Negotiating the Borders of the Gender Regime: Developments and Debates on Trans(sexuality) in the Federal Republic of Germany

While social change regarding trans(sexuality) has evolved within an expanding nexus of concepts, practices, regulations and institutions, this process has barely been analysed systematically. Against the background of legislative processes on gender recognition in a society shaped by heteronormative hegemony, the author traces how sexology, the law, federal politics and the trans movement interacted to generate or challenge concepts of trans(sexuality) from the mid-1960s to 2014 in the Federal Republic of Germany. The interdisciplinary study draws upon and contributes to debates in (trans)gender and queer studies, political science, sociology of law, sexology and the social movement

Modelling and managing service-level agreements in the context of 5G neutral hosting platforms

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research andinnovation programme under grant agreement No 761508 (5GCity project) and theSpanish national project 5GCity (TEC2016-76795-C6-1-R)This document contains the study and development of Service-Level Agreement (SLA) management mechanisms in the context of a 5G neutral host platform. The infrastructure involved in a neutral host platform is evaluated by an SLA Manager that handles the database of agreements for all the users, and verifies if the monitored data complies with the thresholds stated in the Service-Level Objectives (SLO) agreed in the SLAs. Neutral host is a platform that has different levels of virtualization over a 5G infrastructure. It starts from a sliced network infrastructure for logic separation between tenants, which in the next level of virtualization, can host 5G services with Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) techniques. This virtual platform runs on top of a physical infrastructure that not only covers data centres like in cloud platforms, but also includes access networks, edge computing and distributed cloud elements. Evaluating through all this infrastructure adds new levels of complexity for monitoring and obtaining an accurate value for any Key Performance Indicator, or high-level parameters for Quality of Service. This challenge is faced with a software module, called SLA Manager, which identifies the different involved infrastructure elements and creates monitoring jobs according to highlevel requirements described in each SLO to obtain low-level infrastructure data. This data is then computed to obtain a high-level value to compare latter with an SLO threshold and verify if there is a violation. Availability is the main KPI on which this study focuses. A generic SLA template body is presented for being stored in a NoSQL database solution, able to adapt to any new service deployed over new technologies that may be deployed by the neutral host, and to add flexibility and scalability to the solution. Results show that the accuracy and reliability of the high-level objectives stated in the SLOs obey the standards required for 5G applications. The system quickly detects any outage and gives feedback to the platform to recover and avoid any violation. Delay times for detection are observed in order to provide exact measurements for availability levels. The report ends with conclusions and future development lines, as well as ethical and sustainability considerations the study involves

Negotiating the Borders of the Gender Regime

While social change regarding trans(sexuality) has evolved within an expanding nexus of concepts, practices, regulations and institutions, this process has barely been analysed systematically. Against the background of legislative processes on gender recognition in a society shaped by heteronormative hegemony, Adrian de Silva traces how sexology, the law, federal politics and the trans movement interacted to generate or challenge concepts of trans(sexuality) from the mid-1960s to 2014 in the Federal Republic of Germany. The interdisciplinary study draws upon and contributes to debates in (trans)gender and queer studies, political science, sociology of law, sexology and the social movement

Conceptualising and representing sex and gender diversity in sex education material in the context of disability: The TRASE Word Bank

