activity Patterns on the Popularity of Online Content

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Qiang Yan

2012-01-01

Full Text Available The dynamics of online content popularity has attracted more and more researches in recent years. In this paper, we provide a quantitative, temporal analysis about the dynamics of online content popularity in a massive system: Sina Microblog. We use time-stamped data to investigate the impact of bursty human comment patterns on the popularity of online microblog news. Statistical results indicate that the number of news and comments exhibits an exponential growth. The strength of forwarding and comment is characterized by bursts, displaying fat-tailed distribution. In order to characterize the dynamics of popularity, we explore the distribution of the time interval Δt between consecutive comment bursts and find that it also follows a power-law. Bursty patterns of human comment are responsible for the power-law decay of popularity. These results are well supported by both the theoretical analysis and empirical data.

Dark victory: cancer and popular Hollywood film.

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Lederer, Susan E

2007-01-01

This paper explores the cultural representations of cancer in popular Hollywood films released between 1930 and 1970. These cinematic treatments were not representative of the types of cancer that increasingly afflicted Americans, nor were filmmakers and studios concerned with realistic representations of the disease, its treatment, and its outcomes. As in the "epidemic entertainments" of the early twentieth century that portrayed diseases as cultural commodities, popular filmmakers selectively projected some cancers rather than others, favoring those that were less offensive and more photogenic. Although the characters became weak and died, they did so without gross transformations of their bodies. This paper argues that such representations nonetheless informed American attitudes about cancer and the role of medical research in overcoming the disease.

Dominance-Popularity Status, Behavior, and the Emergence of Sexual Activity in Young Adolescents

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Eddy H. de Bruyn

2012-04-01

Full Text Available In this paper, we investigated the sexual activity levels of several subtypes of middle adolescents (age 14–15 years. The subtype profiles were based on dominance-popularity status and a range of behaviors associated with dominance and popularity. In addition, gender differences in behavioral profiles were examined among dominant-popular, sexually active young adolescents. Results showed that socially dominant and popular young adolescent boys who exhibited a highly aggressive profile were more sexually active than their low-status and non-aggressive male peers; dominant-popular girls who were very attractive and gossips were more sexually active than their female peers. The results are discussed from an evolutionary psychological framework.

Initiating New Prospects of Rural Science Popularization in the Digital Media Era

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Jun Li

2014-04-01

Full Text Available The development of digital media has brought a new challenge to existing science popularization in the rural areas. In this paper, new experience of rural science popularization on both traditional and digital media in Zhejiang province was introduced. We proposed several strategies for rural science popularization in the digital media era: First, we should strengthen the utilization of traditional platforms such as print media and broadcast and TV media. Then, digital media based on Internet should also be used for science popularization. Last but not least, we should also try to use “the fifth media” to upgrade existing platforms and create new Internet media channels.

The Rhetorical Dimensions of Popular Song.

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Winebrenner, T. C.

Communication scholars have recently focused attention on songs as artifacts of popular culture. Current literature implies that the contexts of music communication are defined by the relationships that songs establish between artists and their audience: persuasive, expressive, and commercial. As the commercialization of music is an inherently…

The portrayal of migraine in popular music: observations and implications.

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Roberts, Daniel L; Vargas, Bert B

2012-01-01

To describe the manner in which migraine and migaineurs are depicted in popular music. Prior studies have elucidated the ways in which the popular perception of neurological disorders is shaped by popular culture, from the inflated expectations of the prognosis of coma patients in television dramas to the association of intractable headaches with demonic possession and death by violence in the cinema. searched popular online music sites for songs with the word "migraine" in their titles. Song lyrics were studied for tone, content, and the light in which they portrayed migraine sufferers. One hundred thirty-four songs met inclusion criteria, representing the work of 126 artists. The majority of the recording artists were male (112 of 126 artists, 89%). One hundred seven of the 134 songs (80%) were recorded since 2000. Of the 79 songs that contained lyrics, 16 (20%) included explicit content; 43 (54%) make reference to hopelessness, despair, or severe pain; and 27 (34%) contained references to killing or death. Only 9 songs (11%) made any reference to successful treatment, resolution, or hope of any sort, the same number that made lyrical references to explosions or bombs. The portrayal of a disease in popular music can reflect the artist's perceptions, anxieties, and prejudices about the disease and its victims. The public, including patients, may accept these portrayals as accurate. Clinicians familiar with the portrayal of headache sufferers in cinema will not be surprised that popular musicians (both migraineurs and non-migraineurs) portray migraines as intractable, violent, and all-consuming. The lack of any balancing view is disheartening, especially in light of the advances in migraine awareness and treatment over the past decade. Perhaps the most surprising finding is that the vast majority of migraine songs are written and performed by men. © 2012 American Headache Society.

Malt Beverage Brand Popularity Among Youth and Youth-Appealing Advertising Content.

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Xuan, Ziming; DeJong, William; Siegel, Michael; Babor, Thomas F

2017-11-01

This study examined whether alcohol brands more popular among youth are more likely to have aired television advertisements that violated the alcohol industry's voluntary code by including youth-appealing content. We obtained a complete list of 288 brand-specific beer advertisements broadcast during the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men's and women's basketball tournaments from 1999 to 2008. All ads were rated by a panel of health professionals using a modified Delphi method to assess the presence of youth-appealing content in violation of the alcohol industry's voluntary code. The ads represented 23 alcohol brands. The popularity of these brands was operationalized as the brand-specific popularity of youth alcohol consumption in the past 30 days, as determined by a 2011 to 2012 national survey of underage drinkers. Brand-level popularity was used as the exposure variable to predict the odds of having advertisements with youth-appealing content violations. Accounting for other covariates and the clustering of advertisements within brands, increased brand popularity among underage youth was associated with significantly increased odds of having youth-appeal content violations in ads televised during the NCAA basketball tournament games (adjusted odds ratio = 1.70, 95% CI: 1.38, 2.09). Alcohol brands popular among underage drinkers are more likely to air television advertising that violates the industry's voluntary code which proscribes youth-appealing content. Copyright © 2017 by the Research Society on Alcoholism.

Popular product development: strategy, innovation and decision making

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Maria Cecília Sobral

2007-09-01

Full Text Available This work studies the decision process involved in the development of a popular product in Brazil for a multinational company. The method was case study. The product was launched in the market at the end of 2003, being the first popular product of the company in the world. Some interesting points of this study: a The importance of the new market (the bottom of income pyramid to the company; b The development of a product specifically addressed to the needs of this market with a totally customized solution; c The decision of a new product platform development.

Popular culture and the narrative: the case of the James Bond 007 films

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2008-01-01

This study examines the contribution of popular culture and artefacts in the narratives of the James Bond films and postulates that these narratives in turn become popular cultures of their own. In the audiovisual industry the actuality and novelty of the content and the production thereof relates directly to the success of the production. The main reason is because of actuality of the theme, topic and the popular culture portrayed in the production. The popular culture products at the time o...

Los Consejos de Salarios en el Uruguay en la década del cuarenta. Su contexto y resultados. Los casos de la industria gráfica, del caucho, del cuero y química

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Claudio Fernández Caetano

2012-12-01

Full Text Available En Uruguay, desde el inicio de la década del treinta hasta mediados de los años cincuenta, se desarrolló el modelo industrial sustitutivo de importaciones. El cambio en la estructura productiva tuvo consecuencias en el mercado laboral, influenciado por el rol protector del Estado, fundamentalmente desde la llegada del denominado neobatllismo. Con el desarrollo industrial y sus consecuencias sociales, la legislación laboral y social cobró impulso mejorando las condiciones de vida y trabajo en el medio urbano, deterioradas como consecuencia del período de crisis anterior. El resultado fue la innovación en materia de negociación colectiva creándose los Consejos de Salarios tripartitos, como el escenario del Sistema de Relaciones Laborales. El objetivo de esta investigación consiste en analizar la evolución del salario real en las rondas inaugurales de los Consejos de Salarios, en el Uruguay en la década del cuarenta, para cuatro industrias seleccionadas: la del cuero y fabricación de calzado, la química, del caucho y la industria gráfica; así como también las diferencias salariales existentes entre las distintas calificaciones de los trabajadores agrupadas en tipos de ocupación. Como principal resultado se constató el incremento del salario real tanto en todos los grupos analizados. Los salarios de los trabajadores con categorías de obreros, los menos calificados, tuvieron mayores aumentos salariales respecto a los agrupados en la definición de empleados, con mayor calificación. La discriminación de género siguió haciéndose efectiva mediante diferenciaciones salariales y estipulación de salarios diferenciados entre mujeres y hombres para categorías laborales con idénticas tareas asignadas.

Shylock’s Daughters: Philosemitism, Popular Culture, And The Liberal Imagination

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Hess Jonathan M.

2015-03-01

Full Text Available S. H. Mosenthal’s blockbuster drama Deborah, popularized in the English-speaking world as Leah, The Forsaken, delivered generations of nineteenth-century theatergoers fantasies about Jewish women. This paper explores the rich performance history of this work, offering a new perspective on the role of popular culture in launching distinctly liberal forms of philosemitism.

Skinny blues: Karen Carpenter, anorexia nervosa and popular music

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McKay, George

2018-01-01

This article discusses an extraordinary body in popular music, that belonging to the person with anorexia which is also usually a gendered body – female – and that of the singer or frontperson. I explore the relation between the anorexic body and popular music, which is more than simply look- ing at constructions of anorexia in pop. It involves contextually thinking about the (medical) history and the critical reception and representation, the place of anorexia across the creative industries ...

Pulp fictions of medieval England: Essays in popular romance

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McDonald, Nicola

2004-01-01

Middle English popular romance is the most audacious and compendious testimony to the imaginary world of the English Middle Ages. Yet, with few exceptions, it remains under read and under studied. Pulp fictions of medieval England demonstrates that popular romance merits and rewards serious critical attention and that it is crucial to our understanding of the complex and conflicted world of medieval England. Pulp fictions of medieval England comprises ten essays on individual romances that, w...

