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Exotic literature is that developed in Europe from 1866 onwards, which evokes the customs, inhabitants or landscapes of faraway lands. The aim of exotic narrative is to change contexts in order to build up the strangeness that stigmatizes. A reading of the texts in the corpus gives the impression that they are part of the exotic credo. The present analysis attempts to order the mass of characteristics and interpretations of exoticism. It is based on a lexicographical study of the setting of the stories, an examination of the linguistic means and the sociological presentation of the peoples visited, all stereotypes which, from an ideological point of view, inspire a negative feeling in the viewer. In fact, the scenes of action are colonies, known as "distant lands" in relation to the Western metropolis. These are Africa, the West Indies and India: supposedly austere, inhospitable areas inhabited by barbaric, primitive, backward people. Exoticism therefore depends on the quality of our view of the object in question.

The author notes the significance of studying the relationship between emotional distance with the father and emotional communications in the parental family with the motives for marriage, which allows to determine the factors affecting the quality of marriage. It is often found that a woman begins to build relationships with the opposite sex in the same way as her relationship with her father was built. This is reflected in her future personal and family life. The choice of marriage partner, however, depends both on the personal characteristics of the father and on the characteristics of the relationship that is established between the daughter and the father as a result of family interaction. The results of the study show how the relationship with parents influences the choice of spouse of women from both complete and incomplete families. The results of women from single-parent families are particularly interesting. The results may be useful for practicing psychologists working with families, as well as for parents raising children without a spouse. And also allow to develop training programs and recommendations for young people regarding the improvement and greater awareness of child-parent relations, which can reduce the number of divorces.

Evald Ilyenkov is our contemporary. Thinking culture in general is set both by the state and level of development of philosophy and its mastering. Two circumstances orientate a special attitude to Ilyenkov's philosophical heritage. The need for a transition from a purely ideological understanding of social processes to a truly theoretical one is becoming more and more urgent. The number of young people prepared by the level of cultural development and the circumstances of life to become socially significant individuals is increasing. At the same time, the danger of mass information zombification is increasing. The first section of the collection is devoted to the concept of philosophy, the second to the problem of the correlation between philosophical and everyday consciousness, the third to the relevance of Ilyenkov's philosophical work, the fourth to the problem of the individual and society, the fifth to the problem of the future, and the sixth to the need to return to authentic Marxism. The collection of articles is intended for independent and creatively oriented young people who are ready to embark on the path of philosophical and theoretical comprehension of the epoch in which we find ourselves, on the path of comprehension of what and how an individual should do in these conditions.

This book brings together scientific articles and essays, both published and unpublished, by different authors, with different backgrounds and perspectives, which in some way attempt to bring science and religion together within the field of Theology. As such, the aim of the book is to create a dialogue through the collection of works with current and relevant themes to the scientific scenario, so that the reader can have contact with convergent and divergent conceptions and theories.

The booming industrial development of the 20th century and the accelerated mechanisation of human activities culminated in a scenario of exploitation and use of polluting fuels derived from petroleum, which produces environmental impacts that are far from being quantified, let alone overcome. On the other hand, attempts have been made, albeit at a slow pace, to use renewable and clean energies such as biomass, knowing that harnessing solar energy converted in plants into chemical energy and this into biofuels such as ethanol could be the way out of the environmental crisis in which we live. However, among the various types of biomass, we can highlight the sweet potato, which is little consumed as food in Brazil and has characteristics such as adaptability, rapid cycle, starch concentration and high dry matter content. The use of sweet potatoes could therefore meet the need for this fuel during the sugar cane off-season, since this raw material is available all year round and throughout the country. It is therefore of the utmost importance to optimise the production and sustainability of this biomass for bioethanol production.

The influence of policies on the constitution of the pedagogical coordinator function in the municipal schools of the City of Rio de Janeiro during the period from the military regime to the present day, together with the dilemmas and conflicts that surround the formation of the identity constitution of this professional. The coordinator's attributions have undergone transformations along with changes in educational policies, and this study aims to demonstrate how this process takes place in public schools in the city of Rio de Janeiro.

Dental implants are a common solution for replacing missing teeth, but their feasibility depends on the volume of bone available. When bone volume is insufficient, various techniques can be used, such as piezosurgery. The use of piezoelectric devices is increasingly applied in oral surgery. Selective cutting is possible for different ultrasound frequencies acting only in mineralised hard tissue, preserving vital anatomical structures. Using this piezoelectric technique, autogenous bone graft acquisition, osteotomy for expansion of the alveolar bone crest, and maxillary sinus enhancement via the lateral approach can be performed precisely and safely, offering excellent clinical and biological results. The aim of this work is to present the principles of the ultrasonic scalpel, as well as its applications in pre-implant surgery, based on a series of cases carried out by Dr Mohamed Tlili in the External Consultations Department at the University Hospital Dental Clinic in Monastir / TUNISIA.

