Opening Pandora's box: Secret treaty threatens human rights

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) 2011 - Twitter hashtag #ACTA - is a controversial trade agreement designed to provide for stronger enforcement of intellectual property rights.

Relações de força e políticas educacionais no Brasil: a caixa de Pandora brasileira

O que Pandora e sua caixa pode nos revelar sobre a política educacional brasileira? O tema da centralidade da educação básica e sua incorporação como direito social transpassa toda esta tese com um enfoque teórico que se propõe a desvelar a realidade a partir de suas contradições e relações entre singularidade, particularidade e universalidade. A análise se propôs a entender o seu desenvolvimento histórico a partir de sua gênese, captando categorias mediadoras para apreender a totalidade. Concentramos nossa análise nas políticas governamentais para a Educação Básica no Brasil porque diante da complexidade e da desigualdade do sistema educacional brasileiro qualquer estudo abarca um conjunto de escolhas que estão conectadas com a nossa trajetória. Sendo assim, as relações de força organizam e estruturam as políticas educacionais brasileiras, com o objetivo de criar e/ou fortalecer uma sociabilidade, de acordo com a conjuntura e pautada nos interesses dos governos. Nossa análise terá como referencial teórico a perspectiva gramsciana da centralidade da política. A política como aporte teórico está relacionada à ideia de entendimento do programa de ação do Estado Brasileiro no seu sistema educacional. O nosso intuito ao recorrer a Antonio Gramsci está em absorver de sua análise a forma de problematização que o constitui como um revitalizador, e na maioria dos casos ampliador, dos conceitos marxianos, possibilitando assim novas reflexões do mundo vivido e das conjunturas contemporâneas.

Containing the Nanometer "Pandora-Box": Cross-Layer Design Techniques for Variation Aware Low Power Systems

The demand for richer multimedia services, multifunctional portable devices and high data rates can only been visioned due to the improvement in semiconductor technology. Unfortunately, sub-90 nm process nodes uncover the nanometer Pandora-box exposing the barriers of technology scaling-parameter variations, that threaten the correct operation of circuits, and increased energy consumption, that limits the operational lifetime of today's systems. The contradictory design requirements for low-power and system robustness, is one of the most challenging design problems of today. The design efforts are further complicated due to the heterogeneous types of designs ( logic, memory, mixed-signal) that are included in today's complex systems and are characterized by different design requirements. This paper presents an overview of techniques at various levels of design abstraction that lead to low power and variation aware logic, memory and mixed-signal circuits and can potentially assist in meeting the strict power budgets and yield/quality requirements of future systems.

Personalised and Precision Medicine in Cancer Clinical Trials: Panacea for Progress or Pandora's Box?

Cancer clinical trials have been one of the key foundations for significant advances in oncology. However, there is a clear recognition within the academic, care delivery and pharmaceutical/biotech communities that our current model of clinical trial discovery and development is no longer fit for purpose. Delivering transformative cancer care should increasingly be our mantra, rather than maintaining the status quo of, at best, the often miniscule incremental benefits that are observed with many current clinical trials. As we enter the era of precision medicine for personalised cancer care (precision and personalised medicine), it is important that we capture and utilise our greater understanding of the biology of disease to drive innovative approaches in clinical trial design and implementation that can lead to a step change in cancer care delivery. A number of advances have been practice changing (e.g. imatinib mesylate in chronic myeloid leukaemia, Herceptin in erb-B2-positive breast cancer), and increasingly we are seeing the promise of a number of newer approaches, particularly in diseases like lung cancer and melanoma. Targeting immune checkpoints has recently yielded some highly promising results. New algorithms that maximise the effectiveness of clinical trials, through for example a multi-stage, multi-arm type design are increasingly gaining traction. However, our enthusiasm for the undoubted advances that have been achieved are being tempered by a realisation that these new approaches may have significant cost implications. This article will address these competing issues, mainly from a European perspective, highlight the problems and challenges to healthcare systems and suggest potential solutions that will ensure that the cost/value rubicon is addressed in a way that allows stakeholders to work together to deliver optimal cost-effective cancer care, the benefits of which can be transferred directly to our patients.

De Pandora a Mr. Arkadin: les representacions fílmiques d’una Costa Brava simbòlica

Repàs de com ha estat representada la Costa Brava, com a escenari d’exteriors, al món del cinema amb diverses localitzacions tant des d’una perspectiva metodològica documental com des d’una perspectiva metodològica simbòlica

El neuromarketing : la llave de la caja de pandora

Actualmente el Marketing a desarrollado conjuntamente con las neurociencia una técnica llamada Neuromarketing, la cual explora el cerebro humano para resolver interrogantes que lleven a las organizaciones a conocer más a profundidad al ser humano, sus gustos, deseos, necesidades y motivadores de compra. Esto implica cuestionarnos sobre los valores éticos y morales que se deben aplicar en la utilización de este tipo de tecnologías, las cuales descubren los secretos más preciados del ser humano y lo hacen vulnerable frente a una sociedad que muchas veces actúa “sin cuartel” en busca de beneficios económicos y materiales, olvidado la integridad, la libertad y el respeto por la figura humana. En esta tesis se recorrerá brevemente tanto el Marketing Moderno como la aplicación del neuromarketing y el alcance que hoy tiene este para poder cuestionar y proponer soluciones frente a la ética y la moral que deben limitar y guiar el buen uso de esta maravillosa herramienta para el Marketing.

