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  1. Medico-legal autopsies in Denmark

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    Larsen, Sara Tangmose; Lynnerup, Niels

    2011-01-01

    At 2.7% in 1970, the Danish medico-legal autopsy frequency was lower than recent frequencies observed in the Nordic countries (4-24%). The aim of this study was to analyse trends in the number and frequency of Danish medico-legal autopsies.......At 2.7% in 1970, the Danish medico-legal autopsy frequency was lower than recent frequencies observed in the Nordic countries (4-24%). The aim of this study was to analyse trends in the number and frequency of Danish medico-legal autopsies....

  2. [Medical data security in medico-legal opinioning].

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    Susło, Robert; Swiatek, Barbara

    2005-01-01

    Medical data security can be approached in medico-legal opinioning in three main situations: security of medical data, on which the opinion should be based, opinioning itself and whether the medical data security was properly ensured and ensuring medical data security during medico-legal opinion giving. The importance of medical data security, during collecting, processing and storing, as well in medical as in legal institutions, is of major importance for the possibility of providing a proper medico-legal opinion. Theoretically speeking, it is possible to give a proper medico-legal opinion using incorrect data, but the possibility is low. When the expert is given improper, unreadable, incomplete or even bogus in part or in the whole medical data it is extremely possible, that he fails in giving his opinion. The term "medical data" was defined and subsequently there was a brief review of medical data storing methods made and specific threats bound with them, based on modern literature. The authors also pointed out possible methods of preventing the threats. They listed Polish as well as international regulations and laws concerning the problem, accenting the importance of preserving medical data for the purposes of medico-legal opinioning.

  3. Ethical issues in medico-legal exposures

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    O'Reilly, G.; Malone, J. F.

    2008-01-01

    The Medical Exposure Directive (MED) 97/43/Euratom defines medico-legal procedures as 'procedures performed for insurance or legal purposes without a medical indication'. The term 'medico-legal exposures' covers a wide range of possible types of exposures, very different in nature, for which the only feature in common is the fact that the main reason for performing them does not relate directly to the health of the individual being exposed to ionising radiation. The key issue in medico-legal exposures is justification. Balancing the advantages and disadvantages of such exposures is complex because not only can these be difficult to quantify and hence compare, but often the advantage may be to society whereas the disadvantage is usually to an individual. This adds an additional layer of ethical complexity to the problem and one, which requires input from a number of sources beyond the established radiation protection community. Because medico-legal exposures are considered to be medical exposures, they are not subject to dose limits. In medico-legal exposures where the benefit is not necessarily to the individual undergoing the exposure, the question must be asked as to whether or not this is an appropriate framework within which to conduct such exposures. This paper looks at the current situation in Europe, highlighting some of the particular problems that have arisen, and tries to identify the areas, which require further clarification and guidance. (authors)

  4. Aspects of dento/medico-legal report writing.

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    Wood, Geoff D

    2014-03-01

    This paper offers some guidance on aspects of dento/medico-legal report writing, citing anonymized examples from the author's caseload for clarification of the points made, and also serves to illustrate that sometimes not everything is as straightforward as it may initially appear. It provides reference to the current Civil Procedure Rules in England and Wales and its relevance in report writing. To provide guidance on aspects of dento/medico-legal report writing.

  5. Part 1: Medico-legal documentation South African Police Services ...

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    Valid medico-legal consent differs from medical consent. Knowledge of legislation pertaining to child pornography and the practical and ethical aspects of photography is also necessary. Inappropriate completion of medico-legal documentation may necessitate the practitioner having to explain the documentation to make it ...

  6. Medico-legal aspects of vertical root fractures in root filled teeth

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    Rosen, E; Tsesis, I; Tamse, A

    2012-01-01

    To analyse the medico-legal aspects of vertical root fracture (VRF) following root canal treatment (RCT).......To analyse the medico-legal aspects of vertical root fracture (VRF) following root canal treatment (RCT)....

  7. [Relevant factors in medico-legal prognosis of whiplash injury].

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    Pujol, Amadeo; Puig, Luisa; Mansilla, Joaquina; Idiaquez, Itziar

    2003-07-12

    Whiplash injury (WI) is commonly evaluated in medico-legal practice. With the aim of knowing the determining factors of WI's medico-legal prognosis, a prospective and observational study was carried out. One hundred and twenty consecutive patients who were clinically observed and evaluated in the Medico-Legal Clinic of Barcelona were studied. Socio-demographic, clinical, radiographic and evolutive factors were analyzed. We included 120 patients with a mean age of 35.6 (14) years (range, 4-74), with a homogeneous male/female distribution. An earlier cervical pathology was detected in 10% of patients; none of them had previous psychiatric pathology. 95% corresponded to road-traffic accident cases and there were 5 aggression cases. Over 50% of cases involved a rear-end collision. All patients had neck pain, almost 25% had headache and 13% had paresthesia. According to the Whiplash Association Disorders clinical classification, distribution in grades (G) was: G I 51%, G II 32% and G III 17%. Patients reported recovery within a mean time of 71.6 (46) days (range, 4-244), with 51,2 (45) no working days (range, 0-180 days). The 52% of the patients rest with complains. According to the recovery time, the following medico-legal prognostic factors were identified: age (p legal prognostic factors were age, being females, severity of initial clinical symptoms, previous cervical pathology and abnormal cervical MRI/CT.

  8. Medico-legal issues in breast imaging

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    Purushothaman, H.N., E-mail: hema.purushothaman@bartsandthelondon.nhs.uk [Department of Radiology, St Bartholomew' s Hospital, London (United Kingdom); Wilson, R. [Department of Radiology, The Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, Surrey (United Kingdom); Michell, M.J. [Department of Radiology, King' s College Hospital, London (United Kingdom)

    2012-07-15

    Aim: To identify medico-legal issues that occur in the diagnosis and radiological management of breast disease and to propose measures to reduce the risk of patient complaints and legal action in breast radiology and diagnosis. Materials and methods: Institutional review board approval was not applicable for this study. A retrospective study was undertaken and records of 120 medico-legal investigations over a 10 year period were examined. The reports were compiled by two consultant breast radiologists. Results: The mean age of the patients represented in this study was 48.3 years. The main complaint in this series was a delay in diagnosis (92%) followed by inappropriate or inadequate treatment (8%). 81% of cases were patients who had presented to the symptomatic clinic. The main presenting symptom was a palpable lump (65%). Substandard care was cited in 49/120 cases (41%). The mean average delay in diagnosis was 15.6 months. Of the cases cited as substandard care, 61% were considered the fault of the radiologist and 14% considered the fault of the breast surgeon. Of the cases where the radiologist was considered to be at fault, microcalcification was the most common mammographic sign to be missed or misinterpreted (12/26 cases, 46%). Conclusion: The most common complaint in this series was delay in diagnosis with microcalcification being the main mammographic sign that was either not seen or misinterpreted by the radiologist. Clear and precise written protocols are recommended for all breast imaging practice to ensure that medico-legal investigations will be greatly reduced.

  9. Medico-legal issues in breast imaging

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    Purushothaman, H.N.; Wilson, R.; Michell, M.J.

    2012-01-01

    Aim: To identify medico-legal issues that occur in the diagnosis and radiological management of breast disease and to propose measures to reduce the risk of patient complaints and legal action in breast radiology and diagnosis. Materials and methods: Institutional review board approval was not applicable for this study. A retrospective study was undertaken and records of 120 medico-legal investigations over a 10 year period were examined. The reports were compiled by two consultant breast radiologists. Results: The mean age of the patients represented in this study was 48.3 years. The main complaint in this series was a delay in diagnosis (92%) followed by inappropriate or inadequate treatment (8%). 81% of cases were patients who had presented to the symptomatic clinic. The main presenting symptom was a palpable lump (65%). Substandard care was cited in 49/120 cases (41%). The mean average delay in diagnosis was 15.6 months. Of the cases cited as substandard care, 61% were considered the fault of the radiologist and 14% considered the fault of the breast surgeon. Of the cases where the radiologist was considered to be at fault, microcalcification was the most common mammographic sign to be missed or misinterpreted (12/26 cases, 46%). Conclusion: The most common complaint in this series was delay in diagnosis with microcalcification being the main mammographic sign that was either not seen or misinterpreted by the radiologist. Clear and precise written protocols are recommended for all breast imaging practice to ensure that medico-legal investigations will be greatly reduced.

  10. Medico-legal documentation South African Police Services forms

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    information to the court and to be an educator. S Afr Fam ... Keywords: forensic medicine, medico-legal, legal documentation, assault, sexual assault, under the influence. Abstract .... Documentation in the absence of a South African Police.

  11. Awareness of medico-legal issues among medical and dental college health professionals

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    S Senthilkumar

    2013-01-01

    Full Text Available Introduction: The changing doctor-patient relationship and commercialization of modem medical practice has affected the practice of medicine. The fundamental values of medicine insist that the doctors should be aware about the various medico-legal issues which help in proper recording of medical management details. Aim: To evaluate the knowledge on Medico-legal Issues among Medical and Dental College Health Professionals of Meenakshi University (MAHER, Tamilnadu. Materials & Method: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among health professionals of Meenakshi University (MAHER, Tamilnadu. A total o f320 health professionals (163 medical and 157 dental participated in the study. A structured, closed ended, self-administered questionnaire was used for collection of data. Chi-square test was used to compare the awareness of medico-legal issues between medical and dental health professionals. Results: Among the 320 health professionals, 87.4% of medical and 76.1% of dental professionals were aware about the informed consent, 18.8% of medical and 5.7% of dental professionals had awareness about COPRA and only 14.3% of medical and 7.6% of dental professionals had awareness regarding the Medico-legal programs/courses. Conclusions: The results illustrated that the participants had little awareness on medico-legal issues. Hence there is an urgent need to update the understanding of these issues to be on a legally safer side.

  12. Necessity of including medico-legal autopsy data in epidemiological surveys of individuals with major trauma.

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    Bagher, A; Wingren, C J; Ottosson, A; Andersson, L; Wangefjord, S; Acosta, S

    2015-08-01

    It is rare that epidemiological surveys of patients with major trauma include both those admitted to the emergency department and those sent for medico-legal autopsy. The main aim of the present population-based study of major trauma was to examine the importance of medico-legal autopsy data. A new injury severity score (NISS)>15 or lethal outcome was used as criteria for major trauma and to identify patients at the emergency, anaesthesiology and forensic departments and/or being within the jurisdiction of the Malmö police authority and subjected to a medico-legal autopsy between 2011 and 2013. According to Swedish legislation all trauma related deaths should be reported to the police who refer these cases for medico-legal autopsy. Among the 174 individuals included, 92 (53%) died and 81 (47%) underwent medico-legal autopsy. One hundred twenty-six patients were primarily admitted to hospital and 48 died before admission to hospital and were sent directly for medico-legal autopsy. Forty-four in-hospital deaths occurred, of whom 33 (75%) were sent to medico-legal autopsy. In those sent directly to the department of forensic medicine the proportion of accidents was lower (pautopsies among trauma-related deaths at hospital were high age (pautopsy according to legislation, but did not. The high proportion of positive toxicological findings among fatalities examined at medico-legal autopsy implies that toxicology screening should be routine in major trauma patients, in order to improve treatment and prevention. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  13. Medico-legal perspectives on sudden cardiac death in young athletes.

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    Oliva, Antonio; Grassi, Vincenzo M; Campuzano, Oscar; Brion, Maria; Arena, Vincenzo; Partemi, Sara; Coll, Monica; Pascali, Vincenzo L; Brugada, Josep; Carracedo, Angel; Brugada, Ramon

    2017-03-01

    Sudden cardiac death (SCD) in a young athlete represents a dramatic event, and an increasing number of medico-legal cases have addressed this topic. In addition to representing an ethical and medico-legal responsibility, prevention of SCD is directly correlated with accurate eligibility/disqualification decisions, with an inappropriate pronouncement in either direction potentially leading to legal controversy. This review summarizes the common causes of SCD in young athletes, divided into structural (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, congenital coronary artery anomalies, etc.), electrical (Brugada, congenital LQT, Wolf-Parkinson-White syndrome, etc.), and acquired cardiac abnormalities (myocarditis, etc.). In addition, the roles of hereditary cardiac anomalies in SCD in athletes and the effects of a positive result on them and their families are discussed. The medico-legal relevance of pre-participation screening is analyzed, and recommendations from the American Heart Association and European Society of Cardiology are compared. Finally, the main issues concerning the differentiation between physiologic cardiac adaptation in athletes and pathologic findings and, thereby, definition of the so-called gray zone, which is based on exact knowledge of the mechanism of cardiac remodeling including structural or functional adaptions, will be addressed.

  14. A guide to medico-legal photography for personal injury claims.

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    Bryson, D

    1994-01-01

    Clinical photographs are in essence medico-legal records but when instructions are given to take photographs for litigation the requirement is for a more specialized approach than when producing a clinical record for the notes. There are special considerations when providing a medico-legal photographic service, from clients' instructions, preparations before photography, and the photography itself to presenting the photographs and handling the administration. As photographs are taken in support of claims for compensation for personal injury many of them can have far greater impact, financially and psychologically, on the client than clinical photographs. Inadequate coverage could be construed as professional negligence.

  15. Forensic medicine experts' opinion on medico-legal autopsies in hospital deaths: a questionnaire survey.

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    D'Souza, Deepak Herald; Pant, Sadip; Menezes, Ritesh George

    2013-10-01

    Medico-legal autopsy is conducted routinely in some countries and selectively in others in hospital deaths. This study was conducted to evaluate the views of the forensic medicine experts regarding this matter. A questionnaire pro forma was sent to sixty-five forensic medicine experts practicing in different medical institutions all around India. Designations and experiences of the participants were noted by requests in the same questionnaire. Their specific experience in conducting medico-legal autopsy in hospital deaths was also requested for. Responses were charted in frequency distribution tables and analyzed using SPSS, version 17.0. One-third of the participants felt that a medico-legal autopsy was necessary in all the hospital death cases as defined in the present study. Ten percent of the participants opined that a medico-legal autopsy was unnecessary in hospital deaths. The majority of the experts mentioned finding the cause of death, followed by finding the manner of death and collecting the evidentiary materials, as the reasons for medico-legal autopsy in hospital deaths. Twenty percent of the participants felt that internal findings at autopsy poorly matched with the case records. All the experts agreed that external autopsy findings matched with the hospital case records. Nearly two-third of the participants felt that it was difficult in some cases to interpret the autopsy findings without case records from the hospital where the deceased was treated. Our findings suggest that the exercise of carrying out medico-legal autopsy routinely in every hospital death as evident in the Indian framework is often unnecessary as per the experts' opinion. Autopsy findings in hospital deaths often correlate with hospital case records.

  16. Medico-legal aspects of altered sensation following endodontic treatment: a retrospective case series

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    Givol, Navot; Rosen, Eyal; Bjørndal, Lars

    2011-01-01

    The objective of this study was to analyze cases of liability claims related to persistent altered sensation following endodontic treatments so as to characterize the medico-legal aspects of this complication.......The objective of this study was to analyze cases of liability claims related to persistent altered sensation following endodontic treatments so as to characterize the medico-legal aspects of this complication....

  17. Imaging of body packing: errors and medico-legal issues.

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    Reginelli, Alfonso; Russo, Anna; Urraro, Fabrizio; Maresca, Duilia; Martiniello, Ciro; D'Andrea, Alfredo; Brunese, Luca; Pinto, Antonio

    2015-10-01

    Body packing is the ingestion or insertion in the human body of packed illicit substances. Over the last 20 years, drug smuggling has increased global and new means of transport of narcotics have emerged. Among these, the most frequent one is the gastrointestinal tract: from mouth to anus, vagina, and ears. Cocaine is one of the most traded drugs, followed by heroin. Condoms, latex gloves, and balloons are typically used as drug packets for retention in the body. There are different radiologic modalities to detect illicit drugs in body packing: Plain radiography, computed tomography (CT), ultrasound, and magnetic resonance. Current protocols recommend the use of radiography to confirm packet retention and, in case of doubt, the use of abdominal CT scan with reduced mAs. In case of packet rupture, catastrophic effects can occur. Management of patients carrying packets of drugs is a recurrent medico-legal problem. To improve diagnostic accuracy and prevent hazardous complications, radiologists and emergency physicians should be familiar with radiologic features of body packing. The radiologist plays both a social and a medico-legal role in their assessment, and it should not be limited only to the identification of the packages but must also provide accurate information about their number and their exact location. In this review, we focus on diagnostic errors and medico-legal issues related to the radiological assessment of body packers.

  18. Awareness about medico legal aspects and Consumer Protection Act among dentists.

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    Radhika, T; Nadeem, J; Arthi, R; Nithya, S

    2017-07-01

    The practice of medicine in India has undergone considerable change affecting delivery of health in both positive and negative directions. As a result, there was a growing feeling that medical treatment should be made accountable and this led to doctors and dentists becoming subject to the process of law. Patients have become more aware of their right to compensation and as a consequence doctors and dentists should be knowledgeable about the laws that govern them. To assess the awareness about Medico legal aspects and Consumer Protection Act [CPA] among Dental professionals. A self-structured validated questionnaire comprising of 20 questions related to medico legal aspects and CPA was designed. A total of 450 dental professionals were surveyed from 4 prime dental institutions in Chennai, India. Of the 450 professionals that were surveyed 150 were MDS faculty, 150 were BDS faculty and 150 were PG students. The data was subjected to SPSS, version 16 and statistically analysed using Chi square test and Fisher's exact test. A- p value less than 0.05 was considered to be statistically significant. BDS faculty, MDS faculty and PG students were found to possess similar level of understanding and there was no significant difference between the groups. Knowledge was found to be equal between male and female dentists. The young practitioners were found to be more informed about CPA than the senior practitioners. It was found that most of the participants were aware of relevant Medico legal aspects, but were less aware of CPA. This study emphasises the need for education relevant to Medico legal aspects and CPA for dental professionals.

  19. Iatrogenic splenic injury: review of the literature and medico-legal issues

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    Feola Alessandro

    2016-01-01

    Full Text Available Iatrogenic splenic injury is a recognized complication in abdominal surgery. The aim of this paper is to understand the medico-legal issues of iatrogenic splenic injuries. We performed a literature review on PubMed and Scopus using iatrogenic splenic or spleen injury and iatrogenic splenic rupture as keywords. Iatrogenic splenic injury cases were identified. Most cases were related to colonoscopy, but we also identified cases related to upper gastrointestinal procedures, colonic surgery, ERCP, left nephrectomy and/or adrenalectomy, percutaneous nephrolithotomy, vascular operations involving the abdominal aorta, gynecological operation, left lung biopsy, chest drain, very rarely spinal surgery and even cardiopulmonary resuscitation. There are several surgical procedures that can lead to a splenic injury. However, from a medico-legal point of view, it is important to assess whether the cause can be attributed to a technical error of the operator rather than being an unpredictable and unpreventable complication. It is important for the medico-legal expert to have great knowledge on iatrogenic splenic injuries because it is important to evaluate every step of the first procedure performed, how a splenic injury is produced, and whether the correct treatment for the splenic injury was administered in a judgment.

  20. Documentation of torture victims, assessment of the start procedure for medico-legal documentation.

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    Mandel, Lene; Worm, Lise

    2007-01-01

    A Pilot Study was performed at the Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT) in Copenhagen in order to explore the possibilities for adding a medico-legal documentation component to the rehabilitation of torture victims already taking place. It describes the process and results on implementing medico-legal documentation in a rehabilitative setting. A modified version of the Guidelines in the Istanbul Protocol was developed on the basis of the review of literature and current practices described in "Documentation of torture victims, implementation of medico-legal protocols". The modified guidelines were tested on five clients. The aim was twofold: 1) To assess the client's attitude towards the idea of adding a documentation component to the rehabilitation process and: 2) To assess the practical circumstances of implementing the Istanbul Protocol in the everyday life of a rehabilitation centre. Results show that all five clients were positive towards the project and found comfort in being able to contribute to the fight against impunity. Also, the Pilot Study demonstrated that a large part of the medico-legal documentation was already obtained in the rehabilitation process. It was however not accessible due to lack of systematization and a data registering system. There are thus important synergies in collecting data for rehabilitation and documentation but a joint database system is necessary to realize these synergies.

  1. Medico-legal litigation: Balancing spiralling costs with fair ...

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    2015-05-02

    May 2, 2015 ... 8, No. 1 SAJBL. Ames Dhai. Editor amaboo.dhai@wits.ac.za. A Medico Legal Summit was convened by the National. Minister of Health, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, on 9 and 10 ... of preventable harm at healthcare facilities when managing patients there. Patient safety is a component of good quality healthcare.

  2. Ethical and medico-legal aspects of dementia | Potocnik ...

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    Ethical and medico-legal aspects of dementia. FCV Potocnik. Abstract. No Abstract. Full Text: EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT · DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT · AJOL African Journals Online. HOW TO USE AJOL... for Researchers · for Librarians · for Authors · FAQ's · More about AJOL ...

  3. Radiographic investigations during medico-legal autopsies

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    Bratzke, H.; Schneider, V.; Dietz, W.

    1982-04-01

    During the last 13 years (1968-1980), 427 radiographic examinations were carried out during the course of medico-legal autopsies at the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the Free University of Berlin. Important problems were the demonstration of retained foreign bodies resulting from shooting, stabbing or blunt trauma, bone injuries, identification, and the question of life in neonates. An historical survey is given and 12 cases with special forensic problems are illustrated and discussed, and further means of investigations are described.

  4. Radiographic investigations during medico-legal autopsies

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    Bratzke, H.; Schneider, V.; Dietz, W.

    1982-01-01

    During the last 13 years (1968-1980), 427 radiographic examinations were carried out during the course of medico-legal autopsies at the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the Free University of Berlin. Important problems were the demonstration of retained foreign bodies resulting from shooting, stabbing or blunt trauma, bone injuries, identification, and the question of life in neonates. An historical survey is given and 12 cases with special forensic problems are illustrated and discussed, and further means of investigations are described. (orig.) [de

  5. Medico-legal documentation of rape or sexual assault: are ...

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    Background: Following upon two-year internship, community-service doctors make mistakes when they deal with evidence of medico-legal examinations in various settings. These mistakes .... the participants were doing/had done their community service were obtained. Age and gender distribution. The average age of the ...

  6. Medico Legal Autopsies In Aba, Nigeria | Offiah | Abia State ...

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    To determine the pattern of medico legal autopsies performed between January 2001 to December 2005 so as to highlight any differences or similarities to the observation of workers in other parts of the country and/or world. A hospital based retrospective analysis of coroner's autopsies in Abia State University Teaching ...

  7. Forensic Odontology: A Boon to Community in Medico-legal Affairs

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    Ramasamy Chidambaram

    2016-03-01

    Full Text Available Forensic odontology is a sub-discipline of dental science which involves the relationship between dentistry and the law. The specialty of forensic odontology is applied in radiographic investigation, human bite marks analysis, anthropologic examination and during mass disasters. Besides the fact that radiographs require pretentious laboratory, it is still claimed to be a facile, rapid, non-invasive method of age identification in the deceased. The budding DNA technology has conquered the traditional procedures and currently being contemplated as chief investigating tool in revealing the hidden mysteries of victims and suspects, especially in hopeless circumstances. Forensic odontology has played a chief role in solving cold cases and proved to be strong evidence in the court of law. Systematic collection of dental records and preservation of the same would marshal the legal officials in identification of the deceased. To serve the forensic operation and legal authorities, dental professionals need to be familiar with the basics of forensic odontology, which would create a consciousness to preserve the dental data. The aim of this paper is to emphasize the vital applications of forensic odontology in medico-legal issues. Conjointly the recent advancements applied in forensic human identification have been updated. Keywords: bite marks; dental records; forensic identification; mass disaster; medico-legal issues. | PubMed

  8. Ethics and medico legal aspects of "Not for Resuscitation"

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    Naveen Sulakshan Salins

    2010-01-01

    Full Text Available Not for resuscitation in India still remains an abstract concept with no clear guidelines or legal frame work. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is a complex medical intervention which is often used inappropriately in hospitalized patients and usually guided by medical decision making rather than patient-directed choices. Patient autonomy still remains a weak concept and relatives are expected to make this big decision in a short time and at a time of great emotional distress. This article outlines concepts around ethics and medico legal aspects of not for resuscitation, especially in Indian setting.

  9. Clinical photography in dermatology: ethical and medico-legal considerations in the age of digital and smartphone technology.

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    Kunde, Lauren; McMeniman, Erin; Parker, Malcolm

    2013-08-01

    Clinical photography has long been an important aspect in the management of dermatological pathology and has many applications in contemporary dermatology practice. With the continuous evolution of digital and smartphone technology, clinicians must maintain ethical and medico-legal standards. This article reviews how dermatology trainees are utilising this technology in their clinical practice and what procedures they follow when taking photos of patients. We review the ethical and legal considerations of clinical photography in dermatology and present a hypothetical medico-legal scenario. Dermatology registrars were surveyed on their use of personal smartphones and digital equipment for photographing patients in their clinical practice. Numerous medico-legal providers were approached to provide medico-legal advice about a hypothetical scenario. We found that the use of these technologies is prevalent among dermatology registrars and all respondents reported regular use. Clinicians should routinely obtain and document adequate patient consent in relation to clinical photography, utilise strict privacy settings on smartphones and other digital devices and ensure that the images are stored on these devices for minimal periods. Express consent documentation in the clinical file puts the clinician in a more defensible position if a complaint is made to the medical board or privacy commissioner. © 2013 The Authors. Australasian Journal of Dermatology © 2013 The Australasian College of Dermatologists.

  10. Sexual violence legislation in sub-Saharan Africa: the need for strengthened medico-legal linkages.

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    Kilonzo, Nduku; Ndung'u, Njoki; Nthamburi, Nerida; Ajema, Caroline; Taegtmeyer, Miriam; Theobald, Sally; Tolhurst, Rachel

    2009-11-01

    Six sub-Saharan African countries currently have laws on sexual violence, including Kenya, and eight others have provisions on sexual violence in other legislation. Effective legislation requires functioning medico-legal linkages to enable both justice to be done in cases of sexual violence and the provision of health services for survivors of sexual violence. The health sector also needs to provide post-rape care services and collect and deliver evidence to the criminal justice system. This paper reviews existing data on sexual violence in sub-Saharan Africa, and summarises the content of sexual violence legislation in the region and the strengths and weaknesses of existing medico-legal linkages, using Kenya as a case study. Many sub-Saharan African countries do not yet have comprehensive post-rape care services, nor substantial co-ordination between HIV and sexual and reproductive health services, the legal and judicial systems, and sexual violence legislation. These need to be integrated by cross-referrals, using standardised referral guidelines and pathways, treatment protocols, and medico-legal procedures. Common training approaches and harmonised information across sectors, and common indicators, would facilitate government accountability. Joint and collaborative planning and working at country level, through sharing of information and data between the different systems remain key to achieving this.

  11. HIV/AIDS and mental illness: ethical and medico-legal issues for ...

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    Keywords: HIV/AIDS, Mental health, Ethical, Medico - legal. S Afr Psychiatry Rev 2003 ... Implementation of the Mental Health Care Act of 2002will entail a shift in attitudes .... (Act 17 of 2002). 13 Gauteng Health Department; Environmental and Occupational. Health and Safety Directorate: Memorandum: 7 April 2000. Guide-.

  12. Mob justice as an emerging medico-legal, social and public health ...

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    Background: Mob-justice poses a medico-legal, social and public health problem in most developing countries including Tanzania and has shown to have negative effects on social and health of the country, communities, and families. This study was conducted to analyze the mob-justice situation in north-western Tanzania ...

  13. The clinical management of diabetic foot in the elderly and medico-legal implications.

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    Terranova, Claudio; Bruttocao, Andrea

    2013-10-01

    Diabetic foot is a complex and challenging pathological state, characterized by high complexity of management, morbidity and mortality. The elderly present peculiar problems which interfere on one hand with the patient's compliance and on the other with their diagnostic-therapeutic management. Difficult clinical management may result in medico-legal problems, with criminal and civil consequences. In this context, the authors present a review of the literature, analysing aspects concerning the diagnosis and treatment of diabetic foot in the elderly which may turn out to be a source of professional responsibility. Analysis of these aspects provides an opportunity to discuss elements important not only for clinicians and medical workers but also experts (judges, lawyers, medico-legal experts) who must evaluate hypotheses of professional responsibility concerning diabetic foot in the elderly.

  14. Back to the Future - Part 1. The medico-legal autopsy from ancient civilization to the post-genomic era.

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    Cecchetto, Giovanni; Bajanowski, Thomas; Cecchi, Rossana; Favretto, Donata; Grabherr, Silke; Ishikawa, Takaki; Kondo, Toshikazu; Montisci, Massimo; Pfeiffer, Heidi; Bonati, Maurizio Rippa; Shokry, Dina; Vennemann, Marielle; Ferrara, Santo Davide

    2017-07-01

    Part 1 of the review "Back to the Future" examines the historical evolution of the medico-legal autopsy and microscopy techniques, from Ancient Civilization to the Post-Genomic Era. In the section focusing on "The Past", the study of historical sources concerning the origins and development of the medico-legal autopsy, from the Bronze Age until the Middle Ages, shows how, as early as 2000 BC, the performance of autopsies for medico-legal purposes was a known and widespread practice in some ancient civilizations in Egypt, the Far East and later in Europe. In the section focusing on "The Present", the improvement of autopsy techniques by Friedrich Albert Zenker and Rudolf Virchow and the contemporary development of optical microscopy techniques for forensic purposes during the 19th and 20th centuries are reported, emphasizing, the regulation of medico-legal autopsies in diverse nations around the world and the publication of international guidelines or best practices elaborated by International Scientific Societies. Finally, in "The Future" section, innovative robotized and advanced microscopy systems and techniques, including their possible use in the bio-medicolegal field, are reported, which should lead to the improvement and standardization of the autopsy methodology, thereby achieving a more precise identification of natural and traumatic pathologies.

  15. Traumatic spinal cord injuries – epidemiologic and medico-legal issues

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    Hanganu Bianca; Velnic Andreea Alexandra; Petre-Ciudin Valentin; Manoilescu Irina; Ioan Beatrice Gabriela

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    Spinal cord injuries represent a special category of injuries in traumatic pathology, with high morbidity and mortality, which justify their analysis with the aim to identify useful aspects in order to prevent and treat them. We therefore performed a retrospective study on 426 cases in order to analyze epidemiology and medico-legal issues related to spinal cord injuries. The studied items regarded socio-demographic aspects (gender, age, home region), type of lesions (vertebral, spinal cord, a...

  16. Medico legal investigations into sudden sniffing deaths linked with trichloroethylene.

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    Da Broi, Ugo; Colatutto, Antonio; Sala, Pierguido; Desinan, Lorenzo

    2015-08-01

    Sudden deaths attributed to sniffing trichloroethylene are caused by the abuse of this solvent which produces pleasant inebriating effects with rapid dissipation. In the event of repeated cycles of inhalation, a dangerous and uncontrolled systemic accumulation of trichloroethylene may occur, followed by central nervous system depression, coma and lethal cardiorespiratory arrest. Sometimes death occurs outside the hospital environment, without medical intervention or witnesses and without specific necroscopic signs. Medico legal investigations into sudden sniffing deaths associated with trichloroethylene demand careful analysis of the death scene and related circumstances, a detailed understanding of the deceased's medical history and background of substance abuse and an accurate evaluation of all autopsy and laboratory data, with close cooperation between the judiciary, coroners and toxicologists. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd and Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine. All rights reserved.

  17. A clinical analysis of 500 medico-legal claims evaluating the causes and assessing the potential benefit of alternative dispute resolution.

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    B-Lynch, C; Coker, A; Dua, J A

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    1. To evaluate the common causes of medico-legal dispute in obstetrics and gynaecology. 2. To assess the potential benefit of early alternative dispute resolution. A prospective analysis of over 500 cases submitted from over 100 solicitors between 1984 and 1994 for medical expert opinion on potential medico-legal claims. Five hundred consecutive cases that met the inclusion criteria: 488 from the United Kingdom and 12 from abroad (Hong Kong, Republic of Ireland). The main principles underlining medico-legal disputes and causes of such claims. Analysis of 500 claims show 46% were misguided allegations, 19% incompetent care, 12% error of judgement, 9% lack of expertise, 7% failure of communication, 6% poor supervision and 1% inadequate staffing. Of the misguided allegations 119/225 cases (59%) were obstetric and 111/275 (40%) cases were gynaecological. The most common cause of obstetric dispute was "cerebral palsy' (22%), while the commonest cause of gynaecological dispute was failed sterilisation (19%). Settled claims were under-reported by solicitors. Because of the high percentage (46%) of misguided allegations, an alternative course of dispute resolution must be a realistic way forward. This course of action, combined with improved communication, could result in a major reduction in the costs of potential medical litigation. Early alternative dispute resolution should be considered in an attempt to reduce the escalating quantum of damages and costs. We recommend recruiting independent, experienced and unbiased consultants in active practice within the appropriate specialty to review such cases at the level of hospital complaints management as an in house review procedure, particularly for small and moderate-sized claims, as a means whereby doctors can retain control of medico-legal disputes, in contrast to control by the legal profession.

  18. Padova Charter on personal injury and damage under civil-tort law : Medico-legal guidelines on methods of ascertainment and criteria of evaluation.

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    Ferrara, Santo Davide; Baccino, Eric; Boscolo-Berto, Rafael; Comandè, Giovanni; Domenici, Ranieri; Hernandez-Cueto, Claudio; Gulmen, Mete Korkut; Mendelson, George; Montisci, Massimo; Norelli, Gian Aristide; Pinchi, Vilma; Ranavaya, Mohammed; Shokry, Dina A; Sterzik, Vera; Vermylen, Yvo; Vieira, Duarte Nuno; Viel, Guido; Zoja, Riccardo

    2016-01-01

    Compensation for personal damage, defined as any pecuniary or non-pecuniary loss causally related to a personal injury under civil-tort law, is strictly based on the local jurisdiction and therefore varies significantly across the world. This manuscript presents the first "International Guidelines on Medico-Legal Methods of Ascertainment and Criteria of Evaluation of Personal Injury and Damage under Civil-Tort Law". This consensus document, which includes a step-by-step illustrated explanation of flow charts articulated in eight sequential steps and a comprehensive description of the ascertainment methodology and the criteria of evaluation, has been developed by an International Working Group composed of juridical and medico-legal experts and adopted as Guidelines by the International Academy of Legal Medicine (IALM).

  19. Ireland and medical research with minors: some medico-legal aspects.

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    Sheikh, Asim A

    2008-07-01

    The practice of medical research with minors in Ireland consist of practices pertaining to therapeutic and non-therapeutic medical research. Clinical trials (a category of therapeutic research), is governed by legislation. However, any other therapeutic research (non-clinical trials research) and non-therapeutic research, e.g. observational medical research such as a longitudinal study of children or non-therapeutic research such as blood sample collection for analysis of cause of disease, are unregulated by legislation. This, article will outline and describe some of the medico-legal issues involved in both types of research and will comment on matters such as what national law exists, how the directive on good clinical practice has been implemented, what guidelines, if any, exist.

  20. El nuevo perfil profesional de los profesores de secundaria

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    Gemma Tribó Travería

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    Full Text Available El objetivo del artículo es definir el nuevo perfil profesional de los profesores de secundaria. Una de las debilidades del sistema educativo español es que ha cambiado el marco legal y no se ha aplicado un nuevo modelo de formación inicial a los docentes de secundaria. El debate sobre las competencias profesionales está en la base de la propuesta de las competencias específicas del profesor del futuro. Se insiste en la importancia de las prácticas profesionales en el proceso de adquisición y de desarrollo de las competencias profesionales. Se valora positivamente que el master de formación inicial del profesorado de secundaria tenga presente en su diseño este nuevo perfil competencial profesional.

  1. [Prevention of the post-surgical insatisfactions and possible medico-legal complications].

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    Flageul, G; Pessis, R

    2017-10-01

    The purpose of this work is to better understand the reasons for post-surgical instability and what makes up the bed of medico-legal complications. Beyond technical competence, it is essential to observe a very high degree of rigor in listening to the real motivations in order to give the most accurate possible surgical indications and in particular to know to detect and never to operate certain patients who, whatever we do, will always be dissatisfied. The quality of information is one of the essential elements of prevention: information is part of the care and there is no therapeutic success without a successful relationship between a caregiver and a carereceiver. Before the surgery, it is essential to pre-establish written proof of the proper delivery of the information by signing a receipt and an informed consent document. However, the information does not stop at the time of the operative gesture and it is necessary to be able to provide complete and timely information about any post-surgical complications. Furthermore, aesthetic medicine is well understood and rigorously implemented, contributes to the prevention of surgical and medico-legal complications, reducing the heaviness of certain surgical gestures. The question of e-reputation should in no way be neglected. From this point of view, prevention consists in controlling as much as possible the Internet environment. Indeed, where, in the past, in the presence of a dissatisfied patient awaited us, the fear of word-of-mouth or trial is added to the risk of harm E-reputation whose implications can be very damaging. At a time when the intensive use of the Internet allows anyone to get out of anonymity, we must also control these tools at the risk of sacrificing our expertise at the coronation of amateurs. Copyright © 2017. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.

  2. Preventing medico-legal issues in clinical practice

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    Bevinahalli N Raveesh

    2016-01-01

    Full Text Available The medical profession is considered to be one of the noblest professions in the world. The practice of medicine is capable of rendering noble service to humanity provided due care, sincerity, efficiency, and professional skill is observed by the doctors. However, today, the patient–doctor relationship has almost diminished its fiduciary character and has become more formal and structured. Doctors are no longer regarded as infallible and beyond questioning. Corporatization of health care has made it like any other business, and the medical profession is increasingly being guided by the profit motive rather than that of service. On the other hand, a well-publicized malpractice case can ruin the doctor's career and practice. The law, like medicine, is an inexact science. One cannot predict with certainty an outcome of cases many a time. It depends on the particular facts and circumstances of the case, and also the personal notions of the judge concerned who is hearing the case. The axiom “you learn from your mistakes” is too little honored in healthcare. The best way to handle medico-legal issues is by preventing them, and this article tries to enumerate the preventive measures in safeguarding the doctor against negligence suit.

  3. Radiodermatitis. Etiological and medico-legal considerations

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    Bredard-Usseglio, Catherine.

    1978-04-01

    This study covers 22 radiodermatitis cases recorded in and around Paris and in industry, from January 1st 1967 to mid-1977, by the health insurance treasury of te Paris region. Special attention was paid to the analysis of their frequency, seriousness and causes and of the medico-legal problems involved. According to our observations these accidents mainly affect radiometallographers, crystallographers, people studying materials by X-fluorescence and technicians responsible for maintenance of medical X-ray radiotherapy machines, the activities most prevalent in the industrial use of ionizing radiations. Three main accident factors are observed: imperfections in the protection system and in the maintenance of equipment; carelessness of personnel towards ionizing radiations owing to the apparent absence of immediate effects; lack of information on the danger of ionizing radiations and on the defensive measures necessary. Three means of protection must be developed as a result: wearing of an extra dosimeter on the wrist or finger; permanent information of staff; checks on equipment and constant improvement in the protection of particularly dangerous instruments (gammagraphs). Acute and chronic radiodermatitis are taken in charge as occupational diseases since they appear in table six of these illnesses with a coverage period of 60 days and 10 years. Radiodermatitis patients face the question of professional reclassification, a difficulty all the greater as their qualifications are high. The possibility of paid professional training for occupational disease victims is especially useful when the subjects are still young [fr

  4. Medico legal issues.

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    Mackenzie, Geraldine; Carter, Hugh

    2010-01-01

    This chapter gives an educational overview of: * An awareness of the legal issues involved in health informatics * The need for the privacy and security of the patient record * The legal consequences of a breach of the security of the patient record * The concept of privacy law and what precautions ought to be taken to minimize legal liability for a breach of privacy and/or confidentiality.

  5. Las microfinancieras: por la sostenibilidad y un marco legal apropiado

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    Iván Gutiérrez Aguirre

    2002-02-01

    Full Text Available En los últimos años el sector de las microfinanzas ha crecido de forma acelerada hasta llegar a tener un peso importante en la generación de servicios financieros a los micro y pequeños empresarios. También han surgido nuevas tendencias dentro de las microfinanzas en orden a convertirlas en entidades de mayor nivel de eficiencia y especialización. Sin embargo, diversos obstáculos de carácter técnico, legal y regulatorio han impedido su desarrollo y formalización. Existen diversos caminos para que este sector de las finanzas tome un rumbo nuevo y estable, para ello tienen que ampliar su horizonte estratégico, profundizar sus procesos de eficiencia y transparencia y abrir nuevos espacios en los mercados del microcrédito. En este artículo presentaremos una reseña de los principales aspectos que atraen o preocupan de esta actividad financiera.

  6. Toward a standardized investigation protocol in sudden unexpected deaths in infancy in South Africa: a multicenter study of medico-legal investigation procedures and outcomes.

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    du Toit-Prinsloo, Lorraine; Dempers, Johan; Verster, Janette; Hattingh, Christa; Nel, Hestelle; Brandt, V D; Jordaan, Joyce; Saayman, Gert

    2013-09-01

    South Africa manifests a socio-economic dichotomy that shows features of both a developed and developing country. As a result of this, areas exist where a lack of resources and expertise prevents the implementation of a highly standardized protocol for the investigation of sudden and unexpected deaths in infants (SUDI). Although the medico-legal mortuaries attached to academic centers have the capacity to implement standardized protocols, a previous study conducted at two large medico-legal mortuaries indicated otherwise. This study also revealed that the exact number and incidence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) cases was unknown. These findings prompted a multicenter study of the medico-legal investigation procedures and outcomes in five academic centers in South Africa. A retrospective case audit was conducted for a 5-year period (2005-2009) at medico-legal laboratories attached to universities in Bloemfontein, Cape Town-Tygerberg, Durban, Johannesburg, and Pretoria. The total case load as well as the total number of infants younger than 1 year of age admitted to these mortuaries was documented. The case files on all infants younger than 1 year of age who were admitted as sudden and unexpected or unexplained deaths were included in the study population. Data collected on the target population included demographic details, the nature and scope of the post-mortem examinations, as well as the final outcome (cause of death). A total case load of 80,399 cases were admitted to the mortuaries over the 5 year period with a total of 3,295 (6.5 %) infants. In the infant group, 591 (0.7 %) died from non-natural causes and 2,704 (3.3 %) cases of sudden, unexpected and/or unexplained deaths in infants were admitted and included in the detailed case analysis study. One hundred and ninety-nine babies were between 0 and 7 days of age and 210 babies between 8 and 30 days. The remaining 2,295 infants were between 1 month and 12 months of age. Death scene investigation was

  7. Nuevo marco jurídico en materia de protección de datos de carácter personal en la Unión Europea

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    Alfonso Ortega Giménez

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    Full Text Available Este trabajo versa sobre el impacto producido por la nueva legislación europea en materia de protección de datos. Se abordarán algunas de las principales novedades que trae consigo el nuevo Reglamento Europeo de Protección de Datos, (conocido también como Reglamento General de Protección de datos o RGPD como la nueva figura del Data Protection Officer, los nuevos derechos y obligaciones promulgados, en especial, el derecho al olvido, el régimen sancionador y el futuro nuevo marco jurídico de la transmisión internacional de datos a terceros países, así como algunas menciones a la Directiva de protección de datos en materia penal y otra legislación relevante.

  8. Some medical and biological reasons of drunkenness and alcoholism and feature of their medico-legal establishment

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    Г. А. Білецька

    2014-12-01

    Full Text Available The article is sanctified to some вiomedical questions of reasons of drunkenness and alcoholism, and also features of their establishment in practice of medico-legal expert in the process of examining and dead body of living man. Study of constitutional and individual features of organism of man, terms of stay and reception of алкогоя help more exactly to diagnose the state of alcoholic intoxication, that is reflected in the conclusion of expert and can be proof on criminal and civil cases.

  9. Agricultura y ruralidad europeas frente a la neutralidad presupuestaria y el nuevo marco financiero

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    A. Andúgar Miñarro

    2004-01-01

    Full Text Available La multifuncionalidad de la agricultura y ruralidad europeas parecían haber sido legitimadas en el contexto de las negociaciones agrícolas de la Ronda de Doha y de las demandas crecientes de una sociedad cada día más preocupada por la seguridad de los alimentos, el bienestar de los animales, y la protección del medio, todo ello conjugado en una agricultura sostenible. Sin embargo razones internas de hondo calado en una nueva Unión a veinticinco, como la neutralidad presupuestaria y el nuevo marco fi nanciero, trastocan las vías y tendencias mantenidas hasta ahora. Las repercusiones traslucen una clara reorientación desde las líneas integradas hacia otra competitiva, mercantilista, que podría vislumbrar una vuelta de tuerca hacia enfoques pasados.

  10. Traumatic spinal cord injuries – epidemiologic and medico-legal issues

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    Hanganu Bianca

    2017-12-01

    Full Text Available Spinal cord injuries represent a special category of injuries in traumatic pathology, with high morbidity and mortality, which justify their analysis with the aim to identify useful aspects in order to prevent and treat them. We therefore performed a retrospective study on 426 cases in order to analyze epidemiology and medico-legal issues related to spinal cord injuries. The studied items regarded socio-demographic aspects (gender, age, home region, type of lesions (vertebral, spinal cord, association with other trauma, circumstances leading to trauma (cause of the injury, season, data regarding hospitalization (medical condition at the hospital admission, number of days of hospitalization, clinical diagnosis, imaging exploration level and data resulting from autopsy (diagnosis, toxicological examination. Most of our results are consistent with literature data, except for some epidemiological items, which might be explained with cultural differences, life style and inhomogeneous population. Based on our results, the general conclusion is the need for prevention campaigns, focusing on road traffic accidents and falls (especially in elderly as the main causes of spinal cord injuries.

  11. Guidelines examination of victims of sexual assault harmonization of forensic and medico-legal examination of persons.

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    Ludes, B; Geraut, A; Väli, M; Cusack, D; Ferrara, D; Keller, E; Mangin, P; Vieira, D N

    2018-02-21

    Sexual assault is a complex situation with medical, psychological, and legal aspects. Forensic experts play a major role in terms of forensic and gynecological medical examination and evidence collection in order to maintain the chain of custody. Victims should be examined by a specially trained medico-legal examiner in order to avoid multiple examinations in the surroundings that do not meet minimum health standards. The evolution and treatment of sexual assault victims are time-intensive and should optimally be provided by a team that includes a forensic medical doctor. These guidelines will be of interest to forensic medical doctors who will have responsibility for the examination and assessment of victims of sexual violence and can be used as a day-to-day service document and/or a guide to develop health service for victims of sexual violence.

  12. Organ retention and communication of research use following medico-legal autopsy: a pilot survey of university forensic medicine departments in Japan.

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    Tsujimura-Ito, Takako; Inoue, Yusuke; Yoshida, Ken-ichi

    2014-09-01

    This study investigated the circumstances and problems that departments of forensic medicine encounter with bereaved families regarding samples obtained from medico-legal autopsies. A questionnaire was posted to all 76 departments of forensic medicine performing medico-legal autopsies in Japan, and responses were received from 48 (63.2%). Of the respondents, 12.8% had approached and communicated with bereaved families about collecting samples from the deceased person during an autopsy and the storage of the samples. In addition, 23.4% of these had informed families that samples might be used in research. Eighteen departments had received enquiries and requests from families about the samples, with most requests concerning their return. The response to such requests varied according to the department. Few departments interacted with the bereaved families regarding the procedure for obtaining autopsy samples, and their methods for handling family concerns differed depending on the person within the department authorised to contact the family. Moreover, the procedures for engaging in such communication have long been unclear, and no legal or ethical consensus or agreement with the general public has been established. It is important for researchers to further discuss the correct way for forensic medicine departments to communicate with bereaved families. Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions.

  13. Medico-legal findings, legal case progression, and outcomes in South African rape cases: retrospective review.

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    Rachel Jewkes

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    Full Text Available BACKGROUND: Health services for victims of rape are recognised as a particularly neglected area of the health sector internationally. Efforts to strengthen these services need to be guided by clinical research. Expert medical evidence is widely used in rape cases, but its contribution to the progress of legal cases is unclear. Only three studies have found an association between documented bodily injuries and convictions in rape cases. This article aims to describe the processing of rape cases by South African police and courts, and the association between documented injuries and DNA and case progression through the criminal justice system. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We analysed a provincially representative sample of 2,068 attempted and completed rape cases reported to 70 randomly selected Gauteng province police stations in 2003. Data sheets were completed from the police dockets and available medical examination forms were copied. 1,547 cases of rape had medical examinations and available forms and were analysed, which was at least 85% of the proportion of the sample having a medical examination. We present logistic regression models of the association between whether a trial started and whether the accused was found guilty and the medico-legal findings for adult and child rapes. Half the suspects were arrested (n = 771, 14% (209 of cases went to trial, and in 3% (31 of adults and 7% (44 of children there was a conviction. A report on DNA was available in 1.4% (22 of cases, but the presence or absence of injuries were documented in all cases. Documented injuries were not associated with arrest, but they were associated with children's cases (but not adult's going to trial (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] for having genital and nongenital injuries 5.83, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.87-18.13, p = 0.003. In adult cases a conviction was more likely if there were documented injuries, whether nongenital injuries alone AOR 6.25 (95% CI 1.14-34.3, p = 0

  14. Drug-related deaths with evidences of body packing: Two case reports and medico-legal issues.

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    Cappelletti, Simone; Aromatario, Mariarosaria; Bottoni, Edoardo; Fiore, Paola Antonella; Straccamore, Marco; Umani Ronchi, Federica; De Mari, Guido Maria; Ciallella, Costantino

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    Body packing is a general term used to indicate the internal transportation of drug packages, mainly cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, and methamphetamine, within the gastrointestinal tract. We described two cases of accidental drug intoxication, observed over the last year period, with evidence of intracorporeal drug concealment. The first case concerned a body packer transporting 69 drug packages of heroin adulterated with piracetam. The second body packer transported 16 drug packages of cocaine adulterated with levamisole. For both cases, forensic examination and toxicological analysis of drug packages and biological samples were carried out. Authors also wants to highlight the main medico-legal issues that commonly arise in cases of suspected or ascertained body packers. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

  15. Medico legal and de ontological features of breast diagnosis

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    Lopez, J. A.; Lopez, M. C.

    2001-01-01

    A medical and legal review of the literature in regards to the medico legal and de ontological features involved in Imaging Diagnosis of the breast was performed in order to elaborate a series of preventive measures to prevent or reduce the demands on the radiologist. Basically, the contents of the Spanish Medical De ontology Code as well the rules and laws in force in our country have been considered, both from the medical professional point of view as well as from that of the law professional. As a result of the review carried out, a series of preventive measures aimed at reducing the incidence of possible lawsuits against the radiologist who works in breast imaging diagnosis are proposed. The radiologist is regularly involved in lawsuits, especially related with the delay in the diagnosis of breast cancer. In the United States of America and Italy. he(she is the professional who receives the greatest number of lawsuits, being ahead of the gynecologist. The radiologist occupies and important place in the diagnosis of breast cancer, which converts him/her into the object of possible lawsuits. Within these, deadly in the diagnosis of cancer caused by several situations are included: these being, principally, non-detection by mammography, not using the complementary studies and not carrying out an integrated reading of the triad or binomial diagnosis. In some cases, these situations are favored by lack of experience (incompetence) of the radiologists as well as by lack of information from the patient. In order to avoid possible lawsuits, the most important preventive measures are: a) inform the patient; b) be competent in the material: c) follow an action Protocol according to the l ex artis: d) in the case of being staff, comply with the guidelines of Quality Control: e) elaborate clear and concise written reports, maintaining, if relevant, the limitations of the procedures used and suggestions for the professional clinician. (Author) 27 refs

  16. European Council of Legal Medicine (ECLM) principles for on-site forensic and medico-legal scene and corpse investigation.

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    Cusack, D; Ferrara, S D; Keller, E; Ludes, B; Mangin, P; Väli, M; Vieira, N

    2017-07-01

    Forensic medical practitioners need to define the general principles governing procedures to be used for the on-site examination of a body where the death has occurred in unnatural, violent or suspicious circumstances. These principles should be followed whenever a medical expert is required to perform an on-site corpse inspection and should be utilised as a set of general guidelines to be adapted to the specific situation in hand and interpreted using common sense and scientific knowledge of the relevant procedures and facts of the case. The aim of these principles is to ensure that forensic evidence at the scene of a death is properly observed and assessed and all necessary relevant evidence gathered in order to ensure that a comprehensive report is available to the judicial authority (investigating judge or coroner) in the justice system. The on-site corpse inspection by a forensic practitioner is a mandatory and essential stage of the forensic and medico-legal autopsy, as it may provide important information for subsequent investigation stages.

  17. The Impact of the Danish Medico-Legal Council on the Choice Between Treatment and Punishment for Non-psychotic Offenders

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    Gottlieb, Peter; Gabrielsen, Gorm; Kørner, Alex

    2014-01-01

    punishment and treatment in cases of offenders falling under §69 of the Penal Code, i.e. mentally disordered, although not psychotic offenders. Methods. In 298 cases of defendants who according to the Medico-Legal Council might fall under §69 the recommendations of the assessment reports, the recommendations...... some measure of treatment was about 50% for adult males, and higher for adolescents and for females. In court, however, the two genders as well as adolescents and adults alike all had the same probability, approximately 50%, of being sentenced with treatment instead of punishment. When measured...

  18. Application of X-rays to dental age estimation in medico-legal practice

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    2015-05-01

    Full Text Available Aim of the study: The paper addresses the use of dental age assessment methods based on radiographs in medico-legal practice. Different cases of practical application of the methods are presented including identification of human remains, dental age assessment in a living person and one archaeological case. Material and methods : The study material consisted of cases involving dental age assessment performed in the Department of Forensic Medicine, Poznan University of Medical Sciences in Poznan. Depending on the preliminary assessment of age, the Liversidge or the Kvaal et al. methods were applied. Dental age was estimated on the basis of available pantomograms. In the case of the living person, it was a radiograph supplied for expert evaluation. In the other cases, dental computed tomography was performed. Results : Dental age was successfully estimated in all of the cases. Various methods based on the analysis of X-ray images were applied. Dental age was shown to be correlated with skeletal age. Conclusions : The methods based on radiographs were demonstrated to be useful, and the results they yield are fully correlated with results of anthropological analyses.

  19. Considerations on the medico-legal compensation for stochastic effects induced by the exposure to ionizing radiations in working environment

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    1988-01-01

    A better detection of stochastic diseases induced by the exposure to ionizing radiations and the establishment of causative correlation are presently reasons to justify new medico-legal approaches. The right to reparation for workers suffering from diseases which may have been caused by occupational exposure to ionizing radiations in Belgium, is covered by the law on occupational diseases and by the legislation on industrial accidents. However, some difficulties persist, concerning the right for compensation, consisting in the very short delay for prescription, the existence of an administrative list of diseases eligible for compensation and in the burden of proof to establish an obvious etiological relation. (Author)

  20. The medico-legal investigation of the El Aqsah Intifada.

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    Hiss, Jehuda; Freund, Maya; Motro, Uzi; Kahana, Tzipi

    2002-07-01

    The majority (n = 445) of the Israeli and Palestinian fatal victims of the El Aqsah Intifada was examined at the National Center of Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv. Analysis of the trauma sustained and the anthropologic profile of both the victims and the perpetrators elucidates the trends and contrasts them with the phenomenon in the past. The purpose of the forensic investigation of mass casualty incidents is manifold: establishing the minimal number of individuals involved, identifying the victims and perpetrators, collecting material evidence, and determining the modus operandi. The postmortem examination includes external description of the bodies and their injuries, photo-documentation, and sampling of tissues. Radiography, dental examination, and a ten-print card of each cadaver are also recorded. The modus operandi of the current Intifada is somewhat different from that of the previous wave of terrorism and includes more road shootings and vehicular terrorism. In addition, three suicide bombers who detonated explosive devices within crowded areas were young women, and the age of the perpetrators has increased from up to 35 years to individuals as old as 47, thus greatly enlarging the potential number of suicide terrorists. Virologic and biologic tests have been introduced to examine the tissues of the suicide bombers since they are possible sources of contagion to the wounded victims. The results of the medico-legal investigation of victims and perpetrators of terrorism enable us to establish the modus operandi and the profile of potential perpetrators, which can help in the prevention of similar attacks. Documentation of the different types of injuries in fatal victims of explosion and shooting contributes to improving the awareness of the medical staff treating the wounded of similar attacks. Further investigation into the reliability of virologic and biologic tests conducted on postmortem tissue is recommended.

  1. An audit of the toxicology findings in 555 medico-legal autopsies finds manner of death changed in 5 cases.

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    Langlois, Neil E I; Gilbert, John D; Heath, Karen J; Winskog, Calle; Kostakis, Chris

    2013-03-01

    An audit of toxicological analysis in Coronial autopsies performed at Forensic Science South Australia was conducted on the cases of three pathologists. Toxicological analysis had been performed in 555 (68 %) from a total of 815 autopsies. It was found that the proffered manner of death was changed from the provisional report (provided immediately after the post-mortem examination) in five cases (just under 1 %) as a consequence of the toxicological findings. This is a limited study as it is retrospective, not all cases had toxicological analysis and the findings are constrained by the range of the substances that could be detected. Nonetheless, the audit supports the application of toxicological analysis in medico-legal death investigation and suggests that an inclusive policy should be adopted.

