The multiscenario multienvironment BioSecure Multimodal Database (BMDB)

A new multimodal biometric database designed and acquired within the framework of the European BioSecure Network of Excellence is presented. It is comprised of more than 600 individuals acquired simultaneously in three scenarios: 1) over the Internet, 2) in an office environment with desktop PC, and 3) in indoor/outdoor environments with mobile portable hardware. The three scenarios include a common part of audio/video data. Also, signature and fingerprint data have been acquired both with desktop PC and mobile portable hardware. Additionally, hand and iris data were acquired in the second scenario using desktop PC. Acquisition has been conducted by 11 European institutions. Additional features of the BioSecure Multimodal Database (BMDB) are: two acquisition sessions, several sensors in certain modalities, balanced gender and age distributions, multimodal realistic scenarios with simple and quick tasks per modality, cross-European diversity, availability of demographic data, and compatibility with other multimodal databases. The novel acquisition conditions of the BMDB allow us to perform new challenging research and evaluation of either monomodal or multimodal biometric systems, as in the recent BioSecure Multimodal Evaluation campaign. A description of this campaign including baseline results of individual modalities from the new database is also given. The database is expected to be available for research purposes through the BioSecure Association during 2008.

Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention in San Jose, Costa Rica : Assessment of an Educational Intervention

This thesis explores adolescent pregnancy in San Jose, Costa Rica and examines a school-based pregnancy prevention intervention. The relationships between school, gender and risk of adolescent pregnancy are also analyzed, and recommendations are made for effective pregnancy prevention programming. The Purral region of Guadalupe on the outskirts of San Jose, Costa Rica, suffers a higher rate of adolescent pregnancy compared to the rest of the country. In response to this problem, the International Health Central American Institute (IHCAI) implemented a sexual health education program in two local secondary schools in 2006. Very little information about the program is available. It is known that the program was initially evaluated through assessments of the participants’ knowledge before and after the educational sessions. There was no evaluation of the youth attitudes or behaviors, adolescent pregnancies, or long-term impact. The author worked with IHCAI in San Jose, Costa Rica to perform an assessment of the longer term effects of this sexual health education program. They developed a questionnaire to evaluate the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors surrounding sexual health of youth in the Purral community. Researchers at IHCAI later used this survey to collect data from adolescents who had participated in the educational intervention and those who had not. This thesis analyzes the data collected by IHCAI to assess the effectiveness of the - 2 - educational intervention and the influence of other factors on the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of adolescents in the Purral region. The thesis begins with an overview of adolescent pregnancy, Costa Rica and the Purral region, and a description of the education intervention implemented by IHCAI. The research goal, logic model, and methods are then described. The results are reported, and the thesis then concludes with discussion of the results as well as study limitations and recommendations for future research and intervention. This thesis will be used to guide IHCAI’s continuation and expansion of adolescent pregnancy prevention programming.

R. Jose's chronologische Angaben

Moses Samuel Zuckermandel

Ein polemischer Ausspruch Jose b. Chalaftha's

Wilhelm Bacher

Analekten : Jose ben Jose ; Abraham ben Isaak und Abraham ben David ; Kalonymos ben Kalonymos ; Jehuda ben Moses Romano

Leopold Zunz

Enrique José Varona ante la condición humana

Enrique José Varona, intelectual cubano de gran prestigio durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y parte del siglo XX, efectuó una serie de consideraciones sobre la condición humana que fueron variando durante el transcurso de su vida. Estas van desde un positivismo sui generis, bajo influencias de Spencer, hasta posturas filantrópicas y de estimulación de la solidaridad entre los seres humanos, mediando entre ambas etapas un período de escepticismo y nihilismo bajo la influencia de Nietzsche. No fue un filósofo que se dejó atar a una postura ideológica cerrada en una corriente filosófica en particular. Fue capaz de analizar los problemas filosóficos y sociológicos con el mayor nivel de originalidad y autenticidad que sus circunstancias históricas le permitieron.

“El rabdomante sagrado", texto metapoético de Jorge Enrique Ramponi

En el presente trabajo se realiza un análisis del poema “El rabdomante sagrado", de Los límites y el caos (1972) de Jorge Enrique Ramponi. El poema se incluye en la categoría de los textos metapoéticos y su simbolismo se interpreta desde las claves hemenéuticas que esta calificación ofrece. Se propone de esta manera contribuir al conocimiento de una obra de gran densidad poética.

La perspectiva americana de José Enrique Rodó desde el Capitolio de Roma

Fil: Aínsa, Fernando.

Dussel, Enrique. 1492. El encubrimiento del otro. Hacia el origen del mito de la modernidad. Madrid, Nueva Utopía, 1992.

Fil: Fóscolo, Norma. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales

Manuel Mujica Láinez, Lucio V. López, Horacio Quiroga, Georges Clemenceau, Carlos Martínez Moreno, Roberto Arlt, Enrique González Tuñón, César Fernández Moreno, Juan José Sebreli, Bernardo Kordon, Miguel Brascó, José María Salaverría: Crónicas de Buenos Aires. Edic. Jorge Álvarez, 1965, 154 páginas.

Fil: Polimeni, Dante Osvaldo.

Enrique D. Dussel: La dialéctica hegeliana. Supuestos y superación o del inicio originario del filosofar. Editorial Ser y Tiempo, Mendoza, 1972; 207 páginas

Fil: Prada, Gloria.

Enrique Dussel: Para una de-strucción de la historia de la ética. Mendoza, Instituto de Filosofía, 1972, 168 p. [Colección de Estudios Filosóficos N° 6]

Fil: Licata, Rosa.

Dussel, Enrique, Eduardo Mendieta y Carmen Bohórquez (editores). El pensamiento filosófico latinoamericano, del Caribe y “latino" (1300–2000). Historia, corrientes, temas y filósofos. México: CREFAL / Siglo XXI Editores, 2009, 1.111 p.

Fil: Ramaglia, Dante. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

Alonso, Diego. José Enrique Rodó: una retórica de la democracia. Montevideo: Trilce, 2009, 197 p.

Fil: Olalla, Marcos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas