The alcaldía mayor of Tabasco: configuration, characyeristic and peculiarities of government

El artículo aborda la evolución del gobierno colonial de la provincia de Tabasco desde sus inicios hasta su institucionalización como alcaldía mayor, incidiendo en las particulares características de ésta y en el conflictivo sistema de nombramiento utilizado para designar alcaldes. Todo ello utilizando como fuente principal de estudio los juicios de residencia de diferentes gobernantes tabasqueños que, rompiendo con la norma general, aportan una información riquísima para estudiar la configuración gobierno de la región.The article discusses the evolution of the colonial government in the province of Tabasco, from its beginning to the rise to alcaldia mayor, focusing on its particular characteristics and on the controversial appointment system to lower posts. The main sources of this research have been the judicial proceedings that all governors had to undergo at the end of their tenure. These proceedings contrary to the norm in other places, provide valuable information for the study of the government practices in the region

The value of the Juicio de Residencia as a documentary source: structure, characteristics and peculiarities. The paradigm of Tabasco in the second half of the 17th Century

El artículo centra su interés principal en presentar las posibilidades que el juicio de residencia ofrece como fuente para los investigadores a nivel histórico, utilizando como referencia el paradigmático caso de Tabasco, donde se puede advertir con cierta claridad el esfuerzo constante de las autoridades por recoger todo tipo de información de la región en este tipo de fuentes judiciales y, por ende, el valor que éstas adquieren para el estudio de la región.The article focuses its main interest in presenting the possibilities that the juicio de residencia offers as a source for researchers in History, using as a reference the paradigmatic case of Tabasco, where we can see the constant effort of the authorities to collect information from the region on this type of judicial sources and, therefore, the value they have for the study of the region

The precarious plight of the church in Tabasco in time of the Austria’s: notes and general considerations

Si algo caracterizó a Tabasco en el ámbito religioso fue, sin duda, la limitación que sufrió el desarrollo de la Iglesia en aquella región durante gran parte del periodo colonial. Este artículo centra su interés en analizar el papel que dicha institución desempeñó en Tabasco desde la conquista hasta el advenimiento de la dinastía borbónica, ofreciendo algunos apuntes y consideraciones generales que ayuden a comprender su escasa evolución bajo la dinastía de los AustriasIf something characterized Tabasco in the religious sphere, it was undoubtedly the limitation suffered by the development of the church in that region during a large part of the colonial period. This article focuses on analyzing the role that this institution played in Tabasco from the conquest until the advent of the Bourbon dynasty, offering some notes and general considerations that help us understand its limited evolution under the Habsburg dynasty

"Irish English had to do with personal identity, and you can't get rid of that". An Interview with Juan Jose Delaney

En esta entrevista el escritor hiberno-argentino Juan José Delaney reflexiona sobre su obra. Tanto la cultura argentina como la irlandesa, piedras angulares de su identidad cultural, salen a relucir en la conversación. A la pregunta acerca de su origen, por ejemplo, responde: “Siempre me he nutrido de las culturas argentina e irlandesa”. Juan José Delaney nació en Buenos Aires en 1954. Además de ser un escritor de ficción y ensayista, dirige la cátedra de Literatura Argentina del Siglo XX en la Universidad del Salvador (Buenos Aires), donde también coordina el programa de Estudios Irlandeses. Como escritor de ficción, ha firmado las colecciones Papeles del Desierto (1974-2004) y Tréboles del Sur (1994), recientemente reeditada (2014). Su novela Moira Sullivan (1999), al igual que muchos de sus relatos, describe la vida de los irlandeses en Argentina, un tema al que acude de nuevo en su novela corta Memoria de Theophilus Flynn (2012), en la que se relaciona a Waterford con Buenos Aires. Es también autor de la comedia dramática La viuda de O’Malley, así como de la biografía Marco Denevi y la sacra ceremonia de la escritura (2006). A lo largo de esta entrevista se discuten temas relacionados con la asimilación lingüística y cultural que son relevantes en el contexto de la emigración irlandesa a Argentina.In this interview, Irish-Argentine writer Juan José Delaney reflects upon his writing. His own cultural affiliation with both the Irish and the Argentinian culture come to the fore in his answers. Thus, when asked about his background he replies: “I have always been nourished by both the Argentinian and the Irish cultures”. Juan José Delaney was born in Buenos Aires in 1954. He is a fiction writer and essayist and he holds the chair in Twentieth Century Argentinean Literature at the Universidad del Salvador (Buenos Aires), where he also coordinates the Irish Studies Program. As a fiction writer, he has published the collections Papeles del Desierto (1974-2004), and Tréboles del Sur (1994), which has been recently reedited (2014). His novel, Moira Sullivan (1999), like many of his short stories, depicts the life of the Irish in Argentina, a topic that he returns to in his most recent nouvelle, Memoria de Theophilus Flynn (2012), which connects Waterford with Buenos Aires. He is also the author of a dramatic comedy entitled La viuda de O’Malley and the biography Marco Denevi y la sacra ceremonia de la escritura (2006). During the course of the interview he discusses cultural and linguistic assimilation issues that were conspicuous in the context of Irish emigration to Argentina

Female voices in the context of Irish emigration: A linguistic analysis of gender differences in private correspondence

