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Análisis de los Impactos Socio-Ambientales de la Carretera Propuesta Trocha UC-105 entre Nuevo Italia y Puerto Breu, Ucayali, Perú
No full textLa construcción de carreteras se promueve cada vez más en las zonas fronterizas que comparten Perú y Brasil a pesar de una comprensión incompleta de los impactos socioambientales de la infraestructura de transporte en la región. Las carreteras amazónicas a menudo se expanden de manera informal, sin un proceso gubernamental oficial, consulta previa de las poblaciones indígenas y declaraciones de impacto ambiental. La expansión de las carreteras amazónicas también suele seguir un ciclo de retroalimentación progresiva, con carreteras nuevas y no planificadas que generan caminos de tala ilegal y una expansión agrícola que a su vez amplía y formaliza los sistemas de carreteras. Se está desarrollando un sistema de carreteras en expansión entre el río Ucayali y las cabeceras remotas del río Yurua / Jurua. La Carretera Yurua (oficialmente sendero UC-105), medía aproximadamente 180 km de longitud en agosto de 2020. Las investigaciones existentes sugieren que la construcción no planificada de la carretera Yurua, que originalmente comenzó como caminos de tala informales que se extendían fuera de una carretera para explorar combustibles fósiles, podría darán lugar a cambios significativos en la tierra y facilitarán la ganadería, la extracción ilegal de madera adicional y el cultivo de coca, amenazando los puntos críticos de biodiversidad mundial y las áreas de conservación, y las culturas y territorios indígenas en peligro de extinción. Esta investigación analiza espacialmente las diferentes vías fluviales, territorios culturales, áreas de conservación y otras unidades administrativas atravesadas por la carretera propuesta. El análisis adicional incluye la huella de deforestación y los impactos río abajo de la carretera. Los métodos incluyen análisis GIS y teledetección junto con investigación documental e internet de artículos noticiosos, documentos legales, comunicaciones en redes sociales, entrevistas de actores clave y estudios de proyectos de infraestructura similares en las zonas fronterizas del Amazonas bioculturalmente diversas
How U.S. Society Has Treated Those With Mental Illnesses
Get PDFPersons with mental illness are incarcerated in prisons across the United States at disproportionate rates compared to the general population. Under-standing why this is so requires an examination of how society in general has treated persons with mental illnesses. This article relates a history of neglect and stigmatization in examining the entities responsible for care of persons with mental illnesses, including the family, asylums and prisons. The article identifies trends of institutionalization, deinstitutionalization, and transinstitutionalisation, whereby large amounts of inpatients with mental illnesses moved out of psychiatric institutions, into the streets, and then into the criminal justice system. The article also analyses socioeconomic factors bearing on mental illness as a cause of crime, the high arrest rates and prison conditions experienced by those with mental illness, and public perceptions and myths about persons with mental illnesses. The article claims the impact of social control via the criminal justice apparatus – policing, imprisonment, and subsequent labeling – is a predominant cause of the high rates of imprisonment. It is suggested that in order to reverse the trend towards the mass incarceration of those with mental illnesses, we should reject calls for a return to the asylum. Instead, our focus should be on providing community-based treatment and interventions that address the socioeconomic causes of crime
Striking the Right Balance: Following the DOJ\u27s Lead for Innovation in Standardized Technology
Get PDFToday’s technology standards are the result of an extraordinary amount of innovation, collaboration and competition. These concepts are interrelated, and each is enhanced or enabled by intellectual property. Where these three concepts come together in standards development, it is unsurprising that antitrust concerns are also present. Specifically, the interests of contributors, participants, and implementers must be fairly balanced to ensure that the appropriate types and levels of innovation, collaboration, and competition can occur—and that the public will benefit. It is important that antitrust enforcement involving standards development organizations and owners of standards essential patents recognize the careful balance of these three concepts. If antitrust enforcement elevates one goal—say competition—at the expense of collaboration and innovation, or if one set of actors in the standards development ecosystem—for example, implementers—is preferred over the other actors, there will likely be devastating effects on the standards development ecosystem.
The tension between innovation, collaboration, and competition in the standards development arena, as well as the divergent interests of contributors, participants, and implementers are not new. Between 2015 and 2019, however, the viewpoints of the FTC and DOJ diverged in how they handled the tension. This paper argues that we must look carefully at the underlying policies driving the agencies’ behavior: both the outmoded viewpoints that the FTC is pressing as well as the innovation-positive perspective that has shaped the DOJ’s actions in recent years. By amplifying the modern perspective and focusing on creating the right incentives for the right reasons, future imbalances that harm innovation, collaboration, and competition in the standards world can be avoided
How Judicial Application of CDA § 230 and FHA § 3604 Have Created Safe Havens for Online Housing Discrimination
No full textThis article analyzes how the anti-discrimination language of Fair Housing Act section 3604 is currently out of reach for people being discriminated against online through the exclusionary language of Communications Decency Act section 230(c). The exclusionary language in CDA section 230(c) prevents liability from attaching to interactive computer service providers so long as the interactive computer service provider is not a creator or developer of information. Through the decisions of Zeran, Craigslist, and Roommate, the federal appellate courts created broad shield of immunity for interactive computer service providers, leading to a safe haven for discrimination online. Together the courts and Congress need to act to prevent further discrimination in housing advertisements online
Well-being in the time of COVID-19: Do metaphors and mindsets matter?