Conceptualising and representing sex and gender diversity in sex education material in the context of disability: The TRASE Word Bank According to the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (UNCRPD, 2006), people with disabilities are entitled to respect for privacy (Art. 22), home and family (Art. 23) and education (Art. 24), including sex education. Considering the ideological and structural impediments to sexuality and reproduction (cf. Löfgren-Mårtenson, 2014; Desjardins, 2012) and the high risk of experiencing sexual violence people with intellectual disabilities face, appropriate sex education takes on a pivotal role in safeguarding a self-determined sexuality and the right to reproduction. From Sept. 2015 to Aug. 2017, the University of Luxembourg was involved in the transnational and interdisciplinary ERASMUS Plus project “Training in Sex Education for People with Disabilities” (TRASE). The objective of this follow-up project to the Grundtvig-funded SEAD project was to design a course sensitive to cultural, national and institutional conditions to train professional carers of people with intellectual and cognitive disabilities to talk about sexuality and to acknowledge the sexual and reproductive rights of their clients. The 13-module-course includes revisions and the development of new tools that are altogether accessible to a broad range of people with learning, intellectual, cognitive and communication difficulties and devised to facilitate communication on issues regarding sexuality. One of the major questions for revising existing or devising new tools, respectively, was how to conceptualise and represent human diversity featuring in contemporary Western societies, hence avoiding that people with intellectual disabilities, who cannot or do not want to follow conservative sexual and gender norms are rendered ever more vulnerable. The TRASE Word Bank draws upon social constructionist and deconstructionist theories of gender and sexuality (e.g. Garfinkel, 1967; Weeks, 1989; Butler, 1990; 1997; Hirschauer, 1994; 1999; Cromwell, 1999; Fausto-Sterling, 2000; Schirmer, 2010) and critical race and intersectional theories (e.g. Crenshaw, 1989). Methodologically, it severs gender from morphology and bases gender on self-definition instead, whilst continuing to acknowledge common genders; presents a variety of body parts in a non-polarising way in its pictograms; uses gender-neutral terminology to describe sexualised body parts; addresses a host of sexual arrangements; devotes equal attention to reproduction and contraception, hence avoiding the widespread notion that people with disabilities cannot or should not reproduce (cf. Siebers, 2012) and presents humans in a non-racialised way. As a result, the TRASE Word Bank attempts to enable people with intellectual and learning disabilities with basic reading competency or who can read with assistance to understand that human sexualities, bodies and genders are diverse, to become aware of sexual options that best suit their individual personalities, to learn to accept themselves as unconventional men, unusual women, trans, non-binary or intersex people, to reinforce their right to decide responsibly on issues relating to reproduction and to learn to respect human diversity. The Trase project home page is available at: https://www.traseproject.co

Predicting growing stock volume of Eucalyptus plantations using 3-D point clouds derived from UAV imagery and ALS data

Estimating forest inventory variables is important in monitoring forest resources and mitigating climate change. In this respect, forest managers require flexible, non-destructive methods for estimating volume and biomass. High-resolution and low-cost remote sensing data are increasingly available to measure three-dimensional (3D) canopy structure and to model forest structural attributes. The main objective of this study was to evaluate and compare the individual tree volume estimates derived from high-density point clouds obtained from airborne laser scanning (ALS) and digital aerial photogrammetry (DAP) in Eucalyptus spp. plantations. Object-based image analysis (OBIA) techniques were applied for individual tree crown (ITC) delineation. The ITC algorithm applied correctly detected and delineated 199 trees from ALS-derived data, while 192 trees were correctly identified using DAP-based point clouds acquired fromUnmannedAerialVehicles(UAV), representing accuracy levels of respectively 62% and 60%. Addressing volume modelling, non-linear regression fit based on individual tree height and individual crown area derived from the ITC provided the following results: Model E ciency (Mef) = 0.43 and 0.46, Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) = 0.030 m3 and 0.026 m3, rRMSE = 20.31% and 19.97%, and an approximately unbiased results (0.025 m3 and 0.0004 m3) using DAP and ALS-based estimations, respectively. No significant di erence was found between the observed value (field data) and volume estimation from ALS and DAP (p-value from t-test statistic = 0.99 and 0.98, respectively). The proposed approaches could also be used to estimate basal area or biomass stocks in Eucalyptus spp. plantationsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Methods of Synthesis of Oxides of Iron and Removing Compounds Arsenic in Water

Environmental pollution by heavy metals has been extensively researched using different materials and techniques but, this problem has not been fully resolved. High adsorption capacity of iron oxides such as hematite, magnetite, goethite and, ferrihydrite to remove arsenic are described in this review. There are many international investigations about the minerals of iron oxides and they describe the composition, properties, synthesis methods and involved variables. Active carbon, silicones and polymers had been used to obtain composites with iron oxides and they have gave better results to remove different anions and cations. The aim in this paper is to introduce studies already carried out and encourage research in this topic to take advantage of the particular characteristics of iron oxides and use them in the environmental remediation. In addition, it is important to introduce the natural iron oxides availability that have a lot of field to study. The literature search on the subject was carried out in Science Direct and high impact articles related to natural or synthetic oxides were used. Keywords: Arsenic, hematite, magnetite, goethite, iron composites. Resumen La contaminación ambiental por metales se ha estudiado mucho con diferentes materiales y técnicas, pero aún no se ha logrado resolver por completo este problema. La alta capacidad de adsorción de los óxidos de hierro como la hematita, magnetita, goetita, ferrihidrita, para la remoción de arsénico en agua son descritos en este trabajo de revisión. Existen muchas investigaciones internacionales de los óxidos de hierro en las que se expone la composición de estos minerales, las propiedades, métodos de síntesis y las variables que intervienen. El carbón activo, las siliconas y los polímeros son materiales que se han usado para formar compositos con estos óxidos que han contribuido a obtener mejores resultados en la remoción de diferentes aniones y cationes. Con este trabajo se pretende difundir estudios ya realizados e incentivar la investigación en este campo para aprovechar las características particulares de los óxidos de hierro y usarlos como remediadores ambientales. Ademas, es importante dar a conocer la existencia de óxidos de hierro naturales que dejan mucho campo por estudiar

