332 research outputs found
Practical and Ethical Aspects of Advance Research Directives for Research on Healthy Aging: German and Israeli Professionals’ Perspectives
No full textBackgroundHealthy aging is the development and maintenance of optimal cognitive, social and physical well-being, and function in older adults. Preventing or minimizing disease is one of the main ways of achieving healthy aging. Dementia is one of the most prevalent and life-changing diseases of old age. Thus, dementia prevention research is defined as one of the main priorities worldwide. However, conducting research with persons who lack the capacity to give consent is a major ethical issue.ObjectiveOur study attempts to explore if and how advance research directives (ARDs) may be used as a future tool to deal with the ethical and practical issues in dementia research.MethodWe conducted focus groups and in-depth interviews with German and Israeli professional stakeholders from the fields of gerontology, ethics, medical law, psychiatry, neurology and policy advice (n = 16), and analyzed the main topics discussed regarding cross-national similarities and controversies within the groups, as well as across the two national contexts.ResultsWhile both countries are in the midst of a developmental process and have recognized the importance and need for ARD as a tool for expanding healthy aging, Germany is in a more advanced stage than Israel because of the EU regulation process, which indicates the influence of international harmonization on these research-related ethical issues. Consensual themes within the qualitative material were identified: the need for a broader debate on ARD, the ethical importance of autonomy and risk–benefit assessment for ARD implementation, the role of the proxy and the need for the differentiation of types of dementia research. Controversies and dilemmas aroused around themes such as the current role of IRBs in each country, the need for limits, and how to guaranty safeguarding and control.DiscussionImplementing a new tool is a step-by-step procedure requiring a thorough understanding of the current state of knowledge as well as of the challenges and hurdles ahead. As long as improving quality of life and promoting autonomy continue to be core elements in the process of healthy aging, efforts to advance knowledge and solve dilemmas associated with the implementation of ARD is of the utmost importance
Acoustic Properties of Vocally Disruptive Behaviors in the Nursing Home
No full textBackground: Disruptive vocalizations are among the most common behavior problems in the nursing home. However, their acoustic properties have not been previously investigated. Objective: This paper examines the acoustic properties of disruptive vocalizations and attempts to link them to resident and verbalization characteristics. Methods: This study characterizes the sounds emitted by 26 nursing home residents who manifested disruptive vocalizations. Verbalizations were audiotaped and then used in a sonographic evaluation and an acoustic analysis. Results: Vocalizations of verbally agitated nursing home residents were characterized by their relatively short duration. Consistent positive correlations were found between seemingly disturbing types of vocalizations, such as yelling and howling, and higher levels of several parameters of the fundamental frequency. A similar positive correlation was also found between acoustic parameters and medical disease indicators. With the exception of the length of stream of utterances, the indicators did not differentiate between types of dementia. Conclusions: Because of the large number of comparisons undertaken, it is difficult to conclude which associations between acoustic properties and resident or vocalization characteristics are attributable to real underlying trends and which are due to chance and error. Consistencies that deserve further research pertain to the perceptions of the types of vocalizations the person tends to emit and to the physical health of the person
El Tlacuache Núm. 401 (2010). 401 Año 10 (2010) enero. El Tlacuache
No full textFrancisco Villa y Columbus: apuntes para una relectura por Perla Jaimes Navarro. -PRESENCIA DE LAS BELLAS ARTES EN LA VIDA DE LOS PUEBLOS Arte y desarrollo social comunicativo por Vírtor Cumpa. -El mural de la Catedral de Cuernavaca por Agnieska Dilawerska de Lagarde
Assessing research
No full textThis work aims at providing an overview of assessment of academic research. The author critically retraces the evolution of research assessment systems in Europe and Italy, focusing her attention on two key notions: the state of the art in research assessment within the field of human science (considering methodologies and best practices) and new perspectives offered by research assessment in order to improve quality in academic scientific outcomes. The heuristic potential of research assessment systems is also analysed in order to consider both the existing critical issues and the positive effects emerging from new strategic and organisational development solutions within the international university system
