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During the neoliberal period, the State reconfigured its way of acting in diverse spaces of the society. In that context, the enactment of the Decreto de Desregulación Económica 2284 de 1991 had a deep impact in the Argentinian rural sector. Because of that, we analyze the problematization process of the issue by different agents; the position took by the State materialized in the text of the Decree; and some reactions that it aroused, based in the classic contributions of Oszlak and O'Donnell. In this manner, we deepen our understanding of the strategies and forms of communication that are articulated in the process of adopting a public policy. In methodological terms, we reviewed the content of some discourses published in specialized newspapers between 1990 and 1991 and we apply discourse analysis techniques on the original Decree and two company's advertising. This paper concludes that even when a favorable position about agrarian deregulation had consensus between hegemonic agents, the intensity of the public policy transcended its expectations, empowering profound economic, social and political transformations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1628 William Harvey discovers the circulation of blood shortly afterward Richard Lower performed in 1666 the first blood transfusión between animals, but the first fully documented human blood transfusion was administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys on June 15, 1667. A new era of medicine began. Thanks to the effort, study and research of a large number of physicians blood transfusion is a common therapeutic strategy in our practice. The aim of this paper is to make a brief review of the history of blood transfusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The theoretical work of Sigmund Freud contains multiple references to the topic of archaic inheritance and phylogeny. The aim of this paper is to analyze this aspect of his work, in order to point out the limitations of its most frequent interpretations, which tend to perceive the impact of Darwinism on Freud, or simply deny its relevance. We intend to prove that using phylogeny responded entirely to a clinical question regarding the etiology of neuroses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers a reading of the renaissance painting according to the principles established by Leon Battista Alberti, one of the first theorists of perspective in painting which Trattato della pittura (1435) define the frame of the painting as "an open window into history". The concept of history employed by Alberti, which lends itself to many interpretations, is approached from the reflections of Erwin Panofsky about the prospect as "symbolic form", moving towards a hypothesis about the symbolic nature of the configuration and representation of time in the alberti's window. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present work proposes a comparative analysis of several renovation initiatives of the traditional centralities in Greater Buenos Aires under the model of Open-air shopping complexes. The paper starts with the origin of the concept and the first experiences in the USA and Europe between the 70's and 80's, in order to relate them with the circulation of ideas towards Latin America a decade later and, especially, to its reinterpretation and application in the Metropolitan Region of Buenos Aires since the beginning of the year 2000. The territorial distribution pattern of these policies, size and type of operations, degree of accomplishment, actors involved and articulation with other local public policies are studied as well. Based on this analysis, the urban image, the commercial profile and social practices promoted will be considered, as well as its scope and limitations in relation to the different forms and processes of metropolitan centrality, and its linkage capacity with other urban policies of territorial scale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Emperor Alfonso VII of Leon's peninsular relations were shaped by the relationship and struggles between both, the Christian realms of the inner borders, as well as those in the external borders against Islam. This paper aims to recreate the stratagems of alliance and jurisdiction over Muslim leaders in order to develop and establish jurisdiction through the use of space at the expense of the Taifa of al- Andalus. This is the case of the links established with the sovereign Sayf al-Dawla, the Zafadola of the christian chronicles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the foundation of the Convent "Nuestra Señora de la Salud" in Patzcuaro, Michoacan, in 1747, noting the role of the local elite and interest in the erection of this convent for Spanish women. The monastery represents one of the strategies of this group of Spaniards to strengthen the city of Patzcuaro in the conflict with Valladolid to get the capital of the bishopric. We also discuss how the Dominican convent of Patzcuaro, came to reinforce the prestige of the most important families who held the political, economic and social power of the city in the second half of the eighteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to analyze the Spanish expedition headed by Ruy López de Villalobos, that left from New Spain in 1542. Two documents provide different points of view about the same expedition: (i) one official report, written by García Descalante Alvarado in Lisbon, in 1548; (ii) one letter, written by the Jesuit Cosme de Torres (1510-1570) from Goa (India), in 1549. The comparison of the texts shows how the rivalry between the Spanish and the Portuguese kingdoms were running at the time in the Pacific Ocean. Besides, the second document was edited during the 16th century, which reveals the discursive component in that rivalry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Colombia is the seventh largest