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[es] En este artículo se afirma que durante la dé- cada de 1990 los economistas cumplieron el papel de intelectuales orgánicos de la hegemonía neoliberal consolidada entonces y cuya crisis y clausura se expresó trágicamente en los acontecimientos de diciembre de 2001. Ellos pensaron un modelo de país basado en los principios que señalaba la ideología econó- mica sostenida por el neoliberalismo, que proponía una visión del mundo que al mismo tiempo que desarraigaba la economía de la sociedad, subsumía lo social y lo político en el mercado –entendido a su vez como autorregulado–, por lo tanto, sus principios se hacían extensivos a aquellos dos ámbitos, produciendo a su vez activamente esta ruptura y esa incorporación. La hipótesis que se presenta propone que, como parte de este proceso, lo social también fue construido en términos económicos y como cuestión económica; por ende, durante el período de hegemonía del pensamiento neoliberal los conceptos con los que se elaboraron los diagnósticos y las políticas remitían sus contenidos y fundamentos a la economía. Dada la hipótesis precedente, este artículo se propone reconstruir y analizar el modo cómo los economistas significaron la sociedad en general y lo social en particula ; [en] This article affirms that during 1990´s the economists plays the role of organic intellectuals of the neoliberal hegemony then consolidated, whose crisis and closing was tragically expressed in the events of December 2001. They proposed a model country based on the principles indicated by economic ideology supported by neoliberalism, which proposed a world vision that, at the same time as it uproots the economy from the society, subsumes social and political at the market –understood it as auto regulated– therefore, their principles were extended to those two areas, producing actively at the same time this rupture and incorporation. The hypothesis that is presented proposes that, as part of this process, the social was also built in economic terms and as an economic issue; consequently, ...

In recent years Irish society has witnessed an upheaval in public opinion before the discovery of conspiracies of silence hiding stories of institutional abuse which had remained concealed from the public domain. These narratives of secrecy have been consistently identified and stripped away by writers like Emer Martin whose novel The Cruelty Men (2018) denounces the fact that forgetting and silence are woven into the fabric of society and politics in Ireland. Drawing on the notion of consensual silence, the article explores The Cruelty Men as a text that addresses institutional abuse and challenges official discourses by rescuing the unheard voices of the victims and inscribing their untold stories into the nation's cultural narrative. As the article will discuss, ultimately the novel calls attention to the healing power of storytelling as a way of renegotiating Ireland's relationship with the silences of the past. ; En años recientes la opinión pública irlandesa se ha conmocionado ante las frecuentes noticias de abusos en el seno de las instituciones y la existencia de una conspiración de silencio para evitar que los escándalos saliesen a la luz. Estos secretos encubiertos han sido identificados y abordados por escritores y escritorascomo Emer Martin, cuya novela The Cruelty Men denuncia precisamente que el silencio y el olvido están inextricablemente vinculados al devenir mismo de la sociedad y la política en Irlanda. Basándose en el concepto de silencio consensuado, este artículo analiza The Cruelty Men como un texto que expone el tema de los abusos y contradice los discursos oficiales al rescatar las voces silenciadas de las víctimas e inscribirlas en la narrativa cultural de la nación. El artículo concluye que la novela subraya el poder regenerador del relato por su capacidad de renegociar la relación de Irlanda con los silencios del pasado.

This Open access book is a collection of essays and offers an in-depth analysis of silence as an aesthetic practice and a textual strategy which paradoxically speaks of the unspoken nature of many inconvenient hidden truths of Irish society in the work of contemporary fiction writers. The study acknowledges Ireland's history of damaging silences and considers its legacies, but it also underscores how silence can serve as a valuable, even productive, means of expression. From a wide range of critical perspectives, the individual essays address, among other issues, the conspiracies of silence in Catholic Ireland, the silenced structural oppression of Celtic Tiger Ireland, the recovery of silenced stories/voices of the past and their examination in the present, as well as millennial disaffection and the silencing of vulnerability in today's neoliberal Ireland. The book 's attention to silence provides a rich vocabulary for understanding what unfolds in the quiet interstices of Irish writing from recent decades. This study also invokes the past to understand the present and, thus, demonstrates the continuities and discontinuities that define how silence operates in Irish culture. Grant FFI2017-84619-P AEI, ERDF, EU (INTRUTHS "Inconvenient Truths: Cultural Practices of Silence in Contemporary Irish Fiction") Funded by the Spanish Research Agency AEI http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100011033 and by the European Regional Development Fund ERDF "A Way of Making Europe"