  2. The necessity of repeated assessment of imaging studies contained in medical records in medico-legal opinions

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    Aleksandra Borowska-Solonynko

    2014-12-01

    Full Text Available The paper presents two case reports of living victims, in which imaging studies of the chest conducted at a medical facility were an essential part of the medico-legal opinion. The first case was that of a young male hospitalized due to CT evidence of bilateral rib fractions, who claimed to have been assaulted by police officers. The other case was that of a six week old baby hospitalized due to chest X-ray evidence of right hand side rib fractions. The chest X-ray was performed due to one bruise found on the baby’s forehead and two small bruises on the back, which gave rise to suspicions of child abuse. In both cases, expert witnesses in radiology definitively excluded the presence of any fractures. These cases indicate that a new assessment of imaging studies contained in medical records is needed. Expert opinions based solely on the description of imaging studies may result in grave consequences.

  3. medico-legal perspectives in history

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    Various legal codes dealing with medical malpractice existed in Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, Islam, Greece, Rome, Persia and India. The first documented Code of Laws ever used by human civilisation in, for example, Mesopotamia is to be found from the Law Code of Hammurabi – a textual source of evidence concerning ...

  4. [Alcohol and work: ethical-deontological and medico-legal remark upon the recent set of rules].

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    Chiaravalli, M; Guzzetti, Laura; Tavani, M

    2007-01-01

    The Disposition of the Permanent Conference for the relation among the State, the Regions and the Autonomous Provinces of Trento and Bolzano, published in Gazzetta Ufficiale n. 75 on the 30th March 2006 the list of high-risk occupations under the influence of alcohol, activating de facto a previous law (Legge n. 125, 3017 march 2001, "Legge quadro in materia di alcol e di problemi alcolcorrelati"). We here present some ethical-deontological and medical-juridical profiles on the contents of this law and some consideration about its application. Particular attention is dedicated to deontological aspects about industrial safety rules and to medico-legal aspects about occupation under the influence of alcohol, with references to complex relations among worker's discretion right, employer's right to the protection of his own interests and qualified doctor's (or someone to him comparable) right to the respect for the deontological code, with regard to benefit recipient information before the medical treatment. Authors'purpose is to evidence critical points and interpretative ambiguities of a regulation lacking in its practical applications, to provide further proposals of consideration, available to revalue a thematic rich in questions and with a significant social impact.

  5. Competencias básicas en Infantil, Primaria y Secundaria. Marco teórico.

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    Viana Orta, María Isabel

    2007-01-01

    Marco teórico del nuevo modelo educativo tras la aprobación de la LOE, basado en la adquisición y desarrollo de comptencias básicas. El material forma parte de cursos de formación permanente del profesorado.

  6. Marco Civil da Internet: Limits From the Express and Unequivocal Requirement Consent as a Legal Protection of Personal Data on the Internet

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    Marco Antonio Lima

    2016-10-01

    Full Text Available This article examines the limits of the legal determination of express and unequivocal consent for the collection, use, storage, processing and protection of personal data as provided for in the Marco Civil da Internet (Law 12.965/2014 provided for in the list of rights and guarantees of users of the World Wide Web. With the increasing use of personal data from the Internet, for purposes of market analysis, prospecting investment trends, consumption and guidance of advertising campaigns - possible through technological resources for treatment and analysis of information - it is urgent to effectiveness the legal protection of this intangible property.

  7. Hacia un nuevo sistema europeo de protección de datos : las claves de la reforma = Towards a new data protection european legal system : the keys of the reform

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    Artemi Rallo Lombarte

    2012-09-01

    Full Text Available La Comisión Europea ha presentado sendas iniciativas legislativas dirigidas a reformar el sistema europeo de protección de datos: un proyecto de Reglamento General de Protección de Datos y un proyecto de Directiva en el ámbito de la Policía y la Justicia Penal. Estas propuestas suponen una revisión global del sistema europeo de protección de datos pues se sustentan sobre la base de un diferente instrumento normativo frente a la anterior Directiva 95/46 y abordan nuevas problemáticas que no estaban siendo satisfactoriamente resueltas por la normativa vigente (por ejemplo, el impacto de las nuevas tecnologías y de Internet. Estas iniciativas están llamadas a revolucionar el marco global europeo de la protección de datos y a provocar un extraordinario impacto en el sistema español al resultar de directa e inmediata aplicación el reglamento europeo y al proporcionar nuevos derechos a los ciudadanos. Esta nueva normativa europea de protección de datos está marcada por una inequívoca tendencia a la centralización comunitaria como se evidencia con el reforzamiento de los poderes de la Comisión Europea a través del recurso a los actos de delegación y de ejecución, con el establecimiento de un régimen sancionador común que fortalece la política represiva, con el otorgamiento de nuevos poderes a instituciones y organismos emergentes como el Consejo Europeo de Protección de Datos y el Supervisor Europeo de Protección de Datos y con la previsión de nuevos procedimientos europeos de cooperación y coherencia para garantizar la asistencia mutua, las investigaciones conjuntas y, en definitiva, la efectiva armonización europea. Además, este nuevo marco europeo busca hacer frente a la revolución tecnológica de nuestro tiempo otorgando más protección a los derechos de los ciudadanos —en particular, a los menores de edad— mediante la información y la transparencia, nuevos derechos como el olvido y la portabilidad y nuevas

  8. Hacia un nuevo sistema político cuasi-parlamentario y cuasi-federal en Costa Rica: Tamaño versus eficacia del sistema democrático

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    Johnny Meoño Segura

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    El autor proporciona un análisis diagnóstico del estado estratégico de la descentralización en Costa Rica con una visión más que municipalista, y propone un nuevo sistema político que requiere cambios constitucionales y legales y que aspira a servir de marco referencial que ayude a la presente y nuevas generaciones de analistas y líderes políticos, a superar las debilidades recurrentes que han caracterizado los diagnósticos y las propuestas en materia municipal y, en mayor grado, de descentra...

  9. Emisores políticos, mediáticos y ciudadanos en internet: hacia un nuevo marco comunicativo en la jornada de reflexión en España

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    Full Text Available Resumen La campaña electoral en España está regulada por la ley orgánica de régimen electoral general 5/1985, que no contempla ninguna medida específica para la cibercampaña. Este vacío legal motiva a los emisores a realizar una interpretación de la norma cuando se comunican en internet durante este periodo. Con el fin de explorar si el nuevo tempo y forma de comunicación en internet se corresponde con un nuevo espacio comunicativo, este estudio analiza los mensajes que políticos, periodistas y ciudadanos se intercambiaron en la jornada de reflexión de las últimas elecciones generales españolas (2011 y muestra cómo esta jornada, comprendida hasta la fecha como un día de reflexión silenciosa, cobra un nuevo sentido en internet.

  10. Descentralizar, contractualizar: el nuevo marco de la gobernanza multiniveles

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    Luis Arturo de la Torre Sendoya

    2017-11-01

    Full Text Available Este artículo propone un análisis de la trayectoria inicial de la descentralización en Colombia marcada por la afirmación del ámbito local a través de la noción de autonomía, y una reflexión prospectiva en la nueva etapa que se abre con el posconflicto, en la que se impone una gobernanza territorial multiniveles más inclusiva para el buen manejo del desarrollo regional utilizando el nuevo instrumento de acción pública, Contrato Plan.

  11. Remaking the medico-legal scene: a social history of the late-Victorian coroner in Oxford.

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    Hurren, Elizabeth T

    2010-04-01

    There have been wide-ranging debates about medicine and the law encapsulated in the figure of the coroner in Victorian England. Recently the historical literature on coroners has been enriched by macro-studies. Despite this important research, the social lives of coroners and their daily interactions remain relatively neglected in standard historical accounts. This article redresses that issue by examining the working life of the coroner for Oxford during the late-Victorian era. Edward Law Hussey kept very detailed records of his time in office as coroner. New research material makes it feasible to trace his professional background, from doctor of the sick poor, to hospital house surgeon and then busy coroner. His career trajectory, personal interactions, and professional disputes, provide an important historical prism illuminating contemporary debates that occupied coroners in their working lives. Hussey tried to improve his medico-legal reach and the public image of his coroner's office by reducing infanticide rates, converting a public mortuary, and acquiring a proper coroner's court. His campaigns had limited success because the social scene in which he worked was complicated by the dominance of health and welfare agencies that resented his role as an expanding arm of the Victorian information state.

  12. A Preliminary Analysis of Insects of Medico-legal Importance in Curitiba, State of Paraná

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    Full Text Available A survey of the carrion fauna was made at two sites in Curitiba, State of Paraná, with the objective of describing the insects associated with carrion and setting up a preliminary data-base for medico-legal purposes in south Brazil. Vertebrate exclusion experiments were carried out in each season between 1994 and 1995 with a 250 g laboratory-bred rat (Rattus norvegicus. Five stages of decomposition were identified: fresh, bloated, decaying, dry and adipocere-like. Some species showed seasonal and site preference and so could be used to identify the probable place and season where death took place. Sarconesia chlorogaster (Diptera, Calliphoridae was restricted to an open field site and to cooler months. Hemilucilia semidiaphana (Diptera, Calliphoridae and Pattonella resona (Diptera, Sarcophagidae were restricted to the forest site and warmer months. Phaenicia eximia (Diptera, Calliphoridae and Oxyletrum discicolle (Coleoptera, Silphidae were present at both sites throughout the year and could be useful for population level analysis. Dissochaetus murray (Coleoptera, Cholevidae was present throughout the year at the forest site and was associated with the adipocere-like stage. Ants played an important role producing post-mortem injuries to the carcasses. Insects of 32 species are reported as being useful in community level approaches

  13. Incidencia de las tecnologías en la contratación: Marco Legal en Cuba

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    Lissette Hernández Fernández

    2006-01-01

    Full Text Available La era de la informática ha incidido en el desarrollo del comercio a escala mundial. Cuba ha visto en el e-commerce un vehículo para potenciar su comercio; por ello esta investigación parte de la polémica de determinar si la regulación jurídica cubana existente en sede contractual ofrece cobertura a los fines de regular el momento de perfección de los contratos concluidos por medios electrónicos. El proyecto de Decreto-Ley sobre “Normas generales para la práctica del comercio electrónico” remite al ordenamiento tradicional en todas las cuestiones relativas a la perfección de los contratos, por lo cual resulta contradictorio que el Código Civil es omiso en varias de las instituciones propias de esta fase. Para resolver este problema se realiza un extenso análisis doctrinal, jurisprudencial y legal, y se concluye que si bien no nos encontramos ante nuevos tipos de contratos, sí resulta necesario perfeccionar el sistema legal existente y en formación.

  14. medico-legal an overview of some of the key legal developments in ...

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    equipped to admit a child with HIV as none of its teachers ... Head, Legal Unit, AIDS Law Project, and Centre for Applied Legal Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg ... once they have certified that the test or treatment is in the.

  15. El Control Policial-Medico-Securitario Brasileño

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    Thayara Silva Castelo Branco

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    Full Text Available El artículo trata de los contornos del nuevo modelo de gobierno medico-policial, introducido en Brasil a finales del siglo XIX , en los cuales tenía como objetivo promover la salud básica a través de la vía policialesca conectada al control y normalización de los peligrosos e indeseables. Así, cuestiona la medicalización y policialización de las acciones del gobierno que empiezó a conectar el concepto de "enfermedad" a la lógica de la anticipación del peligro, la delincuencia, el control, la exclusión e inocuização, cumpliendo así, la política de seguridad que allí sobresalía y que dejó graves consecuencias en el Brasil.

  16. [Giving medico-legal opinions in cases with suspicion of medical mistake.part 1. between medicine and justice.

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    Chowaniec, Czesław; Chowaniec, Małgorzata; Wilk, Mateusz

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    Creating medico-legal opinion is a sophisticated investigative, analytical, decision-making and creative process. Forensic medicine specialist in cooperation with clinical medicine consultants, on the basis of evidence analysis, which was gathered during procedures and contained in the acts has to create an objective and essential opinion. This opinion is a vital, very important and irreplaceable proof in every case. Judicial body consults with forensic medicine specialist or specialists if there are circumstances for settlement of which there is a need of classified informations - art. 193 of Penalty Code. Forensic medicine specialists face many difficulties which may have effect on quality, positiveness of opinion, compliance with the deadline, increasing expectancy of judicial body or sides. It is very difficult to find clinical specialists which except their clinical knowledge have basic knowledge about law, the role and duties of an court expert. In this article we discuss creating-opinion problems, role and position of court expert in confrontation with expectations of judicial body and the Justice with particular emphasis on medical mistakes and assessment of medical proceedings. We show the complexity of creating of medical opinions, especially these institutional.

  17. Piercing and Tattoos in Adolescents: Legal and Medico-legal Implications.

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    Conti, Adelaide; Bin, Paola; Casella, Claudia; Capasso, Emanuele; Fedeli, Piergiorgio; Salzano, Francesco Antonio; Terracciano, Lucia; Piras, Mauro

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    Non-therapeutic body modification interventions are permitted within the limits of the use of one's own body that can be specified in the legal system. The authors take into consideration Italian regulation on tattooing and piercing, in particular in relation to adolescents. In Italy, several regions have therefore issued acts aimed at regulating the activities of tattoo and piercing also in reference to minors. Discussion. With regard to minors, the rules taken into account set precise limits in relation to the age criterion and subordinate the implementation of such practices to the provision of consent by legal representatives. If such practices are of an aesthetic nature, we cannot avoid considering the implications they have on health protection, and then adopt appropriate measures to protect the person who intends to undergo them, particularly in the case of minors.

  18. Piercing and Tattoos in Adolescents: Legal and Medico-legal Implications

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    Conti, Adelaide; Bin, Paola; Casella, Claudia; Capasso, Emanuele; Fedeli, Piergiorgio; Salzano, Francesco Antonio; Terracciano, Lucia; Piras, Mauro

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    Abstract Non-therapeutic body modification interventions are permitted within the limits of the use of one’s own body that can be specified in the legal system. The authors take into consideration Italian regulation on tattooing and piercing, in particular in relation to adolescents. Results In Italy, several regions have therefore issued acts aimed at regulating the activities of tattoo and piercing also in reference to minors. Discussion. With regard to minors, the rules taken into account set precise limits in relation to the age criterion and subordinate the implementation of such practices to the provision of consent by legal representatives. Conclusion If such practices are of an aesthetic nature, we cannot avoid considering the implications they have on health protection, and then adopt appropriate measures to protect the person who intends to undergo them, particularly in the case of minors. PMID:29675481

  19. Piercing and tattoos in adolescents: legal and medico-legal implications

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    2018-04-01

    Full Text Available Non-therapeutic body modification interventions are permitted within the limits of the use of one’s own body that can be specified in the legal system. The authors take into consideration Italian regulation on tattooing and piercing, in particular in relation to adolescents.

  20. El objeto en el marco de la vida

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    Full Text Available En el marco doméstico contemporáneo, que los nuevos modos de vida reclaman más abierto y más libre, los objetos gracias a su nueva faceta semántica, participan en la organización y cualificación del espacio. En dicho proceso de configuración los elementos actúan, por un lado distribuyendo y ordenando, organizados en sistemas basados en relaciones topológicas y geométricas, y por otro añadiendo una nueva dimensión psicológica a los nuevos ámbitos, permaneciendo como elementos simbólicos o actuando como mecanismos que influyen en la vivencia y en la percepción espacial. En este artículo se realiza un acercamiento a la visión del objeto en el marco contemporáneo, siguiendo los estudios sociológicos de Baudrillard, Moles o Barthes, entre otros, y a través de las exposiciones y ferias de mobiliario y enseres para el hogar que proliferan, en una sociedad de consumo, a partir de los 60. Así mismo se establece un sistema de análisis que determina una correspondencia entre características y cualidades que son propias del espacio doméstico contemporáneo y los modos de actuación de los objetos en dichos entornos, constatando, de esta manera, que los objetos contribuyen a configurar ámbitos con unas determinadas propiedades gracias a sus modos de relación y conexión en el espacio.

  1. Un marco teórico variacional para la corrección perceptual del color en imágenes digitales

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    Provenzi, Edoardo; Bertalmío Barate, Marcelo; Caselles Costa, Vicent

    2010-01-01

    Las técnicas variacionales constituyen una herramienta muy útil para entender las características de las imágenes y crear algoritmos nuevos y eficientes. Recientemente, se ha propuesto un marco teórico variacional que incorpora las características básicas de la visión humana y que puede abarcar varios modelos conocidos en la literatura. Aquí discutimos los aspectos más relevantes de este marco teórico y presentamos unos ejemplos notables.

  2. El nuevo profesional de la información, del conocimiento y de la comunicación. El bibliotecario universitario.

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    José López Yepes

    2008-02-01

    Full Text Available Este trabajo reflexiona sobre la figura del nuevo profesional de la información en el marco de la sociedad de la información. Para ello se centra en cuatro aspectos fundamentales: los problemas terminológicos y conceptuales que afectan a la Ciencia de la Información; el comportamiento humano en relación con la evolución de los documentos; la formación y desarrollo del nuevo profesional y una reflexión final sobre la figura del nuevo bibliotecario universitario.

  3. Medico-legal claims against English radiologists: 1995-2006.

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    Halpin, S F S

    2009-12-01

    A list of claims against radiologists from 1995-2006 was obtained from the NHS Litigation Authority. It shows a total of 440 claims. The largest number of claims (199) related to delayed or missed diagnoses of cancer, and 73 claims related to breast radiology. There is a trend for a mild increase in the number of claims each year. 30 claims were made after a false-positive diagnosis of cancer. Just under pound8.5 million has so far been paid in damages, with a further pound5 million in legal fees. A claim for multiple missed diagnoses of breast cancer led to a pay-out of pound464 000 ( pound673 000 after legal fees); the largest sum awarded following a delay in the diagnosis of an individual cancer was pound300 000. The subtle legal distinction between error and negligence is reviewed here. The reason why breast radiologists are more likely to be sued than any other type of British radiologist is also discussed, along with the implications for UK radiological practice, particularly in light of the recent Chief Medical Officer's report on revalidation. A method is proposed that may protect radiologists from allegations of clinical negligence in the future.

  4. Los países del Este y la transición al mercado: hacia la formación del marco institucional

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    Luis Fernando Macias

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    Full Text Available La transición al mercado ha sido para los países del Este de Europa el paso de la euforia inicial al desengaño generalizado. Las medidas adoptadas por los nuevos dirigentes con el propósito de reanimar la economía y sacarla de la crisis han conducido a lo contrario: la caída de la producción, la aparición del desempleo y el desplome del nivel de vida. Esta situación lleva al autor a través del artículo y a la luz de los acontecimientos recientes en la región, que han conducido a una modificación de las formas de propiedad dominantes existentes durante el período del socialismo real, a plantear la necesaria redefinición del marco socio-institucional que conduzca no sólo al desmonte del sistema centralista-burocrático de gestión, sino que se dirija también, y ésto es lo fundamental, al normal funcionamiento de una economía de mercado. Es esto último lo que el artículo se encarga de desglosar mientras explica, en ese nuevo contexto, los cambios que se deben realizar tanto en el factor humano corno en los sistemas legal y contable.

  5. Medico-legal claims against English radiologists: 1995–2006

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    Halpin, S F S

    2009-01-01

    A list of claims against radiologists from 1995–2006 was obtained from the NHS Litigation Authority. It shows a total of 440 claims. The largest number of claims (199) related to delayed or missed diagnoses of cancer, and 73 claims related to breast radiology. There is a trend for a mild increase in the number of claims each year. 30 claims were made after a false-positive diagnosis of cancer. Just under £8.5 million has so far been paid in damages, with a further £5 million in legal fees. A claim for multiple missed diagnoses of breast cancer led to a pay-out of £464 000 (£673 000 after legal fees); the largest sum awarded following a delay in the diagnosis of an individual cancer was £300 000. The subtle legal distinction between error and negligence is reviewed here. The reason why breast radiologists are more likely to be sued than any other type of British radiologist is also discussed, along with the implications for UK radiological practice, particularly in light of the recent Chief Medical Officer's report on revalidation. A method is proposed that may protect radiologists from allegations of clinical negligence in the future. PMID:19470570

  6. Los nuevos institucionalismos como riqueza metodológica para el estudio de la política

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    Adolfo Eslava Gómez

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    Full Text Available Los nuevos institucionalismos se han convertido en un campo de trabajo dinámico en la ciencia política. El artículo muestra cómo el nuevo institucionalismo, en su versión heterodoxa, ha retomado el programa de investigación del institucionalismo clásico en tanto que la ortodoxia le ha incorporado los desarrollos metodológicos del conductismo y de la elección racional. El resultado es un enfoque que brinda un marco de referencia para analizar los múltiples problemas de la política.

  7. [Permanent essential defacement--remarks on the possibilities of verification of the accepted criteria in medico-legal certification in criminal and civil law proceedings].

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    Chowaniec, Czesław; Nowak, Agnieszka; Jabłoński, Christian; Neniczka, Stanisława

    2007-01-01

    Despite the fact that some criteria of medico-legal certification in criminal and civil proceedings have been established, there are still some topics which are controversial and thus require modification. This is also true of the notion of "permanent essential defacement". In the opinion of the authors, changes in social conventions that are occurring nowadays, as well as a highly diversified, subjective perception of esthetic values indicate the need for discussing a possible modification of the presently obligatory criteria. Apart from the assessment of posttraumatic changes, an important problem is posed by defining the notion of "a part of the body customarily open to the view ". Additionally, the authors bring up for discussion the issue of experts taking into consideration the age and sex of the victims while assessing damages. A separate problem lies in difficulties in assessing the degree of detriment to health because of defacement due to the fact that official tables for evaluating permanent or long-term detriment to health do not include relevant information.

  8. Investigación: Tipificación y tratamiento contable del nuevo derecho real de superficie en el Código Civil y Comercial Unificado de Argentina

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    Andrés Alberto Mancini

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    Full Text Available Se describe el marco legal y contable de un derecho inédito previsto en elnuevo Código Civil y Comercial Unificado de Argentina, como es el «DerechoReal de Superficie». En el ámbito jurídico los objetivos del trabajo son:explorar los antecedentes legales del mismo en Latinoamérica y Europa,exponer su marco legal bajo la nueva legislación y sus principales lineamientosconceptuales y contractuales. En el ámbito contable: tipificar lanueva figura bajo las normas contables profesionales, e identificar su reconocimientocontable, medición y revelación en la contabilidad de los actoresinvolucrados, al momento inicial, cierre de ejercicio y extinción del derecho.Para responder a estos objetivos se recolectaron historiales y referenciasactuales de derecho privado en otros países. Se revisaron y analizaron loslineamientos de nuestro anterior Código Civil y Ley de Superficie Forestal,así como el articulado del nuevo Código, sus discusiones parlamentarias yopinión de expertos en la materia. Desde el punto de vista contable se indagaronlas diversas normas profesionales internacionales para poder plasmarel tratamiento contable apropiado. Finalmente se desarrolló una ejemplificaciónpráctica detallada para mayor comprensión del tema.El hallazgo más importante de la investigación se refiere a que su tratamientocontable tiene varias aristas, con un alcance transversal a normasprofesionales de diferente temática (Arrendamientos, Instrumentos Financieros, Propiedades de Inversión. Por otra parte, representa una nuevafigura jurídica más dinámica y flexible en el ámbito de los derechos reales,con importantes ventajas económicas en el ámbito del negocio inmobiliario

  9. Sudden and unexpected childhood deaths investigated at the Pretoria Medico-Legal Laboratory, South Africa, 2007 - 2011.

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    Van Deventer, B S; Rossouw, S H; Du Toit-Prinsloo, L

    2016-09-06

     Sudden and unexpected death is well known to occur in infants, and although sudden deaths are less frequent after the first birthday, they still account for a significant proportion of childhood deaths. In 2009, 1.9% of the total deaths in the USA were childhood deaths. In South Africa (SA) this proportion was much higher at 11.85%. According to the law, sudden and unexpected deaths are generally investigated as unnatural deaths. Establishing an exact underlying anatomical cause of death will depend on available resources and can be difficult in a substantial proportion of cases.  A retrospective descriptive case audit was conducted at the Pretoria Medico-Legal Laboratory (PMLL), SA, from 1 January 2007 through to 31 December 2011. All children aged 1 - 18 years who died suddenly and unexpectedly were included.  Ninety-eight cases were identified, which constituted nearly 1% of total admissions to the PMLL. The majority of the deaths were of children aged 1 - 5 years, and the male/female ratio was 1.04:1. In the largest proportion of cases (n=28, 28.6%), the medicolegal investigation, including autopsy and ancillary investigations, did not establish an underlying anatomical cause of death. In the cases where a cause of death was established, pneumonia was the most common diagnosis (n=22, 22.4%).  The fact that the cause of the largest proportion of deaths could not be ascertained emphasises the need for consideration of additional investigative techniques, such as molecular/genetic screening, which have provided an underlying cause of death in a significant number of cases in other countries. There is a lack of published research on the causes and incidence of sudden unexpected deaths in children in SA, and further research in this area is needed.

  10. The implementation of medical monitoring programs following potentially hazardous exposures: a medico-legal perspective.

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    Vearrier, David; Greenberg, Michael I

    2017-11-01

    approach is inconsistent with the targeted approach advocated by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and the United States Preventive Services Task Force and the bulk of the peer-reviewed medical literature. Medical monitoring in legal contexts: Numerous medical monitoring actions have been litigated. Legal rationales for allowing medical monitoring claims often incorporate some of the scientific criteria for the appropriateness of monitoring programs. In the majority of cases in which plaintiffs were awarded medical monitoring relief, plaintiffs were required to demonstrate both that the condition for which medical monitoring was sought could be detected early, and that early detection and treatment will improve morbidity and mortality. However, the treatment of medical monitoring claims varies significantly depending upon jurisdiction. Examples of large-scale, comprehensive medical monitoring programs: Large-scale, comprehensive medical monitoring programs have been implemented, such as the Fernald Medical Monitoring Program and the World Trade Center Health Program, both of which exceeded the scope of medical monitoring typically recommended in the peer-reviewed medical literature and the courts. The Fernald program sought to prevent death and disability due to non-exposure-related conditions in a manner similar to general preventive medicine. The World Trade Center Health Program provides comprehensive medical care for World Trade Center responders and may be viewed as a large-scale, federally--funded research effort, which distinguishes it from medical monitoring in a medico-legal context. Synthesis of public health approaches to medical monitoring: Medical monitoring may be indicated following a hazardous exposure in limited circumstances. General causation for a specific adverse health effect must be either established by scientific consensus through a formal causal analysis using a framework such as the Bradford-Hill criteria. The exposure must be

  11. La pedagogía ambiental: hacia un nuevo paradigma educativo

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    Full Text Available En el presente artículo, se debate sobre la necesidad de construir un nuevo paradigma educativo en torno a la pedagogía ambiental, considerándola como parte de los cambios requeridos en el mundo para enfrentar la crisis de la civilización. Para lograr lo anterior, el punto de partida es el debate sobre la articulación de las disciplinas en una metadisciplina ; y la integración del conocimiento científico con el “no científico” en el marco de la pérdida de vigencia del viejo modelo positi - vista. De esta forma, se ubica el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje desde la perspectiva de la complejidad socioambiental. Posteriormente, se discute los fundamentos de la pedagogía ambiental a través de la conversión del paradigma científico en nuevo conocimiento popular, lo cual debe fincarse en la educación para la compatibilidad-sustentabilidad, mediante la generación de diálogos multidimensionales, y transitar hacia un nuevo modelo educativo. Se concluye discutiendo el necesario impulso, en las comunidades, del aprendizaje socioambiental como ancla de dicha pedagogía ambiental.

  12. Analysis of the origin and importance of acetone and isopropanol levels in the blood of the deceased for medico-legal testimony.

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    Borowska-Solonynko, A; Siwińska-Ziółkowska, A; Piotrkowicz, M; Wysmołek, M; Demkow, M

    2014-01-01

    The aim of the study was to analyze the incidence of acetone and isopropanol in the blood of the deceased, and to assess cases in which the compounds have been detected with a focus on their origin and usefulness for medico-legal testimony. The study material consisted of results of tests detecting ethyl alcohol and reports of autopsies performed at the Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw, from January 2008 to April 2009 - a total of 2,475 cases. The test group proper (group B) comprised only those cases in which acetone was detected in blood, either with or without isopropanol [n = 202 (8.2%)]. The blood levels of isopropanol varied depending on the cause of death. The need for differentiating the origin of isopropanol in the case of its presence in the blood of the deceased was pointed out. The results of the present study show that the differentiation should be based on the isopropanol and acetone concentration ratio, as isopropanol concentration alone is not sufficient for preparing expert opinions. Even high concentrations of isopropanol, when accompanied by even higher concentrations of acetone, imply that isopropanol could have been formed as a result of acetone transformations. Isopropanol concentrations exceeding acetone levels strongly point to the exogenous origin of isopropanol, particularly when high levels of ethanol are concurrently detected.

  13. MEDICO-LEGAL HIV/AIDS, LAW AND ETHICS: A BRIEF ANALYSIS ...

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    Enrique

    ... are in a unique situation, as both legal and ethical rules apply to a ... Guidelines for the Management of Patients with HIV. Infection or ... process of obtaining informed consent from a patient. Not ... narrowly construed and applied. Although ...

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    Part 3 will address the sexual assault section of the J88 form. As a legal document, ... shown that suspects can manipulate crucial biological results and examinations to ..... of speech, and orientation with regard to the time, place and person.3.

  15. Patterns of abuse amongst Sri Lankan women returning home after working as domestic maids in the Middle East: An exploratory study of medico-legal referrals.

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    Wickramage, Kolitha; De Silva, Malintha; Peiris, Sharika

    2017-01-01

    Migrant worker abuse is well recognised, but poorly characterised within the scientific literature. This study aimed to explore patterns of abuse amongst Sri Lankan women returning home after working as domestic maids. Sri Lanka has over 2 million of its citizens employed overseas as international labor migrants. A cross-sectional study was conducted on Sri Lankan female domestic maids returning from the Middle East region who were referred for medico-legal opinion. A total of 20 women were included in the study. Average length of their employment overseas was 14 months. Complaints of physical violence directed mainly through their employers were made by 60% of women. Upon physical examination, two-thirds had evidence of injuries, with a third being subjected to repetitive/systematic violence. Eighty percent suffered some form of psychological trauma. Personal identity papers and travel documents had been confiscated by the employer in 85% of cases, with two thirds indicating they were prevented and/or restricted from leaving their place of work/residence. Our study demonstrates that female domestic maid abuse manifests through multiple pathways. Violence against such workers span the full spectrum of physical, financial, verbal, emotional abuse and neglect, as defined by the World Health Organization. Findings from this exploratory study cannot be generalized to the large volume of migrant worker outflows. Further research is needed to determine incidence and define patterns in other migrant worker categories such as low-skilled male workers. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ltd and Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine. All rights reserved.

  16. El terrorismo en Brasil: un análisis crítico del marco legal e institucional

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    Paulo Henrique Faria Nunes

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    Full Text Available El terrorismo es un delito que requiere la cooperación intergubernamental debido a la dimensión transnacional que logró en las últimas décadas. Sin embargo, aún no existe una definición legal universal. Por lo tanto, los estados argumentan la necesidad de prevenir y suprimir un delito indefinido. En este artículo se analiza el marco regulatorio e institucional de Brasil en materia de lucha contra el terrorismo. El país ha ratificado las principales acciones globales y regionales en la materia y recientemente aprobó leyes para frenar la financiación y definir el delito de terrorismo. Esto se debió a las presiones para aplicar las resoluciones del Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas y las Recomendaciones de Acción Financiera (GAFI y la celebración de eventos internacionales en el país, como los Juegos Olímpicos en 2016. La adecuación de la legislación a directrices internacionales sobre la financiación fue la decisión correcta, pero la definición adoptada por la ley antiterrorista (ley 13.260 / 2016 es defectuosa y revela el intento de Brasil de reconciliar el deseo de afirmarse como global player y la tradicional política de neutralidad y la preferencia por el soft power.

  17. Social isolation and delayed discovery of bodies in houses: the value of forensic pathology, anthropology, odontology and entomology in the medico-legal investigation.

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    Archer, M S; Bassed, R B; Briggs, C A; Lynch, M J

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    The bodies of socially isolated people may remain undiscovered in their own houses for prolonged periods. Occasionally the body is in situ for sufficient time to become skeletonised, or partially so. Medico-legal investigation of these cases is complicated by degradation and contamination of evidence. Thus, a multidisciplinary forensic investigation is recommended. The potential contributions of forensic pathology, anthropology, odontology and entomology are outlined here with reference to two cases that occurred in Victoria, Australia, in 2003. Forensic pathologists are often unable to determine the cause of death in skeletonised bodies, however, they may find evidence to support either a natural or unnatural mode of death, and they may describe skeletal pathology or trauma, and identify skeletal features to support radiological identification of the deceased. Anthropologists can provide supplementary evidence of skeletal trauma. Additionally, they can assess age, sex, stature and racial affiliation from skeletal remains. Odontologists can identify individuals through comparison with ante-mortem dental records; however, potential difficulties exist in identifying the treating dentist of a socially isolated person. Odontologists may also examine the teeth and oro-facial skeleton for trauma. Entomologists may estimate minimum death time and/or season of death. Entomological examination of insect remains may also confirm that a body has lain in situ for a considerable period.

  18. La educación en el marco de una sociedad global: algunos principios y nuevas exigencias

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    José Tejada Fernández

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    Full Text Available El presente artículo sobre la «Educación en el marco de una sociedad global: principios y nuevas exigencias», pretende centrar algunas de los rasgos de la sociedad actual (globalización, multiculturalismo, revolución tecnológica e incertidumbre a partir de los cuales ha de operar la educación. Esto conlleva un conjunto de cambios (estructurales y en la propia práctica, fundamentados en nuevos principios, y por tanto, nuevas exigencias para que la educación pueda dar respuesta en dicha sociedad.

  19. Using medico-legal data to investigate fatal older road user crash circumstances and risk factors.

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    Koppel, Sjaan; Bugeja, Lyndal; Smith, Daisy; Lamb, Ashne; Dwyer, Jeremy; Fitzharris, Michael; Newstead, Stuart; D'Elia, Angelo; Charlton, Judith

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    This study used medico-legal data to investigate fatal older road user (ORU, aged 65 years and older) crash circumstances and risk factors relating to 4 key components of the Safe System approach (e.g., roads and roadsides, vehicles, road users, and speeds) to identify areas of priority for targeted prevention activity. The Coroners' Court of Victoria's (CCOV) Surveillance Database was searched to identify and describe the frequency and rate per 100,000 population of fatal ORU crashes in the Australian state of Victoria for 2013-2014. Information relating to the deceased ORU, crash characteristics and circumstances, and risk factors was extracted and analyzed. One hundred and thirty-eight unintentional fatal ORU crashes were identified in the CCOV Surveillance Database. Of these fatal ORU crashes, most involved older drivers (44%), followed by older pedestrians (32%), older passengers (17%), older pedal cyclists (4%), older motorcyclists (1%), and older mobility scooter users (1%). The average annual rate of fatal ORU crashes per 100,000 population was 8.1 (95% confidence interval [CI], 6.0-10.2). In terms of the crash characteristics and circumstances, most fatal ORU crashes involved a counterpart (98%), of which the majority were passenger cars (50%) or fixed/stationary objects (25%), including trees (46%) or embankments (23%). In addition, most fatal ORU crashes occurred close to home (73%), on-road (87%), on roads that were paved (94%), on roads with light traffic volume (37%), and during low-risk conditions: between 12 p.m. and 6 p.m. (44%), on weekdays (80%), during daylight (75%), and under dry/clear conditions (81%). Road user (RU) error was identified by the police and/or the coroner for the majority of fatal crashes (55%), with a significant proportion of deceased ORUs deemed to have failed to yield (54%) or misjudged (41%). RU error was the most significant factor identified in fatal ORU crashes, which suggests that there is a limited capacity of the

  20. Breakdowns in communication of radiological findings: an ethical and medico-legal conundrum

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    Communication problems in diagnostic testing have increased in both number and importance in recent years. The medical and legal impact of failure of communication is dramatic. Over the past decades, the courts have expanded and strengthened the duty imposed on radiologists to timely communicate radiologic abnormalities to referring physicians and perhaps the patients themselves in certain situations. The need to communicate these findings goes beyond strict legal requirements: there is a mor...

  1. Hacia un nuevo entorno de aprendizaje en la Electrónica de Potencia: de lo virtual a lo personal

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    F. D. Trujillo .

    2016-01-01

    Full Text Available La llegada del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior conlleva importantes cambios en el proceso de enseñanza/aprendizaje: es conveniente involucrar de forma más efectiva a los alumnos así como promover su independencia y participación activa en este proceso. Este nuevo marco engloba el aumento en el desarrollo y utilización de las Nuevas Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación en el campo de la educación y el análisis del resultado académico de los estudiantes. Se describe, a continuación, la implementación de un nuevo entorno de aprendizaje para Electrónica de Potencia. Para evaluar las ventajas e inconvenientes de este nuevo entorno y el cumplimiento de los objetivos, se han diseñado diversos cuestionarios para los estudiantes. Los resultados obtenidos demuestran los beneficios en el uso del nuevo entorno de aprendizaje y un importante aumento en la motivación de los alumnos.

  2. Suicide among nursing home residents in Australia: A national population-based retrospective analysis of medico-legal death investigation information.

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    Murphy, Briony J; Bugeja, Lyndal C; Pilgrim, Jennifer L; Ibrahim, Joseph E

    2018-05-01

    Suicide among nursing home residents is a growing public health concern, currently lacking in empirical research. This study aims to describe the frequency and nature of suicide among nursing home residents in Australia. This research comprised a national population-based retrospective analysis of suicide deaths among nursing home residents in Australia reported to the Coroner between July 2000 and December 2013. Cases were identified using the National Coronial Information System, and data collected from paper-based coroners' records on individual, incident, and organizational factors, as well as details of the medico-legal death investigation. Data analysis comprised univariate and bivariate descriptive statistical techniques; ecological analysis of incidence rates using population denominators; and comparison of age and sex of suicide cases to deaths from other causes using logistic regression. The study identified 141 suicides among nursing home residents, occurring at a rate of 0.02 deaths per 100 000 resident bed days. The ratio of deaths from suicide to deaths from any other cause was higher in males than females (OR = 3.56, 95%CI = 2.48-5.12, P = home for less than 12 months (n = 71, 50.3%). Common major life stressors identified in suicide cases included the following: health deterioration (n = 112, 79.4%); isolation and loneliness (n = 60, 42.6%); and maladjustment to nursing home life (n = 42, 29.8%). This research provides a foundational understanding of suicide among nursing home residents in Australia and contributes important new information to the international knowledge base. Copyright © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

  3. De vuelta a la concentración de tierras en el Perú

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    Arias Nieto, Custodio

    2014-01-01

    En este artículo presento el nuevo proceso de concentración de tierras en el Perú producido en los últimos quince años, teniendo como marco las normas legales del modelo neoliberal. Éstas han permitido la emergencia del latifundio en las mejores tierras que se encuentran en la costa peruana, cuya producción es principalmente para la exportación. Asimismo, las concesiones mineras, petroleras y forestales también vienen conduciendo a un nuevo tipo de concentración de tierras que degrada o destr...

  4. Funciones del Fiscal en el Sistema Procesal Penal Acusatorio Ecuatoriano

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    Guillén, Oscar Medardo

    2006-01-01

    El art.219 de la Constitución Política vigente, define el nuevo marco legal, para el ejercicio de la acción penal de instancia pública, del Ministerio Público, en concordancia con el Nuevo Código de Procedimiento Penal y la Ley Orgánica del Ministerio Público, instrumentos jurídicos que han permitido el cambio del sistema conocido como inquisitivo , caracterizado por la concentración de funciones en el juez, para dar paso al sistema acusatorio oral que se ha dicho es mas humano, democrático y...

  5. Microbial Forensics for Natural and Intentional Incidents of Infectious Disease Involving Animals

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    2006-01-01

    Microbiologie medico-legale. ~ Microbiologia foren~e para ca£J~s de erderm®rdJ©lrdJ®$ DlTil~®©©D@$©l$ d® origen natural o intenciorm~d(il qa.u~ tEl~~ct...ll1 iBl ©lll1Dm©l~®$ S.A. McEwen, T.M Wilson, D.A. Ashford, E. D. Heegaard, T. Kuiken & B. Kournikakis Resumen La microbiologia forense es una... microbiologia y epidemiologia tradicionales, pero opera dentro de un marco juridico especifico. Entre las importantes razones que motivan una

  6. Medical simulation-based education improves medicos' clinical skills.

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    Wang, Zhaoming; Liu, Qiaoyu; Wang, Hai

    2013-03-01

    Clinical skill is an essential part of clinical medicine and plays quite an important role in bridging medicos and physicians. Due to the realities in China, traditional medical education is facing many challenges. There are few opportunities for students to practice their clinical skills and their dexterities are generally at a low level. Medical simulation-based education is a new teaching modality and helps to improve medicos' clinical skills to a large degree. Medical simulation-based education has many significant advantages and will be further developed and applied.

  7. Breakdowns in communication of radiological findings: an ethical and medico-legal conundrum.

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    Berlin, Leonard; Murphy, Daniel R; Singh, Hardeep

    2014-12-01

    Communication problems in diagnostic testing have increased in both number and importance in recent years. The medical and legal impact of failure of communication is dramatic. Over the past decades, the courts have expanded and strengthened the duty imposed on radiologists to timely communicate radiologic abnormalities to referring physicians and perhaps the patients themselves in certain situations. The need to communicate these findings goes beyond strict legal requirements: there is a moral imperative as well. The Code of Medical Ethics of the American Medical Association points out that "Ethical values and legal principles are usually closely related, but ethical obligations typically exceed legal duties." Thus, from the perspective of the law, radiologists are required to communicate important unexpected findings to referring physicians in a timely fashion, or alternatively to the patients themselves. From a moral perspective, radiologists should want to effect such communications. Practice standards, moral values, and ethical statements from professional medical societies call for full disclosure of medical errors to patients affected by them. Surveys of radiologists and non-radiologic physicians reveal that only few would divulge all aspects of the error to the patient. In order to encourage physicians to disclose errors to patients and assist in protecting them in some manner if malpractice litigation follows, more than 35 states have passed laws that do not allow a physician's admission of an error and apologetic statements to be revealed in the courtroom. Whether such disclosure increases or decreases the likelihood of a medical malpractice lawsuit is unclear, but ethical and moral considerations enjoin physicians to disclose errors and offer apologies.

  8. Los recursos humanos en salud según el nuevo modelo de atención en Ecuador

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    Full Text Available RESUMEN Objetivo Describir las estrategias implementadas por el Ministerio de Salud Pública del Ecuador (MSP para fortalecer la rectoría de los recursos humanos en salud y responder al nuevo modelo de atención, como parte del proceso de reforma durante el periodo 2012–2015. Métodos Se realizó una revisión documental sobre el desarrollo del recurso humano en salud antes y después de la reforma recabando información en fuentes primarias y secundarias. Resultados En el periodo de estudio, Ecuador generó un nuevo marco institucional y normativo para desarrollar recursos humanos en salud a fin de responder a los requisitos de un modelo de atención basado en la Atención Primaria en Salud (APS. El MSP consolidó su papel rector estableciendo alianzas estratégicas, aplicando métodos de planificación de los recursos humanos y realizando una inversión sin precedentes en la formación del personal sanitario, contrataciones e incrementos salariales. Estos elementos constituyen los ejes iniciales para la construcción de una política de recursos humanos en salud y una carrera sanitaria coherentes con los objetivos de la reforma. Conclusiones En el marco de la reforma realizada entre 2012 y 2015, el desarrollo del recurso humano en salud muestra logros importantes gracias al trabajo intersectorial realizado por el MSP. Entre dichos logros destacan el fortalecimiento de la rectoría, el desarrollo e implementación de normativa e instrumentos regulatorios, la creación de nuevos perfiles de profesionales, y el contrato de profesionales con el objetivo de implementar el Modelo de atención integral de salud (MAIS, lo cual contribuyó a resolver problemas arrastrados durante los años previos a la reforma.

  9. Vegetables, Coctails & Reflections / Marco Laimre

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    2006-01-01

    Pealkirja "Vegetables, Coctails & Reflections" kandis Tallinna Kunstihoones 8.04.-28.05.2006 avatud Elin Kardi, Marko Mäetamme, Marco Laimre ja Andres Tali ühisnäitusel "Vägivald ja propaganda" Marco Laimre installatsioon. Marco Laimre esinemine raadiosaates "kunst.er" Klassikaraadios 16.04.2006

  10. Marco Grippeling (1966-2014)

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    It was with great sadness that we learnt that our former colleague and friend Marco Grippeling was amongst the victims of the Malaysia Airlines crash.   Marco, a Melbourne-based cyber security specialist, boarded flight MH17 on his way back to Australia after spending his last days with friends and family in his home country of the Netherlands. Marco joined CERN as a Technical Student in the PS Division in 1992.  In 1994 he moved to the LHC Division as a Staff Member, leaving for more exotic horizons in 2000. Marco will always be remembered for his enthusiasm and joie de vivre. Our deepest condolences go to his family and friends at this time. His former colleagues and friends at CERN

  11. JUEGO, REDES SOCIALES E INFANCIA: HACIA LA DEFINICIÓN DE NUEVOS ESCENARIOS COMUNICATIVOS

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    Carolina Duek; Noelia Enriz; Francisco Muñoz Larreta; Gastón Tourn

    2014-01-01

    El lugar que ocupan las redes sociales en la vida cotidiana de las grandes ciudades está siendo analizado por diversos investigadores a la luz de la cantidad de usuarios que poseen y por el peso significativo que tienen en un nuevo tipo de prácticas. Ahora bien, más allá de los usos generales de este fenómeno de la llamada Web 2.0, identificamos –en el marco de un proyecto de investigación– un espacio en y desde el cual se producían interacciones dables de ser analizadas en profun...

  12. Viejos y nuevos debates sobre el concepto de cohesión social

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    Palma-Mullër, Catalina

    2012-10-01

    Full Text Available Aunque los antecedentes del concepto “cohesión social” se remiten a la sociología clásica ha sido en las últimas tres décadas cuando el término ha cobrado un nuevo impulso siendo retomado como eje de análisis y de orientación en el ámbito de las políticas públicas, especialmente en el marco de las políticas de la Unión Europea. Actualmente, tanto la definición como el ámbito de aplicación de la cohesión social se ha convertido en fuente de debates a partir de su inserción en América Latina, donde el contexto de violencia, exclusión y los más altos niveles de desigualdad económica del mundo han planteado nuevos retos y posturas críticas hacia la aplicación de políticas de cohesión social e incluso hacia el propio uso del término.

  13. La formación en TIG en los nuevos planes de grados y másteres: la enseñanza de las TIG en España y en Europa.

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    Aportación a la mesa redonda "Mesa redonda: La formación en TIG en los nuevos planes de grados y másteres", desarrollada en el marco del XVII Congreso Nacional TIG. Universidad de Málaga y Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles.

  14. "Legal highs"--toxicity in the clinical and medico-legal aspect as exemplified by suicide with bk-MBDB administration.

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    Rojek, Sebastian; Kłys, Małgorzata; Strona, Marcin; Maciów, Martyna; Kula, Karol

    2012-10-10

    The easily available "legal highs", which are products containing psychoactive substances, such as cathinones, piperazines and synthetic cannabinoids, are abused by adolescents in Poland and in the world as alternatives to classic drugs, such as amphetamines or marijuana. The majority of these potentially dangerous substances are still legal and they are associated with a risk of severe poisoning or even death, and provide new challenges in clinical and forensic toxicological practice. Investigations in the field of "designer drugs" may be well illustrated by the case of a suicide of a 21-year old male who ingested a specified dose of a preparation called "Amphi-bi-a" that contains bk-MBDB, chemically 2-methylamino-1-(3,4-methylenedioxyphenyl) butan-1-one, which belongs to the cathinone group, as a synthetic euphoric empathogen and psychoactive stimulant that is chemically similar to MDMA. It is one of more common components of "legal highs" examined in Poland and other countries. The documentation of the case includes a clinical assessment of the patient's health status performed during his almost 4-h hospitalization before death, autopsy and histological examinations supported by toxicological findings revealing bk-MBDB at extremely high concentrations (at 20 mg/l in the blood and 33 mg/kg in the liver); hence, this body of evidence contributes to knowledge in the field of "designer drugs". Inventions of designers of new psychoactive xenobiotics, which are much in demand, especially in view of the dynamic Internet marketing, which drums up narcobusiness, must be balanced by a national strategy developed by medical, legal and educational circles in the modern civilized world in order to prevent the spreading of the phenomenon. Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

  15. La evolución de los marcos (tecno discursivos del movimiento 15M y sus consecuencias

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    Eduardo Romanos

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    Full Text Available El movimiento 15M se caracterizaba, entre otras cosas, por una fuerte crítica a los partidos políticos y el sistema actual de representación política. Sin embargo, el ciclo de movilización ha derivado en un proceso de institucionalización creciente y complejo en el que los activistas del movimiento han participado de manera relativamente visible y continuada en el surgimiento y el desarrollo de nuevos partidos (Partido X, Ganemos y Podemos. Este artículo analiza el papel desempeñado por las nuevas tecnologías en este proceso bajo la hipótesis de que la apropiación de herramientas digitales diseñadas para deliberar, interaccionar o generar formas diversas de participación política en los nuevos partidos reproduce valores y prácticas esenciales del movimiento, allanando con ello el camino para una identificación entre los activistas y los partidos. La mediación tecnológica ha modulado el paso del movimiento al partido al generar un entorno de deliberación horizontal, participación distribuida y estructura descentralizada que reduce las diferencias visibles entre ambos. El desarrollo de las herramientas digitales se ha visto acompañado a su vez de un cambio en los marcos de interpretación de los movimientos sociales con respecto a la tecnología como factor político. De esta forma, las nociones de representación o participación clásicas quedan redibujadas permitiendo una transición suave entre las plazas y los parlamentos. El artículo rastrea la construcción de marcos tecnófilos que, influidos por la presencia del software libre y el código abierto, ayudan a entender la organización de los nuevos partidos-movimiento y la transición entre las diversas formas de acción colectiva. Igualmente, se perfilan y describen algunas de estas herramientas y las funciones que han cumplido de cara a forjar unos modelos de organización originales en estos partidos-movimiento.

  16. San Marco C-2 (San Marco-4) Post Launch Report No. 1

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    The San Marco C-2 spacecraft, now designated San Marco-4, was successfully launched by a Scout vehicle from the San Marco Platform on 18 February 1974 at 6:05 a.m. EDT. The launch occurred 2 hours 50 minutes into the 3-hour window due co low cloud cover at the launch site. All spacecraft subsystems have been checked and are functioning normally. The protective caps for the two U.S. experiments were ejected and the Omegatron experiment activated on 19 February. The neutral mass spectrometer was activated as scheduled on 22 February after sufficient time to allow for spacecraft outgassing and to avoid the possibility of corona occurring. Both instruments are performing properly and worthwhile scientific data is being acquired.

  17. [The flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy report: medico-legal issues].

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    Trosini-Désert, V; Morin, J-M; Fournier, C; Similowski, T; Vergnon, J-M

    2010-09-01

    The flexible bronchoscopy report is one of the tools permitting exchange of medical information in respiratory medicine and is an integral part of the medical record. Currently, there is no consensus on its content, and consequently, there are no recommendations. A survey was carried out involving experts from the Groupe d'Endoscopie de Langue Française (GELF--Endoscopy Research Group of the French Language Society of Pneumology) and a lawyer from the legal affairs and patient's rights department of the Paris public hospital system. Thirty-four questions distributed in eight chapters were asked in an eight-part questionnaire covering: 1) general administration, 2) environmental safety, 3) medical and anatomical description of the examination, 4) tolerance/complications of the examination, 5) conclusion, 6) image and video sequence capture, 7) administrative data for archiving, 8) disposable elements used during the examination. The results showed as many areas of convergence as they did divergence, between physicians, and between physicians and lawyer. Collective consideration is required to harmonize the writing of bronchoscopy reports, to provide a tool that is not only consensual and complete, but also valid and sound from the medicolegal viewpoint. Copyright © 2010 SPLF. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.

  18. The use of propofol by gastroenterologists: medico-legal issues.

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    Axon, Andrew E

    2010-01-01

    The increasing use of non-anesthesiologist-administered propofol for sedation during gastrointestinal endoscopy has both clinical and legal consequences. As medical practices develop, the law of clinical negligence will be applied in the context of such developments. While the law will recognize the desirability of advanced techniques and methods, in circumstances where an injury or adverse outcome occurs, the facts of a particular case will be scrutinized to determine whether or not the duty of care between patient and clinician has been breached. This paper considers a number of specific matters likely to arise in the context of a clinical negligence/malpractice claim resulting from the use of non-anesthesiologist-administered propofol, in particular the role and standard of care expected of gastroenterologist and/or anesthetic provider, the relevance of FDA labeling, the implementation and use of protocols, the importance of patient selection and informed consent. Copyright 2010 S. Karger AG, Basel.

  19. [Epidemiology of the medico-legal risk associated with the practice of ambulatory surgery in France: a study based on insurance data].

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    Theissen, A; Fuz, F; Catineau, J; Sultan, W; Beaussier, M; Carles, M; Raucoules-Aimé, M; Niccolai, P

    2014-03-01

    The medico-legal risk specifically associated with the practice of ambulatory surgery is still not well studied. SHAM insurances are the biggest French provider of medical liability insurances. The study of the insurance claims provided by this insurer is therefore a relevant source of data on the complications related to ambulatory surgery. The aim of this study was to compare the claim rate related to ambulatory surgery with non-ambulatory surgery. We did a retrospective study on insurance claims provided by SHAM insurances between 2007 and 2011 to compare the claim rate related to ambulatory surgery with non-ambulatory surgery. We searched the files in the SHAM database, and then analyzed them. On the study period, out of a total of 29565 registered claims, 467 (1.6%) originated from ambulatory surgery. On the total of 29,098 registered claims for non-ambulatory surgery, 2151 (7.4%) led to a condemnation whereas the rate was 7% (33 out of 467 claims) for ambulatory surgery. The condemnations linked to ambulatory surgery amounted to 1.5% of the total (33 out of 2184), for a cost of 1.7 M€ (versus 400,3 M€ for non-ambulatory surgery). The average cost of a compensation is therefore 50,500 € for ambulatory surgery and 186,000 € for non-ambulatory surgery. The medical specialties concerned are primarily ophthalmology, abdominal and orthopedics surgery. The main identified causes were medical errors (n=16) and nosocomial infections (n=13). The claim rate in ambulatory surgery is proportionally less frequent with compensations three times less and were related to the most frequent type of surgery done in ambulatory settings. These data should help strengthen quality approach in ambulatory surgery. Copyright © 2014 Société française d’anesthésie et de réanimation (Sfar). Published by Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved.

  20. Medico-legal aspects of congenital heart diseases in buying and selling of pets

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    Annamaria Passantino

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    Full Text Available Aim: The veterinarian should be able to assess congenital and inherited malformations such as heart defects because they may be object of legal disputes. In this study, the authors report some cases of congenital heart defects in pets (dogs and cats to clarify whether or not they may be considered a redhibitory defect. Materials and Methods: A total of 28 medical records of pets referred with suspected congenital heart disease were examined. All patients aged between 3 and 24 months underwent clinical examination, chest X-ray examination, electrocardiogram, and echocardiography and angiocardiography when necessary. Results: Congenital heart diseases or associated cardiac malformations were confirmed. Considering the above congenital diseases as redhibitory defect and the rights of the owners from a strictly legal viewpoint, 9 owners demanded an estimatory action and 11 a redhibitory action; 1 owner decided to demand the reimbursement of veterinary expenses because the animal died; 7 owners took no legal action but requested surgical intervention. Conclusions: Until more appropriate and detailed legislation on the buying and selling of pet animals is put in place; the authors propose to include in the contract a temporal extension of the guarantee relating to congenital heart disease, which can often become evident later.

  1. Nuevos retos en depuración y desalación de aguas en España

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    La reciente aprobación del Plan Hidrológico Nacional ha abierto un nuevo marco de actuaciones para la planificación de los recursos de agua en España. Depuración y reutilización de aguas residuales y desalación de agua marina o salobre continental tienen un significado todavía pequeño entre los recursos hídricos que se aprovechan anualmente. Sin embargo, ofrecen grandes posibilidades de futuro dentro de la nueva concepción de la planificación de recursos de agua que valora el a...

  2. Medical advancements: emergency contraception (EC). Medico-legal implications of EC on adolescents.

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    Signore, F; Napoletano, S; Bruti, V; di Luca, N M

    2018-01-01

    The article's main focus is documenting what the best options are in order to make sure that minors are allowed to play a key role in the management of issues arising from the use of emergency contraception. In that regard, there is a lack of clean-cut legislative measures and, although there are several legal and ethical norms designed to get parents or legal guardians involved in such decisions, there seems to be an increasingly widespread tendency to give weight to the minor's will, thus acknowledging her decision-making capacity. Lastly, the paper's authors undertake a thorough examination as to what the duties of doctors are, and the measures that need to be put in place in order to safeguard the minor patients' conditions. They arrive at the conclusion that emergency contraception is suitable for minors even in absence of the stated consent from their parents or guardians, but it is of utmost importance to implement adequate measures aimed at the provision of proper care, prevention and education.

