African migrants in Asian and European football: hopes and realities

This paper analyses the integration of Africa in the global labour market of football through the study of players' migrations to Asia and Europe. The presence of African footballers in the latter continent is analysed via a statistical survey carried out in September and October 2008 on a sample of 456 top division clubs in 30 European countries. The article emphasizes that the aspirations placed on football by male African youth, as a means of upward social mobility, are often too high when compared to the harsh realities of a transfer market based on commercial logics, which each year push many footballers away from the professional game.

A future full of hope: Crosscare annual report 2003.

Crosscare (formerly known as the Catholic Social Service Conference CSSC) have been responding to the needs of people on the margins of society since 1941. Currently they employ close to 170 staff with an annual expenditure running towards €11 million. Their range of programmes is diverse and they reach into areas of high need.This resource was contributed by The National Documentation Centre on Drug Use.

Le football comme religion populaire et comme culture mondialisée : brèves notations en vue d'une interprétation critique d'une quasi-religion contemporaine

(Résumé de l'ouvrage) Le présent recueil d'hommages veut témoigner de l'importance de l'oeuvre théologique de Jean Richard, professeur à la Faculté de théologie et de sciences religieuses de l'Université Laval. Désireux de signifier leur reconnaissance au père Richard, les auteurs de ce livre ont proposé des textes s'inscrivant dans l'un ou l'autre de ses champs de recherche privilégiés. Le tableau des contributeurs à ces mélanges regroupe des théologiens de tous les âges, hommes et femmes, provenant du Canada, mais aussi des États-Unis et de l'Europe, de langue française, anglaise ou allemande, de confession catholique ou protestante, oeuvrant dans des champs disciplinaires aussi divers que la théologie systématique, la théologie fondamentale, l'éthique théologique, l'exégèse ou encore la philosophie. Cette diversité est révélatrice de la personnalité théologique du père Richard, du caractère international de son réseau d'amitiés et de recherche et de l'ampleur de son influence. Elle témoigne aussi de l'audace d'une oeuvre qui, entreprise dans les années 1960, a dès le départ relevé le défi de l'aggiornamento que venait de poser en toute urgence son Église et qui a très vite conduit son auteur « aux confins », pour reprendre - et pour cause - une expression de son mentor Paul Tillich qui lui sied à merveille. Les contributions réunies dans ce volume ne résultent pas d'un plan concerté. D'autant plus significatifs sont les recoupements thématiques qu'on y observe, qui, par un hasard seulement apparent, restituent les principaux axes de la production théologique du père Jean Richard. L'ouverture au présent et a ses problématiques propres, ainsi que les défis conceptuels par là posés à l'effort théologique constituent les deux constantes de ces contributions, comme de l'oeuvre qui les a inspirées.

We get 10 of our 60 minutes playing football

This poster highlights the importance of children being physically active for at least 60 minutes every day. Parents, carers and children are encouraged to visit the website www.getalifegetactive.com to download the activity log book to track how much activity they are doing daily.

ExaFarm, programa preparador de exámenes para Farmacología

El programa ExaFarm forma parte del TFC en el entorno J2EE. Se trata de un programa que pretende facilitar el trabajo del profesorado universitario para la generación de exámenes en papel para los estudiantes. El entorno de programación ha sido EJB 2.0, incluyendo JSF, EJB, la librería Primefaces y iText para la generación de PDF.

OpLegis: Programa de gestió per a l'advocat d'ofici

Aquest projecte final del Màster de Programari Lliure, consisteix en el desenvolupament d'unprograma informàtic via web per la gestió integral de l'advocat d'ofici. Fent un estudi de projectes existents a sourceforge, cap d'ells s'adequa a la idea que es voldesenvolupar, per tant, es decideix a crear un Sistema d'Informació des de zero.

The hope for an HIV vaccine based on induction of CD8+ T lymphocytes: a review

The only long-term and cost-effective solution to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic in the developing world is a vaccine that prevents individuals from becoming infected or, once infected, from passing the virus on to others. There is currently little hope for an AIDS vaccine. Conventional attempts to induce protective antibody and CD8+ lymphocyte responses against HIV and simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) have failed. The enormous diversity of the virus has only recently been appreciated by vaccinologists, and our assays to determine CD8+ lymphocyte antiviral efficacy are inadequate. The central hypothesis of a CTL-based vaccine is that particularly effective CD8+ lymphocytes directed against at least five epitopes that are derived from regions under functional and structural constraints will control replication of pathogenic SIV. This would be somewhat analogous to control of virus replication by triple drug therapy or neutralizing antibodies.

