Biopower, Body Commodification, and Defiance of Neoliberal Logic in Impuesto a la Carne by Diamela Eltit / Biopoder, mercantilización del cuerpo y desafío a la lógica neoliberal en Impuesto a la carne de Damiela Eltit

This article analyses the novel Impuesto a la carne (2010) by Diamela Eltit and favors a reading that focuses on the past forty years of Chile?s history. Drawing on recent biopolitical concepts by Foucault and Agamben, this article demonstrates how the hospital setting in Eltit?s novel allows her to embody neoliberalism and account for the usually invisible bodily experiences of racialized and gendered patients/citizens, while simultaneously showing that the neoliberal model, in its quest for continuous expansion, is now colonizing the inner spaces of the corporeal body. This article also briefly shows that through her writing of the maternal body, Eltit highlights its potential for resistance and for meaningful connections to other human beings. Her novel thus calls for the emergence of a renewed type of activism that brings together marginalized communities to denounce the embodied nature of social injustice created and reinforced through neoliberalism and to potentially attain the social equality that democracy was supposed to deliver.Este artículo propone un análisis de la novela Impuesto a la carne (2010) de Diamela Eltit. Basándose en parte en conceptos de biopoder propuestos por Foucault, se demuestra cómo el marco del hospital donde el sufrimiento extremo y el abuso prolongado infligido sobre los cuerpos posiblemente indígenas de la narradora y su madre, le permite a Eltit remitir a la versión silenciada de la historia de Chile y especialmente a su reciente pasado totalitario. Eltit expone cómo el modelo neoliberal vigente es dependiente de los cuerpos humanos para funcionar, y denuncia algunos de los procesos usados por el estado-mercado para excluir, explotar y beneficiarse de lo que considera cuerpos marginados. Este artículo revela también cómo, en su escritura, Eltit recalca el poder de resistencia del cuerpo materno y su potencial para crear conexiones significativas entre seres humanos. En este sentido, la novela anuncia la emergencia de un tipo renovado de activismo que une a las comunidades marginalizadas para denunciar la naturaleza corporalizada de las injusticias sociales creadas y reinforzadas por el sistema neoliberal.

Flora Tristan’s Plural Identities in Peregrinaciones de una paria : Challenging and Reproducing Existing Power Structures

This article analyses the ways in which Franco-Peruvian author Flora Tristan crosses the border of her plural identities in her famous travel book Peregrinaciones de una paria (1837). It especially looks at how she performs as a male in certain situations and how these are generally associated with her French identity. It also considers her identification as a woman and how it is linked to her Peruvian identity. These examinations reveal how Tristan actually redefines herself as a pariah and how her definition differs from that of outcast imposed on her in France prior to her departure for Peru

The corporeality of trauma, memory, and resistance : writing the body in contemporary fiction from Chile and Argentina

textThis dissertation looks at the representation and impact of gendered violence in the novel Pasos bajo el agua (1986) and in the short stories in Ofrenda de propia piel (2004) by Argentine author and former political prisoner Alicia Kozameh (b. 1953), as well as in Jamás el fuego nunca (2007) and Impuesto a la carne (2010), two novels by Chilean writer Diamela Eltit (b. 1949). By examining the particular expressions of physical and psychological pain in the aforementioned texts, I demonstrate that Kozameh and Eltit write the female body to simultaneously represent a corporeality that, until recently, has rarely been expressed in literature, and reconstruct a body that has been traumatized by state-sponsored violence and by what could be considered economic violence. Both of them denounce violence, torture, disappearances, exile, and indifference to justice as painful events that not only damage the spirits of the victims, but that are also inscribed upon the physical body. I also show how each author addresses the overlapping of individual and collective traumatic memories and how these are felt in the body as well. Finally, I argue that writing the materiality of the lived body, from its vulnerability to its resilience, provides for Kozameh and Eltit valuable insight into the ways in which female bodies are able to resist and reassess the meaning imposed on them by legally-endorsed and non-official systems of oppression. Their work thus has direct viii social relevance that goes beyond feminism's countering of male dominance and women's rights. Yet, I also show that they manifest their feminist commitment by using the voice and body of female subjects to incorporate marginalized Chilean and Argentine bodies into the linguistic realm in order to provide a fuller understanding of female corporeality in Latin America.Spanish and Portugues

