Public Policies of Welfare State and Child Poverty in the European Union

Combating child poverty is desirable to ensure equality of opportunities across children, as well as fostering the sustainability of the societal well-being for future generations. This paper focuses on the study of child poverty in the 28 Member States of the European Union over the period 2008–2018. We analyse the relationship between child poverty and government social expenditure by controlling it with tax structure (ratio direct taxes over indirect taxes), economic growth and socio-demographic characteristics. For that, we rely on panel data methodology. This paper has verified that the effectiveness of the government social spending programmes to reduce child poverty also depends on the progressiveness of the country’s tax structure. Government spending on health and education programmes could be more effective in reducing child poverty in Member States with less progressive tax structure, provided they reached the average level of public spending for the whole of the European Union. By contrast, a positive relationship between child poverty and government social protection spending regardless of the tax structure of countries was found. In this case, the underlying forces that lead to less effectiveness of social protection programmes are also stronger in the less progressive Member States.Junta de Andalucia SEJ-39

Transition zone cells reach G2 phase before initiating elongation in maize root apex

El alargamiento de la raíz requiere divisiones celulares en la zona meristemática y elongación celular en la zona de elongación. El límite entre las células en división y el alargamiento se denomina zona de transición. En la zona de meristemas, las células iniciales se dividen continuamente, pero en el lado basal de las células de meristemas salen del meristema a través de la zona de transición y entran en la zona de elongación, donde detienen la división y se alargan rápidamente. A lo largo de este viaje, las células se acompañan de cambios en la progresión del ciclo celular. El análisis de citometría de flujo mostró que las células meristemáticas están en ciclo, pero salen cuando entran en la zona de elongación. Además, el porcentaje de células en la fase G2 (4C) aumentó fuertemente desde la zona de meristema a la zona de elongación. Sin embargo, no observamos cambios notables en el porcentaje de células en las fases del ciclo celular a lo largo de toda la zona de elongación. Estos resultados sugieren que las células meristemáticas en el ápice de la raíz del maíz detienen el ciclo celular en la fase G2 después de abandonar el meristema.Root elongation requires cell divisions in the meristematic zone and cell elongation in the elongation zone. The boundary between dividing and elongating cells is called the transition zone. In the meristem zone, initial cells are continuously dividing, but on the basal side of the meristem cells exit the meristem through the transition zone and enter in the elongation zone, where they stop division and rapidly elongate. Throughout this journey cells are accompanied by changes in cell cycle progression. Flow cytometry analysis showed that meristematic cells are in cycle, but exit when they enter the elongation zone. In addition, the percentage of cells in G2 phase (4C) strongly increased from the meristem to the elongation zone. However, we did not observe remarkable changes in the percentage of cells in cell cycle phases along the entire elongation zone. These results suggest that meristematic cells in maize root apex stop the cell cycle in G2 phase after leaving the meristem.peerReviewe

Volatiles from Subtropical Convolvulaceae That Interfere with Bacterial Cell-to-Cell Communication as Potential Antipathogenic Drugs

Increasing chronic bacterial infections create an urgent need for new antimicrobial agents or strategies for their control. Targetingvirulence is one of the alternative approaches to find new medicines to treat persistent infections due to bacteria with biofilmphenotypewhich are more resistant to antibiotics than their planktonic counterparts having an extreme capacity for evading the host defences. A bioguided study of sixteen extracts from flowers and leaves of four subtropical Convolvulaceae species provided evidence of the occurrence of antipathogenic natural products active against Gram positive and negative bacteria.Particularly, volatile metabolites from Merremia dissecta creeper, a food and medicinal plant, were able to interfere with the Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing system by a strong decrease of N-acyl homoserine lactone (AHL) biosynthesis (63?75%), which attenuated the virulence factor expression like biofilm (55%) and elastase activity (up to 27%), key factors thatenable the colonization and dissemination of the infection in the host. Control of the P. aeruginosa biofilm and the QS process by phytochemicals, such as (+) spathulenol, isolated from a bioactive extract of M. dissecta leaves would be a good strategy for the development of new and effective antipathogenic drugs.Fil: Luciardi, María Constanza. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Bioquímica, Química y Farmacia. Instituto de Química Orgánica; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tucumán; ArgentinaFil: Pérez Hernández, María Victoria. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Bioquímica, Química y Farmacia. Instituto de Química Orgánica; ArgentinaFil: Muruaga, Nora. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo; ArgentinaFil: Bardon, Alicia del Valle. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tucumán. Instituto de Química del Noroeste. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Bioquímica, Química y Farmacia. Instituto de Química del Noroeste; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Bioquímica, Química y Farmacia. Instituto de Química Orgánica; ArgentinaFil: Arena, Mario Eduardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tucumán. Instituto de Química del Noroeste. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Bioquímica, Química y Farmacia. Instituto de Química del Noroeste; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Bioquímica, Química y Farmacia. Instituto de Química Orgánica; ArgentinaFil: Cartagena, Elena. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Bioquímica, Química y Farmacia. Instituto de Química Orgánica; Argentin

