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Víctor Manuel Rosario Muñoz vrosario14al18@hotmail.com; vrosario@cucea.udg.mx, es Doctor en Educación por la Universidad de Guadalajara, México. Profesor-investigador en el Centro Universitario de Ciencias Económico Administrativas en el Centro para la Calidad e Innovación de la Educación Superior. Su línea de investigación es calidad e innovación de la educación media superior y superior. Sus proyectos de investigación se refieren a la gestión universitaria, curriculum, formación docente y cambio institucional. Profesor Certificado Perfil Prodep. Es miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores Nivel 1. Fundador de la Red Retos y Expectativas de la Universidad (2000) y miembro fundador y creador de la Red de Académicos de Iberoamérica A.C. (2011).
The programme of the Conference at El Escorial included 4 main courses of 3-4 hours. Their content is reflected in the four survey papers in this volume (see above). Also included are the ten 45-minute lectures of a more specialized nature.
This brand new Handbook addresses Paralympic sports and athletes, providing practical information on the medical issues, biological factors in the performance of the sports and physical conditioning. The book begins with a comprehensive introduction of the Paralympic athlete, followed by discipline-specific reviews from leading authorities in disability sport science, each covering the biomechanics, physiology, medicine, philosophy, sociology and psychology of the discipline. The Paralympic Athlete also addresses recent assessment and training tools to enhance the performance of athletes, particularly useful for trainers and coaches, and examples of best practice on athletes' scientific counseling are also presented. This new title sits in a series of specialist reference volumes, ideal for the use of professionals working directly with competitive athletes.
In recent years advocacy work has come under increasing criticism. NGOs are challenged on the grounds of: legitimacy, effectiveness, role, and strategy. As international grassroots advocacy is becoming more vocal thanks to new communication technologies; what is the appropriate role for Northern NGOs?
Few places in the world can claim such a diversity of species as the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez), with its 6,000 recorded animal species estimated to be half the number actually living in its waters. So rich are the Gulf's water that over a half-million tons of seafood are taken from them annuallyÑand this figure does not count the wasted by-catch, which would triple or quadruple that tonnage. This timely book provides a benchmark for understanding the Gulf's extraordinary diversity, how it is threatened, and in what ways it isÑor should beÑprotected. In spite of its dazzling richness, most of the Gulf's coastline now harbors but a pale shadow of the diversity that existed just a h...