Anonymi Ticinensis Liber de laudibus Civitatis Ticinensis / a cura di Rodolfo Maiocchi e Ferruccio Quintavalle.

Cronica de corporibus sanctis Papie is ascribed to Jacobus de Voragine; cf p. [55].

Persiles y Sigismunda. Edición publicada por Rodolfo Schevill y Adolfo Bonilla.

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El "Diario" de Rodolfo Walsh o la impotencia de la escritura

El presente trabajo se propone poner de relieve un rastreo de la experiencia de la imposibilidad de escribir en Ese hombre y otros papeles personales de Rodolfo Walsh, como una forma de exposición de la impotencia. Para ello se detendrá en diversas entradas del "Diario" donde tal impotencia -fundamentalmente ligada a la escritura de la Novela- se manifiesta en sus matices, y ensayará una hipótesis sobre la índole de los mismos a partir de la idea de materia escrituraria, como pura posibilidad, apoyándose en los trabajos de Giorgio Agamben.

Rodolfo Kusch y la constitución de lo popular en la Argentina

De la vasta obra del filósofo argentino Rodolfo Kusch (1922-1979), quién desarrollara diversas líneas de reflexión-investigación, abordaremos sus tesis sobre la constitución de lo popular en la Argentina. Para ello nos detendremos en dos momentos: por un lado, desarrollaremos su peculiar lectura sobre el ciclo político de la independencia y sobre el período de la organización nacional-estatal argentina, centrándonos en su debate con el clásico binomio sarmientino "civilización o barbarie" y subrayando el parentesco de ciertos conceptos de nuestro autor con aportes más recientes del paradigma de la modernidad / colonialidad. En una segunda instancia, nos referiremos a la persistencia de lo indígena en la constitución de lo popular en nuestro país, en diálogo con otras posiciones del pensamiento nacional y latinoamericano, y derivaremos de allí ciertas conclusiones para la investigación en ciencias sociales.

El "Diario" de Rodolfo Walsh o la impotencia de la escritura

El presente trabajo se propone poner de relieve un rastreo de la experiencia de la imposibilidad de escribir en Ese hombre y otros papeles personales de Rodolfo Walsh, como una forma de exposición de la impotencia. Para ello se detendrá en diversas entradas del "Diario" donde tal impotencia -fundamentalmente ligada a la escritura de la Novela- se manifiesta en sus matices, y ensayará una hipótesis sobre la índole de los mismos a partir de la idea de materia escrituraria, como pura posibilidad, apoyándose en los trabajos de Giorgio Agamben.

State and economy. William Beveridge and Walter Eucken's criticisms and proposals. (A historical comparative perspective)

The central problem that this paper addresses is the development of political economic thought, both in Germany and in Great Britain, related to the construction of societies in which the State had a role in ensuring levels of stability and economic security to its inhabitants, particularly during the late 1940s -- This article proposes a comparative historical perspective of political economic thought of the British economist William Beveridge and his German counterpart Walter Eucken -- The comparison is based on their critiques to the economic system and proposals on the role that the State should play in the economy -- The study of the ideas of both thinkers, their criticisms and proposals on economic and political issues, allows us to understand the set of ideas that influenced the development of the Welfare State of the post war period, both in Britain and Germany

Rodolfo Kusch : Tesis para la descolonización

Rodolfo Kusch (1922-1979) es autor de una obra vasta que aún sigue parcialmente inexplorada. El presente trabajo se propone sistematizar críticamente lo que identificamos como una de sus cuatro grandes líneas de reflexión-investigación, constituida por una serie ?tesis histórico-sociológicas?. Además de recuperar estas tesis apenas abordadas por sus comentaristas, nos propondremos indagar someramente en algunos trazos de su itinerario intelectual, para situar en ciertas coordenadas espacio-temporales y en un determinado campo intelectual y político la producción del autor. Por último, a lo largo de todo el trabajo también nos abocaremos a tender ciertos puentes entre la obra kuscheana y otras teorías críticas, señalando límites, potencialidades, anticipaciones y vigencias de sus aportes para reflexionar sobre las tareas inconclusas de la descolonización en América Latina

Rodolfo Kusch : Tesis para la descolonización

Rodolfo Kusch (1922-1979) es autor de una obra vasta que aún sigue parcialmente inexplorada. El presente trabajo se propone sistematizar críticamente lo que identificamos como una de sus cuatro grandes líneas de reflexión-investigación, constituida por una serie ?tesis histórico-sociológicas?. Además de recuperar estas tesis apenas abordadas por sus comentaristas, nos propondremos indagar someramente en algunos trazos de su itinerario intelectual, para situar en ciertas coordenadas espacio-temporales y en un determinado campo intelectual y político la producción del autor. Por último, a lo largo de todo el trabajo también nos abocaremos a tender ciertos puentes entre la obra kuscheana y otras teorías críticas, señalando límites, potencialidades, anticipaciones y vigencias de sus aportes para reflexionar sobre las tareas inconclusas de la descolonización en América Latina

