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ResumenEl reconocimiento por parte de los científicos y políticos de la gravedad del efecto invernadero y la probabilidad de un calentamiento global, hace cada vez más urgente la necesidad de conservación de la energía. Algunos de los temas incluidos en los programas de investigación y desarrollo del decenio de 1970 tras la crisis de la OPEP en los años 1973/4 y que en el decenio de 1980 parecieron caer en el olvido con la estabilización de los precios del petróleo, han vuelto ahora a cobrar protagonismo.Me gustaría mostrarles rápidamente algunas estadísticas referentes a las pautas actuales de consumo de energía en Gran Bretaña y de las consiguientes emisiones de dióxido de carbono. Soy consciente de que la situación en Gran Bretaña puede ser bastante diferente a la de España. No obstante, estas cifras les servirán posiblemente para conocer el contexto de algunos trabajos de investigación sobre configuración y densidad urbanas que estamos realizando y que espero que tengan interés más allá del ámbito local.AbstractThe recognition by scientists and politicians of the seriousness of the greenhouse effect and the likelihood of global warming brings renewed urgency to the need for energy conservation. Issues which were on the research and policy agendas in the '70s after the OPEC shock of 1973/4, and then seemed to recede again during the `80s as oil prices stabilised. are now back with a vengeance.I would like to show you briefly some statistics relating to current patterns of energy use in Britain, and the emissions of carbon dioxide which result. I appreciate that the British situation may be rather different from that of Spain. But these figures will perhaps serve to show you the context for some research work on urban form and urban density that we have been doing, which I hope may be of more than just local interest.

How can diversity of teaching practice be appreciated? Perhaps to appreciate diversity we should consider where we have arrived at a consensus, and hence conformity. It is normally expected that mobile phones should be switched off during lectures. For this talk the speaker will request that all mobiles be turned on (though set to silent). As this is against most orthodox teaching practice it could reasonably be concluded that the speaker is not an authority fit to lecture on the subject. For this reason the speaker will instruct the audience not to learn anything during the talk. Notes should not be taken. Instead listeners will be encouraged to send text messages. These messages will be in the form of single words, short phrases or multiple choice answers to questions (similar to classroom voting systems). It was recently reported that the UK government is considering introducing Twitter to its primary school curriculum (Guardian, 2009). This paper will evaluate ways in which new participatory media are impacting education. A free tool created by the author will be used during the oral presentation of this paper to show how these technologies allow increased participation in learning scenarios. One of the significant aspects of teaching strategies that are utilising text messaging and micro-blogging is that they are allow for teachers to delegate control to learners whilst keeping the format of learner participation sufficiently constrained for use with groups. This can be seen as an application of education research on the concept of Control and how its negotiation and subsequent delegation can be used to increase the degree of autonomy for a learner within a learning trajectory (Moore, 1993; Dron, J. 2007). References: Dron, J. (2007) Control and constraint in e-learning: Choosing when to choose. Idea Group Publishing. Moore, M. G. (1993) 2 Theory of transactional distance. Theoretical principles of distance education. pp22. The Guardian (2009) Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary schools shake. 25 ...

Intro -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Sexuality and Sexual Behavior -- Premarital Pregnancy in America 1640-1971: An Overview and Interpretation -- Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790-1850 -- The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America -- What Ought to Be and What Was: Women's Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century -- Private Lives and Public Order: A Critical View of the History of Intimate Relations in the U.S. -- Women's Life in Utopia: The Shaker Experiment in Sexual Equality Reappraised - 1810 to 1860 -- Sex and Self-Control: Middle-Class Courtship in America, 1770-1870 -- Seeking Ecstasy on the Battlefield: Danger and Pleasure in Nineteenth-Century Feminist Sexual Thought -- "Living the Principle" of Plural Marriage: Mormon Women, Utopia, and Female Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century -- Fallen Women: The Inmates of the Magdalen Society Asylum of Philadelphia, 1836-1908 -- "Ruined" Girls: Changing Community Responses to Illegitimacy in Upstate New York, 1890-1920 -- The Awesome Power of Sex: The Polemical Campaign against Mormon Polygamy -- Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America: Behavior, Ideology, and Politics -- Smashing: Women's Relationships before the Fall -- The Morbidification of Love between Women by 19th-century Sexologists -- From Sexual Inversion to Homosexuality: Medicine and the Changing Conceptualization of Female Deviance -- "Imagine My Surprise": Women's Relationships in Historical Perspective -- The American Woman's Pre-World War I Freedom in Manners and Morals -- Lesbian Magazine Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century -- The Crime of Precocious Sexuality: Female Juvenile Delinquency in the Progressive Era -- Nineteenth-Century Sexuality and the "Sexual Revolution" of the Progressive Era.

