Music Making: A Bridge Joint of Students’ Cultural and Musical Diversity

AbstractThis study deals with the importance of music making in promoting interpersonal and social ways of living together in primary and secondary school classrooms. The work focuses on the role of music teachers, laying special emphasis on their ibilities to enhance the creation of significant musical experiences in the music classroom intended promote not only the learning)f music, but also the development of interpersonal competences, in order to foster the positive integration of students and the ‘ecognition of their particular identities. We have considered the opinions of many prestigious Spanish and international experts m music education. The data has been qualitatively analysed. The study presents some results that show the need to use iiversified practical approaches in music education today. It also offers some specific guidelines to promote the creation of educational spaces that enhance good musical practices

A Brand Argument Driven Through Art and Schematics. Designing New Perspectives to Transform and Empower the Neighborhood

The interaction between Art and Branding has occurred in various contexts, for reputation purposes, through all communication media, for the purposes of persuasion, promotion, symbolism or secondary associations, impacting on social and cognitive levels. The scope of this article is to correlate Branding Art and Art Infusion with the spirit of the place, concretely to present a conceptual model which correlates artistic activities developed in a neighborhood with Branding Art and Art Infusion concepts taking into account the reinforcement of the current place brand strategy. The article is based on the literature review and in explanatory Case Study, using results from the project “Re-Habitar el Barrio: Procesos de Transformación y Empoderamiento entre Universidad-Escuela-Sociedad a través de Prácticas Artísticas”. The use of the schemes makes possible to visualize and share abstract concepts and value data in a participatory group way, detecting the best ways to facilitate communication and mediate interaction between people and territory. The results consist of defining a brand argument and defining its conceptual model, making use of the schematics as a way of visualizing abstract concepts

A brand argument driven through art and schematics designing new perspectives to transform and empower the neighborhood

The interaction between Art and Branding has occurred in various contexts, for reputation purposes, through all communication media, for the purposes of persuasion, promotion, symbolism or secondary associations, impacting on social and cognitive levels. The scope of this article is to correlate Branding Art and Art Infusion with the spirit of the place, concretely to present a conceptual model which correlates artistic activities developed in a neighborhood with Branding Art and Art Infusion concepts taking into account the reinforcement of the current place brand strategy. The article is based on the literature review and in explanatory Case Study, using results from the project “Re-Habitar el Barrio: Procesos de Transformación y Empoderamiento entre Universidad-Escuela-Sociedad a través de Prácticas Artísticas”. The use of the schemes makes possible to visualize and share abstract concepts and value data in a participatory group way, detecting the best ways to facilitate communication and mediate interaction between people and territory. The results consist of defining a brand argument and defining its conceptual model, making use of the schematics as a way of visualizing abstract concepts.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Impact of late presentation of HIV infection on short-, mid- and long-term mortality and causes of death in a multicenter national cohort : 2004-2013

To analyze the impact of late presentation (LP) on overall mortality and causes of death and describe LP trends and risk factors (2004-2013). Cox models and logistic regression were used to analyze data from a nation-wide cohort in Spain. LP is defined as being diagnosed when CD4 < 350 cells/ml or AIDS. Of 7165 new HIV diagnoses, 46.9% (CI:45.7-48.0) were LP, 240 patients died.First-year mortality was the highest (aHR = 10.3[CI:5.5-19.3]); between 1 and 4 years post-diagnosis, aHR = 1.9(1.2-3.0); an