Geography of the Sephardic exile in "La lozana andaluza "

Este trabajo trata de los elementos autobiográficos presentes en el Retrato de "La Lozana andaluza" de Francisco Delicado. Delicado se convirtió al cristianismo y se hizo sacerdote, aun así siguió a los judíos a su exilio en Italia, convivió con ellos en Roma y tras el Saqueo de Roma en 1527, se volvió a encontrar entre los sefarditas en Venecia. Francisco Delicado localiza su historia en los lugares donde habitaron los judíos sefarditas y nos lega un autorretrato cifrado en "La lozana andaluza".This paper deals with the autobiographical elements present in "The portrait of the Lusty Andalusian Woman" by the Spanish writer Francisco Delicado. Francisco Delicado became a converso and a priest during the time of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, however he followed the exiled Jews to Italy, lived with them in Rome and left Rome after the Sac of Rome in 1527 to find himself again with the Sephardim in Venice. Francisco Delicado sets his story in the places where there were Spanish Jews and left an encrypted self portrait in his creation of "La lozana andaluza".peerReviewe

Quality of Reporting and Adherence to ARRIVE Guidelines in Animal Studies for Chagas Disease Preclinical Drug Research: A Systematic Review

Publication of accurate and detailed descriptions of methods in research articles involving animals is essential for health scientists to accurately interpret published data, evaluate results and replicate findings. Inadequate reporting of key aspects of experimental design may reduce the impact of studies and could act as a barrier to translation of research findings. Reporting of animal use must be as comprehensive as possible in order to take advantage of every study and every animal used. Animal models are essential to understanding and assessing new chemotherapy candidates for Chagas disease pathology, a widespread parasitic disease with few treatment options currently available. A systematic review was carried out to compare ARRIVE guidelines recommendations with information provided in publications of preclinical studies for new anti-Trypanosoma cruzi compounds. A total of 83 publications were reviewed. Before ARRIVE guidelines, 69% of publications failed to report any macroenvironment information, compared to 57% after ARRIVE publication. Similar proportions were observed when evaluating reporting of microenvironmental information (56% vs. 61%). Also, before ARRIVE guidelines publication, only 13% of papers described animal gender, only 18% specified microbiological status and 13% reported randomized treatment assignment, among other essential information missing or incomplete. Unfortunately, publication of ARRIVE guidelines did not seem to enhance reporting quality, compared to papers appeared before ARRIVE publication. Our results suggest that there is a strong need for the scientific community to improve animal use description, animal models employed, transparent reporting and experiment design to facilitate its transfer and application to the affected human population. Full compliance with ARRIVE guidelines, or similar animal research reporting guidelines, would be an excellent start in this direction.Fil: Gulin, Julián Ernesto Nicolás. Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Hospital General de Niños ; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Rocco, Daniela Marisa. Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Hospital General de Niños ; Argentina. Ministerio de Ciencia. Tecnología e Innovación Productiva. Agencia Nacional de Promoción Cientifíca y Tecnológica; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: García Bournissen, Facundo. Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Hospital General de Niños ; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin

Food public markets as cultural capital: Girona province

The role of public market halls in European cities has been analysed from several perspectives: as specific places for feeding the city; as public services; as the first public places built specifically for women; as places to control health and taxes on food; as places where the urban-rural relationship can be articulated; as places to control citizens’ behaviour, or as places providing local trade within a structure. There are fewer studies exploring public food markets as cultural and social capital with a view to improving the local and new-endogenous economy, an economy which not only involves the environment, but also the sociality linked to the tradition of food production. Research on public markets in small provincial towns is scarce, particularly the role they play in maintaining the urban-rural relationship by providing a local food supply, and also in constructing the rural landscape. This case study concerns the province of Girona and its nine public markets halls. The aim of the study is to explore their role as a public service within the territory and the agricultural landscape, the communication system, the local gastronomic culture and economic culture, this apparently being more resilient and stable than the economy of scale

Does grade retention affect achievement? Some evidence from PISA

Grade retention practices are at the forefront of the educational debate. In this paper, we use PISA 2009 data for Spain to measure the effect of grade retention on students achievement. One important problem when analyzing this question is that school outcomes and the propensity to repeat a grade are likely to be determined simultaneously. We address this problem by estimating a Switching Regression Model. We …find that grade retention has a negative impact on educational outcomes, but we confi…rm the importance of endogenous selection, which makes observed differences between repeaters and non-repeaters appear 14.6% lower than they actually are. The effect on PISA scores of repeating is much smaller (-10% of non-repeaters average) than the counterfactual reduction that non-repeaters would suffer had they been retained as repeaters (-24% of their average). Furthermore, those who repeated a grade during primary education suffered more than those who repeated a grade of secondary school, although the effect of repeating at both times is, as expected, much larger.Grade retention, educational scores, PISA

Moral Cleansing and Moral Licenses: experimental evidence

Research on moral cleansing and moral self-licensing has introduced dynamic considerations in the theory of moral behavior. Past bad actions trigger negative feelings that make people more likely to engage in future moral behavior to offset them. Symmetrically, past good deeds favor a positive self-perception that creates licensing effects, leading people to engage in behavior that is less likely to be moral. In short, a deviation from a “normal state of being” is balanced with a subsequent action that compensates the prior behavior. We model the decision of an individual trying to reach the optimal level of moral self-worth over time and show that under certain conditions the optimal sequence of actions follows a regular pattern which combines good and bad actions. We conduct an economic experiment where subjects play a sequence of giving decisions (dictator games) to explore this phenomenon. We find that donation in the previous period affects present decisions and the sign is negative: participants’ behavior in every round is negatively correlated to what they did in the past. Hence donations over time seem to be the result of a regular pattern of self-regulation: moral licensing (being selfish after altruist) and cleansing (altruistic after selfish).

