Listado de revisores 2015

Los artículos publicados en Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals pasan por un riguroso proceso de evaluación externa por pares (peer review) de anonimato doble. Este documento es un listado de los revisores de 2015

Dependency and autonomy: an anthropological approach from the care of the elderly

Utilizando como hilo conductor las políticas de asistencia a la dependencia y las políticas de Envejecimiento activo en España, y con el soporte de algunos ejemplos etnográficos sacados del trabajo de campo de la autora, el artículo propone una reflexión acerca de los conceptos de dependencia, autonomía y vulnerabilidad a través de la relación existente entre envejecimiento y cuidado. El análisis presentado muestra la existencia de unas contradicciones entre el discurso y la práctica de estas políticas, aparentemente antagónicas en sus definiciones, planteando la necesidad de un cambio de perspectiva que incorpore los conceptos de interdependencia y autonomía relacional en los estudios empíricos y en las políticas sociales, para ir más allá de la distinción entre cuidador (sujeto independiente) y receptor de cuidado (objeto dependiente).Through a review of care policies and active aging policies in Spain, relying on some ethnographic examples drawn from the author's fieldwork, the article proposes a critical reflection of such concepts as dependency, autonomy and vulnerability and the relationship between aging and elderly care. The analysis shows the existence of some contradictions between discourse and practice of these policies, apparently antagonistic in their definitions, encouraging a change of perspective to include the concept of interdependence and relational autonomy in scientific production and in social policies, to go beyond distinction between care-giver (independent subject) and care-receivers (dependent object)

Texture mapping in a distributed environment

This paper presents a tool for texture mapping in a distributed environment. A parallelization method based on the master-slave model is described. The purpose of this work is to lower the image generation time in the complex 3D scenes synthesis process. The experimental results concerning the speedup of texture mapping algorithm are also presented.

POVMs: a small but important step beyond standard quantum mechanics

It is the purpose of the present contribution to demonstrate that the generalization of the concept of a quantum mechanical observable from the Hermitian operator of standard quantum mechanics to a positive operator-valued measure is not a peripheral issue, allegedly to be understood in terms of a trivial nonideality of practical measurement procedures, but that this generalization touches the very core of quantum mechanics, viz. complementarity and violation of the Bell inequalities.Comment: Contribution to Proceedings of the Workshop `Beyond the quantum', Leiden, May/June 200

Tensile deformation of silver micro-wires of small thickness-to-grain-size ratios

A recent letter from us has indicated that the tensile proof strength of polycrystalline Ag micro-wires, with thicknesses in the range from 20 to 50. μm, depends strongly on the specimen size (t) and weakly on the grain size (d) when t/. d becomes smaller than about 3. In this work, we report further coupled effects of specimen size and grain size in the regime when their ratio is small. At a given grain size from 3 to 40. μm, the tensile elongation was found to decrease as the wire thickness decreases, and as the t/. d ratio gets smaller than about 3, the tensile elongation loses its dependence on the grain size. The work-hardening rate was found to scale approximately with the proof strength, and so they should be controlled by the same metallurgical factors. Transmission electron microscopy examination of the dislocation microstructures showed that in the regime where the grain size dominates strength and ductility, the dislocation density rises rapidly on deformation, but in the regime where the specimen thickness dominates strength and ductility, the dislocation density remains on the same order of magnitude as the undeformed state. The easy escape of dislocations from the specimen is thought to be the reason for the observed size effect of strength. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.postprin

Increased expression of GABA transporters, GAT-1 and GAT-3, in the deafferented superior colliculus of the rat.

GABA transporters (GATs) play a critical role in the translemmal transport of GABA in neurons and glial cells. Two major brain GATs, GAT-1 and GAT-3, are found in astrocytes in the adult brain. Astroglia demonstrate morphological and molecular changes in response to brain injury and deafferentation. The present study was designed to determine whether the expression of GATs changes after nerve deafferentation using the rat superior colliculus (SC) as a model. The immunoreactivity for GAT-1 and GAT-3, as well as GABA and glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD)-65 and GAD-67, was studied in the SC of control rats and rats with unilateral optic nerve transections. Immunolabeling for both GAT-1 and GAT-3 was increased in the neuropil of the denervated SC as compared to that for the SC of control rats or for the unaffected SC of experimental rats. In contrast, immunoreactivity for GABA, GAD-65 and GAD-67 was not altered. The change in the immunolabeling of GAT-1 and GAT-3 was detectable at 1 day postlesion and became more evident between 3-30 days postlesion. At the electron microscopic level, immunoreactivity for both GAT-1 and GAT-3 in the unaffected SC was localized to astrocytic processes, whereas GAT-1 immunolabeling was also present in synaptic terminals. In the deafferented SC, immunolabeling for both GATs was elevated in the somata and processes of hypertrophied astrocytes as compared to that in the unaffected SC, whereas GAT-1 labeling in neuronal profiles was largely unchanged. A substantial increase of GAT-1 and GAT-3 in astrocytes following optic nerve transection suggests that these cells play a role in modulating GABA's action in the deafferented SC

Advances in development and application of shape memory alloy in textiles

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