Poética del drama videoescénico. La enunciación audiovisual en el teatro español actual

Esta investigación aborda un fenómeno complejo, el drama videoescénico, que resulta de la integración de la enunciación audiovisual en el modo de representación teatral, centrándose en el marco del teatro español actual. Se plantea que la utilización del audiovisual tiene una repercusión en el teatro que va mucho más allá de su valor tecnológico. Esta irrupción modal, que articula la investigación, genera tensiones con los elementos que conforman el drama. El audiovisual se convierte en un nuevo componente de su configuración y modifica el modo de representación teatral, ampliando sus posibilidades expresivas y cambiando las relaciones entre el personaje, la acción, el espacio y el tiempo. El drama videoescénico se define como el drama teatral que inserta en su construcción la enunciación audiovisual a través de proyección o emisión audiovisual, a la que se denomina representación videoescénica. Se entiende, por consiguiente, como representación videoescénica la imagen, registrada por una videocámara o generadas por ordenador, proyectada en el escenario en interacción con los demás elementos que componen la representación teatral. La representación videoescénica sólo tiene existencia en presencia de esos elementos. Es decir, dentro del drama videoescénico. Se considera, por tanto, que el drama videoescénico es la historia escenificada, incluyendo el argumento dispuesto para ser teatral y audiovisualmente representado en un único producto...

Re-Examining the Stop-Signal Task to Test Competing Theories of AD/HD

The current study tested two competing models of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD), the inhibition and state regulation theories, by conducting fine-grained analyses of the Stop-Signal Task and another putative measure of behavioral inhibition, the Gordon Continuous Performance Test (G-CPT), in a large sample of children and adolescents. The inhibition theory posits that performance on these tasks reflects increased difficulties for AD/HD participants to inhibit prepotent responses. The model predicts that putative stop-signal reaction time (SSRT) group differences on the Stop-Signal Task will be primarily related to AD/HD participants requiring more warning than control participants to inhibit to the stop-signal and emphasizes the relative importance of commission errors, particularly "impulsive" type commissions, over other error types on the G-CPT. The state regulation theory, on the other hand, proposes response variability due to difficulties maintaining an optimal state of arousal as the primary deficit in AD/HD. This model predicts that SSRT differences will be more attributable to slower and/or more variable reaction time (RT) in the AD/HD group, as opposed to reflecting inhibitory deficits. State regulation assumptions also emphasize the relative importance of omission errors and "slow processing" type commissions over other error types on the G-CPT. Overall, results of Stop-Signal Task analyses were more supportive of state regulation predictions and showed that greater response variability (i.e., SDRT) in the AD/HD group was not reducible to slow mean reaction time (MRT) and that response variability made a larger contribution to increased SSRT in the AD/HD group than inhibitory processes. Examined further, ex-Gaussian analyses of Stop-Signal Task go-trial RT distributions revealed that increased variability in the AD/HD group was not due solely to a few excessively long RTs in the tail of the AD/HD distribution (i.e., tau), but rather indicated the importance of response variability throughout AD/HD group performance on the Stop-Signal Task, as well as the notable sensitivity of ex-Gaussian analyses to variability in data screening procedures. Results of G-CPT analyses indicated some support for the inhibition model, although error type analyses failed to further differentiate the theories. Finally, inclusion of primary variables of interest in exploratory factor analysis with other neurocognitive predictors of AD/HD indicated response variability as a separable construct and further supported its role in Stop-Signal Task performance. Response variability did not, however, make a unique contribution to the prediction of AD/HD symptoms beyond measures of motor processing speed in multiple deficit regression analyses. Results have implications for the interpretation of the processes reflected in widely-used variables in the AD/HD literature, as well as for the theoretical understanding of AD/HD.

El drama de las fertilidades inertes

No tener hijos, si se desea tenerlos, es, sin lugar a dudas, un drama. Un drama que afecta a cada vez más personas, enfermas además de tristeza y de ansiedad, a las cuales la medicina actual ayuda con procedimientos innovadores de tratamiento de la infertilidad, entre los cuales destacan los avances conseguidos en la Comunidad Valenciana. La arquitectura destinada a albergar los lugares adonde se llevan a cabo esos tratamientos adquiere, evidentemente, un papel esencial en todo el proceso, porque no sólo ha de dar respuesta eficaz a los centros de investigación que, sin duda, en ella se desarrollan sino que, también y además, ha de proveer los espacios adonde las personas que deciden someterse a estas pruebas encuentren el respeto, la intimidad, la calma y el sosiego necesarios para afrontar las etapas de un viaje que no siempre tendrá final feliz. Dolores Alonso Vera y Javier García-Solera son los autores del Instituto Bernabeu de Alicante (1994-1996) y de la Clínica de Fertilidad de Valencia (1998-2002), dos arquitecturas de conmovedoras precisión y belleza, puestas al servicio de las personas que en ellas trabajan y, sobre todo, de las personas que a ellas acuden a tratar de resolver su problema. Esta comunicación pretende analizar ambos edificios desde el punto de vista de un entendimiento delicado y profundo de la sensibilidad de sus habitantes, permanentes o esporádicos, y desde la vocación de la arquitectura de cooperar activamente, no ya en la sanación, como lo podemos detectar en las clínicas y hospitales del XIX, sino en el acompañamiento amable, oportuno, cabal, de cuantas experiencias, capacidades, técnicas y, sobre todo, anhelos y esperanzas se dan cita en sus espacios.

Differences and connections: beyond universal theories in planning, urban, and heritage studies

The annual Young Academics network of the Association of European School of Planning (AESOP YA) conference, entitled Differences and Connections, was held for the first time in a Southern Italian city, Palermo, Italy, during 23–26 March 2015. The call for papers attracted a wide range of authors within the field of planning and other related fields. Forty-five contributions by young academic scholars, representing 19 countries, were selected by the conference scientific committee to critically explore the themes of the conference.

Determinants of Financial Capital Use: Review of theories and implications for rural businesses. Factor Markets Working Paper No. 19, February 2012

This paper presents a review of financial economics literature and offers a comprehensive discussion and systematisation of determinants of financial capital use. In congruence with modern financial literature, it is acknowledged here that real and financial capital decisions are interdependent. While the fundamental role of the (unconstrained) demand for real capital in the demand for finance is acknowledged, the deliverable focuses on three complementary categories of the determinants of financial capital use: i) capital market imperfections; ii) factors mitigating these imperfections or their impacts; and iii) firm- and sector-related factors, which alter the severity of financial constraints and their effects. To address the question of the optimal choice of financial instruments, theories of firm capital structure are reviewed. The deliverable concludes with theory-derived implications for agricultural and non-agricultural rural business’ finance.

The story of the diamond necklace, told in detail for the first time, by the aid of contemporary memoires, original letters, and official and other documents; and comprising a sketch of the life of the Countess de la Motte, pretended confidant of Marie-Antoinette, with particulars of the careers of the other actors in the remarkable drama.

"Authorities referred to in this work": p.ix-xii.

Sombra, fanatasía lírico-dramática, en un prólogo y tres actos,

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