sugar producer in the world. Candelaria, a small town where five of the thirteen most important sugar mills in the country are located, has no water to drink: cause water is contaminated and monopolized by sugar. This paper explain how resulted from the agricultural modernization projects between 1945 and 1970 when the government modified the landscape for the exclusive promotion of sugar cane. Laying the bases of access to water that today try to change more than 73,000 people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this article is to analyze the technical novelties brought by the project of standardized regulation UNE 19601 on criminal risks management systems (version published on 8 February 2017 for public consultation). This paper will (i) contextualize the UNE 19601 in the Spanish current criminal compliance scene; (ii) examine the regulation's specificities and explain the requisites that are not directly issued from article 31 bis of the Spanish criminal Code, and (iii) briefly explain the audit procedure that may conclude with a conformity certification, if successful. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a territorial view of the Araucanía region in Chile when it was formed in the second half of the nineteenth century. In this period, the area transformed from a territory dominated and constructed by the different Mapuche groups to one dominated and constructed by the Chilean State. Based on accounts given by historical sources and the cartography produced by Nicanor Boloña in 1916 and 1917, the main constructions that dominated the process of occupying and colonizing the territory, which lasted several years, are described. These constructions include: the series of military forts, the division of rural land, and the railroad line. The sum of these constructions came to give a new physiognomy and order to the entire region. Thus, the objective of this paper is to begin to understand the Araucanía from the point of view of the construction of the territory's form. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the debate instigated by professor Demasi's remarks that were published by Búsqueda in 2006. Our concern is not Demasi's opinions, but rather the arguments about the historian's craft, the characteristics of historical knowledge, and relations between history, memory and identity, which were expressed by politicians and analysts who participated in the debate. The paper shows that many leaders of Uruguayan society have an old fashioned view of the role of the historian. There is also a tension between the discourse of the discipline as scientific knowledge, on the one hand, and the historical myths that lend support to the identities of political groups, on the other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The major mother of the Holy Well hospital-sanctorum fulfilled a transcendental paper in the maintenance of that institution. Even exceeded its functions, proposing, suggesting and making proposals even without the permission of his patronage that was the Brotherhood of the Mercy that was directing the Pious House of analogous name. The free interference of the major mother in the management of Holly Well often allowed by the Mercy provoked for the bishopric the first problem of consideration as the dismissal of the major mother Feliciana of Holy Teresa and chaplain at the request of vicar the Brotherhood of Mercy obeyed in 1737. However, soon after the incident, the same major mother proposed by the vicar resumed her leadership role absolutely necessary to maintain the Pozo Santo and the brotherhood of Mercy understood and accepted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the analysis of a specific type of intimacy that developed among couples in relationships during the first half of the 20th Century in Mexican society. First, the analysis traces the presence of the romantic love complex through some of the sociocultural discourses and norms on women, the family and love during the said period, as well as the ways in which freedom in mate selection developed. These elements provide the context in which one specific type of intimate life was likely to unfold between couples, and which was characterized, among other things, by the projection of an anticipated future, a mystical union between the couple, a weak presence of eroticism in sexual life, and probably a low-level of emotional communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper a historical analysis of two fundamental aspects of hydraulic engineering is made. They are the construction of works and engineering teaching in Cuban context. Evolution of construction and its influence in the formation of professionals can be appreciated. Also, the presence of this professionals has influenced the amount and complexity of works. Here, some social and environmental factors are mentioned, establishing an ancient memory, which has been divided into five parts withholding five centuries. On each part development of works and teaching of this engineering are presented, thus making a historical - logical link between them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses the experience of a small group of Chilean communists exiled in Mexico in 1948 due to a new law at the time called Ley por la Defensa Permanente de la Democracia (Law for the Permanent Defense of Democracy) that banned Communist Party activities. In their host country, these militants organized international meetings, published books and pamphlets, gave interviews to mass media and held other political activities, while the Cold War began to penetrate Latin America. For this paper, archives and newspapers from Mexico, Chile, and Guatemala were reviewed. Among the main results of this study is the analysis of a recursive policy of exclusion of dissidents by the Chilean State. Additionally, this research questions the way in which the processes implemented during that time