El ilusionista de las palabras: Paul Auster y su universo creativo

Paul Auster is one of the greatest writers of our time. Since 1994, to his work as novelist, poet and essayist he has added scriptwriting and film directing. Both literature and cinema appear closely linked in his creative production, so that one feeds the other and vice versa, by means of themes, common characters as well as self-referential and metafictional allusions. In novels, short stories and films, Auster reveals himself, in essence, as a great storyteller. They are stories that overlap at different narrative levels following the technique of the Chinese boxes. His work is also part of a large net of internal and external references in dialogue with each other, posing and pondering on questions that have to do with identity, writing or the intersections between fiction and reality, which appear recurrently both in its literary as in its filmic form.<br><br>Paul Auster es uno de los grandes escritores de nuestro tiempo. Desde 1994, a su labor de novelista, poeta, traductor y ensayista ha añadido la de guionista y director de cine. Ambos medios, literatura y cine, aparecen estrechamente ligados en su producción creativa, de manera que uno nutre al otro y viceversa, a través de temas y personajes comunes, de guiños autorreferenciales y metaficcionales. En novelas, relatos y películas Auster se revela, en esencia, como un gran contador de historias. Se trata de historias múltiples que se superponen a distintos niveles narrativos siguiendo la técnica de cajas chinas. Su obra forma parte de una amplia red de referencias internas y externas que dialogan entre sí, al tiempo que plantean cuestiones en torno a la identidad, la escritura o las intersecciones entre ficción y realidad, que aparecen de manera recurrente tanto en forma literaria como fílmica

Recursos didácticos basados en Internet para un curso de Psicología patológica

Internet-based resources were applied in a psychopathologycourse. The results were positive: students that used the resources obtained better scores than those that did not. Flexibility and the potential for interaction were the principal advantages noted by students.En la experiencia que aquí se expone se ha utilizado una serie de recursos complementarios para la docencia de la asignatura Psicologia patológica a través de Internet. Este estudio coincide con la mayoria de los publicados sobre el tema al encontrar efectos claramente positivos de la incorporación de recursos de aprendizaje asistido por ordenador a través de Internet como estrategia didúctica en la educación superior. Los resultados obtenidos muestran que existen diferencias significativas entre las calificaciones de los alumnos que han utilizado los recursos a través de Internet y quienes no lo han hecho, obteniendo aquellos rnejores puntuaciones que éstos. Los alumnos reconocen como ventajas de este sistema de docencia su flexibilidad espacial y temporal, usí como las posibilidades de interacción que conlleva

Recursos didácticos basados en Internet para un curso de Psicología patológica.

Internet-based resources were applied in a psychopathology course. The results were positive: students that used the resources obtained better scores than those that did not. Flexibility and the potential for interaction were the principal advantages noted by students

Relationship between stressful life events and emotional intelligence in Mexican adolescents: Male vs. female comparative study

Introduction. Adolescents can present high levels of stress when faced with various biopsychosocial changes, affecting their daily activities and influencing the initiation and development of risk behaviours and/or a mental disorder. Therefore, it is important to identify protective factors against stress, such as emotional intelligence, for adolescentsIntroduction. Adolescents can present high levels of stress when faced with various biopsychosocial changes, affecting their daily activities and influencing the initiation and development of risk behaviours and/or a mental disorder. Therefore, it is important to identify protective factors against stress, such as emotional intelligence, for adolescents. Objective. Determine the effect of stressful life events (SLE) and perceived emotional intelligence (PEI) on the stress level in adolescent high school students and identify differences by sex. Method. Cross-sectional study, 1 417 adolescents (57% women and 43% men), with an average age of 15.90 (SD = .91), who were evaluated in levels of PEI, SLE, and stress perceived. Results. The results show high rates of stressful events experienced. Attention to emotions increases the perception of stress in both sexes, while clarity and emotional repair have a stress-reducing effect on women. Discussion and conclusions. The results suggest that the PEI is determinant in the emotional self-control and the adaptive capacity of the adolescent to face stressful situations.Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Méxic