Phymaturus williamsi. Parturition behavior

The Andean lizard Phymaturus williamsi (Lobo et al. 2013. Zootaxa 3683:117–132), is categorized as vulnerable (Abdala et al. 2012. Cuad. Herpetol. 26:215–248) and is endemic to Quebrada Vallecito (31.1791°S, 69.7092°W; WGS 84; 3000 m elev.), in the high Andes, 40 km NW of Calingasta, San Juan Province, Argentina. All species of Phymaturus (Liolaemidae) are viviparous, saxicolous, and mostly herbivorous (Lobo et al. 2016. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 176:648–673). Reproductive activity has been recently documented (Castro et al. 2018. Herpetol. Conserv. Biol. 13:283–293); however, to our knowledge, parturition behavior has not been recorded. Here, we present new data related to the parturition behavior and neonate dimensions of P. williamsi.Fil: Victorica Erostarbe, Ana Elena. Universidad Nacional de San Juan. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Departamento de Biología; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - San Juan; ArgentinaFil: Acosta, Juan Carlos. Universidad Nacional de San Juan. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Departamento de Biología; Argentin

Funding Impacts on Existing Social Workers Providing Services to African American Battered Women

Social workers who work in domestic violence shelters have many different impacts that can affect their ability to provide services to battered women. Research is lacking on how funding impacts the abilities of existing social workers to provide services to African American battered women who are at domestic violence shelters in Columbia, South Carolina. The purpose of this study was to examine how a lack of funding impacts the abilities of existing social workers who work at domestic violence shelters to provide services to African American battered women. Conflict theory was used to gain an understanding of how funding issues impact existing social workers’ ability to do their job. A basic qualitative approach was used with individual interviews with five social workers currently employed at domestic violence shelters. The data were analyzed through thematic analysis. Five themes emerged: (a) limited programmatic and therapeutic access, (b) inability to update training and tools to access current needs, (c) barriers to retaining experienced social workers, (d) insufficient number of social workers, and (e) limited access to services to meet the needs of battered African American women. The social workers who work in domestic violence shelters and shelter administrators may benefit by using the findings to advocate for additional financial and training support at the local, state, and national levels

Centro Ecoturístico, Elhuicatl, cielo o paraíso, San Pedro, Atlixco: bioclima semifrío

124 páginas. Especialización en Diseño.En este trabajo se realizará un proyecto eco turístico, en el cual además de crear un centro vacacional que sea integral y amigable con el sitio y el medio natural. En este caso será en el estado de Puebla en el municipio de Atlixco, con lo que se busca dar un enfoque diferente a los lugares eco turísticos que existen en la región, para lograr este fin se emplearan las estrategias bioclimáticas, como son el análisis climático del lugar, estudio de asoleamiento, temperatura, humedad, viento, así como el confort lumínico, acústico y térmico. Además, se integrarán al proyecto eco tecnologías; uno con la finalidad de ser más amigable con el ambiente que lo rodea y dos buscar crear una mayor conciencia en el usuario

Where’s the Spin? A DFT Study of Mixed-Valence Cyanide-Bridged Ruthenium Polypyridines

This article discusses the use of density functional theory (DFT) calculations in classifying and characterizing bimetallic ruthenium mixed-valence systems in terms of their electronic localization/ delocalization degree. A standard B3LYP/LanL2DZ methodology including integral equation formalism-polarizable continuum model (IEF-PCM) solvent model is evaluated for a set of 16 nonsymmetric mixed-valence cyanide-bridged ruthenium polypyridines. This procedure reproduces well the features of the observed electronic and vibrational spectra, with better agreement for the more delocalized systems, and therefore provides an appropriate description of the electronic structures. Computed spin densities support class II or class III Robin-Day assignments and allow to quantify the electronic delocalization degree. The applied methodology yields good results due to the nature of the systems explored, which display a strong electronic coupling promoted by the cyanide-bridge and a lack of strong specific solvation effects. This procedure is not only useful in the study of ground state mixed-valence systems, but also provides a powerful insight into photoinduced mixed-valence excited states of related complexes.Fil: Pieslinger, German Eduardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Química y Físico-Química Biológicas "Prof. Alejandro C. Paladini". Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica. Instituto de Química y Físico-Química Biológicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Analítica y Química Física; ArgentinaFil: Cadranel, Alejandro. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Analítica y Química Física; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Química, Física de los Materiales, Medioambiente y Energía. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Química, Física de los Materiales, Medioambiente y Energía; Argentina. Universitat Erlangen Nuremberg; AlemaniaFil: Baraldo Victorica, Luis Mario. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Analítica y Química Física; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Química, Física de los Materiales, Medioambiente y Energía. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Química, Física de los Materiales, Medioambiente y Energía; Argentin

O imposto sobre os produtos industrializados das cervejas atende aos conceitos de extrafiscalidade dos tributos à luz da constituição federal?

