Don Antonio Aróstegui.

El artículo forma parte de un monográfico sobre la formación profesional en Navarra

Historia de la Formación Profesional en la Comunidad Autónoma vasca durante el siglo XX.

Se trata de exponer lo que representa para la Comunidad Autónoma vasca la enseñanza de la Formación Profesional en el presente siglo: qué se entiende por Formación Profesional, qué leyes la han regulado, qué centros la han impartido y qué alumnos la han recibido. Todos los centros de FP de la Comunidad Autónoma vasca. Método de investigación descriptivo de tipo histórico y retrospectivo que trata de cuantificar el número de centros de FP de la Comunidad Autónoma vasca; así como sintetizar sus modelos educativos a lo largo de los años. Variables: tipo de centro y de alumno (público, privado, religioso, etc); número de centros; ubicación; y modelo educativo de los mismos. La recogida de datos se realiza a través de investigación en archivos provinciales y municipales; en bibliotecas y hemerotecas; en los propios centros; y entrevistas directas a personas. La técnica de análisis estadístico se realiza mediante frecuencias absolutas y relativas. Se aprecia el papel preponderante de las Escuelas de Artes y Oficios de cada capital y la labor continuada de la de Vitoria. La importancia que los centros de organización sindical han tenido en el conjunto total de la Formación Profesional. El elevado número de alumnos de la PPO, han destacado: los centros Diocesanos sobre todo en Álava y Vizcaya. Los centros de congregaciones religiosas como Hermanos de las Escuelas Cristianas (La Salle), de San Juan Bosco (salesianas), jesuitas y otras muchas que hay a través de los años y especialmente en la última década. Las escuelas de aprendices de las empresas. Las escuelas con sistema cooperativista. Los centros de personas o entidades particulares. De los 203 centros que han existido a lo largo de todo el siglo XX, la Formación Profesional ha estado atendida mayoritariamente por centros no estatales, siendo su matrícula superior a la realizada en los centros estatales.

Un compromiso educativo integral y solidario

Se ofrecen datos sobre los proyectos educativos llevados a cabo por las Hijas de Mar??a Auxiliadora (salesianas), as?? mismo se resaltan algunos de sus principios y criterios educativos.

Espacios de educación social en la escuela.

Monográfico: Enseñanza obligatoria y educación social. Resumen en catalán e inglés

Considerações sobre a educação para a arte e para a cultura, ou “como levar Clio à escola”

Arte e cultura são expressões da busca incessante do conhecimento. No entanto, nem todos fruem dessa busca e não encaram o conhecimento artístico e cultural como um prazer. Talvez porque a Escola de hoje veicule inúmeros conhecimentos sem atender à sua interiorização plena. Talvez porque arte e cultura não passem de meros nomes a que a Escola se refere sem produzir nos seus estudantes uma transformação pessoal e uma vivência autêntica. Em parte porque perdemos a metáfora das musas, filhas de Zeus e da sua amante Mnemosine que unidas inspiravam poetas, filósofos, professores e alunos. Trazer as musas à Escola é sinónimo de integrar, imaginar, interpretar, interrogar, inferir, investigar, intuir, isto é, abrir caminhos para a autonomia e para uma Escola inspiradora da arte e da cultura. O presente artigo procura mostrar como se pode levar de novo Clio e as suas irmãs musas à escola. A partir da fundamentação do estado da arte sobre a educação artística e da análise das opiniões de 40 professores de História da Arte sobre a necessidade de educação do olhar artístico, são delineados quatro princípios orientadores da promoção da busca incessante do conhecimento de que a arte e a cultura são expressões nobres.

As Flamengas (da Ordem das Clarissas)

As freiras Flamengas, em breve conhecidas também como as irmãs do Convento de Nossa Senhora da Quietação, vieram da Flandres (Países Baixos), na época sob domínio Espanhol, pouco depois de Filipe II ocupar o trono de Portugal como Filipe I. Aliás, a escolha do local onde as freiras viveram — perto do Vale de Alcântara, junto à praia de Alcântara e do Palácio Real de Filipe— parece ter sido decisão do próprio monarca. A designação popular do nome Flamengas— em forma primitiva Framengas — refere-se ao idioma comum a todas elas, a língua que usavam na Flandres de onde eram originárias.

