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LGAR - Fixing the land: The role of knowledge in building new models for rural development
Authors: Wolford Wendy
Published: September 2015

Over the past five years, the term “land grab” has made international headlines. First coined by activists documenting the rise in media reports about displacements caused by the sale or transfer of land, land grabbing quickly became an object of academic research and debate. Although the phenomenon of land grabbing—both as a characteristic of the contemporary global conjuncture and as a specific set of practices in particular places—has been difficult to precisely define, academics, activists, development practitioners, and policy-makers largely agree that there has been a concerted and increased rush to acquire land over the past decade. Conservative estimates suggest that large-scale land acquisitions (LSLA, as they are commonly known) have resulted in a ten- to twenty-fold increase in the amount of land changing hands annually since 2008 (over the annual average of the preceding forty years). Ongoing research suggests that investments were prompted by a combination of factors, such as the so-called global food crisis of 2007–08; concerns over land and energy scarcity; elite politics at multiple levels’ and market failures, particularly in housing and insurance, which liberated considerable capital for investment.
FS - Repeasantization, agroecology and the tactics of food sovereignty
Authors: Snipstal Blain
Published: September 2015

From the dawn of the 21stcentury, we have seen and experienced at the global and local levels several severe world food crises, the advancement of global land grabbing and land speculation phenomena, the further entrenchment of the agribusiness model of agriculture and land/resource management, the repression and criminalization of peasant social movements, an increased forced migration of rural peoples, and the intensification of the global climate crisis. At the same time, food sovereignty, as a transformative methodology, political project, and social vision introduced by the peasant social movement La Vía Campesina, has become the banner of struggle for social movements, civil society organizations, and grassroots groups the world over.
GFG - Global food governance in an era of crisis: Lessons from the United Nations Committee on World Food Security
Authors: McKeon Nora
Published: September 2015

The increasingly destructive impacts that today’s global food system visits upon local food provision, biodiversity, and the environment have been highlighted by a number of contributors in this special issue. Viewed through a global governance lens, public responsibility has been progressively sold out to markets and corporations while the front-line actors of food provision—families, communities, and small-scale producers—have been disempowered. Decisions that affect food security are most often taken at tables located behind closed doors, from which the vulnerable are excluded. The global food system is largely orchestrated by powerful corporate, financial, and political actors to serve their own interests.
GFT - SYNTHESIS - The uneasy relationship between international trade and agriculture
Authors: Burnett Kim
Published: September 2015

In his 2006 book, Food is Different, Peter Rosset posited we “get agriculture out of the [World Trade Organization] WTO”. This contention, which is the rallying cry for the Food Sovereignty movement, is that the WTO should not have any purview over agriculture and by extension food systems. Getting the WTO out of agriculture encompasses not only dismantling the 1994 Agreement on Agriculture, which governs both global food trade and extends to national food policies, but also nullifying the entire suite of WTO agreements that apply to various aspects of agriculture, including the Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), and the Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMS) (see Burnett & Murphy, 2014). For activists, policymakers, and scholars who take a firm stance of resistance to the WTO, there is no room for compromise with the institution. From this standpoint, the WTO cannot be transformed into a legitimate space to govern international food trade. The underlying concerns motivating much global civil society resistance to agriculture being governed under the WTO are well documented in the papers in this collection and were discussed at length by participants at the workshop in Waterloo.
Regulating food-based agrofuels: The prospects and challenges of international trade rules
Authors: Margulis Matias
Published: September 2015

This article considers the potential for strategic and selective use of World Trade Organization (WTO) rules to regulate, and potentially curb, the expansion of food-based agrofuels. Since 2008, a global agrofuel complex has emerged that is characterized by government-led mandates and investment for food-based agrofuel production and trade. The majority of world agrofuel production utilizes basic foodstuffs–sugar, corn/maize, soy and palm oil–thus generating competition between food/feed and fuel end-uses. This competition is strongly linked to food price volatility, food insecurity and land grabbing on a global-scale. Food-based agrofuel production is projected to increase significantly over the next decade, with international trade of agrofuels growing in tandem due to rising global demand. Despite well-documented social and ecological consequences associated with food-based agrofuels, producing and consuming states demonstrate a lack of political will to curb future agrofuel expansion and, in particular, continue to resist demands by global civil society and other social groups for global agrofuels regulation. In a global political economic context best characterized by a global governance gap for agrofuels, I consider the prospects and challenges of strategic and selective application of WTO rules to regulate food-based agrofuels.
FFS - SYNTHESIS - The state of time in this financial moment: Financialization in the food system
Authors: Martin Sarah J
Published: September 2015

The three papers and workshop discussion draw attention to the various ways that finance and food come together through new financial actors and tools, and in new political contexts, or financialization in the food system. The term financialization began to emerge in the late 1990s and it is increasingly applied to a growing range of areas of daily life and the economy (Krippner, 2011; Martin, 2002). Food studies, and these three papers in particular, help to define the contours and impacts of financialization in the food and agriculture sector.
LGAR - Land grabs, the agrarian question and the corporate food regime
Authors: Akram-Lodhi A. Haroon
Published: September 2015

