Pluralism in mathematics a new position in philosophy of mathematics

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Friend, Michèle

2014-01-01

This book is about philosophy, mathematics and logic, giving a philosophical account of Pluralism which is a family of positions in the philosophy of mathematics. There are four parts to this book, beginning with a look at motivations for Pluralism by way of Realism, Maddy's Naturalism, Shapiro's Structuralism and Formalism. In the second part of this book the author covers: the philosophical presentation of Pluralism; using a formal theory of logic metaphorically; rigour and proof for the Pluralist; and mathematical fixtures. In the third part the author goes on to focus on the transcendental presentation of Pluralism, and in part four looks at applications of Pluralism, such as a Pluralist approach to proof in mathematics and how Pluralism works in regard to together-inconsistent philosophies of mathematics. The book finishes with suggestions for further Pluralist enquiry. In this work the author takes a deeply radical approach in developing a new position that will either convert readers, or act as a stron...

Plural Form in Franchising: An Incomplete Contracting Approach

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G.W.J. Hendrikse (George); T. Jiang (Tao)

2005-01-01

textabstractPlural form franchising is modeled from an incomplete contracting perspective. Complete franchising is the unique, efficient governance structure only when the plural form externality is limited and the costs of investment are low for both franchisees. Governance structure choice is

Acquisition of German Pluralization Rules in Monolingual and Multilingual Children

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Zaretsky, Eugen; Lange, Benjamin P.; Euler, Harald A.; Neumann, Katrin

2013-01-01

Existing studies on plural acquisition in German have relied on small samples and thus hardly deliver generalizable and differentiated results. Here, overgeneralizations of certain plural allomorphs and other tendencies in the acquisition of German plural markers are described on the basis of test data from 7,394 3- to 5-year-old monolingual…

Plural Governance

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Mols, Niels Peter; Hansen, Jesper Rosenberg; Villadsen, Anders Ryom

We suggest that both making and buying the same product or service has several effects on market performance. A model is developed and tested by use of 170 answers gathered from the Danish municipalities. The results support the hypotheses that both making and buying: (1) moderates the negative r...... on how the plurality is measured. The results indicate that internal production may facilitate effective governance of the relationships with suppliers. Implications for research on firm boundaries and for practice are also discussed....

Religious diversity and pluralism

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Ahlin, Lars; Borup, Jørn; Fibiger, Marianne Qvortrup

2012-01-01

. Religious diversity has grown in Denmark with the arrival of new immigrant groups and with new forms and interpretations of traditional religious and spiritual traditions. More importantly, the relations and interactions between religious groups -- the hallmarks of religious pluralism -- are still incipient...

Vatican II and pluralism in pastoral care.

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Morrison, D A

1978-01-01

The documents of Vatican II imply that the ever increasing plurality of needs in the world and in Catholic health care institutions must be met by plurality in Christian response. Catholic hospitals should welcome onto their pastoral care teams people with diverse credentials and use them to promote the spiritual care of patients--Catholic and non-Catholic. In addition, this pluralistic ministry should extend itself beyond institutional walls toward the social needs of the community.

Self-interest and Altruism: Pluralism as a Basis for Leadership in Business

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Jay Joseph

2015-01-01

The paper outlines the case for pluralism between self-interest (egoism) and altruism in business leadership. Scientific progression demonstrating pluralism is discussed, providing a multidisciplinary view of pluralism from evolutionary biology, psychology, moral philosophy, economic theory and organisational behavior. Findings show that myopic views of self-interest and altruism were once dominant in a number of fields however shifts in contemporary theory have provided a basis for pluralism...

Joint perceptual decision-making: A case study in explanatory pluralism

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Drew Hamilton Abney

2014-04-01

Full Text Available Traditionally different approaches to the study of cognition have been viewed as competing explanatory frameworks. An alternative view, explanatory pluralism, regards different approaches to the study of cognition as complementary ways of studying the same phenomenon, at specific temporal and spatial scales, using appropriate methodological tools. Explanatory pluralism has been often described abstractly, but has rarely been applied to concrete cases. We present a case study of explanatory pluralism. We discuss three separate ways of studying the same phenomenon: a perceptual decision- making task (Bahrami et al., 2010, where pairs of subjects share information to jointly individuate an oddball stimulus among a set of distractors. Each approach analyzed the same corpus but targeted different units of analysis at different levels of description: decision-making at the behavioral level, confidence sharing at the linguistic level, and acoustic energy at the physical level. We discuss the utility of explanatory pluralism for describing this complex, multiscale phenomenon, show ways in which this case study sheds new light on the concept of pluralism, and highlight good practices to critically assess and complement approaches.

Forestry: feminine plural?

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Veltri A

2011-11-01

Full Text Available In this paper the Authors discuss the results of the surveys submitted to Italian women which are engaged in various activities in the forestry sector. A quantitative analysis comes out from qualitative considerations set out by the interviews. In Italy is well known that women are rarely able to advance in employment and there are few women in managerial positions. The Authors conclude that the forestry sciences are not yet feminine plural.

A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF ARABIC AND ENGLISH NOUN PLURAL MARKERS

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Aliyatul Himmah

2015-01-01

Full Text Available This paper is attempting to explore the plural markers in both Arabic and English. The data collected qualitatively are sorted to meet the scope of this paper. Through contrastive analysis, it is discovered that there are numerous significant differences rather than similarities in terms of syllable count start, patterns of plural nouns in relation to gender, regularity, regular vs irregular plural and internal vowel change. Moreover, Arabic has some uniqueness in its plural marking system. Being well informed on all of these might pave the way for second or foreign language learners to comprehensively understand the plural marking system in Arabic and English.   Tulisan ini mencoba untuk mengeksplorasi penanda jamak dalam bahasa Arab dan bahasa Inggris. Data yang dikumpulkan secara kualitatif diurutkan untuk memenuhi cakupan makalah ini. Melalui analisis kontrastif, ditemukan banyak perbedaan yang signifikan daripada kesamaan dalam segi jumlah awal suku kata, pola kata benda jamak dalam kaitannya dengan gender, keteraturan dan ketidakteraturan jamak, serta perubahan vokal. Selain itu, bahasa Arab memiliki beberapa keunikan dalam sistem menandai jamaknya. Memahami informasi hal tersebut dengan baik mungkin memudahkan pembelajar bahasa kedua atau asing untuk memahami secara komprehensif sistem penanda jamak dalam bahasa Arab dan Inggris

Joint perceptual decision-making: A case study in explanatory pluralism

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Abney, Drew; Dale, Rick; Yoshimi, Jeffrey

2014-01-01

and spatial scales, using appropriate methodological tools. Explanatory pluralism has been often described abstractly, but has rarely been applied to concrete cases. We present a case study of explanatory pluralism. We discuss three separate ways of studying the same phenomenon: a perceptual decision- making...... task (Bahrami et al., 2010), where pairs of subjects share information to jointly individuate an oddball stimulus among a set of distractors. Each approach analyzed the same corpus but targeted different units of analysis at different levels of description: decision-making at the behavioral level......, confidence sharing at the linguistic level, and acoustic energy at the physical level. We discuss the utility of explanatory pluralism for describing this complex, multiscale phenomenon, show ways in which this case study sheds new light on the concept of pluralism, and highlight good practices to critically...

Comentarios sobre algunas alteraciones dentarias

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José Miguel Restrepo

1940-02-01

Full Text Available Los médicos que hayan ejercido la profesión en algunas poblaciones del norte y nordeste de Antioquia y en algunas del occidente de Caldas deben haber tenido la sorpresa de lo comunes que son las infecciones focales bucodentarias no sólo en personas de avanzada edad, sino, y muy especialmente, en niños del personal escolar y en campesinos en quienes frecuentemente se observan perturbaciones digestivas y broncopulmonares depenedientes de aquéllas. Es este uno de los motivos para que en las distintas clases sociales ocupe la prótesis dentaria un porcientaje muy alto, aunque viene a ser un recurso tardio cuando ya los dolores o las supuraciones gingivales han hecho imposible los primeros actos digestivos como son la masticación y la insalivación cuyo completo y normal cumplimiento es requisito sine qua non para que el proceso de la digestión se ejecute a cabalidad en cada una de sus etapas.

Acquisition of German pluralization rules in monolingual and multilingual children

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Eugen Zaretsky

2013-10-01

Full Text Available Existing studies on plural acquisition in German have relied on small samples and thus hardly deliver generalizable and differentiated results. Here, overgeneralizations of certain plural allomorphs and other tendencies in the acquisition of German plural markers are described on the basis of test data from 7,394 3- to 5-yearold monolingual German and bi/multilingual immigrant children tested with a modified, validated version of the Marburger Sprachscreening (MSS language test and 476 children tested with the SETK 3-5 language test. Classified correct and wrong answers to MSS and SETK 3-5 plural items were compared. The acquisition patterns of immigrants corresponded to those of younger German children. Both monolingual German and immigrant children demonstrated generally the same universal frequency and phonetically/phonologically based error patterns, irrespective of their linguistic background, but with different tendencies such as overgeneralization of -s by German children only.

PLURALISM, FATWA, AND COURT IN INDONESIA: The Case of Yusman Roy

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Nadirsyah Hosen

2012-06-01

Full Text Available The interrelation between Islam, state and pluralism is an unfinished discussion in Indonesia. This paper examines an issue of promoting individual freedom to practice his/her belief, and at the same time not insulting the majority belief in a plural society. It takes the case of Yusman Roy on performing the salah (prayer in a local language as the subject of analysis in order to identify the fault lines of religion and pluralism, and to consider how best to address them. The paper argues that fatwa and court should not be used as mechanisms to deal with the issue of religion and pluralism. It further argues for an “alternative dispute resolution” in dealing with the plurality of interpretation within Islamic tradition and at the same time maintaining the unity and harmony Islamic communities. It maintains that Roy should have the rights to practice what he believes, but at the same time, a negotiation on how he spreads his ideas outside his schools should take place in order to avoid provocative actions that invite violence.

Absolutyzm i pluralizm (ABSOLUTISM AND PLURALISM

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Renata Ziemińska

2005-06-01

Full Text Available Alethic absolutism is a thesis that propositions can not be more or less true, that they are true or false for ever (if true at all and that their truth is independent on any circumstances of their assertion. In negative version, easier to defend, alethic absolutism claims the very same proposition can not be both true and false relative to circumstances of its assertion. Simple alethic pluralism is a thesis that we have many concepts of truth. It is a very good way to dissolve the controversy between alethic relativism and absolutism. Many philosophical concepts of truth are the best reason for such pluralism. If concept is meaning of a name, we have many concepts of truth because the name 'truth' was understood in many ways. The variety of meanings however can be superficial. Under it we can find one idea of truth expressed in correspondence truism or schema (T. The content of the truism is too poor to be content of anyone concept of truth, so it usually is connected with some picture of the world (ontology and we have so many concepts of truth as many pictures of the world. The authoress proposes the hierarchical pluralism with privileged classic (or correspondence in weak sense concept of truth as absolute property.Other author's publications:

OVERGENERALIZATION IN SINGULAR/PLURAL NOUNS AND SUFFIXED NOUNS OF IELTS COURSE STUDENTS

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Gharizi Matiini

2016-12-01

Full Text Available This study aims to investigate the morphological overgeneralization of IELTS students. It focuses on the singular/plural nouns and suffixed nouns that are overgeneralized by those students. Three students are chosen as the participants of the study by collecting their writing exercises. Three writing texts are gathered taken from several weeks and materials. The writings are analyzed by sorting the nouns they produced and categorizing them according to the singular/plural nouns and suffixed nouns. The results reveal that the students over extended the rules of singular/plural nouns and suffixed nouns. However, recovery occurs very varied in both singular/plural nouns and suffixed nouns. They tend to be better in mentioning singular/plural nouns, yet they are being selective and careful in writing suffixed nouns. In conclusion, even though the language learners can mark their overgeneralization, it is still difficult for them to recover their errors. It is recommended here that longitudinal study that has more time to examine students recovery from overgeneralization can be conducted for the further study to give more detail evidence in students’ overgeneralizations. Keywords: overgeneralization, singular/plural nouns, suffixed nouns

What Plurals and Compounds Reveal about Constraints in Word Formation

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Jaensch, Carol; Heyer, Vera; Gordon, Peter; Clahsen, Harald

2014-01-01

Morphological systems are constrained in how they interact with each other. One case that has been widely studied in the psycholinguistic literature is the avoidance of plurals inside compounds (e.g. *"rats eater" vs. "rat eater") in English and other languages, the so-called "plurals-in-compounds effect." Several…

The School as Melting Pot: Pluralism and Americanization Vie for Dominance.

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Lazerson, Marvin

1978-01-01

Appeals for ethnic pluralism have a long history in education. However, an ideological commitment to cultural homogeneity has created a bureaucratic administrative structure which has made public education highly resistant to ethnic pluralism. (Author/EB)

Sir David Brewster's changing ideas on the plurality of worlds

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de Asúa, Miguel

2006-06-01

In the course of his long life the Scottish physicist David Brewster wrote copiously about the plurality of worlds. More Worlds than One (1854), perhaps his strongest statement on the question, was written as an answer to William Whewell's On the Plurality of Worlds (1853), which argued that life was a privilege of the Earth. Brewster's ideas changed drastically along the years in many crucial issues such as the habitability of the Sun and the Moon, the possibility that extraterrestrials could be different from humans, and the occupation of the Earth by intelligent races in the distant past. This paper succinctly surveys Brewster's main lines of thought about the plurality of worlds underlining the significance of his first two articles devoted exclusively to this topic. They were published in 1838 in The Monthly Chronicle, and affirm the habitability of the planets while denying that of the Moon. As is the case with many Victorian scientists, belief in pluralism was for Brewster part and parcel of a complex of ideas and attitudes in which it is hard to distinguish science from religion. I shall argue that a fair number of the shifting opinions and inconsistencies detectable in Brewster's ideas on the plurality of worlds can be attributed to the fact that these were used as pliable apologetic instruments in his scientific writings, many of which are permeated by strong religious concerns.

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.

Plurality and equality in the Learning Communities

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Mimar Ramis-Salas

2015-09-01

Full Text Available Purpose: to present empirical evidence of the success generated as a result of the types of organization of the centres and the classrooms in the CA. The inclusion of the plurality of voices of families from very different origins allows for an education that based on the plurality and diversity manages to achieve a greater equality in the results of all children. Design/methodology/approach: the present article is based on 1 review of the scientific literature in journals selected in the Journal Citation Reports about the types of participation of migrant families and from cultural minorities and their effect on the education of their children; and 2 on the collection of testimonies of migrant and cultural minority families through qualitative techniques. Findings and Originality/value: empirical evidence is presented about how the types of management and organization of the families participation in the classroom and the school of Learning communities maximize the plurality of voices (migrant and cultural minority families and contribute to improve the results of the children of the social groups who are most underprivileged and who obtain a greater improvement in the results levelling them with those of the mainstream society. Research limitations/implications: complexity to achieve a climate of ideal egalitarian dialogue in the framework of the communicative research data collection techniques Social implications: the article emphasizes the fact that evidence based actions achieve social and educational transformation, contributing to respond to the objectives of Europe 2020 to achieve more inclusive societies. Originality/value: how through implementing certain forms of classroom and school organization based on the inclusion of the plurality of voices, we contribute evidence of the improvement of the management of the center and the transformation of the relations with the community, beyond the educational success.

BADUY PLURALISM: FROM MYTH TO REALITY

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Abdurrahman Misno Bambang Prawiro

2013-06-01

Full Text Available Indonesia is a land of many tribes, with each tribe having different customs. However they have a bond in the form of the state motto, Bhineka Tunggal Ika. This motto is based on a philosophy embraced by every tribe in the form of the teachings passed down from the ancestors such as pantun (Malay poetic form, rhyme, guguritan (Sundanese literary works, history and myths. Myths here are stories about things that happened in the past in the form of the history of the origins of man and nature, or the origin of a nation. Myths as a local wisdom are believed to be the truth by every member of the tribe applied in everyday life. This includes the myth that tells about human cultural diversity (plurality, and the community will implement its content. What about the Baduy community in Banten, do they have myths and apply the myths that deal with pluralism in their life? The Baduy are one of the ethnic groups in Indonesia who have myths about the creation of the universe, human origins, and even myths about the events that will occur. The myth about the origin of humans in the Baduy community begins with the creation of Adam as the first human, and then he had children that gave birth to the whole nation in the world. Because every human in the world is the great-grandsons of Adam, the Baduy believe that all humanity is dulur (brother despite differences in customs and religion. The reality of social life of the Baduy community, either Baduy Dalam (inner baduy or Baduy Luar (outer baduy is that they greatly respect all mankind despite the different cultures and religions. Prohibition to enter the Baduy traditional village for foreigners is because of historical factors, namely the agreement made by their ancestors with the Dutch. This research concluded that the Baduy society is a society that understands the plurality of cultures; it is based on a myth that they believe and apply in their life about tolerance of other religions. Key Word: Pluralism

Corruption and governance in a plural but fractured society: the case ...

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Corruption and governance in a plural but fractured society: the case of Nigeria. ... International Journal of Development and Management Review ... This paper examines the impact of bad governance, corruption and value-erosion in Nigeria as a result of the plural and mal-integrated nature of the Nigerian nation-state.

Medical pluralism: global perspectives on equity issues.

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Marian, Florica

2007-12-01

Over the last decades, awareness has increased about the phenomenon of medical pluralism and the importance to integrate biomedicine and other forms of health care. The broad variety of healing cultures existing alongside biomedicine is called complementary or alternative medicine (CAM) in industrialized countries and traditional medicine (TM) in developing countries. Considerable debate has arisen about ethical problems related to the growing use of CAM in industrialized countries. This article focuses on equity issues and aims to consider them from a global perspective of medical pluralism. Several dimensions of equity are explored and their interrelatedness discussed: access to care, research (paradigm and founding) and recognition. This so-called 'equity circle' is then related to Iris Marion Young's justice theory and particularly to the concepts of cultural imperialism, powerlessness and marginalisation.

Pragmatism and pluralism: How to avoid becoming a physicalist

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Ritchie, John Miller

This thesis can be split into two sections. The first section is an argument against physicalism and its naturalistic pretensions. The second section presents an alternative to physicalism - pragmatic pluralism. The arguments for the first section are split into four chapters. In chapter one it is argued that an examination of science lends no support to physicalist ontology. The case of quantum chemistry is studied in some detail and its shown that higher-level chemical facts are needed to support the quantum mechanical explanations given. The second and third chapters look at various ways in which physicalist have sought to explain away the apparent lack of unity in the sciences. Various accounts of the supervenience relation and functionalism are discussed and shown to be either inadequate for the physicalist programme or empirically implausible. The final chapter of this section discusses the so called completeness of physics. It is shown that like physicalism in general, there is no way to formulate this doctrine to make it plausible in light of contemporary physics and able to underpin a physicalist ontology. The second section critically discusses alternatives to physicalism. The scientific pluralisms of John Dupre and Nancy Cartwright and the pragmatic pluralisms of Hilary Putnam and Nelson Goodman are discussed in detail. Drawing on the work of Putnam, in particular, and presenting Davidson's anomalous monism in a new guise, an original form of pragmatic or metaphysically deflationary pluralism is defended.

The Theory of EU Constitutional Pluralism: A Crisis in a Crisis?

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Pierdominici Leonardo

2017-11-01

Full Text Available The paper deals with the validity of constitutional pluralism as a constitutional theory for the European Union and a paradigm for the understanding of EU law in the current times of crisis. It reconstructs the way in which constitutional pluralism came to the fore, the different ways in which the theory was presented, and considers historical criticism it has faced. It then looks at the anomalies that, allegedly, cannot be explained today by constitutional pluralism as a paradigm, linked to the current economic and political crises in the Union. The reconstruction of the debate is complemented with reflections on both the descriptive and normative validity of EU constitutional pluralism’s claims.

Reducing power consumption while performing collective operations on a plurality of compute nodes

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Archer, Charles J [Rochester, MN; Blocksome, Michael A [Rochester, MN; Peters, Amanda E [Rochester, MN; Ratterman, Joseph D [Rochester, MN; Smith, Brian E [Rochester, MN

2011-10-18

Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for reducing power consumption while performing collective operations on a plurality of compute nodes that include: receiving, by each compute node, instructions to perform a type of collective operation; selecting, by each compute node from a plurality of collective operations for the collective operation type, a particular collective operation in dependence upon power consumption characteristics for each of the plurality of collective operations; and executing, by each compute node, the selected collective operation.

ABDURRAHMAN WAHID, DEPTH ISLAM, AND RELIGIOUS PLURALISM

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Media Zainul Bahri

2016-04-01

Full Text Available This essay elucidates the idea of religious pluralism of Abdurrahman Wahid (1940-2009, a very important figure in the tradition of Indonesian Islam. Wahis’s ideas  of religious pluralism is based on what the so-called “Depth Islam” (DI. DI is different from the usual theological dogmas that only contains concepts and structures. DI  is  not a literal and superficial forms of religion. It is an understanding  that goes beyond the literal texts to look for the principles and spirit of religion in appreciating humanity, diversity and peace.  DI may have arisen because of the long process of religious internalization within Wahid experiences, but it is also a hybrid form, i.e., it is a result of the process of encountering or learning Wahid’s traditions inter-mingling with cultures of the wider world. 

From Iron to Glass: Transparency and Pluralism

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Maryse Fauvel

1996-06-01

Full Text Available The author reads a number of recent architectural constructions in Paris (mainly the Louvre pyramid, but also the Musée d'Orsay and the Institut du monde arabe and argues that they affirm the plurality of contemporary France while at once inscribing and subverting the conventions of its (once dominant culture: the Arab world in the heart of Paris, the museum cum railway station as the focal point of conflicting tastes, the pyramid as both accomplice and critic of history. Their pluralism qualifies them as postmodern. These monuments also propose a new role for today's museum. The building itself becomes an art object, and the museum is not reduced to its function as a place for education and edification; it demands an inventive and exploratory initiative on the part of the visitor.

Value pluralism and incommensurability in Ecological Economics

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Pirgmaier, Elke; Urhammer, Emil

2015-01-01

problems of our time lie in a democracy where multiple values can be communicated. In order to provide inspiration for thinking about such a democracy, this paper provides an overview of a wide range of philosophical positions on values and value pluralism and analyses how values and value pluralism...... territory. This is reflected in a value hegemony framing everything from biodiversity to carbon emissions in monetary terms. We consider this a democratic problem since the diversity of values is thus not fairly represented in our current mode of decision-making. We believe that the solutions to the grand...... are treated in a selection of articles in ecological economics. The paper concludes that the treatment of values and incommensurability in ecological economics can be characterised as ambiguous. There is a need for further research on the theoretical aspects of these issues....

Plural Form and Franchisors Performance : Early Empirical Findings From Europe

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Perdreau , Frédéric; Le Nadant , Anne-Laure; Cliquet , Gérard

2010-01-01

This paper deals with the relationships between plural form and performance in franchising networks in Europe. It is proposed that a franchisor's life cycle stage and human capital assets influence the relationship between plural form and performance. The model has been estimated using panel data on 41 publicly listed European franchising networks in the 1998-2007 period. The proportion of network-franchised units to the total number of its units in its distribution system is used as the indi...

Assimilation and Cultural Pluralism in American Social Thought.

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Wacker, R. Fred

1979-01-01

Discusses the philosophies of assimilationist liberalism and cultural pluralism as they emerged between 1900 and 1925 in opposition to social Darwinism and the immigration restriction, eugenics, and Americanization movements. (GC)

The strategic effect of the plurality vote at the district level

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Bochsler, Daniel

2017-01-01

The plurality vote (first-past-the-post) is one of the most restrictive electoral systems used for parliamentary elections. Empirically, its deterring effect on small political parties has been widely studied at the national level, while theoretical arguments highlight its strategic effect...... at the district level. This paper argues that the strategic effect, reducing the votes expressed for minor parties in plurality vote systems, is uneven across districts. The strongest strategic effect is expected in very competitive constituencies, where the two strongest candidates are in close competition...... with each other. The paper estimates the effect empirically, based on electoral results for minor political parties from six parliamentary democracies using the plurality vote. The methodology proposed in this paper allows me to separate sociological or geographical factors from strategic factors affecting...

Pluralism and Objectivism: Cornerstones for Interpersonal Comparisons

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Nielsen, Lasse

2012-01-01

comparison, and between a subjectivist and objectivist standard of interpersonal comparison. The paper provides a normative argument for pluralism and objectivism with regard to interpersonal comparison, and it suggests that the Capability Approach as developed by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum fits...

Kriitika ja eimiski ('Traditsioon ja pluralism') / Hasso Krull

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Krull, Hasso, 1964-

1996-01-01

Ettekanne seminaril 'Traditsioon ja pluralism I' 31. V 1996 Tallinnas. Ka Mati Undi raamatust 'Vastne argimütoloogia' (Tln. : Vagabund, 1996) Vastukaja: Unt, Mati. Sekundaarsed // Kultuurimaa. - 1996. - 25. sept. - Lk. 3

Perda da marca de plural no português brasileiro: contribuições da Fonologia

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Thaïs Cristófaro Silva

2012-11-01

Full Text Available A number of recent works has shown that linguistic representationsincorporate redundant information which plays an important role inlinguistic systems. Works on experimental phonetics and along thelines of Laboratory Phonology indicate the gradual nature of phoneticrepresentations (BROWMAN; GOLDSTEIN, 1992; ZSIGA, 1995;ALBANO, 2001; BYBEE, 2001, 2002; PIERREHUMBERT, 2001.This paper follows this line of research by investigating plural loss inBrazilian Portuguese. We will investigate lenition in BrazilianPortuguese plural forms that end in a sibilant, as in mês ‘month’whose plural form is meses ‘months’. This paper offers evidencefor the gradual implementation of phonetic changes by showing thatthe loss of a morphological category (plural leaves traces in thecontinuum of speech in the form of compensatory lengthening.

Algunas consideraciones sobre Neisseria gonorrhoeae

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Pardi, Germán; Pérez, María Fernanda; Pacheco, Aura; Mata de Henning, Magdalena

2004-01-01

En el presente artículo, se describen los principales aspectos relacionados con Neisseria gonorrhoeae, microorganismo que se puede encontrar presente como parte de la microbiota transitoria o transeúnte de la cavidad bucal de algunos individuos, donde se destacan: Historia, taxonomía, características morfológicas, fisiológicas y de cultivo, ultraestructura, estructura antigénica, así como algunas consideraciones en referencia a la ecología y a los mecanismos de patogenicidad por parte de esta...

Budget-based power consumption for application execution on a plurality of compute nodes

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Archer, Charles J; Inglett, Todd A; Ratterman, Joseph D

2012-10-23

Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for budget-based power consumption for application execution on a plurality of compute nodes that include: assigning an execution priority to each of one or more applications; executing, on the plurality of compute nodes, the applications according to the execution priorities assigned to the applications at an initial power level provided to the compute nodes until a predetermined power consumption threshold is reached; and applying, upon reaching the predetermined power consumption threshold, one or more power conservation actions to reduce power consumption of the plurality of compute nodes during execution of the applications.

Conceptual plural information is used to guide early parsing decisions: Evidence from garden-path sentences with reciprocal verbs.

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Patson, Nikole D; Ferreira, Fernanda

2009-05-01

In three eyetracking studies, we investigated the role of conceptual plurality in initial parsing decisions in temporarily ambiguous sentences with reciprocal verbs (e.g., While the lovers kissed the baby played alone). We varied the subject of the first clause using three types of plural noun phrases: conjoined noun phrases (the bride and the groom), plural definite descriptions (the lovers), and numerically quantified noun phrases (the two lovers). We found no evidence for garden-path effects when the subject was conjoined (Ferreira & McClure, 1997), but traditional garden-path effects were found with the other plural noun phrases. In addition, we tested plural anaphors that had a plural antecedent present in the discourse. We found that when the antecedent was conjoined, garden-path effects were absent compared to cases in which the antecedent was a plural definite description. Our results indicate that the parser is sensitive to the conceptual representation of a plural constituent. In particular, it appears that a Complex Reference Object (Moxey et al., 2004) automatically activates a reciprocal reading of a reciprocal verb.

Patterns of third person plural verbal agreement

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Silvia Rodrigues Vieira

2013-12-01

Full Text Available This paper aims to provide a Labovian sociolinguistic description of 3rd person plural patterns of agreement in European (EP, Brazilian (BP and São Tomé (STP Portuguese based on very recent samples of speech stratified for age, sex/gender and education. Linguistic and social restrictions for the variation are investigated. Results from statistical analysis indicate that there are two patterns of agreement in Portuguese: a semi-categorical rule, typical of EP, and a variable rule, typical of BP and STP, restricted by specific linguistic and social factors. Additionally, the results indicate that general linguistic constraints – such as the position of the subject, semantic feature of the subject or even discursive parallelism – cannot say anything about historical origin of Portuguese varieties, since they can be concerned with any language. Therefore, besides the quantitative expression of non-agreement, the quality of the occurrences of non-plural marking may support the characterization of each variety.

Plurality or convergence in sustainability reporting standards?

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Nadia Albu

2013-11-01

Full Text Available Over the last years an increasing number of companies issued Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR or Sustainability Reports to complement their traditional financial reporting. Companies use various sustainability reporting standards or develop their own reporting frameworks starting from the existing ones. This variation of practices pointed out by empirical research raises questions about the quality and comparability of sustainability reporting, its role in the sustainable development, and also about the suitability of accepting the plurality of reporting frameworks or the need for convergence. This study aims to investigate the issues of plurality and convergence in sustainability reporting standards, by mobilizing the discourses on regulation and the case of a group of companies in the IT industry in order to shed some light on the current challenges in this area. We frame a discussion on the opportunities and pitfalls of convergence in sustainability reporting regulations and contribute to a better understanding of this issue by academics, preparers, users and standard setters

Protection of media pluralism in the republic of Serbia under the new legislation

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Rakić Ivana

2014-01-01

Full Text Available This paper provides a short review of the provisions of the Law on Public Information and Media and Law on Electronic Media, concerning to the protection of media pluralism and media concentrations. The author points out that these rules focus on better protection of media pluralism and on providing greater transparency of media ownership, because the major changes introduced by the laws are the media register and new, more detailed regulated, media concentration regime. Therefore, the new laws establish the modern regulatory framework of the Republic of Serbia in the area of media concentration, which represent a solid basis for further development of media pluralism.

Values and Objectivity in Science: Value-Ladenness, Pluralism and the Epistemic Attitude

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Carrier, Martin

2013-10-01

My intention is to cast light on the characteristics of epistemic or fundamental research (in contrast to application-oriented research). I contrast a Baconian notion of objectivity, expressing a correspondence of the views of scientists to the facts, with a pluralist notion, involving a critical debate between conflicting approaches. These conflicts include substantive hypotheses or theories but extend to values as well. I claim that a plurality of epistemic values serves to accomplish a non-Baconian form of objectivity that is apt to preserve most of the intuitions tied to the objectivity of science. For instance, pluralism is the only way to cope with the challenge of preference bias. Furthermore, the plurality of epistemic values cannot be substantially reduced by exploring the empirical success of scientific theories distinguished in light of particular such values. However, in addition to pluralism at the level of theories and value-commitments alike, scientific research is also characterized by a joint striving for consensus which I trace back to a shared epistemic attitude. This attitude manifests itself, e.g., in the willingness of scientists to subject their claims to empirical scrutiny and to respect rational argument. This shared epistemic attitude is embodied in rules adopted by the scientific community concerning general principles of dealing with knowledge claims. My contention is that pluralism and consensus formation can be brought into harmony by placing them at different levels of consideration: at the level of scientific reasoning and at the level of social conventions regarding how to deal with claims put forward within the scientific community.

Algunas experiencias de innovación educativa

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de Haro, J. José

2009-09-01

Full Text Available In this article we show some experiences in educational innovation area performed by teachers with students of ESO and Bachelor at Amor de Dios school in Barcelona (www.amordedios. org. We also discuss the characteristics of blogs, wikis and social networks, as well as their potential usage, all based on the experience carried out with the students. We also present some useful guidelines about selection of the various systems depending on teachers’ needs.Se presentan algunas de las experiencias llevadas a cabo en el ámbito de la innovación educativa con alumnos de ESO y Bachillerato en el centro concertado de educación primaria y secundaria Amor de Dios de Barcelona (www.amordedios.org. Se discuten las características de blogs, wikis y redes sociales, así como sus posibilidades de uso, todo ello en base a las experiencias realizadas con los alumnos. Igualmente se presentan algunas directrices que pueden ayudar para la selección de unos sistemas u otros según las necesidades educativas del profesor.

Thinking Muhammad Legenhausen's Non-Reductive Pluralism Through: Some Reflections about its Implications

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STEFANO BIGLIARDI

2014-12-01

Full Text Available One of the most vibrant contemporary philosophical debates concerns the definition, and defence, of religious pluralism. The philosophers who address such a topic usually hold widely divergent views regarding its exact definition and the arguments through which it can be upheld. The absence of a general consensus notwithstanding, the debate on religious pluralism has ‘de facto’ become an important area of dialogue between different religions in general, and between Christianity and Islam in particular. At stake in the present paper is the discussion of pluralism developed by the US-American-Persian philosopher Muhammad (Gary Carl Legenhausen (b. 1953, that he presents as a criticism of the views of the late British theologian John Harwood Hick (1922-2012. Hick developed his views mainly influenced by Christianity, yet he also took into account some ideas advanced by Muslim authors. Legenhausen, a convert to Islam, puts forth his own version of pluralism in the framework of a discussion of the concept as it has emerged within Christianity, and advances a refutation of Hick's view complementary to his own theory of pluralism. The aim of the present pages is to offer an overview of Legenhausen’s contribution and discuss some of its possible implications and premises. In other words, rather than producing a defence of Legenhausen’s theory, this study is to analyse the logic behind and beyond his specific ‘Muslim proposal’ and explain what some of its unstated premises might be, as well as the consequences of fully embracing such stance, for philosophers, – not only Muslims ones –, interested in understanding religion from a religious point of view and in advocating that religious differences should not turn into a reason of animosity. The paper is divided into two main sections. The first one reconstructs Legenhausen's version of religious pluralism, while especially recalling the points with which it is presented as clashing with

Sense of Community, Inclusion, and Religious Pluralism: A Comparison of Two Catholic Universities

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Ferrari, Joseph R.; Bottom, Todd L.; Matteo, Elizabeth

2014-01-01

For decades researchers assessed sense of community (SOC), inclusion, and pluralism within academic settings. In the present study, 2,220 undergraduate students (1,442 women, 778 men; M age = 23.42 years; SD = 7.84) at two Catholic universities responded to perceived levels of school sense of community, inclusion, and religious pluralism. Analyses…

Two Accounts of Moral Diversity: The Cognitive Science of Pluralism and Absolutism

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2004-01-01

Advances in cognitive science are relevant to the debate between moral pluralism and absolutism. Parametric structure, which plausibly underlies syntax, gives some idea of how pluralism might be true. The cognitive mechanisms underlying mathematical intelligence give some idea of how far absolutism is right. Advances in cognitive science should help us better understand the extent to which we are divided and how far we are potentially harmonious in our values.

À propos de The Practice of Liberal Pluralism de William Galston : un dialogue avec l’auteur

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Roberto Merrill

2006-05-01

Full Text Available The publication of "The Practice of Liberal Pluralism" by Willam Galston has appeared as an event of first importance regarding contemporary theory about the relation between pluralism and liberalism. William Galston’s theory has had a visible evolution: in "Liberal Purposes", the main object is a critique of neutralism and a defence of perfectionist liberalism, whereas "Liberal Pluralism" main concern was to draw the limits of state intervention. This evolution is the object of numerous questions in the following discussion. "The Practice of Liberal Pluralism" operates an interesting synthesis on this point. Galston defines himself as a liberal pluralist such as Berlin, but although he acknowledges that conflict between values can be tragic, he minimizes this aspect in the following discussions, and considers the possibility of having prima facie duties (cf. the discussion on his rejection of moral particularism. One of the main arguments for the defence of value pluralism is its capacity to explain the complexity of the moral universe (cf. the discussion on pluralism and regret. Galston endorses a political pluralism, which means that the sources of authority are multiple. Galston’s liberalism is very tolerant regarding non-liberal communitarian practices, although this tolerance is based on the defence of an exit right, which is a fundamental notion in his theory. In the following discussion, Galston proposes how to understand this right of exit in an adequate manner (cf. the questions regarding expressive liberty, exit rights and autonomy.

The challenge of plural identity

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Jovanović Bojan

2005-01-01

Full Text Available The complexity of collective existence is expressed through an awareness of its real identity, which then entails an appropriate attitude towards its own negativity. Within the hierarchically structured identity, different levels of its generality make it possible to consider them as factors of a plural reality. If negativity is raised to consciousness, then its dark side is dismantled. Thus, instead of being a factor of conflict, negativity becomes an element of complementariness and a factor in the construction of a shared identity at a higher level of generality.

Pesantren Responses to Religious Tolerance, Pluralism and Democracy in Indonesia

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Nurrohman Nurrohman

2014-06-01

Full Text Available Pesantren (Islamic boarding school is the oldest Islamic institution in Indonesia that often affiliated to the largest mass Muslim organization Nahdlatul Ulama. This organization is well known for its stance to uphold moderate, tolerance Islam and accepting pluralistic state based on Pancasila. Pesantren also often referred as the barometer to understand the way of thinking of Muslims grass root in Indonesia because many Islamic figures in Indonesian village are alumni of pesantren.  There are debates among scholars on whether religious violence has a root in religious doctrine or it is caused by factors outside religion such as poverty or injustice. By assuming that both inside and outside factors have significant contribution to violence or radicalism this study will discuss the doctrine that potentially can be used to justify violence and intolerance by reviewing the opinion of pesantren leaders in West Java on jihad, violence or intolerance and power. This study is aimed to examine whether the commitment of Muslim leaders in national level on democracy and plurality is supported by grass root particularly from pesantren leaders.  Overall the study found that although they agree that democracy is compatible with Islam, this study reveals that their acceptance to pluralism still be questioned as evidenced by almost half of them supported theocratic caliphate carry out by radical group. Although many argued that pesantren promotes tolerance and pluralism, nevertheless this  study shows that some of their teaching tacitly supported violence act in the name of religion that will tarnished the effort of Indonesia to synchronize Islam, democracy and modernity. It means that many of them actually not wholeheartedly accepted democracy and pluralism.

Cultural Diversities and Human Rights: History, Minorities, Pluralization

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2014-12-01

Full Text Available Cultural diversity plays today a prominent role in the updating and developing of human rights. Past developments in the protection of rights have essentially forgotten the democratic management of cultural and identity-based diversity. States have stifled the main developments of the rights and constrained them to partial views in favour of the majority or dominant groups in each country. The current context of regional progressive integration and social diversification within each state agrees on the need to address the adequacy of systems for the protection of rights from different strategies to the context of multiculturalism. Against the process of "nationalization of rights" it is necessary to adopt a strategy for pluralization. On the one hand, the concept of minority has to be given its corresponding importance in both international and domestic law. On the other hand, different kind of policies and legal instruments for the accommodation of diversity can be identified and used to foster this necessary process of pluralization.

Method for simultaneously coating a plurality of filaments

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Miller, P.A.; Pochan, P.D.; Siegal, M.P.; Dominguez, F.

1995-07-11

Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for coating materials, and the products and compositions produced thereby. Substances, such as diamond or diamond-like carbon, are deposited onto materials, such as a filament or a plurality of filaments simultaneously, using one or more cylindrical, inductively coupled, resonator plasma reactors. 3 figs.

The Semantics of Plurals: A Defense of Singularism

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Florio, Salvatore

2010-01-01

In this dissertation, I defend "semantic singularism", which is the view that syntactically plural terms, such as "they" or "Russell and Whitehead", are semantically singular. A semantically singular term is a term that denotes a single entity. Semantic singularism is to be distinguished from "syntactic singularism", according to which…

Radical democracy, agonism and the limits of pluralism

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Hansen, Allan Dreyer; Sonnichsen, André

2014-01-01

In this interview, Chantal Mouffe discusses her theoretical endeavour since the publication of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy; the theory of politics via the combined critique of Marxism and liberalism; Carl Schmitt and the formulation of an agonistic politics; as well as the limits of pluralism...... and the necessity of exclusion....

Political pluralism, public policies and organizational strategic choices : Branch expansion in Indian banking, 1948 - 2003

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Kozhikode, R.K.; Li, J.T.

Data on the expansion of 94 commercial banks in India from 1948 to 2003 were analyzed to test the proposition that political pluralism-wherein competing parties control the state and national governments of a nation-can promote business expansion. The results confirm that such political pluralism

Toward a Structural Model of Organizational-level Institutional Pluralism and Logic Interconnectedness

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Jancsary, Dennis; Meyer, Renate E; Höllerer, Markus A.

2017-01-01

as a nexus of organizational role identities and counterroles. The structure of such a nexus reveals degrees of differentiation and interconnectedness between logics as well as distinct interfaces. We validate and further develop our model through qualitative content analysis and semantic network analytical...... methods applied to the website of a large organization. Our study contributes to recent literature on institutional pluralism by further specifying the structural aspects of constellations of logics and different types of institutional pluralism (monolithic, fragmented, and modular). Specifically, we show...

Role of energy source in the physical behaviour of the plural cometary nucleus

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Davydov, V.D.

A hypothesis on the effective stimulant of the cometary nucleous activity in suggested. The model of nucleus structure plurality was derived on the basis of the hypothesis on the tidal mechanism of the structure origin. The conclusion is drawn from the quiding role of self-energy of the plural cometary nucleus in the physical behaviour of the most active comets, as a relatively low energy of the impact mechanism is capable of supporting a very high level of the solar energy consumption for the sublimation of the cometary substance (or volatile impurities) from the cloud of ice dust in the comet nuclear region. The self-activity of the plural cometary nucleus damps gradually in proportion to its evolution transformation into the system with a collisionless structure. A sudden cut-off of the impact mechanism is related to elimination of large lump suite around the chief mass of the plural nucleus; the simplest reason of this fact lies in the intensive tidal effect on the suite. More complicated (two-stage) process of the impact mechanism cut-off follows after nontidal fission of the main mass of the cometary nucleus. The suite is lost then due to a sharp decrease in its counter-tidal stability.

Islam, Context, Pluralism and Democracy : Classical and Modern Interpretations,

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Ellethy, Y.

2017-01-01

Islam, Context, Pluralism and Democracy aspires to clarify the tensions and congruences between the revelational and the rational, the text and the context, the limits and the horizons of contextualization in Islam, as these emanate from the Islamic interpretative tradition.

L2 Processing of Plural Inflection in English

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Song, Yoonsang

2015-01-01

This study investigates (1) whether late second language (L2) learners can attain native-like knowledge of English plural inflection even when their first language (L1) lacks an equivalent and (2) whether they construct hierarchically structured representations during online sentence processing like native speakers. In a self-paced reading task,…

Bioethics of life programs: taking seriously moral pluralism in clinical settings.

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Niebroj, Leslaw

2010-11-04

In the more and more globalized world, the experience of moral pluralism (often related to, or based upon, religious pluralism) has become a common issue which ethical importance is undeniable. Potential conflicts between patients' and therapeutic teams' moral views and between moral beliefs of the particular member of this team are being resolved in the light of bioethical theories, among which principlism remains the mainstream approach to biomedical ethics. The question arises, however, whether this approach, in itself, as being strictly bound to the specific and distinct American philosophical tradition, is to be considered the tool for so called ?moral imperialism'. Also architectures of principlism, in particular by elaborating the concept of common morality, defend the applicability of their theory to the pluralistic settings, it should be emphasized that the idea that some norms and standards of moral character are shared by all morally serious people in every culture has attracted criticism both from empirical as well as theoretical backgrounds. This paper aims at reconsidering principlism so that it would be more suitable for resolving moral dilemma in ethically pluralistic clinical settings. Lakatos' sophisticated methodological falsification is used into two different ways: (1) to construct a concept of 'life programs' and (2) to confront a newly elaborated ethical theory with principlism. The reflection is limited to the norms related to the key issue in clinical ethics, i.e., respecting the patient's autonomy. The concepts of common morality and particular moralities are interpreted (in the light of Lakatos' philosophy of sciences) as "hard core" and "protective belt" of life programs, respectively. Accepting diversity of research programs, Lakatos maintains the idea of the objectivity of truth. Analogously, the plurality of life programs does not put into question the objectivity of moral values. The plurality of moral norms not only respects the

Morpho-syntactic processing of Arabic plurals after aphasia: dissecting lexical meaning from morpho-syntax within word boundaries.

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Khwaileh, Tariq; Body, Richard; Herbert, Ruth

2015-01-01

Within the domain of inflectional morpho-syntax, differential processing of regular and irregular forms has been found in healthy speakers and in aphasia. One view assumes that irregular forms are retrieved as full entities, while regular forms are compiled on-line. An alternative view holds that a single mechanism oversees regular and irregular forms. Arabic offers an opportunity to study this phenomenon, as Arabic nouns contain a consonantal root, delivering lexical meaning, and a vocalic pattern, delivering syntactic information, such as gender and number. The aim of this study is to investigate morpho-syntactic processing of regular (sound) and irregular (broken) Arabic plurals in patients with morpho-syntactic impairment. Three participants with acquired agrammatic aphasia produced plural forms in a picture-naming task. We measured overall response accuracy, then analysed lexical errors and morpho-syntactic errors, separately. Error analysis revealed different patterns of morpho-syntactic errors depending on the type of pluralization (sound vs broken). Omissions formed the vast majority of errors in sound plurals, while substitution was the only error mechanism that occurred in broken plurals. The dissociation was statistically significant for retrieval of morpho-syntactic information (vocalic pattern) but not for lexical meaning (consonantal root), suggesting that the participants' selective impairment was an effect of the morpho-syntax of plurals. These results suggest that irregular plurals forms are stored, while regular forms are derived. The current findings support the findings from other languages and provide a new analysis technique for data from languages with non-concatenative morpho-syntax.

Optical Manipulation System Using a Plurality of Optical Traps

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2006-01-01

The present invention relates to an optical manipulation system (10) for generation of a plurality of optical traps for manipulation of micro-objects including nano-objects using electromagnetic radiation forces in a micro-object manipulation volume (14), the system comprising a spatially modulat...

Beyond Coexistence: Toward a More Reflective Religious Pluralism

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Rosenblith, Suzanne

2008-01-01

If a pluralistic democratic state such as the United States wishes to move beyond coexistence and toward a more reflective religious pluralism, then public schools must take epistemic issues seriously. Taking a cue from multicultural education, many have called for including the study of religion from a cultural perspective. I argue instead that,…

Plural beam electron gun assembly

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Stratton, M.G.

1977-01-01

The invention relates to a cathode ray tube plural-beam-in-line bi-potential electron gun assembly, having applied beam currents of differing levels, manifests structurally modified gun structures to effect focused beam landings at the screen that are evidenced as substantially equi-sized spots thereby providing improved resolution and brightness of the screen imagery. The structural changes embody modifications of the related focusing and accelerator electrodes of the respective guns to provide a partial telescoping arrangement for effecting the discrete placement, forming and shielding of the final focusing lenses. The three lenses so formed are in different planes in partial overlapping axial relationship

The Multi/Plural Turn, Postcolonial Theory, and Neoliberal Multiculturalism: Complicities and Implications for Applied Linguistics

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Kubota, Ryuko

2016-01-01

In applied linguistics and language education, an increased focus has been placed on plurality and hybridity to challenge monolingualism, the native speaker norm, and the modernist view of language and language use as unitary and bounded. The multi/plural turn parallels postcolonial theory in that they both support hybridity and fluidity while…

Cultural Pluralism in Education: A Mandate for Change.

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Stent, Madelon D.; And Others

"Having a diversity of cultures within a single country can be a threat, a problem, or an asset." The contributors to this book argue that cultural pluralism rather than cultural homogeneity must be recognized and accepted within our educational institutions--not as a necessary evil, but as a strong positive force. For different does not mean…

Purple vests. The origins of plural policing in Belgium

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Devroe, E.

2015-01-01

This article increases the body of knowledge on the origins of plural policing in a continental setting, more specifically in Belgium. Compared to other European countries, Belgium occupies a unique position, which can be explained by its particular constitutional setting. While non-police public

Educational Leadership with an Ethics of Plurality and Natality

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Berger, Iris

2015-01-01

This paper aims to impregnate the concept of educational leadership with new meanings and new possibilities. I draw on Hannah Arendt's ("The human condition." University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1958/1998) political thought, particularly, her concepts of "plurality" and "natality" alongside the distinction she made…

Parentescos en plural: reseña

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Bogino Larrambebere, Mercedes

2016-01-01

Reseña de la obra "Parentescos en plural. María Eugenia Olavarría (ed.). México: UAM/Iztapalapa/Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, 2013, 320 p. ISBN 9786074016529 Este libro reúne distintas investigaciones etnográficas sobre nuevas formas y vínculos de parentesco en la Ciudad de México del siglo XXI. En este escenario multicultural, entre los años 2006 y 2012, se producen importantes cambios legislativos que permiten reconocer distintos procesos de creación y reinvención de la familia: el...

Between Norms and Facts: The Constitutional Court’s Commitment to Pluralism in South Africa’s Radically Heterogeneous Public Schools

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Stuart Woolman

2015-12-01

Full Text Available The recognition of pluralism constitutes a golden thread that runs through the Constitutional Court’s entire oeuvre of work. This ‘right to be different’ finds its initial footing in Gauteng Education Bill, Prince, and Bhe. Pluralism then inserts itself into our jurisprudence as a grundnorm. The Court affirms this status repeatedly through very different rights in such cases as Fourie, Pillay, Shilubana, Ermelo and Juma Musjid. Pluralism must be understood as a necessary condition for maintaining order in a radically riven heterogeneous society. It’s hardly surprising, then, that pluralism plays a similar role in our schools and our still nascent development of an inclusive education policy. Pluralism frames, and circumscribes, the manner in which individual schools may order their admissions policies, curriculum, discipline proceedings and other internal affairs. At the same time, it gives adequate effect to learners’ rights and the communal interests within which the school is situated. Pluralism doesn’t require us to like one another. Suspicion of members of other groups remains an inextricable part of humanity’s DNA. However, we do have to learn to live with one another. The problem of pluralism is not – as Habermas and Judt show – a uniquely South African conundrum. That said, it’s universality does not mean we can ignore it’s challenges. Our schools remain wonderful places to reshape the manner in which we engage others who appear foreign to us. This article concludes that until our schools take this reshaping qua pluralism seriously, the South African experiment in democracy will remain fragile indeed.

Logical space and the origins of pluralism in logic

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-, č. 2 (2017), s. 7-26 ISSN 0567-8293 R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA17-15645S Institutional support: RVO:67985955 Keywords : pluralism * expressivism * logical space * geometry * holism Subject RIV: AA - Philosophy ; Religion OBOR OECD: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Eboo Patel (2012). Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice and the ...

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countries have done a great deal to recognise the importance of racial, ethnic and gender diversity, they have often devoted less attention to recognising and accommodating religious differences. Colleges and universities have done even less to actively promote the goal of religious pluralism. Consequently, interreligious ...

Reductionist Challenges to Explanatory Pluralism : Comment on McCauley

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Eronen, Markus I.

2009-01-01

In this comment, I first point out some problems in McCauley's defense of the traditional conception of general analytical levels. Then I present certain reductionist arguments against explanatory pluralism that are not based on the New Wave model of intertheoretic reduction, against which McCauley

Differential effects of plural ownership and governance mechanisms in limiting shirkers and free riders

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Silkoset, Ragnhild; Nygaard, Arne; Kidwell, Roland E.

2016-01-01

Using evidence from paired franchisor-franchisee dyads, this study identifies how plural formed ownership mechanisms curb the risk of shirking and free riding in franchise systems. These risks have damaging effects on the invested capital of franchisee entrepreneurs. Although shirking and free riding produce a major source of uncertainty for the franchisee entrepreneur it can be limited by plural formed governance dimensions. These mechanisms have different effects based on unit status,...

Externalización De Funciones: Algunas Reflexiones Teóricas

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Francisco Ganga Contreras

2008-04-01

También se aborda el origen del outsourcing, algunas diferencias conceptuales, sus principales ventajas y riesgos, además de incluir una revisión a la situación actual de la externalización de funciones en Chile.

From Orthodoxy to Pluralism: New Views of School Administration.

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Clark, David L.; McKibbin, Sue

1982-01-01

Presents a reader quiz on attitudes about school administration. Analyzes likely responses to the quiz and concludes that the assumption that schools are rational, bureaucratic organizations leads to rigidity and confusion because it does not accurately describe schools as they exist. Argues for pluralism in organizational views. (WD)

The bright future of value pluralism in public administration

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de Graaf, G.

2015-01-01

In their critique of Spicer’s and Wagenaar’s account of value pluralism (VP), Talisse, Overeem, and Verhoef seem to suggest either that VP does not exist or that it is irrelevant for public administration (PA). My argument is that in public governance, there are many conflicting intrinsic values.

De toegevoegde waarde van de plural form in de apotheeksector

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Aldewereld-Duijvis, R.; Peelen, E.; Montfort, van K.; Commandeur, H.R.

2007-01-01

De ‘plural form’, het gelijktijdige gebruik van franchise- en eigendomsvestigingen door ketenorganisaties, is een actueel onderwerp in de Nederlandse apotheeksector. Op dit moment maken twee apotheekketens gebruik van een combinatie van franchise- en eigendomsvestigingen, terwijl andere ketens ook

Promoting Moral Growth through Pluralism and Social Justice Education

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Stewart, Dafina Lazarus

2012-01-01

Issues of morality, including deciding among competing values and negotiating obligations to self and community, are pervasive and saturate many aspects of life. This article explores the role of educating for pluralism and social justice in promoting moral growth among college students. James Rest's four-component model of moral maturity frames…

La planificación de la movilidad en algunas de las principales ciudades europeas

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Duarte Monedero, Beatriz; Sánchez de Lara, Miguel Ángel

2011-01-01

Los mercados del mañana: Bases para su análisis hoy. XXV Congreso Anual AEDEM En este trabajo. se explica la situación actual del transpOIte público en algunas de las principales ciudades europeas, su estructura organizativa y legislativa, planes de movilidad futuros y sislemas de financiación en comparación con la ciudad de Madrid. Asimismo. se sugiere algunas vías complementarias y alternativas de financiación del transporte público. pre-print

Method of combined radionuclide assessment of the greater and uteroplacental circulation in plural pregnency

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Illarionova, N.M.; Fuks, M.A.; Ehventov, A.Z.

