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This paper presents the results of a study on three species, of which commercialize products considered adaptogens: Lepidium meyenii Walp. (Brassicaceae), "maca", Morinda citrifolia L. (Rubiaceae), "noni", and Petiveria alliacea L. (Phytolaccaceae), "pipi". The data come from an Urban Ethnobotany study conducted in Buenos Aires-La Plata conurbation. The traditional uses of the species, their access routes, marketing and diffusion as dietary supplements in urban pluricultural context are presented, as well as current modes of use and related knowledge which are part of local botanical knowledge. Thus, modifications in the uses originally assigned as result of the expansion of the products in the context of globalization are evaluated, well as the consequent changes in traditional patterns of knowledge, beliefs and practices related to these plant resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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At the end of the nineteenth century, a process of modernization and development took place in Argentina, within the frame of the nation-state consolidation. In this context, the country witnessed a discursive profusion that expected to introduce disciplinary instruments into society, among which the creation of a modern maternal ideal can be mentioned. This paper analyzes the main topics of such discourses, through one the main media available to spread them in rural central and southern Buenos Aires in our period: the local press. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper includes the first record of Carya illinoinensis (Wangenh.) K. Koch for Argentina, and considerations about its status in the context of the naturalization process. Also includes observations about exotic species of Juglans in this country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The development and use of indicators and indices is increasingly necessary to understand and adequately measure the living conditions of the population at different scales. In Argentina, however, there has been a delay in the production of environmental indices in relation to others associated with social and economic variables. To fill this gap this paper proposes the development of an environmental quality index for the Province of Buenos Aires and the Federal Capital of Argentina. For its implementation twenty-three variables are grouped into two broad dimensions called a) scenic, recreational or amenity resources, and b) environmental problems. The spatial configuration shows that municipalities located in attractive natural areas and with a medium population component have the best scores in contrast to large urbanizations that share various environmental problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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We present the final results of an investigation (UBACYT F157) that determined the scientific production indicators of the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the Universidad de Buenos Aires for 2007. Quantitative procedures were applied to analyze the data recorded in a database created ad hoc. Preferences of researchers to disseminate their findings through the production of journal articles, conference papers, book chapters and books, audiovisual and electronic productions were determined. Among the different bibliographic formats, the following variables were studied: language, types of journals, scope of the conferences, authors, types of publishers. Of the three hypotheses stated the one that presupposed the existence of various strategies for dissemination of knowledge among different disciplines has been refuted. The other two were confirmed: preference for printed over digital media and almost non-existent use of electronic resources for dissemination, and preference for certain semi-formal channels of dissemination such as conferences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of this paper is, on the one hand, to disclose the legislative actions that Argentine Government its different jurisdictions has undertaken about Corporate Social Responsibility in; and, on the other hand, to set the authors' point of view as regards its future development. Considering the fact that there is no a comprehensive national legislation about this subject, some local laws and initiatives are taken as example. One of them is Act No. 2594 by Legislatura de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, which demands companies to publish entrepreneurial social reports. Another source is national Act No. 25877 and its modification proposals, which deals with Working Regime Order in relation to Social Report publications. Besides, another regulatory project about the topic from Municipalidad de San Carlos de Bariloche is taken into account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From an ethnographic perspective, this paper will focus on analyzing how «cirujas» --as people collecting reusable materials from waste are-- are readapting themselves to the current urban space in the city of Buenos Aires (Argentina), and how they confront stigmatizing social discourses. An account of theses uses and the strategies they formulate to face social differentiation they use to live with, to resist or coexist with stigmatizing stereotypes condemning them is provided. At the same time, by focusing on urban spaces with interacting groups from different socio-economic sectors, the idea of social segregation will be challenged, by showing these processes come along with new encounter modalities between the different social groups based on the realization of a differentiated use of public space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper will analyze the relationship between language practices and childhood among Toba children. The study focused on a marginal urban setting in Buenos Aires where monolingual practices are replacing bilingual ones. Consequently, many children are rapidly shifting to Spanish and loosing their command of the Toba language. Through an ethnographic research, we observed native childhood categorization (nogotshaxac) to systematize the meanings, implicit and explicit, that languages have along different moments in children's life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is focused on the daily life experiences of patients with terminal diseases. It analyses the broad "umbrella" of reactions and attitudes toward the lack of curative treatments, exploring the way people under these vital circumstances look for new meanings in order to be able to appropriate/negotiate the face of death. Spiritual concerns, stresses of family life, suffering challenges, changes in priorities and also the interactions with health professionals are depicted from hermeneutic approaches. The study is based on ethnography and other qualitative research methods. The participants were selected among patients that were hospitalized in three Oncology Centres and Palliative Care Services of Buenos Aires (2003-2005) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I consider how the category of fear is constructed in Buenos Aires-a category, as Hegel would say, that considers a unilateral recognition of the actors involved. It is interesting to examine whether the middle or upper class residents who "confine" themselves within walls or behind fences are the only ones who experience fear in our cities marked by social inequality, or on the contrary whether it is also possible to identify fear in the working class sectors. This last option would be in accordance with the contradictory policies of the local power, which I have called as "schizopolicies". Additionally, I am interested in analyzing how villages, settlements and illegal squatters are perceived by the rest of the society as "usinas". "Usina" refers to an emergence of elements that provoke feelings of fear, uncertainty and disorder. In this article, we will see how culture and nature are covertly constructed from certain political projects as an antithesis to fear. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the social and urban changes occurring in a neighborhood in the South Sector of Buenos Aires (Parque de los Patricios). The changes are connected to the construction of a housing complex by a cooperative established though a social political movement of unemployed workers. We explore the struggles for the control of the local urban space, between this political movement and the neighbors who were already living in the neighborhood. We describe the transformation of this urban space from empty space to a resource. We relate such changes to others that have been developing in the city of Buenos Aires during the last decade of the 20th century, such as increased segregation and fragmentation of the social space and the weakening of existing social ties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper presents the advances of the Project of investigation "Training spaces for complex learning of the professional practice at the degree careers of the Buenos Aires University (BAU)". "This work is focused on the problem of training in the profession and the place of the complex learning at the university through the study of the subjects of Odontology at the BAU. In this sense, we analyse the different instances in which this training becomes possible, to see the different teaching method expressed in them and, at the same time, the ways in which the relationship theory and practice occur. In this way, we study, including the socio historical approach, the project that supports the subject, its forms of organization, the strategies used in theoretical classes an the peculiarities of teaching in the Clinics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the kinesiology users' perceptions among middle class individuals of the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires city, linking these perceptions with the view of the alternative medicines offer, especially the options that include corporal-work techniques. The article mainly explores the individuals' ways of healing of whom have selected the option of alternative therapies, which are the most of the cases recorded during the field-work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lack of mensurations at field of hydrological constants of main taxonomic units of Argentina soils, outlines the necessity of their estimation. The objective of the present paper is to analyze 4 pedo-transfer functions, applied to soils of the southeast of Buenos Aires province, compare them with the measured values and choose the function more adjusted to real values. The four methods used are models of multiple lineal regression that use the thickness and the texture of each horizont as independent variables. To estimate the hydrological constants, the following models were used: Ritchie's et al., (1987); Sánchez Palomares (1985); Rawls's (1982) and Travasso and Suero's (1994). It was worked with soils to scale 1:50,000 at serie level and then it becames extensive to the dominant soils to scale 1:50,0000 in the southeast of Buenos Aires province. The best method to estimate was Ritchie's, followed by Travasso's. Sánchez Palomares'model was discarded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper presents the results of a pilot experience in which the effects of story-book reading in the production of narrative discourse were analyzed. A group of five year old children from low-income families