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Pandemic and Desacralization: the New Political Order Founded on the Bare Life
No full textThis article aims to approach the COVID-19 health crisis through the category of precarity in two senses. On the one hand, in the face of power, a state of exception has been configured as the new form of political handling of the new normality. On the other hand, the loss of public space has meant that community ties have been broken, fostering greater atomisation and loneliness. Both processes were already present in modernity and post-modernity and foster an increasing uprooting of the individual through the loss of the symbolic axes of socialisation, as well as more intense social control. In short, the defining characteristic of the pandemic is the precarity of life
The Transformation of Individualism and Loneliness in Times of Pandemics
No full textThe characterisation of mass society in a society without God, as a mere mimetic, hypnotic and unstable phenomenon is clearly insufficient. For its rise, social, psychological and relational changes had to take place, both among people and between people and their environment. Many scholars in recent times who have tried to explain the phenomenon of mass society have undoubtedly linked it to individualism, especially to one of its characteristics that could be considered specifically modern: loneliness. The study entitled “The Spiral of Silence” is well known, in which Noelle-Neumann, taking up Tocqueville's classic thesis, highlights the tremendous negative force – as a psychosocial agent – of individual behaviour in the face of social forces. As Erich Fromm forcefully points out: “Feeling completely isolated and lonely leads to mental disintegration, just as starvation leads to death”. The phenomenon of a worldwide pandemic has forced a rethinking of the concept of isolation and loneliness, theoretically displaced by virtual and telematic forms of communication. However, mimetic effects and mass behaviours have not disappeared with isolation, but have been transmuted into new psychological, behavioural and cognitive attitudes
El espacio privado en la comedia palatina de Lope de Vega
No full textEl objetivo central de estas páginas es examinar la función y el significado de los espacios dramáticos interiores en un conjunto de comedias palatinas de Lope de Vega. Espacios tales como salas y salones; alcobas y aposentos; cámaras y antecámaras; retretes y tocadores; estrados, camarines, cuadras y jardines son el escenario por el que desfilan los protagonistas de estas obras con el fin de confesar su amor, concertar venganzas y dar rienda suelta a sus más íntimos pensamientos y deseos. La importancia de dichos espacios se revisará en un corpus que atraviesa los tres grandes momentos de la dramaturgia lopesca, en su vertiente trágica (El perseguido, El mayordomo de la duquesa de Amalfi, La locura por la honra, El castigo sin venganza y El juez en su causa) y en su vertiente cómica (El príncipe inocente, El mármol de Felisardo, El perro del hortelano y El guante de doña Blanca).The central objective of these pages is to examine the function and meaning of the interior dramatic spaces in a set of comedias palatinas by Lope de Vega. Spaces such as rooms and halls; bedrooms; chambers and antechambers; toilets and vanities; stages, dressing rooms, stables and gardens are the stage through which the protagonists of these works parade in order to confess their love, arrange revenge and give free rein to their most intimate thoughts and desires. The importance of these spaces will be examined in a corpus that goes through the three great moments of the lopesca dramaturgy, in its tragic aspect —El perseguido, El mayordomo de la duquesa de Amalfi, La locura por la honra, El castigo sin venganza, El juez en su causa— and in its comic aspect, in the analysis of El príncipe inocente, El mármol de Felisardo, El perro del hortelano, El guante de doña Blanca
Association of monetary diet cost of foods and diet quality in Spanish older adults
No full textBackground: A major barrier to a healthy diet may be the higher price of healthy foods compared to low-quality foods.
Objectives: This study aimed to assess the association between the monetary cost of food and diet quality in Spanish older adults at high risk of cardiovascular disease.
Methods: Cross-sectional analysis was carried out in Spanish older adults (n = 6,838; 48.6% female). A validated food frequency questionnaire was used to assess dietary intake. Metabolic syndrome severity, adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MedDiet), adherence to a provegetarian dietary pattern, and dietary inflammatory index were assessed. The economic cost of the foods was obtained from the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food database (2015–2017, the period of time when the participants were recruited). The total cost of diet adjusted per 1,000 kcal was computed.
Results: The healthier dietary pattern was associated with a higher cost of the diet. Higher adherence to the MedDiet, anti-inflammatory diet, and the healthy version of the provegetarian dietary pattern were related to higher costs of the diet.
