Efecto de la extirpación de las espículas del glande del cuy como técnia de esterilización reproductiva y su influencia en agresividad y ganancia de peso en comparación con un método químico alcohol yodado al 2%

La presente investigación evaluó el efecto de la extirpación de las espículas del glande en cobayos como método de esterilización reproductiva y su influencia en agresividad y ganancia de peso en comparación con un método químico (alcohol yodado 2%) y un testigo. Se contemplaron dos etapas de estudio, la primera valoró agresividad y ganancia de peso en 90 cuyes machos de 45 días de edad con peso promedio de 658,3±8,54gr los cuales fueron distribuidos en grupos de 5 animales por jaula; para la segunda etapa se consideró fertilidad y prolificidad en 90 cuyes hembras sexualmente maduras de 3 meses de edad, las cuales fueron empadradas con 18 machos obtenidos al azar de una sub-muestra de la primera etapa, la relación de empadre fue cinco hembras un macho. Los animales en estudio fueron distribuidos en los siguientes tratamientos: T1 animales enteros (n=30), T2 animales extirpados las espículas (n=30) y T3 animales castrados con alcohol yodado 2% (n=30). Los datos obtenidos fueron procesados y analizados en el programa SPSS® versión 22.0 determinándose que la ganancia total de peso fue para T1 836,4±33,89gr, T2 860,5±24,54gr y T3 725,5±30,45 con significancia estadística (P<0,05) para T2 y T1 con relación a T3. En referencia a agresividad medida a través del daño de la canal a nivel de la zona dorso posterior se obtuvieron resultados porcentuales estadísticos no significativos (p>0,05) entre tratamientos. En cuanto a fertilidad se obtuvo: para T1 un valor de 66,7%, T2 86,7% y T3 12% existiendo significancia estadística (p<0,05) entre tratamientos. Para la variable prolificidad se obtuvo valores medios de: T1 2,47±0,34; T2 3,43±0,32 y T3 0,40±0.22, con diferencias significativas (p<0,05) únicamente para el T3 que fue el que menos crías obtuvo. En conclusión la extirpación de las espículas del glande del cuy no esteriliza reproductivamente por el contrario aumenta el porcentaje de fertilidad, no disminuye agresividad, obtiene pesos no distintos al testigo pero alcanza mejores pesos que el método químico.

Guernica – a arte como forma de comunicação

Dissertação de Mestrado, Comunicação, Cultura e Artes, Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Universidade do Alagrve, 2014

Corpos tatuados : experiências sensíveis em realidade aumentada móvel

Tese (doutorado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Artes, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes, 2015.

Novos Meisho

Dissertação para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Arquitectura, apresentada na Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Arquitectura.

Perspectives croisées : les déterminants sociaux de la vulnérabilité sexuelle chez les jeunes de 18 à 25 ans

Depuis les années 1990, les indicateurs de la santé sexuelle des jeunes de 18 à 25 ans démontrent que ce groupe d’âge est sexuellement vulnérable, ce qui est observable en raison de la hausse du taux d’infections transmises sexuellement, ainsi que des lacunes de connaissances en matière de santé sexuelle. Ce mémoire propose un regard nouveau sur la santé sexuelle des jeunes à partir d’un faisceau de perspectives sociologiques axées sur les déterminants sociaux de la santé pour mieux comprendre la vulnérabilité sexuelle chez les jeunes. Nous faisons appel à trois pistes analytiques en particulier : la perspective matérialiste, la perspective bio-psycho-sociale et la perspective des parcours de vie. Notre démarche de recherche s’inscrit dans une approche issue de la théorisation ancrée, employée au sein d’une clinique jeunesse de Montréal. Nos outils d’investigation consistent en entretiens semi-dirigés réalisés avec des intervenantes de la clinique et des jeunes patients âgés de 18 à 25 ans, ainsi qu’en observations non participantes dans divers lieux de la clinique. Les résultats de cette recherche font ressortir quatre déterminants sociaux : la question des connaissances en matière de santé sexuelle, les scripts sexuels genrés, la période de la jeunesse lors du parcours sexuel et les caractéristiques du quartier du centre-ville de Montréal. En tenant compte des perspectives croisées de ceux qui voient (les intervenantes) et de ceux qui vivent (les jeunes) la vulnérabilité sexuelle, nous pouvons mieux définir ces déterminants, leurs sources et leurs effets. Nous faisons également état de nos résultats au prisme des trois cadres analytiques des déterminants sociaux de la santé. Nous espérons que ces résultats inciteront la poursuite de recherches dans le domaine des déterminants sociaux de la vulnérabilité sexuelle et qu’ils seront utiles dans la formulation des recommandations pratiques pour les interventions en santé sexuelle auprès des jeunes.