The Reflection of Israeli Society in Popular War Songs

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2015-06-01

festivals , musicals and movies (e.g. Woodstock Festival and the movie and the musical Hair). Rock music became more popular and it integrated into...history. The country’s best writers wrote songs and the best singers sang them in the most popular festivals and media channels. The collective...from a variety of angles. In addition to the plain text, it will pay attention to the music and the arrangement. It will examine the song’s

Retribución y composición del Consejo de Administración : evidencia empírica para las empresas cotizadas españolas

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Elena Merino Madrid

2009-06-01

Full Text Available Este trabajo tiene como objetivo principal analizar las características de las empresas españolas cotizadas en el Mercado Continuo durante el ejercicio 2007, excluyendo las empresas financieras, en relación a la retribución, composición y estructura del Consejo de Administración, a fin de observar si éstas reúnen ciertas condiciones que inhiban o aviven los problemas de agencia entre accionistas y directivos. Para ello, en primer lugar, se ofrece una revisión de la literatura previa que versa sobre el conflicto de intereses entre propietarios y directivos en relación a la compensación y composición de los órganos de administración; en segundo lugar, se describe la metodología utilizada para el desarrollo del análisis empírico y se presentan los resultados del mismo; y, por último, se exponen las principales conclusiones.De tos resultado obtenidos se deduce que algunas de los aspectos de las empresas cotizadas españolas pueden redundar en la aparición de problemas de agencia entre directivos y accionistas, entre ellos: la dimensión y estructura de los sistemas retributivos, la falta de transparencia informativa al respecto de las retribuciones individuales de consejeros y la acumulación de poderes del presidente del Consejo de Administración y el primer ejecutivo.This paper mainly aims at analysing the characteristics of Spanish companies listed in the Stock Exchange during the year 2007, financial companies excluded, in relation to the remuneration, composition and structure of the Board of Directors, in order to see if the companies meet certain conditions that inhibit or intensify the agency problems among shareholders and managers. In order to do this, firstly, we provide a review of the literature which deals with the conflict of interests among owners and managers in relation to the composition and compensation of the administrative staff; secondly, we describe the methodology used to develop the empirical analysis

Effects of individual popularity on information spreading in complex networks

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Gao, Lei; Li, Ruiqi; Shu, Panpan; Wang, Wei; Gao, Hui; Cai, Shimin

2018-01-01

In real world, human activities often exhibit preferential selection mechanism based on the popularity of individuals. However, this mechanism is seldom taken into account by previous studies about spreading dynamics on networks. Thus in this work, an information spreading model is proposed by considering the preferential selection based on individuals' current popularity, which is defined as the number of individuals' cumulative contacts with informed neighbors. A mean-field theory is developed to analyze the spreading model. Through systematically studying the information spreading dynamics on uncorrelated configuration networks as well as real-world networks, we find that the popularity preference has great impacts on the information spreading. On the one hand, the information spreading is facilitated, i.e., a larger final prevalence of information and a smaller outbreak threshold, if nodes with low popularity are preferentially selected. In this situation, the effective contacts between informed nodes and susceptible nodes are increased, and nodes almost have uniform probabilities of obtaining the information. On the other hand, if nodes with high popularity are preferentially selected, the final prevalence of information is reduced, the outbreak threshold is increased, and even the information cannot outbreak. In addition, the heterogeneity of the degree distribution and the structure of real-world networks do not qualitatively affect the results. Our research can provide some theoretical supports for the promotion of spreading such as information, health related behaviors, and new products, etc.

Lucha popular, democracia, neoliberalismo: protesta popular en América Latina en los años del ajuste

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Martha Cecilia García V.

2000-01-01

Full Text Available Margarita López Maya (editora. Lucha popular, democracia, neoliberalismo: protesta popular en América Latina en los años del ajuste. Caracas: Nueva Sociedad, 1999, 264 páginas. Este libro presenta una compilación de diez artículos elaborados por investigadores de Argentina, México, Colombia, Guatemala, Brasil, República Dominicana y Venezuela, producto de sus investigaciones sobre luchas y movimientos sociales en estos países. La intención del libro, según la compiladora, es tratar de llegar de manera conjunta a algunas hipótesis sobre los procesos de protesta y sus relaciones con el neoliberalismo y descubrir el modo en que los sectores más golpeados en sus expectativas y condiciones de vida por las políticas de ajuste han comenzado a demandar sus derechos.

Coco de roda novo quilombo: saberes da cultura popular e práticas de educação popular na comunidade quilombola de Ipiranga no Conde-PB

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Silva, Cicero Pedroza da

2014-01-01

O presente estudo, intitulado ―COCO DE RODE NOVO QUILOMBO: saberes da Cultura Popular e práticas de Educação Popular na comunidade quilombola de Ipiranga no Conde -PB‖, tem como objetivo central analisar a contribuição histórica, cultural social e política da comunidade quilombola de Ipiranga no Conde-PB para a construção de práticas educativas na perspectiva freireana de Educação Popular. Situada, metodologicamente, nos preceitos da abordagem qualitativa de pesquisa, enquanto pes...

Popularity as a predictor of early alcohol use and moderator of other risk processes.

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Guyll, Max; Madon, Stephanie; Spoth, Richard; Lannin, Daniel G

2014-11-01

This study tested the relationship between popularity and early adolescent alcohol use and examined whether popularity moderated the influence of several risk processes. Longitudinal data provided by 1,196 youth (590 girls) were analyzed to assess main and interactive effects of popularity, friends' alcohol use attitudes, own alcohol use attitude, risk taking, and aggressive-disruptive behavior on changes in alcohol use during seventh grade. When we controlled for demographic variables and baseline alcohol use, popularity and the other predictors of interest exhibited linear main effects on alcohol use, with popularity and the attitude variables also demonstrating curvilinear relationships. Further analysis indicated that popularity moderated the effect of aggressive-disruptive behavior, the latter being associated with greater alcohol use among more popular adolescents. Additional moderation results revealed that friends' favorable attitudes toward alcohol use also potentiated aggressive-disruptive behavior's relationship with alcohol use and that male youth were more likely than female youth to use alcohol, but only among low risk takers. Popular youth may attempt to maintain status through early alcohol use, and their social competencies may facilitate risk processes associated with aggressive-disruptive behavior. Findings suggest the utility of providing universal prevention at developmentally crucial times to address substance use overall, and particularly to decrease early use among popular youth, which may serve to slow the growth of substance use in the larger cohort. Although aggressive-disruptive youth who are popular seem to be at particular risk, they may resist traditional interventions, indicating the potential value of less obvious intervention strategies.

[Folklore and popular medicine in the Amazon].

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Henrique, Márcio Couto

2009-01-01

This discussion of the relations between folklore and popular medicine in the Amazon takes Canuto Azevedo's story "Filhos do boto" (Children of the porpoise) as an analytical reference point. Replete with elements of cultural reality, folk tales can serve as historical testimonies expressing clashes between different traditions. Folk records are fruit of what is often a quarrelsome dialogue between folklorists, social scientists, physicians, and pajés and their followers, and their analysis should take into account the conditions under which they were produced. Based on the imaginary attached to the figure of the porpoise--a seductive creature with healing powers--the article explores how we might expand knowledge of popular medicine as practiced in the Amazon, where the shamanistic rite known as pajelança cabocla has a strong presence.

Iklan dan Budaya Popular: Pembentukan Identitas Ideologis Kecantikan Perempuan oleh Iklan di Televisi

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Inda Fitryarini

2013-12-01

Full Text Available Abstract: Mass media is not only a channel to deliver messages but also is a channel to build a special image about the world, such as the beauty image of women. Advertisements create it in their messages. Most of them show women with white skin, slim and have long black hair. These cases are a part of popular culture or mass culture because it could be a homogen-standard value. Advertising is related with popular culture. Advertising is a reflection of popular culture and it is an inventor of popular culture.

Alcohol Brand Appearances in U.S. Popular Music

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Primack, Brian A.; Nuzzo, Erin; Rice, Kristen R.; Sargent, James D.

2011-01-01

Aims The average US adolescent is exposed to 34 references to alcohol in popular music daily. Although brand recognition is an independent, potent risk factor for alcohol outcomes among adolescents, alcohol brand appearances in popular music have not been systematically assessed. We aimed to determine the prevalence of and contextual elements associated with alcohol brand appearances in U.S. popular music. Design Qualitative content analysis. Setting We used Billboard Magazine to identify songs to which US adolescents were most exposed in 2005-2007. For each of the 793 songs, two trained coders independently analyzed the lyrics of each song for references to alcohol and alcohol brand appearances. Subsequent in-depth assessments utilised Atlas.ti to determine contextual factors associated with each of the alcohol brand appearances. Measurements Our final code book contained 27 relevant codes representing 6 categories: alcohol types, consequences, emotional states, activities, status, and objects. Findings Average inter-rater reliability was high (κ=0.80), and all differences were easily adjudicated. Of the 793 songs in our sample, 169 (21.3%) explicitly referred to alcohol, and of those, 41 (24.3%) contained an alcohol brand appearance. Consequences associated with alcohol were more often positive than negative (41.5% vs. 17.1%, Pbrand appearances were commonly associated with wealth (63.4%), sex (58.5%), luxury objects (51.2%), partying (48.8%), other drugs (43.9%), and vehicles (39.0%). Conclusions One-in-five songs sampled from U.S. popular music had explicit references to alcohol, and one quarter of these mentioned a specific alcohol brand. These alcohol brand appearances are commonly associated with a luxury lifestyle characterised by wealth, sex, partying, and other drugs. PMID:22011113

Effects of Popularity and Gender on Peers' Perceptions of Prosocial, Antisocial, and Jealousy-Eliciting Behaviors

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Mayeux, Lara

2011-01-01

Perceived popularity is associated with both positive and negative characteristics, and adolescents' stereotypes associated with popularity reflect this paradox. The current study investigated adolescents' stereotypes associated with popularity and gender, as well as their liking for popular peers who engage in prosocial, antisocial, and…

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José Martí e a educação popular: um retorno às fontes José Martí and popular education: a return to the sources

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Danilo R. Streck

2008-04-01

Full Text Available Este artigo apresenta uma leitura de José Martí como fonte histórica da educação popular na América Latina. Parte-se do pressuposto de que não pode haver uma verdadeira refundamentação sem o retorno àquilo que sejam momentos, idéias ou princípios fundantes da educação popular. Após situar brevemente o pensamento e a obra de José Martí, caracteriza-se o conceito de educação popular como educação do povo, no sentido de educação universal. Num outro nível, busca-se identificar na obra de Martí traços da educação popular como um movimento político-pedagógico que se configura especialmente a partir da segunda metade do século passado. A premissa é que, num dado momento, educação do povo e educação popular deixam de ser termos equivalentes e que, em José Martí, temos elementos para pensar esses dois termos de forma dialética, num movimento de recriação de uma prática que, embora cindida pelas contingências históricas, é única. São identificados em sua obra quatro princípios da educação popular: a valorização da pluralidade de saberes; a relação interpessoal como ambiente para o aprender-ensinar e base para a transformação social; o conhecimento da realidade a partir de uma perspectiva emancipatória como ato político; e a educação como processo autoformativo da sociedade.This article presents José Martí as a historical source of popular education in Latin America. It starts from the assumption that there can be no true re-foundation without the return to those founding moments, ideas or principles of popular education. After giving a brief account of Martí's work and thought, we characterize the concept of popular education as education of the people, in the sense of a universal education. On a different level, we seek to identify in Martí's work elements of popular education as a political-pedagogical movement that takes shape especially since the latter half of the 20th century. The

The complex network of the Brazilian Popular Music

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de Lima e Silva, D.; Medeiros Soares, M.; Henriques, M. V. C.; Schivani Alves, M. T.; de Aguiar, S. G.; de Carvalho, T. P.; Corso, G.; Lucena, L. S.

2004-02-01

We study the Brazilian Popular Music in a network perspective. We call the Brazilian Popular Music Network, BPMN, the graph where the vertices are the song writers and the links are determined by the existence of at least a common singer. The linking degree distribution of such graph shows power law and exponential regions. The exponent of the power law is compatible with the values obtained by the evolving network algorithms seen in the literature. The average path length of the BPMN is similar to the correspondent random graph, its clustering coefficient, however, is significantly larger. These results indicate that the BPMN forms a small-world network.

Images of Freud in Popular Culture and Fiction

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in popular culture, where Sigmund has long had iconic status, both in terms of his own physical likeness and in terms of stereotyped versions of his main ideas. To complement this analysis I shall contrast the popular image of Freud with the use of him in recent fiction by E.L. Doctorow and John Irving.......Historiographic metafiction and postmodern pastiche, both defined by critic Linda Hutcheon as subversive literary and cultural strategies, have put Freud to work both as a clown and a stern cultural critic. My paper will first take a lighthearted look at some of the humorous images we find of Freud...

How to make the unpopular popular?

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de Groot, Judith I.M.; Schuitema, Geertje

2012-01-01

This study examined how policy characteristics (i.e. push versus pull measure and high versus low cost behaviour targeted) and social norms (i.e. strong versus weak social norms) influence the acceptability of environmental policies. Results of a mixed 2 2 2 subjects design among 123 participants...... as to make the unpopular popular....

Bringing American Popular Culture to the English Departments in Indonesia*

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Dewi N.

2012-01-01

Full Text Available One outcome of the globalization process is the growing influence and dominance of American popular culture. The speed with which American music, films, and goods have flooded the markets worldwide is remarkably high, thanks to the advancement of telecommunication technologies and the Internet. Increased cultural transfer or, more precisely, internationalization of American culture has posed both fear and fascination to other cultures. How do people in the academia respond to this conundrum of cross-cultural contacts? What do we teach when we teach popular culture? What viable research in American popular culture is encouraged so as to result in impartially beneficial impacts for society at large? This paper is to argue that one can become an avid learner or critic of a certain culture when s/he finds meaningful connections between that culture and life itself. The teaching of American popular culture in the English Department, for instance, has to be locally contextualized, learner-participant oriented, and socially self-actualized. In this way, American Studies outside the U. S. may in turn become less centralized as the interchange of cross-cultural understanding takes place concurrently.

It is all about being popular: The effects of need for popularity on social network site use

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Utz, S.; Tanis, M.A.; Vermeulen, I.E.

2012-01-01

Prior research on predictors of social network site (SNS) use has mainly focused on the Big Five, narcissism, and self-esteem. Results have been inconsistent, and variance explained was rather low. Need for popularity (NfP) might be a better predictor of SNS use, because SNSs are ideal venues for

Science communication on YouTube: Factors that affect channel and video popularity.

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Welbourne, Dustin J; Grant, Will J

2016-08-01

YouTube has become one of the largest websites on the Internet. Among its many genres, both professional and amateur science communicators compete for audience attention. This article provides the first overview of science communication on YouTube and examines content factors that affect the popularity of science communication videos on the site. A content analysis of 390 videos from 39 YouTube channels was conducted. Although professionally generated content is superior in number, user-generated content was significantly more popular. Furthermore, videos that had consistent science communicators were more popular than those without a regular communicator. This study represents an important first step to understand content factors, which increases the channel and video popularity of science communication on YouTube. © The Author(s) 2015.

Popular Science as a Means of Emotional Engagement with the Scientific Community

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Olga A P ILKINGTON

2016-03-01

Full Text Available This article explores a debate (and its origins which is taking place around the issue of science popularization. Although the participants are all describing popularization in various ways, the heart is in what makes a good popularization. The notion of this has changed from the 19th century view, which called for a simple and easy - to - understand text, to a more modern view, which suggests a good popularization engages the reader emotionally. This discussion might also be seen in a context of a more profou nd debate of science experts versus general public and what science and scientific knowledge mean to each group. The exploration of this relationship suggests a shift in the role lay public plays in science.

Write It So They'll Read It: Popular Annual Financial Reporting.

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Anderson, Richard T.; Piotrowski, Craig L.

1994-01-01

Waukesha County Technical College (Wisconsin) received the Governmental Financial Officers Association "Popular Annual Financial Reporting Award" in 1993 and became the first educational entity to do so. Popular annual financial reporting is an effective way for schools to present reader-friendly reports that stress graphics and…

Antecedents and Correlates of the Popular-Aggressive Phenomenon in Elementary School

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Rodkin, Philip C.; Roisman, Glenn I.

2010-01-01

This study identified correlates and developmental antecedents that distinguish popular-aggressive elementary school children from other youth. Drawing on the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N = 1022), popular-aggressive children were identified through teacher ratings over…

Life After High School Adjustment of Popular Teens in Emerging Adulthood

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Sandstrom, M.J.; Cillessen, A.H.N.

2010-01-01

This project examines the adjustment sequelae of perceived popularity beyond high school, and the moderating role of relational aggression (RA) in this process. Yearly sociometric measures of popularity and RA were gathered across grades 9-12 for a sample of 264 adolescents in a lower-middle-class

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Alfonso ORTEGA GIMÉNEZ

2013-12-01

Full Text Available Reglamento (UE n.º 604/2013 del Parlamento Europeo y del Consejo, de 26 de junio de 2013, por el que se establecen los criterios y mecanismos de determinación del Estado miembro responsable del examen de una solicitud de protección internacional presentada en uno de los Estados miembros por un nacional de un tercer país o un apátrida [DOUE L 180, de 29-VI-2013

LA EXTENSIÓN DE LA JURISPRUDENCIA UNIFICADA DEL CONSEJO DE ESTADO: NUEVA COMPETENCIA DE LOS CONSULTORIOS JURÍDICOS EN MATERIA CONTENCIOSO ADMINISTRATIVA

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Luz Ángela Portilla Villamizar

2015-07-01

Full Text Available La ley 1437 de 2011 implementó un procedimiento administrativo y contencioso ajustado a la protección de las garantías constitucionales de los administrados en sede administrativa y judicial, un ajuste del sistema procesal en concordancia con la Carta Política. Entre tantas novedades y cambios está la creación de una figura jurídica denominada Extensión de las Sentencias de Unificación Jurisprudencial del Consejo de Estado a terceros (Artículo 102 del Código de Procedimiento Administrativo y Contencioso Administrativo, ley 1437 de 2011, procedimiento que genera la posibilidad real de práctica desde los consultorios jurídicos de las universidades del país, puesto que sus presupuestos normativos y procesales permiten, desde las competencias contempladas en la ley y lo reiterado por la jurisprudencia constitucional, llevarlo a cabo por los estudiantes adscritos a los sultorios jurídicos. Se plantea un análisis que aborda los aspectos y características jurídicas del trámite de extensión de la jurisprudencia, en relación con las reglas de competencia de los consultorios jurídicos universitarios, generando una nueva competencia en materia de derecho administrativo.

The First World War in Popular Music since 1958

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Grant, P.

2017-01-01

The First World War in Popular Music since 1958Peter GrantIntroductionSince 1958 there have been over 1,400 newly composed songs ‘about’ the First World War in the different genres of popular music with numbers increasing signifi cantly since the new millennium. By this I mean songs where the infl uence of the war is discernible, whether directly or through ‘signifi ers’ or references, in the title or lyrics. Not surprisingly the largest number emanate from countries that were prominent in th...

School engagement trajectories in adolescence: The role of peer likeability and popularity.

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Engels, Maaike C; Colpin, Hilde; Van Leeuwen, Karla; Bijttebier, Patricia; Den Noortgate, Wim Van; Claes, Stephan; Goossens, Luc; Verschueren, Karine

2017-10-01

This accelerated longitudinal study examined how peer status (i.e., peer likeability and popularity) is involved in adolescents' school engagement trajectories. A large sample of students was followed from Grades 7 to 11 (N=1116; M age =13.79years). Students' school engagement and peer status were assessed using self-reports and peer nominations, respectively. Latent growth curve modeling revealed that different engagement dimensions were differentially associated with peer status. Likeability was positively related to both behavioral and emotional engagement in Grade 7, but not to behavioral and emotional disaffection. In contrast, popularity was related to less behavioral engagement and more behavioral disaffection at the start of secondary education, but not to emotional engagement and disaffection. Moreover, students' aggressive behavior moderated the relation between popularity and behavioral engagement in Grade 7, denoting the risk of popularity in combination with average and high levels of aggression. Results suggest that adolescents' popularity may interfere with meeting academic demands in general and with showing engagement in particular. Copyright © 2017 Society for the Study of School Psychology. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Popular Culture and Critical Media Literacy in Adult Education: Theory and Practice

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Tisdell, Elizabeth J.

2007-01-01

This chapter introduces the volume, provides an overview of the theory and literature on popular culture and critical media literacy in education, and discusses ways to use popular culture in adult education.

Popular Culture in Mainland Chinese Education

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Ho, Wai-Chung

2006-01-01

The policy and practice of school education in mainland China have changed in response to the political and economic reformations and opening-up of the late 1970s. This paper argues that, despite the introduction and emphasis on popular culture in some areas of school education, traditional Chinese culture and values continue to consolidate the…

Popular music as cultural heritage: scoping out the field of practice

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Brandellero, A.; Janssen, S.

2014-01-01

This paper sets out to deepen our understanding of the relationship between popular music and cultural heritage and to delineate the practices of popular music as cultural heritage. The paper illustrates how the term has been mobilised by a variety of actors, from the public to the private sector,

Popular music as cultural heritage: scoping out the field of practice

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A.M.C. Brandellero (Amanda); M.S.S.E. Janssen (Susanne)

2014-01-01

textabstractThis paper sets out to deepen our understanding of the relationship between popular music and cultural heritage and to delineate the practices of popular music as cultural heritage. The paper illustrates how the term has been mobilised by a variety of actors, from the public to the

Impact Factors and Prediction of Popular Topics in a Journal

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Nielsen, M B; Seitz, K.

2016-01-01

been on peripheral nerves 23. Surprisingly many good scientific papers on obstetrics/fetal US and musculoskeletal US have low citation rates 24 25 26. Our predictions for 2016 based on the topics of submitted articles in the last 12 months are that CEUS and elastography will continue to be popular...... topics.It is also worth mentioning that there can be a discrepancy between which titles are cited and which are accessed online. In addition to international guidelines, our CME articles are usually popular according to online access. CME articles are well established educational papers...... and recommendations is important to UIM/EJU. Although we see popular topics like CEUS and elastography, it is not possible to predict which articles will be read or even cited based on the topic, with multicenter studies being the exception....

Criterios del Consejo de Evaluación, Acreditación y Aseguramiento de la Calidad de Educación superior y su influencia en la calidad de la educación de las extensiones universitarias de la provincia de Manabí - Ecuador

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Villacis Zambrano, Lilia Moncerrate

2017-01-01

Determina el cómo influye la acreditación que otorga el Consejo de Acreditación y Aseguramiento de la Calidad de Educación Superior (CEAACES) en la calidad de las universidades. Para ello se utiliza encuestas, muestreo, método de expertos Kendall, diagramas causa-efecto, diagramas de flujo y análisis. Para el procesamiento y análisis de la información se utiliza el software SPSS, Microsoft, Excel, Word y otros. Los resultados de esta investigación sirve de base para proponer una serie de acci...