from the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, took part in an intervention program in which a trained teacher daily read stories and interacted with the children about them. Results showed that at the end of the school year children had improved their narrative abilities and were able to produce stories in which they included the categories of the story structure, organized the information in episodic goal related structure and in a coherent sequence of episodes as in the most complex narrative forms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper takes in the concrete practice of socio economical shaping of urban space, in the middle of the field that spreads out between: transformations originated on worldwide neoliberal processes that are taking place in a megacity, and the urban stage imagined by some authors about global, informational or postmodern cities. This study refers to the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Region, particularly to five of its municipalities in the period that goes from 1991 to 2001. To explain these shaping processes, this work is organized around the following questions: How is the joint between society and space produced? Which is its logic? What are the prevalent social relations on which the shaping of urban space is currently supported? How is organized and what are the main social actors of the market that works on the shaping of urban space? What is the urban space made up? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is placed on the tradition of the studies about questions related to cultural products reception. Its focus are the perceptions and meanings of the audience consuming those products. Consists on the presentation of the results of the empiric phase of the investigation through which is tried to explain the reasons that justify the problematic relationship between public and music produced by electroacoustic means at academic level, in the city of Buenos Aires. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the epiphytic algae found in a channel and in an artificial pond in Estación Experimental INTA Delta (Buenos Aires, Argentina). These algae are in relation with a carp population that feeds on them in their early stages. A total of 21 taxa were identified. One was a new taxon, Uronema elongatum Hoodgetts var. robustus L. Mercado et Vigna, and six are new records for Argentina. Among the Cyanophyceae, the 60% were associated algae whereas the rest were epiphytic on emergent macrophytes. The coccoid Xantophyceae were found on filamentous Chlorophyceae, whereas the filaments themselves were epiphytic on emergent macrophytes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The diatom flora of Paso de las Piedras reservoir and affluents, Buenos Aires Province, was studied. In this paper we present those species and varieties that belong to the families Diatomaceae, Achnathaceae and Eunotiaceae. Each taxon, studied with light and/or scanning electron microscope, is described and ilustrated. The taxonomic information is completed with references about geographic distribution and ecological requirements. Diatoma moniliforme Kützing, a new record for Argentina and South America is included. A brief characterization of the study area and methodology are also given. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Three genera and nineteen species of foliose Physciaceae from Buenos Aires Province are studied. Their common features are summarized and main morphological variability illustrated Generic descriptions are provided. Species are briefly described, commented and illustrated Problems related to the identification of some secondary products, the anatomy and histology of thalli and apothecia, and the vegetative propagules, as well as the corresponding terminology, are discussed The Importance of an adequate methodology for studying the thallus structure is stressed. Keys to genera and species have been published in an earlier paper (Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. 28: 169-173, 1992). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the taxonomic study of soil algae in the surroundings of Buenos Aires (Argentina). Sixty-five species are studied. They belong to sixteen genera of Cyanophyceae distributed in five families and two Orders, and twenty genera of Chlorophyceae distributed in twelve families and six Orders. Among Cyanophyceae the family Oscillatoriaceae is the best represented with six genera and twenty species; among the Chlorophyceae, the Chlorococcaceae with six genera and eight species. The species Phormidium frigidum, Ph. subtruncatum, Ph. rubriterricola, Ph. papy raceum, Hydrocoleum brebissoni, Anabaena fertilissima, Tolypothrix brevis, Plectonema gracillimum (Cyanophyceae) and Chlamydomonas gloeopara, Bracteococcus minor, B. giganteus, Chlorococcum pinguideum, Chlorella fusca var. fusca, Ch. saccharophila var. saccharophila, Ch. zofingensis, Ch. minutissima and Klebsormidium subtile (Chlorophyceae) are new records for Argentina, and so are the genera Coccomyxa, Klebsormidium and Pleurococcus (Chlorophyceae). They are described and the species illustrated. Keys are given for the identification of the orders, families, genera and species. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article focuses on ethnic identifications based on the perspectives of children in an urban setting near Buenos Aires, Argentina. It examines how children articulate their own views on social processes that involve them and how they participate actively on social life. It also explores the disagreements, negotiations, and agreements of children on ethnic identifications with considerations on their social relationships.

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