Oscar Pistorius and the death of Reeva Steenkamp : mapping public opinions on Twitter using frame analysis and data mining

This paper uses innovative content analysis techniques to map how the death of Oscar Pistorius' girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, was framed on Twitter conversations. Around 1.5 million posts from a two-week timeframe are analyzed with a combination of syntactic and semantic methods. This analysis is grounded in the frame analysis perspective and is different than sentiment analysis. Instead of looking for explicit evaluations, such as “he is guilty” or “he is innocent”, we showcase through the results how opinions can be identified by complex articulations of more implicit symbolic devices such as examples and metaphors repeatedly mentioned. Different frames are adopted by users as more information about the case is revealed: from a more episodic one, highly used in the very beginning, to more systemic approaches, highlighting the association of the event with urban violence, gun control issues, and violence against women. A detailed timeline of the discussions is provided.

Hybrid bodies in cyborg sports? The case of Oscar Pistorius

The capabilities of postmodern biotechnology inevitably lead to questioning if it is morally acceptable to use all possibilities offered by technology. In sport, this very complex issue is dealt with by drawing clear boundaries between naturalness and artificiality. Currently, new biotechnology is constantly being produced and with this, boundaries between naturalness and artificiality, between normal and abnormal, human and hybrid are constantly shifting . “Human enhancement” is a fascinating prism that reflects contemporary questions of participation, justice, equality and the autonomy of the subject in all social fields. The area of elite sports is particularly affected by “human enhancement”, according to the principle of exceeding what has come before, of aiming higher, faster and further. This paper analyses the postulated “naturalness” in the regulative and normalising function in the area of elite sports, in connection with Foucault’s theory of governmentality. The example of the South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius appears to be particularly suited to illustrate current definition difficulties in the area of disabled and non-disabled people in differentiated competitive sports. His is a vivid example of a multifaceted body-sociological analysis of current sport culture and the construction of reality or naturalness in the framework of the discourse of drafting and negotiating the accreditation for sprint competitions of non-disabled athletes, most recently in the London Olympics 2012. Using the case study of Oscar Pistorius, the negotiating processes in relation to the argumentation logic, dynamics and resistance in shifting distinctions are presented in detail using the fundamental documents of the IOC, IPC, CAS and IAAF. Represented through the inclusion and exclusion processes are hierarchies of the body that are (re)consolidated and transformed. The central question emerges as to how the worth of equal opportunity and fairness in regard to “naturalness” can be reconsolidated or transformed.

Tecnología, rendimiento deportivo y transhumanismo

Este ensayo versa sobre el deporte como una de las instituciones más poderosas e influyentes en la sociedad actual. En él la exigencia por el máximo rendimiento aunada a la enorme importancia dada al ganar y al espectáculo es aceptada y celebrada. Estos factores confluyen para que la mejora de las capacidades humanas sea objeto de continua búsqueda y para tal fin el inobjetable papel de la tecnología ha sido admitido sin mayores resistencias. La evolución ya no desempeña de forma exclusiva esa tarea y la tecnología ha pasado a compartir el proceso, acelerando de forma dramática el rediseño de la especie ofreciendo un prometedor escenario. Naturalmente en el mismo deporte es posible encontrar excepciones a este arrollador influjo.

Prevalencia de insuficiencia renal crónica en niños con displasia renal multiquística, Fundación Cardioinfantil de Bogotá