1987-01-01

The paper is concerned with the results of the clinical testing of a combined radionuclide method of assessment of the greater and uteroplacentral circulation in 15 women with plural pregnancy. The method permits the detection of hemodynamic changes without increasing radiation exposure to the mother's body and fetuses, the determination of a type of plural pregnancy (monochorionic or dichorial twins), and the prediction of pregnancy outcome that is very important for the choice of appropriate and timely therapy

Sophisticated approval voting, ignorance priors, and plurality heuristics: a behavioral social choice analysis in a Thurstonian framework.

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Regenwetter, Michel; Ho, Moon-Ho R; Tsetlin, Ilia

2007-10-01

This project reconciles historically distinct paradigms at the interface between individual and social choice theory, as well as between rational and behavioral decision theory. The authors combine a utility-maximizing prescriptive rule for sophisticated approval voting with the ignorance prior heuristic from behavioral decision research and two types of plurality heuristics to model approval voting behavior. When using a sincere plurality heuristic, voters simplify their decision process by voting for their single favorite candidate. When using a strategic plurality heuristic, voters strategically focus their attention on the 2 front-runners and vote for their preferred candidate among these 2. Using a hierarchy of Thurstonian random utility models, the authors implemented these different decision rules and tested them statistically on 7 real world approval voting elections. They cross-validated their key findings via a psychological Internet experiment. Although a substantial number of voters used the plurality heuristic in the real elections, they did so sincerely, not strategically. Moreover, even though Thurstonian models do not force such agreement, the results show, in contrast to common wisdom about social choice rules, that the sincere social orders by Condorcet, Borda, plurality, and approval voting are identical in all 7 elections and in the Internet experiment. PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved.

New adventures in low fidelity: towards a media-epistemic pluralism

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Hoogstad, J.H.

2008-01-01

By staging an encounter between Friedrich Kittler's 'Gramophone, Film, Typewriter' and Ralph Ellison's autobiographical story 'Living with Music', this essay makes a case for a media-epistemic pluralism. It argues that a medium does not function autonomously, but always forms a complex constellation

Los movimientos sociales en un mundo globalizado: ¿alguna novedad?

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Salvador MARTÍ I PUIG

2010-10-01

Full Text Available En el texto que sigue se aportan algunos apuntes sobre el impacto que ha teni­do la globalización en los actores políticos colectivos que convenimos en llamar movimientos sociales o «redes de movimientos» haciendo un especial énfasis –aunque no exclusivamente– en aquellos que han surgido en América Latina. Para ello, dividimos el texto en tres partes: una primera que presenta algunas referencias sobre el contexto global y su impacto en la política; una segunda donde se desarrollan diversos ángulos –coincidentes con las diversas perspectivas analíticas– desde donde interpretar los movimientos sociales (observados desde una perspectiva amplia y difusa en el nuevo entorno global; y finalmente, a modo de reflexión, una tercera donde se esbozan algunas cuestiones sobre la forma que adquieren los movimientos sociales en el nuevo siglo que empieza.

Automatic gamma radiation scanning device and feed mechanism for plural sample holders

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Byrd, W.J.

1976-01-01

Apparatus is disclosed for measuring the level of gamma radiation contained in a plurality of biological samples which are located on the fibrous sheet member carried by a sample holder. The apparatus is adapted to count the radiation level of the number of closely spaced samples located in rows and columns on the sheet by automatically sequencing through the individual samples within the rows and to advance the holder to bring successive rows into proximity with the detector. The detector is moved from sample to sample within the rows, although a number of detectors can be employed. A plurality of sample holders are automatically advanced to the detector. 25 claims, 5 drawing figures

CATÁSTROFES Y SOSTENIBILIDAD: ALGUNAS IDEAS PARA EL AULA

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Emilio Pedrinaci

2010-02-01

Full Text Available En este trabajo se subraya la relevancia social de las catástrofes naturales y su relación con el desarrollo sostenible, se exponen algunas de las razones que recomiendan abordar su estudio en los cursos de ciencias de la educación secundaria y se sugieren ideas y actividades para su tratamiento en el aula.

Semantics of Islam and Quran and it’s Relation with Religious Pluralism

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Javad Mohammadi

2013-02-01

Full Text Available This research attempts to consider the relationship between "Islam" And "religious pluralism" through lexical and Quranic semantic of "Islam ". This word derived from "Selm" in Arabic and means subordination, humility and submission, because it does not have any insubordination and refusal. In Quranic verses " Islam" means "being surrendered to God and his commands", the commands that transmitted to people by messengers of God. Therefore, according to the verses of noble Quran, one of the most important submission conditions is the belief that Prophet Muhammad (pbuh, is the messenger of God. This reading is consistent with a meaning of the religious pluralism that emphasizes on rightfulness of Islam along the salvation of non Muslim people and , also, peaceful life with them, while is inconsistent with the definition that believe in plurality and equality of religions in rightfulness .

Protected by pluralism? Grappling with multiple legal frameworks in groundwater governance

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Conti, K.I.; Gupta, J.

2014-01-01

Threats to groundwater sustainability demand governance. However, groundwater governance regimes are developing incongruously across geographic levels. Therefore, this research raises the question, how does lack of consensus regarding principles of groundwater law manifest itself as legal pluralism

EFECTOS DEL MERCURIO SOBRE ALGUNAS PLANTAS ACUÁTICAS TROPICALES

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Martha Isabel Posada

Full Text Available El presente artículo es una descripción de los efectos del mercurio sobre algunas plantas acuáticas tropicales y sobre los ecosistemas donde habitan. Adicionalmente, se recomienda un protocolo para realizar pruebas de toxicidad con la lenteja de agua (Lemna minor y se presentan los resultados de los preensayos con diferentes concentraciones de sales de mercurio en condiciones de laboratorio. Se encontró que la biodisponibilidad del mercurio depende de factores que facilitan la disolución del elemento en el agua. Algunas plantas actúan como bioindicadores de la presencia de este metal en el medio al retenerlo selectivamente; mientras que otras se comportan como bioacumuladoras al tolerar su presencia y acumularlo en su estructura, y pueden dar paso a la bioconcentración a través de la cadena trófica. De acuerdo con los preensayos de toxicidad realizados con Lemna minor se sugiere que las concentraciones de sal de mercurio adecuadas para la realización de pruebas de toxicidad deben estar entre 0,01 mg/L y 10,0 mg/L.

Making room for pluralism by redefining journalism

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Meyer, Gitte; Lund, Anker Brink

2006-01-01

Motivated by the ideal of pluralism, this essay explores an apparent paradox: although many different kinds of journalism may have evolved, because journalism is only vaguely defined by connections to ‘the media' and ‘news', there is a trend towards increasing journalistic standardization....... It is proposed that this standardization represents attempts to rationalize journalism. But rationalism is a framework of thought which is alien to journalism and to political life in general, it is argued. As an alternative framework for the philosophy and practice of journalism, the classical notions of praxis...

Pluralism and Religious Harmony in Religious Elites Perspectives in Malang City

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Umi Sumbulah

2015-06-01

Full Text Available This study aims to understand the religious elite view of pluralism and religious harmony in  Malang. The study was focused on the meaning of pluralism and religious harmony, efforts  and things that support and hinder the realization of religious harmony. Empirical research  data with qualitative-phenomenological approach was collected through interviews and documentation. The results show: first, the meaning of religious pluralism for the religious elites is very varied, which is the same as tolerance, mutual respect, the goal of all religions are the same, and recognize the fact that there are many religions in this world. Second, religiousharmony have meaning as a condition where there is no oppression and domination of one religion over other religions, awakening a deep awareness of diversity, respect for human rights, and the willingness to spread kindness and love for fellow human beings. Third, religious harmony can be achieved through internal efforts to strengthen the faith of each and build awareness to develop a positive attitude towards other religions. In external efforts to create harmony done through emancipatory dialogue and cooperation to resolve humanitarian issues. Fourth, positive attitude that supports the creation of harmony of religions is the willingness and awareness to understand each other and share experiences. Egoism, truth claims, fanaticism, and exclusivism is a negative attitude and expression recognized by the religious elite can interfere with the establishment of inter-religious harmony.

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equated with the Yoruba concept of the Supreme Being or Olodumare. ... pluralism should also be distinguished from religious relativism. ... is beyond comprehension and language, and from the culture in which the experiencer ..... being determines the moral issue of life, so that it is unmistakably implied in Yoruba theology ...

Legal pluralism and social justice in economic and political development

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Benda-Beckmann, von F.

2001-01-01

Legal pluralism is an approach which accepts the possibility that within any given polity, there can be more than one 'legal order' and that the state is not the exclusive source of legal regulation. Nevertheless, defining whether a particular claim or social relation is legally sanctioned is a

Moral Pluralism in Business Ethics Education: It Is about Time

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Burton, Brian K.; Dunn, Craig P.; Goldsby, Michael

2006-01-01

The teaching of business ethics is almost inherently pluralistic, but little evidence of explicitly pluralistic approaches exists in teaching materials besides the available decision-making frameworks. In this article, it is argued that the field needs to acknowledge and adopt pluralism as the standard pedagogical approach, whether the individual…

Lower Robotic Arm Assembly Having a Plurality of Tendon Driven Digits

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Guo, Raymond (Inventor); Bridgwater, Lyndon (Inventor); Nguyen, Vienny (Inventor); Radford, Nicolaus A. (Inventor)

2016-01-01

A lower robotic arm includes a base structure, a plurality of digits, and a plurality of tendons. The digits each include first, second, third, and fourth phalanges. Each digit is operatively attached to the base structure at the respective first phalange. A first joint operatively connects the first and second phalange to define a first axis, a second operatively connects the second and third phalange to define a second axis, and a third joint operatively connects the third and fourth phalange to define a third axis, such that the phalanges are selectively rotatable relative to the adjacent phalange, about the respective axis. The tendons are operatively connected to a respective one of the fourth phalanges. Each tendon selectively applies a first torque to the respective fourth phalange to urge the respective phalanges to rotate in a first direction about the respective axes.

Interpretación geométrica de algunas variedades de Schubert

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Juan F. Escamilla

2012-03-01

Full Text Available En este artículo se dan interpretaciones geométricas de las variedades de Schubert de los Grassmannianos G(2,4, G(3,5 y G(2,5, y algunas de sus interpretaciones en la geometría enumerativa

Factors associated with patterns of plural healthcare utilization among patients taking antiretroviral therapy in rural and urban South Africa: a cross-sectional study.

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Moshabela, Mosa; Schneider, Helen; Silal, Sheetal P; Cleary, Susan M

2012-07-02

In low-resource settings, patients' use of multiple healthcare sources may complicate chronic care and clinical outcomes as antiretroviral therapy (ART) continues to expand. However, little is known regarding patterns, drivers and consequences of using multiple healthcare sources. We therefore investigated factors associated with patterns of plural healthcare usage among patients taking ART in diverse South African settings. A cross-sectional study of patients taking ART was conducted in two rural and two urban sub-districts, involving 13 accredited facilities and 1266 participants selected through systematic random sampling. Structured questionnaires were used in interviews, and participant's clinic records were reviewed. Data collected included household assets, healthcare access dimensions (availability, affordability and acceptability), healthcare utilization and pluralism, and laboratory-based outcomes. Multiple logistic regression models were fitted to identify predictors of healthcare pluralism and associations with treatment outcomes. Prior ethical approval and informed consent were obtained. Nineteen percent of respondents reported use of additional healthcare providers over and above their regular ART visits in the prior month. A further 15% of respondents reported additional expenditure on self-care (e.g. special foods). Access to health insurance (Adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 6.15) and disability grants (aOR 1.35) increased plural healthcare use. However, plural healthcare users were more likely to borrow money to finance healthcare (aOR 2.68), and incur catastrophic levels of healthcare expenditure (27%) than non-plural users (7%). Quality of care factors, such as perceived disrespect by staff (aOR 2.07) and lack of privacy (aOR 1.50) increased plural healthcare utilization. Plural healthcare utilization was associated with rural residence (aOR 1.97). Healthcare pluralism was not associated with missed visits or biological outcomes. Increased plural

John Hick's Philosophy of Religious Pluralism in the Context of ...

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This article is an interpretation of John Hick's philosophy of religious pluralism in the context of traditional Yoruba religion. The ultimate goal of the article is pragmatic, viz. to provide a theoretical basis for peaceful coexistence among different religions in Nigeria. The methods adopted to achieve this objective are ...

Racism and Pluralism: A Dimensional Analysis of Forty-Eight Countries

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Bagley, Christopher

1972-01-01

Argues that pluralistic societies, characterized by the number of blocs, recency of colonial rule, and existence of several religious minorities, are not in essence racialist; racialism arises out of pluralism when one group has a powerful advantage over other groups, as in the U.S., South Africa, and Brazil. (RJ)

Regulation of pluralism in France. Context, analysis and interpretation

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Núria Almiron-Roig, Ph.D.

2010-01-01

Full Text Available This article offers a historical and up-to-date study of the media regulation in France with regards to the protection of pluralism. To this end, the article presents a study on the French legal framework for the media, which is complemented with the opinions of scholars, journalists, trade union representatives, members of public organizations regulating the media, and relevant figures with expertise in the media sector in France. The views of these actors were obtained through a series of in-depth interviews conducted in Paris in July 2008 and December 2009. The study reveals that the legal framework, which uses multiple mechanisms and instruments to guarantee pluralism, both external (mainly, corporate concentration and internal (media contents, is highly complex, vast, difficult, and almost impossible to apply. The study suggests that the French legal framework is a top example of inefficient hyper-regulation, which the author sees as a result of the ferocious battle between the two strongest modern forces in France: the egalitarian democratic values, based on solidarity and deeply rooted in the historical tradition of the French Republic; and the neoliberal capitalism based on the ideas of material accumulation and individualism.

Sacred spaces in public places: religious and spiritual plurality in health care.

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Reimer-Kirkham, Sheryl; Sharma, Sonya; Pesut, Barb; Sawatzky, Richard; Meyerhoff, Heather; Cochrane, Marie

2012-09-01

Several intriguing developments mark the role and expression of religion and spirituality in society in recent years. In what were deemed secular societies, flows of increased sacralization (variously referred to as 'new', 'alternative', 'emergent' and 'progressive' spiritualities) and resurgent globalizing religions (sometimes with fundamentalist expressions) are resulting in unprecedented plurality. These shifts are occurring in conjunction with increasing ethnic diversity associated with global migration, as well as other axes of difference within contemporary society. Democratic secular nations such as Canada are challenged to achieve social cohesion in the face of growing religious, spiritual and ethnic diversity. These challenges are evident in the high-paced, demanding arena of Health care. Here, religious and spiritual plurality enter in, sometimes resulting in conflict between medical services and patients' beliefs, other times provoking uncertainties on the part of healthcare professionals about what to do with their own religiously or spiritually grounded values and beliefs. In this paper, we present selected findings from a 3-year study that examined the negotiation of religious and spiritual pluralism in Health care. Our focus is on the themes of 'sacred' and 'place', exploring how the sacred - that which is attributed as special and set apart as it pertains to the divine, transcendence, God or higher power - takes form in social and material spaces in hospitals. © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Pluralism in Theories of Responsibility: Joint Criminal Enterprise versus Joint Perpetration

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Cupido, M.; van Sliedregt, E.; Vasiliev, S.

2014-01-01

This paper scrutinizes the alleged pluralism between JCE and joint perpetration. It illustrates that the ICC and the ICTY in practice establish criminal responsibility under JCE and joint perpetration based on the participants’ cooperation in, and informed contribution to, a (criminal) organization

[Darwinism as a constraint of ecological pluralism].

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Giliarov, A M

2003-01-01

In his respond to critical remarks of Mirkin (2003), the author claims that pluralism in ecology is not only its strength but also a weakness. Contemporary ecology became less pluralistic and this can be considered as good sign of maturing science. Ecological pluralism can be exemplified by the coexistence in 1920-30s of two different approaches to plant community: that of Frederic Clements in USA and that of Josias Braun-Blanquet in France. However the way to progress in this branch of ecology was paved rather by heretical ideas of Henry Gleason in USA and Ramensky in Russia (both authors independently developed non-holistic view of community as an assemblage of individualistically distributed species) than by "peaceful" coexistence of well-established schools, representatives of which tried not to interfere into argumentation of each other. Notable success in ecology of last decades was connected with several new methodologies, e.g. macroecology that concerned large scale of space and time. However Darwinism in its attempt to explain the order of nature referring to its origin remains the most universal and fruitful methodology of ecology. The success of Darwinism in ecology is understandable because this generalizing theory is based on the same universal principles that underlie the survival of any population. Ecologists and evolutionary biologists trying to understand various natural patterns actually deal with the same fundamental laws, i.e. exponential population growth, limitation of this growth by resource shortage and/or press of predators, the existence of individual variability in survival, etc.

Algunas consideraciones generales acerca de la etiología del autismo: factores innatos y ambientales

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Abal, Mauricio

2015-01-01

El presente trabajo se enmarca en el proyecto de investigación denominado “Las variedades del autismo: Sistematización y Evaluación de la Demanda Asistencial. Segunda Etapa” (2015-2017), acreditado y subsidiado por el Programa de Incentivos a la Investigación, UNLP, Dir. Lic. María Cristina Piro. En líneas generales pretende repasar algunas (y sólo algunas) de las consideraciones más sobresalientes sobre el autismo, las hipótesis etiológicas y sus implicancias a la hora de un abordaje tera...

Plural religious beliefs: A Comparison between the Dutch and white ...

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The concept of religious beliefs is distilled from the perspective of one's belief in God. With regard to this belief in God we propose to distinguish between two dimensions: The personal versus the a-personal character of God and his transcendent versus his immanent nature. This leaves us with a plurality of beliefs in God.

Usage-Based Account of the Acquisition of Liaison: Evidence from Sensitivity to the Singular/Plural Orientation of Nouns

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Dugua, Celine; Spinelli, Elsa; Chevrot, Jean-Pierre; Fayol, Michel

2009-01-01

This study investigates whether children's production and recognition of obligatory liaison sequences in French depend on the singular/plural orientation of nouns. Certain nouns occur more frequently in the plural (e.g., "arbre" "tree"), whereas others are found more often in the singular (e.g., "arc-en-ciel" "rainbow"). In the input, children…

Reasonable Plurality and Moral Education. New Perspectives on Old Paradoxes.

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Ana María Salmerón Castro

2000-05-01

Full Text Available This article faces an old paradox of moral education: the apparently logical impossibility of choosing the transmission of agreed-upon values and the autonomous exercise of reason. The author takes an epistemological position in which human learning is considered the result of an interaction of individual developmental processes and the acquisition of knowledge. She assumes knowledge as a category subjected to criteria of truth, and this, as preceded by an agreement concerning values. She states that transmission of the community consensus is not only inevitable, but is essential to the development of the autonomous deliberative game and to the exercise of critical intelligence as well. However, she warns us against a possible danger: the mere transmission of accepted principles and values may place moral education under a heterogeneous direction of conduct. Educators should, by all means, avoid such a risk. She suggests seeking a reasonable plurality as a means of transmitting agreed-upon values. The notion of reasonable plurality derives from a feature assigned to John Rawls’ concept of “overlapping consensus”.

Legal pluralism in the area of human rights: water and sanitation

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Obani, P.; Gupta, J.

2014-01-01

Access to clean drinking water and adequate sanitation and hygiene facilities is crucial to achieving social and environmental sustainability. We examine the global human water and sanitation right from a legal pluralism perspective to see if it is indifferent to, competes with, accommodates, or is

G×E Interaction and Pluralism in the Postgenomic Era

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Perbal, Laurence

2013-01-01

Behavioral genetics is in a postgenomic era, and this paper illustrates this epistemological evolution using the debate between developmental criticism and traditional biometric genetics about gene x environment interaction. Quantitative geneticists are blamed for failing to respect the complexity of development; as a response, they claim a defensive position, called isolationist pluralism, which supports the idea that studying development is not their problem. But postgenomics seems to have ...

Does legal institutionalism rule out legal pluralism?
Schmitt’s institutional theory and the problem of the concrete order

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Mariano Croce

2011-04-01

Full Text Available The present paper explores the background of the institutional perspective of law that Carl Schmitt develops in On The Three Types of Juristic Thought (1934, and draws a comparison between this view and the institutional theory of Santi Romano (explicitly recalled by Schmitt. In doing so, I will shed some light on the complex relation between law and pluralism. While Schmitt portrays the law as a political means for preserving identity and excluding diversity within a homogeneous community, Romano depicts law as a form of organisation which inevitably reflects the plurality of social life.To this end, I will attend to some crucial problems of social and legal theory, such as the relation between norms and normality, the role of institutions in human life, and the way the law affects and is affected by the dynamics of its social surroundings.My final goal is to show that the law does not exclude pluralism at all, but is in itself a plural phenomenon.

On pluralism, religious ‘other’, and the Quran: a post September-11 discourse

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Mohd Yaseen Gada

2016-12-01

Full Text Available The plurality and diversity of religions is not a new thing that we experience in the postmodern world. History is testimony to the fact that different religions have evolved and existed on the face of earth as the human life moved forward. However, in the recent decade, particularly aftermath of 9/11, the bourgeoning conflict, violence, hatred pervasive in the world is often attributed to different ideologies and values associated with religions, Islam with no exception. Therefore, Muslims living as minorities on the both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are in a precarious condition. Besides, the increasing proximity between the individuals of different religions and, more so, of communities due to the miraculous advancements in the technology of communication and transport facilities have resulted into inevitable intercultural interaction and integration more than ever before. Consequently, attempts are being made to explain Islam’s compatibility with Western concept of religious pluralism. Islam recognises political, social pluralism rather than religious pluralism per se, which are explicit in the Quran and the prophetic traditions.I n this background, the paper is an attempt to re-explore and re-revisit the concept of pluralism in Islamic sources. It attempts to re-construct the theme of pluralism away from the extremes to a balanced (wasatiyya and viable one that strives for the recognition and accommodation of the religious “other” without nullifying Islam’s own essence and identity. The paper concludes that Islam not only recognizes, appreciates and tolerates the religious differences but it also demands for peaceful coexistence and mutual understanding among different religions. Pluralitas dan keragaman agama bukan hal baru yang kita alami dalam dunia postmodern. Sejarah adalah kesaksian fakta bahwa agama-agama yang berbeda telah berevolusi dan ada di muka bumi sebagai kehidupan manusia bergerak maju. Namun, dalam dekade terakhir

La multidimensionalidad ambiental desde algunas comunidades afrocolombianas: algunas implicaciones para la gestión ambiental y las necesidades humanas fundamentales.

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Contreras Arias Jenni Marcela

2011-11-01

Full Text Available Este documento parte de una reflexión sobre el tipo de relaciones que algunas comunidades afrodescendientes del Pacífico colombiano han establecido con la naturaleza. De dicha reflexión, se deriva una tipología de diferentes dimensiones del sistema ambiental. Estas dimensiones tienen una estrecha relación con las necesidades humanas fundamentales y por tanto, se identificó un conjunto de objetivos de gestión ambiental que incorporan de una manera coherente las dimensiones propuestas y su aporte a la satisfacción de las necesidades humanas fundam entales.

Experimental Philosophy of Explanation Rising: The Case for a Plurality of Concepts of Explanation.

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Colombo, Matteo

2017-03-01

This paper brings together results from the philosophy and the psychology of explanation to argue that there are multiple concepts of explanation in human psychology. Specifically, it is shown that pluralism about explanation coheres with the multiplicity of models of explanation available in the philosophy of science, and it is supported by evidence from the psychology of explanatory judgment. Focusing on the case of a norm of explanatory power, the paper concludes by responding to the worry that if there is a plurality of concepts of explanation, one will not be able to normatively evaluate what counts as good explanation. Copyright © 2016 Cognitive Science Society, Inc.

Decision structures in franchise systems of the plural form

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Kranz, Sebastian; Lewin-Solomons, Shira B.

2008-01-01

Many successful franchise chains directly own a positive fraction of stores --- a structure referred to as plural form. We propose that this ownership structure is chosen as a commitment not to expropriate franchisees. The theoretical model is based on an empirical analysis of contract and interview data from the US fast-food sector and well known stylized facts: First, franchisees typically have strong contractual obligations to implement activities selected by the chain. Second, franchisees...

Examination of the Locus of Positional Effects on Children's Production of Plural -s: Considerations From Local and Global Speech Planning.

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Theodore, Rachel M; Demuth, Katherine; Shattuck-Hufnagel, Stefanie

2015-06-01

Prosodic and articulatory factors influence children's production of inflectional morphemes. For example, plural -s is produced more reliably in utterance-final compared to utterance-medial position (i.e., the positional effect), which has been attributed to the increased planning time in utterance-final position. In previous investigations of plural -s, utterance-medial plurals were followed by a stop consonant (e.g., dogsbark), inducing high articulatory complexity. We examined whether the positional effect would be observed if the utterance-medial context were simplified to a following vowel. An elicited imitation task was used to collect productions of plural nouns from 2-year-old children. Nouns were elicited utterance-medially and utterance-finally, with the medial plural followed by either a stressed or an unstressed vowel. Acoustic analysis was used to identify evidence of morpheme production. The positional effect was absent when the morpheme was followed by a vowel (e.g., dogseat). However, it returned when the vowel-initial word contained 2 syllables (e.g., dogsarrive), suggesting that the increased processing load in the latter condition negated the facilitative effect of the easy articulatory context. Children's productions of grammatical morphemes reflect a rich interaction between emerging levels of linguistic competence, raising considerations for diagnosis and rehabilitation of language disorders.

Algunas curiosidades sobre la vida y obra de Bernardino Ramazzini, a modo de Epílogo

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Jorge Veiga-Cabo

Full Text Available Con motivo de la conmemoración del III Centenario de la muerte de Ramazzini, se pretende dar una visión general sobre algunas curiosidades, algunas más conocidas que otras, sobre determinados aspectos relacionados con su fecha de nacimiento y fallecimiento, el momento de inspiración para escribir el Tratado de las enfermedades de los artesanos y sus principales traducciones al español, así como de su obra complementaria titulada Del Cuidado de la salud de los príncipes, entre otras.

Confronting moral pluralism in posttraditional Western societies: bioethics critically reassessed.

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Engelhardt, H Tristram

2011-06-01

In the face of the moral pluralism that results from the death of God and the abandonment of a God's eye perspective in secular philosophy, bioethics arose in a context that renders it essentially incapable of giving answers to substantive moral questions, such as concerning the permissibility of abortion, human embryonic stem cell research, euthanasia, etc. Indeed, it is only when bioethics understands its own limitations and those of secular moral philosophy in general can it better appreciate those tasks that it can actually usefully perform in both the clinical and academic setting. It is the task of this paper to understand and reevaluate bioethics by understanding these limits. Academic bioethicists can analyze ideas, concepts, and claims necessary to understanding the moral questions raised in health care, assessing the arguments related to these issues, and provide an understanding of the different moral perspectives on bioethical issues. In the clinical setting, bioethicists can provide legal advice, serve as experts on IRBs, mediating disputes, facilitating decision-making and risk management, and clarifying normative issues. However, understanding this is only possible when one understands the history, genesis, and foundations of bioethics and its inability to provide a resolution to postmodern moral pluralism.

EFECTOS DEL MERCURIO SOBRE ALGUNAS PLANTAS ACUÁTICAS TROPICALES

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Posada, Martha Isabel; Arroyave, María del Pilar

2006-01-01

El presente artículo es una descripción de los efectos del mercurio sobre algunas plantas acuáticas tropicales y sobre los ecosistemas donde habitan. Adicionalmente, se recomienda un protocolo para realizar pruebas de toxicidad con la lenteja de agua (Lemna minor) y se presentan los resultados de los preensayos con diferentes concentraciones de sales de mercurio en condiciones de laboratorio. Se encontró que la biodisponibilidad del mercurio depende de factores que facilitan la disolución del...

Lung contusion and cavitation with exudative plural effusion following extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy in an adult: a case report

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Nouri-Majalan Nader

2010-08-01

Full Text Available Abstract Introduction Among the complications of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy are perinephric bleeding and hypertension. Case presentation We describe the case of a 31-year-old Asian man with an unusual case of hemoptysis and lung contusion and cavitation with exudative plural effusion due to pulmonary trauma following false positioning of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. Differential diagnoses included pneumonia and pulmonary emboli, but these diagnoses were ruled out by the uniformly negative results of a lung perfusion scan, Doppler ultrasound, and culture of bronchoalveolar lavage and plural effusion, and because our patient showed spontaneous improvement. Conclusions False positioning of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy can cause lung trauma presenting as pulmonary contusion and cavitation with plural effusion.

Algunas reflexiones acerca de la enseñanza del latín

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María Purificación Estebañez

1995-06-01

Full Text Available Las reflexiones y sugerencias que en esta Comunicación desea mosofrecer son, sin duda alguna, el fruto de una larga experiencia en la enseñanza de los Cursos de Latín en la Pontificia UniversidadCatólica del Perú.

The Meaning of the Old Russian Plurale Tantum PAMIATI

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Marina A. Bobrik

2015-08-01

Full Text Available The paper deals with the meaning of the Old Russian plurale tantum pamiati, hitherto attested only in a 17th-century list of food served at banquets that is published in Ivan Zabelin’s Domashnii byt russkikh tsarei. The tentative meaning ‘brain (of crane’ proposed in the Slovarʹ russkogo iazyka 11–17 vv. does not reflect actual practice. Other 17th- and 18th-century written sources, primarily food lists but also lexicographic sources and Russian dialect data, allow for the definition ‘breastbone and meat (of poultry.’ In this meaning, as well as in other meanings of the Russian dialectal word pamiati, the plural and the singular forms are synonyms. In the newly found context of the 17th-century Skazka o molodtse, kone i sable, the word pamiati refers to the breastbone of a horse, so the meaning can now be more precisely defined as ‘breastbone and meat (of poultry and cattle.’ The definition of pamiati proposed in the Slovarʹ russkogo iazyka 11–17 vv. seems to reflect the “mental” notion of memory as being positioned in the head, whereas the meaning ‘breastbone and meat (of poultry and cattle,’ discussed here, relates rather to the ancient idea of memory as being placed in the breast.

Biografema de Mário de Andrade: do plural

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Kossovitch,Elisa Angotti

1987-01-01

Este texto é a primeira parte do terceiro capítulo de minha tese de doutoramento - MÁRIO DE ANDRADE, PLURAL (Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas - Universidade de São Paulo). Aí, tenta-se a produção de um biografema à maneira de Roland Barthes, de quem é a epígrafe do capítulo. O biografema é uma livre-produção textual na medida em que não deriva de significado (como a biografia), mas, enfatizando imagens, cenas, gestos, fragmentos textuais, pulsões, opera significancias. O biog...

Embracing Pedagogical Pluralism:An Educator's Case for (at Least Public School Choice

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David J. Ferrero

2003-08-01

Full Text Available Pedagogical and curricular beliefs and commitments are expressions of deeper philosophical and ideological worldviews that empirical research can sometimes modify but not ultimately eliminate. The pluralism these views produce is reasonable in that they all represent plausible interpretations of liberal-republican values and professional standards of practice; they should be granted some room to flourish under a system of carefully regulated autonomy and choice. Three objections to a conception of school choice grounded in a notion of reasonable pluralism among educational doctrines are addressed: 1 that it would undermine educators' efforts to secure status for themselves as professionals by admitting that “best practices” in education offer rough guidance at best; 2 that it would leave parents and students vulnerable to quackery; 3 that it abandons the common school tradition and its aspirations. I conclude with an examination of why the conceptual basis on which a society designs a system of choice makes a difference.

Public Space and Plurality of Beliefs

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Francesc Rovira i Llopart

2007-06-01

Full Text Available In this work, the author deals with how the issue of religion can be managed in the public space. For this, he wonders and argues whether or not the public space should be a homogeneous space from the point of view of convictions or if it can give room to heterogeneousexpressions, stemming from the plurality of profound convictions existing among the citizens. In addition, he lays out the concept of public space, discusses its “contaminations” and focuses fundamentally on its meaning as a place in which the supply, exchangeand debate of ideas, principles, intuitions, etc. are openly developed, although he devotes a little bit of attention to their most tangible or physical aspects. And he underscores the idea that in a context of democratically chosen public powers and a secular institutional framework, there should not exist privileges nor discriminations.

The Pluralism of Women?s Associations in Spanish Cities: A Proposed Typology [ENG

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Jonas Radl

2013-01-01

Full Text Available The main objective of this article is to analyse pluralism within the context of women?s associations in Spanish cities. Specifically, a methodological proposal is made in order to develop a typology of women?s associations. It is applied to data from a survey conducted in five cities in Spain. The main results confirm the pluralism within this type of associations. However, besides the two main types of women?s associations identified by the literature (the feminist movement and women?s associations, other hybrid types are identified here according to their role in the coproduction of public services. Thus, co-production, as well as their own agendas, their political activism and the delivery of their own public services, appears as an important dimension in classifying women?s associations and enhancing the knowledge about them in Spain.

America in Search of a New Ideal: An Essay on the Rise of Pluralism

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Greenbaum, William

1974-01-01

Author explored the reasons behind the rise of pluralism and suggested that the resulting decline of Protestant domination has left America without an ideal to direct the socialization process. (Editor/RK)

The 'flip-side' of medical pluralism on the HIV and AIDS epidemic ...

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South Africa has a medically pluralistic health care environment. Medical pluralism is a phenomenon that refers to multiple health systems co-existing within a specific environment. It is widely accepted that the co-existence of different health systems can generate some adverse health-related consequences at both ...

Danish children's acquisition of noun plurals: the role of methodology

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Kjærbæk, Laila; Basbøll, Hans

In an earlier study we investigated the development of noun plurals in Danish children aged 0-10 years using a multi method research approach comparing five different data types: 1) lexical data; 2) reported data; 3) naturalistic spontaneous child language input and output; 4) semi-naturalistic/s......In an earlier study we investigated the development of noun plurals in Danish children aged 0-10 years using a multi method research approach comparing five different data types: 1) lexical data; 2) reported data; 3) naturalistic spontaneous child language input and output; 4) semi...... the experimental data and we therefore predict a lower percentage of incorrectly produced PL forms in the semi-naturalistic/semi-experimental than in the experimental data. 3) In the experimental data the children are to produce the PL form of nouns given by the investigator. We expect children to produce a large...... amount of sg. instead of PL forms, either as a repetition of the sg. form given by the investigator or as a PL error form irreguralizing the “Ø” PL marker (pure zero, e.g. sg. mus ‘mouse’ – PL mus ‘mice’). 4) The experimental data is based on a fixed number of specific pre-selected items and we therefore...

Plural economics and territorial development from the perspective of sustainable development: theoretical elements of an economic sociology and a socio-economics.

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Benoît Lévesque

2009-10-01

Full Text Available This text focuses on the contribution that the concept of plural economics is able to make today toward the advancement of research on the viability of territorial dynamics for sustainable development. The first part of our line of argumentation is centered on clarifying the concept of plural economics, based on studies on economic and social solidarity and on proposals emerging from the New Economic Sociology and the socio-economics of territories. In the second part, the concept of sustainable development is characterized from the angle of the so-called societal paradigm and its interactions with territory and with a plural and social economics. Aligned with the critique of the premises of neo-classical economics, the author accepts the need to re-connect the economy to a broader social and ecological perspective and to seek more effective answers to the challenges raised by the planetary socio-environmental crisis.. Keywords: Sustainable territorial development, plural economics, New Economic Sociology, economics of solidarity, ecological economics.

Tunable cavity resonator including a plurality of MEMS beams

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Peroulis, Dimitrios; Fruehling, Adam; Small, Joshua Azariah; Liu, Xiaoguang; Irshad, Wasim; Arif, Muhammad Shoaib

2015-10-20

A tunable cavity resonator includes a substrate, a cap structure, and a tuning assembly. The cap structure extends from the substrate, and at least one of the substrate and the cap structure defines a resonator cavity. The tuning assembly is positioned at least partially within the resonator cavity. The tuning assembly includes a plurality of fixed-fixed MEMS beams configured for controllable movement relative to the substrate between an activated position and a deactivated position in order to tune a resonant frequency of the tunable cavity resonator.

Courtrooms of conflict. Criminal law, local elites and legal pluralities in colonial Java

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Ravensbergen, S.

2018-01-01

This dissertation points out the stark inequalities of segregated criminal justice in nineteenth-century Java and analyses this unequal system in practice, shown by an actor-focused approach and through a framework of legal pluralities. Ravensbergen searched for the conflicts occurring

The Influence of Campus Climate and Interfaith Engagement on Self-Authored Worldview Commitment and Pluralism Orientation across Sexual and Gender Identities

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Rockenbach, Alyssa N.; Riggers-Piehl, Tiffani A.; Garvey, Jason C.; Lo, Marc A.; Mayhew, Matthew J.

2016-01-01

This study examined the extent to which LGBT students were oriented toward pluralism and self-authored worldview commitment, as well as the conditional effects of campus climate and interfaith engagement on pluralism and worldview commitment by sexual orientation and gender identity. Drawing on data from 13,776 student respondents to the Campus…

Hick’s Religious Pluralism and Plantinga’s Exclusivism in a Comparative Encounter

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Abbas Yazdani

2014-01-01

Full Text Available The issue of religious diversity is one of the significant issues in philosophy of religion. The existence of different religions in the world is an inevitable fact. Nowadays, due to the unprecedented development of information technology and public awareness of different beliefs across the nations have made the acknowledgement of religious diversity more widespread than the past. Being this the case, the questions as to religious diversity have been taken to the fore and contemporary man finds himself exposed to the question that how should a believer approach the other beliefs? Could all religions despite the differences they have in their dogmas, beliefs and doctrines be legitimate? Will the followers of all beliefs touch salvation?       Accordingly, among the key issues of philosophy of religion are the issue of legitimacy of different religions and the issue of salvation of followers of different creeds. This essay is an epistemological assessment of Hick and Plantinga on the legitimacy of religions in a comparative context. The following questions represent the guidelines of the present essay: How much is pluralism rationally and epistemologically feasible in its claim as to the legitimacy of all beliefs and the equal access of followers of all creeds to salvation? Does Plantinga's exclusivist taking as to religious truth and salvation and narrowing them down to Christianity and Christians have rational and epistemological justification? Hick has propounded his pluralism as a cure to difficulties caused by Christian religious exclusivism and inclusivism. Having insisted on the salvation promoting evolution from egotism to theism as the basic substance of religion, Hick traces the differences of religions back to the inattention to the symbolic language of religion. On the other hand, Plantinga takes the existing differences between religions as an evidence indicating the contradictoriness of pluralism and legitimacy of religious

Tradition Meets Pluralism: The Receding Confucian Values in the Taiwanese Citizenship Curriculum

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Hung, Cheng-Yu

2015-01-01

Confucianism, long regarded as the key philosophy on personal character-building and interpersonal relations in Chinese society, used to be pivotal to citizenship education in Taiwan, but that has changed in the last 20 years. In the wake of democratization in the late 1980s, growing liberalism and pluralism in Taiwanese society prompted the…

The Effects of Formal Legal Pluralism on Indigenous Authorities in the Ecuadorian Highlands

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Simon Thomas, Marc

This article analyzes the different ways that formal legal pluralism is perceived and utilized in Ecuador, where a legal void has resulted from a combination of the constitutional recognition of customary law in 1998 and the subsequent failure to develop coordinating rules that would define the

Electric circuit breaker comprising a plurality of vacuum interrupters simultaneously operated by a common operator

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Barkan, Philip; Imam, Imdad

1980-01-01

This circuit breaker comprises a plurality of a vacuum-type circuit interrupters, each having a movable contact rod. A common operating device for the interrupters comprises a linearly-movable operating member. The interrupters are mounted at one side of the operating member with their movable contact rods extending in a direction generally toward the operating member. Means is provided for mechanically coupling the operating member to the contact rods, and this means comprises a plurality of insulating operating rods, each connected at one end to the operating member and at its opposite end to one of the movable contact rods. The operating rods are of substantially equal length and have longitudinal axes that converge and intersect at substantially a common point.

Governance of Arctic Offshore Oil & Gas Activities: Multilevel Governance & Legal Pluralism at Stake

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Pelaudeix, Cecile

2015-01-01

This article analyses the governance process of offshore oil and gas activities in the Arctic with the concept of multilevelgovernance and legal pluralism to address both issues of management of the environment and public participation. The analysis goes beyond the single issue of fragmentation p...... and from regional government, indigenous shareholders and corporation perspectives, could be helpful in providing relevant actors with arguments to weigh the decision on seismic and drilling activities in relation to risk acceptance.......This article analyses the governance process of offshore oil and gas activities in the Arctic with the concept of multilevelgovernance and legal pluralism to address both issues of management of the environment and public participation. The analysis goes beyond the single issue of fragmentation...... pertaining to the international and supranational levels, to encompass national and regional levels and evaluate how the interactions between those levels structure the policy process and impact the efficiency of environmental management and public participation. Four paths of reflection arise from...

Scientific pluralism and the Chemical Revolution.

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Kusch, Martin

2015-02-01

In a number of papers and in his recent book, Is Water H2O? Evidence, Realism, Pluralism (2012), Hasok Chang has argued that the correct interpretation of the Chemical Revolution provides a strong case for the view that progress in science is served by maintaining several incommensurable "systems of practice" in the same discipline, and concerning the same region of nature. This paper is a critical discussion of Chang's reading of the Chemical Revolution. It seeks to establish, first, that Chang's assessment of Lavoisier's and Priestley's work and character follows the phlogistonists' "actors' sociology"; second, that Chang simplifies late-eighteenth-century chemical debates by reducing them to an alleged conflict between two systems of practice; third, that Chang's evidence for a slow transition from phlogistonist theory to oxygen theory is not strong; and fourth, that he is wrong to assume that chemists at the time did not have overwhelming good reasons to favour Lavoisier's over the phlogistonists' views. Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Performing an allreduce operation on a plurality of compute nodes of a parallel computer

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Faraj, Ahmad [Rochester, MN

2012-04-17

Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for performing an allreduce operation on a plurality of compute nodes of a parallel computer. Each compute node includes at least two processing cores. Each processing core has contribution data for the allreduce operation. Performing an allreduce operation on a plurality of compute nodes of a parallel computer includes: establishing one or more logical rings among the compute nodes, each logical ring including at least one processing core from each compute node; performing, for each logical ring, a global allreduce operation using the contribution data for the processing cores included in that logical ring, yielding a global allreduce result for each processing core included in that logical ring; and performing, for each compute node, a local allreduce operation using the global allreduce results for each processing core on that compute node.

Method and system employing finite state machine modeling to identify one of a plurality of different electric load types

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Du, Liang; Yang, Yi; Harley, Ronald Gordon; Habetler, Thomas G.; He, Dawei

2016-08-09

A system is for a plurality of different electric load types. The system includes a plurality of sensors structured to sense a voltage signal and a current signal for each of the different electric loads; and a processor. The processor acquires a voltage and current waveform from the sensors for a corresponding one of the different electric load types; calculates a power or current RMS profile of the waveform; quantizes the power or current RMS profile into a set of quantized state-values; evaluates a state-duration for each of the quantized state-values; evaluates a plurality of state-types based on the power or current RMS profile and the quantized state-values; generates a state-sequence that describes a corresponding finite state machine model of a generalized load start-up or transient profile for the corresponding electric load type; and identifies the corresponding electric load type.

Contending medical ideologies and state formation: the nineteenth-century origins of medical pluralism in contemporary Colombia.

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Sowell, David

2003-01-01

This article addresses the encounter between contending medical ideologies in nineteenth-century Colombia. The first era of medical pluralism, in colonial Latin America, developed from the imposition of Hispanic medicine on existing indigenous medical systems through an imperial structure. This produced a "colonial medical spectrum" incorporating various medical ideologies that came under attack by practitioners of scientific medicine in the 1800s. As scientific physicians gained privileged access to state resources, they undertook partially successful campaigns to deny Hispanic, homeopathic, and other medical systems the right to be practiced. As the state authorized scientific medicine, other practices became "popularized," thereby laying the foundation for the medical pluralism of contemporary Colombia that juxtaposes "academic" and "traditional" medicines.

Democracy and Plural Voting in John Stuart Mill’s Political Thought

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Átila Amaral Brilhante

2013-07-01

Full Text Available http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2013v12n1p53 Este artigo é destinado a mostrar que a defesa do voto plural empreendida por John Stuart Mill não é compatível com as linhas gerais da sua concepção de democracia. Objetivando combater a tirania das massas, Mill propôs que os votos tivessem valores diferenciados de acordo com o padrão educacional dos cidadãos. Ele não percebeu, entretanto, que tal proposta desestimulava a participação da maioria do eleitorado na vida pública e estabelecia uma equivalência entre conhecimento político e expertise em assuntos de governo, o que, em certa medida, enfraquece as suas credenciais democráticas. Mill objetivou criar um equilíbrio de poder que possibilitasse aos eleitores de nível educacional mais elevado ter alguma influência no processo político, o que, segundo ele, não aconteceria se aos votos tivessem o mesmo valor.  O sistema plural de votação que ele propôs, entretanto, tendia a dar a impressão de que ele estava desrespeitando o eleitor comum e criando arbitrariamente uma aristocracia eleitoral.

Pluralism, Resilience, and the Ecology of Survival: Case Studies from the Pamir Mountains of Afghanistan

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Karim-Aly S. Kassam

2010-06-01

Full Text Available As resilience is observed under circumstances of systemic stress, the various ecological zones of the Pamir Mountains of Afghanistan and the cultural diversity contained within this milieu provide an appropriate setting from which to ask "How can a dynamic concept of pluralism inform adaptation, survival, and resilience in the face of dramatic socio-cultural and environmental change?" This paper asserts that understanding of resilience in coupled socio-cultural and ecological systems is enhanced by the concept of pluralism. The idea of ecological niche is enriched by sensitivity to culture, religion, ethnicity, lifestyle, and habitat. Facilitative relations between the ethnically diverse Kyrgyz and Wakhi, as well as the Pashtu and Shugni, contribute to their mutual survival and food sovereignty. The common good is achieved by harnessing ethnic, religious, and ecological diversity.

What does quality maternity care mean in a context of medical pluralism? Perspectives of women in Nigeria

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Izugbara, Chimaraoke O; Wekesah, Frederick

2018-01-01

Abstract User priorities regarding quality care in contexts of medical pluralism are poorly documented. Drawing on group and individual interviews with women, we interrogate ideas of quality maternity care in the context of Nigeria’s medical pluralism. We found complex utilization patterns for conventional, complementary and alternative maternity care services as well as ideas of quality maternity care that stress effective coordination and integration of different typologies of maternity health services; socially sensitive and truthful providers; and socioeconomic, physical and parochial forms of safety. Informal providers were the commonly reported source of maternal health services in the study. Maternal health services in the country were also generally viewed as poor quality, characterized by pervasive abuse, quackery and lack of commitment to the needs and sensitivities of women. Convenience, availability and affordability of maternal health services, as well as sociocultural factors were major influences on women’s use of services. Results demonstrate the embeddedness of women’s quality of care notions in the vast socioeconomic inequities that typify Nigeria’s particular form of poorly regulated medical pluralism, raising need for strategies to strengthen the delivery, coordination and supervision of maternal health services in the country. PMID:29036530

Algunas características económicas del mantenimiento no correctivo del software a medida.

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Torralba Martínez, José María; Rodenes Adam, Manuel

2001-01-01

Se presentan algunas características económicas del servicio de mantenimiento del software, relativas pricipalmente al área comercial: mercado, producto, precio y clientización, apuntando la importancia económica que tiene tanto para

Methods, media and systems for managing a distributed application running in a plurality of digital processing devices

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Laadan, Oren; Nieh, Jason; Phung, Dan

2012-10-02

Methods, media and systems for managing a distributed application running in a plurality of digital processing devices are provided. In some embodiments, a method includes running one or more processes associated with the distributed application in virtualized operating system environments on a plurality of digital processing devices, suspending the one or more processes, and saving network state information relating to network connections among the one or more processes. The method further include storing process information relating to the one or more processes, recreating the network connections using the saved network state information, and restarting the one or more processes using the stored process information.

Franchised and Small, the Most Beautiful of All; HRM and Performance in Plural Systems

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Brand, M.J.; Croonen, E.P.M.

2010-01-01

Franchising is particularly present in industries in which human resources play a vital role. However, little is known about human resource management (HRM) in a franchising context. This study investigates HRM behavior and performance using a sample of 171 units within one plural retailing system.

Sībawayhi y el concepto de jam'u l-qilla

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Ferrando, Ignacio

2001-12-01

Full Text Available Arabic language shows, besides singular, dual and plural (broken and regular, something that could be described as the fourth number: the plural of small number or plural of paucity (jam'u l-qilla, thoroughly studied by Sībawayhi. This article analyzes the pages dedicated to this question by the most important Arab grammarian, offering also some keys for the diachronic understanding of the plural of paucity, which is viewed here as an archaic feature falling into disuse already at Sībawayhi's time.La lengua árabe, además del singular, dual y plural (regular y fracto, incluye lo que podría denominarse el cuarto número: el plural de pequeño número o paucal (jam'u l-qilla, cuidadosamente estudiado por Sībawayhi. Este artículo pretende anahzar las páginas dedicadas a esta cuestión por el más importante de los gramáticos árabes y ofrecer algunas claves para el seguimiento diacrónico del fenómeno del plural de pequeño número, un rasgo arcaico en vías de extinción ya desde la época de Sībawayhi.

Antagonism and Imaginaries of Plurality in Bolivian Cinema

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Valeria Canelas

2018-03-01

Full Text Available Nowadays, Bolivian cinema is living a period of great activity in a unstable identitarian landscape, wherein negotiations and conflicts between the different national subjectivities are no longer able to be represented within antagonistic patterns producing uniformity. Firstly, this article deals with Jorge Sanjinés’ Filmography in order to offer an explanatory hypothesis to answer why his last productions seem to have been less engaging for national identitarian dynamics. Secondly, an analysis of a series of short films by the Socavón Cine Collective will take place, so as to underline the most important political gestures displayed by their novel audiovisual rhetoric, which have managed to devise a language capable of a more acute examination of the identitarian plurality present in Bolivia.

"Nous" versus "on": Pronouns with First-Person Plural Reference in Synchronous French Chat

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van Compernolle, Remi A.

2008-01-01

This article explores variation in the use of the pronouns "nous" and "on" for first-person plural reference in a substantial corpus of French-language Internet chat discourse. The results indicate that "on" is nearly categorically preferred to "nous," which is in line with previous research on informal spoken French. A qualitative analysis of…

Secularities, Diversities and Pluralities: Understanding the Challenges of Religious Diversity in Latin America

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Edgar Zavala-Pelayo

2016-04-01

Full Text Available Latin America is experiencing today the greatest religious diversity in its entire history. However, it must also be noted that a large number of the growing religious minorities may be classified into types of Christianity with conservative overtones. In this paper we will suggest that the literature streams on multiple secularities in contemporary (Western societies and religious diversity in Latin America do offer insightful perspectives yet fail to adequately convey the challenges raised by the religious across contemporary Latin America. Addressing Latin America’s historical background, we will distinguish conceptually and empirically among different degrees of secularities, diversities and pluralities and will construct with these distinctions a descriptive-normative model that can guide future analyses of secular and religious phenomena in Latin America. It is only through a comprehensive understanding of diversities, pluralities and secularities that the debates on those human rights crucial for social inclusion—from sexual and reproductive rights to gender and religious equality—can be fruitfully conducted in and beyond Latin America.

Harnessing the plurality of actor frames in social-ecological systems : Ecological sanitation in Bolivia

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Eelderink, M.; Vervoort, J.; Snel, D.; de Castro, F.

2017-01-01

This article uses a case study on ecological sanitation as a basis for lessons on identifying and harnessing the plurality of actor frames in social-ecological systems, thereby moving beyond the advocacy positions often taken by implementing NGOs. The study aimed to explore how perspectives between

Algunas consideraciones sobre la estrategia de mercadotecnia en los negocios internacionales

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Ernesto Raúl González Ramírez

2016-01-01

El presente artículo aborda algunas consideraciones sobre la estrategia de mercadotecnia en el contexto de los negocios internacionales. La primera parte está dirigida a describir las particularidades de las estrategias específicas de mercadotecnia (producto, precio, comunicación y distribución) en el área internacional. La segunda parte, trata sobre la importancia de tener presente el nivel de orientación al mercado o aplicación del concepto de mercadotecnia en este contexto.

Assessment of the potential for hydro-solidarity within plural legal conditions of traditional irrigation systems in northern Tanzania

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Kemerink, J. S.; Ahlers, R.; van der Zaag, P.

Competition over water resources and related disputes over water are inherently local and context-specific in their manifestations. In Makanya catchment, located in the mid-reaches of the Pangani river basin in northern Tanzania, competition over water is apparent and with increased demands for water disputes are likely to become fiercer in the near future. Negotiations between upstream and downstream users at various levels in the catchment have resulted in water sharing arrangements or are still on-going while other negotiations seem to be stranded in impasses. Why in certain situations water sharing among users evolves, while in other cases mutual agreements can not be reached, is not yet well understood. Insight in the plural legal context in which water sharing arrangement among water users develop could set light on complex resource use and management realities as well as the ability of various water users to influence the negotiations over water. The hydro-solidarity concept is referred to as potential mechanism to reconcile conflicts over water. Hydro-solidarity promotes ethical dimensions as integral part of decision making and is assumed to be based on a universal set of commonly accepted norms and rules. Through analysis of the plural legal context in which water sharing arrangements among the smallholder farmers in the Makanya catchment develop, the paper explores the existence of ethical dimensions in decision making and their legitimacy. In this way the potential of the hydro-solidarity concept as mechanism to reconcile conflicts over water can be assessed in the context-specific plural reality. The paper concludes that, although ethical dimensions in decision making in the Makanya catchment exist, the hydro-solidarity concept as mechanism to reconcile disputes over water has limited potential as long as it does not embrace the plural reality. The authors argue that, instead of searching for a universal normative order, legal plural analysis can serve

Algunas consideraciones sobre la estrategia de mercadotecnia en los negocios internacionales

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Ernesto Raúl González Ramírez

2016-01-01

Full Text Available El presente artículo aborda algunas consideraciones sobre la estrategia de mercadotecnia en el contexto de los negocios internacionales. La primera parte está dirigida a describir las particularidades de las estrategias específicas de mercadotecnia (producto, precio, comunicación y distribución en el área internacional. La segunda parte, trata sobre la importancia de tener presente el nivel de orientación al mercado o aplicación del concepto de mercadotecnia en este contexto.

