Las edades de Hitler. De Satán a un ser de carne y hueso, y su representación en clave paródica

Adolf Hitler suscitó desde su entrada en la escena política alemana una fascinación perversa, un sentimiento que, con el tiempo, ha dado lugar a numerosas representaciones culturales sobre el Führer. La muestra, rica y variada tanto en el fondo como en la forma, nos permitirá trazar tres estadios en lo referente al proceso de construcción historiográfica del hitlerismo, iniciado con la caída del Tercer Reich. Estos responden en buena medida al devenir sociopolítico y cultural de la sociedad a escala global desde el final de la guerra y hasta nuestros días y pueden resumirse en tres: primero, la satanización; segundo, la humanización; tercero, el retrato caricaturesco. Proponemos un recorrido histórico por diversos productos culturales del dictador alemán cuyo propósito es desentrañar el retrato psicológico poliédrico que se ha construido en torno a la figura de Hitler.

The perception of the African-American community through the eyes of the Hispanic media in the U.S.: a critical discourse analysis of the reporting of the death of Michael Brown

In this paper, 36 English and 38 Spanish news articles were selected from English and Spanish newspapers and magazines published in the U.S.A. from August 2014 to November 2014. All articles discuss the death of Michael Brown, the ensuing protests and police investigations. A discourse analysis shows that there are few differences between reporting by the mainstream and the Hispanic media. Like the mainstream media, the Hispanic media adopts a neutral point of view with regard to the African-American minority. However, it presents a negative opinion with regard to the police. It appears that the Hispanic media does not explicitly side with the African-American community, but rather agrees more with the mainstream media’s opinion and is substantially influenced by it.

Real-time PCR demonstrates high prevalence of Schistosoma japonicum in the Philippines:implications for surveillance and control

BACKGROUND: The Philippines has a population of approximately 103 million people, of which 6.7 million live in schistosomiasis-endemic areas with 1.8 million people being at risk of infection with Schistosoma japonicum. Although the country-wide prevalence of schistosomiasis japonica in the Philippines is relatively low, the prevalence of schistosomiasis can be high, approaching 65% in some endemic areas. Of the currently available microscopy-based diagnostic techniques for detecting schistosome infections in the Philippines and elsewhere, most exhibit varying diagnostic performances, with the Kato-Katz (KK) method having particularly poor sensitivity for detecting low intensity infections. This suggests that the actual prevalence of schistosomiasis japonica may be much higher than previous reports have indicated.

METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Six barangay (villages) were selected to determine the prevalence of S. japonicum in humans in the municipality of Palapag, Northern Samar. Fecal samples were collected from 560 humans and examined by the KK method and a validated real-time PCR (qPCR) assay. A high S. japonicum prevalence (90.2%) was revealed using qPCR whereas the KK method indicated a lower prevalence (22.9%). The geometric mean eggs per gram (GMEPG) determined by the qPCR was 36.5 and 11.5 by the KK. These results, particularly those obtained by the qPCR, indicate that the prevalence of schistosomiasis in this region of the Philippines is much higher than historically reported.

CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Despite being more expensive, qPCR can complement the KK procedure, particularly for surveillance and monitoring of areas where extensive schistosomiasis control has led to low prevalence and intensity infections and where schistosomiasis elimination is on the horizon, as for example in southern China.

¿Las buenas prácticas, serán tan buenas y replicables?