For more than five decades, open-pit coal mining has been carried out in the department of La Guajira, Colombia, by one of the largest mining companies in the world. As a result, the ecological order of the ancestral communities, which have been settled there for a long time, has been altered over time; their solidarity economies, their social and cultural fabric, and their political processes have undergone major transformations that transgress their rights and realities. Faced with these dynamics of imposition of certain economic and cultural epistemes on others who already have their own perspectives, the different affected populations have built through history an organisational process, networks of political movements, cultural policies and action agendas that have allowed them to plant resistance in defence of territory, water, ethnic cultures and life. "If today the blood in the veins of the Ranchería River continues to flow so that the land does not stop beating, it is thanks to the fact that we have not stopped mobilising for our mother earth" Jakeline Epiayu.

Evaluating aerobic capacity is essential for prescribing and controlling training. In order to avoid invasive methods that are extremely time-consuming and costly, a non-invasive and extremely simple control method was used, the Critical Velocity (CV) in Pure Sports Swimming.The aim of this study was to verify the influence of using different combinations of swimming distances on the calculation of CR and Anaerobic Work Capacity (AWC), using different swimming distances (short, medium and long distances).Fourteen federated athletes from a swimming team in the district of Porto were assessed, 11 males and 3 females, aged between 13 and 25.In view of the data obtained in this study, it was concluded that the distances used have a major influence on the values of VT and ATC, which can lead to situations where the anaerobic threshold is above or below the expected value, with greater evidence when short and medium distances are used.

Human rights are fundamental to the well-being of the population. To this end, the State takes the necessary measures to facilitate the satisfaction of human rights. In this way, they remain indispensable to the happiness of the population. Thus, the State puts in place the conditions to enable people to live decently. These include education, security of goods and people, marriage management, protection of civil status, acquisition of nationality by a foreigner, customary land rights, issuance of final land titles, dematerialization of administrative acts, archiving of State documents, migration management, housing policy, public health and sanitation infrastructures, counterfeiting, cybercrime, fraudulent trade in medicines, illicit trade in food products, indecent exposure, informal security, domestic servants, occupation of the State's public domain, conflict management, social security, etc.

The ethnobotanical survey carried out at the three sites revealed traditional uses forAloe macroclada in the treatment of digestive ailments, certain metabolic diseases, wounds, gonorrhea and asthma. It has also been used in cosmetology and as a soil protection agent. The flora associated with the target species comprises 44 species belonging to 37 genera and 20 families. The most represented families are: Poaceae, Asteraceae and Fabaceae. In the species-poor, open vegetation zone of Anjeva, density is relatively high, but biomass is low. Where vegetation is richer and more diversified, as observed in Miandrarivo, density is low and biomass high. An adult individual produces an average of 19 to 40 leaves per plant, ranging in size from 40.00 to 64.00 cm long and 10.00 to 12.50 cm wide. Anthropogenic pressures such as bush fires, expansion of cultivable land and illegal collection represent a crucial threat to Aloe macroclada. Appropriate measures must be implemented to reduce these harmful human activities.

This material addresses the challenges in research training in law school, highlighting the lack of solid research skills among graduates and the gap between academic theory and legal practice. The proposed study highlights the importance of training that promotes ethical awareness in professional activity and advocates for a thorough revision of law curricula. The comparison with the Colombian context broadens the relevance of the research, identifying common challenges in higher education. The method employed in the writing follows a meticulous approach, beginning with the careful selection of the topic and an exhaustive search of relevant academic literature. The information gathered is organized and critically analyzed, classifying it into thematic categories and evaluating the quality and methodology of each source. The synthesis of findings highlights emerging trends and patterns, underscoring the importance of research in legal education, not only as an academic requirement, but as essential for professional excellence.

This book outlines the academic scenario and the circumstances that shape it during the formation of students in the painting workshop at the university level, taking into account perceptions and realities around the understanding of art and creativity and therefore its teaching.It focuses on the participation of creativity as part of the pictorial production, highlighting it as the engine for the creation of the work. At the same time, it distinguishes between the artistic skills and the creative skills of the students, where the teacher must have the acuity to distinguish and encourage them equally, providing more arguments for their applications.As an important contribution, based on evidence, we seek to point out the origin of creativity in these processes, while the artistic proposal is approached as a key link to articulate the creative development of students as part of the organization of production processes, highlighting at all times the role of the teacher as a mediator between learning and their constructions of pictorial works from creativity.