Does grade retention affect achievement? Some evidence from Pisa

Grade retention practices are at the forefront of the educational debate. In this paper, we use PISA 2009 data for Spain to measure the effect of grade retention on students’achievement. One important problem when analyzing this question is that school outcomes and the propensity to repeat a grade are likely to be determined simultaneously. We address this problem by estimating a Switching Regression Model. We find that grade retention has a negative impact on educational outcomes, but we confirm the importance of endogenous selection, which makes observed differences between repeaters and non-repeaters appear 14.6% lower than they actually are. The effect on PISA scores of repeating is much smaller (-10% of non-repeaters’average) than the counterfactual reduction that non-repeaters would suffer had they been retained as repeaters (-24% of their average). Furthermore, those who repeated a grade during primary education suffered more than those who repeated a grade of secondary school, although the effect of repeating at both times is, as expected, much larger.Grade retention, educational scores, PISA

Gelatin films dendronized selectively on one side

Se llevó a cabo el diseño de un nuevo material, a partir de gelatina entrecruzada y modificada superficialmente con moléculas dendríticas. Se sintetizaron films de gelatina entrecruzados con genipín y/o Cerio(III), siguiendo una metodología coldcasting film. La estructura y propiedades de los films sintetizados se analizaron por ATR-FTIR, propiedades mecánicas, índice de hinchamiento y permeabilidad al vapor de agua (WVP), observándose que los filma entrecruzados poseen mejores propiedades mecánicas y menor característica hidrofílica. El sistema gelatina/cerio(III)/genipín presentó las mejores propiedades. El film fue dendronizado con weisocianato (dendrón comercial), sobre una sola de las caras. La metodología desarrollada permitió obtener un biomaterial novedoso con buenas propiedades, donde una de las caras presenta las características multivalentes propias de estructuras dendríticas.To perform a material with potential biomedicals aplications, a novel gelatin films was prepared by cold-casting method using cerium (III) and genipin solution as crosslinking agents, and surface modified with dendritic molecules. The structure and properties of the synthesized gelatin films were investigated by ATR-FTIR, mechanicals tests, swelling behavior and water vapor permeability (WVP). The results showed that crosslinking could improve the mechanical properties and lower the hydrophilic property of the gelatin films; additionally, the system gelatin/cerium(III)/genipin film showed the best properties, so was prepared a one-surface modified film with weysocianate (commercial dendron) from this. The results showed that experimental methodology performed allows the one-surface modification, so was obtained a novel biomaterial as film form with good properties and dendritic structure in one face (hydrophobic and hydrophilic faces) that gives a multivalent structure useful in biomedicine development.Fil: García Schejtman, Sergio David. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal; ArgentinaFil: Martinelli, Marisa. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal; Argentin

Los inicios del Instituto Balseiro: sus ideales de ciencia y formación científica

El presente trabajo indaga algunos aspectos de los ideales de ciencia y formación científica promovidos por Gaviola implícitos en el IFB -actualmente IB - con el propósito de dar cuenta del impacto de los mismos en el desarrollo de la física nacional así como en la consolidación del CAB en tanto comunidad científica

Las empresas de inserción en España: normativa y características

The current situation of the sector is the result of a long process. It began with the first business initiatives concerning social integration and the different regulations developed by regional governments in support of social enterprises. There have been continual demands in the sector for state-level regulations, with a Draft Bill to regulate work integration social enterprises that will probably be presented before the end of the year. This prospect paves the way for a new era in which different lines of work will be aimed at consolidating the sector, with demands for further measures in addition to the new Law to facilitate this consolidation.Work integration social enterprises, social exclusion, regional legislation, public aid, legislative framework, requirements.

Latinoamérica según Latinoamérica

Partiendo de una observación sobre el escenario actual que protagoniza Latinoamérica, en contraste con su pasado, el escrito intenta exponer la trascendencia que alcanzan los imaginarios sociales en la construcción de la identidad cultural, y cómo durante décadas estos imaginarios fueron vulnerados por la intervención de modelos ajenos. En igual sentido, el abordaje revela las derivaciones del indivisible vínculo entre los mediosde comunicación y los imaginarios sociales, que retumban en la proyección de arquetipos y relatos de mundos posibles para la región.Based on an observation on the current scene starring Latin America, in contrast to its past, the article tries to explain the significance reached by social imaginaries in the construction of cultural identity, and how these imaginary were violated by the intervention of foreign models. Likewise, the approach reveals the derivations of indivisible link between media and social images that resonate in the projection of archetypes and stories of possible worlds for the region.Partindo de uma observação sobre o panorama atual que protagoniza Latinoamérica, em constante com seu passado, o escrito intenta expor a transcendência que alcançam os imaginários sociais na construção da identidade cultural, e como durante décadas estes imaginários foram vulnerados por a intervenção de modelos alheios. Em igual sentido, a abordagem revela as derivações do indivisível vínculo entre os meios de comunicação e os imaginários sociais, que retumbam na projeção de arquétipos e relatos de mundos possíveis para a região