Informe que los Sres. General Amador Gómez, Jefe de la Sección 6ª., de Lazaretos, y el Dr. Pablo García Medina, médico adjunto á esta sección, comisionados para visitar el Lazareto de Agua de Dios presentan al Sr. Ministro de Gobierno

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Para el poema del poeta Carlos Rafael Duverrán /

En Memoria del VI Congreso de Filología, Lingüística y Literatura "Victor Manuel Arroyo"

La recepción del Mamita Yunai de Carlos Luis Fallas en Italia y Francia: entre la proximidad lingüística y la divergencia cultural

El siguiente texto intenta ser una aportación a la historia de la traducción. Más concretamente, se analizan aspectos sobre la recepción de Mamita Yunai de Carlos Luis Fallas en Italia y Francia. Con la observación, en un primer estadio, de las condiciones de recepción de la obra en estos países se da una idea sobre el ámbito cultural en que se movieron las traducciones. En una segunda parte, se describen las traducciones (sobre todo, en sus factores culturales) para observar si el patrimonio cultural costarricense se ha mantenido en las versiones francesa e italiana.The following text is intended as a contribution to the history of translation.  Specifically, we will analyze the reception of Mamita Yunai by Carlos Luis Fallas in Italy and France. In the first part, the observation of the conditions of reception of the novel in each of the countries provides an idea about the cultural environment where the translated versions were published. In the second part we will analyze the translations (their cultural elements, in particular) in order to observe whether the Costa Rican cultural heritage has been kept alive in the Italian and French versions.

Gradual correction of phosphorus availability in the no-tillage system.

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Gradual training of cascaded shape regression for facial landmark localization and pose estimation

Facial landmarks play an important role in face recognition. They serve different steps of the recognition such as pose estimation, face alignment, and local feature extraction. Recently, cascaded shape regression has been proposed to accurately locate facial landmarks. A large number of weak regressors are cascaded in a sequence to fit face shapes to the correct landmark locations. In this paper, we propose to improve the method by applying gradual training. With this training, the regressors are not directly aimed to the true locations. The sequence instead is divided into successive parts each of which is aimed to intermediate targets between the initial and the true locations. We also investigate the incorporation of pose information in the cascaded model. The aim is to find out whether the model can be directly used to estimate head pose. Experiments on the Annotated Facial Landmarks in the Wild database have shown that the proposed method is able to improve the localization and give accurate estimates of pose.

Corporate Governance in the 21st Century: Japan's Gradual Transformation

The 'lost' decade of economic stagnation in Japan during the 1990s has become a 'found decade' for regulatory and institutional reform. With nearly all areas of the 'law in the books' reviewed, revised and rewritten, the Japanese legal system is no longer the system that foreign commentators felt they were finally starting to understand by the 1980s. Nowhere is this more evident than in corporate governance. Corporate and securities legislation has been comprehensively revamped over 1993-2007, creating a more flexible and transparent regime for shareholders and managers. Financial markets law and regulatory institutions have changed, too, creating a new context for Japan's 'main banks' as alternative or additional outside monitors of managerial performance in borrowing firms. Even the legislation surrounding labour regulations has been amended, reinforcing the lifelong security privileges for elite employee-stakeholders, yet also hastening the growth of other atypical employment relationships. But how do such legislative reforms affecting key players in Japanese firms, covering areas central to the design of Japanese capitlaism, play out in the 'law in action'? Overall, this book argues that a significant gradual transformation has occurred. Although this is evident also in other advanced industrialised democracies, such as Germany, Japan reveals especially complex interactions in the various fields that sometimes emphasise different ways of achieving such transformation.

Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Background The Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factor study 2013 (GBD 2013) is the first of a series of annual updates of the GBD. Risk factor quantification, particularly of modifiable risk factors, can help to identify emerging threats to population health and opportunities for prevention. The GBD 2013 provides a timely opportunity to update the comparative risk assessment with new data for exposure, relative risks, and evidence on the appropriate counterfactual risk distribution. Methods Attributable deaths, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) have been estimated for 79 risks or clusters of risks using the GBD 2010 methods. Risk–outcome pairs meeting explicit evidence criteria were assessed for 188 countries for the period 1990–2013 by age and sex using three inputs: risk exposure, relative risks, and the theoretical minimum risk exposure level (TMREL). Risks are organised into a hierarchy with blocks of behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks at the first level of the hierarchy. The next level in the hierarchy includes nine clusters of related risks and two individual risks, with more detail provided at levels 3 and 4 of the hierarchy. Compared with GBD 2010, six new risk factors have been added: handwashing practices, occupational exposure to trichloroethylene, childhood wasting, childhood stunting, unsafe sex, and low glomerular filtration rate. For most risks, data for exposure were synthesised with a Bayesian meta-regression method, DisMod-MR 2.0, or spatial-temporal Gaussian process regression. Relative risks were based on meta-regressions of published cohort and intervention studies. Attributable burden for clusters of risks and all risks combined took into account evidence on the mediation of some risks such as high body-mass index (BMI) through other risks such as high systolic blood pressure and high cholesterol. Findings All risks combined account for 57·2% (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 55·8–58·5) of deaths and 41·6% (40·1–43·0) of DALYs. Risks quantified account for 87·9% (86·5–89·3) of cardiovascular disease DALYs, ranging to a low of 0% for neonatal disorders and neglected tropical diseases and malaria. In terms of global DALYs in 2013, six risks or clusters of risks each caused more than 5% of DALYs: dietary risks accounting for 11·3 million deaths and 241·4 million DALYs, high systolic blood pressure for 10·4 million deaths and 208·1 million DALYs, child and maternal malnutrition for 1·7 million deaths and 176·9 million DALYs, tobacco smoke for 6·1 million deaths and 143·5 million DALYs, air pollution for 5·5 million deaths and 141·5 million DALYs, and high BMI for 4·4 million deaths and 134·0 million DALYs. Risk factor patterns vary across regions and countries and with time. In sub-Saharan Africa, the leading risk factors are child and maternal malnutrition, unsafe sex, and unsafe water, sanitation, and handwashing. In women, in nearly all countries in the Americas, north Africa, and the Middle East, and in many other high-income countries, high BMI is the leading risk factor, with high systolic blood pressure as the leading risk in most of Central and Eastern Europe and south and east Asia. For men, high systolic blood pressure or tobacco use are the leading risks in nearly all high-income countries, in north Africa and the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. For men and women, unsafe sex is the leading risk in a corridor from Kenya to South Africa. Interpretation Behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks can explain half of global mortality and more than one-third of global DALYs providing many opportunities for prevention. Of the larger risks, the attributable burden of high BMI has increased in the past 23 years. In view of the prominence of behavioural risk factors, behavioural and social science research on interventions for these risks should be strengthened. Many prevention and primary care policy options are available now to act on key risks.

Sexual harassment: A threat to gradual women emancipation

This article is an attempt to highlight gender-based attitude of society towards women. Women comprise approximately 50% of the total population of Pakistan; Pakistan cannot afford to keep half of its citizens inactive and their potential as participants in development and progress untapped. Nothing more than the misogynist view of women as weak in physical power and deficient in mental faculties has marred the upward movement of societies. Women who defy this erroneous obscurantist conceptualisation and step into public domain are forced either to step back or to make compromises with the situation at the cost of their self-esteem and dignity. This deviant social behaviour is identified as sexual harassment of women. Sexual harassment of women exists beyond geographic spaces, across historic times, and today is prevalent in all societies, developed or underdeveloped. Women are sexually harassed within the safe havens of their homes too. This paper examines how a combination of factors, including religious interpretations, social norms, state negligence, and bad governance result in creating and than perpetuating an anti-women environment that breeds sexual harassment and solidifies patriarchal structures. The last section of this paper cites reported cases of sexual harassment at workplace that happened between 2001 and 2011. Summing up, the paper offers some suggestions to minimise work-place sexual harassment of women.

Introduction: Japan’s gradual transformation in corporate governance

Japan has recovered from a ‘lost decade’ of economic stagnation over the 1990s. Anyway, it has been a ‘found decade’ for civil and criminal justice law reform, especially in corporate and securities law. Yet, have liberalisation and globalisation in those fields led to major changes in the ‘law in action’? Does this represent ‘Americanisation’ of Japan’s corporate governance system, focusing on shareholders rather than other key stakeholders such as ‘main banks’, core employees, and partners within diffuse corporate groups (keiretsu)? This version of our introductory chapter explains how our forthcoming book argues for a more complex ‘gradual transformation’. Such shifts are also found in many other post-industrial economies, but Japan appears to give greater emphasis given to certain modes of achieving change. The book brings together contributions from academics and practitioners from Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. An early chapter introduces methodology for effective cross-country comparisons and for evaluating the burgeoning but divergent literature on Japanese corporate governance. The concluding chapter compares continuities and changes in Japan’s largest companies now and two decades ago. Other chapters cover ‘lifelong employment’, main banks, the untold story of closely-held companies, the limited uptake of the Committee-based governance form, and the procedural, substantive and FDI policy dimensions of takeovers law and practice.

