Work/Leisure Balances and the Creation of a Carnival Cosmopolitanism amongst Salsa Dancers

This article presents a Carnival cosmopolitanism borne from salsa social dance leisure practice. This indirectly fostered cosmopolitanism is facilitated by significant changes in work practice allowing for new work/leisure balances. The means by which this change is brought about is through a Carnival cosmopolitanism.

“Cali, capital mundial de la salsa”. Fundación de un mito: mapas prácticas y heroínas

El texto “<>. Fundación de un mito: mapas prácticas y heroínas”, como su largo título indica, constituye el inicio de una búsqueda por interpretar la fundación del mito contemporáneo de la ciudad de Cali como “capital mundial de la salsa”. Para lograrlo, se hace una interpretación sistemática de las prácticas culturales salseras desde los relatos de varios “héroes”, “heroínas” y “mapas” que el autor organiza desde una apuesta por la diversidad de voces: los de la obra Celia Cruz: Reina Rumba de Umberto Valverde y los bailadores de los 50, en los barrios en los que empezó la “rumba” caleña de la “música antillana”; los de los cuentos de Andrés Caicedo y, en especial la heroína de la novela ¡Que viva la música!, representantes de la rumba, ya plenamente “salsera” de finales de los años 60 y los 70, y el surgimiento de la salsa ya no sectorizada, sino como una práctica asumida como parte de “la ciudad”; dos de las canciones del Grupo Niche que permiten evidenciar la problemática de una ciudad habitada por un gran número de migrantes (empezando por el autor), que se afincaron en barrios periféricos y “de invasión”. La parte final de la investigación está compuesta por el relato oral de un grupo de bailarines profesionales que dan testimonio de sus propias prácticas salseras, desde los años 40 hasta la actualidad. Sus testimonios ponen en primer plano el conflicto profundo de negociación simbólica, que significó su apuesta por las prácticas culturales que ahora son parte de una memoria colectiva de la ciudad. Como bailadores en un principio, y bailarines cuando su estatus profesional fue aceptado, ellos son los héroes y heroínas principales de esta apuesta por interpretar la compleja formación del mito de “Cali, capital mundial de la salsa”. Ellos establecieron las más importantes prácticas salseras y construyeron los mapas simbólicos de la ciudad salsera.

Structured self-reflection as a tool to enhance perceived performance and maintain effort in adult recreational salsa dancers

The purpose of this study was to determine if the use of structured self-reflection in community dance classes would influence achievement goal orientations, levels of intrinsic motivation, or perceived dance performance. The Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire (TEOSQ) and the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (IMI) were modified slightly to reflect involvement in salsa dancing rather than sport and then were administered to 139 Latin dance students at the beginning and end of an 11-week term. The dance classes were divided into control and intervention groups, balanced in terms of sample size and level of instruction. The intervention group completed a salsa self-reflection form during or after class for 9 weeks. At the posttest all students rated their salsa performance and the intervention group evaluated the self-reflection process. Results indicate that although achievement goal orientations were not affected, structured sell-reflection is perceived to be a positive tool and may be a useful technique to enhance perceived performance and maintain effort and perceived importance. The participants' perceptions of the self-reflection process were positive, with no negative effects of engaging in the process reported.

Osmocondicionamento de sementes de salsa (Petroselinum sativum Hoffm.) em diferentes potenciais hídricos

A germinação de sementes de salsa (Petroselinum sativum Hoffm.) é lenta e desuniforme, sendo a contagem do teste padrão de germinação recomendada aos 10 e 28 dias e a emergência em campo é relativamente longa, justificando o uso de técnicas que acelerem e uniformizem o processo germinativo: um método promissor é o osmocondicionamento. No presente trabalho, objetivou-se avaliar os efeitos dos diferentes potenciais de osmocondicionamento, com PEG 6000, na germinação de sementes de salsa e identificar o potencial osmótico ótimo para aumentar a germinação destas sementes. Sementes das cultivares Lisa e Portuguesa de dois lotes, adquiridas no comércio local foram osmocondicionadas pelo método de imersão direta das mesmas em soluções aquosas com potencial hídrico: 0,0, -0,5, -1,0 e -1,5 MPa, obtidos com a adição de PEG 6.000, sob aeração constante a 25ºC por 144 horas, como testemunha utilizaram-se sementes não osmocondicionadas. As variáveis analisadas foram: porcentagem de germinação (10 e 28 dias), velocidade de germinação e índice de velocidade de germinação. O osmocondicionamento aumenta a porcentagem e a velocidade de germinação de sementes de salsa, sendo que, o potencial osmótico indicado situa-se entre -1,0 e -1,5 MPa.

Avaliação toxicológica da Ipomoea asarifolia (salsa) em ratos

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Limitations in activities of people affected by leprosy after completing multidrug therapy: application of the SALSA scale

Objectives: To identify people affected by leprosy with impairments after completing multidrug therapy for leprosy, and to assess their limitations in conducting daily activities by applying the Screening of Activity Limitation and Safety Awareness (SALSA) scale. Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed of all residents of a medium-sized city who were treated for leprosy from 1998 to 2006. A specific questionnaire was applied to obtain general and clinical data and the SALSA scale was used to assess limitations in activities. Impairments were assessed using the 'World Health Organization leprosy disability grading system' (WHO-DG). Findings: Of the 335 people affected by leprosy treated in the period, 223 (62.1%) were located and interviewed. A total of 51.6% were female with a mean age of 54 years (SD +/- 15.72) and 67.9% had up to 6 years formal education. The borderline form predominated among interviewees (39.9%) and 54.3% suffer from associated diseases with hypertension (29.1%) and diabetes (10.3%) being the most common. Pain was reported by 54.7% of interviewees. By multiple logistic regression analysis, associations were found between limitations in activities and being female (P < 0.025), family income <= 3 minimum wages (P-value < 0.003), reports of major lesions (P-value < 0.004), pain (P-value < 0.001), associated diseases (P-value < 0.023) and the WHO-DG (P-value < 0.001). Disabilities, as identified using the WHO-DG, were less common (32%) than limitations in activities as evaluated by the SALSA scale (57.8%). Conclusion: Limitations in activities proved to be common in people affected by leprosy and were. associated with low income, being female, reported major lesions, disability, disease and pain.

SALSA: a tool to estimate the stray light contamination for low-Earth orbit observatories

Stray light contamination reduces considerably the precision of photometric of faint stars for low altitude spaceborne observatories. When measuring faint objects, the necessity of coping with stray light contamination arises in order to avoid systematic impacts on low signal-to-noise images. Stray light contamination can be represented by a flat offset in CCD data. Mitigation techniques begin by a comprehensive study during the design phase, followed by the use of target pointing optimisation and post-processing methods. We present a code that aims at simulating the stray-light contamination in low-Earth orbit coming from reflexion of solar light by the Earth. StrAy Light SimulAtor (SALSA) is a tool intended to be used at an early stage as a tool to evaluate the effective visible region in the sky and, therefore to optimise the observation sequence. SALSA can compute Earth stray light contamination for significant periods of time allowing missionwide parameters to be optimised (e.g. impose constraints on the point source transmission function (PST) and/or on the altitude of the satellite). It can also be used to study the behaviour of the stray light at different seasons or latitudes. Given the position of the satellite with respect to the Earth and the Sun, SALSA computes the stray light at the entrance of the telescope following a geometrical technique. After characterising the illuminated region of the Earth, the portion of illuminated Earth that affects the satellite is calculated. Then, the flux of reflected solar photons is evaluated at the entrance of the telescope. Using the PST of the instrument, the final stray light contamination at the detector is calculated. The analysis tools include time series analysis of the contamination, evaluation of the sky coverage and an objects visibility predictor. Effects of the South Atlantic Anomaly and of any shutdown periods of the instrument can be added. Several designs or mission concepts can be easily tested and compared. The code is not thought as a stand-alone mission designer. Its mandatory inputs are a time series describing the trajectory of the satellite and the characteristics of the instrument. This software suite has been applied to the design and analysis of CHEOPS (CHaracterizing ExOPlanet Satellite). This mission requires very high precision photometry to detect very shallow transits of exoplanets. Different altitudes and characteristics of the detector have been studied in order to find the best parameters, that reduce the effect of contamination. © (2014) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.

Salema, Sarpa salsa (Linnaeus 1758) : stock structure in the eastern atlantic and biological characterizatin off the portuguese coast

Tese de doutoramento, Biologia (Biologia Marinha e Aquacultura), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências, 2016

Memorie relative ad un progetto di ridurre il padule di Castiglione della pescaia a laguna d'acqua salsa per uso di pesca alla maniera di Comacchio,

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Salsa, espacio p?blico y convivencia : escenarios emergentes de la educaci?n popular

Este texto es el resultado de una investigaci?n cualitativa acerca de la manera como se asume la m?sica Salsa dentro del espacio p?blico y su aporte a la convivencia, tratando de entenderla como un escenario emergente de la Educaci?n Popular, a prop?sito de las nuevas apuestas investigativas y pedag?gicas surgidas en el marco de las discusiones adelantadas por la Maestr?a en Educaci?n con ?nfasis en Educaci?n Popular y Desarrollo Comunitario. El objetivo se perfil? al analizar la cultura popular salsera a trav?s de sus discursos y pr?cticas, las cuales se constituyen en un posible escenario emergente de convivencia ciudadana en Santiago de Cali. Para desarrollar este objetivo se hizo la recolecci?n de la informaci?n revisando documentos sobre el tema, se complement? con lecturas propuestas durante el desarrollo de la maestr?a, y se fue ampliando el ejercicio con observaciones y aplicaci?n de entrevistas semiestructuradas para indagar sobre lo que siente y piensa la gente cuando vive la m?sica salsa en un espacio p?blico, y de qu? manera ello puede contribuir a la convivencia en la ciudad. La pr?ctica objeto de estudio es Salsa al Parque, el Encuentro de Sals?manos/as en Santiago de Cali, la cual tiene lugar en el parque de los Estudiantes o de Santa Librada. Al final se presentan las conclusiones, donde queda planteada la necesidad de seguir profundizando el tema y el impacto que tiene a nivel acad?mico, pero tambi?n ubicando la apuesta por contribuir a la construcci?n de ciudad en las circunstancias actuales.

El baile salsa en Cali: la profesionalizaci?n como forma de enclasamiento

Tesis de Sociologia