Povrnitev ideje univerze kot mogoc odgovor na danasnjo krizo

Higher education has always been associated in one way or another with crisis. One could even argue that the university has always faced one type of crisis or another. The one debated the most is the economic crisis; however, there are many debates focusing on other types of crisis. Furthermore, all major reforms in the history of higher education (from Humboldt’s reform in 19th century Prussia to the views promoted by Y Gasset against the background of the Spanish revolution, or even the Bologna Process) have arisen as a result of a crisis. Today, the global economic crisis has yet again highlighted the fact that the idea of the university, the very foundation on which it was built, is no longer present when addressing contemporary issues in higher education. Our paper argues that there is an imperative need to reclaim and reconsider the idea of the university, as this could provide a possible solution to today’s crisis in higher education. Furthermore, we will attempt to show the reasons why this should occur, as well as the manner in which it could be achieved. The focus today is on too many minute, detailed aspects of higher education institutions, which are managed, evaluated, quality assured, ranked, assessed and so forth, while the global perspective on the university has been lost/ignored. Today’s crisis could be used as an opportunity to reassess and re-establish a relevant idea for today’s university. (DIPF/Orig.

Second record of Tadarida brasiliensis (I. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1824) (Chiroptera, Molossidae) in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina

Although Tadarida brasiliensis is one of the most widely distributed species of bats in Argentina, it is nevertheless extremely scarce in Patagonia. We report a second record of T. brasiliensis for Santa Cruz province, which fills a gap in the geographical distribution of this species in that province and is also the third southernmost record for the species and for any molossid bat in the world.Fil: Zapata, Sonia Cristina. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral. Unidad Académica Caleta Olivia. Centro de Investigaciones Puerto Deseado; ArgentinaFil: Procopio, Diego Esteban. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral. Unidad Académica Caleta Olivia. Centro de Investigaciones Puerto Deseado; ArgentinaFil: Morgenthaler, Annick. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral. Unidad Académica Caleta Olivia. Centro de Investigaciones Puerto Deseado; ArgentinaFil: Travaini, Alejandro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral. Unidad Académica Caleta Olivia. Centro de Investigaciones Puerto Deseado; Argentin

Comunicação e Cultura dos Jovens na Região Trinacional

A proposta deste artigo apresenta apontamentos em relação a cultura dos jovens de diferentes etnias/culturas da região trinacional do Brasil, Paraguai e Argentina e na perspectiva teórico prática das redes sociais. De acordo com Eduardo Vizer (2011), a cultura tecnológica vai se expandindo com a demanda social induzida pelas próprias corporações, pelos meios de comunicação, pelo mercado onipresente e pela constante ajuda de alguma “mão invisível”. Este estudo é parte da proposta de projeto de pesquisa, numa visão sociológica, que busca encontrar respostas para entender e contribuir na análise de como se constroem os processos de comunicação e sentidos na sociedade e mais especificamente os jovens nesta região trinacional onde se encontram as cidades de Foz do Iguaçu (BR), Ciudad del Este (PY) e Puerto Iguazu (ARG). Entende-se que este estudo interdisciplinar e multicultural poderá contribuir na comunicação para integração da América Latina.Organização, execução e patrocínio: UNILA e Itaipu-Paraguay - Parceria: NELOOL/UFSC & Universidad de VIG

Dualities in international management: exploring the role of managers as organizers of standardization/adaptation

In the international context, managers often face a contradictory imperative to organize the interpretive frames and actions of teams towards standardization/adaptation (a duality). Current etic approaches, entity perspectives, and variance models used to understand this phenomenon are limitative. Three inductive studies explore the role of managers from process perspectives and draw on theories of duality, sensemaking, and routines, to develop insights on how managers enact the work environment, use dynamic interpretations over time, and combine routinized and non-routinized behaviors to address the duality. The studies contribute to an open dialogue among different theoretical perspectives, opening new avenues for research

