Amor y Melancolía en "El demonio de la depresión", de Andrew Solomon

Les taxes de prevalença de la depressió dins la població no deixen d’augmentar, però la causa per la qual una persona desenvolupa el trastorn, tot i les múltiples hipòtesis existents, encara segueix sent desconeguda. Els serveis sanitaris s’esforcen per intentar reduir la simptomatologia observable, per aconseguir, el més 6 aviat possible, que la persona recuperi la seva vida social i laboral. Però, què és el que realment hi ha darrere d'aquesta malaltia? Quin és el principal problema amb el que s’ha d’enfrontar la ment depressiva? . Una de les qüestions més reconegudes i manifestades per la majoria dels pacients melancòlics, és la impossibilitat que se sent davant l'amor. No es pot estimar, ni a un mateix ni tampoc als altres. Es fa obvi així, la existència d’una correlació entre la capacitat d'estimar i sentir-se estimat, i la depressió. És aquest vincle i la importància del mateix, el que es pretén estudiar i presentar en el següent treball. Per a això, s'ha realitzat una anàlisi de l'obra d'Andrew Solomon, El dimoni de la depressió, on es recull detalladament què és el que succeeix en la capacitat que té la persona d’estimar i sentir-se estimat durant aquesta malaltia, corroborant-lo i ampliant-lo, posteriorment, amb diferents referències literàries sobre la patologia esmentada. Finalment s'ha procedit, a través d'Erich Fromm i el seu llibre L'art d'estimar, a l'estudi o conceptualització de l'amor i la jerarquia que ocupa aquest durant la vida de qualsevol persona, per exposar així, les conseqüències de la manca d'aquest sentiment i la necessitat del mateix per poder conservar una ment sana.

Vertical integration or specialisation: producing and commercialising cotton goods (1815-1913)

This article describes the ways in which cotton goods were commercialised during the nineteenth century and the first third of the twentieth. Several national cases are analysed: Britain, as the Workshop of the World; France, Germany, Switzerland and the US, as core economies; and Italy and Spain as countries on the European periphery. The main question that we address is why some cotton industries vertically integrated their production and commercialisation processes, but others did not. We present a model that combines industrial district size and product differentiation to explain why vertical integration was present in most cases and why there was vertical specialisation in Lancashire and Lowell.

Vertical integration or specialisation: producing and commercialising cotton goods (1815-1913)

This article describes the ways in which cotton goods were commercialised during the nineteenth century and the first third of the twentieth. Several national cases are analysed: Britain, as the Workshop of the World; France, Germany, Switzerland and the US, as core economies; and Italy and Spain as countries on the European periphery. The main question that we address is why some cotton industries vertically integrated their production and commercialisation processes, but others did not. We present a model that combines industrial district size and product differentiation to explain why vertical integration was present in most cases and why there was vertical specialisation in Lancashire and Lowell.

De Andrew Carnegie a OverDrive, Amazon y ¿algo más? Biblioteca pública y préstamo de libros digitales en Estados Unidos

Ressenya de: 2012 survey of ebook usage in U.S. public libraries: third annual survey. LJ/SLJ Library Research Syndicate (LRS). [New York, N.Y.]: Library Journal, 2012. 108 p. Disponible en línia a: [Consulta: 27 feb. 2013].

Genomic analysis of the blood attributed to Louis XVI (1754-1793), king of France.

A pyrographically decorated gourd, dated to the French Revolution period, has been alleged to contain a handkerchief dipped into the blood of the French king Louis XVI (1754-1793) after his beheading but recent analyses of living males from two Bourbon branches cast doubts on its authenticity. We sequenced the complete genome of the DNA contained in the gourd at low coverage (similar to 2.5x) with coding sequences enriched at a higher similar to 7.3x coverage. We found that the ancestry of the gourd's genome does not seem compatible with Louis XVI's known ancestry. From a functional perspective, we did not find an excess of alleles contributing to height despite being described as the tallest person in Court. In addition, the eye colour prediction supported brown eyes, while Louis XVI had blue eyes. This is the first draft genome generated from a person who lived in a recent historical period; however, our results suggest that this sample may not correspond to the alleged king.