Developmental and physical-fitness associations with gross motor coordination problems in peruvian children

he aims of this cross-sectional study were to examine the developmental characteristics (biological maturation and body size) associated with gross motor coordination problems in 5193 Peruvian children (2787 girls) aged 6–14 years from different geographical locations, and to investigate how the probability that children suffer with gross motor coordination problems varies with physical fitness. Children with gross motor coordination problems were more likely to have lower flexibility and explosive strength levels, having adjusted for age, sex, maturation and study site. Older children were more likely to suffer from gross motor coordination problems, as were those with greater body mass index. However, more mature children were less likely to have gross motor coordination problems, although children who live at sea level or at high altitude were more likely to suffer from gross motor coordination problems than children living in the jungle. Our results provide evidence that children and adolescents with lower physical fitness are more likely to have gross motor coordination difficulties. The identification of youths with gross motor coordination problems and providing them with effective intervention programs is an important priority in order to overcome such developmental problems, and help to improve their general health status.

Meios de divulgação promocionais de cinema: estudo sobre o impacto nos consumidores

This article presents part of the results obtained under a project that sought out to know and understand the determining factors in the ways of attendance at movie theaters, with the main goal to analyze each of the cinematic means of disclosure and their respective communicative role. The study was carried out through a theoretical and conceptual analysis using a quantitative approach. The main tool for data collection was a questionnaire that included the participation of 380 subjects. The findings show that the main determinant means of disclosure in choosing films as key influencers of visits to Portuguese cinemas were the Internet and the word-of-mouth phenomenon.

A literatura no cinema Oliveiriano

São nítidas na cinematografia do emblemático realizador português Manoel de Oliveira as influências de outras artes, nomeadamente da literatura. Com efeito, a adaptação literária é objeto de interesse do cineasta em diversas produções fílmicas dando origem a obras centradas sobre variadas temáticas, onde sobressai a figura feminina e os textos de Agustina Bessa-Luís. O envolvimento do realizador neste contexto de diálogo intertextual remonta às suas primeiras produções ficcionais (Aniki-Bobó, 1942) e permanece ao longo da sua vasta carreira cinematográfica. Estudar o registo filmográfico ficcional Oliveiriano é repensar questões relativas à adaptação literária e às suas particularidades. É, similarmente, refletir sobre o lugar da adaptação no cinema português e, ao mesmo tempo, equiparar o cineasta luso à constelação de realizadores paradigmáticos da história do cinema mundial que estabeleceram uma relação dialógica com fontes escritas. Com o propósito de sustentar a argumentação, a reflexão encontra-se ancorada em estudos de literatura e cinema e na teoria da adaptação. Partindo do vínculo dialogal entre literatura e cinema na obra de Manoel de Oliveira, o presente texto procura estabelecer uma reflexão acerca da adaptação literária e paralelamente relembrar as singularidades da transmutação fílmica dando destaque às diversas adaptações literárias de índole Oliveiriana que o cinema português tem testemunhado. A literatura no cinema de Oliveira contribui para testemunhar o elo positivo que historicamente tem ligado estas duas formas de expressão e oferece um exercício de releitura original destacando liberdade criativa e a independência que caracterizam Manoel de Oliveira.

Interpreting independence in Latin American cinema today: the digital option

Globalisation has transformed “independence” into, at best, “inter-dependence”. In Latin American film, this process has been experienced as a decline in the national productions, now usually co-productions, and a tendency towards the self-exoticising as films cater for a festival-circuit global audience; similarly, theatrical exhibition takes place in one of a handful of the global multiplex complexes. Moreover, narrative film itself has long been regarded as inherently “dependent”, on the conservative sectors that have provided its finance, with the word “independent” referring to authorial features only. However, the very same processes that have allowed for such an unprecedented corporate control of these film industries have also spawned a parallel network of local, regional and national filmmaking, distribution and exhibition through digital media. From the “Mi Cine” project in Mexico to the “Cine Piquetero” in Argentina, digital filmmaking is empowering viewers and restoring agency to local filmmakers. In this paper I argue for this understanding of “independence” in the contemporary cinematic spheres of Latin America: the re-appropriation, amidst the transnationalism of the day, of the democratising potential of cinema that Walter Benjamin once thought was inherent to the medium.