La presente ponencia pertenece al proyecto de investigación Comisión Universitaria sobre Discapacidad: Cimientos para la construcción de una Universidad Pública Accesible, a desarrollarse entre los años 2014 y 2015, en el marco del programa de incentivos a la investigación (Ministerio de Educación de la Nación ? Universidades Nacionales) . Lo expuesto en esta comunicación forma parte de los resultados parciales obtenidos a partir de un análisis preliminar sobre ciertas voces y términos rastreados por los integrantes del equipo a través del análisis de distintos protocolos, manuales, informes y guías en pos de favorecer la accesibilidad y la inclusión de las personas con discapacidad en la Educación Superior. En tal sentido y al decir de Bourdieu (2008) la forma de designar, nominar, titular, implica ?poder? que guarda necesariamente un posicionamiento, un discurso y una práctica por lo cual, después de un largo debate entre los integrantes del equipo de investigación , opinamos que el término buenas prácticas no es el más pertinentes, ya que toda experiencia es un proceso único y en este caso atravesado y constituido por una relación de subjetividades y trayectorias también únicas, en tal sentido intentamos, proponemos dejar de lado el "uso" de las buenas prácticas para poder abrir caminos hacia la aplicación simplemente de "Prácticas Sociales"

Relación entre el nivel de escolaridad alcanzado y el patrón de actividad física en una población de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Introducción. Los hábitos y estilos de vida caracterizan el perfil de riesgo para las enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles. La actividad física regular es un componente importante para configurar una vida saludable pero existen condicionamientos socioculturales para mantener un estilo de vida activo. Objetivo. Conocer los patrones de actividad física de una población e identificar la relación entre el nivel de actividad física y los años de escolaridad alcanzados. Material y método. Población 2177 individuos entre 15 y 64 años de edad de ambos sexos distribuidos en 5 rangos etarios. Se aplicóun cuestionario estructurado autoadministrado, basado en recomendaciones del Countrywide Integrated non comunicable diseases Intervention (CINDI) Programe, de la OMS. Variables analizadas: Nivel educacional, grado de dependencia laboral, actividad física laboral (AFL), actividad física de tiempo libre (AFTL), actividad física de transporte (AFT). Las variables cualitativas fueron probadas por el test de chi cuadrado. Resultados. El nivel de escolaridad alcanzado muestra una relación significativa con el nivel de AFTL. La prevalencia de AFTL baja en varones fue del 65 y en mujeres del 69. Conclusión. La población es mayormente inactiva en su tiempo libre. Los años de escolaridad se relacionan inversamente con el nivel de actividad física laboral y directamente con el nivel de actividad física de tiempo libre

Local Field Potentials in the Gustatory Cortex Carry Taste Information

It has been recently shownthat localfield potentials (LFPs)fromthe auditory and visual cortices carry information about sensory stimuli, but whether this is a universal property of sensory cortices remains to be determined. Moreover, little is known about the temporal dynamics of sensory information contained in LFPs following stimulus onset. Here we investigated the time course of the amount of stimulus information in LFPs and spikes from the gustatory cortex of awake rats subjected to tastants and water delivery on the tongue. We found that the phase and amplitude of multiple LFP frequencies carry information about stimuli, which have specific time courses after stimulus delivery. The information carried by LFP phase and amplitude was independent within frequency bands, since the joint information exhibited neither synergy nor redundancy. Tastant information in LFPs was also independent and had a different time course from the information carried by spikes. These findings support the hypothesis that the brain uses different frequency channels to dynamically code for multiple features of a stimulus.

