Impacto de la Asignación Universal por Hijo (AUH) en la escolaridad de las familias pobres : El caso de Villa Argüello (Berisso) 2007-2013

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar el impacto, que la Asignación Universal por Hijo (en adelante AUH) tuvo en las representaciones y prácticas escolares de las familias destinatarias, domiciliadas en el barrio Villa Argüello (Berisso, Provincia de Buenos Aires), durante la implementación de dicha asignación; a través de la observación de los cambios y/o continuidades en los significados y prácticas escolares de los niños/as perceptores de esta AUH; para comprender las representaciones de los integrantes de las familias respecto de la AUH, como también la praxis escolar de los niños/as, antes y después de percibir la AUH (2007-2013). Puesto que hemos percibido que los estudios que anteceden a nuestra investigación, no abordaron específicamente el impacto que la AUH tuvo, sobre los significados y las prácticas escolares de los niños/as y de sus familias, desde los propios sujetos, como tampoco incorporaron la opinión de los docentes, directivos, psicopedagogos y preceptores respecto a la asistencia y retención escolar de los niños/as perceptores del Decreto de Necesidad y Urgencia 1602/09. Por lo tanto, para evaluar si las políticas sociales del modelo de la post-convertibilidad, generaron modificaciones en las prácticas y representaciones escolares de los niños/as en situación de pobreza a través de la AUH, consideramos indispensable investigar a partir de lo cualitativo desde la perspectiva de la historia social

Factorial structure and reliability of a perceived influence on selection of a specialized plan of studies, IPEP, in secondary school students of Chillan, Chile

To evaluate these factors, the scale of perceived influences on the election of a specialized plan of studies, IPEP, was built and in this study its factorial structure and reliability were evaluated. The instrument was applied to 115 students, chosen by quote sampling. They were students of a subsidized private secondary school from the city of Chillan, Chile. An exploratory factorial analysis identified eight factors in the scale IPEP: Academic projection, Personal development, Maintenance of the social environment, Academic requirements, Satisfaction of others' expectations, Vocational information, Image of the plan and Family pressure. The results present an initial factorial structure, that empirically and theoretically adequate, whose factors were reliable and conceptually useful. These factors distinguish psychogenic and sociogenic aspects of the vocational process, and allow to initiate diagnostic and investigative actions in relation to this early vocational election that is established in secondary schools of the Chilean educational system

Impacto de la Asignación Universal por Hijo (AUH) en la escolaridad de las familias pobres : El caso de Villa Argüello (Berisso) 2007-2013

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar el impacto, que la Asignación Universal por Hijo (en adelante AUH) tuvo en las representaciones y prácticas escolares de las familias destinatarias, domiciliadas en el barrio Villa Argüello (Berisso, Provincia de Buenos Aires), durante la implementación de dicha asignación; a través de la observación de los cambios y/o continuidades en los significados y prácticas escolares de los niños/as perceptores de esta AUH; para comprender las representaciones de los integrantes de las familias respecto de la AUH, como también la praxis escolar de los niños/as, antes y después de percibir la AUH (2007-2013). Puesto que hemos percibido que los estudios que anteceden a nuestra investigación, no abordaron específicamente el impacto que la AUH tuvo, sobre los significados y las prácticas escolares de los niños/as y de sus familias, desde los propios sujetos, como tampoco incorporaron la opinión de los docentes, directivos, psicopedagogos y preceptores respecto a la asistencia y retención escolar de los niños/as perceptores del Decreto de Necesidad y Urgencia 1602/09. Por lo tanto, para evaluar si las políticas sociales del modelo de la post-convertibilidad, generaron modificaciones en las prácticas y representaciones escolares de los niños/as en situación de pobreza a través de la AUH, consideramos indispensable investigar a partir de lo cualitativo desde la perspectiva de la historia social

Factorial structure and reliability of a perceived influence on selection of a specialized plan of studies, IPEP, in secondary school students of Chillan, Chile

