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Inspired by Carlos Beyer's 50 years of pioneering research and
influence on his students and colleagues, Behavioral
Neuroendocrinology builds upon Beyer's fundamental discoveries and
concepts as well as their widespread implications. It presents
original research and reviews on mechanisms - genomic and
non-genomic - of steroid and protein hormone action; the role of
steroid metabolism, especially aromatization, protein
phosphorylation, and neurotransmitter action in mediating
reproductive behavior and sexual differentiation; and brain and
spinal cord mechanisms in sexual behavior and analgesia. This book
presents a rich diversity of topics - lactation, maternal behavior,
pheromone action, chronobiology, allodynia, angiogenesis, prostate
physiology, sexual motivation, and specific brain systems,
including vomeronasal system, cerebellum, preoptic area,
hypothalamus, and spinal cord. This book brings together, in one
source, an international "family" of researchers whose work has
evolved in diverse but related ways from a seminal set of
discoveries and concepts in behavioral neuroendocrinology.
This book looks deeply at women researchers' personal stories,
struggles, and successes within the context of conducting research
in the male-dominated sphere of prison studies. Their insights
provide an analytical resource from which readers can better
understand the context of doing prison research and the theoretical
and methodological challenges that come with it. Their
autoethnographic stories shed light on the unique issues faced by
women prison researchers and provide a roadmap for understanding
the novel strategies, methodological landmines, and epistemological
challenges for those who will come after them. Their experiences as
women investigators are couched in a distinct set of challenges.
This book is intended to highlight those researchers' challenges
and also, to celebrate their successes.
Modern neuroscience has presented new opportunities for exploring
the molecular and neural mechanisms controlling specific social
responses. This book reviews insights into the neural circuits
underlying a particularly fascinating form of social interaction,
parental behavior. This book presents a detailed review of maternal
and paternal behavior of particular mammalian species. It offer
neuroscientists a spectrum of specific mammals that can be used as
experimental models to explore particular topics on the functions
of the nervous system. It shows that results coming from the
laboratory can be translated into useful information for raising
mammals on the farm, and it stimulates biologists to gain insights
into the underpinnings of the complex mechanisms governing
mammalian behavior in the wild. It also discusses the implications
of this research for human parental behavior.
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Gravitational waves were predicted 100 years ago by Einstein as
part of his general theory of relativity. This volume contains the
exciting results presented at IAU Symposium 338, following the
announcement of the first results of the observation of the
collision of neutron stars by the LIGO and Virgo Advanced
detectors, and follow-up observations by many ground-based and
space telescopes. These observations provided an incredible context
for the talks, posters and discussions at the meeting, fostering
new interactions and collaborations between physicists and
astronomers in an exciting new era of multimessenger astrophysics.
For the first time, space-time messengers (gravitational waves) and
electromagnetic ones (visible, infrared and ultraviolet light,
x-rays, gamma-rays, radio waves) can be correlated, to increase our
understanding of binary systems of compact objects, rotating or
exploding stars and other astrophysical phenomena. A new window has
opened through which we can view the cosmos.
The transborder modernization of Mexico and the American Southwest
during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
transformed the lives of ethnic Mexicans across the political
divide. While industrialization, urbanization, technology,
privatization, and wealth concentration benefitted some, many more
experienced dislocation, exploitative work relations, and
discrimination based on race, gender, and class. The Mexican
Revolution brought these issues to the fore within Mexican society,
igniting a diaspora to el norte. Within the United States, similar
economic and social power dynamics plagued Tejanos and awaited the
war refugees. Political activism spearheaded by individuals and
organizations such as the Idars, Leonor Villegas' de Magnon's White
Cross, the Magonista movement, the Munguias, Emma Tenayuca, and
LULAC emerged in the borderlands to address the needs of ethnic
Mexicans whose lives were shaped by racism, patriarchy, and
poverty. As Gabriela Gonzalez shows in this book, economic
modernization relied on social hierarchies that were used to
justify economic inequities. Redeeming la raza was about saving
ethnic Mexicans in Texas from a social hierarchy premised on false
notions of white supremacy and Mexican inferiority. Activists used
privileges of class, education, networks, and organizational skills
to confront the many injustices that racism bred, but they used
different strategies. Thus, the anarcho-syndicalist approach of
Magonistas stands in contrast to the social and cultural redemption
politics of the Idars who used the press to challenge a Jaime Crow
world. Also, the family promoted the intellectual, material, and
cultural uplift of la raza, working to combat negative stereotypes
of ethnic Mexicans. Similar contrasts can be drawn between the
labor activism of Emma Tenayuca and the Munguias, whose struggle
for rights employed a politics of respectability that encouraged
ethnic pride and unity. Finally, maternal feminist approaches and
the politics of citizenship serve as reminders that gendered and
nationalist rhetoric and practices foment hierarchies within civil
and human rights organizations. Redeeming La Raza examines efforts
of activists to create a dignified place for ethnic Mexicans in
American society by challenging white supremacy and the segregated
world it spawned.
La Familia es la base principal de nuestra sociedad. Ha cambiado
con el paso del tiempo y con ella tambien su influencia en la salud
de los ninos y ninas. Es importante mencionar que por la etapa de
vida en la que se encuentran son el objeto del cuidado de los
adultos, sobre todo, en los procesos de aprendizaje para adoptar
habitos de su higiene. Sin duda alguna, la higiene personal es un
elemento primordial del cuidado de la salud; ya que con ellas se
previenen enfermedades primordialmente infecciosas en ninos y ninas
en edades mas vulnerables, quienes se encuentran en contacto con
diferentes agentes nocivos en el ambiente escolar; por lo que este
trabajo de investigacion tiene como objetivo analizar que
influencia tiene la dinamica familiar en la higiene personal del
ninos y ninas entre 6 y 12 anos de edad de las escuelas primarias."
Inspired by Carlos Beyer's 50 years of pioneering research and
influence on his students and colleagues, Behavioral
Neuroendocrinology builds upon Beyer's fundamental discoveries and
concepts as well as their widespread implications. It presents
original research and reviews on mechanisms - genomic and
non-genomic - of steroid and protein hormone action; the role of
steroid metabolism, especially aromatization, protein
phosphorylation, and neurotransmitter action in mediating
reproductive behavior and sexual differentiation; and brain and
spinal cord mechanisms in sexual behavior and analgesia. This book
presents a rich diversity of topics - lactation, maternal behavior,
pheromone action, chronobiology, allodynia, angiogenesis, prostate
physiology, sexual motivation, and specific brain systems,
including vomeronasal system, cerebellum, preoptic area,
hypothalamus, and spinal cord. This book brings together, in one
source, an international "family" of researchers whose work has
evolved in diverse but related ways from a seminal set of
discoveries and concepts in behavioral neuroendocrinology.
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