This book explores accounting for biological assets under IAS 41 - Agriculture, and explains the recent adjustments introduced by the IASB which allow firms to choose between cost or revaluation models concerning mature bearer plants. Identifying the firm and country-level drivers that inform the disclosure and measurement practices of biological assets, this concise guide examines the value relevance of measuring those assets at fair value. It also analyses how firm and country-level drivers explain the differences in the disclosure level and practices used to measure biological assets under IAS 41. Finally, it evaluates whether there is a difference in the relevance of biological assets among the listed firms with high and low disclosure levels on biological assets. Based on a major international study of a wide selection of firms and country-level drivers, this book is vital for standard setters, stakeholders, students, accountants and auditors who need to understand disclosure and measurement practices of biological assets under IAS 41.

This book explores accounting for biological assets under IAS 41 - Agriculture, and explains the recent adjustments introduced by the IASB which allow firms to choose between cost or revaluation models concerning mature bearer plants. Identifying the firm and country-level drivers that inform the disclosure and measurement practices of biological assets, this concise guide examines the value relevance of measuring those assets at fair value. It also analyses how firm and country-level drivers explain the differences in the disclosure level and practices used to measure biological assets under IAS 41. Finally, it evaluates whether there is a difference in the relevance of biological assets among the listed firms with high and low disclosure levels on biological assets. Based on a major international study of a wide selection of firms and country-level drivers, this book is vital for standard setters, stakeholders, students, accountants and auditors who need to understand disclosure and measurement practices of biological assets under IAS 41.

Generating Transworld Pedagogy: Reimagining La Clase Magica lays the foundation for addressing one of the greatest challenges in the 21st century: meeting the educational needs of a diverse society living in a complex, technology-driven world. It extends bilingual and bicultural transformative critical pedagogy by appropriating the use of mobile devices and digital tools within an after-school setting. Four theoretical concepts anchor this collection: the dialectic method, concepts of culture, a bilingual/bicultural critical pedagogy, and the notion of the sacred sciences. Generating Transworld Pedagogy showcases the intersection of learners' linguistic, cultural, and historical knowledge as critical tools for learning and for navigating the broader society. The volume serves as an ideal framework for preparing teacher educators and teacher candidates for a world in motion. It provides a deeper understanding of the conditions needed to create the ideal learning and teaching opportunities for bilingual learners. Special highlights include a comprehensive resource for integrating linguistic and cultural diversity within a technological and global perspective for 21st century teachers and learners; a resource for launching the model in new sociocultural contexts; an exemplar of the innovative uses of mobile technology and digital literacies within the learning setting; and a model for engaging in socially-designed community-based research that can extend to an international scale.

Generating Transworld Pedagogy: Reimagining La Clase Magica lays the foundation for addressing one of the greatest challenges in the 21st century: meeting the educational needs of a diverse society living in a complex, technology-driven world. It extends bilingual and bicultural transformative critical pedagogy by appropriating the use of mobile devices and digital tools within an after-school setting. Four theoretical concepts anchor this collection: the dialectic method, concepts of culture, a bilingual/bicultural critical pedagogy, and the notion of the sacred sciences. Generating Transworld Pedagogy showcases the intersection of learners' linguistic, cultural, and historical knowledge as critical tools for learning and for navigating the broader society. The volume serves as an ideal framework for preparing teacher educators and teacher candidates for a world in motion. It provides a deeper understanding of the conditions needed to create the ideal learning and teaching opportunities for bilingual learners. Special highlights include a comprehensive resource for integrating linguistic and cultural diversity within a technological and global perspective for 21st century teachers and learners; a resource for launching the model in new sociocultural contexts; an exemplar of the innovative uses of mobile technology and digital literacies within the learning setting; and a model for engaging in socially-designed community-based research that can extend to an international scale.

Diamondoids are cage-like, ultra stable, saturated ringed hydrocarbons, which have a diamond-like structure consisting of a number of six-member carbon rings fused together. Adamantane is the cage compound prototype and the simplest diamondoid molecule. Diamondoids Molecules aims to present these fascinating substances in a novel fashion. The more intriguing facets of diamondoid molecules are comprehensively exposed and discussed, bringing state-of-the-art information to the reader, along with the history, fundamentals and perspectives of diamondoid science and technology. This groundbreaking book, especially devoted to diamondoid molecules, is of critical importance to the global techno- scientific community, and will be of great interest in many research fields such as chemistry, physics, material science, geology, and biological sciences. Moreover, it will attract readers from industrial, government and environmental agencies as well as scholars.