New Values in Art: Japanese and Japoniste Ceramics, 1866-1904

This dissertation explores a constellation of interrelated, and under-investigated, French and Japanese ceramics spanning the period between 1866, the year that marked the production of the first ceramic set that came to be known as japoniste, and 1904, the year of the St. Louis World’s Fair, where contemporaneous Japanese and French ceramics shared a common vocabulary. The historical data I collected in France and Japan and its analysis, through qualitative and quantitative sociological tools, led me to conclude that Japonisme represented a tightly knit social network in which ceramics were used as currency to broker unprecedented links within and between the central binaries of the nineteenth-century French art world: academic/ avant-garde, art/ craft, fine art/ decorative art, painting/ other mediums, intrinsic/ instrumental, representational/ self-referential, and tradition/ innovation. Until now, most attention to Japonisme has been concentrated on the ukiyo-e woodblock prints used instrumentally by the Modernist practitioners of what Duranty called the “new painting.” My study turns our attention to a medium in which cultural power relationships were more evenly balanced, and in which, therefore, we can trace how two cultures can interact productively. Japanese ceramics taught French collectors and artists how to begin to discern between Chinese and Japanese traditions and to “read” the cultural references embedded in Japanese decoration. Also, French collectors’ antiquarian interest in Japanese ceramics was readily matched by French potters who reformed their practice and altered hierarchies of medium by drawing on the European arabesque tradition, the Rococo Revival, and the Japanese aesthetic of playfulness. In return, Meiji- and Taisho-period Japanese potters and porcelain manufacturers emulated European japoniste ceramic vocabulary in what constituted a renegotiation of the balance between tradition, on the one hand, and imported technologies and new global markets, on the other. Their ceramics reflected several rounds of exchange between the Japanese and French art worlds. These objects demonstrated just how complexly two social networks from two previously distinct cultures had been influencing each other in a medium they both valued, ceramics. I call this phenomenon “uroboric” Japonisme because it most fully illustrates the circular nature of transcultural exchanges and the central role that such exchanges play in the renewal of aesthetic and sociocultural identities

OBAMA IN TIME AND LULA IN VEJA: A CASE STUDY OF PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN COVERAGE IN NEWS MAGAZINES OF THE UNITED STATES AND BRAZIL

Journalism and its links with nationhood and the ideologies that have built the nations (race, gender, and class, according to the historians) are the subjects of this study. They are researched through the analysis of the news coverage of two presidential elections which were remarkable in the both countries studied, the United States and Brazil. The elections of the first African-American president of the United States, Barack Obama, and of the first worker president of Brazil, Lula da Silva, are comparable for their symbolism and historical relevance. Textual and historical analyses are combined in this dissertation to investigate, in the narratives of each nation and its ideologies, the meanings that the news magazines analyzed produced during the coverage of those elections. A total of 24 cover stories published in Veja (Brazil) and Time magazine (United States) within a period of approximately eight months in the years of 2008 (Time) and 2002 (Veja) are analyzed. In this close textual reading, visual grammar is also taken in account, since journalism is a language that communicates with its readership by means of layouts (especially in the case of magazines). In this study of interpretive character, the critical discourse analysis approach is used to investigate meaning ranging from the layout of the news magazines (with pictures and so on) to the lexical choices in the written text. This is a study mainly of language and its relationship with the world, in which ideology occupies a special place. It is an international research, a cross-cultural examination of the news coverage of two important elections. In this comparative study, made possible due to the knowledge of the two native languages of the publications (English and Portuguese) by the researcher, the target language is in fact international journalistic language. The study found journalism both working for social change and at same time reproducing racist ideologies in the United States. In Brazil, the examination showed that journalism does not always nurture nationalistic sentiments, but that it can be used to keep the hegemony of one region over the rest of the country

ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY OF PERMEABILITY IN A GRANITIC AQUIFER IN A PILOT BASIN IN THE SOUTH OF SARDINIA (ITALY)

Groundwater circulation in fractured hard rocks aquifer (HRA) is an essential element in the fields of water supply, environment and geotechnics. The fracture properties, as orientation, size, abundance, and quality, influence the circulation of water. The geometry of the fractures makes the hydrogeological environment anisotropic and heterogeneous. Hence, defining the geological model is fundamental to understand spatial variability of permeability, and to define hydrogeological features of the aquifers. The present work aimed to develop a methodology to assess the permeability on crystalline rocks. As a pilot site, the Masoni Ollastru River basin (12,5 km2) in the South of Sardinia was considered. The reconstruction of the fracture network required a multiscale characterisation using field measurements and digital photogrammetry. The fractures field survey consisted in recording the features of discontinuities. The digital photogrammetry workflow produced a high resolution DEM (5m), orthophotos, digital stereo pairs, and a lineaments map. For each 11 geomechanical stations, the set of joints was characterized and the permeability was calculated applying the Darcy’s cubic law (three dimensional Darcy’s law or only cubic law) for each set. Spatial distribution of fracture properties was evaluated to approach the heterogeneity of the medium. For this purpose, two different scenarios in the geological conceptual model were evaluated: the first one concerns a stratiform aquifer with a sub-horizontal and sub-vertical fissured layer in the paleo-weathering profile of the granites; the second one regards valley incision by differential erosion determined by structural features (fractures density). The layer of unconsolidated alterite above the granitic paleo-weathering profile is thin and seems to represent the deeper level where the rocks are less weathered and fractured. Probably, the significant erosion of the large part of the saprolite is related to an uplift after Pliocene time. The permeability calculated with the cubic law was in a range of 10-8 to 10-2 m/s; the highest values are conditioned by the fractures aperture in the surface. According to the geological conceptual model, density and aperture of fractures decreases with depth, thus also permeability. The applied multi-phase methodology with a multiscale approach allowed to provide a hydrogeological conceptual model in a HRA

