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Torn between Two Mothers: Indigenous Women as spiritual Mentors in two Novels by Mexican Women Writers

In many novels by contemporary Hispanic women writers, the estrangement between mother and daughter seems to be a constant underlying theme. There are several examples of texts in which distancing between mother and daughter renders the role of the mother ineffective, prompting the daughter to search for an alternative maternal figure. Within Mexican narrative, I have come upon four novels with protagonists who experience this predicament, but in which all the countervailing figures are indigenous women who are servants in the middle class white households inhabited by the young female characters. For this article, I have chosen only two of the group of these four novels to illustrate the female bonding between characters of different race and age; they are Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate and Brianda Domecq’s The Astonishing Story of the Saint of Cabora. I first focus on each of these two novels separately, to provide a glimpse of the development as well as the nature of the relationship between each protagonist and her indigenous mentor. I then focus on the fact that, in spite of the differences between each author’s approach, there are some common traits present in both novels. The indigenous surrogate mothers in these novels transmit to a younger generation an ancient wisdom that stands in the face of conventional Western patriarchal values that are reflected in terms considered irreconcilable opposites such as Indigenous-white, male-female, young-old, life-death. Although their mentoring encompasses a number of roles corresponding to the expectations of a mother figure, I am particularly interested in the spiritual aspect of this relationship, which helps explain the deep impact the mentors have on their surrogate daughters

Mainstreaming vs. Individuating: Incorporating Inclusive Pedagogy into Spanish Language and Culture Courses

At a time when higher education is experiencing unprecedented nationwide growth in populations of students of color, it is crucial to talk about inclusive practices in general, as well as in one’s own specific discipline. As a member of the department of Hispanic Studies at CSB/SJU, in the Fall of 2016, I had the opportunity to participate in the Humanities cohort of the inclusive pedagogy events sponsored by a Mellon grant. Coincidentally, our department had just decided to introduce a new course for advanced Spanish speakers geared to heritage speakers, which I volunteered to teach as a pilot in Fall 2016 to determine the needs of this student group. In an effort to emphasize the connection between inclusive pedagogy theory and classroom practice, I will share what I have learned through some of the Mellon grant activities and its application from my experience teaching this new course, as well as more established courses. For instance, I have learned that inclusion does not consist merely of avoiding overtly racist comments that can be considered “micro-aggressions,” but comprises encouraging students to value their experience as a minority group inside and outside of the classroom. This translates into facilitating students’ participation in their own learning by reflecting on their personal and social racial-ethnic identity through class projects such as presentations and essay writing. In addition, we in Hispanic Studies need to find a balance between mainstreaming our heritage students into learning Spanish language and culture with our white majority language learners and creating courses to meet their own individual needs to improve their academic skills

Algunas implicaciones éticas y jurídicas de los transgénicos

Es tema de acalorados y, en ocasiones, hasta viscerales debates y discusiones todo lo relacionado con los alimentos transgénicos. En la última década -y con mayor intensidad este último lustro- todos los implicados en estos asuntos (científicos, representantes de la industria y de los productores agropecuarios, políticos, grupos ambientalistas, organizaciones de consumidores, etc.) andan enfrascados en encarnizadas luchas y en interminables debates y controversias. Cada uno defendiendo su posición y sus respectivos intereses, en ocasiones, de una forma poco afortunada, con argumentos carentes de base científica y con excesiva -y poco recomendable-utilización de componentes retóricos y hasta "emocionales". Unos hablan de presuntos riesgos y enormes posibilidades ("los tecnooptimistas"); otros, por el contrario, de enormes riesgos y presuntas o poco probables posibilidades ("los tecnocatastrofistas"). Pero la falta de transparencia informativa y una serie de estrategias poco afortunadas por parte de algunos han propiciado en gran parte de la opinión pública un clima de desconfianza y rechazo hacia los alimentos transgénicos, echándose de menos una difusión de la información por los cauces y canales adecuados

Responsabilidad jurídica ante fallas en la ejecución contractual de la supervisión e interventoría en la celebración de contratos estatales

Artículo de investigaciónLos recursos que son parte del manejo en la contratación estatal, contemplan para su uso el cumplimiento de unas condiciones normativas que son de indispensable conocimiento y aplicación. La cuestión en tanto, es determinar el marco jurídico de responsabilidad para comprender si este es insuficiente o merece de correcciones para mitigar la afectación del correcto y adecuado funcionamiento de la administración pública.27 p.1. CARACTERIZACIÓN DE LOS SUPERVISORES E INTERVENTORES EN LA NORMATIVIDAD DE CONTRATACIÓN PÚBLICA 2. RESPONSABILIDAD JURÍDICA DE LA SUPERVISIÓN E INTERVENTORÍA EN LOS CONTRATOS ESTATALES 3. CONCLUSIONES BIBLIOGRAFÍA ANEXOSPregradoAbogad