Chicano identity and discourses of supplementarity on Mexican cinema: from ‘The Man Without a Fatherland’ (Contreras Torres: 1922) to ‘Under the Same Moon’ (Riggen: 2008)

A radical change took place in Mexican narratives of belonging during the 1990s, when NAFTA was first negotiated. Narratives of migration drastically changed the status of Mexican migrants to the US, formerly derided as ‘pochos’, presenting them as model citizens instead. Following Derrida, I argue the role of the migrant became that of a supplement, which is, discursively, at the same time external to and part of a given unit, standing for and allowing deeper transformations to take place in the whole discourse of bilateral relations and national identity more generally. I use Derrida’s concept of the supplement to discuss changing representations of Chicanos in Mexican cinema, and to assess the extent that they have succeeded in reframing the discourse on national identity, with a focus on gender.

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An allometric modelling approach to identify the optimal body shape associated with, and differences between brazilian and peruvian youth motor performance

Children fromdevelopedanddevelopingcountriesdifferintheirbodysizeandshapedueto markeddifferencesacrosstheirlifehistorycausedbysocial,economicandculturaldifferenceswhicharealsolinkedtotheirmotorperformance(MP).Weusedallometricmodelsto identifysize/shapecharacteristicsassociatedwithMPtestsbetweenBrazilianandPeruvianschoolchildren.Atotalof4,560subjects,2,385girlsand2,175boysaged9–15years werestudied.Heightandweightweremeasured;biological maturation wasestimated with thematurityoffsettechnique;MPmeasuresincludedthe12minuterun(12MR),handgrip strength(HG),standinglongjump(SLJ)andtheshuttlerunspeed(SR)tests;physicalactivity(PA)wasassessedusingtheBaeckequestionnaire.Amultiplicativeallometricmodel wasadoptedtoadjustforbodysizedifferencesacrosscountries.Reciprocalponderalindex (RPI)wasfoundtobethemostsuitablebodyshapeindicatorassociatedwiththe12MR, SLJ,HGandSRperformance.Apositivematurationoffset parameterwasalsoassociated withabetterperformanceinSLJ,HGandSRtests.Sexdifferenceswerefoundinallmotor tests.BrazilianyouthshowedbetterscoresinMPthantheirPeruvianpeers,evenwhen controlling fortheirbodysizedifferencesThecurrentstudyidentifiedthekeybodysize associatedwithfourbodymass-dependentMPtests.Biological maturationandPAwere associatedwithstrengthandmotorperformance.Sexdifferenceswerefoundinallmotor tests,aswellasacrosscountriesfavoringBrazilianchildrenevenwhenaccountingfortheir bodysize/shapedifferences.

Centile curves and reference values for height, body mass, body mass index and waist circumference of peruvian children and adolescents

This study aimed to provide height, body mass, BMI and waist circumference (WC) growth centile charts for school-children, aged 4–17 years, from central Peru, and to compare Peruvian data with North-American and Argentinean references. The sample consisted of 8753 children and adolescents (4130 boys and 4623 girls) aged 4 to 17 years, from four Peruvian cities: Barranco, La Merced, San Ramón and Junín. Height, body mass and WC were measured according to standardized techniques. Centile curves for height, body mass, BMI and WC were obtained separately for boys and girls using the LMS method. Student t-tests were used to compare mean values. Overall boys have higher median heights than girls, and the 50th percentile for body mass increases curvilinearly from 4 years of age onwards. In boys, the BMI and WC 50th percentiles increase linearly and in girls, the increase presents a curvilinear pattern. Peruvian children are shorter, lighter and have higher BMI than their counterparts in the U.S. and Argentina; in contrast, age and sex-specific WC values are lower. Height, body mass and WC of Peruvian children increased with age and variability was higher at older ages. The growth patterns for height, body mass, BMI and WC among Peruvian children were similar to those observed in North-American and Argentinean peers.

Developmental and physical-fitness associations with gross motor coordination problems in peruvian children

he aims of this cross-sectional study were to examine the developmental characteristics (biological maturation and body size) associated with gross motor coordination problems in 5193 Peruvian children (2787 girls) aged 6–14 years from different geographical locations, and to investigate how the probability that children suffer with gross motor coordination problems varies with physical fitness. Children with gross motor coordination problems were more likely to have lower flexibility and explosive strength levels, having adjusted for age, sex, maturation and study site. Older children were more likely to suffer from gross motor coordination problems, as were those with greater body mass index. However, more mature children were less likely to have gross motor coordination problems, although children who live at sea level or at high altitude were more likely to suffer from gross motor coordination problems than children living in the jungle. Our results provide evidence that children and adolescents with lower physical fitness are more likely to have gross motor coordination difficulties. The identification of youths with gross motor coordination problems and providing them with effective intervention programs is an important priority in order to overcome such developmental problems, and help to improve their general health status.