Rodolfo Kusch : Tesis para la descolonización

Rodolfo Kusch (1922-1979) es autor de una obra vasta que aún sigue parcialmente inexplorada. El presente trabajo se propone sistematizar críticamente lo que identificamos como una de sus cuatro grandes líneas de reflexión-investigación, constituida por una serie ?tesis histórico-sociológicas?. Además de recuperar estas tesis apenas abordadas por sus comentaristas, nos propondremos indagar someramente en algunos trazos de su itinerario intelectual, para situar en ciertas coordenadas espacio-temporales y en un determinado campo intelectual y político la producción del autor. Por último, a lo largo de todo el trabajo también nos abocaremos a tender ciertos puentes entre la obra kuscheana y otras teorías críticas, señalando límites, potencialidades, anticipaciones y vigencias de sus aportes para reflexionar sobre las tareas inconclusas de la descolonización en América Latina

“La hoz y el machete. La internacional Comunista y Centroamérica". (Rodolfo Cerdas Cruz)

IntroducciónHace aproximadamente una década Rodolfo Cerdas Cruz presentó una tesis de doctorado en Francia titulada "Strategie et Tactique de l'Internationale Communiste en Amérique Lanite" de la cual La hoz y el Machete, presumiblemente, es su versión española en forma de libro; acutalizada a juzgar por algunas de las referencias bibliográficas...

Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Background The Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factor study 2013 (GBD 2013) is the first of a series of annual updates of the GBD. Risk factor quantification, particularly of modifiable risk factors, can help to identify emerging threats to population health and opportunities for prevention. The GBD 2013 provides a timely opportunity to update the comparative risk assessment with new data for exposure, relative risks, and evidence on the appropriate counterfactual risk distribution. Methods Attributable deaths, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) have been estimated for 79 risks or clusters of risks using the GBD 2010 methods. Risk–outcome pairs meeting explicit evidence criteria were assessed for 188 countries for the period 1990–2013 by age and sex using three inputs: risk exposure, relative risks, and the theoretical minimum risk exposure level (TMREL). Risks are organised into a hierarchy with blocks of behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks at the first level of the hierarchy. The next level in the hierarchy includes nine clusters of related risks and two individual risks, with more detail provided at levels 3 and 4 of the hierarchy. Compared with GBD 2010, six new risk factors have been added: handwashing practices, occupational exposure to trichloroethylene, childhood wasting, childhood stunting, unsafe sex, and low glomerular filtration rate. For most risks, data for exposure were synthesised with a Bayesian meta-regression method, DisMod-MR 2.0, or spatial-temporal Gaussian process regression. Relative risks were based on meta-regressions of published cohort and intervention studies. Attributable burden for clusters of risks and all risks combined took into account evidence on the mediation of some risks such as high body-mass index (BMI) through other risks such as high systolic blood pressure and high cholesterol. Findings All risks combined account for 57·2% (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 55·8–58·5) of deaths and 41·6% (40·1–43·0) of DALYs. Risks quantified account for 87·9% (86·5–89·3) of cardiovascular disease DALYs, ranging to a low of 0% for neonatal disorders and neglected tropical diseases and malaria. In terms of global DALYs in 2013, six risks or clusters of risks each caused more than 5% of DALYs: dietary risks accounting for 11·3 million deaths and 241·4 million DALYs, high systolic blood pressure for 10·4 million deaths and 208·1 million DALYs, child and maternal malnutrition for 1·7 million deaths and 176·9 million DALYs, tobacco smoke for 6·1 million deaths and 143·5 million DALYs, air pollution for 5·5 million deaths and 141·5 million DALYs, and high BMI for 4·4 million deaths and 134·0 million DALYs. Risk factor patterns vary across regions and countries and with time. In sub-Saharan Africa, the leading risk factors are child and maternal malnutrition, unsafe sex, and unsafe water, sanitation, and handwashing. In women, in nearly all countries in the Americas, north Africa, and the Middle East, and in many other high-income countries, high BMI is the leading risk factor, with high systolic blood pressure as the leading risk in most of Central and Eastern Europe and south and east Asia. For men, high systolic blood pressure or tobacco use are the leading risks in nearly all high-income countries, in north Africa and the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. For men and women, unsafe sex is the leading risk in a corridor from Kenya to South Africa. Interpretation Behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks can explain half of global mortality and more than one-third of global DALYs providing many opportunities for prevention. Of the larger risks, the attributable burden of high BMI has increased in the past 23 years. In view of the prominence of behavioural risk factors, behavioural and social science research on interventions for these risks should be strengthened. Many prevention and primary care policy options are available now to act on key risks.

