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Dynamics of goal pursuit and personality make-up among emerging adults: Typology, change over time, and adaptation
2010
In recent years young people's lives have been characterized by postponement of developmental timetables, inconsistencies of transitions, and loss of direction in life. Data from a longitudinal study of Israeli young adults show that the capacity for setting realistic work and love goals reflects inner strengths and is associated with adaptive outcomes. Less-articulated love and work goals are associated with underlying personality difficulties and are predictive of less stable and less adaptive outcomes. The interplay of goal constellations and personality constructs, and its association with adaptive and less adaptive outcomes is presented and discussed. © Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Tipos de organizaciones deportivas en España
2018
El deporte ha sido considerado un fenómeno de masas con un trascendental poder de seguimiento y congregación, aportando un importante valor económico y social. Hoy en día, en España nos encontramos en un entorno cambiante, en el que las demandas y necesidades de la población son cada vez más diversas, teniendo como consecuencia una obligatoria adaptación y versatilidad por parte de las organizaciones. Dichos cambios estructurales, funcionales y organizativos requieren de una sostenibilidad, tanto de las instalaciones deportivas como de los servicios ofertados. Este hecho cada vez se hace más complicado, por lo que el concepto tradicional de organización deportiva ha ido cambiando. En este e…
UNESCO’s Humanity of Hope : The Orient Catalogue and the Story of the East
2018
This article analyses UNESCO’s (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) early attempts to propagate the ideal of hope in the pursuit of the organisation’s agenda of “the intellectual and moral solidarity of mankind”. An early example of such an endeavour is a film catalogue project carried out by UNESCO and the British Film Institute in the midst of the Cold War and at the peak of the decolonisation process. Titled “Orient. A Survey of Films Produced in Countries of Arab and Asian Culture”, the catalogue was published in 1959 with the aim of familiarising Western audiences with Eastern cultures to forge solidarity of humankind through the promotion of intercult…
La salvación de los clásicos: las adaptaciones fieles al original
2013
En este ensayo me propongo esbozar un posible procedimiento para adaptar con fidelidad un texto clásico teniendo como objetivo esencial la trasmisión de los tesoros que encierra, pero con un total respeto no solo a la historia contada, sino a la misma concepción unitaria de la obra. Los propios clásicos hablaban de monere et delectare como fines de la creación literaria; no hay que perderlos de vista: la enseñanza la llevan puesta los propios textos, pero hay que lograr que aflore en ellos la diversión para el lector actual. Utilizaré como ilustración de esa exposición teórica las dificultades que he encontrado en la tarea de llevar a cabo algunas de mis ya numerosas adaptaciones de clásico…
Adaptación de tres variables contextuales en estudiantes universitarios argentinos
2017
Una de las dificultades que han presentado los estudios destinados a identificar las causas de deserción universitaria es la falta de consideración de variables sociales/contextuales que, según se ha demostrado en la literatura, se relacionan con el proceso de progresión de la carrera. Para la evaluación de dichas variables, el primer paso consiste en la adaptación de pruebas que permitan su medición. Por lo cual, el objetivo del presente trabajo consistió en la adaptación de las escalas de Apertura a la Diversidad, Percepción de Prejuicios y Discriminación y Experiencias Académicas. En este estudio participaron 1295 estudiantes que se encontraban cursando diferentes carreras en la Universi…
Learning Automaton Based On-Line Discovery and Tracking of Spatio-temporal Event Patterns
2010
Published version of an article from the book: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2010, Volume 6230/2010, 327-338. The original publication is available at Springerlink. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15246-7_31 Discovering and tracking of spatio-temporal patterns in noisy sequences of events is a difficult task that has become increasingly pertinent due to recent advances in ubiquitous computing, such as community-based social networking applications. The core activities for applications of this class include the sharing and notification of events, and the importance and usefulness of these functionalites increases as event-sharing expands into larger areas of one’s life. Ironically, …
Remarks on the environmental adaptation of man.
1971
In this paper the geographical variability of some morphological, physiological and serological traits of man is discussed with respect to the question, how far this variability can be considered as the result of selective adaptation processes. Though there is already some evidence supporting such an assumption, much more detailed and exactly planned research is necessary to clear the indubitable relations between the distribution patterns of anthropological traits and the various environmental conditions of human biotops. Particularly much more work is required to understand the causative mechanisms on which these relations are based.
Toward a conceptual understanding of acute cultural adaptation: A preliminary examination of ACA in female swimming
2012
This paper considers a novel approach to researching adaptation in transnational athletes. The first part introduces a conceptualisation of acute cultural adaptation (ACA), which extends the current literature in sport psychology by offering original insights into mechanisms underpinning adaptive processes to a new cultural site during an interim relocation. Rereading a self-determination theory through the lens of cultural epistemology, the proposed theorisation suggests that ACA is realised in everyday practices drawing on a range of material and symbolic cultural resources to satisfy basic psychological needs. The second part of the paper engages the conceptualisation of ACA to make sens…
Negative feedback regulation of the yeast CTH1 and CTH2 mRNA binding proteins is required for adaptation to iron deficiency and iron supplementation.
2013
Iron (Fe) is an essential element for all eukaryotic organisms because it functions as a cofactor in a wide range of biochemical processes. Cells have developed sophisticated mechanisms to tightly control Fe utilization in response to alterations in cellular demands and bioavailability. In response to Fe deficiency, the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae activates transcription of the CTH1 and CTH2 genes, which encode proteins that bind to AU-rich elements (AREs) within the 3′ untranslated regions (3′UTRs) of many mRNAs, leading to metabolic reprogramming of Fe-dependent pathways and decreased Fe storage. The precise mechanisms underlying Cth1 and Cth2 function and regulation are incompletely u…
Spectral adaptation of hyperspectral flight lines using VHR contextual information
2014
Abstract: Due to technological constraints, hyperspectral earth observation imagery are often a mosaic of overlapping flight lines collected in different passes over the area of interest. This causes variations in aqcuisition conditions such that the reflected spectrum can vary significantly between these flight lines. Partly, this problem is solved by atmospherical correction, but residual spectral differences often remain. A probabilistic domain adaptation framework based on graph matching using Hidden Markov Random Fields was recently proposed for transforming hyperspectral data from one image to better correspond to the other. This paper investigates the use of scale and angle invariant…