  3. TURISMO DEL VINO EN EL MARCO DE JEREZ. UN ANÁLISIS DESDE LA PERSPECTIVA DE LA OFERTA

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    Juan Rodríguez García

    2010-01-01

    Full Text Available España, un país con un consolidado sector turístico y una gran tradición vitivinícola, está vertebrando la creación de rutas turísticas del vino con la finalidad de desarrollar áreas rurales y crear, por tanto, nuevos destinos turísticos. En este artículo presentamos un análisis de la oferta del enoturismo en una determinada zona, el Marco de Jerez, con la finalidad de analizar cómo el vino (y la gastronomía pueden ser, y a veces lo es, el principal atractivo para visitar una determinada área geográfica.

  4. Tiempo y espacio en la Duat: observaciones respecto de los Libros del Más Allá del Reino Nuevo

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    Mariano Bonanno

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    Full Text Available Se reflexiona sobre las categorías tiempo y espacio en un marco acotado: la Duat y la noche, donde Ra se sumerge a partir de las primeras horas de oscuridad y hasta los primeros signos del amanecer. El objeto de este estudio son los denominados Libros del Más Allá del Reino Nuevo (Libro del Amduat, Libro de las Puertas, Libro de las Cavernas y Libro de la Tierra, composiciones funerarias que decoran las tumbas reales del Valle de los Reyes, en Luxor, Egipto.

  5. Results of medico-sociologic investigation of miners of Donbass mines

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    Zinger, F Kh; Gadzhiev, G P; Sorokin, E S; Mukhina, K Sh; Vinarik, Eh M; Kal' yanov, A V

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    To optimize conditions of work, mode of life, medico-prophylactic service and hygienic education, a medico-sociologic survey was conducted of miners of deep coal mines to obtain information in order to work up measures to improve health of miners. Results of interrogations of 1000 miners, tunellers and stopers led to the following conclusions: (1) Majority of workers of deep mines of the Donbass notes a warming microclimate at deep horizons, inefficient ventilation, flooding and tediousness of work combined with a nervous-emotional burden. (2) Few miners use respirators, visit inhalators, and follow a rational regime of eating due to shift work. (3) Survey showed negative aspects of life of miners: poor use of holidays, insufficient attention to physical culture and sport, excessive smoking and unwise drinking especially among men of about 30 years of age. Above results of survey demonstrate need for reorganization of an improvement of health education of miners and for organization of more polyclinics for miners. To improve life-style and working conditions, it is necessary to normalize microclimate and reduce dustiness of air, ensure that miners improve their nutrition, improve medico-sanitary service and increase health education propaganda.

  6. The medico-legal investigation of sudden, unexpected and/or unexplained infant deaths in South Africa: where are we--and where are we going?

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    du Toit-Prinsloo, L; Dempers, J J; Wadee, S A; Saayman, G

    2011-03-01

    Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) has been reported to be the leading cause of death in infants under 1 year of age in many countries. Unfortunately, a paucity of published research data exists in South Africa, with regard to the incidence of and investigation into the circumstances surrounding Sudden Unexplained Deaths in Infants (SUDI) and/or SIDS. Currently, even though most academic centers conform to a protocol consistent with internationally accepted standards, there exists no nationally accepted infant death investigation protocol in South Africa. It is the aim of this study to review the current practice of infant death investigation in two representative but geographically and demographically distinct centers. Retrospective case audit over a five-year period (2000-2004) was conducted at two large medico-legal mortuaries in Pretoria (Gauteng) and Tygerberg (Cape Town). Case files on all infants younger than 1 year of age were reviewed. The outcome measures included number of deaths, demographic details and the nature and final outcome of the post mortem examinations. A total of 512 cases were identified as possible SIDS cases and of these, 171 was classified as SIDS. The study showed marked inter-case and inter-divisional variation in terms of the investigation of infant deaths at the two institutions. It is envisaged that this study will focus attention on the current lack of usable data regarding sudden/unexplained/unexpected infant deaths in South Africa, and aid in the formulation and implementation of a practical (yet internationally accountable) infant death investigation protocol, which could facilitate comparisons with other countries and initiate further structured research in this field.

  7. Perplejidades y contradicciones: La economía mundial en el nuevo siglo

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    Full Text Available Estamos entrando en el siglo XXI con cambios importantísimos en el sistema económico mundial. Después de un largo período de 27 años -iniciado en 1967-, en que la economía mundial se enfrentó a una caída en sus principales índices de crecimiento y se vio sumida en varias crisis financieras, el abandono de los intereses altos y de las políticas de sobrevaloración cambiaria, practicadas en los EE.UU en los años ochenta, conduce a una nueva situación de recuperación económica a escala internacional.En este nuevo marco, resulta normal que el comercio mundial alcanzara un nuevo auge. Sin embargo bajo la influencia del pensamiento neoliberal, se confunde la expansión del comercio con el crecimiento del “libre mercado”. La realidad es completamente diferente: la expansión del comercio mundial se hace bajo la forma de un creciente monopolio de los mercados mundiales por las grandes empresas globales o transnacionales. Con arreglo a esta nueva fase de globalización, ellas se funden en grupos cada vez más planetarios y generan varios mecanismos de actuación conjunta.

  8. Gestión de la educación universitaria en el marco de las reformas administrativas: caso Venezuela

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    Ana Ysabel Salazar Bossio

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    Full Text Available Venezuela ha vivido diversos procesos de reformas universitarias. El interés en este tema se enfoca en entender por qué las Universidades venezolanas reclaman ser reflexionadas y miradas en diversos aspectos de su dinámica interna. De esta manera se plantean las siguientes interrogantes: ¿Qué ha pasado con los procesos de reformas universitarias? ¿Por qué persisten debilidades en el sistema de educación universitaria, en el marco de un sistema de gobierno participativo? Se concluye que el proceso de reformas se complejiza por la heterogeneidad del sistema de educación universitario y la ausencia de una Ley de Universidades que responda a los nuevos tiempos.

  9. ATTITUDE AND KNOWLEDGE OF MEDICAL STUDENTS ON PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF FORENSIC MEDICINE

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    Nihal

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    Full Text Available This study explored medical students’ knowledge and attitude on the medico - legal autopsy demonstrations which formed part of their training in Forensic Medicine. 300 students of 2010, 2011 and 2012 batch of college were obtained by asking them to answer a questionnaire on the subject. The students were asked to respond anonymously to a questionnaire which dealt with their views on the autopsy practice, the knowledge of the procedure, attitude and perception towards medico legal autopsy. In present study majority of the students were aware of the situations where medico legal postmortem examination is mandatory as per Indian law and taking out of viscera for chemical analysis and histo - pathological examination for the purpose of medico - legal autopsy. 96% of the students agreed that autopsy is necessary in medical education. 37.95% of the students were very uncomfortable on the first exposure to postmortem examination. This study showed that medical students appreciate the medico - legal autopsy demonstration as a learning experience.

  10. Una mirada sobre lo popular. Reflexiones sobre el etnocentrismo en el nuevo cine argentino

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    Gonzalo Assusa

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    Full Text Available La emergencia del nuevo cine argentino desata una serie de debates teóricos. Probablemente una de las caracterizaciones más convincentes es la que lo define como surgido de una misma crisis, no sólo en el campo cinematográfico, sino también de una misma crisis social. En el marco de un análisis sociológico de este fenómeno cultural, el presente trabajo planteará una hipótesis de lectura para algunas de las producciones audiovisuales del denominado nuevo cine argentino, en pos de establecer conceptualmente la estructuración desde el polo productivo de la elaboración imaginaria de esta crisis social, concretamente, de la emergencia de las clases populares en sus filmes. Para finalizar, se evaluará la productividad de la hipótesis de lectura basada en una definición teórica de lo popular, aplicándola a un cuerpo de filmes del realizador argentino Adrián Caetano, para concluir con reflexiones sobre la importancia del cruce entre la estructuración textual y la estructuración en el momento del consumo.

  11. El sistema de acreditación universitaria en el Perú: marco legal y experiencias recientes.

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    Sevillano, Sandra

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    Este trabajo tiene como objetivo presentar una visión general sobre la situación actual del sistema de acreditación de la educación universitaria en el Perú, el marco normativo vigente así como una valoración de los primeros resultados obtenidos a partir de la reforma de Ley Universitaria y del sistema de aseguramiento de la calidad  de la educación superior universitaria.

  12. El sistema de acreditación universitaria en el Perú: marco legal y experiencias recientes

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    2017-01-01

    Este trabajo tiene como objetivo presentar una visión general sobre la situación actual del sistema de acreditación de la educación universitaria en el Perú, el marco normativo vigente así como una valoración de los primeros resultados obtenidos a partir de la reforma de Ley Universitaria y del sistema de aseguramiento de la calidad  de la educación superior universitaria.

  13. Characteristics of the Traumatic Forensic Cases Admitted To Emergency Department and Errors in the Forensic Report Writing.

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    Aktas, Nurettin; Gulacti, Umut; Lok, Ugur; Aydin, İrfan; Borta, Tayfun; Celik, Murat

    2018-01-01

    To identify errors in forensic reports and to describe the characteristics of traumatic medico-legal cases presenting to the emergency department (ED) at a tertiary care hospital. This study is a retrospective cross-sectional study. The study includes cases resulting in a forensic report among all traumatic patients presenting to the ED of Adiyaman University Training and Research Hospital, Adiyaman, Turkey during a 1-year period. We recorded the demographic characteristics of all the cases, time of presentation to the ED, traumatic characteristics of medico-legal cases, forms of suicide attempt, suspected poisonous substance exposure, the result of follow-up and the type of forensic report. A total of 4300 traumatic medico-legal cases were included in the study and 72% of these cases were male. Traumatic medico-legal cases occurred at the greatest frequency in July (10.1%) and 28.9% of all cases occurred in summer. The most frequent causes of traumatic medico-legal cases in the ED were traffic accidents (43.4%), violent crime (30.5%), and suicide attempt (7.2%). The most common method of attempted suicide was drug intake (86.4%). 12.3% of traumatic medico-legal cases were hospitalized and 24.2% of those hospitalized were admitted to the orthopedics service. The most common error in forensic reports was the incomplete recording of the patient's "cooperation" status (82.7%). Additionally, external traumatic lesions were not defined in 62.4% of forensic reports. The majority of traumatic medico-legal cases were male age 18-44 years, the most common source of trauma was traffic accidents and in the summer months. When writing a forensic report, emergency physicians made mistakes in noting physical examination findings and identifying external traumatic lesions. Physicians should make sure that the traumatic medico-legal patients they treat have adequate documentation for reference during legal proceedings. The legal duties and responsibilities of physicians should be

  14. Diptera of Medico-Legal Importance Associated With Pig Carrion in a Tropical Dry Forest.

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    Vasconcelos, S D; Salgado, R L; Barbosa, T M; Souza, J R B

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    The diversity of necrophagous Diptera is largely unknown in seasonally dry tropical forests, despite their medical, veterinary, and forensic relevance. We performed a study in the dry Caatinga forest exclusive to Brazil in order to assess the diversity and temporal pattern of Diptera species using pig carcasses as substrates. Adults were collected daily until complete skeletonization. We collected 17,142 adults from 18 families, 10 of which comprise species with known necrophagous habits. The most abundant families were Calliphoridae (47.3% of specimens), Sarcophagidae (20.8%), and Muscidae (15.5%), whereas Sarcophagidae stood out in terms of richness with 21 species. The native Cochliomyia macellaria (F.) (Diptera: Calliphoridae) and the invasive Chrysomya albiceps (Wiedmann) (Calliphoridae) were the dominant species. A total of 18 species reached the carcass during the first 48 h postdeath. The bloated and active decay stages had the highest richness and abundance of dipterans. From a forensic standpoint, C. macellaria and C. albiceps are likely to aid in establishing postmortem interval due to their early arrival and high abundance on the carcass. Despite harsh environmental conditions, the Caatinga harbors a rich assemblage of dipterans that play a key role in carrion decomposition. Their medico-veterinary importance is strengthened by the poor local sanitary conditions. © The Authors 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Entomological Society of America. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.

  15. Aspectos éticos y legales en los pacientes con trauma ocular Technical and legal aspects of the ocular trauma patients

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    Eduardo Ariel Ramos Gómez

    2012-01-01

    Full Text Available El traumatismo ocular, independientemente de la lateralidad, es considerado una de las entidades nosológicas frecuentes que conllevan a una rehabilitación visual. Las causas que provocan un traumatismo ocular son variadas y dentro de estas, las agresiones con intención de provocar daños con secuelas son una de las más frecuentes. Este aspecto trae consigo todo un proceso médico-legal, donde los principios éticos por parte de los facultativos deben estar bien establecidos. Es objetivo de esta revisión incentivar el buen accionar ético de todos los oftalmólogos en cuanto a la atención de estos pacientes, así como enfatizar en el adecuado manejo medico-legal implícito en este tipo de afección.Ocular trauma, regardless of laterality, is considered one of the common diseases entities that implies visual rehabilitation. The causes of eye injuries are varied. Assaults with intent to cause damage are the most common. This issue involves a medical-legal process where the ethical principles of the physicians must be well established. The objective of our article was to encourage good ethical actions of all ophthalmologists and to emphasize the proper medical-legal management involved in this type of diseases.

  16. Protección jurídica de las invenciones tecnológicas en el marco de la Unión Europea: Sentencia del 6 de julio de 2010 del Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea

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    Luisa Fernanda Herrera Sierra

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    Full Text Available Ante los nuevos desarrollos de la ingeniería genética y en el marco de una economía globalizada, donde lo que sacrifica una parte la gana la otra, el derecho asume un papel de decantación y de armonización de intereses superpuestos. Este artículo tiene como objetivo presentar un análisis concreto de la sentencia del 6 de julio de 2010, proferida por el Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea, mediante la cual se estableció el alcance espacial y temporal del Artículo 9 de la Directiva 98/44/ce del Parlamento Europeo. De conformidad con esta norma, la protección conferida por la patente de una secuencia de ADN, integrada a otros productos derivados, se encuentra supeditada al ejercicio de la función para la cual se patentó. Una decisión en este sentido tiene una gran influencia en el impulso de la innovación, al permitir la configuración de nuevos escenarios generados a partir de la aparición de diferentes usos de las secuencias protegidas. Los derechos de los innovadores de conocimiento, tales como Monsanto, deben estar rodeados de un marco jurídico claro respecto al alcance de la protección conferida a sus derechos; de lo contrario, la comercialización, el desarrollo y la innovación de nuevos productos estarían exageradamente limitados.

  17. Estudio de viabilidad para la implantación de un nuevo sistema de push-back en el aeropuerto de Barajas

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    Bibliografia En el presente trabajo se realiza el estudio de viabilidad para la implantación de un nuevo sistema de push-back en el aeropuerto de Barajas. Con este nuevo sistema push-back, las aeronaves serían remolcadas desde plataforma hasta pie de pista y viceversa durante el horario nocturno, con el objetivo de disminuir costes en carburante y la reducción de emisiones contaminantes. El trabajo presenta un análisis de los diferentes aspectos técnicos, operacionales, legales y económico...

  18. Immunomodulators targeting MARCO expression improve resistance to postinfluenza bacterial pneumonia.

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    Wu, Muzo; Gibbons, John G; DeLoid, Glen M; Bedugnis, Alice S; Thimmulappa, Rajesh K; Biswal, Shyam; Kobzik, Lester

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    Downregulation of the alveolar macrophage (AM) receptor with collagenous structure (MARCO) leads to susceptibility to postinfluenza bacterial pneumonia, a major cause of morbidity and mortality. We sought to determine whether immunomodulation of MARCO could improve host defense and resistance to secondary bacterial pneumonia. RNAseq analysis identified a striking increase in MARCO expression between days 9 and 11 after influenza infection and indicated important roles for Akt and Nrf2 in MARCO recovery. In vitro, primary human AM-like monocyte-derived macrophages (AM-MDMs) and THP-1 macrophages were treated with IFNγ to model influenza effects. Activators of Nrf2 (sulforaphane) or Akt (SC79) caused increased MARCO expression and a MARCO-dependent improvement in phagocytosis in IFNγ-treated cells and improved survival in mice with postinfluenza pneumococcal pneumonia. Transcription factor analysis also indicated a role for transcription factor E-box (TFEB) in MARCO recovery. Overexpression of TFEB in THP-1 cells led to marked increases in MARCO. The ability of Akt activation to increase MARCO expression in IFNγ-treated AM-MDMs was abrogated in TFEB-knockdown cells, indicating Akt increases MARCO expression through TFEB. Increasing MARCO expression by targeting Nrf2 signaling or the Akt-TFEB-MARCO pathway are promising strategies to improve bacterial clearance and survival in postinfluenza bacterial pneumonia. Copyright © 2017 the American Physiological Society.

  19. Nuevo lenguaje para un nuevo medio

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    Inma Martín Herrera

    2014-12-01

    Full Text Available El concepto tradicional de comunicación unidereccional se ha roto para convertirse en comunicación pluridireccional que permitirá la retroalimentación informativa. Las nuevas formas de redactar, contar diseñar y presentar la información en Internet exige nuevos hábitos de lectura por parte de la audiencia. El lector deberá tomar conciencia de que está frente a un medio diferente con el que debe familiarizarse para hacer uso correcto del soporte digital, se informará adecuadamente para disfrutar de las ventajas del innovador medio, conocido como Periodismo de servicios o Nuevo Periodismo.

  20. Non-medical exposures - Ethical concerns

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    2009-01-01

    The scope of the Medical Exposure Directive (MED), 97/43/Euratom (Council Directive 97/43/EURATOM, on the health protection of individuals against the dangers of ionising radiation in relation to medical exposures. OJ L 180 of 09.07.1997), is such that it includes not only those exposures which are part of the normal diagnosis and treatment of patients but also exposures for occupational health surveillance, health-screening programmes, research and medico-legal exposures. This is the first time that radiation protection legislation has tried to deal explicitly with the issue of medico-legal exposures in a European Directive. However, it has done so in the context of a Directive whose primary focus is the protection of patients undergoing diagnostic or therapeutic medical exposures. This may not be an appropriate framework for medico-legal exposures. In considering medico-legal exposures, a significant number of ethical considerations arise. The MED may not adequately take account of these matters and in fact may not be a suitable legal instrument for dealing with them. This paper looks specifically at the issues surrounding medico-legal exposures and considers whether or not the current system provides adequate protection for the individuals exposed. (authors)

  1. Hacia un nuevo sistema político cuasi-parlamentario y cuasi-federal en Costa Rica: Tamaño versus eficacia del sistema democrático

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    Johnny Meoño Segura

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    Full Text Available El autor proporciona un análisis diagnóstico del estado estratégico de la descentralización en Costa Rica con una visión más que municipalista, y propone un nuevo sistema político que requiere cambios constitucionales y legales y que aspira a servir de marco referencial que ayude a la presente y nuevas generaciones de analistas y líderes políticos, a superar las debilidades recurrentes que han caracterizado los diagnósticos y las propuestas en materia municipal y, en mayor grado, de descentralización. Se trata de un planteamiento inédito en el país, sobre todo porque confronta en sus raíces la cultura política de origen colonial que el autor ha demostrado cómo domina aun las visiones y prácticas de gobierno y administración en América Latina, y sobre todo en Costa Rica. Sus propuestas sobre un sistema cuasi-parlamentario y cuasi-federal, reelección presidencial, carrera parlamentaria y revocatorias de mandato vía referendos populares, constituyen una propuesta integral para el cambio político viable.

  2. ESTADO DE LAS NORMAS INTERNACIONALES EMITIDAS POR LA JUNTA DE NORMAS INTERNACIONALES DE CONTABILIDAD

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    El presente artículo presenta el nuevo esquema contable internacional de la Junta de Normas Internacionales de Contabilidad, su historia, estructura actual, objetivos y el estado actual del marco normativo de las Normas Internacionales de Contabilidad. Con la vigencia Ley General de Sociedades Ley N.° 26887 de 1997, el Perú adoptó en forma legal las Normas Internacionales de Información Financiera (antes Normas Internacionales de Contabilidad), para su aplicación obligatoria en la preparación...

  3. Protección ambiental del Río de la Plata y su frente marítimo: el marco jurídico general

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    Heber Arbuet Vignali

    2014-07-01

    Full Text Available Versión escrita de la conferencia dictada en el Simposio sobre aspectos jurídicos de la protección ambiental del Río de la Plata y su Frente Marítimo (Montevideo: 21 nov.2001Contenido: Introducción. Importancia del derecho en las relaciones humanas. Importancia del derecho en el asunto que nos convoca. El polifacético marco jurídico de este proyecto. La aparición de los nuevos sistemas. La nueva realidad socio política que debe ser regulada jurídicamente. Importancia de estas ideas para la protección ambiental en el Plata

  4. The Development of the Interface between Law, Medicine and Psychiatry: Medico-Legal Perspectives in History

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    M Swanepoel

    2009-12-01

    Full Text Available Medicine and law were related from early times. This relation resulted as a necessity of protecting communities from the irresponsible acts of impostors. Various legal codes dealing with medical malpractice existed in Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, Islam, Greece, Rome, Persia and India. Over the course of the past 30 years, interest in the history of psychiatry has boomed. Much of this proliferation of interest has taken place under the broad influence of postmodernism and has resulted in multiple and diverse histories that no longer seek to provide a linear narrative of constant evolutionary progress. Rather, these new histories explore and disrupt taken for granted assumptions about the past and provide a starting point for discussion and debate about the some of the very foundations of mental health care in South Africa. As a matter of practical importance knowledge of how knowledge accrues and knowledge of the mistakes of the past is of prime importance in preventing similar mistakes in present and future work. An important reason for specifically understanding historical psychiatry is the fact that many of the uncertainties experienced in the present are a direct result of decisions made in the past. The key issue is that while it is tempting to experience current psychiatric and legal approaches towards the mentally disordered as natural and permanent, an understanding of the past helps mental health and legal practitioners to see things in a different perspective. Psychiatric and legal approaches towards the mentally disordered have changed over time and can undoubtedly also be changed in future. Therefore, the research conducted in this article focuses on the history and development of law and psychiatry including prehistoric times, the Arabian countries, the Nile Valley as well as Greece and Rome.

  5. Igualdad de acceso a la telesanidad en zonas rurales y aisladas: propuesta de un marco ético normativo integral de acceso y distribución

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    María Graciela de Ortúzar

    2009-01-01

    Full Text Available Según la Asociación Médica Mundial, el uso de TICs (Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicaciones ¿ TICs- en salud, conocidas también como telesanidad y/o telemedicina, "es el ejercicio de la medicina a distancia, cuyas intervenciones, diagnósticos, decisiones de tratamientos y recomendaciones están bañadas en datos, documentos y otra información transmitida através de telecomunicación". Estas nuevas prácticas en el sistema de salud implican nuevos problemas éticos, legales, sociales, y tecnológicos que afectan los modelos actuales de atención de la salud. En términos generales, se ha priorizado el problema de la confidencialidad en el manejo de la información médica. Sin embargo, uno de los más importantes problemas éticos es justamente la igualdad de oportunidades en el acceso a TIC en salud (prevención, tratamiento, cura o rehabilitación. Por ello, el objetivo del presente trabajo constituye el lineamiento de un marco ético para evaluar el impacto en el acceso a la salud de los programas de telemedicina en zonas rurales y aisladas. En un segundo nivel, se analizará la regulación de uso de TICs en salud, considerando, responsabilidad profesional y social, respeto a la confidencialidad en el uso de la información médica (historias clínicas electrónicas y acceso a base de datos. La metodología utilizada es "equilibrio reflexivo" entre la teoría y la práctica. La hipótesis general que defenderé aquí es la necesidad de un marco ético integral para evaluar y regular el uso de programas de telemedicina en zonas rurales y aisladas, debido a que el impacto en la accesibilidad poblacional constituye el único sistema de salud alternativo para estas regiones.

  6. La impronta del nuevo mundo

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    Rodrigo Lagos Vergara

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    Full Text Available Cuando nos aprontamos a conmemorar el quinto centenario del Nuevo Mundo, cabe hacer algunas reflexiones acerca de nuestro continente a la luz del lenguaje propio de las artes y la arquitectura a través del tiempo. Hablamos del Nuevo Mundo en la medida que aceptamos, por una parte, la concepción del nuevo espacio generado a partir del encuentro de dos culturas, la precolombina americana y la propiamente europea llegada principalmente a través de España, y, por otra parte, aceptando también que el nuevo continente resulta ser la pieza clave que ayuda definitivamente a configurar un nuevo cosmos que revela al mundo su otro extremo y aquella parte que manifiesta la totalidad en la certeza de que la tierra es un planeta.

  7. DESARROLLO DE UN MARCO CONCEPTUAL PARA LA EVALUACIÓN DE LA ATENCIÓN A LA CRONICIDAD EN EL SISTEMA NACIONAL DE SALUD

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    Mireia Espallargues

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    Full Text Available El objetivo del trabajo fue desarrollar un marco conceptual para la evaluación de nuevos programas de gestión clínica y asistencial de carácter integrado en el Sistema Nacional de Salud para la atención a las personas con enfermedades crónicas. Se realizó una revisión exhaustiva de la literatura entre 2002-2013 incluyendo revisiones sistemáticas, metaanálisis e informes con modelos de evaluación y/o evaluaciones de programas. Se estudiaron y describieron programas locales de atención a la cronicidad implementados en Cataluña y se realizaron entrevistas semiestructuradas con expertos clave en el ámbito catalán. El alcance y el marco conceptual se definieron mediante la técnica del brainstorming. De 910 resúmenes identificados, se incluyeron 116 documentos que se referían a marcos conceptuales e indicadores de evaluación a nivel español e internacional. Se identificaron 24 programas de atención a la cronicidad (9 de carácter integrado. El marco conceptual propuesto contempló: 1 la población diana según niveles de complejidad; 2 un enfoque de evaluación de la estructura, procesos y resultados teniendo en cuenta el estado de salud conseguido, el proceso de recuperación y mantenimiento de la salud; y 3 las dimensiones o atributos que se deben evaluar. El marco conceptual propuesto permitirá desarrollar indicadores e implementarlos con un enfoque comunitario, orientados a los resultados y tener una visión territorial o poblacional, que será imprescindible para saber cuál es la estrategia más efectiva, cuáles son los elementos que determinan un mayor éxito y cuáles son los grupos de pacientes que más se pueden beneficiar.

  8. Nuevos tiempos, ¿nuevos lectores?

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    Pedro C. Cerrillo

    2005-01-01

    bajo la incuestionable influencia de la televisión y las nuevas tecnologías. Si la televisión es probablemente el medio más usado por los niños, el uso de internet está incrementándose por todo el mundo. Además, no podemos pasar por alto la potente influencia de los videojuegos. Nuestro propósito es mostrar cómo nuevas maneras de leer (practicadas por lo que podemos llamar "nuevos lectores" están cambiando el concepto tradicional de lectura. Asimismo, concluimos nuestro artículo argumentando que las nuevas tendencias en la lectura son un desafío para investigadores, docentes y autoridades, los cuales deben enfrentarse a la necesidad de preocuparse por la educación literaria y al desafío de crear un nuevo lector: un buen lector, un lector literario.

  9. Marco jurídico y principales instrumentos de la cooperación transfronteriza institucional en Europa

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    Medina García, Eusebio

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    En este artículo realizamos un recorrido desde los orígenes de la «cooperación transfronteriza institucional» en Europa hasta la actual «cooperación territorial». Definimos y comparamos los conceptos de «cooperación institucional» y «cooperación tradicional” y auguramos un acercamiento entre ambas. Describimos el principal marco legal de la «cooperación transfronteriza institucional» y analizamos sus principales instrumentos, prestando una atención especial a la Eurorregión, a la Agrupación E...

  10. Is the scavenger receptor MARCO a new immune checkpoint?

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    Arredouani, Mohamed S

    2014-11-01

    Whereas macrophages use the scavenger receptor MARCO primarily in antimicrobial immunity by interacting with both exogenous and endogenous environments, in dendritic cells (DCs) MARCO is believed to pleiotropically link innate to adaptive immunity. MARCO exerts a significant modulatory effect on TLR-induced DC activation, thus offering novel avenues in cancer immunotherapy.

  11. Non-clinicians' judgments about asylum seekers' mental health: how do legal representatives of asylum seekers decide when to request medico-legal reports?

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    Wilson-Shaw, Lucy; Pistrang, Nancy; Herlihy, Jane

    2012-01-01

    Procedures for determining refugee status across Europe are being speeded up, despite the high prevalence of mental health difficulties among asylum seekers. An assurance given is that ''vulnerable applicants'' will be identified and excluded from accelerated procedures. Although experts have recommended assessments to be undertaken by experienced clinicians, this is unlikely to happen for political and financial reasons. Understanding how non-clinically qualified personnel perform assessments of mental health issues is timely and crucial. Misrecognition of refugees due to the inappropriate use of accelerated procedures involves the risk of returning the very people who have the right to protection from further persecution. To examine the decision making of immigration lawyers, who are an example of a group of nonclinicians who decide when and whether to refer asylum-seekers for psychiatric assessment. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 legal representatives working with people seeking refugee or human rights protection in the United Kingdom. The resultant material was analysed using Framework Analysis. Themes clustered around the legal case, the client, the representative and the systems, all with sub-themes. A mapping exercise integrated these themes to show how representatives brought together questions of (1) evidential reasons for a report, influenced by their legal, psychological and case law knowledge, and (2) perceived evidence of mental distress, influenced by professional and personal experiences and expectations. The legal representatives interviewed were well-informed and trained in psychological issues as well as clearly dedicated to their clients. This helped them to attempt quasi-diagnoses of common mental health problems. They nonetheless demonstrated stereotypical understanding of post-traumatic stress disorder and other possible diagnoses and the role of subjectivity. The study has implications for other groups - particularly those

  12. Non-clinicians’ judgments about asylum seekers’ mental health: how do legal representatives of asylum seekers decide when to request medico-legal reports?

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    Lucy Wilson-Shaw

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    Full Text Available Background : Procedures for determining refugee status across Europe are being speeded up, despite the high prevalence of mental health difficulties among asylum seekers. An assurance given is that ‘‘vulnerable applicants’’ will be identified and excluded from accelerated procedures. Although experts have recommended assessments to be undertaken by experienced clinicians, this is unlikely to happen for political and financial reasons. Understanding how non-clinically qualified personnel perform assessments of mental health issues is timely and crucial. Misrecognition of refugees due to the inappropriate use of accelerated procedures involves the risk of returning the very people who have the right to protection from further persecution. Objective : To examine the decision making of immigration lawyers, who are an example of a group of nonclinicians who decide when and whether to refer asylum-seekers for psychiatric assessment. Method : Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 legal representatives working with people seeking refugee or human rights protection in the United Kingdom. The resultant material was analysed using Framework Analysis. Results : Themes clustered around the legal case, the client, the representative and the systems, all with sub-themes. A mapping exercise integrated these themes to show how representatives brought together questions of (1 evidential reasons for a report, influenced by their legal, psychological and case law knowledge, and (2 perceived evidence of mental distress, influenced by professional and personal experiences and expectations. Conclusions : The legal representatives interviewed were well-informed and trained in psychological issues as well as clearly dedicated to their clients. This helped them to attempt quasi-diagnoses of common mental health problems. They nonetheless demonstrated stereotypical understanding of post-traumatic stress disorder and other possible diagnoses and the

  13. Morphometrics and Theriology. Homage to Marco Corti

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    2008-02-01

    Full Text Available Abstract This paper discusses the role of museum theriological collections in the context of twenty years of morphometric progresses. It also recalls twenty years of collaboration and friendship with Marco Corti, Italian theriologist and morphometrician, died on January 2007. The synthesis is addressed to the many young students that are picking up the baton and will likely contribute to the growth of the Italian school of morphometrics, to which Marco Corti dedicated most of his work at the University of Rome "La Sapienza". Riassunto Morfometria e teriologia. Omaggio a Marco Corti. Il lavoro discute il ruolo delle collezioni teriologiche alla luce di venti anni di progressi della morfometria. Esso rappresenta anche la sintesi di un’esperienza umana e professionale, avendo l’autore condiviso molte tappe della ‘rivoluzione morfometrica’ degli anni ottanta con molti dei suoi protagonisti, alcuni dei quali oggi non sono più con noi. In particolare Marco Corti, teriologo e morfometrista, scomparso nel 2007. La sintesi è anche dedicata ai molti giovani studenti e ricercatori che stanno contribuendo alla crescita della scuola italiana di morfometria, cui Marco Corti ha dedicato gli ultimi venti anni di insegnamento e ricerca all’Università di Roma "La Sapienza".

  14. Medico-social problems of teenage hawkers in Sabon-Gari Local ...

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    Medico-social problems of teenage hawkers in Sabon-Gari Local Government Area, Kaduna, North-West Nigeria. ... Two hundred and seven (207) respondents were interviewed through interviewer-administered questionnaires and data was analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software.

  15. Nuevos negocios de telecomunicaciones

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    Sacoto Coello, Arturo Xavier

    2008-01-01

    Los avances tecnológicos dentro de las telecomunicaciones han generado el desarrollo de nuevos servicios que ha modificado el modelo de negocio provocado una migración de usos hacia éstos, así como la sustitución y renovación de tecnologías. Las enormes barreras de entrada han ido cayendo permitiendo nuevos agentes. La TELEMATICA aumenta a grandes pasos la capacidad de acceso a información y conocimiento, razón por la cual es necesario establecer un amplio conocimiento sobre los Nuevos Ne...

  16. The scavenger receptor MARCO modulates TLR-induced responses in dendritic cells.

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    Full Text Available The scavenger receptor MARCO mediates macrophage recognition and clearance of pathogens and their polyanionic ligands. However, recent studies demonstrate MARCO expression and function in dendritic cells, suggesting MARCO might serve to bridge innate and adaptive immunity. To gain additional insight into the role of MARCO in dendritic cell activation and function, we profiled transcriptomes of mouse splenic dendritic cells obtained from MARCO deficient mice and their wild type counterparts under resting and activating conditions. In silico analysis uncovered major alterations in gene expression in MARCO deficient dendritic cells resulting in dramatic alterations in key dendritic cell-specific pathways and functions. Specifically, changes in CD209, FCGR4 and Complement factors can have major consequences on DC-mediated innate responses. Notably, these perturbations were magnified following activation with the TLR-4 agonist lipopolysaccharide. To validate our in silico data, we challenged DC's with various agonists that recognize all mouse TLRs and assessed expression of a set of immune and inflammatory marker genes. This approach identified a differential contribution of MARCO to TLR activation and validated a major role for MARCO in mounting an inflammatory response. Together, our data demonstrate that MARCO differentially affects TLR-induced DC activation and suggest targeting of MARCO could lead to different outcomes that depend on the inflammatory context encountered by DC.

  17. [Legal and medico-legal issues in adolescent medicine. A critical review of the present regulation and legislation].

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    Schwarzenberg, T L; Buffone, M R

    2001-02-01

    During the last years the Italian Government has taken many different initiatives to protect the adolescents rights to benefit from physical, psychical and social well-being. In particular, various projects concerning the promotion and the support of the school, the family, sport, mass-media, judicial and medical infrastructures, have been organised, promoted and financed. However, it is not always possible to assure a real safeguarding of teenagers rights; this especially happens because the problem concerning the autonomous capacity of minors to consent (or non consent) to the medical treatment is much debated. However, many contradictions still persist about the effective duration of the pediatric age. All the same, it must be noted that the Legislator apparently realised that not only the physical, psychological and social maturity proceed by steps, but also the legal capacity.

  18. Principios de la actividad electoral en la era digital : una aproximación al control administrativo colombiano de la propaganda electoral en Internet

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    El desarrollo tecnológico y la expansión de las formas de comunicación en Colombia, no solo trajeron consigo grandes beneficios, sino también nuevos retos para el Estado Moderno. Actualmente, la oferta de espacios de difusión de propaganda electoral ha aumentado, mientras persiste un marco legal diseñado para los medios de comunicación del Siglo XX. Por tanto, este trabajo no solo realiza un diagnóstico de los actuales mecanismos de control administrativo sobre la propaganda electoral en Inte...

  19. Condiciones de trabajo en Venezuela en el período 1999-2005: un balance de la cuestión laboral en el proceso bolivariano

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    Medialdea García , Bibiana

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    En esta ponencia trataremos de aportar algunos elementos que contribuyan al balance de la evolución de las condiciones laborales de los trabajadores venezolanos durante los años de proceso bolivariano. Para ello, abordaremos la cuestión sindical, así como la configuración del nuevo marco legal que regula las relaciones laborales en el país. A continuación analizaremos tres aspectos básicos: la informalidad, el desempleo, y los salarios directos. Su situación actual así como su evolución a lo ...

  20. The effectiveness of clinical problem-based learning model of medico-jurisprudence education on general law knowledge for Obstetrics/Gynecological interns.

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    Chang, Hui-Chin; Wang, Ning-Yen; Ko, Wen-Ru; Yu, You-Tsz; Lin, Long-Yau; Tsai, Hui-Fang

    2017-06-01

    The effective education method of medico-jurisprudence for medical students is unclear. The study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of problem-based learning (PBL) model teaching medico-jurisprudence in clinical setting on General Law Knowledge (GLK) for medical students. Senior medical students attending either campus-based law curriculum or Obstetrics/Gynecology (Ob/Gyn) clinical setting morning meeting from February to July in 2015 were enrolled. A validated questionnaire comprising 45 questions were completed before and after the law education. The interns attending clinical setting small group improvisation medico-jurisprudence problem-based learning education had significantly better GLK scores than the GLK of students attending campus-based medical law education course after the period studied. PBL teaching model of medico-jurisprudence is an ideal alternative pedagogy model in medical law education curriculum. Copyright © 2017. Published by Elsevier B.V.

  1. Backwater Flooding in San Marcos, TX from the Blanco River

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    Earl, Richard; Gaenzle, Kyle G.; Hollier, Andi B.

    2016-01-01

    Large sections of San Marcos, TX were flooded in Oct. 1998, May 2015, and Oct. 2015. Much of the flooding in Oct. 1998 and Oct. 2015 was produced by overbank flooding of San Marcos River and its tributaries by spills from upstream dams. The May 2015 flooding was almost entirely produced by backwater flooding from the Blanco River whose confluence is approximately 2.2 miles southeast of downtown. We use the stage height of the Blanco River to generate maps of the areas of San Marcos that are lower than the flood peaks and compare those results with data for the observed extent of flooding in San Marcos. Our preliminary results suggest that the flooding occurred at locations more than 20 feet lower than the maximum stage height of the Blanco River at San Marcos gage (08171350). This suggest that the datum for either gage 08171350 or 08170500 (San Marcos River at San Marcos) or both are incorrect. There are plans for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to construct a Blanco River bypass that will divert Blanco River floodwaters approximately 2 miles farther downstream, but the $60 million price makes its implementation problematic.

  2. Transformación de la cultura de servicios de información: una visión legal y de tecnologías

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    Ana Judith Paredes

    2008-05-01

    Full Text Available ResumenEl artículo constituye un avance preliminar de una investigación que tiene como propósito principal, fundamentar desde lo legal y tecnológico la transformación de la cultura de servicios informativos que ha de disponerse en el ámbito de la educación superior. Para el desarrollo fueron seleccionadas las Universidades Públicas de Venezuela. Asimismo, se realiza un análisis descriptivo sobre la legislación nacional que fundamenta y regula los trámites y serviciosinformativos soportados mediante el uso de las tecnologías de información y comunicación y de la Internet; el cual, permite proyectar una nueva realidad ante los servicios informativos demandados por un nuevo perfil de usuarios en el sector educativo superior. Se prevé que estos servicios deben concebirse en función de las implicaciones jurídicas, validez, integralidad, confidencialidad y seguridad de información. Las conclusiones iniciales, determinan la necesidad de lograr la conjunción de los factores información, tecnología y marco jurídico para obtener una visión integrada de la gestión de servicios de información con proyección social en este sector educativo. Finalmente, se promueve parte de los resultados del modelo de gestión que respalda una nueva visión de servicios informativos desde la perspectiva legal y tecnológica, en pro de fortalecer las oportunidades que surgen de un contexto social competitivo.

  3. Lithuanian general practitioners' knowledge of confidentiality laws in adolescent sexual and reproductive healthcare: a cross-sectional study

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    Lazarus, Jeff; Jaruseviciene, Lina; Liljestrand, Jerker

    2008-01-01

    In Lithuania, the legislation addressing confidentiality in adolescent healthcare is contradictory and vague. Previous studies have also revealed that medico-legal knowledge among physicians is poor, and attitudes play a correspondingly greater role than legal knowledge in ensuring the confidenti......In Lithuania, the legislation addressing confidentiality in adolescent healthcare is contradictory and vague. Previous studies have also revealed that medico-legal knowledge among physicians is poor, and attitudes play a correspondingly greater role than legal knowledge in ensuring...

  4. LOS PRINCIPIOS Y VALORES DEL ESTADO SOCIAL DE DERECHO COMO MARCO JURÍDICO­ POLÍTICO PARA LA RESOLUCIÓN DE LOS CONFLICTOS

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    Valencia Hernández Javier Gonzaga

    2008-07-01

    Full Text Available El Estado Social de Derecho es el marco jurídico­ político propuesto en la Constitución de 1991, dentro del cual los colombianos pretendemos construir unas nuevas relaciones con la naturaleza, basados en principios y valores como la vida, prevalencia del interés general sobre el particular, solidaridad, protección de las riquezas culturales y naturales, dignidad humana y participación ciudadana. Los conflictos ambientales presentan hoy un nuevo reto para los juristas, puesto que para su comprensión, desarrollo y propuesta de soluciones, son necesarios un marco jurídico general y unas normas de derecho ambiental, así como también principios y valores consagrados en la Constitución y en otros instrumentos internacionales ratificados por Colombia. La participación de una ciudadanía informada, formada y deliberante, en la resolución de los conflictos ambientales y en las decisiones que se tomen sobre el medio ambiente, generará una opinión pública dinámica que interpelará a sus gobernantes, cogestionará sus propios proyectos y promoverá unos valores diferentes a los alimentados por las sociedades del consumo y del individualismo propietarista de los estados de hoy.

  5. Pinturas Murales en San Marcos de Salamanca

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    Julián ÁLVAREZ VILLAR

    2009-10-01

    Full Text Available En los primeros días de setiembre se iniciaron unas obras de repaso en el tejado de la iglesia de San Marcos, aprovechando el tiempo del cierre obligado del templo para realizar algunas reparaciones que condujeron al párroco don José Marcos ayudado por el coadjutor don Leandro Lozano, a interesantes hallazgos que dan aún más valor artístico a esta interesante iglesia.

  6. Ethno – Medico – Botany of Chenchus of Mahaboobnagar District, Andhra Pradesh

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    Kumar, T. Dharmachandra; Pullaiah, T.

    1999-01-01

    The present paper deals with the ethno-medico-botany of Chenchus of Mahaboobnagar district, Andhra Pradesh. About fourty four plants are enumerated with knowledge of the tribals for their medicinal uses in curing different diseases and ailments. PMID:22556915

  7. Případ Marcos

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    Bortlová, Hana; Sieber, K.

    2011-01-01

    Roč. 24, č. 78 (2011), s. 21-22 ISSN 0862-5921 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z80630520 Keywords : Cuban and Czechoslovak secret services * Political process with Marcos Armando Rodríguez in Cuba in 1964 * Popular Socialist Party of Cuba (PSP) Subject RIV: AB - History

  8. Estimation of nonpaternity in the Mexican population of Nuevo Leon: a validation study with blood group markers.

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    Cerda-Flores, R M; Barton, S A; Marty-Gonzalez, L F; Rivas, F; Chakraborty, R

    1999-07-01

    A method for estimating the general rate of nonpaternity in a population was validated using phenotype data on seven blood groups (A1A2BO, MNSs, Rh, Duffy, Lutheran, Kidd, and P) on 396 mother, child, and legal father trios from Nuevo León, Mexico. In all, 32 legal fathers were excluded as the possible father based on genetic exclusions at one or more loci (combined average exclusion probability of 0.694 for specific mother-child phenotype pairs). The maximum likelihood estimate of the general nonpaternity rate in the population was 0.118 +/- 0.020. The nonpaternity rates in Nuevo León were also seen to be inversely related with the socioeconomic status of the families, i.e., the highest in the low and the lowest in the high socioeconomic class. We further argue that with the moderately low (69.4%) power of exclusion for these seven blood group systems, the traditional critical values of paternity index (PI > or = 19) were not good indicators of true paternity, since a considerable fraction (307/364) of nonexcluded legal fathers had a paternity index below 19 based on the seven markers. Implications of these results in the context of genetic-epidemiological studies as well as for detection of true fathers for child-support adjudications are discussed, implying the need to employ a battery of genetic markers (possibly DNA-based tests) that yield a higher power of exclusion. We conclude that even though DNA markers are more informative, the probabilistic approach developed here would still be needed to estimate the true rate of nonpaternity in a population or to evaluate the precision of detecting true fathers.

  9. Brain imaging tests for chronic pain: medical, legal and ethical issues and recommendations.

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    Davis, Karen D; Flor, Herta; Greely, Henry T; Iannetti, Gian Domenico; Mackey, Sean; Ploner, Markus; Pustilnik, Amanda; Tracey, Irene; Treede, Rolf-Detlef; Wager, Tor D

    2017-10-01

    Chronic pain is the greatest source of disability globally and claims related to chronic pain feature in many insurance and medico-legal cases. Brain imaging (for example, functional MRI, PET, EEG and magnetoencephalography) is widely considered to have potential for diagnosis, prognostication, and prediction of treatment outcome in patients with chronic pain. In this Consensus Statement, a presidential task force of the International Association for the Study of Pain examines the capabilities of brain imaging in the diagnosis of chronic pain, and the ethical and legal implications of its use in this way. The task force emphasizes that the use of brain imaging in this context is in a discovery phase, but has the potential to increase our understanding of the neural underpinnings of chronic pain, inform the development of therapeutic agents, and predict treatment outcomes for use in personalized pain management. The task force proposes standards of evidence that must be satisfied before any brain imaging measure can be considered suitable for clinical or legal purposes. The admissibility of such evidence in legal cases also strongly depends on laws that vary between jurisdictions. For these reasons, the task force concludes that the use of brain imaging findings to support or dispute a claim of chronic pain - effectively as a pain lie detector - is not warranted, but that imaging should be used to further our understanding of the mechanisms underlying pain.

  10. Problemáticas y Alternativas Culturales de los Nuevos MovImlentos Sociales

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    José Luis CASTAGNOLA

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    Full Text Available RESUMEN: El presente artículo, se centra en la discusión de algunos componentes culturales que el autor considera centrales para comprender la dificultad que evidencian en la actualidad los movimientos sociales para redefinir sus pautas de acción y su discurso en el nuevo contexto democrático. Todo ello asume como punto de partida e intenta, a la vez, fundar la tesis de que un aspecto central de la pérdida de dinarnismo y convocatoria de los Movimientos Sociales en situaciones postautoritarias está constituido por la carencia de un marco de referencia cultural.ABSTRACT: The present paper focuses on the debate of some cultural components that the author considers essential in order to understand the difflculty that the social movements shows today to recreate their actions in the new dernocratic context. The author tries to defend the thesis that a central aspect of the lost of dinamism of the social movements in postauthoritarian situations is based in the absence of a cultural reference.

  11. Los sistemas normativos indígenas en el marco del pluralismo jurídico. Un análisis desde los derechos indígenas = The right to the indigenous legal systems under the legal pluralism. An analysis from a right perspective

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    Asier Martínez de Bringas

    2013-01-01

    Full Text Available Este artículo se estructura en cuatro grandes momentos. Un primer momento, en donde establecer las condiciones para fijar el fundamento de un posible derecho a los que hemos llamado Sistemas Normativos Indígenas (SIN como referente fundamental para definir el Pluralismo Jurídico. Un segundo momento, en el que situar el concepto de justicia indígena en el discurso de los derechos humanos, teniendo en cuenta tanto referencias constitucionales de América Latina (Bolivia, Ecuador, Bolivia como del Sistema Internacional de derechos humanos. Es aquí en donde pondremos los SNI en conexión con una serie de principios básicos como son: el derecho a la cultura propia; el derecho a la autonomía; la necesaria coordinación entre jurisdicción indígena y estatal; el necesario vínculo de la justicia indígena con los derechos humanos; y el vínculo esencial entre el derecho indígena y sus tierras, territorios y recursos naturales. Un tercer momento en el que se establecen especificaciones y complementos al intento de fundamentar el derecho a los SNI, pero desde los pronunciamientos, informes, sentencias, ajustes jurídicos para entender los derechos de los pueblos indígenas, realizados por otros operadores jurídicos en el marco del espacio regional de protección de los derechos humanos: la OEA, y especialmente, a partir de intervenciones de la Corte y la Comisión Interamericana de derechos humanos, así como de referencias constitucionales latinoamericanas. Estos pronunciamientos e intervenciones funcionan como resortes jurídicos que complementan la construcción de un discurso jurídico de derechos humanos en relación a los pueblos indígenas, y muy especialmente, refuerzan el derecho a los SNI. This article is divide into four great moments. Initially, in which to establish the conditions to set the foundations for a possible right to Indigenous Legal Systems (ILS as a fundamental reference for defining Legal Pluralism. A second time

  12. Dal "San Marco" al "Vega". (English Title: From "San Marco" to Vega)

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    Savi, E.

    2017-10-01

    Apart from the two superpowers, among the other countries Italy has had an important role in astronautics. The roots of Italian astronautics' history runs deep in the hottest years of the Cold War, and it had its first remarkable achievement in the San Marco project..after years of advanced technologies testing, they achieved European cooperation and built VEGA, the current Arianespace light launcher.

  13. EVOLUCIÓN DEL PLANEAMIENTO TERRITORIAL EN LA COMUNIDAD AUTÓNOMA VASCA, 1990-2009

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    Pello Urkidi Elorrieta

    2010-01-01

    Full Text Available Se presenta un balance de las políticas territoriales en el País Vasco en los últimos 20 años. Se analiza en primer lugar el marco legal, las dificultades de su aprobación y a continuación se realiza una valoración de los principales instrumentos de ordenación que dicho marco propuso: grado de implementación y desarrollo, dificultades del proceso, etc,. Entre las conclusiones finales destaca la diferente implementación de los instrumentos de carácter integral respecto a los de carácter más sectorial, y la importancia que los nuevos criterios de gobernanza deberían tener en la gestión de las políticas territoriales, sobre todo en un territorio con un plus de complejidad en su organización político-administrativa.

  14. ociales Los nuevos escenarios internacionales para la neointegración latinoamericana

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    Luis Fernando Macias M.

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    Full Text Available Los cambios geopolíticos planteados a escala internacional a raíz del derrumbe del "socialismo real" y el fin de la guerra fría llevan al autor a redefinir el liderazgo en Occidente, determinado más por parámetros económicos, en donde el viejo predominio del factor político sobre el económico se minimiza al desaparecer la contradicción intersistémica planteada a través de la confrontación Este-Oeste. La nueva situación acelera procesos donde la formación de bloques económicos impulsada por la tríada Alemania-Estados Unidos-Japón permite que economías como las latinoamericanas sean atraídas hacia un nuevo modelo de desarrollo en el marco de la Iniciativa para las Américas. Este modelo de desarrollo abierto hacia afuera modificará radicalmente el espíritu integracionista defendido durante varias décadas por los sectores progresistas de la región. La aplicación a ultranza del modelo neoliberal lleva a las economías latinoamericanas a una improvisada visión estructural de sus aparatos productivos, adecuándolos, más con prisa que con cordura, a nuevos tipos de acuerdos donde las medidas aperturistas y de liberación comercial comienzan a generar altos costos políticos e inestabilidad económica. El autor llama la atención sobre el peligro que encierra el modelo en el cual el Estado es el chivo expiatorio, y la reducción de dicho Estado se percibe como la solución a todos los males. Esto último bajo el supuesto de la construcción de economías abiertas, libres de regulaciones e insertadas en los mercados internacionales.

  15. Análisis integral del marco normativo colombiano en materia de exposición pública a radiaciones electromagnéticas emitidas por estaciones base de telefonía móvil

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    Lina María Gallego Serna

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    Full Text Available En el presente artículo se analiza de forma integral el marco normativo colombiano referente a la exposición del público a las radiaciones electromagnéticas emitidas por estaciones base de telefonía móvil. Por consiguiente, se dividió el marco legal vigente en siete tópicos principales: las telecomunicaciones, el uso del espectro electromagnético, los límites de exposición a campos electromagnéticos, las licencias urbanísticas, la salud pública, el aspecto ambiental y la gestión del riesgo. Asimismo, se valoraron la naturaleza y los alcances del principio de precaución frente al mismo. Finalmente, se determinó que Colombia no cuenta con un precepto legal que garantice la seguridad de la población ante los posibles efectos nocivos por la exposición a las radiaciones no ionizantes; igualmente, no se ha empleado el principio de precaución para establecer medidas que garanticen la seguridad de los ciudadanos en lo referente a radioprotección.

  16. THE MEDICO-SCIENTIFIC MARGINALISATION OF HOMEOPATHY: INTERNATIONAL LEGAL AND REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS.

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    Freckelton, Ian

    2015-09-01

    The 2010 report of the United Kingdom Science and Technology Committee of the House of Commons and the 2015 report of the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council have overtaken in significance the uncritical Swiss report of 2012 and have gone a long way to changing the environment of tolerance toward proselytising claims of efficacy in respect of homeopathy. The inquiry being undertaken in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration during 2015 may accelerate this trend. An outcome of the reports and inquiries has been a series of decisions from advertising regulators and by courts rejecting medically unjustifiable claims in respect of the efficacy of homeopathy. Class actions have also been initiated in North America against manufacturers of homeopathic products. The changing legal and regulatory environment is generating an increasingly scientifically marginalised existence for homeopathy. That new environment is starting to provide effective inhibition of assertions on behalf of homeopathy and other health modalities whose claims to therapeutic efficacy cannot be justified by reference to the principles of evidence-based health care. This has the potential to reduce the financial support that is provided by insurers and governments toward homeopathy and to result in serious liability exposure for practitioners, manufacturers and those who purvey homeopathic products, potentially including pharmacists. In addition, it may give a fillip to a form of regulation of homeopaths if law reform to regulate unregistered health practitioners gathers momentum, as is taking place in Australia.

  17. Medico-legal problems in radiology

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    Becker, W.

    1979-01-01

    The obligation of the pysician to inform the patient - which he has to prove in case of a suit - is based on the patient's right of selfdetermination. This self-dicision information was subject of the panel discussion. Not discussed in detail were the information concerning diagnosis and prognosis, and the instruction of the patient regarding his conduct postoperatively and during medical treatment. Not considered was the so-called malpractice and negligence respectively. Medical liability suits are increasing for various reasons and are frequently directed at a failure to inform the patient because the patient is often unable to prove a negligence of the physician ('surrogate liability'). The dimension of the duty of disclosure (complete information - no information at all) is discussed in general and with special regard to the radiological field. (orig.) [de

  18. Aesthetic Dental Procedures: Legal and Medico-legal Implications.

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    Di Lorenzo, Pierpaolo; Casella, Claudia; Capasso, Emanuele; Delbon, Paola; Fedeli, Piergiorgio; Policino, Fabio; Niola, Massimo

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    Dental treatments, as well as simple anatomical and functional repair work, can also be for aesthetic purposes. This is because the anatomical area concerned, i.e. the oral cavity, has a great power of attraction. Aesthetic treatments in general - in particular dental treatments - have been on the rise in recent years, and this has also meant an increase in claims due to patient dissatisfaction with the results obtained. Numerous laws have been introduced that emphasise the need for comprehensive prior information in order to acquire valid consent. This has resulted in the elimination of the distinction between the obligation of means and obligation of result, with achievement of the normally expected result required in any case.

  19. Lo esencial del nuevo certificado médico de defunción del adulto

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    Héctor Barreiro Ramos

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    Full Text Available Hace más de 12 años publicamos un trabajo acerca de cómo confeccionar correctamente el certificado médico de defunción del adulto, y con ello respondimos a una orientación de la Dirección Nacional de Salud Pública. Luego de aquella publicación, se han hecho otras, pero aún persisten deficiencias en este procedimiento médico legal, lo que por sí solo justifica una nueva incursión. Además, ha surgido un nuevo modelo con algunos elementos que debemos aclarar y tener en cuenta, por lo que decidimos realizar una revisión de esta temática y brindar un material que pueda ayudar fundamentalmente a los médicos de asistencia y alumnos de 5to año de la carrera de Medicina a confeccionar correctamente el nuevo certificado médico de defunción del adulto. Se hará especial hincapié en tres aspectos fundamentales: lo nuevo de este certificado de defunción, la distinción de las causas de muerte, así como su secuencia, ya que otros temas pueden ser profundizados por la bibliografía acotada en el texto.More than 12 years ago, we published a paper on how to issue the adult's death certificate correctly, giving an answer this way to a guidline of the National Public Health Division. There have been other publications, but there are still deficiencies in this legal medical procedure, which justifies by itself a new approach. As it has appeared a new form with some elements that should be cleared and taken into consideration, we decided to make a review of this topic and to provide a new material to help mainly assistance physicians and 5th year medical students to fill out the new adult's death certificate adequately. Special emphasis is made on 3 fundamental aspects: the new of this death certificate, the distinction of death causes and its sequence, since other topics may be dealt with by referring to the bibliography annotated in the text.

