Although in Latin America there are no educational programs specialized in comparative education, as there are in some European, Oriental and North American universities, there are scholars who cultivate this field. With the production of this book, the authors -most of them affiliated to member organizations of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies- are walking towards a Latin American network of researchers with an interest in establishing a dialogue with non-Spanish speaking colleagues from the rest of the world. This is the reason of our effort in writing most of the chapters in English. Comparative education, as all disciplinary fields, has evolved with different ways of thinking, approaching and constructing its objects of research and analysis, which are nurtured by different epistemological traditions living together in our times, enriching and bringing complexities. From Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Costa Rica and Mexico, the authors of the book pose questions, historical descriptions, reflections, discussions and cases to set forth their views.

This edited book focuses on the most controversial aspects of assistance benefits as mandated by the Brazilian Constitution of 1988 - and the challenges that have merged since the approval, in 1993, of the Federal Act 8.742, also known as Organic Law of Social Assistance. This collection of essays allows the reader to understand some important changes in social assistance policies in Brazil in recent years, having the General Theory of Social Security and the Human Rights as references. The tensions between economic principles and affirmative policies for the less advantaged parts of the society are also covered, showing how different interpretations of key concepts - like need, poverty or family - may have an important role on the exercise of fundamental rights.

This book brings together studies that contribute to the emergence of a latinx queer psychology. LGBTQ+ studies have gradually included the perspective of sexual and gender diversity, but they have been predominantly elaborated from North American and European perspectives. This book focuses on different understandings and practices developed by Latin American researchers that contribute to a broader application of psychological knowledge in LGBTQ+ studies, as well as sexual and gender diversity issues, but goes beyond the region by also incorporating chapters written by European and North American authors influenced by latinx perspectives. Latin American psychology has developed original approaches to LGBTQ+ studies based on a new theoretical critique to the mainstream psychological theories that has given rise to a new queer psychology. The chapters in this book showcase both theoretical contributions and empirical researches in this emerging field from six Latin American countries - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Uruguay - as well as from Spain, the United States and Puerto Rico. Latinx Queer Psychology: Contributions to the Study of LGBTIQ+, Sexual and Gender Diversity Issues aims to contribute to the decolonization of psychological knowledge and practices addressing sexual and gender diversity issues, and to serve as a useful resource for social, community, clinical and educational psychologists working with research and practice involving LGBTIQ+ populations, as well as to social scientists in general interested in queer and gender studies.

ICP-MS and Trace Element Analysis as Tools for Better Understanding Medical Conditions, Volume 97 discusses trace elements and how they play an important role in biological functions and metabolism in the human body. Chapters cover Biomedical analysis by ICP-MS: A focus on single cell, Advanced statistical tools and machine learning applied to trace element analysis associated with medical conditions, ICP-MS as a tool to understand trace element homeostasis in neurological disorders, High-precision isotopic analysis of essential mineral elements - possibilities for medical diagnosis and prognosis, Exploring ICP-MS as a versatile technique: From imaging to chemical speciation, and more.

En este libro el lector encontrara diferentes miradas: teoricas, interpretativas, analiticas, propositivas y/o comparativistas sobre el tema general de la educacion internacional y la internacionalizacion de la educacion superior, especialmente en Mexico. Este libro contiene 16 capitulos organizados en tres rubros tematicos: I. Perspectivas teoricas y politicas, II. Desafios y temas criticos y III. Internacionalizacion e instituciones. Las preocupaciones de los 27 autores que participan en este libro estan enfocadas a analizar teorica o empiricamente el tema de la Internacionalizacion de la educacion superior y en muchos de los casos a emitir recomendaciones, sugerencias, propuestas de cambio en pro de una mejor insercion de la universidad en la internacionalizacion.

En Mexico, las personas que desempenan posiciones de direccion y supervision de los planteles de educacion basica, son profesores que por distintas vias asumen estos cargos. Generalmente se trata de egresados de una escuela normal que los formo para el ejercicio de la docencia y que, eventualmente, por su experiencia u otros factores extrinsecos, arriban a dicha posicion sin un entrenamiento previo para el desempeno de sus funciones. Si bien es cierto que para ser un buen administrador (o director, o supervisor) escolar no hay como ser un educador primero, tambien es cierto que, aunque complementarias, las funciones del maestro y del director son diferentes. Mientras que aquel emplea metodos y tecnicas para ensenar, para conducir el aprendizaje y para evaluarlo, el segundo emplea metodos y tecnicas para dirigir, organizar, coordinar, promover una organizacion educativa para que cumpla eficazmente su mision educadora. Dado que la gestion escolar guarda una estrecha relacion con el rendimiento academico, la investigacion (cuantitativa y cualitativa) que aqui se reporta, tuvo por objetivo identificar los rasgos de aquella gestion que ayuda a obtener mejores niveles de logro escolar, para derivar recomendaciones que permitan establecer lineamientos y contenidos de capacitacion y desarrollo para los directivos escolares en servicio activo.