Fonaments d'un programa informàtic de suport psicològic i superació personal : dels llibres d'autoajuda al software d'autoajuda

Aquest treball descriu els principis de disseny i els components essencials d'un hipotètic programa informàtic que té per finalitat facilitar el procés d'autoajuda i que també pot ser utilitzat com a eina de desenvolupament personal i motivació. Prèviament, l'autor fa una revisió dels mètodes existents, des de l'èxit dels llibres d'autoajuda del segle XX fins al'expansió de la interactivitat impulsada pel desenvolupament de les tecnologiesinformàtiques. A través d'aquest recorregut es constata la pobre implantació de les novestecnologies com a instruments populars d'autoajuda i s'advoca per la creació i ús deprogrames informàtics flexibles i generalistes com a mitjà de suport psicològic.

Influencia de sobrepeso y obesidad sobre la infertilidad: Plan de cuidados y programa educacional

The scientific evidence, demonstrates that the obesity reduces the possibility that a woman, conceive naturally and diminishes the success of the treatment for the fertility. Nurses of the Unit of Attended Reproduction and of the Units of Nutrition and Dietary, they consider necessary to design an educational program of Formation and Information, to change attitudes related with the overweight and the obesity, in even not fertile. The strategy of this Program is based in the control and reduction of the weight, assuring the adhesion to the treatment of fertility, with interactive works shops for the change of alimentary habits, giving emotional support and indications to practice adapted physical exercise. This Nursing Intervention is applied like one tool that develops abilities for the learning and training; never using diets or products of the denominated miracle. The narrow collaboration and investigating participation among the nurses of these Units, bear the design of a methodology channeled to the obtaining of some prospective results that can be evaluated regarding the obtained results.

Eficacia de un programa de entrenamiento intradiálisis de fuerza-resistencia en combinación con electroestimulación neuromuscular: mejora en la capacidad funcional, fuerza, y calidad de vida

The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of a programme of strength-stamina exercises during haemodialysis, in improving muscular strength, quality of life and functional capacity to carry out everyday activities. A quantitative, experimental pre-test and post-test study was carried out. A programme of strength-stamina exercises in combination with neuromuscular electrostimulation was applied to 10 patients undergoing haemodialysis. These were three simple exercises adapted to the position in which haemodialysis was carried out. All the patients showed a significant improvement in strength, measured using functional tests to carry out everyday activities: walking (6-MWT) and sit-to-stand tests (10-STS). These tests were measured before and after the training programme. They also showed an improvement in the physical dimension of the quality of life measured using the specific questionnaire for renal patients, KDQOL-SFTM.

Apoyo social a drogodependientes en programa de mantenimiento con metadona en una prisión

Goal: To learn more about the social support available to patients participating in a prison methadone maintenance program (PMM). Methodology: Descriptive, with controls. Setting: A penitentiary in Albolote (Granada) Population Sample: The total prison population was 1,579; 364 patients were included in the PMM; 35 were female and 329 were male. 60 patients, 7 women and 53 men, were used as cases. 30 non-drug dependent prisoners, 3 women and 27 men, were the control group. They had no antecedents of problems with drug addiction. Interventions: Interviews with cases and controls to learn about their addictive antecedents, family structure, socio-economic level, and a hetero-applied MOS questionnaire was completed. Percentages of each social support variable were obtained and compared using the chi-squared technique. Results: The overall support received is low in 38 cases (74.5%) and in 9 controls (30%): p = 0.0001. OR 0.1466, confidence interval at 95% (0.0538-0.3989). Support received is normal in 13 cases (25%) and 21 controls (70%): p = 0.0007. OR 0.69, confidence interval at 95% (0.44-0.93). All of the variables were statistically significant for non-drug addicts, except for emotional support, which was the same for both groups. Conclusion: The perception of inmates participating in the methadone maintenance program was that they received less social support than the non-drug dependent inmates.

Promoción de la salud bucodental en el ámbito escolar : "programa aprende a sonreír" : propuesta didáctica

En port.: Secretaría General de Salud Pública y Participación. Consejería de Salud. Dirección General de Innovación Educativa. Consejería de Educación. Publicado en la página web de la Consejería de Salud: www.juntadeandalucia.es/salud (Consejería de Salud / Ciudadanía / Nuestra Salud / Vida sana / Salud bucodental / Materiales para la Salud Bucodental Infantil)