The conservation status of the world’s reptiles

Effective and targeted conservation action requires detailed information about species, their distribution, systematics and ecology as well as the distribution of threat processes which affect them. Knowledge of reptilian diversity remains surprisingly disparate, and innovative means of gaining rapid insight into the status of reptiles are needed in order to highlight urgent conservation cases and inform environmental policy with appropriate biodiversity information in a timely manner. We present the first ever global analysis of extinction risk in reptiles, based on a random representative sample of 1500 species (16% of all currently known species). To our knowledge, our results provide the first analysis of the global conservation status and distribution patterns of reptiles and the threats affecting them, highlighting conservation priorities and knowledge gaps which need to be addressed urgently to ensure the continued survival of the world’s reptiles. Nearly one in five reptilian species are threatened with extinction, with another one in five species classed as Data Deficient. The proportion of threatened reptile species is highest in freshwater environments, tropical regions and on oceanic islands, while data deficiency was highest in tropical areas, such as Central Africa and Southeast Asia, and among fossorial reptiles. Our results emphasise the need for research attention to be focussed on tropical areas which are experiencing the most dramatic rates of habitat loss, on fossorial reptiles for which there is a chronic lack of data, and on certain taxa such as snakes for which extinction risk may currently be underestimated due to lack of population information. Conservation actions specifically need to mitigate the effects of human-induced habitat loss and harvesting, which are the predominant threats to reptiles.

The gradual release of responsibility: A case study of teaching science inquiry skills

This thesis investigated how a year-4 teacher used a pedagogical approach referred to as the Gradual Release of Responsibility (GRR) model of instruction for teaching Science Inquiry Skills in a primary classroom. Through scaffolding her students' learning using the GRR, the teacher guided her students towards developing an understanding about Scientific Inquiry leading to the foundations of scientific literacy. A learning environment was established in which students engaged in rich conversations, designed and conducted experiments using fair testing procedures, analysed and offered justifications for results, and negotiated knowledge claims in ways similar to some of those in the scientific community.

Prudentia Iuris, 1999, n° 49 (número completo)

Contenido: Editorial – Homenaje al Dr. Alejandro Roberto Caride / Mario H. Pena – Cuestiones de Derecho Penal y Política Criminal: Sobre el aborto / Abelardo F. Rossi – Algunos problemas surgidos cuando empezó a aplicarse el Art. 76 bis del Código Penal / Mario H. Pena – Hacia el humanismo penal por el camino de la racionalidad / Roberto V. Vázquez – El carácter simbólico del Derecho Penal Económico en la Argentina / Juan María Rodríguez Estevez – Ética pública y ley penal / José Licinio Scelzi – El sistema penal y la defensa de los menores frente a los ataques a su normalidad sexual / Tristán García Torres – El arrepentimiento activo en la tentativa / Carlos Hernán Franco – La investigación penal, entre la policía en función judicial y el Ministerio Fiscal, desde una perspectiva político criminal / Carlos A. Mahiques – “Selective incapacitation”. El retorno de la inocuización al pensamiento penal norteamericano / Santiago Ottaviano – Insuficiencias normativas y propuestas de reforma del delito de lavado de dinero en la experiencia italiana y europea / Andrea Castaldo – Problemas jurídico-penales que plantea el proceso de integración política de Europa / Raúl Carnevali Rodríguez -- Recensiones

Prudentia Iuris, 1995, n° 40 (número completo)

Contenido: En defensa de la moralidad del Derecho / Daniel A. Herrera -- Los animales ¿tienen derechos? / Luis María Bandieri -- La estructura del orden moral : una introducción a la ética de cuño aristotélico-tomista / Félix A. Lamas -- Derecho, religión y tolerancia : reflexiones sobre un debate siempre actual / Maricruz Díaz de Terán Velasco -- Los buques públicos y el Derecho Internacional contemporáneo : el caso de la "Fragata ARA Libertad" / Leopoldo M. A. Godio -- El estado de derecho contra el estado de codicia : Edmund Burke contra la Compañía Británica de las Indias Orientales / Jakob Fortunat Stagl -- Los principios jurídicos : revisión histórica y concepción actual desde la perspectiva neoconstitucionalista / Florencia Ratti Mendaña -- Intervención de terceros en el amparo : comunidad de controversias y afectación de derechos / Guillermina Moreno -- Alcance y límites de la interpretación analógica / Juan Carlos Riofrío Martínez Villalba -- La fundamentación eugenésica del Artículo 86, inc. 2, del Código Penal y el fallo "F., A. L. s/medida autosatisfactiva" : convalidación de una teoría aberrante / Patricio J. López Díaz Valentín -- El bien común como fundamento de la responsabilidad del Estado / Florencia Quiroga ; María Ibarzábal ; Belén Abbondanza -- Notas y comentarios -- Documentos -- Recensiones