A cross-calibration of chlorine isotopic measurements and suitability of seawater as the international reference material

A collection of 24 seawaters from various worldwide locations and differing depth was culled to measure their chlorine isotopic composition (delta(37)Cl). These samples cover all the oceans and large seas: Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Antarctic oceans, Mediterranean and Red seas. This collection includes nine seawaters from three depth profiles down to 4560 mbsl. The standard deviation (2sigma) of the delta(37)Cl of this collection is +/-0.08 parts per thousand, which is in fact as large as our precision of measurement ( +/- 0.10 parts per thousand). Thus, within error, oceanic waters seem to be an homogeneous reservoir. According to our results, any seawater could be representative of Standard Mean Ocean Chloride (SMOC) and could be used as a reference standard. An extended international cross-calibration over a large range of delta(37)Cl has been completed. For this purpose, geological fluid samples of various chemical compositions and a manufactured CH3Cl gas sample, with delta(37)Cl from about -6 parts per thousand to +6 parts per thousand have been compared. Data were collected by gas source isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) at the Paris, Reading and Utrecht laboratories and by thermal ionization mass spectrometry (TIMS) at the Leeds laboratory. Comparison of IRMS values over the range -5.3 parts per thousand to +1.4 parts per thousand plots on the Y=X line, showing a very good agreement between the three laboratories. On 11 samples, the trend line between Paris and Reading Universities is: delta(37)Cl(Reading)= (1.007 +/- 0.009)delta(37)Cl(Paris) - (0.040 +/- 0.025), with a correlation coefficient: R-2 = 0.999. TIMS values from Leeds University have been compared to IRMS values from Paris University over the range -3.0 parts per thousand to +6.0 parts per thousand. On six samples, the agreement between these two laboratories, using different techniques is good: delta(37)Cl(Leeds)=(1.052 +/- 0.038)delta(37)Cl(Paris) + (0.058 +/- 0.099), with a correlation coefficient: R-2 = 0.995. The present study completes a previous cross-calibration between the Leeds and Reading laboratories to compare TIMS and IRMS results (Anal. Chem. 72 (2000) 2261). Both studies allow a comparison of IRMS and TIMS techniques between delta(37)Cl values from -4.4 parts per thousand to +6.0 parts per thousand and show a good agreement: delta(37)Cl(TIMS)=(1.039 +/- 0.023)delta(37)Cl(IRMS)+(0.059 +/- 0.056), with a correlation coefficient: R-2 = 0.996. Our study shows that, for fluid samples, if chlorine isotopic compositions are near 0 parts per thousand, their measurements either by IRMS or TIMS will give comparable results within less than +/- 0.10 parts per thousand, while for delta(37)Cl values as far as 10 parts per thousand (either positive or negative) from SMOC, both techniques will agree within less than +/- 0.30 parts per thousand. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

New-on-line method for water isotope analysis of speleothem fluid inclusions using laser absorption spectroscopy (WS-CRDS)

A new online method to analyse water isotopes of speleothem fluid inclusions using a wavelength scanned cavity ring down spectroscopy (WS-CRDS) instrument is presented. This novel technique allows us simultaneously to measure hydrogen and oxygen isotopes for a released aliquot of water. To do so, we designed a new simple line that allows the online water extraction and isotope analysis of speleothem samples. The specificity of the method lies in the fact that fluid inclusions release is made on a standard water background, which mainly improves the δ D robustness. To saturate the line, a peristaltic pump continuously injects standard water into the line that is permanently heated to 140 °C and flushed with dry nitrogen gas. This permits instantaneous and complete vaporisation of the standard water, resulting in an artificial water background with well-known δ D and δ18O values. The speleothem sample is placed in a copper tube, attached to the line, and after system stabilisation it is crushed using a simple hydraulic device to liberate speleothem fluid inclusions water. The released water is carried by the nitrogen/standard water gas stream directly to a Picarro L1102-i for isotope determination. To test the accuracy and reproducibility of the line and to measure standard water during speleothem measurements, a syringe injection unit was added to the line. Peak evaluation is done similarly as in gas chromatography to obtain &delta D; and δ18O isotopic compositions of measured water aliquots. Precision is better than 1.5 ‰ for δ D and 0.4 ‰ for δ18O for water measurements for an extended range (−210 to 0 ‰ for δ D and −27 to 0 ‰ for δ18O) primarily dependent on the amount of water released from speleothem fluid inclusions and secondarily on the isotopic composition of the sample. The results show that WS-CRDS technology is suitable for speleothem fluid inclusion measurements and gives results that are comparable to the isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) technique.

Eventos oficiais como ferramenta da comunicação pública

Artigo disponível na íntegra em: http://www.fainc.com.br/interfainc/revista/inter01.pdf

