57 research outputs found
Guerra psicosocial, género y populismo: las ‘voluntarias’ de la Secretaría Nacional de la Mujer durante el régimen militar chileno. 1973-1980
The chilean military regime, in its earlier stage, used the repression in order to dismantle the Unidad Popular’ socialist project. Additionally, it waged a strong psychosocial fight, based on the “counter-subversive war” logic, in order to generate adhesion and to mobilize the popular sectors in its favor. Women were an important component of this psychosocial war, since a planned social and ideological politic was focused on them, through the development of institutions such as CEMA-Chile and the Secretaría Nacional de la Mujer (SNM). This research project is based on the links between the Augusto Pinochet’s military regime and the SNM women “volunteers”, particularly those that worked at the local levels, coming from medium and lower classes. It has been proposed that the relationship established between the military government and the lower class women through the “volunteerism” is concordant with certain features shared by the neo-populist regimes. This observation is based on the following elements: the women “volunteers” were mobilized in networks, personal and paternal bonds were developed between the women “volunteers” and the General Pinochet, and the disseminated anti-political rhetoric that was assimilated by the women “volunteers”. However, these elements adopted particular characteristics, since they were affected by social and historical gender constructions, which the regime used as instruments to make them functional to the populist bonds. The social and historical gender constructions facilitated the women awareness of the war doctrine against the Marxism and the military messianism.El régimen militar chileno en su etapa temprana, no sólo utilizó la represión para desmantelar el proyecto socialista de la Unidad Popular, sino que, imbuido de la lógica de la “guerra contrasubversiva”, libró una fuerte lucha en el plano psicosocial para generar adhesión y movilizar a los sectores populares en su favor. Un frente importante de esta guerra psicosocial fueron las mujeres, hacia quienes dirigió una decidida política social e ideológica por medio de organismos como CEMA-Chile y la Secretaría Nacional de la Mujer (SNM). Esta investigación se centra en los vínculos entre el régimen militar de Augusto Pinochet y las ‘voluntarias’ de la SNM, sobre todo aquellas que se desempeñaban en los niveles locales y que eran de extracción media y popular. Se plantea que la relación que estableció el gobierno militar con las mujeres populares a través del ‘voluntariado’ es compatible con ciertos rasgos de los regímenes (neo)populistas, pues existió una movilización de las ‘voluntarias’ en redes, se desarrollaron vínculos de tipo personalista y paternalista entre éstas y el general Pinochet, y se difundió un discurso antipolítica que fue asimilado por las ‘voluntarias’. Sin embargo, estos elementos adoptaron características particulares, en tanto estuvieron cruzados por construcciones sociales e históricas de género que fueron instrumentalizadas por el régimen para hacerlas funcionales a los vínculos populistas, facilitando el arraigo de la doctrina de la guerra contra el marxismo y del mesianismo militar entre las mujeres
Dietary procyanidins selectively modulate intestinal farnesoid X receptor-regulated gene expression to alter enterohepatic bile acid recirculation: elucidation of a novel mechanism to reduce triglyceridemia
Scope: Understanding the molecular basis by which dietary procyanidins modulate triglyceride and cholesterol homeostasis has important implications for the use of natural products in the treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease. Methods: To determine whether modulation of bile acid (BA) homeostasis contributes to the hypotriglyceridemic action of grape seed procyanidin extract (GSPE) we examined the effect on genes regulating BA absorption, transport and synthesis in vitro, in Caco-2 cells, and in vivo, in wild type (C57BL/6) and farnesoid x receptor knockout (Fxr −/− ) mice. Results: We provide novel evidence demonstrating that GSPE is a naturally occurring geneselective bile acid receptor modulator (BARM). Mechanistically, GSPE down-regulates genes involved in intestinal BA absorption and transport in an Fxr-dependent manner, resulting in decreased enterohepatic BA recirculation. This correlates with increased fecal BA output, decreased serum triglyceride and cholesterol levels, increased hepatic cholesterol 7␣-hydroxylase (Cyp7a1), and decreased intestinal fibroblast growth factor 15 (Fgf15) expression. GSPE also increased hepatic HmgCoA reductase (Hmgcr) and synthase (Hmgcs1) expression, while concomitantly decreasing sterol regulatory element-binding protein 1c (Srebp1c). Conclusion: GSPE selectively regulates intestinal Fxr-target gene expression in vivo, and modulation of BA absorption and transport is a critical regulatory point for the consequential hypotriglyceridemic effects of GSPE
Personalizing Cancer Pain Therapy: Insights from the Rational Use of Analgesics (RUA) Group
Introduction: A previous Delphi survey from the Rational Use of Analgesics (RUA) project involving Italian palliative care specialists revealed some discrepancies between current guidelines and clinical practice with a lack of consensus on items regarding the use of strong opioids in treating cancer pain. Those results represented the basis for a new Delphi study addressing a better approach to pain treatment in patients with cancer. Methods: The study consisted of a two-round multidisciplinary Delphi study. Specialists rated their agreement with a set of 17 statements using a 5-point Likert scale (0 = totally disagree and 4 = totally agree). Consensus on a statement was achieved if the median consensus score (MCS) (expressed as value at which at least 50% of participants agreed) was at least 4 and the interquartile range (IQR) was 3–4. Results: This survey included input from 186 palliative care specialists representing all Italian territory. Consensus was reached on seven statements. More than 70% of participants agreed with the use of low dose of strong opioids in moderate pain treatment and valued transdermal route as an effective option when the oral route is not available. There was strong consensus on the importance of knowing opioid pharmacokinetics for therapy personalization and on identifying immediate-release opioids as key for tailoring therapy to patients’ needs. Limited agreement was reached on items regarding breakthrough pain and the management of opioid-induced bowel dysfunction. Conclusion: These findings may assist clinicians in applying clinical evidence to routine care settings and call for a reappraisal of current pain treatment recommendations with the final aim of optimizing the clinical use of strong opioids in patients with cancer
VIGOR: Sviluppo geotermico nelle Regioni della Convergenza
La valutazione del potenziale geotermico.
Quadro normativo e iter autorizzativo per la ricerca e la coltivazione di risorse geotermiche.
Accettabilità sociale della geotermia.
Il caso tipo di Termini Imeres
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