Pandora i el diner. 'Pandora y el dinero'.

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La caja de Pandora : Prometeo o los desafíos del nuevo milenio.

Estudio realizado en Valladolid acerca de Castilla y León, destacando la herencia cultural grecolatina con los desafíos del nuevo milenio, desde todos los puntos de vista: literario, histórico, geográfico, cultural, político, económico, científico, artesanal...complementado con itinerarios culturales por Castilla y León de las zonas relacionadas con el tema. Se trabajó en el aula en las zonas comunes del centro (pasillos, biblioteca, sala de audivisuales...) y en las zonas visitadas. Los profesores implicados directamente fueron cinco, y todo el resto del claustro a través de los departamentos didácticos. Los objetivos fueron fomentar el trabajo en equipo, la interdisciplinariedad, el conocimiento de Castilla y León, conocer la herencia cultural nuestra, respeto a los demás, a la naturaleza, al medio cultural, fomentar el acercamiento entre los entornos rurales y urbanos, respeto por otras culturas y el acercamiento de los espacios prácticos a la teoría del aula. Los sistemas de trabajo: para los profesores se potencia un trabajo en equipo desde los departamentos didácticos y para educación primaria, coordinados con los responsables de los ciclos. Todo el trabajo está programado desde el inicio de curso y queda patente en las programaciones de aula y de departamento. Para los alumnos: trabajo en círculos concéntricos, galaxia de equipos, panel integrado, en algunos momentos también trabajo individual, fomentando el respeto y la colaboración entre ellos. El desarrollo: desde su programación en los departamentos a finales de junio de 2000, el desarrollo concreto se centró en los siguientes momentos: primer trimestre, conocimiento del proyecto por medio de departamentos y elaboración del programa; segundo trimestre, semana cultural del 16 al 21 de febrero del 2001 -desarrollándose actividades de animación a la lectura, concursos de redacción, festivales, laboratorios, exposición en pasillos-. Itinerarios culturales el 30 de marzo de 2001 -primero de enseñanza secundaria obligatoria al Yacimiento de Atapuerca, segundo de enseñanza secundaria obligatoria a la Maragatería, tercer y cuarto a las Médulas, primero de bachillerato y alumnos del curso de orientación a la universidad a Toro y Zamora, ciclo formativo de grado medio al Norte de Palencia. Tercer trimestre: evaluación y elaboración de memoria. Los materiales elaborados han sido fichas de trabajo sobre experiencias, cuadernos guías para alumnos y profesores, gacetilla informativa para el claustro, estudio de plástica y visual sobre la influencia grecolatina en la arquitectura y fichas didácticas sobre obras de teatro. Los materiales utilizados son folletos turísticos que edita la Junta de Castilla y León, publicaciones de prensa y amplia bibliografía.

Um tempo para Pandora brincar: etnografia acerca do tempo de lazer das operárias

The aim of this paper was to understand women s time as seen through the experiences of the women workers of Sobral-CE, who build free time and leisure time through the subjectivity of their histories as delineated by an everyday life as full of work as it is empty of leisure. The approach used here is an ethnographic one, through participative observation and narratives of working and leisure experiences. These workers everyday life reveals itself in the construction of their leisure time as related to their time of drudgery, in public as well as in private spaces. The responsibility of working away from home, as well as of carrying through domestic chores and of devoting themselves to their husband and their children was imposed upon women in a manipulative manner. This fact deprived women of their possibility of practicing and enjoying leisure activities. With the coming of the so called triple working day, women began organizing new strategies to elaborate, to organize, to create and to turn leisure activities possible. The interpretation of the trajectories of the lives of twenty women workers of a shoe plant in Sobral-CE was realized by the means of an ethnographic study. The thesis consists of the analysis of the construction of social times and of leisure practices, in a context interpenetrated by the cultural conditionings of much work and economic difficulties. The aim of the study was to understand how the women workers of Sobral-CE construct their practices and representations about free time and leisure in the web of sociabilities (possibilities, necessities, dilemmas and dreams). Everyday life is here defined as an ontological dimension of human life. Hence, it does not limit itself to the rituals, the celebrations or the exceptional conditions usually discussed by researchers

Brachymeria pandora (Crawford) (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae) as a New Parasitoid of Thyrinteina leucocerae (Rindge) (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) in Brazil

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