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Includes All of us your voices, First episode, Second Episode, A word from our sponsor, Third episode, Fourth episode, A word from our sponsor, Final episode, Polaroid, Ghetto Baby, The Great Depression, and And now, put on your gasmasks Warning on the back of a cigarette pack

A Sense of Place

Panel: A sense of place II. The author discussed the importance of setting in their work. This can address topics of regional fiction as well as the challenges/rewards of reaching audiences unfamiliar with a particular location

Advertencia en la parte posterior de un paquete de cigarrillos

Fumar produce cáncer de pulmón. Nótese la imagen donde se compara - a la izquierda - el pulmón de un fumador con un pulmón sano, asumimos propiedad de alguien sano también. Fumar produce enfermedades cardiovasculares. La imagen tamaño escala muestra a un hombre joven, digamos de unos treinta a cuarenta y cinco años, tumbado en lo que solo puede ser un quirófano, con el pecho desnudo, un electrodo huérfano justo debajo de la tetilla derecha mientras cuatro brazos le atienden en lo que podemos asumir es un estado de emergencia

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Mamá no está bien. Cuando estira el brazo para alcanzar el azucarero, su mano tiembla y tintinean las siete pulseras de oro que lleva puestas desde su boda. La estoy visitando más a menudo ahora que mi hermana se ha ido, que mu-rió papá, que las tías no vienen y los vecinos la ignoran. La visito más a menudo porque sólo que-dan los perros en el patio, tendidos al sol sobre cemento y heces. Alguien tiene que limpiar. Mamá ya no puede o ha perdido el interés. Mamá se lleva la taza a los labios y sorbe – sonora - el café caliente

Cuatro minicuentos de Benjamín Ramón

Nunca te había visto así, Susanita. Ya no eres la de antes. Ya no sonríes. Tus ojos ya no brillan como antes. Te vi cuando gritaste y no lo creía. Despeinada, ojerosa, sucio el traje y en chancletas. ¿Eras tú, Susana? No podía creerlo.Hacía más de un año que no te veía por la calle, como acostumbrabas: con Cariño a tu lado, caminan-do contigo haciéndote compañía, calladamente. Tú limpia y risueña, tranquila; él también. Callados los dos. Así los recuerdo. Hasta llegué a pensar que a lo mejor habían muerto, desaparecidos, la noche amaneciendo 20 de diciembre. Que a lo mejor dónde los gritos y el fuego te habían sorprendido esa noche cansada de andar vendiendo flores como hacías antes

Adaptación del inventario de resolución de problemas sociales revisado (SPSI-R) en estudiantes de psicología de universidades de Lima Metropolitana

Este trabajo de investigación realizó un enfoque sobre la adaptación del Inventario de Resolución de Problemas Sociales Revisado (SPSI-R) de Maydeu- Olivarez, Rodríguez-Fomells, Gomez-Benito y D'Zurilla (2000), en su versión adaptada al español, en estudiantes universitarios de la carrera profesional de psicología, del II al X ciclo, matriculados en el periodo 2011-11. La muestra estuvo constituida por 500 alumnos de 2 universidades, una nacional (n=250) y una particular (n=250), de Lima Metropolitana. Los resultados indican que el inventario posee buenas propiedades psicométricas, y mediante un análisis factorial confirmatorio, se determinó la adecuación de la estructura de cinco factores para el SPSI-R (Maydeu et al., 2000) en este estudio, el mismo que está sustentado en investigaciones del Instrumento utilizado. De igual manera el nivel de consistencia interna puede considerarse satisfactorio para propósitos de descripción de grupos, las medias de los ítems muestran un patrón de magnitudes acorde con lo que se espera para una muestra clínicamente normal (estudiantes de Psicología). Por otro lado en los puntajes a la normalidad teórica, se halló que algunas escalas se aproximaban a esta distribución, especialmente las escalas adaptativas; pero las escalas desadaptativas del SPSIR, mostraron fuerte asimetría positiva lo cual debe interpretarse con cautela

