Juventud Sin Futuro

This paper looks at the subjective experiences of Spanish organized youth who are being affected by the economic crisis. This paper follows a standpoint epistemology. This research focuses on how their practices question the current dominant discourse depicting today’s Spanish youth as a “lost generation”. Theory on generation is used in order to denote the problematic idea of trying to identify today what can only be defined (in the future). Ideas from anarchist politics and autonomous movements are used to explore Spanish youth current ways of organizing and making politics. Post- structuralist theory is used to explore the influence of discourses in constructing reality. The theories used, together with the stories collected through fieldwork invite us to: First, consider other realities and possibilities of future. Specifically the ones that don’t follow the dominant way of being economically developed. Second, move from the event that defines a cohort (economic crisis) in order to focus on the experiences of those who are being affected by it. Finally, look at the ways these youth are resisting and organizing, creating alternatives within the context of economic crisis

Women, Youth and the Economic Crisis in Southern Europe

__Abstract__ The paper raises questions about how the economic crisis is being played out ‘in place’ taking an embodied, generational and gender perspective. We place in a political context – examining how global realities are experienced in place and argue that we need to look at the every day realities of the crisis from a gendered and generational perspective in order to counter grand narratives of gloom and doom where women (whether old, young, migrant, heterosexual or otherwise) are particular victims. We seek to show how by contextualizing the gendered and generational realities of the crisis in southern Europe can we change the narrative of overwhelming paralyzing crisis to one of potential transformation. We focus on the rise of resistance, solidarity economies and new types of communities in the search for alternatives to neoliberal capitalism by women and youth in southern Europe. We look at how people are organizing differently as a result of the crises, creating news forms of political economic and social relations. Dominant narratives tend to exclude the stories of the unprivileged in such reshapings of political, economic and social relations, this paper is the beginnings of bringing the experience and understandings of women and youth in southern Europe to the centre of the analysis of the economic crisis in Europe

Programa "Leo contigo" para niños de educación primaria : propuesta de investigación para comprobar su eficacia

64 páginas.Trabajo fin de Máster en Intervención Asistida con Animales (2020-2021). Tutora: Dra. Dª. María Cruz García Linares. El objetivo de este Trabajo Fin de Master es diseñar una investigación que evalúe la eficacia de un programa para mejorar las habilidades de lecto-escritura en niños y niñas de Educación Primaria. Se describen los procesos relativos a la lectura, la escritura y la Educación Asistida con Perros. Además se expone el procedimiento para evaluar la eficacia del programa “Leo Contigo”, el cual consta de 12 sesiones que se llevarán a cabo con un grupo experimental, quienes recibirán la intervención con un perro, así como de un grupo control sin perro. La implementación de las sesiones tendrá lugar en el colegio y serán dirigidas por un equipo de intervención formado por profesionales humanos y caninos. Una vez finalizado el programa, se espera que el grupo de estudiantes que reciba la intervención con el perro obtenga mejores resultados, en los instrumentos de evaluación, y muestre mayor motivación que el grupo control.The objective of this Master's Thesis is to design a research to evaluate the effectiveness of a program to improve reading and writing skills in primary school children. The processes related to reading, writing and dog-assisted education are described. In addition, the procedure to evaluate the effectiveness of the "Leo Contigo" program is presented, which consists of 12 sessions to be carried out with an experimental group, who will receive the intervention with a dog, as well as a control group without a dog. The implementation of the sessions will take place at the school and will be led by an intervention team formed by human and canine professionals. At the end of the program, it is expected that the group of students that received the intervention with the dog will obtain better results in the evaluation instruments and will show higher motivation than the control group

The Teacher Self Construction of Language Teachers

The main purpose of this thesis is to deepen the current understanding of how the teacher self is constructed. Specifically, the study intends to integrate into this understanding the way in which language personal, professional, and student teacher identities inform this process. A special emphasis is placed on the role that language teachers’ life histories play on the construction of teacher selves. Narrative research constitutes the research design for this thesis project since I strongly believe that selves are narratively constructed through stories. This study is focused on the storied self (Chase, 2005) that is co-constructed between the researcher and narrator that reveals how personal, professional, and student teacher identities resist and interact with discursive environments in order to create and recreate a language teacher’s self. Life histories constitute the source of data collection in this study. This facilitated the construction of a broader understanding of how six language teachers’ personal, professional, and student teacher identities are shaped throughout a lifetime and the way these impact the formation of the teacher self. The results suggest that language teachers’ selves are in close relation to emotions. Language teachers negotiate their identities and emotions in order to make sense of the different sets of values that the social context presents to them. This in turn leads them to create/recreate their own teacher selves that serve as sources of agency that generates new sets of social/moral rules or stagnation that leads to the preservation of the current status quo. The thesis concludes by providing a series of suggestions tailored to the needs of the teaching context where this research took place with the purpose of fostering a continuous engagement with individual actors and socio-cultural factors that motivate transformation through reflection.Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipa

Intelligent VR-AR for Natural Disasters Management

Considering the significance of improving natural disasters emergency management and recognizing that catastrophe scenes are almost impossible to reconstruct in real life, forcing persons to experience real hazards violates both law and morality, in this research is presented an engine for Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality (VR/AR) that works enhancing human capacities for prevention, response and recovery of natural phenomena effects. The selected novel techniques have very advantageous qualities to overcome the inconveniences detected in the most recent seismic devastating experience in Mexico City, the Sept 19th, 2017, earthquake M7.2: total collapse of more than 230 buildings, partial fall of 7 000 houses, 370 people were killed, and over 6,000 were injured. VR and AR provide researchers, government authorities and rescue teams with tools for recreating the emergencies entirely through computer-generated signals of sight, sound, and touch, when using VR, and overlays of sensory signals for experiences a rich juxtaposition of virtual and real worlds simultaneously, when AR is applied. The gap between knowledge and action is filled with visual, aural, and kinesthetic immersive experiences that poses a possibility to attend to the population in danger in a deeply efficient way, never experimented before

Migrant Women Smuggled to California for the Sex Commerce

[EN] California has been identified as one of the areas of the United States that concentrates the highest levels of women trafficked into prostitution. This is due to the presence of the entertainment industry and the high number of undocumented migrants. This research, supported by interviews with ten traffickers who led women from Mexico and Central America to California and thirty migrant women who were driven by traffickers to California, concludes that networks that transport women for the sex trade to California operate on a regular basis, frequently transport minors, and charge relatively high fees.[ES] California ha sido señalada como una de las áreas de Estados Unidos que concentra los niveles más elevados de mujeres traficadas para la prostitución. Esto obedece a la presencia de la industria del entretenimiento y el elevado número de migrantes indocumentados. Esta investigación sustentada en entrevistas con diez traficantes que conducían mujeres de México y Centroamérica hasta California y treinta mujeres migrantes que fueron conducidas por traficantes hasta California, concluye que las redes que transportan mujeres para el comercio sexual hasta California operan con una periodicidad regular, transportan de modo frecuente a menores de edad, y cobran tarifas relativamente elevadas.Secretaría de Educación Pública/Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (SEP/CONACYT)Andrade Rubio, KL.; Izcara Palacios, S.; Trejo Guzmán, NP.; Mora Vázquez, A. (2021). Mujeres migrantes traficadas a California para el comercio sexual. https://doi.org/10.4995/citecma.2021.14275OJSAcharya, Arun Kumar (2009). Una nueva forma de esclavitud humana. El tráfico de mujeres en México. Monterrey: UANL.Acharya, Arun Kumar y Clark, Jennifer Bryson (2014). Trafficking of women and vulnerability to HIV/STI infection in urban Mexico. 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Reliability, accuracy, and minimal detectable difference of a mixed concept marker set for finger kinematic evaluation

The study of finger biomechanics requires special tools for accurately recording finger joint data. A marker set to evaluate finger postures during activities of daily living is needed to understand finger biomechanics in order to improve prosthesis design and clinical interventions. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the reliability of a proposed hand marker set (the Warwick marker set) to capture finger kinematics using motion capture. The marker set consisted of the application of two and three marker clusters to the fingers of twelve participants who participated in the tests across two sessions. Calibration markers were applied using a custom palpation technique. Each participant performed a series of range of motion movements and held a set of objects. Intra and inter-session reliability was calculated as well as Standard Error of Measurement (SEM) and Minimal Detectable Difference (MDD). The findings showed varying levels of intra- and inter-session reliability, ranging from poor to excellent. The SEM and MDD values were lower for the intra-session range of motion and grasp evaluation. The reduced reliability can potentially be attributed to skin artifacts, differences in marker placement, and the inherent kinematic variability of finger motion. The proposed marker set shows potential to assess finger postures and analyse activities of daily living, primarily within the context of single session tests

Percepción de los estudiantes ante el consumo de drogas psicoactivas en su universidad

Introducción. Entre los jóvenes universitarios se ha observado una tolerancia creciente hacia el consumo de drogas debido a una reducción en la percepción de riesgo, que se considera como aquellos juicios o intuiciones que se tienen sobre la peligrosidad de una situación que puede contribuir a la normalización del consumo. El objetivo fue analizar la percepción de los estudiantes sobre: consumo, venta y gravedad del consumo de drogas en su facultad; conductas de docentes y estudiantes que facilitan el consumo de alcohol y  la postura de las autoridades universitarias ante estudiantes consumidores. Material y Método. Se analizó la base de datos derivada del proyecto Consumo de drogas en estudiantes universitarios, en el que participaron 19,815 estudiantes de una universidad pública mexicana; se realizaron comparaciones según sexo y área académica utilizando pruebas de chi-cuadrada y el análisis post hoc de Bonferroni. Resultados. Las mujeres reportaron una menor percepción que los hombres sobre las variables analizadas. Las áreas académicas que se distinguieron por mostrar diferencias con respecto a las otras fueron: Económico-Administrativa en el consumo de drogas ilegales dentro de las facultades y la venta de drogas legales cerca de sus facultades y Biológico-Agropecuaria en la venta cercana de drogas ilegales cerca de sus facultades y en la percepción de la gravedad del consumo de drogas legales. Conclusión. El conocimiento de la percepción de los jóvenes universitarios acerca de las variables estudiadas de acuerdo al sexo y el área académica marca la pauta para implementar estrategias específicas de intervenció