Fatores de risco individuais e familiares no desenvolvimento da pré-eclâmpia

Preeclampsia is a spectral disease, with different clinical forms which can evolve with severe multisystemic complications. This present study aimed to determine the risk factors associated with preeclampsia (PE); to validate the existence of aggregation of hypertensive disease in families of women with preeclampsia and verify the existence of association between polymorphisms in the VEGF gene and level of VEGF and its soluble receptor (sFlt1). A case-control study was performed (n = 851). Genotyping of VEGF was performed and serum levels of VEGF and sFlt1 were measured by ELISA. It was observed that 38% of mothers (173, 455) of a case of preeclampsia and 30.8% (78 of 361) of controls had history of hypertension (p <0.0001). Similarly, when examining the history of maternal preeclampsia, we observed that 14.6% (48 of 328) of mothers of women with preeclampsia and 9.6% (12 of 294) of mothers of controls had a history of preeclampsia (p = 0.0001). As for maternal history of preeclampsia, we found that 5.1% (15 of 295) of cases and 3.6% (7 of 314) of controls had a history of preeclampsia (p = 0.0568). Sisters of women with preeclampsia also had a history of hypertensive disease in 9% (41 of 455) versus 6.6% (13 of 361), p = 0.002. Similarly when examining the history of preeclampsia in sisters, it was observed that 22.7% (57 of 251) of a sister of case versus 11.4% (26 of 228) of controls had a history of preeclampsia (P = 0.0011). We observed a decrease in free VEGF in the serum of patients (P <0.05) and increased soluble VEGF receptor. There was no association between polymorphisms in the VEGF gene and preeclampsia. The data obtained in this work validate that hypertensive disease in mothers and sisters with preeclampsia are risk factors for preeclampsia. The risk of illness in the family is higher according to disease severity. High incidence of preeclampsia can be assumed by the high incidence of this disease among the controls. Significant differences between the frequency of preeclampsia in mothers of cases and controls indicate familial factors. Work is being conducted with the to eventually perform genome wide association studies to identify susceptibility loci

Estudo de adulteração em méis brasileiros através de razão isotópica do carbono

Neste trabalho, objetivou-se analisar isotopicamente méis comercializados nas regiões Sul e Sudeste do Brasil, para a detecção de fraude. Foram colhidas amostras comerciais com registro no Serviço de Inspeção Federal, Estadual ou Municipal. As amostras foram submetidas à combustão no Analisador Elementar EA 1108 CHN e analisadas no espectrômetro de massas de razão isotópica DELTA-S (Finningan Mat). Os valores isotópicos (δ13C) dos méis in natura foram comparados aos de suas respectivas proteínas (padrão interno). Foram consideradas adulteradas as amostras cuja diferença entre o valor isotópico da proteína e do mel foi igual ou inferior a -1 . As amostras consideradas adulteradas pela análise isotópica foram submetidas a testes químicos qualitativos que não foram capazes de indicar adulteração para algumas delas. Das 61 amostras analisadas, 18,0% encontram-se adulteradas, sendo 11,5% na Região Sudeste e 6,5% na Região Sul. Ao contrário dos testes químicos, a análise isotópica mostrou-se eficaz em identificar e quantificar a adulteração de méis comerciais.

The use of stable isotopes for authentication of gadoid fish species

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Entre fronteiras: a escrita imigrante de Julia Alvarez em How the García girls lost their Accents

This master s thesis aims at investigating the way in which diasporic subjects in the novel How the García Girls Lost their Accents (1992) cope with the clash of two cultures the Caribbean one, from the Dominican Republic, and the North-American one, from the U.S., as well as the implications of such negotiations in the lives of immigrants, once it apparently depicts the plight of those who are torn between mother-lands and mother-tongues (IYER, 1993, 46). At the same time, the implications of such negotiations in the lives of immigrants are relevant issues in the writing of Julia Alvarez. For this, there is the analysis of the uses of family memories as one of the main strategies immigrant writers possess to recall their identities. Moreover, this thesis will also consider the language issue for the construction of the immigrant identity insofar as bilingualism is a key factor in the negotiation the García girls must effect between their Caribbean and their American halves in order to understand where they stand in the contemporary world. In order to build a theoretical framework that supports this master s thesis, we list the works of Homi K. Bhabha (1990, 1996, 2003, 2005), Stuart Hall (2001, 2003), Julia Kristeva (1994), Salman Rushdie (1990, 1994), Sonia Torres (2001, 2003) among other contributions that were crucial to the completion of this academic research

Síndrome nefrótica primária grave em crianças: descrição clínica e dos padrões histológicos renais de seis casos

Os autores relatam os casos de seis crianças com síndrome nefrótica primária grave de padrão histológico renal incomum na rotina cotidiana dos nefrologistas e patologistas. O diagnóstico da doença foi realizado nas faixas etárias de 3 a 9 meses de idade (n = 4), aos 2 anos e 4 meses (n = 1) e aos 11 anos (n = 1). Um paciente foi prematuro, duas pacientes eram irmãs e seus pais eram primos de primeiro grau. Todos apresentavam edema generalizado; dois pacientes apresentavam desnutrição e hipotireoidismo e dois apresentavam hipertensão arterial e insuficiência renal. A histologia renal mostrou esclerose mesangial difusa (n = 3), proliferação mesangial (n = 2) e síndrome nefrótica do tipo finlandês (n = 1). Quatro pacientes faleceram, as causas de óbito foram infecção (n = 2), insuficiência renal (n = 1) e acidose metabólica (n = 1). Entre os sobreviventes, um paciente foi tratado com vitaminas, tiroxina, captopril e indometacina, apresentando aumento da albumina sérica e melhora do crescimento. O outro paciente apresentava insuficiência renal terminal, sendo tratado com diálise e transplante renal.