Tortura Y Trato Cruel, Inhumano Y Degradante En La Jurisprudencia De La Corte Interamericana De Derechos Humanos

Prohibiciones contra la tortura y otras formas de maltrato son reconocidas como derechos humanos bisicos en el derecho internacional

Bone Conduction Audio Communication System for Musicians

poster abstractMusicians often perform their music live with an in-ear device to monitor select audio signals and specific tempos. While wearing conventional earphones as audio monitors enables musicians to coordinate rhythmically, it weakens the user’s awareness to their surrounding acoustic environment by closing off one, if not both ears. Disorientation is common for many musicians, such as saxophonists, violinists, and singers due the inability to fully hear one’s own musical instrument and surrounding ambient environment. This presents the necessity of a better solution for musicians. Bone conduction is an open ear design that allows audio transmission to be heard through vibrations of the bone while allowing the ambient sound of a stage environment to be heard by live performers. Bone conduction, as a means of audio transmission, is a method of sonic communication already shown of value. It is currently implemented in hardware produced by the military and law enforcement. Unfortunately, military oriented products and solutions are not readily available or adaptable to the on-stage performance. Hence, designing a peripheral device specific for live musicians is needed. In our model/research, actual transmission of conducting signals was done with a BCE-1 22x 14mm bone conducting exciter in conjunction with a CBL ASSY 3.5mm slim adapter and ample THHN building wire. The adapter was soldered onto the exciter, which may be powered through the 3.5 mm output of user defined signal generating device of the user’s preference. Future testing of the device will be performed and ultimately used in live performance during one of Dr. Robin Cox’s ensemble rehearsals in the IUPUI Department of Music & Arts Technology

The Chinese Cultural Influence on Filipino Cuisine

This paper illustrates the impact of the Chinese cultural influence upon the Philippines with the primary focus being on Filipino cuisine. It examines how the Chinese cultural influence not only contributed to the development of Filipino cuisine, but how Chinese culture has also influenced the everyday life and culture of the Philippines through language and customary practices for over a millennium. The first section of the paper analyzes the cultural connection between China and the Philippines. The second section illustrates the Chinese language influence and it’s effect upon Filipino cuisine and culture. The third section explores the contested origins of one of the most recognized dishes within Filipino cuisine. The final section explores how Chinese food items and their cultural significance have been infused into Filipino culture via Filipino cuisine

Dance in Art

Dance in art can be seen in paintings created by artists such as Edgar Degas (1834-1917), Pierre Auguste-Renoir (1841-1919), Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), William Blake (1757-1827), John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), and Henri Matisse (1869-1954). Edgar Degas was a French Impressionist artist who was known for his work of arts featuring ballerinas. Pierre Auguste-Renoir was also a French Impressionist artist like Degas, but he was more so known for his real-life scenario paintings. Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, a French artist was known for his Art Nouveau and Post-Impressionist style. Toulouse-Lautrec illustrated some posters and paintings on Moulin Rouge. William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. His work of art was from the Romanticism period, John Singer Sargent was an American artist who was successful in portrait painting. Henri Matisse, another French artist, but a visual artist was known for his Post-Impressionism and Expressionism artwork and also did Fauvism and Primitivism pieces. Dance in art first became popular in the 19th century. Impressionist artists captured movement, energy, and emotion. Each of these artists of the 19th and 20th century depicted dance in art by their style of art, rhythm, line, color, balance, and space

Extending Open Textbook Network Workshop and Reviews to Include All OER and Library Materials

The cost of higher education is a barrier for many students, keeping them from attaining their goals. While textbooks and course materials are just a small part of the total cost of attendance, this is the area where faculty can have a direct impact in lowering costs. By choosing openly licensed course materials, faculty can not only help students save money but also have complete control over customizing their curriculum. This article describes a workshop model that offers stipends for faculty to review open educational resources (OER), which increases the likelihood that they will go on to adopt OER in their courses. Librarians at Umpqua Community College (UCC) extended the workshop model, and their innovation is now being implemented statewide

Torture And Cruel, Inhumane And Degrading Treatment In The Jurisprudence Of The Inter-American Court Of Human Rights

Prohibitions against torture and other forms of ill-treatment are well- recognized as basic human rights in international law

Effects of Mother-Daughter Communication on Adolescent Daughters' Beliefs and Experiences of Teen Dating Violence