Development and Implementation of an Assessment Model in a Sophomore Electromechanical Systems Design Laboratory for the ETAC-ABET Accreditation

In the field of assessment in higher education, practitioners regularly mention two features as key for success at implementing a sustainable assessment model, i) it has to be faculty-driven, and ii) it has to become part of the curriculum. This paper describes an assessment model incorporating these features. The model was developed and implemented for assessing both the ETAC-ABET Program Criteria for an associate degree in Electromechanical Engineering Technology program and the new ETAC-ABET (2019-2020) student outcome (2), which regards students\u27 ability to design systems, components, or processes for well-defined engineering technology problems appropriate to the discipline. This paper describes the implementation of our assessment model, including a description of the performance indicators used for assessment of criteria mentioned above, the structure of course selected for the assessment, the details of the laboratory experiments and final design project used as assessment tools, a summary of the collected data and a discussion of the assessment results, and the arrangements we made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We believe that our method of incorporating assessment as regular course activities helps achieve the ultimate objective of education, i.e., continuous and constant improvement of students\u27 competencies and learning experiences

Analysis of action oriented effects on perceptual process of object recognition using physiological responses

Action on any objects provides perceptual information about the environment. There is a significant evidence that human visual system responds to action possibilities in an image as perceiving any ones action stimulates human motor system. However very limited studies have been done to analyze the effect of object affordance during action perception and execution. To study the effect of object affordance on human perception, in this paper we have analyzed the human brain signals using EEG based oscillatory activity of brain. EEG responses corresponding to images of objects shown with correct, incorrect and without grips are examined. Exploration of different gripping effects has been done by extracting Alpha and Beta frequency bands using Discrete Wavelet Transform based band extraction method, then baseline normalized power of Alpha and Beta frequency bands at 24 positions of motor area of left and right side of brain are examined. The result shows that 12 pooled electrodes at central and central parietal region provides a clear discrimination among the three gripping cases in terms of calculated power. The presented research explores new applicabilities of object affordance to develop a variety of Brain Computer Interface (BCI) based devices and to improve motor imagery ability among motor disorder related patients

International nosocomial infection control consortium (INICC) report, data summary of 36 countries, for 2004-2009

The results of a surveillance study conducted by the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) from January 2004 through December 2009 in 422 intensive care units (ICUs) of 36 countries in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe are reported. During the 6-year study period, using Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN; formerly the National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance system [NNIS]) definitions for device-associated health care-associated infections, we gathered prospective data from 313,008 patients hospitalized in the consortium's ICUs for an aggregate of 2,194,897 ICU bed-days. Despite the fact that the use of devices in the developing countries' ICUs was remarkably similar to that reported in US ICUs in the CDC's NHSN, rates of device-associated nosocomial infection were significantly higher in the ICUs of the INICC hospitals; the pooled rate of central line-associated bloodstream infection in the INICC ICUs of 6.8 per 1,000 central line-days was more than 3-fold higher than the 2.0 per 1,000 central line-days reported in comparable US ICUs. The overall rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia also was far higher (15.8 vs 3.3 per 1,000 ventilator-days), as was the rate of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (6.3 vs. 3.3 per 1,000 catheter-days). Notably, the frequencies of resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates to imipenem (47.2% vs 23.0%), Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates to ceftazidime (76.3% vs 27.1%), Escherichia coli isolates to ceftazidime (66.7% vs 8.1%), Staphylococcus aureus isolates to methicillin (84.4% vs 56.8%), were also higher in the consortium's ICUs, and the crude unadjusted excess mortalities of device-related infections ranged from 7.3% (for catheter-associated urinary tract infection) to 15.2% (for ventilator-associated pneumonia). Copyright © 2012 by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved

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Mamá no está bien. Cuando estira el brazo para alcanzar el azucarero, su mano tiembla y tintinean las siete pulseras de oro que lleva puestas desde su boda