Acceso al agua potable y al saneamiento. Una visión de género para avanzar en el desarrollo

Antecedentes/Objetivos: Las desigualdades de género y los serios problemas de cambio climático, atenúan la ya difícil viabilidad de los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio (ODM) para 2015, con una evolución claramente insuficiente. El acceso al agua potable y al saneamiento (A/S) son esenciales para el cumplimiento de los derechos humanos (ONU-2010) y Agua y Género es una prioridad temática de ONU-Agua (2011), pero hay pocos estudios empíricos sobre la diferencia de impacto en la salud de las mujeres./Describir la evidencia científica internacional sobre las deficiencias de acceso al A/S y su impacto en la salud pública desde la perspectiva de género. Métodos: Revisión sistemática. Medline, Scopus y Embase, 2008-2012, Inglés, francés y español. Palabras claves “drinking water”/sanitation” and “women”/gender”. Incluidos estudios empíricos originales sobre deficiencias del A/S y salud de mujeres. Excluidos socioeconómicos/sociodemográficos, técnicos medioambientales, violencia sexual, conflictos armados y catástrofes. Clasificación: 1. Tema central de dos maneras: 1.1 Problemas/factores relacionados con el déficit A/S y 1.2. Número de ODM susceptibles de ser menoscabados o comprometidos, 2. Perspectiva de género (PG): (3 parámetros: Sexo/género como variable/dimensión clave, Desigualdad y Fomento participación/aplicabilidad para equidad de género en salud/empoderamiento) 3. Tipo de estudio y 4. Lugar de procedencia: Regiones OMS. Resultados: Identificados 174. Desestimados 149. Incluidos 25. Tema Central. Problemas/factores: enfermedades (sobre todo diarreicas): 8, accesibilidad: 6, calidad: 3, trasporte de agua: 3, inseguridad/angustia: 2, consecuencias 3: (absentismo escolar: 1, mortalidad materna: 1, e infantil: 1). ODM comprometido: sustento medio ambiente: 24, igualdad de género/autonomía: 14, pobreza/hambre: 13, salud materna: 9, VIH/SIDA, paludismo y otras enfermedades: 8, mortalidad infantil: 8, enseñanza 1ª: 5. Objetivos comprometidos/estudio mediana = 3. PG Valorados 20/25 artículos, 70% cumplen 1 o más parámetros. Tipo de estudio: Trasversal: 17, cohortes: 5, casos y controles: 2, ensayo aleatorio: 1. Procedencia: África: 12, Las Américas: 4, Asia Sudoriental: 2, Europa: 2, Mediterráneo Oriental: 2 y Pacífico Oriental: 1. Conclusiones: Se han encontrado escasos estudios pero focalizan bien los problemas derivados del déficit de acceso adecuado al A/S y ponen de manifiesto relevantes y significativos problemas en la salud de las mujeres. Los ODM suelen estar comprometidos de forma conjunta y la mortalidad infantil es una consecuencia grave de diarreas. La evidencia encontrada revela el difícil progreso de las mujeres hacia un desarrollo de los pueblos en equidad.

Routine histological technique applied to a biological model for environmental studies

Introduction and aim Earthworms are an important test organisms used in several standard ecotoxicological tests (e.g. ISO, 2008, 2012; OECD, 2004, 1094) and they are also model organisms to test soil structure and permeability, as well as for important soil services as the degradation organic matter. Although histopathological changes have been demonstrated to be good biomarkers to assess the exposure of these animals to different physical and chemical stress agents, studies with clear and high quality images describing normal tissue conditions are scarce in the literature, so the aim of this work was to better characterize this biological model. Material and Methods Eight adult earthworms exposed to an artificial standard soil (OECD, 2004) for 28 days, were extracted and placed in a plastic box to depurate their gut content, fixed in 10% neutral-buffered formalin and processed for routine histopathological diagnosis. Results and discussion Satisfactory histological sections were obtained. Some difficulties were faced related with microtome sectioning, resulting in artefacts, namely lines across sections produced by a nick in the cutting edge of the microtome knife cutting tear, motivated by the presence of sand and other solid particles that persisted in the gut of earthworms. Nevertheless, it was possible to obtain representative figures from different earthworm sections. Conclusion Routine histological technique was effective for obtaining satisfactory histological sections and the knowledge of the histology of earthworms could be very useful for future application in environmental studies, using this biological model.