To evaluate these factors, the scale of perceived influences on the election of a specialized plan of studies, IPEP, was built and in this study its factorial structure and reliability were evaluated. The instrument was applied to 115 students, chosen by quote sampling. They were students of a subsidized private secondary school from the city of Chillan, Chile. An exploratory factorial analysis identified eight factors in the scale IPEP: Academic projection, Personal development, Maintenance of the social environment, Academic requirements, Satisfaction of others' expectations, Vocational information, Image of the plan and Family pressure. The results present an initial factorial structure, that empirically and theoretically adequate, whose factors were reliable and conceptually useful. These factors distinguish psychogenic and sociogenic aspects of the vocational process, and allow to initiate diagnostic and investigative actions in relation to this early vocational election that is established in secondary schools of the Chilean educational system

Factorial structure and reliability of a perceived influence on selection of a specialized plan of studies, IPEP, in secondary school students of Chillan, Chile

To evaluate these factors, the scale of perceived influences on the election of a specialized plan of studies, IPEP, was built and in this study its factorial structure and reliability were evaluated. The instrument was applied to 115 students, chosen by quote sampling. They were students of a subsidized private secondary school from the city of Chillan, Chile. An exploratory factorial analysis identified eight factors in the scale IPEP: Academic projection, Personal development, Maintenance of the social environment, Academic requirements, Satisfaction of others' expectations, Vocational information, Image of the plan and Family pressure. The results present an initial factorial structure, that empirically and theoretically adequate, whose factors were reliable and conceptually useful. These factors distinguish psychogenic and sociogenic aspects of the vocational process, and allow to initiate diagnostic and investigative actions in relation to this early vocational election that is established in secondary schools of the Chilean educational system

Impacto de la Asignación Universal por Hijo (AUH) en la escolaridad de las familias pobres : El caso de Villa Argüello (Berisso) 2007-2013

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar el impacto, que la Asignación Universal por Hijo (en adelante AUH) tuvo en las representaciones y prácticas escolares de las familias destinatarias, domiciliadas en el barrio Villa Argüello (Berisso, Provincia de Buenos Aires), durante la implementación de dicha asignación; a través de la observación de los cambios y/o continuidades en los significados y prácticas escolares de los niños/as perceptores de esta AUH; para comprender las representaciones de los integrantes de las familias respecto de la AUH, como también la praxis escolar de los niños/as, antes y después de percibir la AUH (2007-2013). Puesto que hemos percibido que los estudios que anteceden a nuestra investigación, no abordaron específicamente el impacto que la AUH tuvo, sobre los significados y las prácticas escolares de los niños/as y de sus familias, desde los propios sujetos, como tampoco incorporaron la opinión de los docentes, directivos, psicopedagogos y preceptores respecto a la asistencia y retención escolar de los niños/as perceptores del Decreto de Necesidad y Urgencia 1602/09. Por lo tanto, para evaluar si las políticas sociales del modelo de la post-convertibilidad, generaron modificaciones en las prácticas y representaciones escolares de los niños/as en situación de pobreza a través de la AUH, consideramos indispensable investigar a partir de lo cualitativo desde la perspectiva de la historia social

Re-examining "difference" and "development" : a note on broadening the field of gender and development in Japan

It is the author’s position that the framework for WID/GAD, as academic field and practice concerned primarily with developing countries should be broadened so as to incorporate Japan’s own gender and development issues in its scope. Unlike other developed countries, activists and scholars in Japan rarely connected, as was also the case with the fields of women’s/gender studies and WID/GAD. However, this was not due to any lack of interest among Japanese women regarding the lives of women in developing countries. Rather the points of fissure were the notions of ‘difference’ and ‘development’ held by Japanese women. These analytical concepts were narrowly defined, which resulted in limited interaction between discourse on women’s issues in Japan and WID/GAD related to ‘other’ women. By re-examining these notions and looking more deeply into perceived differences in the local context of ‘development’, not only can we strategize on ‘differences’ in such a way that we draw strength from the very fact of being different, but also prevent ‘differences’ from being used as grounds for discrimination. As a whole, we could gain substantially by broadening the field of Gender and Development and, as such, it is imperative that this field be broadened with urgency as development itself changes in this ever-interconnected world