Conclusion: Higher diet quality was associated with a higher dietary cost of the diet per 1,000 kcal/day. Food prices can be an important component of interventions and policies aimed at improving people's diets and preventing diet-related chronic diseases
El florecimiento como fin de la educación del carácter
Get PDFEl florecimiento humano es un término relacionado con el desarrollo pleno de personas y sociedades, algo anhelado por todos, especialmente en tiempos de crisis. Es aceptado globalmente que la educación es un recurso imprescindible para promover el florecimiento humano. El objetivo principal de este artículo es indagar sobre si se puede plantear como fin de la educación del carácter, con el enfoque de desarrollo de las virtudes, el florecer humano. Las publicaciones sobre el tema del florecimiento han proliferado en los últimos años. Para este estudio seleccionamos aquellas que relacionan florecimiento y fin de la educación moral desde la perspectiva de la filosofía y teoría de la educación, desarrolladas en el ámbito anglo-americano. Algunas afirmaciones de David Carr (2021) y Kristján Kristjánsson (2020) sobre el tema del florecimiento y de la educación del carácter, son punto de partida y guía de la discusión que gira principalmente sobre las siguientes cuestiones: ¿qué noción de florecimiento puede sostenerse teóricamente como fin educativo?, ¿por qué no se considera a la educación del carácter suficiente para promover el florecimiento?, ¿por qué tampoco se aprecia necesaria? Concluimos subrayando el valor de la teoría educativa fundamentada en una visión realista del florecimiento como objetivo alcanzable de la educación del carácter. En las teorías revisadas, falta considerar algunos componentes esenciales del florecimiento y de la educación moral
Innovation-based fault detection and exclusion applied to ultra-wideband augmented urban GNSS navigation
Get PDFDue to their ability to provide a worldwide absolute outdoor positioning, Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) have become a reference technology in terms of navigation technologies. Transportation-related sectors make use of this technology in order to obtain a position, velocity, and time solution for different outdoor tasks and applications. However, the performance of GNSS-based navigation is degraded when employed in urban areas in which satellite visibility is not good enough or nonexistent, as the ranging signals become obstructed or reflected by any of the numerous surrounding objects. For these situations, Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology is a perfect candidate to complement GNSS as a navigation solution, as its anchor trilateration-based radiofrequency positioning resembles GNSS's principle. Nevertheless, this fusion is vulnerable to interferences affecting both systems, since multiple signal-degrading error sources can be found in urban environments. Moreover, an inadequate location of the augmenting UWB transmitters can introduce additional errors to the system due to its vulnerability to the multipath effect. Therefore, the misbehavior of an augmentation system could lead to unexpected and critical faults instead of improving the performance of the standalone GNSS. Accordingly, this research work presents the performance improvement caused by the application of Fault Detection and Exclusion methods when applied to a UWB-augmented low-cost GNSS system in urban environments
Cine dentro del cine: 50 películas sobre el séptimo arte
Get PDFCineastas de todas épocas y lugares han sentido una poderosa atracción por situar el cine en el centro de sus películas. Con gran diversidad formal y argumental, el cine dentro del cine o metacine nos asoma a los procesos de la creación cinematográfica y al desempeño profesional de directores, productores, intérpretes y guionistas. El espectador obtiene un acceso privilegiado a las bambalinas del cine, y sufre y disfruta con los conflictos que afloran detrás de la cámara. El rodaje es, en efecto, un escenario en el que se desatan las luchas de egos, las relaciones de poder asimétricas, los imprevistos y las limitaciones humanas. Además, como los magos que muestran sus trucos, estos films revelan las estrategias que permiten generar la ilusión cinematográfica. También nos asoman al envés del éxito y la fama, y en ocasiones juegan con los trasvases que se producen entre la realidad y la ficción, entre la vida y el cine. Alejándose del pesimismo, el metacine se
presenta, a veces, como carta de amor al séptimo arte. Mediante citas y alusiones, estas películas rinden homenaje al legado fílmico recibido. Y nos recuerdan que pocas experiencias resultan tan estimulantes y poderosas como la del espectador que se abandona a la pantalla para participar de otros mundos y otras vidas
Current pain management practices for preterm infants with necrotizing enterocolitis: a European survey
Get PDFBackground: Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a highly painful intestinal complication in preterm infants that requires adequate pain management to prevent short- and long-term effects of neonatal pain. There is a lack of international guidelines for pain management in NEC patients. Therefore, this study aims to describe current pain management for NEC patients in European neonatal intensive care units (NICUs).
Methods: An online survey was designed and conducted to assess current practices in pain management for NEC patients in European NICUs. The survey was distributed via neonatal societies, digital platforms, and professional contacts.
Results: Out of the 259 responding unique European NICUs from 36 countries, 61% had a standard protocol for analgesic therapy, 73% assessed pain during NEC, and 92% treated NEC patients with intravenous analgosedatives. There was strong heterogeneity in the used pain scales and initial analgesic therapy, which mainly included acetaminophen (70%), fentanyl (56%), and/or morphine (49%). A third of NICU representatives considered their pain assessment adequate, and half considered their analgesic therapy adequate for NEC patients.
Conclusions: Various pain scales and analgesics are used to treat NEC patients in European NICUs. Our results provide the first step towards an international guideline to improve pain management for NEC patients.
Impact: This study provides an overview of current pain management practices for infants with necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in European neonatal intensive care units. Choice of pain assessment tools, analgosedatives, and dosages vary considerably among NICUs and countries. A third of NICU representatives were satisfied with their current pain assessment practices and half of NICU representatives with their analgesic therapy practices in NEC patients in their NICU. The results of this survey may provide a first step towards developing a European pain management consensus guideline for patients with NEC