Over the last decade civil society organizations and activist-scholars have pointed to “land grabbing” as one of the central issues to have emerged in the world food system. In particular, land grabbing was identified as a new and immediate international development issue by the non-governmental organization GRAIN in 2008 (www.farmlandgrab.org). Since that time land grabbing has generated a voluminous literature of a highly variable quality—some scholarship is outstanding and some is shoddy (Oya, 2013). This contribution seeks to clarify what constitutes land grabbing and why it takes place, as well as the key challenge that scholars and civil society activists face in confronting land grabbing in the context of the question of feeding the world. The central argument is that when a structuralist political economy is used to interpret the land grab phenomenon, it becomes analytically clear that contemporary land deals demonstrate that dispossession by displacement, or what has historically been known as the “so-called primitive accumulation”, has been resurrected as an accumulation strategy of global capitalism witnessing, for the first time in decades, the limits to the market. It is an accumulation strategy that cannot, however, deliver food justice or deal with the climate emergency.
SWFS - Governing land and landscapes: Political ecology of enclosures and commons
Authors: Friedmann Harriet
Published: September 2015

Most of the world’s food is still produced by small farmers, many of whom remain organized though customary land tenure. Customary tenure is a general term for specific cultural ways in which farmers embedded in ecological contexts allocate rights and obligations to use land, including cultivation, forest, grazing, and water. These are always unique, but they share the quality of not being centrally based on the kinds of land markets created in so-called advanced economies. An important feature at the present moment is direct appropriation of land and conversion of customary land use into private titles to specific plots of land. These include major deals with national governments in Africa and throughout the world to make huge areas of land (or water necessary to use the land) available to national elites, foreign governments, or large corporations. They also include international aid policies which, in trying to encourage small farmers to participate more directly in world markets, encourage a shift to individual titles. These actions threaten to dissolve the capacity of communities to govern the land as social and ecological conditions change (Tran, Provost, & Ford, 2014).
FS - From protest to policy: The challenges of institutionalizing food sovereignty
Authors: Wittman Hannah
Published: September 2015

In response to the failure of current approaches to alleviate the linked challenges of global food insecurity and environmental degradation—many of which involve voluntary measures to improve agricultural efficiency and increase yield—grassroots actors have called for the re-regulation and state-based institutionalization of principles derived from the food sovereignty framework (Iles & Montenegro de Wit, 2014; Wittman, 2011). As articulated by international agrarian movements in the mid 1990s, these principles include ecological sustainability; distributive justice, ensuring a socially just allocation of resources (Agyeman & Alkon, 2011); and procedural justice, which involves “fair and transparent decision-making processes that are adaptable to specific local conditions” (Loos et al., 2014, p. 357).
Growth, Doping and Characterization of AlxGa1−xN Thin Film Alloys on 6H-SiC(0001) Substrates
Authors: Bremser M. D. , Perry W. G. , Zheleva T. , Edwards N. V. , Nam O. H. , Parikh N. , Aspnes D. E. , Davis Robert F.
Published: September 2015

Thin films of AlxGa1−xN (0.05 ≤ x ≤ 0.96) having smooth surfaces were deposited directly on both vicinal and on-axis 6H-SiC(0001) substrates. Cross-sectional TEM of Al0.13Ga0.87N revealed stacking faults near the SiC/Nitride alloy interface and numerous threading dislocations. EDX, AES and RBS were used to determine the compositions, which were paired with their respective CL near band-edge emission energies. A negative bowing parameter was determined. The CL emission energies were similar to the bandgap energies obtained by SE. FE-AES of the initial growth of Al0.2Ga0.8N revealed an aluminum rich layer near the interface. N-type (silicon) doping was achieved for AlxGa1−xN for 0.12 ≤ x ≤ 0.42. Al0.2Ga0.8N/GaN superlattices were fabricated with coherent interfaces. Additionally, HEMT structures using an AlN/GaN/AlN buffer structure were fabricated.
Civility and Politicized Love in Gandhi
Authors: Milligan Tony
Published: September 2015

Gandhi presents a discourse of politicized love which draws heavily from a Christian conception of agape but which does not reduce to the latter. Such love is politicized through a requirement that the best kind of dissenting agents, satyagrahees (the agents called upon to engage in civil disobedience and noncooperation) are also called upon to love their enemies or, if they have none of the latter, at least their opponents. In his most famous political tract, Hind Swaraj (1909), Gandhi equates their struggle, satyagraha, with a politicized ‘love-force’, although this is not quite a definition, given that he also equates satyagraha with many other things. Moreover, there is also an occasional doubling of Gandhi’s account of political agency. Alongside the requirement for love, a requirement which is simultaneously political and spiritual, there is (again occasionally) a more minimal conception of civility from which, I will suggest, a plausible contemporary approach to civil disobedience may be constructed. The contemporary relevance of such a civility based account will then be shown through its application to the phenomenon of self-immolation, which Gandhi did not comment upon in detail but which his attitude towards civility can help us to understand. The point of this inclusion is to show that Gandhi’s approach towards civility extends effectively into new contexts.
Lines in Water: Religious Boundaries in South Asia, by Eliza F. Kent and Tazim R. Kassam (eds.)
Authors: Reddy Deepa S.
Published: September 2015

