Las perplejidades de un lector modelo: Ensayo y ficción en Ricardo Piglia

A partir de la lectura de una serie de atribuciones erróneas que atraviesa tres ensayos de Ricardo Piglia sobre Macedonio Fernández, este artículo sugiere una hipótesis sobre los alcances de la estrategia de "ficcionalización de la crítica" que caracteriza la ensayística de Piglia y ensaya una evaluación de la reducción, que se opera en ésta, del acontecimiento de la ficción a un efecto de falsificación previsto por una instancia autorial. En el curso de esa tentativa evaluadora, se proponen algunas diferencias entre la ensayística de Piglia y la de Jorge Luis Borges.

Las perplejidades de un lector modelo: Ensayo y ficción en Ricardo Piglia

A partir de la lectura de una serie de atribuciones erróneas que atraviesa tres ensayos de Ricardo Piglia sobre Macedonio Fernández, este artículo sugiere una hipótesis sobre los alcances de la estrategia de "ficcionalización de la crítica" que caracteriza la ensayística de Piglia y ensaya una evaluación de la reducción, que se opera en ésta, del acontecimiento de la ficción a un efecto de falsificación previsto por una instancia autorial. En el curso de esa tentativa evaluadora, se proponen algunas diferencias entre la ensayística de Piglia y la de Jorge Luis Borges.

Las perplejidades de un lector modelo: Ensayo y ficción en Ricardo Piglia

A partir de la lectura de una serie de atribuciones erróneas que atraviesa tres ensayos de Ricardo Piglia sobre Macedonio Fernández, este artículo sugiere una hipótesis sobre los alcances de la estrategia de "ficcionalización de la crítica" que caracteriza la ensayística de Piglia y ensaya una evaluación de la reducción, que se opera en ésta, del acontecimiento de la ficción a un efecto de falsificación previsto por una instancia autorial. En el curso de esa tentativa evaluadora, se proponen algunas diferencias entre la ensayística de Piglia y la de Jorge Luis Borges.

Evaluation of the control of carbon emissions of construction facilities in Hong Kong

This paper investigates the policies and instruments adopted in Hong Kong to control the carbon emissions of construction facilities, including the whole building life cycle: production of material stage, construction stage, operation stage and demolition stage. This commences with a literature review comparing activities world-wide to those in Hong Kong to identify the main issues at stake, followed by a report on a series of local interviews to evaluate the present situation in Hong Kong, as well as future opportunities for local carbon mitigation. The interviewees included practitioners from engineering contracting firms, consulting firms, clients and energy provider, together with two university experts and a counsellor. A small case study is also provided of a building project in Hong Kong to illustrate some of the innovative design aspects being incorporated into buildings in Hong Kong as a result of the current emphasis on sustainability. The paper concludes with a summary of main findings and proposals for improvement in policy related to carbon mitigation and building sustainability in Hong Kong.

Interpersonal coordination tendencies supporting the creation/prevention of goal scoring opportunities in futsal

Research on 1vs1 sub-phases in team sports has shown how one player coordinates his/her actions with his/her opponent and the location of a target/goal to attain performance objectives. In this study, we extended this approach to analysis of 5vs5 competitive performance in the team sport of futsal to provide a performance analysis framework that explains how players coordinate their actions to create/prevent opportunities to score goals. For this purpose, we recorded all 10 futsal matches of the 2009 Lusophony Games held in Lisbon. We analysed the displacement trajectories of a shooting attacker and marking defender in plays ending in a goal, a goalkeeper's save, and a defender's interception, at four specific moments during performance: (1) assisting attacker's ball reception; (2) moment of passing; (3) shooter's ball reception, and; (4) shot on goal. Statistical analysis showed that when a goal was scored, the defender's angle to the goal and to the attacker tended to decrease, the attacker was able to move to the same distance to the goal alongside the defender, and the attacker was closer to the defender and moving at the same velocity (at least) as the defender. This study identified emergent patterns of coordination between attackers and defenders under key competitive task constraints, such as the location of the goal, which supported successful performance in futsal.

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.

Studio portrait of Emanuel Ebstein with Luis and Erna.

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Co-distribution and co-infection of chikungunya and dengue viruses

BACKGROUND Chikungunya and dengue infections are spatio-temporally related. The current review aims to determine the geographic limits of chikungunya, dengue and the principal mosquito vectors for both viruses and to synthesise current epidemiological understanding of their co-distribution. METHODS Three biomedical databases (PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science) were searched from their inception until May 2015 for studies that reported concurrent detection of chikungunya and dengue viruses in the same patient. Additionally, data from WHO, CDC and Healthmap alerts were extracted to create up-to-date global distribution maps for both dengue and chikungunya. RESULTS Evidence for chikungunya-dengue co-infection has been found in Angola, Gabon, India, Madagascar, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nigeria, Saint Martin, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand and Yemen; these constitute only 13 out of the 98 countries/territories where both chikungunya and dengue epidemic/endemic transmission have been reported. CONCLUSIONS Understanding the true extent of chikungunya-dengue co-infection is hampered by current diagnosis largely based on their similar symptoms. Heightened awareness of chikungunya among the public and public health practitioners in the advent of the ongoing outbreak in the Americas can be expected to improve diagnostic rigour. Maps generated from the newly compiled lists of the geographic distribution of both pathogens and vectors represent the current geographical limits of chikungunya and dengue, as well as the countries/territories at risk of future incursion by both viruses. These describe regions of co-endemicity in which lab-based diagnosis of suspected cases is of higher priority.

