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Esta investigación presenta un análisis de contenido realizado sobre los mensajes que publicaron las marcas más importantes de la industria del juguete en España de acuerdo al Programa Estrella de la Asociación Española de Fabricantes de Juguetes (AEFJ) en la red social Facebook durante la campaña de Navidad 2014-2015. En concreto, se analizaron los mensajes publicados por Famosa, Playmobil, Comansi, Hasbro, Barbie y Fisher-Price. El principal objetivo de la investigación ha sido analizar la interacción entre las marcas y sus seguidores. Se tiene en cuenta la finalidad de las publicaciones y el empleo de recursos multimedia (vídeos, fotografías, etiquetas, emoticonos o enlaces a páginas web). En total se recogieron 991 mensajes. Los resultados desglosan las características que presentan los diez mensajes más populares (con más likes), los diez que registran más participación (es decir, lo que recibieron un mayor número de comentarios) y los diez más virales (los que se compartieron más veces). La estrategia empleada por este sector se basa en transmitir mensajes de carácter informativo o saludar a la audiencia a través de mensajes que son acompañados de una fotografía. Estos mensajes se corresponden con los que más gustan y se comparten. Por el contrario, los contenidos que más se comentan son aquellos que buscan la interacción con los usuarios a través de mecanismos como los concursos.

Las carencias educativas resultantes de abandonar tempranamente la educación estarían contribuyendo significativamente a altas tasas de desempleo e inactividad entre los jóvenes. Sin embargo, la educación también es considerada un medio decisivo para afrontar estos problemas. Por tanto, merece especial atención obtener conocimiento sobre las condiciones en que se produce la reincorporación a la formación tras quedar esta interrumpida prematuramente. El estudio aquí presentado explora, en un centro educativo de segunda oportunidad ubicado en Ceuta (donde los indicadores mencionados alcanzan valores relativos muy elevados), la perspectiva que sus alumnos tienen de su recorrido vital previo a retornar a la formación en él y la incidencia atribuida al mismo. Para ello se recurre a datos procedentes de entrevistas individuales en profundidad realizadas a 39 jóvenes sin empleo y en riesgo de exclusión social con edades comprendidas entre los 18 y 24 años (29 en situación de abandono temprano de la educación y 10 que no se encontraban en esta situación), como parte de un estudio de caso más amplio referido a dicho centro, seleccionado por su éxito relativo y notoriedad en la mencionada Ciudad Autónoma. La información proporcionada por los participantes en forma de relatos ha sido objeto de análisis narrativo, aplicando dos procedimientos: biogramas que representan sucesos relevantes acaecidos en su vida junto a su visión de estos, y análisis temático de la información recogida en ellos. Globalmente considerados, los resultados indican que los recorridos realizados van siendo construidos mediante decisiones que los participantes adoptan entre alternativas determinadas por circunstancias personales, institucionales y sociales. Se aproximan así a biografías electivas. En este contexto, abandono educativo temprano y reincorporación a la formación revisten un carácter recurrente, transitorio y reversible, precisamente en virtud del relevante papel que desempeñan quienes viven estas situaciones, aunque lo desempeñen condicionados por su entorno institucional y social.Cómo citar este artículo: Portela Pruaño, A., Nieto Cano, J. M. y Torres Soto, A. (2019). La reincorporación formativa de jóvenes que abandonan tempranamente la educación: relevancia de su trayectoria previa | Re-engagement in education and training of young people who leave education early: the importance of earlier prior trajectories. Revista Española de Pedagogía, 77 (272), 103-121. doi: 10.22550/REP77-1-2019-07