in history have been evaluated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the representations of the Thousand Days' War from three tales by Efe Gómez: "Un padre de la Patria", "18 de Octubre" and "Peralonso". The tales are analyzed in their direct relation with the historic context, employing historiographical works. A critical posture of the bipartisan Colombian history is found alongside with the idea of war as a downfall and deadlock of the nation, and also an ethical way of thinking about the Colombian nation. Those elements show not only a thematic, but also a conceptual unity among them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the pamphlet printed by Juan de Mongastón in 1611 about Logroño's Auto de Fe (1610) and its special emphasis on the witches judged on 7 and 8 November. This paper maintains that this pamphlet, which is of undeniable historical interest, must be approached from a literary perspective, since, as will be shown, it is actually a literary text, although it has never been viewed from that perspective. To justify these claims we will rely on the connection established by Francisco Rico and José Miguel Barandiarán, and the current narrative interpretation of witchcraft (Dolan, Rowland, Rowlands, Gibson, Clark, Rushton, Gaskill, Purkiss and Gentilcore) as well as contributions by Caro Baroja, Henningsen, Dueso and Azurmendi about the “Zugarramurdi's Witches". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The development achieved by the scientific activity in the public health field, during the revolutionary period, promoted the origin of subsidiaries of scientific societies in different provinces of the country. In Cienfuegos the different medical specialties started to form their own chapters, among them, the Physiological Sciences. This paper is aimed at exposing the collected information about the emergence and development of the Scientific Society in Cienfuegos. A bibliographical review was realized and written testimonial sources were used (documents linked to the functioning of the mentioned organ). Elements related to the society, from its first Board of Directors, the main evidences found in scientific activities developed from its foundation, until its main contributions to the scientific work of the province. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the 20s, many of the intellectuals of Buenos Aires were divided into two groups: Boedo and Florida. The first advocated a social art, to invite the workers to act. The second sought to renew the literature for aesthetic purposes. The Florida expressed his gaze through the newspaper Martin Fierro; and Boedo did it from the magazines Los Pensadores and Claridad. Tribuna del pensamiento izquierdista. In turn, on November 30th, 1930, the boedista Leónidas Barletta created the Teatro del Pueblo, with this starting the movement of independent theaters in the city. The purpose of this paper is to analyze how the theatrical art is discussed in the mentioned means to observe what link with the theater proposes each one and what traits, which would then be promoted by Barletta and independent theater, had been scattered in them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: This work analyzes the introduction in Spain of the first systems of production and television broadcasting based on computer files technology, also known as MAM (Media Asset Management). The establishment of the different MAM systems as a digitization, has meant the replacement of the technology based on video tapes, due to the obsolescence of this system. Methodology: This work also establishes a parallelism in the MAM digitization between CNN (Atlanta, USA), Telecinco-Spain and Telemadrid-Spain. Results: this study seeks to gather information on the consequences of the change in the workflow on television that MAM digitization carries with it. Discussion: Implementation of MAM technology has meant a profound transformation of the basic processes of the production system in television. Conclusions: this paper deepens on the labor transformations of the different jobs that involved the adoption of the first MAM systems in the three television stations analyzed CNN (Atlanta-USA), Telecinco-Spain and Telemadrid-Spain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper addresses the concept of culture in the generation known as the patriarchs or founders of Latin American philosophical thought, for which a relationship is established between culture and philosophy, and then the most important characteristics of the philosophy of some philosophers of this generation, such as Alejandro Korn, Carlos Vaz Ferreira, Alejandro Deústua, Enrique Molina and Antonio Caso is described, in order to point out the main ideas about the concept of culture and its relation with Latin American identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes those gender aspects that made a difference between the repression of women and men during the early years of Franco's dictatorship. The analysis is presented from both, gender studies and political anthropology. This way these aspects will be linked up with the inherited political traditions during the Franco regime. The paper propose an explanation about the way in which the separation of women from the domestic domain, and their entrance in the political space as public subjects that occurred in Spain during the second Republic and the Civil War; was a hidden fact, covered up by the governmental repressive politics. This was an elaborated discourse of the historical narrative that the political role of women was reshaped and reconstructed as collectively inexistent. It was turn into a distortion, as a set of particular cases of delinquency and deviation. The construction of this discourse was based from the beginning on the establishment of certain practices such as the logic of the system of justice, as it will be demonstrated in the analysis of the trial