Verdaguer i els modernistes gironins

Estudi del modernisme literari a Girona i del paper de Verdaguer en aquest context, i també de publicacions relacionades, sobretot L’Enderroch i Vida

Les visages qui se desmonte [sic] en la cour espagnolle et italienne.

[Mazarinade. 1649]

A low number of Swiss companies uses nanoparticles

Nanoparticles <100 nanometres are being introduced into industrial processes, but they are suspected to cause similar negative health effects to ambient particles. Poor knowledge about the scale of introduction has not allowed global risk analysis until now. In 2006 a targeted telephone survey among Swiss companies (1) showed the usage of nanoparticles in a few selected companies but did not provide data to extrapolate to the full Swiss workforce. The purpose of the study presented here was to provide a quantitative estimate of the potential occupational exposure to nanoparticles in Swiss industry. Method: A layered representative questionnaire survey among 1626 Swiss companies of the production sector was conducted in 2007. The survey was a written questionnaire, collecting data about the used nanoparticles, the number of potentially exposed persons in the companies and their protection strategy. Results: The response rate of the study was 58.3%. The number of companies estimated to be using nanoparticles in Switzerland was 586 (95% Confidence Interval 145 to 1027). It is estimated that 1309 workers (95% CI 1073 to 1545) do their job in the same room as a nanoparticle application. Personal protection was shown to be the predominant protection means. Such information is valuable for risk evaluation. The low number of companies dealing with nanoparticles in Switzerland suggests that policy makers as well as health, safety and environmental officers within companies can focus their efforts on a relatively small number of companies or workers. The collected data about types of particles and applications may be used for research on prevention strategies and adapted protection means. However, to reflect the most recent trends, the information presented here has to be continuously updated, and a large-scale inventory of the usage should be considered.

Report of Recommendations to the Iowa Legislature, June 30, 2003

State Agency Audit Report

Iowa Civil Rights Commission Annual Report, 1967-68

Annual report for the Iowa Civil Rights Commission

La infàmia de tenir sang jueva a la Catalunya moderna: ecos del Reial Consell i de la literatura jurídica

El modest propòsit de la nostra participació en aquesta miscel·lània és posar de relleu dues importants resolucions adoptades al Reial Consell i Audiència de Catalunya a principi de la dècada de 1580, en relació amb discriminacions per motius de genealogia i de pretesa condició o sang jueva. Dóna fe de la rellevància de tals resolucions el fet que fossin comentades amb deteniment per dos autors de literatura jurídica cabdal com Lluís de Peguera (1540-1610) iJoan Pere Fontanella (1575-1649). Per bé que tinguessin trajectòries professionals molt dissímils –el primer seria ministre de la monarquia al Principat i el segon advocat de grans corporacions i particulars–, ambdós contribuirien a difondre sentències de les principals jurisdiccions del país i s’esplaiarien sobre llurs fonaments legals i doctrinals. És a dir, cultivarien, cadascú a la seva manera, el gènere ‘decisionista’ tan en boga a l’Europa moderna del ius commune tardà.

Nova Totius Graeciae descriptio / Per Gerardum Mercatorem

Échelle(s) : [1:2 846 000 environ], Miliaria Italica communia 90 [= 5,8 cm]

Perspectivas e Desafios Actuais da Política Educativa e Curricular em Cabo Verde

O presente artigo analisa as opções de política educativa e curricular em Cabo Verde, à luz dos documentos oficiais, confrontando-as com as tendências internacionais e com a realidade concreta do país, de modo a evidenciar as perspectivas, os paradoxos e os constrangimentos que envolvem os propósitos de mudança educativa e curricular neste pequeno país do Atlântico Médio. Fazendo eco das discussões sobre o papel da educação e do currículo, assim como da natureza do conhecimento, em sede da definição das políticas educativas, o texto não só analisa as principiais directivas e orientações que servem de referência para as políticas de educação e do currículo em Cabo Verde como procura esclarecer em que medida tais opções são influenciadas pelas tendências de globalização hegemónica, visando a uniformização educativa e curricular e ou traduzem a realidade específica do país. Face aos propósitos ambiciosos de mudança educativa em Cabo Verde, o texto invoca o contexto educacional cabo-verdiano para evidenciar algumas fragilidades e ambiguidades do processo de desenvolvimento curricular, que requer novas e mais adequadas abordagens, a todos os níveis, com enfoque particular no ensino básico e no ensino secundário.