Becky Pettit, Invisible Men: Mass Incarceration and the Myth of Black Progress
In: Punishment & society, Band 16, Heft 5, S. 613-615
ISSN: 1741-3095
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In: Punishment & society, Band 16, Heft 5, S. 613-615
ISSN: 1741-3095
In: Sistema: revista de ciencias sociales, Heft 215-216, S. 27-41
ISSN: 0210-0223
In: Biblioteconomía y administración cultural 188
In: Biblioteconomía y administración cultural 132
El artículo trata de analizar la censura de libros durante el primer franquismo desde un punto de vista sociocultural que apenas ha sido contemplado. Por un lado, se muestra cómo la censura impidió que determinadas obras cultas llegasen al lector popular, dificultando las ediciones asequibles o restringiéndolas directamente a eruditos. Por el otro, da cuenta de la dura represión de las lecturas populares sufrieron en nombre de la infancia, pese a que las motivaciones reales deban buscarse en el enfrentamiento entre lo culto y lo popular.The article tries to analyze the censorship of books during the first franquism from a sociocultural point of view that has been scarcely contemplated. In one hand, it shows how the censorship prevented the popular reader from getting learned works by obstructing cheap editions or by restricting them directly to scholars. In the other one, it shows the hard repression of the popular readings in the ñame of the infancy, although real motivations should be looked in the clash between the educated culture and the popular one.
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In: Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Band 150, S. 312-327
Presented at the Role of irrigation and drainage in a sustainable future: USCID fourth international conference on irrigation and drainage on October 3-6, 2007 in Sacramento, California. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; In Mexico, most irrigation delivery systems consist of a network of open-channels with manually-operated control structures. Efficiencies of these systems typically are low. To improve water management in these systems, the Mexican government has attempted to modernize many irrigation projects (Reynosa, Apatzingan, Valle del Mezquital, and Santiago among others) using automatic self-leveling check structures. However, problems have emerged with the operation of these structures, causing dissatisfaction among water users. The Santiago Irrigation System (SIS) began operating in 1998. Its main distribution system consists of open channels regulated by self-leveling gates and constant flow modules. Low-pressure pipelines deliver water to individual plots. During the first three years of operation, inadequate water level regulation with the automated gates caused water distribution problems that ultimately affected crop productivity. This negative situation encouraged users to take control over the irrigation system and to revert to the traditional manual operation. To help address the technical issues, an experimental channel was built at the University of Zacatecas. The channel was expected to help researchers develop a better understanding of the hydraulic theory and operation of this type of structures and to help solve practical installation and operational problems. This paper describes our experience rehabilitating and calibrating AVIS and AVIO self-leveling gates; it also describes the sequence of operations that must be followed for the adequate management of the automated structures in the SIS main network.
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