Influencia de las variaciones estacionales del nivel de agua sobre la reproducción y el crecimiento de Potamorhina altamazonica (COPE, 1879) en el Río Ucayali, Perú

Se estudió la influencia de las variaciones estacionales del nivel de agua sobre la reproducción y el crecimiento de Potamorhina altamazonica en el río Ucayali durante los años 2008-2012. Se observó que, la reproducción es de carácter estacional, que, tiene sincronía con el periodo de creciente (enero-marzo) alcanzado el ápice en febrero. Se estimó que las hembras alcanzan la talla media de primera madurez a los 17,8 cm y los machos a los 18,4 cm (Lt), en ambos casos a la edad teórica de un año. La mayor proporción de hembras respecto a los machos se observó en el periodo de transición a creciente, y viceversa en la creciente; mientras que el análisis anual mostró dominancia de hembras en los años 2008 y 2012. El análisis de la estructura de tallas mostró que el stock explotado estuvo compuesto por peces cuyas tallas oscilaron de 12,0 a 31,0 cm Lt y no se observaron fuertes fluctuaciones de la talla media anual. La ecuación de crecimiento de von Bertalanffy definida por Lt = 33,55*(1-e(-0,65(t-0,26)) permite estimar que la especie es de rápido crecimiento y que podría vivir en teoría 3,5 años. Los peces mostraron mejor condición o robustez en los periodos de transición a creciente y creciente, dado a que en estos, se inundan vastas áreas de bosques de llanura convirtiéndose en hábitats óptimos que favorecen la reproducción en los peces adultos y el crecimiento en los reclutas.

Spatial distribution patterns of ascidians (Ascidiacea: Tunicata) in combination with information on bathymetry, oceanography, chlorophyll-a, and sea-ice on the continental shelves off the northern Antarctic Peninsula during POLARSTERN cruise ANT-XXIX/3

Ascidians (Ascidiacea: Tunicata) are sessile suspension feeders that represent dominant epifaunal components of the Southern Ocean shelf benthos and play a significant role in the pelagic-benthic coupling. Here, we report the results of a first study on the relationship between the distribution patterns of eight common and/or abundant (putative) ascidian species, and environmental drivers in the waters off the northern Antarctic Peninsula. During RV Polarstern cruise XXIX/3 (PS81) in January-March 2013, we used seabed imaging surveys along 28 photographic transects of 2 km length each at water depths from 70 to 770 m in three regions (northwestern Weddell Sea, southern Bransfield Strait and southern Drake Passage), differing in their general environmental setting, primarily oceanographic characteristics and sea-ice dynamics, to comparatively analyze the spatial patterns in the abundance of the selected ascidians, reliably to be identified in the photographs, at three nested spatial scales. At a regional (100-km) scale, the ascidian assemblages of the Weddell Sea differed significantly from those of the other two regions, whereas at an intermediate 10-km scale no such differences were detected among habitat types (bank, upper slope, slope, deep/canyon) on the shelf and at the shelf break within each region. These spatial patterns were superimposed by a marked small-scale (10-m) patchiness of ascidian distribution within the 2-km-long transects. Among the environmental variables considered in our study, a combination of water-mass characteristics, sea-ice dynamics (approximated by 5-year averages in sea-ice cover in the region of or surrounding the photographic stations), as well as the seabed ruggedness, was identified as explaining best the distribution patterns of the ascidians.

