Projecte Urban Palma. 'Proyecto Urban Palma'.

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Reforma urban??stica i modernitzaci?? pedag??gica en la Mallorca d'inicis del segle XX. 'Reforma urban??stica y modernizaci??n pedag??gica en la Mallorca de principios del siglo XX'

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Análisis de la influencia del Modelo Socioeconómico Chaebol en la crisis financiera del sudeste asiático de 1997: Tailandia

A partir del fin de la Guerra de Corea los diferentes gobiernos que tomaron el poder permitieron la consolidación de las grandes empresas Chaebol. El análisis social se basa en rescatar principios del confucianismo que pueden verse representados en el sistema corporativo estudiado, entre ellos la piedad filial, la honestidad, la educación. Al analizar los factores confucianos se logra determinar ciertas dinámicas presentes en las empresas Chaebol que muestran similitud con las causas de la Crisis Financiera del Sudeste asiático en 1997 lo que permite crear una relación entre el modelo y la crisis. La sobreinversión, el sobreendeudamiento, la relación entre el gobierno y los Chaebol son un ejemplo de dinámicas resultantes. Al tener a Tailandia como segundo país de referencia fue necesario buscar la existencia de relaciones entre el sistema económico y social tailandés, además de encontrar dinámicas resultantes del modelo corporativo de Tailandia similares a las coreanas para finalizar relacionándolas con la crisis financiera.

Análisis de los factores que han llevado a la perdida de la legitimidad de los partidos tradicionales en Colombia y paraguay

La deslegitimación de los partidos políticos tradicionales en Colombia y Paraguay constituye un viaje de teorías y percepciones alrededor de la corresponsabilidad de la representación política que recae sobre electores y elegidos. A través de un estudio de la historia política y de los partidos en dos sistemas aparentemente distintos como lo son el sistema consociacional colombiano del frente nacional y el bipartidismo paraguayo durante la dictadura de Strossner se evidencia un desgaste institucional cuya resultante es la creciente desilusión del ciudadano, que conlleva el surgimiento de nuevas fuerzas políticas y el rezago de las tradicionales.

Protection of Urban Lands: Advances in Medellin’s Public Policy

The problem of land ownership protection in this country is an issue that must be faced by those who have as part of their responsibilities the recognition, the restitution and the reparation of victims of forced displacement. One of the points that must be analyzed is the protection of ownership of urban lands, a subject falling under municipal responsibility. The development of a public policy by the City of Medellín for the protection of such lands is a significant advance for the creation of protocols and for the return of rights to those who have adandoned their lands because of violence or who have been divested of their homes in urban areas.

Administrative authorization for the demolition of urban rental units pursuant to the law of 1964: a spanish example of problematic over-activity in the application of transitional laws

Transitional provisions are defined as the set of regulations that rule juridical relationships on the occasion of a legislative change. Out of this context of law succession, their indiscriminate application can lead to serious inconsistencies. The analysis of a Spanish private law example is offered to illustrate this fact. It concerns the administrative authorization for the demolition of rented buildings in the cities. A regulation repealed more than fifteen years ago and however widespread utilised on ancient constructions that, after recent urban development, have acquired great economic value; something that in the end explains the current importance of such provisions. What is happening in Spain: denaturalization of the original  figure due to a mixture of formalist interpretations and speculative market interests, is presented here to call the attention on the necessary limitation of transitional provisions’ effects.

Habilidades interpersonales en ancianos : asunción de perspectivas y estrategias de planificación medios-fines.