AbstractThe aim of the study us to analyze the difference of bullying (traditional bullying and cyberbullying) in rural and urban contexts. A total of 1094 junior and senior high school students (62.5% from urban areas, 37.6% from rural areas) from the region of Castile-La Mancha (Spain) took part herein. The results showed a similar proportion of intervention in all bullying roles and in polybullying in urban and rural context schools. However, victimization and physical bullying perpetration is more frequent in schools in urban areas. In rural schools, aggression is normally aimed at schoolmates. Regression showed the link between context and perpetration role. Victims in rural settings expressed greater distress than victims in schools in urban areas. These results indicate that the size of the population where the schools are located may be a relevant factor for the intervention, as well as the need for intervention at individual, group and community level in collaboration between schools and social services.

This work is based on the mediatisation of society theory, which establishes more attached importance and the presence of the mass media as mediators in various social processes, as well as on Production Studies, that analyse creative skills to draw an audience, to apply these theories to the media representation of the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective is to analyse how the generalist media have represented male/female scientists, who have become social benchmarks during the first COVID-19 wave in Spain. Our initial hypothesis considers that the purpose of the mediatisation of scientific discourse was to contribute answers to, and to keep society calm, in an uncertainty context. By content and discourse analyses with a sample formed by 172 pieces of work published between 25 January and 5 July 2020 in four Spanish digital newspapers, we observed how these specialists not only became the usual sources of journalistic information but were also the main leading figures in them. The mass media pay attention to their statements, but also to their aesthetics and communication style, which are singular compared to conventional power to date. Science enters the national section with its own image and explanatory intentionality. Nonetheless, constant overexposure and its link with governments making controversial decisions influence the image held by the public opinion of scientists with time, which dissociates them from its knowledge and identifies them with political power. ; Este trabajo parte de la teoría de la mediatización de la sociedad, que establece el aumento de la importancia y presencia de los medios de comunicación como mediadores en diversos procesos sociales, así como de los Estudios de Producción, que analizan las habilidades creativas para atraer a la audiencia, para aplicarla a la representación mediática de la pandemia de COVID-19. El objetivo es analizar cómo medios generalistas han representado a los y las científicas convertidos en referentes sociales durante la primera ola en España. Nuestra hipótesis de partida considera que la mediatización del discurso científico ha tenido como propósito aportar respuestas y tranquilidad a la sociedad en un contexto de incertidumbre. A través del análisis de contenido y del análisis del discurso de una muestra formada por 172 piezas publicadas entre el 25 de enero y el 5 de julio de 2020en cuatro diarios digitales españoles, se observa que estos especialistas no solo se han convertido en fuentes habituales de las informaciones periodísticas, sino que en ocasiones incluso las protagonizan. Los medios de comunicación prestan atención a sus declaraciones, pero también a su estética y estilo de comunicación, singular frente al poder convencional hasta ahora. La ciencia entra en la sección de Nacional con imagen propia e intencionalidad explicativa. No obstante, la sobreexposición continua y el vínculo con gobiernos que toman decisiones polémicas influye con el paso del tiempo en la imagen que la opinión pública genera de los científicos, los desvincula de su conocimiento y los identifica con el poder político.