Career adaptability and career entrenchment

Career adaptability constitutes a resource that can help employees to effectively manage career changes and challenges. The goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between the two higher-order constructs of career adaptability and career entrenchment (i.e., the perceived inability and/or unwillingness to pursue new career opportunities), as well as relationships among the dimensions of career adaptability and career entrenchment. We hypothesized a negative relationship between overall career adaptability and career entrenchment, and more differentiated associations among their dimensions. Data for this study came from 404 employees in Brazil. Results of structural equation modeling showed that overall career adaptability weakly negatively predicted overall career entrenchment (standardized effect = − .13), after controlling for age, gender, education, and job tenure. More differentiated findings emerged at the dimension level. Future research should examine the mechanisms and boundary conditions of the relationship between career adaptability and career entrenchment.

Ebselen is a potent non-competitive inhibitor of extracellular nucleoside diphosphokinase

Nucleoside di- and triphosphates and adenosine regulate several components of the mucocilairy clearance process (MCC) that protects the lung against infections, via activation of epithelial purinergic receptors. However, assessing the contribution of individual nucleotides to MCC functions remains difficult due to the complexity of the mechanisms of nucleotide release and metabolism. Enzymatic activities involved in the metabolism of extracellular nucleotides include ecto-ATPases and secreted nucleoside diphosphokinase (NDPK) and adenyl kinase, but potent and selective inhibitors of these activities are sparse. In the present study, we discovered that ebselen markedly reduced NDPK activity while having negligible effect on ecto-ATPase and adenyl kinase activities. Addition of radiotracer gamma P-32]ATP to human bronchial epithelial (HBE) cells resulted in rapid and robust accumulation of P-32]-inorganic phosphate ((32)Pi). Inclusion of UDP in the incubation medium resulted in conversion of gamma P-32]ATP to P-32]UTP, while inclusion of AMP resulted in conversion of gamma P-32]ATP to P-32]ADP. Ebselen markedly reduced P-32]UTP formation but displayed negligible effect on (32)Pi or P-32]ADP accumulations. Incubation of HBE cells with unlabeled UTP and ADP resulted in robust ebselen-sensitive formation of ATP (IC50=6.9 +/- 2 mu M). This NDPK activity was largely recovered in HBE cell secretions and supernatants from lung epithelial A549 cells. Kinetic analysis of NDPK activity indicated that ebselen reduced the V-max of the reaction (K-i=7.6 +/- 3 mu M), having negligible effect on KM values. Our study demonstrates that ebselen is a potent noncompetitive inhibitor of extracellular NDPK.

Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

The rapid disruption of tropical forests probably imperils global biodiversity more than any other contemporary phenomenon(1-3). With deforestation advancing quickly, protected areas are increasingly becoming final refuges for threatened species and natural ecosystem processes. However, many protected areas in the tropics are themselves vulnerable to human encroachment and other environmental stresses(4-9). As pressures mount, it is vital to know whether existing reserves can sustain their biodiversity. A critical constraint in addressing this question has been that data describing a broad array of biodiversity groups have been unavailable for a sufficiently large and representative sample of reserves. Here we present a uniquely comprehensive data set on changes over the past 20 to 30 years in 31 functional groups of species and 21 potential drivers of environmental change, for 60 protected areas stratified across the world's major tropical regions. Our analysis reveals great variation in reserve `health': about half of all reserves have been effective or performed passably, but the rest are experiencing an erosion of biodiversity that is often alarmingly widespread taxonomically and functionally. Habitat disruption, hunting and forest-product exploitation were the strongest predictors of declining reserve health. Crucially, environmental changes immediately outside reserves seemed nearly as important as those inside in determining their ecological fate, with changes inside reserves strongly mirroring those occurring around them. These findings suggest that tropical protected areas are often intimately linked ecologically to their surrounding habitats, and that a failure to stem broad-scale loss and degradation of such habitats could sharply increase the likelihood of serious biodiversity declines.

Heat conduction mechanisms in hot pressed ZrB2 and ZrB2-SiC composites

Thermal diffusivity and conductivity of hot pressed ZrB2 with different amounts of B4C (0-5 wt%) and ZrB2-SiC composites (10-30 vol% SiC) were investigated experimentally over a wide range of temperature (25-1500 degrees C). Both thermal diffusivity and thermal conductivity were found to decrease with increase in temperature for all the hot pressed ZrB2 and ZrB2-SiC composites. At around 200 degrees C, thermal conductivity of ZrB2-SiC composites was found to be composition independent. Thermal conductivity of ZrB2-SiC composites was also correlated with theoretical predictions of the Maxwell Eucken relation. The dominated mechanisms of heat transport for all hot pressed ZrB2 and ZrB2-SiC composites at room temperature were confirmed by Wiedemann Franz analysis by using measured electrical conductivity of these materials at room temperature. It was found that electronic thermal conductivity dominated for all monolithic ZrB2 whereas the phonon contribution to thermal conductivity increased with SiC contents for ZrB2-SiC composites.