DERECHO Y POLÍTICAS AMBIENTALES EN ANDALUCÍA

DERECHO Y POLÍTICAS AMBIENTALES EN ANDALUCÍ

La Participación Pública Activa y Real en la Política del Agua: Necesidad y Deber

La sostenibilidad es uno de los principales objetivos de la Unión Europea. Ésta sólo puede alcanzarse si modifican los hábitos de consumo y, por tanto, los valores, las percepciones y las opiniones de la sociedad. Para ello es imprescindible que se cambien también las formas de gobernar. La participación pública, elemento central de la gobernanza, pretende que quien ostenta el poder mantenga un diálogo real y efectivo con la sociedad en la toma de decisiones. La política de aguas es un ámbito pionero de la Unión Europea en la participación pública a través de la Directiva Marco del Agua, encuadrada en un conjunto de normas sobre información, participación pública y acceso a la justicia en materia de medio ambiente. El presente texto elabora una aproximación a estos instrumentos enlazando su explicación con reflexiones sobre los procesos de planificación hidrológica en curso.Sustainability is one of the main objectives of the European Union. It can only be achieved if consumption habits are modified and, therefore, certain values, perceptions and opinions that characterize our society. It is also indispensable a change in the forms of governance. Public participation, as a central element of governance, seeks that those who hold power maintain a real and effective dialogue with the society in any decisiontaking process. Within the European Union, the Water Policy is a pioneering field as regards public participation through The Water Framework Directive, framed in a set of regulations concerning information, to public participation and access to justice on environmental matters. The text elaborates an approach to these instruments connecting its content with reflection on the current hydrological planning process

Derecho y políticas ambientales en Andalucía

Derecho y políticas ambientales en Andalucí

DERECHO Y POLÍTICAS AMBIENTALES EN ANDALUCÍA

DERECHO Y POLÍTICAS AMBIENTALES EN ANDALUCÍ

Hobbesian Reaction: Towards and Beyond Newton's Third Law of Motion

I will attempt to show that Hobbes's view of reaction represents the culmination of the revision and overthrow of the Aristotelian view of physical action--i.e., the view that action is the result of (a) the continual application of a force (b) by an agent body which is in contact with the moved object

Developmental eye movement test: What is it really measuring?

Purpose. The Developmental Eye Movement (DEM) test is commonly used as a clinical visual-verbal ocular motor assessment tool. However, while the DEM test ratio has been reported to correlate with horizontal saccadic eye movements, there have been no published comparative studies of the DEM test and objective eye movement measures. The aim of this study was to compare DEM test performance with explicit quantification of saccadic eye movements, reading performance, symptomatology and visual processing speed, to assess the validity of the DEM test in clinical practice. Methods. One hundred fifty-eight children aged 8 to 11 years completed the DEM test and a battery of eye movement tasks, recorded by a Microguide 1000 infrared eye tracker. All subjects completed a symptomatology survey. Reading performance and visual processing data was collected for 77 and 75 children, respectively. Results. One hundred twenty-nine of the 158 subjects (81.65%) passed the DEM test. There was no significant correlation between any component of DEM test performance and quantitative eye movement parameters (gain, latency, asymptotic peak velocity, and number of corrective saccades) or symptomatology. There were significant correlations between DEM test outcome and reading performance, and with visual processing speed. Conclusions. DEM test performance does not correlate with saccadic eye movement skills or symptomatology. However, it is related to reading performance and visual processing speed. This study suggests that although DEM test times may not correlate directly with eye movement parameters, they do correlate with aspects of reading performance and thus may serve a diagnostic role in clinical practice. © 2009 American Academy of Optometry

Valorization of biobased furfurals by catalytic oxidative esterification

The two benchmark biobased chemicals, 5-hydroxymethylfurfural and furfuraldehyde were successfully oxidized by newly developed bimetallic catalysts in batch and in flow conditions. The processes were made under the mildest conditions so far, in good to excellent yields. Also, carbene catalyzed valorization of furfurals was explored. All these processes were conceived under the guidelines of sustainability, and the principles of green chemistry and engineering

Cell Motility and Cancer

Cell migration is an essential systemic behavior, tightly regulated, of all living cells endowed with directional motility that is involved in the major developmental stages of all complex organisms such as morphogenesis, embryogenesis, organogenesis, adult tissue remodeling, wound healing, immunological cell activities, angiogenesis, tissue repair, cell differentiation, tissue regeneration as well as in a myriad of pathological conditions. However, how cells efficiently regulate their locomotion movements is still unclear. Since migration is also a crucial issue in cancer development, the goal of this narrative is to show the connection between basic findings in cell locomotion of unicellular eukaryotic organisms and the regulatory mechanisms of cell migration necessary for tumor invasion and metastases. More specifically, the review focuses on three main issues, (i) the regulation of the locomotion system in unicellular eukaryotic organisms and human cells, (ii) how the nucleus does not significantly affect the migratory trajectories of cells in two-dimension (2D) surfaces and (iii) the conditioned behavior detected in single cells as a primitive form of learning and adaptation to different contexts during cell migration. New findings in the control of cell motility both in unicellular organisms and mammalian cells open up a new framework in the understanding of the complex processes involved in systemic cellular locomotion and adaptation of a wide spectrum of diseases with high impact in the society such as cancer