Restricciones funcionales en la elisión del Marcador de Plural en el Español de Caracas

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Ruiz Sánchez, Carmen

2005-01-01

En este trabajo se analizan y explican los factores funcionales que condicionan la elisión de la /-s/ plural en el español de Caracas. La codificación y el análisis de los datos sigue el planteamiento de Poplack (1980) con el fin de demostrar que la elisión de la marca de plural depende de la compleja combinación de factores morfológicos, semánticos y sintácticos, apoyándose así en una nueva interpretación de la hipótesis funcional de Kiparsky (1972), en la cual se reconoce la importancia de ...

Traditional healers, faith healers and medical practitioners: the contribution of medical pluralism to bottlenecks along the cascade of care for HIV/AIDS in Eastern and Southern Africa.

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Moshabela, Mosa; Bukenya, Dominic; Darong, Gabriel; Wamoyi, Joyce; McLean, Estelle; Skovdal, Morten; Ddaaki, William; Ondeng'e, Kenneth; Bonnington, Oliver; Seeley, Janet; Hosegood, Victoria; Wringe, Alison

2017-07-01

There are concerns that medical pluralism may delay patients' progression through the HIV cascade-of-care. However, the pathways of impact through which medical pluralism influence the care of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in African settings remain unclear. We sought to establish the manifestation of medical pluralism among PLHIV, and explore mechanisms through which medical pluralism contributes bottlenecks along the HIV care cascade. We conducted a multicountry exploratory qualitative study in seven health and demographic surveillance sites in six eastern and southern African countries: Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa. We interviewed 258 PLHIV at different stages of the HIV cascade-of-care, 48 family members of deceased PLHIV and 53 HIV healthcare workers. Interviews were conducted using shared standardised topic guides, and data managed through NVIVO 8/10/11. We conducted a thematic analysis of healthcare pathways and bottlenecks related to medical pluralism. Medical pluralism, manifesting across traditional, faith-based and biomedical health-worlds, contributed to the care cascade bottlenecks for PLHIV through three pathways of impact. First, access to HIV treatment was delayed through the nature of health-related beliefs, knowledge and patient journeys. Second, HIV treatment was interrupted by availability of alternative options, perceived failed treatment and exploitation of PLHIV by opportunistic traders and healers. Lastly, the mixing of biomedical healthcare providers and treatment with traditional and faith-based options fuelled tensions driven by fear of drug-to-drug interactions and mistrust between providers operating in different health-worlds. Medical pluralism contributes to delays and interruptions of care along the HIV cascade, and mistrust between health providers. Region-wide interventions and policies are urgently needed in sub-Saharan Africa to minimise potential harm and consequences of medical pluralism for PLHIV

PLURALISM AND THE STUDY OF RELIGION: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

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A.L. SAMIAN

2010-11-01

Full Text Available In the Malaysian government outline of Vision 2020, the importance of the study of religion as an integral component of general education is explicitly stated. This paper examines the present state of comparative religious studies in Malaysian Institutes of Higher Learning. Several philosophical issues are highlighted including the local concept and objective of religious studies, suitability of courses offered, and its relevance to the national development, i.e., industrialization of the country. An attempt is made to suggest how the religious course in a plural society like Malaysia, in the future, can be used to achieve Vision 2020 by integrating science and religion based on the position that science is a problem-solving activity.

Morpho-Syntactic Load in Judging Adjective Plural Agreement: Comparing Adults with and without ADHD

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Schiff, Rachel; Ravid, Dorit; Gur, Adi

2015-01-01

The study examined the impact of two grammatical factors on marking Hebrew adjectives in agreement with plural nouns in adults with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) compared with peers without ADHD. Participants were 36 adult speakers of Hebrew, who were administered a judgment test of 144 sentences, each containing an adjective in…

The Enunciation of the Subject: Sharing Jean-Luc Nancy's Singular Plural in the Classroom

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Collins, Ashok

2015-01-01

This article seeks to explore the implications of Jean-Luc Nancy's reading of the subject for educational philosophy by connecting his re-interpretation of Descartes to his later thinking on what he names the ontological singular plural. Nancy's re-imagining of the Cogito coalesces around the figure of the mouth ("la bouche") through…

Membangun Civil Religion Pada Masyarakat Yang Plural; Dilema Pancasila Di Era Reformasi

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Ruslan, Idrus

2011-01-01

Tema civil religion merupakan tema yang terkait dalam konteks sebuah negara yang plural seperti Indonesia. Arti civil religion itu sendiri secara harfiah adalah agama sipil (rakyat), akan tetapi jika dilihat secara apa adanya seakan-akan merupakan agama tersendiri. Oleh karenanya lebih tepat jika diartikan “Keberagamaan sipil”, karena memang dia tidak memiliki Tuhan, kitab suci, rasul, pendeta, biksu dan sebagainya. Indonesia dengan dasar negara Pancasila dimana kata “Tuhan” dalam sila Ketuha...

Algunas reflexiones sobre la clasificación de los organismos vivos

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Medina,Rita Daniela Fernández

2012-01-01

Clasificar es una manera de organizar la información que puede ser definida como una actividad donde diferentes objetos, conceptos o seres son asignados a categorías según algún criterio. Los criterios de clasificación de los organismos vivos han mudado a lo largo del tiempo. En el presente trabajo, a partir de un recorrido histórico se presentan las diferentes formas que han existido de clasificar a los organismos vivos. Se presentan también algunas discusiones existentes en relación a la fo...

Crack growth simulation for plural crack using hexahedral mesh generation technique

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Orita, Y; Wada, Y; Kikuchi, M

2010-01-01

This paper describes a surface crack growth simulation using a new mesh generation technique. The generated mesh is constituted of all hexahedral elements. Hexahedral elements are suitable for an analysis of fracture mechanics parameters, i.e. stress intensity factor. The advantage of a hexahedral mesh is good accuracy of an analysis and less number of degrees of freedoms than a tetrahedral mesh. In this study, a plural crack growth simulation is computed using the hexahedral mesh and its distribution of stress intensity factor is investigated.

Algunas experiencias de aplicación del aprendizaje cooperativo y del aprendizaje basado en proyectos

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García-Almiñana, Daniel; Amante García, Beatriz

2006-01-01

En esta comunicación se pretenden presentar algunas experiencias de aplicación del AC y ABP en distintas asignaturas impartidas en la Universidad Europea de Madrid y en la Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya, destacando los aspectos de mejora observados con respecto a la docencia convencional.

Algunas consideraciones teóricas sobre el liderazgo transformacional

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Otilia Bracho Parra

2013-05-01

Full Text Available El artículo tuvo como objetivo, realizar algunas consideraciones teóricas sobre el liderazgo transformacional, tomando como referencia los planteamientos de Bass y Avolio (2006, Velásquez (2006, Lerma (2007, Leithwood, Mascall y Strauss (2009, entre otros. El proceso metodológico implico revisión bibliográfica, a través de la hermenéutica. Concluyendo que el liderazgo transformacional implica convertir a los colaboradores en personas creativas, motivadas al logro, comprometidas e identificadas con la organización, además de inspirar en sus seguidores la participación, pensar en colectivo, esforzándose en alcanzar metas significativas, en pro de la misión y visión de la empresa.

Algunas Características de los Cacaos Criollos de Venezuela

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Ciferri R.

1949-03-01

Full Text Available Se indican algunas características morfológicas y biométricas de los cacaos "Criollo de cáscara morada" y "Criollo de cáscara decolorada", observadas en un cacaotal de Venezuela y las cuales se comparan con las de algunos de sus cruces, así más afines, como más alejados, que en conjunto forman el Forastero Venezolano. Se llama la atención sobre unos tipos de cacao muy valiosos, derivados de los cruzamientos entre estos dos tipos de Criollo, mencionados. Se indica, además, la distribución de dichos Criollos en Venezuela.

Theoretical pluralism in psychoanalytic case studies.

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Willemsen, Jochem; Cornelis, Shana; Geerardyn, Filip M; Desmet, Mattias; Meganck, Reitske; Inslegers, Ruth; Cauwe, Joachim M B D

2015-01-01

The aim of this study is to provide an overview of the scientific activity of different psychoanalytic schools of thought in terms of the content and production of case studies published on ISI Web of Knowledge. Between March 2013 and November 2013, we contacted all case study authors included in the online archive of psychoanalytic and psychodynamic case studies (www.singlecasearchive.com) to inquire about their psychoanalytic orientation during their work with the patient. The response rate for this study was 45%. It appears that the two oldest psychoanalytic schools, Object-relations psychoanalysis and Ego psychology or "Classical psychoanalysis" dominate the literature of published case studies. However, most authors stated that they feel attached to two or more psychoanalytic schools of thought. This confirms that the theoretical pluralism in psychoanalysis stretches to the field of single case studies. The single case studies of each psychoanalytic school are described separately in terms of methodology, patient, therapist, or treatment features. We conclude that published case studies features are fairly similar across different psychoanalytic schools. The results of this study are not representative of all psychoanalytic schools, as some do not publish their work in ISI ranked journals.

Theoretical pluralism in psychoanalytic case studies

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Willemsen, Jochem; Cornelis, Shana; Geerardyn, Filip M.; Desmet, Mattias; Meganck, Reitske; Inslegers, Ruth; Cauwe, Joachim M. B. D.

2015-01-01

The aim of this study is to provide an overview of the scientific activity of different psychoanalytic schools of thought in terms of the content and production of case studies published on ISI Web of Knowledge. Between March 2013 and November 2013, we contacted all case study authors included in the online archive of psychoanalytic and psychodynamic case studies (www.singlecasearchive.com) to inquire about their psychoanalytic orientation during their work with the patient. The response rate for this study was 45%. It appears that the two oldest psychoanalytic schools, Object-relations psychoanalysis and Ego psychology or “Classical psychoanalysis” dominate the literature of published case studies. However, most authors stated that they feel attached to two or more psychoanalytic schools of thought. This confirms that the theoretical pluralism in psychoanalysis stretches to the field of single case studies. The single case studies of each psychoanalytic school are described separately in terms of methodology, patient, therapist, or treatment features. We conclude that published case studies features are fairly similar across different psychoanalytic schools. The results of this study are not representative of all psychoanalytic schools, as some do not publish their work in ISI ranked journals. PMID:26483725

Device for refueling a nuclear reactor having a core comprising a plurality of fuel assemblies

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Van Santen, A.; Elofsson, K.

1975-01-01

A nuclear reactor formed of fuel assemblies each including a plurality of parallel fuel rods arranged in a predetermined fuel rod lattice, which rods are freely extractable and insertable at one end of the fuel assembly, is refueled by extracting from one of the fuel assemblies a number of fuel rods substantially less than the total number of fuel rods and replacing these by inserting new fuel rods into the vacated positions. The removal and return of the rods is produced by a tool having a plurality of gripping members capable of engaging shoulders beneath heads formed on the upper ends of the fuel rods. This may be accomplished by providing a tool having a number of gripping members attached to the tool body corresponding to the lattice positions of the fuel rods to be extracted, having gripping members which can be pushed together to grip beneath shoulders on the upper ends of the fuel rods. (Official Gazette)

Inflectional Morphology and Dyslexia: Italian Children's Performance in a Nonword Pluralization Task

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Vender, Maria; Mantione, Federica; Savazzi, Silvia; Delfitto, Denis; Melloni, Chiara

2017-01-01

In this study, we present the results of an original experimental protocol designed to assess the performance in a pluralization task of 52 Italian children divided into two groups: 24 children with developmental dyslexia (mean age 10.0 years old) and 28 typically developing children (mean age 9.11 years old). Our task, inspired by Berko's Wug…

THE PLURAL LESION CORONARY AND CYTOKINES DISBALANCE IN PATIENTS WITH CORONARY ATHEROSCLEROSIS

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Martynov AV

2012-12-01

Full Text Available The aim of the study was to examine the levels of the main pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines in patients with ischemic heart disease, and the study of the possible impact of persistent herpes virus infection plural lesion coronary arteries. A total of 57 patients (mean age 49,3 ± 3,7 years IHD s hemodynamically significant stenoses of the coronary vessels. Conducted virological examination, including the definition of hypertension HSV1, HSV2, HHV6, SMV, VZV and VEB immunofluorescent and cytokines ІL-1β, ІL-6 ІL-8, TNF by ELISA in serum. Found increased levels of proinflammatory cytokines ІL-1β, ІL-6 and FNPα of IHD patients who had hemodynamically significant stenoses of coronary vessels. ІL-6 level in patients with 2 or more significant coronary artery lesions exceeded the rate of patients with a damaged coronary artery in 1.67 TNFα, ІL-8 - 1.37 ІL-1β and 1.28 times respectively. In patients with plural coronary vascular damage was the most common combination of CMV, VEB and HHV6. Since CMV was detected in more than 60% of patients with injuries of two spacecraft and nearly 76% from three spacecraft, VEB was detected in 72% and 88%, respectively.

Algunas paradojas en la enseñanza actual de la medicina interna en Argentina

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Full Text Available Este trabajo tiene como propósito reflexionar sobre algunas circunstancias que, en Argentina, contribuyen a la crisis de la educación médica y al descontento tanto de pacientes como de profesionales. El centro de atención es la medicina interna. Del análisis surgen algunas paradojas vinculadas con la actual formación de grado y posgrado. Si bien el primer nivel de atención de la salud, en el marco de la atención primaria, puede resolver el 80% de los problemas de salud de la población, la enseñanza de la medicina interna continúa realizándose sobre el paciente hospitalizado. Esto afecta a la forma en que se practica la medicina, pues se privilegia la tecnología en el diagnóstico y tratamiento sobre la prevención de las enfermedades y la promoción de la salud. Las causas de este panorama son varias, destacando el poco tiempo dedicado a la educación en el ámbito del consultorio con pacientes ambulatorios.

Equal but different: Effects of equality/inclusion and cultural pluralism on intergroup outcomes in multiethnic classrooms.

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Schwarzenthal, Miriam; Schachner, Maja K; van de Vijver, Fons J R; Juang, Linda P

2018-04-01

Integrating research on intergroup contact and intercultural relations, we investigated effects of 2 types of cultural diversity norms (equality/inclusion and cultural pluralism) on outgroup orientation and perceived discrimination among students of immigrant and nonimmigrant background. Our sample comprised 1,975 6th graders (M age = 11.53, SD age = 0.69, 47% female) in Germany, of whom 1,213 (61%) were of immigrant background, defined as having at least 1 parent born in a different country. A total of 83 countries of origin were represented. We applied a multilevel framework to assess the impact of individual-level and class-level predictors on intergroup outcomes, controlling for the classroom ethnic composition, school track, and individual-level covariates. Immigrant background was treated as a moderator. The 2 types of cultural diversity norms were generally associated with more positive intergroup outcomes. Some of the associations differed in strength between students of immigrant and nonimmigrant background. There were stronger associations of equality/inclusion with higher outgroup orientation among students of nonimmigrant background and with lower perceived discrimination among students of immigrant background. Ethnic composition, as well as the classroom-aggregated diversity norms (diversity climate) showed weaker relations with the outcome variables. Equality/inclusion norms and cultural pluralism norms can make complementary contributions to positive relations between students of immigrant and nonimmigrant background. Equality/inclusion norms foster positive contact and equal treatment, while cultural pluralism norms emphasize that it is also important to value diversity.¹ (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).

Algunas relaciones entre algoritmos y resolución de problemas

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Jaime Fonseca González

2012-04-01

Full Text Available Como parte del estudio realizado en la tesis de maestría “Uso de algoritmos en la resolución de problemas sobre isometrías del plano. Un estudio de caso”, se han identificado diversas formas en que se relacionan los algoritmos con la resolución de problemas, no sólo como procesos mecánicos, sino como fuente de información en el planteamiento de estrategias al resolver un problema, de modo que surgen algunas maneras en que se da esta relación, ejemplificando cada una de ellas con problemas cuyo objeto matemático central son las isometrías del plano.

Radiometric analyzer with plural radiation sources and detectors

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Arima, S.; Oda, M.; Miyashita, K.; Takada, M.

1977-01-01

A radiometric analyzer for measuring characteristics of a material by radiation comprises a plurality of systems in which each consists of a radiation source and a radiation detector which are the same in number as the number of elements of the molecule of the material and a linear calibration circuit having inverse response characteristics (calibration curve) of the respective systems of detectors, whereby the measurement is carried out by four fundamental rules by operation of the mutual outputs of said detector system obtained through said linear calibration circuit. One typical embodiment is a radiometric analyzer for hydrocarbons which measures the density of heavy oil, the sulfur content and the calorific value by three detector systems which include a γ-ray source (E/sub γ/ greater than 50 keV), a soft x-ray source (Ex approximately 20 keV), and a neutron ray source. 2 claims, 6 figures

On Legal Pluralism and Ghosts in the Sachsenspiegel and in Gaya

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Bernd Kannowski

2016-01-01

Full Text Available This paper reflects on legal pluralism. How did medieval societies incorporate both unwritten customs and written law at the same time? How did they constitute the process of finding justice? What is the essense of legal pluralism, and will it help us understand the situation of Taiwan’s indigenous population? We aim to solve these problems by taking a closer look at medieval Saxony: for around 400 years, both laws given by the authorities and traditional customs in Saxony worked fine in parallel. The latter were put into writing by the legal practitioner Eike von Repgow around 1230 for reasons unknown. We refer to his collection of laws and customs of the Saxons as the Sachsenspiegel (»Mirror of Saxons«. While Saxons certainly differed from Taiwan’s indigenous population for many reasons, such as the supposedly weaker egalitarianism among the Saxons than among at least some indigenous groups, the two show some remarkable similarities nonetheless. Just like the Taiwanese Gaya, the Sachsenspiegel’s spiritual origin raises the claim to validity. Furthermore, comparing the handling of a person’s sale of inherited property, the legal situations in the Sachsenspiegel and Taiwan’s unwritten customs resemble each other. The heir can transfer only property he acquired personally. Furthermore, the author discusses the different character of courts and procedure under oral law in contrast to written modern law. Finally, the paper concludes with some remarks about a learned commentary on the Sachsenspiegel written around 1325, combined with an outlook on the possible future of Taiwanese customs.

Alguna precisión sobre la Didáctica de la Historia.

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Mattozzi, Ivo

2003-01-01

INDICE Presentación Carmen Aranguren R. La Enseñanza de la Historia de Venezuela en la Actual Programación de Educación Básica Joan Pagés Los Contenidos de Ciencias Sociales en el currículo escolar. Ivo Mattozzi Alguna Precisión sobre la Didáctica de la Historia. Rita Marina Alvarez de Zayas Historia o Didáctica de la Historia. Ángel Antúnez y Carmen Aranguren La Lectura y la Escritura: Diagnóstico y Aná...

Making the invisible, visible: challenging the knowledge structures inherent in International Relations Theory in order to create knowledge plural curricula

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Jacqueline de Matos-Ala

2018-02-01

Full Text Available Abstract This article problematizes the lack of plurality of knowledges in International Relations theory curricula. The increase in knowledges and scholarship from the South has not seemingly filtered into International Relations theory curricula significantly. Thus Western knowledges still dominates the narrative. It investigates how knowledge structures inherent in the discipline coupled with Western centric ontology and epistemology function to exclude or marginalize knowledge that does not conform to specific criteria. I demonstrate how the third year IR theory curriculum at Wits University, has engaged with discipline’s knowledge structures as well as its ontology and epistemology to develop a knowledge plural curricula.

Desarrollo y medio ambiente. Algunas miradas desde las ciencias sociales

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Enrique Pérez

2009-01-01

Full Text Available En este trabajo, se presentan algunas de las teorías que atañen a la relación entre medio ambiente y desarrollo y se plantean interrogantes sobre la forma en que la temática ha sido desarrollada por parte de los científicos sociales. Su objetivo es doble: a de mostrar la polisemia del concepto desarrollo en las teorías económicas y la necesidad de que éstas incorporen indicadores más allá del de la renta (tales como el género, la postmodernidad, el postcolonialismo y los sujetos sociales; b destacar el importante trabajo, principalmente político, de varias de las teorías en cuestiones de medio ambiente y desarrollo.

Apparatus including a plurality of spaced transformers for locating short circuits in cables

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Cason, R. L.; Mcstay, J. J. (Inventor)

1978-01-01

A cable fault locator is described for sensing faults such as short circuits in power cables. The apparatus includes a plurality of current transformers strategically located along a cable. Trigger circuits are connected to each of the current transformers for placing a resistor in series with a resistive element responsive to an abnormally high current flowing through that portion of the cable. By measuring the voltage drop across the resistive element, the location of the fault can be determined.

Pluralismo cultural e cidadania democrática Cultural pluralism and democratic citizenship

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Ferran Requejo

1999-08-01

Full Text Available Com base no exame da questão do "multiculturalismo" da perspectiva do pluralismo em sociedades democráticas, discute-se, num registro normativo, a tensão intrínseca à combinação desses termos, para finalmente enfrentar a dimensão institucional do problema.On the basis of an examination of the question of "multiculturalism" from the perspective of pluralism in democratic societies the tension intrinsic to the combination of these terms is discussed in its normative dimension. Finally, the institutional dimension of the problem is addressed.

ALGUNAS PROPIEDADES COMBINATORIAS DE LOS POLINOMIOS SIMÉTRICOS Y CÓMPUTO DE POLINOMIOS DE SCHUR OBLICUOS

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Fernando Novoa

2005-06-01

Full Text Available Presentamos algunas rutinas de un programa para el sistema computacional CoCoA, las cuales realizan el cómputo de familias de polinomios de simétricos, entre ellas los polinomios de Schur. Con estas rutinas se pueden comprobar propiedades combinatorias que relacionan tablas de Young y polinomios skew de Schur.

From a Pluralism of Grounds to Proto-Legal Relations: Accounting for the Grounds of Obligations of Justice

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Pavlakos, George

2017-01-01

Roč. 30, č. 1 (2017), s. 59-74 ISSN 1467-9337 R&D Projects: GA ČR GA15-23955S Institutional support: RVO:68378122 Keywords : responsibility of justice * pluralism * obligation of justice * Mathias Risse Subject RIV: AG - Legal Sciences OBOR OECD: Law

Key Informant Models for Measuring Group-Level Variables in Small Groups: Application to Plural Subject Theory

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Algesheimer, René; Bagozzi, Richard P.; Dholakia, Utpal M.

2018-01-01

We offer a new conceptualization and measurement models for constructs at the group-level of analysis in small group research. The conceptualization starts with classical notions of group behavior proposed by Tönnies, Simmel, and Weber and then draws upon plural subject theory by philosophers Gilbert and Tuomela to frame a new perspective…

Reimagining SSR in Contexts of Security Pluralism

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Megan Price

2017-07-01

Full Text Available Within the repertoire of international stabilization interventions, security sector reform (SSR and other conventional efforts to strengthen security and governance institutions remain central. There is increasing recognition that the policies and practices operating under the rubric of SSR are blind to the empirical reality of 'security pluralism' in most stabilization contexts. In these contexts, both security providers directly authorized by the state (police, army and a multitude of other coercive actors engage in producing and reproducing order, and enjoy varying degrees of public authority and legitimacy. Recognizing this, research was undertaken in three cities (Beirut, Nairobi, and Tunis to discern the conditions enabling various security providers to forge constructive relations with local populations and governance actors. Drawing on insights generated by these case studies, this article problematizes conventional state-centric approaches and argues for a bold reimagining of SSR. It makes the case for an SSR approach that prioritizes promoting the accountability and responsiveness of all security providers, integrating efforts to strengthen the social determinants of security, and enabling a phased transition from relational to rules-based systems of security provision and governance.

Algunas determinaciones del pregnandiol urinario en el aborto amenazante

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Eudoro Castillo Vega

1956-07-01

Full Text Available El presente trabajo tiene por objeto hacer algunas "determinaciones del pregnandiol urinario en enfermas con síntomas evidentes de aborto amenazante", o bien, en enfermas en cuya historia anamnésica se encuentre el antecedente de uno o más abortos anteriores, así como también de partos prematuros y que, ni en los primeros ni en los últimos se haya encontrado una causa bien determinada. En lo posible, se han escogido pacientes con antecedente Serológico Negativo y de constitución topográfica anatómica, en cuanto a pelvis se refiere, normales. Es de lógica que, a una enferma con una desviación uterina o con un tumor pélvico, no se puede achacar el aborto a deficiencia de Progesterona o de cualquiera otra hormona, pues la causa es verdaderamente objetiva.

Algunas enseñanzas de las crisis bancarias recientes: el caso uruguayo

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José Manuel Quijano

2005-01-01

El trabajo indaga en algunas de las características de las crisis bancarias del presente así como en el desenlace que las mismas han tenido en los últimos años. Se analiza el caso de Uruguay y se hace referencia al de Argentina, quienes transitaron por una importante crisis cambiaria y bancaria en 1982 y veinte años después, en 2002, volvieron a tropezar con una nueva crisis de dimensión más amplia que la anterior y de graves consecuencias económicas y sociales. El primer apart...

The uncertain foundation of neo-Darwinism: metaphysical and epistemological pluralism in the evolutionary synthesis.

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Delisle, Richard G

2009-06-01

The Evolutionary Synthesis is often seen as a unification process in evolutionary biology, one which provided this research area with a solid common theoretical foundation. As such, neo-Darwinism is believed to constitute from this time onward a single, coherent, and unified movement offering research guidelines for investigations. While this may be true if evolutionary biology is solely understood as centred around evolutionary mechanisms, an entirely different picture emerges once other aspects of the founding neo-Darwinists' views are taken into consideration, aspects potentially relevant to the elaboration of an evolutionary worldview: the tree of life, the ontological distinctions of the main cosmic entities (inert matter, biological organisms, mind), the inherent properties of self-organizing matter, evolutionary ethics, and so on. Profound tensions and inconsistencies are immediately revealed in the neo-Darwinian movement once this broader perspective is adopted. This pluralism is such that it is possible to identify at least three distinct and quasi-incommensurable epistemological/metaphysical frameworks as providing a proper foundation for neo-Darwinism. The analysis of the views of Theodosius Dobzhansky, Bernhard Rensch, and Ernst Mayr will illustrate this untenable pluralism, one which requires us to conceive of the neo-Darwinian research agenda as being conducted in more than one research programme or research tradition at the same time.

A Patchwork of Marriages: The Legal Relevance of Marriage in a Plural Legal System

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Elsje Bonthuys

2016-12-01

Full Text Available Like many former colonies, South Africa has a plural system of family law which has historically recognized the polygynous marriages practiced by the indigenous African inhabitants of the country. However, recognition of these marriages by way of legal pluralism does not afford them equal status with the monogamous Judaeo-Christian marriage imported by European colonisers, nor does it ensure gender equality within families. Instead, the interaction between the colonial and apartheid socio-economic oppression of black people on the one hand, and legal pluralism on the other hand, produces a highly complex family law system, accurately described as ‘a patchwork of patriarchies.’ This paper argues that a far more radical transformation of family law, and one which is more likely to enhance gender equality, would be to move away from conjugality, or a sexual bond, as the basis of marriage and family law. The aim of this shift would be legal rules which recognize those relationships of kinship which have been central to African family practices and which have assisted many families to weather the multiple forms of colonial and white domination. A move away from conjugality as the primary basis of family law would also acknowledge the ever decreasing incidence of marriage and nuclear families, which characterizes contemporary South African society and would place the focus of legal regulation on the protection of socially valuable relationships, rather than the protection of marriage as an institution. Al igual que otras antiguas colonias, Sudáfrica tiene un sistema de derecho de familia plural, que ha reconocido históricamente los matrimonios en poliginia practicados por personas indígenas africanas. Sin embargo, el reconocimiento de estos matrimonios mediante pluralismo jurídico no les garantiza el mismo estatus que el matrimonio monogámico judeocristiano, ni garantiza la igualdad de género dentro de las familias. Al contrario, la

PLURALITY AND DIVERSITY IN ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN RESEARCH

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Ashraf M. Salama

2017-07-01

Full Text Available Demonstrating the essence of the journal as a truly international platform that covers issues of interest and concern to the global academic and professional community, this issue of Archnet-IJAR, volume 11, issue # 2, July 2017 includes various topics that manifest plurality and diversity as inherent qualities of architectural and urban research published in the journal.  Topics include architectural education and design studio teaching, urban and rural slums, heritage and historic environments in various contexts, participatory planning and the charrette process, assessment of public spaces and plazas, and human perception of the built environment. These topics are debated and analytically discussed within cities, settlements, and urban environments in Bahrain, Bangladesh, California-USA, Libya, Scotland, and Spain. The issue also includes three papers selected from the Fifth Architectural Jordanian International Conference – 1-3 November 2016, which uniquely speak to the context of Jordan and the wider Middle East. The edition ends with a book review that highlights emerging issues related to border landscapes and social ecologies.

Legislating separation and solidarity in plural societies: the Chinese in Indonesia and Malaysia.

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Hwang, Julie Chernov; Sadiq, Kamal

2010-01-01

The Chinese minority plays a dominant role in the economies of Indonesia and Malaysia, a fact that evokes indigenous resentment. However, Indonesia and Malaysia dealt differently with the issue. Malaysia legislated the Malays into the economy and protected Chinese citizenship, making them an integral part of a multicultural state. By contrast, New Order Indonesia adopted policies of economic manipulation, forced assimilation, and unequal citizenship. Only when the New Order regime fell did Chinese integration begin. The policy trajectories of Indonesia and Malaysia offer important lessons for plural states.

A psychology of religious plurality: from intra-religious dialogue to intra-psychic reality.

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Kramp, Joseph M

2012-09-01

Panikkar's (The intra-religious dialogue, 1978) classic, re-issued by Paulist Press in 1999, grapples with the theological challenges in the disciplines of comparative theology and the theology of religions through what he terms, "intra-religious dialogue." In this psychology of religious plurality, I use works from a variety of disciplines to highlight the achievements of Panikkar's intra-religious dialogue, as well as to critique his work in the hope of finding categories of understanding that can be profitably used to face the inter-personal crises of the contemporary world, namely religious terrorism.

Methodological pluralism in the teaching of Astronomy

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de Macedo, Josué Antunes; Voelzke, Marcos Rincon

2015-04-01

This paper discusses the feasibility of using a teaching strategy called methodological pluralism, consisting of the use of various methodological resources in order to provide a meaningful learning. It is part of a doctoral thesis, which aims to investigate contributions to the use of traditional resources combined with digital technologies, in order to create autonomy for future teachers of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in relation to themes in Astronomy. It was offered an extension course at the "Federal Institution of Education, Science and Technology" in the North of Minas Gerais (FINMG), Campus Januaria, for thirty-two students of licentiate courses in Physics, Mathematics and Biological Sciences, involving themes of Astronomy, in order to search and contribute to improving the training of future teachers. The following aspects are used: the mixed methodology, with pre-experimental design, combined with content analysis. The results indicate the rates of students' prior knowledge in relation to Astronomy was low; meaningful learning indications of concepts related to Astronomy, and the feasibility of using digital resources Involving technologies, articulated with traditional materials in the teaching of Astronomy. This research sought to contribute to the initial teacher training, especially in relation to Astronomy Teaching, proposing new alternatives to promote the teaching of this area of knowledge, extending the methodological options of future teachers.

De patris auctoritate: los poderes excepcionales del padre en algunas comedias de Tirso de Molina

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Lamari, Naima

2011-01-01

En algunas comedias serias de Tirso de Molina tales como La villana de la Sagra, La elección por la virtud, Ventura te dé Dios, hijo, El honroso atrevimiento y El mayor desengaño, la voluntad paterna aparece como la norma moral y social suprema. El pater familias manda en todo como jefe absoluto y detenta todos los derechos incluso el de disponer de la vida de su progenie.

Sobre el estudio de la función cuadrática y su relación con el área de algunas figuras y su visualización usando Cabri II Plus

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Vera Barrios, Dídimo

2013-01-01

Propuesta didáctica en donde se presentan algunas actividades dinámicas usando Cabri II Plus con el fin de relacionar algunos aspectos que tienen que ver con el área de algunas figuras y la función cuadrática.

A natural-law approach to human rights in a plural society

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Parisoli, Luca

2010-10-01

Full Text Available I propose a medieval voluntaristic version of natural-law theory, as a plausible strategy to implement fundamental rights in a culturally non-homogeneous society; it is, in particular, the version proposed by the Franciscan school, which proposes a substantial cut between pre-lapsarian and post-lapsarian natural law (the former corresponding to the sphere of fundamental rights of persons while the lattrer marks the sphere of institutional rights of individuals in a given society, with a plurality of the common good. With necessary semantical precisions, this strategy safeguards the political value of tolerance and the real plurality of sundry cultural models withan one society, although such as belong to a certain culture are convinced it is superior to others. This strategy is opposed to ethical legalism, widespread in modern political debate, which I blame for its tendency to homogeneity and its reduction of plurality to non-culturality.

Propongo una versión voluntarista medieval del jusnaturalismo como estrategia plausible para implementar los derechos fundamentales en una sociedad culturalmente no-homogénea; trátase, en particular, de la versión de la escuela franciscana, que propone una discontinuidad sustancial entre el derecho natural que precede a la Caída (esfera de los derechos fundamentales de la persona y el derecho natural que sigue a la Caída (esfera de los derechos institucionales de los individuos de una sociedad dada, con una pluralidad del bien común. Tras las necesarias precisiones semánticas, esa estrategia conserva el valor político de la tolerancia y la pluralidad efectiva de los modelos culturales en una misma sociedad, aunque quienes pertenecen a una cultura determinada estén persuadidos de la superioridad de su propia cultura sobre las demás. Opónese esa estrategia al legalismo ético, difundido en el debate político contemporáneo, al cual critico por su tendencia homogeneizante y su reducción de la

Algunas notas para pensar la asistencia desde el proceso de formación profesional

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Chechele, Melina

2016-01-01

Atendiendo a los objetivos del Foro, intentaré esbozar algunas ideas que habiliten a pensar las nociones de asistencia y ayuda social presentes –de forma recurrente- en las estudiantes3 avanzadas de la Licenciatura en Trabajo Social FCJS-UNL, y sus implicancias en la formación profesional concomitante al escenario actual, signado no sólo por un cambio de gestión política, sino por las profundas transformaciones del modelo de estado y desarrollo. Las respuestas de dichas estudiantes son pro...

ALGUNAS REFLEXIONES SOBRE LAS TENSIONES DE LA PROTECCION SOCIAL EN EL SIGLO XXI

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Margarita Elena Rozas Pagaza

2012-01-01

Full Text Available La ponencia tiene como objetivo articular las trasformaciones de las políticas públicas respecto a su concepción y trayectoria histórica vinculada a las transformaciones dei proceso de acumulación dei sistema capitalista, ai mismo tiempo intenta explicitar de manera general algunas rasgos que configuran el debate actual de las políticas públicas sobre todo en países cuyos procesos sociopolíticos plantean la inclusión social y finalmente, aborda la importancia de este proceso en el desarrollo dei campo profesional de los trabajadores sociales.

Drawing and Storytelling as Political Action: Difference, Plurality and Coming into Presence in the Early Childhood Classroom

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Sunday, Kristine E.

2018-01-01

This article is an embodied representation of how narrative illustrates Hannah Arendt's ideas of action, natality and plurality. It is, in essence, a story of a story that situates the actions of two young children as an instance where difference came together through the political and public act of drawing. Throughout the unfolding of the event,…

Algunas observaciones sobre la religión y su lenguaje en el segundo Wittgenstein

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Ortega Álvarez, Manuel

2009-01-01

A partir de las tesis referentes al lenguaje en las Investigaciones filosóficas, se analiza la manera en que Wittgenstein comprende el lenguaje religioso, especialmente en las Lecciones y conversaciones sobre estética, psicología y creencia religiosa. Al final del artículo se sostiene que el pluralismo que le otorga el segundo Wittgenstein al lenguaje, puede ser un elemento que favorezca un discurso religioso-teológico inclusivo y plural, en continua revisión y cambio, y en diálogo constante ...

Estudio folklórico de algunas plantas medicamentosas y tóxicas de la región norte del Perú

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Guillermo Cruz Sánchez

1951-01-01

Full Text Available El estudio de nuestro plant-lore expuesto en esta nota nos ha dado el conocimiento de especies botánicas de valor inapreciable para la Farmacoetrapéutica. Entre ésta se han encontrado algunas plantas, cuyos principios, activos tienen acciones metabólicas, otras que producen gran aumento de la coagulación de la sangre y del tiempo de sangría, sin producir trombosis, ni homólisis, aún otras que producen acciones catatónicas, farmaconeurológicas y farmacopsiquiátricas muy intensas. Todas estas drogas pueden administrarse por vía oral, parenteral o tópica; algunas de estas plantas medicamentosas y tóxicas se encuentran actualmente en estudio Farmacológico y clínico.

Verb agreement in the third plural person in European Portuguese: variation or semi-categorical rules?

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Cássio Florêncio Rubio

2015-01-01

The aim of this article is to characterize the verb agreement in the third person plural in the European Portuguese, and to present the points involved in this phenomenon. For the analysis, we resorted on the Theory of Linguistic Variation (LABOV 1972, 1994, 2003). The interviews debated in the quantitative analysis are from “Reference Corpus of Contemporary Portuguese”, published by the Linguistics Centre of the University of Lisbon (CLUL). The results show the influence of subject position,...

El desempleo estructural y la tasa natural de desempleo: algunas consideraciones teóricas y su estado actual en Colombia

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Will Alexander Yarce

2000-07-01

Full Text Available n la actualidad, el concepto teórico de la tasa natural de desempleo ha trascendido las cátedras universitarias para convertirse en una herramienta útil para analistas y responsables de la política económica. En este artículo, la tasa natural de desempleo es el eje central de análisis y en él se plantean, en la primera parte, algunas consideraciones teóricas asociadas al desempleo estructural y a la tasa natural de desempleo y sus determinantes. La segunda parte del artículo se refiere a las estimaciones de la tasa natural en Colombia, los cambios estructurales en años recientes y a los cálculos del autor de la tasa natural para el periodo 1984-1997. Por último, se plantean algunas conclusiones, a manera de reflexiones finales e implementaciones de política.

Trans-Boundary Haze Pollution in Southeast Asia: Sustainability through Plural Environmental Governance

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Md Saidul Islam

2016-05-01

Full Text Available Recurrent haze in Southeast Asian countries including Singapore is largely attributable to rampant forest fires in Indonesia due to, for example, extensive slash-and-burn (S & B culture. Drawing on the “treadmill of production” and environmental governance approach, we examine causes and consequences of this culture. We found that, despite some perceived benefits, its environmental consequences include deforestation, soil erosion and degradation, global warming, threats to biodiversity, and trans-boundary haze pollution, while the societal consequences comprise regional tension, health risks, economic and productivity losses, as well as food insecurity. We propose sustainability through a plural coexistence framework of governance for targeting S & B that incorporates strategies of incentives, education and community resource management.

Hick’s Religious Pluralism and Plantinga’s Exclusivism in a Comparative Encounter

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Mahdi Jahanmehr

2013-12-01

Full Text Available The issue of religious diversity is one of the significant issues in philosophy of religion. The existence of different religions in the world is an inevitable fact. Nowadays, due to the unprecedented development of information technology and public awareness of different beliefs across the nations have made the acknowledgement of religious diversity more widespread than the past. Being this the case, the questions as to religious diversity have been taken to the fore and contemporary man finds himself exposed to the question that how should a believer approach the other beliefs? Could all religions despite the differences they have in their dogmas, beliefs and doctrines be legitimate? Will the followers of all beliefs touch salvation?       Accordingly, among the key issues of philosophy of religion are the issue of legitimacy of different religions and the issue of salvation of followers of different creeds. This essay is an epistemological assessment of Hick and Plantinga on the legitimacy of religions in a comparative context. The following questions represent the guidelines of the present essay: How much is pluralism rationally and epistemologically feasible in its claim as to the legitimacy of all beliefs and the equal access of followers of all creeds to salvation? Does Plantinga's exclusivist taking as to religious truth and salvation and narrowing them down to Christianity and Christians have rational and epistemological justification? Hick has propounded his pluralism as a cure to difficulties caused by Christian religious exclusivism and inclusivism. Having insisted on the salvation promoting evolution from egotism to theism as the basic substance of religion, Hick traces the differences of religions back to the inattention to the symbolic language of religion. On the other hand, Plantinga takes the existing differences between religions as an evidence indicating the contradictoriness of pluralism and legitimacy of religious

Using endografts from superelastic titanium-nickelid-based alloy singular tissue plural tissues in organ-preserving surgery of laryngeal cancer

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Our study has demonstrated feasibility of performing larynx preservation surgeries in patients with recurrent laryngeal cancer after failure of radiotherapy. The technique of combined laryngeal reconstruction with endografts from superelastic titanium-nickelid-based alloy Singular tissue Plural tissues results in improvement of life quality by preserving laryngeal functions.

Persistencia y/o transformación de tricotecenos durante algunas etapas del procesamiento de trigo

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Samar, María Margarita

2003-01-01

La finalidad del presente trabajo fue obtener informaciónsobre la persistencia y / o transformación de tricotecenos durante algunas etapas de procesamiento del trigo para contribuir a la estimación de la exposición como consecuencia de la ingesta de alimentos elaborados con trigo potencialmente contaminados por tricotecenos en la Argentina. Las tendencias identificadas en los métodos analíticos para la determinación de tricotecenos, durante los años 1990-2000 en diferentes partes del mundo, m...

Conflictos territoriales y movilizaciones ciudadanas : algunas reflexiones sobre las formas de gobernanza territorial actuales

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Cruz Gallach, Helena

2008-01-01

Si bien el paradigma de la gobernanza apuesta por un escenario de apertura y un mayor pluralismo en la elaboración e implementación de las políticas públicas, la proliferación de los conflictos relacionados con el uso y la gestión del territorio es indicadora de la falta de canales suficientes para la implicación y participación de la ciudadanía durante el proceso de planificación del territorio. El artículo propone analizar algunas de las nuevas problemáticas en las formas de gobernanza terr...

Why Pluralism, Relativism, and Panthareism: An Ethical Landscape with Sport in the Background*

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Kosiewicz Jerzy

2015-06-01

Full Text Available In reference to the monograph entitled “Sports and Ethics: Philosophical Studies”, published in the “Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research” quarterly (2014, vol. 62, and in particular in reference to the paper entitled “The Normative Ethics and Sport” (Kosiewicz, 2014, pp. 5-22, the article presents new and at the same time supplementary views on the relationships between sports and normative ethics. The main objective of the paper is to provide a rationale as to why these relationships may be viewed in the context of the assumptions of ethical pluralism, ethical relativism, ethical panthareism, and axionormative negationism.

Análisis de la gestión del cambio en implantaciones de soluciones ERP en algunas empresas de Colombia y de México

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John Jairo Arboleda Medina

2008-07-01

Full Text Available Dentro de las actividades desarrolladas por el grupo de investigación “Cultura Corporativa y Perdurabilidad Organizacional” de la Facultad de Administración de Empresas de la Universidad Externado de Colombia, recientemente categorizado por Colciencias, se vienen adelantando varios trabajos tendientes a establecer la relación entre cultura y cambio organizacional. Uno de ellos es este estudio denominado “Análisis de la gestión del cambio en implantaciones de soluciones erp en algunas empresas de Colombia y México”. El objetivo de la presente investigación es conocer y analizar los procesos de gestión del cambio desarrollados durante y después de las implantaciones tecnológicas en algunas empresas colombianas y mexicanas, con el fin de identificar aciertos y dificultades propias de la gestión que sirvan de referencia para futuros proyectos. La recolección de la información requerida para el desarrollo de la investigación fue recabada mediante la aplicación de entrevistas y encuestas1, aplicadas a 21 empresas entre colombianas y mexicanas, algunas de ellas adquirieron la solución y otras actuaron como firmas consultoras en el proceso de implantación. En cada una de estas empresas se entrevistó y/o encuestó a uno o varios directivos de primer nivel y gerencia media que patrocinaron procesos de cambio o han ocupado las posiciones de gerentes de proyecto o líderes de equipos de cambio. Para presentar los resultados, a nivel cualitativo, se seleccionaron y clasificaron los testimonios más relevantes, con el fin de utilizarlos como ilustración ye a nivel cuantitativo, se tabularon los resultados y se crearon gráficas que muestran algunas tendencias.

Religious pluralism into Lusophony: a question of freedom

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Lisete S. Mendes Mónico

2016-03-01

Full Text Available This article aims to contribute with a reflection about religious pluralism and religious freedom into Lusophony. Reviving pieces of history since the 15th century to the current post-colonial Portuguese society, Lusophony is analyzed in two complementary perspectives: That of the colonizing people and that of the colonized nations. Evangelization, colonization and Lusophony are, and always will be, inseparable. In addition to linguistic uniformity, Lusophony gave its distinctiveness in acculturation, miscegenation, plasticity, and Christianization policy. Using the census data in the 90’s, 2000’s, and 2010’s, with a documentary approach, it is established a general overview of religious affiliation in Lusophony. Moving from a faith of obligation to a faith of conviction, Lusophony is nowadays characterized by a pluralist position in religious matters. The current situation of religious freedom is analyzed from the AIS report and the GRI (Government restriction index and SHI (social hostilities involving religion indexes. From multiculturalism to acculturation, the plasticity, eclecticism, and religious syncretism acted as moderators towards the imposition of a new belief. The article ends by appealing to the inclusion of religious freedom in the political agenda, in order to defend human rights and peace in the world.

Hierarchy, causation and explanation: ubiquity, locality and pluralism

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Love, Alan C.

2012-01-01

The ubiquity of top-down causal explanations within and across the sciences is prima facie evidence for the existence of top-down causation. Much debate has been focused on whether top-down causation is coherent or in conflict with reductionism. Less attention has been given to the question of whether these representations of hierarchical relations pick out a single, common hierarchy. A negative answer to this question undermines a commonplace view that the world is divided into stratified ‘levels’ of organization and suggests that attributions of causal responsibility in different hierarchical representations may not have a meaningful basis for comparison. Representations used in top-down and bottom-up explanations are primarily ‘local’ and tied to distinct domains of science, illustrated here by protein structure and folding. This locality suggests that no single metaphysical account of hierarchy for causal relations to obtain within emerges from the epistemology of scientific explanation. Instead, a pluralist perspective is recommended—many different kinds of top-down causation (explanation) can exist alongside many different kinds of bottom-up causation (explanation). Pluralism makes plausible why different senses of top-down causation can be coherent and not in conflict with reductionism, thereby illustrating a productive interface between philosophical analysis and scientific inquiry. PMID:23386966

Adolescencia femenina y ritual. La celebración de las quinceañeras en algunas comunidades en México

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Full Text Available El desarrollo sexual humano, a diferencia del de otras especies, se da en dos fases, la segunda de las cuales, llamada adolescencia, se caracteriza por un gran incremento de los impulsos sexuales y agresivos y una especial flexibilidad que permite reacomodos de la subjetividad para su integración a la vida adulta. La adolescencia representa un reto para las diversas comunidades que buscan, cada una a su manera, encauzar la energía de las y los nacientes adultos a fin de que se invierta en formas que no amenacen el equilibrio social, pero algunas de las ofertas culturales hechas a las y los adolescentes limitan también su potencial de desarrollo y creatividad. En el presente artículo, la autora rastrea los significados de la fiesta de 15 años con la que se celebra exclusivamente a mujeres en algunas comunidades mexicanas y se pregunta por los mensajes que tal fiesta intenta hacer llegar a la niña que se vuelve mujer, así como por los posibles beneficios y limitaciones que ella representa.

Examination of the Locus of Positional Effects on Children's Production of Plural -"s": Considerations from Local and Global Speech Planning

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Theodore, Rachel M.; Demuth, Katherine; Shattuck-Hufnagel, Stefanie

2015-01-01

Purpose: Prosodic and articulatory factors influence children's production of inflectional morphemes. For example, plural -"s" is produced more reliably in utterance-final compared to utterance-medial position (i.e., the positional effect), which has been attributed to the increased planning time in utterance-final position. In previous…

Calendar Pluralism and the Cultural Heritage of Domination and Resistance (Tuareg and Other Saharans)

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Oxby, Clare

This article is about Saharan calendars from precolonial times to the present. It shows that multiple calendar use has been a constant feature throughout the centuries, that the distinction between indigenous and imported has little meaning in this region of long-standing cultural exchange, and that many Saharan communities still simultaneously use differing official state, literate specialist, and local popular calendars. Social and political explanations of calendar pluralism are presented, contrasting the center view whereby calendars constitute a means of social control and the periphery view whereby communities may affirm their cultural autonomy through particular calendar choices.

Algunas contribuciones al debate sobre la clínica de las psicosis

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Juan Manuel Rodríguez

Full Text Available La clínica de las psicosis plantea la necesidad de establecer una modalidad de tratamiento diferente al tratamiento de las neurosis. Esta practica implica un trabajo multidisciplinario cercano y frecuente en donde se establecen algunas coordenadas fundamentales en el devenir del tratamiento. Asimismo, en el interior del grupo de trabajo se presentan algunos fenómenos similares a la dinámica propia del paciente psicotico, por ello se hace necesario considerar la locura del grupo como un factor dinámico del tratamiento. En este sentido es fundamental partir de la singularidad del paciente para desarrollar el modelo único en cada caso, en el cual la intervención es un elemento que pretende sostener aquello que falla en la dimensión delirante del paciente.

Verb agreement in the third plural person in European Portuguese: variation or semi-categorical rules?

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Cássio Florêncio Rubio

2015-09-01

Full Text Available The aim of this article is to characterize the verb agreement in the third person plural in the European Portuguese, and to present the points involved in this phenomenon. For the analysis, we resorted on the Theory of Linguistic Variation (LABOV 1972, 1994, 2003. The interviews debated in the quantitative analysis are from “Reference Corpus of Contemporary Portuguese”, published by the Linguistics Centre of the University of Lisbon (CLUL. The results show the influence of subject position, semantic feature of the subject, and morphological type of the subject in Linguistics.

The Holy Grail of outer space: pluralism, Druidry, and the religion of cinema in The Sky Ship.

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Bjørnvig, Thore

2012-10-01

The Danish silent movie Himmelskibet (in English, A Trip to Mars or The Sky Ship) premiered in 1918, and a novelization of the movie appeared in 1921. The film is about a trip to Mars and portrays a Martian civilization that embraces a life of peace, vegetarianism, and non-alcoholism. Both movie and novel, though especially the novel, provide insight into the plurality-of-worlds debate in Denmark in the early 20(th) century, forming as it did a part of a general debate about the relationship between science and religion. Yet The Sky Ship did not only form part of this debate but also displayed strong religious currents itself. Most notably, a romantic, Neo-Platonically inspired Christian version of Druidry informed the portrayal of the Martians and their society. Finally, the medium itself played a role in the story. By transcending language barriers, silent movies were imagined by some to be a kind of "Esperanto of the eye" that would usher in a new golden age for mankind, even contributing to ending the horrors of World War I. Thus, The Sky Ship offers insight into an intriguing conglomeration of pluralism, religion, and technology that should be of interest to historians of astrobiology.

Plural Governance and Performance - a review of explanations and a model

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Mols, Niels Peter

2007-01-01

Plural governance is a strategy where a firm is making and buying the same good or service (Bradach & Eccles 1989; Heide 2003; Parmigiani 2007). This paper reviews and compares explanations to why firms both make and buy, and based on the review it develops a model suggesting how the combination...... of buying and making the same component or service affects performance. The model suggests that both making and buying the same product or service has several effects on performance: (1) it reduces the negative relationships between uncertainty and performance in both the market and the hierarchy, (2......) it reduces the negative relationship between transaction specific assets and performance in the market, (3) it reduces the cost of determining transfer prices in the hierarchy, (4) it enhances the positive effect of strong internal and external capabilities, and (5) finally it adds cost because of increased...

Sistemas y políticas de investigación, desarrollo e innovación. Algunas propuestas

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Salvador Estrada

2009-01-01

se ha realizado en el campo de las políticas públicas enfocadas en la promoción de actividades innovadoras en las empresas mexicanas. En el artículo se demuestra que a pesar de existir numerosos elementos de convergencia en la literatura todavía existen algunas lagunas. Dichos vacíos ofrecen a los investigadores interesados en el tema un gran número de avenidas para nuevos proyectos de investigación sobre políticas de innovación.

Acciones y habilidades. Algunas discrepancias entre psicólogos y didactas

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Carlos Ezequiel Pino-Pupo

2012-01-01

Full Text Available Abordó puntos de vista discrepantes entre representantes de algunas escuelas de Psicología y de Didáctica cubanas. Durante varios años de investigación en torno a la problemática de la formación de habilidades, se han encontrado posiciones teóricas, muy variadas y son diversos los criterios acerca de la movilidad entre las acciones y las operaciones y en torno a la automatización de unas u otras. Se analiza la equivalencia entre términos de la Didáctica, la Psicología y la Metodología con una propuesta nueva. La intencionalidad del artículo radica en que a partir de las posiciones teóricas asumidas, puede haber una reconsideración de términos utilizados como son los casos de la acción, la operación, la habilidad y el hábito.

Influencia del tipo de escuela (especial o regular y algunas variables socioeconómicas sobre el aprovechamiento escolar del alumnado con discapacidad

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Ismael García-Cedillo

2016-01-01

Full Text Available En México, el alumnado con discapacidad puede asistir a los centros de atención múltiple (CAM o bien a algunas escuelas regulares para recibir su educación básica. El objetivo de este trabajo es identificar la influencia del tipo de escuela (CAM o escuela regular y algunas variables socioeconómicas sobre el rendimiento académico estudiantil. Se trabajó con cinco pares de estudiantes con discapacidades similares de un preescolar regular y un CAM. Se aplicó la Batería de Woodcock-Muñoz (BWM para determinar el rendimiento académico, una entrevista a las madres y un protocolo de observación de aula. Se encontró que el alumnado de las escuelas regulares es más joven, proviene de hogares menos desfavorecidos y obtiene mejores puntajes en la BWM que el de CAM.