Jesús Ponce Cárdenas, ed., "Literatura y devoción en tiempos de Lope de Vega"

Obra ressenyada: Jesús PONCE CÁRDENAS (ed.), Literatura y devoción en tiempos de Lope de Vega. Madrid-Frankfurt am Main : Iberoamerica-Vervuert, 2019

Análisis de los mensajes publicitarios de la campaña de orientación vocacional del Instituto Idat-Piura-2022

La investigación tuvo como objetivo general analizar los mensajes publicitarios empleados en la campaña de orientación vocacional del Instituto IDAT (Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo de Administración y Tecnología), en ese sentido surgió como problema central ¿Cómo son los mensajes publicitarios de la campaña de orientación vocacional del Instituto IDAT-Piura-2022? Para resolver esta situación se empleó un diseño de investigación cualitativo mediante la observación de dichos elementos (medio impreso, merchandising, video publicitario y exposición del mensaje La muestra empleada fueron el volante informativo, el video publicitario que emplea IDAT, lapicero, pulsera, bolso y llaveros como elementos del merchandising y por último la exposición del mensaje mediante un power point de 23 hojas. La investigación tuvo como resultados que en el volante la información no es ordenada, no se logra transmitir con éxito el mensaje, pero que los recursos gráficos si fueron usados perfectamente, los accesorios de merchandising como llavero, pulsera, lapicero y bolso son elementos llamativos que potencializan la marca, objetivo primordial de toda empresa, en el video publicitario y en la exposición del mensaje se transmite correctamente la información al público objetivo

Presence of Ethical, Aesthetic and Religious Keys in the Creation of Possible Literary Worlds

Literary works have structures that articulate the possible worlds represented in them using ethical, aesthetic, and religious keys -mimeses of these structures in the real effective world- so that the greater or lesser presence of these keys determines whether the work is coherent, plausible, and meaningful for the reader. Literary theories have omitted the study of this section of reality present in the structure of the works and, therefore, in this article we intend to systematise and describe, using the semantic theory of possible worlds, the functioning of these structures in the processes of representation, creation, and reception of a work of fiction. We also provide a proposal for a model of analysis that ratifies the presence of these articulating structures of the fictional world and regulators of the interactions of the possible characters among themselves, with the world they inhabit and with transcendence. With this research we want to confirm the need to include ethical, aesthetic and religious structures within the theory of literature and to offer a rich and fruitful model of analysis

Responsabilidad Social Corporativa, divulgación científica y pymes biotecnológicas. Una propuesta de punto de partida.

The reason most frequently adduced by SMEs to avoid the implementation of CSR programs is their shortage of material resources. In this paper we propose the possibility that biotech SMEs supply the RSC with something they’ve got in abundance, that is, knowledge. Popular science thus becomes the focus of these programs, an affordable resource that can benefit them, and not only in reputation. Our study focuses on 32 SMEs settled in four Technology Parks in Andalusia

Changes in Subjective Well‑Being Over Time: Economic and Social Resources do Matter

The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the Government of Spain through grant ECO2015-63734-P (MINECO/FEDER), the FPU2014/1123 fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Education and the Fortalecimiento Program of the University of Granada (SEJ-340, SEJ-393). Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Granada/CBUA.This article analyzes the main determinants of changes in subjective well-being over time in Germany distinguishing between long-term and short-term changes. Our findings for the long term indicate that social capital and values and cultural dimensions have the greatest capacity to predict changes in subjective well-being. Likewise, the correlation between economic resources and subjective well-being is weaker due to the small increase registered in household income and because people compare their income with those who are better off and feel envy. In the short term, economic resources have the highest capacity to predict both improvements (ups) and declines (downs) in subjective well-being. Finally, we also suggest that, whenever information is available, personality traits should be taken into account in the analysis of changes in subjective well-being over time in order to achieve more reliable estimates.Government of Spain (MINECO/FEDER) ECO2015-63734-PSpanish Government FPU2014/1123Fortalecimiento Program of the University of Granada SEJ-340 SEJ-393Universidad de Granada/CBU