Review of \u3ci\u3eReclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision\u3c/i\u3e Edited by Marie Battiste

The eighteen essays collected in Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision provide, finally and in one volume, a substantive and reasonably comprehensive analysis by the first generation of Indigenous scholars of the present and future role of Indigenous Knowledge and the emerging Indigenous cultural renaissance in the global context of neocolonial Western culture and science. The book springs from an International Summer Institute at the University of Saskatchewan on the cultural restoration of oppressed Indigenous peoples held in 1996 and attended by mostly Indigenous scholars from Canada, the US, India, and New Zealand. This is not yet another book, produced by Western scientists, preoccupied with the current fashion of proving whether Indians were good or bad land stewards-with Western science analyzing Indians and perpetuating the cognitive imperialism and unequal balance of power that have been the principal cause of Indigenous academic marginalization (as in Shepard Krech\u27s The Ecological Indian). As Asha Varadharajan of India notes, the confusion of multiculturism with political correctness, with a mealy-mouthed sop to guilty consciences, has precluded genuine debate .... [Indigenous scholars] do not engage in an empty valorization of subjugated cultures; instead, they restore these cultures to history .... As editor Marie Battiste-a Mi\u27Kmag educator and professor in the Indian and Northern Education Program at the University of Saskatchewan-writes in the Introduction, [the book] urges an agenda of restoration within a multidisciplinary context for human dignity and collective dignity of Indigenous peoples. She has organized the volume around the Medicine Wheel of the Plains tribes, with each of the four directions of the Sacred Circle Wheel providing an interrelated historical episode in the colonization-and the future, postcolonial cultural and epistemological recovery- of Indigenous peoples: mapping colonialism, diagnosing colonialism, healing colonized Indigenous peoples, and visioning the (postcolonial) Indigenous Renaissance. Indigenous scholars from Plains tribes are represented by Leroy Little Bear of the Blood tribe of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Alberta) and former Director of the Native American Program at Harvard University, and by James (Sa\u27Kej\u27) Youngblood Henderson, Cheyenne (Oklahoma), one of the leading tribal philosophers, educators, and strategists of North American Indians. Henderson\u27s four essays provide an incisive and far-reaching critique of European colonialism. Postcolonial Ghost Dancing: Diagnosing European Colonialism revisits the Plains Ghost Dance, explaining this ceremony of the late nineteenth century not in messianic terms but rather as a vision of how to release all the spirits contained in the old ceremonies and rites. The dance released these contained spirits or forces back into the deep caves of Mother Earth, where they would be immune from colonizers\u27 strategies and techniques .... In time, through postcolonial ghost dancing, these forces would foster a new vision of Aboriginal renewal, thus restoring the traditional consciousness and order. In Postcolonial Ledger Drawing: Legal Reform Henderson uses the true account of how the Cheyenne, imprisoned on a reservation in Oklahoma, were given financial ledger books by whites to teach Indians about business accounting; the Cheyenne used the ledger books instead for drawing iconic images of their experiences, ceremonies, and visions. Sa\u27Ke\u27j concludes that Like our ancestors, we need to continue the spirit of ledger drawing on Eurocentric legal texts, explaining why these texts deny our knowledge and heritage and regulate our destiny. We need to dream and realize new visions in the old ways

Sistema Contable en la pequeña empresa “Centro Médico Belén” en el municipio del Cuá, departamento de Jinotega en el I semestre del año 2011