Indícios de Abuso e Maus Tratos em Idosos no Distrito de Leiria

A violência é um tema relevante na actualidade. O aumento do número de idosos no nosso país, a existência de factores inerentes à decadência física, psíquica e social dos idosos, podem levar ao agravamento de situações de maus-tratos. Por tudo isto, foi realizado um estudo quantitativo, descritivo, analítico e correlacional, que teve como objectivo, identificar a presença de indícios de abuso nos idosos no distrito de Leiria, relacionando os mesmos com variáveis sócio-demográficas, económicas, psicossociais e de caracterização do estado de saúde. Para o levantamento dos dados utilizamos o Mini Mental State; avaliação; a Questions to Elicit Elder Abuse, o índice de Katz e, por fim, um questionário sobre os dados sócio-demográficos do idoso. Foram inquiridos 85 idosos, com mais de 65 anos e sem défices cognitivos. Os resultados mostram 96% de indícios de abusos na população, sendo que o abuso emocional foi o mais observado. Constatou-se que os idosos que percepcionam o seu estado de saúde como mau têm maiores indícios de negligência. Verificou-se também que quanto maiores as capacidades cognitivas dos idosos, menores os indícios de abusos. / Nowadays, violence is a very important theme to analyse. In our country, the elderly increase as well as the inherent factors on physical, mental and social decay, can provide situations of ill-treatment. For all this, was realized a quantitative, descriptive, analytical and correlational study, who aimed to identify in Leiria district, the presence of abuse signs in the elderly, correlating them with socio-demographic, economic, psychological and health variables. For data collection, we used the Mini Mental State, Questions to Elicit Elder Abuse, Katz index, and a questionnaire about elderly sociodemographic database. 85 elderly patients over 65 years without cognitive deficits, were questioned. The results reveal that 96% of respondents are victims of ill-treatment, mostly on emotional way. It was checked that negligence is more evident in those who perceive their poor health. Also was concluded that the abuse signs of elderly are smaller when their cognitive abilities are greater.

Comparação da funcionalidade de idosos residentes em duas modalidades institucionais

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What Drives Parental Concerns about their 18-Month-Olds at Familial Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder?

Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2016-08

Indirect Effects of Parental Coping on Children’s Psychosocial Adjustment in the Context of Pediatric Cancer

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-08

Towards Night

Sixty artists explore the nocturnal. Curated by Tom Hammick. The evening hour too gives us the irresponsibility which darkness and lamplight bestow. We are no longer quite ourselves. – Virginia Woolf, Street Haunting: A London Adventure, 1930 Towards Night is an exhibition exploring the nocturnal through paintings, prints and drawings by over sixty artists. Drawing on the nineteenth century European Romantic tradition, the show surveys contemporary and historical connections to wonderment and dystopia at dusk, twilight, night and dawn. Towards Night juxtaposes key paintings and prints by Constable, Friedrich, Munch, Nolde, Palmer and Turner, some of the best known visionaries of the Romantic tradition with contemporary artists who work with the transformative aspects of nightfall to convey emotional responses of awe, anxiety and solitude, love and loss, revelry, insomnia, and journey’s end. The exhibition opens with direct and positive responses to the natural world; Marc Chagall’s exotic dreamlike evening in The Poet Reclining (1915) sits close to eighteenth century Indian miniatures depicting brightly painted figures offset against darkening monsoon clouds, and William Crozier’s Balcony at Night, Antibes (2007), of a plant, blue and iridescent against the cool night sky. As the exhibition progresses, the dystopias become darker and more disturbing, and the connections between artists and works intensify: Emma Stibbon’s Rome Aqueduct (2011) takes on a heightened sense of pathos alongside Caspar David Friedrich’s Winter Landscape (1811); Peter Doig’s cinematic Echo Lake (1998) conjures up an increased sense of contemporary angst; and Prunella Clough’s False Flower (1993), a magical tree defying brutalism by growing out of concrete, becomes more miraculous near Night Shift (2015) Nick Carrick’s tomblike high rise. Tom Hammick’s Violetta Alone (2015) and Michael Craig Martin’s Ash Tray (2015), reinforce hedonistic aspects of night-time revelry alongside Four AM, Betsy Dadd’s young woman drinking in the early hours of the morning and L.S. Lowry’s drunken people in a pub in The Crowd (1922). In the final room, a cluster of works explores dreams and insomnia, from Louise Bourgeois’ Spirals (2010) to Munch’s lovers embracing in The Kiss (1902). Tom Hammick, curator of the show said “This exhibition has grown way beyond its original conception, to become a magnificent survey of painting and printmaking from over two hundred years based around the central tenet of night. The exhibition is a kind of painterly response to the way figurative artists use their artistic heroes as starting points for their own work, both compositionally and emotionally.” Artists featured in Towards Night: Christiane Baumgarter, Michael Craig-Martin, Julian Opie, Will Gill, Merlin James, Howard Hodgkin, WillIam Scott, Patrick Caulfield, George Shaw, Stephen Chambers, Basil Beattie, Betsy Dadd, Christopher Le Brun, L.S Lowry, Andrew Cranston, David Willetts, James Fisher, Emma Stibbon, Vija Celmins, William Blake, William Crozier, Tom Hammick, Georgia Keeling, Helen Turner, Humphrey Ocean, Julian Bell, Craigie Aitchison, Mark Wright, Ken Kiff, Matthew Burrows, Andrzej Jackowski, Sarah Raphael, Nick Bodimeade, Nick Carrick, Mary Newcomb, Hurvin Anderson, Peter Doig, Phoebe Unwin, Danny Markey, Sara Lee, Simon Burton, Susie Hamilton, Marc Chagall, Alfred Wallis, Emil Nolde, J.M.W. Turner, Prunella Clough, Samuel Palmer, Louise Bourgeois, Caspar David Friedrich, Alex Katz, Ewan Gibbs, Susie Hamilton, Andrzej Jackowski, Amanda Vesey, Edward Stott, Gertrude Hermes, Rose Wylie, Sidney Nolan, John Constable, J.M.W. Turner, Emil Nolde, Hiroshige, Edvard Munch, Samuel Palmer, Eileen Cooper, Charles Neame-Spencer, Samantha Cary.

