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La discriminación étnica institucional en Guatemala: El caso de la educación
No full textTesis para obtener el grado de Licenciatura en Etnohistori
Language, Categories, and Social Reality
Get PDFThis paper considers how awareness of concepts, categories, and criteria in language can be utilized in understanding the grammar of social institutions. The discussion then looks into how three key notions (agentive-function, collective intentionality, and the distinction between constitutive and regulative rules) not only provide clues as to how social institutions can be understood, but also provide the bases for interventions on social institutions. The development and crystallization of collective intentionality, through community deliberations, is important
Public Reason and a Pedagogy for Reasonableness
Get PDFJohn Rawls and Jürgen Habermas have undertaken a conversation on the meaning and significance of ‘public reason.’ This paper seeks out the main features of this conversation, and contends that the idea of the ‘community of inquiry’ in Philosophy for Children can respond to some of the concerns raised, as part of deliberative practice. Finally, it argues that for public reason to be created it is imperative that there be a pedagogy for reasonableness, following Matthew Lipman
Notes on Health as Balance, Harmony and Equilibrium
No full textThis paper looks at the concept of health as the interaction between the body and the mind from the perspective of the concepts of balance, harmony and equilibrium. The notion of disease is a key to understanding ill-health
32ND GABRIEL A. BERNARDO MEMORIAL LECTURE SERIES: TRUTHFULNESS AND THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION
Get PDFDiscusses the importance of valid, reliable and free information and how to verify the truthfulness of the available information
Volume 13, No. 2
Get PDFGreen, Lena. “Philosophy for Children: One Way of Developing Children’s Thinking.” 20-22.
Heesen, Berrie. “European Children Thinking Together in 100.” 27-29.
Infinito-Allocco, Justen. “Philosophy and Shifting Morality.” 48-49.
Katzner, James and Andrea Weiss. “Learning Philosophy Collaboratively with a Student.” 23-26.
Lee, Zosimo E. “Luis’ Complaint.” 45-47.
Lim, Tock Keng. “Crossing the Chopsticks: Handling Chopsticks and Handling Lives.” 37-40.
Lindop, Clive. “Wisdom and Intelligence in Philosophy for Children.” 8-10.
Matthews, Gareth. “Thinking in Stories: Fred by Posy Simmonds.” 1.
Redshaw, Sarah. “Walking My Body.” 17-19.
Slade, Christina. “Reasoning and Children: The Wide Glare of the Children’s Day.” 2-7.
Sprod, Tim. “Improving Scientific Reasoning through Philosophy for Children: an Empirical Study.” 11-16.
Velasco, Monica. “Language in Stories for Boys and Girls.” 41-44.
Verharen, Charles C. “A Philosophical Approach to Teaching Reasoning.” 30-36
Public Reason and a Pedagogy for Reasonableness
Get PDFJohn Rawls and Jürgen Habermas have undertaken a conversation on the meaning and significance of ‘public reason.’ This paper seeks out the main features of this conversation, and contends that the idea of the ‘community of inquiry’ in Philosophy for Children can respond to some of the concerns raised, as part of deliberative practice. Finally, it argues that for public reason to be created it is imperative that there be a pedagogy for reasonableness, following Matthew Lipman
Comparative histomorphometric analisys of the cavitary bone defects filled with bioactive glass, or autologus bone graft: experimental study in rabbits
No full textO tratamento das lesões ósseas cavitárias com autoenxerto ainda é considerado o padrão-ouro. Seu uso, entretanto, é limitado, devido principalmente à baixa disponibilidade e à morbidade do sítio doador. Os enxertos ósseos sintéticos são estudados com o objetivo de superar as limitações decorrentes da retirada de autoenxerto ou da disponibilidade de bancos de tecidos. O vidro bioativo é um material sintético osteoindutor, osteocondutor e antibacteriano, à base de sílica e cria um arcabouço para o crescimento ósseo. Objetivo: comparar o vidro bioativo com o autoenxerto, com relação às características histomorfométricas. Métodos: foi realizado um estudo experimental prospectivo caso-controle em animais, para comparar o vidro bioativo com o autoenxerto com relação às características histomorfométricas. Oito coelhos foram submetidos a uma cirurgia em que um defeito cavitário foi criado em ambos os fêmures proximais; de um lado, o defeito ósseo criado foi preenchido com os grânulos de vidro bioativo; do outro, o defeito ósseo foi preenchido com o autoenxerto retirado do lado contralateral. Os lados foram randomizados. Catorze dias após a cirurgia os animais foram sacrificados. Resultados: a análise histológica revelou que a neoformação óssea entre os dois grupos foi equivalente, e que a contagem de osteoblastos foi superior nos fêmures tratados com vidro bioativo. A contagem de osteócitos, por outro lado, foi menor. A semelhança na intensidade de neoformação óssea coincide com o encontrado na literatura. As diferenças de contagem celular são concordantes com o mecanismo de ação do vidro bioativo: aumento do turnover ósseo, estímulo dos osteoblastos e retardo na sua diferenciação para osteócitos. Conclusão: o vidro bioativo promove neoformação óssea semelhante ao autoenxerto neste modelo animal de defeito ósseo cavitário. Nível de evidência III, estudo caso-controleAutograft is still considered the gold standard in the treatment of cavitary bone lesions. The low availability and donor site morbidity, however, limits its use. Synthetic bone grafts have been studied in order to overcome the limitations of autograft or allograft. Bioactive glass is an osteoinductive, osteoconductive and antibacterial silica-based synthetic material. It promotes the creation of a scaffold for bone growth. Objectives: to compare bioactive glass and autograft regarding their histomorphometric characteristics. Methods: the author conducted a prospective case-control experimental study on animals, to compare the histomorphometric characteristics of bioactive glass versus autograft. Eight rabbits underwent surgery in which a cavitary defect was created in both proximal femurs. On one side, the bone defect was filled with bioactive glass granules and on the other, the defect was filled with autograft grafted from the contralateral side. The sides were randomized. Fourteen days after surgery, the animals were euthanized. Results: histologic analysis revealed that bone neoformation was equivalent among the two groups and the osteoblasts cell-count was higher in the femurs treated with bioactive glass. The osteocytes cell-count, however, was lower. The similarity in bone formation between both groups was also found in the literature. The differences in cell-count of osteocytes and osteoblasts are in accordance with the mechanism of action of the bioactive glass: increase in bone turnover, stimulation of osteoblasts and inhibition of their differentiation into osteocytes. Conclusion: bioactive glass is similar to autograft regarding bone neoformation, in this animal model of cavitary bone defects. Level of evidence III, case-control stud