  20. Aplicación de los nuevos medios en la educación superior: del Aula Multimedia al Laboratorio de Aprendizaje

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    mauricio andión gamboa

    2009-01-01

    Full Text Available La aplicación de los nuevos medios (new media, en el campo de la educación superior, ha dado lugar a múltiples propuesta educativas, programas y proyectos institucionales, cristalizados en distintos tipos de "aulas multimedia". Recientemente, en la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, se puso en operación uno de estos recursos tecno-educativos denominado Aula Multimedia UAM-Universia. En este trabajo se realiza un ejercicio de evaluación cualitativa del funcionamiento del Aula Multimedia uam-Universia, como marco para entender la transformación del proyecto de aula en un auténtico laboratorio en donde se investiga, se experimenta, se genera y se difunde información y conocimiento a través de materiales educativos multimedia.

  1. Health Care Professionals’ Knowledge and Attitudes About Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Legal Aspects of Medical Services

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    Akpak Yaşam Kemal

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    Full Text Available Objective: This study aims to investigate healthcare professionals’ (HCPs general level of knowledge about sexually transmitted diseases, their attitudes towards these patients and legal aspects of medical services. Materials and Methods: This was a multi-centered study. The participants were given 28 questions that mainly asked their level of knowledge on sexually transmitted diseases (STDs patients, their attitudes towards such patients, and their legal as well as ethical views on them. Results: A total of 234 HCPs, 124 (53% female and 110 (47% male, participated in the study. The majority of married HCPs have reported monogamy as the most reliable protection method, whereas single participants have marked "condoms." The most commonly known STD has been reported as AIDS in all groups. Even though HCPs find it medically unethical not to offer a medical intervention to patients with STDs, more than one-third of the participants believe that HCPs should have the right not to do so. Conclusion: It has been concluded that HCPs need further education on STDs. Nevertheless, such high level of care and attention on HCPs’ part does not necessarily decrease their need for proper medico legal regulations on such issues.

  2. Nuevos conglomerantes complementarios del cemento portland

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    Argiz, Cristina; Menéndez, Esperanza; Moragues, Amparo; Sanjuan-Barbudo, Miguel

    2012-01-01

    El desarrollo de nuevos conglomerantes complementarios al cemento portland se presenta como una alternativa que permitirá reciclar residuos, entre otros posibles beneficios. Estos nuevos materiales difícilmente podrán competir con el cemento portland ya que sus aplicaciones son limitadas y su coste, en general, más elevado.

  3. Diagnóstico y tratamiento del trastorno bipolar en población transgénero

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    Inés Aristegui

    2015-01-01

    A medida que se supera la idea de que personas transgénero sufren de una patología con los nuevos lineamientos del DSM–5 (la 5ta edición del Manual Diagnóstico y Estadístico de los Trastornos Mentales) y se alcanza el reconocimiento de sus derechos en un marco legal como la Ley de Identidad de Género en Argentina, se espera que las personas transgénero se acerquen a los servicios de salud en general y de atención psicológica en particular. Este artículo presenta una revisión de las investigac...

  4. Nuevas tecnologías: nuevos medios, nuevos profesionales

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    Lic. Virginia Luzón

    1998-01-01

    Full Text Available Asistimos a un proceso de innovaciones aceleradas de las tecnologías de información que está conduciendo a la eclosión de nuevos medios y servicios, que a su vez están generando multiplicidad de nuevas formas de comunicación. (Cebrián Herreros, M. 1994. Pág. 165. Internet, el correo electrónico y la televisión a la carta son algunos de estos nuevos medios y servicios que hoy están al alcance de los consumidores. Si bien las diferentes formas de comunicación han girado en torno a la tecnología, nunca como hasta ahora habían estado tan supeditadas a la actividad tecnológica. La tecnología no es sólo una herramienta de trabajo, pasa a ser un valor añadido en las cadenas de producción, es incluso información confidencial de los diferentes medios de comunicación que hacen de su tecnología un valor de importancia estratégica.

  5. Leyes, políticas y números de la objeción. Una explicación de la incidencia social de los objetores e insumisos

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    VÍCTOR SAMPEDRO BLANCO

    1997-01-01

    Full Text Available el crecimiento exponencial de la objecion en españa, hasta situarse a la cabeza de europa, se explica teniendo en cuenta tres variables: la escasa rigidez del marco legal, su limitado y contradictorio desarrollo politico, y la crisis de legitimidad del ejercito de leva. los objetores, organizados en torno a un nuevo movimiento social de corte pacifista, influyeron en esos factores. son, por tanto, en gran parte responsables de este crecimiento. oponiendose frontalmente a las medidas politicas de los sucesivos gobiernos, rebajaron y abrieron importantes brechas en los costes legales que comporta la objecion. por otra parte, la insumision ha articulado el rechazo que el servicio militar despierta en amplios sectores de la poblacion. asi, los numerosos objetores e insumisos reflejan la disfuncionalidad de la politica de objecion y la crisis del reclutamiento forzoso.

  6. [The issue of medico-legal assessment of noise induced hearing loss: comparison of methods].

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    Bosio, D; Coggiola, M; Baracco, A; Andreis, P; Perrelli, F

    2011-01-01

    Audiogram classification is crucial for hearing protection of workers occupationally exposed to noise. The methods that have been proposed are based on two principles: the morphological evaluation of the audiometric curve (eg. Merluzzi-Pira-Bosio--MPB) or the average hearing loss on different frequencies (eg. Albera-Beatrice--AB). The purpose of this study was to classify audiograms compatible with chronic acoustic trauma performed at the Occupational Medicine Outpatient Clinic of CTO Hospital in Turin from 2004 to 2011 with the methods outlined in Guidelines published by SIMLII. A substantial agreement among the methods was observed. While MPB is the most appropriate method for secondary prevention, the AB would seem more appropriate for the verification of a permanent weakening that has to be reported to the competent legal authorities.

  7. Noise-induced hearing loss - An examination of the methods of assessment in a cross-sectional study of 87 industrial workers.

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    Das, S; Mulheran, M; Brewster, M; Banerjee, A R

    2018-04-01

    The surveillance of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) differs from the medico-legal criteria used to assess NIHL. Our study compares the two systems and proposes a novel method of simplifying the medico-legal criteria and applying it to ascertain noise-induced hearing loss. The anonymised audiograms of a group of 87 industrial workers from a single site were analysed with both methods. The comparison showed approximately one-third of the workers assessed in this study had their noise-induced hearing loss underestimated by the HSE criteria. The majority of these individuals were over 40 years of age. The HSE criteria for noise-induced hearing loss need review and re-alignment with the medico-legal criteria to address the discrepancy between the two systems. © 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

  8. Un nuevo reto del derecho en la edad de la información

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    Ernesto Rengifo García

    2008-11-01

    Full Text Available En este artículo, el autor resalta cómo la nueva economía basada en la información ha reclamado mayor protección, alcanzando incluso al derecho penal, que ha tenido que adecuar su ámbito de protección y recoger nuevas realidades propias de una economía que gira en torno del conocimiento y de la producción de bienes inmateriales e intangibles. Luego de plantear un marco conceptual sobre el derecho de autor y la equilibrada institución de los límites y excepciones, se advierte en este artículo que la relación entre tecnología y derechos de autor no ha sido pacífica y se describen varias circunstancias relevantes. Se analiza si la institución de los límites y excepciones al derecho de autor, creada bajo la tecnología análoga, se puede extrapolar a la moderna tecnología digital. El autor describe ampliamente la problemática creada por la vasta protección que las normas penales y las normas de propiedad intelectual otorgan a las llamadas medidas tecnológicas de protección (mtp, y adicionalmente se plantea cómo el tlc discutido con el gobierno estadounidense hizo un salto cualitativo, pues no contiene un acápite dedicado a los límites y excepciones en el entorno digital, pero sí establece las medidas de protección y sus límites. Finalmente, el autor advierte cómo estas vienen a constituir un nuevo derecho de autor, o mejor, un nuevo derecho en el área de la tecnología, que ha erosionado radicalmente el sistema tradicional del derecho de autor.

  9. Filipino Americans and the Marcos Overthrow: The Transformation of Political Consciousness.

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    Bello, Madge; Reyes, Vince

    1987-01-01

    The following three factors explain how the U.S. Filipino community became a base for the movement against the Marcos dictatorship: (1) the immigrant character of the community, (2) the presence of a broad anti-Marcos movement, and (3) the role of the Filipino left in the community. (LHW)

  10. Hábitat poligonal: construcciones ambientales con marco recíproco

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    John Chilton

    2001-06-01

    Full Text Available Este artículo analiza la aplicación de formas básicas estructurales de Marco Recíproco y su uso en diferentes tipologías arquitectónicas. El principio morfológico de este tipo de estructuras se resume como una grilla (sistema de vigas tridimensionales, el que ha sido patentado como "Marco Recíproco" (Reciprocal Frame, RF.

  11. Dear depression, why do you even exist in the budding medicos?

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    Mehta, Varshil; Rajawat, Monali

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    MEDICAL SYSTEM INDUCED DEPRESSION IN BUDDING MEDICOS It is a matter of fact, that the high demands and pressure of medical school and pre-residency entrance tests pose a tremendous challenge to the personal wellbeing of the physicians in training which leads to high rates of anxiety, burnout, decreased attention, increased incidence of errors, negligence and depression [1,2]. Furthermore, stress and depression can also result in illnesses like headaches, coronary heart disease, Gastro-In...

  12. The Impact of a Legal Framework on National Film Industry: an Approach to Basque-Language Cinema

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    Miren Manias-Muñoz

    2016-12-01

    Full Text Available After the incursion of the digitalisation and the Internet, new forms of cultural production, reception and consumption have come via the hands of technological convergence and the way society has adapted to that scenario. In the current context of globalisation traditional cultural conceptualisation has been modified by opening up an economic discourse based on knowledge, creativity and innovation. But how are cultural policies bringing this paradigm into their protection framework? As part of the cultural activity, cinema plays a core role contributing to the national economic competitiveness and social cohesion. However, small cinemas struggle and films made in minority languages face a lot more difficulties. This paper shows how a legal change has made a certain funding model possible for cinema in the Basque-language, suggesting that a legally binding space where a specific cultural subject is primarily recognised has become crucial for films in Basque. Tras la llegada de la digitalización e Internet, han surgido nuevas formas de producción, recepción y consumo de cultura, de la mano de la convergencia tecnológica y la forma en la que la sociedad se ha adaptado a ese escenario. En el contexto actual de la globalización, la conceptualización cultural tradicional se ha modificado por un nuevo discurso económico basado en el conocimiento, la creatividad y la innovación. Pero ¿cómo están integrando las políticas culturales este paradigma en su marco de protección? Como parte de la actividad cultural, el cine juega un papel fundamental, contribuyendo a la competitividad económica nacional y a la cohesión social. Sin embargo, las salas de cine pequeñas experimentan dificultades y las películas rodadas en lenguas minoritarias se enfrentan a numerosas dificultades. Este artículo muestra cómo un cambio legal ha hecho posible un modelo de financiación para el cine en lengua vasca, y se sugiere que es fundamental para las pel

  13. Medicolegal aspects of iatrogenic root perforations

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    Tsesis, I; Rosen, E; Bjørndal, L

    2014-01-01

    AIM: To retrospectively analyze the medico-legal aspects of iatrogenic root perforations (IRP) that occurred during endodontic treatments. METHODOLOGY: A comprehensive search in a professional liability insurance database was conducted to retrospectively identify cases of IRP following root canal...... treatment (p root perforation is a complication of root canal treatment and may result in tooth extraction...... and in legal actions against the treating practitioner. Mandibular molars are more prone to medico-legal claims related to root perforations. The patient should be informed of the risks during RCT and should get information on alternative treatments and their risks and prognosis...

  14. [Heart transplant in Monterrey, Nuevo León].

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    Herrera-Garza, Eduardo Heberto; Molina-Gamboa, Julio David; Ortega-Durán, Oscar Alejandro; Chavarria-Martánez, Uriel; Martínez-Chapa, Héctor David; Elizondo-Sifuentes, Luis Angel; De-La-fuente-Magallanes, Felipe de Jesús; Muñiz-García, Arturo; Decanini-Arcaute, Horacio; Ibarra-Flores, Marcos; Nacoud-Askar, Alfredo; Herrera-Garza, José Luis; Torre-Amionet, Guillermo

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    Heart failure constantly increases its incidence and prevalence in our society, it was imperative to start a heart transplant program to improve the survival rates of patients with end stages of the disease. Legal issues made impossible to transplant patients out of Mexico City until recent years. Even with an acute hemodynamic and clinic improvement after the transplant, these patients frequently develop complications such as graft rejection or opportunistic infections due to the immunosuppressive schemes increasing the morbidity and mortality of the procedure. In the present article we report the experience acquired with 65 heart transplant patients from 4 transplant programs in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, one of them from the socialized system and the other three from private hospitals. Our program not only has successfully transplanted patients with advanced age but, for the first time in Latin America we have transplanted patients assisted with the ambulatory Thoratec TLC II system. Even that we have faced obstacles like a newly started donation culture in our population and limited resources, our patient's survival rate push us to continue working with these very ill population.

  15. Protection against inhaled oxidants through scavenging of oxidized lipids by macrophage receptors MARCO and SR-AI/II

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    Dahl, Morten; Bauer, Alison K; Arredouani, Mohamed

    2007-01-01

    Alveolar macrophages (AMs) express the class A scavenger receptors (SRAs) macrophage receptor with collagenous structure (MARCO) and scavenger receptor AI/II (SRA-I/II), which recognize oxidized lipids and provide innate defense against inhaled pathogens and particles. Increased MARCO expression...... in lungs of ozone-resistant mice suggested an additional role protecting against inhaled oxidants. After ozone exposure, MARCO-/- mice showed greater lung injury than did MARCO+/+ mice. Ozone is known to generate oxidized, proinflammatory lipids in lung lining fluid, such as 5beta,6beta......-epoxycholesterol (beta-epoxide) and 1-palmitoyl-2-(9'-oxo-nonanoyl)-glycerophosphocholine (PON-GPC). Intratracheal instillation of either lipid caused substantial neutrophil influx in MARCO-/- mice, but had no effect in MARCO+/+ mice. Normal AMs showed greater uptake in vitro of beta-epoxide compared with MARCO-/- AMs...

  16. El homicidio y los homicidas. Estudio descriptivo del homicidio en la provincia de Bizkaia (1992-2013). Características clínicas, médico legales y jurídicas de los homicidas .

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    Abasolo Tellería, Ana Eugenia

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    266 p. Esta tesis busca el estudio descriptivo y retrospectivo, en base a lasexploraciones medico-forenses, de personas acusadas de un delito de homicidioconsumado, en la Audiencia Provincial de Bizkaia, durante el periodo 1992-2013.Se trata de un trabajo que enlaza dos areas del conocimiento: la medicina y elderecho. Al tratarse de un entorno forense, el resultado de las exploraciones tieneconsecuencias legales, en la determinación y graduación de la capacidad de culpabilidado imputabilid...

  17. The aquatic annelid fauna of the San Marcos River headsprings, Hays County, Texas

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    McLean L.D. Worsham

    2016-09-01

    Full Text Available The San Marcos River in Central Texas has been well studied and has been demonstrated to be remarkably specious. Prior to the present study, research on free-living invertebrates in the San Marcos River only dealt with hard bodied taxa with the exception of the report of one gastrotrich, and one subterranean platyhelminth that only incidentally occurs in the head spring outflows. The remainder of the soft-bodied metazoan fauna that inhabit the San Marcos River had never been studied. Our study surveyed the annelid fauna and some other soft-bodied invertebrates of the San Marcos River headsprings. At least four species of Hirudinida, two species of Aphanoneura, one species of Branchiobdellida, and 11 (possibly 13 species of oligochaetous clitellates were collected. Other vermiform taxa collected included at least three species of Turbellaria and one species of Nemertea. We provide the results of the first survey of the aquatic annelid fauna of the San Marcos Springs, along with a dichotomous key to these annelids that includes photos of some representative specimens, and line drawings to elucidate potentially confusing diagnostic structures.

  18. The aquatic annelid fauna of the San Marcos River headsprings, Hays County, Texas

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    Worsham, McLean L. D.; Gibson, Randy; Huffman, David G.

    2016-01-01

    Abstract The San Marcos River in Central Texas has been well studied and has been demonstrated to be remarkably specious. Prior to the present study, research on free-living invertebrates in the San Marcos River only dealt with hard bodied taxa with the exception of the report of one gastrotrich, and one subterranean platyhelminth that only incidentally occurs in the head spring outflows. The remainder of the soft-bodied metazoan fauna that inhabit the San Marcos River had never been studied. Our study surveyed the annelid fauna and some other soft-bodied invertebrates of the San Marcos River headsprings. At least four species of Hirudinida, two species of Aphanoneura, one species of Branchiobdellida, and 11 (possibly 13) species of oligochaetous clitellates were collected. Other vermiform taxa collected included at least three species of Turbellaria and one species of Nemertea. We provide the results of the first survey of the aquatic annelid fauna of the San Marcos Springs, along with a dichotomous key to these annelids that includes photos of some representative specimens, and line drawings to elucidate potentially confusing diagnostic structures. PMID:27853397

  19. Análisis de la gestión de la seguridad y salud en las obras de construcción en Sudáfrica. Nueva regulación en materia preventiva, nuevos desafíos, nuevas oportunidades = Management analysis of Health and Safety on construction sites in South Africa, New c

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    Esteban Gabriela, Jesús; Martín Pérez, Iván

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    Sudáfrica se enfrenta en la actualidad a nuevos retos en el sector de la construcción. Por un lado, la necesidad de un nuevo modelo de sector energético que ayude al crecimiento sostenible del país así como a su modernización, y por otro lado la necesidad urgente de mejorar las altas cifras de siniestralidad que el sector de la construcción sigue teniendo a fecha de hoy. Para ello, en febrero del año pasado, 2014, el Ministerio de Trabajo sudafricano publicó un nuevo texto legal – Constructio...

  20. Promoción y regulación ambiental de la palma aceitera en el Perú: aspectos legales e institucionales

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    Dammert B., Juan Luis

    2016-01-01

    Analiza el marco legal e institucional referido al cultivo de palma aceitera en el Perú, e identifica y discute algunos elementos que se consideran contradictorios. En la medida en que el cultivo está asociado con prácticas de cambio de cobertura forestal a agraria, la deforestación es el fenómeno que se analiza en mayor profundidad, pero no es el único.

  1. Marco Polo, Nicknamed the Million, and His “Book on the Diversity of the World”

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    Full Text Available Objective: To highlight the most urgent problems related to the person of Marco Polo and his works, written in collaboration with Rustichano (commonly known as Rustichello of Pisa. Research materials: the work of Marco Polo, with attention drawn to its general characteristics and scientific value. Materials are used which describe the history of the Polo family and the biography of Marco Polo the traveler. This work explores the routes of Polo’s travels, his career success in China and his documentary information about the country in the era of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty. We explore his language proficiency, in particular regard to the “Tatar” language in light of the source for the “Tatar” Lord Prayer in edition of Marco Polo in a German translation of Jerome Megizer; the return-route from China to Ilkhanate of the Hulaguides; the introduction of paper money in Mongol Iran at that time; Marco’s return to Venice and his acquaintance with the novelist, Rustichano of Pisa, while in Genoese captivity; versions of their joint writing on the East; Rustichano and scribes’ additions to the memoirs of Marco; the debated date of the will of Marco Polo and the mystery of two gold items listed in the inventory of his property, which are identified as two of Gaykhatu’s golden paizas; Marco Polo’s connections to the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci; fake maps of China, Japan, Sakhalin, the Aleutian Islands, Chukotka, Alaska and much of the North American West, attributed to Marco Polo. Results and novelty of the research: We have confirmed the hypothesis about the origin of the generic nickname Million, received by Polos, and its connection to the estate of the Venetian family, Vilione / Milione. We have identified the source of the “Tatar” Lord Prayer in the German edition of Marco Polo. We have raised the question of the participation of Polo in the printing of paper money by Gaykhatu. We have proved the

  2. Igualdad de acceso a la telesanidad en zonas rurales y aisladas: propuesta de un marco ético normativo integral de acceso y distribución

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    María Graciela de Ortúzar

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    Según la Asociación Médica Mundial, el uso de TICs (Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicaciones ¿ TICs-) en salud, conocidas también como telesanidad y/o telemedicina, "es el ejercicio de la medicina a distancia, cuyas intervenciones, diagnósticos, decisiones de tratamientos y recomendaciones están bañadas en datos, documentos y otra información transmitida através de telecomunicación". Estas nuevas prácticas en el sistema de salud implican nuevos problemas éticos, legales, sociales, y te...

  3. NUEVO ENFOQUE DEL NEGOCIO DE LAS TARJETAS BANCARIAS EN ESPAÑA Y EL NUEVO PAPEL A DESARROLLAR POR EL COMERCIANTE

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    Castillo Peces, Carlos

    2011-09-01

    Full Text Available El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar los elementos básicos del nuevo enfoque de las entidades financieras españolas para su negocio de tarjetas bancarias, así como el nuevo papel que podría tener el comerciante para su desarrollo. Para ello se envió un cuestionario a 60 responsables de este negocio en dichas entidades. De las respuestas recogidas en los 44 cuestionarios recibidos, se concluye que este nuevo enfoque deberá hacer más hincapié en las operaciones de financiación al consumo mediante tarjeta bancaria. Así mismo, se verifica que el comerciante deberá tener un papel relevante y retribuido como prescriptor de estas operaciones.

  4. Kas doktorikooli lõpetajatest saavad doktorid? / Marco Kirm

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    Kirm, Marco, 1965-

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    Materjaliteaduse ja materjalide tehnoloogia doktorikool on TÜ Füüsika-keemiateaduskonna ja Füüsika Instituudi juurde loodud institutsioon. Vastab Tartu Ülikooli Füüsika Instituudi teadusdirektor Marco Kirm

  5. Matemáticas en los estudios de Economía y Gestión de Empresas en el marco de los acuerdos de Bolonia

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    Rodríguez Uria, Mª Victoria

    2003-01-01

    Full Text Available Los principios enunciados en la Declaración de Bolonia configuran un espacio europeo de educación superior, garantizando el flujo de estudiantes entre las universidades de los Estados de la Unión Europea. Se hace por ello imprescindible la armonización de los planes de estudios y de los programas en “un espacio basado en la tradición europea de la educación como servicio público....... que respete y valore una de sus principales características: la diversidad de instituciones y sistemas educativos en un entorno plurilingüístico y plurinacional.”1 Con este trabajo pretendemos continuar la reflexión y debate que empezamos el pasado año acerca de cuáles son las Matemáticas que deberíamos explicar, y como hacerlo, en los estudios económicoempresariales, en este nuevo marco.

  6. Medico-demographic criteria in estimating the consequences of the Chernobyl accident

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    Linge, I I; Melikhova, I A; Pavlovski, O [Nuclear Safety Inst., Academy of Sciences, Moscow (Russian Federation)

    1997-09-01

    Correct comparison of population statistics in affected and unaffected areas prior to and after the accident allows to detect any noticeable deviations in basic medico-demographic parameters in contaminated territories from common trends. In view of that when in 1990 in Nuclear Safety Institute a start has been made on construction of an information support system for government and regional executives to overcome the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster a specialized data bank on demography and medical statistics (MDBD) was created. 12 refs, 7 figs, 8 tabs.

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    Linge, I.I.; Melikhova, I.A.; Pavlovski, O.

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    Correct comparison of population statistics in affected and unaffected areas prior to and after the accident allows to detect any noticeable deviations in basic medico-demographic parameters in contaminated territories from common trends. In view of that when in 1990 in Nuclear Safety Institute a start has been made on construction of an information support system for government and regional executives to overcome the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster a specialized data bank on demography and medical statistics (MDBD) was created. 12 refs, 7 figs, 8 tabs

  8. Amphibians and Reptiles of the state of Nuevo Le?n, Mexico

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    Lemos-Espinal, Julio A.; Smith, Geoffrey R.; Cruz, Alexander

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    Abstract We compiled a check list of the herpetofauna of Nuevo Le?n. We documented 132 species (23 amphibians, 109 reptiles), representing 30 families (11 amphibians, 19 reptiles) and 73 genera (17 amphibians, 56 reptiles). Only two species are endemic to Nuevo Le?n. Nuevo Le?n contains a relatively high richness of lizards in the genus Sceloporus . Overlap in the herpetofauna of Nuevo Le?n and states it borders is fairly extensive. Of 130 native species, 102 are considered species of Least C...

  9. Plan y proyecto territorial en las Comarcas Centrales de Cataluña: Herramientas de ordenación para una nueva escala de ciudad

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    Pablo Elinbaum

    2014-09-01

    Full Text Available La ordenación del territorio catalán se regula mediante un marco legal que disocia el planeamiento urbanístico del regional. No obstante, los responsables del Programa de Planeamiento Territorial de la Generalitat (2003-2010 reformulan la interrelación instrumental entre ambos sistemas legales, apoyándose en un nuevo modelo de referencia para las múltiples escalas territoriales. Mediante el análisis de cuatro planes concurrentes en un mismo territorio (la subregión de las Comarcas Centrales de Cataluña, pretendemos definir la complementariedad proyectual entre los elementos de ordenación de dos niveles de planeamiento. El resultado se sintetiza en dieciocho variables temáticas y de ordenación que determinan la especificidad del proyecto territorial. La articulación proyectual entre ambos niveles de planeamiento permite considerar el territorio regional como una ciudad, al menos como un espacio integrado, aunque con diferentes intensidades de urbanidad.

  10. La prohibición de los acuerdos restrictivos de la competencia y la valoración de las cláusulas de exclusividad en los regímenes de libre competencia europeo, español y colombiano.(Parte 2

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    Ingrid Soraya Ortiz Baquero

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    Full Text Available El artículo describe el nuevo régimen de libre competencia español (Ley 15/2007 de 3 de julio, los aspectos más importantes de la reforma y del proceso de adecuación de la legislación española al modelo comunitario. En este orden, se aborda en primer lugar, el nuevo sistema de excepción legal como sistema valoración de los acuerdos restrictivos y a continuación la regulación sobre el sistema de aplicación privada de la legislación antitrust. Seguidamente y dentro de este marco teórico y descriptivo, se ubican los acuerdos restrictivos de carácter vertical y dentro de ellos, las cláusulas de exclusividad, respecto de las cuales se destaca su función económica y jurídica en concreto dentro de categoría de los contratos de distribución mercantil. Con base en estas consideraciones se plantea un nuevo sistema de valoración para los pactos de exclusividad, que resulta más acorde con su naturaleza y desde luego con la función que corresponde a las normas antitrust

  11. La prohibición de los acuerdos restrictivos de la competencia y la valoración de las cláusulas de exclusividad en los regímenes de libre competencia europeo, español y colombiano.(Parte 2

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    Ingrid Soraya Ortiz Baquero

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    Full Text Available El artículo describe el nuevo régimen de libre competencia español (Ley 15/2007 de 3 de julio, los aspectos más importantes de la reforma y del proceso de adecuación de la legislación española al modelo comunitario. En este orden, se aborda en primer lugar, el nuevo sistema de excepción legal como sistema valoración de los acuerdos restrictivos y a continuación la regulación sobre el sistema de aplicación privada de la legislación antitrust. Seguidamente y dentro de este marco teórico y descriptivo, se ubican los acuerdos restrictivos de carácter vertical y dentro de ellos, las cláusulas de exclusividad, respecto de las cuales se destaca su función económica y jurídica en concreto dentro de categoría de los contratos de distribución mercantil. Con base en estas consideraciones se plantea un nuevo sistema de valoración para los pactos de exclusividad, que resulta más acorde con su naturaleza y desde luego con la función que corresponde a las normas antitrust.

  12. Prospectiva del diagnóstico y la orientación

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    Marín Gracia, Ma. Ángeles, 1955-; Rodríguez Espinar, Sebastián, 1946-

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    No es nada nuevo afirmar que la práctica profesional de la orientación y, por ende, del diagnóstico en educación, afrontan el reto de asumir un nuevo marco de referencia; tanto por lo que se refiere a sus enfoques teóricos como a las nuevas características de la realidad sobre la que actúan, cada vez más cambiante y compleja. Por lo que respecta al marco teórico, el término postmodernismo puede servirnos como referente general: un enfoque constructivista, como nos ofrece la compilación de Sex...

  13. Survey of medico-legal investigation of homicide in the region of Epirus (Northwest Greece).

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    Fragkouli, Kleio; Boumba, Vassiliki; Vougiouklakis, Theodore

    2016-01-01

    This study analyzed the forensic features of homicides in North-West Greece (Epirus) from 1998 to 2013, a borderland area between Greece and Albania. Although Greece is critically influenced by both the increasing flow of refugees and the current socioeconomic crisis, very little information has been published regarding the patterns of homicide in the country. Fifty-eight autopsied victims (36 males; 22 females) were investigated. The median age was 37 years old. The average annual homicide rate was 0.85 per 100,000 inhabitants and showed remarkable fluctuation, with largest increase during Greek financial downturn. Sixteen victims were not Greek citizens. The most common method of commitment was the use of firearm (40%). The main motives were economical causes (26%) and passion (14%). Four cases were categorized as matricide (7%), 3 as homicide-suicide (5%), 2 as patricide (3%) and 1 as infanticide (2%). Toxicological analysis proved negative for ethanol and other psychotropic substances in the majority of the victims (50%). There is an urgent need for public actions both in Epirus and in Greece, with the application of effective strategies against criminality. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd and Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine. All rights reserved.

  14. Key Role of the Scavenger Receptor MARCO in Mediating Adenovirus Infection and Subsequent Innate Responses of Macrophages.

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    Maler, Mareike D; Nielsen, Peter J; Stichling, Nicole; Cohen, Idan; Ruzsics, Zsolt; Wood, Connor; Engelhard, Peggy; Suomalainen, Maarit; Gyory, Ildiko; Huber, Michael; Müller-Quernheim, Joachim; Schamel, Wolfgang W A; Gordon, Siamon; Jakob, Thilo; Martin, Stefan F; Jahnen-Dechent, Willi; Greber, Urs F; Freudenberg, Marina A; Fejer, György

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    The scavenger receptor MARCO is expressed in several subsets of naive tissue-resident macrophages and has been shown to participate in the recognition of various bacterial pathogens. However, the role of MARCO in antiviral defense is largely unexplored. Here, we investigated whether MARCO might be involved in the innate sensing of infection with adenovirus and recombinant adenoviral vectors by macrophages, which elicit vigorous immune responses in vivo Using cells derived from mice, we show that adenovirus infection is significantly more efficient in MARCO-positive alveolar macrophages (AMs) and in AM-like primary macrophage lines (Max Planck Institute cells) than in MARCO-negative bone marrow-derived macrophages. Using antibodies blocking ligand binding to MARCO, as well as gene-deficient and MARCO-transfected cells, we show that MARCO mediates the rapid adenovirus transduction of macrophages. By enhancing adenovirus infection, MARCO contributes to efficient innate virus recognition through the cytoplasmic DNA sensor cGAS. This leads to strong proinflammatory responses, including the production of interleukin-6 (IL-6), alpha/beta interferon, and mature IL-1α. These findings contribute to the understanding of viral pathogenesis in macrophages and may open new possibilities for the development of tools to influence the outcome of infection with adenovirus or adenovirus vectors. IMPORTANCE Macrophages play crucial roles in inflammation and defense against infection. Several macrophage subtypes have been identified with differing abilities to respond to infection with both natural adenoviruses and recombinant adenoviral vectors. Adenoviruses are important respiratory pathogens that elicit vigorous innate responses in vitro and in vivo The cell surface receptors mediating macrophage type-specific adenovirus sensing are largely unknown. The scavenger receptor MARCO is expressed on some subsets of naive tissue-resident macrophages, including lung alveolar macrophages

  15. Competitividad de la administración de las aduanas en el marco del comercio internacional

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    América Ivonne Zamora Torres

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    Full Text Available El paso por aduanas es un acto obligado para todos aquellos agentes que buscan participar en el comercio exterior. No obstante, el despacho aduanero y todos los actos aduaneros pueden ser procesos desalentadores para quienes incursionan en nuevos mercados. Por lo tanto, resulta fundamental que las aduanas funjan como facilitadores del proceso comercial brindando seguridad y garantizando la entrega oportuna de las mercancías y la reducción de costos del comercio internacional. Ello conlleva la optimización de la logística internacional y la ventaja competitiva de las empresas y naciones en la cadena de valor global (Shujie & Zhao, 2009. Este trabajo evalúa, a través del análisis de componentes principales, la competitividad de las aduanas en el marco del comercio internacional. Para ello, se consideraron las variables más importantes que inciden en la competitividad de las aduanas en veintinueve países. Los resultados se muestran a través del indicador denominado índice de competitividad de las aduanas y señalan que los países más competitivos en materia aduanal —de acuerdo con las variables analizadas y en orden descendente— son Panamá seguido de China, India, Alemania, Corea, Suecia, Singapur, Turquía, Tailandia y Chile.

  16. El periodismo clásico frente al Nuevo Periodismo

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    Full Text Available La llegada del Nuevo Periodismo ha cambiado el trabajo periodístico en todo sentido. Este nuevo movimiento busca aplicar recursos narrativos asimilados tradicionalmente a la literatura de ficción, creando así textos periodísticos con calidad estilística y narrativa, enriqueciendo la noticia con descripciones, diálogos, opiniones y monólogos. Este artículo analiza las características del periodismo clásico y el Nuevo Periodismo y cómo esta última corriente ha renovado radicalmente la técnica periodística actual.

  17. MEDICO-LABORATORY SERVICES IN OUTPATIENT CARE IN NORTHEASTERN BULGARIA – STATE AND PROSPECTS

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    Full Text Available Aim: The aim of this article is to study the satisfaction of patients with laboratory services in outpatient care in Northeastern Bulgaria regarding access and quality of service. Study design: Prospective cohort study Material and methods: The survey was carried out on the territory of Northeastern Bulgaria and covered the districts of Varna, Dobrich and Shumen and thirty municipalities. The following methods were applied in the study: sociological method by applied direct anonymous questionnaire, documentary method and statistical methods for analysis and interpretation of the data in order to reveal the nature of the observed phenomena and their interrelations. Results: The research data show that 24,4% of the respondents live at a distance of more than ten kilometres from the nearest medico-diagnostic laboratory. The larger share of these patients are residents of small settlements in Northeastern Bulgaria. More than half (55% of the respondents are not satisfied with their provision of laboratory services, but the majority of patients claim that the location of the selected laboratory is accessible (69,4% and the quality of the laboratory service is high (83,7%. Conclusion: The main problems in outpatient care are related to the poor provision of medico-laboratory services and specialized outpatient care in the smaller settlements in Northeastern Bulgaria.

  18. Leyes y decretos promulgados por el gobierno de Costa Rica para controlar a los ciudadanos y empresas de países enemigos con residencia en el país durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

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    Gertrud Peters

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    Full Text Available Este documento presenta el marco legal de las relaciones con los ciudadanos de países enemigos residentes en Costa Rica durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, cuando el país le declaró la guerra a Japón, Alemania e Italia. Antes de ese momento, las relaciones diplomáticas se habían modificado conforme a la aparición de nuevos acontecimientos. De esta manera, el país, bajo el contexto de la política de Defensa Hemisférica de los Estados Unidos de América, inició un período de promulgación, eliminación y reforma de leyes, decretos y acuerdos en el entorno nacional e internacional.

  19. Libertad, ciencia y eficiencia: objetivos de la gerencia universitaria

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    La Reforma Educativa que implicó el intento de adecuar la preparación de las mentes a los esfuerzos de inserción colombiana dentro de la economía global, no solo no ha tenido éxito, - sino que a la par con la apertura económica, - enfrenta más obstáculos que incentivos. Mi percepción es que, el nuevo marco teórico-legal universitario ha sido manejado más por "la forma" que por su "fondo". Sigue la división absurda entre "Tecnocracia". Y los "técnicos (los que han ignorado aquello que NO HAY MAS PRACTICO QUE UNA BUENA TEORIA, insisten en la mecanización de la educación...

  20. Medico-biological factors of speech and language development in young children (part 1

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    2015-03-01

    Full Text Available The article analyzed the main results of medico-biological directions in the study of the factors of children's speech and language. It shows that a variety of pre-, peri-and neonatal developmental factors (teratogenic effects, prematurity, low birth weight, maternal diseases during pregnancy, and chronic diseases of the child had a negative impact on the child-parent relationship that has a lasting influence on child speech and language development.

  1. MEDICO-DEMOGRAPHIC SITUATION IN THE REPUBLICS OF CHECHNYA AND INGUSHETIA IN 2005-2010

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    Political and socio-economical destabilization, military conflicts, lack of infrastructure and massive migratory movements formed a current medico-demographic situation in the Republics of Chechnya and Ingushetia: the fertility and birth rates here are very high and exceeds twice the same figures all over the Russian Federation. At the same time the infant mortality and feto-infantile losses rates are also very high. The high fertility leads to overpopulation, low per capita income, worsening...

  2. El tratamiento legal de la firma electrónica en Colombia y en el derecho uniforme

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    2002-01-01

    Full Text Available En la medida en que el uso y la circulación de la información digital se ha venido generalizando, un nuevo elemento de seguridad jurídica ha irrumpido en las relaciones de derecho: las llamadas firmas electrónicas. Su regulación en Colombia, algunos aspectos técnicos y legales relativos a su validez, a su confiabilidad técnica y jurídica, pero en particular, a su valoración probatoria por parte de jueces o árbitros nacionales constituye el tema central del presente artículo; documento que sin duda constituye un interesante análisis crítico del tratamiento legal acogido en Colombia para fomentar la seguridad en la dinámica del comercio electrónico en Internet.

  3. El tratamiento legal de la firma electrónica en Colombia y en el derecho uniforme

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    Full Text Available En la medida en que el uso y la circulación de la información digital se ha venido generalizando, un nuevo elemento de seguridad jurídica ha irrumpido en las relaciones de derecho: las llamadas firmas electrónicas. Su regulación en Colombia, algunos aspectos técnicos y legales relativos a su validez, a su confiabilidad técnica y jurídica, pero en particular, a su valoración probatoria por parte de jueces o árbitros nacionales constituye el tema central del presente artículo; documento que sin duda constituye un interesante análisis crítico del tratamiento legal acogido en Colombia para fomentar la seguridad en la dinámica del comercio electrónico en Internet.

  4. El nuevo tratamiento legal de las enfermedades profesionales en comparación con lo derogado y con la recomendación Europea sobre el tema

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    N. Gambí Pisonero

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    Full Text Available Los avances producidos en los procesos industriales, la introducción de nuevos elementos y sustancias, el progreso en el ámbito científico y la necesidad de ajustarse a las recomendaciones europeas han desembocado en la aprobación del nuevo Real Decreto 1299/2006 de enfermedades profesionales. Conocer y manejar de forma adecuada la lista de enfermedades profesionales vigente es paso indispensable para proceder a declarar todas y cada una de estas enfermedades. Nuestro trabajo se centra en el análisis de la estructura y los cambios que muestra el nuevo cuadro respecto al ya derogado y comparación con las recomendaciones europeas acerca del tema La infradeclaración de EP a la que hemos estado asistiendo podría explicarse en parte por la vigencia hasta hace poco de una lista obsoleta. La reciente publicación del nuevo cuadro de EP ha generado muchas expectativas aunque no faltan opiniones críticas que ponen en duda su eficacia en la consecución del objetivo de subsanar esta infradeclaración. En general el nuevo Real Decreto se ajusta a las Recomendaciones Europeas y aporta importantes cambios estructurales y de contenido, ajustándose a un modelo mixto. Si bien carece del enfoque preventivo que incentivaba la Unión Europea y deja a un lado las enfermedades por riesgos psicosociales.The advances produced in the industrial processes, introduction of new elements and substances, progress in the scientific scope and the need to harmonize the national regulation to the European recommendations have ended at the approval of the new Real Decree 1299/2006 of professional diseases. To know and to handle in a suitable way the effective professional diseases list it is an indispensable step in order to notify all and each one of these diseases. Our study is focused in the analysis of the structure and the changes that the new list shows with respect to the precedent one and the comparison with the European recommendation concerning this subjet

  5. Uplatnění PETL při řešení některých složitých kauz v oblasti příčinné souvislosti v medicínskoprávních sporech

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    Doležal, Adam; Doležal, Tomáš

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    Roč. 19, 7-8 (2013), s. 242-248 ISSN 1211-4405 R&D Projects: GA ČR GAP408/12/2574 Institutional support: RVO:68378122 Keywords : medical law * causality * medico-legal disputes Subject RIV: AG - Legal Sciences

  6. Siete nuevos registros de Arctiini (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae para Perú

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    Full Text Available Se presenta siete nuevos registros de Arctiini (Erebidae: Lepidoptera para Perú. Algunas de las especies son raras en colecciones. Cada nuevo reporte pertenece a géneros diferentes, proporcionando para cada género las especies que ocurren en el Perú, basado en colecciones y las fuentes bibliográficas de las descripciones originales. Se da a conocer un nuevo sinónimo para Agyrtiola niepeltiGaede, 1926.

  7. Monitoring and assessment of regional air quality in China using space observations (Marco Polo)

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    Ronald, A. van der; Timmermans, R.; Bai, J.; Zhang, Q.; Wal, L. van der

    2013-01-01

    In this paper we will present the FP7-project 'MarcoPolo'. The main objective of MarcoPolo is to improve air quality monitoring, modelling and forecasting over China using satellite data. During the project a new emission inventory will be constructed by combining Chinese and European expertise. It

  8. Examination of MARCO activity on dendritic cell phenotype and function using a gene knockout mouse.

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    Hiroshi Komine

    Full Text Available We have reported the upregulation of MARCO, a member of the class A scavenger receptor family, on the surface of murine and human dendritic cells (DCs pulsed with tumor lysates. Exposure of murine tumor lysate-pulsed DCs to an anti-MARCO antibody led to loss of dendritic-like processes and enhanced migratory capacity. In this study, we have further examined the biological and therapeutic implications of MARCO expression by DCs. DCs generated from the bone marrow (bm of MARCO knockout (MARCO⁻/⁻ mice were phenotypically similar to DCs generated from the bm of wild-type mice and produced normal levels of IL-12 and TNF-α when exposed to LPS. MARCO⁻/⁻ DCs demonstrated enhanced migratory capacity in response to CCL-21 in vitro. After subcutaneous injection into mice, MARCO⁻/⁻ TP-DCs migrated more efficiently to the draining lymph node leading to enhanced generation of tumor-specific IFN-γ producing T cells and improved tumor regression and survival in B16 melanoma-bearing mice. These results support targeting MARCO on the surface of DCs to improve trafficking and induction of anti-tumor immunity.

  9. Nuevos centros de almacenamiento inca en Huánuco Pampa

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    Ordóñez Inga, Carlo José Alonso

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    Se proporcionan nuevos alcances sobre la identificación y el estudio de nuevos lugares de almacenamiento o colcas asociados al Centro Administrativo Inca de Huánuco Pampa, los mismos que no fueron reconocidos por otros investigadores que trabajaron en la zona.

  10. Minería y glaciares rocosos: impactos ambientales, antecedentes políticos y legales, y perspectivas futuras

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    Brenning,Alexander; Azócar,Guillermo F

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    El interés científico y político en los glaciares rocosos andinos ha aumentado fuertemente en los últimos años debido al creciente reconocimiento de su importancia hidrológica y las recientes intervenciones mineras en ellos. Se presenta un resumen de los conocimientos científicos y el marco político-legal de las intervenciones pasadas y actuales en glaciares rocosos en Chile y, en forma preliminar, en Argentina y Perú. En estos países, 26 faenas mineras han afectado glaciares rocosos o podría...

  11. Radiation protection. Factors influencing compliance to referral guidelines in minor chest trauma

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    Tack, Denis; Louage, Fabian; Muylem, Alain van; Howarth, Nigel; Gevenois, Pierre Alain

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    To test the hypothesis that referral guidelines are not sufficiently known by prescribers and that medico-legal concerns could influence the prescription of radiographs in minor chest trauma. We submitted a questionnaire including a typical clinical history and questions on reasons for prescribing radiographs of the ribs in minor chest trauma to 112 prescriptors (33 residents, 18 surgeons, 7 internists, 24 general practitioners and 30 ER physicians). All accepted to participate. Comparisons were performed by Fisher's exact test followed by a post-hoc analysis and by a McNemar test. Fifty-eight percent of prescriptors proposed rib radiographs, most (89%) being unaware of the guidelines. Only 11% of them changed their intention to order radiographs after information on referral guidelines and radiation dose (P=0.057). The mean dose delivered by rib radiographs was 38 times higher than that of a chest X-ray. Legal and medico-legal concerns (requirements from insurance policies and avoidance of lawsuits) were the main reasons for requesting radiographs. Unsharpness of guidelines in addition to social and medico-legal issues, rather than medical reasons or the lack of knowledge of the guidelines, strongly influence the prescription of radiographs of the ribs in minor chest trauma. (orig.)

  12. Nuevos discursos sobre las ciudades, los municipios y las mujeres

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    Ana María Goetschel

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    Full Text Available Escritora y activista feminista. Estudió Literatura y Periodismo en la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú y se gradúo de Magíster en Política Social por la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Por espacio de más de dos décadas se desempeña como profesora en el Diploma de Estudios de Género de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú y como consultora de proyectos de desarrollo en las áreas de planificación, evaluación institucional y enfoque de género para diversas agencias internacionales de cooperación en Perú y otros países de América Latina. Es Investigadora asociada y miembro del Consejo Directivo del Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES. Maruja Barrig acredita un vasto trabajo de investigación sobre empleo femenino, desarrollo local y organizaciones de mujeres. En una reciente conferencia “Nuevos discursos sobre las ciudades, los municipios y las mujeres” , esta investigadora peruana hizo un balance sobre las formas en que el género ha sido incorporado en las prácticas de desarrollo y las consecuencias que conlleva este tipo de intervención para el avance de la agenda del feminismo crítico. Sobre este y otros temas relacionados con su trayectoria intelectual y la acción del movimiento de mujeres en el contexto político actual de las sociedades latinoamericanas, dialogamos con Maruja Barrig.

  13. [Changes of medico-pharmaceutical profession and private practice from the late 19th century to the early 20th century: ebb and flow of western pharmacies and clinics attached to pharmacy].

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    Lee, Heung-Ki

    2010-12-31

    This article examined i) how traditional medico-pharmaceutical custom from the late 19th century influenced such changes, ii) how medical laws of Daehan Empire and early colonial period influenced the differentiation of medico-pharmaceutical profession, and iii) what the responses of medico-pharmaceutical professionals were like, and arrived at following conclusions. First, in late Chosun, there was a nationwide spread of pharmacies (medicine room, medicine store) as general medical institutions in charge of prescription and medication as well as diagnosis. Therefore, Koreans' perception of Western medicine was not very different from that of traditional pharmacy. Second, Western pharmacies were established by various entities including oriental doctors, Western doctors and drug manufacturers.Their business ranged from medical consultation, prescription, medication and drug manufacture. This was in a way the extension of traditional medico-pharmaceutical custom, which did not draw a sharp line between medical and pharmaceutical practices. Also, regulations on medical and pharmaceutical business of Daehan Empire did not distinguish oriental and Western medicine. Third, clinics attached to pharmacy began to emerge after 1908, as some Western pharmacies that had grown their business based on selling medicine began to hire doctors trained in Western medicine. This trend resulted from Government General's control over medico-pharmaceutical business that began in 1908, following a large-scale dismissal of army surgeons trained in medical schools in 1907. Fourth, as specialization increased within medico-pharmaceutical business following the colonial medical law in early 1910s, such comprehensive business practices as Western pharmacy disappeared and existing businesses were differentiated into dealers of medical ingredients, drug manufacturer, patent medicine businessmen and herbalists. And private practice gradually became the general trend by establishment of medical

  14. The use of legal guardians and financial powers of attorney among home-dwellers with Alzheimer's disease living with their spousal caregivers.

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    Raivio, M M; Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen, A P; Laakkonen, M-L; Tilvis, R S; Pitkälä, K H

    2008-12-01

    We conducted a cross-sectional survey of a random sample of 1943 spouses of home-dwellers with Alzheimer's disease (AD) to examine the prevalence of court-appointed guardians or financial powers of attorney for persons with AD, related factors and the need for information about these issues among caregiving families. The questionnaire consisted questions on variables of demographic characteristics, disability, symptoms and care needs of the person with dementia, the strain of caregiving, the use of court-appointed legal guardians or powers of attorney, as well as discussions about these issues -- and the need for them -- with a doctor. The response rate was 77% and the mean ages of those with AD and caregivers were 80.2 and 78.2 years, respectively. The use of legal guardians was rare (4.3%), while the use of financial powers of attorney was more common (37.8%). Only 9.9% of the couples had discussed these issues with their doctor, whereas 47.9% expressed a need for it. The factors associated with the use of these legal arrangements were related to the severity of dementia, including experiencing dementia symptoms for more than 3 years, poor functioning, incontinence and behavioural symptoms. There is a clear need for information on medico-legal issues related to dementia among caregivers of AD patients. If held soon after the diagnosis, such discussions could support the autonomy of these persons in spite of AD and enable them to plan for the future as they wish.

  15. Sobre el Contenido de los Marcos Conceptuales Contables

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    Leila Di Russo de Hauque

    2007-12-01

    Full Text Available El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo el análisis de los distintos marcos conceptuales vigentes en diferentes sistemas normativos contables. Paralelamente a las revisiones empíricas que dicho trabajo determina, incluye reflexiones a priori sobre el contenido de dichos marcos conceptuales. El trabajo discurre inicialmente sobre el problema de la naturaleza normativa o doctrinaria de sus contenidos tradicionales sin inclinarse definitivamente por una u otra vertiente. Respecto de los elementos que se incluirán en ellos, se justifica la inclusión de las listas de objetivos y requisitos de la información contable para definir el alcance del concepto de informe de uso externo. Además se define a favor de la inclusión, conjuntamente con las respuestas a las pregunas básicas sobre la labor contable, de contenidos ligados al proceso de obtención y de la exposición de la información contable de uso externo.

  16. El objeto de la catalogación en el marco de las RDAThe cataloging object in RDA context

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    Paola Picco

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    Full Text Available El presente artículo aborda los cambios producidos en la catalogación a partir de la incorporación de las Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (TIC. Es en este contexto que surge el nuevo Código de Catalogación denominado Descripción y Acceso del Recurso (RDA que se presenta como un elemento normalizador de alcance internacional. El Código se sustenta en el modelo conceptual Requisitos Funcinales para Registros Bibliográficos (FRBR, que incorpora una nueva terminología donde se definen cuatro entidades (obra, expresión, manifestación e ítem que deben ser consideradas al momento de catalogar. El objetivo de esta contribución es analizar el objeto de catalogación en el marco de los cambios propuestos a partir de este nuevo modelo y a la luz de la próxima aparición del nuevo Código de Catalogación que se sustenta teóricamente sobre el mencionado modelo. Se destaca la identificación de la obra como elemento fundamental en el proceso de catalogación y al momento de establecer las relaciones entre las entidades de contenido y de presentación definidas en el modelo FRBR. Se manifiesta la necesidad de que los catalogadores realicen un trabajo interdisciplinario junto a otros profesionales en el proceso de identificación de las obras donde se haga énfasis en el trabajo de investigación superando la función tradicional de la mera transcripción de datos.The current article analyses the changes proposed in the process of cataloging since the introduction of the Technologies of Information and Communication (TIC. The new Cataloging Code denominated Resource Description and Access (RDA which is ready to be published is presented as a standardization element which will reach the international level. The Code is founded on Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR conceptual model, and it incorporates a new terminology, where four entities are defined (work, expression, manifestation and item. All of them

  17. Muerte encefálica: consideraciones clínicas y legales

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    W. Arnold Hoppe, Dr.

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    Full Text Available Temor y ambivalencia son aspectos centrales en la matriz sociocultural relacionada con la muerte encefálica. Para el médico que debe evaluar pacientes y certificar el diagnóstico de muerte encefálica es crucial contar con una sólida comprensión de la fisiopatología, los criterios diagnósticos y de los exámenes complementarios. La existencia de un marco legal coherente y completo para el diagnóstico de muerte encefálica, independiente de la potencial donación de órganos, es ciertamente crucial para el médico. La relevancia que tiene en este sentido el fallo del Tribunal Constitucional de Chile del 13 de agosto de 1995 se analiza en profundidad.

  18. Amphibians and Reptiles of the state of Nuevo León, Mexico.

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    Lemos-Espinal, Julio A; Smith, Geoffrey R; Cruz, Alexander

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    We compiled a check list of the herpetofauna of Nuevo León. We documented 132 species (23 amphibians, 109 reptiles), representing 30 families (11 amphibians, 19 reptiles) and 73 genera (17 amphibians, 56 reptiles). Only two species are endemic to Nuevo León. Nuevo León contains a relatively high richness of lizards in the genus Sceloporus. Overlap in the herpetofauna of Nuevo León and states it borders is fairly extensive. Of 130 native species, 102 are considered species of Least Concern in the IUCN red list, four are listed as Vulnerable, five are listed as Near Threatened, and four are listed as Endangered. According to SEMARNAT, 78 species are not of conservation concern, 25 are subject to Special Protection, 27 are Threatened, and none are listed as in Danger of Extinction. Given current threats to the herpetofauna, additional efforts to understand the ecology and status of populations in Nuevo León are needed.

  19. Búsqueda de nuevos agentes antiprotozoarios selectivos

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    Vladímir V. Kouznetsov, PhD, DSc* Carlos Mario Meléndez Gómez, Químico**

    2009-04-01

    Full Text Available Se da la información general sobre los fármacos antiprotozoarios que están usándose en clínica, se discuten nuevas dianas de los parásitos protozoarios útiles en la búsqueda de nuevos agentes antiprotozoarios, enfocando la atención al rol biológico de las proteasas de los parásitos protozoarios. Esta información importante será útil para los estudiantes e investigadores que se interesen a los problemas de química medicinal (un área naciente en Colombia cuál aporta mucho al desarrollo de ciencias médicas. [Kouznetsov V, Meléndez C. Búsqueda de nuevos agentes antiprotozoarios selectivos. MedUNAB2009; 12:33-45

  20. Estrategias sociales y económicas de los nuevos jubilados.

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    Antonio Trinidad Requena

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    Full Text Available Desde mediados de la década de los ochenta, las personas mayores han ido adquiriendo una especial relevancia y un mayor protagonismo en las sociedades modernas. El jubilado de hoy no es el jubilado del pasado, siendo necesario distinguir entre el jubilado tradicional y el nuevo jubilado, que será el jubilado del futuro. Este nuevo jubilado es el objetivo de este trabajo, centrado en conocer las estrategias sociales y económicas que utilizan para adaptarse a la nueva situación. Para conocer las estrategias sociales y económicas del nuevo jubilado nos centramos en el análisis de sus discursos.

  1. Book review. Rapporto Nomisma 2014: La professione medico veterinaria - Prospettive future. FNOVI, Autori Vari

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    Manuel Graziani

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    Full Text Available Il presidente della Federazione Nazionale degli Ordini Veterinari Italiani (FNOVI, Gaetano Penocchio, si pone alcune domande: "Chi siamo per il "mondo del lavoro"? Quanto ha bisogno di noi? Siamo preparati a rispondere o a stimolare la domanda di professionalità veterinarie? Come restare competitivi e come garantire nuovi sbocchi occupazionali?". Il nuovo Rapporto sulla professione medico veterinaria, che esce a 4 anni di distanza dal precedente ed è ancora curato da Nomisma, nasce proprio per dare risposta agli interrogativi di cui sopra, proponendosi come strumento informativo aggiornato per il mondo veterinario e per le Istituzioni, nonché come strumento di approfondimento su cui fondare ulteriori riflessioni. Il volume si focalizza soprattutto sui diversi ambiti occupazionali del medico veterinario e sulla dimensione prospettica al 2030 dei possibili scenari evolutivi della professione. Lo "sguardo demoscopico" del Rapporto non prescinde da un dato che deve far riflettere, ovvero che in Italia il rapporto fra popolazione e medici veterinari è (ancora il più alto d'Europa. In vent'anni i veterinari sono raddoppiati fino agli attuali 30.415 di cui il 77% liberi professionisti, quindi esposti al rischio di non avere una continuità lavorativa. Tutto questo, peraltro, nel pieno di spinte recessive che ciclicamente colpiscono il Paese e nel quadro di una crisi globale che si protrae dal 2007. Eppure il Rapporto mette in luce che il 27% delle esportazioni italiane è rappresentato da prodotti alimentari di origine animale e che il comparto della filiera agroalimentare, strettamente connesso alla professione medico veterinaria, ha tenuto contenendo il calo dei consumi alimentari. Una chiave per rilanciare la professione potrebbe essere, ad esempio, quella della specializzazione nell'ambito della sicurezza alimentare: un settore poco curato soprattutto in ambito universitario, come afferma il presidente della FNOVI che chiosa così: "La

  2. Las ciencias sociales y la literatura regional en la educación del nuevo milenio

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    Full Text Available En este trabajo se plantea el fortalecimiento del pasado y presente, tanto en Las ciencias sociales como en la literatura de la Región Caribe, partiendo de la base legal que nos proporciona la Constitución Política de 1991, la Ley General de Educación y los fundamentos para la educaci6n del futuro planteados por Edgar Morín.A partir de estos criterios se plantea el estudio crítico del entorno sociocultural en las dos dimensiones (ciencias sociales y literatura, para comprender y aprehender el mundo caribe represado y olvidado por las instituciones oficiales. Para tal efecto, se propone incluir en el currículo una catedra caribe que le permita al hombre caribeño reconocerse a sí mismo y enfrentar los retos del nuevo milenio.