En esta investigación, se realizó un estudio al Sistema Contable de la pequeña empresa Centro Médico Belén en el municipio del Cuá, departamento de Jinotega en el I semestre del año 2011, con el propósito de analizar la base de su funcionamiento a partir de lo que establece la teoría contable. El estudio es de importancia para el Centro Médico porque, determinará los elementos indispensables que deberá integrar a su Sistema Contable para facilitar el registro adecuado de las transacciones y por otro lado, el reconocimiento por parte de sus empleados de las atribuciones y responsabilidades que les corresponde, con lo cual se asegurará una gestión eficiente en el desarrollo de las operaciones que lleva a cabo. De acuerdo a los resultados obtenidos, se pudo evidenciar que actualmente no se encuentra implementado formalmente un Sistema Contable, ya que, la contabilidad está limitada estrictamente al control de los inventarios y los ingresos que se obtienen por la prestación de servicios y la venta de los diferentes productos. Así también, pudo constatarse que carecen de instructivos y manuales que permitan un adecuado ejercicio de las actividades. Se elaboró una propuesta de catálogo de cuentas con su respectivo instructivo, tomando en cuenta la naturaleza de las operaciones que realiza el Centro Médico, así como un manual de funciones, atendiendo a la organización que actualmente presenta, en el que se refleja por medio de fichas ocupacionales una descripción de cada uno de los puestos de trabajo existente

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Gender Unions

My work has always portrayed a personal viewpoint on the complexities of the physical and emotional specifics of male and female gender. The artis~ic evolution of my painted images has traveled a turbulent path from the representational distinction and dialogue between the sexes to a more narrative patriarchal inequality created through historical references. What I now feel is a better balanced, shared, and equal form of gender communication, harmony, and respect. I have found it necessary to peel away the biological sexual differences to reveal a stronger basic, cellular, spiritual, and emotional commonality. Reproduction and gender hierarchy have become strong visual elements in my painting and installation. Male and female reproductive symbolism are equally important for each other with no dominant or subordinate role playing. I want my artwork to address all these issues to reveal the energy and emotion they entail. I utilize these elements for I believe they add to the wellbeing of not just myself but everyone. I truly believe it necessary for the post-modern artist to form a strong, personal, visual vocabulary and dwell less on the self. My images are intended to cross genders, races, cultures, classes, and religious beliefs. This enables me to look outward yet search the heart for answers. &nbsp;</p

Generacion de indices de calidad, basados en analisis multicriterio para el laboratorio de ESSAM S.A.

60 p.La memoria consiste en la generación de índices de calidad utilizando análisis multicriterio y control de calidad estadístico para el laboratorio de ESSAM S.A., ubicado en la planta San Luis de la cuidad de Talca. Estos índices de calidad son calculados basándose en las mediciones registradas para cada uno de los equipos, instrumental, medios de cultivo, reactivos, materiales, calidad ambiental (condiciones de la habitación donde se realizan dichas mediciones), existentes en el Laboratorio

Oligomerization of Heme o Synthase in Cytochrome Oxidase Biogenesis Is Mediated by Cytochrome Oxidase Assembly Factor Coa2

The synthesis of the heme a cofactor used in cytochrome c oxidase (CcO) is dependent on the sequential action of heme o synthase (Cox10) and heme a synthase (Cox15). The active state of Cox10 appears to be a homo-oligomeric complex,andformation of this complex is dependent on the newly synthesized CcO subunit Cox1 and the presence of an early Cox1 assembly intermediate. Cox10 multimerization is triggered by progression of Cox1 from the early assembly intermediate todownstreamintermediates.The CcOassembly factor Coa2 appears important in coupling the presence of newly synthesized Cox1 to Cox10 oligomerization. Cells lacking Coa2 are impaired in Cox10 complex formation as well as the formation of a high mass Cox15 complex. Increasing Cox1 synthesis in coa2∆cells restores respiratory function if Cox10 protein levels are elevated.TheC-terminalsegmentofCox1is important in triggering Cox10 oligomerization. Expression of the C-terminal 54 residues of Cox1 appended to a heterologous matrix protein leads to efficient Cox10 complex formation in coa2∆ cells, but it fails to induce Cox15 complex formation. The state of Cox10 was evaluated in mutants, which predispose human patients to CcO deficiency and the neurological disorder Leigh syndrome. The presence of theD336Vmutation in the yeast Cox10 backbone results in a catalytically inactive enzyme that is fully competent to oligomerize. Thus, Cox10 oligomerization and catalytic activation are separate processes and can be uncoupled