Historiographic Metafiction and the Neo-slave Narrative: Pastiche and Polyphony in Caryl Phillips, Toni Morrison and Sherley Anne Williams

The classic slave narrative recounted a fugitive slave’s personal story condemning slavery and hence working towards abolition. The neo-slave narrative underlines the slave’s historical legacy by unveiling the past through foregrounding African Atlantic experiences in an attempt to create a critical historiography of the Black Atlantic. The neo-slave narrative is a genre that emerged following World War II and presents us with a dialogue combining the history of 1970 - 2000. In this thesis I seek to explore how the contemporary counter-part of the classic slave narrative draws, reflects or diverges from the general conventions of its predecessor. I argue that by scrutinizing our notion of truth, the neo-slave narrative remains a relevant, important witness to the history of slavery as well as to today’s still racialized society. The historiographic metafiction of the neo-slave narrative rewrites history with the goal of digesting the past and ultimately leading to future reconciliation.

Effects of inconsistencies in eyewitness testimony on mock-juror decisionmaking

In attempting to impeach eyewitnesses, attorney's often highlight inconsistencies in the eyewitness's recall. This study examined the differential impact of types of inconsistent testimony on mock-juror decisions. Each of 100 community members and 200 undergraduates viewed one of four versions of a videotaped trial in which the primary evidence against the defendant was the testimony of the eyewitness. I manipulated the types of inconsistent statements given by the eyewitness in the four versions: (1) consistent testimony, (2) information given on-the-stand but not given during the pre-trial investigation, (3) contradictions between on-the-stand and pre-trial statements, and (4) contradictions made on the witness stand. Subjects exposed to any form of inconsistent testimony were less likely to convict and found the defendant less culpable and the eyewitness less effective. These effects were larger for contradictions than for information given on the stand but not during pre-trial investigations.

Implicit Eyewitness Memory

After a crime has occurred, one of the most pressing objectives for investigators is to identify and interview any eyewitness that can provide information about the crime. Depending on his or her training, the investigative interviewer will use (to varying degrees) mostly yes/no questions, some cued and multiple-choice questions, with few open-ended questions. When the witness cannot generate any more details about the crime, one assumes the eyewitness’ memory for the critical event has been exhausted. However, given what we know about memory, is this a safe assumption? In line with the extant literature on human cognition, if one assumes (a) an eyewitness has more available memories of the crime than he or she has accessible and (b) only explicit probes have been used to elicit information, then one can argue this eyewitness may still be able to provide additional information via implicit memory tests. In accordance with these notions, the present study had two goals: demonstrate that (1) eyewitnesses can reveal memory implicitly for a detail-rich event and (2) particularly for brief crimes, eyewitnesses can reveal memory for event details implicitly that were inaccessible when probed for explicitly. Undergraduates (N = 227) participated in a psychological experiment in exchange for research credit. Participants were presented with one of three stimulus videos (brief crime vs. long crime vs. irrelevant video). Then, participants either completed a series of implicit memory tasks or worked on a puzzle for 5 minutes. Lastly, participants were interviewed explicitly about the previous video via free recall and recognition tasks. Findings indicated that participants who viewed the brief crime provided significantly more crime-related details implicitly than those who viewed the long crime. The data also showed participants who viewed the long crime provided marginally more accurate details during free recall than participants who viewed the brief crime. Furthermore, participants who completed the implicit memory tasks provided significantly less accurate information during the explicit interview than participants who were not given implicit memory tasks. This study was the first to investigate implicit memory for eyewitnesses of a crime. To determine its applied value, additional empirical work is required.

Exceptional river gorge formation from unexceptional floods

An understanding of rates and mechanisms of incision and knickpoint retreat in bedrock rivers is fundamental to perceptions of landscape response to external drivers, yet only sparse field data are available. Here we present eye witness accounts and quantitative surveys of rapid, amphitheatre-headed gorge formation in unweathered granite from the overtopping of a rock-cut dam spillway by small-moderate floods (B100–1,500m3 s�1). The amount of erosion demonstrates no relationship with flood magnitude or bedload availability. Instead, structural pattern of the bedrock through faults and joints appears to be the primary control on landscape change. These discontinuities facilitate rapid erosion (4270m headward retreat; B100m incision; and B160m widening over 6 years) principally through fluvial plucking and block topple. The example demonstrates the potential for extremely rapid transient bedrock erosion even when rocks are mechanically strong and flood discharges are moderate. These observations are relevant to perceived models of gorge formation and knickpoint retreat.

