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This paper presents an ethnographic study that took place at a high level training gym of Men's Artistic Gymnastics, at the Olympic Training Center of Sant Cugat del Vallés (Barcelona - Spain). The main goal of this study was to reveal the training culture characteristics of a high level training gym through a field observation (lasting one and a half year) by using the theoretical fundaments of the symbolic anthropology and the ethnographic methodology. We also highlight in this paper the institution context, some of the timing conditioning preparation of the gymnastics, some aspects of the social structure of the group and the universe symbolic indicators that characterize the activities inside the gym. Among the most relevant observation we detach the gym as a micro culture characterized by many ritual ceremonies, where the coaches have the power of the speech and the gymnasts are limited only to hear and execute whenever necessary. In this way the functioning of the gym follows a hierarchal respect of the orders and the responses of the activities and rules. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of this paper is to show how Bibliometrics is a quantitative study of scientific production, dissemination and use of information in different fields of information: bibliometric indexes are analyses and standards of measure for printed intellectual authoring, crucial to librarian management. The impact factor is the by-product of the statistic analysis that quantifies ranking and other categories of periodic publications -- the mathematical calculation of the impact factor is shown and exemplified. We suggest the application of the impact factor to monographs. For this purpose we will mention the pioneering studies of Urban Cristóval of the Universitat de Barcelona. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work propounds a thorough analysis of the printed press coverage of the evictions of Barcelona squatters, better known as "okupas", which took place between December 2006 and January 2007. The dailies herein used were: Metro Directe, Diario ADN, 20 MIN Barcelona, and Qué Barcelona in tabloid format. Our interest was stimulated by the frequency with which the problem was approached, by the people who participated —among them the "Mossos d'esquadra" and the Catalonian police force—, by the interest shown by the city's policy makers on housing and cultural issues, as well as by the very popular concern for the squats. We even got in touch with the "okupas" themselves, and visited the Casa Miles de Viviendas, where on November 15, 2006, Universitat Pirata was created, but did not reach the news till February 7, 2007, via the 20 MIN Barcelona paper, with a feature titled "Obren al La Barceloneta una universitat 'okupa'", with the by-line F. CEDÓ. The issue of the "okupas" is part of a bigger problem, that of the use of urban space in a city that claims world status and serves as a customary reference, at least in Europe. We also examine how the printed discourse of the daily free publications gradually constructs a particular topic for a particular public. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The information sector is, by its nature, an heterogeneous sector. The diversity of the professional environments where these activities occur, the diversity of its actors and interpenetration of their duties make difficult to characterize the professional areas and their names. In this sense, the boundaries that separate the occupations of this sector are not clear. According Abbott (1988), all the professions form a system. In this system, the professions divide their spaces in accordance with the power of that each one. The history of these disputes determines the history of professions. The difficulty in define the field of the information professions is a consequence of these interactions, the uncertainty of roles that these professionals should play in a reality where technological change is very rapid. The term "information professional" covers a wide field of activities with various This paper aims to reflect on the reality of the information professional, evoking the contradictions between the different meanings of the words that describe these professionals from the literature of Information Science from Brazil and Spain. It is based in research on the sociology of professions, following mainly Abbott (1988) and Dubar (2005). The content analysis is based on Bardin's technique, and considers three variables: the names of the professions, their definitions and their competences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Th e reduction of information asymmetry leads to a sound economic distribution with better investment opportunities. From this perspective, this paper aims to investigate factors that aff ect the extent of voluntary information disclosure by companies listed in the Spanish stock exchange. Th e statistical technique ordinary least squares was used for the sake of analysis. Th e results suggest that factors like: fi rm size, economic industry, debt ratio, level of internationalization, age and diff erence between common stock value and book value explain the greater extent of information disclosure for intangible resources. In turn, factors like profi tability, level of monopoly and floating capital of the company explain the lower levels of information disclosure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this paper is to offer a general perspective on the "victor/vanquished" dichotomy as a result of the new power balance in the period following the Spanish Civil War. The power balance administered by the Franco regime includes, inevitably, the "vanquished" management. I argue that the "victor/vanquished" distinction provides a sociological background to speak about the "two Spains" meta-historical metaphor as a social reality during Francoism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper provides evidence about the nominal wage determinants in Spain during the period 1980-2000. We estimate a wage equation, using time series analysis applying an error correction mechanism. Our aim is to analyse the extent to which the evolution of wages is influenced by the unemployment, prices and productivity. The results reveal that the unemployment rate has no effect on the evolution of nominal wages. The variable that explains the evolution of nominal wages in the long term is prices, showing slightly inflationary behaviour. In the short term, wages are explained by their past values, reflecting a nominal inertia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper presents a comparative study of social, political, economical, and health situation aged