Guía verde: una guía para el futuro

ABSTRACTWith global warming and environmental plights, new guidance concepts are needed to question the mainstream individualistic career development theories and practices. There is more at stake. Green Guidance puts a wider perspective to career choices: what is the environmental impact of a particular career path? Guidance needs a reorientation, a new approach. It is argued that just like Frank Parsons a hundred years ago in the USA was seen as a utopian in his vision of the role of guidance and counselling to create a balanced, just, and peaceful society, the guidance philosophies of our times need to envisage a shift towards a greener future. RESUMENCon los problemas ambientales y el calentamiento global, son necesarios nuevos conceptos de orientación para cuestionar las teorías del desarrollo de la carrera y de las prácticas individualistas. Hay más en juego: La Guía Verde plantea una perspectiva más amplia de opciones. ¿Cuál es el impacto ambiental de una trayectoria particular?. Es necesaria una reorientación, un nuevo enfoque. Se argumenta al igual que Frank Parsons cien años atrás en Estados Unidos, que fue visto como una utopía en su visión del papel de la orientación y el asesoramiento para crear un equilibrio justo y una sociedad pacífica.Las filosofías de orientación actuales necesitan prever un cambio hacia un futuro más verde.ABSTRACTWith global warming and environmental plights, new guidance concepts are needed to question the mainstream individualistic career development theories and practices. There is more at stake. Green Guidance puts a wider perspective to career choices: what is the environmental impact of a particular career path? Guidance needs a reorientation, a new approach. It is argued that just like Frank Parsons a hundred years ago in the USA was seen as a utopian in his vision of the role of guidance and counselling to create a balanced, just, and peaceful society, the guidance philosophies of our times need to envisage a shift towards a greener future

Vejledning for ældre: Gerontovejledning?

Der bliver flere ældre. Det grå guld er på arbejdsmarkedet og skulle gerne blive der. De ældre er en resurse. Har de brug for vejledning – gerontovejledning

A common cardiac sodium channel variant associated with sudden infant death in African Americans, SCN5A S1103Y.

Thousands die each year from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Neither the cause nor basis for varied prevalence in different populations is understood. While 2 cases have been associated with mutations in type Valpha, cardiac voltage-gated sodium channels (SCN5A), the "Back to Sleep" campaign has decreased SIDS prevalence, consistent with a role for environmental influences in disease pathogenesis. Here we studied SCN5A in African Americans. Three of 133 SIDS cases were homozygous for the variant S1103Y. Among controls, 120 of 1,056 were carriers of the heterozygous genotype, which was previously associated with increased risk for arrhythmia in adults. This suggests that infants with 2 copies of S1103Y have a 24-fold increased risk for SIDS. Variant Y1103 channels were found to operate normally under baseline conditions in vitro. As risk factors for SIDS include apnea and respiratory acidosis, Y1103 and wild-type channels were subjected to lowered intracellular pH. Only Y1103 channels gained abnormal function, demonstrating late reopenings suppressible by the drug mexiletine. The variant appeared to confer susceptibility to acidosis-induced arrhythmia, a gene-environment interaction. Overall, homozygous and rare heterozygous SCN5A missense variants were found in approximately 5% of cases. If our findings are replicated, prospective genetic testing of SIDS cases and screening with counseling for at-risk families warrant consideration

Orientación profesional en Dinamarca: El control social con "guantes de seda"

La Orientación Vocacional en Dinamarca está bien organizada y es altamente profesional. Esto refleja una política orientadora centrada en el papel que la orientación juega como instrumento en el ejercicio de un leve control social. Con este telón de fondo, el dilema de la Orientación en Dinamarca reside en el delicado equilibrio existente entre la orientación considerada como una herramienta para el desarrollo personal, y como un instrumento de control social.A Orientação Vocacional em Dinamarca está bem organizada e é altamente profissional. Isto reflete uma política orientadora centrada no papel que a orientação tem como instrumento no exercício de um leve controle social. Com este pano de fundo, o dilema da Orientação em Dinamarca reside no delicado equilíbrio existente entre a orientação considerada como uma ferramenta para o desenvolvimento pessoal, e como um instrumento de controle social.Facultad de Psicologí

Career guidance in Denmark: Social control in a velvet glove

Career guidance in Denmark is well organised, highly structured, and professionalised. This mirrors the strong policy focus on the role of guidance as a soft societal steering instrument. With this backdrop, the dilemma in Danish guidance is the delicate balance between guidance as an instrument for personal development, and guidance as social control.Facultad de Psicologí