SMILE: Simulator for Maryland Imitation Learning Environment

As robot imitation learning is beginning to replace conventional hand-coded approaches in programming robot behaviors, much work is focusing on learning from the actions of demonstrators. We hypothesize that in many situations, procedural tasks can be learned more effectively by observing object behaviors while completely ignoring the demonstrator's motions. To support studying this hypothesis and robot imitation learning in general, we built a software system named SMILE that is a simulated 3D environment. In this virtual environment, both a simulated robot and a user-controlled demonstrator can manipulate various objects on a tabletop. The demonstrator is not embodied in SMILE, and therefore a recorded demonstration appears as if the objects move on their own. In addition to recording demonstrations, SMILE also allows programing the simulated robot via Matlab scripts, as well as creating highly customizable objects for task scenarios via XML. This report describes the features and usages of SMILE.

Étude des représentations du rôle professionnel d'éducatrice d'étudiantes en techniques d'éducation en services de garde en éducation psychomotrice

Cette étude identifie les représentations du rôle professionnel d'éducatrice en éducation psychomotrice. Le rôle professionnel d'éducatrice se définit comme un processus de prise de décisions concernant l'enfant, l'organisation de l'environnement et le jeu. Les représentations sont constituées de deux systèmes : les croyances et les processus cognitifs. Trois étudiantes respectivement inscrites en première, en troisième et en cinquième session ont participé à une entrevue semi-dirigée portant sur le rôle professionnel d'éducatrice en éducation psychomotrice. Les modèles de rôles maternel, thérapeutique et instructionnel (Katz, 1970) sont à la base de l'analyse des croyances alors que le diagnostic, la conception, la planification et le guide identifient les quatre processus cognitifs du rôle professionnel d'éducatrice (Saracho, 1988). Une analyse qualitative des verbatims des entrevues a permis d'isoler les croyances et les processus cognitifs. Par la suite, les représentations du rôle professionnel d'éducatrice se sont précisées de la présence des modèles de rôles dans l'utilisation des processus cognitifs. Selon cette étude, les quatre processus cognitifs du rôle professionnel apparaissent chez chacun des sujets. Les sujets prennent principalement des décisions concernant l'enfant. Par contre, les décisions touchant l'organisation de l'environnement et le jeu sont peu présentes. Par ailleurs, les trois sujets appliquent les modèles de rôles maternel, instructionnel et thérapeutique dans chaque processus cognitif du rôle professionnel d'éducatrice. Toutefois, de façon générale, les sujets tendent vers l'orientation intellectuelle du modèle de rôle instructionnel dans le diagnostic, la conception et la planification. De plus, tous les sujets présentent l'orientation intellectuelle du modèle instructionnel dans le guide. Cependant, l'orientation académique du modèle instructionnel apparaît dans le diagnostic, la conception et la planification des sujets de troisième et de cinquième session. Cette étude ouvre la voie à la recherche sur l'enseignement et l'apprentissage des processus cognitifs et des croyances compatibles avec le rôle professionnel d'éducatrice. De plus, ces représentations devenant explicites permettent aux formatrices d'éducatrice de porter une évaluation diagnostique autant en formation initiale qu'en formation continue. Cette recherche contribue à définir un «corpus» de savoirs propre aux éducatrices en Techniques d'éducation en services de garde dans le cadre d'une pédagogie basée sur le cognitivisme.