population of Brazil, Spain, and United States. A discussion was made about changing process age structure base don literature of the three countries. Data analysis confirmed improvements in ag people life conditions, and changing on social insertion and political and moral attitudes. Data indicat also that there are no similarities or differences among the countries which can be attributed to econom conditions, nor to cultural traditions. The duality expresses a transition in this segment, traditiona viewed in a negative way and, nowadays, also considered as economic and familiar support. T perspectives are that the aged people positive social role will be emphasized by naturalization of agi and by establishing de analytic references on aging itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Changes of land use, particularly those affecting agriculture, constitute an important issue in Galicia due to the consequences they carry from the environmental, economic and cultural points of view. Nevertheless, it is largely pending of being studied in greater detail, especially from the perspective of its location on the territory. This paper presents the use of statistical tools to evaluate the influence of several biophysical, structural, social and economic variables on the pattern of changes affecting the the distribution of agricultural land in the district of Terra Chá in the period 1956-2004. Among other results, it is shown that although the abandonment of agriculture took place mainly in less productive parcels located far from farms, the result of this transition was different in those areas located at higher altitude and farther from populated places (where shrubs covered most of former agricultural plots) and in more accessible areas where tree cover increased significantly. The opposite transition (from shrublands to agricultural use) was demonstrated to be closely correlated with the structure of parcels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this work/paper is to compare the ideology of the most important republican leaders of Spain and Portugal, between the portuguese "Geraçao doutrinal" and the spanish "republicanos históricos", in order to find common characteristics and differences between them and, therefore, between the Portuguese republicanism and the Spanish one. This way, we will pay attention on the ideological principles of each of the main leaders about different matters like: their philosofical principles, the organization of the State, the iberism, the religious problem or the social question. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to present the main results of research on the role of Spain's Grouped Rural High Schools (CRA-Colegios Rurais Agrupados) in strengthening the peasantry. From this perspective, the research methods were a survey and analysis of bibliographies related to the countryside and education, Spain, and, also, field research of an agency directly linked to the theme and of the CRAs themselves. While in Brazil the popular struggle for rural education strengthened during the 1990s, in Spain education for the countryside was institutionalized. As a consequence of demands made by interested parties, the system of Colegios Rurais Agrupados (CRA) was implanted. It was seen as a way to combat the disappearance of schools as a unique cultural reference for rural communities. However, this paper argues that the new form of organization has been unable to contribute to the development of the peasantry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The spreading of letter-writing and its social implication during the Modern Age resulted in the appearance of books in vernacular languages to learn how to write a letter correctly from the mid-Sixteenth century in Spain, as well as the rest of Europe. Among the varied examples offered to the readers to adapt their correspondence to the customs and conventions of this time, it's possible to find some letters directed to the Pope, who certainly had to be one of the most demanding addressees. In these treatises the Pontiff not only appears as the absent to whom the missives are written, but he also sometimes takes the quill. This collection of model letters makes up a imaginary correspondence that must be studied from the perspective of the epistolary theory, analyzing the typologies of letters proposed, the epistolary topics and themes allowed - the matters that could be discussed directly with the Pope, and those other ones that required intermediaries -, the authorized senders and their self-representative strategies on the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze the journey undertaken by the chronicler Ambrosio de Morales, between June 1572 and February 1573, through Leon, Castile and Galicia, upon request of King Phillip II, paying particular attention to a specific dimension: that this journey and its protagonist be instruments in reaffirming royal power, by identifying relics, royal tombs and ancient books. These are elements which hold a symbolic power which the monarch was seeking to appropriate, in a process to build centralized power and the image of a Christian king, combining in the same project religion, politics and culture. To this end, we will analyze the relation between this journey, as described by the chronicler, and its contribution to the collection of relics held at the Real Monasterio de El Escorial [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper discusses the issue of waiting times based on a study of Spain's National Health System (Sistema Nacional de Salud, SNS), focusing on the national context, management issues and local practices. Observation visits and interviews with health personnel and managers conducted in the metropolitan areas of the Autonomous Communities of Madrid, Andalusia, Catalonia and Basque Country were complemented by secondary data and a review of the literature. There is unanimity as to the positive results of the SNS, but cutting waiting times seems to be one key aspect requiring improvement. Two directions were identified for complementary measures: guaranteed maximum waiting times in the macro-social sphere associated with local measures to increase service integration and primary care resolution rates. The peculiarities of the Spanish decentralisation process and the existence of economic, political and health profession corporate interests were mentioned as factors hampering waiting list regulation, transparency and management. A comprehensive approach to this issue shows the need to shift discussion from waiting list monitoring and/or expanded supply to guaranteed timely access. That is the quality differential that primary care-oriented systems must bring to public health systems.