Estudio Exploratorio-Descriptivo de Competencias Interculturales en Instructores Comunitarios del Consejo Nacional de Fomento Educativo que Brindan Servicio en la Modalidad de Atención Educativa a Población Indígena del Estado de Chiapas-Edición Única

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Marcela Georgina Gómez Zermeño

2009-01-01

Esta disertación doctoral presenta un estudio exploratorio-descriptivo sobre competencias interculturales, realizado en instructores comunitarios del Consejo Nacional de Fomento Educativo (CONAFE) que brindan su servicio en la modalidad de atención educativa a población indígena en la región de San Cristóbal de las Casas. En el marco teórico se describen antecedentes históricos de la educación indígena en México y contribuciones de la educación comunitaria, y se desarrollan ide...

The popularity of domestic cultural products: cross-national differences and the relation to globalization

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Bekhuis, H.

2013-01-01

This dissertation addressed the popularity of domestic cultural consumption. It aimed at describing and explaining the extent to which the popularity of domestic cultural consumption differs between countries and over time. We studied the popularity of domestic versus foreign film productions, the

Content analysis of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs in popular music.

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Primack, Brian A; Dalton, Madeline A; Carroll, Mary V; Agarwal, Aaron A; Fine, Michael J

2008-02-01

To perform a comprehensive content analysis of substance use in contemporary popular music. We analyzed the 279 most popular songs of 2005 according to Billboard magazine. Two coders working independently used a standardized data collection instrument to code portrayals of substance use. Presence and explicit use of substances and motivations for, associations with, and consequences of substance use. Of the 279 songs, 93 (33.3%) portrayed substance use, with an average of 35.2 substance references per song-hour. Portrayal of substance use varied significantly (P musical genre. The substance use depicted in popular music is frequently motivated by peer acceptance and sex, and it has highly positive associations and consequences.

Imagining the Mathematician: Young People Talking about Popular Representations of Maths

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Epstein, Debbie; Mendick, Heather; Moreau, Marie-Pierre

2010-01-01

This paper makes both a critical analysis of some popular cultural texts about mathematics and mathematicians, and explores the ways in which young people deploy the discourses produced in these texts. We argue that there are particular (and sometimes contradictory) meanings and discourses about mathematics that circulate in popular culture, that…

Release the Dragon: The Role of Popular Culture in Children's Stories

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Urbach, Jennifer; Eckhoff, Angela

2012-01-01

Young learners come to the school environment with myriad literacy experiences, some of which are inevitably based in popular culture. While literacy knowledge drawn from experiences with popular culture has traditionally been viewed as less important than academic literacy, educators wishing to create classrooms that value all children need to…

Preservice Music Teachers' Attitudes toward Popular Music in the Music Classroom

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Springer, D. Gregory; Gooding, Lori F.

2013-01-01

The purpose of this study was to examine preservice music educators' attitudes toward popular music in the music classroom. On a survey instrument designed by the investigators, participants ("N" = 82) rated (a) the effectiveness of popular music in addressing the National Standards for Music Education, (b) the appropriateness of popular…

Leyendas y narrativa popular en Chiapas

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Antonio Cruz Coutiño

2014-06-01

Full Text Available El presente informe sintetiza la labor de identificación, acopio y sistematización de una parte importante de la narrativa tradicional de los pueblos del estado de Chiapas, México: relatos populares identificados como leyendas en el ámbito de la mitología religiosa y cosmogónica de las culturas ancestrales mesoamericanas.

La intertextualidad en la copla popular de México

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Gómez Estrada, Grissel

2012-01-01

La intertextualidad en la lírica tradicional y popular surge como resultado de dos fenómenos: el surgimiento de una canción nueva (canciones contrahechas), en especial como parodia de la primera, y cuando una canción menciona a otra, creando una complicidad entre los intérpretes y el público durante la performance. Intertextuality in traditional and popular poetry arises as a result of two phenomena. Firtstly, is the emergence of a new song as a parody of another (contrahechas); and, secon...

Popularity and Relevance of Science Education and Scientific Literacy

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Graeber, Wolfgang; Blonder, Ron; Bolte, Claus

2008-01-01

A consortium of researchers from 8 European nations has successfully applied to the EU commission for funding the PARSEL (Popularity and Relevance in Science Education for Scientific Literacy) project, which aims at raising the popularity and relevance of science teaching and enhancing students...... of a range of personal and social skills (including cognitive skills associated with investigatory scientific problem solving and socio-scientific decision making) and clarify the relevancy of science education for the 21st century. This symposium will introduce and discuss the project PARSEL ideas within...

La iniciativa legislativa popular en América Latina

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Felipe Hevia de la Jara

2010-01-01

Una de las características del proceso de democratización en América Latina es la incorporación de mecanismos de democracia directa como el plebiscito, la iniciativa legislativa y la revocación del mandato. Este artículo analiza específicamente uno de ellos: la Iniciativa Legislativa Popular (ILP), definida como el derecho de los ciudadanos a presentar proyectos de ley al Parlamento y/o exigir una consulta popular para aprobar o rechazar leyes o reformas legales. El artículo incluye una discu...

La radio popular y educativa en América Latina

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Luis Ramiro Beltrán

2015-01-01

Full Text Available La radio popular y educativa latinoamericana es una apuesta creativa y valerosa por el ideal democrático. El uso de la radio para la educación popular, en favor de la democracia, tiene ya casi medio siglo de experiencia en la región. El autor reflexiona sobre los principales momentos de esta práctica y avizora nuevas estrategias para su fortalecimiento.

The Role of Popular Girls in Bullying and Intimidating Boys and Other Popular Girls in Secondary School

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Dytham, Siobhan

2018-01-01

Despite a large amount of research focusing on bullying and exclusion in secondary schools, there is far less research focusing on cross-gender bullying and 'popular' students who experience bullying. This research provides an analysis of interactions between male and female students (aged 13-14) in a school in England. The data provides multiple…

A mechanistic explanation of popularity: genes, rule breaking, and evocative gene-environment correlations.

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Burt, Alexandra

2009-04-01

Previous work has suggested that the serotonergic system plays a key role in "popularity" or likeability. A polymorphism within the 5HT-sub(2A) serotonin receptor gene (-G1438A) has also been associated with popularity, suggesting that genes may predispose individuals to particular social experiences. However, because genes cannot code directly for others' reactions, any legitimate association should be mediated via the individual's behavior (i.e., genes-->behaviors-->social consequences), a phenomenon referred to as an evocative gene-environment correlation (rGE). The current study aimed to identify one such mediating behavior. The author focused on rule breaking given its prior links to both the serotonergic system and to increased popularity during adolescence. Two samples of previously unacquainted late-adolescent boys completed a peer-based interaction paradigm designed to assess their popularity. Analyses revealed that rule breaking partially mediated the genetic effect on popularity, thereby furthering our understanding of the biological mechanisms that underlie popularity. Moreover, the present results represent the first meaningfully explicated evidence that genes predispose individuals not only to particular behaviors but also to the social consequences of those behaviors. (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved.

Los Jóvenes que Viven en Barrios Populares Producen más Cultura que Violencia/Youth Who Live in Popular Neighborhoods Produce More Culture than Violence/Os Jovens que Moram em Bairros Populares Produzem mais Cultura do que Violência

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James Cuenca

2016-03-01

Full Text Available Este escrito analiza la situación en la que viven los jóvenes de los barrios populares al estar enfrentados a un fuerte estigma social que los reduce a delincuentes, drogadictos y violentos. Retomando la categoría de barrio popular, se critica esta posición y, a cambio, se propone una interpretación en la que se destaca la productividad cultural que tienen los jóvenes que viven en estos barrios. Se toma como caso a los raperos que viven en la ciudad de Cali, Colombia. Así, en el documento se puede constatar que, con el rap y el hip hop, los jóvenes afirman positivamente sus identidades y sus orígenes sociales como habitantes del barrio popular.

A Research on the Influence of Contemporary Popular Music upon Youths’ Self-identity

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Wang Jing

2017-11-01

Full Text Available “Emotion” is a key to exploring the relationship between contemporary popular music and youths. In reality, youths exercise the identity construction centering on self-identity by the unconscious use of ritualization towards popular music (cultures. The article analyzes the conversion in identity construction of youths in the course of popular music appreciation in the new era, and summarizes the identity construction of “private—individual”, “public—individual”, “self—division” and “reflexive”.The study on varieties of identity types strengthens our belief that “emotion-identity” is a down-to-earth approach to research Chinese youth group of popular music appreciators.

Popular Science Writing Bringing New Perspectives into Science Students' Theses

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Pelger, Susanne

2018-01-01

This study analyses which perspectives occur in science students' texts at different points in time during the process of writing a popular science article. The intention is, thus, to explore how popular science writing can help students discover and discuss different perspectives on science matter. For this purpose, texts written by 12 bachelor…

Popularizing Natural Sciences by Means of Scientific Fair

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Martin Cápay

2011-12-01

Full Text Available Science popularization is demanding from the financial as well as the time point of view. It is necessary to find the premises that would be easily available to general public. Another important step is to promote the event so that it would attract the audience. The preparation of scientific experiments itself also requires some financial resources. If we want to take advantage of these resources in the most useful and effective way, we have to find answers to the question: “What, where and how do we want to popularise?” In the paper, we describe one-day project aimed to popularization of scientific fields carried out by eight departments of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra. The project was named Scientific Fair – Science you can see, hear and experience. Its main goal was to present seven scientific fields - Physics, Informatics, Mathematics, Geography, Ecology, Chemistry and Biology. Popularization was carried out as experimental interactive activities unveiling the undisclosed corners of science. Their aim was to inspire the audience, arouse their interest in science and motivate the participants to cognitive activities. We introduce the idea of the project in detail concentrating mainly on informatics realized by the Department of Informatics.

Understanding Adolescent Delinquency: The Role of Older Siblings’ Delinquency and Popularity with Peers

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Craine, Jessica L.; Tanaka, Teri A.; Nishina, Adrienne; Conger, Katherine J.

2009-01-01

The present study examined delinquency concordance and the moderating effects of younger sibling perceptions of older sibling popularity in a sample of 587 adolescent sibling pairs. Using a social learning framework, and taking dyad composition into account, perceptions of popularity were hypothesized to strengthen siblings’ concordance for delinquency. Older sibling delinquency significantly predicted younger sibling delinquency. Older sibling popularity was not important in predicting boys’...