Algunas consideraciones sobre el uso de la prueba de Mc Nemar en las intervenciones educativas

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Irlán Amaro Guerra

2013-11-01

Full Text Available En este artículo se exponen algunas consideraciones acerca del empleo de la prueba de Mc Nemar en las intervenciones educativas, así como de los elementos que se deben tener en cuenta para su cálculo y correcta aplicación, dado que el sesgo de confusión constituye uno de los errores que con mayor frecuencia se observan en las investigaciones biomédicas, específicamente en la presentación y el análisis de la información en el mencionado diseño de estudio.

Reducing power consumption during execution of an application on a plurality of compute nodes

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Archer, Charles J [Rochester, MN; Blocksome, Michael A [Rochester, MN; Peters, Amanda E [Rochester, MN; Ratterman, Joseph D [Rochester, MN; Smith, Brian E [Rochester, MN

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Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for reducing power consumption during execution of an application on a plurality of compute nodes that include: executing, by each compute node, an application, the application including power consumption directives corresponding to one or more portions of the application; identifying, by each compute node, the power consumption directives included within the application during execution of the portions of the application corresponding to those identified power consumption directives; and reducing power, by each compute node, to one or more components of that compute node according to the identified power consumption directives during execution of the portions of the application corresponding to those identified power consumption directives.

INDONESIA: FROM PLURALISM TO MULTICULTURALISM

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Wasino Wasino

2013-07-01

Full Text Available Indonesia was not a new entity when started to become national country. It was called a continuation of the history of the Dutch East Indies. The people lived under western colonial was a pluralistic society, people separated by social class, ethnicity, religion, race and inter-group. Between the authorities and the people separated along racial lines. In addition there was the separation of ethnic groups associated with the economic, educational and social relations. After Indonesian independence the pluralistic society situation continues. The end of the New Order has opened a Pandora's Box of poor relations between ethnic and inter-religious. As a result many conflicts occurred based on religious and ethnic differences. The conflict heated up as the influx of political interests. The process of political reform gave birth to a new awareness of the relationship between ethnicity and religion. The starting point of this change was when the President Abdurrahman Wahid unlocked barriers on multicultural relationship that respects the differences of cultural orientation among the existing ethnic. From that moment the concept of multiculturalism experienced socialization process within Indonesian society. Key words: pluralism, multiculturalism, colonial, new order, socialization Ketika Indonesia lahir sebagai negara nasional, Indonesia bukanlah  entitas yang baru. Ia merupakan kelanjutan  sejarah dari masyarakat yang disebut Hindia Belanda. Masyarakat di bawah penjajah Barat ini merupakan masyarakat majemuk, masyarakat yang terpisah-pisah berdasarkan kelas sosial, suku, agama, ras, dan antar golongan. Antara penguasa dan rakyat terpisah secara garis rasial. Selain itu ada pe-misahan suku bangsa terkait dengan ekonomi, pendidikan, dan hubungan-hubungan sosial. Setelah Indonesia merdeka situasi masyarakat majemuk terus berlangsung. Berakhirnya Orde Baru telah membuka kotak pandora  buruknya hubungan antar etnik dan antar agama. Akibatnya

Desafíos de la educación secundaria en Argentina: Pensar juntos algunas transformaciones necesarias y posibles

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Horacio Ademar Ferreyra

2016-03-01

Full Text Available A partir del conocimiento construido en un estudio acerca de las características y procesos de la Educación Secundaria en Argentina en el período 2000-2010, desarrollado con el propósito de caracterizar los principales retos y posibilidades de este tramo del sistema educativo, se presentan en este artículo algunas propuestas de cambio que implican transformaciones necesarias y posibles con la intención de aportar a la resignificación del nivel. Como alternativa a un enfoque jerárquico de arriba-abajo o abajo-arriba, que sitúa en la parte superior a los gobiernos y en la base a quienes trabajan en las escuelas, se propugnan otras lógicas y dinámicas para estas relaciones. Desde ellas, se enuncian algunas acciones prioritarias para las políticas educativas en los ámbitos escolar (micro, provincial (meso y federal (macro, con especial atención a sus interacciones. La idea central es la necesidad de una real apropiación de los cambios concertados en el nivel federal por parte de los sujetos (personas e instituciones que dan vida a la educación: las jurisdicciones y las escuelas.

Análisis de algunas WebQuest dedicadas a la historia de las Matemáticas

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Falcón , Oscar Jesús; Falcón, Raúl Manuel; Núñez, Juan; Tenorio, Angel

2010-01-01

Este artículo trata el concepto y la utilización de las WebQuest por parte del profesorado de Matemáticas en los diferentes niveles educativos, haciendo énfasis tanto en Educación Secundaria Obligatoria como en Bachillerato. Más concretamente, se comentan algunas de las escasas WebQuest existentes en Internet y versando sobre la Historia de las Matemáticas en castellano, además de realizar un estudio crítico de las mismas, indicando aquellos aspectos, que en nuestra opinión, podrían consid...

Notas sobre Algunas Arañas de Antioquia.

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H. Daniel

1940-09-01

Full Text Available Las arañas son animales del grupo de los artrópodos, que se caracterizan por la presencia de dos partes marcadamente distintas del cuerpo, la anterior, denominada cefalotórax, de la cual se desprenden las patas en número de cuatro pares, y la posterior o abdomen, que es relativamente prominente, en cuya terminación, por la parte inferior, se halla el opérculo anal rodeado generalmente de seis pequeños mamelones o hileras que son el órgano esencial para la fabricación de la tela. Por regla general, los arácnidos están provistos de glándulas secretoras de substancias tóxicas. El estudio de estos venenos y su acción en los organismos vivos y en especial en el hombre, constituye lo que se llama el araneísmo. Las arañas que hacen sus telas en los rincones de las habitaciones no presentan importancia a este respecto, pues cuando por una rara circunstancia algunas de estas arañas han picado a alguno, dicha no tiene trascendencia de ninguna especie; su presencia puede ser más bien útil, pues destruyen zancudos, polillas, etc., de modo que si no fuera por el singular adorno de sus .telas que dan aspecto de suciedad a una habitación, podría hasta conservárselas.

Sobre algunas técnicas pesqueras tradicionales vascas.

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Jose Maria Merino

1990-01-01

Full Text Available Hemos limitado nuestra atención al estudio de las pesquerías tradicionales modestas, realizadas con aparejos de anzuelo en las costas vascas y cantábricas. Las primeras noticias que de ellas nos llegan remontan al siglo XII y XIV, haciendo referencia a las pescas de besugos y cazones, siendo la más antigua una procedente de 1272 que menciona las pesqueras de congrios de Bayona. Recogemos información de los aparejos habitualmente usados para estas pescas, insistiendo en que, en un principio, se utilizaron sólamente aparejos de mano, y que la aparición de los primeros palangres de gran fondo es mucho más reciente de lo que se había pensado. Económicamente, tras la pesca del besugo y la merluza, se explotó la pesca de los entonces denominados «peces de cuero» (pequeños escualos y, con una intensidad muy superior a la actual, graciasa su fácil conservación, la de los congrios. Se exponen los aparejos utilizados para la captura de estas especies y algunas características de las maniobras que realizan nuestros pescadores, así como algunos modos de comercialización y conservación del pescado. He intentado, a la vez, recoger cuantas voces vascas se refieren al tema, muchas de ellas fonéticamente, ya hace medio siglo, y sus variantes locales. Asimismo las correspondientes voces castellanas.

Aspectos de la historia del descubrimiento de algunas vitaminas Aspects of the history of the discovery of some vitamins

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Miriam Bolet Astoviza

2004-08-01

Full Text Available Hasta hace relativamente poco tiempo, los médicos no tomaban en serio la indicación de la dieta apropiada a cada enfermedad para lograr la mejoría y la curación de los pacientes. Nos propusimos como objetivo actualizar los conocimientos de aspectos de la historia de la nutrición y de los descubrimientos de algunas vitaminas. Se realizó una revisión de la historia de la alimentación y del descubrimiento de algunas vitaminas en el mundo. Se visitó la biblioteca del museo "Carlos Juan Finlay" de la Academia de Ciencias, donde se revisaron libros de la época en que se desarrollaron los descubrimientos científicos relacionados con la nutrición y las vitaminas C, B y A. Además se revisaron otras bibliografías y se concluyó que el estudio de la historia de la nutrición y del descubrimiento de algunas vitaminas, en la que tantos científicos se han esforzado, es muy importante, porque sirve de ejemplo para continuar las investigaciones de problemas de salud aún no definidos.Until recently, the physicians did not take seriously the indication of a suitable diet for every disease to attain the improvement and cure of the patients. Objective: to update the knowledge of different aspects of the history of nutrition and of the discovery of some vitamins. A review of the history of nutrition and of the discovery of some vitamins in the world is made. The library of "Carlos J. Finlay" Museum of the Academy of Sciences was visited to review the books of the time when the scientific discoveries related to nutrition and vitamins C, B and A were made. The study of the history of nutrition and of the discovery of some vitamins , in which so many scientists have strived, is very important because it is an example to continue investigating those health problems that have not been defined yet.

In Defense of the Iraqi Media: Between Fueling Conflict and Healthy Pluralism

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Anja Wollenberg

2017-07-01

Full Text Available Despite the occupation and ensuing war, Iraq has experienced the emergence of a truly pluralistic media landscape after the fall of the Baath regime in 2003. Today, media coverage of domestic affairs is characterized not only by pluralism but also by bias and partiality reflecting strong ties between political actors and media outlets. Accordingly, the Iraqi media are often accused of fueling conflict and deepening the ethno-sectarian divide in society. Based on a qualitative frame analysis of Iraqi news bulletins, this study reveals that Iraqi media outlets provide indeed contesting frames on even the most divisive issues. Only the coverage of the armed war against IS is characterized by a non-pluralistic conformity among Iraqi channels that unequivocally focus on military successes against IS and jointly refrain from any criticism against the varied forces fighting IS in Iraq.

Una lectura de los arcanos mayores desde la caverna platónica

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Arango Agudelo, Alejandro

2015-01-01

El presente texto es una experiencia ensayística sobre la reflexión del símbolo, producto de la dialéctica entre la realidad epistémica y las claves del psicoanálisis propuesto por Jung. Desde este encuentro se iluminan algunas interpretaciones de las figuras arquetípicas presentes en los arcanos mayores del Tarot. Está redactado en primera persona del singular y del plural, estructurando un diálogo vitalista entre las percepciones del yo y el inconsciente colectivo.

COMPOSICIÓN ELEMENTAL DE ALGUNAS ESPECIES DE PLANTAS SILVESTRES MEXICANAS

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J. C. Raya Pérez

2009-01-01

Full Text Available El conocer la composición elemental de las plantas puede ser útil desde varios puntos de vista, como el saber sus necesidades nutricionales y tener una idea del tipo de mantillo que se podría formar en un momento dado. En el caso específico del silicio, las plantas que lo acumulan pueden formar fitolitos, muy útiles en paleoecología y arqueología. Se recolectaron especies de plantas de varias partes del centro-occidente de México y se determinó su composición elemental mediante sonda dispersiva de rayos X acoplada a un microscopio electrónico de barrido. Las plantas semiparásitas (plantas que fotosintetizan pero que toman sus nutrientes de la planta que parasitan acumulan cantidades considerables de iones como potasio y cloro para usarlos como osmolitos. Tillandsia recurvata, a pesar de ser epífita, acumula una buena cantidad de silicio, lo mismo que Cyperus sp., registrada como acumuladora de este elemento. Otras especies como Tagetes micrantha, de uso en la cocina mexicana, podrían contribuir en alguna medida al aporte de micronutrientes como potasio y magnesio.

Plural three-wave resonances of space charge wave harmonics in transit section of klystron-type two-stream FEL with helical electron beam

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Lysenko, Alexander; Volk, Iurii; Serozhko, Anastasia

2017-01-01

We have carried out the research of plural three-wave resonances of space charge wave (SCW) harmonics in the transit section of the klystron type two-stream superheterodyne free-electron laser (TSFEL) with helical electron beam in cubic non-linear approximation. We have found out that two...

Contentious terrain in EU information society policies: Media pluralism and freedom of expression

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Miyase Christensen

2008-09-01

Full Text Available In an EU context, the benefits attributed to new communication technologies are many: the creation of employment and economic growth; the enrichment of cultural/political dialogue and civic engagement; and, the permeation of a sense of European identity across the region. However, in the face of an increased emphasis on economic competitiveness both globally and at the EU policy level, there exists an unmistakable convergent approach to audiovisual/communications, cultural and competition policies. Parallel to this is an upsurge of concern—voiced by, for example, the European Parliament—over media pluralism and freedom of expression. Although the virtues of safeguarding “media pluralism” and “freedom of speech” in a healthy democracy are axiomatic, in the face of current dynamics, their meaning is widely contested. The purpose of this article is to offer an analysis of recent EU Information Society (IS policies in relation to media pluralism and freedom of speech. Mediepluralisme og ytringsfrihed: Et omstridt felt inden for EU-informationssamfundspolitikker I en EU-kontekst er der mange fordele, som tilskrives nye kommunikationsteknologier: Skabelsen af beskæftigelse og økonomisk vækst; berigelsen af kulturel/politisk dialog og borgerengagement; og udbredelsen af en fornemmelse af europæisk identitet på tværs af regionerne. Men i lyset af en øget vægtning af økonomisk konkurrence, såvel globalt som i relation til EU's politikker, eksisterer der en umiskendelig sammensat tilgang til politikker for audiovisuel kommunikation, kultur og konkurrence. Parallelt med dette findes en pludselig stigning i interessen omkring mediepluralisme og ytringsfrihed. Skønt værdien af at beskytte ”mediepluralisme” og ”ytringsfrihed” i lyset af aktuelle dynamikker er aksiomatisk i et sundt demokrati, udfordres betydningen af dette i udstrakt grad. Formålet med denne artikel er at give en analyse af nyere EU

Contentious terrain in EU information society policies: Media pluralism and freedom of expression

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Miyase Christensen

2008-12-01

Full Text Available In an EU context, the benefits attributed to new communication technologies are many: the creation of employment and economic growth; the enrichment of cultural/political dialogue and civic engagement; and, the permeation of a sense of European identity across the region. However, in the face of an increased emphasis on economic competitiveness both globally and at the EU policy level, there exists an unmistakable convergent approach to audiovisual/communications, cultural and competition policies. Parallel to this is an upsurge of concern—voiced by, for example, the European Parliament—over media pluralism and freedom of expression. Although the virtues of safeguarding “media pluralism” and “freedom of speech” in a healthy democracy are axiomatic, in the face of current dynamics, their meaning is widely contested. The purpose of this article is to offer an analysis of recent EU Information Society (IS policies in relation to media pluralism and freedom of speech. Mediepluralisme og ytringsfrihed: Et omstridt felt inden for EU-informationssamfundspolitikker I en EU-kontekst er der mange fordele, som tilskrives nye kommunikationsteknologier: Skabelsen af beskæftigelse og økonomisk vækst; berigelsen af kulturel/politisk dialog og borgerengagement; og udbredelsen af en fornemmelse af europæisk identitet på tværs af regionerne. Men i lyset af en øget vægtning af økonomisk konkurrence, såvel globalt som i relation til EU's politikker, eksisterer der en umiskendelig sammensat tilgang til politikker for audiovisuel kommunikation, kultur og konkurrence. Parallelt med dette findes en pludselig stigning i interessen omkring mediepluralisme og ytringsfrihed. Skønt værdien af at beskytte ”mediepluralisme” og ”ytringsfrihed” i lyset af aktuelle dynamikker er aksiomatisk i et sundt demokrati, udfordres betydningen af dette i udstrakt grad. Formålet med denne artikel er at give en analyse af nyere EU

SAQUEOS EN LA ARGENTINA: algunas pistas para su comprensión a partir de los episodios de Córdoba-2013

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Adrián Scribano

Full Text Available Dando continuidad a una serie de reflexiones que se inscriben en el cruce entre los estudios de la acción colectiva, crítica ideológica y sociología de los cuerpos y emociones, este trabajo se propone tramar una explicación de los saqueos en Argentina, en tanto fenómenos asociados a unas políticas de las sensibilidades particulares. Para ello, revisa las maneras existentes para comprender a los saqueos; posteriormente reconstruye – a partir de diferentes fuentes secundarias – una aproximación a la “historia de los saqueos” en la Argentina, describiendo y estableciendo proximidades y distancias con el episodio ocurrido en Córdoba, en 2013. Finalmente desarrolla algunas posibles interpretaciones de este episodio en función del análisis de material cualitativo (observaciones y testimonios de actores. En las conclusiones, se enfatiza el modo en que los saqueos plantean la “sin razón” de unas prácticas del sentir particulares, que pueden describirse en la relación entre flujo, masa, bronca y vértigo. Desde aquí se sintetizan algunas pistas para análisis futuros.

Relación de la intención e ideación suicida con algunas variables

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Palacios, Ximena; Rueda Latiff, Andres; Valderrama, Paola

2008-01-01

El objetivo de este estudio fue hallar la relación de la intención e ideación suicida con algunas variables sociodemográficas, las características de la enfermedad, el tratamiento antirretroviral y los aspectos piscoafectivos en personas con el VIH/SIDA que residen en Bogotá (Colombia) y pertenecientes a una fundación. Para ello, se tomó una muestra de 75 pacientes con VIH positivo a quienes se evaluó a través de una entrevista semiestructurada y dos instrumentos: el inventario de depresión d...

Algunas revisiones: de la Facultad de artes y medios audiovisuales a la Facultad de Bellas Artes

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Muñoz Cobeñas, Leticia Amelia

2010-01-01

En el presente trabajo, intento dar continuidad a las reflexiones presentadas para su publicación, en la Revista Arte e investigación, en la que trabajé, en torno a nuestro objeto de estudio, las artes visuales, y en relación con algunas estrategias pedagógicas que nos hemos implementado en la cátedra Epistemología de las ciencias sociales. Además de las particularidades teóricas que se mencionan en el artículo y que intento profundizar en esta ponencia, comienzo con la tarea de situar nue...

Andreia y sus contrarios. Masculinidades plurales a través del arte

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Elena Sacchetti

2012-09-01

Full Text Available La masculinidad es un efecto de la cultura, una construcción social y una performance más que una esencia universal e inmutable. El modelo masculino hegemónico, basado en una rígida distinción de género y construido sobre el estereotipo del macho y del “proveedor” es puesto en duda en la sociedad actual. El arte contemporáneo, como agente social activo y forma poderosa de comunicación contribuye al cuestionamiento de este modelo proponiendo nuevas formas plurales de masculinidad. En este artículo se desarrolla un estudio acerca de las imágenes de hombre que se plasman en la sociedad española actual por medio del arte contemporáneo, a través del análisis de la obra de una selección de artistas.

Crowdfunding and pluralization: comparison between the coverages of the participatory website Spot.Us and the american press

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Marcelo Ruschel Träsel

2012-12-01

Full Text Available The paper shows results of an analysis about Spot.Us, a news crowdfunding website, ran in the second half of 2010. It was a comparison between the proportions of different subjects appearing on Spot.Us and the same kind of data from of the traditional american press. There are quantitative differences between the subjects on Spot.Us' coverage and that of the american newspapers. Participatory webjournalism can be seen as a way pluralizing the journalistic coverage, as in the template proposed by Gans.

Method and apparatus for simultaneously measuring a plurality of spectral wavelengths present in electromagnetic radiation

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Buican, Tudor N.; Martin, John C.

1990-01-01

An apparatus and method simultaneously measures a plurality of spectral wavelengths present in electromagnetic radiation. A modulatable birefringent optical element is employed to divide a polarized light beam into two components, thereby producing a phase difference in two resulting light beams such that the two beams can be made to interfere with one another when recombined, the interference pattern providing the wavelength information required for the analysis of the incident light. The interferometer thus created performs in a similar manner to a Michelson interferometer, but with no moving parts, and with a resolution dependent on the degree of phase shift introduced by the modulator.

Algunas implicaciones y problemas bioéticos del diagnóstico prenatal

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Fernando Fabó

2008-08-01

Full Text Available Este artículo define y presenta en la primera parte una panorámica general sobre las técnicas de diagnosis prenatal, justificando la licitud del recurso a las mismas en base a los avances de la medicina fetal. Viene fuertemente cuestionada la validez de la PDG y se aclaran algunos puntos relativos a la indicación médica. En la segunda parte se profundizan los aspectos bioéticos, explicando los principios éticos para una diagnosis prenatal plenamente respetuosa del pequeño paciente (valor ético positivo de la diagnosis; proporcionalidad terapéutica; consenso informado; responsabilidad-libertad. Se insiste en la objeción de conciencia y se presentan algunas sentencias que permiten evidenciar algunos problemas jurídico-legales relacionados con la diagnosis prenatal. Las conclusiones orientan a un nuevo enfoque de la prevención de las enfermedades genéticas y malformativas.

Plurality of Type A evaluations of uncertainty

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Possolo, Antonio; Pintar, Adam L.

2017-10-01

The evaluations of measurement uncertainty involving the application of statistical methods to measurement data (Type A evaluations as specified in the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement, GUM) comprise the following three main steps: (i) developing a statistical model that captures the pattern of dispersion or variability in the experimental data, and that relates the data either to the measurand directly or to some intermediate quantity (input quantity) that the measurand depends on; (ii) selecting a procedure for data reduction that is consistent with this model and that is fit for the purpose that the results are intended to serve; (iii) producing estimates of the model parameters, or predictions based on the fitted model, and evaluations of uncertainty that qualify either those estimates or these predictions, and that are suitable for use in subsequent uncertainty propagation exercises. We illustrate these steps in uncertainty evaluations related to the measurement of the mass fraction of vanadium in a bituminous coal reference material, including the assessment of the homogeneity of the material, and to the calibration and measurement of the amount-of-substance fraction of a hydrochlorofluorocarbon in air, and of the age of a meteorite. Our goal is to expose the plurality of choices that can reasonably be made when taking each of the three steps outlined above, and to show that different choices typically lead to different estimates of the quantities of interest, and to different evaluations of the associated uncertainty. In all the examples, the several alternatives considered represent choices that comparably competent statisticians might make, but who differ in the assumptions that they are prepared to rely on, and in their selection of approach to statistical inference. They represent also alternative treatments that the same statistician might give to the same data when the results are intended for different purposes.

Membangun Sikap Toleransi Beragama dalam Masyarakat Plural

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Casram Casram

2016-08-01

Full Text Available The reality of social life is possible because of accommodating differences and diversities among human being. One of these diversities related to the choice of the faith, and therefore, we should be able to getting along either with the members of the same religious community as well as with those of others. In this case, religious tolerance is a necessity to guarantee social stability against the unwanted ideological force and even physical collisions in the society. Social and religious lives are not to be isolated from each other, but must be integrated into one another. Building educated and open minded religious community is a requirement to achieve this goal. The ideal religious tolerance should be built trough active participation from all members of diverse religious communities to achieve the same goals based on togetherness, inclusive attitude, respect and mutual understanding related to performing certain rituals and doctrins of each religions. The variety of typologies of interfaith relations, such as exclusivism, inclusivisme, pluralism, ect., are commonly formulated to bring these diversities into further step of harmonious religious dialogues. This article reminds us that our comprehension and implementation of religious doctrines should not stop in the claim of exclucivism (“I” which culminate in realizing personal relationship with God (solitary, nor in the claim of inclusivism (“You” with its concern with recruiting theological and ideological allies (solidarity, but also in the openness (“We” where our religious comprehension of human values get emphasized (humanist-functional. In addition, all parties should suspend such a judgment as theological or ideological one directed to other religious community. This is a kind of phenomenological epoché we need to take if we wish to put religious tolerance into practice and not let it stay only on discourse level

The film and the file: context and design of the documentary "Sobral no plural"

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Nilson Almino de Freitas

2015-06-01

Full Text Available This article discusses the concept of aesthetics in the documentary "Sobral no Plural," presented at the Second Visualidades in November 2010 - event organized by Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú (UVA as a way to encourage the production of videos and exhibitions that combine image and research. From a practical activity already performed by the authors of this paper, the aim is to discuss the conception of documentary and the false opposition between real and imagination that drives some insight into this type of imaging technique. We also intend to discuss how they documents of an audiovisual file should be used; proposal from the Laboratório das Memórias e das Práticas Cotidianas - Labome/UVA.

Plural policing webs: Unveiling the various forms of partnering and knowledge exchange in the production of nightlife territoriality

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Søgaard, Thomas Friis; Houborg, Esben

2018-01-01

In many western countries the organization of policing is undergoing significant changes. Among the most important are the promotion of intelligence-led policing as a principal model of public policing, and the increased pluralization of policing. In recent years the former process has spurred a ...... collaboration and exchange of low-level intelligence between police and bouncers is instrumental in the enforcement of a police-promoted gang suppression strategy, aimed at transforming Danish nightlife into a no-go zone for gang-related individuals....

Does Reformational philosophy have an answer to the many guises of pluralism?

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M. Elaine Botha

1995-03-01

Full Text Available Both the transformation of society and the inner reformation of the sciences require and are dependent upon global views of reality, society, man, nature and truth and implicitly harbour views of order. Moreover, Reformational philosophy as a transcendentalist project argues that all theoretical positions implicitly or explicitly harbour such global views. Dooyeweerd’s philosophy, rooted in the ‘metanarrative’ of Christianity provides significant distinctions which make it possible to contextualize many of the issues raised in post-modernism. It is this type of global view that arouses the suspicion ofpostmodernists who have a strong suspicion about meta-narratives of any kind and especially notions of totality and universality. In this paper it is argued that Reformational philosophy’s emphasis on the diversity and coherence of the creational order and the diversity transcending fullness of meaning given in Jesus Christ provide significant barriers to counteract the phenomenon o f 'wild pluralism’ so characteristic of post-modernism’s emphasis on pluralism in cultures and scientific theorizing.

Algunas leyes fundamentales de la química y las magnitudes físicas relacionadas con el equivalente

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Antonio M. Navarro López

2010-01-01

En este tema se tratan algunas leyes fundamentales de la química, tales como la Ley de la conservación de la materia, la Ley de las proporciones definidas o ley de los equivalentes, así como las magnitudes físicas relacionadas con el equivalente como son: La cantidad de sustancia en equivalente , masa molar del equivalente tanto de un elemento químico , de los ácidos, de las bases, de las sales ,todo expresado en el sistema Internacional de Unidades ....

Orientalismos peninsulares en el levante andaluz. Nombres y usos de algunas plantas silvestres

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Torres Montes, Francisco

2000-06-01

Full Text Available The author describes sorne wild plants from the provinces of Almería, Granada and Jaén (Andalusia, Spain that have folk names from Eastern Iberia. For each plant he provides the scientific and folk name, the isoglottic line and the lexical arca. He also informs about the use of these plants in folk and household medecine, religious rites, animal husbandry, etc.En este estudio se presentan algunas plantas silvestres de Almería, Granada y Jaén cuyos nombres vulgares proceden del oriente peninsular. De cada planta se da, junto al nombre vulgar y científico, la isoglosa o límite de los orientalismos y sus correspondientes áreas léxicas. Al mismo tiempo se hace el estudio etnográfico de sus usos en la medicina popular o doméstica, ritos religiosos, ganadería, etc.

El 40 aniversario del INECOL. Algunas reflexiones sobre una destacada institución científica mexicana

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Zunino, Mario

2016-01-01

Resumen: Se presentan algunas reflexiones acerca del INECOL (Instituto de Ecología A.C., Xalapa, México) a cuarenta años de su fundación en la Ciudad de México, su sucesivo traslado a Xalapa y, algunos meses después de la publicación de un libro sobre su historia. Un breve sumario de algunos acontecimientos de especial importancia en la vida y el desarrollo del Instituto, está acompañado de una evaluación de la importancia internacional de las actividades de investigación y formación académic...

Electorate redistricting for a single-member district plurality, two-ballot voting system: Taiwan’s electoral reform

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Lin Pei-Chun

2014-01-01

Full Text Available In this study, we formulated a mathematical model for electorate demarcation in line with Taiwan’s electoral reforms, minimizing legislative seats for the main opposition party in Taipei City. The model is compared with historical election data to establish characteristics that are most contested and germane to the reform. Examination of the constituency demarcation for the Seventh Legislator Election ascertains that electorate demarcation can/can not be manipulated to create electoral advantage. Demonstrable evidence of a bias toward disproportionate representation in the single-member district plurality, two-ballot voting system ultimately attests the importance of scenario analysis before adopting new electorate systems.

The Diversity of Responsibility: The Value of Explication and Pluralization.

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Schicktanz, Silke; Schweda, Mark

2012-06-01

PURPOSE: Although the term "responsibility" plays a central role in bioethics and public health, its meaning and implications are often unclear. This paper defends the importance of a more systematic conception of responsibility to improve moral philosophical as well as descriptive analysis. METHODS: We start with a formal analysis of the relational conception of responsibility and its meta-ethical presuppositions. In a brief historical overview, we compare global-collective, professional, personal, and social responsibility. The value of our analytical matrix is illustrated by sorting out the plurality of responsibility models in three cases (organ transplantation, advance directives, and genetic testing). RESULTS: Responsibility is a relational term involving at least seven relata. The analysis of the relata allows distinguishing between individual versus collective agency, retrospective versus prospective direction, and liability versus power relations. Various bioethical ambiguities result from insufficient, implicit, or inappropriate ascriptions of responsibility. CONCLUSIONS: A systematic conception of responsibility is an important tool for bioethical reflection. It allows an in-depth understanding and critique of moral claims on a meta-ethical level without presuming one particular normative approach. Considering the concept of responsibility can also help to complement the current bioethical focus on individual autonomy by including the perspectives of other actors, such as family members or social groups.

Using plural modeling for predicting decisions made by adaptive adversaries

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Buede, Dennis M.; Mahoney, Suzanne; Ezell, Barry; Lathrop, John

2012-01-01

Incorporating an appropriate representation of the likelihood of terrorist decision outcomes into risk assessments associated with weapons of mass destruction attacks has been a significant problem for countries around the world. Developing these likelihoods gets at the heart of the most difficult predictive problems: human decision making, adaptive adversaries, and adversaries about which very little is known. A plural modeling approach is proposed that incorporates estimates of all critical uncertainties: who is the adversary and what skills and resources are available to him, what information is known to the adversary and what perceptions of the important facts are held by this group or individual, what does the adversary know about the countermeasure actions taken by the government in question, what are the adversary's objectives and the priorities of those objectives, what would trigger the adversary to start an attack and what kind of success does the adversary desire, how realistic is the adversary in estimating the success of an attack, how does the adversary make a decision and what type of model best predicts this decision-making process. A computational framework is defined to aggregate the predictions from a suite of models, based on this broad array of uncertainties. A validation approach is described that deals with a significant scarcity of data.

Aggregating job exit statuses of a plurality of compute nodes executing a parallel application

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Aho, Michael E.; Attinella, John E.; Gooding, Thomas M.; Mundy, Michael B.

2015-07-21

Aggregating job exit statuses of a plurality of compute nodes executing a parallel application, including: identifying a subset of compute nodes in the parallel computer to execute the parallel application; selecting one compute node in the subset of compute nodes in the parallel computer as a job leader compute node; initiating execution of the parallel application on the subset of compute nodes; receiving an exit status from each compute node in the subset of compute nodes, where the exit status for each compute node includes information describing execution of some portion of the parallel application by the compute node; aggregating each exit status from each compute node in the subset of compute nodes; and sending an aggregated exit status for the subset of compute nodes in the parallel computer.

From conceptual pluralism to practical agreement on policy: global responsibility for global health.

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Ruger, Jennifer Prah; Hammonds, Rachel; Ooms, Gorik; Barry, Donna; Chapman, Audrey; Van Damme, Wim

2015-10-28

As the human cost of the global economic crisis becomes apparent the ongoing discussions surrounding the post-2015 global development framework continue at a frenzied pace. Given the scale and scope of increased globalization moving forward in a post-Millennium Development Goals era, to protect and realize health equity for all people, has never been more challenging or more important. The unprecedented nature of global interdependence underscores the importance of proposing policy solutions that advance realizing global responsibility for global health. This article argues for advancing global responsibility for global health through the creation of a Global Fund for Health. It suggests harnessing the power of the exceptional response to the combined epidemics of AIDS, TB and Malaria, embodied in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, to realize an expanded, reconceptualized Global Fund for Health. However this proposal creates both an analytical quandary embedded in conceptual pluralism and a practical dilemma for the scope and raison d'etre of a new Global Fund for Health. To address these issues we offer a logical framework for moving from conceptual pluralism in the theories supporting global responsibility for health to practical agreement on policy to realize this end. We examine how the innovations flowing from this exceptional response can be coupled with recent ideas and concepts, for example a global social protection floor, a Global Health Constitution or a Framework Convention for Global Health, that share the global responsibility logic that underpins a Global Fund for Health. The 2014 Lancet Commission on Global Governance for Health Report asks whether a single global health protection fund would be better for global health than the current patchwork of global and national social transfers. We concur with this suggestion and argue that there is much room for practical agreement on a Global Fund for Health that moves from the

Monte-Carlo simulation of heavy ion elastic recoil detection analysis data to include the effects of large angle plural scattering

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Johnston, P.N.; Franich, R.D.

1999-01-01

Heavy Ion Elastic Recoil Detection Analysis (HIERDA) is becoming widely used to study a range of problems in materials science, however there is no standard methodology for the analysis of HIERDA spectra. Major impediments are the effects of multiple and plural scattering which are very significant, even for quite thin (∼100nm) layers of very heavy elements. To examine the effects of multiple scattering a fast FORTRAN version of TRIM has been adapted to simulate the spectrum of backscattered and recoiled ions reaching the detector. Two problems have been initially investigated. In the first, the detector is positioned beyond the critical angle for single scattering from a pure vanadium target where traditional slab analysis would not predict any scattered yield. In the second, a thin Au layer on a Si substrate is modelled for two different thicknesses of the substrate to investigate the effect of the substrate chosen. The use of multiple processors enabled the acquisition of statistically reasonable simulation spectra for scattered and recoiled ions. For each target modelled, 10 9 incident ions were tracked. The results of the simulations are compared with experimental measurements performed using ToF-E HIERDA at Lucas Heights and show good agreement except in the long tails due to Plural Scattering

[Cultural diversity and pluralism in the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights].

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Romeo Casabona, Carlos María

2011-01-01

The Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights represents a significant milestone in the history of Law, particularly in the application of International Law to an important area of human activity, namely the medical sciences, the life sciences and the technologies which, linked to both, can be applied to human relations. In parallel with this, and as will be analysed in this article, the Declaration has involved adopting a clear position regarding cultural diversity and pluralism in relation to Biomedicine. In this paper the author highlights the fact that perspectives have been opened which have hardly been explored concerning Biomedicine, such as the recognition of the value and respect which cultural diversity (multiculturalism), economic and social diversity deserve in relation to the issues covered by the Declaration, and the acceptance that the owners of the rights are not only individuals, but can also be groups.

The Porn Bill in Indonesia: A Threat to Pluralism? Das Pornografie-Gesetz in Indonesien: Eine Gefahr für den Pluralismus?

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Maren Höpfner

2009-04-01

Full Text Available On 30 October 2008 Indonesia’s parliament passed a controversial pornography bill after following years of heavy debate. According to the wording of the law, pornography means not only the production and distribution of pornographic material, but also behaviour that violates moral ethics in the community or incites sexual exploitation. This vague definition led to massive protests by human and women’s rights groups, some provinces, and supporters of the state’s pluralism. The opponents of the law claim that women’s rights and the traditions of the non-Muslim minority, as well as the pluralism and the unity of the country, are endangered. Furthermore, they worry that conservative Islam will grow in importance. The enduring dispute on the porn bill mirrors a fundamental conflict: the impacts of Islam on policy in pluralistic communities. This article illustrates the debate on the pornography bill and at the same time considers the question of to what extent pluralism in Indonesia is threatened and restricted by Islamism. Das indonesische Parlament verabschiedete am 30. Oktober 2008 das sogenannte Pornografie-Gesetz, über das zuvor bereits seit fünf Jahren debattiert wurde. Pornografie umfasst nach dem Gesetzestext nicht nur die Herstellung und Verbreitung pornografischen Materials, sondern auch Verhalten, das gegen die öffentliche Moral verstößt oder zu sexueller Ausbeutung animiert. Diese ungenaue Definition führte zu massiven Protesten von Menschen- und Frauenrechtsgruppen, einigen indonesischen Provinzen und den Befürwortern des pluralistischen Staates. Die Gegner des Gesetzes sehen durch diesen Vorstoß des konservativen Islams nicht nur die Rechte der Frauen und die Traditionen nichtmuslimischer Minderheiten, sondern auch den Pluralismus und die Einheit des Landes in Gefahr. Der andauernde Streit über das Pornografie-Gesetz legt eine grundlegende Problematik dar: die des Einflusses des Islams auf die Politik in pluralistischen

La noción plural de sujeto de justicia. Un nuevo reto para la filosofía.

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De Tienda Palop, Lidia

2010-01-01

Pensar el futuro de la justicia no sólo entraña reflexionar acerca de la pregunta, que se ha considerado propiamente su objeto: ¿Qué es lo que se debe?, sino que requiere retrotraernos a una cuestión más original: ¿A quién se debe? Las teorías del contrato social, con especial relevancia la propuesta rawlsiana, han tenido una notable impronta en las concepciones de la justicia contemporáneas. Algunas de las críticas más poderosas a estas teorías son las llevadas a c...

La otra cara de la fiesta : algunas de sus posibles repercusiones económicas

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Josefina Castilla Soto

1997-01-01

Full Text Available Con el presente artículo hemos intentado poner de manifiesto un punto de vista diferente respecto al tema monográfico que nos ocupa: algunas de las repercusiones negativas de las fiestas en los ámbitos agrícolas, comerciales, por creación de cofradías, etc., a la luz de las críticas vertidas por los contemporáneos, en particular arbitristas y pensadores de los siglos XVII y XVIII, principalmente.In this article we have wished to state a different point of view with regard to the theme devoted to a single subject that concerns us: some of the feast days' negativo repercussions throughout the agricultural, comercial scopes, for the creation of brotherhoods, etc., in the light of contemporaries' pouring criticism, specially promoters of crackpot and thinkers of 17th and 18th century.

El plural de los anglicismos en español actual. Panorama y revisión crítica

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Rodríguez González, Félix

2017-01-01

El estudio examina las numerosas variaciones del plural de los anglicismos en español, tal como se registran en los medios de comunicación de hoy, sobre todo en la prensa escrita, y las razones que sustentan los distintos patrones morfológicos que les sirven de base. Asimismo, evalúa las distintas posiciones y criterios con que se han acercado a este fenómeno diversos investigadores e instituciones y autoridades académicas, así como el papel desempeñado por los libros de estilo y las agencias...

The Ritualized Bodies of Cybele's Galli and the
 Methodological Problem of the Plurality of Explanations

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J. Peter Södergård

1993-01-01

Full Text Available The explanandum in this article is the self-castration of Cybele's Galli. The explanans is the various theories that have been put forward to elucidate this phenomenon. The author begins by sketching out the complicated religio-historical scene for this ritual, then introduces the plurality of theories concerning Galli's ritual self-castration, so that the intellectual dilemma of evaluation and preference is obvious; which one of the theories is decisive? Are they necessary or sufficient? Do they compete or cooperate? The aim of this article is also to make a critical methodological evaluation of the use of psychological determinants in religio-historical studies of the self-castration of the Galli in the cult of Cybele and Attis.

Reducing power consumption while synchronizing a plurality of compute nodes during execution of a parallel application

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Archer, Charles J [Rochester, MN; Blocksome, Michael A [Rochester, MN; Peters, Amanda E [Cambridge, MA; Ratterman, Joseph D [Rochester, MN; Smith, Brian E [Rochester, MN

2012-04-17

Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for reducing power consumption while synchronizing a plurality of compute nodes during execution of a parallel application that include: beginning, by each compute node, performance of a blocking operation specified by the parallel application, each compute node beginning the blocking operation asynchronously with respect to the other compute nodes; reducing, for each compute node, power to one or more hardware components of that compute node in response to that compute node beginning the performance of the blocking operation; and restoring, for each compute node, the power to the hardware components having power reduced in response to all of the compute nodes beginning the performance of the blocking operation.

Reducing power consumption while synchronizing a plurality of compute nodes during execution of a parallel application

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Archer, Charles J [Rochester, MN; Blocksome, Michael A [Rochester, MN; Peters, Amanda A [Rochester, MN; Ratterman, Joseph D [Rochester, MN; Smith, Brian E [Rochester, MN

2012-01-10

Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for reducing power consumption while synchronizing a plurality of compute nodes during execution of a parallel application that include: beginning, by each compute node, performance of a blocking operation specified by the parallel application, each compute node beginning the blocking operation asynchronously with respect to the other compute nodes; reducing, for each compute node, power to one or more hardware components of that compute node in response to that compute node beginning the performance of the blocking operation; and restoring, for each compute node, the power to the hardware components having power reduced in response to all of the compute nodes beginning the performance of the blocking operation.

El desempleo estructural y la tasa natural de desempleo: algunas consideraciones teoricas y su estado actual en Colombia

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Will Alexander Yarce Posada

2000-01-01

n la actualidad, el concepto teórico de la tasa natural de desempleo ha trascendido las cátedras universitarias para convertirse en una herramienta útil para analistas y responsables de la política económica. En este artículo, la tasa natural de desempleo es el eje central de análisis y en él se plantean, en la primera parte, algunas consideraciones teóricas asociadas al desempleo estructural y a la tasa natural de desempleo y sus determinantes. La segunda parte del artículo se refiere a las ...

Lo ético-político en las democracias contemporáneas. Reflexiones críticas en torno al déficit normativo en la teoría de la hegemonía de Ernesto Laclau

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Hernán Fair

2014-06-01

Full Text Available Este artículo ofrece una reflexión crítica en torno a los postulados filosóficos de la perspectiva post-marxista de la hegemonía de Ernesto Laclau. El texto se enfoca en uno de sus aspectos más problemáticos, relacionado con el déficit normativo de su teoría de las identidades políticas, e incorpora, a partir de la propuesta de democracia radical y plural de Laclau, algunas contribuciones conceptuales para pensar lo ético-político en las democracias contemporáneas.

España: Grandes retrocesos en el Sistema Sanitario con algunas expectativas de mejora

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Sergio Fernández RUIZ

2016-05-01

Full Text Available España esta viviendo un proceso de contrarreforma sanitaria que tiene sus aspectos económicos (recortes de los presupuestos sanitarios públicos de deterioro en los recursos (disminución muy importante de los trabajadores sanitarios, de privatizaciones (que abarcan todos los aspectos desde la provisión sanitaria a la investigación y la formación y de exclusiones del acceso a la atención sanitaria (el RDL 16/2012 que cambia un modelo universal por otro de seguros con lo que deja a numerosos colectivos sin atención sanitaria y que implanta copagos que impiden el acceso a prestaciones sanitarias. En esta situación se produjo un amplio rechazo social y profesional que consiguió paralizar en parte estas agresiones. Los cambios producidos en las últimas elecciones abren algunas expectativas de recuperación.

El conductismo y algunas implicaciones de lo que significa ser conductista hoy

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Camilo Hurtado

2006-01-01

Full Text Available Se discuten varios aspectos relacionados con el conductismo, sus múltiples versiones, una definición amplia de éste y a quienes se les puede denominar actualmente “conductistas”. Además, a partir de una anécdota se analiza, en términos de barreras epistemológicas, el rechazo a esta tradición de pensamiento y se discute como dicho rechazo está enraizado y mantenido en una serie de malentendidos y en las contradicciones que existen entre los principios del conductismo genérico y los de la llamada “resto de la psicología” o “mainstream psychology” la cual se caracteriza por diversas formas de cognoscitivismo y ser muy afín con la que se ha llamado “psicología popular”. Finalmente, se analizan algunas propuestas que han sido sugeridas para superar las barreras epistemológicas del conductismo, concluyendo que el contexto académico actual no es el apropiado para que estos intentos cumplan con su finalidad, en cambio, al parecer dicho contexto es fuente en sí mismo de otro tipo de barreras.

Social movements in a globalized world: something new? Los movimientos sociales en un mundo globalizado: ¿alguna novedad?

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Salvador MARTÍ I PUIG

2010-11-01

Full Text Available The article develops a number of issues regarding the impact of globalization on collective political actors which we tend to term social movements, or «networks of movements», placing particular emphasis –but not exclusively– on those movements which have emerged in Latin America. To this effect the article has three sections. Firstly, it present a discussion of the global context and its impact on political. Secondly, it develops different explanatory perspectives –which coincide with different analytical frameworks– for the observation of social movements (taken in a broad sense in the newglobal context. Finally, the article reflects on issues concerning the changing forms of social movements as a new century dawns.En el texto que sigue se aportan algunos apuntes sobre el impacto que ha teni­do la globalización en los actores políticos colectivos que convenimos en llamar movimientos sociales o «redes de movimientos» haciendo un especial énfasis –aunque no exclusivamente– en aquellos que han surgido en América Latina. Para ello, dividimos el texto en tres partes: una primera que presenta algunas referencias sobre el contexto global y su impacto en la política; una segunda donde se desarrollan diversos ángulos –coincidentes con las diversas perspectivas analíticas– desde donde interpretar los movimientos sociales (observados desde una perspectiva amplia y difusa en el nuevo entorno global; y finalmente, a modo de reflexión, una tercera donde se esbozan algunas cuestiones sobre la forma que adquieren los movimientos sociales en el nuevo siglo que empieza.

Algunas consideraciones sobre el aborto: La educación sexual como una alternativa en su prevención

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Ignacio González Labrador

2001-06-01

Full Text Available Se hacen algunas reflexiones muy generales sobre el aborto como situación problémica a través de la historia, así como aspectos jurídicos de su situación en Cuba. Se propone la educación sexual alternativa y participativa con sus características propias como una vía posible en su prevención.Some very general reflections on abortion as a problem through history as well as on its juridical aspects in Cuba are made. An alternative and participative sex education with its own characteristics is recommended as a possible way for its prevention.

Una aproximación a algunas estructuras de organización del espacio regional: un estudio de caso

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Javier E. Thomas Bohórquez

1997-01-01

Full Text Available Este trabajo propone algunos elementos conceptuales, para la interpretación y comprensión del funcionamiento de ciertos espacios regionales Colombianos, que de alguna forma se han organizado y estructurado alrededor de sitios de paso; para ello se basa en una publicación anterior en la que se expone la génesis y la clasificación encontrada para el caso nacional (Thomas, J. & Florez, A. 1996. Por tanto aquí se abordará tangencialmente dicha definición, de manera que permita contextualizar el modelo funcional formulado, pero sin entrar en detalle sobre la taxonomía propuesta.

Algunas claves para una psicoterapia de orientación feminista en mujeres que han padecido violencia de género

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Bosch Fiol, Esperanza; Ferrer Pérez, Victoria A.; Alzamora Mir, Aina

2005-01-01

El trabajo que presentamos forma parte de un proyecto más global en el que las autoras proponemos algunas reflexiones sobre la necesaria adecuación de la ayuda psicoterapéutica a mujeres víctimas de violencia de género desde una perspectiva feminista que permita enfocar el tema en toda su real complejidad. Partiendo de la aceptación de que la violencia de género se nutre de los presupuestos patriarcales y, por tanto, de una asimetría absoluta entre hombres y mujeres, el proc...

Algunas consideraciones teóricas acerca del uso de las tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones en la enseñanza superior.

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Yamilet Trelles Mutis

2007-03-01

Full Text Available El trabajo, que a continuación se expone se titula Algunas consideraciones teóricas acerca del uso de las tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones en la enseñanza superior, en el mismo se presentan algunas consideraciones teóricas acerca del uso de las tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones. Se ofrecen consideraciones sobre la necesidad de implementar un Sitio Web en la biblioteca universitaria, donde los usuarios de esta institución tendrán la posibilidad de acceder y evaluar los recursos digitales en la gestión de la información desde cualquier punto de la red necesarios para la docencia y la investigación. En la búsqueda del conocimiento se utilizan métodos y técnicas con sus diferentes instrumentos de la investigación educacional. Se expone la metodología para el diseño del sistema.

Rule of Law and Human Rights Challenges in South East Asia: A Case Study of Legal Pluralism in Indonesia

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Saldi Isra

2017-08-01

Full Text Available It has been over 72 years since Indonesia proclaimed her independence on 17 August 1945. However, the 350 years of the Dutch colonization is still impacting the lives of the Indonesian people. The difficulties faced by the Indonesian legal system as the government tries to accommodate adat (custom and religion principles within the national law and the extent to which this legal mechanism affects the everyday life of the Indonesian people. In a nation where customs and religion are so preeminent, setting up an all-inclusive document meant to be the foundation of the state’s legal system at the dawn of independence was no easy task. This paper discusses the practice of legal pluralism in Indonesia and its struggle to implement rule of law and human rights principles after a half-century of authoritarian regimes. The study involves socio-legal research drawing on empirical data. Survey research was conducted between September 2014 and February 2015 at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, as well as in 5 cities in Indonesia (Aceh, Bali, Batam, Medan, and Padang to collect data. The research reveals that legal pluralism is not helping to strengthen the Indonesian legal system, and that the foreignness of the Western law along with the neglect of the Indonesian customary and Islamic laws, totalitarianism and military involvement in politics, corruption within the state apparatus and unsynchronized laws weaken the legal system in Indonesia and hinder its effort to implement rule of law and human rights principles.

Maria Metade e as Incompletudes da Alma: o Ser Plural Moçambicano

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Cristian Paula Santana

2016-12-01

Full Text Available We intend in this article to analyze the tale "Meia culpa, meia própria culpa," by Mia Couto, showing one of many possible perspectives of analysis of the author's work. Our analysis has by objective to explicit the between-place in Couto´s discourse, highlighting the social practices present in literary discourse, showing how the author relates his personages with the story of Mozambique and verifying the representation of the female figure from the perspective of identity in construction. We think the work of Mia Couto through antagonistic relations: colonizer / colonized, man / woman, white / black, dominating / dominated, etc. We chose this perspective because Mia Couto be a plural writer and Mozambique is a diverse country.We have as theoretical support Pierre Bourdieu with the work A dominação masculina (2012 to highlight the function of women and the social practices; also we rely on theorists such as Stuart Hall, A identidade cultural na pós-modernidade (2011 and Frantz Fanon Pele negra, máscaras brancas (2008, among others, to discuss the issues of identity.

La imagen de la mujer caída en algunas obras de la literatura mexicana

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Martha Elena Munguía Zatarain

2016-01-01

Full Text Available En este ensayo se hace una revisión de las formas en las que se fue conformando en la literatura mexicana del siglo xix la imagen de la mujer caída, con claras reminiscencias religiosas. Textos de Payno, Vicente Riva Palacio, Rafael Delgado, Tablada, entre otros, integran el corpus del que se parte para este trabajo. Se analiza cómo se filtran en las obras preocupaciones de índole social y cómo, con frecuencia, se daba una deriva hacia perspectivas morales y condenatorias de la mujer prostituida. Se busca, en todo momento, reconstruir el diálogo polémico que sostuvo el arte verbal con la profusión discursiva de índole científica y moral de la época y se rastrean las reminiscencias de esta imagen en algunas obras del siglo xx.

Algunas pautas de localización de la población española a lo largo del siglo XX

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Francisco J. Goerlich Gisbert

2008-01-01

Full Text Available Este trabajo examina algunas de las pautas de localización de la población a nivel municipal en España durante el siglo XX. Utilizando una base de datos homogénea de poblaciones municipales - construida a partir de los once censos que van desde 1900 hasta 2001- el trabajo examina las características generales de la concentración de la población desde distintas perspectivas. Su principal contribución es la de ofrecer soporte cuantitativo a fenómenos que, en líneas generales, eran ya bien conocidos por los especialistas.

RELACIÓN DE LA INTENCIÓN E IDEACIÓN SUICIDA CON ALGUNAS VARIABLES

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Paola Valderrama

2006-06-01

Full Text Available El objetivo de este estudio fue hallar la relación de la intención e ideación suicida con algunas variables sociodemográficas, las características de la enfermedad, el tratamiento antirretroviral y los aspectos piscoafectivos en personas con el VIH/SIDA que residen en Bogotá (Colombia y pertenecientes a una fundación. Para ello, se tomó una muestra de 75 pacientes con VIH positivo a quienes se evaluó a través de una entrevista semiestructurada y dos instrumentos: el inventario de depresión de Beck (IBD y la escala de Ideación Suicida (SSI. Los resultados mostraron que solo 29 personas tenían ideación suicida y 10 intención suicida: De los 10 solo 2 sujetos tenían intención después del diagnóstico. Se encontró una relación estadística significativa para ideación suicida e intención suicida con edad, estrato socioeconómico, estado civil, orientación sexual, las características de la enfermedad, el tratamiento antirretroviral y los aspectos piscoafectivos.

Peticiones de asilo basadas en cuestiones de sexualidad: algunas respuestas y muchas preguntas

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Daniel Kanstroom

2009-01-01

Full Text Available Actualmente muchos sistemas legales aceptan que las personas gay, lesbianas, bisexuales y transexuales ("LGBT" también pueden obtener asilo, nonrefoulement o que se declare temporalmente su no devolución (según las leyes de EE.UU. o protección judicial conforme a la Convención contra la Tortura debido a su orientación o comportamiento sexual. Ya sea que uno considere este hecho como un suceso revolucionario o como el desarrollo natural de los derechos humanos y el derecho de los refugiados, evidentemente quedan muchas preguntas sin responder. El artículo destaca y evalúa algunas de las principales interrogantes y tensiones existentes en el estado actual de la legislación, en particular el hecho de que el tema del asilo basado en la orientación sexual de la persona implica muchas de las más profundas tensiones que yacen debajo de la superficie del derecho de los derechos humanos en general como también del derecho de refugio y de asilo.