reports of women. It is by the analysis of this file reports, understood as cultural creations, where there may be distinguished the system of a symbolic construction not capable consider women as a political subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the second half of the 18th century the city of Buenos Aires experienced a rapid growth in demographic and political terms that triggered a process of diversification of the spaces of the city. In 1790 the construction of a bullring in the neighborhood of Montserrat began. However, its location unleashed discussions among political actors of the time about the show and its role in social control. At the same time the residents of the square were involved in the conflict because of the negative impact that the bulls hauled to the neighborhood. The aim of this paper is to analyze the site of the Circus of bulls and the conflicts generated, to rethink the issues arising from the political, economic and demographic growth of the city from the perspective of Recreational and socio-political function and incorporate the spatial variable to the political and economic discussions of the time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to enrich the analytical record of the process of formation of the political system of the Argentine “Confederation” in the 1850s, from the specificities of San Juan province. We considered variations of San Juan political and economic integration in the national and “transcordillerano” stage. We reveal that the attempts of San Juan authorities to (re)articulated in a long-standing activity as overland trade with Chile, though not always successful, were important both to define provincial political tensions and the gravitation of the province in the political and institutional frame of the “Confederation”. So, we analyzed provincial, regional and international aspects of this process, taking into account the multiplicity of actors, resources, ideas and practices that were involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Addressing current social problems of the European continent such as nationalism, cannot be considered without setting them in the proper context, analyzing the processes that have characterized the history and formation of European societies. In this regard, this paper gathers and analyses the contribution of different authors to describe one of the military events that characterized the twentieth century: the wars in the Balkan area. Understanding the same approach implies understanding the multi-causal analysis of conflicts, given mainly by ethnic and religious conditions, as well as by the no less important political, economic, historical and international factors. Also, the analysis of events can advance critical thinking, due to the understanding of international pressures that acted as catalysts of the wars. The fragmentation of the former Yugoslavia resulted in countries that are not out of the economic crisis experienced for years, so nationalistic feelings are shaping the scene of the “Yugonostalgia”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the context of emergence of the nineties' generation in the Uruguayan theater, as well as its consolidation process in the first decade of the 21st century. Some proposals of the historical process, periodization and tracking of major trends in the local scene of the post-dictatorship period are presented and discussed. The hypothesis is that what has been called the 90's generation is strictly an effect of a critical and academic discourse (which, in describing it, builds it and notably contributes to legitimate the place of the artists who compose the Uruguayan theatrical field of that decade). A corpus of articles published between 1992 and 2012 will be examined, dividing this period into three stages that define the three sections comprising the article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Leprosy has been present at the Yucatan Peninsula since ancestral times. In this geographical zone important efforts have been developed to study, understand and treat this infection (strongly linked to biblical punishments), so the objective of this paper is to call attention about the relationship of this disorder with that territory, and the current clinical attention to leprosy patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the deployment of social networks of pastoral aborigen in the Argentinean Chaco region between 1970 and 1985. It describes the structuring process of these networks and analyzes the relations that pastoral aborigen agents held with anthropologists and anthropological knowledge. The analysis is based on files -which the author has had access to- located in what functioned as a regional training center. The paper suggests that, being Development an hegemonic paradigm in the 1960s, it created conditions of possibility for the deployment of these networks. Furthermore, the article argues that ethnic markings on populations in which the pastoral agents were involved with were mediated by an incorporation of different anthropological knowledge. In this regard, people first assumed as "the poorest of the poor" gradually became named as "communities" and pueblos aborígenes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The railroad's outstanding role in the social and economic activities in Cuba during the XIX century produced the establishment of administrative structures for developing, planning and regulating the railway topic inside the island's government. This research is targeted to analyze the labor of the military engineers in the introduction and development of railroads in Cuba during the period 1837-1898. Therefore, this paper explains the competences of those professionals in engineering and architecture works, their tasks in public and private occupations related to railway's activities, and finally, it establishes a characterization of the buildings as a result of the expansion of this mean of transportation in Cuba. The approach to this topic, through an historical and architectonical point of view, emphasizes the exceptionality of the Cuban example due to its role as pioneer in Hispanic America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies some historical episodes of the travel narrative (1599-1607) by friar Diego de Ocaña as reconstructions recalled from the colonial Peruvian collective memory at the beginning of the Seventeenth century. It starts with some theoretical notions on the distinction between collective and cultural memory and formal historical discourse, and it also ponders on why these notions could be applied to Ocaña's manuscript. Then, passages of Friar Diego's account are analyzed, particularly those on the arrival to Tawantinsuyu of the Spaniards conquistadores and on the actions of the four Pizarro brothers, in order to determine their differences with the historiography on these same topics. Even more importantly, the paper aims to explain how those distinctions between formal historical discourse and Ocaña's narratives show the interaction and conflict of values and of social, political, and cultural interests at the time. This paper argues that the episodes on the Pizarro brothers disclose the necessity to eradicate from collective memory both Gonzalo Pizarro's blemish of sedition and the nefarious actions of the other brothers, Francisco, Hernando, and Juan, while Francisco Pizarro's image is extolled. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on different urban and architectural projects, as viewed by the local press during Lencinas' administrations, a member of the Radical political party in the Mendoza province who was active from 1918 to 1930. Among the corpus of projects, we focus specifically on public spaces and housing for the low-income population, which became a significant point of attention in the first decade of the 20th century. The political change brought about by the arrival to power of nontraditional, underrepresented groups had an impact on different cultural fields in Mendoza. Lencina's arrival to power fostered social transformations that benefited the low-income social strata that had been neglected by previous governing elites. Among other changes, the new leaders implemented laws that favored the working class, such as retirement for public employees, and the 8-hour work day. These shifts in the political sphere had an impact on the architectural and spatial spheres. In this paper we systematically trace articles published in the contemporary local press in order to establish relationships between some of these projects and the populist political ideology of these governments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the ideological evolution of a well-known Navarrese family, the Martínez the Ubago, throughout the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. Its interest lies in the fact that the first member of this family line were engaged with liberalism and some of their descendants were among the few middle class professionals in Pamplona (lawyers, doctors, etc.), who were active members of the republican and socialist parties. More specifically, the paper briefly analyses the trajectory of the varied generations of this family and provides further information about its most outstanding and unknown member, Vicente Martínez de Ubago Oquendo (1898-1952), who was a teacher, journalist and lawyer and was an active mem- ber of the PSOE and republican parties. Thus, the paper raises the question of explaining coherently why this family evolved in such a different way when compared to other families of similar origins. To answer this question it is necessary to offe information about the studies, journeys to Europe and social relationships of this family. Although this paper is only a preliminary study, it rescues from oblivion some of the Navarrese who went against the current when compared to the majority of their countrymen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper will analyze Paul Ricoeur's Neo-Kantian proposal to articulate memory and history. The first step is to consider the concept of representation as a way to make both means of referring to the past comparable. In the next step, these two types of representations are articulated by leading back to Heidegger's temporal ontology. Amongst other consequences of this foundation, it follows that the possibilities of past agents can be reinterpreted in the present. This situation legitimizes the impossibility of setting fixed rules for the articulation between memory and history. Finally, this paper will discuss whether the philosopher does, or does not, commit a fallacy of composition, since his description is based on a specific form of history, while his prescriptions seem to have a general reach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper will analyze Paul Ricoeur's Neo-Kantian proposal to articulate memory and history. The first step is to consider the concept of representation as a way to make both means of referring to the past comparable. In the next step, these two types of representations are articulated by leading back to Heidegger's temporal ontology. Amongst other consequences of this foundation, it follows that the possibilities of past agents can be reinterpreted in the present. This situation legitimizes the impossibility of setting fixed rules for the articulation between memory and history. Finally, this paper will discuss whether the philosopher does, or does not, commit a fallacy of composition, since his description is based on a specific form of history, while his prescriptions seem to have a general reach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: This paper is a reflexion about the difference between past and history, highlighted by Lacan. Development: Through reading some of Freud's basic texts about technique