The Mediterranean has a high diversity of herpetofauna, which continues to be understud- ied. Olive ( Olea europaea ) groves are one of the primary agroecosystems in the Mediterranean region but the e ff ectiveness of di ff erent survey methods has yet to be tested. Therefore, we compared the e ff ectiveness of transects and drift fences to sample terrestrial reptiles in old vs. young olive groves. We observed 857 individuals, representing 10 species (between May and July 2014). We detected 10 species (820 individuals) with transects and five species (37 individuals) using drift fences. The tran- sect was more e ffi cient for determining species diversity and abundance of reptiles in both young and old olive groves, but the recorded values were higher in old olives than in the young ones for both re- sponse variables. Finally, we recorded habitat features (trunks or ground) during transects where the animal was observed. We recommend the use of transect for biodiversity assessment in olive groves, where reptiles spend most of their time on trunks and avoid the ground. ; This work was supported by the project AGL2012-40128-C03-01 and EU-FEDER funds from the Spanish government. ; Peer reviewed

En la sociedad actual la participación, desde el voluntariado en programas de acción social, es considerada como un valor fortalecedor de las sociedades democráticas, y para el alumnado universitario una oportunidad de complementar su formación profesionalizadora compartiendo experiencias significativas en diversos ámbitos de intervención social. Desde el año 2011, la Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad de Córdoba ha estado colaborando con los centros que han iniciado su transformación en Comunidades de Aprendizaje a través de distintas actuaciones, entre las cuales se sitúa la participación de voluntariado universitario en el proyecto. Esta participación supone un compromiso del alumnado en la puesta en marcha de actuaciones educativas de éxito (AEE) y en la participación en las diferentes comisiones del centro, asistiendo al colegio durante el curso académico y, paralelamente, recibiendo formación sobre las bases científicas de este proyecto. El objetivo de esta comunicación es describir la experiencia de formación del voluntariado universitario en Comunidades de Aprendizaje, realizada a través de dos actividades: Seminario de Iniciación al Voluntariado en Comunidades de Aprendizaje y Seminario de Tertulias Pedagógicas Dialógicas. Estos seminarios pretenden ofrecer al alumnado de grado de las diversas titulaciones de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación la oportunidad de participar en experiencias educativas innovadoras que están reconocidas por la Comisión Europea como programas superadores de la exclusión social, como es el caso de las Comunidades de Aprendizaje (INCLUD-ED Consortium, 2006-2011) a la vez que participan durante el curso académico en las prácticas que realizan como voluntarios y voluntarias en las escuelas Comunidades de Aprendizaje de Córdoba. Finalmente, aportamos conclusiones basadas en el análisis de los datos obtenidos en distintos momentos del proceso. ; In modern societies , participation in volunteer social action is considered as a strengthening factor of democratic societies. For university students is an opportunity to complete their training by sharing meaningful experiences in various areas of social intervention. Since 2011, the Faculty of Education at the University of Cordoba has been working with schools that have begun their transformation into learning communities through various activities , among which a university voluntary participation in the project schools. This participation is a commitment of the students in the implementation of educational strategies for success (ESS) and participation in the various committees of the center, attending school during the academic year and, in parallel, receiving training on the scientific basis of this project. The aim of this paper is to describe the formation of the university experience volunteering in Learning Communities, conducted through two activities: Seminar Introduction to Volunteering Learning Communities and Educational Seminar Tertuliasdialogic . These seminars offered to undergraduate students of various courses at the Faculty of Education the opportunity to participate in innovative educational experiences that are recognized by the European Commission as superseders programs of social exclusion, such as the Communities of Learning (INCLUD-ED Consortium, 2006-2011) while participating in the academic year in practices that perform as volunteers in schools learning Communities Córdoba. Finally, we provide conclusions based on the analysis of data obtained at different monmentsin the process.

Nowadays a great number of applications are used to compile and transmit casualties and disasters information but there are many troubles associated with the technology as can be the communications reliability and the size and weight of the devices medical staff has to carry with. Telecommunication infrastructures support information movement among geographically dispersed locations. Recently a large family of little devices has appeared in the buyer's market. They are called Personal Digital Assistants and because of their physic and technical features, they are very useful in the emergency field. As for the communications reliability, many technologies have been developed in the last years but it is necessary to find a solution that can be used in whatever situation independently of the emergency circumstances. Facing this reality, the Spanish government funded REMAF, an ATYCA (Initiative of Support for the Technology, Security and Quality in the Industry) project. REMAF joined research groups (UPM), phone operators (Fundación Airtel Móvil) and end users (SAMUR) to build a disaster data management system conceived to use modern telemedicine systems to optimize the management in these situations, taking the advantage of the above mentioned mobile communication tools and networks.