The North Pacific biological pump: Rates, efficiency and influence on ocean carbon uptake

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-05

Optimális kvótapozíció EU ETS-ben résztvevő villamoserőmű esetében (reálopciós megközelítés)

Az Európai Emissziókereskedelmi Rendszer (EU ETS) életbe lépésével a villamos erőművek új költségelemmel és kockázati faktorral találkoztak: tényleges szén-dioxid kibocsátásukat emissziós kvótával szükséges lefedniük (megfelelési kötelezettség). Az emisszió lefedésének kötelezettsége nem azonnali: mindig a következő év áprilisának végéig kell elszámolni a megelőző év összes kibocsátásával. Az új termelési tényező az árampiaci liberalizáció mellett tovább növelte az erőművekkel kapcsolatos döntések komplexitását, tovább erősítve az igényt a piaci kockázatok hatékony kezelésére. A cikkben arra a kérdésre keressük a választ, hogy az erőmű év közben milyen mennyiségű emissziós kvótát birtokoljon. Az előző (2005-2007) és a jelenlegi (2008-2012) kereskedési szakasz esetében az éves kvótamennyiséget ingyenes allokáció útján kapták meg a piaci szereplők. Az első kereskedési szakaszban sok szereplő a kelleténél több kvótát tartott magánál, amelyek a 2006 tavaszi kvótapiaci árzuhanás után folyamatosan elértéktelenedtek. Azok a szereplők viszont, akik feleslegüket korai ügyletekkel értékesíteni tudták, jelentős mennyiségű jövedelmet realizáltak. A cikkben először a villamoserőmű reálopciós döntési modelljét ismertetjük, majd megvizsgáljuk, milyen származtatott terméknek feleltethető meg az erőmű. Ezután a tőzsdei pénzügyekben ismert dinamikus delta hedge stratégia alkalmazásával, és a járulékosan számított emissziós egységre vonatkozó delta paraméter számításával jutunk el az alapkérdés (optimális kvótapozíció) megválaszolásához. Végül összehasonlítjuk az optimális kvótapozíciót a várható kibocsátással, valamint bemutatjuk, hogy a két mennyiség csak közelítéssel egyenlő egymással.

Mediação biográfica: propostas para a formação docente

This work aims at studying the biographical mediation taken as the progress of people in formation process who develop a biographical work on their own experiences with the help of a former (PASSEGGI, 2006, 2011). The research was carried out on a curricular component from Curso de Formação Inicial e Continuada (initial and continuous process of formation of teachers) with teachers from public schools developed by Instituto Federal de Educação do Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN/ Ipanguaçu). The target audience featured diversity of professionals and experiences of formation. The general objective studied the potentials of procedures and devices used to mediate the reflection about the necessary knowledge to teaching practice based on their own experiences (auto-biographical) and the experience from the others (hetero-biographical). The study tried to respond to the following questions: how do teachers in formation relate themselves to the knowledge from experience? What procedures and devices contribute on the teachers‟ formation on the three different dimensions of biographical mediation (initiatory, maieutic, hermeneutics)? How to provide the auto-formation and hetero-formation? The theories and methods of this work are based on studies and researches that place the person in formation in the center of investigation and formation and analyze their reflective, re-inventive and self-re-inventive capacity. (FREIRE, 1987, 1996, 2001, 2011; JOSSO, 2008, 2010, 2012; DELORY-MONBERGER, 2006, 2008, 2012; CHARLLOT, 2000; CATANI, 2001; PASSEGGI, 2008; 2010; 2011; 2012). We selected six teachers who participate entirely on the meetings of the program. They discussed on the study topics, shared narrations that integrate their formation and the themes related to the course. The empirical material is composed by the narrations of the six participants and hearing boards done by themselves at the moment of the narration sharing process. The analysis followed three steps: a) the path of the program and the procedures of biographical mediation; b) the relations former/teacher on the three dimensions of biographical mediation; c) the hearing board as a device of biographical mediation. We concluded that the procedures and devices used for biographical mediation made possible specific learnings that are sources for the practice of initial and continuous teachers‟ formation, as well as for the formation of the former-researcher about the work with autobiographical narrations. Thus, it allow the co-investment of participants into the process of auto-formation and hetero-formation.