  3. REFLEXIONES EN TORNO AL APRENDIZAJE Y A LA EVALUACIÓN EN LA UNIVERSIDAD EN EL CONTEXTO DE UN NUEVO PARADIGMA PARA LA EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR

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    Joan Mateo

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    Full Text Available En el transcurso del siglo XX, la naturaleza del conocimiento se ha transformado de manera substancial y ha conducido a modificaciones importantes en el sector educativo. El nuevo papel del conocimiento en la sociedad actual ha provocado un cambio profundo en nuestras concepciones sobre la formación y la docencia, pero también en los planteamientos y modelos de evaluación. En este contexto, la mayoría de universidades europeas han ido incorporando, en los últimos años, el desarrollo competencial en sus planteamientos curriculares. Las competencias contenidas en el currículo se constituyen en elementos nucleares de éste y se les otorga el «rol» de referente curricular para la evaluación y se asume, con esta decisión normativa, la necesidad de modificar los planteamientos metodológicos y evaluativos. El presente artículo describe esta nueva concepción del currículo y el nuevo marco conceptual para el binomio aprendizaje-evaluación, que apuesta abiertamente por el tránsito desde los modelos educativos basados en la transmisión del conocimiento a los centrados en el desarrollo competencial. El artículo concluye con un ejemplo de dicho cambio, relacionado con la elaboración y evaluación del trabajo final de grado, que ayuda a ilustrar y entender los elementos conceptuales mencionados anteriormente.

  4. Forensic investigation of suicide cases in major Greek correctional facilities.

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    Sakelliadis, E I; Vlachodimitropoulos, D G; Goutas, N D; Panousi, P I; Logiopoulou, A-P I; Delicha, E M; Spiliopoulou, C A

    2013-11-01

    According to Greek legislation the medico-legal investigation of deaths occurring in prisons is mandatory. Furthermore, in cases of suicide or of suspected suicide the contribution of medico-legal investigation is of grave importance. The current paper addresses the medico-legal investigation of suicide cases in Greek correctional facilities and aims to describe the current situation. Our study consists of the meticulous research in the data records of major Greek correctional facilities, for the time period 1999-2010. Official permission was obtained by the Hellenic Ministry of Justice, which provided us the access to the records. Data was also collected from the Piraeus Forensic Service, from the Department of Pathological Anatomy of the University of Athens and finally from our own records. Measures were taken to respect the anonymity of the cases. Data was collected for the social, penal, medical history as well as for the medico-legal investigation. It appears that 85.7% of suicide cases were transferred to the Prisoner's Hospital (p < 0.0001), the forensic pathologist who conducted the PME did not perform scene investigation in none of the 70 suicide cases. In a total of 70 cases, histopathological examination, was requested only in 30 cases (42.9%). Hanging was the preferred method for those who committed suicide, followed by the poisoning due to psychoactive substances. Understanding the mistakes made during the forensic investigation of suicide cases inside correctional facilities is necessary, in order to prevent them from occurring again in the future, by implementing appropriate new policies and guidelines. Crown Copyright © 2013. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  5. Genetic variants in MARCO are associated with the susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis in Chinese Han population.

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    Mai-Juan Ma

    Full Text Available BACKGROUND: Susceptibility to tuberculosis is not only determined by Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, but also by the genetic component of the host. Macrophage receptor with a collagenous structure (MARCO is essential components required for toll like receptor-signaling in macrophage response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which may contribute to tuberculosis risk. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: To specifically investigated whether single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs in MARCO gene are associated with pulmonary tuberculosis in Chinese Han population. By selecting tagging SNPs in MARCO gene, 17 tag SNPs were identified and genotyped in 923 pulmonary tuberculosis patients and 1033 healthy control subjects using a hospital based case-control association study. Single-point and haplotype analysis revealed an association in intron and exon region of MARCO gene. One SNP (rs17009726 was associated with susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis, where the carriers of the G allele had a 1.65 fold (95% CI = 1.32-2.05, p(corrected = 9.27E-5 increased risk of pulmonary tuberculosis. Haplotype analysis revealed that haplotype GC containing G allele of 17009726 and haplotype TGCC (rs17795618T/A, rs1371562G/T, rs6761637T/C, rs2011839C/T were also associated with susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis (p(corrected = 0.0001 and 0.029, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: Our study suggested that genetic variants in MARCO gene were associated with pulmonary tuberculosis susceptibility in Chinese Han population, and the findings emphasize the importance of MARCO mediated immune responses in the pathogenesis of tuberculosis.

  6. Phytol in a pharma-medico-stance.

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    Islam, Md Torequl; de Alencar, Marcus Vinícius Oliveira Barros; da Conceição Machado, Katia; da Conceição Machado, Keylla; de Carvalho Melo-Cavalcante, Ana Amélia; de Sousa, Damiao Pergentino; de Freitas, Rivelilson Mendes

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    This study aims to review phytol (PYT), through published articles, periodicals, magazines and patents, which were retrieved from the PM, SD, WS, SP; DII, WIPO, CIPO, USPTO and INPI databases. Among the 149 articles and 62 patents, 27.52% articles and 87.09% patients were found on the searched topic, PYT and its sources and synthesis and metabolism; then followed by 15.44% and 14.77% articles on PYT in cytotoxicity/cancer/mutagenicity/teratogenicity and PYT in neurological diseases, respectively. In the pharma-medico viewpoint, PYT and its derivatives have been evident to have antimicrobial, cytotoxic, antitumorous, antimutagenic, anti-teratogenic, antibiotic-chemotherapeutic, antidiabetic, lipid lowering, antispasmodic, anticonvulsant, antinociceptive, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anxiolytic, antidepressant, immunoadjuvancy, hair growth facilitator, hair fall defense and antidandruff activities. Otherwise, the important biometebolite of PYT is phytanic acid (PA). Evidence shows PA to have cytotoxic, anticancer, antidiabetic, lipid lowering and aniteratogenic activities. In addition, it may be considered as an important biomarker for some diseases such as Refsum's Disease (RD), Sjögren Larsson syndrome (SLS), rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata (RZCP), chronic polyneuropathy (CP), Zellweger's disease hyperpipecolic academia (ZDHA) and related diseases. Thus, phytol may be considered as a new drug candidate. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

  7. Nuevos significados de la democracia en Venezuela

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    Ingrid Karina Núñez Muñoz

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    Full Text Available El objetivo de este trabajo es interpretar los nuevos significados de la demo- cracia en Venezuela, construidos a partir de los cambios y transformaciones iniciados en 1999 (proceso constituyente-reforma política, teniendo como centro los discursos y prácticas de una ciudadanía que debe participar de forma activa y organizada en los asuntos públicos con miras a la búsqueda de la solución de sus problemas más apremiantes. La aproximación metodológica (cualitativa-hermenéutica se realizó con- siderando que esta redefinición es una construcción intersubjetiva de los valores, acciones y normas en el ámbito político que intenta explicar cómo se construye la ciudadanía, fundamentalmente en el nivel local, a través de formas asociativas (como los consejos comunales en su interrelación con el Estado. Se concluye que a partir del nuevo orden constitucional de 1999 se comien- za a construir en Venezuela un nuevo sujeto que intenta viabilizar sus de- mandas a través de las organizaciones sociales.

  8. Medicina Genómica Aspectos éticos, legales y sociales del Genoma Humano

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    Rodolfo E. Ávila

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    Full Text Available La Medicina Genómica es el uso de la inf ormación de los genomas y sus deriv ados (ARN, proteínas y met abolitos que permite guiar la toma de decisiones médicas, es un c omponente clave de la medicina personalizada. La Medicina Genómica permite conocer la cartografía del genoma hum ano y proporciona una valiosa información a tener en cuenta a la hora de detect ar genes implicados en ciert as enfermedades. Esto conlleva a que en la actualidad nos centremos más en la predicción de patologías que en l a prevención, por lo que la tendencia es que en el futuro la Medicina Genómica acabe desbancando a la Medicina P reventiva. El Proyecto Genoma Humano presenta diversas aplicaciones que, al no tener una clara cobert ura legal, traen consigo un nuevo paradigma con problemas éticos, sociales y legales que la comunidad científica trat a de resolver para compaginar los aspectos morales con el progreso en la investigación. El objetivo del presente trabajo es describir brevemente los aspectos éticos, legales y sociales del Genoma Humano.

  9. VAGINAL ECONOMY: Cinema and Globalization in the Post-Marcos Post-Brocka Era

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    Rolando B. Tolentino

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    Full Text Available This essay explores the trope of the vaginal economy that is proliferated in the political economy and nature of Philippine migration. The vaginal economy is both receptacle and symptom of Philippine development. It represents the discourse through cinema, and historicizes the primal debate in the Marcos and Brocka contestation for image-building of the nation. Primarily through the sex-oriented (bomba films and their permutations in the various political life of the contemporary nation, the vaginal economy is historicized even in the after-life of the post-Marcos and post-Brocka era.

  10. La tematización de la corrupción como clivaje de la política argentina en los noventa

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    Sebastián Mauro

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    posicionamientos ideológicos, discursos y lenguajes que construyeron para tratarla. Aborda tanto las condiciones de emergencia de dichos discursos (por ejemplo, el tratamiento de la impunidad como marco de referencia de los nuevos movimientos sociales durante la transición democrática, como sus sedimentaciones en las escenas políticas posteriores, abriendo paso a la emergencia de nuevos actores y nuevos discursos (en particular, enmarcados en la distinción entre una "vieja" y una "nueva" política.

  11. Coronary atherosclerosis in medico-legal autopsy cases

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    VN Prasad

    2014-09-01

    Full Text Available Background: Coronary atherosclerosis is the major cause of death worldwide. Lifestyle and habits are the major contributory factor in the development of coronary atherosclerosis. Materials and Methods: This is an autopsy-based study in which 45 autopsy cases were randomly selected for study. Proximal one third of all three epicardial coronary arteries (LAD, LCX and RCA were dissected out for study and serial sections were made and stained with H&E method and under the light microscope. Atherosclerosis was graded according to American heart association classification. The risk factors (cigarette smoking, hypertension, diabetes, alcohol consumption, age, sex were also correlated with the grade of atherosclerosis. Results: Seventy-Eight percent of American Heart Association classification grade V lesions were seen in > 70 yrs of age. Almost all cases of > 70 yrs of age had American Heart Association classification grade > IV lesions. Out of all grade IV lesions, 88.9% was seen in male while only 11.1% in female. Similarly out of all grade V lesions, 77.8% was seen in male while 22.2% in female. LAD showed maximum involvement by higher grade lesion, followed by LCX and RCA. American Heart Association classification grade > IV in LAD, LCX and RCA was seen in 25(55.6%, 5(11.1%, and 3(6.7% cases respectively. Conclusion: Higher grade lesion occurs in advancing age. Various cardiovascular risk factors were significantly associated with higher grade of lesions. The multiple risk factors had a synergistic effect on the progression of coronary atherosclerosis. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jpn.v4i8.11492 Journal of Pathology of Nepal; Vol.4,No8(2014 607-611

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    what triggers sexual arousal and the responses of both male and female to ... Keywords: Biological responses, Sexual Stimulation, Rape, Defence of Provocation, Criminal Law, ..... it all control over his emotions and action but also that, that feeling had an ... It is that which arouses, moves, calls forth, causes or occasions.

  13. European Council of Legal Medicine (ECLM) accreditation of forensic pathology services in Europe.

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    Mangin, P; Bonbled, F; Väli, M; Luna, A; Bajanowski, T; Hougen, H P; Ludes, B; Ferrara, D; Cusack, D; Keller, E; Vieira, N

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    Forensic experts play a major role in the legal process as they offer professional expert opinion and evidence within the criminal justice system adjudicating on the innocence or alleged guilt of an accused person. In this respect, medico-legal examination is an essential part of the investigation process, determining in a scientific way the cause(s) and manner of unexpected and/or unnatural death or bringing clinical evidence in case of physical, psychological, or sexual abuse in living people. From a legal perspective, these types of investigation must meet international standards, i.e., it should be independent, effective, and prompt. Ideally, the investigations should be conducted by board-certified experts in forensic medicine, endowed with a solid experience in this field, without any hierarchical relationship with the prosecuting authorities and having access to appropriate facilities in order to provide forensic reports of high quality. In this respect, there is a need for any private or public national or international authority including non-governmental organizations seeking experts qualified in forensic medicine to have at disposal a list of specialists working in accordance with high standards of professional performance within forensic pathology services that have been successfully submitted to an official accreditation/certification process using valid and acceptable criteria. To reach this goal, the National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME) has elaborated an accreditation/certification checklist which should be served as decision-making support to assist inspectors appointed to evaluate applicants. In the same spirit than NAME Accreditation Standards, European Council of Legal Medicine (ECLM) board decided to set up an ad hoc working group with the mission to elaborate an accreditation/certification procedure similar to the NAME's one but taking into account the realities of forensic medicine practices in Europe and restricted to post

  14. Medico legal aspects of self-injection of metallic mercury in cases of suicide or self-harming.

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    Da Broi, Ugo; Moreschi, Carlo; Colatutto, Antonio; Marcon, Barbara; Zago, Silvia

    2017-08-01

    Metallic mercury may be self-injected for suicidal or self-harm purposes or sometimes for superstitious or other inadvisable reasons. Local tissue or systemic consequences such as mercurialism can frequently occur in cases of subcutaneous or deep injection, while death due to pulmonary embolism and cardiac, brain, hepatic or renal toxicity may occur in cases of high dosage intravenous administration. The aim of this review is to focus on the diagnostic difficulties facing coroners and forensic pathologists when the courts require confirmation that evidence of self-injection of metallic mercury is the result of suicide or self-harming. Forensic examination performed on the corpses of victims who died in or out of hospital or on surviving injured or intoxicated victims showing signs of mercurialism, demands the careful evaluation of the death scene, of all related circumstances and of the clinical and autopsy data. Close interaction between forensic pathologists and toxicologists is also needed to identify and quantify mercury levels in blood, urine and tissue. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd and Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine. All rights reserved.

  15. O Brazil-Medico e as contribuições do pensamento médico-higienista para as bases científicas da educação física brasileira Brazil-Medico and the contributions of medical-hygienist thought to the scientific bases of Brazilian physical education

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    Maria Isabel Brandão de Souza Mendes

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    Full Text Available O final do século XIX e o início do XX foram emblemáticos para a 'cientificização' da educação física no Brasil. A presente investigação se direcionou para o Brazil-Medico no período de 1887-1923, com o objetivo de identificar as compreensões de corpo e saúde, buscando-se contribuições para as bases científicas da educação física brasileira.The end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth were emblematic in the 'scientifization' of physical education in Brazil. This examination of the journal Brazil-Medico during 1887-1923 seeks to identify views of the body and health as well as contributions to the scientific bases of physical education in Brazil.

  16. [Delegation of medico-administrative tasks : what do medical interns and secretaries think?

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    Castioni, Julien; Hagenbuch, Angélique; Tâche, Johann; Cappai, Milva; Jovanovic, Milica; Sartori, Claudio

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    The hospital activity of physicians in training mainly consists in direct contacts with patients, tasks indirectly linked to patients such as administration, as well as clinical and theoretical training. In our era of digitalization, an important administrative work load without any added medical value fills their daily chores. In parallel activities of medical secretaries are getting more partitioned, with their desks situated far from physicians' and tasks often limited to finalizing discharge letters. Added to multiple overtime, this reduces physicians' and secretaries' work satisfaction. This article describes the context and development of delegating medico-administrative tasks to secretaries in our department of internal medicine.

  17. Decisiones de financiamiento en pymes: ¿existen diferencias en función del tamaño y la forma legal?

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    Briozo, Anahí; Vigier, Hernán; Castillo, Natalia; Pesce, Gabriela; Speroni, Carolina

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    Se analiza si existen características diferenciales en las pequeñas y medianas empresas en función de su tamaño y de su forma legal. Se estudian en especial las decisiones de financiamiento, tomando como marco el enfoque de jerarquía financiera, trade-off y ciclo de vida. Empleando una muestra de empresas radicadas en la ciudad de Bahía Blanca (Argentina), se realizan test no paramétricos y test de independencia sobre las variables. Los resultados muestran que las empresas de mayor tamaño se ...

  18. Decisiones de financiamiento en pymes: ¿existen diferencias en función del tamaño y la forma legal?

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    Anahí Briozzo; Hernán Vigier; Natalia Castillo; Gabriela Pesce; M. Carolina Speroni

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    Se analiza si existen características diferenciales en las pequenas ˜ y medianas empresas en función de su tamano ˜ y de su forma legal. Se estudian en especial las decisiones de financiamiento, tomando como marco el enfoque de jerarquía financiera, trade-off y ciclo de vida. Empleando una muestra de empresas radicadas en la ciudad de Bahía Blanca (Argentina), se realizan test no paramétricos y test de independencia sobre las variables. Los resultados muestran que las empresas de mayor tamano...

  19. EL TURISMO RESIDENCIAL ¿UNA MANIFESTACIÓN DE NUEVOS TURISMOS Y NUEVOS COMPORTAMIENTOS TURÍSTICOS EN EL SIGLO XXI?

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    Pere A. Salvà Tomàs

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    Full Text Available El concepto de turismo residencial evoluciona desde su apreciación convencional con motivaciones parecidas al turismo de masas tradicional hacia una nueva aceptación que implica la creación de nuevos espacios de ocio alejados de sus territorios de origen. En esta nueva aceptación, que implica una alta movilidad humana residencial, es básica la búsqueda de un estilo de vida en la que es importante la autorrealización personal y un deseo de una mejor calidad de vida. Así el turismo residencial se conforma como una manifestación de los nuevos comportamientos turísticos en el siglo XXI.

  20. Policy and strategy of the Cuban Regulatory Organization for the establishment of the legal and regulation frame; Politica y estrategia del Organo Regulador Cubano para el establecimiento del marco legal y reglamentario

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    Arnau F, A.; Alonso G, I.; Sarabia M, I. [Centro Nacional de Seguridad Nuclear (Cuba)

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    The National Center of Nuclear Security, Cuban entity authorized to exercise the regulation functions and control of the security of the use of the nuclear energy and the accounting and control of the nuclear materials, has among its functions, to elaborate and to propose for its approval to the corresponding instances, the juridical, technical dispositions and of procedure in its competition sphere, what demands that in this sense clear guidelines exist to carry out this social mission. The fact of assuming this function demands the necessity of a Politics for the establishment of the legal and regulation frame that expresses in a coherent way the general lines on those that it behaves the elaboration of the standards that govern this activity, to reach the end in an efficient and effective way and consequently the adoption of a Strategy that frames the necessary actions that assure the one execution and development of the politics and the pursuit of the precise rules for an optimal result. The Politics for the establishment of the legal and regulation frame of the National Center of Nuclear Security is based on a group of general principles that mark the guidelines so that this activity is chord to the national juridical system, to the good ones international practices and the recommendations of the International Atomic Energy Agency appropriated to the national experience and the daily reality, being this a transparent and reconciled process in such a way that the addressee of these standards can contribute their recommendations to the ends of achieving an effective applicability of the legal and regulation frame that governs this activity in the country. The development and pursuit of these principles is sustained in a group of actions to the help of the strategy for the establishment of the legal and regulation frame, embracing the actions so much during the process of elaboration of the legal frame, its systematic revision, the publication and distribution

  1. Marco Denevi y sus "Falsificaciones"

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    David Lagmanovich

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    Full Text Available Se estudia un libro del escritor argentino Marco Denevi: Falsificaciones (1966, constituido por textos brevísimos. La brevedad y el fragmentarismo, característica de esa escritura, no impiden descubrir los mecanismos de estructuración del libro. Se presta especial atención a las características de la escritura fragmentaria en detalle un "microrrelato". The book od Argentine writer Falsificaciones made up of extremely short texts is here subject of critical study. Briefness and fragmentation, characteristics of this type of writing, cannot entirely hide the mechanism of literary structuring. Special attention is given to the features of fragmentary writing and a detailed study of a micro story is provided.

  2. Un nuevo modelo urbano

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    Duque Escobar, Gonzalo

    2012-01-01

    Urge un nuevo modelo de ciudad para para resolver la integración, abordando temas sustantivos como: el agua, las cuencas, la inversión, los servicios públicos, y la movilidad, además de la vocación de los entes territoriales y de la ciudad región como elementos clave para decidir sobre la asignación de las funciones metropolitanas y usos del suelo en el Eje Perera-Manizales

  3. Funciones y estructura de ingeniería social del nuevo gobierno local

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    José Vargas Hernández

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    Full Text Available Este trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar las funciones y estructura de ingeniería social del nuevo gobierno local para dar respuesta a las demandas sociales, promover el desarrollo y regular los nuevos servicios públicos. A partir de una delimitación de los conceptos de soberanía y autonomía del nuevo gobierno local, se reconfigura una nueva estructura de gobernabilidad de los gobiernos locales que implica una mayor participación ciudadana en los procesos de toma de decisiones y la formulación de las políticas públicas, mediante la facilitación de procesos de descentralización de funciones y mecanismos coordinadores de servicios públicos. Finalmente se analizan las implicaciones en la gobernabilidad de la ingeniería social del nuevo gobierno local.

  4. Implicaciones del marco teórico de lo imaginario en la Psicología Social

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    Teresa Aracena Vicente

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    Full Text Available En el presente estudio abordaremos dos de las principales concepciones sobre los mecanismos implicados en la construcción significativa del mundo. Hablamos de la Teoría de las Representaciones Sociales (TRS, formulada desde la psicología, y del marco teórico de lo imaginario, formulado principalmente desde la antropología y la filosofía. Procederemos exponiendo, primero, la TRS y, posteriormente, los acercamientos al marco teórico de lo imaginario desde diferentes disciplinas, para señalar las aportaciones que ofrece este último a la psicología social, aportaciones éstas que complementan las de la TRS. Así, este estudio tiene como objetivos realizar un análisis teórico de la TRS y del marco teórico de lo imaginario y especificar las contribuciones e implicaciones del marco teórico de lo imaginario a la psicología social (y, más concretamente, a la psicología cultural de modo a observar cómo el concepto de imaginario social incluye y trasciende al de representación social(RS. Consideraremos las implicaciones ontológicas, epistemológicas, metodológicas y para la salud de la utilización del marco teórico de lo imaginario en la psicología cultural. En este sentido, propondremos la adopción de dicho concepto por la psicología, considerando que el mismo es fundamental por su capacidad explicativa, comprensiva, interpretativa y crítica.

  5. Las Uniones temporales de empresas en el nuevo PGC.

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    Arimany Serrat, Núria

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    El lnstituto de Contabilidad y Auditoria de Cuentas (lCAC) aprovo el 16 de noviembre de 2007 el nuevo Plan General de Contabilidad (Real Decreto 1514/2007), con caracter general (PGC 07); y el de las Pequeñas y Medianas Empresas, junto con los criterios contables especificos para las microempresas (Real Decreto 1515/2007). EI articulo que se presenta centra su atencion en los cambios experimentados en la redaccion del nuevo PGC 07 con referencia a los negocios conjuntos, en convergencia con l...

  6. Competitive Legal Professionals’ use of Technology in Legal Practice and Legal Research

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    Full Text Available Advances in the information and communication technologies have led to the availability of a range of primary and secondary legal research publications online via the Internet, rather than on other storing devices such as compact discs or publications in the print media. Not only has information and communication technology (ICT impacted on the availability of legal information resources, but its effects are also noticed in various law-related areas such as legal practice management, legal education, corporate governance and the law per se. The question addressed by this article is whether the application of ICTs has an effect on the practice of law, and specifically whether information and knowledge management affects the processes of legal research in modern legal practice. Various issues are considered in this regard, including what the concept of knowledge management (KM entails in a law firm and what the current KM trends in South African law firms are. The article investigates global trends in the application of ICTs for legal research purposes, what the specific applications of KM in support of legal research may be, how information technology applications and KM systems and strategies can support the legal research process, and what the benefits of KM are to legal research. It finally discusses the impact technology has had on the skills required of competitive legal professionals.

  7. Chillida y la realidad : ¿un nuevo romanticismo?

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    Full Text Available El arte del romanticismo es la expresión de una sensibilidad que se libera de las reglas establecidas con el fin de buscar nuevas fuentes de inspiración. Esto lleva al artista a buscar nuevos caminos a través de la naturaleza. A finales del siglo XX el hombre vive una situación de vértigo. El arte surge como una vía de transfiguración. Eduardo Chillida parte de la realidad. La relee y la expresa de un modo nuevo. Agua, luz, espacio, sonido; hombre y libertad; espíritu y materia son de nuevo descubiertas y manifestadas en su obra.Romanticize art was a way of sensibility without regulation; It wanted to look for new inspiration ways. The artist looked into the Nature. At the end of XXth century, the man lives a difficult situation.The art borns as a way of change. Eduardo Chillida begins in the reality. He studies it and he makes it in a new way. Water, light, space, sound; Man and liberty; mind and matter are discovered again in his work.

  8. Marco Civil: Liberdade e o Futuro da Internet

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    Full Text Available Este trabalho tem como objetivo expôr de forma simples e objetiva uma correlação entre a obra escrita por Julian Assange e o projeto de Lei 12.965/14, conhecida como Marco Civil da Internet. Trazendo um alerta a sociedade sobre o que está acontecendo no meio de comunicação/informação, a Internet.

  9. Plínio Marcos: uma biografia

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    Esta é uma biografia de Plínio Marcos, dramaturgo santista nascido em 1935. Tem um pouco de biografia intelectual, um pouco de biografia crítica. Mas é sobretudo a vida de um homem de teatro. O trabalho se abre com uma discussão teórica, em face da qual procuro situar essa abordagem de uma vida. Como toda biografia, prevaleceu aqui o interesse pela disposição cronológica dos fatos, com paradas para tratar de certos aspectos importantes, a vida de jornalista, a peças de maior sucesso. No prime...

  10. Introducción al urbanismo sustentable o nuevo urbanismo

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    El urbanismo sustentable o nuevo urbanismo, es una manera actual de hacer a las ciudades sustentables, en lo referente a los aspectos urbanos. El diseño ecológicamente responsable es una herramienta muy útil en la creación de Arquitectura Sustentable, por tanto, en el nuevo urbanismo o urbanismo sustentable, también se toma como base el diseño ecológicamente responsable, hacia el ámbito urbano. La mayoría de las ciudades importantes de la actualidad son metrópolis que han crecido de manera de...

  11. Theories About Blood Coagulation in the Writings of Ancient Greek Medico-philosophers.

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    Tsoucalas, Gregory; Karamanou, Marianna; Papaioannou, Theodoros G; Sgantzos, Markos

    2017-01-01

    Anaxagoras and Empedocles both established during the Presocratic era a pioneering theory for the creation of everything in the universe. Macrocosmos' impact through the "Four Elements Theory" explained the conglomeration of the blood inside the vessels. Hippocrates, who instituted the "Four Humours theory", clearly understood blood's coagulation and introduced the term "thrombus". Plato, Aristotle and Galen, all engaged with the clotting phenomenon trying to interpret it. After eons of inquiry, it was the innovative thinking of the ancient Greek medico philosophers that set the scientific bases towards the understanding of a process that had been analyzing until our era. Copyright© Bentham Science Publishers; For any queries, please email at epub@benthamscience.org.

  12. Fronteras e identificaciones nacionales: diálogos desde el Cono Sur

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    Full Text Available Grimson propone revisitar conceptos sociológicos como “identidades, fronteras o territorios” para adecuar un nuevo marco conceptual a la realidad del Cono Sur de América Latina.

  13. Decisiones de financiamiento en pymes: ¿existen diferencias en función del tamaño y la forma legal?

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    Anahí Briozzo

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    Full Text Available Se analiza si existen características diferenciales en las pequeñas y medianas empresas en función de su tamaño y de su forma legal. Se estudian en especial las decisiones de financiamiento, tomando como marco el enfoque de jerarquía financiera, trade-off y ciclo de vida. Empleando una muestra de empresas radicadas en la ciudad de Bahía Blanca (Argentina, se realizan test no paramétricos y test de independencia sobre las variables. Los resultados muestran que las empresas de mayor tamaño se endeudan en mayor medida, mientras que las empresas que adoptan formas legales con responsabilidad limitada se diferencian en un mayor uso de créditos con garantías reales. Estos resultados señalan la necesidad de diseñar políticas de apoyo focalizadas hacia los distintos segmentos de empresas

  14. Decisiones de financiamiento en pymes: ¿existen diferencias en función del tamaño y la forma legal?

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    Anahí Briozzo

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    Full Text Available Se analiza si existen características diferenciales en las pequeñas y medianas empresas en función de su tamaño y de su forma legal. Se estudian en especial las decisiones de financiamiento, tomando como marco el enfoque de jerarquía financiera, trade-off y ciclo de vida. Empleando una muestra de empresas radicadas en la ciudad de Bahía Blanca (Argentina, se realizan test no paramétricos y test de independencia sobre las variables. Los resultados muestran que las empresas de mayor tamaño se endeudan en mayor medida, mientras que las empresas que adoptan formas legales con responsabilidad limitada se diferencian en un mayor uso de créditos con garantías reales. Estos resultados señalan la necesidad de diseñar políticas de apoyo focalizadas hacia los distintos segmentos de empresas.

  15. ¿Protagonistas travestidos o personajes disfrazados? : contingencias y dilemas del posfeminismo...

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    Full Text Available Según Alice Jardine, "los discursos claves en Occidente filosofía, religión, historia han tenido que confrontar, desde el siglo XIX, un nuevo espacio que se niega a permanecer silencioso dentro de su marco de representación". Que este nuevo espacio es femenino , nadie lo duda, ni que "el sujeto-mujer se convierte allí en una suerte de filtro para cuestionarlo"

  16. El nuevo ateísmo

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    Full Text Available ¿Hay hoy razones filosóficas fuertes y plausibles para ser ateo o, en todo caso, para rechazar la religión? «El Nuevo Ateísmo» ofrece argumentos propios de una razón científica neopositivista, para criticar las creencias religiosas. Sus autores lo hacen aduciendo logros actuales de las ciencias, sin tener nunca en cuenta sus límites intrínsecos y mostrando gran desconocimiento de la interpretación de las creencias religiosas por parte de las comunidades que las profesan. Se muestran especialmente críticos con lo que consideran el potencial de violencia de dichas creencias. Su difusión no hay que buscarla en sus aportaciones teóricas, sino en haber generado un movimiento cultural en la web, con una influencia inimaginable por los ateos clásicos. Dialogar críticamente con el Nuevo Ateísmo requiere poner a punto los argumentos filosóficos en el contexto de la cultura científica actual. En particular, la cuestión del naturalismo, difundida como naturalización de la espiritualidad, «el problema realmente duro» de las neurociencias.

  17. Marco Ramoni: an appreciation of academic achievement

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    2011-01-01

    We review the scholarly career of our colleague, Marco Ramoni, who died unexpectedly in the summer of 2010. His work mainly explored the development and application of Bayesian techniques to model clinical, public health, and bioinformatics questions. His contributions have led to improvements in our ability to model behavior that evolves in time, to explore systematic relationships among large sets of covariates, and to tease out the meaning of data on the role of genetic variation in the genesis of important diseases. PMID:21474623

  18. Medición de Activos Biológicos en Marcos Conceptuales Comparados

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    Full Text Available En este ensayo, no solamente pretendemos seguir probando que las NCP FAPCE (Argentina son la consecuencia de un criterio absolutamente normativista y por lo tanto restrictivo y limitado, mientras que las NIIF y las FASB se fundamentan en un paradigma basado en la “utilidad para el decisor”, o sea en las necesidades del usuario de la información. Lo que también concluiremos es que esta esencial diferencia es la causa por la cual el amplio criterio aplicado por la NIIF 41 –Activos biológicos– y la armoniosa coherencia con su Marco Conceptual, le permiten al Sistema de Información Contable lograr su principal objetivo, cual es mostrar “valor real” para todos los Activos. Por el contrario, y para que las NCP FACPCE argentinas puedan ser realmente un sistema de información útil, y en el caso especifico de la RT22 FAPCE –Activos biológicos–, ésta debe apartarse de su Marco conceptual para poder valuar los Activos Biológicos destinados a ser utilizados en el proceso productivo a un valor corriente (considerado razonablemente representativo de su valor real puesto que de respetar el Marco Conceptual debería valuarlos a valor histórico.

  19. Marco de trabajo para gestionar las competencias laborales

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    Franklin Sandoval

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    Full Text Available En este artículo se presenta un marco de trabajo innovador diseñado y desarrollado para posibilitar la realización de estudios inherentes con la gestión por competencia en los entornos laborales de la Administración Pública Venezolana (APV. Se analizaron los principales aspectos involucrados con la Gestión del Talento Humano (GTH, que se basan en la competencia laboral, las cuales mediante su desarrollo efectivo se constituyen en fuente principal para impulsar el logro de los objetivos empresariales orientados en responder las necesidades del entorno laboral y las exigencias del mercado. El desarrollo, se fundamento en el dominio del conocimiento de las competencias laborales y perfiles de cargos que estructura el proceso de gestión sobre tres actividades: 1 identificación, 2 desarrollo y 3 evaluación. El método utilizado, fue proyectivo y permitió obtener un marco de trabajo en el que se describe una metodología, la cual establece formalmente las reglas, estándares, así como secuencias de pasos para la caracterización de la competencia laboral y, sobre todo, la gestión que promueve las tareas y roles para la toma de decisiones.

  20. El alumno de bellas artes ante un nuevo paradigma

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    Mayor Iborra, José; Morgado Aguirre, Borja; Tejeda Martín, Mª Isabel

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    Este nuevo paradigma que nos enfrenta a un modelo cuantitativo y cualitativo de la enseñanza-aprendizaje, perturba y enmaraña los modos sobre métodos anteriores a la reforma de la enseñanza superior. El papel del alumno, ahora, como actor responsable, en gran medida de su aprendizaje, se concreta y define en el crédito ECTS, otorgándole este nuevo rol. En las Facultades de Bellas Artes, la docencia es eminentemente práctica. La teoría, va implícita junto al alumno en su puesto de trabajo, med...

  1. Hacia un Marco Conceptual Común sobre Trazabilidad en la Cadena de Suministro de Alimentos

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    Dora Lucia Rincón Ballesteros

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    Full Text Available Contexto: La ausencia de un marco conceptual común sobre trazabilidad en la cadena de suministro de alimentos (CSA, impide su desarrollo de manera unificada. Dicha ausencia ha generado confusión y no ha permitido evidenciar las ventajas sociales y empresariales de implementarla; además, no contar con un marco común en países como Colombia, impide el desarrollo adecuado de políticas públicas. Método: Se realizó una revisión sistemática de la literatura en cuatro etapas: protocolo de búsqueda para consultar artículos de las bases Scopus, Science Direct, ISI Web; revisión y selección de artículos relevantes, extracción de datos en tablas y formatos diseñados para dicho fin y elaboración del marco conceptual. Resultados: Se propone un marco conceptual común que abarca los siguientes aspectos, definición de trazabilidad, características y propiedades, esquemas, unidad de recurso trazable, motivadores y sistemas de captura; para el diseño e implementación de un sistema de trazabilidad en la CSA. Se evalúa la legislación internacional y nacional y se establecen elementos para su implementación. Se ejemplifica el marco conceptual propuesto para la cadena de suministro cárnica que permitiría orientar la implementación de sistemas de trazabilidad en CSA en Colombia. Conclusiones: El marco conceptual para la trazabilidad de CSA puede ser una guía para la implementación y desarrollo en las cadenas alimentarias en el contexto colombiano. Una implementación en cadenas agropecuarias permitirá la diferenciación de origen, lo que puede ser un factor competitivo para aquellos productores que realicen buenas prácticas agrícolas, así como capacidades logísticas efectivas por los demás agentes de la CSA, el efecto de su implementación debe evaluarse en especial en la incidencia sobre posicionamiento de marca y el establecimiento de precios justos, como efecto del rastreo y seguimiento del sistema de trazabilidad. Idioma: Español

  2. Law 16.832 substitute the article 2nd decree-law 14.694 establish a new legal regulatory framework for the national electric system, and it create the Executor Unit Regulatory Unit for Electric Power,that will depend directly of the Executive Power

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    The article 27 of Marco's legal Regulatory for the National Electric System it prohibits the use of Nuclear Energy in the territory of the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay and it could not to carry out contracts of electric power supply with nuclear generators neither with foreign generators whose plants contaminate the national territory [es

  3. Post-mortem diagnostics in cases of sepsis. Part 1. Aetiology, epidemiology and microbiological tests

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    Full Text Available Clinical practice has an effective methodology of diagnostic procedures to be followed in cases of sepsis. However, there are as yet no corresponding standards of action in post-mortem diagnostics. The scope of examinations is limited to an autopsy and histopathological tests. This situation may lead to errors in medico-legal opinions on the cause of death and in the assessment of appropriateness of medical procedures. In cases of suspected sepsis, medico-legal investigations require obtaining detailed information about the circumstances of death (including symptoms and results of intravital examinations before autopsy is performed, as well as sterile collection of specimens for microbiological tests and interpretation of their results on the basis of knowledge of epidemiology, pathophysiology and clinical progression of sepsis.

  4. The Work of Ambroise Tardieu: The First Definitive Description of Child Abuse

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    Roche, A.J.; Fortin, G.; Labbe, J.; Brown, J.; Chadwick, D.

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    The first important monograph describing the battered child syndrome was written in 1860 by Ambroise Tardieu, a French forensic physician. Here is a translation of his article, published in the Annales d'hygiene publique et de medecine legale, with the title ''Etude medico-legale sur les sevices et mauvais traitements exerces sur des enfants.''…

  5. Marco normativo e institucional del nuevo derecho de participación y las TIC: análisis desde las experiencias autonómicas

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    El aprovechamiento de las posibilidades que las TIC proporcionan a los ciudadanos para participar en los procesos de toma de decisiones de los gobiernos constituye un debate de primer orden en el contexto actual. Estas nuevas formas de relación entre la ciudadanía y los poderes públicos parecen promover una evolución de un sistema democrático representativo a una democracia conversacional y abierta que la complementa y perfecciona. El propósito del presente trabajo es analizar la progresiva asunción normativa, así como la aplicación y los efectos políticos y sociales, de la participación electrónica en las recientes estrategias impulsadas en el ámbito autonómico. Estas reflexiones son una aportación parcial a la realidad global que están generando las TIC, dado que aquí se estudian las iniciativas institucionales, sin perjuicio del surgimiento de otros movimientos que se vienen impulsando desde la propia ciudadanía y al margen de este marco institucionalizado. La conclusión principal de este repaso es que las TIC son un instrumento más para profundizar en el derecho de participación, entendiendo que la e-democracia consiste ante todo en democracia.

  6. Infomedicina: el nuevo paradigma

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    Full Text Available La revolución de la informática y de las comunicaciones representan para la ciencia biomédica un nuevo y esplendoroso panorama. El ejercicio de la profesión médica no es sino un manejo ordenado de la información y, en esencia, los servicios de salud son sistemas de información. La informática es un poderoso amplificador intelectual que permite un razonamiento médico más objetivo y racional.

  7. Promoción de la lectura en el marco educativo

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    Full Text Available La investigación ofrece una visión teóricopráctica de la promoción de la lectura en un marco educativo concreto. Por una parte, se muestra el estado de la cuestión centrándose en el marco legislativo, la investigación y la promoción de la lectura virtual y, más en concreto, en el caso del País Valenciano, donde se ubica la investigación práctica llevada a cabo. A partir de la UNESCO, la LOE y los planes de lectura se plantea una panorámica de la legislación actual. Diferentes estudios realizados por especialistas en la materia enriquecen la visión y con las plataformas virtuales se completa la descripción teórica planteada. Por otra parte, se realiza un trabajo de campo cualitativo con el objetivo de evaluar los beneficios de la web, el blog y el wiki en el aula para la promoción lectora durante el curso escolar 2010-2011 con tres grupos de tres centros diferentes. El trabajo consiste en observar la aplicación de las plataformas digitales para la promoción de la lectura en el aula y en analizar su utilidad a través del estudio de casos, el grupo de discusión y la triangulación. La investigación concluye con unas reflexiones que invitan al lector a acercarse a la promoción de la lectura en el marco educativo con tecnologías virtuales.

  8. Uranium-series isotopes transport in surface, vadose and ground waters at San Marcos uranium bearing basin, Chihuahua, Mexico

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    Burillo Montúfar, Juan Carlos; Reyes Cortés, Manuel; Reyes Cortés, Ignacio Alfonso; Espino Valdez, Ma. Socorro; Hinojosa de la Garza, Octavio Raúl; Nevárez Ronquillo, Diana Pamela; Herrera Peraza, Eduardo; Rentería Villalobos, Marusia; Montero Cabrera, María Elena

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    In the U deposit area at San Marcos in Chihuahua, Mexico, hydrogeological and climatic conditions are very similar to the Nopal I, Peña Blanca U deposit, 50 km away. The physicochemical parameters and activity concentrations of several 238 U-series isotopes have been determined in surface, vadose and ground waters at San Marcos. The application of some published models to activity ratios of these isotopes has allowed assessing the order of magnitude of transport parameters in the area. Resulting retardation factors in San Marcos area are R f238 ≈ 250–14,000 for the unsaturated zone and ≈110–1100 for the saturated zone. The results confirm that the mobility of U in San Marcos is also similar to that of the Nopal I U deposit and this area can be considered as a natural analog of areas suitable for geologic repositories of high-level nuclear waste.

  9. Forensic Medicine in South Africa: Associations between Medical Practice and Legal Case Progression and Outcomes in Female Murders

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    Abrahams, Naeemah; Jewkes, Rachel; Martin, Lorna J.; Mathews, Shanaaz

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    Background Forensic medicine has been largely by-passed by the tide of health systems research and evidence based medicine. Murder victims form a central part of forensic medical examiners' case load, and women murdered by intimate partners are an important subgroup, representing the most severe form and consequence of intimate partner violence. Our aim was to describe the epidemiology of female murder in South Africa (by intimate and non-intimate partners); and to describe and compare autopsy findings, forensic medical management of cases and the contribution of these to legal outcomes. Methods We did a retrospective national study in a proportionate random sample of 25 medico-legal laboratories to identify all homicides in 1999 of women aged 14 years and over. Data were abstracted from the mortuary file and autopsy report, and collected from a police interview. Findings In 21.5% of cases the perpetrator was convicted. Factors associated with a conviction for the female murders included having a history of intimate partner violence 1.18 (95%CI: 0.16–2.20), weapon recovered 1.36 (95% CI:0.58–2.15) and a detective visiting the crime scene 1.57 (95% CI:0.14–3.00). None of the forensic medical activities increased the likelihood of a conviction. Conclusion The findings raise important questions about the role of forensic medicine in these cases. PMID:22194868

  10. Forensic medicine in South Africa: associations between medical practice and legal case progression and outcomes in female murders.

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    Full Text Available BACKGROUND: Forensic medicine has been largely by-passed by the tide of health systems research and evidence based medicine. Murder victims form a central part of forensic medical examiners' case load, and women murdered by intimate partners are an important subgroup, representing the most severe form and consequence of intimate partner violence. Our aim was to describe the epidemiology of female murder in South Africa (by intimate and non-intimate partners; and to describe and compare autopsy findings, forensic medical management of cases and the contribution of these to legal outcomes. METHODS: We did a retrospective national study in a proportionate random sample of 25 medico-legal laboratories to identify all homicides in 1999 of women aged 14 years and over. Data were abstracted from the mortuary file and autopsy report, and collected from a police interview. FINDINGS: In 21.5% of cases the perpetrator was convicted. Factors associated with a conviction for the female murders included having a history of intimate partner violence 1.18 (95%CI: 0.16-2.20, weapon recovered 1.36 (95% CI:0.58-2.15 and a detective visiting the crime scene 1.57 (95% CI:0.14-3.00. None of the forensic medical activities increased the likelihood of a conviction. CONCLUSION: The findings raise important questions about the role of forensic medicine in these cases.

  11. El proceso de renovación urbana en La Boca: organizaciones barriales entre nuevos usos y viejos lugares

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    Full Text Available The work analyzes the perspective that the local actors have about the process of urban renewal that is developed in the neighborhood of La Boca and of its incidence in the preservation and transformation of the neighborhood cultural heritage. La Boca is a neighborhood in the City of Buenos Aires (Argentina in which traditionally sectors of low income settled. In that framework, the points of view of three groups of neighborhood leaders are revised: those that head traditional social organizations, the referents of soup kitchens and the leaders of organizations of protesting background. The process that is developed in the neighborhood has installed, in places tied to its historical identity, new uses that re-shape the sense of those public spaces. Old places have now a renewed way of defining that typical use that was always the tourism in La Boca. In fact, a good part of those new uses have not been decided, nor do they involve people from La Boca, and they introduce new actors and logics in this neighborhood scene. In this context, some institutions are in favor of transformations; others are against, and a big part do not take on a clear voice in the debate.//Este trabajo se propone analizar la perspectiva que los actores locales tienen del proceso de renovación urbana en el barrio de La Boca y de su incidencia sobre la preservación y transformación del patrimonio cultural barrial. La Boca es un barrio de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires en el que tradicionalmente habitan familias de bajos ingresos. En este marco, son revisados los puntos de vista de tres grupos de dirigentes barriales: aquellos que lideran organizaciones sociales tradicionales del barrio, los referentes de comedores comunitarios y los líderes de organizaciones de perfil reivindicativo. El proceso de renovación que se está desarrollando en el barrio de La Boca instaló en lugares ligados a su identidad histórica, nuevos usos que reconfiguran el sentido de esos espacios p

  12. Intoxication by mining revenues. San Marcos district politics after twelve years of Antamina’s presence

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    This paper describes and analyses the changes in local politicstaken place in the district of San Marcos (Huari, Ancash) associatedwith the arrival of the Canon Minero – a fraction of taxes paid byAntamina mining company to the Peruvian State. Canon Minero hasincreased sudden and spectacularly the municipality’s funds so muchthat currently San Marcos in «ones of the Peruvian richest districts».The paper pays attention to the municipal elections of 2006 and theimplementation of the Plan Piloto...

  13. RÉGIMEN ESPECIAL DE RECONOCIMIENTO DE LA PERSONALIDAD JURÍDICA DE DERECHO PÚBLICO EN LA LEY N19.638: MARCO LEGAL APLICABLE A LAS IGLESIAS CATÓLICA Y ORTODOXA The 19,638 act special regime for the recognition of public law personality: Legal regulation applicable to chatolic and orthodox chruches

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    Full Text Available La Ley N° 19.638, sobre Constitución Jurídica de las iglesias y Organizaciones Religiosas, reguló civilmente a las organizaciones religiosa chilenas, sobre la base de una distinción fundamental entre aquellas entidades preexistentes en el goce de la personalidad jurídica de derecho público y las que, a partir de la fecha de entrada en vigor de la ley, manifestaran su pretensión de adquirirla. Dicha diferencia, contempló el establecimiento de un régimen general, aplicable a todas las organizaciones y grupos religiosos que no gozaren de dicha personalidad de derecho público al momento de la entrada en vigor de la ley, y un régimen especial, consistente en el reconocimiento de la preexistencia de esta calidad jurídica, en favor de aquellas entidades que, al momento de la entrada en vigencia de la ley, ya gozaban de ella, vale decir, la iglesia Católica, apostólica y romana y a la iglesia Ortodoxa, tributaria del Patriarcado de Antioquia. El propósito del trabajo tiene por objetivo exponer este régimen jurídico especial, precisando el marco normativo aplicable, fijando sus fuentes directas y el contexto material de su producción, determinando sus efectos y anticipando una solución coherente a las cuestiones interpretativas emergentes. En particular, analiza el estatuto de la iglesia católica desde la perspectiva del Derecho eclesiástico del Estado de Chile, proponiendo una lectura actual de su situación jurídica, que intenta resolver una de las cuestiones más debatidas durante la tramitación de este cuerpo normativo y cuyos efectos aún perduran en el presente.The 19,638 Act, which deals with the incorporation of churches and religious organizations, regulated the Chilean religious organizations from a civil law perspective by distinguishing those organizations that already had a public law personality and those that could acquire this personality from there on. This distinction supposed establishing, on the one hand, a

  14. Discrimination of legal entities: Phenomenological characteristics and legal protection

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    Full Text Available Their social nature encourages people to associate and jointly achieve the goals that they would not be able to achieve individually. Legal entities are created as one of the legal modalities of that association, as separate entities that have their own legal personality independent of the subjectivity of their members. Legal entities are holders of some human rights, depending on the nature of the right, including the right to non-discrimination. All mechanisms envisaged for legal protection against discrimination in the national legislation are available to legal persons. On the other hand, the situation is quite different in terms of access to international forums competent to deal with cases of discrimination. Legal entities do not have access to some international forums, while they may have access to others under the same conditions prescribed for natural persons. Legal entities may be exposed to various forms of direct and indirect discrimination both in the private and in the public sphere of social relations. Phenomenological characteristics of discrimination against legal persons are not substantially different from discrimination against individuals. There are no significant differences regarding the application of discrimination test in cases of discrimination of legal entities as compared to the use of this test in cases involving discrimination of natural persons or groups of persons. Legal entities may be discriminated against on the basis of characteristics of their legal personality, such as those which are objective elements of the legal entity and part of its legal identity. Discrimination of legal entities may be based on personal characteristics of its members (i.e. people who make a personal essence of a legal entity because their characteristics can be 'transferred' to the legal entity and become part of its identity. Legal entities should also be protected from this special form of transferred (associative discrimination.

  15. Las clínicas jurídicas y la identidad del jurista: reflexiones filosófico-jurídicas a partir del debate italiano | Legal Clinics And The Identity Of The Jurist: A Legal-Philosophical Perspective From The Italian Landscape

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    Full Text Available Resumen: Si bien en Italia el debate sobre las clínicas jurídicas está en una fase inicial, cada vez hay un mayor número de universidades que están poniendo en marcha iniciativas vinculadas a tal fenómeno emergente. Ello permite plantearse nuevas cuestiones, en especial aquellas relacionadas con las clínicas, pero también es posible reconfigurar algunos de los temas “clásicos” y fundamentales de la filosofía del derecho. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo apuntar algunos de tales aspectos. Así tras una reconstrucción del marco general del debate, me detendré sobre los temas principales de la experiencia clínica, esto es la formación del jurista y la tensión por alcanzar la justicia social. Abstract: Although the Italian debate concerning legal clinics is at the beginning, a growing number of Law Schools is starting to explore this approach to legal education. As a consequence, new topics specifically concerning legal clinics arise, while others – more “traditional” for legal-philosophical experts – need to be reconfigured and re-articulated. This essay aims at addressing some of the latter aspects: once the terms of the debate have been reconstructed, I will consider two of the main topics of the clinical experience, namely the jurist’s formation and the tension towards social justice outcomes.

  16. Pequeña historia de un proyecto utópico: el Movimiento del Nuevo Cine y Video Boliviano y su Revista Imagen

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    Full Text Available En el marco de una investigación más amplia que releva, describe y analiza las prácticas de producción audiovisual en La Paz, Bolivia, entre 1978 y 1989, el presente trabajo se centra en historiar el proyecto editorial Imagen: una revista de cine que publicó el Movimiento del Nuevo Cine y Video Boliviano durante la segunda mitad de la década del ochenta. Sin tradición local en lo que refiere a publicaciones dedicadas al cine, Imagen fue una iniciativa autogestiva y autofinanciada, que funcionó con una frecuencia y formato variable, y sirvió como foro de discusión sobre temas específicos del quehacer local, vehículo de difusión de actividades del Movimiento, microespacio de formación, medio de circulación de convocatorias y concursos, y herramienta de articulación entre distintas propuestas. El trabajo explica su devenir histórico, describe sus caracteres generales y perfil editorial, da cuenta de los actores intervinientes y sus formas de organización, y señala las condiciones de posibilidad, alcances y limitaciones del proyecto.

  17. Nuevos roles de los gobiernos locales en la implementación de políticas públicas: Gobernabilidad territorial y competitividad global

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    Full Text Available Se analiza la emergencia de un nuevo paradigma que determina roles diferenciados y contrapuestos a los esquemas clásicos vigentes en los gobiernos locales, particularmente en las regiones metropolitanas, desarrollados como resultado de tendencias globales. Tales cambios, provenientes de la economía, la mercantilización de los bienes públicos y la liberalización e integración de los mercados, afectan los diseños institucionales tradicionales, que les otorgan competencias delimitadas y subordinadas a los gobiernos locales en el marco de un modelo soberanista centrado en el Estado-Nación. Con la globalización, este esquema ha cambiado y hoy los gobiernos locales asumen en las grandes ciudades nuevas competencias, las cuales corresponden a la emergencia de nodos metropolitanos que se articulan con los mercados globales y con dinámicas de reconfiguración de flujos económicos, políticos, sociales y demográficos. Este proceso ocurre en términos de redes de ciudades y de integración de regiones con esquemas asimétricos de concentración de recursos y poder, modificando el mapa del desarrollo territorial.

  18. El Desarrollo de Nuevos Servicios: el caso de CorreosPaq

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    El objetivo de este trabajo es describir y analizar el nacimiento de un nuevo servicio en el seno de Correos, la empresa estatal de servicio postal y paquetería doméstica en España. Su nuevo servicio, llamado CorreosPaq, consiste en unas taquillas de almacenamiento de paquetes situadas en lugares clave de afluencia de personas, que permiten flexibilidad en la recogida sin estar pendiente de la llegada del repartidor. Para ello se lleva a cabo un estudio de caso y las averiguaciones se contras...

  19. Media Art Wiki. Uso de Wikis para la enseñanza interdisciplinar y multimedia del arte de los nuevos medios de comunicación en entornos virtuales de aprendizaje

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    Full Text Available Este capítulo expone y analiza una experiencia piloto de uso de Wikis para la enseñanza de las prácticas artísticas vinculadas a los nuevos medios de comunicación digital. El denominado "Media Art Wiki" constituye un recurso para la enseñanza del Arte y la Estética de los nuevos medios en un contexto de enseñanza-aprendizaje virtual como es la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC. Los objetivos iniciales del proyecto consistieron en generar un entorno dinámico de documentación multimedia de las prácticas de Arte de los nuevos medios, y a su vez, que ese espacio de contenidos abiertos pudiera alimentarse de la acción participativa y colaborativa de los estudiantes de las diferentes asignaturas implicadas, contribuyendo de este modo a un enfoque interdisciplinar de la materia común. El Media Art Wiki pretende innovar dentro del aula virtual en cuatro aspectos diferentes: proceso, formato, estructura y contenidos tratando de responder asimismo a un planteamiento pedagógico, que vincule cada una de las actividades implicadas en el Wiki con varios programas y asignaturas. En este capítulo intentaremos dar cuenta de las implicaciones del uso de este tipo de herramientas en la enseñanza universitaria, estructurando el texto en diferentes apartados que, por un lado, trazan el contexto a partir del cual surgió el proyecto, sus necesidades, objetivos y motivaciones dentro del marco teórico del aprendizaje significativo- y el contexto -modelo de enseñanza-aprendizaje- de la UOC. Por otro lado procedemos a la descripción técnica y de contenido del proyecto, así como el diseño de la estrategia didáctica y de las actividades a desarrollar por los estudiantes a corto y medio plazo. Finalmente exponemos la evaluación de dicha experiencia desde la perspectiva de los docentes y los estudiantes para llegar a plantear nuestras conclusiones y posibilidades de desarrollos de futuro.

  20. Los marcos legales de la islamización: el procedimiento judicial entre cristianos arabizados y mozárabes

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    Full Text Available This article deals with the study of changes in the Hispanic Canonic Collection, compiled in Arabic in a manuscript copied in the 11th Century, in order to adapt it to an environment where Islamic law was the rule. Lawsuit requirements were therefore different from the ones necessary during Visigothic times. The arrangement of the Collection included canons from other councils of the Church, not quoted in Latin versions. These show a series of social and legal developments that prove the increasing Arabization of Christians living in Islamic territories. At the same time, these canons make a difference with the transmission of the Collection in the Christian kingdoms of Northern Iberia.

  1. Medico-legal documentation South African Police Services forms

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    be overly time consuming, and they may also feel intimidated ... practitioner to achieve this is by proper examination of victims and/or ... able to prove that it was safe for the patient to be observed in .... suspicion thereof with respect to a mentally disabled person, ... except for the right to know the human immunodeficiency.

