Les cartes privades d’un historiador [Ressenya del llibre Epistolari de Jaume Vicens]

Ressenya del llibre Epistolari de Jaume Vicens. Els editors d’aquesta obra exposen un epistolari de la seva correspondència particular, amb el propòsit d’aportar dades sobre la història quotidiana que ajudin a perfilar la imatge de Vicens Vives

Reglà, l´historiador que volia comprendre el món

Breu ressenya de la vida i obra de l’historiador empordanès Joan Reglà

Vicens i Vives: entre la ciència històrica i la vocació política

Article sobre la trajectòria de Jaume Vicens Vives, emfatitzant els aspectes més vinculats amb la seva intervenció i influència en la vida social i política de la Catalunya de la segona dècada de l’època franquista. En aquest sentit, es destaca per una banda, el seu paper d'autor de llibres d'assaig que volien arribar a un públic ampli, mes enllà dels seus alumnes a les aules i seminaris universitaris; i, per l'altra, les seves vinculacions amb determinats sectors socials, especialment vinculats a la burgesia, amb la voluntat de contribuir als canvis econòmics i polítics del país, en uns moments que la política econòmica autàrquica del franquisme dels anys quaranta ja estava tocant sostre i els grups d’oposició catalanista al franquisme començaven a organitzar-se

Vicens Vives, de nou recordat a la UdG

Crònica de les 'II Jornades Jaume Vicens Vives', celebrades els dies 14 i 15 de març de 2002 a la Facultat de Lletres i organitzades conjuntament pel Departament de Geografia, Història i Història de l'Art i el Centre d' Història Rural de l'ILCC, i dedicades a analitzar l'obra d'aquest historiador gironí. Tres varen ser els eixos principals d'aquestes jornades: les ponències, la presentació pública del fons que la família Vicens Rahola diposità a la UdG l'any 1988 i la taula rodona que aplegà destacats deixebles de Vicens

Correspondence : lymphedema following breast cancer

Lymphedema—a chronic, disabling sequela of breast cancer treatment—is finally receiving the research attention it deserves. The work published by Norman et al1 in the January issue of Journal of Clinical Oncology supports the findings of this emerging literature, which demonstrates that lymphedema is common following breast cancer treatment, but that higher estimates are observed when self-report is used to assess lymphedema status compared with other measures such as circumferences, perometry, or bio-impedance spectroscopy. While Norman et al reported that the majority of cases occur within 2 years of diagnosis, work by us2 and others3 have demonstrated that the majority of cases (70% to 80%) occur within the first 12 months after diagnosis. Collectively, this work advocates for the measurement of lymphedema being included within routine presurgical and postsurgical care. However, until we know more about the effectiveness of lymphedema treatment, clinicians may remain skeptical about active screening for lymphedema.

An evaluation of brief correspondence programs for problem drinkers

The provision of accessible and cost-effective treatment to a large number of problem drinkers is a significant challenge to health services. Previous data suggest that a correspondence intervention may assist in these efforts. We recruited 277 people with alcohol abuse problems and randomly allocated them to immediate cognitive behavioral treatment by correspondence (ICBT), 2 months in a waiting list (WL2-CBT), self-monitoring (SM2-CBT), or extended self-monitoring (SM6-CBT). Everyone received correspondence CBT after the control period. Over 2 months later, no drop in alcohol intake occurred in the waiting list, and CBT had a greater impact than SM. No further gains from SM were seen after 2 months. Effects of CBT were well maintained and were equivalent, whether it was received immediately or after 2 to 6 months of self-monitoring. Weekly alcohol intake fell 48% from pretreatment to 18.6 alcohol units at 12 months. Our results confirmed that correspondence CBT for alcohol abuse was accessible and effective for people with low physical dependence.

Moderating drinking by correspondence : an evaluation of a new method of intervention

Recognizing the need to offer alternative methods of brief interventions, this study developed correspondence treatments for low-dependent problem drinkers and evaluated their impact. One hundred and twenty-one problem drinkers were recruited by media advertisements and were randomly allocated to a full cognitive behavioural treatment programme (CBT) or to a minimal intervention condition (MI) that gave information regarding alcohol misuse and instructions to record drinking. As predicted, CBT was more effective than MI in reducing alcohol consumption over the 4-month controlled trial period. CBT produced a 50% fall in consumption, bringing the average intake of subjects within recommended maximum levels. Treatment gains at 6 months were well maintained to 12 months. High levels of consumer satisfaction, a high representation of women and a substantial participation from isolated rural areas attested to the feasibility of the correspondence programme as an alternative treatment. However, some drinking occasions still involved high intake for a significant subgroup of subjects, and this issue will be addressed in future programmes. The results supported the use of correspondence delivery as a means of promoting early engagement and equity of access between city and country areas.

Dense Correspondence Extraction in Difficult Uncalibrated Scenarios

The relationship between multiple cameras viewing the same scene may be discovered automatically by finding corresponding points in the two views and then solving for the camera geometry. In camera networks with sparsely placed cameras, low resolution cameras or in scenes with few distinguishable features it may be difficult to find a sufficient number of reliable correspondences from which to compute geometry. This paper presents a method for extracting a larger number of correspondences from an initial set of putative correspondences without any knowledge of the scene or camera geometry. The method may be used to increase the number of correspondences and make geometry computations possible in cases where existing methods have produced insufficient correspondences.

Pre-eruptive uplift in the Emeishan? [Correspondence]

In their correspondence, He and colleagues question our conclusion of little or no uplift preceding Emeishan volcanism that we reported in our letter1. Debate concerns the nature of the contact between the Maokou limestone and Emeishan volcanics, the depositional environment and volumetric significance of mafic hydromagmatic deposits (MHDs), and evidence for symmetrical domal thinning. MHDs in the Daqiao section are separated from the Maokou limestone by 100 m of subaerial basaltic lavas, but elsewhere MHDs — previously interpreted as basal conglomerates2, 3 — directly overlie the Maokou2, 3. MHDs thus feature strongly in basal sections of the Emeishan lava succession, as also recently shown4 elsewhere in the Emeishan. An irregular surface at the top of the Maokou limestone has been interpreted as an erosional unconformity2, 3, but clastic deposits presented as evidence of this erosion2, 3 are MHDs produced by explosive magma–water interaction1. A clear demonstration that this irregular top surface is an erosional truncation of limestone reef facies (slope/rim, flat, lagoonal) is currently lacking, but is critical because reefs and carbonate platforms show considerable natural relief of tens of metres. The persistent hot, wet climate since the Oligocene has produced well-developed weathering profiles on exposed Palaeozoic marine sedimentary sequences5, but weathering and karst relief of the uppermost Maokou limestone underlying the flood basalts have not been properly documented, nor shown to be of middle Permian age and immediately preceding emplacement of the large igneous province.