Consecuencias literarias del 11-S: la representación de la violencia en la novela angloamericana

In my eight years as a professional journalist, I have been a front line observer of the extreme level of violence which occurs everyday in our society. As victims, consumers or perpetrators of violence, this phenomenon is now a part of our existence. As a reporter for the Spanish national newspaper El País I have been witness to the most terrible acts of violence. In Venezuela, with one of the highest rates of criminality in the world, I saw piles of bodies stacked up in mortuaries. In Argentina, I reported on the most brutal crimes including the rape of children by policemen. I believe that my interest in the manifestations and causes of violence was aroused during my time as a journalist. On a personal level, I was deeply affected by the twin poles of attraction/repulsion which the violent images produced in me. The first time I visited New York in 2003, I talked to various people who were selling photos of the victims of the Twin Tower attacks. They had laid out their wares along the wire fence that separated Ground Zero from the main public areas. One particular photograph made an indelible impression on my mind: a ghost like corpse covered in white dust which was streaked with blood. It is an image I will never forget. If I remember well, a complete album of these gruesome images cost about ten dollars. At the same time, I also became interested in islamic terrorism: its complexity and the great impact it has made on Western society. One only has to look at the front page of the press around the world to read about war, terrorism or the constant violation of human rights. The words Al-Qaeda, Daesh, Boko Haram and Islamic State have sadly become parts of our everyday language. The nihilistic philosophy which promisess eternal life in exchange for self-inmolation is a new, highly worrying reality, especially painful when it involves young people who become indoctrinated through the social media. They have become the most loyal supporters of a fanatical and uncompromising version of Islam. The stark reality is that these young recruits to Jihad (holy war) were born in places like London, Paris, Rome or Madrid...

Perspectives croisées : les déterminants sociaux de la vulnérabilité sexuelle chez les jeunes de 18 à 25 ans

Depuis les années 1990, les indicateurs de la santé sexuelle des jeunes de 18 à 25 ans démontrent que ce groupe d’âge est sexuellement vulnérable, ce qui est observable en raison de la hausse du taux d’infections transmises sexuellement, ainsi que des lacunes de connaissances en matière de santé sexuelle. Ce mémoire propose un regard nouveau sur la santé sexuelle des jeunes à partir d’un faisceau de perspectives sociologiques axées sur les déterminants sociaux de la santé pour mieux comprendre la vulnérabilité sexuelle chez les jeunes. Nous faisons appel à trois pistes analytiques en particulier : la perspective matérialiste, la perspective bio-psycho-sociale et la perspective des parcours de vie. Notre démarche de recherche s’inscrit dans une approche issue de la théorisation ancrée, employée au sein d’une clinique jeunesse de Montréal. Nos outils d’investigation consistent en entretiens semi-dirigés réalisés avec des intervenantes de la clinique et des jeunes patients âgés de 18 à 25 ans, ainsi qu’en observations non participantes dans divers lieux de la clinique. Les résultats de cette recherche font ressortir quatre déterminants sociaux : la question des connaissances en matière de santé sexuelle, les scripts sexuels genrés, la période de la jeunesse lors du parcours sexuel et les caractéristiques du quartier du centre-ville de Montréal. En tenant compte des perspectives croisées de ceux qui voient (les intervenantes) et de ceux qui vivent (les jeunes) la vulnérabilité sexuelle, nous pouvons mieux définir ces déterminants, leurs sources et leurs effets. Nous faisons également état de nos résultats au prisme des trois cadres analytiques des déterminants sociaux de la santé. Nous espérons que ces résultats inciteront la poursuite de recherches dans le domaine des déterminants sociaux de la vulnérabilité sexuelle et qu’ils seront utiles dans la formulation des recommandations pratiques pour les interventions en santé sexuelle auprès des jeunes.