A while ago, after the post I wrote prompted by my return visit to Zambia, a reader suggested I might like to read Cobalt Blue: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives. The relevant bit of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is right next to Zambia, and the two countries share the … Continue reading Misgovernment and other things

Sara Farris's In the Name of Women's Rights is a brave monograph that analyzes the way that the discourses of Europe's right-wing nationalists, government agencies, and liberal feminists converge in their representations of Muslim and non-western immigrant women, relegating these communities to commodified spheres of social reproductive work.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

Boethius and Augustine of Hippo are two of the fountainheads from which the long tradition of regarding God's existence as timelessly eternal has flowed, a tradition which has influenced not only Christianity, but Judaism and Islam too. But though the two have divine eternality in common, I shall argue that in other respects, in certain crucial respects, they differ significantly over how they articulate that notion.

A review essay on books by (1) Richard Collins, Media and Identity in Contemporary Europe: Consequences of Global Governance (Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2002); (2) Paulette Kurzer, Markets and Moral Regulation: Cultural Change in the European Union (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U Press, 2001); & (3) Chris Shore, Building Europe: The Cultural Politics of European Integration (London: Routledge, 2000). 7 References. Adapted from the source document.

One of the many ironies of Fiji's May 2000 general election was the demise of one of the "godfathers" of the indigenous Taukei movement, Apisai Tora. The man who was once a firebrand trade unionist and who jointly led the 1959 oil workers' strike, later became an indigenous nationalist and helped unleash the forces that overthrew the first Labour Party coalition government in two military coups in 1987.

The paper develops a two country overlapping generations model of product improvement innovation to analyze the evolution of incompatible standards among countries. The paper emphasizes the welfare tradeoff between international standardization of products and the frequency of product improvement innovations. The paper classifies and evaluates various government standardization policies according to their objectives. ; Published in connection with a visit at the IIES.

SINCE HIS TAKEOVER IN UPPER VOLTA IN 1983, SANKARA HAS HAD TO CHANGE THE FORM OF GOVERNMENT TOO MANY TO BODE WELL FOR CONTINUED STABILITY. HE HAS HAD PROBLEMS WITH TRADE UNIONS, ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT ARE PRO-BOURGEOSIE. STILL, IN THE PAST TWO YEARS SANKARA AND THE CNR HAVE RECORED SOME POSITIVE ACHIEVEMENTS THEY HAVE REDUCED FEUDAL EXPLOITATION, AND HAVE IMPROVED THE CONDITION OF WOMEN.

THE AUTHOR LOOKS INTO SOVIET ATTITUDES AND POLICIES TOWARD THOSE WEST EUROPEAN COMMUNIST PARTIES THAT PROFESS ADHERENCE TO THE FORM OF SOCIALISM FOUND IN A PROCESS LEADING TO AN INDEPENDENT, PLURALISTIC CONCEPT OF SOCIALISM, EUROCOMMUNISM. IS IT A GRAND DESIGN DEVISED BY THE WEST, OR A TEMPORARY TACTIC? HE CONCLUDES THE TREND IS LIKELY TO CONTINUE IN FRENCH, ITALIAN AND SPANISH COMMUNIST PARTIES.

THE PAPER FIRST ATTEMPTS TO EXPLAIN HOW THE WHITE MINORITY IN RHODESIA MANAGED FOR SO LONG TO MAINTAIN ITS POWER IN THE FACE OF ACTIVE HOSTILITY FROM THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE AFRICAN POPULATION. THE AUTHOR ALSO ATTEMPTS TO EXPLAIN THE SUCCESS OF THE LANCASTER HOUSE CONFERENCE IN 1979, AND LOOKS AT THE IMPLICATIONS OF ZIMBABWE'S PAST LEGACY AND CURRENT PROBLEMS FOR THE NATION'S STABLE DEVELOPMENT.

Professor Ostrom of the University of California at Los Angeles suggests answers to the questions: Why law, why decisions? To introduce order and predictability into groups, to pursue goals. Expanding social science enhances the range of instrumental choices for the decision-maker but naturally introduces an ever-greater dependence upon administrative science. Science and "politics" thus tend to grow closer together.