Media Gótico: O Crime e seu Duplo Ficcional na Literatura, TV e Cinema

Crime possesses a dual nature deriving from its portrayal in the media leading to duplicity in the act of witnessing crime which by showing reality inevitably transforms it into a different kind of reality. The direct relationship with the Gothic genre is very naturally justified by real crime seeming to replicate fictional crime and vice versa, thus originating various forms of the lack of distinction between reality itself and fictional reality, or between truth and falsehood, which many writers and artists associated with Gothic aesthetics have always relied on, and numerous examples of this can be found in the works of Edgar Poe, Patricia Highsmith, Chuck Palahniuk and many others. While real crime may take the Gothic novel as its prototype, it turns out that nowadays television has taken on this role. Examples of this phenomenon are the recent symptoms of obsessive dependence on TV series such as C.S.I., Criminal Minds, The X Files, The Following and Dexter, showing a tendency for television series to replace Gothic novels, thus revealing a perverse attraction for witnessing violence through the same means that transmit the daily news featuring violent events in different scenarios of war all over the world.

Os espectáculos públicos e o cinema em Évora a partir da documentação arquivística

A documentação incorporada nos últimos anos no Arquivo Distrital de Évora, tem-nos permitido traçar linhas de permanência sobre a realização dos espectáculos públicos na cidade de Évora. Destaca-se neste pequeno texto, as possibilidades de estudo da cinematografia através daquela documentação.

Visualising In/Equalities through Contemporary Documentary Cinema. A Diffractive Reading of Feminist Practices in Spanish and Italian Non-Fiction Films

This thesis brings together feminist documentary film theory and feminist new materialism(s) to describe how feminist material-discursive practices in a sample of Spanish and Italian documentary cinema made between 2013-2018 (can) visualise gender in/equalities. The accomplished objectives have been: 1. Building a bridge between feminist documentary film theory and Karen Barad’s diffractive methodology by approaching non-fiction cinema that deals with social inequalities as a diffraction apparatus. 2. Developing a feminist toolbox for a response-able gaze by gathering different insights from feminist film theory. 3. Identifying feminist material-discursive practices in a sample of documentary films produced in Spain and Italy over the last six years (2013-2018). 4. Analysing the effects that these feminist material-discursive practices in documentary cinema have, particularly in terms of visualising gender in/equalities on both sides of the camera and on both sides of the screen. 5. Revealing patterns between the ten case studies by reading through one another (i.e. diffractively) insights raised in each one of them. In ten documentary films/case studies, I identify patterns of continuities and differences concerning feminist material-discursive practices at four levels: content, form, production and reception. In terms of contents, I detect two patterns in which feminist material-discursive practices may operate: enacting the right to appear or enacting the right to look back and/or against the grain. As for the forms, I exemplify how feminism politicises Bill Nichols’s six modes of representation. My analysis of production practices is elaborated along the filmmakers’ self-positions/situatedness, tensions/obstructions, and effects/affects/emotions regarding four key concepts: documentary cinema, equality, gender and feminism(s). And in the case of reception practices, I identify patterns of affective identification and/or intellectual reflections.

Lineamenti di storia del cinema muto in Colombia

"Lineamenti di storia del cinema muto in Colombia" nasce da un particolare interesse volto a determinare in che misura i colombiani parteciparono allo sviluppo del proprio cinema nazionale tra il 1897 e il 1926. Al fine di conseguire tale obiettivo, questo lavoro si prefigge come scopo la realizzazione di una rassegna critica dei lineamenti di storia del cinema muto colombiano. Inoltre, e considerando la forte partecipazione di impresari e cineasti italiani nel cinema muto colombiano tra il 1909 e il 1926, si presta particolare attenzione al loro contributo, a cui è dedicato il capitolo 4 e alcune sezioni dei capitoli 2, 3, 5 e 7. Preme mettere in evidenza che analizzare il contributo dei cineasti locali smentisce gran parte della bibliografia esistente sul cinema muto, dal momento che nessun testo colombiano o straniero ha mai constatato il loro contributo alla cinematografia locale o internazionale. Infatti, in questa ricerca si approfondiscono le nozioni di policentrismo, polimorfismo e polivalenza cinematografica, con l’obiettivo di realizzare uno studio documentato e aggiornato del cinema muto colombiano. Si auspica di poter dimostrare che il contributo di questi ultimi alla cinematografia muta colombiana e latino-americana –e in parte a quella italiana– fu consistente e di vasta portata, sia in termini di quantità che di contenuto. Infine, la presente ricerca si propone non soltanto di definire il contributo dei cineasti colombiani allo sviluppo del proprio cinema nazionale, ma anche, e soprattutto, di individuare l’origine di alcuni degli elementi che caratterizzano il cinema colombiano.