The unauthorized use of pesticides applied at inappropriate times and/or in unregistered crops is a potential risk to the environment and also to human health. The aim of this study was to assess the level of knowledge and awareness of farmers on the use, risk, and hazards associated with the exposure to pesticides in the agricultural region of Sancti Spíritus, Cuba. To comply with the objective, 124 farmers of this province were surveyed. The results were analyzed initially through a descriptive analysis and then, performing an association analysis using the Chi-Square test and Spearman ́s correla-tions, employing the statistical package SPSS version 20.0. The results showed that only 28.3 % of the farmers had received specific training on pesticides. Personal experience was the main driver for de-cisions about which pesticides to use and how it would be applied. About 35.8 % of the farmers stored pesticides in unmarked containers, such as soft drink bottles. The empty containers are stored to be incinerated (31.7 %) or reused (42.6 %) for pesticides, water, or fuel. Around 90 % of the farmers surveyed do not use personal protective equipment. The study concludes that the lack of knowledge and use of personal protective equi-pment, the inability to understand the labels and also the low risk-perception are the main causes of exposure to pesticides and the health risk for workers and nearby residents, as well as the damages caused to the environment. El uso no autorizado de plaguicidas, como la aplicación en momentos inadecuados o en cultivos no registrados, es un riesgo potencial para el medio ambiente y la salud humana. El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar el nivel de conocimiento y concientización entre los agricultores sobre el uso, riesgo y peli-gros asociados con la exposición a plaguicidas en la región agrícola de Sancti Spíritus, Cuba. Para el desarrollo del objetivo se encuestaron 124 campesinos de la provincia. Los resultados fueron analizados a partir de un análisis descriptivo inicial y luego a través de un análisis de asociación mediante la prueba Chi-Cuadrado y Correlaciones de Spearman, empleando el paquete estadístico SPSS versión 20.0. Los resultados mostraron que solo el 28,3 % de los agricultores había recibido capacitación específica en plaguicidas. La experiencia personal es el principal impulsor de las decisiones sobre qué plaguicidas usar y cómo utilizarlo. El 35,8 % de los agricultores almacenó plaguicidas en recipientes sin marcar, como botellas de refrescos. Los contenedores vacíos se almacenan para ser incinerados (31,7 %) o reutilizados (42,6 %) para plaguicidas, agua o gasolina. Alrededor del 90 % de los agricultores no utiliza equipos de protección personal. El estudio concluye que la falta de conocimiento, el no uso de equipo de protección personal, la incapacidad para entender las etiquetas y la baja percepción de riesgos son las principales causas de la exposición a los plaguicidas y el riesgo para la salud de los trabajadores y residentes cercanos, así como de los daños al medio ambiente.

A century ago, the third bubonic plague swept the globe, taking more than 15 million lives. Plague Ports tells the story of ten cities on five continents that were ravaged by the epidemic in its initial years: Hong Kong and Bombay, the Asian emporiums of the British Empire where the epidemic first surfaced; Sydney, Honolulu and San Francisco, three pearls of the Pacific; Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro in South America; Alexandria and Cape Town in Africa; and Oporto in Europe.Myron Echenberg examines plague's impact in each of these cities, on the politicians, the medical and public health authorities, and especially on the citizenry, many of whom were recent migrants crammed into grim living spaces. He looks at how different cultures sought to cope with the challenge of deadly epidemic disease, and explains the political, racial, and medical ineptitudes and ignorance that allowed the plague to flourish. The forces of globalization and industrialization, Echenberg argues, had so increased the transmission of microorganisms that infectious disease pandemics were likely, if not inevitable.This fascinating, expansive history, enlivened by harrowing photographs and maps of each city, sheds light on urbanism and modernity at the turn of the century, as well as on glaring public health inequalities. With the recent outbreaks of SARS and avian flu, and ongoing fears of bioterrorism, Plague Ports offers a necessary and timely historical lesson.

Is feminism in “crisis?” With many feminists now questioning identification and focusing on differences between women, what is the fate of feminist criticism ‘s traditional imperative to rescue women ‘s stories and make their voices heard? In this provocative rereading of the classic texts of the feminist literary canon, Carla Kaplan takes a hard look at the legacy of feminist criticism and argues that important features of feminism ‘s own canon have been overlooked in the rush to rescue and identify texts. African-American women ‘s texts, she demonstrates, often dramatize their distrust of their readers, their lack of faith in “the cultural conversation,” through strategies of self-silencing and “self-talk.” At the same time, she argues, the homoerotics of women ‘s writing has too often gone unremarked. Not only does longing for an ideal listener draw women ‘s texts into a romance with the reader, but there is an erotic excess which is part of feminist critical recuperation itself. Drawing on a wide range of resources, from sociolinguistics and anthropology to literary theory, Kaplan ‘s highly readable study proposes a new model for understanding and representing “talk.” She supplies fresh readings of such feminist classics as Jane Eyre, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and The Color Purple, revealing how their “erotics of talk” works as a rich political allegory and form of social critique.

Movie-Made Jews focuses on a rich, usable American Jewish cinematic tradition. This tradition includes fiction and documentary films that make Jews through antisemitism, Holocaust indirection, and discontent with assimilation. It prominently features the unapologetic assertion of Jewishness, queerness, and alliances across race and religion. Author Helene Meyers shows that as we go to our local theater, attend a Jewish film festival, play a DVD, watch streaming videos, Jewishness becomes part of the multicultural mosaic rather than collapsing into a generic whiteness or being represented as a life apart. This engagingly-written book demonstrates that a Jewish movie is neither just a movie nor for Jews only. With incisive analysis, Movie-Made Jews challenges the assumption that American Jewish cinema is a cinema of impoverishment and assimilation. While it's a truism that Jews make movies, this book brings into focus the diverse ways movies make Jews.