Parentesco y familia en algunas comunidades indígenas colombianas: persistencia y cambio

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Mela Pérez Marco Antonio

1995-06-01

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El propósito es realizar un trabajo descriptivo basado principalmente en fuentes secundarias sobre las transformaciones ocurridas en la organización social y en las formas familiares entre algunas comunidades indígenas colombianas, ilustrándolo a través de varios grupos. El interés del trabajo reside en el hecho de que en un país, declarado por la constitución como pluriétnico y  multicultural, estas formas particulares deben ser tenidas en cuenta en las políticas estatales y en el diseño de programas de atención, que muy probablemente lleven a establecer una particularidad en cuanto al tipo de soluciones para estos núcleos de población. Una aproximación explicativa tiene que ver con las relaciones inter-étnicas, que se han dado en el proceso histórico a un nivel general y de las más recientes derivados del desarrollo de un sistema capitalista dependiente, y su impacto sobre la población indigena en en particular sobre las relacionesde parentesco y las formas familiares.

Mathematic Model of Digital Control System with PID Regulator and Regular Step of Quantization with Information Transfer via the Channel of Plural Access

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Abramov, G. V.; Emeljanov, A. E.; Ivashin, A. L.

Theoretical bases for modeling a digital control system with information transfer via the channel of plural access and a regular quantization cycle are submitted. The theory of dynamic systems with random changes of the structure including elements of the Markov random processes theory is used for a mathematical description of a network control system. The characteristics of similar control systems are received. Experimental research of the given control systems is carried out.

Los instrumentos financieros derivados: concepto, operación y algunas estrategias de negociación

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Vernor Mesén Figueroa

2008-06-01

Full Text Available Uno de los instrumentos financieros más sofisticados y que ha presentado mayor crecimiento en los volúmenes negociados durante los últimos años, son los derivados, por ello el interés en escribir acerca de este tema. Un derivado es un instrumento financiero el cual está vinculado al valor de un activo subyacente, que pueden ser commodities, acciones, bonos, tasas de interés, divisas, entre otros. Existen diferentes tipos de derivados, entre ellos: futuros, forwards, opciones y swaps. Estos instrumentos son negociados tanto en mercados organizados como no organizados, más comúnmente conocidos como OTC (Over The Counter y comúnmente son utilizados como instrumento de cobertura o especulación. El presente artículo pretende acercar al lector a este concepto: sus características, tipos, operación y algunas estrategias de negociación de estos productos.

Algunas reflexiones sobre aprendizaje, evaluación formativa y mediación tecnológica

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Abio, Gonzalo

2012-09-01

Full Text Available Son numerosas las evidencias que indican que el aprendizaje mejora cuando se aplican de forma frecuente pruebas cortas del tipo test. Desde el punto de vista cognitivo esas pruebas traen un efecto benéfico en el aprendizaje y en la memoria de los alumnos. Es lo que se llama Efecto del test (Testing effect. En este trabajo mostraremos algunas investigaciones existentes en ese sentido, así como sobre el Aprendizaje expandido por el test (Test-Enhanced Learning. También haremos mención a la evaluación formativa y a la retroalimentación o feedback que está muy relacionado con ese tipo de evaluación. Por último, por medio de una experiencia en un curso semipresencial de iniciación a estudios de traducción para futuros profesores de español, ejemplificaremos el uso de actividades de evaluación formativa realizadas en Internet y los resultados obtenidos con ella.

Algunas consideraciones geomorfológicas de la cuenca del Río de la Magdalena

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Jorge Cervantes Borja

1969-06-01

Full Text Available En este trabajo se intenta demostrar cómo el medio físico se mantiene en una dinámica continua, sujeta tanto a acciones física como biológicas; dichas acciones reflejan fenómenos y hechos nuevos sobre el paisaje, generando una labor mixta raramente apreciada y menos aún cuantificada. La geomorfología moderna afirma que las formas actuales son el resultado de acciones pasadas, y que los procesos actuales, darán formas futuras hasta cierto punto previsibles, aunque ciertamente difíciles de cuantificar, por la complejidad de los mecanismos que entran en juego. Sobre esta base, se describe el modelado y se establece una probable evolución del mismo a partir de hechos pasados que se indican en un intento cronológico. Al mismo tiempo se analizan los procesos dinámicos que son la causa de la morfogénesis actual y esto nos permite emitir algunas recomendaciones prácticas para corregir el desequilibrio ecológico que amenaza la modificación de la cuenca.

LEVELING THE UNLEVELED? Syariah Advocates’ Struggle for Equality in Indonesian Legal Pluralism

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Ratno Lukito

2011-02-01

Full Text Available One of the ongoing problems faced by many Syariah advocates in Indonesia is how they can maintain their important role in the practice of law in the midst of the domination of common advocates. They are always trapped in double burden in concern of their position. On one side, they are challenged with the long historical inequality of educational access between religious (Islamic groups and secular groups, while on the other, they have to deal with the problem of being part of Muslim society with a legal culture where Islamic  law is commonly viewed as irreconcilable with secular legal traditions. This paper specifically discusses the role played by the Association of Indonesian Syariah Advocates (Asosiasi Pengacara Syariah Indonesia, APSI in their struggle to assert equality between Syariah advocates and common advocates. It shows that although APSI has successfully attracted attention from the state and public in general, the interest shown by Syariah faculties remains even relatively low. Embedded traditional culture of studying Islamic law in many Syariah faculties seems to have influenced their attention towards APSI. Yet, with inclusive approaches in expanding the institution, APSI can attract many advocates, not only from Muslim law graduates but from those of non-Muslims as well. Keywords: Syariah Lawyers, APSI, Legal Pluralism

Between relativism and pluralism: Philosophical and political relativism in Feyerabend's late work.

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Heller, Lisa

2016-06-01

Relativism is one of the most problematic terms associated with philosophical discourse, with Feyerabend considered among the most important twentieth century theorists subscribing to it. This paper provides a detailed overview of relativist positions advanced in Feyerabend's mid-to-late work and investigates the associated epistemic and political applications. Emphasis is placed on how Feyerabend supported certain aspects of relativism, and at what stage he rejected others. It is noted that Feyerabend had already imposed limitations on relativism in Farewell to Reason, in which he entertained the possibility of epistemic definition within stable contexts, and advanced the notion that opportunities and equality associated with political and cultural units could only be valid within a democratic system. In Conquest of Abundance, political relativism is largely discarded, while epistemological relativism is increasingly treated as an appeal for diversity in all areas. In this re-reading of his work, it becomes clear that Feyerabend was already advocating a moderate form of epistemic and political relativism in the middle of his career, which he subsequently developed in the direction of "ontological pluralism" in his later work. This paper thus shows that Feyerabend's relativism should not be completely rejected, but rather that it continues to offer interesting food for thought. Copyright © 2016. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Nivel de riesgo psicosocial y estilo de dirección en la profesión docente en algunas instituciones públicas colombianas

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Marmolejo Rengifo, Alba Lucía; Rosso Murillo, Paola Andrea

2013-01-01

Tesis (Maestría en Gerencia del Talento Humano). Universidad de Manizales. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, 2013 Se trata de describir la percepción de los docentes de algunas instituciones públicas colombianas frente al estilo de dirección como factor de riesgo psicosocial, teniendo en cuenta aspectos tales como: Autonomía en la toma de decisiones profesionales, Justicia en la contratación, la remuneración y la promoción, Oportunidades para la formación continua, Ví...

Acción intencional, Intención en acción y representaciones motoras: algunas puntualizaciones sobre la teoría causal revisada y su posible articulación con la neurociencia cognitiva de la acción

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Ibarra, Romina Alejandra; Amoruso, Lucía

2017-01-01

La introducción del concepto de intención en acción llevada a cabo por John Searle ha permitido resolver algunas de las principales dificultades a las cuales se venía enfrentando la Teoría Causal de la Acción. No obstante, su teoría impone, simultáneamente, nuevos desafíos. Dado lo anterior, el objetivo del presente artículo consiste en revisar algunas de las principales problemáticas que presenta la versión searleana de la Teoría Causal a la luz de los avances recientes en neurociencia cogni...

Poder municipal y oligarquías urbanas en la Galicia moderna. Un balance y algunas reflexiones

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María LÓPEZ DÍAZ

2009-12-01

Full Text Available RESUMEN: Tras dos décadas de estudios sobre el poder municipal y las oligarquías urbanas en la Galicia moderna, parece llegado el momento de hacer un alto en el camino para valorar los hallazgos y pensar en nuevas líneas de investigación. Tal es el objetivo de este artículo, donde la autora se plantea realizar un balance crítico de la producción historiografía sobre el tema. Para ello empieza ofreciendo un breve estado de la cuestión, donde señala algunas de las principales líneas de trabajo y problemas implícitos a una producción diversificada en métodos y planteamientos. Después, trata de calibrar los logros y aportaciones de las principales investigaciones, prestando una especial atención a las monografías y tesis de doctorado leídas durante estos años. Y, finalmente, expone algunas reflexiones en torno a aquellos aspectos y campos de investigación que, en su opinión, urgen o pueden estar llamados a prosperar en el futuro.ABSTRACT: After two decades of studies regarding local power and the urban oligarchy in modern Galicia, the time has come to make a pause to evaluate de findings and to consider new paths for research. This constitutes the aim of this article, where the author's purpose is to make a critical balance of the history research about this subject. Starting with a brief introduction resuming the advances made in the field, pointing out some of the lines of work and the problems raised by a diversified production in terms of methods and approaches of the subject. The author then attempts to evaluate the achievements and the contributions of the most important research work up to date, with a special emphasis on the monographs and doctorate thesis presented throughout the years, to finish with some considerations regarding those aspects, hypothesis and research fields which, in her opinion, need to be developed further or may constitute important paths of investigation in the future.

The Things of Caesar: Mark-ing the Plural (Mk 12:13–17

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Warren Carter

2014-09-01

Full Text Available This article observes the rarely-discussed phenomenon that the Marcan paying-the-tax scene refers to tax in the singular, whilst the concluding saying uses the plural ‘the things of Caesar and of God’. The article accounts for this phenomenon by means of developing traditions. The section under the heading ‘Mark’s scene and saying about taxes (12:13–17’ counters the common claim that scene and saying originated as a unit from the historical Jesus. It proposes that whilst the saying may have originated with Jesus, the scene as we have it did not. The section under the heading ‘Social memory, orality, and a multi-referential saying?’ suggests some contexts that the saying about the things of Caesar addressed pre-Mark. And under the section ‘Trauma and Mark’s scene’ it is argued that Mark created a unit comprising scene and saying to negotiate the ‘ trauma’ of the 66–70 war. The unit evaluates freshly-asserted Roman power as idolatrous and blasphemous whilst simultaneously authorising the continued involvement of Jesus-believers in imperial society.

Why Not Simply Use the Best Theory? A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Notion of Plurality in Three Texts Used at a Teacher Education Institution in Sweden

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Edling, Silvia

2014-01-01

Drawing on ambitions to contest violence in education, this article challenges ideas that student teachers only need to rely on evidence-based theory in their future profession. This is accomplished by analysing and comparing theories of plurality as described in three texts used in courses at one teacher education institution in Sweden. The texts…

Efecto de la miscibilidad parcial entre octanol y agua sobre la solubilidad y el reparto de algunas sulfonamidas

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Fleming Martínez

2011-03-01

Full Text Available Se determinaron los coeficientes de reparto octanol/agua y la solubilidad de algunas sulfonamidas en octanol, agua y lossolventes mutuamente saturados a 25.0 ± O.1°C. A partir de los datos de solubilidad y de las temperaturas y entalpías defusión se calcularon los coeficientes de actividad de los solutos en las fases acuosas y orgánicas. Con base en estos resultados se estimaron las interacciones intermoleculares entre los solutos y solventes. Se encontró que la saturación mutua de las fases juega un papel importante en el reparto de las sulfonamidas estudiadas, lo cual se ha demostrado para otras sustanciassemipolares tales como algunos derivados de la guanina.

Collectivity, Distributivity, and the Interpretation of Plural Numerical Expressions in Child and Adult Language.

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Syrett, Kristen; Musolino, Julien

2013-01-01

Sentences containing plural numerical expressions (e.g., two boys ) can give rise to two interpretations (collective and distributive), arising from the fact that their representation admits of a part-whole structure. We present the results of a series of experiments designed to explore children's understanding of this distinction and its implications for the acquisition of linguistic expressions with number words. We show that preschoolers access both interpretations, indicating that they have the requisite linguistic and conceptual machinery to generate the corresponding representations. Furthermore, they can shift their interpretation in response to structural and lexical manipulations. However, they are not fully adult-like: unlike adults, they are drawn to the distributive interpretation, and are not yet aware of the lexical semantics of each and together , which should favor one or another interpretation. This research bridges a gap between a well-established body of work in cognitive psychology on the acquisition of number words and more recent work investigating children's knowledge of the syntactic and semantic properties of sentences featuring numerical expressions.

La perspectiva teórico-metodológica de Foucault. Algunas notas para investigar al "ADHD"

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Eugenia Bianchi

2010-01-01

Full Text Available Como objetivo general busco conocer cómo la medicina contribuye a establecer qué es considerado enfermedad. Analizo en particular las condiciones de emergencia y circulación del ADHD -trastorno por déficit de atención con hiperactividad- como trastorno de la conducta en la infancia. En este escrito me propongo introducir algunas de las implicancias y particularidades que se derivan de investigar el fenómeno, haciendo uso de un andamiaje teórico-metodológico subsidiario de los aportes de Michel Foucault. Para ello, reviso una serie de nociones, señalando la pertinencia de su uso para investigar el ADHD. Por tratarse de una presentación preliminar de contenidos, reviste sumo interés ampliar estas primeras argumentaciones, con vistas a generar nuevas hipótesis y líneas de análisis.

La riqueza y la pobreza de las naciones. ¿Por qué algunas son tan ricas y otras tan pobres?

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Abel Ignacio López

2001-01-01

Full Text Available Landes, David. La riqueza y la pobreza de las naciones. ¿Por qué algunas son tan ricas y otras son tan pobres?, Barcelona, Editorial Crítica, 1999, 604 páginas. ¿Porqué hay naciones pobres y naciones ricas y cuál es la contribución de la historia en la comprensión de esta cuestión? El autor entiende por cultura el espíritu de empresa, el conjunto de valores que guían la conducta de una población, el dominio de la ciencia, la tecnología y el espíritu racional.

La riqueza y la pobreza de las naciones. ¿Por qué algunas son tan ricas y otras tan pobres?

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Abel Ignacio López

2010-01-01

Landes, David. La riqueza y la pobreza de las naciones. ¿Por qué algunas son tan ricas y otras son tan pobres?, Barcelona, Editorial Crítica, 1999, 604 páginas. ¿Porqué hay naciones pobres y naciones ricas y cuál es la contribución de la historia en la comprensión de esta cuestión? El autor entiende por cultura el espíritu de empresa, el conjunto de valores que guían la conducta de una población, el dominio de la ciencia, la tecnología y el espíritu racional.

A political dimension of public budget: the councils of rights as a space for collective and plural debate

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Valdir Anhucci

2013-12-01

Full Text Available The consolidation of the political dimension of the Councils of Rights is linked to its understanding as plural public spaces, divergence and the constant struggle of ideas. The political dimension becomes crucial, especially in the process of defining and managing the public budget for both planning and to expand the debate on the allocation of financial resources for the implementation of public policies. It is this space that the different interests manifest themselves, becoming a field of political struggle for the appropriation of public resources in ensuring the rights and social protection of the most disenfranchised segments of society. The public budget in the spaces of advice gained a political dimension, the prospect of mere instrument accounting

Un lunfardismo en Canarias? Algunas observaciones sobre la etimologìa de pibe

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Beatriz Gómez-Pablos

1999-12-01

Full Text Available La etimología de la palabra pibe, chico, muchacho, ha dado lugar a numerosas cuestiones y nu­ merosas respuestas por parte de los lexicógrafos. Si se consultan diccionarios de argentinismos se comprobará. que todos ellos señalan el origen italiano de esta voz, pasando en muchos casos por la explicación lunfarda del término. Si se estudian diccionarios españoles podrán observarse diversas opciones: algunos se inclinan por el portugués, otros por el catalán, ninguno de ellos le atribuye etimología italiana. Si se acude entonces a diccionarios de portugués se leerá que este término procede del castellano, y así sucesivamente. Huelga decir que por el conocido fenómeno del plagio lexicográfico, muchas veces las respuestas son idénticas y presentan sólo de vez en cuando matices o informaciones suplementarias que pueden resultar de interés. Naturalmente, existen diccionarios que no ofrecen la etimologia sino marcas de uso y marcas regionales, en parte coincidentes pero en parte también contradictorias. Sobre estos aspectos deseamos hacer algunas observaciones.

How Place and Audience Matter: Perspectives on Mathematics Plural Identities from Late 1950s French and English Middle School Textbooks.

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Radtka, Catherine

2016-12-01

Argument In this paper, I argue that studying school textbooks is a fruitful way to investigate mathematical conceptions in different national contexts. These sources give access to the written production of an extended mathematical milieu whose members write for various audiences. By studying the case of late 1950s French and English textbooks issued for a growing audience of 11- to 15-year-old pupils, I show that a plurality of conceptions was projected at the time onto pupils and their teachers in both national contexts. I link this diversity to contemporaneous debates regarding mathematics teaching and argue that textbooks themselves have to be considered as active agents of such debates.

Algunas consideraciones sobre la Arqueología de Epoca Germánica en Euskal Herria.

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Agustín Azkárate Garai-Olaun

1990-01-01

Full Text Available Se realizan en este artículo algunas reflexiones sobre el método arqueológico aplicado a la tardoantigüedad, considerada comúnmente como uno de los períodos menos conocidos de la historia de Euskal Herria. Valorando, en su justa medida, los esfuerzos realizados desde la historiografía de base documental, se reivindica, sin embargo, el uso de la arqueología como medio insustituible para avanzar en el conocimiento de lo acontecido durante la Spätantike en nuestro territorio; una arqueología, no obstante, que, lejos de servirse a sí misma, sea generadora de problemas históricos y vehículo para el esclarecimiento de los mismos. Sin ánimo de exhaustividad se realiza, finalmente, un balance de lo conocido hasta el presente, aportando la novedad, a modo de primicia, de uno de los hallazgos de arqueología histórica más importantes realizados hasta el presente en el Páis Vasco.

Algunas características familiares y de la escuela que contribuyen a la etiología de la tensión emocional

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Gladys Jadue

2013-09-01

Full Text Available El artículo analiza algunas particularidades familiares y de la escuela que contribuyen a la aparición de estados ansiosos en los alumnos, que afectan tanto su desarrollo psicosocial como su rendimiento escolar. Enfatiza las características de los estados ansiosos que pueden ser provocados o exacerbados por la escuela y que junto con algunas peculiaridades familiares ansiogénicas pueden aumentar el número de niños en riesgo de bajo rendimiento y de fracaso escolar. Sostiene que tanto a través de una comunicación intersistémica eficiente familia-escuela como en el desarrollo de los Objetivos Fundamentales Transversales contenidos en la Reforma educacional chilena, es posible aminorar la sintomatología ansiosa, con el consecuente beneficio tanto para el desarrollo personal afectivo, como en el rendimiento escolar de los alumnos. This paper analyses and describes some important characteristics of families and the school affecting the students both in their psychosocial development and their school performance. It also emphasizes the characteristics of anxiety that can be trigger by the school and that together with some family anxiety peculiarities can increase the number of children who are at risk of having a low school performance and school failure. This paper suggest that in order to improve student's psychosocial development together with school performance, it is important to have an efficient intersystemic communication between the family and the school. It is also important to apply reliable strategies, as those contained in the Chilean Educational Reform so as to achieve these goals.

ASOCIACIÓN DE TRES SNPS CON ALGUNAS CARACTERÍSTICAS PRODUCTIVAS Y DE CALIDAD DE LA LECHE EN HATOS HOLSTEIN EN ANTIOQUIA, COLOMBIA

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José Julián Echeverri Zuluaga

Full Text Available Algunas características productivas y de la calidad de la leche están relacionadas con los polimorfismos de los genes kappa caseína (κ-CN, prolactina (PRL y hormona de crecimiento bovina (bGH, estos han sido ampliamente estudiados y aplicados en programas de mejoramiento genético animal. De manera particular, la industria ganadera colombiana se ha cualificado de manera sustancial, gracias a la utilización de estas estrategias que permiten identificar las variantes alélicas relacionadas y la implementación de programas de selección asistida por marcadores moleculares. Con el fin de verificar la asociación de los SNP de estos genes con algunas características productivas y de la calidad de la leche en las ganaderías antioqueñas, se evaluaron 4.453 lactancias de 1.631 vacas pertenecientes a 69 hatos lecheros de diferentes municipios del departamento de Antioquia. En el análisis se incluyó la producción de leche ajustada (PA, el porcentaje de proteína (PRO y grasa (GRA, el recuento de células somáticas (RSC y el efecto de los genotipos de los marcadores antes mencionados. Los resultados corroboran la asociación de estos marcadores con las características evaluadas, y sugieren un efecto importante del genotipo de la κ-CN sobre el porcentaje de proteína (BB>AB>AA (p +/- > +/+ (pAB>AA (p=0,01.

From voice to voices: identifying a plurality of Muslim sources in the news media.

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Munnik, Michael B

2017-03-01

This article identifies a qualitative change in the diversity of actors who represent Muslims in British news media. Hitherto, the literature discussing Muslims and the media has tended to characterize media organizations as institutions which portray Muslims in an essentialized, monolithic way. In contrast, I propose in this article that the process of representation is more complex, including greater agency and engaging a wider diversity of Muslims than the prevailing literature suggests. Sociological studies distinguish between official and unofficial sources who help determine the representations that journalists employ in their texts, and I apply this to Muslim communities in Glasgow. Using qualitative methods drawn from media production analysis, including participant-observation and ethnographic interviews, I identify a shift from a 'gatekeeper' model of representing the community to that of a plurality of sources, which reveals and insists on the diversity of Muslim communities and voices. I will show why a wider range of actors emerged to speak publicly, what differentiates them and how they position themselves as representatives of Muslims. This focus on producers and on source strategies brings fresh insights into a field dominated by content analysis and a 'media-centric' approach.

Un análisis prosopográfco de algunas formas actuales de movilización armada en Colombia

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Juan Manuel Castellanos

2011-01-01

Full Text Available En este artículo sintetizo un análisis de algunas de las formas de la movilización armada en Colombia a finales del siglo XX y comienzos del siglo XXI. Combino el análisis del estado actual del campo y del mercado de la guerra interna en Colombia como condición estructural, con la exploración de una diversidad de formas de movilización armada asociadas en un grupo de reclutas de distintas agrupaciones armadas legales e ilegales en Colombia, sin incluir una referencia a miembros de bandas y agrupaciones de delincuencia común. Trato así de incorporar las relaciones de correspondencia entre las condiciones objetivas y las disposiciones subjetivas que se combinan en un modelo generativo de movilización política armada.

Phlebotominae de Colombia (Diptera, Psychodidae I. Distribución geográfica de especies de Phlebotomus registradas con algunas anotaciones biológicas y descripción de una nueva

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Osorno-Mesa Ernesto

1967-09-01

Full Text Available De gran importancia en Salud Pública es este grupo de pequeños dípteros vulnerantes, ligados íntimamente con zoonosis 1, en la transmisión de enfermedades tropicales metaxénicas del hombre, como Leishmaniasis cutánea y visceral, Bartonellosis 2, probablemente algunas trypanosomiasis3 y arbovirus.

ALGUNAS CONSIDERACIONES SOBRE EL PROBLEMA DE LA "MUERTE CEREBRAL"

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Juan Mendoza Vega

1978-10-01

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La muerte, ese momento final y hasta ahora inevitable que señala el término de la existencia terrestre de los seres, ha causado al hombre desde la más remota antigüedad una explicable angustia. No solo como protagonista -jamás mejor aplicado el término- sino en cuanto espectador conmovido por la desaparición de seres que le son queridos.

Tal angustia ha movido los esfuerzos, cada vez más exitosos y complejos, para luchar contra las causas de la muerte; y ha desembocado, al acercarse el fin de otro milenio, en una situación, que parece absurdamente paradójica: la de una humanidad que, teniendo cada vez más y mejores medios para sostener las funciones corporales que aún persistimos en llamar "vitales" (reemplazando o estimulando una y otra vez en su función a los órganos que la han perdido empieza a preguntarse si es lícito y hasta cuándo el usar de tales medios, en presencia de un ser que ya no tiene las funciones superiores de su sistema nervioso ni la posibilidad razonable de recuperarlos.

Este trabajo pretende dar una visión sintética del problema, con especial interés por la realidad colombiana y terminando con algunas propuestas acordes con esa realidad.

Aspecto fisiológico de la muerte.
Se aceptó durante siglos como definición de "muerte" la que vincula este fenómeno a la cesación de los ritmos respiratorios y cardíaco. Pero la aparición y perfeccionamiento de los aparatos y técnicas de respiración asistida o controlada, los desfibriladores cardíacos, las drogas capaces de modificar el ritmo del corazón, la presión arterial y otros parámetros, la creación de las "Unidades de Cuidados Intensivos", han forzado a poner en discusión tal concepto y buscar en cambio definiciones más acordes con el estado actual de nuestra ciencia y arte...

Algunas Consideraciones Relativas al Hábito de Fumar en los Hospitales

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José Felix Patiño Restrepo

1986-12-01

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El cigarrillo constituye el problema de salud más grave que enfrenta la sociedad moderna. El hábito de fumar resulta en elevadas tasas de morbilidad y está plenamente comprobado que disminuye notoriamente la expectativa de vida por el desarrollo de cáncer pulmonar, enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica, enfermedad coronaria del corazón y una variedad de neoplasias malignas y de enfermedades vasculares.

La medicina, la enfermería y las profesiones afines de la salud tienen como propósito y como misión promover la salud. Los hospitales son instituciones dedicadas al mantenimientoy la recuperación de la salud, y el personal que labora en ellos está totalmente comprometido contal objetivo.

Los empleados que trabajan en los hospitales, pero especialmente los pacientes y sus familiares, tienen el sagrado derecho a respirar un ambiente no contaminado. Si los hospitales permiten que se pueda fumar en sus instalacionesy, especialmente, si permiten que sus empleados fumen, deben entonces estar preparados para asumirla responsabilidad por la incomodidad o el daño quepuedan ocurrir a los empleados, pacientes, familiares yvisitantes que encuentren un ambiente contaminado.

Fumar es realmente incompatible con una profesión de salud. Significa una contradicción ante los postulados que gobiernan las actividades de los trabajadores de la salud, representa un mal ejemplo para el público y significa una actitud irresponsable que, según algunos observadores, raya en la falta de ética profesional. Sin embargo,se debe aceptar que en los hospitales hay personal profesional y técnico que fuma. Algunas personas jóvenes han iniciado el hábito hace poco tiempo, probablemente bajo una condición de sorprendente ignorancia;otras de mayor edad, conocen las implicaciones nocivas pero encuentran muy difícil suspender el arraigado hábito.Los primeros probablemente podrán sobreponerse; los segundos deberán abstenerse, por lo menos

Anatomía ecológica de algunas especies del género Paspalum (Poaceae, Panicoideae, Paniceae

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Sandra S. Aliscioni

2000-01-01

Full Text Available Aliscioni, S. S. 2000. Anatomía ecológica de algunas especies del género Paspalum(Poaceae, Panicoideae, Paniceae. Darwiniana 38(3-4: 187-207.El género Paspalum L. presenta un elevado número de especies, con una amplia variabilidadmorfológica y una extensa distribución geográfica. Sus especies crecen en hábitats sumamente diversos,desde ambientes muy húmedos o acuáticos, a lugares secos de suelos arcillosos o arenosos, muchas vecessalinos. Dada la diversidad de ambientes en los que puede hallarse Paspalum, se estudiaron lascaracterísticas anatómico-foliares presentes en el género con la finalidad de interpretar diferentesestrategias adaptativas en distintas especies. Se presenta una descripción general de la anatomía foliar delgénero y se discuten ciertos caracteres anatómicos, interpretando su posible relación con las condicionesdel hábitat

A proposal about the origin of the indo-european locative plural

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Kenneth Shields

2005-12-01

Full Text Available One of the most significant recent developments in the field of historical lin­ guistics has been the identification of what Fox (1995: 194 calls '"laws' oflanguage development"-a methodology "for determining which changes are more likely than others, and ... criteria for determining the overall direction of linguistic change." This methodology is largely an aspect of what has come to be known as "grammati­ calization theory," which, according to Heine (2003: 575, is really "neither a theory of language nor of language change; its goal is to describe grammaticalization, that is, the way grammatical forms arise and develop through space and time, and to explain why they are structured the way they are." The process of grammaticalization "is hypothesized to be essentially unidirectional" (Heine 2003: 575 and therefore potentially "offers an explanatory account of how and why grammatical categories arise and develop" (Heine 2003: 578. Such explanation serves as "a potentially powerful adjunct to the methods of reconstruction, especially on an internal basis" (Fox 1995: 206, since it leads the historical linguist to principled conclusions about the structural sources of both attested and comparatively reconstructed morpho­ syntactic patterns. In this brief paper I wish to apply one such '"law' of language development" to account for the origin of the traditionally reconstructed Inda-European locative plural suffixes *-si (Gk. -si and *-su (Skt. -su, OCS -Xb (cf. Szemerényi 1996: 165. Like Fox (1995: 206, I acknowledge that the application of this methodology can be "speculative and controversial"; however, I offer my proposal as a reasonable possibility for developments within Indo-European

INSTITUTE OF SCIENTIFIC REVIEW TO A PLURALITY OF MODERN SCIENCE: NEED OR FICTION?

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Olga Mukha

2013-08-01

Full Text Available The current situation of plurality epistemological provokes distinct lack of clear criteria for scientific criticism humanities texts. This research raises the question of verification procedure for knowledge obtained humanities, its status and importance. Changes relate to the modern paradigm of scientific methodology in general, which involves switching from a focus on results orientation to the process of getting the truth (W.V.O. Quine, Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, Imre Lakatos, etc.. To determine the relationships with the text as a carrier of the alleged truth reception is off ered three formats of relations: Text – Author, Text – Reader and Text – Reviewer. The article stresses questions of general and specific objectives for the scientifi c peer review, as well as the problem of plagiarism and its ethical and legal consequences. It is proposed to consider plan algorithm scientific review of the 26 criteria for it, which will help to streamline Institute of scientific criticism. Recent cover content requirements (which include: the incorporation of a scientific context, the definition of methodological systems, structured research, avoiding plagiarism, there is a real «increase of knowledge» and applied significance, etc. and technical design, the variable respectively specifi c edition. Compliance with a number of requirements set out will help improve the effi ciency and profitability of the humanities.

Algunas Enfermedades De Las Plantas En La Zona Frutera de Bogotá.

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Obregón Botero Rafael

1942-12-01

Full Text Available Las observaciones fueron hechas durante el cumplimiento de una comisión encomendada al fruticultor Manuel J. Rivero y completadas por las muestras traídas al laboratorio, comprendió los municipios de Duitama, Sogamoso, Tibasosa, Santa Rosa, Belén, Cerinza, Guateque, Leiva, Sáchica, Sutamarchán, Ráquira y Chiquinquirá. Algunas de las conclusiones fueron: •La actual industria frutera de la tierra fría y templada empieza apenas a aplicar unaorientación técnica y la mayoría de las plantaciones existentes no obedece a ningún plan definido. •Un gran porcentaje de los árboles ésta tan abandonado, que su producción no llena satisfactoriamente la esperada para un árbol normal. •Los viveros y la comisión departamental de sanidad vegetal presentan una efectiva cooperación al fruticultor y creo conveniente el apoyo decidido a tales instituciones. •He podido constatar que en las regiones fruteras de Boyacá es mas necesario entablar un estudio definitivo sobre los insectos, esto es, un estudio entomológico de estas regiones, para luego establecer campañas efectivas al respecto pues los daños de importancia económica mayor se deben a los insectos. •El Departamento de Boyacá contemplado dos problemas grandes como lo son la erosión y la densa población rural en muchas zonas donde la lucha por el hombre del campo es realmente desesperante.

ALGUNAS REFLEXIONES PARA COMERCIALIZAR PERECEDEROS (EL CASO DE LAS FRUTAS

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Carlos Alberto Areiza V.

1999-01-01

Full Text Available Colombia es un país de múltiples oportunidades ya que cuenta con una situación privilegiada al tener todos los climas todo el año, posee dos océanos, lo cual da una ventaja competitiva en la parte comercial y en las condiciones actuales se constituye en un factor muy importante para la reactivación del país. En el campo, y sobre todo en la producción para la exportación, se puede buscar la generación de empleo y la reactivación económica. Con el fin de contribuir a despertar el interés entre los empresarios o futuros empresarios, sobre el sector de perecederos y más concretamente el sector de comercialización de frutas, se les comparten algunas reflexiones acerca del manejo y comercialización de éstas.El artículo consta de cinco secciones: en la primera se muestra una visión global del mercado colombiano y de los factores que lo han llevado a no explotar eficientemente los recursos naturales y la ventaja competitiva que se tiene. La segunda hace un análisis de los principales factores que afectan la comercialización de las frutas, destacándose aspectos técnicos que deben tenerse en cuenta al cosechar, pues estos afectan la presentación, calidad, precios y demanda. La tercera sección está dedicada a analizar algunos elementos de cosecha importantes para el manejo adecuado de la comercialización. En la cuarta sección se hacen una serie de recomendaciones para el manejo postcosecha, en la que se destaca la importancia del empaque en la comercialización de frutas y se le dan al futuro comercializador ideas para diseñar empaques que cumplan las funciones propias de estos. En la última sección se le dan al comercializador una serie de recomendaciones para manejar productivamente este mercado.

Desconcierto del tiempo presente y retos del futuro. Algunas claves orientativas

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González Portilla, Manuel

2011-12-01

Full Text Available The uncertainty is one of the most appropriate characteristics of our west society. This has been in the forefront of the world for centuries, but now his protagonist role is decreasing, so his next future is under question. The recent history illuminates some key points: the irruption of the great demographic powers –China and India–, the acceleration of the industrialisation, the world-wide urban development, and the swing of the economic core towards the Pacific area. Other changes in process actually are: the demographic transition (mortality and fecundity, the change in the values and the family patterns, the influence of the new economy based on the knowledge and the innovation, and the growing role of the women in all the society fields.

La de la incertidumbre es una de las características que mejor define a nuestra sociedad occidental. Vanguardia del mundo durante siglos, se encuentra con que ve cómo se recorta su protagonismo. Desde esa incertidumbre, se cuestiona por su futuro inmediato. La historia reciente pone ante nuestros ojos algunas claves: aparición en escena de grandes potencias demográficas (China e India, industrialización, desarrollo urbano mundial y desplazamiento hacia el Pacífico del eje económico planetario son tres de las más evidentes. En un plano acaso no tan evidente, se están produciendo otros cambios de enorme calado: transición demográfica (mortalidad y fecundidad, cambios en los valores y tipologías familiares, papel insoslayable de una economía basada en la innovación y el conocimiento (I+D+i y presencia creciente e insustituible de la mujer en todos los ámbitos de la sociedad.

Frecuencia de algunas enfermedades genéticas en Neuropediatría

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Tatiana Zaldívar Vaillant

2012-12-01

Full Text Available Introducción: las enfermedades neurológicas en Pediatría son diversas y obedecen a un gran número de causas: infecciosas, genéticas, metabólicas y degenerativas, entre otras. El diagnóstico genético, dentro del método clínico en Neurología, está relacionado con el diagnóstico etiológico. Existen muy pocas publicaciones que reflejen la frecuencia de las enfermedades neurogenéticas como grupo etiológico. Objetivo: describir la frecuencia de algunas enfermedades neuropediátricas en la Consulta de Neurogenética del Instituto de Neurología y Neurocirugía. Métodos: se realizó una investigación descriptiva y prospectiva en el periodo 2008-2010. Se clasificó a los pacientes por grupos etarios, y se calculó el porcentaje de frecuencia para la atrofia muscular espinal de la infancia, la distrofia muscular tipo Duchenne/Becker, las lesiones estáticas del sistema nervioso central de causa prenatal genética, y para la clasificación de los grupos según tipo de herencia. Resultados: el universo de estudio estuvo conformado por 161 pacientes, 72,6 % del sexo masculino, para una razón de la variable sexo de 2,5. Los escolares fueron mayoría (37,8 %, y la edad promedio 5 años. La distrofia muscular tipo Duchenne fue la enfermedad más frecuente (24,8 %. El 41,40 % clasificó en la herencia autosómica recesiva. Los resultados coinciden con lo reportado en la literatura. Conclusiones: las enfermedades neuromusculares hereditarias, y las lesiones estáticas del sistema nervioso central de causa prenatal genética, son las más frecuentes de solicitud de asesoramiento genético en un servicio de Neurogenética.

L’Islam plurale in Albania: modelli di relazione con lo Stato e pace religiosa. Il ruolo del diritto statale e di quello religioso

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Giovanni Cimbalo

2014-03-01

Full Text Available Il contributo, sottoposto a valutazione, riproduce il testo nella versione integrale, completa delle note e in lingua italiana, della Comunicazione presentata al Convegno su “Islam in Europe through the Balkan Prism" (24-26 October 2013, Sarajevo. Titolo della versione inglese, destinata alla pubblicazione negli Atti, "Plural Islam in Albania: patterns of relationship with the state and religious peace".SOMMARIO: 1. Dall’Impero ottomano all’Albania indipendente 2. Le caratteristiche endogene dell’ordinamento albanese e le sue specificità - 3. Il “colonialismo giuridico” dell’Occidente e il rispetto dell’autonomia degli ordinamenti - 4. La rivisitazione delle relazioni tra Stato e Comunità religiose - 5. Estendere l’esperienza albanese agli altri Stati balcanici o quella dei Balcani all’Albania? Abstract   The protection of individual and collective freedom of religion and freedom of conscience, the regulation of state relations with religious communities in Albania, have found a solution in peculiar legal rules and traditions that in the history of the Albanian people have guaranteed the religious peace. Of great significance was the Albanian legal system resistance to accept the advice of the Venice Commission, Council of Europe and the EU that would rather prefer and have sought to impose the adoption of a single political-legal model for the Balkans, focused on a general law for the protection of religious freedom.Albanian model dates back to 1923, recognizes the cultural and religious pluralism of society and the opportunity for all religious communities to obtain civil legal personality, now allows cooperation agreements with the various religious communities. The rules put as guarantees of religious freedom those of the general law without any recourse to special rules. What happened was possible because of the plural nature of Balkan Islam which has allowed mutual respect and tolerance, and thanks to the

La crisis de la ley en Luigi Ferrajoli: algunas consideraciones desde la teoría de la legislación || The Crisis of Law in Luigi Ferrajoli: Some Comments from the Perspective of Legislation Theory

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Fernando Centenera Sanchez Seco

2012-12-01

Full Text Available La preocupación por la calidad de las normas es una cuestión cada vez más presente en nuestro tiempo. La obra Principia iuris del profesor Ferrajoli no es una excepción. En ella se diagnostican problemas tales como el lenguaje oscuro de las normas, la legislación penal con carácter simbólico, la inflación normativa o el colapso de los tribunales. Ante tales circunstancias, en la obra señalada se proponen varias soluciones. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar algunas de estas propuestas desde la perspectiva de la teoría de la legislación. Este ejercicio puede resultar interesante, por cuanto con él es posible contribuir al desarrollo de las propuestas de Ferrajoli, matizar algunas de ellas, y reflexionar sobre determinados aspectos que quizá pudieran ser discutibles.

Pluralismo jurídico y derechos humanos en la experiencia indígena mexicana de los últimos años / Legal Pluralism and Humans Rights in Mexican indigenous experience in last two years

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Jesús Antonio de la Torre Rangel

2013-07-01

Full Text Available Resumo: O tema é a relação entre o pluralismo jurídico e a eficácia dos direitos humanos que sustentam uma vida com dignidade. As experiências indígenas, no México, nas décadas de 1990 a 2000, são apresentadas como a concretização dos direitos humanos no seu exercício do pluralismo jurídico, com base em uma práxis de libertação. Na zona zapatista de Chiapas e na Costa-Montaña de Guerrero foi concretizado o direito que nasce do povo: o direito à autonomia ou livre determinação, o direito a se autogerir por seus próprios sistemas normativos, o direito a distribuir justiça de acordo com suas normas e sentido de equidade, entre outros.Palavras-chaves: Pluralismo jurídico; Direitos humanos; Direito que nasce do povo. Abstract: This article is about the relation between pluralism and effectiveness of Humans Rights that sustain a life with dignity. In Mexico, from 1990 to 2000, indigenous experiences are presented as a consolidation of Humans Rights in the exercise of legal pluralism based on a praxis of liberation. In Chiapas Zapatista’ zone and in Costa-Montaña de Guerrero a Right which rises from people was reinforced: the Right of Autonomy or Self-determination, the Right of self-manage properly legal systems, the Right to distribute justice according to own rules and the sense of equity.Keywords: Legal Pluralism, Human Rights, Right from people

El muestreo en investigación cualitativa: principios básicos y algunas controversias Sampling in qualitative research: basic principles and some controversies

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Carolina Martínez-Salgado

2012-03-01

Full Text Available En este trabajo se presentan los fundamentos de la elección de los participantes en una investigación cualitativa, en contraste con los que rigen al muestreo probabilístico en la investigación epidemiológica. Se proponen los conceptos de generalizabilidad nomotética e ideográfica, y los de transferibilidad y reflexividad, para una mejor comprensión de las diferencias. Se mencionan los fundamentos de los principales tipos de muestreo que suelen utilizarse en investigación cualitativa, el significado del concepto de saturación y algunos de sus cuestionamientos. Por último, se plantean algunas reflexiones en torno a las controversias suscitadas en los últimos años sobre las diversas perspectivas paradigmáticas desde las cuales se puede efectuar hoy día la investigación cualitativa, sus posibilidades de combinación con la investigación epidemiológica, y algunas implicaciones para el estudio de los problemas de salud.This paper presents the rationale for the choice of participants in qualitative research in contrast with that of probability sampling principles in epidemiological research. For a better understanding of the differences, concepts of nomothetic and ideographic generalizability, as well as those of transferability and reflexivity, are proposed, Fundamentals of the main types of sampling commonly used in qualitative research, and the meaning of the concept of saturation are mentioned. Finally, some reflections on the controversies that have arisen in recent years on various paradigmatic perspectives from which to conduct qualitative research, their possibilities of combination with epidemiological research, and some implications for the study of health issues are presented.

La comunidad cultural iberoamericana: su composición plural y su importancia en el contexto global

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Olivé, León

2008-12-01

Full Text Available In this paper some reasons are offered in defense of the dictum “pensar en español”. We start by acknowledging that the Spanish language is not unique, but that in fact there are varieties of Spanish in the different iberoamerican countries, even in their different regions. Nevertheless, all those languages overlap in important ways, so that it makes sense to speak of Spanish as the common language in the iberoamerican world. One central reason for continuing thinking in Spanish is that the identity of Iberoamerica, as a cultural region, depends, literally, on what has been thought in the past, and it will have a future only if we continue that tradition of Spanish thought. The existence and the identity of the Iberoamerican community depend on their memory and on having a well articulated common project. One of the main responsibilities of the thought community (comunidad de pensamiento is to make decisive contributions to that memory and to the proper design of that project. But besides thinking about our local and regional problems, we must also think about and make contributions to the solution of worldwide problems, such as the construction of a just, plural and democratic global society.En este trabajo se ofrecen razones por las cuales tiene sentido el exhorto “pensar en español”. Se parte del reconocimiento de que no existe un único idioma español, sino que en realidad en los diferentes países iberoamericanos, incluso en sus diferentes regiones, se hablan diferentes “españoles” (como lenguas. Sin embargo, hay un traslape importante entre todas ellas, lo cual permite referirnos al español como idioma común. La razón central por la que importa seguir pensando en español es que la identidad de la realidad iberoamericana depende, literalmente, de que en el pasado se haya pensado en español y su futuro depende de que lo sigamos haciendo. La existencia y la identidad de la comunidad iberoamericana dependen de que su

Petrografía, propiedades físicas y durabilidad de algunas rocas utilizadas en el patrimonio monumental de Catalunya, España

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Esbert, Rosa M.

1989-06-01

Full Text Available The petrographical description and the values of some physical properties of three rocks used in the architectonic patrimony of Catalunya are presented. These rocks are known, in the field of the "building stones" as Girona, Folgueroles and Vinaixa stones. By ageing tests, their durability is predicted.

Se realiza la descripción petrográfica y se determina una serie de propiedades físicas de algunas rocas utilizadas en el patrimonio arquitectónico de Catalunya conocidas, en el ámbito de las "rocas de construcción", con los nombres de piedras de Girona, Folgueroles y Vinaixa. Mediante ensayos de envejecimiento artificial acelerado, se hacen predicciones sobre la durabilidad de las mismas.

For a reasoned development of experimental methods in information and communication sciences Some epistemological findings of methodological pluralism

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Didier COURBET

2013-07-01

Full Text Available If multidisciplinarity is necessary, first, for studying the widest possible set of communication phenomena (organizational, in groups, interpersonal, media, computer-mediated communication... and, secondly, for grasping the complexity of the different moments of the same phenomenon of communication (production, content, reception, circulation ..., methodological pluralism is also important. However, French research in communication sciences leaves in the shade a number of phenomena and moments of communication that could be better understood thanks to the experimental method. We will underline that the epistemological issues related to rational use of the experimental method in communication sciences are not negligible: it allows the study of objects that cannot be investigated with other methods and offers the opportunity to build knowledge by the refutation of hypotheses and theoretical propositions. We will clarify some epistemological misunderstandings concerning this method. First, it is actually a method of studying complex systems and communication processes. Secondly, its use is not incompatible with constructivism.

Árboles y arbustos en mitos guaraníes sobre el origen y el fin del mundo: elucidación de algunas expresiones fitonímicas

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Héctor A. Keller

2013-07-01

Full Text Available Se investiga el rol de algunas especies arbóreas en la cosmogonía y los mitos sobre el fin del mundo de los guaraníes meridionales a partir de narrativas recogidas en comunidades indígenas de la provincia de Misiones, Argentina. Con el fin de dilucidar la etimología de algunos de los fitónimos más corrientes del idioma guaraní, estas narrativas son complementadas con observaciones fitosociológicas e información bibliográfica.

Concerns regarding a call for pluralism of information theory and hypothesis testing

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Lukacs, P.M.; Thompson, W.L.; Kendall, W.L.; Gould, W.R.; Doherty, P.F.; Burnham, K.P.; Anderson, D.R.

2007-01-01

1. Stephens et al . (2005) argue for `pluralism? in statistical analysis, combining null hypothesis testing and information-theoretic (I-T) methods. We show that I-T methods are more informative even in single variable problems and we provide an ecological example. 2. I-T methods allow inferences to be made from multiple models simultaneously. We believe multimodel inference is the future of data analysis, which cannot be achieved with null hypothesis-testing approaches. 3. We argue for a stronger emphasis on critical thinking in science in general and less reliance on exploratory data analysis and data dredging. Deriving alternative hypotheses is central to science; deriving a single interesting science hypothesis and then comparing it to a default null hypothesis (e.g. `no difference?) is not an efficient strategy for gaining knowledge. We think this single-hypothesis strategy has been relied upon too often in the past. 4. We clarify misconceptions presented by Stephens et al . (2005). 5. We think inference should be made about models, directly linked to scientific hypotheses, and their parameters conditioned on data, Prob(Hj| data). I-T methods provide a basis for this inference. Null hypothesis testing merely provides a probability statement about the data conditioned on a null model, Prob(data |H0). 6. Synthesis and applications. I-T methods provide a more informative approach to inference. I-T methods provide a direct measure of evidence for or against hypotheses and a means to consider simultaneously multiple hypotheses as a basis for rigorous inference. Progress in our science can be accelerated if modern methods can be used intelligently; this includes various I-T and Bayesian methods.

Valoración de la aptitud de los requerimientos profesionales. Capacidades requeridas para el trabajo o grupos profesionales: algunas aportaciones del Instituto Nacional de Seguridad e Higiene en el Trabajo (INSHT

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Marta Zimmerman Verdejo

2014-01-01

Full Text Available Siendo la "aptitud para trabajar" como aquella capacidad psicofísica del individuo para realizar su trabajo sin riesgo para su propia salud o la de otros, el presente artículo resume algunas actividades desarrolladas por el INSHT, en el marco de sus competencias técnica, en colaboración con otras unidades del Ministerio de Empleo y Seguridad Social.

Consideraciones sobre algunas metodologías habituales para el análisis de tablas de movilidad social. Ventajas y limitaciones de una alternativa basada en cadenas de Markov

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Germán Rosati

2011-01-01

Full Text Available El problema de la «movilidad social» constituye un tópico clásico en la ciencia social y ha tenido diversos abordajes. En este trabajo se presentan algunas herramientas metodológicas para el análisis de la movilidad social en matrices de transición. Se discutirán los alcances y limitaciones de algunas metodologías clásicas de análisis: análisis de «entradas» y «salidas; el índice de movilidad/ estabilidad social; el índice basado en el coeficiente Q de Joule desarrollado por Andrea Tyree y los modelos log-lineales. Estas herramientas funcionan bajo el supuesto de «independencia estadística» entre los momentos de la matriz de transición. Se intentará mostrar la utilidad que las cadenas de Markov poseen, en tanto permiten «flexibilizar» (al menos en teoría estos supuestos, al trabajar sobre distribuciones probabilísticas de movilidad (llamadas matrices de transición. Por ello se propondrán algunos elementos para la construcción de un índice basado en estas distribuciones probabilísticas y se compararán sus resultados con las metodologías anteriores. Se ilustrarán algunos de los resultados con datos secundarios provenientes de otros trabajos de investigación.

La interacción escuela–familia: algunas claves para repensar la formación del profesorado de Educación Infantil

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Mª Luisa MIR POZO

2012-01-01

Full Text Available En el estudio que presentamos identificamos las estrategias relacionales que se utilizan con las familias en escuelas infantiles de 0–3 años de las Islas Baleares y esbozamos algunas orientaciones que puedan ayudar a mejorar la participación comunitaria y la formación del profesorado de educación infantil. Los contextos de la familia y la escuela comparten la socialización de los niños y las niñas desde edades cada vez más tempranas. La corresponsabilidad educativa exige la creación de espacios compartidos para la construcción de una relación que facilite la inclusión del ámbito familiar en la institución educativa para favorecer el desarrollo y el aprendizaje infantil.

El sentido histórico de algunas transformaciones del arte narrativo

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Félix Martínez Bonati

2016-04-01

Full Text Available Desde su consolidación como género, en el Siglo XVIII, hasta su aparente regeneración irónica en el Postmodernismo, la novela moderna ha experimentado notables alteraciones estructurales. Algunas de las más salientes son la reducción de la figura del narrador autorial, el progresivo abandono de consensuales parámetros caracterológicos y morales, la gravitación del acontecer temático hacia la esfera de la subjetividad y la creciente eminencia de lo trivial o del detalle perceptual. ¿A qué se deben estas transformaciones de la matriz narrativa? El presente ensayo sugiere que ellas responden a mutaciones de la conciencia moderna, en especial a la completa inversión del impulso metafísico, bajo el influjo de la imagen científica de seres y circunstancias y del anhelo humano de una visión religiosa y redentora. Se indican desarrollos paralelos en la poesía lírica y en la filosofía.   From its consolidation as genre in the eighteenth century, to its apparent ironic regeneration in the Post-Modernity, the modern novel has experienced notable structural alterations. Some of the more salient ones are the reduction of the figure of the author-narrator, the progressive abandonment of the character and moral consensus parameters, the gravitation of the thematic occurrence towards the sphere of subjectivity and the growing eminence of the trivial or perceptual detail. To what is owed these transformations of the narrative matrix? This essay suggests that they respond to the mutations of the modern consiousness, especially to the complete inversion of the metaphysical impulse, under the influence of the scientific image of the beings and circumstances and the human yearning for a religious and redeeming vision. Developing parallels are indicated in the lyric poetry and in philosophy.

Algunas tendencias del catolicismo social en Chile: reflexiones desde la historia

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ANDREA BOTTO

2008-01-01

Full Text Available En este ensayo queremos proponer una mirada diferente a lo que se ha entendido de la relación entre catolicismo social y los grupos que lo han sustentado. En la década de 1930, por diversos motivos, surgieron desde una especial generación de jóvenes católicos chilenos vinculados al conservadurismo, diferentes grupos que interpretaron a su manera cómo llevar a la práctica las doctrinas sociales dictadas desde Roma. Esas diferentes interpretaciones generaron una división profunda en el catolicismo chileno, que trascendió hasta el mundo de la política y generaron profundos resentimientos que subsistieron por varias décadas. Se propone aquí un recorrido sobre esas posiciones que nos servirá para entender parte del proceso que ha vivido el catolicismo nacional en el siglo XX, y para comprender el origen de algunas posturas que continúan vigentes en aquel espectro católico vinculado a posturas más tradicionales y conservadoras.In this essay, the author proposes a different perspective on what has been understood up to now regarding the relationship between Social Catholicism and the groups that have sustained it. In the decade of the 1930s, for diverse motives, different groups emerged from a special generation of young Chilean Catholics linked to a hard-line conservatism. These groups interpreted in their own ways how to put into practice the social doctrines dictated by Rome. Those different interpretations generated a deep división within Chilean Catholicism which transcended into the world of politics and generated deep resentments that subsisted for several decades. A review of those positions is proposed here, serving to help us understand part of the process that national Catholicism lived out in the 20th century, and comprehend the origin of some positions that are still current in that Catholic spectrum linked to more traditional and conservative postures.