The balance of payments and international investment position of Spain in 2020

Artículo de revistaIn 2020, the Spanish economy recorded net lending of 1.1% of GDP, significantly below the previous year’s level of 2.5%. This decline essentially reflects the impact of the health crisis on travel credits, which contracted sharply, owing to the restrictions on international mobility and on activity in accommodation and food and travel services to contain the pandemic. The widening of the secondary income deficit also contributed to the decline in net lending, albeit to a much lesser extent. These developments offset the improvement in the other components, which was particularly notable in the goods and primary income balances. Cross-border financial transactions were strongly influenced by the increase in the volume of Eurosystem asset purchases, as reflected by a large surplus on the financial account of resident sectors, excluding the Banco de España. By contrast, the financial transactions of the Banco de España with the rest of the world showed a large increase in its liabilities. Spain’s negative net international investment position increased to 84.3% of GDP, essentially as a result of the sharp fall in GDP and the decline in the value of external financial assets owing to the appreciation of the euro. Finally, in terms of GDP, the nation’s gross external debt stood at all-time highs (199.4%) owing to the contraction in economic activity and the assumption of new liabilities, in particular by the Banco de España, given the increase in its positions vis-à-vis the Eurosystem as a result of the implementation of the asset purchase programmes

Urbanise in roman times: rituality and practicality. Proposal for an approved execution procedure

En época romana la orientación conferida a las construcciones solía tener significados simbólicos, reflejos de una ritualidad, especialmente en el caso de ciudades o santua - rios. Aunque también podía responder simplemente a cuestio - nes de tipo práctico. En cualquier caso, el beneplácito de los dioses era condición sine qua non para iniciar la obra y dibu - jar sobre el terreno el diseño de la misma. Frente a la cuestión de su significado, se plantea una pregunta: ¿cuál fue el proce - dimiento de ejecución? En publicaciones precedentes, nues - tra propuesta iba encaminada a identificar sistemas utiliza - dos para conferir a las obras una orientación determinada. En este artículo planteamos un modelo de operar que va en para - lelo con las interpretaciones dadas a las orientaciones, ya sean simbólicas o prácticas, proponiendo como modo de ejecución el explicado por Nypsius en el siglo I d.C. al describir la téc - nica de la varatio.In Roman times, the orientation given to the build - ings usually had symbolic meanings, reflection of a ritual, es - pecially in the case of cities or sanctuaries, although the ori - entation could also simply respond to practical issues. In any case, the gods’ support was essential for the beginning of the works, and the drawing of the design on the ground. Besides the topic of the meaning of the orientations, another question arises: what was the procedure? In previous publications, our proposal was intended to identify the systems used to give the works a certain orientation. In this paper we propose im - plementation rules which run parallel with the symbolic or pragmatic interpretations of orientations, proposing as the ex - ecution procedure the one explained by Nypsius in the first century AD when he describes the technique of varatio

The balance of payments and international investment position of Spain in 2017

Artículo de revistaAccording to the balance of payments (BoP) statistics, the Spanish economy once again became a net lender in 2017, despite the rise in oil prices and the strength of domestic demand. Factors that are foreseeably temporary, such as low interest rates, and other longterm factors, mainly relating to the increase in the number of exporting firms and the gains in competitiveness accumulated in recent years, contributed to this. The Spanish economy’s negative net International Investment Position (IIP), in terms of GDP, declined again for the third consecutive year (to 80.8%), since Spain’s lending position and the expansion of GDP offset the negative impact of valuation effects and other adjustments on the net II

Recursos didácticos basados en Internet para un curso de Psicología patológica

Internet-based resources were applied in a psychopathologycourse. The results were positive: students that used the resources obtained better scores than those that did not. Flexibility and the potential for interaction were the principal advantages noted by students.En la experiencia que aquí se expone se ha utilizado una serie de recursos complementarios para la docencia de la asignatura Psicologia patológica a través de Internet. Este estudio coincide con la mayoria de los publicados sobre el tema al encontrar efectos claramente positivos de la incorporación de recursos de aprendizaje asistido por ordenador a través de Internet como estrategia didúctica en la educación superior. Los resultados obtenidos muestran que existen diferencias significativas entre las calificaciones de los alumnos que han utilizado los recursos a través de Internet y quienes no lo han hecho, obteniendo aquellos rnejores puntuaciones que éstos. Los alumnos reconocen como ventajas de este sistema de docencia su flexibilidad espacial y temporal, usí como las posibilidades de interacción que conlleva