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The cities expansion as a territory anthropization implies impacts in the land use dynamics. This occurs through the interaction of affected natural and semi-natural systems and can be detected in the substitution of land cover. The space in which it intensifies is the interface. A complex construction of the interface concept will serve to identify variables of high intensity of interaction involving territorial impact. The objective of this work was the critical review of research that enabled identification of such variables for their spatialization. A total of 68 papers, produced since the industrial revolution, were reviewed using 3 approaches: urban, rural and natural. The systematization was carried out through statistical software that determined common elements and relationships between definitions. The results indicated that most of the current theories come from American countries and India, and that the European papers were published 10-15 years earlier than these. The greatest amount of production on interface analysis is still associated with Urbanism. Furthermore, relevant variables were highlighted that located the phenomenon between the urban and regional scales from the territorial approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Northeast India, the land of original inhabitants, follows a unique and fascinating culture and tradition as its inhabitants are closely attached to nature. Northeast India is one of those few places in the world, where matrilineal culture is still practiced. In Meghalaya, one of the northeastern states, the practice of matrilineality has been in existence for almost 2000 years among a few tribes. Khasi, Jaintia and Garo, the earliest ethnic communities of Meghalaya appear to be homogenous ones, as the youngest daughter becomes the custodian of the ancestral prospects. This practice where the womenfolk become the custodians of the cultural and natural artifacts has strong parallels in the theory of ecofeminism. By employing ecofeministic perspective to read the matrilineal culture of the tribes, the paper aims to make a parallel study on the ethnic women’s affinity towards nature. Ecofeminism celebrates the robust connect between women and nature and asserts that women serve as the advocates for nature rather than men. The paper, therefore, aims to investigate ecofeministic elements among the Khasi, Jaintia and Garo tribes of Meghalaya and tries to express an ecofeministic view concerning family, marriage, religion, and food culture of the Meghalaya tribes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the impact on Indian democracy of current Prime Minister Narendra Modi's populism. Our analysis argues that populism has been a useful tool in the deepening of democracy in India. Appealing to the "people" as a political construct with a broad social base has helped to transcend traditional identity cleavages. But in contrast to that form of transversal and inclusive populism, the subject of this paper is Modi's current version, which is built on a form of Hinduist exclusivism. Such a narrative of exclusion endangers the social contract born out of the idea of India as unity in diversity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using a mainly ethnographic methodology, this paper discusses why the voice of women and their agency is still scarce in the history of India and especially in Sikh history. It then describes the 1984 Delhi pogroms as voiced by these women. The text analyzes the complex ways in which widows open spaces for decision making, advocacy, activism, and organization. Violence destroyed the world as they knew it, but it opened up other possibilities, such as the ability to move from the private to the public sphere, work for the first time, and decide on their marital status. They also formed leaderships and consolidated a political movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper outlines the findings from research named "Traditional and spiritual care practices in a Nahua, indigenous community" (García, 2015; García Piña, Cardoso Gómez, Serrano Sánchez & Ostiguín Meléndez, 2015), in which spirituality elements were identified as coping strategies for the health-disease-death processes. Those results were complemented with a documental review. Objective: to claim on the caring strategies, on a specific social, cultural and historical context, that promotes the improvement of the nursing practice in the Mexican context. Method: theoretical-inductive documentary analysis. Results: communities are built from common goals and objectives, which arise as health-disease-death processes in its own particular perspective. Conclusion: nursing has as one of its main functions, to rescue people's individual and collective response, for coping with every life situation; allowing that care itself, becomes a mutual feedback exercise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to account for the ways women integrating the free software community in two countries from the global South negotiate with feminizing paradigms imposed to them by the collectives interested in popularizating free technologies. Through an ethnographic approach to vital experiences of women in the Indian collective Linux-Chix, and holding a dialog with the experiences of non-organized women in the free software community in Colombia, this paper suggests these negotiations are going to be materialized primarily in the constitution of survival strategies from which certain civilizing projects are particularly vindicated, some of which seem to promote a Western paradigm of female subjectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Como es sabido, no todos los documentos del Archivo General de Simancas referidos a América fueron trasladados al de Archivo de Indias de Sevilla cuando se creó éste. Unos pocos escaparon a la selección realizada en siglos anteriores y por ello son poco conocidos o han permanecido en el olvido. En este trabajo rescatamos en extracto un grupo de documentos referidos a personajes de Indias que se encuentran en la Sección de Consejo Real del archivo simanquino que son de gran interés para completar datos sobre la colonización