  2. Computed tomography in dental implantology: medico-legal implications.

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    Scribano, Emanuele; Ascenti, Giorgio; Mazziotti, Silvio; Blandino, Alfredo; Racchiusa, Silvio; Gualniera, Patrizia

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    Diagnostic imaging plays an important role in both the planning of dental implants and the follow-up evaluation of the procedure. It is widely known that computed tomography (CT) together with Dentascan software is the most accurate imaging technique in the planning of implant treatment. Unlike conventional radiological techniques, CT enables the three-dimensional evaluation of the bone without the overlapping of adjacent structures, as well as a precise measurement of the bone tissue available in the future implant site, contributing in this way to a significant reduction in unsuccessful treatment. CT also enables a qualitative evaluation of the bone structure together with a precise definition of the adjacent anatomical structures and possible associated pathologies. Finally, given the wealth of information provided by CT, it is clear that the technique can also be used for judging in retrospect the correctness of a dental implant procedure. The present paper describes the CT findings that are most relevant to the medicolegal assessment of professional liability in implantology.

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    Jul 1, 2004 ... Lecturer 1, Faculty of Law and S. Mohammed, MBBS., Resident Doctor, Department of Community Health, University of ... Over a hundred respondents were not informed of risk of procedure. .... requires patient's capacity, adequate disclosure of ... dealing with cases requiring major surgical procedures.

  4. CAUSES OF SUDDEN NATURAL DEATH: A MEDICO-LEGAL ...

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    89 No. 10 October 2012 ... The age range of the cases was 19-105 years with a mean age ... majority of cases (39.3%), the cause of death was related to the cardio-vascular ... Six hundred and twenty six cases of sudden natural .... (39/60) and a mean age of 54.2±15years. ..... D. A population-based autopsy study of sudden,.

  5. Editorial: Medico-legal Litigation: Balancing Spiralling Costs with ...

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  6. Aproximación educativa ante los nuevos formatos narrativos

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    Amando López Valero

    2017-01-01

    Full Text Available El objetivo de este artículo es realizar un planteamiento que atienda a la realidad social y educativa que está aconteciendo en la segunda década del siglo XXI. Somos conscientes de las transformaciones que está sufriendo el texto, sobre todo en el medio por el que se transmite. Este hecho afecta sobremanera a la lectura, ya que, las personas nos enfrentamos a nuevos formatos narrativos que suponen grandes desafíos para el acceso al conocimiento. En esta contribución llevaremos a cabo un repaso de aquellos medios que conllevan nuevos formatos narrativos y trataremos de identificar su influencia en la formación lectora de las personas. Interrogantes como ¿es preciso que las instituciones educativas y los currículos se adapten a los nuevos tiempos en materia de promoción lectora?, ¿los nuevos formatos narrativos conllevan nuevos valores? o ¿dichos formatos generan formas distintas de ver y comprender la realidad? serán planteados. Desde el planteamiento del artículo trataremos de responder a dichas cuestiones incardinándolas en un entramado teórico-práctico que tiene que ver con la enseñanza de la lengua y la literatura y con el enfoque crítico de la educación, abogando por el pensamiento crítico y la autonomía en el acceso al conocimiento. PALABRAS CLAVE: nuevos formatos narrativos, alfabetización digital, pensamiento creativo, didáctica de la literatura. The aim of this article is to propose an argument which acknowledges examine the social and educational reality being developed in the second decade of the twenty-first century. We are aware of the transformations that the text is going through, above all, in the format in which it is transmitted. This fact overwhelmingly affects reading, because people face new narrative formats which entail greater challenges in the access to knowledge. In this contribution we will carry out a review of those media that offer new narrative formats and we will try to identify their

  7. African Safety Promotion: A Journal of Injury and Violence ...

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    . Richard Matzopoulos, Ashley van Niekerk, Sandra Marais, Hilton Donson. A Qualitative Evaluation of Medico-Legal Services in Gauteng, South Africa: Service Accessibility and Quality of Care to Rape Survivors. Shahnaaz Suffla, Mohamed ...

  8. Ley marco de aseguramiento universal en salud, bajo la lupa

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    Leoncio Díaz

    2009-04-01

    Full Text Available La Ley Marco de Aseguramiento Universal en Salud, concebida en el marco del modelo neoliberal conservador, excluyente y polarizante, fue aprobada en circunstancias en la que persisten grandes contrastes entre sistemas de salud. Por un lado, los países que mantienen subsistemas inconexos y privatizados y, por otro, los que unificados y bajo la responsabilidad del Estado, garantizan a todos el acceso integral, gratuito y de calidad a los servicios de salud. En América y el Caribe, existen países cuyos pobladores carecen de derechos y posibilidades, evidenciando las profundas inequidades que mantienen en exclusión a la mayoría pobre y de extrema pobreza, entre ellos, el Perú muestra indicadores de salud que aún se mantienen en cifras alarmantes y por debajo de los que presentan otras realidades en el mundo. En las últimas tres décadas hubo ensayos frustros de reformas, como la integración funcional del Ministerio de Salud con el Instituto Peruano de Seguridad Social, o el Sistema Nacional Coordinado y Descentralizado en Salud. Actualmente se formula la Ley Marco de Aseguramiento Universal, que mantiene los actuales subsistemas sin variación alguna y con sus propias autonomías, ensayando pilotos, estableciendo planes parciales, implementándola de manera progresiva, priorizando la privatización y debilitando la función rectora del Ministerio de Salud, al crear una superintendencia omnipotente, lo cual continuará permitiendo la exclusión social de más de 9 millones de peruanos. Existe, por tanto, la necesidad de plantear la unificación de los subsistemas, para construir un Sistema Único de Salud, capaz de otorgar salud plena, integral, de calidad y sin costo alguno al 100% de ciudadanos.

  9. The Philippine Press after Marcos: Restored Freedoms and New Problems.

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    Guimary, Donald L.

    With the overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos from his 20-year rule of the Philippines, the news media regained its freedom and its voice, and now faces a new set of problems: low circulation, questionable ethical standards of reporters and their lack of experience, and ominous indications from the Corazon Aquino government that the administration might…

  10. Appraisal by Year Six French medical students of the teaching of forensic medicine and health law.

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    Franchitto, Nicolas; Rougé, Daniel

    2010-10-01

    Legal medicine is a cross-sectional specialty in which medico-legal situations very frequently combine with routine medical practice. A total of 132 students in the last year of the second cycle of medical studies (Year 6) replied anonymously and voluntarily to a questionnaire corresponding to the topics in the curriculum for the national ranking examination: law relating to death and the dying, examination of assault victims, medical malpractice liability rules, writing death certificates, respect of medical confidentiality and the principles of medical deontology. The most frequently cited activities of the forensic physician were autopsy (87.9%), writing certificates (75.8%) and consultations with victims of violence (60.6%). Students did not often come into contact with a medico-legal situation during Years 2-6 of medical studies. Assiduity in attending lectures was low. Students preferred the standard textbooks available in specialized bookshops. They were severe in their appraisal of their own competence at the end of the second cycle, and did not feel ready to examine a corpse (95.5%) or to examine victims of assault (92.4%). Knowledge of the law and of the risks of medical practice was felt to be inadequate by 60.5% of students, and of the writing of a medical certificate by 56.8%. Training medical students in this field is a major challenge in view of the limited number of teaching hours and the need to acquire increasingly specialized knowledge. Complementary initiatives appear to be necessary, such as partnership with other clinical specialties which are frequently confronted with medico-legal situations.

  11. New Directions in European Regional Policy and their Implications for Spain

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    Keith Salmon

    2008-01-01

    Full Text Available Este artículo se centra en la nueva arquitectura de la Política de Cohesión y del nuevo marco financiero europeo dentro del cual se establece. La discusión se divide en cinco secciones. La primera sección examina la estructura del nuevo marco financiero europeo, destacando su impacto en las transferencias financieras entre Europa y España. En la segunda sección se explica la nueva arquitectura de la Política de Cohesión, precisando que relaciones mantiene con las políticas agrícolas y pesqueras y se concluye con una presentación de las características principales de esta nueva arquitectura. La tercera sección examina los recursos financieros que sustentan la Política de Cohesión y su distribución en España. En la sección cuatro la discusión gira en torno a la consideración de los conceptos de convergencia y de la naturaleza de regiones. Finalmente, las conclusiones sugieren que existen implicaciones significativas en los ámbitos administrativos, financieros y en el planeamiento estratégico del nuevo marco financiero y de la renovada Política de Cohesión: para el desarrollo económico en general y para el desarrollo regional en particular en los próximos años.

  12. Magnolia dealbata en Nuevo León, México Magnolia dealbata in Nuevo Leon, México

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    Carlos Gerardo Velazco-Macías

    2008-12-01

    Full Text Available Se analiza y describe la distribución de Magnolia dealbata Zucc. en el estado de Nuevo León, México, aportando información acerca de la ecología, estado de conservación, situación del hábitat y fenología de las poblaciones estudiadas. Por medio de una revisión bibliográfica y trabajo de campo realizado en la sierra Madre Oriental, se obtuvieron datos que permiten distinguir 2 núcleos poblacionales ubicados en el municipio de Montemorelos, en el centro del estado, con extensión total de 17.66 hectáreas, y densidad de hasta 30 individuos por 100 m2. Se presenta en asociación con Pinus teocote, Quercus spp., Cornus florida, Carya sp. y Sambucus nigra. La observación fenológica durante el periodo de estudio mostró que la aparición de nuevos brotes foliares comienza a principios de marzo y la floración a principios de mayo. El hábitat se observa con pocas alteraciones y no se identificaron amenazas a corto plazo para estas poblaciones.The distribution of Magnolia dealbata Zucc. in the state of Nuevo León in northeastern Mexico is analyzed and described; information regarding its conservation status, habitat health, and phenology of studied populations is provided. Through bibliographical information and field work in the Sierra Madre Oriental, 2 core populations of M. dealbata Zucc. can be distinguished, both located in the municipality of Montemorelos in the center of the state, covering a total of 17.66 hectares. Density reaches 30 individuals per 100 square meters. The species grows in association with Pinus teocote, Quercus spp, Cornus florida, Carya sp. and Sambucus nigra. New leaves sprout in early March, and flower production starts in early May. Habitat shows little disturbance and no short-term threats were identified for these populations.

  13. Los Nuevos Ensayos. Ensayo de un diálogo pretendido

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    Tomás GUILLÉN VERA

    2009-11-01

    Full Text Available La lectura de los Nuevos Ensayos sobre el Entendimiento Humano de Leibniz supone el encuentro con una obra de madurez, redactada entre el verano de 1703 y enero de 1704. A estas alturas de su vida, Leibniz tiene plenamente desarrollado su sistema, y, sin embargo, sorprende que esta obra no sea una exposición sistemática de su pensamiento. La sorpresa procede, en primer lugar, de su estructura y articulación, y, en segundo lugar, de la finalidad de su escritura. Los Nuevos Ensayos no transcriben el sistema de Leibniz en su orden estructural, sino siguiendo el orden expositivo del Ensayo sobre el Entendimieto Humano de Locke. Así pues, los Nuevos Ensayos, siguiendo la obra de Locke, además del Prefacio, está dividida en cuatro libros, dedicados respectivamente al estudio del problema de lo innato, las ideas, el lenguaje y el conocimiento. La propia estructura delata claramente lo que en el Prefacio confiesa Leibniz: beneficiarse del trabajo ajeno, y no sólo para disminuir el propio, sino sobre todo para aportar algo a lo ya escrito por aquél, lo cual siempre es más fácil que empezar desde el principio, además de beneficiarse de su reputación; era, según Leibniz, una buena ocasión para publicar algo bajo el título de Nuevos Ensayos sobre el Entendimiento Humano, consiguiendo así una acogida favorable para sus pensamientos, el ponerlos en tan buena compañía.

  14. Nanoinsecticidas: Nuevas perspectivas para el control de plagas

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    Teodoro STADLER; Micaela BUTELER; David K. WEAVER

    2010-01-01

    La agricultura de bajo impacto ambiental demanda nuevos pesticidas que deben ajustarse a las exigentes normativas internacionales. Parte de la búsqueda de nuevos productos bio-racionales se desarrolla por fuera del marco de la síntesis orgánica, explorando diferentes sustancias de origen natural como extractos vegetales, aceites insecticidas e insecticidas inorgánicos. Los polvos insecticidas representan el grupo más antiguo de sustancias utilizadas por el hombre para el control de plagas, cu...

  15. Medico-legal and legal-penal aspects of expert opinions and adjudication in cases of intoxications with intoxicating agents and ethanol-like intoxicants

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    Monika Ćwiklińska

    2015-08-01

    Full Text Available Introduction: The available legal regulations in Poland do not define the concentration thresholds enabling to differentiate between the states of “after-use” versus “under the influence” of a drug, as it is in the case of alcohol. The aim of the study was to analyse jurisdiction in cases regarding the evaluation of the effects of intoxicating agents and ethanol-like intoxicants and to identify ambiguities and gaps in the applicable regulations leading to problems in preparing expert opinions. Material and methods: The material included the opinions of experts in the field of toxicology and forensic medicine made by the Department of Forensic Medicine in Lublin in the years 2009–2011 and records obtained in the process of inquiry from the regional prosecutor’s offices and courts in 52 cases. Results : Amongst 52 cases in which the ordered toxicology examinations demonstrated the presence of intoxicating agents in drivers’ blood (tetrahydrocannabinols in 39 and amphetamine in 21 cases in 2 cases petty offence proceedings were instituted (Art. 87 of the Petty Offence Code although high concentrations of xenobiotics indicated the state of being “under the influence” of a narcotic drug (Art. 178a of the Penal Code. Three cases were discontinued despite expert opinions that the drivers were at least in the after-narcotic use state. In only 3 cases were witnesses asked to provide testimony about the circumstances of the driver’s conduct. Conclusions : The analysis has demonstrated that judicial bodies expect forensic expertise based exclusively on toxicological examination results; when expert findings are inconclusive, they only administer litigations opportunistically applying the principle of the presumption of innocence understood literally. Considering the above, threshold values of “use” and “influence” of the most commonly detected drugs should be urgently determined.

  16. The mirror has two faces: dissociative identity disorder and the defence of pathological criminal incapacity--a South African criminal law perspective.

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    Stevens, Philip

    2013-03-01

    Dissociative identity disorder poses numerous medico legal issues whenever the insanity defence emerges. Within the context of the South African criminal law, the impact of dissociative identity disorder on criminal responsibility has only been addressed very briefly in one decided case. Various questions arise as to the impact that the distinctive diagnostic features of dissociative identity disorder could possibly have on the defence of pathological criminal incapacity, or better known as the insanity defence, within the ambit of the South African criminal law. In this contribution the author reflects on the mental disorder known as dissociative identity disorder or multiple personality disorder, against the backdrop of the defence of pathological criminal incapacity. Reflections are also provided pertaining to the various medico legal issues at stake whenever this defence has to be adjudicated upon.

  17. Nuevo centro olímpico en Lake Placid, EE.UU

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    Hellmuth, George; Obata, Gyo; Kassabaum, George

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    Este nuevo centro deportivo, sede de los Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno de 1980, consta de una pista principal de hielo de dimensiones olímpicas con unos graderíos para 8.000 personas, y de una pista más pequeña utilizada para los Juegos U.S.A. Los servicios auxiliares se encuentran debajo de las gradas o en la estructura que enlaza el nuevo Centro con la pista ya empleada en los anteriores Juegos de 1932. Completa el complejo una Escuela Superior y una pista de forma oval para patinaje...

  18. [Rotator cuff diseases in occupational medicine between occupational diseases and accidents: medical-legal considerations].

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    Spigno, F; Galli, R; Casali, C; Lagattolla, N; De Lucchi, M

    2010-01-01

    The authors have gone through the complaints concerning all the cases of shoulder accidents at work filed by the Genoa office of the Italian Workers' National compensation Agency (INAIL) during the two years' period 2006-2007, reviewing in particular those somehow affecting rotator components. The aim of this paper is to assess the real role played by the occupational trauma in the rotator cuff tear. The data gathered so far have shown, on the one hand, a high prevalence of pre-existing inflammatory and degenerative diseases and, on the other, a rather modest influence of the trauma which, for this reason, has usually borne, as an immediate medico-legal consequence, the rejection of a cause-effect relationship between the accident and the rotator cuff lesion, without taking into any account whether the worker was likely to be affected by an occupational disease (ex table Ministerial Decree n. 81 April 9th 2008- item 78). In such cases a systematic and in-depth investigation of the occupational case history is suggested, in order to highlight the possible pre-existence of a former biomechanical overload of the upper limbs, so as to allow the physician to detect a pathology often misdiagnosed.

  19. at the D12S391, D19S433 and D1S1656 loci and tri-allelic pattern

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    zino

    2015-02-04

    Feb 4, 2015 ... the forensic genetic laboratories in (DNA Typing of Medico-Legal. Institute ... biology is in the detection and analysis of short tandem repeats. (STRs). ..... Human Genome Project have increased knowledge regarding the ...

  20. First urology simulation boot camp in the United Kingdom

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    Aug 12, 2017 ... on training using animal models, bench-top models and virtual reality simulators. ..... on medico-legal aspects delivered by a barrister, an interactive talk .... rating synthetic and animal models, innovative models for urinary.

  1. Homicidal violence during foreign military missions - prevention and legal issues

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    G T Okulate

    2006-03-01

    Full Text Available Objectives. The study involved Nigerian soldiers engaged in peacekeeping missions in Liberia and Yugoslavia. Using case illustrations, the study sought to describe patterns of homicidal violence among soldiers from the same country or soldiers from allied forces, and to suggest possible reasons for the attacks. Design and setting. Nigeria was actively involved in peacekeeping missions in Liberia between 1990 and 1996. During this period, intentional homicidal attacks occurred among the Nigerian military personnel. Post- homicidal interviews conducted among the perpetrators were combined with evidence obtained at military courts to produce the case studies. Subjects. Six Nigerian military personnel who attacked other Nigerians or soldiers from allied forces, with homicidal intent. Results. Possible predisposing and precipitating factors for these attacks were highlighted. The possibility of recognising these factors before embarking on overseas missions was discussed, so that preventive measures could be instituted as far as possible. Finally, medico-legal implications of homicide in the military were discussed. Conclusions. A certain degree of pre-combat selection is essential to exclude soldiers with definite severe psychopathology. A clearly defined length of duty in the mission areas and adequate communication with home could reduce maladjustment. Health personnel deployed to mission areas should be very conversant with mental health issues so that early recognition of psychological maladjustment is possible.

  2. Nuevos sistemas de frecuencia intermedia para el IAR

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    Olalde, J. C.; Perilli, D.; Larrarte, J. J.

    Se presenta el diagrama en bloques de los nuevos sistemas de Frecuencia Intermedia para los dos radiómetros instalados en el IAR. Entre las características más importantes del sistema podemos mencionar la posibilidad de conectar cualquiera de las dos antenas a los ``backend" disponibles: analizador espectral de alta resolución (META II) de 0,05 Hz, autocorrelador de 1008 canales y contínuo. Se incorporan al sistema nuevos sintetizadores de frecuencia implementados con PLL y la moderna técnica de síntesis digital directa. Por último, el conjunto del sistema es susceptible de ser configurado por las computadoras de adquisición de datos, supervisadas por otra, que entrega el estado de funcionamiento actual y evita la selección de configuraciones incorrectas por parte del usuario.

  3. Puerto Nuevo and the Origins of the Stylistic-Religious Paracas Tradition

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    García, Rubén

    2012-01-01

    Puerto Nuevo was previously defined by García y Pinilla as a phase/style where there is an amalgam of Chavín and Cupisnique cultural elements with those of the south coast at the end of the Initial Period and the beginning of the Early Horizon. This paper presents new evidences and comparative stylistic analyses of contemporary societies that propose that it was during Puerto Nuevo times that the Paracas stylistic and religious tradition initiated, and therefore place it chronologically at th...

  4. Macrophage receptor with collagenous structure (MARCO) is a dynamic adhesive molecule that enhances uptake of carbon nanotubes by CHO-K1 Cells

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    Hirano, Seishiro, E-mail: seishiro@nies.go.jp [Environmental Nanotoxicology Project, RCER, National Institute for Environmental Studies (Japan); Fujitani, Yuji; Furuyama, Akiko [Environmental Nanotoxicology Project, RCER, National Institute for Environmental Studies (Japan); Kanno, Sanae [Department of Legal Medicine, St. Marianna School of Medicine (Japan)

    2012-02-15

    The toxicity of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), a highly promising nanomaterial, is similar to that of asbestos because both types of particles have a fibrous shape and are biopersistent. Here, we investigated the characteristics of macrophage receptor with collagenous structure (MARCO), a membrane receptor expressed on macrophages that recognizes environmental or unopsonized particles, and we assessed whether and how MARCO was involved in cellular uptake of multi-walled CNTs (MWCNTs). MARCO-transfected Chinese hamster ovary (CHO-K1) cells took up polystyrene beads irrespective of the particle size (20 nm–1 μm). In the culture of MARCO-transfected CHO-K1 cells dendritic structures were observed on the bottom of culture dishes, and the edges of these dendritic structures were continually renewed as the cell body migrated along the dendritic structures. MWCNTs were first tethered to the dendritic structures and then taken up by the cell body. MWCNTs appeared to be taken up via membrane ruffling like macropinocytosis, rather than phagocytosis. The cytotoxic EC{sub 50} value of MWCNTs in MARCO-transfected CHO-K1 cells was calculated to be 6.1 μg/mL and transmission electron microscopic observation indicated that the toxicity of MWCNTs may be due to the incomplete inclusion of MWCNTs by the membrane structure. -- Highlights: ►Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were tethered to MARCO in vitro. ►CNTs were taken up rapidly into the cell body via MARCO by membrane ruffling. ►The incomplete inclusion of CNTs by membranes caused cytotoxicity.

  5. UNA ESPECIE NUEVA DE MYRCIA (MYRTACEAE Y NUEVOS REGISTROS DE LA FAMILIA PARA COLOMBIA

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    CARLOS PARRA-O.

    2013-12-01

    Full Text Available Se describe e ilustra una especie nueva de Myrcia (Myrtaceae para los Andes de Colombia. Se discuten las afinidades taxonómicas del nuevo taxón dentro de las Myrtaceae colombianas. Adicionalmente, se presentan cinco nuevos registros de Myrtaceae para la flora nativa colombiana.

  6. Vida artificial, el nuevo paradigma

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    José Jesús Martínez Páez

    1998-05-01

    Full Text Available Se presenta una síntesis cronológica de los hechos más importantes en el desarrollo teórico y de simulación computacional, que han llevado a la formación de un nuevo paradigma que se conoce como vida artificial; se analizan sus características y sus príncipales líneas de investigación. Finalmente, se hace una descripción de su trabajo en la Universidad Nacional.

  7. ¿Buscando un nuevo paradigma? La Unión Europea en busca de un nuevo concepto de seguridad en las Relaciones Internacionales

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    Franz KERNIC

    2008-10-01

    Full Text Available Este artículo presenta un análisis de los cambios fundamentales en la orientación teórica de la seguridad europea en el mundo post-Guerra Fría. El objetivo fundamental es investigar el desarrollo de nuevos conceptos de la seguridad europea en el contexto de la integración europea y analizar las principales posibilidades de establecer un nuevo paradigma de seguridad respecto al futuro desarrollo de la política de seguridad de la Unión Europea (UE. El punto de partida del análisis es el discurso social sobre nuevos riesgos y desafíos de la seguridad europea y la relación entre la percepción de una lista de nuevas amenazas y la formulación y formación de una nueva política de seguridad. El foco del análisis es la Unión Europea y los discursos contemporáneos en cuanto a la génesis de un nuevo paradigma de seguridad a escala de la UE y su Política Exterior y de Seguridad Común (PESC. This article presents an analysis of the fundamental changes affecting the theoretical orientation of the European security in the post-Cold War World. The main objective is to investigate the development of new European security concepts in the context of European integration and to analyze the chief possibilities of establishing a new security paradigm with regard to the future development of the security policy of the European Union (EU. The starting point of the analysis is the social discourse on new risks and challenges for the European security and the relation between the perception of a list of new menaces and the formulation and formation of a new security policy. The focus of the study is the European Union and the contemporary discourses concerning the genesis of a new security paradigm fit to scale of the EU and its Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP.

  8. Marco Zoppo e il Rinascimento tra l'Emilia e il Veneto

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    Calogero, Giacomo Alberto

    2014-01-01

    La presente ricerca si occupa della figura di Marco Zoppo, pittore e artista poliedrico, nato a Cento, in Emilia, intorno al 1432. L'indagine si concentra soprattutto sugli esordi e la prima maturità di questo artista, che lo videro attivo in centri importanti come Bologna e Padova e Venezia.

  9. [A SAS marco program for batch processing of univariate Cox regression analysis for great database].

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    Yang, Rendong; Xiong, Jie; Peng, Yangqin; Peng, Xiaoning; Zeng, Xiaomin

    2015-02-01

    To realize batch processing of univariate Cox regression analysis for great database by SAS marco program. We wrote a SAS macro program, which can filter, integrate, and export P values to Excel by SAS9.2. The program was used for screening survival correlated RNA molecules of ovarian cancer. A SAS marco program could finish the batch processing of univariate Cox regression analysis, the selection and export of the results. The SAS macro program has potential applications in reducing the workload of statistical analysis and providing a basis for batch processing of univariate Cox regression analysis.

  10. La definición del negocio: concepto tradicional y nuevo

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    Edgar Enrique Zapata Guerrero

    1992-01-01

    Full Text Available La satisfacción de necesidades del cliente es esencial en la definicióndel negocio por parte del empresario, de ahí que se hace necesario tener en cuenta el producto y el mercado que tienen, esto en la definición tradicional del negocio. El nuevo concepto permite visualizar y comprender el propósito actual y las perspectivas futuras de cualquier organización e introduce una nueva dimensión: la tecnología. El nuevo concepto se ilustra con el caso de la firma CARULLA LTDA. donde se describen los cambios que ha tenido esta organización entre 1960 y 1982.

  11. El modelo autonómico de democracia participativa: la situación a partir de la aprobación de los nuevos estatutos de autonomía (Model of Participatory Democracy in Spain's Autonomous Communities: New Statutes of Autonomy

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    Reyes Pérez Alberdi

    2017-12-01

    Full Text Available Estamos asistiendo a un intenso debate en torno a la necesidad de generar un proceso regeneración democrática en el contexto actual de la crisis institucional y desafección política. En esta línea, algunas Comunidades Autónomas han emprendido el camino de institucionalizar nuevas oportunidades de participación de los ciudadanos en los procesos de decisión pública. Fenómeno que se hace más patente desde la aprobación de los nuevos Estatutos de Autonomía, en los que la participación ciudadana, definida en ellos como derecho, principio y objetivo básico de la Comunidad Autónoma, debe ser desarrollada normativamente por el legislador autonómico. Se analizarán en esta ponencia, desde una perspectiva crítica, las normas jurídicas de referencia y sus posibilidades de implementación práctica para constatar si las Comunidades Autónomas ofrecen un marco más adecuado a la democracia participativa.In this era of institutional crisis and political disaffection, there is significant debate about the need to create democratic reform. With this in mind, some of Spain's Autonomous Communities have taken steps to institutionalise opportunities for citizens to participate in public decision-making processes. This is especially apparent in the newly adopted Statutes of Autonomy. In the Statutes, citizen participation is defined as a right, principle and basic objective of the Autonomous Community, for which laws must be developed by the legislating authority of that community. This paper will present a critical analysis of these legal standards and their potential for practical implementation, in order to investigate whether Autonomous Communities provide a better framework for participatory democracy.DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FROM SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3048827

  12. La escuela: un nuevo escenario para la psicomotricidad

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    Miguel SASSANO

    2008-01-01

    Full Text Available En las puertas del nuevo siglo, para una educación casi esclerosada, aparecen nuevos aires de cambio, anclados en las reformas educativas que se van gestando en muchos países, aun bajo distintos paradigmas. La escuela se transforma entonces en un nuevo escenario posible para la Psicomotri cidad. En primer término, hablamos sobre lo que hemos dado en llamar «Abordaje Psico motriz» en la escuela, planteo referido a una relación de ayuda, para facilitar el camino, el proceso que va desde la dependencia a la mayor autonomía. Por ello, la Psicomotricidad en la escuela no es una técnica, una materia más, es, en todo caso, un enfoque que atiende a la globalidad del niño, a la revalorización del cuerpo y del movimiento en ese ámbito. En segundo lugar exponemos sobre la «hora de Psicomotricidad» o la «sesión de Psicomotricidad», donde alumnos, maestros y Psicomotricista comparten una hora semanal, favoreciendo el juego corporal y la actividad espontánea a partir del ofrecimiento de objetos que operan como disparadores y acompañantes. Vamos a comentar sobre el espacio físico, los objetos, el trabajo en sí mismo y su respectivo encuadre, dejando claro qué hacemos, qué cosas se pueden y cuáles están prohibidas en la sesión. Y por último, de cómo tanto el Abordaje Psicomotriz como la Hora o Sesión de Psicomotricidad en la escuela, se transforman en un abordaje preventivo y de salud, por ser el lugar privilegiado donde el niño puede descargar su impulsividad motriz sin culpabilidad, descarga que es condición esencial de su equilibrio afectivo. Cuando hablamos del cuerpo en educación, no se trata solamente del cuerpo del niño¿ también del cuerpo del educador, de sus resistencias y de la necesidad de modificar las capacidades vinculares para darle sentido a las acciones propias y del alumno. Interrogarse sobre el lugar del cuerpo en la educación es interrogarse sobre la Psicomotricidad en este nuevo escenario.

  13. SEX DETERMINATION FROM FEMORAL HEAD DIAMETERS IN ...

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    Mar 1, 2000 ... In medico-legal cases where sophisticated methods of sex determination is lacking, these ... scientific methods(3). Using the visual method ... between the sexes and the values of the right and left femoral head diameters.

  14. Desarrollo de materiales poliméricos nanocompuestos para aplicaciones eléctricas y electrónicas

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    Chinè, Bruno

    2007-01-01

    Se reportan algunos resultados y procedimientos experimentales de laboratorio obtenidos en el marco de investigaciones desarrolladas para la obtención de nuevos materiales compuestosnanoestructurados. Estos nuevos materiales, formados por una fase orgánica el polímero y una fase inorgánica el silicato, están siendo fuertemente investigados en la actualidad pues se espera que puedan brindar, entre otras, mejores propiedades de aislamiento eléctrico y de retardo a la flama en aplicaciones eléct...

  15. Logística de Sub-Productos

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    Lozano Carranza, Heriberto M.

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    En los tiempos actuales, la principal estrategia de las empresas es la de mantenerse dentro de un marco competitivo, el cual les da la oportunidad de sobrevivir en el entorno en el que se encuentran. Un enfoque fundamental es mantener su crecimiento en tiempos futuros. Para conseguir el crecimiento, las organizaciones que integran la empresa deben de adquirir nuevos paradigmas que les ayuden a romper las barreras que impiden crecer. Hoy en día, el adoptar nuevos paradigmas que ayuden a innova...

  16. La inteligencia Emocional y el comportamiento creativo e innovador de los empleados del sector terciario en las PYMES de España.

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    Esta tesis desarrolla un nuevo enfoque para comprender mejor el proceso creativo organizacional de la Pequeña y Mediana empresa (PYMEs). En concreto, se centra en el Comportamiento Creativo e Innovador de los empleados, como piedra angular, sobre la cual, las PYMEs deben desarrollar su capacidad de innovación para ser más competitivas. Desde un punto de visto teórico, contribuye significativamente validando un nuevo marco conceptual donde: La Inteligencia Emocional del Individuo tiene un ...

  17. La Universidad del siglo XXI: nueva docencia, nuevo bibliotecario

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    Full Text Available The methodologies of teaching-learning in higher education centers are experiencing profound changes that also involve changes in the educational organization itself. Technological advances and the Internet have contributed decisively to a more open and interactive learning experience that requires information professionals to adopt new roles to meet the challenges, as well as new behaviors to achieve the commitments required of them. Based on these assumptions and considering their implications, the aim of this paper is to define the new concept of librarian in higher education centers.La metodología en los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje en los Centros de Enseñanza Superior está experimentando unos cambios profundos que también los implica en la propia organización educativa. A ello hay que añadir que los avances tecnológicos e Internet han contribuido de forma decisiva a un aprendizaje más abierto e interactivo que obliga a los profesionales de la información a adoptar nuevos roles para hacer frente a los retos que se le presentan, así como a nuevos comportamientos para lograr los compromisos que se les demandan. Atendiendo a estas premisas y teniendo en cuenta sus implicaciones, el objetivo de este trabajo es definir el nuevo concepto de bibliotecario en los Centros de Enseñanza Superior.

  18. Nuevos Enfoques, Nuevas Perspectivas

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    Miguel IÑIGUEZ CAMPOS

    2015-03-01

    Full Text Available Desde el ano 2006 la historiográfica sobrela Guerra Civil, pese a la saturación de obras que sufre el mercado, ha ido cubriendo lagunas gracias a los avances aportados por nuevos enfoques. En el presente articulo analizaremos las principales novedades provenientes del campo de la memoria, la microhistoria, la historia social y cultural y la historia oral. Muy enriquecedora ha sido la apertura de la historia a otras disciplinas como la antropología social, los estudios culturales o la sociología de la de la movilización colectiva. A pesar de los avances, aún persisten lagunas que cubrir

  19. Viejos y nuevos mitos

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    Full Text Available El mito, desde la Grecia Antigua a los tiempos modernos, ha sido considerado como algo opuesto a la historia, la ciencia, la razón, e incluso, la vida cotidiana. De ese modo, el mito se equiparaba tanto a la sociedad antigua como a las sociedades primitivas. Sin embargo, hechos y procesos cruciales de la sociedades modernas y de la época industrial pueden verse con una nueva luz cuando se toma en cuenta el papel del mito, sea bajo viejos o nuevos ropajes. Además, lejos de ser un mero subproducto de la vida social, los mitos moldean en gran medida nuestra historia y nuestra sociedad.

  20. Humans in Space: Summarizing the Medico-Biological Results of the Space Shuttle Program

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    Risin, Diana; Stepaniak, P. C.; Grounds, D. J.

    2011-01-01

    As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Gagarin's flight that opened the era of Humans in Space we also commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Program (SSP) which was triumphantly completed by the flight of STS-135 on July 21, 2011. These were great milestones in the history of Human Space Exploration. Many important questions regarding the ability of humans to adapt and function in space were answered for the past 50 years and many lessons have been learned. Significant contribution to answering these questions was made by the SSP. To ensure the availability of the Shuttle Program experiences to the international space community NASA has made a decision to summarize the medico-biological results of the SSP in a fundamental edition that is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2011 beginning 2012. The goal of this edition is to define the normal responses of the major physiological systems to short-duration space flights and provide a comprehensive source of information for planning, ensuring successful operational activities and for management of potential medical problems that might arise during future long-term space missions. The book includes the following sections: 1. History of Shuttle Biomedical Research and Operations; 2. Medical Operations Overview Systems, Monitoring, and Care; 3. Biomedical Research Overview; 4. System-specific Adaptations/Responses, Issues, and Countermeasures; 5. Multisystem Issues and Countermeasures. In addition, selected operational documents will be presented in the appendices. The chapters are written by well-recognized experts in appropriate fields, peer reviewed, and edited by physicians and scientists with extensive expertise in space medical operations and space-related biomedical research. As Space Exploration continues the major question whether humans are capable of adapting to long term presence and adequate functioning in space habitats remains to be answered We expect that the comprehensive review of

  1. The application of imaging technologies in the detection of trace evidence in forensic medical investigation.

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    Cocks, Jeannie; du Toit-Prinsloo, Lorraine; Steffens, Francois; Saayman, Gert

    2015-04-01

    In a country notorious for violent crime, it seems that South African medico-legal laboratories make minimal application of technology in the death investigation process and little attention is given to trace evidence. Non-destructive, non-invasive, portable and cost-effective tools are required. This study was conducted at the Pretoria Medico-Legal Laboratory. The surface area of the bodies and clothing of victims of fatal interpersonal violence were examined using a torch, magnifying lamp, portable digital microscope and alternate light source to gauge their potential for trace evidence detection. Most studies apply these and similar tools to inert surfaces, with few focusing on their application to human skin. There was a statistically significant difference in the detection of many of the evidence types between the naked-eye observation of the pathologists and the technologies. The different imaging technologies were compared as to their cost, evidence detection ability and ease of use. The most common evidence types discovered on the bodies and clothing of victims of fatal interpersonal violence, as well as the propensity of each tool to detect these, was evaluated in order to devise the best option for incorporation into the Pretoria Medico-Legal Laboratory routine. The digital microscope performed best overall followed by the magnifying lamp, torch and the Polilight(®). This study aimed to justify the investment of more time, effort and funding into trace evidence recovery in the South African mortuary environment. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

  2. THE RELEVANCE OF SOCIO-LEGAL STUDIES IN LEGAL SCIENCE

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    Victor Imanuel W. Nalle

    2015-02-01

    Full Text Available Some law schools in Indonesia reject socio-legal studies with epistemological arguments that puts jurisprudence as sui generis. Rejection is based argument that jurisprudence is a normative science. In fact socio-legal studies in the development of jurisprudence outside Indonesia has long existed and contributed to the legal reform. Socio-legal studies also significant for legal reform. It is caused by the existence of non doctrinal aspect in law making and implementation of the law. Therefore the position and relevance of socio-legal research is not related to the benefits that provided for the development of national law or jurisprudence. Beberapa fakultas hukum di Indonesia menolak penelitian sosio-legal dengan argumentasi epistemologis yang menempatkan ilmu hukum sebagai sui generis. Penolakan tersebut didasarkan argumentasi bahwa ilmu hukum adalah ilmu yang bersifat normatif. Kenyataannya studi sosio-legal dalam perkembangan ilmu hukum di luar Indonesia telah lama eksis dan berperan dalam pembaharuan hukum. Selain itu, studi sosiolegal juga berperan dalam pembaharuan hukum. Hal ini disebabkan adanya aspek-aspek nondoktrinal yang berperan dalam pembentukan hukum dan implementasi hukum di masyarakat. Oleh karena itu kedudukan dan relevansi penelitian sosio-legal pada ada tidaknya manfaat yang diberikan bagi perkembangan hukum nasional ataupun ilmu hukum.

  3. THE RELEVANCE OF SOCIO-LEGAL STUDIES IN LEGAL SCIENCE

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    Victor Imanuel W. Nalle

    2015-02-01

    Full Text Available Some law schools in Indonesia reject socio-legal studies with epistemological arguments that puts jurisprudence as sui generis. Rejection is based argument that jurisprudence is a normative science. In fact socio-legal studies in the development of jurisprudence outside Indonesia has long existed and contributed to the legal reform. Socio-legal studies also significant for legal reform. It is caused by the existence of non doctrinal aspect in law making and implementation of the law. Therefore the position and relevance of socio-legal research is not related to the benefits that provided for the development of national law or jurisprudence.   Beberapa fakultas hukum di Indonesia menolak penelitian sosio-legal dengan argumentasi epistemologis yang menempatkan ilmu hukum sebagai sui generis. Penolakan tersebut didasarkan argumentasi bahwa ilmu hukum adalah ilmu yang bersifat normatif. Kenyataannya studi sosio-legal dalam perkembangan ilmu hukum di luar Indonesia telah lama eksis dan berperan dalam pembaharuan hukum. Selain itu, studi sosiolegal juga berperan dalam pembaharuan hukum. Hal ini disebabkan adanya aspek-aspek nondoktrinal yang berperan dalam pembentukan hukum dan implementasi hukum di masyarakat. Oleh karena itu kedudukan dan relevansi penelitian sosio-legal pada ada tidaknya manfaat yang diberikan bagi perkembangan hukum nasional ataupun ilmu hukum.

  4. Post-mortem toxicology in young sudden cardiac death victims

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    Bjune, Thea; Risgaard, Bjarke; Kruckow, Line

    2017-01-01

    Aims: Several drugs increase the risk of ventricular fibrillation and sudden cardiac death (SCD). We aimed to investigate in detail the toxicological findings of all young SCD throughout Denmark. Methods and results: Deaths in persons aged 1-49 years were included over a 10-year period. Death...... certificates and autopsy reports were retrieved and read to identify cases of sudden death and establish cause of death. All medico-legal autopsied SCD were included and toxicological reports collected. Positive toxicology was defined as the presence of any substance (licit and/or illicit). All toxicological...... findings had previously been evaluated not to have caused the death (i.e. lethal concentrations were excluded). We identified 620 medico-legal autopsied cases of SCD, of which 77% (n = 477) were toxicologically investigated post-mortem, and 57% (n = 270) had a positive toxicology profile. Sudden cardiac...

  5. [The medico-psychological rehabilitation of participants in combat actions in a general hospital].

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    Belinskiĭ, A V; Liamin, M V

    2000-01-01

    There were investigated 453 servicemen--participants of fighting actions in Chechnya [correction of Chechenskaya] Republic in whom the incidence of psychologic stress reactions nearly twice exceeded disorders of other types of psychic dysfunction. 5 groups of combatants were selected and severity of psychic disorders depending on duration of participation in fighting actions was determined. Posttraumatic stress disorders were revealed in 14.5% of servicemen, no signs of psychologic desadaptation were detected in 16.6%, 16.9% had pathologic psychogenic reactions, 18.6% showed pathologic level of psychic disorders, and psychologic stress reactions were noted in 33.4%. The developed individual programs of medico-psychologic rehabilitation depending on type and severity of psychic disorders will allow to reduce the period of restorative treatment and significantly decrease servicemen discharge from the Armed Forces because of psychic disorders.

  6. Estimates of thyroid cancer incidence at district level using cancer registries data and linkage of two sources of medico-administrative data, France, 2007-2011

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    Chatignoux, Edouard; Decool, Elsa; Maria, Florence de; Uhry, Zoe; Remontet, Laurent; Grosclaude, Pascale; Guizard, Anne-Valerie; Delafosse, Patricia; Colonna, Marc

    2016-01-01

    Objectives - In France, cancer registries cover 20% of the population. The objective of this study was to provide estimations of thyroid cancer incidence at the administrative district level ( 'departements') over the 2007-2011 period in metropolitan France, using registries data and medico-administrative data. Methods - A medico-administrative indicator 'HUL' [Hospital union LLD] combining Hospital discharge data and health insurance data on Long Duration Diseases (LDD) was constructed. It counts the number of people with a new LDD or hospitalized for thyroid cancer. The principle of the estimation consists in adjusting HUL data at the district level by the Incidence/HUL ratio of the registry area. The accuracy of the estimations was first evaluated in the districts covered by registries by comparing estimated to observed incidence. Results - The preliminary phase of the assessment confirmed that the HUL/Incidence ratio were sufficiently accurate to provide district level estimates of thyroid cancer incidence over the whole territory. The district variability of the estimations for the 2007-2011 period was important: the 5. and 95. percentiles of the distribution of standardized incidence rates across districts were 2.8 and 7.1 for 100,000 in men, and 8.3 and 21.2 for 100,000 in women. Areas with significant over-incidence were observed in the South-East, and on the South-West coast of France compared to the national level. Conclusion - This study confirms the magnitude of geographical variability of thyroid cancer incidence between French administrative districts. It also confirms the value of cross-referencing medico-administrative data to estimate the incidence at an administrative district level. (authors)

  7. Rate of caesarean sections according to the Robson classification: Analysis in a French perinatal network - Interest and limitations of the French medico-administrative data (PMSI).

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    Lafitte, A-S; Dolley, P; Le Coutour, X; Benoist, G; Prime, L; Thibon, P; Dreyfus, M

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    The objective of our study was to determine, in accordance with WHO recommendations, the rates of Caesarean sections in a French perinatal network according to the Robson classification and determine the benefit of the medico-administrative data (PMSI) to collect this indicator. This study aimed to identify the main groups contributing to local variations in the rates of Caesarean sections. A descriptive multicentric study was conducted in 13 maternity units of a French perinatal network. The rates of Caesarean sections and the contribution of each group of the Robson classification were calculated for all Caesarean sections performed in 2014. The agreement of the classification of Caesarean sections according to Robson using medico-administrative data and data collected in the patient records was measured by the Kappa index. We also analysed a 6 groups simplified Robson classification only using data from PMSI, which do not inform about parity and onset of labour. The rate of Caesarean sections was 19% (14.5-33.2) in 2014 (2924 out of 15413 deliveries). The most important contributors to the total rates were groups 1, 2 and 5, representing respectively 14.3%, 16.7% and 32.1% of the Caesarean sections. The rates were significantly different in level 1, 2b and 3 maternity units in groups 1 to 4, level 2a maternity units in group 5, and level 3 maternity units in groups 6 and 7. The agreement between the simplified Robson classification produced using the medical records and the medico-administrative data was excellent, with a Kappa index of 0.985 (0.980-0.990). To reduce the rates of Caesarean sections, audits should be conducted on groups 1, 2 and 5 and local protocols developed. Simply by collecting the parity data, the excellent metrological quality of the medico-administrative data would allow systematisation of the Robson classification for each hospital. Copyright © 2017. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.

  8. Ciberpunk y arte de los nuevos medios: performance y arte digital

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    Psarra, Afroditi

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    La tesis doctoral Ciberpunk y Arte de los Nuevos Medios: Performance y Arte Digital consiste en la aproximación del fenómeno ciberpunk como expresión literaria y cinematográfica, en el estudio del arte de los nuevos medios, y en la reflexión artística que surge de la amalgama de estos conceptos. Su objetivo es comentar a un nivel multidisciplinario la influencia de la teoría y la estética ciberpunk en la construcción de mecanismos creativos, y estudiar la integración de las ideas del ciberpun...

  9. ALGUNAS CONSIDERACIONES EN TORNO A LA PROPUESTA DE LEY MARCO DE ECONOMÍA SOCIAL / SOME CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT THE NEW LAW OF SOCIAL ECONOMY

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    Rosalía ALFONSO SÁNCHEZ

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    Full Text Available El Parlamento Europeo aprobó, el 19 de febrero de 2009, el Informe sobre Economía Social elaborado por la parlamentaria europea Patrizia Toia (Informe Toia. En él se reconoce la Economía Social como actor empresarial en la Unión Europea, se reclama su reconocimiento jurídico, su consideración de interlocutor social, y se advierte de la necesidad de que la economía social tenga mayor visibilidad. La Propuesta de Ley Marco de Economía Social, a cuya aproximación se dedica el presente trabajo, intenta materializar todos los aspectos enunciados del Informe Toia, partiendo del reconocimiento jurídico de la Economía Social en nuestro Estado vía elaboración de una ley ad hoc. / On February 19th, 2009, the European Parliament passed a resolution on Social Economy, drafted by European Parliament Member Patrizia Toia (the so-called Toia Report. Within the Report, Social Economy is recognised as a rightful entrepreneurial actor, claiming for both its Legal and rightful consideration and its role as a social agent, demands which serve to highlight the Social Economy needs for a higher profile. The Draft Paper for a framework Law on Social Economy, which this paper will also deal with, aims to mirror all of the above-referred Toia Report statements, starting with the very Legal recognition of Social Economy under the protection of a national ad hoc Law.

  10. Review of final-year medical students' rural attachment at district ...

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    Nov 15, 2013 ... This paper presents the first phase of an ongoing quality ... a rural district hospital can provide unique learning opportunities for students if the ..... Peabody C, Block A, Jain S. Multi-disciplinary service learning: a medico-legal.

  11. Analysis of eleven Y-chromosomal STR markers in Middle and ...

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    , data and statistics which might be so ultimately helpful practically in forensic science and criminology and to let evaluate and present the DNA weight evidences in Iraq medico-legal institute and courts of law. Keywords: Allele frequency, gene ...

  12. Annals of African Surgery January 2012 16.12.2012.indd

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    Jan 12, 2012 ... tions, which touch on quality of life and allocation of re- sources, may prove ... tion of death especially in resource poor countries. Historical Trends ... crossroads of western religious doctrine and medico-legal laws that often ...

  13. Nuevos discursos de la educación: escolarización, aprendizaje, autogobierno y performatividad

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    Juliana Angélica Molina Rios

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    Full Text Available El presente artículo de reflexión pretende dar cuenta de cómo se han generado nuevos discursos de la educación a partir de ciertas dinámicas económicas y políticas que han hecho posible el surgimiento de nuevas nociones, las cuales generan nuevas prácticas institucionales, sociales e individuales. De allí que hoy sea un lugar común hablar de la educación como inversión necesaria, aprender a aprender, educación para todos, entre otras. Desde el anterior contexto, se describe por qué hoy en día la educación es concebida como un elemento básico de desarrollo, un instrumento para la productividad. Asimismo, se reflexiona en torno a la escolarización, al desplazamiento de la enseñanza hacia el aprendizaje y cómo esta categoría abona en el camino hacia la consolidación del gobierno de sí. Todo lo anterior en el marco de la performatividad como una forma de regulación en la educación. Posteriormente, se presenta cómo la performatividad está articulada en las políticas educativas de Colombia; específicamente, en relación con los Lineamientos Curriculares de Lengua Castellana, los Estándares básicos y Derechos Básicos de Aprendizaje en el área de Lenguaje. Finalmente, las conclusiones dan cuenta de cómo los lineamientos curriculares, estándares y derechos básicos de aprendizaje del lenguaje son herramientas que forman parte de la sociedad performativa

  14. Genetic Variation in the Scavenger Receptor MARCO and Its Association with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Lung Infection in 10,604 Individuals

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    Thomsen, Mette; Nordestgaard, Børge G; Kobzik, Lester

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    Background: MARCO (macrophage receptor with collagenous structure) is a dominant receptor for unopsonized particles and bacteria in the lungs. Reduced function of this receptor due to genetic variation may be associated with susceptibility to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung...... infection. Objectives: To identify novel genetic variants in MARCO that are associated with reduced lung function, or increased risk of COPD or lung infection. Methods: We first screened 760 individuals with extreme lung phenotypes in a large general population study to identify novel variants in the MARCO...... the entire cohort for these variants, we found low minor allele frequencies ranging from 0.005 to 5%. None of the individual MARCO genotypes were associated with reduced lung function, or risk of COPD or lung infection. H101Q heterozygotes had an increased odds ratio for sepsis of 2.2 (95% CI: 1...

  15. De las TIG a las TAG en la formación docente

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    2016-01-01

    Aportación a la mesa redonda: “LA FORMACIÓN EN TIG EN LOS NUEVOS PLANES DE GRADOS Y MÁSTERES”, desarrollada en el marco del XVII Congreso Nacional de TIG. Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech.

  16. La educación geográfica empleando las TIG: una innovación necesaria

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    De Lázaro y Torres, María Luisa

    2016-01-01

    Aportación a la mesa redonda: “LA FORMACIÓN EN TIG EN LOS NUEVOS PLANES DE GRADOS Y MÁSTERES”, desarrollada en el marco del XVII Congreso Nacional de TIG. Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech.

  17. Aspectos legales y éticos vinculados con el establecimiento y uso de los reservorios y bancos de ADN humano

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    Bianchi, Néstor Oscar

    2007-01-01

    Full Text Available La utilidad de los depósitos de material genético humano para la investigación médica, antropológica y básica es indiscutible. Los repositorios y bancos permiten compartir las muestras entre distintos laboratorios de investigación, efectuar nuevos ensayos moleculares en muestras representativas de distintos grupos étnicos o de diversas enfermedades genéticas o hereditarias, acelerar y abaratar la obtención de resultados evitando la implementación de colectas de material biológico cada vez que se inicia un nuevo proyecto científico. Sin embargo, la organización de un repositorio o banco de material genético es compleja, involucra a varias partes (donantes, representantes legales del repositorio o banco, usuarios del material depositado y a distintas entidades y organismos públicos y privados con y sin fines de lucro, tales como organismos que proveen los fondos para financiar los bancos y repositorios, entidades sede de los bancos y repositorios, comités de ética encargados de autorizar y monitorear los depósitos de material genético, empresas farmacéuticas que realizan investigaciones con fines de lucro, organizaciones no gubernamentales sin fines de lucro que colectan fondos para el establecimiento de reservorios de material genético destinados a mejorar la asistencia médica de determinadas afecciones. Esta multiplicidad de actores con intereses diversos genera también diversas interpretaciones de las cuestiones éticas y legales relacionadas con los depósitos de material genético, las cuales se hacen evidentes al analizar las recomendaciones sobre el tema que hacen distintas organizaciones internacionales tales como UNESCO, HUGO, OMS, Comités de Ética de la Comunidad Europea y de Australia, “American Society of Human Genetics”, “American College of Medical Genetics”.

  18. Los nuevos derechos humanos: gobierno electrónico e informática comunitaria

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    Javier Bustamante Donas

    2007-05-01

    Full Text Available Este artículo analiza la relación entre derechos humanos, tecnología y democracia. En particular, la relaciónentre el uso de Internet, las políticas de inclusión digital y el desarrollo del gobierno electrónico, con referencias alos casos de Brasil y España. Se identifican factores que suponen un cambio real en la definición de los límites de lademocracia y en el concepto de ciudadanía. El movimiento Linux, las comunidades virtuales y la ética de hackersson manifestaciones de una primera generación de usos alternativos de profundo poder transformador. Los conceptosde ciudadanía y de derechos humanos se redefinen en este nuevo entorno a partir de un nuevo conjunto devalores y metáforas, de un nuevo paradigma ético.

  19. Defining Legal Moralism

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    Thaysen, Jens Damgaard

    2015-01-01

    This paper discusses how legal moralism should be defined. It is argued that legal moralism should be defined as the position that “For any X, it is always a pro tanto reason for justifiably imposing legal regulation on X that X is morally wrong (where “morally wrong” is not conceptually equivalent...... to “harmful”)”. Furthermore, a distinction between six types of legal moralism is made. The six types are grouped according to whether they are concerned with the enforcement of positive or critical morality, and whether they are concerned with criminalising, legally restricting, or refraining from legally...... protecting morally wrong behaviour. This is interesting because not all types of legal moralism are equally vulnerable to the different critiques of legal moralism that have been put forth. Indeed, I show that some interesting types of legal moralism have not been criticised at all....

  20. Beneficiarte: outsourcing en beneficios

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    Beneficiarte es una empresa orientada a proveer servicios de outsourcing y administración de beneficios, con el fin de mejorar la productividad. En principio, todo aquello que recibe el empleado y que está destinado a remunerar su fuerza de trabajo es salario, pero la ley también permite realizar pagos al empleado que no son constitutivos de salario e incluso algunos permiten un alivio fiscal. A partir de la premisa anterior y el nuevo marco global, las empresas del nuevo milenio han venido ...

  1. Toxicology elements

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    Viala, A.

    1998-01-01

    This work studies the different aspects of the modern toxicology: toxico-kinetic, biological, medico legal, food, professional, pharmaceuticals, environmental, social and regulatory. It is divided in three parts that consider the principle problems of general toxicology and analytical toxicology. (N.C.)

  2. La evaluación de los aprendizajes de los estudiantes en el marco del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES: sus prácticas, preferencias y evolución

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    Javier Argos

    2013-12-01

    Full Text Available El Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES comporta, al menos a nivel teórico, cambios sustanciales en los planteamientos formativos desarrollados que se concretan en diferentes ámbitos. Uno de éstos, el de la evaluación de los aprendizajes de los estudiantes, se convierte en el foco del trabajo que presentamos. Los planteamientos y resultados del mismo se enmarcan en un proyecto I+D+i (EDU 2009-13195 titulado “Enfoques de aprendizaje de los estudiantes universitarios, metodologías docentes y contextos institucionales al inicio, intermedio y final de la carrera en el marco de implantación de los nuevos títulos”. Concretamente, nos centramos en la evaluación de los aprendizajes analizando, tanto los formatos o modalidades utilizadas, como las preferencias que los estudiantes manifiestan sobre ellas, en diferentes cursos y titulaciones. Asimismo, pretendemos aportar algo de luz acerca de cómo dichas preferencias varían dependiendo del enfoque de aprendizaje de cada estudiante (profundo o superficial y, también, de la evolución que se produce en los alumnos a lo largo de los diferentes cursos de sus estudios de grado.

  3. What is legal medicine--are legal and forensic medicine the same?

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    Beran, Roy G

    2010-04-01

    Some consider the terms "forensic" and "legal" medicine to be synonymous but this is counter to the title of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine or the dual strands for progression to fellowship of the Australian College of Legal Medicine. The paper examines a very brief historical background to legal medicine and develops a definition of the strands thereof, namely legal and forensic medicine. It demonstrates that the two are different components of the application of medical knowledge upon the legal system. Legal medicine has greater relevance to civil and tort law, impacting upon patient care, whereas forensic medicine relates to criminal law and damage to, or by, patients.

  4. New records of Mexican Tardigrada Nuevos registros de Tardigrada mexicanos

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    Łukasz Kaczmarek

    2011-12-01

    Full Text Available In 9 moss samples collected from Mexico, 6 tardigrade species, including 4 new records for the country, were found. The new records raise the number of known Mexican water bear species to forty-one. We provide a full list of the known Mexican tardigrade species and discuss some biogeographical and taxonomic issues.En 9 muestras de musgo recolectadas en México, se encontraron 6 especies de tardígrados, incluyendo 4 nuevos registros para el país. Los nuevos registros incrementaron a 41 el número de especies de tardígrados mexicanos conocidos. Se proporciona una lista completa de tardígrados mexicanos conocidos y se discuten algunas cuestiones biogeográficas y taxonómicas.

