Feminist Debate around ‘Trafficking’ in Women for the Purpose of Sexual Exploitation in Prostitution

Women trafficking, as a widespread phenomenon, is a complex topic with manifold consequences which have a direct bearing on the way in which the problem of trafficking is understood by regulatory institutions and their proposed solutions. The governmental strategy must respond to this multidimensional phenomenon through state tools to counteract the effects of crime and recognize that women, men, children and adolescents may be indiscriminately vulnerable to this scourge. Nevertheless, we must recognize that, due to cultural facts, women and girls constitute the majority of its victims and specific actions are required for them.

Français-COU : exploitation didactique de textes. 'Francés-COU : explotación didáctica de textos'.

Se presenta un conjunto de 19 textos en francés seleccionados de acuerdo con un programa de estudios de COU. Los textos que se adjuntan pertenecen a obras literarias, canciones, artículos de periódicos o revistas y comics. Cada texto va acompañado de unos ejercicios que responden a la estructura: vocabulario, cuestiones de comprensión oral, cuestiones de comprensión escrita y gramática. Se presenta el programa de la asignatura que se sigue en la selección de los textos..

Exploitation de la bande dessinée La Guerre de la Glace à la Framboise (Bande Dessinée sur une Europe pacifique sans frontières destinée aux jeunes), dans la classe de Français Langue Etrangère : unité didactique. 'Uso del cómic La Guerra del Helado de Frambuesa (Cómic por una Europa pacífica sin fronteras para jóvenes), en la clase de Lengua Francesa : unidad didáctica'.

Se describe una experiencia de uso del cómic La Guerra del Helado de Frambuesa publicado por la Oficina de Publicaciones Oficiales de la Comunidad Europea, en las clases de Francés de segundo ciclo de la ESO. Se diseña una unidad didáctica con los siguientes objetivos: conocer el funcionamiento de la Comunidad Europea, producir textos escritos a partir del contenido del cómic, formar una opinión positiva acerca de la ciudadanía europea y descubrir a los personajes que la han hecho posible. Se describen los contenidos, los ejercicios y los criterios de evaluación propuestos.

Exploitation of Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget data using simulations from a numerical weather prediction model: Methodology and data validation

We describe a new methodology for comparing satellite radiation budget data with a numerical weather prediction (NWP) model. This is applied to data from the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) instrument on Meteosat-8. The methodology brings together, in near-real time, GERB broadband shortwave and longwave fluxes with simulations based on analyses produced by the Met Office global NWP model. Results for the period May 2003 to February 2005 illustrate the progressive improvements in the data products as various initial problems were resolved. In most areas the comparisons reveal systematic errors in the model's representation of surface properties and clouds, which are discussed elsewhere. However, for clear-sky regions over the oceans the model simulations are believed to be sufficiently accurate to allow the quality of the GERB fluxes themselves to be assessed and any changes in time of the performance of the instrument to be identified. Using model and radiosonde profiles of temperature and humidity as input to a single-column version of the model's radiation code, we conduct sensitivity experiments which provide estimates of the expected model errors over the ocean of about ±5–10 W m−2 in clear-sky outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) and ±0.01 in clear-sky albedo. For the more recent data the differences between the observed and modeled OLR and albedo are well within these error estimates. The close agreement between the observed and modeled values, particularly for the most recent period, illustrates the value of the methodology. It also contributes to the validation of the GERB products and increases confidence in the quality of the data, prior to their release.

Neolithic woodland composition and exploitation in the Southern Levant: a comparison between archaeobotanical remains from WF16 and present day woodland at Hammam Adethni

Excavations at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of WF16 in the Southern Levant produced an archaeobotanical assemblage constituted by plant macro-fossils and wood charcoal. As with all such assemblages, its species composition will most likely provide a biased reflection of those within the Neolithic woodland that had been exploited owing to cultural selection and differential preservation. As a means of facilitating its interpretation, a survey was undertaken of a relatively undisturbed patch of gallery woodland associated with a permanent water course at Hammam Adethni, approximately four kilometres south-east of WF16. The substantial overlap of the species within this woodland and those in the archaeobotanical assemblage suggests that this present-day woodland provides an analogue for that of the Neolithic and may therefore indicate what other plant resources the inhabitants of WF16 may have exploited, but which have left no archaeological trace. The interpretation of the results is supported by a comparative study of wood charcoal from present-day Bedouin hearths in Wadi Faynan.