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Spanish Golden Age Culture is an age of secrets and secrecy. Among its playwrights, Pedro Calderón de la Barca shows the most complex comprehension of this subject. During the entirety of his career he refers to it in numerous comedies, creates metaphors concerning different aspects of secrecy and employs it for the construction of his comedias de enredo/comedies of intrigue. In summary: Calderón has an ongoing interest in this anthropological phenomenon. The article analyses the motive of secrecy in selected plays, tragic and comic, starting with the San Secreto figure present in different plays, for example in La vida es sueño. After tracing the temporal aspect of secrecy the article ends with some thoughts about the relation between the public and the secret spheres. Calderón reflects this relation in his masterpiece concerning secrecy: El secreto a voces/The loud secret.

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Since the beginning of the XX century, public libraries have been contested. Initially, the biggest criticism was focused on those libraries which seemed a book deposit, and how they could cooperate to the development of the industrial society and also, afterwards, the post-industrial society. With the coming of the information society, new challenges came up, like the transformation from the print to digital, the training of readers... New skills were demanded to librarians to overcome these challenges. Since their first years of existence, libraries have been understood as temples of knowledge and truth. Nowadays, political, economic and ideological interests support the post-truth crisis, over abundance of information, manipulation of the information and fake news. Within this context, identification and development of information skills has become essential. Moreover, it is a duty of public libraries to create the conditions to satisfy the new demands of the information & knowledge society. Based on comparative studies, a bibliographic review and qualitative methodologies, this article analyzes the community divide, the reading mediation, the information skills, both the return on investment (ROI) and the social return on investment (SROI), and to demonstrate how the new model of public library is able to cope with the needs of the XXI century’s citizens.

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Los reportes epidemiológicos periódicos en Salud Publica son fundamentales para el buen desempeño de los sistemas de salud en un país. Los  programas, planes de salud y  la respectiva atención y resolución de estos problemas sanitarios ameritan de sistemas de información  confiables y  emitidos de forma periódica, continua y completa. Recientemente fue publicado en la página Web oficial del Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Salud, los Boletines Epidemiológicos Semanales de las 25 últimas semanas del año 2015 y de las 52 semanas del 2016, con una mora de casi dos años. En ellos llama la atención un aumento de la mortalidad materna del 2014 al 2015 del 15%, así como la aparición de 324 casos de difteria, reportados en el Boletín Epidemiológico Semanal número 52, patología no reportada en Boletines anteriores hasta el 2012. De igual manera se notifican 240.637 casos de malaria en 2015, con un aumento considerable tomando como referencia el 2012 cuando se reportaron 136.402 casos

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The Venezuelan Public Health Magazine (RVSP) is now four years old, with eight numbers to its credit, accumulating a total of 67 articles, for an average of 8 per number; it has been a hard but comforting work, which is appreciated when seeing its fruits, where only, to mention to the technological platform of the UCLA (http://bibvirtual.ucla.edu.ve/RVSP/), they are presented more than 133,000 entries or queries, where the most widely read article has been the contamination of cabbage enteroparasitaria, with 45,000 entries, or to mention another platform such as ISSUU, where only the second number has 1937 readings, plus 28,178 impressions, according to the origin of the consultant, in order of frequency, appear Venezuela, Mexico, Spain, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic, or in the case of IMBIOMED (Mexican Index of Latin American Biomedical Journals), with more than 6000 entries, auditable. All this is very pleasing because the visibility of the journal is increasing every day, which allows thousands of users who rely on RVSP to be a safe source of knowledge in Public Health.

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Working conditions, housing and housing including all basic services, schooling, education, free time, citizen security, food and civil liberties, together constitute the conditions for people to enjoy a minimum level of Health. Likewise, equitable access to health care must be the primary objective of any health policy, so studying these elements has been a public health concern as a discipline for many years.  

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The object of the present work of documentary and bibliographic research is to reconstruct the academic and administrative process carried out by Jose Maria Vargas at the Central University in Caracas during the period 1827-1829 upon the implementation of the Decree on the reorganization of this University signed by Simón Bolívar on June 24, 1827.  In this set of changes, the creation of the Anatomy Chair at the university is examined as part of the curriculum reform for the formation of the doctor.  The importance of the Chair is emphasized because it constituted the essential unit that organized the university teaching work to grant the academic degrees of Senior, Bachelor, Master and Doctor in the professions of Medicine, Laws and Theology by then.   In this order of ideas, aspects of the University reform including the issue of public health are identified as part of the preparation of the doctor. Written evidence is left of this documentary review about the projection and scope of the lectures conducted by Vargas when showing partial data of his disciples and with them cognitive and social institutionalization of Medicine in Venezuela during the nineteenth century.        

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The deliverable will present the results and conclusions of the different fatigue tests to be performed. An interim report will be delivered by month M24 describing the regular fatigue tests (O° and 90° lay-ups) and results. This data is the only one required by the numerical models for material calibration. The report will be completed by M29, including the advanced fatigue characterization performed on oblique (45°) lay-ups and also the connections.

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The report of deliverable D2.3 includes all the results of the durability tests performed during the extensive experimental campaign. The most relevant laboratory tests to evaluate the environmental performance of the various solutions are listed below: - Alternate and continuous immersion in salt solution (ISO 11130, ISO 2812) - High Humidity Test (ISO 6270) - 500 hours at 40 °C and 98 % HR - QUV accelerated weathering test (ISO 11507) - 1000 hours with cycles of 4 hours UV light / 4 hours of high humidity - Climatic chamber with thermal cycles (-20°C / + 80°C) - Adhesion tests: Cross Cut (ISO 2409) and Pull Off (ISO 4624) before and after each ageing test - Gloss (ISO 2813) and Colorimetry (ISO 7724) measurements before and after each ageing test - Observation of visual defects before and after each ageing test - The effect on the texture on biofouling will be evaluated at coupon level in natural sea water basin A dedicated Design of Experiments (DOE) will be built to optimize the number of samples to be tested. The durability will be evaluated for the following configurations: - At least 2 paint references (from 2 suppliers or 2 different chemistries) - At least 2 composite substrates (1 thermoset and 1 thermoplastic) - Three types of application: adhesive paint film, in-mold application of paint film and stand ard liquid paint application - Three surfaces textures: flat surface and two fouling release textures - Unprotected composite samples as a comparison

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Report containing a benchmark of the connection technologies in OWTP structures, their respective evaluation and selection. The report will also include the re-design and optimization of the most promising connections, supported by a detailed description of the experimental testing campaign.