Modelo informal basado en IDEF4 para la representación de diseños basados en el esquema FBS

Ponencia presentada en el XIII Congreso Internacional de Ingeniería de Proyectos celebrado en Badajoz , 8-10 de julio de 2009Nowadays, designers have the need of transferring information to a heterogeneous society in a standardized way, in order to their ideas achieve success. As this is a computerized age, Knowledge Based Engineering (KBE) has available a lot of standardized methodologies in order to represent the information and transfer it to computerized systems in order to be automated, either they are informal models addressed to a first capture and organization of those knowledge, like for example MOKA modelling language, or formal models, like the IDEF language family, the UML language, or the XML one. A huge number of designers specialized or not in knowledge engineering use the FBS (Function – Behaviour – Strucutre) framework for developing their work within functional design field. The present work presents an IDEF4-based informal model for representing designs within FBS framework, and more accurately the B-FES framework, that adds the environment to the three previous definitions.El diseñador, hoy en día, tiene la necesidad de transferir la información a una sociedad heterogénea de un modo estandarizado para que sus ideas tengan éxito. Siendo esta una era informatizada, la ingeniería basada en el conocimiento (KBE) ya dispone de multitud de metodologías estándar para representar la información y transmitirla a medios informáticos para su automatización, bien se trate de modelos informales, como por ejemplo el lenguaje de modelado MOKA, dirigidos a una primera captura y organización de dicho conocimiento, como de modelos formales, como puede ser la familia de lenguajes IDEF, el lenguaje UML, o el XML. Muchos diseñadores, especializados o no en la ingeniería del conocimiento, emplean el marco FBS (Función – Comportamiento – Estructura) para desarrollar su trabajo dentro del ámbito del diseño funcional. El presente trabajo pretende ilustrar un modelo informal basado en el lenguaje IDEF 4 para representar los diseños basados en el marco FBS, y más en concreto de su variante B-FES, que incluye el medio a las tres definiciones anteriores

A bibliometric study of the research area of videogames using Dimensions.ai database

Videogames are a very interesting area of research for fields as diverse as computer science, health, psychology or even social sciences. Every year a growing number of articles are published in different topics inside this field, so it is very convenient to study the different bibliometric data in order to consolidate the research efforts. Thus, the aim of this work is to conduct a study on the distribution of articles related to videogames in the different fields of research, as well as to measure their interest over time, to identify the sources, countries and authors with the highest scientific production. In order to carry out this analysis, the information system Dimensions.ai has been considered, since it covers a large number of documents and allows for easy downloading and analysis of datasets. According to the study, three countries are the most prolific in this area: USA, Canada and UK. The obtained results also indicate that the fields with the highest number of publications are Information and Computer Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, and Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, in this order. With regard to the impact of the publications, differences between the number of citations, and the number of Altmetric Attention Score, have been found

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Anderson Localization in Disordered Vibrating Rods

We study, both experimentally and numerically, the Anderson localization phenomenon in torsional waves of a disordered elastic rod, which consists of a cylinder with randomly spaced notches. We find that the normal-mode wave amplitudes are exponentially localized as occurs in disordered solids. The localization length is measured using these wave amplitudes and it is shown to decrease as a function of frequency. The normal-mode spectrum is also measured as well as computed, so its level statistics can be analyzed. Fitting the nearest-neighbor spacing distribution a level repulsion parameter is defined that also varies with frequency. The localization length can then be expressed as a function of the repulsion parameter. There exists a range in which the localization length is a linear function of the repulsion parameter, which is consistent with Random Matrix Theory. However, at low values of the repulsion parameter the linear dependence does not hold.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figure

Web Accessibility Requirements for Massive Open Online Courses

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities stresses that persons with disabilities should be able to participate fully in all aspects of life, including education. Nevertheless, statistics shows than a low percentage of persons with disabilities complete higher education. MOOCs, being online courses available to a very large number of people, have a great potential to satisfy the learning needs of millions of people. When designing a MOOC, it is important to consider the diversity of abilities of all potential learners. Genuine universality and openness can only be achieved if all kind of users can access and use MOOCs to engage in learning regardless their abilities. This paper proposes two categories of web accessibility requirements: for personal and for non-personal disabilities. Each category is characterized and a preliminary list of web accessibility requirements for each one is presented. Both MOOC's platforms and contents must meet web accessibility requirements. If contents are accessible but not the platform, or vice versa, the MOOC is not accessible.This work is partially funded by the Prometheus project of the National Secretary of Higher Education, Science and Technology (SENESCYT), Government of Ecuador