Performing Identities in Scotland: Liz Lochhead’s Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off

[Abstract] It has been argued that Scottish culture has experienced a “Second Renaissance” in the last two decades, which has been identified with the works of Alasdair Gray, James Kelman, Jackie Kay, Janice Galloway or A. L. Kennedy. Liz Lochhead’s Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off is one of the most controversial texts of the period, because of its irreverent interrogation of Scotland’s past and its criticism of its present asymmetries. The aim of this paper is to analyse the subversive portrayal of Scottish tradition in the play, considering its emphasis on the performative nature of identities, as well as its examination of the transmission of values from one generation to another. Special attention will be given to the political side of the text and the strategies employed by the author to reflect on gender issues, England’s cultural colonialism over the nation or the resistance to accept difference in 1980’s Scotland. It will also be analysed how Lochhead manipulates the representation of Scotland’s past taking the last queen of Scotland as a symbol of the transformation undergone by all national signs, and the connections between the ideas expressed in the play and postmodern theories on nationalism

La negociación de la diferencia étnica en la literatura escocesa contemporánea

In the last three decades, Scottish writers have been engaged in the demarcation of a cultural and political detachment from English models. Since the 1970s, the works of Alasdair Gray, James Kelman or Liz Lochhead have been identified with a "second renaissance" of Scottish culture that reacted against the impositions of Britain's ideological centre, where Scottish voices were not represented. At the same time, some Scottish "ex-centric" voices were starting to become visible in the arts, revealing the complexities of their partial participation in the culture of Scotland. The aim of this paper is to analyse the negotiation of the Scottish national identity in the works of the Afro-Scottish writers Jackie Kay and Maud Sulter, focusing on their exploration of ethnic and sexual difference

Impacto emocional y social en una persona tras una laringectomía

La realización de este estudio se basa en la necesidad que existe de conocer de una forma directa cómo influye una laringectomía total en la calidad de vida de una persona y si esta se ve influenciada por la percepción que el propio sujeto tiene de su voz. Además en este estudio se pretende abarcar los aspectos que una intervención logopédica ha de tener en cuenta cuando trata con personas que han sido sometidas a una laringectomía total. La revisión bibliográfica concluye que los pacientes laringectomizados son menos vulnerables al padecimiento de alteraciones emocionales que lleguen a alcanzar relevancia clínica en comparación con la población normal o con otros tipos de cánceres. (Blanco-Piñero et al., 2014). Por otro lado se encuentran diferencias en la calidad de vida de los pacientes según el aspecto al que se hace mención, siendo el trabajo y la vida social familiar los apartados más afectados. El papel del logopeda en estos casos debe tener en cuenta la calidad de vida de cada persona en particular, proporcionándole apoyo y realizando una intervención conforme a sus necesidades.Grado en Logopedi

The Rhythms of the City: The performance of Time and Space in Suhayl Saadi’s Psychoraag

This article concentrates on Suhayl Saadi’s novel Psychoraag, which is analysed in the light of urban space theory, paying special attention to Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis. It contextualizes the text within the emergence of postcolonial writing in post-devolution Scotland. It focuses on the articulation of the consumption, production, and performance of the rhythms of the city by its protagonist, whose corporeal and metaphysical exploration of space and time will be alleged to mirror the analytical standpoint termed by Lefebvre as “rhythmanalyst”; namely, to represent a subject who enquires into the social, emotional, and biological rhythms of everyday life, as developed in his work. It will be argued that the novel in fact has two protagonists. One is Glasgow and its social body, which is clearly polyrhythmic, if experiencing constant states of arrhythmia. The other one is Zaf, a young Pakistani-Glaswegian, who challenges the normativity of Glasgow’s polyrhythms by intentionally creating individual, multi-layered states of disorder and interference. Lefebvre’s classification of rhythms into “secret”, “public”, and “dominating–dominated” will be used to revise the portrayal of personal and social exchanges: intergenerational relations, interethnic affection, and the negotiation of new masculinities in the framework of a deregularized environment.</jats:p

Political Elites in the Chilean legislative Branch: The Chamber of Deputies (1990-2014)