The past few decades have witnessed an increasing interest in private correspondence as a source of information for linguistic analysis. Letter collections represent an invaluable source of evidence at a historical and sociological level and, it has been argued, they are also unique sources for the documentation of language development. Recent research has shown how this type of written data can help in analyzing the correlation between social status/gender and language change. Other uses of personal letters have served to document the presence and development of specific syntactic structures. Within the realm of this genre, the value of emigrant letters is enormous, given that they reflect language features that were transported away from the environments in which they initially emerged. This paper takes a bottom-up approach to the analysis of the language of Irish emigrants and concentrates specifically on gender differences in the use of certain linguistic devices. By applying the tools and techniques of corpus linguistics, this study analyses the expression of closeness, spontaneity and solidarity in the use of a few significant features such as pragmatic markers and pronominal forms. The data under investigation is a corpus of letters written between 1840 and 1920 by members of two families who emigrated from Ireland to Argentina. The paper also argues that, given that letter writing is often at the intersection between spoken and written discourse, this type of approach can help us reconstruct the most characteristic properties of spoken discourse in the past

Enseñar la infección microbiana con otro enfoque: innovación docente en la asignatura de Biología de primer curso del Grado en Farmacia

El trabajo que se presenta está basado en la experiencia docente llevada a cabo en la asignatura Biología de primer curso del Grado en Farmacia. La realización del ciclo de mejora ha pretendido cambiar el enfoque de la práctica docente clásica de tipo expositiva por una que concibe el aprendizaje crítico natural como estrategia didáctica. La propuesta docente ha abordado el tema dedicado a las infecciones en sus dimensiones conceptual y procedimental, abogando por un mayor equilibrio entre las competencias exigidas, los objetivos establecidos y la metodología de enseñanza-aprendizaje propuesta. El objetivo principal ha sido la participación activa del alumnado como actor principal en su proceso de aprendizaje

Gluten Immunogenic Peptides as Standard for the Evaluation of Potential Harmful Prolamin Content in Food and Human Specimen

Gluten is a complex mixture of storage proteins in cereals like wheat, barley, and rye. Prolamins are the main components of gluten. Their high content in proline and glutamine makes them water-insoluble and difficult to digest in the gastrointestinal tract. Partial digestion generates peptide sequences which trigger immune responses in celiac and gluten-sensitive patients. Gluten detection in food is challenging because of the diversity, in various food matrices, of protein proportions or modifications and the huge number of immunogenic sequences with differential potential immunoactivity. Attempts to develop standard reference materials have been unsuccessful. Recent studies have reported the detection of a limited number of dominant Gluten Immunogenic Peptides (GIP) that share similarities to epitopes presented in the α-gliadin 33-mer, which showed to be highly proteolytic resistant and is considered to be the most immunodominant peptide within gluten in celiac disease (CD). GIP were detectable and quantifiable in very different kind of difficult to analyze food, revealing the potential immunogenicity by detecting T-cell activity of celiac patients. But GIP were also found in stool and urine of celiac patients on a supposedly gluten-free diet (GFD), showing the capacity to resist and be absorbed and excreted from the body, providing the first simple and objective means to assess adherence to the GFD. Methods to specifically and sensitively detect the most active GIP in food and biological fluids are rational candidates may use similar analytical standard references for determination of the immunopathological risk of gluten exposure in gluten-related diseases.España, MINECO AGL2013-48946-CEspaña, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades y Corporación Tecnológica de Andalucía (CTA

Linguistic identity and the study of emigrant letters: Irish English in the making

This paper builds on the findings from a larger research project that analyses written data extracted from a corpus of emigrant letters. This preliminary study is an exploration of the Irish Emigration Database (IED), an electronic word-searchable collection of primary source documents on Irish emigration to North America (USA and Canada) in the 18th and 19th centuries. The IED contains a variety of original material including emigrant letters, newspaper articles, shipping advertisements, shipping news, passenger lists, offi cial government reports, family papers, births, deaths and marriages and extracts from books and periodicals. The paper focuses specifi cally on the sections dealing with transcriptions of Emigrant Letters sent home and Letters to Irish Emigrants abroad, from which CORIECOR, the Corpus of Irish English Correspondence, is developed. Our study is intended as a fi rst step towards an empirical diachronic account of an important period for the formation of Irish English. A close look at the ocurrence in the corpus of some features such as the use of the progressive form (e.g. I am reading) and the uses of will vs. shall reveals that these features were already part of what is known as Irish English nowadays. Our study covers the period from the early eighteenth century to 1840, a timespan that stretches from the beginning to the middle of the main period of language shift from Irish to English.Identidad lingüística y el estudio de cartas de emigrantes: la formación del inglés de Irlanda. Este artículo se basa en los resultados de un proyecto de investigación que analiza los datos extraídos de un corpus de cartas de emigrantes. Este estudio es una exploración preliminar de la Irish Emigration Database (IED), una colección electrónica de fuentes relacionadas con la emigración irlandesa a América del Norte (EE.UU. y Canadá) en los siglos XVIII y XIX. La base de datos IED contiene una gran variedad de material original que incluye cartas de emigrantes, artículos de periódicos, anuncios, noticias, noticias, listas de pasajeros, informes ofi ciales del gobierno, documentos familiares, partidas de nacimiento, matrimonio y defunción, y extractos de libros y publicaciones periódicas. El presente artículo se centra específi camente en las secciones que se ocupan de las transcripciones de la correspondencia entre emigrantes irlandeses en el extranjero y sus familiares y amigos en Irlanda. Estos documentos constituyen la base de CORIECOR, the Corpus of Irish English Correspondence. Nuestro estudio pretende ser un primer paso hacia un estudio diacrónico empírico de un período de gran importancia para la formación del inglés de Irlanda. Un análisis exhaustivo de el uso en el corpus de algunas características tales como el uso de la forma continua (por ejemplo, I am reading) y los usos de las formas will y shall demuestra que estas estructuras sintácticas formaban ya parte de lo que en la actualidad se conoce como Irish English. Nuestro estudio abarca el período comprendido entre principios del siglo XVIII hasta 1840, un lapso que abarca desde el principio hasta la mitad del período en el que el inglés vino a sustituir al irlandés como lengua principal