Adaptation of the Evidence-Based Practices Attitude Scale in Spanish child welfare professionals

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Women, Portuguese culture and Diaspora : Women from Goa in New Zealand and cultural adaptation

New Zealand is a nation of Migrants. Immigrants have played a significant role in the country’s economic growth and cultural development. With a population of four million people, New Zealand’s population is becoming increasingly culturally diverse. Almost one in five New Zealanders were born overseas, rising to one in three in its largest city, Auckland. Asians are the fastest growing ethnic group, increasing by around 140% since 1996. Indians account for 1.2% of the population (Statistics New Zealand, 2002). The Goan community in New Zealand is relatively small and its size is not formally recorded, however, anecdotally it appears to have grown to over 200 families in the Auckland area, with most arriving after 1996. For women who migrate, loneliness and isolation have been identified as the most ‘glaring’ experience and this is intensified by the loss of extended family networks when they migrate to a country where nuclear families are the norm (Leckie, 1995). The creation of new networks and maintenance of prior networks in new ways is crucial to the successful settlement and integration into a new country. This paper reports on how Goan, Indian women in Auckland, New Zealand used specific strategies to manage the adjustment to living in a new country. The findings reveal that participants used a variety of skills to settle in New Zealand such as cultivating a “can do” attitude, obtaining support and learning. These skills enabled them to move beyond their own culture and begin to take active part in New Zealand culture. However, this process was not immediate and the participants passed through a number of stages along a continuum of settlement and integration. These stages will be discussed below and situated within a body of literature.

Marginal cell density in young and old CBA/J and CBA/CAJ mice

The goal of the present study was to compare aging characteristics of the cochlear lateral wall in inbred mouse strains (CBA/J and CBA/CaJ) having very different endocochlear potential (EP)-versus-age profiles to see which anatomic differences might predict their EP differences.

Threshold adaptation, temporal integration and frequency discrimination-learning in hearing impaired children

This paper is a review of a study to evaluate the usefulness of a laboratory approach to auditory training with hearing impaired children.

Humberto Salvador: una escritura marginal en la vanguardia de la narrativa latinoamericana del siglo XX

Revisa y reflexiona la obra vanguardista del escritor ecuatoriano Humberto Salvador, que se gesta a finales de la década del 20 y los primeros años del 30, y que básicamente se expresa en los libros como Ajedrez (cuentos); En la ciudad he perdido un anovela (novela), y Taza de té (cuentos). A más de releer su obra, se examina su contexto, irrupción de la "Generación del 30", y se establece cómo esos textos de renovación que afirman el proceso de fundación de la nueva literatura ecuatoriana, despúes de haber merecido algunas apreciaciones críticas muy entusiasta, sobre todo desde el extranjero, y otras desdeñosas emitidas en el país, de pronto caen en un silecio total, a tal grado que Salvador sólo es considerado en la historiografía literaria nacional como el autor de novelas como Camarada (1933) y Trabajadores (1935) a las que erróneamente, sobre todo la segunda, se las ubica dentro de la estética del "realismo socialista", con el que Salvador no se involucra. Esas novelas son parte de un "realismo integral", según la definición de Joaquín Gallegos Lara, que afirma la tendencia del llamado realismo social de los 30. En este trabajo, a más de comentar y analizar lo que sucedía con la vanguardia en Ecuador y América Latina, se plantea una recuperación de esos tres libros vanguardistas, dentro de una interpretación que los resignifica en lo que es la "ruptura de la tradición", sobre la que tienen enorme incidencia; a la vez que se fijan algunas claves de su "inquietante modernidad", al decir de Benjamín Carrión, respecto a la obra de un autor ineludible a la hora de considerar lo que esa otra vertiente de la vanguardia, que en solitario ha encabezado Pablo Palacio desde su recuperación operada en la década de los 60, y que por igual encarna la obra salvadoriana desde una línea distinta que enriquece y amplía la inaugurada por el lojano. Obra, la de Salvador, muy marcada por las luces del psicoanálisis (freudismo) y el marxismo, de enorme influencia en los autores del 30. Hay que destacar en este escritor -¿síntoma de su pertubadora modernidad?- su papel, también, como pionero en el estudio y divulgación del freudismo en Ecuador y Latinoamérica con su estudio, para la época desacralizador, titulado Esquema sexual (1933).

Narrativa latinoamericana de fin de siglo: mundos del melodrama, lo marginal y la condición femenina

El presente ensayo estudia las obras literarias y autores latinoamericanos que publicaron entre 1970 e inicios del siglo XXI. Está inscrito en el proyecto más amplio de los Manuales de Literatura Hispanoamericana y Española, para el Programa de Reforma Curricular del Bachillerato. Se busca una aproximación crítica a las diversas narrativas surgidas con posterioridad a la del llamado Boom; están agrupadas en dos conjuntos: los autores inmediatamente posteriores al Boom, y los de fin de siglo; se analiza las temáticas que proponen, las cuales se relacionan con los nuevos desafíos de la realidad socio-política y económica de la región. El estudio incluye una pequeña guía para trabajar con los estudiantes, al final de cada obra que se revisa.

Edaphic influences on plant community adaptation in the Chiquibul forest of Belize

Edaphic variables figure significantly in plant community adaptations in tropical ecosystems but are often difficult to resolve because of the confounding influence of climate. Within the Chiquibul forest of Belize, large areas of Ultisols and Inceptisols occur juxtaposed within a larger zone of similar climate, permitting unambiguous assessment of edaphic contributions to forest composition. Wet chemical analyses, X-ray diffraction and X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy were employed to derive chemical (pH, exchangeable cations, CEC, total and organic C, total trace elements) and physical (texture, mineralogy) properties of four granite-derived Ustults from the Mountain Pine Ridge plateau and four limestone-derived Ustepts from the San Pastor region. The soils of these two regions support two distinct forests, each possessing a species composition reflecting the many contrasting physicochemical properties of the underlying soil. Within the Mountain Pine Ridge forest, species abundance and diversity is constrained by nutrient deficiencies and water-holding limitations imposed by the coarse textured, highly weathered Ultisols. As a consequence, the forest is highly adapted to seasonal drought, frequent fires and the significant input of atmospherically derived nutrients. The nutrient-rich Inceptisols of the San Pastor region, conversely, support an abundant and diverse evergreen forest, dominated by Sabal mauritiiformis, Cryosophila stauracantha and Manilkara spp. Moreover, the deep, fine textured soils in the depressions of the karstic San Pastor landscape collect and retain during the wet season much available water, thereby serving as refugia during particularly long periods of severe drought. To the extent that the soils of the Chiquibul region promote and maintain forest diversity, they also confer redundancy and resilience to these same forests and, to the broader ecosystem, of which they are a central part. (C) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.