Ateliê biográfico de formação profissional: prática socioeducativa em Escola Judicial

In recent decades, debates have intensified about (auto) biographical narratives as devices of socio-educational practices, aligned to the educational setting of the XXI century which have stimulated a new educational perspective woven with epistemological and methodological training throughout life. Towards that scenario, the continued training in Judicial School has occupied important space for constitutional effectiveness and, on the other hand, has grown the demands of expanding knowledge and enhancing training practices, in turn, judicial practices. The aim is to analyze the reflective Group through "Professional Training biographical Workshop" with Bailiffs such as socio-educational practices in socio Judicial School, in the city of Natal /RN. It has highlighted the questions that guided this study: 1. What paths of experiences and knowledge shared by the Law Officials, Federal Appraisers in "Professional Training biographical Workshop" as reflective Group? 2. How is organized the reflective Group as practice in socio-professional training setting? 3. What contributions narratives of themselves bring to the bailiff in reflective Group on Judicial School? The theoretical assumptions are supported in the lifelong training in methodological and epistemological dimension of (auto) biographical knowledge (JOSSO, 2008, 2010, 2012; PINEAU, 2005, 2006; DOMINICÉ, 2010; DELORY-MOMBERGER, 2006, 2008; FREIRE, 1987, 1996, 2001; PASSEGGI, 2008; 2010; 2011; 2012). In 2009, 09 (nine) civil servants in post of Federal Appraiser Justice Official, law graduates participated in this research through eight (08) "Biographical Workshops of Professional Training", consisting of biographical practices and scenarios, enabling oral and written narratives about a memory that has meaning, relationship and tessituras between files, facts and feelings that reveal the perception of self and other, as well as mobilize and weave the training process. The experiences of speaking, writing and reading were constituted of spaces that facilitating the reconstruction of the trajectory of training and career awareness-making, helping to re-signify labor relations and lead to their own professional design. From this study, the reflective properties of groups have emerged, consisting of Reflexivity, Experience, Historicity, Reversibility, dialog and formability processes, with paths to social and educational practices in which professionals identify the meaning and significance of self and of the profession that are exercising. The expectation is to continue with the spirit of research to emerge from the participants responses to training practices in Judicial School, aligned with the new knowledge of understanding the human being, not only an object of his work, but also a social subject, co-participant in the process of re-signifying life and work in a permanent way.

O Programa Nacional Biblioteca da Escola - PNBE: da gestão ao leitor na educação infantil de Natal-RN

This study aims to investigate the process of implementation of Programa Nacional Biblioteca da Escola, PNBE, and the reader's training on Childhood Education level in Natal. The promotion of literary reading is the opportunity of inclusion in a world that is connected to citizenship, to human rights and social justice, because the reading is the way which gives meaning to the life and, therefore, it is a right for everybody. The study is characterized as a qualitative research with evaluative approach. The methodological procedure that constitutes this corpus took place in three stages: the first one was about the analysis of laws and documents of national public policies for the reading promotion; questionnaires were applied by Managing Committee - Natal/RN to CMEIs and the available websites from MEC that provide distribution of the acquis; in the second stage, we adopted the semi-structured interview as a methodological procedure elaborated with open questions that focus on the program management and to the acquis of PNBE; and in the third step we visited the 21 centers of childhood education in Natal for interviewing and to do the exploratory observation in places of reading. The Informant actors in this research are: the advisors of SME - Natal and FNDE, managers and teachers in Municipal Childhood Education Centers who totalize 30 informants. This theoretical and methodological framework follows the studies of Amarilha (1993; 1994; 2002; 2006; 2010; 2012), Bardin (2001), Bogdan; Biklen (1994), Castro (2007; 2008; 2012), Demo (2000; 2006; 2008), Fischer (2006), Moreira; Caleffe (2008), Paiva (2008; 2012), Secchi (2010; 2012), Soares (2003; 2008) and Zilberman (2001; 2003; 2008). The analysis indicates that decentralization strategy which is adopted in public management model will transfer responsibilities and assumption of the PNBE, exempting the actors to planning actions ensuring the efficiency and efficacy implementation on reading policy to national and municipal levels. The qualified acquis that is distributed by MEC reaches every Childhood Education center and does not depend on teacher's desire or it action, only a few of them know about it and they do not have information about the PNBE, neither receive specific training in order to articulate it to the practice of reading with children from Childhood Education. The reading project implemented by private education system in Natal overlaps the PNBE, making it invisible. The reading places that are available for that schooling stage are summarized to the reading corners. In some CMEI, books remain stored in boxes or they are locked in the closet, out of use to the teachers and students. Thus, care for the acquisition, selecting acquis, and a preoccupation to the supply of the reading and books for this education level are lost into volumes of closed boxes, teachers are jettisoned to this process and children do not have any enchantment to the reading or books. In this context, this paper draws attention to how much we should still investigate in order to understanding the perspectives, stresses and challenges from public policies for the reading promotion in our country. We hope that the research will help to improve the management model of the PNBE, ensuring the reading democratization and therefore the reader's training in early Childhood Education.

