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The social class struggles concept with an interdisciplinary approach: a paramount concept for research in library and information science (LIS)
No full textThis paper analyses the social class struggles concept with an interdisciplinary approach to be used by theorists and practitioners of library and information science (LIS). This concept emerged as part of the theoretical framework employed by the author in his doctoral thesis (Muela-Meza, 2010): An Application of Community Profiling to Analyse Community Information Needs, and Providers: Perceptions from the People of the Broomhall Neighbourhood of Sheffield, UK. This concept is complemented from philosophy (Marx and Engels, [1848] 1976a), and the natural sciences (Hauser, 2006; Sagan and Druyan, 1992), and it served the author to understand better the bigger dimensions of the underlying issues behind social classes and human conflicts. It also served to understand better the contradictions between people (e.g. LIS users with contradictory and mutually exclusive information needs to be provided by libraries and other institutions of information recorded in documents), and how these intensify when these are interrelated with the social class they belong to (Muela-Meza, 2007). This paper also criticises some competing views whose proponents by pretending fallaciously and deceitfully to deny the presence of social class divides in society, such as those rhetorical ploys of post-modernism that propose capitalist-class-driven ideologues of “community cohesion” based on “social capital” (Putnam, 1999). It shows evidence of how those followers (e.g. Pateman, 2006; Contreras Contreras, 2004; Bryson, Usherwood and Proctor, 2003) of capitalist-class ideologues, by doing so they aligned their discourse to that of dominance hierarchies and hegemony against working class people, in LIS and other sciences, and the humanities. It also criticises the postmodern pseudoscience because it pretends to undermine the logical rationality fundamental in LIS and all other sciences. It recommends that LIS theorists and practitioners employ the social class struggles concept as configured here in order to understand better contradictions, conflicts, and struggles within LIS theory and practice, and also to search for broader epistemological aims such as justice and wisdom (Fleissner and Hofkirchner, 1998), concealed by the capitalist or bourgeois and middle classes for their benefit against working class
Meza meza Hewitson 1877
No full text223. Meza meza (Hewitson, 1877) WL: 16mm. The species is known from degraded forest habitats, and is possibly the most common among the known species of Meza (Larsen, 2005). It is distributed from Senegal to Angola and Uganda. According to Vuattoux (1999), the caterpillars feed on the monocotyledonous Paspalum conjugatum (Poaceae), a statement disputed by Larsen (2005) as all the remaining species in the genus feed on dicotyledonous species. Previous references. Regions: Bolama. Authors: Aurivillius (1910), Larsen (2005), Mendes et al. (2007). Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: NF; CS: LC.Published as part of Bivar-De-Sousa, António, Vasconcelos, Sasha, Mendes, Luís F., Larsen, Torben B., Baker, Jon & Guilherme, João L., 2016, Butterflies of Guinea-Bissau: VIII. New data, new reports, corrections and biodiversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), pp. 1-77 in Zootaxa 4201 (1) on page 56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/19221
Productivity in economies with financial frictions: facts and a theory
No full textWe document and account for two facts regarding the relation between international interest rates and total factor productivity (TFP) in a sample of developing countries. First, there is a negative correlation between both variables at quarterly frequency. Second, the share of agricultural labor and interest rates are positively correlated, whereas the share of agricultural labor and TFP are negatively correlated. Manufacturing labor shows opposite correlations. These relationships are particularly strong in the aftermath of financial crises. We then construct a model in which the presence of costly intermediation can produce such relationships. We show that, after increases in interest rates, a requirement to intermediate factors of production in high productivity sectors, like manufacturing, causes resources to leave these sectors. Resources end up in low productivity sectors, like agriculture, where intermediation is cheaper. This lowers aggregate productivity. We show that the channel we identify is quantitatively important in the case of Korea after the 1997 financial crisis.<br/
Meza indusiata Mabille 1891
No full text222. Meza indusiata (Mabille, 1891) WL: 17mm. This is an uncommon skipper that inhabits all types of forest and is known from Senegal to Angola and Uganda. The caterpillars feed on Hugonia (Linaceae). Studied material. Cacheu: Caió, rare (JB). Previous references. Regions: Without a precise location. Authors: Larsen (2005). Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: R; CS: I.Published as part of Bivar-De-Sousa, António, Vasconcelos, Sasha, Mendes, Luís F., Larsen, Torben B., Baker, Jon & Guilherme, João L., 2016, Butterflies of Guinea-Bissau: VIII. New data, new reports, corrections and biodiversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), pp. 1-77 in Zootaxa 4201 (1) on pages 55-56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/19221
Le Nahual
No full textMendez F., Carillo Meza R., Grand Fannie. Le Nahual. In: Langage et société, n°4, 1978. Mai 1978. pp. 37-40
Total factor productivity and labor reallocation: the case of the 1997 Korea crisis
No full textDetrended Total Factor Productivity (TFP), net of changes in capital utilization, fell by 3.3% after the Korean 1997 financial crisis. Detrended real GDP per working age person fell by 11.9%. We construct a two-sector small open economy model that can account for 30.0% of the fall in TFP in response to a sudden stop of capital inflows and an increase in international interest rates. Empirically, the fall in TFP follows a reallocation of labor from the more productive manufacturing sector to the less productive agriculture and public sectors. The model has a consumption sector and an investment sector. The reallocation of labor in the data corresponds to a movement from the investment sector to the consumption sector in the model. In the model, a sudden stop raises the costs of imports, which are used more heavily as an input in the investment sector. Also investment falls sharply in response to the increase in international interest rates. We show further that a fall in export demand and working capital requirements can both amplify the effects of the sudden stop. The model accounts for 41.0% of the fall in GDP.<br/
An enigmatic new species of Glassfrog (Amphibia: Anura: Centrolenidae) from the Amazonian Andean slopes of Ecuador
No full textCisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Meza-Ramos, Pa Ú L (2007): An enigmatic new species of Glassfrog (Amphibia: Anura: Centrolenidae) from the Amazonian Andean slopes of Ecuador. Zootaxa 1485: 33-41, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.27378
Recensión de: Calce, C., España, V., Goñi, M., Magnone, N., Mesa, S., Meza, F., Pacci, G., Rostagnol, S., Viera, M. La violencia contra las mujeres en la agenda pública: Aportes en clave interdisciplinar
No full textRecensión de: Calce, C., España, V., Goñi, M., Magnone, N., Mesa, S., Meza, F., Pacci, G., Rostagnol, S., Viera, M. La violencia contra las mujeres en la agenda pública: Aportes en clave interdisciplinar
“En el último tiempo, antes del asesinato, Facundo había comenzado a decir que se iría a vivir al exterior, a menos que Lucía quisiera volver con él. La preocupación que ella sentía por él y la aparente tranquila actitud del ex novio llevó a que el entorno de Lucía “bajara la guardia”. Lucía aceptó ir a la casa de Facundo para conversar y despedirse. Ese día Facundo la mató y luego se suicidó”. Así describen las autoras de “La violencia contra las mujeres en la agenda pública: Aportes en clave interdisciplinar” el femicidio de Lucía. Asimismo, se preguntan ¿Qué factores llevan a las mujeres y sus entornos a justificar la violencia de sus parejas o ex parejas?; ¿Qué lleva a que el interés por el otro opaque la percepción del propio peligro de la muerte”.
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Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
The incidence of potato virus-x, virus-y and virus-s in the chilota potato collection
No full textTheoduloz, C.; Saez Vasquez, J.; Poblete, F.
Contreras, A.;Hubert, E.;Meza-Basso, L. Programa de Biologia Vegetal, Facultad de Recursos Naturales, Universidad de Talca, Casilla 747. Talca, Chile
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