Lines in Water: Religious Boundaries in South Asia, by Eliza F. Kent and Tazim R. Kassam (eds.). Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2013. 412 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978-0-8156-3319-8.
Prison Letter Writing as Theology of Presence
Authors: Palmisano Trey
Published: September 2015

This article attempts to identify a meaningful theology through the medium of prison letter writing. While the majority of prison letters coming out of British colonial India and Nazi Germany have been cherished for their historical value, it is argued that the vitality of the letter rests in a reception narrative that moves beyond the Sitz im Leben of its author and places critical emphasis on the connection between the letter’s combined form and content. Prison letter writing is explored through the language of theology as an appropriate interpretative method that conceives of its historical presence as one that occurs within history but is not limited by history. In adopting this tack, the author offers presence as a way of avoiding the complications of a theological nomenclature that threatens to stand outside of history or become too abstract and otherworldly to meet the demands and needs of those for whom the project of prison writing remained transformational. Comparisons in the penal cultures of Germany and India from the twentieth century are explored for the purpose of broadening the conversation.
Temperature in housing: stratification and contextual factors
Authors: Baborska-Narozny Magdalena , Stevenson Fionn , Chatterton Paul
Published: September 2015

Overheating in new and retrofit low carbon dioxide homes is a growing issue in the UK due to climate change and other factors, with 99% of existing housing predicted to be at medium to high risk if summer temperatures become 1·4°C warmer. A year-long field study in two residential developments in the north of England monitored housing at three different scales: two-storey houses and three- and ten-storey blocks of flats. This revealed significant temperature stratification in the staircase zone, which allows a stack effect, as well as temperature differences between dwellings depending on their location in the building, both for summer and winter conditions even in the low-rise housing. Further investigation revealed that albedo and east–west orientation also contributed to non-linear overheating. Analyses of inhabitants’ thermal comfort and security practices as well as occupancy patterns also challenge the regulatory modelling used to predict building performance. It is suggested that these additional physical as well as user factors in residential developments need further investigation and should now be considered in relation to thermal comfort modelling.
CD103+ Dendritic Cells Elicit CD8+ T Cell Responses to Accelerate Kidney Injury in Adriamycin Nephropathy
Authors: Cao Qi , Lu Junyu , Li Qing , Wang Changqi , Wang Xin Maggie , Lee Vincent W.S. , Wang Chengshi , Nguyen Hanh , Zheng Guoping , Zhao Ye , Alexander Stephen I. , Wang Yiping , Harris David C.H.
Published: September 2015

CD103+ dendritic cells (DCs) in nonlymphoid organs exhibit two main functions: maintaining tolerance by induction of regulatory T cells and protecting against tissue infection through cross-presentation of foreign antigens to CD8+ T cells. However, the role of CD103+ DCs in kidney disease is unknown. In this study, we show that CD103+ DCs are one of four subpopulations of renal mononuclear phagocytes in normal kidneys. CD103+ DCs expressed DC-specific surface markers, transcription factors, and growth factor receptors and were found in the kidney cortex but not in the medulla. The number of kidney CD103+ DCs was significantly higher in mice with adriamycin nephropathy (AN) than in normal mice, and depletion of CD103+ DCs attenuated kidney injury in AN mice. In vitro, kidney CD103+ DCs preferentially primed CD8+ T cells and did not directly induce tubular epithelial cell apoptosis. Adoptive transfer of CD8+ T cells significantly exacerbated kidney injury in AN SCID mice, whereas depletion of CD103+ DCs in these mice impaired activation and proliferation of transfused CD8+ T cells and prevented the exacerbation of kidney injury associated with this transfusion. In conclusion, kidney CD103+ DCs display a pathogenic role in murine CKD via activation of CD8+ T cells.
Saber o no saber… Derecho e información genética
Authors: Solar Cayón José Ignacio
Published: September 2015

El extraordinario desarrollo de las técnicas genéticas, con su formidable capacidad de afectación a la autonomía personal y de invasión de los derechos individuales, está teniendo un impacto profundo en el pensamiento jurídico, obligándonos a revisar algunos de los presupuestos en que se funda nuestra concepción de los derechos fundamentales. Así, el reconocimiento del derecho del individuo a no conocer sus datos genéticos parece desafiar nociones esenciales como las de autonomía y racionalidad del sujeto de derechos, vinculadas en el proyecto ilustrado de emancipación del individuo a la idea de pleno acceso al conocimiento. Sin embargo, la propia idea de “ignorancia” no resulta ajena al discurso de fundamentación de los derechos fundamentales, como prueba el papel esencial que el “velo de la ignorancia” desempeña en la revisión de la tradición liberal efectuada por John Rawls. A partir de la teoría de éste y de John Stuart Mill se indaga en los fundamentos filosóficos del derecho a no saber los datos genéticos y en sus límites, ante la existencia de posibles derechos de terceros a acceder a esa información. Asimismo, se pone de manifiesto el papel que en este nuevo contexto juega el Derecho como instancia administradora del conocimiento y de la ignorancia, ante la amenaza de un determinismo genético que parece poner en cuestión en última instancia la idea misma de libertad individual.
Ética e Bioética no atendimento aos pacientes portadores de HIV/aids no Sistema Único de Saúde
Authors: Gomes Carneiro Hamilton
Published: September 2015