Teen dating violence (TDV) affects nearly one third of adolescents in the United States and is increasingly one of the largest public health concerns of health researchers and practitioners. Parent involvement, and specifically messages communicated to children about healthy and unhealthy relationships, has potential to be a vital element of TDV prevention and intervention. Researchers have demonstrated that parent-adolescent communication has significant effects on adolescent risky behavior, but the effect of parent-adolescent communication on TDV has not been investigated. The purpose of this study was to examine the associations between mother-daughter communication quality, mothers' and daughters' beliefs about unhealthy relationships, and the dating violence experienced by adolescents. The sample was 58 adolescent daughters recruited from three rural Oregon high schools and their mothers. Self-report and observational data were collected from daughters and their mothers. It was hypothesized that (1) daughters' dating beliefs mediate the relationship between mothers' dating beliefs and daughters' experienced TDV, (2) mother-daughter communication quality mediates the relationship between mothers' dating beliefs and daughter's dating beliefs, and (3) mother-daughter communication quality mediates the relationship between mothers' dating beliefs and daughter's TDV. Structural equation modeling was used to test three path models where mother-daughter communication was represented by three different measures: daughters' report of having a quality conversation with their mother about dating in the past year, daughters' disagreement during observed mother-daughter communication, and daughters' disagreement during observed mother-daughter communication about dating. All three models were a good fit with the data, and significant associations were found between measures of mother-daughter communication, daughters' beliefs about dating, and daughters' experienced dating violence. Implications of this study include mother-daughter communication, perhaps a representation of a larger construct of mother-daughter relationship quality, as a point of intervention for adolescent girls' experiences of dating violence. Future research and clinical studies are required to further examine the relationships between parent-adolescent communication and TDV and the potential affect that parents may have on rates and experiences of TDV

A study of the atlantic union movement, 1949-1960

During the 1940\u27s an atlantic union movement developed within the United States. This movement had as its primary goal the establishment of a supranational political union of western democratic nations. This movement, including its constituent organizations, the Atlantic Union Committee, and Federal Union, Incorporated, is the subject of this study. Much of this study is concerned with examining the efforts of the Atlantic Union Committee to secure congressional passage of legislation authorizing American participation in an international conference composed of delegates from democratic nations. The proposed conference would then explore means of realizing a supranational political union. The atlantic union movement was not successful in achieving this goal. Yet the movement\u27s efforts were not completely in vain. Congress in 1960 did authorize American participation in a less ambitious undertaking, a citizens conference on north atlantic unity. This study finds that the atlantic union movement had a significant impact upon the legislative struggle involving this particular issue. The study concludes by evaluating the appropriateness of the strategy and techniques utilized by the Atlantic Union Committee in pursuit of its goals

Chasing elusive expressive writing effects: emotion-acceptance instructions and writer engagement improve outcomes

IntroductionPennebaker’s expressive writing (EW) paradigm in which participants are encouraged to explore their “deepest thoughts and feelings” about a difficult experience in several short writing sessions has yielded impressive mental health outcomes and holds great promise as a cost-effective intervention. Yet results have been difficult to replicate and it is unclear what conditions are necessary for observing the effect. Our aim was to discover reasons for the variability in EW outcomes. We explored the impact of augmenting writing instructions to encourage acceptance of emotional experience, which we thought would encourage engagement with writing; and we examined essay length, an index of writer engagement, as a possible moderator of writing outcomes.MethodsWe compared traditional expressive writing (tEW), conducted according to Pennebaker’s paradigm in which participants write about a self-chosen emotional experience for 15 min at a time on each of three closely spaced days, with an acceptance-enhanced version (AEEW), identical except that it supplemented traditional instructions with encouragement of an accepting approach to emotional experience, and with a control condition which asked participants to write about their use of time on particular days. Self-reported depression was the outcome measure.ResultsEssay length (a proxy for writer engagement) moderated effects of writing at posttest 2 weeks later: Condition differences were found only for participants who wrote longer essays: For these participants the AEEW condition outperformed both control and tEW; and tEW did not differ significantly from control.ConclusionFindings suggest that degree of engagement in the writing process may partially explain the puzzle of variable outcomes in the EW literature. Results also provide practical guidance: those who are motivated to engage deeply in the writing process are most likely to benefit; and encouraging writers to accept and to openly explore emotional experience is expected to enhance benefits

Development of a variable feel side stick controller

This project report summarizes the development of an electrohydraulic variable feel sidestick controller. It includes a discussion of the need for the device, a list of design requirements, the approach taken toward solution of various conceptual problems, an introduction to the final design, and an enumeration of the design's capabilities. A mathematical analysis of the design and several reductions of the drafted design are contained in the Appendices.Includes bibliographical references (page 19)California State University, Northridge. Department of Engineering