Basal adenosine modulates the functional properties of AMPA receptors in mouse hippocampal neurons through the activation of A1R A2AR and A3R

Adenosine is a widespread neuromodulator within the CNS and its extracellular level is increased during hypoxia or intense synaptic activity, modulating pre- and postsynaptic sites. We studied the neuromodulatory action of adenosine on glutamatergic currents in the hippocampus, showing that activation of multiple adenosine receptors (ARs) by basal adenosine impacts postsynaptic site. Specifically, the stimulation of both A1R and A3R reduces AMPA currents, while A2AR has an opposite potentiating effect. The effect of ARs stimulation on glutamatergic currents in hippocampal cultures was investigated using pharmacological and genetic approaches. A3R inhibition by MRS1523 increased GluR1-Ser845 phosphorylation and potentiated AMPA current amplitude, increasing the apparent affinity for the agonist. A similar effect was observed blocking A1R with DPCPX or by genetic deletion of either A3R or A1R. Conversely, impairment of A2AR reduced AMPA currents, and decreased agonist sensitivity. Consistently, in hippocampal slices, ARs activation by AR agonist NECA modulated glutamatergic current amplitude evoked by AMPA application or afferent fiber stimulation. Opposite effects of AR subtypes stimulation are likely associated to changes in GluR1 phosphorylation and represent a novel mechanism of physiological modulation of glutamatergic transmission by adenosine, likely acting in normal conditions in the brain, depending on the level of extracellular adenosine and the distribution of AR subtypes

La marca territorio como elemento de la comunicación: Factor estratégico del desarrollo turístico en Cuenca

The brand of a country, a region or a city has, as its main goal, to make visible the image of that physical space between the receiving public. The importance of tourism in the Cuenca’s economy together with the steady increase competitiveness between destinations, justifies the study of its brand. This article aims to determine if the brand and brand image of Cuenca is consistent with its tourism situation and how far a brand territory can promote proper development of a tourist industry in the area. To do this, it´s necessary to perform an análisis of the current brand of Cuenca, sets its suitability, defines the basics functions and main features of a brand territory, and finally proposes a model for Cuenca.La marca de un país, un territorio o una ciudad tiene, como fin primordial, hacer visible la imagen de ese espacio físico entre el público receptor. El peso del turismo en la economía conquense junto con el aumento constante de la competitividad entre destinos, justifica el estudio de su marca. Este artículo tiene como objetivo determinar si la marca e imagen de marca de Cuenca es coherente con su realidad turística y hasta que punto una marca territorio adecuada puede propiciar el desarrollo del sector turístico de un lugar. Para ello se realiza un análisis de la actual marca de Cuenca, se establece su idoneidad, se determinan las funciones básicas y principales características de una marca territorio y se propone un modelo para Cuenca

Stress-induced reduction of dorsal striatal D2 dopamine receptors prevents retention of a newly acquired adaptive coping strategy

The inability to learn an adaptive coping strategy in a novel stressful condition leads to dysfunctional stress coping, a marker of mental disturbances. This study tested the involvement of dorsal striatal dopamine receptors in the dysfunctional coping with the Forced Swim test fostered by a previous experience of reduced food availability. Adult male mice were submitted to a temporary (12 days) reduction of food availability [food-restricted (FR)] or continuously free-fed (FF). Different groups of FF and FR mice were used to evaluate: (1) dorsal striatal mRNA levels of the two isoforms of the dopamine D2 receptor (D2S, D2L). (2) Forced Swim-induced c-fos expression in the dorsal striatum; (3) acquisition and 24 h retention of passive coping with Forced Swim. Additional groups of FF mice were tested for 24 h retention of passive coping acquired during a first experience with Forced Swim immediately followed by intra-striatal infusion of vehicle or two doses of the dopamine D2/D3 receptors antagonist sulpiride or the D1/D5 receptors antagonist SCH23390. Previous restricted feeding selectively reduced mRNA levels of both D2 isoforms and abolished Forced Swim-induced c-fos expression in the left Dorsolateral Striatum and selectively prevented 24 h retention of the coping strategy acquired in a first experience of Forced Swim. Finally, temporary blockade of left Dorsolateral Striatum D2/D3 receptors immediately following the first Forced Swim experience selectively reproduced the behavioral effect of restricted feeding in FF mice. In conclusion, the present results demonstrate that mice previously exposed to a temporary reduction of food availability show low striatal D2 receptors, a known marker of addiction-associated aberrant neuroplasticity, as well as liability to relapse into maladaptive stress coping strategies. Moreover, they offer strong support to a causal relationship between reduction of D2 receptors in the left Dorsolateral Striatum and impaired consolidation of newly acquired adaptive coping