O Programa Nacional Biblioteca da Escola - PNBE: da gestão ao leitor na educação infantil de Natal-RN

This study aims to investigate the process of implementation of Programa Nacional Biblioteca da Escola, PNBE, and the reader's training on Childhood Education level in Natal. The promotion of literary reading is the opportunity of inclusion in a world that is connected to citizenship, to human rights and social justice, because the reading is the way which gives meaning to the life and, therefore, it is a right for everybody. The study is characterized as a qualitative research with evaluative approach. The methodological procedure that constitutes this corpus took place in three stages: the first one was about the analysis of laws and documents of national public policies for the reading promotion; questionnaires were applied by Managing Committee - Natal/RN to CMEIs and the available websites from MEC that provide distribution of the acquis; in the second stage, we adopted the semi-structured interview as a methodological procedure elaborated with open questions that focus on the program management and to the acquis of PNBE; and in the third step we visited the 21 centers of childhood education in Natal for interviewing and to do the exploratory observation in places of reading. The Informant actors in this research are: the advisors of SME - Natal and FNDE, managers and teachers in Municipal Childhood Education Centers who totalize 30 informants. This theoretical and methodological framework follows the studies of Amarilha (1993; 1994; 2002; 2006; 2010; 2012), Bardin (2001), Bogdan; Biklen (1994), Castro (2007; 2008; 2012), Demo (2000; 2006; 2008), Fischer (2006), Moreira; Caleffe (2008), Paiva (2008; 2012), Secchi (2010; 2012), Soares (2003; 2008) and Zilberman (2001; 2003; 2008). The analysis indicates that decentralization strategy which is adopted in public management model will transfer responsibilities and assumption of the PNBE, exempting the actors to planning actions ensuring the efficiency and efficacy implementation on reading policy to national and municipal levels. The qualified acquis that is distributed by MEC reaches every Childhood Education center and does not depend on teacher's desire or it action, only a few of them know about it and they do not have information about the PNBE, neither receive specific training in order to articulate it to the practice of reading with children from Childhood Education. The reading project implemented by private education system in Natal overlaps the PNBE, making it invisible. The reading places that are available for that schooling stage are summarized to the reading corners. In some CMEI, books remain stored in boxes or they are locked in the closet, out of use to the teachers and students. Thus, care for the acquisition, selecting acquis, and a preoccupation to the supply of the reading and books for this education level are lost into volumes of closed boxes, teachers are jettisoned to this process and children do not have any enchantment to the reading or books. In this context, this paper draws attention to how much we should still investigate in order to understanding the perspectives, stresses and challenges from public policies for the reading promotion in our country. We hope that the research will help to improve the management model of the PNBE, ensuring the reading democratization and therefore the reader's training in early Childhood Education.

Macro-epibenthic communities, bathymetry and enviromental information at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula

The Southern Ocean ecosystem at the Antarctic Peninsula has steep natural environmental gradients, e.g. in terms of water masses and ice cover, and experiences regional above global average climate change. An ecological macroepibenthic survey was conducted in three ecoregions in the north-western Weddell Sea, on the continental shelf of the Antarctic Peninsula in the Bransfield Strait and on the shelf of the South Shetland Islands in the Drake Passage, defined by their environmental envelop. The aim was to improve the so far poor knowledge of the structure of this component of the Southern Ocean ecosystem and its ecological driving forces. It can also provide a baseline to assess the impact of ongoing climate change to the benthic diversity, functioning and ecosystem services. Different intermediate-scaled topographic features such as canyon systems including the corresponding topographically defined habitats 'bank', 'upper slope', 'slope' and 'canyon/deep' were sampled. In addition, the physical and biological environmental factors such as sea-ice cover, chlorophyll-a concentration, small-scale bottom topography and water masses were analysed. Catches by Agassiz trawl showed high among-station variability in biomass of 96 higher systematic groups including ecological key taxa. Large-scale patterns separating the three ecoregions from each other could be correlated with the two environmental factors, sea-ice and depth. Attribution to habitats only poorly explained benthic composition, and small-scale bottom topography did not explain such patterns at all. The large-scale factors, sea-ice and depth, might have caused large-scale differences in pelagic benthic coupling, whilst small-scale variability, also affecting larger scales, seemed to be predominantly driven by unknown physical drivers or biological interactions.