A produção de reconhecimento num contexto popular: devoção e narrativa contemporâneas / The production of recognition in a popular context: contemporary devotion and narrative

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Régis de Toledo Souza

2010-01-01

Full Text Available Dentro da dinâmica de lutas de reconhecimento da cultura popular do vale do Paraíba paulista, identificamos sujeitos responsáveis pelo registro e pela transmissão oral das narrativas de grupos devocionais do catolicismo popular. Atualmente, para sistematizar o registro de suas narrativas, verificamos que alguns sujeitos populares apropriam-se das técnicas e tecnologias antes exclusivas dos profissionais (jornalistas e pesquisadores que geralmente não participam do cotidiano dos sujeitos populares. Constatamos que, ao realizarem esse movimento, esses sujeitos populares passaram a ocupar um espaço de coexistência de vários discursos que disputam os sentidos dessas práticas religiosas, criando uma circularidade dos significados que colocam um desafio para os próprios pesquisadores, pois os discursos e práticas dos pesquisadores tornam agora mais complexas as interpretações das devoções populares e de seus sujeitos. Nas novas narrativas dos especialistas “nativos" existe o uso de categorias assimiladas da lógica de domínios exógenos mais amplos que se fazem presentes em seus cotidianos. / Within the dynamic of struggles for recognition of popular culture in Paraiba Valley, state of São Paulo/Brazil, we identified individuals responsible for the register and oral transmission of narratives of devotional groups of popular Catholicism. Nowadays, to systematize the register of their narratives, we verified that some individuals of these groups appropriate techniques and technologies which were once exclusive to professionals (journalists and researchers that generally do not participate in the individual‟s everyday life. It was observed that, by making this movement, these popular Catholics started to occupy a space of coexistence of several discourses which fight for the meanings of these religious practices, creating a circularity of meanings that challenge the researchers, since their discourses and practices now make the

On the Prediction of Flickr Image Popularity by Analyzing Heterogeneous Social Sensory Data

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Aloufi, Samah; Zhu, Shiai; El Saddik, Abdulmotaleb

2017-01-01

The increase in the popularity of social media has shattered the gap between the physical and virtual worlds. The content generated by people or social sensors on social media provides information about users and their living surroundings, which allows us to access a user’s preferences, opinions, and interactions. This provides an opportunity for us to understand human behavior and enhance the services provided for both the real and virtual worlds. In this paper, we will focus on the popularity prediction of social images on Flickr, a popular social photo-sharing site, and promote the research on utilizing social sensory data in the context of assisting people to improve their life on the Web. Social data are different from the data collected from physical sensors; in the fact that they exhibit special characteristics that pose new challenges. In addition to their huge quantity, social data are noisy, unstructured, and heterogeneous. Moreover, they involve human semantics and contextual data that require analysis and interpretation based on human behavior. Accordingly, we address the problem of popularity prediction for an image by exploiting three main factors that are important for making an image popular. In particular, we investigate the impact of the image’s visual content, where the semantic and sentiment information extracted from the image show an impact on its popularity, as well as the textual information associated with the image, which has a fundamental role in boosting the visibility of the image in the keyword search results. Additionally, we explore social context, such as an image owner’s popularity and how it positively influences the image popularity. With a comprehensive study on the effect of the three aspects, we further propose to jointly consider the heterogeneous social sensory data. Experimental results obtained from real-world data demonstrate that the three factors utilized complement each other in obtaining promising results in the

On the Prediction of Flickr Image Popularity by Analyzing Heterogeneous Social Sensory Data

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Samah Aloufi

2017-03-01

Full Text Available The increase in the popularity of social media has shattered the gap between the physical and virtual worlds. The content generated by people or social sensors on social media provides information about users and their living surroundings, which allows us to access a user’s preferences, opinions, and interactions. This provides an opportunity for us to understand human behavior and enhance the services provided for both the real and virtual worlds. In this paper, we will focus on the popularity prediction of social images on Flickr, a popular social photo-sharing site, and promote the research on utilizing social sensory data in the context of assisting people to improve their life on the Web. Social data are different from the data collected from physical sensors; in the fact that they exhibit special characteristics that pose new challenges. In addition to their huge quantity, social data are noisy, unstructured, and heterogeneous. Moreover, they involve human semantics and contextual data that require analysis and interpretation based on human behavior. Accordingly, we address the problem of popularity prediction for an image by exploiting three main factors that are important for making an image popular. In particular, we investigate the impact of the image’s visual content, where the semantic and sentiment information extracted from the image show an impact on its popularity, as well as the textual information associated with the image, which has a fundamental role in boosting the visibility of the image in the keyword search results. Additionally, we explore social context, such as an image owner’s popularity and how it positively influences the image popularity. With a comprehensive study on the effect of the three aspects, we further propose to jointly consider the heterogeneous social sensory data. Experimental results obtained from real-world data demonstrate that the three factors utilized complement each other in obtaining

On the Prediction of Flickr Image Popularity by Analyzing Heterogeneous Social Sensory Data.

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Aloufi, Samah; Zhu, Shiai; El Saddik, Abdulmotaleb

2017-03-19

The increase in the popularity of social media has shattered the gap between the physical and virtual worlds. The content generated by people or social sensors on social media provides information about users and their living surroundings, which allows us to access a user's preferences, opinions, and interactions. This provides an opportunity for us to understand human behavior and enhance the services provided for both the real and virtual worlds. In this paper, we will focus on the popularity prediction of social images on Flickr, a popular social photo-sharing site, and promote the research on utilizing social sensory data in the context of assisting people to improve their life on the Web. Social data are different from the data collected from physical sensors; in the fact that they exhibit special characteristics that pose new challenges. In addition to their huge quantity, social data are noisy, unstructured, and heterogeneous. Moreover, they involve human semantics and contextual data that require analysis and interpretation based on human behavior. Accordingly, we address the problem of popularity prediction for an image by exploiting three main factors that are important for making an image popular. In particular, we investigate the impact of the image's visual content, where the semantic and sentiment information extracted from the image show an impact on its popularity, as well as the textual information associated with the image, which has a fundamental role in boosting the visibility of the image in the keyword search results. Additionally, we explore social context, such as an image owner's popularity and how it positively influences the image popularity. With a comprehensive study on the effect of the three aspects, we further propose to jointly consider the heterogeneous social sensory data. Experimental results obtained from real-world data demonstrate that the three factors utilized complement each other in obtaining promising results in the

POPULAR MARKETS: FROM FUTURE STUDIES TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRODUCTS

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Antonio Thiago Benedete da Silva

2009-10-01

Full Text Available Strategies for running companies in low-income markets have been in the spotlight in both the academic and the corporate environments.However, the first discussions about the relevance of such markets arose during the 1980s, when scenario-prospecting studies showed that popular markets would provide many opportunities around the year 2000.Indeed, at present, the base of the pyramid has many unaddressed needs that offer business possibilities for those companies that are willing to review their strategies. In this context, product development becomes increasingly important, since products targeting consumers of the C, D and E classes may need different features from those of goods manufactured for the A and B classes.The aim of this study is to revisit past popular market forecasts and to identify development trends for goods that target low- income consumers.Our results indicate that Wright and Johnson’s (1984 studies predicted that Brazil would maintain both qualitative and quantitative progress in its socioeconomic development over the next two decades and that the development of popular products is undergoing a buoyant phase.Several functional perspectives were used to develop an understanding of the phenomenon, especially marketing, engineering and manufacturing.Key words: Future studies. Popular markets. Product development.

Soundtracking Germany : Popular Music and National Identity

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Schiller, Melanie

2018-01-01

This book argues for the importance of popular music in negotiations of national identity, and Germanness in particular. By discussing diverse musical genres and commercially and critically successful songs at the heights of their cultural relevance throughout seventy years of post-war German

Popular health education and venereal diseases in Croatia between two World Wars.

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Dugac, Zeljko

2004-08-01

The article presents the research of popular health education on venereal diseases in Croatia between the World Wars. In the inter-war period, the traditional plain approach to popular health education was replaced with new, complex meth-ods, which became the basis for the modem work in this field. New social medicine ideas and new health politics, as well as the new founded institutions such as the School of Public Health in Zagreb and different anti-venereal outpatient facilities, were crucial for changing popular health education after World War I. Based mostly on archival documents, this article explores popular health education as a vehicle for identification of attitudes and concepts within the medical community. Ambivalence in the perception of essential approaches towards popular heath education is elaborated on the ground of controversies within prominent medical representatives. With the support of new technologies, public health methods in the inter-war period matured in form and complexity. Despite various new methods, which made their way into different parts of everyday life, the subject matter of venereal diseases was treated through a limited number of methods due to the conservative attitudes of society, as well as resistance of many physicians.

University Faculty Perceptions and Utilization of Popular Culture in the Classroom

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Peacock, Jessica; Covino, Ralph; Auchter, Jessica; Boyd, Jennifer; Klug, Hope; Laing, Craig; Irvin, Lindsay

2018-01-01

This article discusses results of a survey on the utilization of and attitudes and beliefs towards the use of popular culture among faculty in higher education. A total of 212 faculty members from a mid-sized public regional university provided responses, with the majority indicating that they utilize popular culture in their classroom teaching…

Geographies of American Popular Music: Introducing Students to Basic Geographic Concepts

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McClain, Stephen S.

2010-01-01

Popular music can be used to study many subjects and issues related to the social sciences. "Geographies of American Popular Music" was a workshop that not only examined the history and development of select genres of American music, it also introduced students to basic geographic concepts such as the culture hearth and spatial diffusion. Through…

The Trajectory of Popularity Goal during the Transition to Middle School

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Dawes, Molly; Xie, Hongling

2017-01-01

The trajectory of early adolescents' popularity goal during the transition to middle school was examined in a diverse sample of 401 students. Popularity goal was assessed at five time points from the spring semester of fifth grade through the spring semester of seventh grade with the transition to middle school occurring between the fifth and…

La arquitectura popular en la Edad Media (Guipúzcoa

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Beatriz Arizaga Bolumburu

1989-01-01

Full Text Available Ante este tema nos encontramos con una ausencia total de estudios bibliográficos referentes a la vivienda popular urbana. En contraposición, los estudios sobre la casa popular rural están más generalizados. La mayor parte de estos estudios se realizaron en la primera mitad de este siglo, destacando por su calidad los trabajos de Baeschlin sobre «La arquitectura del caserío vasco», y los de los arquitectos Guimon y Muguruza sobre «el caserío vasco» y «la casa rural en el país vasco» respectivamente. Ninguno de los trabajos citados toca el tema de la vivienda popular urbana, y tenemos que esperar a los trabajos de Yrizar sobre «las casas vascas», para ver aparecer tímidamente las viviendas urbanas reflejadas en dicho estudio. Quien con posterioridad lo ha tratado en diversos artículos ha sido el historiador y antropólogo Julio Caro Baroja, refiriéndose especialmente a Navarra.

Cognitive science in popular film: the Cognitive Science Movie Index.

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Motz, Benjamin

2013-10-01

HAL 9000. Morpheus. Skynet. These household names demonstrate the strong cultural impact of films depicting themes in cognitive science and the potential power of popular cinema for outreach and education. Considering their wide influence, there is value to aggregating these movies and reflecting on their renderings of our field. The Cognitive Science Movie Index (CSMI) serves these purposes, leveraging popular film for the advancement of the discipline. Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Interactions between contemporary American independent cinema and popular music culture

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Nicholls, Matthew

2011-01-01

In recent years, many American independent films have become increasingly engaged with popular music culture and have used various forms of pop music in their soundtracks to various effects. Disparate films from a variety of genres use different forms of popular music in different ways, however these negotiations with pop music and its cultural surroundings have one true implication: that the 'independentness' (or 'indieness') of these movies is informed, anchored and embellished by their rel...

