Search results for "EQUALITY"

2017

Summary Background The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are grounded in the global ambition of "leaving no one behind". Understanding today's gains and gaps for the health-related SDGs is essential for decision makers as they aim to improve the health of populations. As part of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016), we measured 37 of the 50 health-related SDG indicators over the period 1990–2016 for 188 countries, and then on the basis of these past trends, we projected indicators to 2030. Methods We used standardised GBD 2016 methods to measure 37 health-related indicators from 1990 to 2016, an increase of four indicators since GBD 2015. W…

Matrimonio e Chiesa d’Inghilterra oggi

2015

It seems to take growing root in the West a certain idea of marriage, which appears to descend from the French secularism model, in being “counter-traditional”, respectful of the individual autonomy, and devoted to an “integral” application of the principle of equality. The proof is that it putted down roots in legal contexts poles apart from the above model, for their way to set the space and the relevance of religion in the public sphere. The study examines the emblematic English case, where this notion has led to the introduction of “same-sex marriage”, without the peculiar framework of the relations between the State and his national Church, with his singular legal tecnical implications…

A lo importante, ya van ellos. Una propuesta contextual desde los nuevos materialismos para comprender por qué hay tan pocas mujeres en ciencias técn…

2022

[ES] Desde que Rossi publicara “Mujeres y ciencias, ¿por qué tan pocas?” (Science, 1965), parece que la situación en Occidente no ha cambiado. En el presente trabajo, la falta de mujeres en ciencia la situamos en las interrelaciones entre las elecciones individuales de carreras profesionales y los contextos socioeconómicos de los países occidentales. A partir de estadísticas (Unesco, Banco Mundial…) sobre personas egresadas, empleabilidad, salarios e inversión en I+D, reconstruimos exclusiones y resistencias y proponemos observar que, cuando las áreas científico-técnicas son un escenario socioeconómico de alta empleabilidad y excelentes salarios para personas cualificadas, ellos se desplaza…

Constancy and evolution of an engaged writing : the work of Carmen de Burgos, journalist, essayist and novelist

2016

Carmen de Burgos died in 1932, leaving behind a considerable amount of written material: thousands of articles published in different newspapers, essays, novels and hundreds of “novelas cortas”. The works and the memory of this women’s rights activist were doomed to oblivion during Franco’s dictatorship. This thesis aims to rediscover and analyse these works from its various perspectives. We have been looking for the constant trends but also the evolutions. Carmen de Burgos has indeed evolved in her conception of the woman’s role and of the rights she had to acquire. In the early stages of her fight, she had been mainly focusing on the acquisition of equalitarian legal and social rights. Sh…

Por una rebeldía sin resentimiento: contra la desigualdad obscena y el populismo

2017

El autor analiza como causas del malestar actual de la sociedad, de un lado, la indiferencia del sector mejor situado de la población ante el crecimiento de una desigualdad obscena. Y de otro la extensión de los populismos, basados en el resentimiento, fruto de un narcisismo carente de sentido de responsabilidad. Frente a ambos extremos propone una rebeldía contra la injusticia social y económica, que debe ir acompañada del agradecimiento ante la maravilla de la creación. The author approaches the reasons for the general lack of satisfaction in civil society: on one hand the indiference of those who are in a better position and on the other the increase of populism based on resentment and n…

A tour of the theory of absolutely minimizing functions

2004

A detailed analysis of the class of absolutely minimizing functions in Euclidean spaces and the relationship to the infinity Laplace equation

A new paradigm for pattern classification: Nearest Border Techniques

2013

Published version of a chapter in the book: AI 2013: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03680-9_44 There are many paradigms for pattern classification. As opposed to these, this paper introduces a paradigm that has not been reported in the literature earlier, which we shall refer to as the Nearest Border (NB) paradigm. The philosophy for developing such a NB strategy is as follows: Given the training data set for each class, we shall first attempt to create borders for each individual class. After that, we advocate that testing is accomplished by assigning the test sample to the class whose border it lies closest to…

Semmes surfaces and intrinsic Lipschitz graphs in the Heisenberg group

2018

A Semmes surface in the Heisenberg group is a closed set $S$ that is upper Ahlfors-regular with codimension one and satisfies the following condition, referred to as Condition B. Every ball $B(x,r)$ with $x \in S$ and $0 < r < \operatorname{diam} S$ contains two balls with radii comparable to $r$ which are contained in different connected components of the complement of $S$. Analogous sets in Euclidean spaces were introduced by Semmes in the late $80$'s. We prove that Semmes surfaces in the Heisenberg group are lower Ahlfors-regular with codimension one and have big pieces of intrinsic Lipschitz graphs. In particular, our result applies to the boundary of chord-arc domains and of redu…

Modality-specific dysfunctional neural processing of social-abstract and non-social-concrete information in schizophrenia

2021

Highlights • Social/non-social information processing in three modalities was investigated in SZ. • SZ showed reduced activation for social information only in gesture modality. • Reduced activation in SZ was observed for non-social information only in speech. • Neural Neural processing in bimodal condition is not different between patients and controls.

Rapid categorization of sound objects in anesthetized rats as indexed by the electrophysiological mismatch response

2014

It is not known whether animals can, similarly to humans, categorize auditory objects based on an abstract rule in combining their physical features. We recorded local-field potentials from the dura above the primary auditory cortex in urethane-anesthetized rats presented with sound series occasionally violating a rule (e.g., "the higher the frequency, the weaker the intensity"). In a separate control condition, the same frequency and intensity levels were applied in the sound objects, but they obeyed no rule. Responses found selectively to the violations of the rule suggest that an abstract rule was represented in the rat brain, enabling auditory categorization.