Rediseño de la revista Just BY

El siguiente proyecto se basa en el rediseño y el planteo de propuestas creativas para la diagramación y composición de la revista Just BY, medio gráfico del Barrio Bombal de la ciudad de Mendoza. Se establecen estrategias creativas, grillas compositivas, criterios tipográficos e imágenes, para lograr una identidad y unidad gráfica propia.La construcción de una personalidad fuerte y atractiva le permitirá competir en el medio y ganar lectores.

El dispositivo fitness en la modernidad biológica. Democracia estética, just-in-time, crímenes de fealdad y contagio

Decía Foucault que "el umbral de modernidad biológica de una sociedad se sitúa en el momento en que la especie entra como apuesta del juego en sus propias estrategias políticas". A tres siglos de que Occidente cruzó ese umbral, analizaré algunos ejes de la nueva estrategia hegemónica para anudar las biopolíticas de población y las anatomo-políticas del cuerpo-máquina. Esta estrategia se consolida en la segunda mitad del siglo XX junto a la transformación de las sociedades disciplinarias y de control durante el capitalismo financiero y posfordista. Enlaza tres dispositivos cuyo objeto ya no es el sexo sino el fitness, la salud y las biotecnologías. El nuevo dispositivo sanitario apunta a la normalización y gestión privada de la enfermedad, entendida como mal potencial y endémico, cuyo descuido puede castigarse. El dispositivo biotecnológico, que incluye la genética sin limitarse a ella, altera la forma de intervención sobre los cuerpos. El dispositivo de fitness recoge las exigencias de un cuerpo "adecuado", que "encaje" en el nuevo régimen de aparición-espectáculo; su principal valor es el de exhibición, y opera con eficacia allí donde la aspiración a una movilidad económica, social o cultural se desplaza hacia una búsqueda estética de "redención por la apariencia".

El dispositivo fitness en la modernidad biológica. Democracia estética, just-in-time, crímenes de fealdad y contagio

Decía Foucault que "el umbral de modernidad biológica de una sociedad se sitúa en el momento en que la especie entra como apuesta del juego en sus propias estrategias políticas". A tres siglos de que Occidente cruzó ese umbral, analizaré algunos ejes de la nueva estrategia hegemónica para anudar las biopolíticas de población y las anatomo-políticas del cuerpo-máquina. Esta estrategia se consolida en la segunda mitad del siglo XX junto a la transformación de las sociedades disciplinarias y de control durante el capitalismo financiero y posfordista. Enlaza tres dispositivos cuyo objeto ya no es el sexo sino el fitness, la salud y las biotecnologías. El nuevo dispositivo sanitario apunta a la normalización y gestión privada de la enfermedad, entendida como mal potencial y endémico, cuyo descuido puede castigarse. El dispositivo biotecnológico, que incluye la genética sin limitarse a ella, altera la forma de intervención sobre los cuerpos. El dispositivo de fitness recoge las exigencias de un cuerpo "adecuado", que "encaje" en el nuevo régimen de aparición-espectáculo; su principal valor es el de exhibición, y opera con eficacia allí donde la aspiración a una movilidad económica, social o cultural se desplaza hacia una búsqueda estética de "redención por la apariencia".

El dispositivo fitness en la modernidad biológica. Democracia estética, just-in-time, crímenes de fealdad y contagio

Decía Foucault que "el umbral de modernidad biológica de una sociedad se sitúa en el momento en que la especie entra como apuesta del juego en sus propias estrategias políticas". A tres siglos de que Occidente cruzó ese umbral, analizaré algunos ejes de la nueva estrategia hegemónica para anudar las biopolíticas de población y las anatomo-políticas del cuerpo-máquina. Esta estrategia se consolida en la segunda mitad del siglo XX junto a la transformación de las sociedades disciplinarias y de control durante el capitalismo financiero y posfordista. Enlaza tres dispositivos cuyo objeto ya no es el sexo sino el fitness, la salud y las biotecnologías. El nuevo dispositivo sanitario apunta a la normalización y gestión privada de la enfermedad, entendida como mal potencial y endémico, cuyo descuido puede castigarse. El dispositivo biotecnológico, que incluye la genética sin limitarse a ella, altera la forma de intervención sobre los cuerpos. El dispositivo de fitness recoge las exigencias de un cuerpo "adecuado", que "encaje" en el nuevo régimen de aparición-espectáculo; su principal valor es el de exhibición, y opera con eficacia allí donde la aspiración a una movilidad económica, social o cultural se desplaza hacia una búsqueda estética de "redención por la apariencia".