and analysing a clinical situation, the author reflects on the notions of symptom, interpretation and transference. Results and Conclusions: The symptom, for example, as a representative of the repressed, is shown here as an indispensable guide, because it contains the remains of the language that can link the missing history, and therefore, using the transfer may find ways for reconstruction. The concept of transference is explained by questioning its pathological vision. Finally, the paper ends considering the dynamics of transference, finding many interesting sequences on the way the psychoanalytic cure operates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the ideology of the National Socialist Movement (MNS) and its leader, referring to Nazism, with regard to anti-Judaism. Compared to the decisive and explicit Nazi judeophobia, the Chilean Movement, although inspired by the first, developed a less intense, volatile and poorly mobilizing anti-Jewish public discourse. The paper is organized in two parts: the first review the extreme and mobilizing nature of Nazi anti-Semitism, from their accommodations and fluctuations; the second and more extensive, outlines the Chilean case, considering the Chilean nationalist tradition, the family and ideological background of the "Leader", the characteristics of MNS and its relations with Nazism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a review of information on personalities, institutions, publications, projects, studies, investigations, and scientific instruments related to Cuban seismology. The paper covers 479 years, from the first earthquake report (1528, in Baracoa) to the present. Five seismologists (Andrés Poey γ Aguirre {1825-1919}, Benito Viñes Martorell, S.J. {1837- 1893}, Pedro Salteraín γ Legarra {1835-?}, Mariano Gutiérrez Lanza {1865-1943}, and Eduardo Montelieu γ de la Torre {1883-?}) carried out scientific work of outstanding quality. The seismicity in the southeastern part is the most important in the country, in terms of magnitude, intensity and frequency of earthquake occurrence. Two earthquakes of 9 degrees (MSK) and eight of 8 degrees (MSK) were recorded, and a 6.9 maximum magnitude was registered on 25.05.1992 in Cabo Cruz. The strongest earthquake in the western part of the island occurred on 22.01.1880 (I = 8 degrees, MSK) in San Cristóbal. Recorded fatalities from earthquakes for the entire territory are slightly over one hundred, much less than in other countries in the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents, based on a documentary research and content analysis, a chronological journey through the reality of Ibero-America regarding the topic of information literacy -INFOLIT. This journey begins in 1985, when the first work on the topic was published, until our days, when the papers are mainly related to the inclusion of information literacy into the curriculum and the use of e-learning platforms and Web 2.0 for teaching and learning information competencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to demonstrate that the role of traditional authorities in today's Guinea Bissau is embedded in a long-term history that goes back to their pre-colonial and colonial history. Looking back to the situation of traditional authorities by the end of the colonial period (the early '70s), the paper discusses the different configurations of legitimacy of present-day authorities in relation to both local population and State authorities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Melanoma is the malignant transformation of the melanocyte. It is a highly invasive and often fatal tumor. It accounts for the vast majority of skin cancer deaths, with an estimated of 80% of all skin cancer deaths. Melanoma in its early stages is an eminently curable disease. It is time to increase one's suspicion of early melanoma. The aim of this paper is to address melanoma epidemiology, etiology, clinical presentation, biopsy methods, prognosis, and diagnosis. This is a non systematic melanoma review based on scientific papers that have been discussed, in the last 3 years with Dermatology residents and Dermatooncology fellows, at the Grupo de Dermatología of the Instituto Nacional de Cancerología. Most of the articles were selected from the internet by Eduardo Fierro. The medical concepts written in this paper is only responsibility of the authors and it is not the official point of view of the Instituto Nacional de Cancerología. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article offers insights concerning the historical display and the historiography of landscape as a geographical concept. The paper emphasizes the theoretical and practical robustness of this notion in environmental studies. To this end, the paper presents an homeostatic analysis of the biophysical and socio-cultural components of landscape. Taking this into account, we assess the strength and usefulness of a monist epistemic approach -which looks at the landscape as a totality that can not be fragmented by separating its various and complex components-. This in contrast to the dualistic epistemic view that is substantiated by the nature-culture dichotomy. The last approach became a common discourse within the dominant scientific thought, but it is increasingly problematic for a comprehensive understanding of our emergent (environmental) socio-ecological reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a comparative study of the political emergence of Juan Perón in Argentina and Getulio Vargas in Brazil. It seeks to describe and explain how and why Peronism and Varguismo were two different political projects. Using the tools of political discourse theory (PDT), this research scrutinises the implications Perón and Vargas had for the formation of the political identities of the socio-political actors in both countries and to what extent this difference had to do with the specific ways in which both leaders