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Francisco Iglesias
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The Roots of Conservatism in Mexico
The Roots of Conservatism is the first attempt to ask why over the past two centuries so many Mexican peasants have opted to ally with conservative groups rather than their radical counterparts. Blending socioeconomic history, cultural analysis, and political narrative, Smith’s study begins with the late Bourbon period and moves through the early republic, the mid-nineteenth-century Reforma, the Porfiriato, and the Revolution, when the Mixtecs rejected Zapatista offers of land distribution, ending with the armed religious uprising known as the “last Cristiada,” a desperate Cold War bid to rid the region of impious “communist” governance. In recounting this long tradition of regional conservatism, Smith emphasizes the influence of religious belief, church ritual, and lay-clerical relations both on social relations and on political affiliation. He posits that many Mexican peasants embraced provincial conservatism, a variant of elite or metropolitan conservatism, which not only comprised ideas on property, hierarchy, and the state, but also the overwhelming import of the church to maintaining this system.
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Electroporation and Electrofusion in Cell Biology
Cells can be funny. Try to grow them with a slightly wrong recipe, and they turn over and die. But hit them with an electric field strong enough to knock over a horse, and they do enough things to justify international meetings, to fill a sizable book, and to lead one to speak of an entirely new technology for cell manipulation. The very improbability of these events not only raises questions about why things happen but also leads to a long list of practical systems in which the application of strong electric fields might enable the merger of cell contents or the introduction of alien but vital material. Inevitably, the basic questions and the practical applications will not keep in step. The questions are intrinsically tough. It is hard enough to analyze the action of the relatively weak fields that rotate or align cells, but it is nearly impossible to predict responses to the cell-shredding bursts of electricity that cause them to fuse or to open up to very large molecular assemblies. Even so, theoretical studies and systematic examination of model systems have produced some creditable results, ideas which should ultimately provide hints of what to try next.
New Acoustics
Se recoge en este libro una selección de las contribuciones presentadas a varios seminarios científicos que se organizaron en el Instituto de Acústica del CSIC durante los años 2004 y 2005. Esas contribuciones tratan un amplio abanico de temas, desde las estrategias para medir y controlar el ruido en la ciudad de Madrid hasta la técnica de toma de imágenes con fines médicos basada en el comportamiento elástico de los tejidos humanos. Otros temas -como los sistemas de sensores de onda acústica de superficie, el control de ruido activo, o los dispositivos para la inspección sanitaria de productos de uso cotidiano por medio de ultrasonidos- constituyen buenos ejemplos de la utilización de sistemas acústicos en el mundo industrial.