Uppermost Jurassic to lower Cretaceous benthic foraminifera from ODP Hole 123-765C

Benthic foraminifers were studied in 99 samples collected from the lower 200 m of Hole 765C. The studied section ranges from the Tithonian to Aptian, and benthic foraminifers can be subdivided into five assemblages on the basis of faunal diversity and stratigraphic ranges of distinctive species. Compared with deep-water assemblages from Atlantic DSDP sites and Poland, assemblages from the Argo Abyssal Plain display a higher diversity of agglutinated forms, which comprise the autochthonous assemblages. Assemblages at the base of Hole 765C are wholly composed of agglutinated forms, reflecting deposition beneath the carbonate compensation depth (CCD). Most calcareous benthic species are found in turbidite layers, and the presence of an upper Valanginian Praedorothia praehauteriviana Assemblage may indicate deposition at or just below the CCD. The P. praehauteriviana Assemblage from Hole 765C is the temporal equivalent of similar assemblages from DSDP Holes 534A, 416A, 370, 105, and 101 in the Atlantic Ocean and Hole 306 in the Pacific Ocean. Stratigraphic ranges of cosmopolitan agglutinated species at Site 765 generally overlap with their reported ranges in the Atlantic and in the bathyal flysch sequences of the Carpathians; however, several species from Hole 765C have not been previously reported from Uppermost Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous abyssal sediments.

Stable isotope record, opal accumulation rate and geochemistry of middle Miocene sediments of IODP Site 321-U1338

During the middle Miocene, Earth's climate transitioned from a relatively warm phase (Miocene climatic optimum) into a colder mode with re-establishment of permanent ice sheets on Antarctica, thus marking a fundamental step in Cenozoic cooling. Carbon sequestration and atmospheric CO2 drawdown through increased terrestrial and/or marine productivity have been proposed as the main drivers of this fundamental transition. We integrate high-resolution (1-3 k.y.) benthic stable isotope data with XRF-scanner derived biogenic silica and carbonate accumulation estimates in an exceptionally well-preserved sedimentary archive, recovered at Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Site U1338, to reconstruct eastern equatorial Pacific productivity variations and to investigate temporal linkages between high- and low-latitude climate change over the interval 16-13 Ma. Our records show that the climatic optimum (16.8-14.7 Ma) was characterized by high amplitude climate variations, marked by intense perturbations of the carbon cycle. Episodes of peak warmth at (southern hemisphere) insolation maxima coincided with transient shoaling of the carbonate compensation depth and enhanced carbonate dissolution in the deep ocean. A switch to obliquity-paced climate variability after 14.7 Ma concurred with a general improvement in carbonate preservation and the onset of stepwise global cooling, culminating with extensive ice growth over Antarctica at ~13.8 Ma. We find that two massive increases in opal accumulation at ~14.0 and ~13.8 Ma occurred just before and during the final and most prominent cooling step, supporting the hypothesis that enhanced siliceous productivity in the eastern equatorial Pacific contributed to CO2 drawdown.

Accumulation rates, carbon composition and Eocene carbonate compensation depths of ODP Sites 199-1218 and 199-1219

CaCO3, Corg, and biogenic SiO2 were measured in Eocene equatorial Pacific sediments from Sites 1218 and 1219, and bulk oxygen and carbon isotopes were measured on selected intervals from Site 1219. These data delineate a series of CaCO3 events that first appeared at ~48 Ma and continued to the Eocene/Oligocene boundary. Each event lasted 1-2 m.y. and is separated from the next by a low CaCO3 interval of a similar time span. The largest of these carbonate accumulation events (CAE-3) is in Magnetochron 18. It began at ~42.2 Ma, lasted until ~40.3 Ma, and was marked by higher than average productivity. The end of CAE-3 was abrupt and was associated with a large-scale carbon transfer to the oceans prior to warming of high-latitude regions. Changes in carbonate compensation depth associated with CAE excursions were small in the early part of the middle Eocene but increased to as much as 800 m by the late middle Eocene before decreasing into the late Eocene. Oxygen isotope data indicate that the carbonate events are associated with cooling conditions and may mark small glaciations in the Eocene.