In their efforts to convert indigenous peoples, Franciscan friars brought the Spanish Inquisition to early-sixteenth-century Mexico. Patricia Lopes Don now investigates these trials to offer an inside look at this brief but consequential episode of Spanish methods of colonization, providing a fresh interpretation of an early period that has remained too long understudied.Drawing on previously underutilized records of Inquisition proceedings, Don examines four of the most important trials of native leaders to uncover the Franciscans' motivations for using the Inquisition and the indigenous response to it. She focuses on the consecutive impact of four trials - against nahualli Martin Ocelotl, an influential native priest; Andres Mixcoatl, an advocate of open resistance to the Franciscans; Miguel Pochtecatl Tlaylotla, a guardian of native religious artifacts; and Don Carlos of Texcoco, a native chief burned at the stake for heresy. Don reveals the heart of Bishop Zumarraga's methods of conducting the trials - including spectacular bonfires in which any native idols found in the possession of professed converts were destroyed. Don's knowledge of the contemporary Spain that shaped the friars' perspectives enables her to offer new understanding of the evolution of Franciscan attitudes toward evangelization. Bonfires of Culture reexamines important primary documents and offers a new perspective on a pivotal historical era.

Our habits with chairs, cars, computers and the rest encourage the body to collapse - and the mind with it. The detailed instructions and drawings in this book, based on the teachings of Vanda Scaravelli, enable each part of the body to play its part in waking up to a wholeness that is totally transformative for everyone. The four sections of the book implied by the title lead into a fifth, which is a profound description of how meditation relates to each of the four activities of the book, including running and walking and how it can be used with them. This book enables everyone - gym users, the elderly, young people, commuters, air travellers....to integrate the practices of yoga into their routines.

En el municipio de Las Margaritas, Chiapas, Mexico, MUSA es una organizacion sin fines de lucro y apartidista, tiene como mision impulsar y fortalecer el papel protagonico como organizacion de mujeres campesinas desarrollando iniciativas autogestivas y aprendizajes colectivos, que contribuyan al buen vivir de nosotras mismas, nuestras familias y comunidades, asi como trazar caminos hacia el ejercicio pleno de nuestros derechos. Convoca a la participacion de las mujeres, pues considera importante el papel de ellas en el medio rural, desde aqui se impulsan distintos proyectos para mejorar las condiciones actuales de las mujeres y sus familias. El presente trabajo recapitula una parte de la experiencia de las mujeres a lo largo de su participacion desde la creacion de la organizacion (1997), muchas de ellas fundadoras y que en su recorrido les ha significado retos, cambios, conflictos y sobre todo aprendizajes, los que ellas mismas expresan y pueden observarse como impactos importantes a nivel personal, familiar y comunitario. Desde las entrevistas y la observacion participante fue posible hacer un analisis de estos aspectos."

Los sistemas de liberacion controlada de farmacos se pueden definir como formas de presentacion y aplicacion de medicamentos capaces de ceder el principio activo en un punto concreto del organismo a un ritmo y durante un periodo de tiempo predeterminado, con una finalidad de accion sistemica o especifica en un organo. El Paclitaxel (PTX) es un farmaco antineoplasico que actua estabilizando los microtubulos y se utiliza en numerosas terapias contra el cancer. Al ser un farmaco tan hidrofobo, se encuentra disuelto en una mezcla de Cremophor EL y etanol para su posterior administracion intravenosa. Sin embargo, esta mezcla le confiere numerosos efectos adversos entre ellos las reacciones de hipersensibilidad. Con el fin de poder evitar tales efectos a la hora de su administracion y mejorar los efectos terapeuticos del farmaco, se han preparado nanoparticulas (NPs) por la tecnica de atomizacion y secado, y por la tecnica de doble emulsion, con polimeros biodegradables: poli ( -caprolactona) (PCL) y poli (lactico-co-glicolico) (PLGA), en las cuales se incorporo el PTX."

Por que los futuros profesionales de la nutricion eligen consumir edulcorantes?...esa fue la pregunta que motivo este trabajo. Los estudiantes de nutricion manejan estos sustitutos del azucar y conocen las ventajas y desventajas de su utilizacion, pero saben cuanto consumen?, los eligen por alguna razon o lo hacen sin darse cuenta?, influye en alguna forma la disminucion del consumo de azucar en el peso corporal?. Este libro pretende brindar respuestas a estas preguntas basandose en los resultados obtenidos tras estudiar a un grupo de alumnos de la carrera de nutricion de la Universidad Nacional de Salta, Argentina. Ademas de esta informacion, este texto resume aspectos generales referidos a los edulcorantes no nutritivos, a la ingesta diaria admitida de estos productos y a los jovenes como grupo de riesgo de trastornos de la conducta alimentaria. Espero que la lectura sea de su agrado y, sobre todo, que sea de utilidad."