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El feminismo de Estado en España: El Instituto de la Mujer, 1983-1994
No full textEste trabajo contiene un análisis del Instituto de la Mujer (IM), el principal organismo público de igualdad de la Administración central en España. Al igual que las instituciones feministas de otros países, el IM fue establecido con el propósito de impulsar el establecimiento de políticas que contribuyeran a mejorar la posición de las mujeres en la sociedad. La primera parte del artículo examina el proceso de creación del IM, prestando especial atención al papel desempeñado por el movimiento asociativo de mujeres, así como a la importancia de las influencias internacionales. Se estudian además las principales características formales de la institución. La segunda parte contiene una evaluación (provisional) del impacto del IM en la formulación y puesta en práctica de las políticas de igualdad. Por último, se examinan el carácter y las consecuencias de las relaciones formales e informales existentes entre los miembros del movimiento feminista y del feminismo institucional.Publicad
Monitoring biodegradation capacity of organic pollutants in the environment
No full textMicro-organismen zijn in staat om organische verbindingen om te zetten in minder schadelijke stoffen en spelen daarom een belangrijke rol bij het opruimen van milieuvervuiling. Voor beleidsmakers, landgebruikers en landeigenaren is het belangrijk dat er bij milieuverontreiniging goed toezicht wordt gehouden op de biologische afbraakprocessen en dat deze goed worden beheerst. Aangezien microbiële activiteit in het milieu wordt beïnvloed door diverse fysische, geochemische en biologische factoren, is nauwkeurige kennis van het afbraakproces hierbij noodzakelijk. In dit promotieonderzoek wordt de relatie tussen geochemische condities en de biologische afbraakcapaciteit van micro-organismen in het milieu beschreven, inclusief methoden om de activiteit en metabole functies van deze micro-organismen in het milieu te mete
From Philosophy of Science to Philosophy of Literature (and Back) via Philosophy of Mind: Philip Kitcher’s Philosophical Pendulum
No full textA recent focus of Philip Kitcher’s research has been, somewhat surprisingly in the light of his earlier
work, the philosophical analyses of literary works and operas. Some may see a discontinuity in Kitcher’s
oeuvre in this respect—it may be difficult to see how his earlier contributions to philosophy of science relate
to this much less mainstream approach to philosophy. The aim of this paper is to show that there is no
such discontinuity: Kitcher’s contributions to the philosophy of science and his more recent endeavors into
the philosophy of literature and of music are grounded in the same big picture attitude towards the human
mind—an attitude that he would undoubtedly call ‘pragmatic’: one that emphasizes the importance of those
mental processes that are not (or not entirely) rational.
El análisis filosófico de obras literarias y óperas se ha convertido en un objeto de estudio reciente para
Philip Kitcher, algo quizá sorprendente a la vista de su trabajo anterior. Hay quien puede percibir una discontinuidad
en la obra de Kitcher a este respecto: puede ser difícil apreciar cómo sus anteriores contribuciones
a la filosofía de la ciencia se relacionan con este otro tipo menos mayoritario de filosofía. El propósito
de este artículo es mostrar que no hay tal discontinuidad: las contribuciones de Kitcher a la filosofía de la
ciencia y sus empresas más recientes en filosofía de la literatura y de la música se basan en la misma visión
general del espíritu humano, una actitud que indudablemente él denominaría pragmática: enfatiza la importancia
de los procesos mentales que no son (o no completamente) racionales.