This edited book focuses on the most controversial aspects of assistance benefits as mandated by the Brazilian Constitution of 1988 - and the challenges that have merged since the approval, in 1993, of the Federal Act 8.742, also known as Organic Law of Social Assistance. This collection of essays allows the reader to understand some important changes in social assistance policies in Brazil in recent years, having the General Theory of Social Security and the Human Rights as references. The tensions between economic principles and affirmative policies for the less advantaged parts of the society are also covered, showing how different interpretations of key concepts - like need, poverty or family - may have an important role on the exercise of fundamental rights.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th Collaboration Researchers' International Working Group Conference on Collaboration and Technology, held in Wellington, New Zealand, in October/November 2013. The 18 revised papers presented together with 4 progress papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. They are organized into six thematic sessions as follows social media, social networks, crowdsourcing, learning, collaboration design and software development.

This book brings together studies that contribute to the emergence of a latinx queer psychology. LGBTQ+ studies have gradually included the perspective of sexual and gender diversity, but they have been predominantly elaborated from North American and European perspectives. This book focuses on different understandings and practices developed by Latin American researchers that contribute to a broader application of psychological knowledge in LGBTQ+ studies, as well as sexual and gender diversity issues, but goes beyond the region by also incorporating chapters written by European and North American authors influenced by latinx perspectives. Latin American psychology has developed original approaches to LGBTQ+ studies based on a new theoretical critique to the mainstream psychological theories that has given rise to a new queer psychology. The chapters in this book showcase both theoretical contributions and empirical researches in this emerging field from six Latin American countries - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Uruguay - as well as from Spain, the United States and Puerto Rico. Latinx Queer Psychology: Contributions to the Study of LGBTIQ+, Sexual and Gender Diversity Issues aims to contribute to the decolonization of psychological knowledge and practices addressing sexual and gender diversity issues, and to serve as a useful resource for social, community, clinical and educational psychologists working with research and practice involving LGBTIQ+ populations, as well as to social scientists in general interested in queer and gender studies.

This book covers the new Omics area, Metallomics. As Metallomics is intrinsically a transdisciplinary area, this book is authored by experts in the field on such diverse topics as Environmental, Nuclear, and Human Metallomics. Within these topics metals play important role, as being part of biomolecules, controlling different biochemical process, being signaling agents, being catalyst of biochemical reactions, among others. This volume demonstrates the importance of more investigation about metals and their interactions with biomolecules. As the knowledge in this field is growing and growing daily, then new challenges concerning studies involving Metallomics is appearing, such as comparative metallomics, speciation metallomics, real-time metallomics, new predictions of metals in biomolecules, metalloprotein databank expansion, interactions between metalloprotein-metalloprotein, among others.

This book covers the new Omics area, Metallomics. As Metallomics is intrinsically a transdisciplinary area, this book is authored by experts in the field on such diverse topics as Environmental, Nuclear, and Human Metallomics. Within these topics metals play important role, as being part of biomolecules, controlling different biochemical process, being signaling agents, being catalyst of biochemical reactions, among others. This volume demonstrates the importance of more investigation about metals and their interactions with biomolecules. As the knowledge in this field is growing and growing daily, then new challenges concerning studies involving Metallomics is appearing, such as comparative metallomics, speciation metallomics, real-time metallomics, new predictions of metals in biomolecules, metalloprotein databank expansion, interactions between metalloprotein-metalloprotein, among others.

Sample preparation plays an essential role in analytical procedures. The estimated errors of measurement methods commonly used are usual below 20 per cent. The errors of sample preparation procedures can easily rise to more than 200 per cent. Relating to the total error of an analytical procedure it is more effective to invest efforts and money in the improvement of sample preparation techniques instead of squeezing the measurement procedures to get one or two percent improvement in standard deviation. This book is a concoction of chapters dealing with an overview of the latest developments in various sample preparation techniques for inorganic and organic analytes. Not only sample preparation techniques are described but also some sampling and measurement procedures.