TERCERA EDAD. Actividad física y salud

TERCERA EDAD. Actividad física y salud
Author: Pilar Pont Geis
Publisher: Editorial Paidotribo
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2008-03-13
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9788480191463

La actividad física para la tercera edad es un tema relevante, incluso estratégico, tanto desde el punto de vista personal e individual como desde una visión global de la sociedad. Así, el hecho de que una persona adulta se plantee iniciar, continuar o potenciar una actividad física, puede suponerle por una parte un cambio sustancial en su vida interior, ya que le ayudará a aumentar su equilibrio personal, mejorar su estado de ánimo y su salud, potenciar sus reflejos y proporcionarle una agilidad que podía tener estancada o mermada y, en definitiva, mejorar su calidad de vida. Así, este libro supone una aportación decisiva en el campo de la actividad física para la tercera edad, que parte de una experiencia consolidada a lo largo de los últimos años, y que puede sin duda contribuir a potenciar, el papel de la tercera edad dentro de la sociedad mejorando a la vez la calidad de vida individual. El contenido de este libro consta de dos partes generales: una primera parte basada en conocimientos y aspectos teóricos y una segunda parte en la que se desarrollan los contenidos de forma práctica. En cuanto a la teoría, se desarrolla el tema de la tercera edad desde diferentes vertientes: un estudio de todos aquellos aspectos físicos, psíquicos y socio-afectivos que caracterizan a estas personas; la alimentación; la necesidad de la práctica de la actividad física, etc. Asimismo, se detallan aquellos elementos que intervienen para lleva a cabo un programa, o sea aquellos aspectos metodológicos que todo profesional de la actividad física debe conocer. Por último, en la segunda parte, se desarrollan las actividades agrupadas por su forma y por los objetivos que se pretenden conseguir. La autora, Pilar Pont Geis, Licenciada en Pedagogía y en Educación Física. Desde hace 10 años, compagina la docencia en Secundaria con la dirección técnica de la Asociación Deportiva Sarriá-San Gervasio en lo que se refiere a las actividades físicas para la tercera edad, dirigiendo e impartiendo cursos de especialización y perfeccionamiento.

Aquaculture Development

Aquaculture Development
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789251039717

Provides annotations to the Principles of Article 9 of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries. These annotations are meant to serve as general guidance, and should be taken as suggestions or observations intended to assist those interested in identifying their own criteria and options for actions, as well as partners for collaboration, in support of sustainable aquaculture development.

Environmental Transport Processes

Environmental Transport Processes
Author: Bruce E. Logan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2012-03-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1118230078

A unique approach to the challenges of complex environmental systems Environmental Transport Processes, Second Edition provides much-needed guidance on mass transfer principles in environmental engineering. It focuses on working with uncontrolled conditions involving biological and physical systems, offering examples from diverse fields, including mass transport, kinetics, wastewater treatment, and unit processes. This new edition is fully revised and updated, incorporating modern approaches and practice problems at the end of chapters, making the Second Edition more concise, accessible, and easy to use. The book discusses the fundamentals of transport processes occurring in natural environments, with special emphasis on working at the biological physical interface. It considers transport and kinetics in terms of systems that involve microorganisms, along with in-depth coverage of particles, size spectra, and calculations for particles that can be considered either spheres or fractals. The book's treatment of particles as fractals is especially unique and the Second Edition includes a new section on exoelectrogenic biofilms. It also addresses dispersion in natural and engineered systems unlike any other book on the subject. Readers will learn to tackle with confidence complex environmental systems and make transport calculations in heterogeneous environments with mixtures of chemicals.

Soil and Sediment Remediation

Soil and Sediment Remediation
Author: Piet Lens
Publisher: IWA Publishing
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2005-09-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1843391007

Soil and Sediment Remediation discusses in detail a whole set of remediative technologies currently available to minimise their impact. Technologies for the treatment of soils and sediments in-situ (landfarming, bioscreens, bioventing, nutrient injection, phytoremediation) and ex-situ (landfarming, bio-heap treatment, soil suspension reactor) will be discussed. The microbiological, process technological and socio-economical aspects of these technologies will be addressed. Special attention will be given to novel biotechnological processes that utilise sulfur cycle conversions, e.g. sulfur and heavy metal removal from soils. Also the potential of phytoremediation will be highlighted. In addition, treatment schemes for the clean-up of polluted megasites, e.g. harbours and Manufactured Gaswork Plants (MGP), will be elaborated. The aim of Soil and Sediment Remediation is to introduce the reader in: the biogeochemical characteristics of soil and sediments- new techniques to study soil/sediment processes (molecular probes, microelectrodes, NMR) clean up technologies for soils polluted with organic (PAH, NAPL, solvents) or inorganic (heavy metals) pollutants- preventative and remediative strategies and technologies available in environmental engineering novel process applications and bioreactor designs for bioremediation the impact of soil pollution on society and its economic importance.

Smoldering Ashes

Smoldering Ashes
Author: Charles F. Walker
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 1999-04-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0822382164

In Smoldering Ashes Charles F. Walker interprets the end of Spanish domination in Peru and that country’s shaky transition to an autonomous republican state. Placing the indigenous population at the center of his analysis, Walker shows how the Indian peasants played a crucial and previously unacknowledged role in the battle against colonialism and in the political clashes of the early republican period. With its focus on Cuzco, the former capital of the Inca Empire, Smoldering Ashes highlights the promises and frustrations of a critical period whose long shadow remains cast on modern Peru. Peru’s Indian majority and non-Indian elite were both opposed to Spanish rule, and both groups participated in uprisings during the late colonial period. But, at the same time, seething tensions between the two groups were evident, and non-Indians feared a mass uprising. As Walker shows, this internal conflict shaped the many struggles to come, including the Tupac Amaru uprising and other Indian-based rebellions, the long War of Independence, the caudillo civil wars, and the Peru-Bolivian Confederation. Smoldering Ashes not only reinterprets these conflicts but also examines the debates that took place—in the courts, in the press, in taverns, and even during public festivities—over the place of Indians in the republic. In clear and elegant prose, Walker explores why the fate of the indigenous population, despite its participation in decades of anticolonial battles, was little improved by republican rule, as Indians were denied citizenship in the new nation—an unhappy legacy with which Peru still grapples. Informed by the notion of political culture and grounded in Walker’s archival research and knowledge of Peruvian and Latin American history, Smoldering Ashes will be essential reading for experts in Andean history, as well as scholars and students in the fields of nationalism, peasant and Native American studies, colonialism and postcolonialism, and state formation.

Nomadic Subjects

Nomadic Subjects
Author: Rosi Braidotti
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2011-05-24
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 023151526X

For more than fifteen years, Nomadic Subjects has guided discourse in continental philosophy and feminist theory, exploring the constitution of contemporary subjectivity, especially the concept of difference within European philosophy and political theory. Rosi Braidotti's creative style vividly renders a productive crisis of modernity. From a feminist perspective, she recasts embodiment, sexual difference, and complex concepts through relations to technology, historical events, and popular culture. This thoroughly revised and expanded edition retains all but two of Braidotti's original essays, including her investigations into epistemology's relation to the "woman question;" feminism and biomedical ethics; European feminism; and the possible relations between American feminism and European politics and philosophy. A new piece integrates Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the "becoming-minoritarian" more deeply into modern democratic thought, and a chapter on methodology explains Braidotti's methods while engaging with her critics. A new introduction muses on Braidotti's provocative legacy.