Introducción: La displasia renal multiquistica es una variante de displasia renal, anomalía congénita frecuente del tracto urinario, con una prevalencia del 2.9 - 50 % de insuficiencia renal crónica; frecuentemente asociada a otras malformaciones urinarias, sin datos en bogotá sobre prevalencia y comportamiento clínico. Objetivo: Evaluar la prevalencia de insuficiencia renal crónica en niños con displasia renal multiquistica valorados en consulta de nefrología en Fundación Cardioinfantil, instituto de cardiología de Bogotá. Metodología: Estudio de corte transversal, en niños con displasia renal multiquistica, confirmado por ecografía, valorados en consulta de Nefrología Pediátrica en los últimos diez años. Se realizó un análisis descriptivo de las variables, cálculos de prevalencia de Insuficiencia renal crónica. Resultados: Se revisó información de 70 pacientes, encontrando una prevalencia de IRC de 22.85% (IC 95 % 13.0 %-35.1 %); mayor frecuencia mujeres 12.85 %; 14.28% con otras malformaciones renales; 5.71 % en involución parcial, 4.28% en pacientes con involución completa del tamaño del riñón displásico. Se encontró 31.4% proteinuria; 22.8 % hiperfiltración; 4.28% hipertrofia compensadora del riñón sano; 24.2% involución parcial, 31.4 % involución completa del tamaño renal; frecuencia de HTA de 7,1% (IC95% 1%-9%). El 87.14% tuvo diagnóstico prenatal (IC 95% 81.0%-96.0%). Discusión: La prevalencia se encuentra dentro de los rangos de la literatura mundial, mayor a la colombiana y suramericana, predominando en pacientes con otras malformaciones renales asociadas, con mayor prevalencia de hipertensión arterial, que requiere estudios multicéntricos para determinar causalidad o presencia de otros factores.

Artis cabalisticae hoc est reconditae theologiae et philosophiae scriptorum, tomus 1 : in quo praeter Pauli Ricii theologicos et philosophicos libros sunt Latini pene omnes et Hebraei nonnulli praestantissimi scriptores qui artem commentariis suis illustrarunt

Johann Pistorius

Practica Medicinalis I. Marquardi ..., nunc demum per P. U. in quatuor libros diuisa, & ab omnibus mendis liberata ; Huic ... accesserunt, Sebastiani Cortilionis ... Libri quinque institutionum chirurgicarum cum practica chirurgica eiusdem quatuor libros continente.

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Beiträge zur Geschichte von Lesbos im vierten Jahrhundert v. Chr. /

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Stellula catholicae orthodoxaeque fidei, ad Septemtrionem tenebricosis Iacobi Reneccii Pastoris Hamburgensis problematibus opposita.

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Christliche erhebliche vnd wolfundirte Motifen, warumb wir auss einigen eiggerigen Trib vnsers Gewissens, vnd zuforderst allein zu der Ehr des Allmechtigenm alsdann zu Erlangung vnserer Seligkeit vnd Entfliehung der ewigen Verdamnusz, nicht allein fur vnser Person die Lutherische Lehr cerlassen, vnd zu den Catholischen Immerwehrenden vnd allein seligmachenden Christlichen Glauben vus notwendig begeben, sondern auch vnser von Gott anbsuohlene Land zu evenmessiger warhaffter Religion anweisen vnd reforniren lassen mussen. Dabey auch Dreyhundert Theses, von der Instification oder Gerechtmachung des Menschens vor Gott, so zu Emetingen sollen disputirt werden. Vnd dann die Conclusion quio zr Emetingen von beiden Theilen als summarische Begriff Gehaltenen gesprachs einkomkem ... Durch D. Iohannem Pistorium ... Mit Beschreibung ihrer F.G. Christlichen heiligen absterbens, so zu End beygesetzet worden.

Has also diei hudert theses.

Amoenitates historico-ivridicæ. Oder allerhand die historien des Teutschen Reichs, sowol als die in selbigem üblichen Civil-, Staats- und Lehen-Recht, Gewohnheiten und Alterthümer erklärende Dissertationes, Observationes, consilia und opuscula, etc. so theils von andern verfertiget, aber Bisshero noch nie Gedruckt, theils erst absonderlich Ausgearbeitet Worden,

The work contains, among other things, thirty dissertations of Du Cange on the history of Louis IX, called Saint Louis, by Joinville, with notes by the editor; also, historical documents, acts, charters, etc., and essays or treatises by C.F. Paullini, Leibnitz, Caselius, Boecler, Mevius, Köhler, Hahn (S.F.), Hildebrand (J. poëta), and others. There is an index of subjects to each part; and a full double index to all the parts at the close of the second volume.