Unusual RNA plant virus integration in the soybean genome leads to the production of small RNAs

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is known to be a major force in genome evolution. The acquisition of genes from viruses by eukaryotic genomes is a well-studied example of HGT, including rare cases of non-retroviral RNA virus integration. The present study describes the integration of cucumber mosaic virus RNA-1 into soybean genome. After an initial metatranscriptomic analysis of small RNAs derived from soybean, the de novo assembly resulted a 3029-nt contig homologous to RNA-1. The integration of this sequence in the soybean genome was confirmed by DNA deep sequencing. The locus where the integration occurred harbors the full RNA-1 sequence followed by the partial sequence of an endogenous mRNA and another sequence of RNA-1 as an inverted repeat and allowing the formation of a hairpin structure. This region recombined into a retrotransposon located inside an exon of a soybean gene. The nucleotide similarity of the integrated sequence compared to other Cucumber mosaic virus sequences indicates that the integration event occurred recently. We described a rare event of non-retroviral RNA virus integration in soybean that leads to the production of a double-stranded RNA in a similar fashion to virus resistance RNAi plants.

La filosofía educativa de Juan Luis Vives

Juan Luis Vives como hombre de las letras, la filosofía, las humanidades y la educación en el Renacimiento, fue inspirador del presente trabajo de conclusión de la etapa formativa de la Licenciatura de Filosofía, pues sus ideas, sus escritos y sobre todo su vida son un modelo integral de pensamiento y de comportamiento que sigue actualmente vigente y puede brindar aportes al hombre del siglo XXI. El tema de estudio del presente trabajo es la filosofía educativa del valenciano, en el contexto de su pensamiento humanista y de las corrientes que conformaron la época renacentista.

Teología, 1998, Tomo XXXV nº 071 (número completo)

Presentación / Ricardo Ferrara -- El cristianismo y las religiones: El estado de la cuestión / Lucio Gera -- Monoteísmo de Israel y religiones en el Antiguo Testamento / Felipe L. Roldán -- Cristo Salvador único y universal en algunos himnos del Nuevo Testamento / Luis Heriberto Rivas -- Religión y revelación. La cuestión de la revelación en El cristianismo y las religiones / Alfredo H. Zecca -- “Un solo Dios y Padre de todos” (Ef 4,6) / Ricardo Ferrara -- Jesucristo, mediador único y universal de salvación. La cristología del documento El cristianismo y las religiones / Antonio Marino -- La acción universal de la tercera Persona. Otra “fenomenología del Espíritu” / Víctor Manuel Fernández -- Sacramentalidad y misión de la Iglesia en el horizonte de El cristianismo y las religiones / Carlos María Galli -- La cuestión sobre el valor salvífico de las religiones en el Documento de la Comisión Teológica Internacional / Lucio Gera

Teología, 2006, Tomo XLIII nº 089 (número completo)

Nota del Director. Autoconciencia y proyecto -- Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005): sus aportes a la teología / Ricardo Ferrara -- Sobre la dimensión académica de la vocación teológica / Juan Noemí -- Las Sagradas Escrituras en el cine y la literatura después del Concilio Vaticano II / Luis Heriberto Rivas -- Gestiones del Episcopado argentino ante la Santa Sede a favor del Santuario de Luján (1886). El P. Jorge María Salvaire comisionado oficial / Juan Guillermo Durán -- La dimensión trinitaria de la moral. II. Profundización del aspecto ético a la luz de “Deus caritas est” / Víctor Manuel Fernández -- Liturgia de la Eucaristía. El Estatuto General del Misal Romano para la tercera edición típica de 2004 / Osvaldo D. Santagada -- La impotencia de la Fides qua. Comentario a los números 20-48 del Compendio de la doctrina social de la Iglesia / Alejandro C. Llorente -- La presencia y acción del Espíritu Santo en María. A la luz de “Redemptoris Mater” / Silvia Rodríguez Quiroga -- La Facultad de Teología ayer y hoy / Carlos María Galli -- Crónica dela Facultad 2005

Teología, 2007, Tomo XLIV nº 092 (número completo)

Nota del Director Hacia Aparecida -- La Iglesia entre la inculturación y la globalización / Mário de França Miranda -- Hacia un anuncio evangelizador narrativo y dialogal / Luis O. Liberti SVD -- Otra mediación: la belleza, otro lenguaje: la imagen / María Josefina Llach ACI -- La Biblias completas. Un panorama histórico (Primera parte) / Jorge Card. Mejía -- La novedad y unidad del amor de Dios (DCE 1,9-11) / Ricardo Ferrara -- El principio de treatralidad en Hans Urs von Baltasar / Alois Haas -- Los pobres y la teología en la notificación sobre las obras del P. Jon Sobrino -- “El cuerpo de Cristo”. Referente y especificativos de una expresión – El camino de la hermenéutica analógica / Luis Baliña -- Crónica de la Facultad 2006 -- Notas bibliográficas -- Instrucciones para los colaboradores