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New sociology of childhood has emphasized that children are capable of being reflective, of behaving purposively and are able to influence the environment where they live. This concept is also referred to as ‘children as capable agents’ meaning that they can shape the environment. Despite this, children are rarely given the space for participation. The lack of participation is particularly evident within the child protection system, where the tension between children's right to protection and their right to participation becomes even more pronounced. Preventing them from participation is not only a violation of rights but also impacts their capability to exercise social citizenship. This can be particularly detrimental for care leavers who rank among the most socially excluded and disadvantaged groups of young people. This article addresses these issues by presenting the findings of the action-research project CarINg (Empowering Childcare Systems and Supporting Leaving Care from Inside), implemented in Italy and co-funded by the European Union. This research delved into the participation opportunities for care leavers within the care system, with a dual focus on enhancing the local alternative care system and empowering care leavers to actively voice and influence the status quo. Results show how active involvement of care leavers in the protection system and in the production of knowledge can empower them as individuals and enable them to contribute to bringing about change within the alternative care system. Whether all these changes happen depends on the capacity of the institutions to recognize that children are authentic agents and participants of the society.

Se llevaron a cabo muestreos sobre las principales plagas de eucaliptos y sus enemigos naturales en dos sitios de la provincia de Buenos Aires. Se cuantificó la abundancia de las plagas sobre diversas especies de eucaliptos y se registraron los insectos entomófagos asociados, con el fin de identificar las interacciones que podrían ser utilizadas en estrategias de control biológico de las plagas estudiadas. Se presenta una red trófica cualitativa Eucalyptus – plaga – enemigo natural.

Signo y Seña es la revista especializada del Instituto de Lingüística de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Convoca y está destinada a investigadores del lenguaje formados y en formación tanto de la Argentina como del exterior. Es una publicación semestral electrónica y de libre acceso que tiene como objetivo fundamental promover el debate, el intercambio de ideas y la difusión de investigaciones recientes de todas las áreas de la lingüística. Signo y Seña incluye en cada número: una sección temática o monográfica a cargo de reconocidos especialistas en el área,una sección general de resultados investigaciones de todas las áreas de la Lingüística y una sección de reseñas y novedades referentes a la disciplina. En sus páginas se publican trabajos originales e inéditos evaluados con el sistema de pares externos doble ciego en español y en portugués.

The Argentine coastal zone, with its highly productive coastal waters, allows the existence of important seabird and marine mammal breeding assemblages, fish and crustacean spawning and nursery areas, and extensive macroalgae and mollusk beds. Knowledge of factors determining the dynamics of coastal waters is urgently needed to help understand their influence on biological processes and marine biodiversity. Available information in the region is currently scarce due to the low number of oceanographic cruises and oceanographic modeling studies. We evaluate the capacity of high-resolution satellite information for the identification and analysis of coastal processes such as fronts, upwellings, and small scale eddies. Using two case studies, we show how the analyses of temporal sequences of LANDSAT-TM and ETM+ images allow refining the formulation of biological hypothesis. In the first case, we relate seabird colony distribution with small-scale coastal upwelling areas, and in the second, we analyze the influence of a frontal zone on the recruitment of a commercially important scallop species