"L'adhésion". Nouvelle de He Junxiao
No full textNaour Françoise, Junxiao He. "L'adhésion". Nouvelle de He Junxiao. In: Perspectives chinoises, n°38, 1996. pp. 57-63
Retinitis Pigmentosa GTPase Regulator (RPGR) protein isoforms in mammalian retina:insights into X-linked Retinitis Pigmentosa and associated ciliopathies
No full textMutations in the cilia-centrosomal protein Retinitis Pigmentosa GTPase Regulator (RPGR) are a frequent cause of retinal degeneration. The RPGR gene undergoes complex alternative splicing and encodes multiple protein isoforms. To elucidate the function of major RPGR isoforms (RPGR 1-19 and RPGR ORF15), we have generated isoform-specific antibodies and examined their expression and localization in the retina. Using sucrose-gradient centrifugation, immunofluorescence and co-immunoprecipitation methods, we show that RPGR isoforms localize to distinct sub-cellular compartments in mammalian photoreceptors and associate with a number of cilia-centrosomal proteins. The RCC1-like domain of RPGR, which is present in all major RPGR isoforms, is sufficient to target it to the cilia and centrosomes in cultured cells. Our findings indicate that multiple isotypes of RPGR may perform overlapping yet somewhat distinct transport-related functions in photoreceptors
The blind spots of secularization
No full textAccording to several international surveys Spain is among the western countries with the most negative views of Jews. While quantitative data on the topic accumulates, there is a significant lack of interpretative approaches that might explain the particular Spanish case. This paper presents the background, methodology and major results of a discussion group-based study on antisemitism, which was conducted in Spain in the autumn of 2009. The study identifies and locates in different socio-economic and ideological milieus the range of stereotypical discourses on Jews, Judaism and the Arab–Israeli conflict in Spain. Analysis of the group meetings shows that, despite growing secularization in Spanish society, the central explanatory variable for persisting and resurging antisemitism in this country is still religion in a broad cultural sense.N
Big Data, Big Libraries, Big Problems?: the 2014 LibTech Anti-talk?
No full textThe desire to create automatons is a familiar theme in human history, and during the age of the Enlightenment mechanical automatons became not only an “emblem of the cosmos”, but a symbol of man’s confidence that he would unlock nature’s greatest mysteries and fully harness her power. And yet only a century later, automatons had begun to represent human repression and servitude, a theme later picked up by writers of science fiction. Man’s confidence undeterred, the endgame of the modern scientific and technological mindset, or MSTM, seems to be increasingly coming into view with the rise of “information technology” in general and “Big data” in particular. Along with those who wield them, these can be seen as functioning together as a “mechanical muse” of sorts – surprisingly alluring – and, like a physical automaton can serve as a symbol – a microcosm – of what the MSTM sees (at the very least in practice) as the cosmic machine, our “final frontier”. And yet, individuals who unreflectively participate in these things – giving themselves over to them and seeking the powers afforded by the technology apart from technology’s rightful purposes – in fact yield to the same pragmatism and reductionism those wielding them are captive to. Thus, they ultimately nullify themselves philosophically, politically, and economically – their value increasingly being only the data concerning their persons, and its perceived usefulness. Likewise libraries, the time-honored place of, and symbol for, the intellectual flowering of the individual, will, insofar as they spurn the classical liberal arts (with the idea that things are intrinsically good, and in the case of humans, special as well) in favor of the alluring embrace of MSTM-driven “information technology” and Big data - unwittingly contribute to their irrelevance and demise as they find themselves increasingly less needed, valued, wanted. Likewise for the liberal arts as a whole, and in fact history itself, if the acid of a “science” untethered from what is, in fact, good (intrinsically), continues to gain strengt
Author Guidelines
No full textEste documento contiene en texto completo el articulo Author Guidelines publicado en Anuario electrónico de estudios en Comunicación Social "Disertaciones"; Vol. 8, Núm. 2 (2015): (Jul-Dic) Investigación en opinión pública y participación política;Anuario electrónico de estudios en Comunicación Social "Disertaciones"; Vol. 8, Núm. 2 (2015): (Jul-Dic) Investigación en opinión pública y participación política;Anuario electrónico de estudios en Comunicación Social "Disertaciones"; Vol. 8, Núm. 2 (2015): (Jul-Dic) Investigación en opinión pública y participación política;1856-9536;10.12804/disertaciones.02.201
Étude des constructions exclamatives du type « It's amazing the car he bought » en anglais contemporain