El Libro del Governador o Suma de collaciones o de ayuntamientos: versión castellana del "Communiloquium" de Juan de Gales

The intellectual production of Johannes Gallensis (also known as John of Wales, c. 1210/30 – 1285), regent-master of the Friars Minor at Oxford and later a lecturer and Doctor of Theology at Paris, was oriented towards furnishing Catholic preachers with a variety of compilations of moral philosophy aimed to serve them in their pastoral ministry. One of these compilations is the Communiloquium, a manual of a kind, which displays its author's attempt to provide adequate and specific argumentation for admonishing all sorts and types of devotees. Its most prominent characteristic is a highly accurate use of classical auctoritates and exempla, which turned this work into a kind of anthology of quotations and references, for it offered its readers the possibility of citing sources and texts that they themselves had never actually consulted. The impressive number of manuscript copies of the Communiloquium that reached our times bears witness to its great popularity (some one hundred and sixty dispersed in different European libraries, according to Jenny Swanson’s John of Wales. A Study of the Work and Ideas of a Thirteenth-Century Friar). The Communiloquium must have reached the Iberian soil by means of Franciscan friars and soon spread through courtly circles, as much as in the religious milieu, due to the political taint of its first part, rooted in the organological metaphor and containing extensive reflections on the virtues and the due behaviour of a monarch. In the Crown of Aragon, the Communiloquium used to be read out loud even among the artisans. In Castile, on the other hand, particularly between the XIIIth and the XVth centuries, its main audience happened to be the lettered nobility and those intellectuals who, dedicated to composing glosas and specula principum, required its resources...

O Abuso Sexual de Crianças e a Criança no Papel de Testemunha

O presente estudo pretende explorar a perceção dos profissionais de saúde mental acerca do crime de abuso sexual de crianças e as competências da criança no papel de testemunha, centrando-se para tal, na identificação das crenças e mitos existentes entre os participantes, no âmbito dessa problemática. Esta investigação pretende assim alargar o conhecimento relativamente a esta temática, enfatizando o facto de que qualquer profissional pode ratificar mitos de abuso sexual e que isso pode interferir nas suas atitudes perante a atribuição de credibilidade à criança. Os dados foram obtidos através da técnica da entrevista, como recurso a uma entrevista semi-estruturada e um questionário sócio-demográfico. Foram analisadas 11 entrevistas de uma amostra constituída por 9 psicólogos, 1 psiquiatria e 1 pedopsiquiatria, sendo 8 participantes dos sexo feminino e 3 do sexo masculino. Da análise realizada observou-se que os participantes detêm crenças adequadas quanto à situação abusiva; aos motivos para a criança não revelar a situação abusiva ou revelar apenas tardiamente; e quais os fatores que estão implicados/ afetam as competências da criança, enquanto testemunha credível. Por sua vez, os mitos observados surgiram relativamente ao agressor, acreditando que os abusadores apresentam caraterísticas distintas das outras pessoas e/ou doença mental e que abusam de crianças e/ou adolescentes motivados por um gosto padrão; relativamente às vítimas, acreditando que os rapazes adolescentes podem defender-se do abuso e que os adolescentes são abusados por terem caraterísticas semelhantes aos adultos; e sobre as caraterísticas do testemunho realizado pela criança, acreditando que as crianças não mentem sobre situações de abuso sexual e que não podem recordar/reportar de forma fidedigna eventos que aconteceram há muito tempo.

2016-2017 Annual Security and Fire Reports

The report provides information on services and policies that support a safe and secure environment, highlights programs that encourage members of the campus community to seek intervention and assistance for victimization, provides information on the alcohol and drug policies, outlines procedures for handling reports of sexual assault, and identifies campus representatives for reporting crimes and incidents that have impact on the college community. It is also about the College’s safety programs and security procedures and policies. In addition, you will discover our crime and fire safety statistics, who to call and what to do if you witness or are the victim of a crime, and tips to increase your safety awareness.

2015 Annual Safety and Security Report

The information contained in this Annual Safety and Security Report is provided to new and prospective students and employees, as well as their families, and all current members of the campus community. It contains Public Safety Services and Programming,Building Threat and Vulnerability Assessment Program,Campus Security authorities, Annual Preparation of Crime Statistics, Disclosure of Crime Statistics, Daily Crime Log, How to Report a Crime, Suspicious Activity or Emergency, Silent Witness Program, Relationship with Local Authorities, Off-Campus Violations & Criminal Activity, Confidential Reporting, Timely Warning Procedures, Emergency Response, Notification and Evacuation Procedures Activation Authority, Available Communications Media, Emergency Notification Tests, Emergency Evacuation Procedures, Shelter-in-Place Procedures,Crime Prevention and Safety Awareness Programs, Emergency Telephones, Access To Facilities, Maintenance of Buildings and Grounds, Alcohol and Other Drugs, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking, Sex Offender Registration, Weapons on Campus, Referrals for Disciplinary Action, Crime Information: Definitions and Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Definitions, Reporting Areas. Crime Statistics