Concepción del Espacio Sagrado en algunas religiones no cristianas

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Antonio Bentué

2003-01-01

Full Text Available El artículo parte señalando el significado fenomenológico originario del "espacio sagrado", presente en toda tradición religiosa. Tal "espacio", constituye el ámbito privilegiado de la celebración ritual, por la cual los fieles creyentes se conectan con una experiencia "teo-fánica". De ahí que la etimología del término latino "fanum" tenga la connotación de "templo" o "lugar sagrado" y que la referencia a esa "teo-fanía" acontecida "in illo tempore", en ese lugar, tenga una fuerza "fanatizadora". Aquí, pues, se estudia esa perspectiva religiosa referida al "espacio sagrado" en algunos aspectos de cuatro tradiciones religiosas no cristianas: Hinduismo (mito de Sumeru y Amaravati, Tirtha, Budismo (Stupa, Kaidan, Islam (Quibla y mito del "ascenso" de Mahoma y en la tradición religiosa mapuche (Ngillathuhue y Rehue. Se muestra también el proceso "interiorizador" del espacio sagrado que se da en algunas de esas tradiciones religiosas, particularmente en la espiritualidad "mística"(The article points out the phenomenological meaning of the "sacred place", which is found in all religious traditions. This "place" represents the special location of the ritual celebrations, trhough which the believers may come in contact with the original "theo-phanic" experience. That's why the ethimological meaning of the latin word "fanum" has the connotation of "sacred place" and also that the reference to this "teo-fania", which happaned "in illo tempore" in this "place", has a "phanatic"strength. This religious perspective is studied in the present article about the "sacred place" in some aspects of four non christian traditions: Hinduism (the mithe of Sumeru and Amaravati, Thirta, Boudhism (Stupa, Kaidan, Islam (Quibla and the mithe of Mohamed's "ascens", and, finally, in the "mapuche" religious tradition (Ngillathuhue, Rehue. The author shows also the progressive "inner meaning" given to the concept of "sacred place" in some of these religious

El cultivo de trigo en la Región Semiárida Bonaerense: impacto sobre algunas propiedades químicas del suelo

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DUVAL, M.

2013-08-01

Full Text Available La intensificación de la agricultura en la Región Semiárida se caracterizó por una disminución del área destinada a pasturas, a favor de la superficie con monocultivo de trigo. En este contexto, la rotación de cultivos, la fertilización, el manejo de los residuos y el agua edáfica son aspectos fundamentales para el aumento de la productividad del trigo en esta región. Se planteó como objetivo cuantificar los cambios cuali y cuantitativos en sistemas de producción sobre algunas propiedades de un suelo de la Región Semiárida Bonaerense, luego de 22 años de producción.

“Gold Standards,” Plurality and Monocultures: The Need for Diversity in Psychotherapy

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Falk Leichsenring

2018-04-01

Full Text Available For psychotherapy of mental disorders, presently several approaches are available, such as interpersonal, humanistic, systemic, psychodynamic or cognitive behavior therapy (CBT. Pointing to the available evidence, proponents of CBT claim that CBT is the gold standard. Some authors even argue for an integrated CBT-based form of psychotherapy as the only form of psychotherapy. CBT undoubtedly has its strengths and CBT researchers have to be credited for developing and testing treatments for many mental disorders. A critical review, however, shows that the available evidence for the theoretical foundations of CBT, assumed mechanisms of change, quality of studies, and efficacy is not as robust as some researchers claim. Most important, there is no consistent evidence that CBT is more efficacious than other evidence-based approaches. These findings do not justify regarding CBT as the gold standard psychotherapy. They even provide less justification for the idea that the future of psychotherapy lies in one integrated CBT-based form of psychotherapy as the only type of psychotherapy. For the different psychotherapeutic approaches a growing body of evidence is available. These approaches have their strengths because of differences in their respective focus on interpersonal relationships, affects, cognitions, systemic perspectives, experiential, or unconscious processes. Different approaches may be suitable to different patients and therapists. As generally assumed, progress in research results from openness to new ideas and learning from diverse perspectives. Thus, different forms of evidence-based psychotherapy are required. Plurality is the future of psychotherapy, not a uniform “one fits all” approach.

“Gold Standards,” Plurality and Monocultures: The Need for Diversity in Psychotherapy

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Leichsenring, Falk; Abbass, Allan; Hilsenroth, Mark J.; Luyten, Patrick; Munder, Thomas; Rabung, Sven; Steinert, Christiane

2018-01-01

For psychotherapy of mental disorders, presently several approaches are available, such as interpersonal, humanistic, systemic, psychodynamic or cognitive behavior therapy (CBT). Pointing to the available evidence, proponents of CBT claim that CBT is the gold standard. Some authors even argue for an integrated CBT-based form of psychotherapy as the only form of psychotherapy. CBT undoubtedly has its strengths and CBT researchers have to be credited for developing and testing treatments for many mental disorders. A critical review, however, shows that the available evidence for the theoretical foundations of CBT, assumed mechanisms of change, quality of studies, and efficacy is not as robust as some researchers claim. Most important, there is no consistent evidence that CBT is more efficacious than other evidence-based approaches. These findings do not justify regarding CBT as the gold standard psychotherapy. They even provide less justification for the idea that the future of psychotherapy lies in one integrated CBT-based form of psychotherapy as the only type of psychotherapy. For the different psychotherapeutic approaches a growing body of evidence is available. These approaches have their strengths because of differences in their respective focus on interpersonal relationships, affects, cognitions, systemic perspectives, experiential, or unconscious processes. Different approaches may be suitable to different patients and therapists. As generally assumed, progress in research results from openness to new ideas and learning from diverse perspectives. Thus, different forms of evidence-based psychotherapy are required. Plurality is the future of psychotherapy, not a uniform “one fits all” approach. PMID:29740361

Alfabetización informacional para una sociedad intercultural: algunas iniciativas desde las bibliotecas públicas.

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María Pinto

2008-02-01

Full Text Available La Biblioteca Pública, como vehículo abierto del conocimiento, es un soporte esencial para la educación permanente, el progreso cultural de la persona y los grupos sociales que configuran un entorno determinado. En la actual Sociedad de la Información y del Conocimiento, desde las bibliotecas públicas hay que hacer frente a nuevos retos: la aparición de la ya conocida brecha digital que ahonda en desigualdades anteriores no resueltas, la globalización cultural, la nueva sociedad multicultural... En su papel proactivo, las bibliotecas públicas pueden desarrollar un papel decisivo en la integración de los grupos minoritarios en la sociedad de acogida a través de la promoción del intercambio de culturas y de programas de formación en alfabetización informacional. Al tiempo, pueden servir como foro de aprendizaje intercultural para la comunidad de la sociedad de acogida. Reflexionaremos sobre estos aspectos y daremos cuenta de algunas propuestas de interés puestas en marcha para favorecer la alfabetización informacional intercultural desde las bibliotecas públicas de hoy en día, destacando aquéllas que deben poseer los ciudadanos para interactuar con la información y el conocimiento de forma efectiva, asumiendo además el valor del respeto a las diferencias.

Reflexiones sobre alteridad y técnica: La figura del robot humanoide en algunas transposiciones de la literatura al cine

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Raúl Cuadros Contreras

2008-12-01

Full Text Available La ciecia ficción lanza una mirada a las formas más extremas de otredad que se puedan imaginar. Esos otros seres y otros mundos le abren la puerta a nuevas ontologías y a la desnaturalización de categorías opuestas, tales como orgánico/inorgánico, natural/artificial. Resultan así nuevas formas de pensar la identidad y la definición de ser humano. En este artículo se explora este proceso analizando representaciones de la técnica y su mediación en las relaciones entre identidad y alteridad en algunas narraciones de este género. Para este fin, el autor toma como ejemplo el tratamiento que se le da a la figura del robot o del cyborg en películas recientes y muestra la humanización de éstos.

Las capillas y capellanías reales castellano-leonesas en la Baja Edad Media (siglos XIII-XV: algunas precisiones institucionales

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Nogales Rincón, David

2005-12-01

Full Text Available The study of royal chapels and royal chaplaincies is focus on the analysis of the relationships between de Palace Chapel and the cathedral/monastic royal chapels from a institucional, ideologic and functional criterions, on making a systematization of them and on presenting some general notes about their characteristics, ideal patterns and development in the late Middle Ages in Castille (13th-15th centuries.

El estudio de las capillas y capellanías reales se centra en el análisis de las relaciones entre la Capilla Palacio y las capillas reales catedralicias/monásticas desde un punto de vista institucional, ideológico y funcional, en llevar a cabo una sistematización de éstas y ofrecer algunas notas generales sobre sus características, modelos ideales y evolución en la Castilla bajomedieval (siglos XIII-XV.

¿Constitucionalismo global? Vicisitudes y contingencias del proceso a partir de algunas experiencias en América Latina

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Claudia Escobar-García

2012-01-01

Full Text Available A partir de ejemplos concretos extraídos del constitucionalismo colombiano y ecuatoriano, el presente artículo indica y desarrolla algunas dificultades de la globalización del derecho constitucional, así como las limitaciones explicativas de los discursos teóricos convencionales sobre este fenómeno. Con tal propósito, se señalan tres rasgos: de un lado, su marcado carácter artificial, pues tras la fachada de un fluido y profundo proceso de intercambio jurídico se encuentra un distanciamiento material entre los órdenes constitucionales; de otro lado, su condición fragmentaria y desestructurada, en cuanto las dinámicas de aproximación fluctúan según variables y factores fortuitos e indeterminados que impiden hacer una caracterización uniforme y homogénea; y finalmente, la existencia de amplias y profundas dificultades en la selección y comprensión de los referentes que se utilizan en las dinámicas de aproximación.

Religious Pluralism and Civic Rights in a “Muslim Nation”: An Analysis of Prophet Muhammad’s Covenants with Christians

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Craig Considine

2016-02-01

Full Text Available This article examines the roles that religious pluralism and civic rights played in Prophet Muhammad’s vision of a “Muslim nation”. I demonstrate how Muhammad desired a pluralistic society in which citizenship and equal rights were granted to all people regardless of religious beliefs and practices. The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of his time are used as a framework for analysis. These documents have received little attention in our time, but their messages are crucial in light of current debates about Muslim-Christian relations. The article campaigns for reviving the egalitarian spirit of the Covenants by refocusing our understanding of the ummah as a site for religious freedom and civil rights. Ultimately, I argue that the Covenants of Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of his time can be used to develop a stronger narrative of democratic partnership between Muslims and Christians in the “Islamic world” and beyond.

Alguna precisión sobre las nuevas tecnologías y la democracia deliberativa y participativa

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José Luis Martí

2008-02-01

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Este artículo pone de manifiesto que la participación democrática es deseable con tal de que se pueda promover una participación de calidad, y esto implica un compromiso normativo importante con la idea de deliberación democrática. Por lo tanto, se defiende una visión de la democracia participativa vinculada al ideal de la democracia deliberativa que disfruta actualmente de una gran repercusión académica en todo el mundo. Todo esto se hace desde una perspectiva aplicada al campo de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC. Como corolario de esta idea, se proporcionan algunas reflexiones generales que deberían guiar el diseño institucional de mecanismos de participación. El artículo acaba analizando el caso de la campaña del Ayuntamiento de Barcelona "¿Y tú que harías?", para fomentar la participación democrática sobre el contenido del próximo Plan de actuación municipal de la ciudad, concluyendo que se trata de una campaña muy mal diseñada que infringe buena parte de las consideraciones generales antes identificadas.

Alguna precisión sobre las nuevas tecnologías y la democracia deliberativa y participativa

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José Luis Martí

2008-02-01

Full Text Available Este artículo pone de manifiesto que la participación democrática es deseable con tal de que se pueda promover una participación de calidad, y esto implica un compromiso normativo importante con la idea de deliberación democrática. Por lo tanto, se defiende una visión de la democracia participativa vinculada al ideal de la democracia deliberativa que disfruta actualmente de una gran repercusión académica en todo el mundo. Todo esto se hace desde una perspectiva aplicada al campo de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC. Como corolario de esta idea, se proporcionan algunas reflexiones generales que deberían guiar el diseño institucional de mecanismos de participación. El artículo acaba analizando el caso de la campaña del Ayuntamiento de Barcelona "¿Y tú que harías?", para fomentar la participación democrática sobre el contenido del próximo Plan de actuación municipal de la ciudad, concluyendo que se trata de una campaña muy mal diseñada que infringe buena parte de las consideraciones generales antes identificadas.

Reflexiones sobre algunas acciones de internacionalización de la educación en la UAM-Xochimilco

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Luis Felipe Bojalil

2009-01-01

Full Text Available La educación superior se enfrenta a cambios vertiginosos en las sociedades actuales, aparte de los viejos problemas, como el bajo acceso de los jóvenes a la educación superior, el aumento en la demanda que no está satisfecha y la desigualdad, entre otros. Nos encontramos ahora con la globalización que en el campo educativo nos lleva a la internacionalización, esto aunado al acelerado avance científico y tecnológico, al que si las instituciones no le ponen la debida atención, las llevará a cumplir con menor eficiencia y calidad sus funciones, poniendo en riesgo la posibilidad de crear una sociedad viable para el futuro. En este trabajo no vamos a analizar lo que puede resultar de la complejidad de estos cambios sociales. Nos limitaremos a describir algunas acciones de internacionalización educativa en la uam-Xochimilco, en las que el autor de este trabajo ha participado, de las que ha tenido conocimiento directo. Estos procesos tienen características innovadoras, que derivan del proyecto educativo de la uam-Xochimilco.

Planificación urbana y espirovías en la Perla del Pacífico: algunas notas sobre Valparaíso en el decenio 1930. /

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Pavez R., María Isabel

2005-11-01

Full Text Available Se aporta algunas notas para la historiografía en Urbanismo, Planificación y Diseño Urbano en Chile y en Valparaíso en los años 1930, dando cuenta de la capacidad reflexiva y creativa de los profesionales precursores./"City Planning and "espirovías" in the "Pearl of the Pacific" (Valparaiso: several notes on Valparaiso from the 1930's". The article features several notes on the history of City Planning and Urban Design in Chile and Valparaiso in the 1930's thus giving insights about the creative and reflexive qualities of the forefathers of Urban professionals.

Social medicalization and alternative and complementary medicine: the pluralization of health services in the Brazilian Unified Health System.

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Tesser, Charles Dalcanale; Barros, Nelson Filice de

2008-10-01

Social medicalization transforms people's habits, discourages them from finding their own solutions to certain health problems and places an excess demand on the Unified Health System. With regard to healthcare provision, an alternative to social medicalization is the pluralization of treatment provided by health institutions namely through the recognition and provision of alternative and complementary practices and medicines. The objective of the article was to analyze the potentials and difficulties of alternative and complementary practices and medicines based on clinical and institutional experiences and on the specialist literature. The research concludes that the potential of such a strategy to "demedicalize" is limited and should be included in the remit of the Unified Health System. The article highlights that the Biosciences retain a political and epistemiological hegemony over medicine and that the area of healthcare is dominated by market principles, whereby there is a trend towards the transformation of any kind of knowledge or structured practice related to health-illness processes into goods or procedures to be consumed, and this only reinforces heteronomy and medicalization.

Expresión diferencial de los genes de algunas enzimas lignocelulolíticas en biopelículas de Aspergillus niger

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Gretty K. Villena

2008-12-01

Full Text Available Se realizó una evaluación génica preliminar a nivel transcripcional de biopelículas de Aspergillus niger ATCC 10864 desarrolladas sobre poliéster respecto a algunas enzimas lignocelulolíticas. El análisis de expresión de genes de enzimas lignocelulolíticas y genes reguladores mediante RT-PCR mostró que los genes eng1, eglC, exo y eglA, eglB y xynB son diferencialmente expresados ya sea temporalmente o mediante más de un transcripto en comparación con cultivos sumergidos. Asimismo, los genes reguladores xlnR y creA mostraron patrones temporales de expresión distintos en ambos sistemas. Los resultados obtenidos aportan la evidencia molecular inicial de expresión diferencial de genes en biopelículas así como patrones de regulación diferencial muy probablemente ligada a la adhesión celular.

Algunas variables biológicas relacionadas con trastornos del sueño en estudiantes de primer año de medicina

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Ángel García Gascón

2015-08-01

Full Text Available Se realizó un estudio descriptivo de 110 estudiantes de primer año de la carrera de medicina en la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas No. 2 de Santiago de Cuba, desde enero hasta julio del 2014, con el objetivo de determinar algunas variables biológicas que pudieran estar relacionadas con los principales trastornos del sueño. La información fue procesada estadísticamente, con el empleo del porcentaje como medida de resumen y la aplicación de la prueba de la Χ² para valorar la posible asociación entre variables. En la serie se obtuvo que los trastornos del sueño más frecuentes fueran el insomnio, los ronquidos y las pesadillas, con predominio en las féminas; no obstante, en la mayoría de los alumnos el electroencefalograma resultó normal

El trabajo infantil y juvenil en Colombia y algunas de sus consecuencias claves

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Aura Cecilia Pedraza Avella

2006-05-01

Full Text Available ste documento busca responder el interrogante sobre cuáles son los efectos del trabajo infanto-juvenil en la educación y salud de las niñas y niños colombianos. Haciendo uso de la Encuesta Nacional de Calidad de Vida de 2003, se concluye que la vinculación temprana al mercado laboral de las y los niños con edades entre 12 y 17 años afecta negativamente su asistencia escolar, aumenta sus niveles de extraedad educativa y deteriora la percepción de su estado de salud. Para los menores entre 7 y 11 años, la relación entre trabajo infantil y la educación no es tan clara, debido posiblemente al bajo número de niños trabajadores en este rango etáreo y a la gran cobertura escolar en básica primaria que tiene Colombia. La no influencia inmediata en la salud de los oficios realizados, y la ejecución de labores más suaves respecto a las hechas por los niños de mayor edad, podrían ser algunas de las causantes de que el perjuicio en la salud de las y los niños trabajadores no sea evidente en la población de 7 a 11 años. Las pruebas empíricas contenidas en este artículo predicen que los programas encaminados a aumentar la cobertura y calidad educativa y, máxime, a impulsar y facilitar la asistencia escolar, principalmente en niveles superiores a la básica primaria, serán grandes aliados en la erradicación del trabajo infanto-juvenil en Colombia.

Inclusión laboral de personas catalogadas como discapacitadas. Algunas reflexiones para un debate necesario

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Mauricio Mareño Sempertegui

2015-07-01

Full Text Available El presente artículo expone algunas reflexiones respecto a la inclusión laboral de personas catalogadas social y culturalmente como discapacitadas. Su contenido se estructura a partir de la pregunta: ¿por qué la participación de esta población en el mercado laboral se concibió y aún se concibe como problemática? En primer lugar, se esbozan dos posibles respuestas a este interrogante y se las presenta en forma de tesis. Posteriormente, se examinan los programas nacionales de promoción del empleo, orientados a este sector poblacional, focalizando el análisis en las tesis anteriormente expuestas. Finalmente en las conclusiones se plantea que si bien la pregunta que estructura el artículo puede interpretarse como ingenua, constituye una pregunta fundamental al reflexionar sobre el fenómeno de la discapacidad y su vinculación con el mercado laboral, desde un enfoque de derechos humanos. A su vez se expone que las dos tesis propuestas revelan las principales barreras a la empleabilidad e inserción laboral de esta población. Se alude a las barreras culturales, es decir, al conjunto de representaciones sociales, ideas y concepciones sobre la empleabilidad, la discapacidad, las personas definidas como discapacitadas y sus posibilidades de empleabilidad, arraigadas en el imaginario colectivo. Se afirma que abordar estas barreras es fundamental ya que supone aproximarnos al núcleo profundo de la problemática.

Estudio cuantitativo de algunas medidas ecocardiográficas en caballos Criollo Colombiano

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Silvia Posada Arias

2016-06-01

Full Text Available La ecocardiografía es considerada una de las herramientas de mayor valor diagnóstico en la evaluación de la anatomía y la función cardiaca, pues permite visualizar de forma no invasiva aspectos como el grosor de las válvulas cardiacas y el espesor del tabique interventricular, además de la posibilidad de medir las dimensiones de las cavidades del corazón. El objetivo de este trabajo fue determinar algunas características cuantitativas de ecocardiografías hechas en 60 equinos raza Caballo Criollo Colombiano (CCC de cualquier sexo, edad y peso. Las ecocardiografías fueron hechas en modo M, a partir de imágenes bidimensionales, en el plano tres, cuarto espacio intercostal de la ventana paraesternal derecha. Fueron evaluados los siguientes parámetros: DVId (diámetro del ventrículo izquierdo en diástole, DVIs (diámetro del ventrículo izquierdo en sístole, SIVd (tabique interventricular en diástole, SVIs (tabique interventricular en sístole, PPd (pared posterior del ventrículo izquierdo en diástole, PPs (pared posterior del ventrículo izquierdo en sístole, FE (fracción de eyección, FA (fracción de acortamiento y MVI (masa del ventrículo izquierdo. Para el análisis de los datos se hicieron grupos según la edad. Dependiendo de la distribución de los datos, se analizaron la media y la desviación estándar, y la mediana y los percentiles (software SPSS 21.0. Con este trabajo se hace un aporte importante para aquellas ocasiones en que sea necesario recurrir a la ecocardiografía para validar la información obtenida en el examen clínico o cuando se sospeche de una cardiopatía en CCC.

Algunas disertaciones sobre la enseñanza de las ciencias desde la Educación Ambiental, una propuesta para Educación no Formal

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Yisaidy Chaparro Díaz

2009-10-01

Full Text Available El presente trabajo presenta algunas disertaciones sobre la enseñanza de las ciencias desde la educación ambiental en contextos no escolarizados, a partir del uso de una red que aborda conceptos estructurantes desde Química, Física y Biología, visto en un contexto social, económico y político determinado, donde se establece cómo interactúa en el sistema tierra. La característica fundamental es la formación de sujetos que frente a la devastación de la naturaleza promueven su respeto e integridad, mediante la comprensión de las problemáticas ambientales y la participación en la toma de decisiones para su resolución.

Reflexiones sociológicas figurativas y de proceso sobre el deporte y la globalización: algunas observaciones conceptuales y teóricas, con especial referencia al fútbol

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Dunning, Eric

2009-01-01

Este artículo se divide en tres partes. La primera, consiste en un comentario conceptual-teórico sobre la globalización y en varios ejemplos del mundo globalizado del deporte; la segunda, es un comentario sobre el desarrollo y la extensión global del fútbol; y la tercera, expone el comentario de algunas patologías relacionadas con el deporte. A lo largo del artículo se aplica el enfoque sociológico figurativo y de proceso desarrollado por Norbert Elias. En resumen, este trabajo es fundamental...

Analizar y comprender los materiales de enseñanza: algunas claves para la formación del profesorado

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Ezeiza Ramos, Joseba

2009-12-01

Full Text Available Suplemento del número 9 de marcoELE (julio - diciembre de 2009 Los materiales, su caracterización, análisis, selección, diseño y uso son aspectos clave de la actividad de los profesores de lenguas segundas y extranjeras. Así lo reconocen los programas más actuales de formación de profesorado en Europa. Sin embargo, los materiales de enseñanza constituyen una realidad muy sofisticada que no siempre llegamos a alcanzar en toda su complejidad. En este artículo vamos a tratar de desgranar algunas de sus dimensiones, y vamos a presentar dos herramientas de análisis validadas recientemente para los materiales de ELE que pueden resultar de utilidad para este fin. Se trata de dos instrumentos con vocación formativa que, a diferente escala, pretenden servir para conocer mejor los materiales disponibles, para reflexionar sobre la práctica docente y para analizar posibles vías de mejora, tanto en el ámbito del diseño de los materiales como en el de su aplicación en el aula.

Restauración e imaginario urbano: algunas observaciones antropológico-arquitectónicas en torno a la idea de patrimonio

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Pedro Araya Riquelme

2017-06-01

Full Text Available El presente artículo propone algunas observaciones a partir del diálogo antropológico con el pensar y el hacer arquitectónico, en el marco de la intervención/restauración de un inmueble de valor histórico: la casa Ehrenfeld, actual Conservatorio de Música de la Universidad Austral de Chile (UACh, ubicada en la ciudad de Valdivia. Considerando que los inmuebles conocen una heterogeneidad de materiales, de acciones y de actores, se pretende apuntar a una serie de procesos, tanto arquitectónicos como sociales, que develan otros ecos en el espacio urbano y que inducen a ampliar la mirada más allá de una determinada construcción y su contexto patrimonial inmediato. De tal forma, se perciben múltiples apropiaciones materiales que abren nuevos espacios de interpretación respecto a las nociones de patrimonio y de tipologías urbanas.

Algunas hazañas de las muchas de don García Hurtado de Mendoza, comedia genealógica de nueve ingenios

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Carlos Mata Induráin

2013-12-01

Full Text Available Algunas hazañas de las muchas de don García Hurtado de Mendoza, marqués de Cañete, pieza escrita en colaboración por nueve ingenios encabezados por Luis de Belmonte Bermúdez, se representó y publicó en Madrid en 1622. Se trata de una comedia genealógica de encargo, que formó parte de la campaña de propaganda emprendida por la familia de los Hurtado de Mendoza para prestigiar la figura de don García Hurtado de Mendoza, cuarto marqués de Cañete, quien como gobernador de Chile (1557-1561 había logrado notables avances en la pacificación del rebelde territorio de Arauco, pero cuyos méritos no quedaron reconocidos por Alonso de Ercilla en La Araucana. Se estudia, sobre todo, la imagen que la pieza ofrece del noble personaje en el contexto de su actuación en la guerra de Arauco, la cual generó en el Siglo de Oro un abundante corpus de obras literarias. Algunas hazañas de las muchas de don García Hurtado de Mendoza, marqués de Cañete, collaborated play by nine playwrights headed by Luis Belmonte Bermúdez, was represented and published in Madrid in 1622. It´s a genealogical comedy, which was part of the propaganda campaign launched and paid by Hurtado de Mendoza’s family, in order to give prestige to the figure of don García Hurtado de Mendoza, 4th Marquis of Cañete, who as Governor of Chile (1557-1561 had achieved remarkable progress in pacifying the rebellious territory of Arauco, but whose merits were not recognized by Alonso de Ercilla in La Araucana. The article studies the image of don García in the context of the Arauco War, which generated a rich corpus of literary works in the Spanish Golden Age. Key words: Spanish Drama of the Golden Age, genealogical comedy, theatre and patronage, García Hurtado de Mendoza, Arauco war, Luis de Belmonte Bermúdez, collaborated comedy.

From preparedness to risk: from the singular risk of nuclear war to the plurality of all hazards.

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Deville, Joe; Guggenheim, Michael

2017-08-17

Debates on risk have largely assumed risk to be the outcome of calculative practices. There is a related assumption that risk objects come only in one form, and that the reason not everything can be transformed into a risk is because of the difficulties in calculating and creating universal quantitative comparisons. In this article, building on recent studies of preparedness that have broadened understandings of risk, we provide an analysis of how preparedness measures might themselves produce risk, in particular through risk's durable instantiation, or what we call 'concretization'. Our empirical focus is on how government agencies in two countries shifted their attention from the risk of nuclear attack during the Cold War to an all hazards approach to preparedness. Comparing the mid- to late-twentieth century histories of the UK and Switzerland, we show that both countries shifted from focusing from a single risk to plural risks. This shift cannot be explained by a change in prevailing calculative practices, or by the fact that the risks changed historically. Instead, it is driven by historically specific changes in how risks are produced and reproduced in relation to how materializations of risk operate over time. © London School of Economics and Political Science 2017.

Algunas paradojas en la enseñanza actual de la medicina interna en Argentina Some paradoxes in the current internal medicine teaching in Argentina

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D. Outomuro

2010-09-01

Full Text Available Este trabajo tiene como propósito reflexionar sobre algunas circunstancias que, en Argentina, contribuyen a la crisis de la educación médica y al descontento tanto de pacientes como de profesionales. El centro de atención es la medicina interna. Del análisis surgen algunas paradojas vinculadas con la actual formación de grado y posgrado. Si bien el primer nivel de atención de la salud, en el marco de la atención primaria, puede resolver el 80% de los problemas de salud de la población, la enseñanza de la medicina interna continúa realizándose sobre el paciente hospitalizado. Esto afecta a la forma en que se practica la medicina, pues se privilegia la tecnología en el diagnóstico y tratamiento sobre la prevención de las enfermedades y la promoción de la salud. Las causas de este panorama son varias, destacando el poco tiempo dedicado a la educación en el ámbito del consultorio con pacientes ambulatorios.The aim of this paper is to think about some circumstances that, in Argentina, generate the current medical education crisis as well as dissatisfaction among patients and doctors. The center of attention is the internal medicine. From the analysis there arise some paradoxes linked with the degree and post degree training. Though the first level of health attention, in the frame of the primary care, can solve 80% of the health problems, the internal medicine education continues being realized on hospitalized patients. This has consequences on how medicine is practiced, since technology in the diagnosis and treatment is favored over the prevention of the diseases and the health promotion. There are several reasons for this panorama, being outlined among them the little time dedicated to the education in the area of the doctor's office with ambulatory patients.

Respuesta fotosintética de algunas variedades de maíz, frijol y café

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Anundo Polanía

2009-06-01

Full Text Available Con el objeto de caracterizar fotosintéticamente algunas variedades de maíz, frijol y café, se estudió el comportamiento de la rata de fotosíntesis neta, de la transpiración y de los diferentes tipos de resistencia foliar a ia difusión y fijación de CO2 en la hoja, frente a las variables temperatura, intensidad de luz y concentración de CO2 en el aire. La variedad de maíz ICA H 507 presentó un comportamiento típico de plantas C 4 con altas ratas de fotosíntesis neta, insaturación de luz y baja fotorespiración. El fríjol Dlacol Andino presentó bajas ratas de fotosíntesis, alta fotorespiración y saturación de luz a bajas Intensidades, características propias de plantas C3. Las dos varíedades de café, Típica y Caturra, presentaron bajas ratas de fotosíntesis, valores de fotorespiración cercanos a los del fríjol, comportamiento típico de plantas C3; no lo es su respuesta a la intensidad de luz, ya que se saturaron a intensidades más altas que las presentadas por plantas C3 reconocidas. Estas varíedades presentaron ratas de fotosíntesis mayores que las observadas por otros autores en plantas de café de más edad. Los resultados obtenidos brindan información útil acerca del comportamiento ecoflslológico de

Más allá del cuerpo significante. Algunas consideraciones sobre las condiciones subjetivas del sentido

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Germán Rosso

2015-03-01

Full Text Available Se presentan a continuación algunas conclusiones alcanzadas durante el Seminario de Diseño Gráfico y Publicitario, de la cátedra dirigida por Carlos Savransky (UBA, y posteriormente profundizadas en el PRII R13-217 “Sobre la constitución de la subjetividad y el sentido: teoría de la práctica y reflexividad. Un abordaje a partir de Castoriadis y Bourdieu”. Se apunta a una articulación entre diferentes categorías propuestas por el psicoanálisis freudiano, la fenomenología merleau-pontiana y el pensamiento de Castoriadis, ante un artículo fundamental en la perspectiva sociosemiótica: “El cuerpo reencontrado”, de Eliseo Verón. A partir del recorrido ontogenético que desarrolla el autor retomando la segunda tricotomía peirciana, donde se muestra el modo en que el sujeto se estructura al interior de la red discursiva (1987, se buscarán posibles complementaciones entre los enfoques recién mencionados. El cruce de perspectivas resulta pertinente si recordamos que Verón presupone varias de las categorías que dan cuenta de las condiciones de posibilidad para el surgimiento/reasunción del sentido instituido en la dimensión histórico-social. Al mismo tiempo, se retomarán las conclusiones de Piera Aulagnier en La violencia de la interpretación para enriquecer el recorrido genético y dar cuenta de la dimensión afectiva que recorre la actividad de representación.

Caracterización del Proceso de Obtención de Conocimiento y Algunas Metodologías para Crear Proyectos de Minería de Datos

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Juan Camilo Giraldo Mejia

2013-04-01

Full Text Available El artículo presenta una caracterización de lo que es obtención de conocimiento (KDD, de Minería de Datos, y de algunas metodologías conocidas, aplicadas y probadas para crear proyectos de Minería de Datos. Este artículo es producto de la revisión de literatura orientada a identificar las desventajas y vacíos que existen en una o más metodologías relevantes y tradicionales para desarrollar proyectos de Minería de Datos. Igualmente poder contribuir con un método que supere las ausencias encontradas buscando optimizar el proceso en cada una de las etapas que implica la obtención de conocimiento (KDD.

Aproximación a la patología presentada en las construcciones de tierra. Algunas recomendaciones de intervención

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Rodríguez, M. A.

2011-09-01

Full Text Available This article shows several points to consider in the study and conservation of the heritage of earth. We show the most characteristic damages of these buildings and we propose some recommendations for the correct diagnostic of their pathology. Finally, some recommendations for the conservation of this heritage are given.

En el presente artículo se ponen de manifiesto una serie de aspectos que es necesario tener presente a la hora de acometer un estudio sobre la patología presentada en las construcciones de tierra en general, y patrimoniales en particular. Para ello, y tras proponer una serie de recomendaciones que contribuyan a un correcto diagnóstico de la patología presentada, se identifican las lesiones más características de este tipo de construcciones. Por último, se proponen algunas pautas de intervención en función de la patología presentada, así como recomendaciones de carácter general para la conservación del patrimonio de estructuras de tierra.

Grating array systems having a plurality of gratings operative in a coherently additive mode and methods for making such grating array systems

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Kessler, Terrance J [Mendon, NY; Bunkenburg, Joachim [Victor, NY; Huang, Hu [Pittsford, NY

2007-02-13

A plurality of gratings (G1, G2) are arranged together with a wavefront sensor, actuators, and feedback system to align the gratings in such a manner, that they operate like a single, large, monolithic grating. Sub-wavelength-scale movements in the mechanical mounting, due to environmental influences, are monitored by an interferometer (28), and compensated by precision actuators (16, 18, 20) that maintain the coherently additive mode. The actuators define the grating plane, and are positioned in response to the wavefronts from the gratings and a reference flat, thus producing the interferogram that contains the alignment information. Movement of the actuators is also in response to a diffraction-limited spot on the CCD (36) to which light diffracted from the gratings is focused. The actuator geometry is implemented to take advantage of the compensating nature of the degrees of freedom between gratings, reducing the number of necessary control variables.

MICROFINANZAS URBANAS EVALUACIÓN DEL DESEMPEÑO DE ALGUNAS EMPRESAS ASOCIATIVAS DE TRABAJO (EAT EN EL VALLE DEL CAUCA

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Bernardo Barona Z

2001-01-01

Full Text Available El artículo discute los resultados encontrados en una tesis de grado en la Universidad Icesi y en entrevistas con seis personas afiliadas a Empresas Asociativas de Trabajo (EAT, y los contrasta con los hallazgos de otros trabajos previos adelantados en la ciudad sobre las mismas organizaciones. Los resultados que aquí se discuten se basan en dos fuentes de información: los estados financieros depositados en las Cámaras de Comercio y en entrevistas con una muestra no representativa de dueños de EAT. La evidencia sugiere que la mayoría de los asociados estaban satisfechos con su papel de propietarios y consideraban que su situación económica era mejor que en el caso de que hubieran continuado como asalariados. Varias EAT no hacían las provisiones para prestaciones sociales requeridas por Ley, lo cual ubica a sus dueños en posición económica vulnerable en el largo plazo. La dependencia de algunas empresas de un solo cliente las sitúa en posición muy frágil.

Methodological Challenges in Sustainability Science: A Call for Method Plurality, Procedural Rigor and Longitudinal Research

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Henrik von Wehrden

2017-02-01

Full Text Available Sustainability science encompasses a unique field that is defined through its purpose, the problem it addresses, and its solution-oriented agenda. However, this orientation creates significant methodological challenges. In this discussion paper, we conceptualize sustainability problems as wicked problems to tease out the key challenges that sustainability science is facing if scientists intend to deliver on its solution-oriented agenda. Building on the available literature, we discuss three aspects that demand increased attention for advancing sustainability science: 1 methods with higher diversity and complementarity are needed to increase the chance of deriving solutions to the unique aspects of wicked problems; for instance, mixed methods approaches are potentially better suited to allow for an approximation of solutions, since they cover wider arrays of knowledge; 2 methodologies capable of dealing with wicked problems demand strict procedural and ethical guidelines, in order to ensure their integration potential; for example, learning from solution implementation in different contexts requires increased comparability between research approaches while carefully addressing issues of legitimacy and credibility; and 3 approaches are needed that allow for longitudinal research, since wicked problems are continuous and solutions can only be diagnosed in retrospect; for example, complex dynamics of wicked problems play out across temporal patterns that are not necessarily aligned with the common timeframe of participatory sustainability research. Taken together, we call for plurality in methodologies, emphasizing procedural rigor and the necessity of continuous research to effectively addressing wicked problems as well as methodological challenges in sustainability science.

Algunas consideraciones teóricas en torno a la fauna como indicadora de espacios agrarios en la Prehistoria

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Morales Muñiz, Arturo

1996-12-01

Full Text Available The value of a taxon in terms of bioindication depends more on its degree of association with a series of environmental parameters than on other circumstances such as its size or abundance. From this standpoint and considering agricultural spaces as ecosystems of increasing importance on the biosphere, we analyze in this paper some of the features which allow one to evaluate the quality, as bioindicators, of two very different faunal groups, namely birds and mites. Another aim of this work is to stress the pluridisciplinar and holistic nature of archaeozoology.

La calidad bioindicadora de un taxón viene determinada por el grado de asociación con determinadas variables ambientales y no por otras circunstancias tales como su abundancia o tamaño. Desde esta perspectiva y desde el punto de vista del análisis del espacio agrario como un ecosistema de creciente importancia en la biosfera, el presente estudio analiza algunas de las circunstancias que permiten evaluar la calidad, como bioindicadores, de dos grupos de fauna bien diferentes, las aves y las garrapatas. El trabajo pretende asimismo sentar las bases de cara a una concepción más integradora y equilibrada de la arqueozoología como ciencia pluridisciplinar.

El interrogante de lo vivo y sus respuestas ahistóricas: desarrollo histórico del concepto de lo vivo y algunas implicaciones didácticas.

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Mónica Correa (Página 153-163

2009-07-01

Full Text Available El  presente trabajo muestra  el desarrollo histórico y epistemológico del concepto de lo vivo, en términos de las diferentes corrientes de pensamiento que han guiado su estudio, como son: El animismo, el mecanicismo, el vitalismo, el organicismo, el pensamiento sistémico y el neomecanicismo. Además, relacionando lo  anterior con  la formación docente y buscando una reflexión acerca de la importancia de vincular la historia y la epistemología en la enseñanza de las ciencias, se hace una revisión de algunas  implicaciones  didácticas del abordaje ahistórico de de este concepto en la escuela.

Pragmatism and Political Pluralism - Consensus and Pluralism

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Michele Marsonet

2015-07-01

In our day the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has in a way revived these Peircean insights, putting forward an influential theory to the effect that consensus indeed plays a key role in human praxis, so that the primary task of philosophy is to foster it by eliminating the disagreement which we constantly have to face in the course of our daily life. In his “communicative theory of consensus,” furthermore, he claims that human communication rests on an implicit commitment to a sort of “ideal speech situation” which is the normative foundation of agreement in linguistic matters. Consequently, the quest for consensus is a constitutive feature of our nature of (rational human beings: rationality and consensus are tied together. A very strong consequence derives from Habermas’ premises: were we to abandon the search for consensus we would lose rationality, too, and this makes us understand that he views the pursuit of consensus as a regulative principle (rather than as a merely practical objective. Rescher opposes both Peirce’s eschatological view and Habermas’ regulative and idealized one.

Versiones del padre, semblante y ex-sistencia Father´s versions, semblant and existente

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Claudio Godoy

2011-12-01

Full Text Available El concepto, denominado por Lacan, "Nombre del padre" constituye una piedra angular de su enseñanza. Su pluralización en los años 60 y 70 introducen nuevas perspectivas al mismo. Tomaremos un breve escrito de Lacan del año 1974, El despertar de la primavera, para leer allí algunas de éstas, a través de lo que nos enseña la obra de F. Wedekind sobre su versión del padre.The concept "Name of the Father", elaborated by Lacan, is a cornerstone of his teaching. Its pluralization -during the 60´s and the 70´s- has introduced new perspectives. We shall consider a short lacanian text written in 1974, Spring Awakening, in order to read there some of those new proposals about the father, with the support of F. Wedekind's work.

Chelsea Boys: paradigmas sexuales de un cómic queer

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Rafael Manuel Mérida Jiménez

2009-01-01

Full Text Available Más allá del barrio neoyorquino que da título a este serie de volúmenes –aunque en diálogo tanto con su realidad como con sus representaciones anteriores, como Rear Window, dónde se presenta ya como espacio sexualizado–; y más allá del estereotipo gay que la misma expresión representa, Chelsea Boys aparece como un espacio de ruptura de clichés. En el contexto del cómic gay norteamericano que se repasa en este artículo, constituye una propuesta plural, donde la universalidad de las situaciones que representa superan tanto el localismo como la rigidez estereotípica de algunas creaciones anteriores. En él emerge una comunidad queer a través de cuya representación se plantean cuestiones cruciales en y para la/s realidad/es gays.

Evasión sistemática de impuestos de algunas empresas, el comercio informal y la ineficiencia e inoperatividad de la administración tributaria, en el ciudad de Tacna, 2007 - 2009

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Ale Alanoca, Amanda

2011-01-01

En la actualidad en nuestro país, los medios de comunicación hablada, televisiva y escrita todos los días propalan actos de corrupción cometidos por algunos poderes públicos y la evasión tributaria, el comercio informal, el contrabando y lavado de activos, cometidos por algunas empresas y negocios inescrupulosos, que aprovechando el deficiente control y fiscalización por parte de la Administración Tributaria -SUNAT, además contribuyen también la falta de voluntad política del Gobierno,...

El reglamento técnico de instalaciones eléctricas, retie, como una medida no arancelaria (mna): una oportunidad de mejora para algunas empresas del sector eléctrico en Bogotá

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Montenegro Calderon, Dorys Marlen; Vargas Pulido, William Ernesto

2017-01-01

Dentro de la política comercial de Colombia se encuentran las Medidas no Arancelarias (MNA), como instrumento de mitigación del auge de los Tratados de Libre Comercio, TLC, por lo cual se les ha considerado como Obstáculos Técnicos al Comercio, OTC, sin embargo, este trabajo de investigación evidencia un punto de vista innovador y diferente mediante el análisis de los aspectos positivos de las experiencias en algunas empresas del sector eléctrico colombiano y del Clúster de Energía de Bogotá,...

Vida y muerte en el mediterráneo. Algunas claves sociológicas sobre sus poblaciones

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Mª TERESA ALGADO FERRER

1999-01-01

Full Text Available El Mediterráneo se nos presenta como un área de estudio de gran interés para los científicos sociales dada su gran interacción, dinamismo y complejidad cultural y social. Los países que componen el área mediterránea comparten muchos aspectos que les unen, pero también existen entre ellos importantes diferencias que les separan. Desde el punto de vista demográfico nos encontramos con desequilibrios entre una ribera norte cuyos países, con alguna excepción, han acabado su transición demográfica, y unas riberas sur y este que, salvo alguno de los países, todavía están en plena transición de un sistema demográfico antiguo a otro moderno. Este trabajo se centra en el análisis de las desigualdades en materia de salud, supervivencia y mortalidad entre los distintos países del Mediterráneo. Para el análisis comparativo se manejan índices de mortalidad relacionados, en algunos casos, con variables económicas y culturales, con la intención de reflejar no sólo las desigualdades que todavía persisten en el área mediterránea, sino también para resaltar los progresos, nada despreciables, que en las riberas sur y este se vienen produciendo en las últimas décadas. Una perspectiva comparativa y diacrónica es esencial para comprender el curso de las sociedades mediterráneas.

Algunas consideraciones teóricas acerca del tráfico de mujeres en el contexto de la globalización

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Arun Kumar Acharya

2008-01-01

Full Text Available El objetivo del artículo es presentar algunas consideraciones teóricas relacionadas con los conceptos de migración, tráfico y contrabando de personas, particularmente de las mujeres. Se pretenden explicar las conexiones y desconexiones entre estos fenómenos sociales. Tanto el tráfico como el contrabando forman parte de los procesos de migración, los cuales pueden ocurrir con o sin el consentimiento de las personas. Cuando ocurren sin la anuencia de la persona o mediante medios coercitivos, puede hablarse de tráfico de migrantes; en contraste, cuando el traslado ocurre con el total consentimiento de un individuo para ingresar ilegalmente a un país, se habla de contrabando de personas. Así pues, el propósito principal que se encuentra detrás de ambas actividades es el mismo: el comercio de trabajadoras sexuales, la explotación de personas que son sometidas a realizar labores en condiciones de esclavitud, entre otras actividades, situación que hasta cierto punto es igual para el caso del fenómeno de la migración cuando ocurre con o sin el consentimiento de las personas.

Focalización educativa y lucha contra la pobreza: reflexiones a partir de algunas experiencias en América Latina

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Xavier Bonal

2003-07-01

Full Text Available Este trabajo realiza una valoración crítica de las políticas educativas focalizadas como mecanismo de lucha contra el fracaso escolar y de reducción de la pobreza. Su rápida extensión en la región latinoamericana a partir de la segunda mitad de los años noventa y su protagonismo entre las reformas de segunda generación impulsadas por los organismos internacionales y por los propios gobiernos nacionales han convertido a las políticas focalizadas en el instrumento central de las políticas sociales actuales en América Latina. Este trabajo analiza, por una parte, el papel clave del Banco Mundial como inductor de este tipo de estrategias y, por parta parte, valora desde un punto de vista teórico el encaje de estas políticas en el modelo de desarrollo. Así mismo, el trabajo evalúa algunos problemas relativos al diseño e implementación de algunas políticas educativas focalizadas de la región. Palabras clave: Banco Mundial, educación y pobreza, focalización.

Estudio teórico de algunas propiedades termodinámicas de los ácidos grasos obtenidos como destilados en la desodorización de aceites comestibles

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Prieto, M. M.

1998-04-01

Full Text Available Nowadays the feasibility of a change of technology in the deodorization stage of edible vegetable oil refining is being investigated. The proposed technology involves a modification in the composition of the distillates coming from the deodorization stage and their further treatment To design the apparatus which are required by the proposed technology it is necessary to study the physical properties of the distillates. The thermodynamic properties of the fatty acids: palmitic, stearic, oleic and linoleic, which are the principal components produced at the deodorization stage have been studied. The properties that have been studied were those corresponding to the critical point (critical temperature, pressure and volume, the vapour pressure-temperature relation and the latent heat of vaporisation. Different methods to estimate the above mentioned properties and some experimental published data have been compared.

Estudio teórico de algunas propiedades termodinámicas de los ácidos grasos obtenidos como destilados en la desodorización de aceites comestibles Actualmente se investiga la viabilidad de un cambio en la tecnología de la desodorización de aceites comestibles que afecta a la composición de los destilados que se obtienen en el proceso y al tratamiento de los mismos. El diseño de los equipos que conlleva este cambio de tecnología requiere el estudio de propiedades físicas de los destilados. Se han estudiado algunas propiedades termodinámicas de los ácidos palmítico, esteárico, oleico y linoleico, componentes mayoritarios resultantes del proceso de desodorización. Las propiedades estudiadas han sido las correspondientes al punto crítico (temperatura, presión y volumen críticos, las curvas de presión de vapor en función de la temperatura y el calor latente de vaporización. Se han recogido distintos métodos de estimación de las mencionadas propiedades y algunos datos experimentales, y se han comparado los

El papel de algunas instituciones sociales en el derecho a decidir sobre la regulación de la fecundidad

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Ivonne Szasz

2002-01-01

Full Text Available El artículo presenta algunas posiciones que se debaten en la bibliografía actual sobre el papel de las instituciones sociales en la toma de decisiones sobre los eventos reproductivos y su regulación. Se plantean algunos términos del debate sobre los derechos reproductivos y el papel de las instituciones públicas de salud, distinguiendo entre el desempeño de esas instituciones en distintos tipos de escenarios estatales. Se analiza también el papel que pueden desempeñar las organizaciones no gubernamentales en la promoción del derecho a decidir, distinguiendo entre las ONG vinculadas con movimientos sociales de base y las organizaciones asistenciales asociadas con grupos de poder. Un pequeño apartado se refiere a la importancia de la familia y las relaciones de parentesco en la toma de decisiones reproductivas, y por último, se señalan las potencialidades del ámbito escolar tanto en la reproducción como en la transformación de relaciones de género y generacionales de tipo autoritario que dificultan el desarrollo de la autonomía personal y de la reflexión crítica.

La necesidad de alguna política criminal de estado para enfrentar el flagelo de la criminalidad: el control social en el tercer milenio

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Miguel Langón Cuñarro

2015-09-01

Full Text Available En un trabajo anterior; sobre el mismo tema me referí a la tarea prioritaria de la criminología, como saber volcado a la práctica, encuanto a su necesaria contribución en el orden al control del fenómeno criminal, y su incidencia en una política criminal del Estado. Revisamos entonces las principales corrientes de la criminología contemporánea y pusimos de relieve el paradigma de los años 80 en cuanto al requerimiento de que la criminalidad sea tomada en serio, verdadera idea-fuerza ; principal aporte, a mi juicio, que dejarán los realismos en criminología. Sobre el complejo y plural panorama que ofrece la criminología actual, nos vamos a referir ahora, a la necesidad de sostener un gran debate nacional sobre todos los aspectos vinculados al fenómeno criminal.

Plántulas de algunas especies leñosas nativas y connaturalizadas del bosque subandino Silvania- Cundinamarca- Colombia

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Barrera Torres Eduardo

1992-06-01

Full Text Available Con el propósito de identificar, en el medio natural, los primeros estadios de crecimiento de algunas especies de árboles y arbustos representativps de la franja inferior del Bosque Subandino, se describen las plántulas de 45 taxa de Dicotiledóneas, obtenidas mediante la germinación de semillas en condiciones de vivero semidescubierto. Entre otros caracteres observados, útiles para el reconocimiento taxonómico, se cuentan las modalidades de germinación, la estructuración y organización de los cotiledones, del hipocotilo y el epicotilo, complementados con la determinación de la filotaxis y la diferenciación foliar. Las familias con mayor número de especies estudiadas corresponden a los ordenes Fabales y Myrtales , con 13 y 6 especies, respectivamente.In order to identify in the natural medium the first growth sta tes of some trees and ahrubs represented on the inferiorfringe of the andino woods, 45 taxa of Dicotyledons seedlings are described, obtained through germination of seeds under semigreenhouse conditions. Among other characters observed which are used for taxonomic identification are: The germination, structure and organization of the Cotyledons, hypocotyl, andepicotyl coupled with the determination of the filotaxis and leaf diferentiation. The familias of the higher species studied
correspond to the orders: Fabales and Myrtales, whith 13 and 6 species respectively.

Infecciones respiratorias altas recurrentes: Algunas consideraciones Recurrent upper respiratory infections: Some considerations

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Mirta Álvarez Castelló

2008-03-01

Full Text Available Las infecciones respiratorias agudas constituyen la primera causa de consultas médicas y de morbilidad, tanto en los países desarrollados como en los países en vías de desarrollo. Los niños menores de 5 años tienen algunas características fisiológicas e inmunológicas que los hacen más susceptibles para presentar estos procesos respiratorios. A pesar que las infecciones respiratorias agudas bajas concentran habitualmente la atención por su mayor complejidad, costo del tratamiento y complicaciones, son las altas las que se presentan en mayor número en la consulta ambulatoria. Por la frecuente presentación en la consulta de alergología y por la carga de ansiedad que se genera en los familiares de estos niños con infecciones respiratorias recurrentes, nos decidimos a realizar una revisión sobre algunos aspectos de interés relacionados con ellas. Nuestro objetivo es mejorar el conocimiento de estas entidades, para identificar aquellos niños con mayor riesgo de presentar recurrencia de estas infecciones respiratorias. Estas entidades, que en su mayoría son de etiología viral y curso limitado, son causa importante de uso y abuso de medicamentos, entre ellos, los antibióticos, con efectos perjudiciales en la salud de los niños.Acute respiratory infections are the first cause of visits to the physician's offices and of morbidity in the developing and developed countries. Children under 5 have some physiological and immunological characteristics that make them more susceptible to present these respiratory processes. In spite of the fact that the lower respiratory infection usually attracts the attention due to their greater complexity, cost of treatment and complications, the upper are more frequent at the outpatient department. Due to their common presentation at the allergology department and to the load of anxiety generated in the relatives of these children with recurrent respiratory infections, it was decided to make a review of

Haches, diptongos y otros detalles de alguna importancia: notas sobre numerales (proto)vascos y comparación vasco-ibérica (con un apéndice sobre 'hiri' y otro sobre 'bat'-'bi')

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Lacarra Andrinua, Joseba Andoni

2010-01-01

Trabajo desarrollado dentro del proyecto Monumenta Linguae Vasconum III (FFI2008-04516) del MICIN y del GIC: IT-486-10 del GV. [ES] Analizamos las propuestas sobre numerales vasco-ibéricos de Orduña (2005) y Ferrer i Jané (2009) desde el punto de vista de la gramática histórica vasca. Además de la inexistencia de correspondencias vasco-ibéricas ni de reconstrucción alguna de la protolengua vasco-ibérica (hecho reconocido por los propios autores), las supuestas similitudes presentadas no...

MÉTRICAS PARA EL CONTROL DE CONFIGURACIÓN DE SOFTWARE: DEFINICIÓN Y ALGUNAS VALORACIONES

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Ailyn Febles Estrada

2003-04-01

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Los métodos de producción de software están evolucionando desde formas artesanales a la producción industrial en gran escala. La industria de software cubana no está ajena a esos cambios. Para incidir positivamente en el desarrollo de la industria y lograr establecer en ella parámetros de excelencia es imprescindible implantar modelos de procesos tomando en consideración las mejores prácticas internacionales y adaptándolas creativamente a las condiciones concretas de Cuba. Para esto, entre otros aspectos, es necesario medir. El área de las mediciones de software, a pesar de ser una de las áreas en la ingeniería de software donde se ha investigado desde hace más de 30 años, todavía no ha sido bien comprendida, ni ampliamente aplicada en la industria del software, por tanto, la implementación de las mediciones en una organización requiere un cambio tecnológico, educacional y cultural importante. Las autoras del presente artículo proponen un conjunto de métricas para aplicar en el proceso de control de configuración. Estas métricas pueden ser obtenidas a partir del modelo de procesos de control configuración de software definido en trabajos anteriores por el grupo de Ingeniería de Software del Centro de Estudios de Ingeniería y Sistemas (CEIS. También se enuncian algunas reglas básicas a tener en cuenta cuando se aplican estas métricas en una empresa.