O presente artigo tem como objetivo demonstrar a importância da humanização no atendimento ao paciente, analisando a integração entre as políticas nacionais de humanização (teoria) e os profissionais que atuam na atenção primária (prática), especialmente no trato aos pacientes portadores de HIV/aids, com enfoque na aplicação dos princípios da ética e bioética. Cuida-se de um tema relativamente novo na literatura. São abordadas, de forma sucinta, as principais características da Política Nacional de Humanização (PNH) do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), os fundamentos da ética e bioética e sua aplicação aos profissionais da saúde no trato com pacientes em geral, sobretudo naqueles portadores de HIV/aids. Trata-se de uma pesquisa do tipo revisão de literatura e estudo descritivo-qualitativo.
O direito à saúde e a participação comunitária em saúde nos documentos internacionais: anotações preliminares
Authors: De Souza Vieira Reginaldo
Published: September 2015

A Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos não dissocia a saúde dos outros condicionantes necessários para que se possa ter uma vida digna. Isto é, não se pode avaliar a existência ou não de uma saúde que responda às necessidades dos usuários desses sistemas sem considerar os elementos sociais, culturais e econômicos, os quais influem nos meio sociais em que as ações serão desenvolvidas. Em respeito aos direitos econômicos, sociais e culturais, dentre os quais se insere o direito à saúde, estes foram desenvolvidos no Pacto Internacional de Direitos Econômicos, Sociais e Culturais. Na seara dos documentos internacionais que tratam sobre o direito à saúde, ressalta-se a importância das Conferências Internacionais. Um ponto referencial em todas as Cartas/Declarações que traduzem os resultados dos debates nessas conferências é a superação de uma concepção de saúde vinculada ao modelo biomédico e a adoção de um modelo de saúde, inclusivo,que respeite as diversidades regionais, locais e culturais, que não vislumbre a promoção da saúde somente como um processo de cura de doenças. Dentro dessa nova realidade, o fortalecimento da participação comunitária, tanto no planejamento quanto na execução e controle das ações de saúde é fundamental.
Cooperação multilateral em saúde: a Oitava Conferência Internacional sobre Promoção da Saúde
Authors: Pereira de Paula Douglas Marcos , Aparecido de Faria Mateus , Lacerda de Almeida Jullien Dábini
Published: September 2015

A cooperação internacional pode acontecer de diferentes formas: bilateral, multilateral ou ainda entre países em desenvolvimento, como exemplo a cooperação Sul-Sul. Entre as diversas formas destacam-se algumas instituições e organismos como a Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS), a Organização das Nações Unidas e a Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde. A OMS, se utilizando de instrumentos para cooperação multilateral como as conferências globais sobre promoção da saúde, vem complementar esforços a fim de contribuir para a cooperação internacional em saúde ascendendo a cidadania dos povos. Descreve-se a Oitava Conferência Internacional sobre Promoção da Saúde cujo tema foi ‘saúde em todas as políticas e suas nuancesnas prerrogativas no campo da saúde’; a influência dos países presentes na elaboração da declaração final e analisam-se as declarações paralelas. Sediada na cidade finlandesa de Helsinki entre os dias 10 e 14 de junho de 2013, a Conferencia marca a importância das políticas públicas e sua interferência nos determinantes da saúde e bem-estar, resgatando os preceitos ideários da Declaração de Alma-Ata e da Carta de Ottawa. A Declaração de Helsinki defende, entre outros princípios, a intersetorialidade na saúde. Paralelamente, o movimento saúde dos povos também sublinha pontos propondo alternativas ao documento oficial.
La implementación de los Principios Rectores ONU sobre empresas y derechos humanos en España
Authors: Vivas-Tesón Inmaculada
Published: September 2015

En los últimos años se ha cristalizado la expectativa social de que los entes empresariales, y en particular, las empresas transnacionales, tienen el deber de respetar los derechos humanos. Esta expectativa se ha plasmado, entre otros, en la adopción en 2011 de los Principios Rectores sobre empresas y derechos humanos por el Consejo de Derechos Humanos de Naciones Unidas. En esta comunicación trataremos las implicaciones para España del marco de Naciones Unidas sobre empresas y derechos humanos y sus implicaciones para España.
Política pública para transplantes de órgãos e tecidos: estudo comparativo entre Brasil e Uruguai
Authors: Santo Carla Katz , Andersson Timm Gilmara , Ribeiro Nogueira Vera Maria
Published: September 2015

