Search results for "Public Interest"

Biología sintética: contexto jurídico y políticas públicas

2016

Este trabajo se plantea tres cuestiones dirigidas a mejorar las propuestas sobre la gobernanza y regulación de la biología sintética. En primer lugar, se refieren algunos de los hitos científicos que han jalonado su desarrollo y el modo en que han influido en los debates ciudadanos sobre ella. En segundo lugar, se trata del marco jurídico internacional, con el fin de indagar en los principios sobre los que se sustenta y debería sustentarse. Por último, se revisan críticamente los informes acerca de los aspectos éticos y sociales de la BIOSIN, publicados por organizaciones gubernamentales y no gubernamentales en los últimos diez años.

Análisis de la presencia de dietistas-nutricionistas en hospitales de Andalucía

2017

Introducción: La figura profesional de referencia en el tratamiento dietético en el ámbito hospitalario es el dietista-nutricionista (DN). Su interés público coincide con los datos sobre su actuación y eficiencia clínica. El objetivo es describir su presencia en hospitales públicos y privados de Andalucía y analizar en qué medida se cumplen los criterios de la Declaración de postura de la Asociación Española de Dietistas-Nutricionistas (AEDN) sobre la incorporación del DN en el Sistema Nacional de Salud de 2009.Material y métodos: Se seleccionó como muestra hospitales públicos y privados del Registro de Centros, Establecimientos y Servicios Sanitarios de la Consejería de Salud y Bienestar S…

La precariedad en su voluntariedad : las sociedades de socorros mutuos en el primer liberalismo a propósito de los montepíos de abogados

2013

El reglamento del Montepío del Colegio de Abogados de Valencia de 1825 nadará entre el proteccionismo corporativista del Antiguo Régimen y el pragmatismo economicista de la Ilustración, para adaptarse, más tarde, al individualismo y el mercantilismo del Liberalismo. El trato hacia viudas y huérfanos no podía ser el mismo, lo que exigía un cambio de actitud disconforme con el sentir de muchos abogados. Y aunque la reforma de las mutualidades es paralela a la de gremios y colegios profesionales, el trato dispensado por la Administración será distinto, pues diferente era el interés del Estado en unas y otras corporaciones. Frente a los beneficios económicos privativos, el interés público por r…

Cities and Skills for Integration: What Can Urban Planning do? Experiences and Reflections Between Public Spaces and Collective Interest for Urban an…

2018

Immigration and integration of foreign communities is a condition that strongly affects the form and the meaning of public space. In contexts that are new to the phenomenon, there may be an occasion to revise the protocols and models for the development of new spatial relationships, based on the presence of communities that are no longer homogeneous. The theme of urban regeneration due to the presence of migrant communities has been addressed in various ways and from different points of view, often focusing on the creation of urban spaces capable of improving livability, rarely with the creation of integration processes or the construction of new urban identities. However, a resilient point…

2017

Social media has become an important tool for sport organisations to interact with fans. In particular for sports that have smaller marketing budgets and that do not receive mainstream media coverage on a daily basis, social media platforms provide unique communication and marketing opportunities to overcome such challenges. This study investigates the motives of fans to communicate on the Facebook page of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). It is the first study that focuses on the use of social media in the context of an international sport federation. Knowledge about the gratifications sought by fans while interacting on social media is important for organisations to develo…

Political Interference in Financial Reporting in the Financial Industry: Evidence from Spain

2018

This paper provides a theoretical background, based on legal and political fields, which we adapt to explain political interference in accounting in the “public interest”, at a critical moment —the last financial crisis. This framework goes beyond the positive accounting theory, and in particular the political cost hypothesis, to explain politicians’ influence on financial reporting. We examine the behavior of the newly elected Spanish government, which issued accounting impairment rules for banks in spite of IFRS being in place. The paper considers a highly politically connected financial entity —Bankia— as a case under study, where the political interference might have impacted the accoun…

BIODIVERSITY OF SICILIAN FRUIT TREES: STUDIES ON PLUMS

2010

The Sicilian territory contains a wide reserve of biodiversity of fruit tree species that, over a period of several centuries, have found there propitious pedoclimatic conditions for their establishment, and genetic diversification. The indigenous germplasm characterized Sicilian agriculture until less than one century ago but, after the diffusion of new cultivars originating from genetic improvement programs, a great part of this germplasm was replaced and now these important resources are at high risk of genetic erosion. Recently, public interest in the safeguarding of biodiversity and the development of a new interest in genetic resources and their scientific, economic and cultural impor…

NanoBioInterface: a multidisciplinary challenge

2009

Nanotechnologies are being applied to many fields of science and engineering and represent a broad spectrum of methods, some of which have been known for a long time. However, the public interest as well as the promotion of this topic by funding agencies has led in some cases to a simple renaming of

Towards a Deeper Understanding of the Meaning of Male Beach Worker-Female Tourist Relationships on the Kenyan Coast

2017

<p>Knowledge and research on sexual-economic relationships between local men and Western female tourists in different touristic locations around the world has grown, as has public interest and awareness of the phenomenon. However, the direct perspectives of the men whose lives constitute the focus of such studies remain scarce. This has resulted in the phenomenon being understood mainly and inadequately through the concepts of 'romance tourism' and 'female sex tourism'. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Kenya's South Coast region, this article foregrounds the voices of male beach workers and the meanings they assign to these relationships, against a backdrop of the histori…

Helvetius

2014

This chapter is a brief summary of the political thought of Helvetius.