No full textCommunications about the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) often employ metaphors, which can help people understand complex issues. For example, public health messages may focus on “fighting” the disease, attempting to rouse people to action by instilling a sense of urgency. In contrast, change-focused metaphors may foster growth mindsets and self-efficacy—cornerstones of well-being and action. We randomly assigned participants to read one of two articles—either an article about coronavirus that focused on fighting the war or an article that highlighted the possibility of change. In Study 1 (N = 426), participants who read the war, relative to the change, message reported lower growth mindsets and self-efficacy and these in turn, predicted lower well-being and weaker intentions to engage in health behaviours. In Study 2, (N = 702), we sought to replicate findings and included a no treatment control. We failed to replicate the effects of message condition, although both messages predicted greater self-efficacy compared to the control. Similar to Study 1, growth mindsets predicted intentions to engage in recommended health behaviours and self-efficacy predicted both well-being and action. We discuss theoretical reasons for discrepancies as well as practical applications for developing public health communications
Flanerie, sororidad y materialidad en Aurora Venturini en Confabulaciones. Revista de Literaturas de la Argentina
No full textVolume 3, No. 6, of Confabulaciones. Revista de Literaturas de la Argentina, Flanerie, sororidad y materialidad en Aurora Venturini, is co-edited by Karina Elizabeth Vázquez and Claudia García
Confabulaciones. Revista de Literaturas de la Argentina (CoReLA) es una publicación interdisciplinaria dedicada al estudio de la literatura argentina y editada por el Instituto Interdisciplinario de Literaturas Argentina y Comparadas (IILAC) de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Nacional de Tucumán
COVID-19\u27s Impact on Renewable Energy
Get PDFIn keeping with this Symposium\u27s focus on accelerating clean energy growth and nations\u27 ability to meet climate goals, this Article examines recent trends during the COVID-19 pandemic that at least temporarily set back the pace of growth, although conditions have rebounded somewhat since a disastrous spring of 2020. This Article supports several near-term policy prescriptions aimed at promoting a speedier return to the upward trajectory renewable energy enjoyed before the pandemic. These include extending the tax policies that support renewables beyond their short-term extensions in pandemic relieflegislation and establishing robust programs to help workers in renewable energy industries who have been harmed by the pandemic. As Part II explains, these policies do double duty. They can help reverse the adverse conditions in the renewable energy sector, and they can promote a green recovery from the pandemic that helps reach climate goals while being more effective for economic growth than the stimulus programs that have been put in place so far. As this Article went to press, the Biden Administration released its broad-based infrastructure plan, which addressed these policies, highlighting how they are viewed as critical to the nation\u27s economic recovery. [...
Empty or Emergent Persons? A Critique of Buddhist Personalism.
No full textIn contrast to Buddhist Reductionists who deny the ultimate existence of the persons, Buddhist Personalists claim that persons are ultimately real in some important sense. Recently, some philosophers have offered philosophical reconstructions of Buddhist Personalism. In this paper, I critically evaluate one philosophical reconstruction of Buddhist Personalism according to which persons are irreducible to the parts that constitute them. Instead, persons are emergent entities and have novel properties that are distinct from the properties of their constituents. While this emergentist interpretation is an interesting and well-motivated reconstruction of the Personalist position, I ultimately reject it on substantive grounds. I distinguish between different kinds of emergentism in the contemporary philosophical literature and show that they fail to support Buddhist Personalism. I thus conclude that Buddhist Personalism is untenable if it’s committed to emergentism about persons. This paper also indirectly defends Buddhist Reductionism by showing that it has crucial advantages over Buddhist Personalism
Observation of Beam Spin Asymmetries in the Process Ep→e′π+π−X with CLAS12.
No full textThe observation of beam spin asymmetries in two-pion production in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering off an unpolarized proton target is reported. The data presented here were taken in the fall of 2018 with the CLAS12 spectrometer using a 10.6 GeV longitudinally spin-polarized electron beam delivered by CEBAF at JLab. The measured asymmetries provide the first opportunity to extract the parton distribution function e (x), which provides information about the interaction between gluons and quarks, in a collinear framework that offers cleaner access than previous measurements. The asymmetries also constitute the first ever signal sensitive to the helicity-dependent two-pion fragmentation function G⊥1 . A clear sign change is observed around the ρ mass that appears in model calculations and is indicative of the dependence of the produced pions on the helicity of the fragmenting quark