Este informe apresenta os resultados de pesquisa comparativa realizada no Brasil e Uruguai comparando a legislação de transplantes de órgãos e tecidos. O que motivou o estudo foi o grande número de doações efetivado no Uruguai em relação ao Brasil, e que figura muito aquém em se tratando de Doação e Transplantes, em relação a outros países. O método de estudo aplicado foi qualitativo e se utilizou da pesquisa documental, descritiva e comparativa. Para a análise dos resultados os dados foram divididos em categorias: aspectos ligados ao processo doaçãotransplante e aspectos ligados à assistência. Os resultados indicam que ambos os países utilizam o critério de morte como sendo o da morte encefálica (ME). No Brasil a doação de órgãos é consentida enquanto que no Uruguai é doação é presumida. O diagnóstico de ME é mais sucinto no Uruguai do que no Brasil. No Brasil há maior facilidade de se doar um órgão em vida para um parente. No Brasil a entrevista familiar é parte fundamental no processo de doação. No Uruguai a entrevista familiar só irá ocorrer se o falecido não manifestar em vida o desejo ou não de doar. Concluindo, parece ser fundamental para explicar a diferença no número de doadores brasileiros e uruguaios: no Brasil o modelo adotado é o do consentimento dos familiares ou do doador em vida; já no Uruguai, a doação de órgãos é presumida, ampliando assim o número de doadores potenciais.
Cooperações técnicas bilaterais de saúde entre Brasil e organismos internacionais
Authors: De Faria Mateus Aparecido , Pereira de Paula Douglas Marcos , Lacerda de Almeida Jullien Dábini
Published: September 2015

A cooperação internacional é a expressão de solidariedade entre as nações, segundo o Ministério da Saúde brasileiro; baseada no respeito mútuo, ondeas nações e instituições compartilham de experiências e conhecimentos acumulados a fim de resolver problemas de um ou mais envolvidos, a cooperação se dá de diversas formas: judiciária, econômica, técnica, entre países em desenvolvimento, bilateralmente, multilateralmente, entre países e organizações etc. Verificando a necessidade de produção científica em língua portuguesa sobre os organismos internacionais que atuam na área de saúde no Brasil e a importância do conhecimento sobre esses organismos para o planejamento das ações nas áreas da saúde, o presente texto apresenta um panorama das cooperações técnicas de saúde entre Brasil e seis organismos internacionais: Movimento de Saúde dos Povos, Fundação Bill e Melinda Gates, Fundo Monetário Internacional, Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento, Fundação Rockfeller e Organização Pan-americana de Saúde. Aborda-se brevemente a história do organismo, o momento de chegada no Brasil e os principais projetos de cooperação realizados entre essas entidades e o país. Também é analisado, quando significativo, o impacto de tais cooperações no cenário sociopolítico brasileiro. Apesar de ainda ser, muito comumente, praticada de forma vertical e sobreposta à cultura local, a cooperação técnica em saúde é importante no tocante à superação das fragilidades dos sistemas nacionais de saúde e, especificamente no Brasil, no fortalecimento de um sistema verdadeiramente único de saúde (SvUS) – único em suas políticas e no respeito à diversidade.
Derecho a la salud en el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos
Authors: Betancourt Ricardo Barona
Published: September 2015

En los países Latinoamericanos, se observan violaciones al derecho a la salud, pero existen pocas reclamaciones por violación a dicho derecho ante el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos. Por tal razón, en el presente trabajo, analizamos el derecho a la salud y los principales casos de violaciones al mismo, de conformidad con la jurisprudencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos.
Judicialización de las internaciones psiquiátricas involuntarias: nuevos paradigmas y responsabilidad judicial.
Authors: Zalazar Claudia Elizabeth , Puccio Sofía
Published: September 2015

La nueva ley de salud mental en la República Argentina que regula la protección de los derechos de las personas con padecimiento mental, ha sentado como un paradigma fundamental la desjudicialización del sistema, entendido en un doble sentido: como una limitación de las facultades judiciales a la hora de evaluar la posibilidad de dicha medida restrictiva, la que sólo debe ser aplicada como último recurso terapéutico tras una valoración interdisciplinaria y en segundo lugar como control efectivo que la duración de dicha internación sea por el menor tiempo posible; siempre a la luz de la protección de los derechos humanos de dicho paciente. Si bien la normativa nacional se ajusta a los principios de las normas internacionales la misma no ha sido acompañada por políticas de salud mental que garanticen en la práctica su cumplimiento, ocasionando distorsiones en su aplicación, que deben ser corregidas; con la consiguiente responsabilidad del Estado de manera general y del Poder Judicial en forma particular ya que es en definitiva el que tiene que bregar por el cumplimiento de dicha ley.
Cadernos Ibero-Americanos de Direito Sanitário: três anos de existência de um periódico internacional sobre Direito Sanitário.
Authors: Romero Luiz Carlos
Published: September 2015