No full textOur thesis focuses on statements of the form IT BE ADJ [the X], which we call ‘amazing constructions'. These constructions, attested in contemporary English, seem at first sight to represent one of the means at the speaker's disposal most likely to comment on an observed high degree in a concise and spontaneous way. For example, ‘It's amazing the car he bought' does not express that the car is incredible in itself. The speaker is expressing surprise at its size or price. These constructions are in fact semantically equivalent to longer explicitly exclamatory statements like the examples below: It's amazing the car he bought. It's amazing how big the car he bought is. It's amazing what a car he bought. Our aim is to highlight the origin of this form-meaning pairing and what motivates the use of an apparently extraposed exclamative construction including a nominal phrase (the car he bought) whose interpretation is propositional (what a car he bought; how big the car he bought is). To our knowledge, no study has established a link between the syntactic form and the meaning of the amazing construction. The existing literature reports properties common to exclamatory constructions as a whole. The known properties of the amazing construction are common either to all scalar exclamatory constructions (What a lovely day!; You would not believe what they serve on the menu!), or to all hidden exclamations (I can't believe the things I've read on this post; I realised the stupidity and stubbornness demonstrated by those two answers).The aim of this work is to identify the specific properties of the amazing construction. To do this, we examine its internal properties (links between the parts that make it up, lexemes and markers frequently chosen by speakers), as well as the properties linked to its insertion in discourse. We begin by examining its extraposed status. Taking the known properties of the construction as a starting point, we postulate that the construction re-elaborates, in genesis, an extraposed construction. Our aim is thus to determine what conditions the fixed order of its constituents. We compare the semantic and pragmatic properties of scalar exclamatory constructions with potential re-elaborations of the amazing construction. These analyses are then completed by observing the recurrences and regularities associated with its use. Our starting point is the observation that there is a gap between the theoretical productivity of the construction and its actual productivity. In other words, its use seems far removed from the theoretically possible examples. The example It's amazing the car he bought is, for example, absent from the corpora. We therefore compare the theoretical properties of exclamatory constructions with observations of the construction as it is used. These observations allow us to highlight the internal properties of the construction, as well as the properties linked to its use. We will show that the amazing construction is the result of an extraposed construction in its genesis, but that the link between IT BE AMAZING and the nominal phrase is more a question of complementation in the mind of the speaker. Finally, a study of occurrences taken from blogs and forums highlights a feature specific to its use. The amazing construction signals a shift from an actual situation to a generalisation. This shift from individual experience to generalisation implies an intellectual process and a need to stand back, which we also highlight. We conclude that an amazing prototypical construction is one that expresses the scalar exclamation as directly and comprehensibly as possible, while at the same time expressing a generalisation.Notre thèse s'intéresse aux énoncés de la forme IT BE ADJ [the X], que nous appellons « amazing constructions ». Ces constructions, attestées en anglais contemporain, semblent à première vue représenter l'un des moyens à la disposition du locuteur les plus à même de commenter un haut degré observé de manière concise et spontanée. Par exemple, « It's amazing the car he bought » n'exprime pas que la voiture est incroyable en elle-même. L'énonciateur exprime ici sa surprise à propos de sa taille ou de son prix. Ces constructions sont en effet sémantiquement équivalentes à des énoncés explicitement exclamatifs plus longs comme les exemples ci‑dessous : It's amazing the car he bought. It's amazing how big the car he bought is. It's amazing what a car he bought. Nous nous proposons de mettre en évidence ce qui est à l'origine de cet appariement forme-sens et ce qui motive l'emploi d'une construction exclamative d'apparence extraposée incluant un syntagme nominal (the car he bought) dont l'interprétation est propositionnelle (what a car he bought ; how big the car he bought is). À notre connaissance, aucune étude n'établit de lien entre la forme syntaxique et le sens de la amazing construction. La littérature existante fait état des propriétés communes aux constructions exclamatives dans leur ensemble. Les propriétés connues de la amazing construction