The objetive of this study was to to explore the experiences and perspectives that a group of midwives from Jalisco, Mexico had with women who were abused during pregnancy and delivery. A qualitative study was conducted in a rural zone of Jalisco, Mexico, between May and October 2011 with 24 midwives. The techniques used to obtain the data were: individual interviews, life history, and the participatory regional assembly. After collecting the discourses, these were analyzed using the semiotic actantial model. The midwives are familiar with the violence exercised against women during the pregnancy and birth process; this is mainly attributed to-location- and sex-related aspects,which in turn shows the combination of pregnancy and violence as a risk factor for obstetrical problems. In addition, physical violence was the most common type of abuse, and the woman's partner was the main aggressor. Finally, the midwives' ability to speak, listen and identify the cases of violence is worth mentioning.

El presente trabajo muestra parte de los resultados de un proyecto de investigación realizado para identificar las tensiones y los puntos de encuentro entre las instituciones estatales de transparencia, fiscalización y asignación de recursos y sus instrumentos (plataforma para el gobierno abierto, portales de internet, reglas de operación, etc.) con las instituciones y procedimientos comunitarios. El estudio se efectúo en 12 comunidades indígenas de distintos pueblos y regiones del estado de Oaxaca, México. La revisión de los mecanismos de participación ciudadana y de la eficacia de los mecanismos estatales y comunitarios permitió observar hasta dónde, unos y otros, favorecen u obstaculizan la rendición de cuentas; así como la necesidad de una visión intercultural para el diálogo entre comunidades e instituciones estatales. En ese contexto, se revisaron experiencias de “contraloría comunitaria”, poniendo énfasis en los mecanismos exitosos al estar basados en normas locales dotadas de un alto nivel de legitimidad, pero también apuntando sus limitaciones. Entre los hallazgos obtenidos se encuentran la alta capacidad de las instituciones de las comunidades indígenas para garantizar la rendición de cuentas, así como la falta de pertinencia cultural de las instituciones del Estado mexicano para reconocer esos mecanismos y establecer esquemas de coordinación para coadyuvar en ese objetivo y los problemas que se generan debido a los desfases entre estos dos ámbitos.

The analysis led to several emerging codes related to the construction of adolescent personal identity.Most of the messages relating to personal identity were aimed at transmitting the self-impression of the YouTuber and the relationship of that self-impression with his gender identity, sexual orientation, and vocational identity.Adolescence, identity, adolescent development, psychology, youtubers, YouTube, social network, Internet. 1.The effect of social network sites on adolescents\" social and academic development: current theories and controversies.

DNA testing and advances in forensic science have shaken the foundations of the U.S. criminal justice system. One of the most visible results is the exoneration of inmates who were wrongly convicted and incarcerated, many of them sentenced to death for crimes they did not commit. This has caused a quandary for many states: how can claims of innocence be properly investigated and how can innocent inmates be reliably distinguished from the guilty? In answer, some states have created \"innocence commissions\" to establish policies and provide legal assistance to the improperly imprisoned. The Innocence Commission describes the creation and first years of the Innocence Commission for Virginia (ICVA), the second innocence commission in the nation and the first to conduct a systematic inquiry into all cases of wrongful conviction. Written by Jon B. Gould, the Chair of the ICVA, who is a professor of justice studies and an attorney, the author focuses on twelve wrongful conviction cases to show how and why wrongful convictions occur, what steps legal and state advocates took to investigate the convictions, how these prisoners were ultimately freed, and what lessons can be learned from their experiences. Gould recounts how a small band of attorneys and other advocates — in Virginia and around the country — have fought wrongful convictions in court, advanced the subject of wrongful convictions in the media, and sought to remedy the issue of wrongful convictions in the political arena. He makes a strong case for the need for Innocence Commissions in every state, showing that not only do Innocence Commissions help to identify weaknesses in the criminal justice system and offer workable improvements, but also protect society by helping to ensure that actual perpetrators are expeditiously identified, arrested, and brought to trial. Everyone has an interest in preventing wrongful convictions, from police officers and prosecutors, who seek the latest and best investigative techniques, to taxpayers, who want an efficient criminal justice system, to suspects who are erroneously pursued and sometimes convicted. Free of legal jargon and written for a general audience, The Innocence Commission is instructive, informative, and highly compelling reading.