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Comunicación para el desarrollo y el cambio social: Influencia de las normas sociales para una sociedad inclusiva en Montenegro
UNICEF and the Government of Montenegro
implemented a communication strategy “It’s about
ability” to challenge the existing, exclusionary
practices and promote new, inclusive social norms for
children with disability. Drawing on communication
for development principles and social norms theory, a
2010-2013 nation-wide campaign mobilized disability
rights NGOs, parents associations, media and private
sector to stimulate inclusive attitudes and practices
towards children with disabilities. As a result, the
percentage of citizens who find it acceptable for a
child with disability to attend the same class with
theirs increased from 35 before the campaign to 80
percent at the end of it. Similarly, the percentage
of Montenegrin citizens who find it acceptable for
a child with disability to be the best friend of their
child increased from 22 before the campaign to
51 percent at the end of it. The campaign was
participatory, audience-centred and guided by the
key communication planning principles.UNICEF y el Gobierno de Montenegro implementaron la
estrategia de comunicación “Se trata de la habilidad”
para desafiar las prácticas existentes y excluyentes y
promover nuevas normas sociales inclusivas para los
niños con discapacidad. Basándose en los principios
de la comunicación para el desarrollo y las normas
sociales, una campaña nacional del 2010-2013
movilizó a las ONG de derechos de las personas con
discapacidad, asociaciones de padres, los medios de
comunicación y el sector privado para estimular las
actitudes y prácticas inclusivas hacia los niños con
discapacidades. Como resultado, el porcentaje de
ciudadanos que encuentran aceptable para un niño
con discapacidad asistir a la misma clase que los suyos
aumentó de un 35%, antes de la campaña, a un 80%
al final de la misma. Del mismo modo, el porcentaje de
ciudadanos montenegrinos que encuentran aceptable
que un niño con discapacidad pueda ser el mejor
amigo de sus hijos incrementó de un 22% anterior a la
campaña a un 51% al final de la misma. La campaña
fue participativa, centrada en el público y guiada por
los principios clave de planificación de la comunicación
Geometric path planning without maneuvers for nonholonomic parallel orienting robots
Current geometric path planners for nonholonomic parallel orienting robots generate maneuvers consisting of a sequence of moves connected by zero-velocity points. The need for these maneuvers restrains the use of this kind of parallel robots to few applications. Based on a rather old result on linear time-varying systems, this letter shows that there are infinitely differentiable paths connecting two arbitrary points in SO(3) such that the instantaneous axis of rotation along the path rest on a fixed plane. This theoretical result leads to a practical path planner for nonholonomic parallel orienting robots that generates single-move maneuvers. To present this result, we start with a path planner based on three-move maneuvers, and then we proceed by progressively reducing the number of moves to one, thus providing a unified treatment with respect to previous geometric path planners.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft
Alvarado Revisited: A Missing Element in Alaska’s Quest to Provide Impartial Juries for Rural Alaskans
In Alvarado v. State, the Alaska Supreme Court declared that an impartial jury is a cross section of the community and that the community where the events at issue transpired must be represented in the jury. This decision spurred changes to jury selection procedures and the creation of Criminal Rule 18, an effort to ensure defendants from remote villages are judged by a jury representative of these rural areas. The Alaska Court of Appeals recently addressed an issue of first impression regarding the application of Criminal Rule 18. In Joseph v. State, the defendant was convicted of murdering his girlfriend in the tiny Native village of Rampart. His trial was conducted in Fairbanks by a jury selected from an area that does not include Rampart or any other similar Native village. Criminal Rule 18 allowed the defendant a limited time to transfer his trial to Nenana, which more closely resembles the characteristics of Rampart. However, the defendant was never informed of this right. His trial counsel believed trial location was a decision for the attorney and did not see a need to request the change. In a memorandum opinion that creates no binding precedent, the Court of Appeals agreed with this view and held it did not violate the defendant’s due process rights not to be informed of the opportunity to have his case heard at an alternative trial site. This Article challenges that view, arguing it fails to safeguard the spirit and purpose of the constitutional right to an impartial jury. To remote villagers in Bush Alaska whose customs, culture, and ways of life are vastly different than in larger cities within the state, the opportunity to be judged by those sharing similarities is of upmost importance. Consequently, decisions of trial venue, for purposes of Criminal Rule 18, should be knowingly made or waived by the defendant
New Reflections on Gravitational Duality
In general terms duality consists of two descriptions of one physical system
by using degrees of freedom of different nature. There are different kinds of
dualities and they have been extremely useful to uncover the underlying strong
coupling dynamics of gauge theories in various dimensions and those of the
diverse string theories. Perhaps the oldest example exhibiting this property is
Maxwell theory, which interchanges electric and magnetic fields. An extension
of this duality involving the sources is also possible if the magnetic monopole
is incorporated. At the present time a lot has been understood about duality in
non-Abelian gauge theories as in the case of N=4 supersymmetric gauge theories
in four dimensions or in the Seiberg-Witten duality for N=2 theories. Moreover,
a duality that relates a gravitational theory (or a string theory) and a
conformal gauge theory, as in the case of gauge/gravity correspondence, have
been also studied with considerable detail. The case of duality between two
gravitational theories is the so called gravitational duality. At the present
time, this duality has not been exhaustively studied, however some advances
have been reported in the literature. In the present paper we give a general
overview of this subject. In particular we will focus on non-Abelian dualities,
applied to various theories of gravity as developed by the authors, based in
the Rocek-Verlinde duality procedure. Finally, as a new development in this
direction, we study the gravitational duality in Hitchin's gravity in seven and
six dimensions and their relation is also discussed.Comment: 17 pages, paper to be published in Frontiers in Physic
Generalised asymptotic equivalence for extensive and non-extensive entropies
We extend the Hanel and Thurner asymptotic analysis to both extensive and
non-extensive entropies on the basis of a wide class of entropic forms. The
procedure is known to be capable to classify multiple entropy measures in terms
of their defining equivalence classes. Those are determined by a pair of
scaling exponents taking into account a large number of microstates as for the
thermodynamical limit. Yet, a generalisation to this formulation makes it
possible to establish an entropic connection between Markovian and
non-Markovian statistical systems through a set of fundamental entropies
, which have been studied in other contexts and exhibit, among their
attributes, two interesting aspects: They behave as additive for a large number
of degrees of freedom while they are substantially non-additive for a small
number of them. Furthermore, an ample amount of special entropy measures,
either additive or non-additive, are contained in such asymptotic
classification. Under this scheme we analyse the equivalence classes of
Tsallis, Sharma-Mittal and R\'enyi entropies and study their features in the
thermodynamic limit as well as the correspondences among them.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figure
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