Estimating Perceived Video Quality from Objective Parameters in Video over IP Services

In Video over IP services, perceived video quality heavily depends on parameters such as video coding and network Quality of Service. This paper proposes a model for the estimation of perceived video quality in video streaming and broadcasting services that combines the aforementioned parameters with other that depend mainly on the information contents of the video sequences. These fitting parameters are derived from the Spatial and Temporal Information contents of the sequences. This model does not require reference to the original video sequence so it can be used for online, real-time monitoring of perceived video quality in Video over IP services. Furthermore, this paper proposes a measurement workbench designed to acquire both training data for model fitting and test data for model validation. Preliminary results show good correlation between measured and predicted values.

Estimation of Perceived Quality in Convergent Services

Triple-Play (3P) and Quadruple-Play (4P) services are being widely offered by telecommunication services providers. Such services must be able to offer equal or higher quality levels than those obtained with traditional systems, especially for the most demanding services such as broadcast IPTV. This paper presents a matrix-based model, defined in terms of service components, user perceptions, agent capabilities, performance indicators and evaluation functions, which allows to estimate the overall quality of a set of convergent services, as perceived by the users, from a set of performance and/or Quality of Service (QoS) parameters of the convergent IP transport network

Perceived Video Quality Estimation from Spatial and Temporal Information Contents and Network Performance Parameters in IPTV

The paper proposes a model for estimation of perceived video quality in IPTV, taking as input both video coding and network Quality of Service parameters. It includes some fitting parameters that depend mainly on the information contents of the video sequences. A method to derive them from the Spatial and Temporal Information contents of the sequences is proposed. The model may be used for near real-time monitoring of IPTV video quality.

Perceived Health, Physical Activity and Sport among the Elderly of Spain

Purpose: It determines if participating in sports and/or physical activity influences perceived health among the elderly. Basic procedures: Data were drawn from a population subsample of subjects aged 65 - 79 years old that took part in a survey conducted in 2008 by the IESA-CSIC. A regression model was performed with perceived health status with the dependent variable and sociodemographic characteristics and physical activity as independent variables. Results: Physical activity is closely associated to per-ceived health, although sport has little influence on this relationship. Conclusions: Doing exercise or feeling that one is physically active makes the elderly feel better about their health status. However, this age group practises few sports and sport is not found to have an important or constant influence on self-perceived health status among the elderly.

Higher levels of physical fitness are associated with a reduced risk of suffering sarcopenic obesity and better perceived health among elderly. The EXERNET multi-center study

Evaluar la asociación entre los niveles físicos de la aptitud, de calidad relacionada con la salud de la vida (CVRS) y la obesidad sarcopénica

Urban transport interchanges: Importance-Performance analysis for evaluating perceived quality

As the world becomes more urbanised, public transport in cities must seek to provide viable alternatives to individual car transport. At an urban level, interchanges in public transport networks provide easy transfers between and within different transport modes and facilitate seamless travel. This study proposes a methodological framework with which to identify the factors that travellers view as key elements of an urban transport interchange. An attitudinal survey was undertaken in order to collect information about users? needs and perceptions in the Moncloa interchange in Madrid, Spain. The results obtained from an Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) show that aspects related to the signposting of different facilities and transport services, the internal design of the interchange and the surrounding area, and safety and security are the greatest strengths of the interchange.

Shift in speed selectivity of visual cortical neurons: A neural basis of perceived motion contrast

The perceived speed of motion in one part of the visual field is influenced by the speed of motion in its surrounding fields. Little is known about the cellular mechanisms causing this phenomenon. Recordings from mammalian visual cortex revealed that speed preference of the cortical cells could be changed by displaying a contrast speed in the field surrounding the cell’s classical receptive field. The neuron’s selectivity shifted to prefer faster speed if the contextual surround motion was set at a relatively lower speed, and vice versa. These specific center–surround interactions may underlie the perceptual enhancement of speed contrast between adjacent fields.