  5. Nuevo Mercado Nacional de Ganado

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    Sánchez de Dios, Alejandro

    1995-08-01

    Full Text Available The new National Livestock Market of Santiago de Compostela is the result of the need to move the present obsolete and badly located buildings to a new place which will have better access roads, better parking and circulation space for vehicles and more modem and complete installations. The complex is also meant to be a general purpose fairground. The article briefly describes the most important elements of the new installation, including the main 17,000 m2 building, with a laminated wood structure of a 53 m span, and the computer equipment which is one of the most complete ones in Europe in this type of installations.

    El nuevo Mercado Nacional de Ganado de Santiago de Compostela nace como consecuencia de la necesidad de trasladar las actuales edificaciones, obsoletas y mal ubicadas, a un nuevo recinto, que estará dotado de mejores accesos, mayor espacio para estacionamiento y circulación de vehículos y más modernas y completas instalaciones. Se pretende además que sirva como recinto ferial de carácter general. A lo largo del artículo se aborda una descripción somera de los elementos más significativos de la nueva instalación, desde la edificación principal, de 17.000 m2, con estructura de madera laminada de 53 m de luz, hasta el equipamiento informático, uno de los más completos de Europa en este tipo de instalaciones.

  6. Retos en la internacionalización y supervivencia de los nuevos emprendimientos manufactureros

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    Miguel González-Loureiro

    2015-12-01

    Full Text Available El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la relación entre la orientación internacional y la supervivencia de empresas manufactureras de reciente creación. Para ello se estudió una muestra de 2.975 nuevos emprendimientos constituidos durante el período 2001-2010 en la industria textil-confección de España. Metodológicamente, se han empleado modelos de duración mediante regresiones de Cox, que modelizan el riesgo relativo asociado con una variable en función del tiempo transcurrido hasta que sucede el evento. Los principales resultados evidencian que la internacionalización de los nuevos emprendimientos es una condición necesaria aunque no suficiente para sobrevivir en una industria globalizada como la textil-confección. Los nuevos emprendimientos manufactureros compitiendo en sectores de alto valor añadido tienen un menor riesgo relativo de mortalidad que las empresas que compiten en sectores de bajo valor añadido. Por ello, junto con esa orientación hacia los mercados exteriores, es necesario que estos emprendimientos consideren otros retos relacionados con el ajuste en el binomio modalidad internacionalizadora y subsector de actividad en el que desean competir, definido este en términos de valor añadido. Futuras investigaciones deben profundizar en la posible existencia de un momento óptimo para internacionalizarse en términos de edad organizativa porque en los nuevos emprendimientos manufactureros parece existir una relación de intercambio entre internacionalización temprana y supervivencia en el corto plazo. No obstante, si el nuevo emprendimiento permanece demasiado tiempo como puramente doméstica tiene el riesgo de quedarse estancado en dicho mercado y no aprovechar las oportunidades de los mercados exteriores de compra y/o venta

  7. Civil forensic psychiatry - Part 1: an overview.

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    2018-02-01

    Objectives This paper provides an overview for general and forensic psychiatrists of the complexity and challenge of working in the civil medico-legal arena. It covers expert evidence, ethics, core concepts in civil forensic psychiatry and report writing. Conclusions Civil forensic psychiatry is an important sub-speciality component of forensic psychiatry that requires specific skills, knowledge and the ability to assist legal bodies in determining the significance of psychiatric issues.

  8. Intoxication by mining revenues. San Marcos district politics after twelve years of Antamina’s presence

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    Guillermo Salas Carreño

    2010-12-01

    Full Text Available This paper describes and analyses the changes in local politicstaken place in the district of San Marcos (Huari, Ancash associatedwith the arrival of the Canon Minero – a fraction of taxes paid byAntamina mining company to the Peruvian State. Canon Minero hasincreased sudden and spectacularly the municipality’s funds so muchthat currently San Marcos in «ones of the Peruvian richest districts».The paper pays attention to the municipal elections of 2006 and theimplementation of the Plan Piloto de Mantenimiento de la InfraestructuraPública, a program of temporary work for all San Marcos’citizens. The latter was key for launching a novel alliance betweenthe municipality and the rural population, particularly with the ConoSur composed by hamlets which were traditionally unimportantactors in district politics. Hence, district politics had stopped to bedominated by the struggle between two factions of former landlordfamilies and had become articulated by the opposition between therural hamlets and the town of San Marcos with the emergence ofethnic political claims. Also, local politics ceased to revolve aroundAntamina and has become entangled with struggles over the administrationof Canon Minero. Rural communities which have directnegotiations with Antamina remain important political actors whichare independent from the municipality and are even oppose to it.

  9. Ebrotidina: nuevo antagonista H2

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    Noel Padrón Pérez

    1999-01-01

    Full Text Available Se realizó una revisión bibliográfica sobre un nuevo antagonista H2, la ebrotidina, que exhibe ventajas con respecto a otros medicamentos antisecretores. Las propiedades gastroprotectoras y la actividad anti H. pylori del fármaco, en el tratamiento de la enfermedad péptica ulcerosa, se mencionan en el presente trabajo.A bibliographic review on the new H2 antagonist, ebrotidine, that presents advantages in comparison with other antisecretory drugs, is made. The gastroprotective properties and the anti H. pylori activity of the drug in the treatment of peptic ulcer are mentioned in this paper.

  10. Alcabalas de Sogamoso: Tensiones ante la aplicación de un nuevo método de recaudo en un pueblo del Nuevo Reino de Granada, 1805-1818

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    Elver Armando Rodriguez Nupan

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    Full Text Available En este artículo se analiza el impacto de la aplicación de un nuevo método de recaudo de las alcabalas en Sogamoso entre 1805 y 1818, en el contexto de las reformas político-administrativas emprendidas por los Borbones en el Nuevo Reino de Granada a partir de la mitad del siglo XVIII. Se abordan diferentes niveles de tensión entre funcionarios, grupos sociales y élites locales emergentes, para demostrar que la aplicación tardía de las reformas borbónicas en Sogamoso, fueron recibidas localmente con el mismo descontento que causaron en todo el territorio americano.

  11. The management, privacy and medico-legal issues of electronic CPAP data in Australia and New Zealand: Electronic CPAP data management in Australia and New Zealand.

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    Swieca, John; Hamilton, Garun S; Meaklim, Hailey

    2017-08-01

    Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) is considered to be the gold standard treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). CPAP monitoring systems allow tracking of patient CPAP adherence and treatment efficacy, by measuring residual sleep-disordered breathing, hours of CPAP use, and mask leak etc. The American Thoracic Society (ATS) published a position paper in 2013 highlighting issues of interpreting CPAP data such as a lack of consistency between CPAP manufacturers data algorithms, legal implications of CPAP data and implications for CPAP adherence. This paper extends on this work by investigating these issues in an Australasian context. A review of current literature on CPAP monitoring systems, privacy and security of CPAP data for major Australasian CPAP providers, and CPAP adherence was undertaken. A legal review was also commissioned for issues related to privacy and security of CPAP data. CPAP manufacturers' utilize different algorithms for respiratory event detection and clinicians need to be aware the implications for interpreting CPAP data. Australasian CPAP manufacturers have created security/privacy policies with the intent to follow relevant legislation to protect patients' CPAP data, however they do need to be constantly reviewed and updated to avoid data breaches and changes to agreements. No guarantees can be provided by the Australasian Sleep Association on CPAP manufacturers' compliance with these policies and there is the potential for some degree of liability for physicians and CPAP providers associated with CPAP data. Lastly, providing patients with feedback on their CPAP usage and OSA management appears to have positive influence CPAP adherence. CPAP data provides many opportunities to increase OSA patient care and to help patients self-manage this chronic condition. However, issues relating to lack of standardization of CPAP parameters, privacy, security, and legal implications will need to be managed in this changing technologic and

  12. Legal Hybrids

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    Herrmann, Janne Rothmar

    2009-01-01

    in which embryos and foetuses are placed are much more complex. These categories are identified using Danish legislation as an example and on that basis the article extracts and identifies the different parameters that play a part in the legal categorisation of the human conceptus.......The article discusses the inadequacy of traditional theory on legal personhood in relation to embryos and foetuses. To challenge the somewhat binary view of legal personhood according to which the ‘born alive' criterion is paramount the article demonstrates that the number of legal categories...

  13. La pericia médico legal como forma de producir la verdad y sus adversarios en los tribunales brasileños de entreguerras

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    Ferla, Luis

    2014-12-01

    Full Text Available The medico-legal examination ensured the existence and the social impact of the biological positivist approaches to criminology that gained influence in Brazil during the interwar period. This examination turned scientific knowledge into accepted and acceptable documents that were also intelligible and useful. Examinations were social currencies used to facilitate the relationship between the power and knowledge of legal medicine and criminology. They disciplined the relationship between law and medicine and made feasible the power of judging. However, along the way they had to assert themselves against other traditions and knowledge. Their main «opponents» were the information obtained by the police from an offense or crime suspect through coercion, especially by means of torture; the decisions made by the jury and the evidence obtained from witnesses; and the delinquent’s knowledge. What all these forms of «truth production» had in common was their non-expert origin, which became the main argument of forensic medical examiners against them. The aim of this article is to discuss the dispute over the prerogatives to produce the truth in institutional spaces that dealt with combating antisocial acts, and to point out the medico-scientific strategies used to prevail over the lay forms present in that shared environment.La pericia médico legal confería impacto social a las tesis de la criminología positivista de orientación biodeterminista que ejerció gran influencia en el Brasil de entreguerras. Esa pericia transformaba los conocimientos especializados, o sea, los saberes científicos, en documentos aceptables y eficientes, inteligibles y utilizables. Disciplinaba las relaciones entre derecho y medicina y acababa viabilizando el poder de juzgar. Pero en ese recorrido debía afirmarse contras otras tradiciones y saberes. Sus principales «adversarios» eran: el conocimiento policial producido por constreñimiento del sospechoso del

  14. Los nuevos dominios de la ciencia económica

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    Bejarano Jesús Antonio

    1999-12-01

    Full Text Available Hace algo más de diez años, siendo Decano de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad Nacional, tuve el honor de ser el primer expositor en el primer congreso de estudiantes de economía del país. Once años después, recae de nuevo en mí ese honor, y por ello debo expresar mi gratitud a los estudiantes organizadores de este cuento. Entre aquel primer congreso y éste se transformó no sólo el panorama del quehacer profesional sino también el panorama global de la ciencia económica, y creo que en forma radical. En poco más de veinte años, desde comienzos de los años setenta, se abrieron nuevos rumbos que, sin duda, quienes hoy son estudiantes seguirán en el futuro.

  15. [Autopsy and blood testing for alcohol and drugs/medicine after traffic fatalities is not routinely conducted].

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    Uhrenholt, Lars; Schumacher, Bente; Freeman, Michael

    2010-09-27

    In some road traffic crashes with fatal outcome, the police investigations lead to charges against and prosecution of a person. The police can request a medico-legal autopsy as well as a toxicological examination, but the extent to which this is done, and the role here of in the legal setting is unknown. Information concerning traffic crashes with fatal outcome in the period 2000-2004 in Aarhus Police District was retrieved and compared. The information included comprised crash specific and legal information, as well as medical data concerning autopsy, examination for alcohol, drugs and/or medicine. In all, 81 traffic crashes had a fatal outcome for 92 persons, of whom 17 (18%) were autopsied, 55 (60%) were tested for alcohol, and five (5%) were examined for drugs/medicine. Twenty-six were charged with negligent homicide, of which 18 were convicted. Autopsy was performed in four of these cases, 19 were tested for alcohol and one was tested for drugs/medicine. This study shows that the police requests few medico-legal autopsies following road traffic fatalities, and that testing for alcohol as well as drugs/medicine is not conducted routinely. As a consequence, important information may not come to the knowledge of the police in cases of negligent homicide. We recommend that postmortem examination be conducted routinely in traffic-related homicide cases to secure the best possible conditions for a legal evaluation.

  16. Kaasaegses kunstis valitseb turvalisus / Marco Scotini, Andris Brinkmanis ; intervjueerinud Eero Epner

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    2010-01-01

    Intervjuu Milano Nuova Accademia di Belle Art'i visuaalkunstide ja kuraatoriõppe osakonna juhataja, kaasaegse kunsti ajaloo ja kuraatoriõppe professori Marco Scotini ja sama akadeemia õppejõu Andris Birkmanisega. M. Scotini pidas Kumus loengu "Kuraator loomemajanduse ajastul. Teisel pool institutsionaalset kriitikat". Muutunud kaasaja kunstimaailmast: institutsioonide kontrollist, estetiseeritud kunsti valitsemisest biennaalidel, riigi kontrollimehhanismi asendumisest majanduslikuga, kuraatoritööst, retrospektiivnäituste rohkusest jm.

  17. De la urgencia a la pausa : El psicoanálisis y las instituciones

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    El campo de la salud mental se enfrenta a nuevos desafíos. La Ley Nacional de Salud Mental n°26.657, reafirmando el papel de todos los individuos como sujetos de derechos, sanciona la necesidad de ampliar y regular determinadas prácticas. En este marco encontramos la necesidad de establecer guardias interdisciplinarias y por lo tanto adquiere fuerza el rol del psicólogo de guardia, figura que existía en muy pocos lugares del país. Junto con la promesa de nuevos cargos reaparece el viejo inter...

  18. Amuleto: hacia una poética de la memoria latinoamericana

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    2009-01-01

    El trabajo ensaya una aproximación a la narrativa de Roberto Bolaño a partir de la novela Amuleto (1999) para definir su propuesta estética en relación con los debates en torno a los nuevos realismos en el Cono Sur: los cambios y desplazamientos en torno a la categoría "realismo" en la posdictadura. Bolaño articula un realismo particular, el "realismo visceral"; posicionándose en el campo literario latinoamericano, en diálogo con los debates actuales en el marco de los denominados nuevos real...

  19. Weberian versus Pluralistic Legal Forces in the Global Political Economy

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    Volkmar Gessner

    2013-10-01

    desde las formas tradicionales a las formas irracionales formales y burocráticas de dominación legal. Desde el punto de vista de Weber la racionalización jurídica es nuestro "destino" y las normas e instituciones informales necesariamente obsoleta serán examinadas de nuevo desde una perspectiva histórica y confrontadas con los datos empíricos recogidos en el ámbito del gobierno de las transacciones comerciales globales. En este artículo trataremos de mostrar que a pesar de que el enfoque influyente de Weber todavía ayuda a explicar gran parte de lo que ocurre en los modelos internos del capitalismo, no parece comprender la creciente complejidad del capitalismo globalizado.

  20. Juicio Circuito Camps (parte 34) : Los delitos sexuales de lesa humanidad serán analizados dentro del marco y contexto en que fueron cometidos

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    Se transmite a los juzgados donde se cursan expedientes que realicen las investigaciones por delitos sexuales en el marco de las causas de lesa humanidad, dentro del marco y contexto en que fueron cometidos.

  1. Regional Legal Assistance

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    Abdul Fatah

    2015-06-01

    Full Text Available Legal aid policy in the area carried out on several considerations including: Implementation of the authority given to the legal aid act, granting the guarantee and protection of access to justice and equality before the law in the area, equitable distribution of justice and increase public awareness and understanding of the law, and legal implications that accompanied the emergence of the right to legal counsel without pay and the right to choose the legal settlement. How To Cite Fatah, A. (2015. Regional Legal Assistance. Rechtsidee, 2(1, 1-10. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.21070/jihr.v2i1.7

  2. Roles para la docencia universitaria concordantes con las demandas educacionales del nuevo siglo

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    Patricio Montero Lagos

    2004-01-01

    Full Text Available Las demandas educacionales del nuevo siglo requieren modificar sustantivamente los roles del estudiante y del docente en la docencia universitaria convencional. En este trabajo se presentan cinco cambios internos y seis externos ocurridos en las últimas décadas, que afectan la eficacia interna y externa de los procesos de formación académica y profesional, para que jóvenes y adultos puedan desarrollar un proyecto de vida personal integrado socialmente. Luego, basados en la aplicación de una combinación de ambientes presenciales y virtuales en la docencia de pregrado de la Universidad de Santiago de Chile, se ejemplifican, mediante situaciones de enseñanza y aprendizaje, tareas clave de los roles de estudiantes y profesores, consistentes con las demandas educacionales actuales. Se concluye con un breve comentario sobre los nuevos desafíos que deben enfrentar los participantes de la docencia de acuerdo con nuevos roles para la educación universitaria del tercer milenio.

  3. Nuevos modos de construcción de la identidad en la sociedad informacional

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    Lic. Antonio J. Baladrón Pazos

    2003-01-01

    Full Text Available La expansión de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación y su aplicación práctica, en muchos casos menor que el previo desarrollo teórico, están cambiando parcelas importantes de la vida en sociedad. Los nuevos medios crean nuevos modos, tanto en lo profesional como en cualquier otro ámbito de las relaciones sociales, así como en la propia esfera de la intimidad de cada persona. El cambio tiene tal trascendencia que junto a la hasta ahora base de las relaciones en sociedad, es decir, la comunicación entre personas (bien cara a cara o de manera mediática, aparecen nuevos mecanismos de integración del individuo en la colectividad y de construcción de la identidad personal, vinculados a la relación entre el hombre y el ordenador.

  4. special article the medico-legal prerequisite for initiating quarantine

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    1Department of Biological, Environmental and Occupational Health Science, School of Public Health, Univer- ... and isolation in public health emergency management. ... The implementation of quarantine or isolation ... ety, technological systems within a given population ..... Ghana Civil Aviation Act, 2004 (Act 678).

  5. The ethical and medico-legal issues of trauma care

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    the case of polytrauma, the patient's autonomy is further reduced. In addition, the risk .... Rational resource use in these circumstances has been an ac- cepted part of ... The high prevalence of HIV among the trauma population is well known in ...

  6. Medico-legal documentation of rape or sexual assault: are ...

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    Results: A response rate of 59.3% was achieved. ... on how to manage alleged rape or sexual assault cases, only 11.4% of the participants had hands-on exposure to an ..... atrocious crimes, constituting a huge human rights violation and.

  7. Medico-legal analysis of a case of mass shooting.

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    Kuruc, R; Šidlo, J; Zummerová, A; Šikuta, J; Baloghová, A

    Despite the existence of organised crime in Slovakia, no case has ever been monitored in which one individual used a firearm against several people, as happens in the U.S. or in Western Europe. The aim of this work is to demonstrate a "unique" case in the history of Slovak criminality, when six members of one family were killed and some other accidental victims were wounded or even killed by one perpetrator using a firearm.

  8. Childhood and adolescent fatalities at the Pretoria Medico-Legal ...

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    in children <12 years, found the leading external cause of death to be road traffic fatalities (22% of cases). In Nigeria, Nwafor et al.[9] reviewed deaths in children ≤14 years; in a 20-year period, road traffic accidents ..... We thank Ms B English,.

  9. Mars Atmosphere and Regolith COllector/PrOcessor for Lander Ops (MARCO POLO) Atmospheric Processing Module

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    National Aeronautics and Space Administration — The multi-NASA center Mars Atmosphere and Regolith COllector/PrOcessor for Lander Operations (MARCO POLO) project was established to build and demonstrate a...

  10. Aspectos legales de la publicidad en televisión y la defensa de lso derechos de las audiencias

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    Pedro J. Reinares Lara

    2012-04-01

    Full Text Available La comunicación publicitaria en televisión es parte fundamental en las estrategias de comunicación de los anunciantes, generando su elevado volumen de negocio complejas relaciones entre los agentes participantes. Este artículo presenta una interpretación del marco legal que regula los formatos publicitarios en televisión fundamentada en los procedimientos habituales del mercado. El análisis aplicado es resultado de una investigación sobre la adecuación de la normativa a las figuras reguladas  y sus equivalentes en los formatos comerciales de las cadenas, interpretando el grado de cumplimiento de los fines perseguidos por dicha normativa y en especial en la defensa de los derechos de las audiencias. 

  11. MODELOS DE LIDERAZGO POSITIVO: MARCO TEÓRICO Y LÍNEAS DE INVESTIGACIÓN

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    Full Text Available El objetivo de este artículo es doble, en primer lugar, se define el marco teórico del liderazgo positivo así como las razones de su aparición. Este surge vinculado al paradigma de la psicología organizacional positiva, en cuyo ámbito, se han desarrollado las diferentes formas de liderazgo que lo integran (i.e. transformacional, de servicio, espiritual, auténtico y positivo. Aunque el constructo no parece unívocamente delimitado, los diferentes tipos que se incluyen bajo esta denominaciónpresentan una gran afinidad y elementos comunes. En segundo lugar, se revisan aspectos prácticos vinculados a la investigación empírica que constatan el impacto de este tipo de liderazgo en las organizaciones y se subraya la relación entre estas formas de liderazgo y variables organizacionales positivas. Finalmente, se analizan futuras líneas de investigación para el desarrollo de este marco conceptual.

  12. Aeropuerto de Nueva York. Nuevo hangar para reactores

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    Full Text Available El nuevo hangar del Aeropuerto Internacional de Idlewild, de Nueva York (EE. UU., proyectado y construido bajo la dirección del Port of New York Authority, destinado a los servicios de líneas aéreas extranjeras, está formado por una estructura central metálica, que constituye el cuerpo resistente del hangar.

  13. Electrocution-related mortality in northern India – A 5-year retrospective study

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    Sachil Kumar

    2014-03-01

    Conclusion: Death rates from electrocution among all medico-legal deaths were found to be lower in this study than in previous reports, most of them were work-related and preventable. Workers and their employers should be educated to avoid such accidents with safety measures.

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    accident and unknown cause of homicide. The identified medico-legal issues are consistent with the reports from the health personnel ... powers and training of medical expertise specifically on pathology, DNA analysis and psychiatry. Furthermore, the ..... provide laws that would prevent health maintenance organizations ...

  15. Intimate partner violence against women, circumstances of aggressions and oral-maxillofacial traumas: A medical-legal and forensic approach.

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    de Macedo Bernardino, Ítalo; Santos, Luzia Michelle; Ferreira, Alysson Vinicius Porto; de Almeida Lima, Tomás Lucio Marques; da Nóbrega, Lorena Marques; d'Avila, Sérgio

    2018-03-01

    Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious public health problem that frequently results in oral-maxillofacial traumas, generating high social and economic costs. The aim of this study was to describe the profile of women victims of IPV and determine the pattern of oral-maxillofacial traumas, according to a medical-legal and forensic perspective. An exploratory study of 1361 suspected cases of women victims of IPV was carried out based on database of an Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Dentistry of Northeastern Brazil during a period of 4 years. Medico-legal and social records of victims were searched for information related to sociodemographic data, circumstances of aggressions and trauma patterns. Descriptive and multivariate statistics and Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) were performed. Almost half of victims exhibited some oral-maxillofacial trauma resulting from IPV (45.8%). Lesions affecting more than one third of the face (41.3%), especially in soft tissues (96.1%) were the most common. Based on the MCA results, two distinct victimization profiles (P1 and P2) have been identified. P1 was mainly characterized by women aged less than 28 years, living in the urban area, with higher education and working. They were assaulted using physical force in community settings perpetrated by former partner or ex-boyfriend during the night and weekends, resulting in oral-maxillofacial traumas. P2 was mainly composed of women aged over 28 years, living in the suburban or rural areas, with low schooling and who did not work. They were assaulted by firearm or weapon in their own home, perpetrated by their partner or boyfriend during the day and weekdays, resulting in trauma to other body parts. Oral and maxillofacial traumas are very common among women victims of IPV who searched for medical-legal service. In this context, forensic dentists can play a key role during the diagnostic process and should always work together with medical, biochemical and

  16. Marco Antonio Chaer Nascimento a festschrift from theoretical chemistry accounts

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    Ornellas, Fernando R

    2014-01-01

    In this Festschrift dedicated to the 65th birthday of Marco Antonio Chaer Nascimento, selected researchers in theoretical chemistry present research highlights on major developments in the field. Originally published in the journal Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, these outstanding contributions are now available in a hardcover print format. This volume will be of benefit in particular to those research groups and libraries that have chosen to have only electronic access to the journal. It also provides valuable content for all researchers in theoretical chemistry.

  17. Marco Praga e Tatiana Pavlova: due mondi teatrali a confronto

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    Mariagabriella Cambiaghi

    2017-07-01

    Full Text Available In the twenties the playwright and stage director Marco Praga became a dramatic critic on the “Illustrazione italiana”. In his incisive production an interesting section is devoted to Tatiana Pavlova, a Russian actress who started performing in Italy in 1923, and gradually introduced a new concept of acting and show.Referring to reviews and pictures, this article investigates two different points of view about theatre, the relationship between text and stage, performance and further components of the show.

  18. Ways of physical and symbolic isolation: leprosy; its isolation spaces and the medical-legal discourse in Argentina

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    Miranda, Marisa

    2008-12-01

    Full Text Available During the first half of the twentieth century, the presence of leprosy in modern societies provoked various reactions. As ancient prejudices had not disappeared yet, the medical-legal discourse dealt with a problem that exceeded the strictly sanitary framework. From a scientific perspective, this paper analyzes the way in which answers find that seemed the population and the future of the race in the physical and symbolic isolation of the leper, were developed in Argentina. In that context, the eugenics legitimated strong restrictions of rights to sick persons on whom this ancestral stigma continued to carry much weight.

    Durante la primera mitad del siglo XX la presencia de la lepra en sociedades modernas suscitó variadas reacciones. Aun sin que desaparecieran ancestrales prejuicios, el discurso médico-legal abordó un problema que excedía el marco estrictamente sanitario. El trabajo analiza el modo en que, desde una perspectiva científica, fueron gestadas en Argentina respuestas que creyeron hallar en el aislamiento físico y simbólico del leproso una forma proteger la población y el futuro de la raza. En ese contexto, la eugenesia legitimó fuertes restricciones de derechos a enfermos sobre los que siguió pesando aquel estigma ancestral.

  19. NUEVOS FÁRMACOS EN DIABETES MELLITUS

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    DRA. Carmen Gloria Aylwin H.

    2016-03-01

    Full Text Available Por más de 60 años se dispuso solo de tres grupos farmacológicos para el tratamiento de la diabetes mellitus (DM: la insulina, la metformina y las sulfonilureas. Sin embargo, en los últimos años y como consecuencia de los avances en el conocimiento de la patogenia de la DM2 se han desarrollado nuevos fármacos con novedosos mecanismos de acción y con diferentes perfiles de seguridad, entre ellos los compuestos con efecto incretina y los glucosúricos que actúan en los trastornos a nivel intestinal y renal presentes en la DM2. La disponibilidad de múltiples opciones terapéuticas está produciendo profundos cambios en la terapia farmacológica de la DM2. Se logran enfoques terapéuticos más fisiopatológicos pero sobre todo permiten un manejo más personalizado y ajustado a las características y riesgos individuales de los pacientes, privilegiando junto al control glicémico, la seguridad terapéutica. En esta revisión se analizarán los nuevos fármacos con efecto incretina, los agonistas del péptido similar al glucagón tipo 1 (AR-GLP1 e inhibidores de la dipeptidil peptidasa 4 (IDPP-4, y los inhibidores de los cotransportadores sodio-glucosa tipo 2 (ISLGT2 que aumentan la excreción renal de glucosa.

  20. El nuevo ecosistema mediático

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    Joao Canavilhas

    2011-06-01

    Full Text Available Originalmente usado para describir la relación entre la blogosfera y la mediasfera, el concepto de Ecosistema Mediático se extendió a otro tipo de relaciones, pasando a designar  todo el complejo sistema de relaciones entre los medios de comunicación. Las nuevas formas de interacción, con los contenidos y los cambios en el consumo mediático motivados por la movilidad y las nuevas interfaces, han producido alteraciones importantes en los propios medios de comunicación que han tenido que adaptarse a esta nueva realidad.Tomando como punto de partida el concepto original de Ecología, tratamos de identificar un conjunto de  elementos que ayuden a aclarar el concepto de  Ecosistema Mediático, en particular en lo que respecta a los diversos factores que influyen en él. Se trata de trazar un paralelo entre los dos ecosistemas –biológico y mediático­­–  buscando formas de integrar las novedades relacionadas con la evolución técnica de los medios, las herramientas y aplicaciones que están cambiando las funciones y contenidos de los medios tradicionales, o alterando la forma de consumo mediático.La propuesta que se hace busca la integración de nuevos conceptos que ahora se estudian de forma fragmentada y, a veces, descontextualizada del nuevo entorno mediático.

  1. NUEVOS DESARROLLOS URBANÍSTICOS EN EL CAMPO DE MURCIA. IMPLICACIONES TERRITORIALES Y PLANEAMIENTO MUNICIPAL

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    Ignacio Aliaga Sola

    2008-01-01

    Full Text Available Desde las postrimerías del siglo XX, el municipio de Murcia ha venido experimentando grandes desarrollos urbanísticos. Mientras el núcleo urbano capitalino se consolida y extiende por sus huertas aledañas, grandes urbanizaciones periféricas asociadas o no a campos de golf, aparecen en su periferia, atestiguando nuevos modelos de crecimiento disperso y ciudad difusa. Una nueva visión del territorio y un nuevo modelo de desarrollo socioeconómico que en los albores del siglo XXI, traen para el área municipal de Murcia cambios en los usos del suelo y el paisaje. Como muestra de este particular fenómeno, en el presente trabajo se analizarán algunos de los proyectos urbanísticos que están dando lugar a nuevos espacios residenciales al Sur del término municipal, en la unidad espacial tradicionalmente conocida como .

  2. Long Term Recovery in Disaster Response and the Role of Non-Profits

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    Victor B Flatt

    2013-04-01

    Full Text Available The Legal Framework of Disaster Response does not deal as well with long term recovery. In particular, the role of non-profits is unexamined. This paper examines the role of non-profits in disaster recovery and argues for a legal framework acknowledging its important role. El marco legal de las respuestas ante desastres no tiene en cuenta la recuperación a largo plazo. En particular, no se analiza el papel de las organizaciones sin ánimo de lucro. Este artículo estudia el papel de las organizaciones sin ánimo de lucro en la recuperación de desastres, y se muestra a favor de establecer un marco legal que reconozca la importancia de su papel.

  3. Characterization of immortalized MARCO and SR-AI/II-deficient murine alveolar macrophage cell lines

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    Imrich Amy

    2008-05-01

    Full Text Available Abstract Background Alveolar macrophages (AM avidly bind and ingest unopsonized inhaled particles and bacteria through class A scavenger receptors (SRAs MARCO and SR-AI/II. Studies to characterize the function of these SRAs have used AMs from MARCO or SR-AI/II null mice, but this approach is limited by the relatively low yield of AMs. Moreover, studies using both MARCO and SR-AI/II-deficient (MS-/- mice have not been reported yet. Hence, we sought to develop continuous cell lines from primary alveolar macrophages from MS-/- mice. Results We used in vitro infection of the primary AMs with the J2 retrovirus carrying the v-raf and v-myc oncogenes. Following initial isolation in media supplemented with murine macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF, we subcloned three AM cell lines, designated ZK-1, ZK-2 and ZK-6. These cell lines grow well in RPMI-1640-10% FBS in the absence of M-CSF. These adherent but trypsin-sensitive cell lines have a doubling time of approximately 14 hours, exhibit typical macrophage morphology, and express macrophage-associated cell surface Mac-1 (CD11b and F4/80 antigens. The cell lines show robust Fc-receptor dependent phagocytosis of opsonized red blood cells. Similar to freshly isolated AMs from MS-/- mice, the cell lines exhibit decreased phagocytosis of unopsonized titanium dioxide (TiO2, fluorescent latex beads and bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus compared with the primary AMs from wild type (WT C57BL/6 mice. Conclusion Our results indicated that three contiguous murine alveolar macrophage cell lines with MS-/- (ZK1, ZK2 and ZK6 were established successfully. These cell lines demonstrated macrophage morphology and functional activity. Interestingly, similar to freshly isolated AMs from MS-/- mice, the cell lines have a reduced, but not absent, ability to bind and ingest particles, with an altered pattern of blockade by scavenger receptor inhibitors. These cell lines will facilitate in vitro studies to further define

  4. Marco jurídico de la política de telecomunicaciones

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    Carlos Labaure Aliseris

    2014-02-01

    Full Text Available Introducción. Generalidades. Concepto de telecomunicación. Monopolio y competencia. Políticade telecomunicaciones. Noción e instrumentos. Evolución de las políticas de telecomunicaciones. Marco jurídico de las telecomunicaciones. Régimen general. Regímenes específicos.Nos vamos a referir al marco jurídico de la política de telecomunicaciones. Se trata de una regulación sectorial, fijada por el Estado, para una actividad en que actúan sujetos públicos y privados.Dicha regulación ha estado sujeta a cambios, en virtud del avance tecnológico de las últimas décadas en el ámbito de las telecomunicaciones.El avance tecnológico referido ha producido una verdadera revolución en las telecomunicaciones,en cuyo proceso estamos actualmente inmersos.En virtud de ello se han producido importantes modificaciones en el derecho positivo de manera de intentar de acompasar la normativa con el desarrollo tecnológico.En el campo de las telecomunicaciones se han señalado como características de esos cambios, la universalidad, la multiplicidad de medios y la convergencia entre los mismos.

  5. Kinkaleri : teater peab tekitama küsimuse, mitte andma vastuse / Marco Mazzoni ; interv. Andres Keil

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    2008-01-01

    1995. a. Itaalias asutatud kuuest kunstnikust - Matteo Bambi, Luca Camilletti, Massimo Conti, Marco Mazzoni, Gina Monaco ja Cristina Rizzo - koosnevast eksperimentaalteatrist Kinkaleri ja Kanuti Gildi saalis 7. ja 8. nov. esiettekandele tulevast lavastusest "Yes, Sir!"

  6. The use of CT-scanning at the medicolegal external postmortem examination and at the forensic autopsy

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    Leth, Peter Mygind

    2006-01-01

    Introduction: Can CT-scanning of deceased at the medico legal external examination improve the selection of cases to autopsy? Is CT-scanning a substitute or a supplement to the traditional forensic autopsy? Material: In 2006 60 deceased individuals from Southern Denmark (counties of Fyn and Sønde...

  7. The 'relics of Joan of Arc'

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    Charlier, P.; Poupon, J.; Eb, A.

    2010-01-01

    Archaeological remains can provide concrete cases, making it possible to develop, refine or validate medico-legal techniques. In the case of the so-called 'Joan of Arc's relics' (a group of bone and archaeological remains known as the 'Bottle of Chinon'), 14 specialists analysed the samples such ...

  8. Non-Invasive Methods of Cardiovascular Exploration in Aerospace Medicine.

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    1983-12-01

    in a case record and constitute medico- legal evidence. These examinations can be divided into three categories: (I) The standard electrocardiogram and...pilotasaio. Rivista di Medicina Aeronautica et Spaziale ( IT) 1975 - 38, 1, p. 3-20. 2 bis- RAMACCI C.A. ; ROTA P. Flight fitness and psycho

  9. Medicolegal aspects of medical radiation exposure

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    1990-01-01

    This short note, based on an invited paper presented in Radiology '89 at Eastbourne, May 1989, outlines the medico-legal discussion under the following aspects: psychological effects, scarring, stochastic effects giving rise to cancer or fetal abnormalities, and the steps necessary to pursue a medicolegal action. (UK)

  10. Communication in obstetrics: where and when it matters | Obimbo ...

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    Although most clinical outcomes in obstetrics are generally good, poor and inaccurate communication may lead to unwanted obstetrics complications and medico-legal litigation. Effective communication therefore, is an important and integral part of holistic approach to good patient care and management. We present a case ...

  11. Legal method in danish law

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    and furthermore a brief account of Danish legal history is provided. The following chapters concern: • Legal institutions, • Statute and Statutory Law • Legal Decisions • Legal Literature and Legal Knowledge • Other National Legal Sources • External Influences on Danish Law......This book describes how legal method is used within the Danish legal system. Its target group is foreign lawyers and law students who have an interest in knowing how Danish law commonly is determined and applied. In the first chapters legal method and legal sources in general are defined...

  12. LEGAL AND ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES ON THE LEGAL PENALTY INTEREST

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    2014-06-01

    Full Text Available The legal evaluation of the penalty interest, meaning the ex lege determination of its level is applicable only in the case of non-fulfillment of a monetary payment obligation. The applicability of the system of legal evaluation of the interest is generally determined by the absence of a document that ascertains the agreement of the parties, such as a contract, through which the parties, following this agreement, evaluate the prejudice caused by the non-fulfillment of a monetary payment obligation, before the prejudice has occurred. The legal evaluation of the penalty interest, as a component of the regulation in the field of legal interest has the purpose to ensure creditor’s protection. Regardless of the prejudice caused to the creditor, the legal penalty interest shall be determined by relating it to a variable benchmark that is the level of the reference interest rate of the National Bank of Romania, which is the monetary policy interest rate of the National Bank of Romania.

  13. Proceso de apropiación de un nuevo hábitat. El caso de la ciudad rural sustentable Nuevo Juan del Grijalva en Chiapas, México

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    Myrna Hernández Curiel

    2016-01-01

    Full Text Available El modelo ecológico de Bronfenbrenner permite observar cómo diversos factores interactúan ante un cambio de hábitat y entender las adecuaciones al habitar de la población reubicada. Se explora el proceso de apropiación tras la reubicación en la ciudad rural sustentable (CRS Nuevo Juan del Grijalva en Chiapas, México. A partir de una encuesta de hogares se caracteriza a la población reubicada y se analizan las transformaciones espaciales y la apropiación psicológica del espacio resultante de habitar un nuevo hábitat. Los resultados muestran la pérdida de las prácticas de producción rural y las alternativas para independizarse y obtener una vivienda en la CRS.

  14. “Quiero ser una máquina de escribir”: el Alfabeto Dactilar (2014 del artista, activista y poeta Cristian Forte como nuevo orden poético en el caos

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    Sandra Hettmann

    2016-10-01

    Full Text Available En un primer paso, el artículo presentará al poeta Cristian Forte para situar su trabajo artístico y, a la vez, esbozar la formación del Alfabeto Dactilar. En un segundo paso, se aclarará la afirmación de que el Alfabeto Dactilar constituye más bien un sistema para captar el flujo de apariencias de una obra literaria en sí. En este contexto, se esbozará una breve discusión sobre la dactiloscopia, las técnicas de control y poder. Por último, se discutirán dos poemas dactilares de Cristian Forte que se acaban de publicar. En el marco de las siguientes preguntas: ¿cómo aplicar lecturas y escrituras dactilares con el alfabeto?, y ¿en qué medida se establecen nuevos vínculos entre cuerpos, cosas y palabras?, se sitúa la hipótesis de que la dactiloscopia poética de Forte genera una novedosa literatura corporal y, al mismo tiempo, una visibilidad plástica que ponen en marcha una caligrafía del cuerpo íntegramente performativa y semánticamente transgresora.

  15. Carácter jurisdiccional de las resoluciones de la Dirección General del Registro Electoral en materia de faltas electorales: especial referencia a la facultad de recabar datos personales protegidos por el secreto bancario o tributario en el marco de una investigación por faltas en materia de financiamiento de los partidos políticos

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    Ruy López González

    2011-01-01

    Full Text Available El artículo aborda el concepto y características distintivas de la función jurisdiccional del Estado. Con este marco teórico se analiza la función jurisdiccional del Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones en materia electoral y se esboza como tesis la delegación legislativa de competencias jurisdiccionales que operó a favor de la Dirección General del Registro Electoral y de Financiamiento de Partidos Políticos en el trámite y sanción de las faltas electorales tipificadas en el nuevo Código Electoral. Bajo esta premisa, se infiere la facultad de la Dirección de recabar pruebas que contengan datos de carácter confidencial protegidos bajo los institutos del secreto bancario o tributario con el objeto de ejercer su competencia sancionadora

  16. Air, water, and surface bacterial contamination in a university-hospital autopsy room.

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    Maujean, Géraldine; Malicier, Daniel; Fanton, Laurent

    2012-03-01

    Today, little is known about the bacteriological environment of the autopsy room and its potential interest for medico-legal practices. Seven hundred fifty microbiological samples were taken from surface (n = 660), air (n = 48), and water (n = 42) to evaluate it in a French University Forensic Department. Median bacterial counts were compared before and during autopsy for air samples, and before and after autopsy for surface samples, using Wilcoxon matched pairs signed ranks test. Bacterial identification relied on traditional phenotypic methods. Bacterial counts in the air were low before autopsy, increased significantly during procedure, and seemed more linked to the number of people in the room than to an important production of aerosol-containing bacteria. Despite cleaning, human fecal flora was omnipresent on surfaces, which revealed insufficient disinfection. Bacteriological sampling is an easy way to monitor cleaning practices in postmortem rooms, but chiefly a way to improve the reliability of medico-legal proofs of infectious deaths. © 2012 American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

  17. HOMED-homicides eastern Denmark: an introduction to a forensic medical homicide database.

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    Colville-Ebeling, Bonnie; Frisch, Morten; Lynnerup, Niels; Theilade, Peter

    2014-11-01

    An introduction to a forensic medical homicide database established at the Department of Forensic Medicine in Copenhagen. The database contains substantial clinical and demographic data obtained in conjunction with medico-legal autopsies of victims and forensic clinical examinations of perpetrators in homicide cases in eastern Denmark. The database contains information on all homicide cases investigated at the Department of Forensic Medicine in Copenhagen since 1971. Coverage for the catchment area of the department is assumed to be very good because of a medico-legal homicide autopsy rate close to 100%. Regional differences might exist however, due to the fact that the catchment area of the department is dominated by the city of Copenhagen. The strength of the database includes a long running time, near complete regional coverage and an exhaustive list of registered variables it is useful for research purposes, although specific data limitations apply. © 2014 the Nordic Societies of Public Health.

  18. Medico-economic evaluation of health products in the context of the Social Security Financing Act for 2012.

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    Dervaux, Benoît; Baseilhac, Eric; Fagon, Jean-Yves; Ameye, Véronique; Angot, Pierre; Audry, Antoine; Becquemont, Laurent; Borel, Thomas; Cazeneuve, Béatrice; Courtois, Jocelyn; Detournay, Bruno; Favre, Pascal; Granger, Muriel; Josseran, Anne; Lassale, Catherine; Louvet, Olivier; Pinson, Jean; de Pouvourville, Gérard; Rochaix, Lise; Rumeau-Pichon, Catherine; de Saab, Rima; Schwarzinger, Mickaël; Sun, Aristide

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    The participants in round table 6 of the Giens Workshops 2012 drafted recommendations based on the collective interpretation of important elements of the decree concerning the medico-economic evaluation of health products published a few days earlier (02 October 2012). The medico-economic evaluation (MEE), becomes an additional determinant for fixing the prices of health products by the Health products economic committee (Comité économique des produits de santé, CEPS) via the hierarchisation of treatment strategies, and thus modifies the market access conditions. Limiting the analysis to medicinal products and medical devices for which a major, important or moderate improvement in the medical service rendered (ASMR) or of the expected service (ASA) has been requested and presenting a significant budget impact on the Social Security expenses, excludes health products with ASMR or ASA with a lower level requested which often create complex price fixing problems and often have a major budget impact. This latter concept remains to be defined in detail. The MEE envisaged for the first registration must include the need to confirm or refute the initial hypotheses especially concerning the actual position in the therapeutic strategy at the time of renewal of the registration. For the first registration, the conventional reference to European prices guaranteeing a minimum price to innovative medicinal products, the medico-economic models submitted by the industry to the French Drug Authority (Haute autorité de santé, HAS) must be used to guide the compilation of new data to be requested at the time of the registration renewal and to negotiate the level of the discounts in the framework of a price-volume agreement, if applicable. The MEE will allow comparing the result of the analysis to the model hypothesis at the time of the renewal of the registration, which may contribute to the renegotiation (either up or down) of the price of health goods. The costs related to

  19. Propuesta de un marco para la secuenciación didáctica de Controversias Socio-Científicas. Estudio con dos actividades alrededor de la genética

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    Jordi Domènech-Casal

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    Full Text Available Aprender ciencia en contexto implica aprender a transferir modelos a situaciones reales y tomar decisiones. En la enseñanza de las ciencias, este enfoque tiene su exponente en el trabajo con controversias socio-científicas (CSC, una metodología didáctica que se revela compleja en su aplicación y evaluación. Se propone un marco metodológico para estandarizar el trabajo y evaluación de actividades de controversia socio-científica, en el marco de dinámicas de comunicación de distintos tipos (lectura, comunicación oral y escritura. El marco propuesto ofrece distintos andamios didácticos como apoyo para el desarrollo y evaluación de habilidades científicas del alumnado, como el uso de datos, la transferencia de modelos a contextos relevantes, o la argumentación, o el léxico partiendo de un dilema. Se han desarrollado y aplicado dos actividades para testar el marco metodológico. Los resultados indican que el uso del marco propuesto permite promover y evaluar habilidades de razonamiento científico en el marco de las CSC.

  20. Perfil de entrada de los estudiantes universitarios ante las plataformas de apoyo a la práctica basadas en Internet

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    María Jesús Gallego Arrufat

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    Full Text Available En el marco de los estudios destinados a conocer qué espera el alumnado y qué desea de la institución universitaria, el objetivo de este trabajo es describir el punto de vista de los estudiantes acerca de la formación online, así como el acceso y usos más frecuentes que realizan de ordenadores e Internet. Resulta esencial tener en cuenta estos aspectos en el marco de convergencia del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior, teniendo en cuenta el protagonismo del estudiante en el nuevo modelo de enseñanza-aprendizaje.

  1. Thorium isotopes in colloidal fraction of water from San Marcos Dam, Chihuahua, Mexico

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    Cabral-Lares, M.; Melgoza, A.; Montero-Cabrera, M. E.; Renteria-Villalobos, M.

    2013-07-01

    The main interest of this stiidy is to assess the contents and distribution of Th-series isotopes in colloidal fraction of surface water from San Marcos dam, because the suspended particulate matter serves as transport medium for several pollutants. The aim of this work was to assess the distribution of thorium isotopes (232Th and 230Th) contained in suspended matter. Samples were taken from three surface points along the San Marcos dam: water input, midpoint, and near to dam wall. In this last point, a depth sampling was also carried out. Here, three depth points were taken at 0.4, 8 and 15 meters. To evaluate the thorium behavior in surface water, from every water sample the colloidal fraction was separated, between 1 and 0.1 μm. Thorium isotopes concentraron in samples were obtained by alpha spectrometry. Activity concentrations obtained of 232Th and 230Th in surface points ranged from 0.3 to 0.5 Bq ṡ L-1, whereas in depth points ranged from 0.4 to 3.2 Bq ṡ L-1, respectively. The results show that 230Th is in higher concentration than 232Th in colloidal fraction. This can be attributed to a preference of these colloids to adsorb uranium. Thus, the activity ratio 230Th/232Th in colloidal fraction showed values from 2.3 to 10.2. In surface points along the dam, 230Th activity concentration decreases while 232Th concentration remains constant. On the other hand, activity concentrations of both isotopes showed a pointed out enhancement with depth. The results have shown a possible lixiviation of uranium from geological substrate into the surface water and an important fractionation of thorium isotopes, which suggest that thorium is non-homogeneously distributed along San Marcos dam.

  2. Arquitectura y Patrimonio: nuevos paradigmas conceptuales y docentes

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    Javier Pérez Gil

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    Full Text Available La Historia es un elemento clave en los Planes de Estudio de Arquitectura. Tradicionalmente identificada con la docencia de “Historia del Arte”, la consolidación del concepto de “Patrimonio Cultural”, la especificidad de la formación del arquitecto y el nuevo contexto del ECTS aconsejan revisar tanto el sentido de estos contenidos como la metodología para su aprendizaje.

  3. Condições mais frequentes em um ambulatório de perícia neurológica The most common disorders in neurological clinic for medico-legal assessment of labour capacity at the Brazilian Social Security System (INSS in Florianópolis - SC, Brazil

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    Paulo Cesar Trevisol-Bittencourt

    2001-06-01

    Full Text Available OBJETIVO: Apresentar as condições nosológicas vistas em perícia neurológica em um ambulatório de referência estadual do Instituto Nacional de Seguridade Social (INSS, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil, durante o período de outubro de 97 a maio de 98. MÉTODO: Revisão dos relatórios especializados das perícias solicitadas ao especialista em neurologia, com identificação dos diagnósticos finais dos 108 pacientes encaminhados para avaliação. RESULTADOS: Os diagnósticos mais comuns em ordem decrescente de frequência foram: epilepsia, doenças reumatológicas, distúrbios psiquiátricos, alterações neurológicas associadas a alcoolismo crônico, síndrome pós TCE e doença vascular cerebral. CONCLUSÕES: Doenças neurológicas podem determinar importante grau de incapacidade no trabalhador catarinense. Contudo, existe um subestimado potencial de recuperação funcional. Além disso, diversas condições não genuinamente neurológicas são encaminhadas para avaliação especializada.OBJECTIVE: To present the most frequent diagnosis among patients refered for neurological evaluation to estimate their labour capacities at the unit of National Institute of Social Security (INSS, Florianópolis-SC, southern Brazil. METHOD: Review of all medical records of 108 patients evaluated between October 97 and May 98. The sample was submited to judicious medico-legal assessment to define their final diagnosis. RESULTS: Neurological evaluation disclosed as the commonest disorders, in decreasing order of frequency: epilepsy, rheumatic diseases, psychiatric illnesses, neurological disorders related to chronic alcoholism, head trauma syndrome and cerebrovascular diseases. CONCLUSION: Neurological disorders may be responsible for important disability among workers in our society. However, the potential for social rehabilitation, often underestimated, must be considered. Moreover, diverse non-neurological conditions used to be sent for

  4. Nuevo paradigma, nuevo contexto institucional: el caso de la política farmacéutica

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    Laura Chaqués Bonafont

    2011-05-01

    Full Text Available El objetivo de este estudio es explicar cómo y por qué cambia la política farmacéutica española en la última década. En el se argumenta la relevancia de las instituciones como variables explicativa de la dinámica del cambio en las políticas siguiendo el esquema teórico planteado por el análisis de redes y la teoría del equilibrio interrumpido desarrollada por Baumgartner y Jones. La adopción de un nuevo paradigma en torno al medicamento –el uso racional del medicamento— no puede ser entendido únicamente como una respuesta a situaciones de crisis, cambios en el sistema político y/o la consolidación de ideas nuevas defendidas por activos emprendedores políticos. El análisis de la institucionalización de las relaciones de poder en torno a la política farmacéutica (o policy network es importante para explicar por qué los cambios en la política farmacéutica se producen de forma gradual como resultado de una negociación entre el Estado con la industria farmacéutica y las farmacias. Asimismo, se argumenta cómo la adopción de un paradigma nuevo en la política farmacéutica, se produce de forma paralela a un cambio en la estructura institucional de la política. En 2008 la política farmacéutica se gestiona a través de una red más abierta y plural, en la que los expertos tienen mayor peso en la toma de decisiones.

  5. NUEVOS ANTICOAGULANTES ORALES EN FIBRILACIÓN AURICULAR

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    Dra. E. Marianella Seguel R.

    2015-03-01

    Full Text Available La fibrilación auricular es la arritmia más frecuente y se relaciona con una alta tasa de accidente cerebrovascular y embolia sistécmica. La terapia establecida tanto para prevención primaria como secundaria es la anticoagulación con warfarina, antagonista de la vitamina K. Existen escalas que predicen el riesgo tromboembólico y la probabilidad de beneficiarse de terapia antitrombótica. El CHADS2 ha sido la más simple y ampliamente utilizada, pero actualmente el CHA2DS2-VASc ha incorporado otros factores de riesgo, otorgando una mejor estratificación. El estrecho margen terapécutico de la warfarina y la interacción con fármacos y alimentos requiere controles seriados de la intensidad de la anticoagulación, limitando su uso clínico. Han aparecido nuevos anticoagulantes que ofrecen ventajas sobre los antagonistas de vitamina K. Estos actúan en dos sitios distintos de la cascada de la coagulación: inhibiendo directamente la trombina como el dabigatran, o el factor X activado como el rivaroxaban, apixaban, edoxaban y betrixaban. Estos nuevos fármacos han ido reemplazando a la warfarina y ya están incluidos en las guías de manejo de fibrilación auricular no valvular.

  6. Los entornos personales de aprendizaje en el marco de la educación permanente

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    Elvira E. Navas

    2013-01-01

    Full Text Available En este trabajo se presenta un estudio documental sobre el surgimiento, evolución y estado actual de la utilización y desarrollo de los Entornos Personales de Aprendizaje (Personal Learning Environment, PLE en el marco de la Educación Permanente o Aprendizaje para Toda la vida (Lifelong Learning. En primer lugar, se hace una revisión del concepto de Educación Permanente desde la literatura de inicios de siglo XX. A continuación, se procede a estudiar el término PLE, desde sus orígenes hasta la interpretación actual. Se presentan experiencias tanto nacionales como internacionales donde se ejemplifica de forma práctica la utilización de PLE en la educación universitaria. Finalmente, se hace una reflexión de cierre sobre las proyecciones de futuro del uso de los PLE en el marco de la educación permanente.

  7. The Quality of Operative Notes at a General Surgery Unit | Rogers ...

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    practice, accurate documentation is critical. This is particularly true for operative procedures, and medical councils have identified this and published guidelines to aid surgeons. However, these remain a frequently cited weakness in their defence in medico-legal cases. This study assessed the accuracy of operative notes in ...

  8. The Legal Case

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    Sartor, Giovanni; Contissa, Giuseppe; Schebesta, H.; Laukyte, Migle; Lanzi, Paola; Marti, Patrizia; Paola, Tomasello

    2013-01-01

    This paper presents the first release of the Legal Case, recently developed by the ALIAS Project and still under refinement. The Legal Case is a methodological tool intended to address liability issues of automated ATM systems: it provides for a legal risk management process that can be applied

  9. Avances y desafíos actuales para combatir la violencia de género desde el sistema educativo

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    Vázquez Verdera, Victoria

    2013-01-01

    El presente artículo tiene por objeto repensar las finalidades del sistema educativo a la luz del nuevo marco de interpretación de la violencia contra las mujeres que impulsó la Ley orgánica 1/2004 de 28 de diciembre, de Medidas de Protección Integral contra la Violencia de Género y de la investigación feminista en este ámbito. Consecuencia de la reflexión pedagógica realizada, se identifican nuevos retos para prevenir la violencia de género desde el ámbito educativo. Se concluye alentando de...

  10. Estudio de patrones de interacción entre los estudiantes y la Plataforma de Tele-Enseñanza en la UPM

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    Moya Pérez, Carlos

    2015-01-01

    Vivimos en una sociedad en la que la información ha adquirido una vital importancia. El uso de Internet y el desarrollo de nuevos sistemas de la información han generado un ferviente interés tanto de empresas como de instituciones en la búsqueda de nuevos patrones que les proporcione la clave del éxito. La Analítica de Negocio reúne un conjunto de herramientas, estrategias y técnicas orientadas a la explotación de la información con el objetivo de crear conocimiento útil dentro de un marco...

  11. Muid võimalusi ei ole! / Kristina Norman, Marco Laimre ; intervjueerinud Elena Šmakova

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    Norman, Kristina, 1979-

    2009-01-01

    53. Veneetsia biennaalil "Making Worlds" ("Konstrueerides maailmu") Eestit esindavast Kristina Normani Tõnismäe pronkssõduri monumenti käsitlevast kunstiprojektist "After-War" ("Järelsõda"). Projekti kuraator Marco Laimre. Eesti ekspositsioon on avatud Palazzo Malipieros 6. juunist 22. novembrini. Biennaali nõukogu otsustas anda suured Kuldsed Lõvid elutöö eest Yoko Onole ja John Baldessarile

  12. La política farmacéutica nacional en Colombia y la reforma de la seguridad social: acceso y uso racional de medicamentos

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    Samuel Mejía Restrepo

    2002-08-01

    Full Text Available A partir del nuevo sistema de seguridad social en Colombia (1993 que consagra la equidad y la obligatoriedad como fundamentos del servicio público, se analiza si la formulación y la implementación de la política farmacéutica favorecen la accesibilidad, la disponibilidad y el uso racional de los medicamentos, contribuyendo a la equidad en salud. Se utilizaron dos enfoques: uno macro, referido al análisis del marco jurídico y a los actores de la reforma, y otro micro, relacionado a los procesos y resultados en el sistema de provisionamiento de medicamentos. Se estudiaron los instrumentos legales que dan soporte a la política farmacéutica y fue evaluada su aplicación, utilizando indicadores y una enfermedad trazadora (diabetes mellitus. Aunque existe un marco jurídico que consagra el derecho al acceso de la población a servicios de salud y medicamentos esenciales, no hay una política de medicamentos integral. La mayoría de las instituciones presentan problemas para distribuir los medicamentos que pertenecen al Plan Obligatorio de Salud, un bajo porcentaje de medicamentos es obtenido sin costo y una gran parte de pacientes los adquiere en asociaciones de diabéticos o recurre a medicina alternativa. Se encontraron aspectos que desfavorecen la equidad en la cobertura en salud y la accesibilidad a medicamentos esenciales

  13. La política farmacéutica nacional en Colombia y la reforma de la seguridad social: acceso y uso racional de medicamentos

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    Mejía Restrepo Samuel

    2002-01-01

    Full Text Available A partir del nuevo sistema de seguridad social en Colombia (1993 que consagra la equidad y la obligatoriedad como fundamentos del servicio público, se analiza si la formulación y la implementación de la política farmacéutica favorecen la accesibilidad, la disponibilidad y el uso racional de los medicamentos, contribuyendo a la equidad en salud. Se utilizaron dos enfoques: uno macro, referido al análisis del marco jurídico y a los actores de la reforma, y otro micro, relacionado a los procesos y resultados en el sistema de provisionamiento de medicamentos. Se estudiaron los instrumentos legales que dan soporte a la política farmacéutica y fue evaluada su aplicación, utilizando indicadores y una enfermedad trazadora (diabetes mellitus. Aunque existe un marco jurídico que consagra el derecho al acceso de la población a servicios de salud y medicamentos esenciales, no hay una política de medicamentos integral. La mayoría de las instituciones presentan problemas para distribuir los medicamentos que pertenecen al Plan Obligatorio de Salud, un bajo porcentaje de medicamentos es obtenido sin costo y una gran parte de pacientes los adquiere en asociaciones de diabéticos o recurre a medicina alternativa. Se encontraron aspectos que desfavorecen la equidad en la cobertura en salud y la accesibilidad a medicamentos esenciales

  14. Las representaciones sociales: un marco teórico apropiado para abordar la investigación social educativa

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    Elsa María Ortiz Casallas

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    Full Text Available Este artículo intenta posicionar la teoría de las representaciones sociales como un marco apropiado para abordar la investigación social educativa. Dentro de este marco epistemológico se plantea la importancia de analizar las prácticas de lectura y escritura, en donde maestros y estudiantes, en tanto seres sociales y productores de significaciones, son los actores fundamentales. Para ello, se problematiza la categoría sujeto, seguidamente, se menciona la emergencia de un pensamiento ternario en la investigación social educativa y finalmente se argumenta la pertinencia de la teoría de las representaciones sociales en la investigación educativa sobre lectura y escritura.

  15. MGE2: A framework for cradle-to-cradle design

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    María-Estela Peralta-Álvarez

    2015-01-01

    Full Text Available El diseño y la ecología son temas cruciales en el sector industrial. Los productos están sometidos a revisiones constantes para sobrevivir en el mercado y a optimizaciones que los mantienen bajo los límites de impacto sobre el planeta. Las decisiones acerca de un nuevo producto afectan su ciclo de vida, los consumidores, y sobre todo el medio ambiente. Con el fin de lograr soluciones de calidad, Eco - eficacia debe considerarse, por lo tanto, en el diseño de un proceso, su desarrollo de productos y el sistema asociado. Una metodología ordenada es esencial para ayudar a la creación de productos que satisfagan tanto las necesidades de los usuarios y los requisitos medioambientales actuales, bajo los paradigmas que crean valor ambiental. Hasta la fecha, la industria ha desarrollado técnicas en un intento de abordar estas expectativas bajo la cuna a la cuna (C2C, que está vagamente estructurada alrededor de los marcos conceptuales y técnicas de diseño. El presente trabajo describe un nuevo marco que abarca todas las etapas de diseño, y permite la interacción bajo un conjunto de principios desarrollados por C2C. En virtud de este nuevo e innovador paradigma surge el Modelo de Genómica de Ecoinnovación y el diseño ecológico, propuesto como una metodología para el diseño de productos que satisfagan las necesidades individuales y colectivas, y que permite el diseño de productos respetuosos del medio ambiente, mediante su integración en el marco de las normas ISO de Análisis de Ciclo de vida (ACV, el ecodiseño, ecoetiquetado y la certificación C2C.

  16. La mujer nuevo sujeto social: un reto para la educacion

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    Francisca Bartra

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    Full Text Available En estas dos últimas décadas, en América Latina han surgido diversos movimientos sociales que a su vez han producido la aparición de nuevos sujetos colectivos, especialmente significativos dentro de los sectores populares. El Perú es una expresión evidente de este fenómeno social y presenta en su panorama nacional diversos indicadores del mismo, dentro de una situación peculiar: la crisis socio-económica y la violencia generalizada que estamos viviendo. Uno de estos nuevos sujetos sociales es sin duda la mujer, que ha pasado de ser una marginada social a desempeñar un protagonismo dentro de las organizaciones populares. Su participación en la actividad comunal y en la sindical, ha sido generada casi siempre por las reacciones colectivas de reinvindicación y defensa de derechos primarios como alimentación, salud, vivienda y educación.

  17. Dementia and legal competency.

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    Filaković, Pavo; Erić, Anamarija Petek; Mihanović, Mate; Glavina, Trpimir; Molnar, Sven

    2011-06-01

    The legal competency or capability to exercise rights is level of judgment and decision-making ability needed to manage one's own affairs and to sign official documents. With some exceptions, the person entitles this right in age of majority. It is acquired without legal procedures, however the annulment of legal capacity requires a juristic process. This resolution may not be final and could be revoked thorough the procedure of reverting legal capacity - fully or partially. Given the increasing number of persons with dementia, they are often subjects of legal expertise concerning their legal capacity. On the other part, emphasis on the civil rights of mentally ill also demands their maximal protection. Therefore such distinctive issue is approached with particular attention. The approach in determination of legal competency is more focused on gradation of it's particular aspects instead of existing dual concept: legally capable - legally incapable. The main assumption represents how person with dementia is legally capable and should enjoy all the rights, privileges and obligations as other citizens do. The aspects of legal competency for which person with dementia is going to be deprived, due to protection of one's rights and interests, are determined in legal procedure and then passed over to the guardian decided by court. Partial annulment of legal competency is measure applied when there is even one existing aspect of preserved legal capability (pension disposition, salary or pension disposition, ability of concluding contract, making testament, concluding marriage, divorce, choosing whereabouts, independent living, right to vote, right to decide course of treatment ect.). This measure is most often in favour of the patient and rarely for protection of other persons and their interests. Physicians are expected to precisely describe early dementia symptoms which may influence assessment of specific aspects involved in legal capacity (memory loss, impaired task

  18. Legal Philosophy - Five Questions

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    This collection gathers together a host of the most eminent contemporary legal philosophers, who writes about their take on legal philosophy, its fundamental questions and potential.......This collection gathers together a host of the most eminent contemporary legal philosophers, who writes about their take on legal philosophy, its fundamental questions and potential....

  19. Sexo, poder y cine: Relaciones de poder y representaciones sexuales en los nuevos relatos pornográficos

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    Sara Angelina Pedraz Poza

    2011-07-01

    Full Text Available La pornografía tradicional se caracteriza por atribuir roles determinados a los sujetos que representa y, por tanto, trasladar unas relaciones de poder basadas en la supremacía de lo blanco, anglosajón, heterosexual y masculino, frente a cualquier otra identidad. Al mismo tiempo, cosifica los cuerpos femeninos, patologiza determinadas corporeidades y constriñe las posibilidades de sentir deseo y las prácticas sexuales realizables. No obstante, desde finales de los años 90 y, sobre todo, con la entrada del nuevo milenio, han aparecido nuevas formas de representar las identidades, los cuerpos ajenos a la dicotomía hombre-mujer y las diferentes formas de producir y estimular el deseo. Estas formas son principalmente dos: el porno para mujeres y la pospornografía. En este artículo se estudiará cómo estas dos corrientes del cine pornográfico consiguen desvirtuar las relaciones de poder tradicionales y utilizar la pornografía como un campo de batalla necesario para visibilizar determinadas identidades y sexualidades y como una opción política para luchar contra las hegemonías existentes. Para ello, se partirá de los marcos teóricos en los que se formaron cada una de ellas, su extrapolación al ámbito académico español y se analizarán los casos de estudio más representativos de cada una de las dos corrientes, teniendo como punto de partida las conexiones que existen entre las relaciones de poder y las representaciones sexuales.

  20. Psicología de la salud en el contexto del conflicto armado en Colombia: un marco de referencia/ Health’s Psychology in the Colombian armed conflict context: a framework

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    Ara Mercedes Cerquera Córdoba

    2017-04-01

    Full Text Available La población civil es la principal víctima de la crisis humanitaria causada por el conflicto armado que se vive en Colombia desde hace más de 50 años. En este artículo de revisión, se abordarán temas referentes a salud y dolor en este y otros contextos. Metodológicamente, se toman en cuenta datos estadísticos, así como referentes legales, académicos y sociales. Todo esto se lleva a cabo con el propósito de construir un marco de referencia desde el cual se reconozca la pertinencia de la investigación en el campo y se procure que las futuras investigaciones identifiquen la influencia de factores psicosociales en el desarrollo y evolución del estado de ‘salud’ y ‘enfermedad’ de las víctimas del conflicto armado en Colombia.

  1. Un marco de referencia de cinco dimensiones para la evaluación auténtica

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    Gulikers, Judith; Bastiaens, Theo; Kirschner, Paul A.

    2011-01-01

    Gulikers, J. T. M., Bastiaens, Th. J., & Kirschner, P. A. (2010). Un marco de referencia de cinco dimensiones para la evaluación auténtica. (translation from English). Cuajimalpa, México: Aseguramiento de la Calidad en la Educacion y en el Trabajo.

  2. Interrelation of the concepts «legal influence» and «administrative-legal influence»

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    Голуб, Віктор Олександрович

    2014-01-01

    The author analyzes the concept of «legal influence» and «administrative-legal influence» and examines their interrelation. Also the scientific positions related to understanding the essence of these concepts are analyzed. The author gives characteristic of the features, structural elements and forms of the administrative-legal influence. English abstract V. Golub Interrelation of the concepts «legal influence» and «administrative-legal influence» The author analyzes the concept of «legal inf...

  3. Business structures and sustainable regional legal practice: the use of incorporated legal practices by regional, rural and remote legal practitioners

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    Caroline Lydia Hart

    2012-01-01

    Since 2007 the Legal Profession Act 2007 (Qld) has offered legal practitioners a wider choice of business structure other than sole practitioner or partnership, to include incorporated legal practice ('ILP') or multidisciplinary partnership. In particular the use of ILPs offers legal practitioners a range of benefits in terms of operating a law firm consistent with business management practices. The status of ILP however comes at a cost of putting in place 'appropriate management systems'. ...

  4. El capital social en el nuevo enfoque del capital intelectual de las organizacionales

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    EDUARDO BUENO

    2002-01-01

    de un nuevo modo de gobierno estratégico-social, en el que los recursos intangibles que componen el Capital Intelectual cobran un papel crítico en la creación de valor. En este nuevo enfoque surge el Capital Social de la organización, como suma de las relaciones poseídas y a desarrollar que aquella mantiene con sus partícipes y agentes sociales. Concepto que se sustenta en un conjunto de valores y sus correspondientes indicadores basados en la confianza, la lealtad, la sinceridad, el compromiso, la transparencia, la solidaridad, la responsabilidad, la honestidad y la ética, entre otros conceptos.

  5. La seguridad en las ciudades: el nuevo enfoque de la geoprevención

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    Hernando Sanz, Felipe

    2008-01-01

    La seguridad ha cobrado durante este nuevo siglo una dimensión inédita; sin embargo, hoy día es un factor de calidad y formas de vida, relacionado con el diseño urbano. Por ello, existen nuevos paradigmas de análisis como el de la “geoprevención”. La “prevención del crimen a través del diseño ambiental” (CPTED, en sus siglas en inglés) ha demostrado ser una estrategia útil y efectiva para prevenir el crimen y los sentimientos de inseguridad; dicha orientación puede integrarse en el paradigma...

  6. La seguridad en las ciudades: el nuevo enfoque de la geoprevención

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    Hernando Sanz, Felipe

    2008-01-01

    La seguridad ha cobrado durante este nuevo siglo una dimensión inédita; sin embargo, hoy día es un factor de calidad y formas de vida, relacionado con el diseño urbano. Por ello, existen nuevos paradigmas de análisis como el de la “geoprevención”. La “prevención del crimen a través del diseño ambiental” (CPTED, en sus siglas en inglés) ha demostrado ser una estrategia útil y efectiva para prevenir el crimen y los sentimientos de inseguridad; dicha orientación puede integrarse en el paradi...

  7. A sense of self-suspicion: global legal pluralism and the claim to legal authority

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    Mariano Croce

    2015-03-01

    Full Text Available Legal pluralism has become common currency in many contemporary debates on law and globalization. Its main claim is that a form of global legal pluralism represents both the most accurate description of law in times of globalization and the best normative option. On the descriptive level, global legal pluralism is considered more reliable than state-based accounts. On the normative level, global legal pluralism is understood as a possibility to open up the legal realm to previously unheard voices. This article assesses these claims against the background of classic legal-pluralist scholarship. After reconstructing the emergence of global legal pluralism and then examining its epistemic and normative versions, the last two sections identify the shortcoming of this approach by underlining the absence of what the authors call ‘a sense of self-suspicion’ in drawing the map of legalities in the global sphere. The main argument put forward is that global legal pluralism is oblivious of a few key insights offered by the founding fathers of classic legal pluralism.

  8. Explorando nuevos horizontes en NASA

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    Villanueva, G. L.

    A pesar de la incesante expansión del Universo iniciada con el Big Bang 14 mil millones de años atrás, nuestro Universo se siente cada día más cercano. La inquebrantable vocación de la humanidad por descubrir nuevos horizontes ha permitido el acercamiento de civilizaciones en nuestro planeta y nos ha permitido conocer nuestro lugar en el Universo como nunca antes. En este artículo presento una breve sinopsis de nuestro trabajo que se relaciona con diversas investigaciones con implicaciones astrobiológicas, desde el origen de los ingredientes de la "sopa de la vida", hasta la evolución y composición de la atmósfera de Marte.

  9. Sobre el arte de los nuevos medios

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    Celia Rivoulet

    2013-09-01

    Full Text Available Las tecnologías de información y comunicación han transformado completamente las prácticas artísticas contemporáneas, modificando las nociones tradicionales de tiempo, autor, medio, soporte, obra, realidad y espectador, y dando lugar a un nuevo género artístico: el arte digital. El presente póster analiza sus principales características con base en el estudio de los textos de Edmond Couchot y Jean-Pierre Balpe.

  10. South African Family Practice - Vol 60, No 1 (2018)

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    The diagnosis and management of depression in the era of the DSM-5 · EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT · DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL ... Medico-legal documentation of rape or sexual assault: are community-service doctors equipped for the task? EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT EMAIL FREE ...

  11. Perception, Willingness to Accept and Uptake of Transvaginal ...

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    Data analysis was carried out using IBM SPSS. Statistics version 20 Statistical Software. Programme (IBM Corp, Armonk, NY, USA). Chi-square test was used to .... a lot of controversy and medico legal issues within the health sector. Chaperones are advocated by policy makers for TVS examinations to reassure the patients ...

  12. Facts about compliance of surgeons “An audit study of the quality of ...

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    Background: An accurate, complete, legible medical record implies accurate, complete organized assessment and management of the patient. Operation notes as one of the important patient's medical records are often produced as evidence in medico-legal cases. In a court of law, that which is not written down may be ...

  13. [Trypanosoma cruzi in triatomines from Nuevo Leon, Mexico].

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    Molina-Garza, Zinnia Judith; Rosales-Encina, José Luis; Galaviz-Silva, Lucio; Molina-Garza, Daniel

    2007-01-01

    To determine the prevalence of Trypanosoma cruzi in triatomines from Nuevo León using the standardization of an improved enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay test. From July to September 2005, 52 triatomines were captured in General Terán, a municipality located in Nuevo León. They were analyzed using optical microscopy (OM) and a polymerase chain reaction (PCR), as standards of reference, to develop a technique for detecting the parasite using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Using OM and PCR, 31 triatomines were found to be positive and 21 negative. Using ELISA, 27 samples were identified as positive and 25 negative (specificity 100%, sensitivity 87%, negative predictive value 84%, and positive predictive value 100%). The prevalence of infected triatomines was 59.61% with OM and PCR, and 51.92% with ELISA. Our data confirm that the ELISA assay in triatomines is a fast, reliable and useful tool. Since it was possible to simultaneously analyze a large number of samples with high sensibility and specificity values, the ELISA test proves to be useful for new epidemiologic studies having a high number of vectors. It is also less expensive than PCR. It is therefore recommended for epidemiological and preventive surveillance programs as a first screening test before conducting a confirmatory test using PCR.

  14. Analysis - what is legal medicine?

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    Beran, Roy G

    2008-04-01

    Legal medicine addresses the interface between medicine and law in health care. The Australian College of Legal Medicine (ACLM) established itself as the peak body in legal and forensic medicine in Australia. It helped establish the Expert Witness Institute of Australia (EWIA), the legal medicine programme at Griffith University and contributes to government enquiries. Public health, disability assessment, competing priorities of privacy verses notification and determination of fitness for a host of pursuits are aspects of legal medicine. Complementing the EWIA, the ACLM runs training programmes emphasising legal medicine skills additional to clinical practice, advocating clinical relevance. Assessment of athletes' fitness and ensuring that prohibited substances are not inadvertently prescribed represent a growing area of legal medicine. Ethical consideration of health care should respect legal medicine principles rather than armchair commentary. International conventions must be respected by legal medicine and dictate physicians' obligations. The NSW courts imposed a duty to provide emergency medical care. Migration and communicable diseases are aspects of legal medicine. Police surgeons provide a face to legal medicine (which incorporates forensic medicine) underpinning its public perception of specialty recognition. Legal medicine deserves its place as a medical specialty in its own right.

  15. La Discusión Grupal y el Marco Mayéutico como Contextos para el Desarrollo de Habilidades Argumentativas

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    Pelusa Orellana García

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    Full Text Available El presente estudio investigó la factibilidad de utilizar el marco mayéutico, un constructo inédito, como herramienta para evaluar la cantidad y calidad de argumentos producidos por los alumnos, en discusiones denominadas Seminarios Paideia. Se analizaron siete transcripciones de seminarios usando métodos no paramétricos y análisis descriptivos. Los resultados muestran que el marco mayéutico puede facilitar la identiicación de argumentos, su calidad, y favorecer su ocurrencia también en otros contextos de discusión dialógica.

  16. Caracterización medico legal de los delitos sexuales en Pinar del Río, 2003-2005 Medical and legal characteristics of sex offenses in Pinar del Río, 2003-2005

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    Lidia Rosa Salgueiro Labrador

    2008-06-01

    Full Text Available Se encuestó una muestra de 399 víctimas de diferentes edades enviadas al departamento de Medicina legal de Pinar del Río en el trienio 2003-2005 por estarse instruyendo procedimiento penal a causa de algún delito realizado por intermedio de una conducta sexual impositiva que da lugar a la radicación del expediente. Se aplicó de modo directo una encuesta anónima, abierta, previamente elaborada y constitutiva de 9 preguntas, los resultados fueron tabulados por el método de los palotes y llevadas las variables a sábanas, agrupadas en tablas, arrojando la información que los municipios más afectados fueron Pinar del Río, San Cristóbal, consolación del Sur, San Juan y Sandino, siendo los grupos etáreos más vulnerantes las menores de 20 años. Las figuras delictivas que más se repiten son la violación y los abusos lascivos predominando en la relación víctima - victimario; los conocidos, vecinos, padrastros y familiares. En el modus operandi sobresalen el abuso de confianza, intimidación, violencia física y abuso de autoridad, siendo la casa de la víctima y alrededores, casa del victimario, centro de estudios o trabajo y cercanías, caminos, carreteras, lugares recreativos, los lugares mayormente escogidos por los ofensores.This study was conducted on different ages 399 victims, where a questionnaire was assessed. They were sent to Legal Medicine Departament of Pinar del Río, during triennium 2003-2005 due to a penal processing. A crime was comsummated in relation to impositive sexual mis conduct with proceeding files an anonymous, opening and direct questionnaire with 9 questions was analyzed. The data were statistically analyzed using palotes methods. All the variables were placed in a sheep and graphic. Pinar del Río, San Cristobal, Consolación Sur, San Juan and Sandino, were more affected. Patients of 20 years old and lees were more wounded violation and lascivious abuse were more frcuently with a big important to

  17. Phylogenetic analysis of West Nile virus, Nuevo Leon State, Mexico.

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    Blitvich, Bradley J; Fernández-Salas, Ildefonso; Contreras-Cordero, Juan F; Loroño-Pino, María A; Marlenee, Nicole L; Díaz, Francisco J; González-Rojas, José I; Obregón-Martínez, Nelson; Chiu-García, Jorge A; Black, William C; Beaty, Barry J

    2004-07-01

    West Nile virus RNA was detected in brain tissue from a horse that died in June 2003 in Nuevo Leon State, Mexico. Nucleotide sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of the premembrane and envelope genes showed that the virus was most closely related to West Nile virus isolates collected in Texas in 2002.

  18. Reflexiones sobre el marco conceptual de la contabilidad financiera: El caso de Colombia

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    Ernesto María Sierra González

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    Full Text Available Con el auge del proceso de normalización contable ha surgido una creciente preocupación académica y profesional por el establecimiento de un conjunto coherente de conceptos que sustenten el debido proceso en la emisión de normas de contabilidad y auditoría. Desde finales de los años sesenta, los organismos internacionales emisores de normas han buscado construir un marco conceptual para la contabilidad financiera, elaborado con base en la observación de la práctica contable y las metodologías de investigación propias de la filosofía de las ciencias. En Colombia, el proceso de normalización empezó hacia 1986 con la expedición del Decreto 2160. Esta medida revela la necesidad de construir políticas de estandarización de las prácticas contables y de generar un debate sobre la temática del marco conceptual en el contexto de la jurisdicción local y del desarrollo de la profesión y la disciplina contable, como herramienta fundamental del crecimiento económico y el bienestar social.

  19. 238,234U contents on Lepomis Cyanellus from San Marcos dam located in a uraniferous area

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    Lares, Magaly Cabral; Luna-Porres, Mayra Y.; Montero-Cabrera, María E.; Renteria-Villalobos, Marusia

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    Fish species are suitable biomonitors of radioisotopes in aquatic systems. In the present study, it was made the determination of uranium isotopic contents on fish fillet (Lepomis Cyanellus) from San Marcos dam which is located in uranium mineralized zone. Uranium activity concentrations (AC) in fish samples were obtained on wet weight (ww), using liquid scintillation. 238U and 234U AC in fish fillet ranged from 0.0004 to 0.0167 Bq kg-1, and from 0.0013 to 0.0394 Bq kg-1, respectively. The activity ratio (234U/overflow="scroll">238U) in fish fillet ranged from 2.2 to 8.8. Lepomis cyanellus from San Marcos dam shows bioaccumulation factor (FB) of 0.6 L kg-1. The results suggest that the Lepomis Cyanellus in environments with high U contents tends to have a greater bioaccumulation compared to others.

  20. SAMJ FORUM

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    Feb 20, 2008 ... detail for the specialists, generalists, and professions allied to medicine. It was refreshing to find chapters on medico- legal issues, post-traumatic stress disorder in children and adolescence and nursing care which to me rounded off the publication. Due to the nature of child trauma it is inevitable to find.

  1. Allele frequency present within the DYS635, DYS437, DYS448 ...

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    The light has been focused and directed in this study to establish the basic forensic genetic information, knowledge, data and statistics which might be so ultimately helpful practically in forensic science and criminology and to let evaluate and present the DNA weight evidences in Iraq medico-legal institute and courts of law.

  2. Child Homicide on the Territory of Belgrade

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    Baralic, Ivanka; Savic, Slobodan; Alempijevic, Djordje M.; Jecmenica, Dragan S.; Sbutega-Milosevic, Gorica; Obradovic, Miroljub

    2010-01-01

    Objective: This study examines the incidence and other epidemiological and medico-legal characteristics of child homicide in the territory of Belgrade, Republic of Serbia. Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of all autopsies carried out at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Belgrade during a 15 year period between 1991 and 2005,…

  3. A fatal poisoning involving Bromo-Dragonfly

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    hallucinogen, only slightly less potent than LSD. In the present case from Denmark an 18-year-old woman was found dead one morning in October 2007. The previous evening she and her boyfriend had both ingested a hallucinogen LSD-like liquid. A medico-legal autopsy was performed on the deceased. Liver, blood...

  4. Fundamentals of legal argumentation : A survey of theories on the justification of legal decisions

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    Feteris, E.T.

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    This book is an updated and revised edition of Fundamentals of Legal Argumentation published in 1999. It discusses new developments that have taken place in the past 15 years in research of legal argumentation, legal justification and legal interpretation, as well as the implications of these new

  5. Nuevo León

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    Laura Nelly Medellín Mendoza

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    Full Text Available El ensayo analiza la transición política nuevoleonesa a partir de un contexto de liberalización política. En Nuevo León el régimen político autoritario fue cediendo en el plano electoral, dada la presión que conjuntamente la sociedad política y la sociedad civil ejercieron por lograr reglas democráticas. Este avance gradual permitió garantizar un organismo electoral confiable y que determinó en buena medida la garantía de la alternancia en 1997. El pan fue el partido que capitalizó el bono democrático, pero una vez en la responsabilidad de gobierno, no pudo ampliar el proceso de liberalización política al mediatizar las reformas electorales y no comprometerse para sacar del atolladero legislativo las iniciativas que garantizaban mecanismos de participación ciudadana: referéndum y plebiscito.

  6. [Adverse reactions to mosquito bites in scholars from Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico].

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    Manrique López, María Amelia; González Díaz, Sandra N; Arias Cruz, Alfredo; Sedó Mejía, Giovanni A; Canseco Villarreal, José Ignacio; Gómez Retamoza, Ernesto Antonio; Padrón López, Olga Magdalena; Cruz Moreno, Miguel Angel; Cisneros Salazar, Guillermo Daniel

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    Allergic reactions to insect bites are a global problem, the true incidence and prevalence of morbidity from adverse reactions to mosquito bites are unknown. To describe the adverse reactions to mosquito bites in school-age children of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. A cross-sectional descriptive study was made via a randomized application of questionnaires to children from public elementary schools in the metropolitan area of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. A total of 11 public schools randomly selected were included in the study. One thousand questionnaires were submitted, of which 506 fulfilled the inclusion criteria; 55% were females. Seventy-six percent referred adverse reactions to mosquito bites, itching (75%) and rash (72%) being the most frequent ones, in the last 12 months. Adverse reactions to mosquito bites occur frequently. Early detection is important to establish a prompt treatment.

  7. EL TURISMO RESIDENCIAL ¿UNA MANIFESTACIÓN DE NUEVOS TURISMOS Y NUEVOS COMPORTAMIENTOS TURÍSTICOS EN EL SIGLO XXI?

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    El concepto de turismo residencial evoluciona desde su apreciación convencional con motivaciones parecidas al turismo de masas tradicional hacia una nueva aceptación que implica la creación de nuevos espacios de ocio alejados de sus territorios de origen. En esta nueva aceptación, que implica una alta movilidad humana residencial, es básica la búsqueda de un estilo de vida en la que es importante la autorrealización personal y un deseo de una mejor calidad de vida. Así el turismo residencial ...

  8. Medico-ecological study and health impact assessment of hydro-electric projects in Malaysia

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    Lai, Karen [Institute for Medical Research, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

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    The objectives of this studies were to determine i) if there was any potential health risks in terms of spread of vector-borne and other communicable diseases resulting from the changes in the environment due to creation of large bodies of water as consequence of the construction of dams, ii) diseases of public health importance in populations affected by such projects. Nine pre-impoundment studies had been carried out and potential impact of the change in environment on discases and health of the affected populations in each areas was evaluated. Risk of infections to the dam construction workers also assessed. Recommendations on mitigation measures were made for each situation so that adequate provisions could be made to improve the health conditions of these populations especially those who would be resettled as a result of impoundment . Prevention and control measures on transmission of infection, including vector control were proposed. The potential medico-ecological hazards encountered by immigrants and visitors to the area on completion of the hydro project were also envisaged.

  9. Medico-ecological study and health impact assessment of hydro-electric projects in Malaysia

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    Karen Lai

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    The objectives of this studies were to determine i) if there was any potential health risks in terms of spread of vector-borne and other communicable diseases resulting from the changes in the environment due to creation of large bodies of water as consequence of the construction of dams, ii) diseases of public health importance in populations affected by such projects. Nine pre-impoundment studies had been carried out and potential impact of the change in environment on discases and health of the affected populations in each areas was evaluated. Risk of infections to the dam construction workers also assessed. Recommendations on mitigation measures were made for each situation so that adequate provisions could be made to improve the health conditions of these populations especially those who would be resettled as a result of impoundment . Prevention and control measures on transmission of infection, including vector control were proposed. The potential medico-ecological hazards encountered by immigrants and visitors to the area on completion of the hydro project were also envisaged

  10. Part 3: Medico-legal documentation Practical completion of pages 2 ...

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    revision so that the research and advances in knowledge that have taken place .... the female breasts, and not the menarche.3 The information is of medical value in .... Examination on a lap makes the prone knee-chest position difficult, but not.

  11. Part 3: Medico-legal documentation Practical completion of pages 2 ...

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    for medical indications and to detect foreign objects in adults ..... development in rural and urban South African black children. Ann Hum Biol. 1993 .... Darnell C. Forensic science in healthcare: caring for patients, preserving the evidence.

  12. The ethical and medico-legal issues of trauma care | Hardcastle ...

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    Abstract. Ethical issues confront trauma clinicians on a daily basis. This article highlights the similarities of trauma ethical dilemmas to those faced by other emergency care providers and takes the reader through the inpatient aspects of trauma care.

  13. IGF-1 abuse in sport: clinical and medico-legal aspects.

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    Molinelli, A; Bonsignore, A; Cicconi, M; Cioè, A; Traverso, A

    2010-12-01

    The frequent revisions of prohibited substances list established by WADA are aimed at keeping up with those drugs that, being increasingly used in medicine and in sports, play on one side a therapeutic role and, on the other, a doping role. Among the various hormone substances widely used in sports, the authors draw particular attention on IGF-1, a growth factor that is rapidly widespreading among athletes. Moreover, IGF-1 diffusion is not exclusively correlated with the doping phenomenon, being various the pathological conditions that may require the therapeutic use of this substance. As a consequence, during pathologies or medical treatments of various nature, the athletes should be informed of the IGF-1 administration because, if they are not duly apprised, they risk undergoing unjust sanctions from the competent authority. In fact, the athlete is given the possibility of communicating, before using, he is taking a medication of the WADA list for therapeutic reasons by applying for a TUE (Therapeutic Use Exemption). If this application is accepted on certified clinical grounds, the athlete will be allowed to use that substance even during sports competitions. However, the IGF-1 detection in the athlete's body shows, at the present state-of-art, two different problems: the first one has a technical character and concerns the differential diagnosis between the quantity of the physiologically produced substance and the quantity of the exogenously administrated substance; the second problem has an economic character and regards to the high cost of the analysis and, consecutively, the necessity of finding a well-equipped laboratory centre.

  14. Doctors and Medico Legal Examination of Victims of Sexual Offenses

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    Khan MK

    2015-01-01

    This increasing incident of crime against woman is adding up to the number of female patients. This, along with normal female patients there is a dire emergency in the treatment of female victims of sexual assault. We need provision in our hospital set up to treat the victims separately. There is also an awareness campaign against the sexual crimes and the right of women. Thus increasing trend of crime against woman in India is also burdening the health system in providing treatment and me...

  15. Medico-legal analysis of a case of mass shooting

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    Roman Kuruc

    2014-12-01

    Full Text Available Despite the existence of organised crime in Slovakia, no case has ever been monitored in which one individual used a firearm against several people, as happens in the U.S. or in Western Europe. The aim of this work is to demonstrate a “unique” case in the history of Slovak criminality, when six members of one family were killed and some other accidental victims were wounded or even killed by one perpetrator using a firearm.

  16. Mentally disordered non-psychotic criminal offenders--treatment instead of punishment.

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    Gottlieb, Peter; Gabrielsen, Gorm; Kørner, Alex; Stølan, Liv Os

    2013-12-01

    By including §69 into the Danish Penal Code, it has since 1975 been possible to use psychiatric measures as legal sanctions for even non-psychotic offenders-if the measure is believed to be preventive of future crime. To be able to decide on the applicability of treatment measures as sanctions in criminal cases, the court will request a psychiatric report. They may furthermore ask a medical expert consultation board, the Danish Medico-Legal Council, for an opinion on the mental status of the defendant. To describe a sample of offenders falling under §69 and the use of the section in sentencing offenders to treatment instead of punishment. All 298 opinions given by the Medico-Legal Council between April 1, 2005 and December 31, 2007 of defendants definitely or possibly falling under §69 of the Danish Penal Code were rated together with the psychiatric assessment reports and the final verdicts on socio-demographic, health and criminal items, and the data were computerized. The sample was characterized by severe criminality and mental disorder. Forty-six percent (138/298) were sentenced by the court to a psychiatric measure instead of punishment. The results document that §69 of the Danish Penal Code is used as intended by the law.

  17. Legal socialization of personality as a phenomenon of legal psychology

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    2017-01-01

    Full Text Available The relevance of the topic to the continuing importance of legal regulation of human behavior, the necessity of foreseeing the adverse consequences of social disorders and urgency of the prevention of deconditioning and deviant behavioral manifestations. In this regard, it is important to examine the phenomenon of legal socialization, causing interest among the representatives of the human Sciences and specialists in different branches of psychological knowledge. Taking into account the multidimensional nature of this phenomenon, it is an essential consideration of the trajectories of its occurrence in correlation with different interacting with other determinants. Such determinants include age psychological characteristics, experience crises of mental development, socially conditioned factors, and the influence of the professional environment. In article are characterized by individual patterns of legal socialization of a personality, revealing its essence, on the basis of summarizing opinions of scientists based on their own point of view. On the basis of the theoretical analysis made assumptions about the peculiarities of legal socialization of the individual occurring in different age periods of life; formulated likely areas for further study the phenomenon under research legal psychology.

  18. Dementia and Legal Competency

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    Filaković, Pavo; Petek Erić, Anamarija; Mihanović, Mate; Glavina, Trpimir; Molnar, Sven

    2011-01-01

    The legal competency or capability to exercise rights is level of judgment and decision-making ability needed to manage one's own affairs and to sign official documents. With some exceptions, the person entitles this right in age of majority. It is acquired without legal procedures, however the annulment of legal capacity requires a juristic process. This resolution may not be final and could be revoked thorough the procedure of reverting legal capacity – fully or partially. Given ...

  19. Discurso sobre la violencia hacia la mujer en un foro virtual: presencias del marco de género Discourse on violence against women in a virtual forum: the view from the gender framework

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    Marisa Antunes Santiago

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    Full Text Available Objetivo: El estudio (parte de una investigación más amplia tiene como objetivo conocer los aspectos constructivos del lenguaje escrito para presentar la violencia de género y su articulación a marcos referenciales, con especial atención a la detección de espacios donde la emergencia del marco específico de género se hace posible. Métodos: A partir de las participaciones en un foro virtual de discusión se realizó un análisis del discurso recurriendo a la herramienta analítica de detección de repertorios interpretativos, con el apoyo del programa Atlas.ti v.6. Resultados: Tras el análisis de las participaciones en el foro identificamos tres repertorios interpretativos fundamentales. En los dos primeros, «La violencia, un síntoma social» y «Todos víctimas», se difumina en gran medida el marco referencial de género, que sin embargo encuentra su principal vía de expresión y confrontación en el tercero, «El péndulo del género». Éste se construye fundamentalmente a partir la crítica de muchos participantes a los efectos de lo que se llama la «discriminación positiva». Conclusiones: Detectamos la dificultad del marco de género, en el contexto de la promulgación y el desarrollo de la Ley Orgánica, para distinguirse del marco de referencia punitivo, que limita la violencia contra las mujeres a un problema interpersonal entre la víctima y el agresor, y ofrece esencialmente la solución de la denuncia y su resultado penal.Objective: This study (which forms part of a broader inquiry aimed to determine the constructive aspects of the written language to introduce gender-based violence and its articulation in referential frameworks. Special attention was paid to detecting spaces where a gender framework could emerge. Methods: A discourse analysis of contributions to a specific virtual forum was performed using the analytical tool of detecting interpretative repertoires, with the support of the Atlas.ti v.6 program

  20. Ecología de laderas restauradas de la minería de carbón a cielo abierto: interacciones ecohidrológicas. [Ecology of restored slopes from opencast coal mining : ecohydrologycal interactions

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    Merino Martín, Luis

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    Textos en español e inglés, y resúmenes en español e inglés La restauración de espacios afectados por la minería de carbón a cielo abierto es una labor muy compleja. La creación de nuevos ecosistemas implica la activación de numerosos procesos naturales en el marco de la sucesión ecológica. Los procesos ecohidrológicos resultan claves en el funcionamiento de estos nuevos sistemas. Son ya conocidas las claves de la dinámica ecohidrológica de laderas mineras restauradas con régimen de escor...

  1. VARIABILIDAD DE LA TEMPERATURA DE SUPERFICIES EN EL NW DE LA PROVINCIA DE NEUQUÉN A PARTIR DE INFORMCIÓN SATELITAL.

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    Marisa G. Cogliati; Mariana Suárez

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    La complejidad del terreno y la falta de datos meteorológicos siguiendo el gradiente altitudinal obliga a la exploración de nuevos métodos o esquemas entre los que se encuentra el análisis por medio de modelos o imágenes satelitales. El presente trabajo pretende describir el marco de información con el que se cuenta en el NW neuquino y la introducción de análisis espacial de distribución de la temperatura de superficie a partir de imágenes NOAA- AVHRR con miras a la inclusión futura de nuevos...

  2. La Pizarra Digital Interactiva en las aulas de Castilla-La Mancha: análisis del rendimiento y la integración

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    David Sánchez Chiquero

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    Full Text Available El marco educativo y social en el que nos situamos requiere continuas adaptaciones. El avance desmesurado e imparable de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC nos obliga a revisar e introducir nuevos cambios y mejoras en el sistema educativo, no sólo como una mera dotación puntual de materiales sino también como un análisis de la propia práctica educativa en el aula. Este análisis del proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje (E- A es el que nos llevará hacia nuevos paradigmas educativos.

  3. Methodology in Legal Research

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    2017-12-01

    Full Text Available Recent legal scholarship demonstrates increased attention to empirical research in the design and evaluation of law and the policies and practices of legal authorities. The growth of evidence informed law is an exciting development and one that promises to improve the legal system. In this paper I argue for the particular value of drawing not just upon empirical research methods when evaluating existing policies and practices but upon social science theories. Theory based research provides a basis for imagining and testing different models about how the legal system might operate. I support this argument by presenting research on social science frameworks for legal authority which are alternatives to the currently prevalent instrumental model.

  4. Laws of Language and Legal Language: A Study of Legal Language in Some Indonesian Regulations

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    Shidarta Shidarta

    2017-01-01

    Full Text Available Legal language must follow the laws of language (grammar that widely known and commonly used by the public, including groups of the scientist. Legal language on the other hand also recognizes specific terminologies. These terminologies were introduced by jurists or by legislative power holders. Accordingly, legal language became the product of legal doctrines or political decisions. The problems arose when a number of compositions and legal terms turned out to be elusive, convoluted, and ambiguous due to the pattern of writing that was once done and because of certain considerations. This article proposed reviewing the factors that result in problems. The author presented a solution to observe using hermeneutic methods of law and legal reasoning. The author argued that the text of the law was not neutral since it was trapped not only by the laws of language but also by the perspective of the interpreters as they believed such a perspective was based on the guidance of legal science. By using legal hermeneutics can be checked the depth of the meaning of the law; while over the legal reasoning can be seen its rationale according to legal science.

  5. Marcos interpretativos, identidad e imaginario en el mexica movement

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    Aquiles Chihu Amparán

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    Full Text Available El objetivo de este artículo es analizar el mexica movement, a través de su discurso e imaginario, representados en un conjunto de utopías, símbolos, mitos y creencias, que revitalizan la cultura y el pasado mesoamericano. Se aplica la metodología del análisis de los marcos (frame analysis, con sus cinco partes: el protagonista, el problema, el antagonista, las metas y la audiencia. En el estudio de los movimientos sociales ha prevalecido el análisis de los aspectos políticos y estructurales, aquí a dichos movimientos se les observa en función de sus capacidades como productores de significados, que contribuyen a conformar su identidad colectiva.

  6. The Knowledge Level and Opinions of Physicians about the Medical and Legal Procedures Related to Physical Child Abuse

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    Sema Demirçin

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    Full Text Available Background: In order to diagnose child abuse, physicians need to consider the possibility of abuse in every child they encounter, have sufficient information about the topic and manage the cases according to current law. Aims: To determine the knowledge level of physicians on child abuse and to learn their opinions about the procedures when they suspect child abuse. Study Design: A questionnaire (cross-sectional study. Methods: A detailed questionnaire was applied to 390 physicians of whom 233 were general practitioners. The first part of the questionnaire included demographic variables (age, gender, occupational experience and the frequency of child physical abuse cases encountered, since that is the most easily diagnosed and proven form of abuse. The second part consisted of 32 questions about diagnosis of physical child abuse and procedures during the follow-up of the cases. Statistical analyses were performed using SPSS version 18.0. Results: Of the participating physicians, 47.4% (n=185 were female and only 13.1% of the physicians had some kind of postgraduate training on child abuse. The correct response rate of specialists compared to general practitioners was significantly higher. A total of 263 (72.3% physicians thought that there was a specific law on physical child abuse in the Turkish Republic. More than two-thirds of physicians thought that reporting should only be addressed to Social Services and physicians should not be obliged to report to law enforcement. Conclusion: The results of the present study adds to the already known necessity for better training of physicians about physical child abuse and the need to refresh their knowledge through postgraduate courses. According to current regulations, it is obligatory to report abuse cases to the public prosecutor and/or police, therefore physicians also need training in respect of the legal status and medico-legal approach to these cases

  7. Governança na internet: um estudo sobre o Marco Civil brasileiro

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    Laura Vilela Rodrigues Rezende

    2016-01-01

    Full Text Available El trabajo tiene como propósito realizar un estudio sobre la legislación que rige el uso de Internet en Brasil, en el Marco Civil de Internet (Ley 12.965/2014. Se trata de una investigación descriptiva, de naturaleza cua litativa, basada en recopilación bibliográfica y estudio comparativo. Se ex pone inicialmente un breve histórico de Internet en Brasil y su panorama actual. Luego, se presenta el concepto de gobernanza en Internet y los su cesos que marcaron las discusiones acerca de esta temática. Se aborda el Marco Civil de Internet en Brasil, el histórico de su creación y los principios que lo rigen. Se concluye que es un importante instrumento oficial regla mentario para asegurar la libertad y los derechos del usuario. Su concep ción se fundamentó en la participación de la sociedad civil, lo que puede considerarse inédito en lo que se refiere a la creación de leyes reglamenta rias. Se considera que esta sea una ley sofisticada en cuanto a sus directri ces, lo que la vuelve una de las más progresistas del mundo. Pese a todo lo anterior, su trayectoria democrática de creación le otorga un carácter ge neralista y superficial.

  8. Digit ratio (2D:4D – A forensic marker for sexual dimorphism in North Indian population

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    Sangeeta Dey

    2016-12-01

    Conclusion: This research study proves beneficial for identity authentication, for criminal investigation and a powerful forensic tool for medicolegal cases. This will help in the advancement of technology which will prove beneficial for the welfare of indigenous population of India. Also the data so collected can be useful as forensic anthropology population data.

  9. Marcos GRADE de la evidencia a la decisión (EtD: un enfoque sistemático y transparente para tomar decisiones sanitarias bien informadas. 1: Introducción

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    Pablo Alonso-Coello

    2018-03-01

    Full Text Available Los médicos y quienes elaboran guías y políticas a veces pasan por alto criterios importantes, les dan un peso indebido o no usan la mejor evidencia disponible para informar sus juicios. Los sistemas explícitos y transparentes para la toma de decisiones pueden ayudar a garantizar que se consideren todos los criterios importantes, y que las decisiones estén basadas en la mejor evidencia disponible. El grupo de trabajo GRADE ha desarrollado marcos «de la evidencia a la decisión» (EtD para los diferentes tipos de recomendaciones o decisiones. El objetivo de los marcos EtD es ayudar a los paneles a usar la evidencia de una manera estructurada y transparente para informar las decisiones respecto de las recomendaciones clínicas, decisiones de cobertura sanitaria y recomendaciones o decisiones sobre el sistema sanitario o sobre salud pública. Los marcos EtD tienen una estructura común: formulación de una pregunta, evaluación de la evidencia y conclusiones. No obstante, existen diferencias entre los marcos para cada tipo de decisión. Los marcos EtD informan a los usuarios sobre los juicios que se han hecho y la evidencia que los apoya dotando de transparencia la base para las decisiones de los que tienen que tomarlas. Los marcos EtD también facilitan la diseminación de las recomendaciones y permiten a los decisores de otros ámbitos adoptar recomendaciones o decisiones, o adaptarlas a su contexto. El siguiente artículo es una traducción del artículo original publicado en British Medical Journal. Los marcos EtD se utilizan actualmente en el marco del Programa de Guías de Práctica Clínica en el Sistema Nacional de Salud, coordinado por GuíaSalud.

  10. Posdisciplina una aventura metodológica en tiempos de nuevos paradigmas. Una mirada sobre el espacio público.

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    Elsa Laurelli

    2014-12-01

    Full Text Available El nuevo siglo se caracteriza por la innovación de nuevos paradigmas lo cual está significando aventurarse en la búsqueda de nuevos caminos para interpretar al espacio público, no solo como un espacio abierto, verde y de uso común aun para los que están en “situación de calle”, sino como un espacio de reproducción física, económica y social, de esparcimiento, de memoria, de símbolos colectivos y de lucha de la sociedad. Esta aventura implica desarrollar y relacionar conceptos, metodologías y saberes de distinto origen poniendo énfasis en los problemas a resolver y no en los límites disciplinares que podrían cercenarlos. La naturaleza social del espacio público y el desafío de una mirada crítica tanto de las políticas públicas como de las prácticas de diferentes agentes en el proceso de construcción del espacio urbano, son fuentes de nuevos temas, problemas y espacios de reflexión en la “sociedad pos”.

  11. Uranium series isotopes concentration in sediments at San Marcos and Luis L. Leon reservoirs, Chihuahua, Mexico

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    Méndez-García, C.; Renteria-Villalobos, M.; García-Tenorio, R.; Montero-Cabrera, M. E.

    2014-07-01

    Spatial and temporal distribution of the radioisotopes concentrations were determined in sediments near the surface and core samples extracted from two reservoirs located in an arid region close to Chihuahua City, Mexico. At San Marcos reservoir one core was studied, while from Luis L. Leon reservoir one core from the entrance and another one close to the wall were investigated. 232Th-series, 238U-series, 40K and 137Cs activity concentrations (AC, Bq kg-1) were determined by gamma spectrometry with a high purity Ge detector. 238U and 234U ACs were obtained by liquid scintillation and alpha spectrometry with a surface barrier detector. Dating of core sediments was performed applying CRS method to 210Pb activities. Results were verified by 137Cs AC. Resulting activity concentrations were compared among corresponding surface and core sediments. High 238U-series AC values were found in sediments from San Marcos reservoir, because this site is located close to the Victorino uranium deposit. Low AC values found in Luis L. Leon reservoir suggest that the uranium present in the source of the Sacramento - Chuviscar Rivers is not transported up to the Conchos River. Activity ratios (AR) 234U/overflow="scroll">238U and 238U/overflow="scroll">226Ra in sediments have values between 0.9-1.2, showing a behavior close to radioactive equilibrium in the entire basin. 232Th/overflow="scroll">238U, 228Ra/overflow="scroll">226Ra ARs are witnesses of the different geological origin of sediments from San Marcos and Luis L. Leon reservoirs.

  12. Uranium series isotopes concentration in sediments at San Marcos and Luis L. Leon reservoirs, Chihuahua, Mexico

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    Méndez-García, C.; Montero-Cabrera, M. E.; Renteria-Villalobos, M.; García-Tenorio, R.

    2014-01-01

    Spatial and temporal distribution of the radioisotopes concentrations were determined in sediments near the surface and core samples extracted from two reservoirs located in an arid region close to Chihuahua City, Mexico. At San Marcos reservoir one core was studied, while from Luis L. Leon reservoir one core from the entrance and another one close to the wall were investigated. 232 Th-series, 238 U-series, 40 K and 137 Cs activity concentrations (AC, Bq kg −1 ) were determined by gamma spectrometry with a high purity Ge detector. 238 U and 234 U ACs were obtained by liquid scintillation and alpha spectrometry with a surface barrier detector. Dating of core sediments was performed applying CRS method to 210 Pb activities. Results were verified by 137 Cs AC. Resulting activity concentrations were compared among corresponding surface and core sediments. High 238 U-series AC values were found in sediments from San Marcos reservoir, because this site is located close to the Victorino uranium deposit. Low AC values found in Luis L. Leon reservoir suggest that the uranium present in the source of the Sacramento – Chuviscar Rivers is not transported up to the Conchos River. Activity ratios (AR) 234 U/ 238 U and 238 U/ 226 Ra in sediments have values between 0.9–1.2, showing a behavior close to radioactive equilibrium in the entire basin. 232 Th/ 238 U, 228 Ra/ 226 Ra ARs are witnesses of the different geological origin of sediments from San Marcos and Luis L. Leon reservoirs

  13. La regulación del «Shadow Banking» y las operaciones de «Titulización» en la Unión Europea. Su desarrollo como elementos esenciales del nuevo marco de regulación y supervisión bancaria

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    Urbaneja Cillán, Jorge

    2016-01-01

    El shadow banking y las operaciones de titulización se han convertido en elementos esenciales del negocio bancario actual. En el marco de la respuesta a la crisis financiera, se han desarrollado un amplio catálogo de iniciativas regulatorias destinadas a establecer sistemas adecuados de regulación y supervisión a los riesgos que presentan este tipo de operaciones. Sobre la base de las respuestas del G20 y del Financial Stability Board, la Unión Europea ha desarrollado un conjunto de iniciativ...

  14. What do bones tell us? The study of human skeletons from the perspective of forensic anthropology.

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    Corrieri, Brigida; Márquez-Grant, Nicholas

    2015-01-01

    Human remains are present in a number of contexts. Some of these are archaeological burial sites, which can comprise individual or mass graves burials. Human remains are usually found buried (or cremated), but they can also be found in museums and in universities, as part of their anatomical collections. Human remains can be found in churches as relics, in ossuaries, and as part of objects. Hence human remains refer to not just a complete skeleton, but also apart of a bone or tooth, hair and mummified remains. In more recent forensic, police or medico-legal cases, human skeletal remains can be found in a number of contexts, such as fire scenes, natural disasters, clandestine graves, or on the surface in open areas (e.g. a woodland). One aspect ofphysical anthropology is that which studies human skeletal remains in order to reconstruct the past, understand human variation, and provide information about the deceased individuals, such as their age at death, sex, ancestry, stature, pathological conditions or traumatic injuries; the remains from medico-legal or police cases fall under the branch offorensic anthropology.

  15. Medical reports on persons claiming compensation for personal injury.

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    Cornes, P; Aitken, R C

    1992-06-01

    An audit of one insurance company's files on all employer's liability and third party motor claims settled over two years for 5000 pounds or more presented an opportunity to review the medical reports on the patients involved. A stratified random sample of files on 203 patients contained 602 reports prepared by 400 consultants. Content analysis was undertaken to evaluate compliance with published guidance on reports prepared for medico-legal purposes and to ascertain how well reports met recipients' requirements. While clinical topics were well covered, generally to a high standard, other functional, psychosocial and occupational topics, reflecting the wider clinical and non-clinical frame of reference within which lawyers and insurers normally seek information and advice, were covered less frequently, extensively and comprehensively--leaving considerable scope to improve these aspects of assessment and reporting. Further review of this aspect of professional practice should include attention to the appropriateness of existing guidance, postgraduate training requirements and the involvement of other agencies or professions in some aspects of assessment for medico-legal purposes.

  16. [The panorama of coccidioidomycosis in Nuevo León from 1978 to 1988].

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    González-Benavides, J

    1991-01-01

    The coccidioidomycosis is an endemic illness in the southern United States and the Northern of Mexico, the state of Texas and Nuevo Leon are included in this area. In the city of Monterrey from 1978 to 1988 the hospitals have reported one hundred and fifty cases. One hundred eleven of them from the state of Nuevo Leon and the remaining from the neighboring states. The main clinical presentation was in the pulmonary form with one hundred and twelve cases, followed by the cutaneous with thirty-three in the later the most common presentation was the ulcerated form. Therapeutically two new medication have been tried a with encouraging results, the itraconazole and the fluconazole the differential diagnosis is made mainly with tuberculosis and deep mycosis.

  17. On Plagiarism and Power Relations in Legal Academia and Legal Education

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    Tilen Štajnpihler

    2017-12-01

    Full Text Available The article challenges the misconception that legal academia is a harmonious community without internal discrepancies, characterised by common interests, a coherent set of values and standards of behaviour that are unilaterally transposed into the legal profession through the process of legal education. The paper focuses on a case study of a public dispute between two law professors initiated by an article published in one of the main national law magazines wherein one accused the other of plagiarism. Even though the dispute did not come to an unequivocal conclusion, it deserves a closer examination as it clearly exposed two important issues. Firstly, it revealed certain unresolved issues concerning legal writing and legal ethics that are essential elements of the legal profession, as they have a profound impact on legal education and legal practice, and, secondly, it showed that these divergences are at least to some extent related to the latent network of power relations and struggles that dominate the legal (academic field. Este artículo cuestiona la creencia de que el mundo jurídico-académico es una comunidad armoniosa sin discrepancias internas, caracterizada por intereses comunes, valores coherentes y parámetros de comportamiento que se transponen de forma unilateral al ejercicio de la profesión jurídica a través de la educación en Derecho. El artículo se centra en el estudio de una disputa entre dos profesores de Derecho, en la cual uno acusaba al otro de plagio. A pesar de que la disputa no se resolvió de forma clara, merece un análisis más cuidadoso, ya que puso de manifiesto dos temas importantes: en primer lugar, algunos conflictos sin resolver sobre la escritura y la ética del derecho que son elementos esenciales de la profesión jurídica, pues tienen un profundo impacto sobre la educación y la práctica del Derecho; y, en segundo lugar, que estos desacuerdos están relacionados con las redes latentes de poder que

  18. Distribución de Aedes albopictus (Skuse en Nuevo León, México, 2001-2004 Distribution of Aedes albopictus (Skuse in Nuevo Leon, México, 2001-2004

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    Héctor Orta-Pesina

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    Full Text Available OBJETIVO: Determinar la distribución de Aedes albopictus (Skuse en Nuevo León, México. MATERIAL Y MÉTODOS: Entre 2001 y 2004, utilizando métodos estandarizados de recolección de larvas de mosquitos, se analizaron 6 371 muestras, de 167 localidades. Se estimaron proporciones de muestras positivas de Ae. albopictus, por municipio, por año, utilizando Excel. RESULTADOS: Hubo 1 179 muestras positivas para larvas de Ae. albopictus distribuidas en 10 municipios: cinco localizados en la llanura costera del Golfo de México, con clima semicálido, subhúmedo y con lluvias casi todo el año (Allende, Montemorelos, Linares, General Terán y Santiago; otros, Sabinas Hidalgo y Cadereyta, se localizan en las grandes llanuras del norte de América, con clima cálido, semiseco y con lluvias poco frecuentes y, finalmente, Apodaca, San Nicolás y Escobedo en el área metropolitana de la ciudad de Monterrey. CONCLUSIONES: Hasta noviembre de 2004, el segundo vector de mayor importancia epidemiológica en el ciclo de la transmisión de Ae. albopictus a escala mundial se encontró en 10 municipios del estado de Nuevo León.OBJECTIVE: To determine the distribution of Aedes albopictus (Skuse in Nuevo Leon between 2001 and 2004. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Standardized methods were used to collect 6371 samples of mosquito's larvae from 167 sites. The proportions of samples positive for Ae. albopictus were obtained by municipality and year, using the software program Excel. RESULTS: There were 1 179 samples positive for Ae. albopictus. This species was distributed over 10 municipalities, as follows: Five on the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Plains, which predominantly have a semi-warm, sub-humid climate, and precipitations almost year round (Allende, Montemorelos, Linares, General Teran, and Santiago; two (Sabinas Hidalgo, and Cadereyta localized on the North American Great Plains, which have a warm, semiarid climate, and scarce precipitations. The final three were Apodaca

  19. Edward Cullen: el nuevo concepto de vampiro

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    Graillet Carrasco, Yolanda de

    2010-01-01

    El vampiro, como esa parte de sombra del inconsciente, evoluciona de diablo a ángel como se manifiesta en Crepúsculo de Stephenie Meyer. Para analizar este proceso, se traza el paso del vampiro moderno al post-moderno a través de tres figuras básicas: Drácula, Lestat y Edward Cullen, con la ayuda de los conceptos de Jung de sombra y héroe, y la teoría del cerebro triuno de McLean. Sangre, alma y sexo se desarrollan con este nuevo concepto de vampiro que comienza a revelar su reflejo para deja...

  20. NAVA: Nuevo modo de Ventilación

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    Martín Lorenzo, María del Carmen; Montón Giménez, Nuria; Paz Martín, Daniel

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    La Ventilación Asistida Ajustada Neuronalmente (NAVA) es un nuevo modo de Ventilación Mecánica Asistida que utiliza la actividad eléctrica diafragmática (Edi) para el control del respirador. La Edi es registrada a través de un catéter esofágico, y representa directamente el impulso respiratorio central y, por lo tanto, la duración y la intensidad con que el paciente desea ventilar. La asistencia inspiratoria mecánica se inicia en el momento en que el centro respiratorio lo demanda, y el di...