Se pretende crear una bateria de pruebas que evalúe habilidades cognitivas en solución de problemas interpersonales y presentar datos y resultados acerca de su viabilidad y validacion. 154 ancianos, de los que 124 completaron la prueba. El 55,6 eran mujeres y el 44,4 eran varones. La edad media era de 69,7 años. Se seleccionó la muestra al azar y se clasificó la misma en cuanto a: lugar de nacimiento, estado civil, profesiones de los ancianos, percepción de la paga de jubilación, estudios realizados, si tomaban o no algún medicamento. Variables estudiadas: factor 'planificación medios-fines', factor 'asunción de perpectivas'; edad , sexo, lugar de nacimiento, estado civil, grado de independencia, estar jubilado, cobrar pensión, actividad laboral, estudios, medicación, factor F Cornell e lSI-A. Los entrevistadores eran alumnos de quinto de Psicología. El pase de las pruebas era individual. 1. La anamnesis, creada para esta investigacion: ficha donde se recogía la identificación de cada anciano. 2. El Cornell Medical Index, Brodman et al., 1949, que mide dos dimensiones: F, que mide el estado físico, y P, que mide el estado emocional. 3. Índice de satisfacción con la vida, lSI-A, adaptado por J.L. González. 4. El PMF-4 mide el pensamiento planificador medios-fines y el PS-4 mide la percepción de los sentimientos, creadas para esta investigación. 5. El Raven. 6. El MAE, Cuestionario de Motivación y Ansiedad de Ejecución. 1. Medias y desviaciones típicas de las puntuaciones obtenidas para cada uno de los ítems de la prueba PMF-4 y PS-4. 2. Correlaciones entre los ítems de las pruebas citadas. 3. Representaciones gráficas de la frecuencia de correlaciones. 4. Análisis factorial para cada una de las pruebas anteriores. 5. Índices de consistencia interna para cada uno de los factores, usando el Alfa de Cronbach, Theta y Omega. 6. Análisis de correlación entre los factores. 7. Análisis diferencial. 8. Análisis discriminante. 8. Normalización. 1. Prueba PMF-4: A. La factorización con componentes principales dio como resultados una dimensión monofactorial compuesta por 11 ítems cuya saturación era igual o superior a .45 y que explicaba el 29 por ciento de la covarianza. b. La consistencia interna del factor era siempre superior a .80, lo que muestra una alta fiabilidad de la prueba. c. Las variables con poder discriminante fueron: cobrar pensión, estudios, tomar medicación, estado físico, somatización y satisfacción con la vida. 2. Prueba PS-4: a. Dimensión monofactorial, también compuesta por 11 ítems. b. Los índices de consistencia interna eran más altos que en la prueba anterior. c. Este factor explicaba el 33,6 de la varianza. d. El grado de independencia de los ancianos y el cobrar pensión parecen ser las variables que discriminan mejor. Las pruebas creadas ofrecen información acerca de dos dimensiones comportamentales: planificación medios-fines y asunción de perspectivas obtenidas a partir del análisis de respuestas ante situaciones interpersonales características de ancianos. Queda por investigar si estas dimensiones cognitivas aisladas tienen relación con la inteligencia.

Hematopoietic stem cells, overview and pathways implied on their self-renewal mechanisms

Blood tissue is composed approximately in 45% by cells and its derivatives, with a life span of around 120 days for erythrocytes and 3 years for certain type of lymphocytes. This lost is compensated with the hematopoietic system activity and the presence of an immature primitive cell population known as Hematopoietic Stem Cells (HSCs) which perform the hematopoiesis, a process that is active from the beginning of the fetal life and produces near to 2 x 1011 eritrocytes and 1010 white blood cells per day (1). Hematopoietic Stem Cells are capable of both self-renewal and differentiation into multiple lineages, are located in a particular niche and are identified by their own cell surface markers, as the CD34 antigen. Recently it has been possible to advance in the understanding of self-renewal, differentiation and proliferation processes and in the involvement of the signaling pathways Hedgehog, Notch and Wnt. Studying the influence of these mechanisms on in vivo and in vitro behavior and the basic biology of HSCs, has given valuable tools for the generation of alternative therapies for hematologic disorders as leukemias.

The incidents of housing policies in the process of nesting the urban space (Buenos Aires, 1870-1999)

This article describes the housing policies displayed historically in B.A. that affected the processes of configuration and of giving hierarchy to the urban space. Since the process of modernization of B.A., at the end of the XIXth century, housing measures, urbanistic projects and political decisions have influenced the building of the city and the space distribution of their inhabitants: in this way, they have integrated some people and excluded others. No wonder, that, historically, popular sectors have established themselves in the South of the city (and in outskirt villages). These zones have been disregarded by the state, which has invested less in these areas. We will see how the connection between state housing policies and the population redistribution in the city, confirms the persistence of a strong process of urban and residential segregation that tends to expel the inhabitants of popular sectors and to attract the ones of the middle-class and high class sectors.

Globalization and urban policy at the periphery of capitalism

Este artigo discute um tema complexo como é o planejamento urbano e que está passando por uma grande mudança no mundo revolucionado pela reestruturação da produção capitalista iniciada no fi nal do século XX. Esta análise permite uma série de recomendações: dar visibilidade a cidade real ou desconstruir a cidade virtual edifi cada pelo marketing urbano e interessesglobais, dar visibilidade aos confl itos, contruir reforma administrativa, capacitar agentes para o planejamento da ação, desenvolver reforma fundiária.