Application of the New Generation of Sequencing Technologies for Evaluation of Genetic Consistency of Influenza A Vaccine Viruses

For almost half a century, Sanger sequencing has been the conventional method for sequencing DNA. However, its utility for sequencing heterogeneous viral populations is limited because it can only detect mutations that are present in a significant portion of the DNA molecules. Several molecular methods that quantify mutations present at low levels in viral populations were proposed for evaluation of genetic consistency of viral vaccines; however, these methods are only suitable for single site polymorphisms, and cannot be used to screen for unknown mutations

Trouble in Paradise - A disabled person's right to the satisfaction of a self-defined need:Some conceptual and practical problems

This paper questions the usefulness of the rights-based approach to ameliorating the social situation of disabled people in Britain and advances two criticisms. First, that rights and self-de? ned needs have been under-theorised by disability theorists to the extent that they have insuf? ciently appreciated the problems that these approaches pose. The paper suggests that rights to appropriate resources to satisfy self-de? ned needs will generate vast numbers of competing rights claims and that the resulting tendency of rights to con? ict has been under-appreciated. Secondly, that there has been little consideration of how these con? icts might be reconciled. The ? rst two sections of the paper look at the concepts of ascribed and self-de? ned needs, respectively, whilst the ? nal one looks at some of the problems of the rights approach and some of the dif? culties of making self-de? ned need the basis of rights claims

Drivers of plant traits that allow survival in wetlands

Plants have developed a suite of traits to survive the anaerobic and anoxic soil conditions in wetlands. Previous studies on wetland plant adaptive traits have focused mainly on physiological aspects under experimental conditions, or compared the trait expression of the local species pool. Thus, a comprehensive analysis of potential factors driving wetland plant adaptive traits under natural environmental conditions is still missing.In this study, we analysed three important wetland adaptive traits, i.e. root porosity, root/shoot ratio and underwater photosynthetic rate, to explore driving factors using a newly compiled dataset of wetland plants. Based on 21 studies at 38 sites across different biomes, we found that root porosity was affected by an interaction of temperature and hydrological regime; root:shoot ratio was affected by temperature, precipitation and habitat type; and underwater photosynthetic rate was affected by precipitation and life form. This suggests that a variety of driving mechanisms affect the expression of different adaptive traits.The quantitative relationships we observed between the adaptive traits and their driving factors will be a useful reference for future global methane and denitrification modelling studies. Our results also stress that besides the traditionally emphasized hydrological driving factors, other factors at several spatial scales should also be taken into consideration in the context of future functional wetland ecology.Environmental Biolog

Gods of physical violence, stopping at nothing: Masculinity, religion, and art in the work of Zora Neale Hurston

This essay examines the ways in which discourses concerning masculinity, religion, and aesthetics converge in the work of Zora Neal Hurston. This convergence participates in a much larger confluence of these three discourses during the Harlem Renaissance. The migration of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the rural south to the urban north provoked massive changes in almost every aspect of African American life. It was a period when, in Du Bois\u27s words, African American men felt their best chance to attain self-conscious manhood. In fact, definitions and ideals of manhood were thrown into flux, and a newly developing secular intelligentsia found itself in an uneasy and sometimes competitive relationship with older models of black masculinity associated with the black preacher. While cosmopolitan authors like Du Bois sometimes created images of black manhood that stood in continuity with but were not contained by the institutional power of the black preacher, writers of the Harlem Renaissance often pictured the preacher of the old south as corrupt images of failed masculinity, embodiments of an Old Negro culture that had to be transcended to realize New Negro possibilities. Zora Neal Hurston\u27s work tends toward imagining Afro-Christian culture as a failure and often posits that failure in images of failed masculinity. Indeed, the weaknesses of this culture most often inhibit rather than contribute to the development of a vibrant literary and artistic culture. It is true that some characters, such as John Pearson of Jonah\u27s Gourd Vine, approach the admirable status of a kind of virile preacher-poet. Nevertheless, Pearson\u27s best attributes seem to come from something other than his status as a Christian, and in fact the church seems finally unable to accommodate the sources of his physical and imaginative strength. Indeed, ultimately Pearson seems to bear out Hurston\u27s declaration that Negro is not a Christian really, that instead the sources of African American imagination must be found more clearly in folklore and in religious practices associated with voodoo and other neo-African religions. Consistently throughout her autobiographical, folkloric, and fictional writing, she derides Christianity as a fainting and unsexed religion, one without the imaginative resources to produce great literature. Ironically, then, Hurston invokes a form of explicitly anti-Christian primitivism as a model of artistic excellence for the cosmopolitan and modern New Negro. © The Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture