Embolada e outras coisas do folclore tulusano: a experiência da Associação Escambiar em Toulouse - França

Since the middle 80 s from the 20th century, some musical genres associated to the Brazilian Northeastern region notably the forró, coco de embolada and repente de viola have been gradually incorporated to the musical production of south France linked to the occitanista trend, currently linking many musicians and groups from those regions in both countries. This paper is engaged in reflecting on the particular experience of the groups formed by the Escambiar Association, located on the city of Toulouse, and specially the duet Fabulous Trobadors, whose compositions are mostly made in the coco de embolada form. Watching the motivations and the processes that led to the creation of the groups from this association and it s current operation, this study investigates the transcultural phenomenon, that allow to cross two symbolic universes through rationalizing speeches about music, considering the locality s production in the midst of a political debate that involve questions about cultural identity and tradition

Prevalence of chronic diseases in private healthcare sector of South Africa: A threat to public health

Purpose: To evaluate the prevalence of patients suffering from registered chronic disease list (CDL) conditions in a section of the South African private health sector from 2008 - 2012. Methods: This study was a retrospective analysis of the medicine claims database of a nationally (South African) representative Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) company data between 2008 and 2012. Statistical analysis was used to analyse the data. Descriptive analysis was performed to calculate the prevalence of CDL conditions for the entire population, and stratified by age and gender. However, MIXED linear modelling was used to determine changes in the average number of CDL conditions per patient, adjusted for age and gender from 2008 - 2012. Results: An increase of 0.20 in chronic diseases was observed from 2008 - 2012 in patients having any CDL condition, with an average of 1.57 (1.57 - 1.58, 95 % CI) co-morbid CDL conditions in 2008 and 1.77 (1.77 - 1.78, 95 % CI) in 2012. This increase in average number of CDL conditions per patient between 2008 and 2012 was statistically significant (p < 0.05), but with no large practical significance (d < 0.8). Conclusion: Prevalence of patients with CDL conditions along with risk of co-morbidity has been increasing with time in the private health sector of South Africa. Risk of increased co-morbidity with age and among different genders was prevalent.

HOG CHAINS AND MARK TWAINS: A STUDY OF LABOR HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY, AND INDUSTRIAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE STEAMBOAT ERA OF THE MONONGAHELA VALLEY 1811-1950

This dissertation examines a unique working class in the United States, the men and women who worked on the steamboats from the Industrial Revolution until the demise of steam-powered boats in the mid-20th century. The steamboat was the beginning of a technological system that was developed in America and used in such great numbers that it made the rapid population of the Trans-Appalachian West possible. The steamboat was forever romanticized by images of the antebellum South or the quick wit of Samuel Clemens and his sentimental book, Life on the Mississippi. The imagination swirls with thoughts of boats, bleach white, slowly churning the calm waters of some Spanish moss covered river. The reality of the boats and the experience of those who worked on them has been lost in this nostalgic vision. This research details the history of the western steamboat in the Monongahela Valley, the birthplace of the commercial steamboat industry. The first part of this dissertation examines the literature of authors in the field of labor history and Industrial Archaeology to place this work into the larger context of published literature. The second builds a framework for understanding the various eras that the steamboat went through both in terms of technological change, but also the change the workers experienced as their identity as a working class was being shaped. The third part details the excavations of two steamboat captains houses, those of Captain James Gormley and Captain Michael A. Cox. Both men represented a time in which the steamboat was in an era of transition. Excavations at their homes yield clues to their class status and how integrated they were in the local community. The fourth part of this study documents the oral histories of steamboat workers, both men and women, and their experience on the boats and on the river. Their rapidly declining population of those who lived and worked on the boats gives urgency for their lives to be documented. Finally, this study concludes with a synthesis of how worker identity solidified in the face of technological, socio-economic, and ideological change especially during their push for unionization and the introduction of the diesel towboat.

Digging Deeper than Platinum: South Africa's Participation in an Emergent Fuel Cell Industry

Thesis (Master, Environmental Studies) -- Queen's University, 2016-09-09 11:52:31.446

Normative reference values for the 20-meter shuttlerun test in a population-based sample of schoolchildren in Bogota, Colombia: The FUPRECOL Study

Our aim was to determine the normative reference values of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and to establish the proportion of subjects with low CRF suggestive of future cardio-metabolic risk.

Los economistas colombianos y el problema de la desigualdad

Este trabajo tiene el propósito de responder cómo ha cambiado la manera en que los economistas colombianos hablan sobre “desigualdad” a partir de la segunda mitad del siglo XX.

África Austral: Los minerales como recurso estratégico para los intereses de Estados Unidos y China, período 2000-2010

La región de África Austral emerge como un nuevo escenario geopolítico complejo, en el que la lucha por la adquisición de los derechos de exploración, extracción y distribución de minerales estratégicos ha intensificado la presencia del número de actores estratégicos en esta zona. En este sentido, es interesante analizar el juego de poder que se desarrolla entre Estados Unidos y China con el fin de neutralizar la debilidad estratégica que representa la carencia de estos recursos naturales, esenciales para el desarrollo de sus industrias, así como también la oportunidad que representan como mecanismo para ampliar las esferas de influencia extra continental. Así pues, la presente investigación analiza a partir de la explotación de los minerales como recursos estratégicos, los efectos de la geoestrategia reciente de estos dos jugadores activos del sistema internacional contemporáneo en la relación con los Estados que conforman la región meridional del continente africano, durante el periodo 2000-2010.