The problem of child autism in modern society is becoming more and more urgent. Children with autism need psychological and pedagogical support and special assistance in the process of socialization. This book presents the results of a longitudinal study on the emotional and personal development of children with autism in early childhood. The specificity of this process is analyzed in terms of intra-personal changes, namely, the dynamics of the relationship between "True" and "Fake Self". Based on the research results, a classification of autistic disorders was developed depending on the level of emotional and personal development of children. For each of the groups, the mechanisms of occurrence of disorders were identified, and compensation methods and dynamics were described. The significance of symbolism for assessing well-being in personal development and adaptation to the environment was shown. The resulting classification can be used in diagnostics, in forecasting development and socialization, and in planning therapy strategies. The presentation of the study results is supplemented by case studies and case analysis materials. The book is addressed to specialists - psychologists and teachers.

For a long time, the concept of quality and the quality approach were considered to be specific to industry, the design sector and the management of new communication technologies. The concept is now making its way into the medical and hospital sectors. Examples from around the world (notably hospital accreditation procedures in Europe) have sufficiently demonstrated the applicability of this concept in health establishments. Hôpital du Mali, a public hospital with a general vocation and a 3rd reference, also wants to be a reference hospital in the quality approach, through the management's particular interest in controlling the quality of its medical services. To this end, it has initiated and implemented, from the very first years of operation, certain quality concept reference documents, such as the internal regulations and the Procedures Manual. The study area is the Hôpital du Mali, located in the Missabougou district of Bamako's Commune VI.The purpose of the hospital's white plan is to improve conditions for managing an exceptional health crisis at the hospital.

We have long been interested in the remarkable changes observed in the city of Saint - Louis and its sprawl towards peripheral areas, notably changes in morphology and its socio _ spatial reorganization.We are also interested in the outlying areas, which are currently concentrating a dynamic of actors and a growing proportion of the population, offering a new socio-spatial configuration, such as the dispersed settlement of the villages, which is gradually giving way to a concentrated settlement.

In Venezuela, as in all underdeveloped Latin American countries, there is evidence of state policies aimed at agricultural production in the swine sector, where capitalist dependence is encouraged, with an intensive, rentier and mercantilist economic model, with the worn-out discourse of population growth with the promotion and development of dependent industry. Establishing a submissive culture of individualism, selfishness, attacking any form of collective organization, hiding the popular power, the organized people and community organizations, when it is there where their best living conditions reside, their productive potential, becoming the veiled authority of the capitalist system. This has led to the imposition of conditions of social, economic and cultural rigidity, adhering to an undermined rural pork production, causing the abandonment of land and production to large cities as a mirror of underdevelopment.

The evolution of labor law in Colombia, from its foundations in colonial times to the complexities of the 21st century, reflects a dynamic process that has been shaped by the economic, social and political forces of the country. In this context, the present research, "The Evolution of Labor Regulations in Colombia: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century", aims to explore and critically understand this historical journey (Diaz, 1998).

In the DRC: teacher-researchersIII. Our extremely meagre financial resources forced us to reduce the number of university researchers we interviewed. The chosen analyzer is the University of Kinshasa. The limited sample of 38 respondents includes 31 teachers and researchers, 12 of whom are doctoral students; the other 7 come from the university's IT, library and publishing departments. Some of these actors are at the same time managers of structures and teacher-researchers. To gather information, we opted for a survey method based on individual interviewsIn effect, by forcing the respondent to co-construct a discourse in situ with the interviewer, the interview exchange is the production of a social word (Blanchet, Gotman, 1992: 9) about one's own practicesVII.

The presence of Occupational Therapists in Critical Patient Units increased significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, making visible the importance of the professional in the early rehabilitation of people in different health conditions who are hospitalized in the CPU. Thus, among the topics addressed are the health model in Chile, the role of the OT in the PCU and the scientific evidence available to date.

Environmental management in the major cities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is currently facing a new challenge: the sheer volume of solid household waste abandoned in the streets, the non-biodegradability or toxicity of some of it, the length of time it remains undisposed of, and its impact on the environment.Kinshasa is the country's capital. It is an undefined geographical entity within the boundaries of a province, with a population of over 8,000,000. The mentality of the Congolese population has changed since the recent past, during the era of the rural exodus and the great movements of rural populations to the cities. This period transformed the vision of the black man in Africa. It's a vision that's very different from that of the man of the colonial era in terms of understanding the notion of public hygiene. As a result of this new behavior, the city's citizens are generating and abandoning more and more waste on the streets and in their homes.

