BDÁFRICA: diseño e implementación de una base de datos de la literatura postcolonial africana publicada en España

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Guideline for constructing nutrient balance in historical agricultural systemes (and its application to three case-studies in southern Spain)

The purpose of this paper is to provide interested researchers with a simple tool to evaluate the efficacy of different methods of fertility replenishment that have accompanied and made possible the contemporary agriculture. We propose a nutrient balance model created especially to be applied to the past. In the first part of this working paper each term in the balance is defined and specified the information the user must input into the model. The second part of this paper reports on the application of this methodology based on the balances of nutrients to the evolution of Andalusian agriculture since the mid 18th Century. The nutrient balances show the effects of agrarian growth in an environmentally limited context, offering reasonable doubt regarding the medium and long-term stability of certain forms of cultivation. The balances show that in the last decades of the 19th Century, productive intensification had reached its ceiling, with livestock numbers levelling off or clearly declining. The deficits of nutrients even began to exceed the fertilisation capacity of the available livestock. The intensification applied in unfertilised rotations and crops had to be sustained through the extraction of soil reserves.Soil fertility management, Nutrient balances, Past organic agricultures, Agrarian growth, Socio-ecological transition, Agricultural change

Rendimiento, motivación y satisfacción académica, ¿una relación de tres?

La literatura nos muestra que la motivación, el rendimiento y la satisfacción son variables con una estrecha correlación que ha sido explicada por diversas teorías y modelos del aprendizaje desarrollados desde los años 80. El objetivo de este trabajo fue realizar un estudio correlacional sobre la motivación, el rendimiento y la satisfacción académica de estudiantes de la Universidad de Granada. Se utilizó una muestra de 33 estudiantes con edad entre los 18 y 24 años. De esta forma, se analizó la relación existente entre motivación y rendimiento y entre éste último y la satisfacción. Para medir el rendimiento se utilizaron dos vías, la nota media y los estilos de aprendizaje. Además se estudió la posibilidad de que hubiera diferencias en satisfacción en función de la elección voluntaria o impuesta del grado cursado. Los resultados mostraron que el rendimiento medido a través de la nota media se relaciona de forma positiva con la motivación y con la satisfacción

Dynamics of mammary infections in organic dairy farms in Northern Spain

The objective of this paper is to evaluate the microbiological state and the dynamics of the mammary infections of organic farms in North Spain to discover if the high somatic cell count (SCC) observed in these farms is associated to a high incidence of mastitis. Microbiological cultures and SCC were performed in 8,496 foremilk samples collected from 160 cows in five representative organic farms from February 2006 to January 2008. Even though 79.3% of cultures were positive, only 21.2% of the total fit our diagnosis of mastitis (clinical, subclinical and chronic). The great prevalence of Corynebacterium bovis (teat canal-region pathogen) in the positive cultures that did not fit the mastitis diagnosis criteria (nearly 70%) compared with those that did (27%) was found to be related to lack of post-milking teat disinfection. The study prevalence of mastitis was 69.2% (66.7% subclinical mastitis, 27.8% clinical mastitis); the mean monthly prevalence was 47.4%; the mean monthly incidence was 12.9% and the mean duration of infection was 3.84 ± 3.98 months The high SCC in foremilk samples from old cows (three or more lactations) not diagnosed as mastitis compared to the heifers, reflects a worsening health status of the animals over time. When compared with the conventional sector in Northern Spain, these parameters indicate a poorer udder health in the studied organic herds with a high presence of chronic subclinical processesINIA (Ref. RTA2006-00132-C02-01)S

Guideline for constructing nutrient balance in historical agricultural systems (and its application to three case-studies in southern Spain)

The purpose of this paper is to provide interested researchers with a simple tool to evaluate the efficacy of different methods of fertility replenishment that have accompanied and made possible the contemporary agriculture. We propose a nutrient balance model created especially to be applied to the past. In the first part of this working paper each term in the balance is defined and specified the information the user must input into the model. The second part of this paper reports on the application of this methodology based on the balances of nutrients to the evolution of Andalusian agriculture since the mid 18th Century. The nutrient balances show the effects of agrarian growth in an environmentally limited context, offering reasonable doubt regarding the medium and long-term stability of certain forms of cultivation. The balances show that in the last decades of the 19th Century, productive intensification had reached its ceiling, with livestock numbers levelling off or clearly declining. The deficits of nutrients even began to exceed the fertilisation capacity of the available livestock. The intensification applied in unfertilised rotations and crops had to be sustained through the extraction of soil reserves

Decalogue of the Characteristics of Postcolonial Literature: A Proposal of a Taxonomy for Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature Studies

© 2021 The Authors. Published by CSIC editorial. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.3989/revliteratura.2021.01.001El objetivo de este artículo es ofrecer una propuesta de clasificación de los rasgos presentes, en mayor o menor medida, en la literatura poscolonial en cualquier idioma. A pesar de que esta taxonomía toma como punto de partida definiciones teóricas previas de los conceptos clave relacionados con la literatura poscolonial (Edwards 2008, Nayar 2008 y Ramone 2011), parece ser la primera clasificación formal que se ha elaborado al respecto. De este modo, se analizan conceptos consolidados a la par que presenta la nueva noción de plasticidad de géneros literarios y explora las corrientes actuales en la investigación de la interseccionalidad. Como resultado, proporcionaremos un decálogo de características de la literatura poscolonial que favorecerá la crítica literaria y los estudios de literatura comparada.Published onlin

Crossing the border between postcolonial reality and the ‘outer world’: Translation and representation of the third space into a fourth space

Stemming from poststructuralist interpretations of space and following Bhabha’s third space enunciation, in this paper we have coined the term fourth space and used this concept as a heuristic tool to address the need to establish a coherent standpoint for the analysis of postcolonial literature reception within a society with no immediate relation to the specific decolonisation process of the author’s country. We explore this concept through the case of the Spanish reception of African postcolonial literature. In Spain, this perspective has remained under-theorised in an era when representation of hybridity is at a vital point, since such representation will provide the social scaffolding for each person’s identity construction. Under these circumstances, literature can be transformative and the role of translation as a decolonising tool can help to create unbiased knowledge through an ethical interpretation of the original texts. We will analyse how those differentiating elements affect the translational process.Published onlin

Evaluación de los factores motivacionales en la práctica del Pole Sport : validación preliminar

El presente trabajo se propone dar respuesta a los principales motivos que llevan a los deportistas a practicar Pole Sport con el objetivo de mejorar la gestión de los centros deportivos donde se practica el mismo. Se utilizó como herramienta la Escala de Medida de los Motivos para la Actividad Física-Revisada (MPAM-R) de Celis-Merchán (2006), que mide los motivos de práctica deportiva en cinco dimensiones y consta de 30 ítems (Likert 1 al 7). Mediante la plataforma on-line Survio se difundió el cuestionario a los participantes procedentes de una academia que opera a nivel regional en la Comunidad de Andalucía, obteniéndose respuesta de 85 usuarios de los que 80 fueron mujeres y 5 hombres. Se empleó el software estadístico SPSS 22.0 para el análisis descriptivo de los datos, el análisis factorial exploratorio y de fiabilidad. Los resultados obtenidos mostraron que el "disfrute" es el principal factor motivacional para la práctica de Pole Sport, obteniendo una pertinencia adecuada del análisis factorial, así como una estructura claramente definida.The present work aims to respond to the main reasons that lead athletes to Pole Sport practice with the objective of improving the management of sports centers where it is practiced. In order to respond to the research problem, the Scale of Measurement of Reasons for Physical Activity-Revised (MPAM-R) by Celis-Merchán (2006) was used. This scale has 30 items (Likert 1 to 7) and measures the reasons of sports practice in five dimensions. Through the Survio online software, the questionnaire was distributed to 85 athletes, of whom 80 were women and five men. For the descriptive analysis of the data, exploratory factorial, and reliability, the statistical program SPSS 22.0 was used. The results obtained showed that the "enjoyment" was the main motivational factor for the practice of Pole Sport, which agree with the results obtained by Frederick and Schuster (2003)

Evaluation of motivational factors in the practice of pole sport: preliminary validation

El presente trabajo se propone dar respuesta a los principales motivos que llevan a los deportistas a practicar Pole Sport con el objetivo de mejorar la gestión de los centros deportivos donde se practica el mismo. Se utilizó como herramienta la Escala de Medida de los Motivos para la Actividad Física-Revisada (MPAM-R) de Celis-Merchán (2006), que mide los motivos de práctica deportiva en cinco dimensiones y consta de 30 ítems (Likert 1 al 7). Mediante la plataforma on-line Survio se difundió el cuestionario a los participantes procedentes de una academia que opera a nivel regional en la Comunidad de Andalucía, obteniéndose respuestade 85 usuarios de los que 80 fueron mujeres y 5hombres. Se empleó el software estadístico SPSS 22.0 para el análisis descriptivo de los datos, el análisis factorial exploratorio y de fiabilidad. Los resultados obtenidos mostraron que el “disfrute” es el principal factor motivacional para la práctica de Pole Sport, obteniendo una pertinencia adecuada del análisis factorial, así como una estructura claramente definida

Investigar e innovar para cambiar. Una apuesta necesaria en la docencia universitaria

Este trabajo que se presenta, pretende ofrecer una herramienta de consulta para el profesorado universitario, desarrollada a través de experiencias prácticas de un grupo de profesores del Departamento de Didáctica y Organización Escolar, pertenecientes a la Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación y del Deporte de la universidad de Granada, en el Campus de Melilla. Dicho trabajo se estructura en tres bloques temáticos: metodologías innovadoras de enseñanza-aprendizaje aplicadas en educación superior, experiencias sobre prácticas externas e investigaciones acerca de la dimensión social que se actualmente se exige a la institución universitaria.This work aims to provide a reference tool for university teachers, developed through the practical experiences of a group of teachers from the Department of Didactics and School Organisation, belonging to the Faculty of Education and Sport Sciences at the University of Granada, Melilla campus. This work is structured in three thematic blocks: innovative teaching-learning methodologies applied in higher education, experiences on external practices and research on the social dimension that is currently required of the university institution