Cuadernos Iberoamericanos de Derecho Sanitario se creó con la fundación de la Red Iberoamericana de Derecho Sanitario, en el año 2011. Es una publicado en línea, bilingüe, bianual, de acceso libre, dirigida tanto almundo académico como al de los servicios, destinada a estimular el desarrollo del Derecho Sanitario en la región iberoamericana; difundir la producción científica de los profesionales e instituciones que conforman la Red y promover la discusión de los grandes temas del Derecho Sanitario contemporáneo. Acepta trabajos escritos en portugués o español de investigación, de revisión de la literatura o de la doctrina, artículos de opinión, comentarios sobre legislación de salud y jurisprudencia y reseñas de libros de interés para el Derecho Sanitario. Los materiales sometidos a publicación pasan por evaluación por expertos en el marco del régimen de revisión por pares doble ciego. Desde 2012, fueron publicados cinco números y 33 materias entre artículos, comentarios sobre legislación de salud y reseñas de libros, de 39 autores de seis países: Brasil, Argentina, España, Uruguay, Costa Rica y Portugal. Más del 80% de los autores publicados provienen de sólo tres países de la Red: Brasil, Argentina y España. En relación con el tema, predominaron materias sobre regulación en salud, producción normativa en materia de salud, judicialización y Bioética. La experiencia de edición y publicación de Cuadernos durante estos tres últimos años caracteriza un éxito que proviene de haber creado y mantenido una publicación de calidad en un tema innovador. Por otro lado, es decepcionante que la publicación no haya sido adoptada por todos los miembros e instituciones de la Red Iberoamericana de Derecho Sanitario como un medio para difundir su producción científica.
A nossa volta
Authors: Neves Regina Lúcia Ferreira
Published: September 2015

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A barata
Authors: Albernaz Kenneth
Published: September 2015

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Em decúbito dorsal
Authors: Carneiro Plínio
Published: September 2015

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Mata-me de amor
Authors: Branco Lúcia Castello
Published: September 2015

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Ars poética
Authors: Alves Luiz Carlos
Published: September 2015

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O estrado
Authors: Bertu Giovani
Published: September 2015

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Todos os apartamentos
Authors: Marino José Alexandre Gomes
Published: September 2015

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Momento
Authors: Fraga Álvaro Eustáquio Rocha
Published: September 2015

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17 bissextos inéditos
Authors: Pinho Renato De
Published: September 2015

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Desafio
Authors: Carvalho Walden Camilo De
Published: September 2015

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As três Juremas em ritmo de desencanto
Authors: Almeida Ana Maria De
Published: September 2015

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Problema de família
Authors: Carneiro Plínio
Published: September 2015

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Rua da palha
Authors: Rocha Filho Aloyzo De Souza
Published: September 2015

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Do lado de cá da ponte
Authors: Marino José Alexandre Gomes
Published: September 2015

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Os operários da palavra
Authors: Marino José Alexandre Gomes
Published: September 2015

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Sapato
Authors: Ribeiro Miguel Ângelo Freitas
Published: September 2015

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Poema incerto poema
Authors: Neves Osias Ribeiro
Published: September 2015

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O papagaio
Authors: Gontijo Maria Consuelo Porto
Published: September 2015

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Pé-de-janta
Authors: Póvoa José Liberato Costa
Published: September 2015

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A vaca cristalina
Authors: Póvoa José Liberato Costa
Published: September 2015

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Nas cirandas dessa vida
Authors: Araújo Sólon De
Published: September 2015

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3X4
Authors: Penna Sandra Duarte
Published: September 2015

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Tiradentes
Authors: Espeschit Rita
Published: September 2015

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Minasgerou
Authors: Camargos Ricardo Márcio
Published: September 2015

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Ode em 3 tempos
Authors: Gontijo Maria Consuelo Porto
Published: September 2015

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Canção de Lázaro
Authors: Resende Ângela Cançado Lara
Published: September 2015

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De noite
Authors: Brandão Maria do Carmo
Published: September 2015

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Arabescos
Authors: Brandão Maria do Carmo
Published: September 2015

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Numa varanda, em Jacareípe
Authors: Gomes Danilo
Published: September 2015

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Outo
Authors: Barbosa Maria José Somerlate
Published: September 2015

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O mapa de Minas
Authors: Carvalho Raimundo Nonato Barbosa de
Published: September 2015

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A Agostinho Neto
Authors: Siqueira José Cândido De
Published: September 2015

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Sinais de fumaça
Authors: Pereira Antônio Carlos De Souza
Published: September 2015

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A propósito de um retrato em uma carteira
Authors: Afonso Lúcia
Published: September 2015

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O boi
Authors: Gontijo Maria Consuelo Porto
Published: September 2015

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Que terror é este, companheira
Authors: Feres Nilza Rocha
Published: September 2015

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Corpo dourado de pantera
Authors: Gomes Duílio
Published: September 2015

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Uma questão de posseiros
Authors: Lyon Sandra
Published: September 2015

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A história de um lobo manso
Authors: Santos Joviano Gonçalves dos
Published: September 2015

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Os Judas deixados no escuro
Authors: Cunha Gerson Murilo Ávila da
Published: September 2015

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Verdes eram as asas
Authors: Lage Raisa Maria Dos Santos
Published: September 2015

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Procura da poesia
Authors: Carvalho Roberto Barros de
Published: September 2015

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Perfis
Authors: Pinho Renato De
Published: September 2015

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Claustro
Authors: Branco Lúcia Castello
Published: September 2015

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Classificados
Authors: Nascimento Marcus Vinicius Araújo
Published: September 2015

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Como estão as coisas
Authors: Souza Salomão
Published: September 2015