sont en effet communes soit à l'intégralité des constructions exclamatives scalaires (What a lovely day! ; You would not believe what they serve on the menu!), soit à l'ensemble des exclamations cachées (I can't believe the things I've read on this post ; I realized the stupidity and stubbornness demonstrated by those two answers). Le but de ce travail est ainsi de cerner les propriétés propres à la amazing construction. Pour ce faire, nous examinons ses propriétés internes (liens entre les parties qui la composent, lexèmes et marqueurs fréquemment choisis par les locuteurs), ainsi que les propriétés liées à son insertion en discours. Nous interrogeons d'abord son statut extraposé. En prenant pour point de départ les propriétés connues de la construction, postulons que la construction réélabore, en genèse, une construction extraposée. Notre but est ainsi de déterminer ce qui conditionne l'ordre figé de ses constituants. Nous confrontons ainsi les propriétés sémantiques et pragmatiques des constructions exclamatives scalaires aux potentielles réélaborations de la amazing construction. Ces analyses sont ensuite complétées par l'observation des récurrences et régularités liées à son emploi. Nous partons du constat qu'il existe un l'écart entre la productivité théorique de la construction et sa productivité réelle. Autrement dit, son emploi semble éloigné des exemples théoriquement possibles. L'exemple It's amazing the car he bought est, par exemple, absent des corpus. Nous confrontons pour cela les propriétés théoriques des constructions exclamatives à l'observation de la construction telle qu'elle employée. Ces observations nous permettent de mettre les propriétés internes à la construction en évidence, mais également les propriétés liées à son emploi. Nous montrerons que la amazing construction résulte d'une construction extraposée dans sa genèse, mais que le lien entre IT BE AMAZING et le syntagme nominal relève davantage de la complémentation dans l'esprit du locuteur. Enfin, l'étude d'occurrences tirées de Blogs et de forums de discussion, met en évidence une caractéristique propre à son emploi. La amazing construction signale un glissement d'une situation vécue à une généralisation. Ce glissement de l'expérience individuelle à la généralisation implique un cheminement intellectuel et une prise de recul, que nous mettons également en évidence. Nous en concluons qu'une amazing construction prototypique est une construction exprimant l'exclamation scalaire de la manière la plus directe et compréhensible possible, tout en exprimant une généralisation
Settlement process of Afghan immigrant women based on cultural perspective in Finland
No full textThe study examined the settlement issues of Afghan immigrant women from a cultural perspective in Finland. The study explores the process of Afghan women settlement and focus on the cultural causes, aspects and the issues which make the settlement challenging and difficult for them. It also considers how these women face with these challenges during their settlement.
The theoretical frameworks of this study are Frames for understanding settlement process and immigrant settlement experiences. The immigrant’s settlement experiences explain immigrant’s cultural challenges and the coping strategies which they use to deal with the cultural challenges. It also studies the services which immigrants receive during the process of their settlement such as social work services and migrations services during their settlement process which can make the process easier for immigrant women.
This study is qualitative research where data was analyzed using content and thematic analysis. The data was collected from interview with six respondents. Participants in the study included six adult Afghans immigrant women who have resided in Finland more than 3 years .They were interviewed separately with open –ended in-depth interviews.
The thesis explains the main cultural aspects which bring issues for Afghan women settlement (religion, language, discrimination, family…) and the cultural aspects which immigrants use in order to overcome their challenges (Religion, individual attributes, social support). The analysis of the interviews resulted in three core themes (1) cultural challenges (2) Personal coping strategies (3) Satisfaction level from receiving social services.
The central argument of this study is about immigrants who face different challenges as soon as they left their countries. Beside self-awareness and having positive attitudes, immigrants need different kind of support in order to overcome these challenges and reach to a balance in their new lives. There is lack of knowledge about immigrants in between the people of countries which immigrants migrate and even between the service providers. There is a need for more comprehensive and multicultural knowledge about immigrants. People and service providers need to be more educated about immigrants in order to ease the process of their settlement after migration
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