The Crisis in the UK's High Streets: can the evening and night-time economy help?

Changes in retailing over the last half century have had a detrimental effect on the UK’s local high streets. The recession of 2008-2012 exacerbated these trends leading to a high number of vacancies and neglected properties. The impact was sufficiently severe for the term ‘crisis’ to be used in connection with the British high street. In the academic and commercial reports generated by the recognition that the high street needed to adapt to changing circumstances, a view emerged that the leisure component of high street activity would gain in importance. This article reviews the relationship of the evening and nighttime economy to the high street and considers its potential in reinventing the vitality that is normally associated with these mixed-use urban corridors. The article argues that there is hope in the high street offering a different type of experience to the mainstream forms of entertainment that are consolidating in major town and city centres. It concludes by suggesting that for this to be successful, some public support is necessary.

La representación de las mujeres en el nuevo Museo Arqueológico Nacional: comenzando por la Prehistoria

En la misma línea de trabajos anteriores, nos planteamos la necesidad de que en los museos arqueológicos se proceda con sumo cuidado a seleccionar el género de las personas que se representan en las escenas sociales, equilibrando tanto su número como sus actitudes, los trabajos que desempeñan, sus roles y su protagonismo. Analizamos así la representación de las mujeres en las escenas, considerando como tal cualquier reproducción en la que aparezcan dos o más personas en interacción. El trabajo realizado en la nueva exposición del MAN, que se refiere tan sólo a las salas de Prehistoria y Protohistoria, nos demuestra la existencia de un 25,1% de mujeres en estas escenas, incluyendo en muchos casos protagonismo, participación en trabajos de construcción o minería y ocupación de primeros planos. Esto lo sitúa en la banda más alta de entre los museos hasta ahora estudiados. El nuevo Museo Arqueológico Nacional ha dedicado seis años a reorganizarse y vestirse con nuevos ropajes, y ahora se nos presenta como un museo renovado pero al tiempo conservado en su esencia. Esa renovación ha incluido, en gran medida, un cuidado detallista en la representación de las mujeres en el pasado.

"Lancea", Lusitanian Word, and the "Lancienses" Ethnogenesis

Analysis of the word lancea, of Hispanic origin after Varro, and of place names, people´s names and personal names derived from it. It confirms that the spear was the most important weapon in the Bronze Age, belonging to the iuventus and used as heroic and divine symbol. This analysis confirms also the personality of the Lusitanians, a people related to the Celts but with more archaic archaeological, linguistic and cultural characteristics originated in the tradition of the Atlantic Bronze in the II millennium BC. It is also relevant to better know the organisation of Broze and Iron Age societies and the origin of Indo-Europeans peoples in Western Europe and of pre-Roman peoples of Iberia.

Buenas prácticas de los centros de rehabilitación laboral (CRL) para personas con enfermedad mental grave de la Comunidad de Madrid a tener en cuenta para el diseño de un nuevo modelo de gestión de los servicios de empleo

El presente artículo tiene como objetivo principal identificar las variables que explican por qué los Centros de Rehabilitación Laboral (CRL) para personas con enfermedad mental grave y duradera de la Comunidad de Madrid consiguen tasas de inserción sociolaboral cercanas al 50%, siendo un colectivo que presenta unas tasas de desempleo superiores al 80%. La metodología empleada en la investigación del recurso (documental, cualitativa y cuantitativa) demuestra que estos resultados son posibles gracias a la conjunción de varios elementos: financiación sostenible, método de trabajo, fuerte liderazgo político, trabajo con el tejido empresarial (presentando a las empresas, perfiles profesionales basados en un certero análisis de las competencias), trabajo en red, plazo de intervención marcado por la persona y la composición de los equipos multiprofesionales, entre otros factores.