La atlanticidad como hibridación cultural

En este artículo se revisan algunos de los signos que han contribuido a la construcción de la identidad de las Islas Canarias. En los contextos diversos del mundo hispánico, las islas mantienen características particulares, determinadas por su condición geográfica y circunstancias históricas. La identidad es una construcción dinámica activa que se transforma constantemente. La identidad de los isleños, su manera de ver el mundo y de explicarlo a sí mismos se forma durante los siglos por medio de las contribuciones culturales de la gente que entrecruza tradiciones ancestrales con las que vienen del exterior. También se dice generalmente que la hibridación es otra de las características que forman la identidad de la isla, una identidad canaria forjada en los encuentros sucesivos y diversos con la gente que viene de exterior. El concepto de nacionalidad, que permite que exploremos con mayor profundidad la identidad del ser humano histórico, no es inmutable, sino que está sujeto a cambio.This paper reviews some of the signs that have contributed to the construction of the Canary Islands identity. In the diverse contexts of the Hispanic world, the islands maintain particular characteristics determined by their geographical condition and historical circumstances. Identity is an active dynamic construction that constantly transforms itself. The identity of the islanders, their way of seeing the world and of explaining it to themselves is shaped over the centuries by means of the cultural contributions of the people that meld ancestral traditions with those that come from outside. It is also usually said that hybridization is another of the characteristics that form the island identity, a Canarian identity forged in the successive and diverse encounters with people coming from outside. The concept of nationality, that allows us to explore in greater depth the identity of the historical human being, is not immutable, but is subject to change

Arrebatada palabra: La obra poética de Aníbal Núñez

A través del análisis de la obra poética de Aníbal Núñez, escritor salmantino de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, se pretende mostrar el valor de su palabra, su crecimiento creativo, su evolución estética y su madurez artística. El poeta no quiere cambiar el mundo sino cambiar el lenguaje, la palabra. Para ello utilizará el hallazgo lingüístico, el discurso del conocimiento y la emoción formal junto a la emoción del deslumbramiento.Through the analysis of the poetic work of Aníbal Núñez, an Spanish writer from Salamanca of second half of century XX, this paper reveals the value of his poetic word, creative growth, aesthetic evolution and artistic maturity. The poet does not want to change the world but to change the language, the word. For it he will use the linguistic finding, the speech of the knowledge and the formal emotion next to the emotion of the glare

Los signos de la nueva política : configuración sistémica, producción semiótica y estrategia discursiva

Aproximación a la estrategia, los referentes y la acción del partido político Podemos. Las teorías sistémicas han construido en las últimas décadas un conjunto sólido de conceptos y procedimientos para el análisis semiótico en el campo social. Esta corriente teórica se utilizará para estudiar el funcionamiento y las condiciones de producción de la nueva estructura sociopolítica. La investigación tiene como objetivo explicar las razones del auge y la caída de un proyecto que quería cambiar el sistema dominante sin que haya alcanzado sus objetivos hasta ahora. El trabajo se centrará en los nuevos procesos de significación creados. La metodología se sustenta en tres líneas específicas que tienen conexiones obvias: la socio-semiótica de Greimas, la semiótica de la cultura de Lotman y la teoría de los polisistemas de Even-Zohar.Approach to the strategy, the referents and the action of the political party Podemos. Systemic theories have built in the last decades a solid set of concepts and procedures for semiotic analysis in the social field. These theoretical trends will be used to study the operation and production mechanisms of the new sociopolitical structure. The research aims to explain the reasons for the rise and fall of a project that wanted to change the dominant system but has not reached its goals so far. The work will focus on the new processes of meaning created. The methodology is based on three specific lines that have obvious connections: Greimas' socio-semiotics, Lotman's culture semiotics, and Even-Zohar's polysystems theory

Risk profiles and one-year outcomes of patients with newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation in India: Insights from the GARFIELD-AF Registry.

BACKGROUND: The Global Anticoagulant Registry in the FIELD-Atrial Fibrillation (GARFIELD-AF) is an ongoing prospective noninterventional registry, which is providing important information on the baseline characteristics, treatment patterns, and 1-year outcomes in patients with newly diagnosed non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF). This report describes data from Indian patients recruited in this registry. METHODS AND RESULTS: A total of 52,014 patients with newly diagnosed AF were enrolled globally; of these, 1388 patients were recruited from 26 sites within India (2012-2016). In India, the mean age was 65.8 years at diagnosis of NVAF. Hypertension was the most prevalent risk factor for AF, present in 68.5% of patients from India and in 76.3% of patients globally (P < 0.001). Diabetes and coronary artery disease (CAD) were prevalent in 36.2% and 28.1% of patients as compared with global prevalence of 22.2% and 21.6%, respectively (P < 0.001 for both). Antiplatelet therapy was the most common antithrombotic treatment in India. With increasing stroke risk, however, patients were more likely to receive oral anticoagulant therapy [mainly vitamin K antagonist (VKA)], but average international normalized ratio (INR) was lower among Indian patients [median INR value 1.6 (interquartile range {IQR}: 1.3-2.3) versus 2.3 (IQR 1.8-2.8) (P < 0.001)]. Compared with other countries, patients from India had markedly higher rates of all-cause mortality [7.68 per 100 person-years (95% confidence interval 6.32-9.35) vs 4.34 (4.16-4.53), P < 0.0001], while rates of stroke/systemic embolism and major bleeding were lower after 1 year of follow-up. CONCLUSION: Compared to previously published registries from India, the GARFIELD-AF registry describes clinical profiles and outcomes in Indian patients with AF of a different etiology. The registry data show that compared to the rest of the world, Indian AF patients are younger in age and have more diabetes and CAD. Patients with a higher stroke risk are more likely to receive anticoagulation therapy with VKA but are underdosed compared with the global average in the GARFIELD-AF. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION-URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT01090362

Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities

Trees structure the Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystem, tropical forests. The vast number of tree species presents a formidable challenge to understanding these forests, including their response to environmental change, as very little is known about most tropical tree species. A focus on the common species may circumvent this challenge. Here we investigate abundance patterns of common tree species using inventory data on 1,003,805 trees with trunk diameters of at least 10 cm across 1,568 locations1,2,3,4,5,6 in closed-canopy, structurally intact old-growth tropical forests in Africa, Amazonia and Southeast Asia. We estimate that 2.2%, 2.2% and 2.3% of species comprise 50% of the tropical trees in these regions, respectively. Extrapolating across all closed-canopy tropical forests, we estimate that just 1,053 species comprise half of Earth’s 800 billion tropical trees with trunk diameters of at least 10 cm. Despite differing biogeographic, climatic and anthropogenic histories7, we find notably consistent patterns of common species and species abundance distributions across the continents. This suggests that fundamental mechanisms of tree community assembly may apply to all tropical forests. Resampling analyses show that the most common species are likely to belong to a manageable list of known species, enabling targeted efforts to understand their ecology. Although they do not detract from the importance of rare species, our results open new opportunities to understand the world’s most diverse forests, including modelling their response to environmental change, by focusing on the common species that constitute the majority of their trees.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe

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