Inmigración y educación para la ciudadanía democrática: una oportunidad para el desarrollo profesional

Describimos ciertas cuestiones que han surgido de los debates sobre nacionalidad, ciudadanía y educación para la ciudadanía y debatimos sobre ellas. Sugerimos que ha habido una tendencia tanto a integrar como a recelar de una educación relacionada con formas nacionales de ciudadanía. Esta imagen confusa nos ha llevado a perder oportunidades en la construcción de formas de educación relacionadas con sociedades multinacionales y multiculturales. Proponemos formas de desarrollo profesional que estarían conectadas con esta caracterización de ciudadanía.We describe and dicuss here certain issues that have been mentioned in the debates related to nationality, citizenship and the Education For Citizenship’ school subject. We suggest that it have been both or tendency to integrate and a tendency to distcust of an education related to national forms of citizenship. This blurred image has led us to loose opportunities in the construction of an education related to multinational and multicultural societies. We propose ways of professional development connected with this characterization of citizenship

Do Multi-Paddock Systems Increase Evenness of Grazing at the Paddock Scale?

There is ongoing debate about the benefits of multi-paddock rotationally grazed systems compared to continuous grazing (Briske et al. 2008). One of the purported benefits of high density short duration grazing is more spatially uniform defoliation. A commercial-scale trial in northern Australia (Hunt et al. 2013) compared continuously grazed paddocks to cell grazed and wet season spelled systems in newly developed paddocks. This paper reports the effect of grazing system on defoliation with distance to water through time

Exploring the dynamics of compliance with community penalties

In this paper, we examine how compliance with community penalties has been theorized hitherto and seek to develop a new dynamic model of compliance with community penalties. This new model is developed by exploring some of the interfaces between existing criminological and socio-legal work on compliance. The first part of the paper examines the possible definitions and dimensions of compliance with community supervision. Secondly, we examine existing work on explanations of compliance with community penalties, supplementing this by drawing on recent socio-legal scholarship on private individuals’ compliance with tax regimes. In the third part of the paper, we propose a dynamic model of compliance, based on the integration of these two related analyses. Finally, we consider some of the implications of our model for policy and practice concerning community penalties, suggesting the need to move beyond approaches which, we argue, suffer from compliance myopia; that is, a short-sighted and narrowly focused view of the issues

Combined mathematical modelling and experimentation to predict polymersome uptake by oral cancer cells

This study is motivated by understanding and controlling the key physical properties underlying internalisation of nano drug delivery. We consider the internalisation of specific nanometre size delivery vehicles, comprised of self-assembling amphiphilic block copolymers, called polymersomes that have the potential to specifically deliver anticancer therapeutics to tumour cells. The possible benefits of targeted polymersome drug delivery include reduced off-target toxic effects in healthy tissue and increased drug uptake by diseased tissue. Through a combination of in vitro experimentation and mathematical modelling, we develop a validated model of nanoparticle uptake by cells via the clathrin-mediated endocytotic pathway, incorporating receptor binding, clustering and recycling. The model predicts how the characteristics of receptor targeting, and the size and concentration of polymersomes alter uptake by tumour cells. The number of receptors per cell was identified as being the dominant mechanism accounting for the difference between cell types in polymersome uptake rate. From the Clinical Editor - This article reports on a validated model developed through a combination of in vitro experimentation and mathematical modeling of nanoparticle uptake by cells via the clathrin-mediated endocytotic pathway. The model incorporates receptor binding, clustering, and recycling and predicts how the characteristics of receptor targeting, the size and concentration alter polymersome uptake by cancer cells

Enseñanza de las ciencias sociales

Resumen basado en el de la publicaciónSe parte de la tendencia tanto a integrar como a recelar de una educación relacionada con formas nacionales de ciudadanía. El considerar las relaciones entre ciudadanía y nacionalidad, así como entre ciudadanía e identidades y acciones globales, permite desarrollar formas válidas de educación para la ciudadanía democrática. La imagen confusa ha llevado a perder oportunidades en la construcción de formas de educación relacionadas con sociedades multinacionales y multiculturales. La investigación propone formas de desarrollo profesional que estén conectadas con esta caracterización de ciudadanía. El texto se divide en tres secciones. En primer lugar, algunas observaciones contextuales sobre la naturaleza de la ciudadanía y los retos a los que se enfrentan los docentes que la imparten. En segundo lugar, examinar detalladamente la naturaleza de las concepciones nacionales de ciudadanía y por último, argumentar lo que estas ideas significan para los programas de desarrollo profesional para los docentes que imparten ciudadanía.ES

Does tougher enforcement lead to lower reconviction?

It is increasingly argued that vigorous enforcement improves probation outcomes and reduces reconviction rates. Based on a recent study of the link between enforcement and reconviction rates, this article argues that vigorous enforcement is not necessarily synonymous with effective enforcement. It also contends that ensuring compliance is at least as important as adherence to National Standards

Investigating Links Between Probation Enforcement and Reconviction

These findings aim to examine how different enforcement strategies affect the reconviction rates of offenders under probation supervision in the community. The main purpose was to explore how reconviction rates vary amongst areas with different patterns of enforcement. For this purpose, data were gathered on 882 offenders drawn from eleven probation areas, five of which had harsher than average responses to non-compliance and six of which were more lenient than average. The findings also explored how reconviction rates vary between offenders exposed to different enforcement strategies