Search results for "Egle"

¿'Los casos de honra son mejores'?: Moreto o la deconstrucción de la tragedia

2013

Agustín Moreto is the autor of just one tragedy,La fuerza de la ley(1644).In this work he followed the conventions of the tragedy of honor as designed by Lope de Vega and Calderón de la Barca. In it Moreto reproduces the essential situations of the literary genre and constructs a conflict of love and honor. Nonetheless, he presents asymmetrical characters and (using a mixture of tragedy and comedy as prescribed by Lope in his Arte Nuevo, 1609) adopts an ironic and pragmatic point of view that undermines the dramatic quality of the tragedy. In spite of such a systematic deconstruction of a prestigious literary genre, the public appreciated the innovation of La fuerza de la ley. Nevertheless,…

La importancia de llamarse Leonardo: en busca de un archipersonaje en el teatro de Lope de Vega

2012

Ya se sabe que los nombres apresuran nuestras percepciones y condensan nuestros afectos, como insiste Proust en uno de los capítulos más brillantes del primer tomo de À la recherche, aquel que lleva por título en la traducción de Pedro Salinas"Nombres de tierras: el nombre", cuando al considerar"los nombres de las personasy de las ciudades que nos habituamos a considerar individuales y únicas como personas" se demora en paladear los nombres de algunas ciudades decisivas en su vida:"Y para hacerlos revivir [esos sueños], bastábame con pronunciar esos nombres: Balbec, Venecia, Florencia, en cuyo interior acabé por acumular todos los deseos que me inspiraron los lugares que designaban" (Por el…

Summary of PhD thesis and book by George Mackov: reviews of Karlis Egle

2018

Multiple traumas and resilience among street children in Haiti: Psychopathology of survival

2017

Abstract In Haiti, as in several developing countries, the phenomenon of street children has become a major public health issue. These children are often victims of traumas and adverse life events. This article aimed to investigate traumas experienced by street children and their coping and resilience strategies used to deal with adversities in a logic of survival, relying on a mixed method approach. A group of 176 street children, aged 7–18 (n = 21 girls), recruited in Port-au-Prince, completed measures assessing PTSD, social support and resilience. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to document traumatic experiences, factors related to resilience and coping strategies. After perfor…

Multisensory integration in hemianopia and unilateral spatial neglect: Evidence from the sound induced flash illusion.

2016

Recent neuropsychological evidence suggests that acquired brain lesions can, in some instances, abolish the ability to integrate inputs from different sensory modalities, disrupting multisensory perception. We explored the ability to perceive multisensory events, in particular the integrity of audio-visual processing in the temporal domain, in brain-damaged patients with visual field defects (VFD), or with unilateral spatial neglect (USN), by assessing their sensitivity to the 'Sound-Induced Flash Illusion' (SIFI). The study yielded two key findings. Firstly, the 'fission' illusion (namely, seeing multiple flashes when a single flash is paired with multiple sounds) is reduced in both left- …

Asthma and wheezing symptoms in young people in six Western countries.

2006

Background Asthma diagnosed in children shows wide geographical variations. Large scale surveys identify children with diagnosed asthma, but neglect the group of youngsters with multiple asthmatic complaints. Methods A short validated asthma questionnaire was included in six national surveys of the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children Study. Prevalence rates are presented by country, gender and age. Gender and age differences are analysed using binary and multinomial logistic regressions controlling for age and smoking. Results Large country differences are observed in the prevalence rates of diagnosed asthma (8.6%-20.9% in boys, 6.9%-18.5% in girls) and young people with “asthma-like s…

Childhood history of abuse and child abuse potential: The role of parent's gender and timing of childhood abuse

2014

It has been suggested that being physically abused leads to someone becoming a perpetrator of abuse which could be associated to parents' gender, timing of the physical abuse and specific socio-demographic variables. This study aims to investigate the role the parents' gender, timing of childhood abuse and socio-demographic variables on the relationship between parents' history of childhood physical abuse and current risk for children. The sample consisted of 920 parents (414 fathers, 506 mothers) from the Portuguese National Representative Study of Psychosocial Context of Child Abuse and Neglect who completed the Childhood History Questionnaire and the Child Abuse Potential Inventory. The …

Connecting Child Maltreatment Risk With Crime and Neighborhood Disadvantage Across Time and Place: A Bayesian Spatiotemporal Analysis

2018

Child maltreatment is a major public health problem. Although maltreatment rates vary over time and are influenced by neighborhood characteristics, the unique effects of crime and disadvantage on risk are not well understood. This study utilized a Bayesian spatiotemporal approach to examine risk factors for substantiated child abuse and neglect over a 9-year period across zip codes in Davidson County, TN. Risk of child sexual and physical abuse decreased from 2008 to 2016. In contrast, risk of child neglect increased from 2011 to 2014, followed by a rapid decrease in risk. Whereas higher percentages of families living in poverty were associated with higher risk of all maltreatment subtypes…

Prevention and contrast of child abuse and neglect in the practice of European paediatricians: a multi-national pilot study

2021

AbstractBackgroundChild abuse and neglect, or maltreatment, is a serious public health problem, which may cause long-term effects on children’s health and wellbeing and expose them to further adulthood vulnerabilities. Studies on child maltreatment performed in Europe are scarce, and the number of participants enrolled relatively small. The aim of this multi-national European pilot study, was to evaluate the level of understanding and perception of the concepts of child abuse and neglect by European paediatricians working in different medical settings, and the attitude toward these forms of maltreatment in their practice.MethodsThe study was performed by a cross-sectional, descriptive, onli…

Prismatic adaptation effects on spatial representation of time in neglect patients

2011

Abstract Processing of temporal information may require the use of spatial attention to represent time along a mental time line. We used prismatic adaptation (PA) to explore the contribution of spatial attention to the spatial representation of time in right brain damaged patients with and without neglect of left space and in age-matched healthy controls. Right brain damaged patients presented time underestimation deficits, that were significantly greater in patients with neglect than in patients without neglect. PA inducing leftward attentional deviation reduced time underestimation deficit in patients with neglect. The results support the hypothesis that a right hemispheric network has a …