Performing Gender to Dangdut’s Drum: Place, Space, and Infrastructure in Indonesian Popular Music

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Decker, Andrea Louise

2016-01-01

Few genres of popular music around the world are more infamous for objectification of women’s bodies than dangdut, a popular dance music of Indonesia, which has thrived among audiences of lower classes for more than forty years. In Dangdut Stories: A Social and Musical History of Indonesia’s Most Popular Music, Andrew Weintraub credits dangdut’s popularity in part to its easy danceability. The steps are simple: back and forth, in duple meter, a basic step anyone can join or elaborate upon. Bu...

Coupling effect of nodes popularity and similarity on social network persistence.

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Jin, Xiaogang; Jin, Cheng; Huang, Jiaxuan; Min, Yong

2017-02-21

Network robustness represents the ability of networks to withstand failures and perturbations. In social networks, maintenance of individual activities, also called persistence, is significant towards understanding robustness. Previous works usually consider persistence on pre-generated network structures; while in social networks, the network structure is growing with the cascading inactivity of existed individuals. Here, we address this challenge through analysis for nodes under a coevolution model, which characterizes individual activity changes under three network growth modes: following the descending order of nodes' popularity, similarity or uniform random. We show that when nodes possess high spontaneous activities, a popularity-first growth mode obtains highly persistent networks; otherwise, with low spontaneous activities, a similarity-first mode does better. Moreover, a compound growth mode, with the consecutive joining of similar nodes in a short period and mixing a few high popularity nodes, obtains the highest persistence. Therefore, nodes similarity is essential for persistent social networks, while properly coupling popularity with similarity further optimizes the persistence. This demonstrates the evolution of nodes activity not only depends on network topology, but also their connective typology.

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the 1960s: Science in Popular Culture

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Smith, Sierra

2012-01-01

Building upon the advancement of technology during the Second World War and the important scientific discoveries which have been made about the structure and components of the universe, scientists, especially in radio astronomy and physics, began seriously addressing the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence in the 1960s. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) quickly became one of the most controversial scientific issues in the post Second World War period. The controversy played out, not only in scientific and technical journals, but in newspapers and in popular literature. Proponents for SETI, including Frank Drake, Carl Sagan, and Philip Morrison, actively used a strategy of engagement with the public by using popular media to lobby for exposure and funding. This paper will examine the use of popular media by scientists interested in SETI to popularize and heighten public awareness and also to examine the effects of popularization on SETI's early development. My research has been generously supported by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

Nollywood, Popular Culture and Nigerian National Identity

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Charles Effiong

2017-09-01

Full Text Available Film culture in Nigeria has become very popular among Nigerian and transnational audiences especially in Africa to the extent that there is hardly a day people do not look for new films produced by Nollywood. In the same light, there is hardly a street in the country where one cannot find at least a video shop that distributes these films. Young and old people especially those in the rural areas are often found hanging around these shops to catch a glimpse of any of the films advertised by retail outlets. This has therefore proven the popularity of Nollywood productions among the people, who see in these films issues of culture that engage their attention and also try to give them awareness about socio-cultural practices that are common in the society. A major problem of concern is that although these films expose and treat cultural issues that affect the society, their promotion of a true national identity is questionable. In this regard, this paper is an attempt to examine how the films produced by Nollywood have been able to promote national identity vis-à-vis showcasing the cultural values of the people that can be cherished in the Nigerian society and beyond. Arguments on this will be done through qualitative (interview method and supported by Kantian morality theory, which will help in concluding that as popular culture, Nigerian films have created among Nigerians and the world some cultural practices that tend to give the Nigerian people a negative identity.

Behavioral, Personality, and Communicative Predictors of Acceptance and Popularity in Early Adolescence

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Wolters, N.; Knoors, H.E.T.; Cillessen, A.H.N.; Verhoeven, L.T.W.

2014-01-01

This study examined the behavioral, personality, and communicative predictors of acceptance and popularity in 608 early adolescents. Data were collected with sociometric methods and ratings in 30 sixth-grade classrooms. Hierarchical regressions were run to predict acceptance and popularity from

Life after High School: Adjustment of Popular Teens in Emerging Adulthood

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Sandstrom, Marlene J.; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.

2010-01-01

This project examines the adjustment sequelae of perceived popularity beyond high school, and the moderating role of relational aggression (RA) in this process. Yearly sociometric measures of popularity and RA were gathered across grades 9-12 for a sample of 264 adolescents in a lower-middle-class high school. In addition, data on post-high school…

Understanding and Developing Black Popular Music Collections.

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Murray, James Briggs

1983-01-01

Enumerates types of black popular music (work songs, spirituals, gospel music, blues, race records, rock and roll, soul, funk, disco, Caribbean, and African) and discusses collection development (current, retrospective, monographs, periodicals, sheet music, motion picture film, photographs, oral history), cataloging, and preservation. A 229-item…

Bolivian Currents: Popular Participation and Indigenous Communities.

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Dudley, Mary Jo

1997-01-01

Describes the effects on indigenous communities of Bolivia's recent Popular Participation Laws, which relocated political and financial decision making to the municipal level; community efforts toward cultural maintenance and nonformal agricultural education; the activism of indigenous university students; and the dual discrimination suffered by…

Popular o non popular? I tardi anni Sessanta, la controcultura e l’avanguardia nella musica rock. L’esempio di "Ummagumma" dei Pink Floyd

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Philippe Gonin

2017-05-01

Full Text Available In alcuni generi che emergono nella popular music della fine degli anni Sessanta, quali progressive, art o psychedelic rock, la tensione verso la sperimentazione sembra essere la principale preoccupazione dell’ “avanguardia pop”, sia negli Stati Uniti (con figure come Frank Zappa, The Velvet Underground, The Grateful Dead, che nel Regno Unito (AMM, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Soft Machine. In questi repertori si evidenziano due principali tipologie di approcci, che possono essere definiti “tentazione sinfonica” e “tentazione sperimentale”. L’obiettivo di questo contributo è mostrare come, alla fine degli anni Sessanta, i confini tra popular music, free jazz, musica sperimentale e “musica d’arte” si siano progressivamente indeboliti, se non addirittura siano completamente superati. A partire da una panoramica generale del decennio, il saggio si concentra sulla combinazione di modalità compositive tipiche dell’avanguardia, della musica d’arte e della popular music, concentrando l’attenzione su tre aspetti: sperimentazione nel rock della fine degli anni Sessanta; sperimentazione nella musica dei Pink Floyd; analisi di alcuni pezzi tratti dall’album Ummagumma.

Substance Use among Middle School Students: Associations with Self-Rated and Peer-Nominated Popularity

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Tucker, Joan S.; Green, Harold D., Jr.; Zhou, Annie J.; Miles, Jeremy N. V.; Shih, Regina A.; D'Amico, Elizabeth J.

2011-01-01

Associations of popularity with adolescent substance use were examined among 1793 6-8th grade students who completed an in-school survey. Popularity was assessed through both self-ratings and peer nominations. Students who scored higher on either measure of popularity were more likely to be lifetime cigarette smokers, drinkers, and marijuana…

A model of music piracy with popularity-dependent copying costs

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Piolatto, Amedeo; Schuett, Florian

2011-01-01

Anecdotal evidence and recent empirical work suggest that music piracy has differential effects on artists depending on their popularity. Existing theoretical literature cannot explain such differential effects since it is exclusively concerned with single-firm models. We present a model with two types of artists who differ in their popularity. We assume that the costs of illegal downloads increase with the scarcity of a recording, and that scarcity is negatively related to the artist’s popul...

Acciones estratégicas para la educación ambiental comunitaria en los estudiantes de la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Camagüey

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Mayra Pollé Tertulién

Full Text Available La investigación se desarrolla en la circunscripción número 66 del Consejo Popular Puerto Príncipe en el período 2008-2014, tiene como objetivo proponer acciones para la educación ambiental en la Circunscripción para la transformación de una cultura ambiental comunitaria. Se tuvo en cuenta las principales necesidades ambientales de sus moradores, lo que se constató a través del diagnóstico realizado previamente mediante la aplicación de un sistema de métodos y técnicas.

The Difference between Aesthetic Appreciation of Artistic and Popular Music: Evidence from an fMRI Study

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Luo, Qiuling; Mo, Lei

2016-01-01

To test the hypothesis that pleasure from artistic music is intellectual while that from popular music is physiological, this study investigated the different functional mechanisms between aesthetic appreciation of artistic and popular music using fMRI. 18 male non-musicians were scanned while they performed an aesthetic rating task for excerpts of artistic music, popular music and musical notes playing and singing (control). The rating scores of artistic and popular music excerpts were both significantly higher than that of control materials while the scores of them were not different. The fMRI results showed both artistic and popular conditions activated the VS and vmPFC, compared with control condition. When contrasted popular and artistic condition directly, we found popular music activated right putamen, while artistic music activated right mPFC. By parametric analysis, we found the activation of right putamen tracked the aesthetic ratings of popular music, whereas the BOLD signal in right mPFC tracked the aesthetic ratings of artistic music. These results indicate the reward induced by popular music is closer to a primary reward while that induced by artistic music is closer to a secondary reward. We also found artistic music activated ToM areas, including PCC/PC, arMFC and TPJ, when compared with popular music. And these areas also tracked aesthetic ratings of artistic music but not those of popular music. These results imply that the pleasure from former comes from cognitive empathy. In conclusion, this study gives clear neuronal evidences supporting the view that artistic music is of intelligence and social cognition involved while the popular music is of physiology. PMID:27814379

The Difference between Aesthetic Appreciation of Artistic and Popular Music: Evidence from an fMRI Study.

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Huang, Ping; Huang, Hanhua; Luo, Qiuling; Mo, Lei

2016-01-01

To test the hypothesis that pleasure from artistic music is intellectual while that from popular music is physiological, this study investigated the different functional mechanisms between aesthetic appreciation of artistic and popular music using fMRI. 18 male non-musicians were scanned while they performed an aesthetic rating task for excerpts of artistic music, popular music and musical notes playing and singing (control). The rating scores of artistic and popular music excerpts were both significantly higher than that of control materials while the scores of them were not different. The fMRI results showed both artistic and popular conditions activated the VS and vmPFC, compared with control condition. When contrasted popular and artistic condition directly, we found popular music activated right putamen, while artistic music activated right mPFC. By parametric analysis, we found the activation of right putamen tracked the aesthetic ratings of popular music, whereas the BOLD signal in right mPFC tracked the aesthetic ratings of artistic music. These results indicate the reward induced by popular music is closer to a primary reward while that induced by artistic music is closer to a secondary reward. We also found artistic music activated ToM areas, including PCC/PC, arMFC and TPJ, when compared with popular music. And these areas also tracked aesthetic ratings of artistic music but not those of popular music. These results imply that the pleasure from former comes from cognitive empathy. In conclusion, this study gives clear neuronal evidences supporting the view that artistic music is of intelligence and social cognition involved while the popular music is of physiology.

Style popularity and the comovement of stocks

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Wouters, T.; Plantinga, A.

2006-01-01

We examine to what extent the popularity of an investment style can be attributed to style investing. The style investing hypothesis predicts that assets in the same style show strong comovement with respect to their underlying fundamentals and that reclassifying assets into a new style raises its

Body-loss for Popular Thin Smart Phones

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Tatomirescu, Alexandru; Pedersen, Gert Frølund

2013-01-01

In this contribution, an investigation of the radio performance of recent popular phones has been done. The antenna performance has been evaluated with the newly agreed phantom head-hand measurements of the mobile antenna efficiency. It has been observed that the newer generation thin smart phones...