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This paper has the aim to investigate the subject of children's books published in Spain dealing with Physical Education and Sport. To develop the paper, the subject analysis technique was employed. The corpus of analysis, 60 children's books collected, can be found in the doctoral thesis Physical Education and children's literature: applications in the scholastic environment (Botelho, 2010). The results obtained in this paper indicated that: (a) 30 subjects were identified in the 60 children's books analysed; (b) the subject football presented the great incidence, with 13,33% (eight books); (c) the second subject with great incidence is games, with 10,00% (six children's books); (d) the subjects ballet and running had, each one, 8,33% (five books); (e) the other subjects registered an inferior incidence of 8% (with 4 or less books); (f) the majority of subjects presented an incidence of 1,67% (only one childrens book). The conclusions obtained in this article indicate that: (1) from the 30 subjects identified in the 60 children's books, the subject football had the great incidence; (2) the majority of subjects presented only one incidence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The international expatriate adjustment would be major factor in the development of the company's international activities and is defined by Ali (2003) as the comfort level of the worker in the host country. Realizing the importance of expatriate's adjustment in the international business, this paper aims to assess how the international Brazilians expatriates process occurred in china and Spain, considering the two levels of analyze proposed in the black, Mendenhall e Oddou ( 1991) model: anticipated adjustment( before moving to abroad) and adjustment in the host country.the methodology used was an qualitative exploratory research with ten Brazilian expatriates: five individuals assigned to work in Spain, and the others five to assigned to work in China. Among the mains findings, perceived to lack of preparation prior to expatriation by the People Management team and found that the difference adversely affects the mental adjustment, but the challenges and grasping the global mindset of the executive appease this factor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper discusses the production and re creation of cities' tourist imageries, noting the effects of tourism in Coimbra and Salamanca. The analysis focuses firstly on the ways cities are presented to the external gaze; secondly, on the urban invisibilities created by tourism activities; and thirdly on the circumscribed and selective nature of tourist cities. Drawing on this line of questioning, the paper pertains to the manner cities use and rebuild their images and significations, rendering them active instruments of urban development strategies. Finally, it assesses the value of heritage for tourist promotion and discusses the creation of new tourist images shaped by the rhetoric of the creativity of the urban space [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper seeks to clarify the mechanisms of gender-based differentiation in everyday practices of work organization within a profession where employees face a particularly high level of stress: secondary school teaching. It compares France and Spain, two countries where the professional teaching standards differ and ask for a particular commitment at work. Focusing on the results of a qualitative survey, the author gives prime importance to the speeches and representations that individuals use to describe their experiences at work. Taking into account the various working environments (career-related and non career-related), it leads us to observe that, although the impacts are not alike within the two countries studied, gender-differentiated spatial and temporal arrangements have consequences from a health point of view, namely in terms of stress. However, the commonly identified feeling of "overload" remains often unrecognised, or even officially unspeakable, within this profession with a family-friendly reputation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper reviews the links between the gentrification process of the Madrilenian district of Chueca and homosexual presence. As envisioned, Chueca already was in the gay and transvestite epicenter from decades ago. It is further argued that the gay business and residential attraction of the 90's and 2000's alone do not explain the participation of gay and lesbian population in the process of gentrification and neighborhood rehabilitation. It is necessary to look at representations of the male homosexual, to the changes in their lifestyles, to grasp the changes in Chueca image. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Distinct models of health management reflect the core principles upon which they were founded and their institutional arrangement can lead to the improvement of health policy. This paper seeks to reflect on the potential benefits and limitations of the organizational structure and the social capital to lead to changes in the performance of public health organizations in the quest for enhanced quality of care. The description and analysis of two experiences of universal public health systems, in Catalonia and in Brazil, reveal similarities in the legal basis of both health systems. However, the mode of deployment differed greatly, which gave rise to divergent management experiences. One prioritized managerial organization, while the other concentrated on the importance of the social actors promoting the institutionalization of social capital. It is suggested that models of management with dialogue between an efficient organizational design and citizen participation capable of constructing social capital may lead to change in the organizational culture and enhance the quality of care.

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