Triple Helix: Film Noir, Neo Noir and Los Angeles ��� imagining history and remembering the future in the most contemporary city

Modern and Postmodern Los Angeles is examined through the lens of film noir and neo noir. The unique relationship between the city of Los Angeles and cinema is discussed in terms of a historiography emphasizing the role played by these defining film styles and genres. The research draws and extends on the work conducted by Edward Dimendberg, Paula Rabinowitz and Mike Davis, and urban theory approaches associated with the Los Angeles School of Urbanism.

Proposing and developing a definition and conceptual framework for health care resilience to cope with disasters [Resiliencia: Propuesta y desarrollo de la definicion y del marco conceptual en relacion a los desastres en el ambito sanitario]

La creaci��n del t��rmino resiliencia en salud es un paso importante hacia la construcci��n de comunidades m��s resilientes para afrontar mejor los desastres futuros. Hasta la fecha, sin embargo, parece que hay poca literatura sobre c��mo el concepto de resiliencia en salud debe ser definido. Este art��culo tiene como objetivo construir un enfoque de gesti��n de desastres de salud integral guiado por el concepto de resiliencia. Se realizaron busquedas en bases de datos electr��nicas de salud para recuperar publicaciones cr��ticas que pueden haber contribuido a los fines y objetivos de la investigaci��n. Un total de 61 publicaciones se incluyeron en el an��lisis final de este documento, que se centraron en aqu��llas que proporcionan una descripci��n completa de las teor��as y definiciones de resiliencia ante los desastres y las que proponen una definici��n y un marco conceptual para la capacidad de resiliencia en salud. La resiliencia es una capacidad inherente de adaptaci��n para hacer frente a la incertidumbre del futuro. Esto implica el uso de m��ltiples estrategias, un enfoque de riesgos m��ximos y tratar de lograr un resultado positivo a trav��s de la vinculaci��n y cooperaci��n entre los distintos elementos de la comunidad. Resiliencia en salud puede definirse como la capacidad de las organizaciones de salud para resistir, absorber, y responder al impacto de los desastres, mientras mantiene las funciones esenciales y se recupera a su estado original o se adapta a un nuevo estado. Puede evaluarse por criterios como la robustez, la redundancia, el ingenio y la rapidez e incluye las dimensiones clave de la vulnerabilidad y la seguridad, los recursos y la preparaci��n para casos de desastre, la continuidad de los servicios esenciales de salud, la recuperaci��n y la adaptaci��n. Este nuevo concepto define las capacidades en gesti��n de desastres de las organizaciones sanitarias, las tareas de gesti��n, actividades y resultados de desastres juntos en una visi��n de conjunto integral, y utiliza un enfoque integrado y con un objetivo alcanzable. Se necesita urgentemente investigaci��n futura de su medici��n

Correlaci��n entre la personalidad y los factores de la Teor��a del Comportamiento Planeado (TCP) en adolescentes escolarizados de 11-19 a��os del Caribe Colombiano

The increasing rate of pregnancies in teenagers and the high incident of the infections of sexual transmission (HIV/ AIDS, for example), these are health related issues (and especially the sexual and reproductive health), which have received great attention on the part of investigators and of the public opinion in general. Recently, there has been evidenced that teenagers carry out very easily risk sexual behaviors, and those who have not presented the above mentioned behaviors also show high levels of intention to carry out them. There is the hypothesis that besides cognitive variables such as attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control and intention, the personality of the young persons is an aspect that plays an important paper in their sexual and reproductive health. Significant correlations were found between the variales of the TPB and the personality traits; the results suggest that the direction of these correlations is associated with the specific type of behavior or situation that is assessed. Keywords: personality, theory of planned behavior, adolescents, reproductive sexuality.

Displaying and celebrating the "other": A study of the mission, scope, and roles of ethnic museums in Los Angeles

In the last thirty years, ethnic museums have mushroomed in American cities. Although this is certainly a national phenomenon, it has been particularly evident in Los Angeles. In this paper we examine the genesis and evolution of these emerging institutions. We survey the mission, scope, and role of ethnic museums in Los Angeles, and we contrast them with the stated mission and scope of ���mainstream��� museums in the city. We further present case studies of three Los Angeles ethnic museums. The museums vary considerably in the ways they perceive their role in the community, the city, and the nation and in the preservation and display of ethnic culture. At their best, ethnic museums serve to make new art and histories more accessible and visible and provide a forum in which to debate contemporary issues of politics and identity. The paper highlights some of the tensions faced by ethnic museums as they seek to define their audience and role(s) in multi-ethnic, twenty-first century Los Angeles.