Rural Library Funding, 2007

Rural library funding by county (.pdf) including per capita and by valuation, for FY07.

Rural Library Funding, 2009

Rural library funding by county (.pdf) including per capita and by valuation, for FY08.

Rural Library Funding, 2008

Rural library funding by county (.pdf) including per capita and by valuation, for FY08.

Rural Library Funding, 2008

Rural library funding by county (.pdf) including per capita and by valuation, for FY08.

Rural Library Funding, 2009

Rural library funding by county (.pdf) including per capita and by valuation, for FY08.

Estudio de base y definición de proyectos piloto para un PROGRAMA NACIONAL DE ELECTRIFICACIÓN RURAL EN PARAGUAY

El presente Informe es el Informe Final de los servicios de Cooperación Técnica “Programa Nacional de Electrificación Rural de Paraguay” CT 1039. Contiene los resultados de todas las actividades realizadas e integra los contenidos revisados de documentos anteriores. Los trabajos realizados para este informe han sido dirigidos por el Ing. Xavier Vallvé. Los autores del informe son los Ing. Pol Arranz-Piera, Ing. Jean-Claude Pulfer, con la colaboración del Ing. Enrique Velo y las aportaciones del Lic. Jaume Serrasolses y Sr. Jorge Sneij.

Programa d’investigació aplicada per a l’impuls del desenvolupament energètic rural en Països en Desenvolupament – PRIADER

Informe final de la convocatòria de subvencions destinades a donar suport a projectes de sensibilització, educació, formació, capacitació i recerca en l’àmbit de cooperació al desenvolupament impulsats per determinats agents universitaris dins l’exercici 2008 (codi de convocatòria U2008)

Existential values transformation in all organ transplantation : a qualitative prospective study

The aim of this qualitative study was to analyze psychological concerns in wait-listed patients T1 and six months after transplantation T2. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and qualitative analysis performed. T1 Kidney patients maintained apparent normality, building emotional protection, and a fatalist attitude. Liver patients set physical limits, reevaluation of life values was reported. Lung patients developed physical and psychological self-protection. Modified life values, fatalism and spirituality were mentioned. Heart patients husbanded ressources and self-protection. Modified life values, fatalist attitude were reported. T2 Kidney patients described new life perspectives and increase of empathy. Liver patients underlined positive identity and life values modifications. Lack of respect of life values generated anger. Heart and lung patients set their existential priorities and underlined increase in spirituality, greater openness and more closeness to significant ones. Lack of respect of human values induced negative feelings. TX comes with physical benefits, but also with positive existential values transformations and a humanistic, altruistic attitude.

Discovery of the faithfulness gene: a model of transmission and transformation of scientific information.

The purpose of this paper is to study the diffusion and transformation of scientific information in everyday discussions. Based on rumour models and social representations theory, the impact of interpersonal communication and pre-existing beliefs on transmission of the content of a scientific discovery was analysed. In three experiments, a communication chain was simulated to investigate how laypeople make sense of a genetic discovery first published in a scientific outlet, then reported in a mainstream newspaper and finally discussed in groups. Study 1 (N=40) demonstrated a transformation of information when the scientific discovery moved along the communication chain. During successive narratives, scientific expert terminology disappeared while scientific information associated with lay terminology persisted. Moreover, the idea of a discovery of a faithfulness gene emerged. Study 2 (N=70) revealed that transmission of the scientific message varied as a function of attitudes towards genetic explanations of behaviour (pro-genetics vs. anti-genetics). Pro-genetics employed more scientific terminology than anti-genetics. Study 3 (N=75) showed that endorsement of genetic explanations was related to descriptive accounts of the scientific information, whereas rejection of genetic explanations was related to evaluative accounts of the information.

Transformation rules form OntoProcED to OntoOKI

This file contains the transformtion rules in SWRL to translate formal specifications of two lower ontology levels (patterns and organization) to the upper level (implementation according to the OKI specification).

Improving energy access in rural sub-Saharan Africa

XVII Convocatòria d’ajuts a accions de cooperació - 2009GRECDH – UPC. Improving Energy Access In Rural sub- Saharan Africa. O-006/09. Informe

Conversando con Eduardo Sevilla Guzmán. De la Sociología Rural a la Agroecología: la revalorización del conocimiento local como constante

Eduardo Sevilla Guzmán il·lustra l'especificitat de vàries disciplines centrades en el medi rural a partir de la seva pròpia experiència. Tal i com explica en l'entrevista, la seva deriva cap a les Ciències Socials es degué a la necessitat de sostreure's al domini que els interessos de latifundistes i multinacionals exercien sobre la recerca en l'escola d'enginyers on treballava. Més endavant, la necessitat de cercar una alternativa al que es coneix com agricultura "convencional" el dugué a focalitzar la seva atenció en l'estudi d'altres formes històriques i contemporànies de manejar els recursos naturals, confluint ¿amb la incorporació dels sabers locals i científics en Ciències Naturals- en l'Agroecologia. En tot aquest camí ha seguit de prop i col·laborat amb el SOC (Sindicato de Obreros del Campo), històrica i combativa associació de jornalers andalusos, i establert una xarxa internacional d'aliances acadèmiques i activistes en el camp dels estudis i les lluites camperoles. La seva aposta ¿com veurem tot seguit- és a favor d'un tipus d'investigació militant i pluriepistemològica.