La Scuola che verrà, ricominciando dagli insegnanti-Maestri
No full textIn the essay the author discusses the status quo of the Italian School analysing, in an self-critical way, some of the resposibilities of
pedagogy, highlighting the decline of intellectual vigilance in the matter of schooling. One of the ways to overcome the ban of the
“pedagogic voices” is to start considering school as a strong pedagogical institution, not the bureareautical idea of school as a union-based ministerial institution, but an institution firmly fixed on a pedagogic neohumanism. This proposal goes in the direction of the recovery of the culture of the new Italian citizenship, the centrality of the training of the teacher and the learning of the fundamental knowledges
Perla Valle, combates por la etnohistoria a través de los códices. Homenaje. Historias. Revista de la Dirección de Estudios Históricos Num. 80 (2011) septiembre-diciembre
No full textCódice de Tlatelolco, estudio preliminar de Perla Valle, México, INAH/Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, 1994; Perla Valle, Ordenanza del Señor Cuauhtémoc, con paleografía y traducción del náhuatl de Rafael Tena, México, Gobierno del Distrito Federal, 2000.“Plano de Xochimilco”, en Compendio Etimológico del Náhuatl, sup-infor, México, BNF-INAH/CONACULTA, 2010.“Huitzilopochco, contrato de una encomienda”, en Compendio Etimológico del Nahuatl, op. cit. Perla Valle, Memorial de los indios de Tepetlaoztoc o Códice Kinsborough, “a Cuatrocientos cuarenta años”, México, INAH, 1993.“Tlaxincan, Tlailotlacan, Tecpanpa”, en Compendio Etimológico del Náhuatl, op. cit.Como en el “Memorial de Tepetlaoztoc”, en idem.Perla Valle, Ordenanza del Señor Cuauhtémoc, en idem.Teresa Rojas Rabiela, E. L. Rea López y C. Medina Lima, Vidas y bienes olvidados, México, CIESAS/Conacyt, 1999, pp. 41-44Perla Valle, “Glifos de cargos, títulos y oficios en códices nahuas del siglo XVI”, en Desacatos, núm. 22, septiembre- diciembre de 2006, pp. 109-118.Joaquín Galarza, “Prénoms et noms de lieu exprimés par des glyphes et des attributs chrétiens dans les manuscrits pictographiques mexicains”, en Journal de la Société des Américanistes, París, t. 56, núm. 2, 1967, pp. 533-583.Perla Valle, Ordenanza del Señor Cuauhtémoc, con paleografía y traducción del náhuatl de Rafael Tena, México, Gobierno del Distrito Federal, 2000.The objective of this article is to pay tribute to a friend and collegue Perla Valle with whom we shared a seminar on indigenous culture. Its main aim is to reveal and comment on some of the most important works published by Perla Valle during her life. Valle studied códices produced during the colonial period, particulary relating to themes of justice, indigenous justice. The article addresses primarily her studies on the Ordenanzas del Señor Cuauhtémoc, Códice Tlatelolco, Códice Tepetlaoztoc and her unfinished work on the Códice Osuna. Finally it also comments on her work with Marc Thouvenot and the Amoxpouhque proyect.</p
Didattica e valutazione (degli apprendimenti): due facce della stessa medaglia
No full textThe article, after recalling the link between didactics and evaluation,
underline the threefold function that should be carried out by the
evaluation activity for learning: orientation, training and certification.
Therefore, the contribution call for a distinction between assessment of
learning and assessment for learning. Finally, the author addresses the issue
of assessment and skills certificationL’articolo, dopo aver ricordato il legame sempre presente tra didattica e
valutazione, richiama la triplice funzione che dovrebbe assolvere l’attività
valutativa per l’apprendimento: orientativa, formativa, certificativa.
Quindi, il contributo prosegue richiamando la distinzione tra l’assessment
of learning e l’assessment for learning. Infine, l’autrice affronta il tema della
valutazione e certificazione delle competenze
El Tlacuache Núm. 613 (2014). 613 Año 13 (2014) marzo. El Tlacuache
No full textMakulli Amoxilhuitl in Tonanyoltlahtol Xoxokotlan 2014. Quinta Feria del Libro en Nuestra Lengua Materna Xoxocotla por Marco Antonio Tafolla Soriano. - La recepción anarquista peruana de la revolución mexicana (1911-1915) por Perla Jaimes Navarro
El Tlacuache Núm. 451 (2011). 451 Año 11 (2011) enero. El Tlacuache
No full textRecepción y redes anarquistas de la Revolución Mexicana en los Andes por Ricardo Melgar Bao. -“Ni Dios, ni amo, ni marido”: feminismo anarquista peruano en los albores del siglo XX por Perla Jaimes Navarro
El Tlacuache Núm. 407 (2010). 407 Año 10 (2010) marzo. El Tlacuache
No full textEntre el pecado y la locura:La mujer en el México del siglo XIX por Perla Jaimes Navarro. -Arqueología en el noreste del estado de Morelos: una historia pendiente por Raúl Francisco González Quezada
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