What can we say about the word in philosophy? It's a thorny question likely to provoke the intelligence of any philosophical researcher. For it carries with it several facets concerning the meaning we can give to the word from a philosophical angle. In addition to the question listed above, we can only take up this kind of question and ask it a few more questions: what is the role of the word in philosophy? What is the role of philosophy in speech? What are the corollaries of bad conscience in speech? What are the corollaries of bad speech in consciousness? In the first axis, the author embodies the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes in its reflexive unity. It certainly seems highly relevant to him to revisit his philosophy, whose imprint is still evident today in various areas of life, and even more so in the social and political sciences.

A study of 137 first year medical students in Villa Clara was carried out to evaluate the relationship between chronotype, sleep-wake cycle time pattern and levels of physical motor activity in them. The intermediate chronotype predominated. It was also found that the behavioral phenotype is influenced by social obligations and sex. No hourly similarity was found between the actigraphy and the Munich Chronotype Questionnaire but equivalence was demonstrated between its chronotype estimation and that of the Matutinity and Vespertinity Questionnaire.Endogenous control of circadian rhythm does not influence the levels of physical activity displayed.

III Conference of Integration in pediatric academic activities, between two universities that share a formative vision: Universidad Católica del Norte and Universidad de los Andes. This has allowed the promotion of research and learning among undergraduate students, as well as physicians and other professionals dedicated to child care in the IV Region of Chile.It also promotes integration between undergraduate and graduate students from these universities.

Wood energy remains a major concern in the Dodjé/Tchad forest massif, where its use for cooking and brewing local beers is recurrent. The aim of this research is to assess the area of woody plant cover exploited as fuelwood and to propose strategies for sustainable management. To carry out the study, books, dissertations and articles were consulted in various libraries and institutions. A sample of 164 was surveyed. Floristic inventories were carried out on 18 plots, each 900 m² in size and 1 km apart, crossing several landscape units. Plot density, rarefaction index and LandSat image processing (1980, 2000 and 2020) were carried out. This analysis shows that the majority of households in the Dodjé forest massif use nothing but firewood. Out of 1,753 individuals, 52 woody species and 23 families were inventoried. The Dodjé forest massif has a regressive trend.

Banana growing, an activity of great global importance, is also an exponent in the state of Tocantins, with a major socio-economic impact on the state, since in addition to being one of the food bases, it also generates income and employment, ensuring that people stay in the countryside, especially on small properties. However, despite the aforementioned growth, banana growing still has some obstacles, such as post-harvest losses, inefficient transportation, fluctuating marketing prices and few destinations for production. Another point to note is the small number of studies on the crop in the state, but these are expected to increase due to the growing importance of the crop for Tocantins.

The following text aims to represent the basic characteristics of Crowdfunding, as an alternative form of financing to the classic forms of money supply proposed by financial intermediaries. This journey inside the world of crowdfunding will take us to discover its history, its evolution over time and the success it is accumulating from year to year as a viable alternative for financing innovative or high social impact entrepreneurial projects. The book will analyze and describe the various types of Crowdfunding that exist, highlighting their strengths and limitations based on the category of user who intends to access them. There will also be a mention of the regulatory aspects related to the tool and some tips for starting an effective crowdfunding campaign. Finally, a successful use case will be presented, the one related to the start-up BIOerg, showing its goals and achievements, through the words of the protagonists of this extraordinary initiative.

This project shows the market study of the crane-vehicle, built with the purpose of improving the movement and displacement of patients with difficulty to move or with limitations for their transfer. With the study we intend to know how to solve this human need in an efficient way, besides being accessible, safe, ergonomic, comfortable, durable, allowing diaper changing in this vehicle and that only one person does the work in support of their loved one. The need for transportation and mobility has become a basic need for some of them. Under these conditions, it is our objective to conduct the market study designed to identify the opinion of the population regarding the feasibility of putting on sale a vehicle crane that provides safety and agility in the mobilization of patients and secondly think of savings and accessible cost, in addition to avoiding injuries to people who help the patient, which will be known with the results obtained from the study.

To sum up, my proposal for France's reconquest of Africa is based on strengthening diplomatic relations, investing in economic development, security cooperation, education and training, and promoting regional cooperation. These actions would enable France to play a key role in Africa's development and stability, while strengthening its own economic and geopolitical interests.

With a thoughtful approach to the new challenges of inclusive education, the volume "Inclusive Education: itineraries in Special Pedagogy and Didactics" is a useful resource for those involved in Special Pedagogy and Didactics. Through an in-depth survey of methodologies, strategies and best practices, the volume promotes inclusive educational itineraries. The "itineraries" proposed here are, therefore, designed for educators, teachers and practitioners in order to respond to the different needs of each student, promoting inclusive learning.