The "Cognitive Turn": A Short Guide for Nervous Drivers.

In this brief primer on the emergent field of cognitive literary criticism, I aim to offer a tentative outline of its more representative lines of research after roughly twenty to twenty five years of activity. One of my main concerns will be to attend to some of the main objections that the field has been charged with in its short life, and to highlight the ways in which cognitive critics have addressed such objections. After a brief sketch of the main fields of activity, I will consider some of the possible future directions, with a focus on the different ways in which cognitive critics have embraced enactive approach-es to embodied and embedded cognition

La huella griega en el Senado de los EE.UU.

Se estudian los referentes griegos que pueden rastrearse en la articulación de la cámara alta del poder legislativo de Estados Unidos. El número de representantes, el criterio de selección de los delegados, las competencias otorgadas al órgano senatorial y el salario estipulado permiten comprobar una profunda y deliberada selección de modelos procedentes del escenario político griegoUniversidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Failure mode identification and end of life scenarios of offshore wind turbines: a review

In 2007, the EU established challenging goals for all Member States with the aim of obtaining 20% of their energy consumption from renewables, and offshore wind is expected to be among the renewable energy sources contributing highly towards achieving this target. Currently wind turbines are designed for a 25-year service life with the possibility of operational extension. Extending their efficient operation and increasing the overall electricity production will significantly increase the return on investment (ROI) and decrease the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE), considering that Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) will be distributed over a larger production output. The aim of this paper is to perform a detailed failure mode identification throughout the service life of offshore wind turbines and review the three most relevant end of life (EOL) scenarios: life extension, repowering and decommissioning. Life extension is considered the most desirable EOL scenario due to its profitability. It is believed that combining good inspection, operations and maintenance (O&M) strategies with the most up to date structural health monitoring and condition monitoring systems for detecting previously identified failure modes, will make life extension feasible. Nevertheless, for the cases where it is not feasible, other options such as repowering or decommissioning must be explored

The Impact of Banking Crises on Money Demand and Price Stability

This paper empirically investigates the monetary impact of banking crises in Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, and Uruguay during 1975-98. Cointegration analysis and error correction modeling are used to research two issues: (i) whether money demand stability is threatened by banking crises; and (ii) whether crises lead to structural breaks in the relation between monetary indicators and prices. Overall, no systematic evidence that banking crises cause money demand instability is found. However, the results on price stability are mixed; for three out of the seven countries, there appears to be evidence of instability. . Copyright 2002, International Monetary Fund

Razón y Racionalidad. Una Dialéctica de la Modernidad

En este trabajo se discute acerca de la distinción entre razón y racionalidad, pues se le ha colmado con prejuicios, imaginarios y mitos. Sin embargo, la comprensión del concepto de racionalidad lleva a la interpretación moderna del mundo y debido a la conexión entre teoría de la racionalidad y de la modernidad se puede construir una teoría de la sociedad. Para el análisis se recuperan aquellos autores que han enfatizado la ponencia crítica de la razón, para cuestionar como plantea Habermas las aporías de la razón y reivindicar el proyecto emancipador de la propia razón, rescatar el mundo de la vida de la racionalidad instrumental para crear la posibilidad de una sociedad verdaderamente humana

La dialéctica de la calidad universitaria en las políticas de modernización para la educación

El artículo analiza las políticas públicas para la educación superior a partir de las contradicciones y características de los modos de producción material, las transformaciones de las estrategias de acumulación, las crisis y el cambio en las relaciones entre la esfera de lo privado y de lo público. Así, el problema de la calidad de la educación se descubre como una ideología inmersa en esas modificaciones que tienen efectos en lo educativo mediante la conformación de un nuevo proyecto para la universidad pública, que mantiene y reproduce las desigualdades sociales, a través de instituciones de educación superior que tienden a volverse organizaciones elitistas, a la vez que ellas mismas son sometidas a imperativos de una racionalidad instrumental, a través de la estrategia de evaluación que privilegia la selectividad, tanto a nivel del crecimiento de la matrícula como de la asignación de los recursos financieros, por lo que las universidades públicas abandonan su función social y crítica

Fundamental Principles and Rights At Work: Value, Viability, Incidence and Importance as Elements For Economic Progress and Social Justice

Working Paper prepared for the ILO by Maria Luz Vega Ruiz and Daniel Martinez, focusing on the rights at work in Latin America and the Caribbean

Lessons Learned: Can a Principled Mechanism for Improving Health Equity be Integrated into a Budgetary Process?

Health equity is the social justice lens that public health institutions across the United States have increasingly embraced as a mandate, however there are few jurisdictions addressing how to prioritize funding toward that end. The practical translation of a social justice concept necessitates the creation of a budgetary tool and an implementation process that identifies those with the highest levels of health disparity and social disadvantage. Using the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) as its central case, this paper argues that for health delivery systems to be socially just and to achieve health equity, these systems must not only establish the principle that health equity is important, they must prioritize their funding to achieve it. The broad public health mission to protect and promote the health of all will create ethical and methodological challenges when it comes to prioritizing one group’s needs over others. This paper addresses the first steps toward creating a budget prioritization method that is feasible for managers to administer while also being transparent to the public, summarizes lessons learned, and discusses ethical dilemmas that jurisdictions will face when implementing health equity into a budgetary process

Early Childhood Science Exposure Acts as a Catalyst for the Grasping of Complex Scientific Concepts in Later Years

Early childhood lacks early science exposure that can get children ready for kindergarten. Without the skills of communication, critical thinking, and problem-solving, children lack science inquiry, an essential that helps a child develop as they transition from preschool to kindergarten