intervened in the political formation. In this sense, the paper stresses the specific discursive and institutional modes of intervention that characterised these two leaders' projects and their role in the political imaginary they inaugurated. It does so by tracing the responses to Perón and Vargas by different socio-political actors and the polemic context in which those responses took place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the reception of Vygotsky's work in Argentina during the 1960 decade until the beginnings of '70s in a disciplinary crossing with psychiatry, neurology, psychology, and pedagogy. All these disciplines placed the child as a study object in order to approach the neurological problems related to the language and the learning difficulties. This paper is focused on the analysis of Azcoaga's work within that period using the concept of reception formulated by Jauss (1981) that allows showing some of the first readings and conceptualizations done by Vygotsky. Some of Azcoaga's professional fields involved in Vygotsky's work reception, the predominant theoretical framework and the thinking traditions with those committed institutions in its reception are studied in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To revise the medical notions and the historic representations about public health in Santander require to contrast the results of researches did by different historians trough of thesis, books and papers published in local universities journals. This paper proposes a history of public health implicate to surpass the academic studies about of politic and medical-scientific personalities to be assumed as a interdisciplinary and new-institutional process orientated to the analysis of the State politics about institutions, employees and patient care according to the impact of illness (endemic and epidemic) and the pressure by socio-economical groups interested in it. In this way, the sources and uses of the concept "Public Health" are explored, and its begin in Santander with sanitary politics about "leprosy colonies" are described, including medical and hospitalarian changes as consequence of the creation of the Ministry of Public Health and the Social Security Institute, and finally, a review is realized about the academic production that health and socio-humanistic professionals from Santanderan universities did related with this theme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to analyze a special industrial space created by the Cuban sugar industry: the batey, or sugar industrial town. The batey will be considered as a tourist resource, following the WTO's FAS model (Factors, Attractors and Support Services). The batey can be considered as a historical and artistic resource, demonstrating part of the island's heritage and economic/industrial past. First, this study analyzes the characteristics that define the batey as a tourist resource. Second, this study describes the conditions needed to transform a factor into an attractor, taking into account the socio-cultural and political context where the process takes place. The Batey Brasil is located in the Camagüey region. So it is important to take into consideration the opportunities and potential problems of developing a tourist product in this region. Finally, this paper ends with some policy recommendations for tourist development in Camagüey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to the results of studies about broadcasting media in Brazil, the history of the radio is divided in three phases. The first embraces the period between 1922 and 1935, that corresponds to the experimental transmission stage. The second period (1935-1955) is characterized by the consolidation of the radio as a media. The last one, the period between 1955 and 1976, reflects the lost of media space due to the television. The present paper has the main proposal to describe the development of the radio as a media in Brazil and its role as advertising in every period. This paper also explains the use of radio advertising after the 70's. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to analyze César Calvo's Las tres mitades de Ino M oxoj otros brujos de la Amazonia in order to rethink how the Amazonian universe (with its beliefs, myths, and knowledge) participates in the construction of Peruvian identity', assuming a notion of identity that is defined by heterogeneity. We propose a reading of Calvo's novel in the frame of Amazonian indigenism, which creates tensions with other literary formulations of the Andean utopia. The paper also looks into how the invention of an ethnographic narrator allows the intersection of diverse sociocultural universes in the novel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper represents a contribution to the knowledge about the experience of the Japanese community in rural areas of Argentina, particularly Buenos Aires (state) across the first half of the 20th century. With the objective of updating knowledge about this subject, a comparison was made between communities in peri-urban agricultural colonies: La Capilla, located in Florencio Varela, and Justo José de Urquiza, La Plata. We also focus on the origins, incursions, productive profiles, and the level of participation of Argentine and/or Japanese entities that influenced how each community developed, as well as successful companies and migrant settlement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the most characteristic facets of Álvaro d'Ors is his interest in regional law. This paper highlights his main contributions, especially that in which he answers to the clear denial of Prof. Federico de Castro of the existence of regional law. From the Orsian perspective, the their reason is not privilege but subsistence with what it implies of social reality. The author uses the Orsian theses to refer to Valencian regional law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]