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Os descaminhos do coração
Authors: Claver Ronald
Published: September 2015

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Carta de alforria
Authors: Lyon Sandra
Published: September 2015

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A confraria
Authors: Mendes Francisco De Morais
Published: September 2015

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O tesouro de Joaquim Malaquias
Authors: Santos Joviano Gonçalves dos
Published: September 2015

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Poiesis
Authors: Carvalho Roberto Barros de
Published: September 2015

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A negrinha
Authors: Carneiro Plínio
Published: September 2015

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A resposta
Authors: Galéry Eunice Dutra
Published: September 2015

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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC); aetiological considerations
Authors: Abdel-Rahman Omar
Published: September 2015

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a commonly occurring cancer worldwide. The aetiology of HCC, often associated with different molecular carcinogenic pathways, differs geographically; with chronic viral hepatitis being the main cause in most localities. Different driving mutations resulting from distinct carcinogenic pathways potentially impact the choice of effective therapies for HCC.
A structural equation modelling approach to validate the dimensions of SERVPERF model in private sector banks
Authors: Kaushal Dr. Shailesh Kumar
Published: September 2015

This research paper aims to validate the model of performance of the private sector banks from the perspectives of rural areas of Punjab’s clients by replicating the factors used in an earlier study by Cronin and Taylor. The selection criteria examined in this study were the items included in the SERVPERF measurement and the relative importance of the dimensions of tangibility, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, and empathy were examined along with other preferences. Apparently, data was collected through convenience sampling from 200 rural areas’ clients across the four districts of Punjab. The results confirmed that the model of performance criteria is multidimensional; tangibility, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, and empathy. Researcher also found significant positive interrelationships among the constructs of the proposed framework. In this study, five-common factor measurement model was found to be valid and reliable to be used in determining performance of the private sector banks. Out of these five factors, three factors (reliability, empathy, & responsiveness) resulted in strong significance while assurance and tangibility were weak significant. This paper attempted to validate a model based on the perception of rural clients pertaining to the performance of the private sector banks which will give an insight towards better understanding their attitudes. Further, it will also help the private sector banking industries in designing marketing strategies according to their clients’ preferences in a different rural background. Finally, the use of SEM in validating the model is also a valuable contribution to this study”.
Digital Marketing in Indian Car Market: An Application of Theory of Planned Behavior
Authors: Dahiya Rekha
Published: September 2015

The paper deals with identifying the variables related to digital marketing if any, which could be leveraged by the car marketers to effectively market the product in Indian Market. Also the paper aims to study the most preferred digital medium used for information by the customers while buying a car. To achieve the objectives, primary data was collected with the help of structured questionnaire. Theory of Planned Behavior model was taken as base to analyze the factors that be leveraged by the marketers. Data was analyzed with the help of and multiple regression statistical technique. Results of the study revealed that digital attitude is the variable that can be leveraged by the marketer that could be leveraged by the marketers to effectively market the product and website is the most preferred digital medium for getting information about car.
Latest Trends in Financing by Export Credit Agencies (ECAs)
Authors: Balraj   , Rajpurohit Raghuveer Singh
Published: September 2015

Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) play a very important role in world trade especially when the new markets are risky; political risks are involved; the amount involved is very high and also the payment would take a long time to come, e.g. in project exports. These are some of the factors which inhibit the private insurers to insure or provide credit to the exporters. With the financial crisis in 2008, there was a liquidity crunch and that led to a greater void on part of private insurers. Before the financial crisis, it was thought that ECAs have no future and are slowly moving towards its demise. But it was not to be so! The main objective of this paper is to find out the latest developments related to ECAs. This paper also talks about - what constitutes an ECA? How do we define an ECA? What are the rationales behind establishing an ECA? What are the objectives of ECAs? Paper further talks about the institutional forms and the various kinds of ECAs The findings can be summed up as that there is increased demand for its products after the financial crisis. ECAs have also responded well to this increased demand not only by catering to this increased demand but also by bringing more innovative products. Asian ECAs are financing the projects in a big way. Some countries are planning to establish Export Import Banks. There is greater bilateral and regional cooperation between ECAs, Export Import Banks and Development Financial Institutions. There is also greater cooperation between ECAs and the Multilateral Banks, Private Institutions. ECAs are also looking at Islamic Business growth as this is going to be big business in near future. With increased business between South-South, there is greater cooperation between the ECAs in these countries. As this is a secondary research, it is not possible to check the veracity of the points mentioned by other researchers or mentioned in various studies. The study is also limited by the little data available about the ECAs.
Dissecting Phishing
Authors: Purkait Swapan
Published: September 2015

Phishing is essentially a social engineering crime on the Web, whose rampant occurrences and technique advancements are posing big challenges for researchers in both academia and industry. Although researchers across the globe as well as the IT industry experts have identified the urgent need for anti-phishing solutions, we are still playing the catching up role with the menace which is still changing and the magnitude still increasing. The purpose of this study is to examine the available literatures on phishing and it's countermeasures, to identify the important trends in phishing and provides a view of the research gap that are still prevailing in this field of study.
Analyzing Variations in Global Stock Markets
Authors: Saxena Ms. Sakshi , Sharma Ms. Pranjali
Published: September 2015