Foraminifers from DSDP Leg 87 holes

Leg 87 investigated two sites in the Nankai Trough, off southeastern Japan, and one in the Japan Trench, off northeastern Japan. Several holes at the Nankai Trough sites penetrated mostly Quaternary interbedded sandy turbidites and hemipelagic mud. Foraminifers are common only in certain turbidite sands because both sites are at or just below the carbonate compensation depth. The planktonic assemblages from these sandy layers consist of mixed cool-temperate and warm-water species, and include both solution-resistant and solution-prone species. The benthic assemblages from these same layers are composed of mixtures of shelf to abyssal species. The northward-flowing Kuroshio is important in producing the mixed planktonic faunas, whereas turbidity currents are the primary agents in mixing benthic faunas and in the rapid burial of both planktonic and benthic foraminifers, which protects them from solution. Interbedded hemipelagic muds are barren or contain sparse faunas. Hole 582B penetrated through the trench-fill deposits into hemipelagic sediments that originated in the Shikoku Basin. These muds contain a dissolution facies of solution-resistant planktonic species, partially dissolved tests, and deep bathyal benthic species. Drilling at Site 584, on the landward midslope of the Japan Trench, penetrated a section of dominantly diatomaceous mudstone. This section contains a meager Pliocene calcareous fauna in its upper third and a nearly monospecific assemblage of Martinottiella communis in the lower two-thirds. Diatom biostratigraphy indicates that this change in assemblages occurs near the Miocene/Pliocene boundary. Similar biofacies changes are observed in neighboring sections drilled during Legs 56 and 57. The change from agglutinated to calcareous faunas is probably related to a relative drop in the carbonate compensation depth at the end of the Miocene.

The gap between recognition and the 'compensation business' : the claim against Britain for compensation by Kenya's former Mau Mau fighters

During the first Kibaki administration (2002-2007), a movement by the former Mau Mau fighters demanded recognition for the role that they had played in the achievement of independence. They began to demand, also, monetary compensation for past injustices. Why had it taken over 40 years (from independence in 1963) for the former Mau Mau fighters to initiate this movement? What can be observed as the outcome of their movement? To answer these questions, three different historical currents need to be taken into account. These were, respectively, changing trends in the government of Kenya, progress in historical research into the actual circumstances of colonial control, and a realization, based on mounting experience, that launching a legal action against Britain could turn out to be a lucrative initiative. This paper concludes that, regardless of the actual purpose of the legal case, neither of their objectives was certain to be achieved. Two inescapable realities remain: the doubts cast on the reputation of the government by its decision to lift the Mau Mau‟s outlaw status – a decision that was widely seen as a latter-day example of the „Kikuyu favouritism‟ policy followed by the first Kibaki administration – and the popular interpretation of the involvement of Leigh Day, well known in Kenya ever since the unexploded bombs case for its success in obtaining substantial compensation payments, as a vehicle for squeezing large amounts of money from the British government for the benefit of the Kikuyu people.

Nonrigid Motion Compensation of Free Breathing Acquired Myocardial Perfusion Data

In this work, we present a novel method to compensate the movement in images acquired during free breathing using first-pass gadolinium enhanced, myocardial perfusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). First, we use independent component analysis (ICA) to identify the optimal number of independent components (ICs) that separate the breathing motion from the intensity change induced by the contrast agent. Then, synthetic images are created by recombining the ICs, but other then in previously published work (Milles et al. 2008), we omit the component related to motion, and therefore, the resulting reference image series is free of motion. Motion compensation is then achieved by using a multi-pass non-rigid image registration scheme. We tested our method on 15 distinct image series (5 patients) consisting of 58 images each and we validated our method by comparing manually tracked intensity profiles of the myocardial sections to automatically generated ones before and after registration. The average correlation to the manually obtained curves before registration 0:89 0:11 was increased to 0:98 0:02