Evaluación de la percepción de padres acerca del desempeño en el lenguajes comprensivo de sus hijos después de la aplicación de un programa de entrenamiento auditivo.

128 p.La afectación que la hipoacusia tiene para quienes la padecen y para susfamilias ha llevado a numerosas instituciones a crear e implementar programas desalud quepermitan ofrecer una mejor calidad de vida para estas personas. LaJunta Nacional de Auxilio Escolar y Becas (JUNAEB) ofrece adaptaciónaudioprotésica para niños preescolares y escolares que sean detectados conhipoacusia sobre 30decibeles (promedio tonal puro). Junto aello, ingresan aunprograma de entrenamiento auditivo, cuyo propósito es educar a los niños y susfamilias en el uso y manejo de la prótesis auditiva. Entrega además orientacionesacerca de la estimulación del lenguaje y estrategias para el desarrollo auditivo.Surge la duda de saber si la exposición de los sujetos al programa deentrenamiento auditivoprovocará variaciones comunicativas encuanto a lacomprensión del lenguaje. Es por eso que se realizó un cuestionario a los padresde los menores participantes en el programa, de manera tal de contar con uninstrumento aplicable a todos los niños,evitando que interfieran variables externasa la aplicación de instrumentos estandarizados. Esto permite además obtenerdatos sobre el desempeño comunicativo del niño en contextos familiares para él,evitando someterlo a contextos clínicos y poco comunes

EU External Relations: Exclusive Competence Revisited

This Article will focus on the question of exclusive competence in the field of EU external relations, especially in the light of recent developments. After a brief discussion on the origins and development of exclusive competence, a distinction will be made between common commercial policy, which has traditionally been the most important area of an explicit “a priori” exclusive competence, and what is often called an implicit exclusive competence, which, as it is today based on some general criteria enshrined in TFEU Article 3(2), may be called “supervening” exclusive competence. With regard to both categories, the main focus will be on recent developments, notably the impact of the Treaty of Lisbon, which introduced the TFEU and its Articles 2 and 3, as well as the case law of the European Court of Justice (“ECJ” or the “Court”) following the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, on December 1, 2009

Detection of the Cherenkov light diffused by Sea Water with the ULTRA Experiment

The study of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays represents one of the most challenging topic in the Cosmic Rays and in the Astroparticle Physics fields. The interaction of primary particles with atmospheric nuclei produces a huge Extensive Air Shower together with isotropic emission of UV fluorescence light and highly directional Cherenkov photons, that are reflected/diffused isotropically by the impact on the Earth's surface or on high optical depth clouds. For space-based observations, detecting the reflected Cherenkov signal in a delayed coincidence with the fluorescence light improves the accuracy of the shower reconstruction in space and in particular the measurement of the shower maximum, giving a strong signature for discriminating hadrons and neutrinos, and helping to estimate the primary chemical composition. Since the Earth's surface is mostly covered by water, the ULTRA (UV Light Transmission and Reflection in the Atmosphere)experiment has been designed to provide the diffusing properties of sea water, overcoming the lack of information in this specific field. A small EAS array, made up of 5 particle detectors, and an UV optical device, have been coupled to detect in coincidence both electromagnetic and UV components. The detector was in operation from May to December, 2005, in a small private harbor in Capo Granitola (Italy); the results of these measurements in terms of diffusion coefficient and threshold energy are presented here.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, PDF format, Proceedings of 30th ICRC, International Cosmic Ray Conference 2007, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, 3-11 July 200

Extreme Energy Cosmic Rays (EECR) Observation Capabilities of an "Airwatch from Space'' Mission

The longitudinal development and other characteristics of the EECR induced atmospheric showers can be studied from space by detecting the fluorescence light induced in the atmospheric nitrogen. According to the Airwatch concept a single fast detector can be used for measuring both intensity and time development of the streak of fluorescence light produced by the atmospheric shower induced by an EECR. In the present communication the detection capabilities for the EECR observation from space are discussed.Comment: 3 pages (LaTeX). To appear in the Proceedings of TAUP'9