Fluctuations in financial markets have always been the subject of concern for academicians and practioners. Wide price fluctuations are a daily occurrence on the world's stock markets as investors react to economic, business, and political events. The soaring stock prices around the globe have taken valuations of stocks to unreachable heights. The present study is an attempt to analyse the volatility present in stock markets of Asia Pacific region and other developed countries. Data for the time period 2005-2013 has been collected to analyse the same. Coefficient of variation, Ttest and GARCH (1, 1) model has been used to investigate the variations in the stock markets. The results support the fact that there is no significant difference in volatility between stock exchanges within specific except between Germany stock market and US stock market. GARCH (1,1) provides that US stock market is the most volatile followed by India.
Developing Entrepreneurial instincts among students: Preventive and curative measure against Unemployment
Authors: Sharma Dr. Ekta
Published: September 2015

Unemployment has become an all pervasive, universal evil across the globe and hence this should be controlled as it affects each and every stakeholder. It is concluded that to curb unemployment, we should facilitate the entrepreneurial instincts of the students and especially those who are pursuing professional education. This would perhaps develop a salubrious cycle of developing new employment opportunities, which would have multiplier effect. The paper has contributed by providing an entrepreneurial model to be implemented in institutions imparting professional education. It is based on the reports of International Labor organization, which has raised alarm towards increasing unemployment among the Youth.
An Emperical Study on Credit Rating Agencies (with Ref. to Default Rates of Crisil)
Authors: Bansal Ms. Reenu , Sharma Dr. N M
Published: September 2015

Credit rating is the symbolic indicator of the current opinion of rating agencies regarding the relative capability of issuer of debt instruments, to service the debt obligations as per contract. The corporations with specialized functions namely, assessment of the likelihood, of the timely payments by an issuer on a financial obligation is known as credit rating agencies. Lately, the credit rating agencies have been the subject of significant criticism for failing to warn the investors of the defaults well in advance. Investors in long-term debt instruments are usually risk averse, buy-and-hold types; and hence, for them, the variability of investment-grade default rates is particularly important since they employ simple investment-grade rating cut-offs in the design of their investment eligibility plan. According to CRISIL (Credit Rating Information Services of India) and another credit rating agencies, default mean that the company has either already failed in the payment of interest and/or principal as per terms or is expected to fail. This paper tests the reliability of ratings assigned by CRISIL on the basis of the actual default rate experience in different sectors over a period of ten years, i.e., 2000-2011.Since the credit rating agencies do not publish ratings that are not accepted by the issuers, this study is limited to only those issues that have been accepted and used by the issuers. The default statistics were examined sector-wise, period-wise, and company/institution-wise. Analyses of the background and business, operating performance, management and systems, financial performance, prospects, key issues, and the reasons cited for defaults were undertaken with respect to all the companies. Further, an attempt was made to identify whether companies in default had issued other debt instruments that were rated by other credit rating agencies.
Excellence in Management Education-A Case Study of IMS Noida
Authors: Singh Ms. Surabhi
Published: September 2015

The excellence in management education marks the social growth of the country. The management institution is meant to impart the education with practical management expertise. It implies a commitment to focus management knowledge, skills, and technologies for the betterment of society. It involves mastering and applying new management paradigms of development, targeting crucial inappropriately managed sectors, and training for effective change agents and transformational leadership and not merely for greater techno-managerial expertise. The value of the society and the symbolic relationship of business with the society is well known to everyone by the virtue of management education. Additionally the individual and organizational contributions, proper management education makes incredible amount of contributions for the betterment of the society. Right kind of Management education always produces individuals and makes way to a research that fuels the economic growth of communities and takes society to new horizons of success. IMS Noida is incredibly an icon of showing excellence in management education.
Public understanding of Nuclear Energy: Challenges and Strategies of Science Communication in India
Authors: Kapoor Nimish , Gupta Abhinav
Published: September 2015

Energy is the backbone for sustainable development. Any nation cannot progress without adequate resources of energy i.e. must have energy security. In various sources of generating power, i.e. nuclear, coal, hydro, geothermal, wind, solar, crude oil and biomass etc., nuclear is one of the source of energy which is less understood source of energy among our masses. Many misconceptions and rumours are associated with the nuclear energy like nuclear energy fosters nuclear weapons, nuclear radiation is deadly and nuclear reactors are not safe for human being and environment etc. This technological awareness gap of understanding Nuclear Power is the most challenging area for science and technology communication in India today. India faces formidable challenges in meeting its energy needs and providing adequate energy of desired quality to consumers in a sustainable manner at a reasonable cost. Nuclear power can play a bigger role offering sustainable solution to global energy problems. Those working in nuclear technology field face increasing scrutiny from public, the media, political authorities and NGO’s. This paper deals with the need of science and technology communication on nuclear energy for better understanding on the issue and a communication strategy adopted by Vigyan Prasar under ‘Public Awareness Campaign on Nuclear Energy’ as an important way in which a nation can stave off from the misconceptions, fear and uninformed societies.