Advances and limitations in the attention to the problems of housing and urban land in Mexico. An approach from the legal-institutional frame

In this work we analyze the reforms carried out by the Mexican state in the nineties of the 20th century, in the items concerning the policies of housing and urban land, based on an exhaustive review of the main actions, programs and changes in the legal and institutional frame that applies for each of these fields. The nineties represent a "breaking point" in the way the State considers the satisfaction of the right to the housing and attends the offer of urbanized land for a tidy and sustainable urban development. In this period of time, the approach of direct intervention in developing and financing housing and creation of land reserves has changed into another one, ruled by the logic of the market. The balance to the first decade of the 21st century is ambiguous, as neither the housing policy has solved the housing shortage for low-income population, nor the land policy has eliminated the illegal urban growth.

Qualifying urban outskirts and public areas A refl exion from Bogata’s public policies

This article presents the results and conclusions obtained from an investigation into the possibilities of qualifying urban outskirts of Bogota with regard to the construction of public areas. The discussion presents the results obtained in previous investigations which give reason to conclude that the city’s outskirts are currently equipped with insuffi cient basic urban services and equipment. Questions are raised in regards to the proposals of the Plan for Territorial Organization (POT as abbreviated in Spanish) according to now known facts. From analysis both of currently known facts as well as the proposals of the Plan for Territorial Organization advancement is made in the analysis of the existing possibilities in the latter scenario to improve the condition of the admittedly unarticulated and defi cient urban outskirts, especially for the development of low cost housing.

Transport impact of in urban planning: the case of Transmilenio in Bogota

The growth and expansion of cities during the last century can’t be seen without taking into account the important role they have assumed in the transport infrastructure. In Bogota have passed trough streetcar, buses and automóviles was deciding for the city, because all this periods marked a drastic change in growth morphology. This article studies the planning of Mass Transit System –MTS– Transmilenio and its interaction with the urban structure, in light of the current city planning framework. It also specifies the behavior of land use in the construction of the system first phase. One of the most important findings of this study is that there is no articulation between land and transport use system, despite the decisions taken in the ordering model. Similarly, local and intermediate planning exhibits Peak articulation.The existing infrastructure of the MTS reiterates the tendency to concentrate the accessibility in one place: the center has the largest accessibility whereas periphery fails to overcome its limitations of accessibility. While the city continued with this trend the existence of a coordinated planning system for Bogota and the ability to meet expectations of planning model is questionable, however it is something that depends not only on MTS.

Informal access to urban land. Housing policies devoted to vulnerable sectors implemented in Cordoba-Argentina

The urban growth in Latino American cities, in a neoliberal context, has led to several population groups to having no possibilities to the access to urban land. Informal and irregular urban settlements increase, requiring attention from local governments, with actions and strategies in order to achieve both the regularization of such situation and further prevention. In the city of Córdoba different informal and irregular operations have taken place promoted by different actors. Furthermore, policies focused on regularization which have been promoted, have few intervention mechanisms, a fact that becomes critical, especially for the urban problems it causes. The main aim of this article is to present a classification over different modes of urban land acquirement taking place out of both urban and civil legislations. Afterwards, different informal settlement typologies are described, as well as the policies focused on them, together with their respective effects and impacts.

Sustainable urban criteria in the urban periphery of Guadalajara

The study of the growth of large cities, in the urban periphery or the peri-urban areas specifically, it relates to environmental degradation due to urbanization, if it is estimated that since 2008 more than half of the world population living in urban areas, this sector is affected as it presents overcrowding, segregation and deterioration of physical conditions, which will impact on the social aspects within localities. This great urban growth has usually developed with the lack of environmental planning.So it is necessary to include urban development, guidelines towards environmental conservation and rehabilitation of the territory. The future of cities will depend largely on the actions taken now. As urban development inevitably requires planning urban settlements through sustainable development so as to provide alternative technologies, based on the reality of Latin American countries.In the peripheral area of the Metropolitan Zone of Guadalajara, is taken as a case study of the town of La Venta del Astillero, which by its nature allows access and functionality to develop a set of criteria and indicators to urban sustainability, which can take as a model for other communities in the urban periphery.