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Monuments to Mestizaje and the Commemoration of Racial Democracy in Puerto Rico
Abstract In this paper, I argue that monuments to mestizaje (miscegenation) in Puerto Rico reaffirm the myth of a harmonious mixture between the White Spaniard, Black African, and Indigenous Taíno. This racial triad, originally conceived in the nineteenth century, was institutionalized in 1956 by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture to legitimize the ...
Rafael V. Capó García
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La reciente publicación de una nueva edición del libro de Elizabeth Jelin, Los trabajos de la memoria, es un acontecimiento editorial que no puede pasar desapercibido. Se trata de un libro que puede ser considerado un clásico del pensamiento social latinoamericano de las últimas décadas, y, al mismo tiempo, justamente por ello, es además un escrito ...
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Abstract Iodine is an essential element involved in the synthesis of thyroid hormones, being essential for pre‐ and postnatal brain development and for cellular metabolism throughout life. On the other hand, iodine deficiency is one of the most easily preventable public health problems affecting the largest number of people in the world.
Irene Bretón Lesmes +5 more
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Abstract This article analyses the role of linguistic skills in the process of defining professional classifications in Spain during 1919–1980. The aim is to determine the social evaluation of the skills involved. To retrace the classifications, a total of 114 official documents were examined, establishing a chronological division into three major ...
Amado Alarcón Alarcón +3 more
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The afterlives of political violence in Argentina: The gendered body and everyday cruelty
Abstract While the last decade in Argentina saw an expansion of civil rights and an increased awareness of gendered violence, prison conditions for women deteriorated. A prominent example took place in Buenos Aires in May 2014 when thirty women in ‘Unidad 31’ were violently transferred to make space for men convicted of crimes against humanity during ...
Leyla Savloff
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Abstract Rich in raw materials, the state of Guerrero, Mexico, is one of the main enclaves of opium production, mineral extraction, and a focus for the multiplication of armed actors in Latin America, which, together with the overlapping of counterinsurgent violence in the past, post‐colonial violence and the militarization of the policies of the so ...
Inés Giménez Delgado
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Comprender un texto es una actividad cognitiva compleja que implica la construcción de una representación mental coherente en la memoria. Un proceso importante para ello es la generación de inferencias.
Juan Pablo Barreyro +7 more
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Abstract The everyday difficulties faced by working‐class women, including access to food, are aggravated in critical periods, such as wars and economic crises. However, the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) was accompanied by a revolution, in the Republican zones, where women opened spaces for their emancipation. By examining social reproduction practices
Marta Camps‐Calvet +2 more
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Fluid Intelligence, Working Memory, Reading Fluency and Comprehension in Chilean School Children [PDF]
Introducción. Los estudios acerca de las variables que pueden impactar la comprensión de lectura en niveles intermedios de enseñanza no son del todo concluyentes.
Bizama M., Marcela +2 more
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El rol de la memoria de trabajo y la atención sostenida en la generación de inferencias explicativas
El propósito de este trabajo consistió en estudiar la relación entre la memoria de trabajo, la capacidad de sostener la atención y la generación de inferencias explicativas-repositivas en la comprensión de textos expositivos. Para ello, 120 alumnos
Juan Pablo Barreyro +3 more
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