The bioaccumulation of persistent contaminants by zebra mussels and their effects on state-endangered common terns

Common terns currently are listed as endangered or threatened in many states, including Illinois, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, and New York, and a species of special concern by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS, 2002). The sole remaining nesting colony in Illinois is located at the Naval Station Great Lakes (NSGL) in Lake County where intensive management by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources has reduced nest predation and increased the number of eggs that hatch. However, the overall reproductive success (the number of young successfully reaching independence) has not improved. Observations of gross deformities in hatchlings (i.e. compromised feather development and cross-bill), lethargic behavior of young birds, and lesions, suggested the influence of environmental contaminants (Jablonski et al., 2005). I investigated if there were significant levels of environmental contaminants in eggs and nestlings of common terns. While there were minimal concentration of selenium, mercury, lead, and cadmium, there were large concentration of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in both the eggs and nestlings. The greater amounts of PCBs in older chicks than younger chicks suggest local contamination. In order to potentially manage the factors responsible for exposing the terns to PCBs I investigated the pathway by which PCBs were exposed to terns. The two most likely biological pathways as determined by research on Great Lake fishes were investigated. The first pathway is through atmospheric deposition of PCBs and resuspension of PCB-ladel sediment which are subsequently acquired by filter-feeding fish (e.g. alewives, Alosa pseudoharengus) and then pelagic fish (e.g. lake trout, Salvelinus namaychus) or in this case terns. The second pathway explored was via the biodeposits of zebra mussels which are consumed by round gobies (Neogobius melanostromus) and ultimately littoral fish (e.g. small-mouthed bass, Micropterus dolomieui) or terns. Because common terns breed in near-shore sites where concentrations of zebra mussels are found, as well as forage in more pelagic environments it is possible that either or both pathways may be contributing to their PCB exposure. Field experiments and stable isotope analyses demonstrated that the most likely pathway by which terns are exposed to PCBs is via alewives, similar to how apex predators such as lake trout acquire PCBs. Biodeposits from zebra mussels do not appear to be a significant factor in PCB accumulation in terns. The impact of PCB exposure on birds can vary widely, however in this situation we choise to investigate one specific behavior often affected by PCB exposure, parental attentiveness. PCBs are known to cause endocrine disruption which ultimately results in reduced brooding of young and incubation of eggs. I used temperature sensors to quantify nest temperatures and parental attentiveness during incubation. High concentrations of PCBs in our study population appear to be leading to poor parental attentiveness, and extended periods of absence during incubation and brooding, ultimately leading to poor reproductive success. Common terns are perilously close to being extirpated in Illinois and management of PCB exposure will be difficult. I propose that additional testing should be conducted to locate a site with less PCB contamination and then to move the tern colony to this location, possibly using social cues as has been done with other tern species in Illinois. PCBs are having a profound impact on common tern populations in Illinois and without moving the colony it is likely that the population will continue to decline.