The aesthetic discourse space of popular music: 1985-86 and 2004-05

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van Venrooij, A.

2009-01-01

This article presents a comparison of the aesthetic classification system of popular music, as employed by newspaper critics in the Los Angeles Times during 1985-86 and 2004-05. Through a relational discourse analysis of popular music album reviews, which applies the ecological technique of

Popular Mobilization Messaging

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James Garrison

2017-04-01

Full Text Available This Research Paper examines the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Unit’s (PMU messaging on the organisation’s website and social media platforms through early January 2017 to develop a more nuanced understanding of the PMU’s outlook, both present and future. After providing an overview of the PMU’s media presence online, the paper discusses how the organisation promotes its core narrative: that it is a cross-confessional and patriotic force for the defence of all Iraqis against a brutal and evil IS. The paper then addresses the PMU’s use of messaging to refute the sectarian portrayal of the organisation in some quarters before turning to the way the PMU approaches regional and international states in its media. Finally, the paper summarises the PMU’s messaging strategy and discusses how this strategy implies a less threatening future for the organisation than is often anticipated.

Behavioral, Personality, and Communicative Predictors of Acceptance and Popularity in Early Adolescence

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Wolters, Nina; Knoors, Harry; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; Verhoeven, Ludo

2014-01-01

This study examined the behavioral, personality, and communicative predictors of acceptance and popularity in 608 early adolescents. Data were collected with sociometric methods and ratings in 30 sixth-grade classrooms. Hierarchical regressions were run to predict acceptance and popularity from prosocial, antisocial, and withdrawn behavior,…

The global popularity of Cognitive-Behavior Therapy

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Frank M. Dattilio

2012-03-01

Full Text Available This article addresses the efficacy of Cognitive-Behavior Therapy and the increasing global popularity of the approach among various cultures with a broad range of emotional and behavioral disorders. The article specifically discusses future direction in the field and implications for practitioners in various cultures.

Challenging power and meaning: outlining the popular ...

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The concept reflects popular concerns over the outcomes of the epidemic rather than its cause, being more concerned about the fate of individuals and communities than about issues of morality. Later, the moral construction of 'Slim' that accompanied the biomedical categorisation of AIDS as a sexually transmitted disease ...

What Combinations of Contents is Driving Popularity in IPTV-based Social Networks?

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Bhatt, Rajen

IPTV-based Social Networks are gaining popularity with TV programs coming over IP connection and internet like applications available on home TV. One such application is rating TV programs over some predefined genres. In this paper, we suggest an approach for building a recommender system to be used by content distributors, publishers, and motion pictures producers-directors to decide on what combinations of contents may drive popularity or unpopularity. This may be used then for creating a proper mixture of media contents which can drive high popularity. This may also be used for the purpose of catering customized contents for group of users whose taste is similar and thus combinations of contents driving popularity for a certain group is also similar. We use a novel approach for this formulation utilizing fuzzy decision trees. Computational experiments performed over real-world program review database shows that the proposed approach is very efficient towards understanding of the content combinations.

La participación de las comunidades indígenas migrantes en el marco del Consejo Consultivo Indígena en León, Guanajuato

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Yolanda de León-de Santiago

2016-01-01

Full Text Available En México, a lo largo de la historia, se ha ignorado el aporte de los pueblos indígenas y se ha omitido su punto de vista para la toma de decisiones en asuntos que los atañe, no fue sino hasta el levantamiento Zapatista que la cuestión indígena despertó interés. En el estado de Guanajuato, la población indígena es menor en comparación con otros estados y, sin embargo, está conformada por un mosaico de culturas, algunas nativas y otras migrantes. A pesar de esto, la presencia de población indígena fue reconocida hasta el año 2004. El objetivo de este artículo es primeramente visibilizar la presencia de comunidades de indígenas migrantes en la ciu - dad de León, Guanajuato, y en segundo lugar, hacer un análisis de su participación ciudadana en el marco del Consejo Consultivo Indígena, como un mecanismo institucionalizado de atención para este segmento de la población.

TRIVIAL OR COMMENDABLE?: WOMEN'S WRITING, POPULAR CULTURE, AND CHICK LIT

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Mary Ryan

2014-10-01

Full Text Available There are a number of similarities between popular culture and women's writing: both have been dismissed as trivial and worthless, have traditionally received little respect from critics, and have been scorned because of theis apparently "low-brow" appeal. Additionally, both were long excluded from the literary Canon. In contemporary culture, the intersection of popular culture and women's writing takes the form of chick lit, the contemporary genre of fiction starring female characters in their 20s and 30s as they make their way through their lives and tackle all the obstacles in their way. As well as outlining the characteristics and history of chick lit, this paper will discuss the negative reception that popular culture, women's writing, and chick lit has often been subjected to, and will show how studies are now emerging with the aim of demonstrating how such genres may have more worth and potential than is typically suggested.

A Probabilistic Analysis of Data Popularity in ATLAS Data Caching

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Titov, M; The ATLAS collaboration; Záruba, G; De, K

2012-01-01

Efficient distribution of physics data over ATLAS grid sites is one of the most important tasks for user data processing. ATLAS' initial static data distribution model over-replicated some unpopular data and under-replicated popular data, creating heavy disk space loads while underutilizing some processing resources due to low data availability. Thus, a new data distribution mechanism was implemented, PD2P (PanDA Dynamic Data Placement) within the production and distributed analysis system PanDA that dynamically reacts to user data needs, basing dataset distribution principally on user demand. Data deletion is also demand driven, reducing replica counts for unpopular data. This dynamic model has led to substantial improvements in efficient utilization of storage and processing resources. Based on this experience, in this work we seek to further improve data placement policy by investigating in detail how data popularity is calculated. For this it is necessary to precisely define what data popularity means, wh...

Disk storage management for LHCb based on Data Popularity estimator

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Hushchyn, Mikhail; Charpentier, Philippe; Ustyuzhanin, Andrey

2015-12-01

This paper presents an algorithm providing recommendations for optimizing the LHCb data storage. The LHCb data storage system is a hybrid system. All datasets are kept as archives on magnetic tapes. The most popular datasets are kept on disks. The algorithm takes the dataset usage history and metadata (size, type, configuration etc.) to generate a recommendation report. This article presents how we use machine learning algorithms to predict future data popularity. Using these predictions it is possible to estimate which datasets should be removed from disk. We use regression algorithms and time series analysis to find the optimal number of replicas for datasets that are kept on disk. Based on the data popularity and the number of replicas optimization, the algorithm minimizes a loss function to find the optimal data distribution. The loss function represents all requirements for data distribution in the data storage system. We demonstrate how our algorithm helps to save disk space and to reduce waiting times for jobs using this data.

Disk storage management for LHCb based on Data Popularity estimator

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INSPIRE-00545541; Charpentier, Philippe; Ustyuzhanin, Andrey

2015-12-23

This paper presents an algorithm providing recommendations for optimizing the LHCb data storage. The LHCb data storage system is a hybrid system. All datasets are kept as archives on magnetic tapes. The most popular datasets are kept on disks. The algorithm takes the dataset usage history and metadata (size, type, configuration etc.) to generate a recommendation report. This article presents how we use machine learning algorithms to predict future data popularity. Using these predictions it is possible to estimate which datasets should be removed from disk. We use regression algorithms and time series analysis to find the optimal number of replicas for datasets that are kept on disk. Based on the data popularity and the number of replicas optimization, the algorithm minimizes a loss function to find the optimal data distribution. The loss function represents all requirements for data distribution in the data storage system. We demonstrate how our algorithm helps to save disk space and to reduce waiting times ...

Disk storage management for LHCb based on Data Popularity estimator

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Hushchyn, Mikhail; Charpentier, Philippe; Ustyuzhanin, Andrey

2015-01-01

This paper presents an algorithm providing recommendations for optimizing the LHCb data storage. The LHCb data storage system is a hybrid system. All datasets are kept as archives on magnetic tapes. The most popular datasets are kept on disks. The algorithm takes the dataset usage history and metadata (size, type, configuration etc.) to generate a recommendation report. This article presents how we use machine learning algorithms to predict future data popularity. Using these predictions it is possible to estimate which datasets should be removed from disk. We use regression algorithms and time series analysis to find the optimal number of replicas for datasets that are kept on disk. Based on the data popularity and the number of replicas optimization, the algorithm minimizes a loss function to find the optimal data distribution. The loss function represents all requirements for data distribution in the data storage system. We demonstrate how our algorithm helps to save disk space and to reduce waiting times for jobs using this data. (paper)

The Infatuation With Biotin Supplementation: Is There Truth Behind Its Rising Popularity? A Comparative Analysis of Clinical Efficacy versus Social Popularity.

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Soleymani, Teo; Lo Sicco, Kristen; Shapiro, Jerry

2017-05-01

Biotin, also known as Vitamin B7 or vitamin H, is a water-soluble B vitamin that acts as an essential cofactor for several carboxylases involved in the cellular metabolism of fatty acids, amino acids, and gluconeogenesis. Although there exists an incredible amount of social media hype and market advertising touting its efficacy for the improvement of hair quantity and quality, biotin's efficacy for hair remains largely unsubstantiated in scientific literature. We reviewed all pertinent scientific literature regarding the efficacy of biotin supplementation for hair growth and quality improvement, and we also investigated its popularity in society defined as a function of market analytics. To date, there have been no clinical trials conducted to investigate the efficacy of biotin supplementation for the treatment of alopecia of any kind, nor has there been any randomized controlled trial to study its effect on hair quality and quantity in human subjects. Because of the lack of clinical evidence, its use to improve hair quantity or quality is not routinely recommended. However, societal infatuation with biotin supplementation is not only propagated by its glamorization in popular media, its popularity is vastly disproportionate to the insufficient clinical evidence supporting it's efficacy in hair improvement. In other words, biotin supplements are quite "in vogue", without there being any real reason to be so. J Drugs Dermatol. 2017;16(5):496-500..

Alforja: una entidad al servicio de la educación popular

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2017-01-01

ALFORJA es una coordinación operativa de cinco instituciones de educación popular: Centro de Estudios y Publicaciones (CEP, Costa Rica), Centro de Comunicación Popular de Honduras (CENCOPH), Centro de Educación y Promoción Agraria (CEPA, Nicaragua), Instituto Mexicano para el Desarrollo de Comunitario (IMDEC) y Centro de Estudios y Acción Social de Panamá (CEASPA).

The Guide to Teaching with Popular Music.

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Popular music is often characterized as a short work with a prominent melody and simple chordal accompaniment. Yet, teaching with pop music in the era of standards-based curriculum can present challenges. These standards offer teachers a blueprint for teaching music performance, composition, improvisation, and the relationship of music to other…

Memory for Frequency of Hearing Popular Music.

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Fidler, James R.; And Others

This experiment was designed to better understand the effects of individual differences, intent to learn, and stimulus familiarity on frequency judgment accuracy. Half of the participants in the study heard popular songs, and the other half listened to unfamiliar songs. Participants were subdivided into three more groups, introducing the "intent…

Popular Literature: Its Compatibility with the Basics.

