La unidad de los creyentes. La Iglesia que pensó el discípulo amado. [Reseña]

Reseña de Gerardo SÁNCHEZ MIELGO, La unidad de los creyentes. La Iglesia que pensó el discípulo amado, San Esteban-Edibesa, Salamanca-Madrid 2008, 363 pp., 24 x 15, ISBN 978-84-8260-216-5

Aleurocystis gloeocystidiata sp. nov. on Polylepis australis in Argentina

The new taxon Aleurocystis gloeocystidiata is described, growing on living ranchlets of Polylepis australis in Central Argentina. It is characterized by a discoid-cupuloid basidiome, ellipsoid basidiospores 17-24 x 12-15 µm, metuloid cystidia, sulfonegative gloeocystidia, clamped, non-gelatinized generative hyphae, and encrusted skeletocystidia that are present in the context, form the white, hairy margin of the basidiome, and become grayish in Melzerʼs reagent.Fil: Robledo, Gerardo Lucio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal; ArgentinaFil: Rajchenberg, Mario. Centro de Investigación y Extensión Forestal Andino Patagónico; Argentin

On Dorfman’s ‘Death and the Maiden’

This Essay was originally prepared for a panel on transitional justice entitled Justice, Amnesty, and Truth-Telling: Options for Societies in Transition, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, convention (Atlanta, Dec. 1996). Can a society be repaired unless its killers, rapists, and torturers are named and exposed? Can it be repaired if its killers, rapists, and torturers are named and exposed? That is the overarching question of transitional justice; it may even be the overarching question of life in human society. Just as no relationship can survive in the complete absence of truth, no relationship can survive in the complete absence of lies, nor in the complete absence of forgiveness

Stop Violence against Philippine Garment Workers

The Clean Clothes Campaign calls attention to the repression and violence experienced by Philippine garment workers who attempted to organize.CCC_Philippines_11_21_06.pdf: 880 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Validity and reliability of telephone administration of the patient-specific functional scale for the assessment of recovery from snakebite envenomation

OBJECTIVES: Although more than 1.8 million people survive snakebite envenomation each year, their recovery is understudied. Obtaining long-term follow-up is challenging in both high- and low-resource settings. The Patient-Specific Functional Scale (PSFS) is an easily administered, well-accepted patient-reported outcome that is validated for assessing limb recovery from snakebite envenomation. We studied whether the PSFS is valid and reliable when administered by telephone. METHODS: This is a secondary analysis of data from a randomized clinical trial. We analyzed the results of PSFS collected in-person on days 3, 7, 14, 21, and 28 and by telephone on days 10, 17, and 24. We assessed the following scale psychometric properties: (a) content validity (ceiling and floor effects), (b) internal structure and consistency (Cronbach\u27s alpha), and (c) temporal and external validity using Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC). Temporal stability was assessed using Spearman\u27s correlation coefficient and agreement between adjacent in-person and telephonic assessments with Cohen\u27s kappa. Bland Altman analysis was used to assess differential bias in low and high score results. RESULTS: Data from 74 patients were available for analysis. Floor effects were seen in the early post-injury time points (median: 3 (IQR: 0, 5) at 3 days post-enrollment) and ceiling effects in the late time points (median: 9 (IQR: 8, 10). Internal consistency was good to excellent with both in-person (Cronbach α: 0.91 (95%CI 0.88, 0.95)) and telephone administration (0.81 (0.73, 0.89). Temporal stability was also good (ICC: 0.83 (0.72, 0.89) in-person, 0.80 (0.68, 0.88) telephone). A strong linear correlation was found between in-person and telephone administration (Spearman\u27s ρ: 0.83 (CI: 0.78, 0.84), consistency was assessed as excellent (Cohen\u27s κ 0.81 (CI: 0.78, 0.84), and Bland Altman analysis showed no systematic bias. CONCLUSIONS: Telephone administration of the PSFS provides valid, reliable, and consistent data for the assessment of recovery from snakebite envenomation

Dynamics on Grassmannians and resolvents of cone operators

The paper proves the existence and elucidates the structure of the asymptotic expansion of the trace of the resolvent of a closed extension of a general elliptic cone operator on a compact manifold with boundary as the spectral parameter tends to infinity. The hypotheses involve only minimal conditions on the symbols of the operator. The results combine previous investigations by the authors on the subject with an analysis of the asymptotics of a family of projections related to the domain. This entails a fairly detailed study of the dynamics of a flow on the Grassmannian of domains.Comment: 34 page