Costos y precios en las empresas estatales de servicios públicos en Colombia: la economía política, el modelo legal y algunas tasas redistributivas en el servicio de aseo

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Nu00E9stor Rubiano

2000-01-01

Full Text Available El principal objetivo de este trabajo es comparar un modelo ideal con la realidad. Se realiza un análisis de economía positiva y normativa, en el mercado de los servicios públicos domiciliarios (en adelante, SPD en Colombia. El primer capítulo se enfoca en el más posible y realista comportamiento de los agentes económicos en una empresa pública colombiana: grupos políticos, gerentes, sindicatos de trabajadores y usuarios. Un conjunto de supuestos sobre sus conductas económicas básicas configuran un modelo de economía política que permite extraer conclusiones sobre la dinámica financiera resultante en las empresas. El segundo capítulo estudia la legislación colombiana de los SPD (acueducto, alcantarillado, aseo, gas combustible, energía eléctrica y telefonía fija para hacer explícitos los supuestos y la teoría económica subyacentes a dicho modelo legal. Se abordan en detalle, el problema del monopolio natural y su regulación, así como el de la redistribución del ingreso a través de precios diferenciados a los consumidores. El capítulo tercero desarrolla algunos ejercicios estadísticos para medir subsidios y sobreprecios en el servicio de aseo en algunas de las más grandes ciudades colombianas. Finalmente, el capítulo cuatro subraya algunas conclusiones sobre política económica y regulación.

Algunas experiencias en el uso de índices limnológicos en Colombia

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Gabriel Antonio Pinilla Agudelo

2016-02-01

Full Text Available El objetivo central de este trabajo es mostrar algunas experiencias del Departamento de Biología de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia en la elaboración de índices limnológicos para evaluar el estado ecológico de sistemas acuáticos colombianos. Se presentan siete casos que van desde la construcción de un índice multimétrico para los humedales bogotanos, hasta el desarrollo de un método de biomonitoreo del estado trófico basado en microalgas encapsuladas en alginato. Los índices expuestos fueron realizados por docentes y estudiantes de pregrado y posgrado de Biología y consideran tanto variables físicas y químicas como características bióticas de los ambientes limnológicos analizados. Las comunidades acuáticas trabajadas fueron el fitoplancton, el perifiton, las plantas acuáticas y los invertebrados acuáticos. Los índices propuestos (Índice de Condiciones Limnológicas de los humedales de Bogotá – ICOL; Índice de Diatomeas Perifíticas de los humedales de Bogotá – IDPHB; Índice de Integridad Biótica de Macroinvertebrados en ciénagas del Cesar– IIBM; Índice de Estado Limnológico para ciénagas del Canal del Dique – IEL; Índice de Estado Limnológico Fluvial para ríos de la cuenca alta del río Chicamocha– IELf; Índice de Integridad del Hábitat para ríos licenciados - IIH permiten establecer escalas de calidad y funcionalidad de los ecosistemas estudiados. Las algas encapsuladas, por su parte, reflejan a través de sus tasas de crecimiento la condición trófica del agua. De esta manera se ponen a disposición de las autoridades ambientales una serie de herramientas técnicas y científicas que permiten tomar decisiones sobre el uso, restauración y conservación de los ambientes acuáticos continentales del país.

Dos casos extremos : tragedia y amoralidad Comentarios a «De individuos y emociones. Algunas reflexiones sobre el papel de las emociones en la vida moral», de Rocío Orsi Portalo

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Carrasco Barranco, Matilde

2007-01-01

Este texto comenta «De individuos y emociones. Algunas reflexiones sobre el papel de las emociones en la vida moral», de Rocío Orsi, en el que la autora se vale de los ejemplos del Edipo de Sófocles y el asesino de American Psycho para argumentar el papel crucial que desempeñan las emociones en la motivación y la existencia de una comunidad moral. Por otro lado, también mostrarían que el ámbito de lo moral rebasa la adscripción de responsabilidad. No obstante, las emociones a veces resultan i...

Algunas variables clínico-epidemiológicas de la tuberculosis pulmonar. Puerto Padre, 2008-2012

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Yoenny Peña García

2015-12-01

Full Text Available La tuberculosis es tan antigua como la humanidad, a pesar de existir desde tiempos remotos no puede ser considerada como una enfermedad del pasado. Se realizó un estudio descriptivo retrospectivo, para determinar algunas variables clínico epidemiológicas de la tuberculosis en el municipio de Puerto Padre, en el quinquenio 2008-2012. Se obtuvieron los siguientes resultados: la tendencia de la tuberculosis fue estacionaria en ese período, pero a partir del año 2009 ha tenido un ligero incremento, con una tendencia ascendente en los últimos cuatro años. El sexo más afectado fue el masculino, para un 82,6%, y el 43,5% fue del grupo de edad de 45-64 años; la forma clínica pulmonar es la de mayor frecuencia, con un 95,7% y los de baciloscopia positiva un 65,2%. Los factores de riesgo que más se presentaron fueron el albergamiento prolongado en instituciones cerradas, con un 34,8%, el alcoholismo, con un 26,1% y la edad mayor de 65 años, con un 21,7%. Los reclusos tuvieron la mayor incidencia, un 26,1%, seguidos de los desocupados, con cuatro casos (17,4% y de las amas de casa y jubilados, con tres casos cada uno, para un 13%. Hubo deficiencias en el diagnóstico, ya que un 52,2% se diagnosticó en la atención secundaria y el 48,8% de los casos fueron diagnosticados con más de dos meses de haber comenzado los síntomas.

In-service Teacher Educators and the Developing of Critical Teaching: Cultural Plurality – ‘Race’ and Ethnicity in ELT Education in Brazil

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Aparecida de Jesus Ferreira

2006-05-01

Full Text Available Contextualization The main goal of this research is to develop a systematic investigation arising from some questions and concerns that confronted me as an EFL teacher and teacher educator. My main intention is to find out what EFL teachers in Brazil understand by “being critical” and whether they use “critical pedagogy” when teaching. These matters articulated themselves to me in a way that forced me to consider the need to discover the place of “critical teaching” in elementary education. There is not much new research concerning teaching EFL in Brazil, since the introduction of new National Curriculum Parameters (NCP in 1998. The NCP identified several themes that should permeate all teaching in Brazil and I will concentrate on one particularly relevant to the curriculum of EFL that is Cultural Plurality. Inside this theme one the concept of ‘race’ and ethnicity and it is these I shall concentrate on in particular. My choice of research is related to my own ‘race’/ethnicity African-Brazilian.

Action in the vita activa: Plurality, freedom, power, and the language of Daang Matuwid

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Joefer Maninang

2016-01-01

Full Text Available “A life without speech and without action…is literally dead to the world; it has ceased to be a human life because it is no longer lived among men.” – H. Arendt, The Human Condition In her celebrated philosophical work The Human Condition (HC,woman philosopher - political theorist Johanna “Hannah” Arendt (1906-75 writes in the Prologue, “What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing.” What we are doing, Arendt reiterates, is the central theme of her philosophical work which investigates the vita activa, a term she uses to designate three fundamental human activities namely labor, work, and action. These activities according to Arendt correspond to the basic human conditions of life, worldliness, and plurality respectively which in turn are under the most general condition of existence: birth and death, natality, and mortality (Arendt, 1998. The central theme “what we are doing” is from where this whole papers reflective expository analysis of the current Philippine government administrations political battle cry of Daang Matuwid or “straight path” - the national anti-corruption campaign or honesty in the government platform proceeds and takes inspiration (Casiple, 2014. As we may have known, Daang Matuwid is executed as a public policy by President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III (popularly addressed as “PNoy” for President Noynoy in his legitimate capacity being the highest official of the country. Daang Matuwid is implemented in all branches of the government: the executive, the legislative, the judicial and their departments. It applies to all institutions in their functions, to all offices and their affiliates. Daang Matuwid is mandated to be observed by all government personnel; elected and appointed officials (the president himself included, administrators and staff, and extends to employees of corporations in the public service. Daang Matuwid simply means honesty

Autonomía del aprendiz: Nociones de estudiantes y profesores de la Universidad Nacional Abierta

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Antonio José Alfonzo Paradisi

2015-07-01

Full Text Available El presente artículo reporta los resultados obtenidos con respecto a las nociones que poseen los profesores y estudiantes de la Universidad Nacional Abierta de Venezuela, sobre la autonomía del aprendiz. Estos hallazgos forman parte de una tesis doctoral orientada a clarificar la comprensión de esta comunidad sobre algunas dimensiones de la interacción didáctica en la educación a distancia. Se utilizó el estudio de casos bajo un enfoque metodológico plural: se partió de las teorías acerca de la autonomía en la educación a distancia y se construyó a la luz de un abordaje interpretativo las nociones y perspectivas sobre el tópico; encontrándose que trascienden la toma de decisiones y la conciben como la posesión del propio juicio y su aplicación en el proceso del aprendizaje.

Evaluación comparativa de algunas características limnológicas de seis ambientes leníticos de Colombia

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Esnedy Hernández

2013-01-01

Full Text Available Este estudio propuso evaluar algunas características limnológicas de seis ambientes leníticos de Colombia ubicados en un gradiente altitudinal de las regiones Caribe, Andina y Amazónica. Estos ambientes presentan diferente origen, tipo y variabilidad climática, física y química, esto es una evidencia de que en los ambientes ecuatoriales, como los de Colombia, varían entre sí y requieren un enfoque local enlazado con patrones regionales y geográficos que influencian la limnología del sistema. Los ambientes estudiados corresponden a ciénagas y lagos de inundación de tierras bajas y lagos de alta montaña, los cuales fueron monitoreados en diferentes estaciones y momentos hidrológicos; los resultados fueron analizados en torno a sus diferencias ambientales y tróficas. La ubicación altitudinal y en consecuencia el tipo, origen, morfometría y condición hidroclimática que afecta los seis sistemas promueven cambios significativos en el régimen de precipitación, la temperatura, nivel y transparencia del agua, la concentración de nutrientes, el oxígeno disuelto, el pH, la conductividad eléctrica y la clorofila a.

Plurality of Birth and Infant Mortality Due to External Causes in the United States, 2000-2010.

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Ahrens, Katherine A; Thoma, Marie E; Rossen, Lauren M; Warner, Margaret; Simon, Alan E

2017-03-01

Risk of death during the first year of life due to external causes, such as unintentional injury and homicide, may be higher among twins and higher-order multiples than among singletons in the United States. We used national birth cohort linked birth-infant death data (2000-2010) to evaluate the risk of infant mortality due to external causes in multiples versus singletons in the United States. Risk of death from external causes during the study period was 3.6 per 10,000 live births in singletons and 5.1 per 10,000 live births in multiples. Using log-binomial regression, the corresponding unadjusted risk ratio was 1.40 (95% confidence interval (CI): 1.30, 1.50). After adjustment for maternal age, marital status, race/ethnicity, and education, the risk ratio was 1.68 (95% CI: 1.56, 1.81). Infant deaths due to external causes were most likely to occur between 2 and 7 months of age. Applying inverse probability weighting and assuming a hypothetical intervention where no infants were low birth weight, the adjusted controlled direct effect of plurality on infant mortality due to external causes was 1.64 (95% CI: 1.39, 1.97). Twins and higher-order multiples were at greater risk of infant mortality due to external causes, particularly between 2 and 7 months of age, and this risk appeared to be mediated largely by factors other than low-birth-weight status. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 2017. This work is written by (a) US Government employee(s) and is in the public domain in the US.

Lang, S. K. W. and Gardiner, B. D. (2014). "As They Like It--Culture-Centred Counsellor Education in the Context of Aotearoa New Zealand: A Play on Bicultural Pluralism." "British Journal of Guidance and Counselling", 42 (1), 73-85. doi.org./10.1080/03069885.2013.824949

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Au Yeung, Helen

2016-01-01

In their article, Lang and Gardiner draw support from the Treaty of Waitangi to deconstruct cultural dominance and reconstruct a framework, which promotes bicultural pluralism in the new counsellor education programme at the Massey University. However, they omit significant details of the Treaty and therefore mislead the audience to think that the…

Elisa Biagini (Florencia, 1970

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Berta González Saavedra

2017-01-01

Full Text Available Elisa Biagini vive en Italia tras haber estudiado y enseñado en los Estados Unidos durante varios años. Sus poesías han sido publicadas en varias revistas y antologías italianas y americanas, entre otras. Algunas de las más recientes son Nuovissima poesia italiana (Mondadori, 2004 y Parola plurale (Sosselam 2005. Ha publicado siete colecciones poéticas, algunas bilingües, entre las que figuran  L'Ospite (Einaudi, 2004, Fiato. Parole per musica (Edizionidif, 2006, Nel bosco (Einaudi, 2007, The guest in the wood (Chelsea editions, 2013 – 2014 Best Translated Book Award, y la reciente Da una crepa (Einaudi, 2014. Sus poesías han sido traducidas al inglés, español, francés, portugués, japonés, croata, eslovaco, alemán, albanés, ruso, árabe y chino. Ha participado en importantes festivales italianos e internacionales (entre otros, en Italia “Festival della Letteratura” de Mantua, “Festival Poesia” de Parma, “RomaPoesia” de Roma, y en el extranjero “Stanza- Scotland's International Poetry Festival” en St. Andrews, Escocia, “Dubai International Poetry Festival” en Emiratos Árabes Unidos, “PoesieFestivalBerlin” en Berlín, “International Writers Workshop” en Hong Kong, “Struga Poetry Festival” en Struga, Macedonia, “Poetry Parnassus” en Londres, “Printemps des poètes” en Luxemburgo, “Queensland Poetry Festival” en Brisbane, Australia, “Festival Internacional de Poesía de Granada” en Nicaragua, “Xu Zhimo Poetry and Art Festival” en el King's College de Cambridge. Asimismo es traductora de poesía americana y, además de editar algunas colecciones de poetisas americanas contemporáneas, se ha encargado de la edición del volumen Nuovi poeti americani (Einaudi, 2006. Infine, insegna Scrittura Creativa (poesia, Travel Writing e Storia dell'Arte in Italia e all’estero, además de colaborar con artistas visules, coreógrafos y músicos. Entre otras actividades, es artista visual. www.elisabiagini.it

Splitting and oscillation of Majorana zero modes in the p-wave BCS-BEC evolution with plural vortices

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Mizushima, T.; Machida, K.

2010-01-01

We investigate how the vortex-vortex separation changes Majorana zero modes in the vicinity of the BCS-BEC (Bose-Einstein condensation) topological phase transition of p-wave resonant Fermi gases. By analytically and numerically solving the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equation for spinless p-wave superfluids with plural vortices, it is demonstrated that the quasiparticle tunneling between neighboring vortices gives rise to the quantum oscillation of the low-lying spectra on the scale of the Fermi wavelength in addition to the exponential splitting. This rapid oscillation, which appears in the weak-coupling regime as a consequence of quantum oscillations of quasiparticle wave functions, disappears in the vicinity of the BCS-BEC topological phase transition. This is understandable from that the wave function of the Majorana zero modes is described by the modified Bessel function in the strong-coupling regime, and thus it becomes spread over the vortex core region. Due to the exponential divergence of the modified Bessel function, the concrete realization of the Majorana zero modes near the topological phase transition requires the neighboring vortices to be separated beyond the length scale defined by the coherence length and the dimensionless coupling constant. All these behaviors are also confirmed by carrying out the full numerical diagonalization of the nonlocal Bogoliubov-de Gennes equation in a two-dimensional geometry. Furthermore, this argument is expanded into the case of three-vortex systems, where a pair of core-bound and edge-bound Majorana states survive at zero-energy state regardless of the vortex separation.

Functional Evaluation of the Cloud Type Virtual Policy Based Network Management Scheme for the Common Use between Plural Organizations

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Kazuya Odagiri

2017-03-01

Full Text Available In the current Internet system, there are many problems using anonymity of the network communication such as personal information leaks and crimes using the Internet system. This is why TCP/IP protocol used in Internet system does not have the user identification information on the communication data, and it is difficult to supervise the user performing the above acts immediately. As a study for solving the above problem, there is the study of Policy Based Network Management (PBNM. This is the scheme for managing a whole Local Area Network (LAN through communication control for every user. In this PBNM, two types of schemes exist. The first is the scheme for managing the whole LAN by locating the communication control mechanisms on the path between network servers and clients. The second is the scheme of managing the whole LAN by locating the communication control mechanisms on clients. As the second scheme, we have studied theoretically about the Destination Addressing Control System (DACS Scheme. By applying this DACS Scheme to Internet system management, we will realize the policy-based Internet system management. In this paper, as the progression phase of the third phase for the last goal, we perform the functional evaluation of the cloud type virtual PBNM, which can be used by plural organizations.

Legitimidad y democracia en el México contemporáneo : estudio del cambio político conceptual a través de los discursos de algunos intelectuales mexicanos : Cuadernos Americanos, Plural, Vuelta y Letras Libres

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Contreras Alcántara, Javier

2010-01-01

El objetivo de la investigación es entender la configuración político-conceptual sobre la “legitimidad política” y la “democracia” en México a través del análisis de las reflexiones de algunos intelectuales mexicanos agrupados en las publicaciones Cuadernos Americanos, Plural, Vuelta y Letras Libres, así como también de los discursos del gobierno a través de discursos e informes presidenciales, durante el periodo comprendido entre 1946 y 2006. Se busca esclarecer la trayectoria conceptual de ...

Enfoque terapéutico de algunas enfermedades del tiroides en Pediatría Therapeutic approach to some thyroid diseases in pediatrics

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Cecilia Pérez Gesen

2012-12-01

Full Text Available Las enfermedades del tiroides ocupan un lugar importante, por su frecuencia y variedad, entre las afecciones endocrinas del niño y el adolescente, y aunque puedan padecer las mismas enfermedades tiroideas del adulto, presentan afecciones específicas de la edad, cuyo diagnóstico y tratamiento adecuado puede prevenir los efectos devastadores e irreversibles que estas pueden producir. Se presenta, con interés de actualizar y establecer consenso, el enfoque terapéutico de algunas tiroidopatías de la infancia, en orden de importancia y frecuencia, como es el nódulo de tiroides, el bocio y el hipertiroidismo.Thyroid diseases hold an important place because of their frequency and variety in the endocrine diseases affecting the child and the adolescent. Although both can suffer the same thyroid diseases as the adults, there are specific illnesses of the age, the diagnosis and treatment of which may prevent the devastating and irreversible effects that they can bring. For the purpose of updating information and reaching a consensus, this paper presented the therapeutic approach to some thyroid diseases of the childhood by order of importance and frequency, such as the thyroid nodule, the goiter and the hyperthyroidism.

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Clemmensen, Thomas Juel

2014-01-01

Denmark is widely recognised for its democratic approach to planning and the idea of planning for the common good. This interest in the common good and common values seems also to be reflected in the way which nature restoration is planned and managed – one common nature directed by the public...... authorities. But nature restoration is far from being a neural undertaking. Just like any other type of heritage production it can be the source of dissonance – ‘our’ nature is not necessary ‘their’ nature. Often this dissonance is managed in ways, which are not particular sensitive to site......-specificity. As exemplified by the Skjern River Restoration Project (1999-2003), one interpretation of the landscape sometimes suppresses other valid interpretations neglecting its diverse history. However, evidence from Switzerland suggests that planning for the common good, in the case of nature restoration, does...

Pluralism and heterogeneity as criticism: Undergraduate history and systems of psychology courses in Argentinian psychology education (1983-2017).

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Fierro, Catriel

2018-05-01

Multiple studies have analyzed the aims, resources, and approaches to undergraduate and graduate history of psychology education in several countries. Argentina is one of the countries with the highest historiographical production in Latin America. However, to date, there are no published studies on the collective debates among professionals, institutions, and associations that were instrumental in the development of the historiography of science becoming a mandatory part of the curriculum in Argentinian psychology programs. This study describes and analyzes the role of undergraduate history of psychology courses in official debates that took place during the last 30 years regarding Argentinian psychologists' training and education, in the context of regional and international historiography. Data was retrieved from several primary sources, such as minutes and official dossiers, working documents on accreditation standards, and nationwide curricular diagnoses on undergraduate psychology education, as well as individual scholars' ideas. Our findings suggest that, in line with regional and international historiography, history of psychology courses in Argentina have repeatedly been considered as core content in debates and discussions about psychology education, from the restoration of democracy in 1983 to the present day, in which they are currently considered to be mandatory minimum curricular content. Although throughout its history Argentinian psychology has largely been reduced to the teaching of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, historical education has been perceived as a gateway toward a more plural and critical local psychology. We conclude by discussing some potential and actual concerns that pose a threat to Argentinian undergraduate history courses. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).

Religious pluralism and identity: the conceptions of science, truth and religious tolerance/intolerance and the relationships established by Pernambuco's kardecists with the followers of other religions

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Aurenéa Maria de Oliveira

2008-06-01

Full Text Available This article seeks to analyze, briefly, how the conception of the religious truth of Pernambuco’s kardecists, based in the modern science canons, justifies between them the development of difficult relationships with the followers of the other religions, in a time that the Catholic religion hegemony is being broken, making a plural religious situation. That way, methodologically, we tried to accomplish the exposition in a way that it was possible to intersect a discussion about the construction of the modern identity’s concept that didn’t take in consideration the difference of the Other, to a discussion on the understanding that the tolerance also had in the modernity, starting from an Eurocentric perspective. In the end, we articulate identity concepts of truth and tolerance, elaborated in the modernity time, to the spiritualistic practice, observing that this practice, when being influenced by those definitions, revealed itself very difficult on the part of the kardecists to know how to treat with respect other religious difference.

Grado de conocimiento sobre algunas cuestiones técnicas de la lactancia materna

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Freddie Hernández Cisneros

1997-10-01

Full Text Available Se realizó un estudio de corte transversal con 2 grupos de madres de lactantes con el fin de identificar el grado de conocimiento sobre algunas cuestiones técnicas de la lactancia materna. El grupo de estudio se constituyó con 29 madres atendidas por 6 consultorios del médico de la familia del Policlínico Comunitario Centro de Camagüey y el grupo testigo por igual número de madres de lactantes no pertenecientes a esta área de salud y cuyos hijos se encontraban ingresados en ese momento en el Hospital Pediátrico Provincial. A ambos grupos se les aplicó un modelo de encuesta con variables seleccionadas y se procesan los datos obtenidos de forma manual. Los resultados más importantes obtenidos fueron: un predominio de madres adolescentes en el grupo testigo con un mayor grado de conocimiento en el grupo de estudio acerca de la rotación de los pechos, el horario de las tetadas, la realización de la expresión de las mamas y la utilización de otros alimentos, con evidentes fallos en los 2 grupos de la educación a impartir en la consulta de puericultura prenatal. Se concluyó que en ambos grupos hay que mejorar el grado de conocimiento sobre estas cuestiones técnicas, y también, la educación sanitaria que se debe impartir en dicha consulta.A cross-sectional study with two groups of nursing mothers was conducted aimed at identifyng their degree of knowledge about some technical questions of breast feefindg. The case-base study was composed of 29 mothers who were attended at 6 family physician's offices of the central Community Policlinic in Camagüey; whereas the control group consisted of the same number of nursing mother, whose children were admitted in the Provincial Pediatric Hospital at that time, eventhough they were not from the same health area. A survey with selected variables was applied to both groups and the datra obtained were manually processed. The most important results were: a predominance of adolecent mother in the

Hacia los orígenes del derecho civil europeo. Algunas observaciones sobre las relaciones entre pandectística alemana y doctrina civilista italiana en materia de negocio jurídico

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Filippo Ranieri

2015-06-01

Full Text Available La historia del derecho civil italiano del último siglo estuvo marcada por un acontecimiento de gran relevancia: la sustitución de la influencia francesa por la alemana. Sin embargo, esta influencia ha disminuido desde hace algunas décadas. Hoy en día es marcado el interés que la cultura italiana muestra por el modelo angloamericano. A pesar de ello, el estudio de este capítulo fundamental de la reciente historia del derecho privado europeo, al cual podemos denominar “pandectística italiana”, podría facilitar la comprensión de ciertos caracteres estructurales del derecho civil italiano y mantener en vida la conciencia de un aspecto de la cultura iusprivatista que Italia comparte con Alemania y otros países europeos.

El islamismo en el mundo árabe. Interpretaciones de algunas trayectorias políticas

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Desrues, Thierry

2009-04-01

, y la concepción del papel que se le reserva a la mujer. Asimismo, tras exponer las distintas tesis que dominan las interpretaciones sobre el islamismo y su futuro, aportamos algunas reflexiones sobre la necesidad de recuperar la metodología de las ciencias sociales para analizar la situación política y social en el mundo árabe.

RELACIÓN ENTRE LA BIOMASA Y ALGUNAS CARACTERÍSTICAS MORFOLÓGICAS DE LAS BROMELIAS FITOTELMATAS DE UN BOSQUE ALTO ANDINO COLOMBIANO

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Isaza Carolina

2009-06-01

Full Text Available Se evaluaron algunas características morfológicas para seis especies de bromelias fitotelmata (Guzmania gloriosa, Racinaea tetrantha, Tillandsia biflora, T. complanata, T. fendleri y T. turneri con el fin de establecer cuales características podrían utilizarse como estimadores indirectos de la biomasa total de la planta. El estudio se realizó en un bosque alto andino de la Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia, ubicado a 2900 m de altitud. Para cada especie se recolectaron entre 32 y 64 individuos en diferentes estadios de crecimiento, a cada uno de los cuales se le registró: 1 el número de hojas por roseta; 2 el perímetro de la base de la roseta; 3 la cobertura de la planta; 4 el largo de la lámina foliar; 5 la altura de la roseta; y 6 la biomasa total. Los resultados de la prueba Wilcoxon muestran que la cobertura fue la variable que más se relacionó con la biomasa. Una prueba de ajuste de curva mostró que la línea recta es la que más explica la relación entre la cobertura y la biomasa, permitiendo hacer estimaciones a partir de la ecuación sin ser necesario un muestreo destructivo.

Algunas condiciones pedagógicas para la formación y el desarrollo de la investigación en la universidad

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Velez Álvarez, Consuelo

2004-06-01

Full Text Available En este texto se recogen algunas condiciones de orden pedagógico alrededor de la investigación, producto de la experiencia del trabajo que los autores vienen realizando con investigadores jóvenes adscritos a la facultad de fisioterapia de la UAM. Se trata por lo tanto de una propuesta de formación y desarrollo de la investigación, que permita a los estudiantes afrontar el desaprendizaje y los nuevos retos que impone la sociedad del futuro y a los docentes repensar su practica pedagógica con miras a poner en marcha un proceso de estudio y comprensión del país, a partir de otras ópticas, intereses y compromisos con la libertad y el desarrollo. In this paper some development conditions of pedagogy on regards to research are presented, these results were produced by the work of the authors with the help of young researchers within the Physiotherapy Faculty in the UAM. This is a proposal for training and research development, that allows students to face “unlearning” and other new challenges that are required by the future society; and it allows teachers to rethink their pedagogical practice, looking to launch a studying and understanding process of this country, from other viewpoints, interests and commitments with freedom and development.

Factores claves de éxito en la implementación de Lean Manufacturing en algunas empresas con sede en Colombia

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Gonzalo Emilio León

2017-02-01

Full Text Available La investigación del presente documento pretendió identificar en cinco empresas de diferentes sectores de la economía, en Colombia, cuáles han sido los factores claves que han permitido implementar con éxito herramientas de Manufactura Esbelta o Lean Manufacturing. Estas herramientas surgen de la filosofía japonesa, que pretende hacer más con menos, eliminando todo tipo de desperdicios en materiales y recursos; mediante la aplicación de diferentes herramientas administrativas y de producción que incluye entre otras, la mejora continua. Se entiende por desperdicio, todas aquellas actividades que no aportan valor al producto y por las cuales el cliente no está dispuesto a pagar. Se buscó identificar también cuales han sido sus principales logros y barreras en la implementación, a partir de una investigación de aspectos cualitativos mediante la metodología de estudio de caso. Se encontró que el compromiso de los dueños y directivos, el liderazgo visto desde las competencias Lean, el cuidadoso diseño de indicadores y su seguimiento y el entrenamiento en la filosofía y operación, son esenciales a la hora de realizar la implementación; estos ayudaron en la mejora de aspectos relevantes como la productividad y rentabilidad. En algunas, la implementación exitosa, permitió extender su aplicación a sus proveedores más importantes.

Religious Radicalism and Pluralism: The Conflict Between Religious People and Relation of Power Industry in Bekasi

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Aden Rosadi

2015-04-01

relationship between the Government, employers or investors, religious figures, and the public as the three interest groups that cannot be separated in developing awareness of pluralism in religious life in the community.

The dappled nature of causes of psychiatric illness: replacing the organic-functional/hardware-software dichotomy with empirically based pluralism.

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Kendler, K S

2012-04-01

Our tendency to see the world of psychiatric illness in dichotomous and opposing terms has three major sources: the philosophy of Descartes, the state of neuropathology in late nineteenth century Europe (when disorders were divided into those with and without demonstrable pathology and labeled, respectively, organic and functional), and the influential concept of computer functionalism wherein the computer is viewed as a model for the human mind-brain system (brain=hardware, mind=software). These mutually re-enforcing dichotomies, which have had a pernicious influence on our field, make a clear prediction about how 'difference-makers' (aka causal risk factors) for psychiatric disorders should be distributed in nature. In particular, are psychiatric disorders like our laptops, which when they dysfunction, can be cleanly divided into those with software versus hardware problems? I propose 11 categories of difference-makers for psychiatric illness from molecular genetics through culture and review their distribution in schizophrenia, major depression and alcohol dependence. In no case do these distributions resemble that predicted by the organic-functional/hardware-software dichotomy. Instead, the causes of psychiatric illness are dappled, distributed widely across multiple categories. We should abandon Cartesian and computer-functionalism-based dichotomies as scientifically inadequate and an impediment to our ability to integrate the diverse information about psychiatric illness our research has produced. Empirically based pluralism provides a rigorous but dappled view of the etiology of psychiatric illness. Critically, it is based not on how we wish the world to be but how the difference-makers for psychiatric illness are in fact distributed.

Miniature mechanical transfer optical coupler

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Abel, Philip [Overland Park, KS; Watterson, Carl [Kansas City, MO

2011-02-15

A miniature mechanical transfer (MT) optical coupler ("MMTOC") for optically connecting a first plurality of optical fibers with at least one other plurality of optical fibers. The MMTOC may comprise a beam splitting element, a plurality of collimating lenses, and a plurality of alignment elements. The MMTOC may optically couple a first plurality of fibers disposed in a plurality of ferrules of a first MT connector with a second plurality of fibers disposed in a plurality of ferrules of a second MT connector and a third plurality of fibers disposed in a plurality of ferrules of a third MT connector. The beam splitting element may allow a portion of each beam of light from the first plurality of fibers to pass through to the second plurality of fibers and simultaneously reflect another portion of each beam of light from the first plurality of fibers to the third plurality of fibers.

EL PAPEL DEL DOCENTE EN LA EDUCACIÓN PARA LA SEXUALIDAD: ALGUNAS REFLEXIONES EN EL PROCESO EDUCATIVO ESCOLAR

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Yanine González Gómez

2015-01-01

Full Text Available Este ensayo presenta algunas posturas teóricas relacionadas con la educación para la sexualidad en las escuelas y el papel de las y los docentes en este proceso formativo. Se parte, de una revisión analítica de la literatura en el marco de una investigación doctoral realizada entre los años 2011 al 2014, que explora las aspiraciones a una mejor calidad de vida en mujeres con edades entre los 12 y 16 años con experiencia de violencia doméstica. Se reflexiona acerca del rol del personal docente, del impacto de los proyectos de educación para la sexualidad en la población educativa y se discute sobre la forma en que esta población gestiona sus miedos, estereotipos, desconocimientos y mitos acerca de la sexualidad cuando deben asumir la educación de sus estudiantes, con quienes tienen diferencias generacionales y culturales. Se concluye que la sexualidad no debe verse como un escenario de disputa y exclusión en las escuelas, sino como un espacio de aprendizaje y creación, que no es estático y no solo la población adolescente y joven debe aprender de esta, brindando un ambiente para pensarla, repensarla y de ser posible, reaprenderla a lo largo de la vida; por último se menciona la perspectiva intercultural como alternativa para abordar la educación para la sexualidad en las instituciones educativas, dado que posibilita el encuentro de diversas formas de ser y estar en el mundo, ampliando la construcción de las identidades, la reflexión y el compromiso político, frente a las diversidades.

Distributed performance counters

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Davis, Kristan D; Evans, Kahn C; Gara, Alan; Satterfield, David L

2013-11-26

A plurality of first performance counter modules is coupled to a plurality of processing cores. The plurality of first performance counter modules is operable to collect performance data associated with the plurality of processing cores respectively. A plurality of second performance counter modules are coupled to a plurality of L2 cache units, and the plurality of second performance counter modules are operable to collect performance data associated with the plurality of L2 cache units respectively. A central performance counter module may be operable to coordinate counter data from the plurality of first performance counter modules and the plurality of second performance modules, the a central performance counter module, the plurality of first performance counter modules, and the plurality of second performance counter modules connected by a daisy chain connection.

Diversidad no es lo mismo que pluralismo: cambios en el campo religioso argentino (1985-2000 y lucha de los evangélicos por sus derechos religiosos Diversity is not the same as pluralism: changes in Argentina's religious field (1985-2000 and the evangelicals' fight for their religious rights

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Alejandro Frigerio

2008-01-01

Full Text Available El trabajo argumentará que, para entender adecuadamente las modificaciones del campo religioso argentino, es necesario también incluir las resistencias sociales a esos cambios debido a las consecuencias que traen para la práctica y el desarrollo de las religiones minoritarias. A partir de aportes conceptuales de Beckford, el trabajo se propone distinguir diversidad de pluralismo religioso y, atentos a la perspectiva de las "economías religiosas" propuesta por Stark y Iannaccone, se considerará al grado de regulación del mercado religioso como una variable de principal importancia para entender los cambios, tomando en cuenta tanto la acción gubernamental como la regulación social. Estas ideas se ejemplificarán examinando el aumento del movimiento social evangélico - más allá de su prioridad meramente religiosa - que lucha por derechos religiosos igualitarios en una situación de supuesto pluralismo religioso en Argentina.The paper argues that in order to understand the current state of the Argentine religious field and the development of new religions it is necessary to include the social resistance they encounter into our analysis. It criticizes the widespread idea that after the erosion of Catholic monopoly a religious market is effortlessly formed and pluralism simply ensues. Drawing on recent work by James Beckford, it argues that religious diversity does not necessarily entail pluralism (its positive evaluation. Emphasizing the idea central to the religious economies paradigm (Stark, Iannaccone that the degree of regulation of a religious market is always a crucial variable to consider, it follows Grim and Finke's multidimensional approach to regulation, taking into account governmental as well as social regulation. It exemplifies these ideas by examining the rise of an evangelical social movement - out of a prior merely religious one - that strives for equal religious rights in a situation of supposed religious pluralism in

Algunas reflexiones sobre la clasificación de los organismos vivos Some reflections on the classification of living organisms

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Rita Daniela Fernández Medina

2012-09-01

Full Text Available Clasificar es una manera de organizar la información que puede ser definida como una actividad donde diferentes objetos, conceptos o seres son asignados a categorías según algún criterio. Los criterios de clasificación de los organismos vivos han mudado a lo largo del tiempo. En el presente trabajo, a partir de un recorrido histórico se presentan las diferentes formas que han existido de clasificar a los organismos vivos. Se presentan también algunas discusiones existentes en relación a la forma en que se agrupan los organismos hoy en día, así como también los supuestos sobre los cuales se realiza dicha clasificación, como la noción de ancestro común, de jerarquía y divergencia, las nociones de categoría natural y de clasificaciones naturales dentro de las ciencias biológicas.Classifying is a way of organizing information, which can be defined as an activity where different objects, concepts or beings are assigned to categories according to a given criterion. The criteria for classification of living organisms have changed over the course of time. In this paper, based on a historical survey, the different ways that have existed for classifying living organisms are presented. Some current discussions regarding how organisms are grouped today are also presented, as well as the premises upon which such classifications are made, such as the notion of common ancestry, hierarchy and divergence, the notions of natural category and natural classifications within the biological sciences.

El maltrato familiar hacia las personas mayores. Algunas reflexiones para la delimitación de un territorio de fronteras difusas

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Jorge Gracia Ibáñez

2011-12-01

Full Text Available El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo contribuir a delimitar los contornos del maltrato hacia las personas mayores en el ámbito familiar una realidad caracterizada por su complejidad. Nos ocuparemos de algunas cuestiones en relación con la definición del fenómeno. Después hablaremos de los elementos esenciales del problema incluidos en su definición que nos ayuden a delimitar las difusas fronteras entre el maltrato familiar hacia los mayores con otras formas de violencia intrafamiliar. Por último planteamos una visión crítica del marco teórico sobre el fenómeno. Con este trabajo pretendemos aportar elementos a la discusión que nos permitan comprender mejor a qué nos referimos cuando hablamos de maltrato familiar contra las personas mayores y nos ayuden a diseñar respuestas eficaces.This paper’s aim is to help to delimitate the borders of elder abuse in the family, a very complex issue. We’ll raise some aspects around the definition. Then we’ll talk about the definition key elements that help us to fix the blurred line between elder abuse and other kinds of family violence. Finally we present a critical view of the theoretical framework. The goal of the paper is to provide elements to the discussion that allow us to better understand what we mean when we talk about elder abuse in the family and that help us to design efficient answers.DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FROM SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1972183

Letramento: um fenômeno plural Literacy: a plural phenomenon

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Elizabeth Maria da Silva

2012-01-01

Full Text Available Este artigo tem como principal objetivo discutir três abordagens de letramento: crítica (BARTON; HAMILTON, 2000, GEE, 2000, sociopragmática (MEY, 2001 e sociorretórica (BAZERMAN, 2007. A partir dessa discussão, é possível verificar que os defensores dessas abordagens, embora utilizem nomenclaturas distintas e enfatizem aspectos diferentes, partilham de um mesmo princípio - tanto o fator social quanto o individual parecem interferir na configuração das práticas letradas demonstradas pelos sujeitos.This article has the main objective of discussing three literacy approaches: critical (BARTON; HAMILTON, 2000, GEE, 2000, sociopragmatic (MEY, 2001 and socio-rhetoric (BAZERMAN, 2007. Based on this discussion, it is possible to observe that the defenders of these approaches share the same principle, although they use different names and stress different aspects - both the social and individual factors seem to interfere in the format of the literacy practices demonstrated by the subjects.

Aproximaciones teóricas a la relación naturaleza - cultura: algunas contribuciones entre 1980 – 2004

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Ricardo Gómez

2009-10-01

Full Text Available El objetivo del presente artículo es mostrar algunas de las críticas más importantes dadas en el debate actual entre naturaleza y cultura. Busca reivindicar nuevos paradigmas de las ciencias dentro de la problemática del agotamiento de los recursos naturales del hogar que habitamos, la tierra, y el papel que juegan las comunidades locales contra el discurso predador del capitalismo global, a partir de su existencia cultural y social. Este trabajo se divide en tres partes que proponen por analogía, un símil entre los momentos de cambio de la noche al amanecer de un nuevo día; de la misma forma en que podríamos pasar de paradigmas “clásicos”, a procesos sociales recientes que incluyen los conocimientos locales. La primera, llamada “la noche”, expone brevísimamente los planteamientos más comunes que el capitalismo y las corrientes positivistas de la ciencia, mantienen frente a la naturaleza. La segunda, “el amanecer”, es una de las partes más importantes del presente escrito, ya que realiza una crítica a la oscuridad de la noche, a los planteamientos del capitalismo global desde el marxismo, el post-estructuralismo y el género. La tercera, “nuevo día”, concluye que a la luz de estas nuevas perspectivas de análisis podemos comprender mejor la relación entre los seres humanos y la tierra. Estos nuevos conocimientos políticos, culturales, ambientales y globales, desde el centro y la periferia, están atravesados por vínculos de poder que proponen una posición integradora entre conceptos aparentemente contradictorios y suponen susuperación a partir de la conciencia que autogeneran buscando orientar el tema político hacia estos nuevos conocimientos dentro de una agenda global.

El peronismo en la historia reciente: Algunas interpretaciones Peronism in Recent History: Some Approaches

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Marcela Ferrari

2008-12-01

Full Text Available A más de veinticinco años de la recuperación democrática en Argentina, este artículo de carácter historiográfico es propuesto como un estado de la cuestión que dé cuenta de los avatares por los que atravesó el Partido Justicialista entre 1983 y 2001. Mediante una selección de la bibliografía producida -primero por sociólogos y politólogos, más tarde por historiadores y antropólogos- procura recorrer los problemas y procesos centrales que atravesaron a la rama política del Movimiento Nacional Justicialista a lo largo de ese período y merecieron una atención preferencial por parte de los cientistas sociales. De allí que haya sido articulado en torno a cuestiones tales como la experiencia renovadora de mediados de la década de los '80, el menemismo y la organización partidaria en el largo plazo. También repara en investigaciones realizadas a escala provincial y aun local, algunas ya cerradas, otras en curso, que ofrecen nuevos matices a una cuestión que hasta hace pocos años era tratada preferentemente en el orden nacional.This article explores the deep renovation in the ideological-cultural field that accompanies the return to democracy in the country, as well as the processes that bring about the formation of a new "cultural atmosphere". Besides, through the conceptual and methodological news in the field, it analyses the production that aims at revisiting Peronism at that time. In so doing, it attempts to tackle the continuity of the lines of the debate that started in previous decades, as well as a whole new line that at the beginning of the 80s began with the analyses of the "cultural battle" between politicians and intellectuals brought about by Peronism after its first decline. The magnetism of Peronism over the historiographical field in the 60s and 70s acquires a renewed vigour in the 80s, due to the political and ideological disputes and controversies in the interior of this political tradition in the period of

Alcance e valor do nome-do-pai atualmente: algumas considerações Alcance y valor del nombre-del-padre actualmente: algunas consideraciones Reach and value of name-of-the-father nowadays: some considerations

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Rosane Zétola Lustoza

2010-09-01

Full Text Available O objetivo desse artigo é discutir o alcance do conceito de Nome-do-Pai atualmente. No primeiro ensino de Lacan tal conceito era considerado o pilar fundamental do diagnóstico, pois sua presença ou ausência eram decisivas para estabelecer a diferença estrutural entre neurose e psicose, porém hoje em dia o Nome-do-Pai vem sofrendo ataques a partir de três vertentes - a teórica, a clínica e a sociológica - gerando no movimento analítico dúvidas quanto a sua validade e colocando em xeque a relevância da distinção estrutural. As três fontes que colocariam o conceito sob suspeita seriam: o último ensino de Lacan, que pluralizou os Nomes-do-Pai; a emergência dos novos sintomas, que desafiam um diagnóstico estrutural preciso; e a decadência das figuras de autoridade no mundo social. O artigo busca responder a algumas dessas críticas, defendendo a importância do conceito de Nome-do-Pai, embora restrinja seu domínio de validade.El objetivo de este artículo es discutir el alcance del concepto de Nombre-del-padre actualmente. En la primera enseñanza de Lacan este concepto era considerado el pilar fundamental del diagnóstico, ya que su presencia o ausencia eran decisivas para establecer la diferencia estructural entre neurosis y psicosis. Sin embargo, hoy en día el Nombre-del-padre ha sufrido ataques desde tres vertientes (teórica, clínica y sociológica, generando en el movimiento analítico dudas en cuanto a su validez y poniendo en jaque la relevancia de la distinción estructural. Las tres fuentes poniendo el concepto bajo sospecha serían: la última enseñanza de Lacan, que pluralizó los nombres-del-padre; la emergencia de los nuevos síntomas, los cuales desafían un diagnóstico estructural preciso; y la decadencia de las figuras de autoridad en el mundo social. El artículo busca contestar a algunas de esas críticas, en defensa de la importancia del concepto de Nombre-de-padre, aunque limitando su dominio de validez

System and method for extracting dominant orientations from a scene

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Straub, Julian; Rosman, Guy; Freifeld, Oren; Leonard, John J.; Fisher, III; , John W.

2017-05-30

In one embodiment, a method of identifying the dominant orientations of a scene comprises representing a scene as a plurality of directional vectors. The scene may comprise a three-dimensional representation of a scene, and the plurality of directional vectors may comprise a plurality of surface normals. The method further comprises determining, based on the plurality of directional vectors, a plurality of orientations describing the scene. The determined plurality of orientations explains the directionality of the plurality of directional vectors. In certain embodiments, the plurality of orientations may have independent axes of rotation. The plurality of orientations may be determined by representing the plurality of directional vectors as lying on a mathematical representation of a sphere, and inferring the parameters of a statistical model to adapt the plurality of orientations to explain the positioning of the plurality of directional vectors lying on the mathematical representation of the sphere.

Algunas cuestiones pendientes

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Delgado Marroquín, Mª Teresa

2007-01-01

La artrosis es la enfermedad reumática más común en las personas de edad avanzada y constituye una causa importante de discapacidad en la población mundial. A pesar de la prevalencia de la artrosis su etiología es todavía desconocida. La degradación del cartílago es un aspecto inherente al envejecimiento en los humanos pero solo una parte de la población desarrolla los síntomas clínicos. A pesar del creciente interés en el estudio de la artrosis en los últimos años, existen muchas áreas desco...

Análisis de los factores de protección a la infancia, de algunas familias en situación de vulnerabilidad, de la Institución Educativa Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento del Municipio de Itagüí

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Londoño Cardona, Magda Yamile; Castillo Colón, Gabriel Moisés

2012-01-01

Ubicación en Biblioteca USB Medellín (San Benito): CD-2618t .-- Grupo de Investigación Interdisciplinario de Estudios Pedagógicos (GIDEP).-- Línea de Investigación: Infancia.-- Área: Infancia.-- Tema: Políticas públicas El proyecto consiste en un análisis acerca de los factores de protección que subyacen en las dinámicas de algunas familias de la comunidad de la Institución Educativa Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento del municipio de Itagüí en el departamento de Antioquia, Colombia. En sus voces...

Pluralismo e religiões: a questão cristológica em foco (Pluralism and religions: Christology in focus

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Cláudio de Oliveira Ribeiro

2013-03-01

Full Text Available O texto apresenta uma perspectiva cristológica plural na relação interreligiosa, a partir da visão de que cada expressão religiosa tem a sua proposta salvífica e de fé que devem ser aceitas, respeitadas, valorizadas e aprimoradas a partir de um diálogo e aproximação mútuas. Tal perspectiva não anula nem diminui o valor das identidades religiosas - no caso da fé cristã, a importância de Cristo -, mas leva-as a um aprofundamento e amadurecimento, movidos pelo diálogo e pela confrontação justa, amável e corresponsável. Assim, a fé cristã, por exemplo, seria reinterpretada a partir do confronto dialógico e criativo com as demais fés. O mesmo deve se dar com toda e qualquer tradição religiosa. Consideramos que tal visão, em certo sentido, supera outros modelos como aquele que considera Jesus Cristo e a Igreja como caminho exclusivo de salvação; o que considera Jesus Cristo como caminho de salvação para todos, ainda que implicitamente, o que se denominou inclusivismo; e a perspectiva relativista na qual Jesus é o caminho para os cristãos, enquanto para os outros o caminho é a sua própria tradição, sem maiores esforços de autocríticas, revisões e mútua interpelação. Na visão pluralista, os elementos chaves da vivência religiosa e humana em geral são alteridade, respeito à diferença e o diálogo e cooperação prática e ética em torno da busca da justiça, da paz e do bem-comum. A aproximação e o diálogo entre grupos de distintas expressões religiosas cooperam para que elas possam construir ou reconstruir suas identidades e princípios fundantes. Palavras-Chave: Teologia das religiões. Cristologia pluralista. Diálogo inter-religioso.   Asbtract This essay presents a plural Christological perspective towards inter-religious relationships, from the perspective that every religious expression has its own faith and salvific proposal that should be accepted, respected, properly valued and improved

El papel del docente en la educación para la sexualidad: algunas reflexiones en el proceso educativo escolar

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González Gómez, Yanine

2015-09-01

Full Text Available Este ensayo presenta algunas posturas teóricas relacionadas con la educación para la sexualidad en las escuelas y el papel de las y los docentes en este proceso formativo. Se parte, de una revisión analítica de la literatura en el marco de una investigación doctoral realizada entre los años 2011 al 2014, que explora las aspiraciones a una mejor calidad de vida en mujeres con edades entre los 12 y 16 años con experiencia de violencia doméstica. Se reflexiona acerca del rol del personal docente, del impacto de los proyectos de educación para la sexualidad en la población educativa y se discute sobre la forma en que esta población gestiona sus miedos, estereotipos, desconocimientos y mitos acerca de la sexualidad cuando deben asumir la educación de sus estudiantes, con quienes tienen diferencias generacionales y culturales. Se concluye que la sexualidad no debe verse como un escenario de disputa y exclusión en las escuelas, sino como un espacio de aprendizaje y creación, que no es estático y no solo la población adolescente y joven debe aprender de esta, brindando un ambiente para pensarla, repensarla y de ser posible, reaprenderla a lo largo de la vida; por último se menciona la perspectiva intercultural como alternativa para abordar la educación para la sexualidad en las instituciones educativas, dado que posibilita el encuentro de diversas formas de ser y estar en el mundo, ampliando la construcción de las identidades, la reflexión y el compromiso político, frente a las diversidades

Patterns of medical pluralism among adults: results from the 2001 National Health Interview Survey in Taiwan

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Liao Chien-Chang

2010-07-01

Full Text Available Abstract Background Medical pluralism (MP can be defined as the employment of more than one medical system or the use of both conventional and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM for health and illness. A population-based survey and linkage with medical records was conducted to investigate MP amongst the Taiwanese population. Previous research suggests an increasing use of CAM worldwide. Methods We collected demographic data, socioeconomic information, and details about lifestyle and health behaviours from the 2001 Taiwan National Health Interview Survey. The medical records of interviewees were obtained from National Health Insurance claims data with informed consent. In this study, MP was defined as using both Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM services in 2001. The odds ratio (OR and 95% confidence interval (CI were estimated for factors associated with adopting MP in univariate and multiple logistic regression. Results Among 12,604 eligible participants, 32.5% adopted MP. Being female (OR = 1.44, 95% CI = 1.30 - 1.61 and young (OR = 1.38, 95% CI = 1.15 - 1.66 were factors associated with adopting MP in the multiple logistic regression. People with healthy lifestyles (OR = 1.35, 95% CI = 1.19 - 1.53 were more likely to adopt MP than those with unhealthy lifestyles. Compared with people who had not used folk therapy within the past month, people who used folk therapy were more likely to adopt MP. The OR of adopting MP was higher in people who lived in highly urbanised areas as compared with those living in areas with a low degree of urbanisation. Living in an area with a high density of TCM physicians (OR = 2.19, 95% CI = 1.69 - 2.84 was the strongest predictor for adopting MP. Conclusion MP is common in Taiwan. Sociodemographic factors, unhealthy lifestyle, use of folk therapy, and living in areas with a high density of TCM physicians are all associated with MP. People who had factors associated with the adoption

Legal Pluralism, Private Power, and the Impact of the Financial Crisis on the Global Political Economy

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Edward S. Cohen

2013-10-01

Full Text Available Private corporate actors have played a central role in the construction of the legal rules of globalized capitalism over the past four decades. In no sector has this been more true than in global finance, where private agents have reshaped the norms and practices of credit creation and allocation. The global financial crisis, however, has led many states to challenge aspects of this power and raised broader questions about the legitimacy and future of private power in the global legal order(s. In this paper, I argue that –while state actors have clawed back significant power in global finance– the specific powers of credit creation and allocation combined with the structural pull of transnational legal pluralism will enable major private financial institutions to retain substantial power in the face of these challenges and questions. In the process, I present some broad suggestion about how we can think about private power in the making of global commercial law. Durante las últimas cuatro décadas, actores corporativos privados han desempeñado un papel decisivo en la construcción de las normas legales del capitalismo globalizado. En ningún sector ha sido esto más cierto que en las finanzas globales, donde los agentes privados han reformado las normas y prácticas de la creación de crédito y asignación. La crisis financiera global, sin embargo, ha llevado a muchos estados a cuestionar aspectos de este poder y planteado cuestiones más amplias acerca de la legitimidad y el futuro del poder privado en el/los ordenamiento/s jurídico/s global/es. En este trabajo se sostiene que –mientras que los actores estatales han recuperado un poder significativo en las finanzas globales– los poderes específicos de la creación de crédito y asignación combinados con la fuerza estructural del pluralismo jurídico transnacional permitirán a las principales instituciones financieras privadas retener poder sustancial ante estos retos y preguntas

Efectos de la gestión organizacional en la rentabilidad en PYMES: evidencias empíricas y algunas consideraciones teóricas

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Willington Ortíz Rojas

2010-08-01

Full Text Available Cualquier resultado empresarial deviene de un proceso gerencial previo, el cual necesitó de una estructura organizacional que proporcionara forma y acción a los procesos de comunicación y decisión, acordados a su vez al interior de la figura formal de la firma. En este artículo se busca poner en consideración algunas propuestas teóricas a partir de evidencias empíricas, sobre las relaciones que surgen entre tales prácticas y los procesos gerenciales en las pequeñas y medianas empresas –Pymes– y sus resultados en términos de rentabilidad. Para esto se hizo uso de metodologías de análisis estadístico de datos (metodologías multifactoriales y econométricas (modelos de regresión que permitieron, por un lado, resumir el número y complejidad de las variables consideradas a aquellas más representativas según su influencia en los resultados, principalmente en el ROA (return on assets y en segundo lugar, indagar por las variables que mejor explican las diferencias en resultados financieros entre las empresas consideradas. Se pretende enriquecer el debate actual sobre la importancia de una gerencia articulada a las necesidades de las Pymes latinoamericanas, y la exploración de metodologías de intervención para la modernización de las actuales prácticas gerenciales en este tipo de organizaciones.