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Matthews, Dorothy, Ed.

1983-01-01

This special journal issue contains nine articles on the subject of using popular literature in the classroom. Subjects covered in the articles include (1) using vernacular supernatural literature to teach the skills of literary analysis, (2) teaching Agatha Christie's "Curtain," (3) pairing the classics with detective fiction, (4) using fantasy…

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2013-12-01

Full Text Available Reglamento (UE n.º 611/2013 de la Comisión, de 24 de junio de 2013, relativo a las medidas aplicables a la notificación de casos de violación de datos personales en el marco de la Directiva 2002/58/CE del Parlamento Europeo y del Consejo sobre la privacidad y las comunicaciones electrónicas [DOUE L 173, de 26-VI-2013

Associations of group level popularity with observed behavior and influence in a dyadic context.

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Lansu, Tessa A M; Cillessen, Antonius H N

2015-12-01

This study examined the association between popularity in the peer group and adolescents' behavior in a dyadic context. After collecting peer nominations for popularity, 218 early adolescents (M(age) = 11.0 years) in 109 randomly composed same-sex dyads participated in a discussion task where they planned a party for their classroom. From digital recordings of the sessions, each participant's influence, involvement, skillful leadership, coercive resource control, submissiveness, positivity, and negativity were observed. Analyses with the actor-partner interdependence model (APIM) demonstrated that for girls high group level popularity was associated with a socially sensitive interaction style and influence in the dyadic context. For both boys and girls, the interaction partner's group level popularity negatively predicted their use of coercive resource control strategies and negative behavior in the dyad. For girls, in addition, the interaction partner's group level popularity also positively predicted their submissiveness and negatively predicted their task influence. These results indicate that, in particular for girls, adolescents' group level popularity plays an important role in the behavior of both peers in a cooperative dyadic context. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

TRADITIONS OF SCIENCE POPULARIZATION IN RUSSIA AS A METHODOLOGICAL BASIS TO DEVELOP THE NEW MASTER’S PROGRAM “POPULAR SCIENCE JOURNALISM”

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Balashova, Y.B.

2017-12-01

Full Text Available The article discusses the new master’s program “Popular science journalism”, which started three years ago at Saint Petersburg State University, Russia. The author of this article is the creator, developer and head of this program. The goal of this article is to characterize historical and cultural grounds of the master’s program, and their reflection in the curriculum. Installation for the commonwealth of sciences, targeting a broad audience comprised a profiling installation of the classical system of Russian popular science journalism. In accordance with this, the master’s program was designed as an interdisciplinary, with the incorporated idea of the sciences convergence, which based on the Russian history of scientific enlightenment. The article aims to show productivity of the interdisciplinary educational programs, combined into modules.

Longitudinal Investigation of the Associations between Adolescents' Popularity and Cyber Social Behaviors

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Wright, Michelle F.

2014-01-01

As adolescents become increasingly immersed in electronic technologies, popular adolescents may act in similar ways online as they do offline. This longitudinal study employed peer nominations and self-reports to examine perceived popularity and social preference in relation to cyber social behaviors among 256 adolescents during the fall (T1) and…

The scientific authorship of Doctor Chernoviz, from the popularization of medicine to professional training: the Dicionário de medicina popular, 1842-1890.

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Medeiros, Aline da Silva

2018-03-01

This article reflects on the scientific authorship of Pedro Luiz Napoleão Chernoviz, based on his Dicionário de medicina popular, which was published in six editions between 1842 and 1890. The first part of the text discusses Chernoviz's position within the regimes of scientific authorship which were present in the medical community in Rio de Janeiro. Next, we analyze the author's arguments justifying a text that popularized medical science while this field strove for exclusivity in the practice of medicine. Finally, we suggest new meanings around Chernoviz's scientific authorship based on how the Dicionário was used and read by an initiated public.

Educação, saúde e cidadania: investigação científica e assessoria popular Education, health and citizenship: scientific investigation and popular consultancy

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Victor V. Valla

1992-03-01

Full Text Available O autor relaciona a educação e saúde com a cidadania através da discussão dos serviços básicos e os impostos pagos pela população. As contradições decorrentes da distribuição desigual das verbas públicas, privilegiando a infra-estrutura industrial sobre o consumo coletivo, apontam à necessidade dos setores populares organizados da sociedade civil pressionarem os governos para uma política alternativa. O autor propõe que profissionais das universidades públicas, como forma de serviço público, ofereçam aos setores populares da sociedade civil subsídios técnicos para suas reivindicações, através dos resultados das suas investigações. Alguns resultados relativos ao centro municipal de saúde e sua relação com os usuários, tanto quanto a questão do meio ambiente com os agravos à saúde dos moradores das favelas do Rio de Janeiro, são exemplificados. O texto inclui uma discussão sobre a capacitação mútua dos setores populares organizados e profissionais da rede de serviços e/ou da universidade pública. Para isso, apresenta-se a experiência do Nesc/DCS/Ensp/Fiocruz das Oficinas de Educação e Saúde, onde lideranças populares e profissionais debatem as contradições inerentes ao serviço público com relação à eficiência e à eficácia. É proposto o diagnóstico participativo como forma dos profissionais/entidades populares lidarem com a precariedade de informações disponíveis sobre os agravos à saúde da população.The author relates education and health with citizenship through the discussion of basic services and the taxes the population pays. The contradictions resulting from the unequal distribution of the public money, favoring industrial infrastructure over collective consumption, point towards the need for organized popular sectors of the civil society to pressure governments for alternative policies. The author proposes that professionals from public universities offer, in the spirit of

Batman and Batwoman Go to School: Popular Culture in the Literacy Curriculum.

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Marsh, Jackie

1999-01-01

This case study investigated the introduction of a theme from popular culture into a sociodramatic role-play area in a northern England Nursery Infant school, focusing on its effects on 6- to 7-year olds' literacy activities. Findings indicated that the incorporation of themes from popular culture into the curriculum motivated children whose…

The Popularization of Astronomy in Canada

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Trudel, J.-L.

1996-12-01

In Canada, astronomy has a longer history than most other sciences. The European settlers had to master the rudiments of astronomical practice, while the natural setting promoted geophysical observations of all kinds. In the nineteenth century, astronomy was part of natural theology and a resource for timekeepers and cartographers, but was increasingly pursued for its own sake by laymen. The creation of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada marks a turning point. Though it appeared to unite professionals and amateurs, it became early on a conduit for the knowledge of the former to flow to the latter, supplementing the purely academic stream. It followed upon the success of new publications meant to acquaint readers with the facts of astronomy, for the hitherto unsuspected pleasures they might bring. In fact, some Canadian works of this kind reached a wide audience, in Canada and abroad, and the post-WWII period saw an almost complete disjunction between the formerly utilitarian aspects of popularization a nd the catering to interested laypeople, distinct from the professionals. By 1976, the transformation was complete. The science mastered by explorers and appealed to by believers had become both a field for professional investigations and a widely popularized corpus of star lore

Science Popularization: Interdiscursivity among Science, Pedagogy, and Journalism

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Désirée Motta-Roth

2016-03-01

Full Text Available Scientific discourse produced by and for specialists reaches, by means of science popularization (SP, the public sphere of the media, envolving displacements in time, space, and discourse. This hybridization between science and journalism generates scientific journalism, which aims at popularizing science and making it comprehensible, thus performing a pedagogical function. We consider this process as discourse recontextualization from the scientific to the journalistic spheres, mediated by a pedagogic discourse. We argue, in this paper, that SP news texts and scientific articles are members of the same genre system that makes scientific discourse relatively visible to the general public. Firstly, we identify our theoretical framework, the concept we adopt for SP, genre system and recontextualization. Secondly, we explore interdiscursivity in one exemplar of the SP news genre, highlighting the existing relations between science, journalism, and pedagogy in this genre.

[Popular wisdom: its existence in the university environment].

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Barbosa, Maria Alves; de Melo, Marcia Borges; Júnior, Raul Soares Silveira; Brasil, Virginia Visconde; Martins, Cleusa Alves; Bezerra, Ana Lúcia Queiroz

2004-01-01

Nowadays, myths and superstitions are present in spite of scientific and technological developments, especially when trying to solve problems that escape human understanding. This study was aimed at determining the existence of superstitions and myths in the university community, investigating their origins, influences, adoption and credibility, correlating them with people's level of knowledge. It is a descriptive/analytical research conducted at Teaching Units in the Area of Health of the Federal University of Goiás. The technique of content analysis was utilized for data analysis. Two categories have been created: Personal Attitudes related to Superstitions and Influences and Destruction of Superstitions. It was found out that there is a clash between popular and scientific knowledge, either leading to the exclusion of popular wisdom, to its 'veiled' maintenance, or even to an alliance between the two types of knowledge.

Can Google Searches Predict the Popularity and Harm of Psychoactive Agents?

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Jankowski, Wojciech; Hoffmann, Marcin

2016-02-25

Predicting the popularity of and harm caused by psychoactive agents is a serious problem that would be difficult to do by a single simple method. However, because of the growing number of drugs it is very important to provide a simple and fast tool for predicting some characteristics of these substances. We were inspired by the Google Flu Trends study on the activity of the influenza virus, which showed that influenza virus activity worldwide can be monitored based on queries entered into the Google search engine. Our aim was to propose a fast method for ranking the most popular and most harmful drugs based on easily available data gathered from the Internet. We used the Google search engine to acquire data for the ranking lists. Subsequently, using the resulting list and the frequency of hits for the respective psychoactive drugs combined with the word "harm" or "harmful", we estimated quickly how much harm is associated with each drug. We ranked the most popular and harmful psychoactive drugs. As we conducted the research over a period of several months, we noted that the relative popularity indexes tended to change depending on when we obtained them. This suggests that the data may be useful in monitoring changes over time in the use of each of these psychoactive agents. Our data correlate well with the results from a multicriteria decision analysis of drug harms in the United Kingdom. We showed that Google search data can be a valuable source of information to assess the popularity of and harm caused by psychoactive agents and may help in monitoring drug use trends.

The linguistic ecology in popular announcements

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Gomes, Altair Martins

2013-01-01

By language man is constituted as social subject and, therefore, cultural. Given the importance of writing for the literate civilizations, it´s necessary to study spoken language interfacing with written language in order to realize how these discoursive instances appear as interactional practices and subjacent cultural issues. The oral language modality phenomena of Brazilian Portuguese are present in signs and popular advertisements. In this type of writing, the ecology of languages reveals...

POPULAR AND ERUDITE IN SCHOOL EDUCATION

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Cláudio Félix dos Santos; Adalgiza Gonçalves Gobbi; Ana Carolina Galvão Marsiglia

2015-01-01

This article aims at analyzing and questioning the relationship between erudite and popular knowledge as a challenge to developing a historical-critical educational study. Starting from a brief report about the history of composers Luiz Gonzaga and Humberto Teixeira, we walked a theoretical path, exploring the formulation of historical-critical pedagogy about the need of producing ways for individuals to have access to systematized knowledge so as to express their interests in an elaborate way.