de América en el siglo XVI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the factors influencing the choice between different FDI modes: acquisitions or green-field investments. From a sample of 117 outward foreign direct investment (FDI) decisions made by the Indian multinational Tata in 43 countries, our findings show that industry technological intensity, host country risk, host market attractiveness, previous international experience and the volume of exports from India to the host country, are determining factors of this choice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background. The forehead flap for nasal reconstruction was first described in India and has been the cornerstone for nasal coverage of wide defects. More recently, this forehead flap for nasal reconstruction has been through a great variety of modifications and can be done as a single, two or three-stage procedure. Nasal reconstruction requires a critical analysis of the involved tissues, a thorough anatomical and surgical knowledge from the plastic surgeon, to be able to offer a better esthetic result. The aim of this paper is to describe an alternative of the forehead flap for a single-stage nasal reconstruction to cover a wide nasal defect. Conventional technique. The forehead flap is a composite flap consisting of skin, subcutaneous tissue, frontalis muscle and a thin layer of areolar connective tissue. The flap is harvested by dissecting the paramedian pedicle based on the supratrochlear vessels, which are located superficial to the periosteum and exit the medial superior orbital rim then travelling vertically along the muscle. The forehead flap is elevated and transferred as an island in a single-stage procedure, restoring the esthetic subunits of dorsum and lateral sidewall. Clinical case. We describe the case of a patient to whom wide resection of a basocellular carcinoma in the nasal dorsum was performed in the Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia. We performed immediate reconstruction with a single-stage forehead flap, achieving adequate functional and esthetic results. Conclusions. Nasal reconstruction can be performed with a single-stage procedure using the forehead flap achieving adequate functional and esthetic results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To teach and learn Spanish language as a foreign language involves understanding the concepto of interculturality, which asks for an investigative look to appraise social, geographical, political, cultural, pedagogical and linguistic differences among countries that, even though they speak different languages, wish to communicate each other. This paper makes part of a research project intitled "Pedagogical university narrative". In it, a trainee who is about to get her degree as a Bachelor in Modern Languages from Universidad de Caldas (Colombia) and her advisor, as principal investigator, show how in New Delhi Spanish language acquisition is permeated by cultural factors that, if not adequately addressed, become barriers hindering the integration of language to contents, feelings and expectations related to the everyday context Spanish students live in -- different from their mother language -- in a foreign speaking country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article about geopolitics and oil seeks to analyze the current international geopolitics in function of the oil variable. With the rise of the crude oil price up to almost 150 US dollars per barrel, the "black gold" has become an instrument for global power more than ever before. Furthermore, the increasingly urging demand for oil by China and India is pushing not only the hydrocarbon price but also the struggle for controlling the oil reservoirs around the world or at least having allied governments in power. Thus, under this logic, China has started an offensive to penetrate the African continent and this explains the amazing growth of the black continent. Last, this paper also shows that the catastrophic data on an impending shortage of the oil does not correspond with reality. In 1987, oil existence was forecasted for 40 years. Today, we have more oil than 20 years ago. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the middle of the 1990s, India's energy system has been showing new signs of the beginning of a transition in which the functioning of energy demand and supply will tend to correspond to the requirements of economic development. First, this paper examines recent energy changes, after which it analyzes their relationship with the process of economic and social transformation which the country is experiencing, with the aim of discovering the factors that are determining the beginning of the energy transition. It then shows how the trends derived from those economic and social factors are inducing the increase and growing diversification in energy demand. From that perspective -and in line with the available supplies of energy resources -we analyze why the deepening of the energy transition will lead inexorably to greater external dependence, above all for petroleum, but also for natural gas and uranium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the reality of slave resistance, particularly rebellion, through a study of the oppressors' fear and the dominant discourse, focusing on the effects of the rumor of a slave conspiracy in 1693. The article also explores the conditions that could have helped slaves, runaway slaves and even free-blacks to struggle against colonial oppression. Ultimately, it attempts to demonstrate how the events surrounding the conspiracy are proof that the colonial society recognized the capability of blacks to resist and transgress the established order. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over recent decades, the flow of television programs and services between nations has prompted concerns about "cultural imperialism". However, some of the peripheral countries now have developed strong television industries of their own. This paper brings together overviews of the most dynamic of these regions: Latin America, India, the Middle East, and in the English-speaking world, Canada and Australia. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]