O Princípio do Sacrifício Eqüitativo no Sistema Tributário Brasileiro

This article investigates, by means of the model developed for Young (1990), if the direct, indirect and total tributes in Brazil respect the principle of the equal sacrifice. In all the scenes originated in the present analysis, as much the observed indirect tributes how much the total tributes present aliquot higher of the one than the estimates on the low income families, to the step that the aliquot ones observed of such categories of tributes are below of that they would have for the families richest when taken in consideration the principle of the equal sacrifice. This confirmation is valid in such a way for the tax structure current how much for the effective one in middle of the decade of 1970. The results show that the Brazilian tax system does not respect the capacity of payment of the families, fact that contributes for the maintenance of the indices of concentration of income in landings elevatedSacrifício Eqüitativo, Sistema Tributário, Desigualdade de Renda

Valoracion economica de servicios ambientales mediante la aplicacion del experimento de eleccion (choice experiment): Caso experimental en relictos de Nothofagus alessandri (Ruil), VII Region del Maule.

70 p.En el presente estudio se llevó a cabo una valoración económica de los servicios ambientales proporcionados por el bosque de Ruil mediante la aplicación de la metodología de valoración Choice Experiment. El objetivo fue analizar la aplicabilidad de este método, en la valoración de los servicios ambientales proporcionados por el Recurso Forestal Ruil(Nothofagus alessandri) existentes en la Región del Maule. El trabajo de campo se realizó en las comunas de Chanco y Empedrado, debido a que en ellas se concentra una importante proporción del recurso forestal Ruil. Con este propósito se realizó una encuesta a 160 familias de las comunas de Chanco y Empedrado, donde se realizaron 98 y 62 encuestas respectivamente. Se evaluaron 3 atributos (servicios ambientales) que proporciona el bosque de Ruil, los cuales fueron: superficie de Ruil efectivamente protegida, belleza escénica y el establecimiento de programas de protección y conservación de especies que habitan en estos bosques. Los resultados indican que los atributos más importantes para la población son superficie de Ruil efectivamente protegida y el establecimiento de programas de protección y conservación de especies que habitan en los bosques de Ruil, ya que la muestra encuestada esta dispuesta a pagar $787 y$371 mensuales por familia por cada uno de estos atributos respectivamente. Por otro lado, las variables sociodemográficas edad, educación e ingreso presentan una relación significativa con la elección de escenarios por parte de los entrevistados, siguiendo una tendencia similar a la presentada por otros estudios de este tipo. La metodología aplicada permitió valorar adecuadamente la disposición a pagar de los individuos por los servicios ambientales proporcionados por el recurso forestal Ruil. Por tal motivo, estudios de este tipo permiten una mejor comprensión de alternativas potenciales a la hora de gestionar los recursos naturales. La comparación de las disposiciones a pagar de los entrevistados, por cada uno de los servicios ambientales del recurso natural estudiado, índica la importancia relativa que estos le dan a cada uno de los servicios. Los resultados proporcionados por el estudio, pueden contribuir a diseñar mejores estrategias de conservación y protección del recurso forestal Ruil, enfocados en el manejo de los servicios y bienes ambientales que éste proporciona

PROFIL USAHA PEMBUATAN TEMPE CV CIPTA PANCA PERSADA KLEAK KECAMATAN MALALAYANG KOTA MANADO

This study aims to examine the profile of tempe making business at CV Cipta Panca Persada. The business profile is limited to obtaine of the amount of profits. This research was conducted for 3 monthsstarting from May to July 2018. The data used in this study are primary data and secondary data. Primary data is obtained from direct interviews with business owners (one respodent) using a list of questions that have been provided. While secondary data is obtained from the Agriculture Faculty library, the internet by using a google search engine to access articles from various scientific journals and theses from other universities related to this research topic concerning business profile. The results showed that the amount of tempe produced in one day was 50 packs of small packs at a price of Rp. 3,500 per package and 200 medium packages at Rp. 6,500 per package. The production process is one month (31 days) in July 2018, obtaining a total revenue of Rp. 39,000,000 with a total cost of Rp. 16,775,714,resulting in a profit of Rp. 22,224,286. -*eprm