Double trouble: French colonialism in Morocco and the early history of the Pasteur institutes of Tangier and Casablanca (1895-1932)

Morocco was the last North African country in which a Pasteur institute was created, nearly two decades later than in Tunisia and Algeria. In fact, two institutes were opened, the first in Tangier in 1913 and the second in Casablanca in 1932. This duplication, far from being a measure of success, was the material expression of the troubles Pastorians had experienced in getting a solid foothold in the country since the late 19th century. These problems partly derived from the pre-existence of a modest Spanish-Moroccan bacteriological tradition, developed since the late 1880s within the framework of the Sanitary Council and Hygiene Commission of Tangier, and partly from the uncoordinated nature of the initiatives launched from Paris and Algiers. Although a Pasteur Institute was finally established, with Paul Remlinger as director, the failure of France to impose its colonial rule over the whole country, symbolized by the establishment of an international regime in Tangier, resulted in the creation of a second centre in Casablanca. While elucidating many hitherto unclear facts about the entangled origins of both institutes, the author points to the solidity of the previously independent Moroccan state as a major factor behind the troubled translation of Pastorianism to Morocco. Systematically dismissed or downplayed by colonial and postcolonial historiography, this solidity disrupted the French takeover of the country and therefore Pastorian expectations.

Una arquitectura internacional difícil de imitar: el caso de Filipinas

ResumenLas guerras en el siglo XXI son la continuación de conflictos armados internos surgidos a mediados del siglo XX, y otras son el resultado de la segunda gran descolonización en algunos territoriosde Asia y África ocurridos por la misma época. En ambos casos se reflejan problemas estructurales de los estados, generalmente los llamados del tercer mundo. Después de la caída del muro de Berlín y la unificación alemana a finales de los 80, el inicio de la lucha contra el narcotráfico y la actual lucha contra el terror a finales de los 90 e inicios del 2000. Los países en situación de guerra interna reciben apoyo de actores de la comunidad internacional, comolos que les interesa negociar conflictos y como los que deben contribuir a la paz y la seguridad internacional. Filipinas, estado ubicado en el sudeste asiático, sostiene un conflicto armado interno de casi 60 años. Durante el 2010, ha sostenido un proceso de paz entre el gobierno nacional y la guerrillamusulmana MILF (Frente Moro de Liberación Nacional), en donde varios actores de la comunidad internacional como los Estados Unidos, los países vecinos y la Unión Europea han jugado un papel importante para el restablecimiento de la paz.Palabras clave: paz, conflictos armados internos, comunidad internacional, negociación, Filipinas. AbstractWars during the 21st century are extension of Internal Armed Conflicts which began in the middle of the 20th century. Others conflicts are the result of the second de-colonization of some Asian and African territories. In both cases, they reflect the state’s structural problems; commonly known as the “third world.” After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the German unification in the late 1980s, the beginning of war against drug trafficking and the war against terrorism in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the countries in a Internal Armed Conflict situation have received International Aid from states that are interested in resolution of wars and their own interest in global peace and security.The Philippines is a country in southeastern Asia. It has been involved in an Internal Armed Conflict for more than 50 years. In 2010, the National Government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Fronthave developed a round tables/ peace panels, where some international community actors such as the United States, neighboring countries, and European Union, have played a very important role for establishment of peace.Keywords: peace, internal armed conflicts, international community, negotiation, Filipines.

Skeletal variability of the fibular ends and evolutionary implications

This thesis investigates the morphological variations of fibular extremities in humans and non-human hominids using a 3D Geometric Morphometric approach. The study has three objectives: (1) to assess the shape, form, and size variations of fibular epiphyses within the human species, highlighting sexually dimorphic features; (2) to explore interpopulation variability of fibular extremities from the Upper Paleolithic to the 20th century, comparing subsistence, mobility, and lifestyles; and (3) to examine interspecific variations in fibular ends, testing potential associations with locomotor and positional behavior among extant hominid taxa. In terms of intraspecific variations, sex-related differences in fibular form and size were observed, suggesting distinct functional requirements for the lower limb between sexes. Interpopulation variations revealed a decline in activity level over time, influenced by terrain and footwear use. Hunter-gatherer groups exhibited greater joint mobility, loading, and range of motion compared to sedentary pre- and post-industrial populations. Interspecific variations demonstrated significant morphological differences among hominid taxa, indicating functional implications related to both phylogeny and specific loading patterns on the lower limb. The study identified features indicative of bipedalism in humans, as well as shared characteristics among non-human great apes. Furthermore, distinguishing features were found between Asian and African apes, along with unique morphological signals associated with distinct positional behavior in each hominid taxa. By comprehensively analyzing fibular morphology, this research sheds light on the importance of this bone in knee support, ankle stabilization, and overall locomotor function. The findings contribute to our understanding of the evolutionary and functional aspects of the fibula across human populations and non-human hominids throughout history.

Políticas sociais de atendimento às crianças e aos adolescentes no Brasil

This article analyses the emergence and development of social policies for children and adolescents attendance that are in line with the development process of the Brazilian social protection system, focusing on some of the main representations attributed to childhood, according to the historical and political periods. It seeks to present the notion of childhood instituted under the constitution of the Brazilian welfare state, in such a way as to place it within the broader context of the historical and political transformations that involved the emergence and consolidation of the social policies directed towards children and adolescents in Brazil in the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.

Educação do corpo e vida ao ar livre : natureza e educação fisica em São Paulo (1930-1945)

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

Do corpo no tempo ao tempo do corpo : a ciencia e a formação profissional em Educação Fisica

Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Faculdade de Educação Física

A ginastica em Campinas : suas formas de expressão da decada de 20 a decada de 70

Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Faculdade de Educação Física

Educação do corpo e vida associativa : as sociedades ginásticas alemãs em São Paulo (fins do século XIX, primeiras décadas do século XX)

Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Faculdade de Educação Física