This research focuses on the implementation of a series of actions and training workshops with families of a school located in a socially excluded area in the city of Cordoba, Spain. The study explores how the participants perceived the experience and the educational and social benefits of this formative process. The research methodology was based on a participatory action research approach, which involved successive cycles of research and action in different phases: planning and analysis of the problem, action, observation and reflection. Five key informants, selected according to the criterion of structural heterogeneity, participated in the research. Semi-structured interviews and field journals were used as research instruments and content analysis was the technique of choice to analyses the information. The results reveal that the participants found the workshops to be highly beneficial both personally and in terms of the image they project to their children. They also faced challenges regarding their continuity in the activity, such as prejudices or different communication codes. The discussion underlines the importance of conducting training activities with families in contexts of poverty as an educational action that can increase their interest and motivation towards the school and hence enhance their participation in school life.

Cabrera M.C., Fernández-Turiel J. L., Muñoz F., Cruz T., Gimeno D. Trace elements in groundwater of La Aldea aquifer (Gran Canaria, Canary Islands). In: Candela L., Vadillo I., Aagaaard P., Bedbur E., Trevisan M., Vanclooster M., Viotti P., López-Geta J.A. (Eds.), WAter POllution in natural porous media at different scales. Assessment of fate, impact and indicators. WAPO2. IGME, Madrid, 2007, ISBN 978-84-7840-676-0. pp. 99-105. ; La Aldea area is dedicated to intensive agriculture for export. Irrigation water comes mainly from three dams located upstream, but groundwater is intensively used in drought periods. There are more than 370 large diameter wells (depths ranging from 4 to 47 m), cutting alluvial materials (20 m thick) in the valley axis, with Miocene basalts located under the alluvial material and in the surrounding mountains. Several hydrogeochemical groundwater families can be distinguished, depending on the exploited materials and/or the existence of some modifying processes. Cl-Mg and Cl-Na-Mg waters are related to basalts, while Cl-Na high saline waters are associated with the hydrothermal alteration of volcanic materials (Tabladas family). These waters mix with the alluvial groundwater, producing Cl-Na-Ca or Cl-Mg waters that can evolve to CI-SO4-Na and SO4-CI-Na, with high nitrate contents (reaching 500 mg.L- 1) when irrigation returns are present. The hydrochemical fingerprint of the trace elements studied reflects the natural influences of the volcanic materials of the region as well as its alteration due to hydrothermal processes. The hydrochemical fingerprint of the hydrothermal altered materials in the northern end of the La Aldea valley is distinguished by high concentrations of Sr and B and, in a lesser degree of Rb, Cs, Li, U, Mo and As. The anthropogenic influence on the trace element content is inexistent or too low to be detected. ; The present work has been financed by the CICYT Project 1FD 97-0525, together with funds from General Water Authority of Canary Government, Gran Canaria Water Authority, La Aldea de San Nicolas Municipality, COPAISAN, COAGRISAN and ROMERTOR. ; Peer reviewed

PurposeThis article attempts to match the future needs of older people with the possibilities arising from applications based on new technology.Design/methodology/approachThis article examines the implications of novel applications for active ageing policy. These applications are forecast to arise from the convergence of two or more previously separated science disciplines and technologies, including information and communication technologies, nanotechnologies, biotechnology and cognitive sciences.FindingsResearch on converging applications (CA) is largely driven by health applications, and is likely to spill over into the older generation's specific needs. Today, older people's most urgent needs require little CA. In the future, however, the role of CA will become more important as technology develops and is more widely used.Originality/valueOwing to demographic change and its expected social and economic implications, there is a need to investigate how upcoming applications could contribute to the future specific needs of the older population.