A presente monografia apresentará alguns princípios constitucionais que não estariam sendo observados na legislação do Imposto sobre os Produtos Industrializados – IPI incidente sobre as cervejas. Por meio de um levantamento das informações disponíveis no sítio da Secretaria da Receita Federal do Brasil na internet, levantou-se se a extrafiscalidade constitucional observa princípios como o da capacidade contributiva, promoção da dignidade humana e da transparência republicana.226 páginasOrçamento e FinançasTransparência Governamenta

Modelo para simular la evolución del oxígeno disuelto en embalses

[ES] En este trabajo se plantea un modelo explícito, en un esquema de diferencias finitas, para estudiar la evolución del oxígeno disuelto (OD) en embalses. Está conformado por las ecuaciones de transporte y cinéticas de los principales procesos de producción y decaimiento del OD dentro del agua. Se considera como fuente de OD el que se produce vía fotosíntesis y como sumideros el OD requerido para la respiración de los microorganismos que llevan a cabo la degradación del material orgánico, tanto del que ingrese por los tributarios, como para el que se genere dentro de él por la muerte del fitoplancton. En las ecuaciones cinéticas se consideran los efectos de la luz y la temperatura. Al modelo, aunque se conformó específicamente para analizar la evolución del OD en la presa hidroeléctrica Aguamilpa, en el estado de Nayarit, México, se le pueden hacer ajustes para aplicarlo a otros embalses y/o incorporarle las ecuaciones que describen la cinética de otros parámetros de la calidad del agua, como son nitrógeno y fósforo, que están íntimamente relacionados con el proceso de eutrofización, fenómeno característico en la mayoría de los embalses mexicanos.El autor agradece al M en I José Luis Sánchez Bribiesca la revisión e imprescindibles indicaciones para la elaboración del presente trabajo.De Victorica Almeida, JL. (1996). Modelo para simular la evolución del oxígeno disuelto en embalses. Ingeniería del Agua. 3(2):63-74. https://doi.org/10.4995/ia.1996.2699SWORD637432Chapra, S.C and Reckhow, K.H. (1983) Engineering approaches for lake management, Vol. 2: Mechanistic modeling, Butterworth Publ., Boston.De Victorica A.J. (1995) Análisis de la dinámica de la calidad del agua en lagos y embalses Tesis doctoral, División de Estudios de Posgrado de la Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.De Victorica, A.J. (1988) Modelo numérico para el análisis del régimen térmico en las presas, Ingeniería Hidráulica en México, Vol.Ill Núm. 1 II Epoca enero/abril, ISSN-0186-4076.Hiriart G.L. y Pereyra D. (1980) Balance de energía Agua-Atmósfera y algunas aplicacionesIX Congreso Latinoamericano de la IAHR, Venezuela, pp.1-9.Kikkawa, H. (1978) Reservoir sedimentation. Proceedings of the First Semminary Japanese-American in Erosion and Sedimentation, chap. 8; Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.Krenkel, P.A. and Novotry, V. (1980) Water quality management, Academic Press, N.Y.Metcalf & Eddy, Inc. (1979) Wastewater engineering: treatment, disposal, reuse, Second Edition, McGraw-Hill Book Company, N.Y.Orlob, G.T. (1983) Mathematical modeling of water quality: streams, lakes and reservoirs, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., N.Y.Reid, G.K. and Wood, R.D. (1976) Ecology of inland waters and estuaries, Second Edition, D. Van Nostrand Company, N.Y.Ryan P. and Harleman D. (1973) An analitycal and experimental study of transient cooling pond behaviour Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Report 161.Tabor H. and Weinberger Z. (1981) Nonconvective solar pounds. In: Solar Energy Handbook, Kreider and Kreith, Eds., McGraw-Hill Book Co., N.Y.Tennessee Valley Authority, TVA. (1972) Heat and mass transfer between a water surface and the atmosphere, Laboratory report No. 14, Water Resources Research.Thomann, R.V. (1972) Systems analysis and water quality management, McGraw-Hill Book Company., N.Y.U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1976) Environmental modeling and simulation, Washington, D.C.U.S. Environmental Research Laboratory (1988) Wasp4, A hidrodynamic and water quality model, Office of Research and Development, Athens, G