Este art&iacute;culo analiza la composici&oacute;n social de las &eacute;lites pol&iacute;ticas en el poder legislativo chileno, espec&iacute;ficamente en la C&aacute;mara de Diputados entre 1990 y 2014. Se analizan las caracter&iacute;sticas personales y las tasas de reelecci&oacute;n de los diputados del per&iacute;odo (n = 720). Adem&aacute;s se mide el grado de homogeneidad del trasfondo educacional de cada legislatura, lo que se complementa con modelos de interdependencia, espec&iacute;ficamente an&aacute;lisis de cl&uacute;ster con un algoritmo de agrupamiento no jer&aacute;rquico, y an&aacute;lisis de redes sociales. Los hallazgos sugieren que la composici&oacute;n social de cada legislatura es m&aacute;s homog&eacute;nea/densa mientras mayor cercan&iacute;a existe con el per&iacute;odo de transici&oacute;n democr&aacute;tica. A pesar de que se verifica una elitizaci&oacute;n sociocultural de los diputados, aquello no implica, en t&eacute;rminos generales, mayor concentraci&oacute;n o densidad en las legislaturas de la postransici&oacute;n.This article analyses the social composition of political elites in the Chilean legislative branch, specifically in the Chamber of Deputies between 1990 and 2015. The personal characteristics and re-election rates of deputies in that period (n&nbsp;= 720) are analysed. The degree of homogeneity in educational background for each legislature is complemented with interdependence models, specifically cluster analysis with a non-hierarchical grouping algorithm, as well as social network analysis. The findings suggest that the closer a legislative period is to the democratic transition, the more homogeneous/dense its social composition. Despite the confirmation of the sociocultural elitization of deputies, this does not imply, generally speaking, greater concentration of density in the post-transitional legislatures.&nbsp

Orxata Sound System. Música glocal, libre, colectiva y cooperativa / Orxata Sound System. Glocal, free, collective and cooperative music

Orxata Sound System is a musical collective from l?Horta (Valencian Country) that was founded in 2003 and was dissolved indefinitely in 2014. Its existence has marked a before and after in the Catalan musical scene, not only because of its style, but also because it was a pioneer in the use of new technologies to create, produce and distribute its music as well as (auto) manage and communicate with the public in an eminently horizontal way. This article will observe the musical trajectory of Orxata Sound System with special emphasis, on the one hand, on the artistic exploitation that developed from the hybridization of two apparently contradictory elements; on the other hand, we will focus on the cooperative strategies in musical creativity. Keywords: collective culture, activism, catalan music, Cultural Studies, Valenci

Propuesta de estrategias de mejoras en el servicio de atención al cliente en el restaurante el Ranchón, ubicado en el municipio de San Marcos, Departamento de Carazo, durante el II semestre del año 2016

El restaurante el ranchón ubicado en el municipio de San Marcos, departamento de Carazo se dedica a ofrecer alimentos y bebidas, con un menú de comida a la carta y platillos mexicanos. Iniciando con los aspectos generales del restaurante, se presenta un diagnóstico de los procesos del servicio de atención al cliente que este brinda, en cuanto a las áreas que se ven involucradas en el mismo, como compra, cocina, caja y área de mesa. Luego se especifican los costos de calidad y no calidad de los procesos, que se calcularon en base a la información obtenida y facilitada por el administrador del negocio. Así mismo se presenta un diagrama de Ishikawa con el fin de determinar de una manera más comprensiva, el problema del servicio de atención al cliente se genera, mediante la información obtenida por medio de la voz del cliente, donde también se utiliza grafica de Pareto, para visualizar de forma más ordenada las causas o sub-problemáticas que se originan. Se propone un plan de mejora continua con un costo de C$10,912 anual, aplicable para resolver las problemáticas del restaurante, con el objetivo de mejor la calidad del servicio y aumentar la satisfacción del cliente, definiendo estrategias correctivas, tácticas a retomar, actividades a realizar, tiempo estimado de ejecución y responsable de las mismas. También se adjuntan anexos que respaldan la información y cálculos realizados durante todo el trabajo

Ganglion-specific splicing of TRPV1 underlies infrared sensation in vampire bats.

Vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) are obligate blood feeders that have evolved specialized systems to suit their sanguinary lifestyle. Chief among such adaptations is the ability to detect infrared radiation as a means of locating hotspots on warm-blooded prey. Among vertebrates, only vampire bats, boas, pythons and pit vipers are capable of detecting infrared radiation. In each case, infrared signals are detected by trigeminal nerve fibres that innervate specialized pit organs on the animal's face. Thus, vampire bats and snakes have taken thermosensation to the extreme by developing specialized systems for detecting infrared radiation. As such, these creatures provide a window into the molecular and genetic mechanisms underlying evolutionary tuning of thermoreceptors in a species-specific or cell-type-specific manner. Previously, we have shown that snakes co-opt a non-heat-sensitive channel, vertebrate TRPA1 (transient receptor potential cation channel A1), to produce an infrared detector. Here we show that vampire bats tune a channel that is already heat-sensitive, TRPV1, by lowering its thermal activation threshold to about 30 °C. This is achieved through alternative splicing of TRPV1 transcripts to produce a channel with a truncated carboxy-terminal cytoplasmic domain. These splicing events occur exclusively in trigeminal ganglia, and not in dorsal root ganglia, thereby maintaining a role for TRPV1 as a detector of noxious heat in somatic afferents. This reflects a unique organization of the bat Trpv1 gene that we show to be characteristic of Laurasiatheria mammals (cows, dogs and moles), supporting a close phylogenetic relationship with bats. These findings reveal a novel molecular mechanism for physiological tuning of thermosensory nerve fibres