As transformações no mundo do trabalho e a questão da saúde: algumas reflexões preliminares Las transformaciones en el mundo del trabajo y la salud: algunas reflexiones preliminares The transformations in the world of work and health: some preliminary reflections

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Luciane Prado Kantorski

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Full Text Available Neste artigo realizo algumas reflexões preliminares sobre as transformações no mundo do trabalho e a saúde. Para isto inicio o estudo colocando algumas dimensões essenciais do trabalho como categoria central para analisar a sociedade, a partir da concepção marxista. A seguir resgato nas transformações do mundo do trabalho a especificidade da saúde refletindo sobre a questão do cuidado e da organização dos trabalhadores de saúde.En este artículo realizo algunas reflexiones preliminares sobre las transformaciones en el mundo del trabajo y la salud. Para esto, inicio el estudio colocando algunas dimensiones esenciales del trabajo como categoría central, para analisar la sociedad, a partir de la concepción marxista. Enseguida rescato en las transformaciones del mundo del trabajo la especificidad de la salud trayendo para la reflexión el cuidado y la organización de los trabajadores de la salud.In this work, I make some preliminary reflections about the transformations in the world of work and health. For this purpose, I start this study discussing essential dimensions of the work like the central category to analyse the society based on the Marxist conception. Following, I investigate transformations in the world of work and the specificity of health to the related reflection about care and the organization of health workers.

Economia solidária, plural e ética, na promoção do emprego, da cidadania e da coesão social

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Maria da Conceição Pereira Ramos

2011-07-01

Full Text Available We aim to characterise the social and solidarity economy, the tertiary sector and non-profit organisations, showing their importance within contemporary societies and how they are becoming increasingly visible in social sciences, through a multidisciplinary approach. In addition to presenting different theoretical conceptualisations and approaches to solidarity economics, we look at: the specific nature of the plural economy in local development and its potential for employment; its social and ethical responsibility in solidarity financing, in the promotion of citizenship and equity and in the construction of an alternative economic paradigm; the role of business citizenship in social inclusion and the development of initiatives that promote social entrepreneurship, microcredit and volunteer work. We conclude that it is important to consolidate an alternative economy not only economically, but also ethically and politically. The acute crisis in the job market, the vast inequalities and the risks of social exclusion mean that the various public and private actors in society need to find new ways to tackle social and community intervention. Solidarity economy has several benefits: it emphasises the promotion of employment, entrepreneurship and social and territorial development while strengthening social cohesion and citizenship and boosting the fight against unemployment and poverty. This type of economy poses both challenges and opportunities for innovation in its relations with the State and the civil society, as well as for reinventing the Welfare State itself.

Plural franchise organizations

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Spranger, G. (Georg)

2006-01-01

Diese Arbeit untersucht die strategischen Beweggründe von Franchisegebern, innerhalb eines vertikalen Vertriebssystems dauerhaft sowohl Franchisen als auch Filialen einzusetzen. Wie sich zeigt, ist die Verwendung einer so genannten pluralen Form theoretisch mit den folgenden spezifischen Vorteile gegenüber reinen Franchisesystemen verbunden: Senkung der Organisationskosten, Steigerung des Systemwachstums, Optimierung der Qualität betrieblicher Abläufe und Minderung des unternehmerischen Franc...

Pluralizing social science

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Jackson, Patrick Thaddeus

2010-01-01

The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations (C of I) was not a book that I had any long-standing plans to write. The manuscript did, however, grow out of two related and long-standing frustrations that I had with discussions in Political Science in general and International Relations in particular about research design, causation, and the basic contours of knowledge-production. First of all, people seemed to invariably conflate questions of method or technique with questions of methodol...

Evaluación de la actividad antimalárica de algunas plantas utilizadas en la medicina tradicional cubana

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M. RODRíGUEZ-PéREZ

2009-01-01

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La búsqueda de nuevas alternativas terapéuticas es una alta prioridad en la lucha por el control de la malaria. El objetivo del presente estudio fue evaluar extractos preparados a partir de plantas seleccionadas en base a información etnobotánica obtenida de la Medicina Tradicional Cubana. Extractos de seis plantas (Bambusa vulgaris, Parthenium hysterophorus, Melaleuca leucadendron, Indigofera suffruticosa, Artemisia absinthium, Simarouba glauca, fueron evaluados in vitro frente a la cepa F32/Tanzania de Plasmodium falciparum, S. glauca, P. hysterophorus, M. leucadendron y A. absinthium mostraron valores de Concentración Mínima Inhibitoria en el rango de 3,1 a 50 µg/mL, mientras B. vulgaris e I. suffruticosa presentaron valores negativos contra esta cepa. Al evaluar estas cuatro especies in vivo frente a Plasmodium berghei NK65, mostraron mayor actividad inhibidora A. absinthium con un 65,9% de reducción de la parasitemia a la dosis de 500 mg/kg, M. leucadendron con un 50% de reducción a la dosis de 250 mg/kg y S. glauca con una reducción del 43,2% a la dosis de 100 mg/kg. Los extractos que mostraron menor toxicidad fueron A. absinthium, y M. leucadendron. Estos resultados muestran las potencialidades antimaláricas de algunas plantas medicinales utilizadas en Cuba y trazan el camino para estudios posteriores de sus constituyentes químicos activos. Palabras-claves: Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium berghei; plantas antimaláricas; etnobotánico.

Evaluación de la vigilancia en salud en algunas unidades de atención primaria en Cuba

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Batista Moliner Ricardo

2001-01-01

Full Text Available Fundamento. Se evaluó la organización y funcionamiento de la vigilancia epidemiológica en varias unidades de la Atención Primaria de Salud en Cuba, mediante un estudio para conocer la efectividad de la vigilancia y contribuir a perfeccionar los mecanismos de la misma y a través de ella mejorar las condiciones de salud de la población. Método. La evaluación se aplicó en ocho Policlínicos de Ciudad de La Habana durante los años 1998 y 1999. Mediante la aplicación de una metodología integral se evaluaron los tres componentes del sistema de vigilancia a esas unidades: la estructura, el proceso y sus resultados. Para ello se utilizó un cuestionario que cuantificó algunos atributos del sistema (sensibilidad, oportunidad, representatividad, utilidad y una entrevista semiestructurada a médicos, epidemiólogos y a otros participantes en la vigilancia, así como a los usuarios del sistema. Resultados. La evaluación de la estructura demostró que la estructura de vigilancia es adecuada. Al evaluar el proceso se comprobó que la sensibilidad es baja en algunos policlínicos y que en varios de ellos existen problemas en la oportunidad y flexibilidad del sistema. La evaluación de los resultados de la vigilancia demostró que éstos son satisfactorios en su eficacia para detectar eventos agudos, así como en la percepción de los usuarios sobre la utilidad de esos resultados para resolver los problemas detectados. Conclusiones. El desempeño de la vigilancia en los policlínicos evaluados refleja que existe una adecuada organización de la vigilancia, aunque existen algunas insuficiencias en el cumplimiento de algunos atributos de la vigilancia. Esto, sin embargo, no afecta el resultado del sistema en su conjunto, que es capaz de detectar cualquier situación epidemiológica relevante y proponer medidas adecuadas de control.

Cathode power distribution system and method of using the same for power distribution

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Williamson, Mark A; Wiedmeyer, Stanley G; Koehl, Eugene R; Bailey, James L; Willit, James L; Barnes, Laurel A; Blaskovitz, Robert J

2014-11-11

Embodiments include a cathode power distribution system and/or method of using the same for power distribution. The cathode power distribution system includes a plurality of cathode assemblies. Each cathode assembly of the plurality of cathode assemblies includes a plurality of cathode rods. The system also includes a plurality of bus bars configured to distribute current to each of the plurality of cathode assemblies. The plurality of bus bars include a first bus bar configured to distribute the current to first ends of the plurality of cathode assemblies and a second bus bar configured to distribute the current to second ends of the plurality of cathode assemblies.

Identidad cultural bereber y enseñanza del amazigh = The Berber cultural identity and the teaching of Amazigh

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Vicente Llorent-Vedmar

2014-01-01

Full Text Available La población marroquí constituye una comunidad multilingüe. Su heterogeneidad cultural acentuada por la convivencia interétnica constituye una constante histórica. El amazigh es una lengua autóctona del norte de África, esencialmente de tradición oral, utilizada cotidianamente por la mayoría de la población bereber. Su revitalización etnolingüística e integración en el sistema escolar marroquí está comenzando a desarrollarse. Por primera vez, en 2001, Mohamed VI se refiere a la identidad plural del pueblo marroquí. En 2003 se produce la integración de la lengua amazigh en algunas escuelas primarias marroquíes. Actualmente, están afrontando serias dificultades para la implantación de una educación pública en lengua amazigh, entre las que destacan los insuficientes recursos humanos, económicos y estructurales existentes. La generalización de la enseñanza del amazigh a todos los niveles del sistema educativo parece más un reto con un fuerte componente político que una decisión con visos de realidad.The Moroccan population is a multilingual community. Historically there has been a cultural heterogeneity and ethnic coexistence. The Amazigh language is an indigenous North African oral tradition, used by most of the Berber population. Its integration into the Moroccan school system is beginning to develop. In 2001 Mohamed VI refers to the plural identity of the Moroccan people for first time. In 2003 the Amazigh was initiated in some Moroccan primary schools. Currently, there are difficulties in the implementation of Amazigh in public education, as insufficient human, economic and structural resources. The generalization of the teaching of Amazigh in the complete school system is a challenge.

Method and system for operating an electric motor

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Gallegos-Lopez, Gabriel; Hiti, Silva; Perisic, Milun

2013-01-22

Methods and systems for operating an electric motor having a plurality of windings with an inverter having a plurality of switches coupled to a voltage source are provided. A first plurality of switching vectors is applied to the plurality of switches. The first plurality of switching vectors includes a first ratio of first magnitude switching vectors to second magnitude switching vectors. A direct current (DC) current associated with the voltage source is monitored during the applying of the first plurality of switching vectors to the plurality of switches. A second ratio of the first magnitude switching vectors to the second magnitude switching vectors is selected based on the monitoring of the DC current associated with the voltage source. A second plurality of switching vectors is applied to the plurality of switches. The second plurality of switching vectors includes the second ratio of the first magnitude switching vectors to the second magnitude switching vectors.

Mourning and Affirmation: Recuperating Religious Pluralism through “Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero”

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Christine Muller

2010-11-01

program, the act of the documentary depends upon the agencies of premise, tone, and editing to facilitate the agents’ – the viewers’ – participation in the interviewees’ meditations, an invitation based on ecumenical inclusivity.  In this way, viewers, recognized as witnesses to September 11, join those more directly affected by that day in confronting what might have been lost and considering what might be recovered in terms of religious commitments within the United States.  Ultimately, this film posits religious pluralism as a healing force and an affirmative enactment of American identity in response to the religious absolutism credited with instigating the September 11 attacks and provoking agonizing and divisive crises of faith.Keywords: 9/11; crises of faith; religious pluralismo; American identity 

Algunas Notas sobre Domingo de Soto y la Prehistoria del Estado de Naturaleza Hobbesiano || Some notes about Domingo de Soto and the prehistory of Hobbe’s state of nature

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David Jiménez Castaño

2015-06-01

Full Text Available RESUMEN: El objetivo de este breve trabajo es mostrar algunas relaciones que pueden ser trazadas entre las teorías políticas del teólogo español Domingo de Soto y el filósofo inglés Thomas Hobbes. De hecho, lo que intentamos probar es que el concepto de dominio de Soto y sus opiniones sobre el estado del hombre después de la Caída tienen cierta presencia en el estado de naturaleza que Hobbes usa para demostrar la necesidad del Estado. ABSTRACT: The aim of this brief work is to show some relations that can be drawn between the political theories of the Spanish theologian Domingo de Soto and the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes. In fact, what we want to prove is that Soto’s concept of dominion and his opinions about the state of man after the fall have some presence in the state of nature that Hobbes uses to demonstrate the necessity of the State.

El donante aprendiz de mago en las epifanías medievales. Algunas acotaciones en contextos artísticos hispánicos y europeos

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Alcoy Pedrós, Rosa

2010-06-01

Full Text Available There are numerous representations of the donor shown in relation to the Adoration of the Magi. Thus it is legitimate to interpret certain Medieval and Renaissance images in which the donor appears along with the Virgin and Child as renewed or new Epiphanies. This interpretation is supported by a notable group of medieval texts, which reveal the existence of similar or analogous contents among different types of scenes. This paper compiles and reviews in particular those works in which the kneeling or praying donor is placed next to the Three Kings, in order to demonstrate his conversion into an apprentice wizard king.

Son numerosas las representaciones del donante que hallan un punto de referencia en la Adoración de los reyes de Oriente. Por este camino es lícito interpretar algunas de las imágenes del arte de época medieval y moderna que hacen comparecer al donante ante la Virgen y el Niño como renovadas epifanías (o nuevas epifanías. Su sentido puede apoyarse en un notorio elenco de textos medievales que revelan la existencia de contenidos similares o análogos entre distintos tipos de escenas. Este trabajo recopila y revisa sobre todo aquellas obras que, al situar al donante arrodillado o en oración junto a los reyes de la Epifanía histórica, mejor evidencian su conversión en aprendiz de rey mago.

Robust low-frequency spread-spectrum navigation system

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Smith, Stephen F [Loudon, TN; Moore, James A [Powell, TN

2009-12-01

Methods and apparatus are described for a navigation system. A process includes providing a plurality of transmitters distributed throughout a desired coverage area; locking the plurality of transmitters to a common timing reference; transmitting a signal from each of the plurality of transmitters. An apparatus includes a plurality of transmitters distributed throughout a desired coverage area; wherein each of the plurality of transmitters comprises a packet generator; and wherein the plurality of transmitters are locked to a common timing reference.

Acoustic source for generating an acoustic beam

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Vu, Cung Khac; Sinha, Dipen N.; Pantea, Cristian

2016-05-31

An acoustic source for generating an acoustic beam includes a housing; a plurality of spaced apart piezo-electric layers disposed within the housing; and a non-linear medium filling between the plurality of layers. Each of the plurality of piezoelectric layers is configured to generate an acoustic wave. The non-linear medium and the plurality of piezo-electric material layers have a matching impedance so as to enhance a transmission of the acoustic wave generated by each of plurality of layers through the remaining plurality of layers.

Low inductance power electronics assembly

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Herron, Nicholas Hayden; Mann, Brooks S.; Korich, Mark D.; Chou, Cindy; Tang, David; Carlson, Douglas S.; Barry, Alan L.

2012-10-02

A power electronics assembly is provided. A first support member includes a first plurality of conductors. A first plurality of power switching devices are coupled to the first support member. A first capacitor is coupled to the first support member. A second support member includes a second plurality of conductors. A second plurality of power switching devices are coupled to the second support member. A second capacitor is coupled to the second support member. The first and second pluralities of conductors, the first and second pluralities of power switching devices, and the first and second capacitors are electrically connected such that the first plurality of power switching devices is connected in parallel with the first capacitor and the second capacitor and the second plurality of power switching devices is connected in parallel with the second capacitor and the first capacitor.

Diagnosable structured logic array

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Whitaker, Sterling (Inventor); Miles, Lowell (Inventor); Gambles, Jody (Inventor); Maki, Gary K. (Inventor)

2009-01-01

A diagnosable structured logic array and associated process is provided. A base cell structure is provided comprising a logic unit comprising a plurality of input nodes, a plurality of selection nodes, and an output node, a plurality of switches coupled to the selection nodes, where the switches comprises a plurality of input lines, a selection line and an output line, a memory cell coupled to the output node, and a test address bus and a program control bus coupled to the plurality of input lines and the selection line of the plurality of switches. A state on each of the plurality of input nodes is verifiably loaded and read from the memory cell. A trusted memory block is provided. The associated process is provided for testing and verifying a plurality of truth table inputs of the logic unit.

Processes for multi-layer devices utilizing layer transfer

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Nielson, Gregory N; Sanchez, Carlos Anthony; Tauke-Pedretti, Anna; Kim, Bongsang; Cederberg, Jeffrey; Okandan, Murat; Cruz-Campa, Jose Luis; Resnick, Paul J

2015-02-03

A method includes forming a release layer over a donor substrate. A plurality of devices made of a first semiconductor material are formed over the release layer. A first dielectric layer is formed over the plurality of devices such that all exposed surfaces of the plurality of devices are covered by the first dielectric layer. The plurality of devices are chemically attached to a receiving device made of a second semiconductor material different than the first semiconductor material, the receiving device having a receiving substrate attached to a surface of the receiving device opposite the plurality of devices. The release layer is etched to release the donor substrate from the plurality of devices. A second dielectric layer is applied over the plurality of devices and the receiving device to mechanically attach the plurality of devices to the receiving device.

Architecture for on-die interconnect

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Khare, Surhud; More, Ankit; Somasekhar, Dinesh; Dunning, David S.

2016-03-15

In an embodiment, an apparatus includes: a plurality of islands configured on a semiconductor die, each of the plurality of islands having a plurality of cores; and a plurality of network switches configured on the semiconductor die and each associated with one of the plurality of islands, where each network switch includes a plurality of output ports, a first set of the output ports are each to couple to the associated network switch of an island via a point-to-point interconnect and a second set of the output ports are each to couple to the associated network switches of a plurality of islands via a point-to-multipoint interconnect. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Algunas consideraciones teóricas y metodológicas para el desarrollo de un modelo de competencias críticas (MCC: un enfoque operante

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Giovanni León-Sanabria

2011-01-01

Full Text Available El presente documento expone algunas consideraciones teóricas y metodológicas para el desarrollo de un modelo de competencias críticas (MCC.Este se define como un conjunto de habilidades y conocimientos funcionalmente organizados que permiten alcanzar resultados medibles con consecuencias positivas para los objetivos estratégicos del negocio. Para el desarrollo de la propuesta, se abordaron planteamientos teóricos sobre el modelo clásico de competencias laborales, el modelo contemporáneo de competencias laborales y el modelo de competencia humana. La implementación del modelo contempla cinco pasos: 1 realizar un análisis del puesto considerando cuáles son las dimensiones o facetas que serán susceptibles de revisión; 2 identificar a las personas con los desempeños opuestos (los de desempeño superior y los de desempeño inferior; 3 identificar los incidentes críticos más relevantes al puesto; 4 desarrollar escalas de valoración de anclajes (EVA y 5 validar las EVA obtenidas con expertos en el tema. Comoconsideración final, se determina que los modelos de competencias requieren enfoques de medición precisos, ya que el teoricismo excesivo puede provocarque el tema de las competencias se vuelva una moda comercial con bajo o mínimo impacto,lo que afecta su validez, veracidad e implantación en las organizaciones.

Relaciones sexuales en adolescentes colombianos y las implicaciones para la salud pública: una revisión de la prevalencia y algunas variables asociadas

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Adalberto Campo-Arias

2009-08-01

Full Text Available ResumenEl deseo sexual se incrementa significativamente durante la adolescencia, en consecuencia, un número importante de hombres y mujeres adolescentes inician relaciones sexuales antes de la mayoría de edad. Se realizó una revisión de las publicaciones en Pubmed y Google académico que informaban la prevalencia de relaciones sexuales en adolescentes colombianos durante la década más reciente (1999-2008. Las palabras clave que se usaron fueron adolescentes (adolescents, estudiantes (students, comportamiento sexual (sexual behavior y Colombia. La prevalencia de relaciones sexuales estuvo entre 7.7% y 58%, media de 27.2%. Más años de edad, sexo masculino, mayor escolaridad y consumo de sustancias legales o ilegales se relacionaron con historia de relaciones sexuales. Los adolescentes informaron conductas sexuales de riesgo, con diferencias por género, como el uso inconsistente de condón, relaciones sexuales bajo el efecto de sustancias y relaciones sexuales con personas poco conocidas. Estos hallazgos tienen relevancia para salud pública sexual y reproductiva. Se deben diseñar programas integrales de intervención para promover un desarrollo sexual armónico y saludable en adolescentes colombianos. [Campo-Arias A. Relaciones sexuales en adolescentes colombianos y las implicaciones para la salud pública: una revisión de la prevalencia y algunas variables asociadas. MedUNAB 2009; 12:86-90].

Torres, Andreína; Alvarado, Geannine & González, Laura. Violencia y seguridad ciudadana: algunas reflexiones. Ecuador: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Flacso Ecuador y Centro Internacional de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo (IDRC-CRDI

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Astrid Verónica Bermúdez Díaz

2013-06-01

Full Text Available Violencia y seguridad ciudadana: algunas reflexiones, es una obra de divulgación científica que hace parte de la Colección Frontera, una línea editorial en la que convergen los esfuerzos de la Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, (Flacso-Ecuador, y el Centro Internacional de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo, (IDRC-CRDI por trascender la mirada nacionalista que ha recaído sobre las fronteras y rescatar las dinámicas y demandas locales que han sido ignoradas tanto en la producción de conocimiento como en la formulación e implementación de políticas públicas de seguridad ciudadana. El libro constituye un estado del arte sobre el concepto de seguridad ciudadana en Ecuador y su articulación con el diseño de políticas públicas en esta materia.

Algunas reflexiones para una caracterización de los bomberos profesionales del distrito de Coimbra (Portugal: identidad, riesgos y prácticas operacionales

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Noémia Salgado-Cunha

2010-03-01

Full Text Available En la nueva era del riesgo emergente el desafío que afrontan las sociedades es saber contornear las incertidumbres. ¿Cómo actúan los estados nacionales considerados semi-periféricos,1 como el portugués, frente a este nuevo orden? Cuando restringimos los riesgos solo a los naturales y tecnológicos, necesariamente, en Portugal, debemos hablar de responsabilidad pública. En lo que concierne a su Estado, es su misión, a través de las figuras jurídicamente creadas para el efecto (las instituciones en el ámbito de la protección civil asegurar la protección y socorro de las personas y bienes. Verificamos en los últimos años una sucesión de documentos legales que reglamentan el sistema de protección civil, lo que nos coloca sobre el cuadro investigativo de intentar conocer cómo es que en una sociedad semiperiférica, uno de sus “sujetos” garantes de la protección y socorro, los bomberos profesionales del distrito de Coimbra (Portugal, se posiciona operacionalmente en presencia de las disposiciones legales, teniendo en cuenta los contornos híbridos de la sociedad del riesgo. ¿Quiénes son?, ¿cuáles sus prácticas operacionales?, ¿cómo se integran con las poblaciones? Estas son algunas de las cuestiones a responder en la investigación en curso para una disertación de maestría en la Universidad de Coimbra.

Rapid detection and identification of energetic materials with surface enhanced raman spectrometry (SERS)

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Han, Thomas Yong-Jin; Valdez, Carlos A; Olson, Tammy Y; Kim, Sung Ho; Satcher, Jr., Joe H

2015-04-21

In one embodiment, a system includes a plurality of metal nanoparticles functionalized with a plurality of organic molecules tethered thereto, wherein the plurality of organic molecules preferentially interact with one or more analytes when placed in proximity therewith. According to another embodiment, a method for detecting analytes includes contacting a fluid having one or more analytes of interest therein with a plurality of metal nanoparticles, each metal nanoparticle having a plurality of organic molecules tethered thereto, and detecting Raman scattering from an analyte of interest from the fluid, the analyte interacting with one or more of the plurality of organic molecules. In another embodiment, a method includes chemically modifying a plurality of cyclodextrin molecules at a primary hydroxyl moiety to create a chemical handle, and tethering the plurality of cyclodextrin molecules to a metal nanoparticle using the chemical handle. Other systems and methods for detecting analytes are also described.

Nanostructured layers of thermoelectric materials

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Urban, Jeffrey J.; Lynch, Jared; Coates, Nelson; Forster, Jason; Sahu, Ayaskanta; Chabinyc, Michael; Russ, Boris

2018-01-30

This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to thermoelectric materials. In one aspect, a method includes providing a plurality of nanostructures. The plurality of nanostructures comprise a thermoelectric material, with each nanostructure of the plurality of nanostructures having first ligands disposed on a surface of the nanostructure. The plurality of nanostructures is mixed with a solution containing second ligands and a ligand exchange process occurs in which the first ligands disposed on the plurality of nanostructures are replaced with the second ligands. The plurality of nanostructures is deposited on a substrate to form a layer. The layer is thermally annealed.

Multiple symbol differential detection

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Divsalar, Dariush (Inventor); Simon, Marvin K. (Inventor)

1991-01-01

A differential detection technique for multiple phase shift keying (MPSK) signals is provided which uses a multiple symbol observation interval on the basis of which a joint decision is made regarding the phase of the received symbols. In accordance with the invention, a first difference phase is created between first and second received symbols. Next, the first difference phase is correlated with the possible values thereof to provide a first plurality of intermediate output signals. A second difference phase is next created between second and third received symbols. The second difference phase is correlated with plural possible values thereof to provide a second plurality of intermediate output signals. Next, a third difference phase is created between the first and third symbols. The third difference phase is correlated with plural possible values thereof to provide a third plurality of intermediate output signals. Each of the first plurality of intermediate outputs are combined with each of the second plurality of intermediate outputs and each of the third plurality of intermediate outputs to provide a plurality of possible output values. Finally, a joint decision is made by choosing from the plurality of possible output values the value which represents the best combined correlation of the first, second and third difference values with the possible values thereof.

Artificial Neural Network with Hardware Training and Hardware Refresh

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Duong, Tuan A. (Inventor)

2003-01-01

A neural network circuit is provided having a plurality of circuits capable of charge storage. Also provided is a plurality of circuits each coupled to at least one of the plurality of charge storage circuits and constructed to generate an output in accordance with a neuron transfer function. Each of a plurality of circuits is coupled to one of the plurality of neuron transfer function circuits and constructed to generate a derivative of the output. A weight update circuit updates the charge storage circuits based upon output from the plurality of transfer function circuits and output from the plurality of derivative circuits. In preferred embodiments, separate training and validation networks share the same set of charge storage circuits and may operate concurrently. The validation network has a separate transfer function circuits each being coupled to the charge storage circuits so as to replicate the training network s coupling of the plurality of charge storage to the plurality of transfer function circuits. The plurality of transfer function circuits may be constructed each having a transconductance amplifier providing differential currents combined to provide an output in accordance with a transfer function. The derivative circuits may have a circuit constructed to generate a biased differential currents combined so as to provide the derivative of the transfer function.

PLURALISME AGAMA MENURUT PERSPEKTIF DOSEN-DOSEN FAKULTAS USHULUDDIN DAN HUMANIORA DAN STT GEREJA KALIMANTAN EVANGELIS (GKE BANJARMASIN

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Slamet Karianto

2015-10-01

Full Text Available This script writing against the background of social conditions in South Kalimantan diverse in terms of ethnicity, or religion. We take the example of religious pluralism in South Kalimantan. This religious pluralism condition often we term Religious Pluralism. Religious Pluralism succession plays a very important to maintain the diversity and creating understanding of the harmony that lately in various areas, especially in Indonesia being tested. Religious pluralism is a perspective of religious harmony. This understanding of the role in order to be more effective is to educate every student either by teachers, lecturers and other teaching staff in order to achieve that purpose. Both from the Primary Education, Secondary, to university, both from High school and College of General. Results of field interviews showed that religious pluralism is understood by some of the Faculty of Islamic Theology and Humanities IAIN Antasari is a pluralism that if no further interpreted it leads to liberalism even to relativism and nihilism. However, if seen from what has been interpreted by some leaders of Religious Pluralism, then pluralism itself be accepted as a philosophy in building harmony. While others say that sociologically Religious Pluralism has to be accepted by Muslims without having interpreted the deeper, because Pluralism itself is not relativism, or even nihilism. Meanwhile, partially-Lecturer Lecturer STT Borneo Evangelical Church (GKE views of Religious Pluralism in context pluralistic society will be criticized for some faiths who are intolerant of other religions. While others consider only limited Religious Pluralism understand the differences and cooperation in specific social issues, without any compromise in theology, leading to the elimination of the role of God in life.

Automated cassette-to-cassette substrate handling system

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Kraus, Joseph Arthur; Boyer, Jeremy James; Mack, Joseph; DeChellis, Michael; Koo, Michael

2014-03-18

An automated cassette-to-cassette substrate handling system includes a cassette storage module for storing a plurality of substrates in cassettes before and after processing. A substrate carrier storage module stores a plurality of substrate carriers. A substrate carrier loading/unloading module loads substrates from the cassette storage module onto the plurality of substrate carriers and unloads substrates from the plurality of substrate carriers to the cassette storage module. A transport mechanism transports the plurality of substrates between the cassette storage module and the plurality of substrate carriers and transports the plurality of substrate carriers between the substrate carrier loading/unloading module and a processing chamber. A vision system recognizes recesses in the plurality of substrate carriers corresponding to empty substrate positions in the substrate carrier. A processor receives data from the vision system and instructs the transport mechanism to transport substrates to positions on the substrate carrier in response to the received data.

Algunas reflexiones sobre liderazgo

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Ivette Inostroza-Sotomayor

2011-08-01

Full Text Available Nowadays, leadership is a topic that appears in many occasions and in different areas. Many times, it is considered that there is only one concept of leadership, and related concepts are mixed up such as power, authority, and obedience. This article presents a perspective to understand the topic and from here, to establish some special characteristics of the leadership in university life that allow people to mobilize in the search for goals that strengthen pertaining and institutional solidarity.

Algunas hernias abdominales anteriores

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Augusto Salazar Sánchez

1947-09-01

Full Text Available Las hernias epigástricas se presentan en dos tipos de individuos: los atléticos y los asténicos. Son casi una exclusividad del sexo masculino. En los atléticos aparecen durante la juventud y son la consecuencia de esfuerzos durante los cuales la resistencia de la línea alba cede a la presión intraabdominal, produciendose una ruptura de esa línea, generalmente de tamaño muy pequeño pero suficiente para que por allí pase una porción de la grasa pre-peritoneal, quedando constituida la hernia. Más tarde, la grasa arrastra consigo al peritoneo parietal y este contrae adherencia con el anillo hernario, siendo esta la fase en la cual el enfermo se da cuenta de su afección, porque es entonces cuando sobrevienen los dolores y demás sintomatología clínica que es propia de este tipo de hernias.

Una aproximación al uso de la diversidad en el mundo empresarial: Algunas experiencias en las campañas de publicidad de empresas peruanas

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Emilio Humberto García Vega

2011-10-01

Full Text Available En el Perú, aprovechar la diversidad —sobre todo cultural y étnica— y asumirla, es parte de laagenda pendiente de muchos ámbitos y sectores, tengan intereses privados, de gobierno o deotro tipo. En esta línea, uno de los ingredientes que ha detonado el «boom económico» peruano—y que ahora puntualmente lo potencia— es justamente la diversidad. El uso de la misma tienecada vez una mayor preponderancia en el mundo empresarial peruano. En este sentido, estetrabajo presenta una aproximación al uso de la misma en el ámbito de los negocios del Perú paraello se parte de presentar un breve marco teórico con respecto al tratamiento de la diversidaden el ámbito empresarial, luego se desarrolla un diagnóstico acerca del uso de la diversidaden el mundo de los negocios peruano sobre la base de un estudio cualitativo conformado porveinte entrevistas en profundidad desarrolladas a funcionarios con capacidad de decisión encompañías con ventas superiores a los 50 millones de soles anuales y que operan en el Perú.Seguidamente, se presenta cuatro experiencias de empresas peruanas que han empleado ladiversidad en sus planes de marketing (en donde la diversidad tiene mayor presencia visible enla concepción del público objetivo y las campañas comunicacionales. Finalmente, se cierra lainvestigación con algunas conclusiones a modo de reflexión y sugerencia.

Algunas representaciones simples de la función hipergeométrica generalizada 2R1 (a, b; c; T; x Algunas representaciones simples de la función hipergeométrica generalizada 2R1 (a, b; c; τ ; x

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Carlos Jiménez Ruiz

2006-12-01

Full Text Available El campo de las funciones especiales ha tenido un gran desarrollo en las últimas décadas dado que son muchos los fenómenos que se pueden estudiar mediante el uso de las mismas como, por ejemplo, procesos estocásticos relacionados, investigación de operaciones, teoría cuántica, ecuaciones funcionales, vibración de placas, conducción del calor, elasticidad, y radiación. En este trabajo se considera una ampliación de las teorías presentadas por M. Dotsenko en 1991, quien introdujo la generalización de la función hipergeométrica de Gauss, denotada por 2R1τ (z, y estableció su representación en serie e integral. Es importante notar que en 1999 Nina Virchenko y luego, en el 2003, Leda Galué consideraron esta función, introduciendo un conjunto de fórmulas de recurrencia y de diferenciación. En este trabajo se establecen algunas representaciones simples para la función 2R1τ (a, b; c; τ; z, las cuales serán muy útiles en futuras investigaciones puesto que permiten simplificar cálculos en el momento de solucionar problemas que involucren esta función.The field of especial functions have had a remarkable development during the last deacades because there are many phenomena that can be studied through ont the use of these functions themselves, such as related stochastics processes, operational research, queuing theory, functional equations, vibrations of plates, heat conduction, elasticity, and radiation. Along this paper work, an extension of the theories presented by M. Dotsenko en 1991 is considered. M. Dotsenko introduced the generalization of the hypergeometric function of Gauss referred as 2Rτ1 (z, and he established it representation in series and integral. It is important to remark that in 1999 Nina Virchenko and, later in 2003, Leda Galu´e considered this function by introducing a set of recurrence and differentiation formulas. Along this paper work some simple representations of the function 2R1(a, b; c; τ ; z are

Algunas características del estado de la oclusión en niños de tercer grado Some characteristics of the occlusion state in third grade children

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Raquel Alpízar Quintana

2009-12-01

Full Text Available Se efectuó un estudio descriptivo y transversal para definir algunas características del estado de la oclusión en 257 niños de tercer grado del Centro Escolar “26 de Julio” de Santiago de Cuba desde septiembre del 2005 hasta julio del 2006. Entre los principales resultados sobresalieron los hábitos deformantes bucales, así como las maloclusiones ligeras y de la clase I de Angle, sobre todo en los varones. La alteración de la oclusión más frecuente fue el resalte aumentado y los tratamientos debieron ser aplicados por ortodoncistas en el nivel primario de atención.A descriptive and cross-sectional study was made to define some characteristics of the state of the occlusion in 257 third grade children of the "26 of Julio" School Center in Santiago de Cuba from September, 2005 to July, 2006. Among the main results the most outstanding were the deforming oral habits, as well as the mild malocclusions and those of the class I Angle, mainly in the males. The most frequent alteration of the occlusion was the increase prominence and the treatments should have been applied by orthodontists in the primary care level.

MOTIVAÇÕES EM COMPETIÇÃO NA VARIAÇÃO SOCIOLINGUÍSTICA: O PLURAL DOS PREDICATIVOS NA VARIEDADE DE SÃO JOSÉ DO RIO PRETO

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Roberto Gomes Camacho

2012-12-01

Full Text Available O objetivo deste trabalho é o de submeter a um tratamento variacionista, de base quantitativa, dados de marcação variável de plural no SN e no SA em contexto de predicativo, obtidos em córpus coletado na região de São José do Rio Preto. O trabalho procura examinar se a marcação de pluralidade nos predicativos pode ser explicada com base em motivações exclusivamente formais, ou exclusivamente funcionais, ou ainda, com base na interação entre ambas, que consistiriam, assim, em motivações em competição. Os resultados indicam que nem as motivações funcionais, nem as motivações formais regem solitariamente o fenômeno, que aparece fortemente condicionado por uma restrição externa específica, o grau de escolaridade. Por essa razão, a explicação mais plausível para a marcação de pluralidade nos predicativos é a de que há motivações em competição, nos termos de Du Bois (1985, e é a marcação de pluralidade o “bem limitado”, pelo qual forças múltiplas, as motivações formais ou internas e funcionais ou externas, competem entre si.

Track with overlapping links for dry coal extrusion pumps

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Saunders, Timothy; Brady, John D

2014-01-21

A chain for a particulate material extrusion pump includes a plurality of links, each of the plurality of links having a link body and a link ledge, wherein each link ledge of the plurality of links at least partially overlaps the link body of an adjacent one of the plurality of links.

Capillary electrophoresis systems and methods

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Dorairaj, Rathissh [Hillsboro, OR; Keynton, Robert S [Louisville, KY; Roussel, Thomas J [Louisville, KY; Crain, Mark M [Georgetown, IN; Jackson, Douglas J [New Albany, IN; Walsh, Kevin M [Louisville, KY; Naber, John F [Goshen, KY; Baldwin, Richard P [Louisville, KY; Franco, Danielle B [Mount Washington, KY

2011-08-02

An embodiment of the invention is directed to a capillary electrophoresis apparatus comprising a plurality of separation micro-channels. A sample loading channel communicates with each of the plurality of separation channels. A driver circuit comprising a plurality of electrodes is configured to induce an electric field across each of the plurality of separation channels sufficient to cause analytes in the samples to migrate along each of the channels. The system further comprises a plurality of detectors configured to detect the analytes.

High Density Faraday Cup Array or Other Open Trench Structures and Method of Manufacture Thereof

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Gilchrist, Kristin Hedgepath (Inventor); Bower, Christopher A. (Inventor); Stoner, Brian R. (Inventor)

2014-01-01

A detector array and method for making the detector array. The detector array includes a substrate including a plurality of trenches formed therein, and a plurality of collectors electrically isolated from each other, formed on the walls of the trenches, and configured to collect charged particles incident on respective ones of the collectors and to output from the collectors signals indicative of charged particle collection. In the detector array, adjacent ones of the plurality of trenches are disposed in a staggered configuration relative to one another. The method forms in a substrate a plurality of trenches across a surface of the substrate such that adjacent ones of the trenches are in a staggered sequence relative to one another, forms in the plurality of trenches a plurality of collectors, and connects a plurality of electrodes respectively to the collectors.

Enseñanza de E/LE y fraseología: algunas consideraciones teórico-prácticas para la enseñanza de fraseología a aprendices germano-hablantes (I

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Manuel José Aguilar Ruiz

2011-01-01

Full Text Available La experiencia práctica que presentamos tiene como objetivo sintetizar algunas de las propuestas y enfoques didácticos que presentan la fraseología como un recurso muy beneficioso para el aprendizaje de E/LE, contextualizada para aprendices de español cuya lengua materna es el alemán, y que abarca los niveles iniciales del Marco común europeo (hasta el nivel umbral, ante todo. Ofrecemos fundamentalmente experiencias prácticas de carácter gráfico, morfológico y semántico, reservando otros tipos de actividades para trabajos posteriores. Así pues, comentamos algunos de los enfoques y procedimientos didácticos que suelen emplearse para la adquisición del español idiomático y, de la misma manera, remitimos a la bibliografía final para su empleo como breve recopilación de algunos de los trabajos y manuales más accesibles, con el fin de facilitar al docente la elaboración de materiales propios para su labor didáctica.

Enseñanza de E/LE y fraseología: algunas consideraciones teórico-prácticas para la enseñanza de fraseología a aprendices germano-hablantes (I

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Manuel José Aguilar Ruiz

2012-08-01

Full Text Available La experiencia práctica que presentamos tiene como objetivo sintetizar algunas de las propuestas y enfoques didácticos que presentan la fraseología como un recurso muy beneficioso para el aprendizaje de E/LE, contextualizada para aprendices de español cuya lengua materna es el alemán, y que abarca los niveles iniciales del Marco común europeo (hasta el nivel umbral, ante todo. Ofrecemos fundamentalmente experiencias prácticas de carácter gráfico, morfológico y semántico, reservando otros tipos de actividades para trabajos posteriores. Así pues, comentamos algunos de los enfoques y procedimientos didácticos que suelen emplearse para la adquisición del español idiomático y, de la misma manera, remitimos a la bibliografía final para su empleo como breve recopilación de algunos de los trabajos y manuales más accesibles, con el fin de facilitar al docente la elaboración de materiales propios para su labor didáctica.

LOS REGÍMENES CAMBIARIOS EN COSTA RICA: EVOLUCIÓN HISTÓRICA Y EVALUACIÓN DE ALGUNAS ALTERNATIVAS TEÓRICAS

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Gabriela Saborio Muñoz

2011-09-01

Full Text Available A partir de la década de los cincuenta, la economía costarricense comenzó a orientarse hacia un modelo de sustitución de importaciones, modelo impulsado por la CEPAL en América Latina, y el cual se puso muy de moda entre los países subdesarrollados. Este sistema consistía en otorgarle incentivos a la industria local, con el propósito de que orientara su producción hacia el mercado interno, sobre todo de los bienes que normalmente se importaban. Sin embargo, este modelo tenía como principal problema, la dependencia que generaba de las materias primas traídas del exterior, razón por la cual el sistema lo que varió fue el tipo de importaciones.En sus inicios, este modelo fue sostenible debido a la incorporación del país al Mercado Común Centroamericano y a la gran disposición de recursos, que permitieron la importación de bienes de capital, y la construcción de obras de infraestructura. Con el paso de los años, sin embargo, el mercado centroamericano dejó de funcionar como tal a causa principalmente de los problemas políticos que vivían los países del istmo. A pesar de este deterioro en el comercio regional, durante la década de los setenta, Costa Rica tuvo acceso a una gran cantidad de recursos financieros, producto de los excedentes generados por la producción de petróleo a los países productores , y al aumento vertiginoso en los precios internacionales del café, el cual era su principal producto de exportación; esta afluencia de recursos externos permitió ignorar durante unos años los problemas que existían en el sistema productivo costarricense. Cabe recalcar que durante todo el período el tipo de cambio permaneció prácticamente constante, excepto por algunas pequeñas devaluaciones; lo cual iba muy en línea con lo estipulado por el acuerdo de Bretton Woods.

Multi-robot control interface

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Bruemmer, David J [Idaho Falls, ID; Walton, Miles C [Idaho Falls, ID

2011-12-06

Methods and systems for controlling a plurality of robots through a single user interface include at least one robot display window for each of the plurality of robots with the at least one robot display window illustrating one or more conditions of a respective one of the plurality of robots. The user interface further includes at least one robot control window for each of the plurality of robots with the at least one robot control window configured to receive one or more commands for sending to the respective one of the plurality of robots. The user interface further includes a multi-robot common window comprised of information received from each of the plurality of robots.

Turbomachine combustor nozzle including a monolithic nozzle component and method of forming the same

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Stoia, Lucas John; Melton, Patrick Benedict; Johnson, Thomas Edward; Stevenson, Christian Xavier; Vanselow, John Drake; Westmoreland, James Harold

2016-02-23

A turbomachine combustor nozzle includes a monolithic nozzle component having a plate element and a plurality of nozzle elements. Each of the plurality of nozzle elements includes a first end extending from the plate element to a second end. The plate element and plurality of nozzle elements are formed as a unitary component. A plate member is joined with the nozzle component. The plate member includes an outer edge that defines first and second surfaces and a plurality of openings extending between the first and second surfaces. The plurality of openings are configured and disposed to register with and receive the second end of corresponding ones of the plurality of nozzle elements.

Apparatus and method for materials processing utilizing a rotating magnetic field

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Muralidharan, Govindarajan; Angelini, Joseph A.; Murphy, Bart L.; Wilgen, John B.

2017-04-11

An apparatus for materials processing utilizing a rotating magnetic field comprises a platform for supporting a specimen, and a plurality of magnets underlying the platform. The plurality of magnets are configured for rotation about an axis of rotation intersecting the platform. A heat source is disposed above the platform for heating the specimen during the rotation of the plurality of magnets. A method for materials processing utilizing a rotating magnetic field comprises providing a specimen on a platform overlying a plurality of magnets; rotating the plurality of magnets about an axis of rotation intersecting the platform, thereby applying a rotating magnetic field to the specimen; and, while rotating the plurality of magnets, heating the specimen to a desired temperature.

Hardware compression using common portions of data

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Chang, Jichuan; Viswanathan, Krishnamurthy

2015-03-24

Methods and devices are provided for data compression. Data compression can include receiving a plurality of data chunks, sampling at least some of the plurality of data chunks extracting a common portion from a number of the plurality of data chunks based on the sampling, and storing a remainder of the plurality of data chunks in memory.

Hot gas path component cooling system

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Lacy, Benjamin Paul; Bunker, Ronald Scott; Itzel, Gary Michael

2014-02-18

A cooling system for a hot gas path component is disclosed. The cooling system may include a component layer and a cover layer. The component layer may include a first inner surface and a second outer surface. The second outer surface may define a plurality of channels. The component layer may further define a plurality of passages extending generally between the first inner surface and the second outer surface. Each of the plurality of channels may be fluidly connected to at least one of the plurality of passages. The cover layer may be situated adjacent the second outer surface of the component layer. The plurality of passages may be configured to flow a cooling medium to the plurality of channels and provide impingement cooling to the cover layer. The plurality of channels may be configured to flow cooling medium therethrough, cooling the cover layer.

Extruder system and method for treatment of a gaseous medium

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Silvi, Norberto; Perry, Robert James; Singh, Surinder Prabhjot; Balch, Gary Stephen; Westendorf, Tiffany Elizabeth Pinard

2016-04-05

A system for treatment of a gaseous medium, comprises an extruder having a barrel. The extruder further comprises a first inlet port, a second inlet port, and a plurality of outlet ports coupled to the barrel. The first inlet port is configured for feeding a lean sorbent, the second inlet port is configured for feeding a gaseous medium, and the plurality of outlet ports are configured for releasing a plurality of components removed from the gaseous medium. Further, the extruder comprises a plurality of helical elements coupled to a plurality of kneading elements, mounted on a shaft, and disposed within the barrel. The barrel and the plurality of helical and kneading elements together form an absorption unit and a desorption unit. The first and second inlet ports are formed in the absorption unit and the plurality of outlet ports are formed in the absorption and desorption units.

Frida Kahlo, escrituras plurales

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RICARDO ECHÁVARRI

2015-01-01

Full Text Available Se analizó la obra escrita de la artista Frida Kahlo, a fin de establecer las características y manifestaciones de su poética. La lectura de sus prosas, poemas, cartas, corridos y sobre todo su Diario permitió esbozar los elementos de un lenguaje personal, construido con base en préstamos cultos y populares, mezcla de anglicismos y expresiones castellanas, sinestesia, invención de vocablos, uso de litotes, diminutivos, anáforas, paralelismos, superposiciones, asociaciones, cruces entre la realidad y lo imaginario, lo antiguo y lo moderno, así como entre lo indígena y lo occidental. Finalmente, se estableció la escritura de la pintora como conciencia del cuerpo, a la vez que experiencia limítrofe entre el color y la palabra.

Poisson-Lie T-plurality

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Unge, Rikard von

2002-01-01

We extend the path-integral formalism for Poisson-Lie T-duality to include the case of Drinfeld doubles which can be decomposed into bi-algebras in more than one way. We give the correct shift of the dilaton, correcting a mistake in the literature. We then use the fact that the six dimensional Drinfeld doubles have been classified to write down all possible conformal Poisson-Lie T-duals of three dimensional space times and we explicitly work out two duals to the constant dilaton and zero anti-symmetric tensor Bianchi type V space time and show that they satisfy the string equations of motion. This space-time was previously thought to have no duals because of the tracefulness of the structure constants. (author)

Plural rationalities and risk

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James, P.; Thompson, M.

1989-01-01

Like many social scientists, we attribute public unwillingness to accept certain low probability risks not to 'irrationality' but rather to the everyday application of qualitative as well as quantitative criteria. Just as most people buying a video or hi-fi do not base their decision solely on price or performance data but also consider such intangibles as design and the reputation of the manufacturer, individuals faced with a given risk take into account not merely the probability of harm but also the credibility and trustworthiness of whoever generates the information and manages the safety and other precautions which ensure its accuracy. To analyse these qualitative dimensions we utilise the grid/-group methodology developed by the cultural anthropologist Mary Douglas, and her co-workers. Douglas identifies four basic forms of society and four associated 'thought worlds' which serve to legitimise and reproduce them. Differences in concepts of human cognition, time and many other variables between the different thought worlds are so profound that they can be regarded as different kinds of rationality. The acceptability of risks is partially determined by the extent to which they support or threaten the existence of the different societies. (author)

Meta-structure and tunable optical device including the same

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Han, Seunghoon; Papadakis, Georgia Theano; Atwater, Harry

2017-12-26

A meta-structure and a tunable optical device including the same are provided. The meta-structure includes a plurality of metal layers spaced apart from one another, an active layer spaced apart from the plurality of metal layers and having a carrier concentration that is tuned according to an electric signal applied to the active layer and the plurality of metal layers, and a plurality of dielectric layers spaced apart from one another and each having one surface contacting a metal layer among the plurality of metal layers and another surface contacting the active layer.

O sistema de informações no processo gerencial dos serviços de saúde: algumas reflexões El sistema de informaciones en el proceso gerencial de los servicios de salud: algunas reflexiones Information system in the management process of health services: some reflections

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Silvana Martins Mishima

1996-04-01

Full Text Available Neste ensaio nos dispomos a desenvolver algumas reflexões acerca da constituição do sistema de informação como um dos principais instrumentos para o gerenciamento de serviços de saúde no processo de municipalização.En este estudio las autoras desarrollan algunas reflexiones a cerca de la constitución del sistema de información como un de los principales instrumentos para el gerenciamento de los servicios de salud, en el proceso de municipalización.The present study aims at reflecting about the organization of the information system as an important tool in the management of health services, especially in, the process of municipalization.

Method for wiring allocation and switch configuration in a multiprocessor environment

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Aridor, Yariv [Zichron Ya'akov, IL; Domany, Tamar [Kiryat Tivon, IL; Frachtenberg, Eitan [Jerusalem, IL; Gal, Yoav [Haifa, IL; Shmueli, Edi [Haifa, IL; Stockmeyer, legal representative, Robert E.; Stockmeyer, Larry Joseph [San Jose, CA

2008-07-15

A method for wiring allocation and switch configuration in a multiprocessor computer, the method including employing depth-first tree traversal to determine a plurality of paths among a plurality of processing elements allocated to a job along a plurality of switches and wires in a plurality of D-lines, and selecting one of the paths in accordance with at least one selection criterion.

Cloud object store for checkpoints of high performance computing applications using decoupling middleware

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Bent, John M.; Faibish, Sorin; Grider, Gary

2016-04-19

Cloud object storage is enabled for checkpoints of high performance computing applications using a middleware process. A plurality of files, such as checkpoint files, generated by a plurality of processes in a parallel computing system are stored by obtaining said plurality of files from said parallel computing system; converting said plurality of files to objects using a log structured file system middleware process; and providing said objects for storage in a cloud object storage system. The plurality of processes may run, for example, on a plurality of compute nodes. The log structured file system middleware process may be embodied, for example, as a Parallel Log-Structured File System (PLFS). The log structured file system middleware process optionally executes on a burst buffer node.

Photovoltaic solar cell

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Nielson, Gregory N; Okandan, Murat; Cruz-Campa, Jose Luis; Resnick, Paul J

2013-11-26

A photovoltaic solar cell for generating electricity from sunlight is disclosed. The photovoltaic solar cell comprises a plurality of spaced-apart point contact junctions formed in a semiconductor body to receive the sunlight and generate the electicity therefrom, the plurality of spaced-apart point contact junctions having a first plurality of regions having a first doping type and a second plurality of regions having a second doping type. In addition, the photovoltaic solar cell comprises a first electrical contact electrically connected to each of the first plurality of regions and a second electrical contact electrically connected to each of the second plurality of regions, as well as a passivation layer covering major surfaces and sidewalls of the photovoltaic solar cell.

Processor-in-memory-and-storage architecture

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DeBenedictis, Erik

2018-01-02

A method and apparatus for performing reliable general-purpose computing. Each sub-core of a plurality of sub-cores of a processor core processes a same instruction at a same time. A code analyzer receives a plurality of residues that represents a code word corresponding to the same instruction and an indication of whether the code word is a memory address code or a data code from the plurality of sub-cores. The code analyzer determines whether the plurality of residues are consistent or inconsistent. The code analyzer and the plurality of sub-cores perform a set of operations based on whether the code word is a memory address code or a data code and a determination of whether the plurality of residues are consistent or inconsistent.

Reflexiones sociológicas figurativas y de proceso sobre el deporte y la globalización: algunas observaciones conceptuales y teóricas, con especial referencia al fútbol

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Eric Dunning

2009-09-01

Full Text Available Este artículo se divide en tres partes. La primera, consiste en un comentario conceptual-teórico sobre la globalización y en varios ejemplos del mundo globalizado del deporte; la segunda, es un comentario sobre el desarrollo y la extensión global del fútbol; y la tercera, expone el comentario de algunas patologías relacionadas con el deporte. A lo largo del artículo se aplica el enfoque sociológico figurativo y de proceso desarrollado por Norbert Elias. En resumen, este trabajo es fundamentalmente un ejercicio de sociología relacional y de proceso. El ‘fútbol’ –‘Football Association’ en su nombre originario– se ha convertido en el deporte de equipo más popular del mundo. Surgió a mediados y finales del siglo xix en Gran Bretaña e Irlanda y se extendió rápidamente por todo el mundo. El artículo analiza ese proceso y finaliza con el comentario sobre: la anomia que experimentan muchas personas deportistas de alto nivel; los escándalos sexuales relacionados con el deporte que aparecen principalmente en la prensa amarilla; y, para terminar, el azote continuado, a nivel mundial, de la violencia en el fútbol.

Efectos de la costra microbiótica en algunas propiedades del suelo en el sur de la quebrada Los Barrancos, Valle de Quíbor, Venezuela

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Franklin Antonio Nuñez Ravelo

2013-10-01

Full Text Available En el suelo de Quíbor crecen de manera discontinua unas costras constituidas por líquenes, briofitas y cianobacterias. El propósito de esta investigación es identificar variaciones en el comportamiento de algunas propiedades edáficas al comparar muestras del suelo con y sin costra. Se trata de una investigación de campo desarrollada en tres fases: la primera, denominada de Campo, con el fin de recolectar muestras de suelo con apoyo en la tabla de dígitos aleatorios y a partir de dos transectas longitudinales, sobre éstas se empleó cada diez metros una cuadrata cuadrada de 25 x 25 cm; la segunda fase, laboratorio, en la cual se determinaron las propiedades del suelo: a física como el %humedad; b químicas como la salinidad, pH, Conductividad Eléctrica (C.E y Carbono Orgánico (CO, y c bioquímicas, entre ellas la Materia Orgánica (MO y Dióxido de carbono (CO2 desprendido; la tercera fase, de análisis estadístico, se empleó la prueba t, a fin de identificar variaciones significativas entre ambos grupos muestrales. Se concluye que la presencia de la costra en la superficie del suelo aumenta la actividad metabólica, el CO y la MO. En cuanto al pH, C.E, salinidad y %H no se registraron variaciones significativas.