The social construction of “Feeling of Burden”: Narrative on dependency and care in old age

In a society in which ambivalent positions of old age coexist, suffering from limitations in the basic functions of the human being disrupts the identity of old people and the social perception that is held of them. The impact of the deterioration and the physical incapacity affects not only old adults but also those who take care of them; it entails repercussions of instrumental, emotional and social types. Within the social and subjective dimension of aging arise stereotypes and negative images from being considered dependent subjects; one of most important of these is the “feeling of being a burden”. During the in-depth interviews, the diverse implications of this negative image in advanced old age are identified in old adults and their carers in the city of Durango, Mexico. The analysis of narratives shows results pertaining to the interrelation between the subjective aspects of the identity, the beliefs, and the power of social discourses.

Acuse de recibo

Reseña del libro: Migrantes allá y acá. Mujeres y hombres en Estados Unidos y el noreste de México / Óscar Misael Hernández Hernández y María Elena Ramos Tovar (Coords.) Porrúa, Gobierno de Tamaulipas, UANL. México, 2014

Growth of the speckled swimming crab, Arenaeus cribrarius (Lamarck, 1818) (Crustacea, Brachyura, Portunidae), in Ubatuba (SP), Brazil

A total of 2629 individuals of Arenaeus cribrarius (1293 males and 1336 females) were captured in Ubatuba (SP), from August 1996 to July 1997. Individuals were distributed in 5 mm size class carapace width (CW), to verify sex-specific growth-age equations. The Von Bertalanffy model was chosen to determine the growth rate and expressed by CW=120.52[1-e(-1.80t)] for males and CW=100.81[1-e(-1.60t)] for females. The age estimated for the first juvenile stage (t(o)) was 6.1 and 8.3 days for males and females, respectively. The maximum age determined was 1.8 years for males and 2 years for females, which correspond to a maximum size of 115.8 and 96.7 mm, respectively. The maximum size (CWmax) estimated using 95% of asymptotic size was 114.5 mm for males and 95.8 mm for females. Males have a precocious sexual maturity (5 months) when compared to females (6.8 months). The growth rate and size of A. cribrarius are higher than other portunid species, with great interest for aquaculture.

Radiotrazadores en el estudio de los procesos químicos

Se revisan las principales aplicaciones de los radioiótopos en el estudio de los mecanismos de reacciones químicas en la determinación de varias constantes de compuestos y procesos químicos.

Los sonidos en silencio: lenguaje acústico básico para tiras cómicas

Los cómics se han convertido en los últimos años en un fenómeno social, una gran industria e incluso han sido aceptados como arte. En todo el mundo se implementan cursos sobre cómics y cómo un apoyo a los mismos se presenta en esta ponencia un manual resumido del manejo del sonido en los cómics.