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Con los cambios en los sistemas de producción, los trabajadores ven sus condiciones laborales y su sentir del bienestar subjetivo afectados, por lo cual en la actualidad existe un gran interés en mejorar las condiciones de calidad de vida en el trabajo. El objetivo de este estudio es realizar un análisis de la relación multivariante entre el apoyo (soporte) organizacional percibido y algunas dimensiones de la calidad de vida relacionada con el trabajo, con el bienestar subjetivo y, al mismo tiempo, constructos relevantes derivados de la psicología organizacional positiva, como el compromiso laboral y el sentido de coherencia. Se consideró una muestra de 1255 trabajadores de diferentes empresas, en dos grupos, uno con 736 (59 %) trabajadores que participaron en un programa de bienestar y otro grupo con 519 (41 %) trabajadores que no participaron en el programa de bienestar de las mismas empresas. El modelo de ecuaciones estructurales que se presenta en este estudio muestra cómo los f...

El consumo de drogas se ha relacionado con multiples variables economicas, sociales, politicas y psicologicas. Por ello, en esta investigacion tiene como objetivo identificar la relacion entre el consumo de drogas y el bienestar psicologico de estudiantes universitarios mexicanos de la region Valles en Jalisco. Para ello, se realizo un estudio trasversal y correlacional. Los instrumentos aplicados fueron la Encuesta de Consumo de Drogas y la Escala de Bienestar Psicologico en 2,581 estudiantes de licenciatura. Se encontro que el bienestar psicologico no tiene una correlacion con el consumo de drogas. No obstante, se observo que los universitarios con nivel bajo y medio de bienestar psicologico tienen mayor riesgo de consumir tabaco ( Ψ = 2.212, 1.807 – 2.708); ademas se identifico que los hombres tienen mayor riesgo que las mujeres de consumir sustancias ilegales ( Ψ = 3.327, 1.977 – 5.598), alcohol ( Ψ = 2.152, 1.835 – 2.524) y tabaco ( Ψ = 1.480, 1.026 – 2.136). Con base en los re...

Background: Studies on complexity indicators in the field of functional connectivity derived from resting-state fMRI (rs-fMRI) in Down syndrome (DS) samples and their possible relationship with cognitive functioning variables are rare. We analyze how some complexity indicators estimated in the subareas that constitute the default mode network (DMN) might be predictors of the neuropsychological outcomes evaluating Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and cognitive performance in persons with DS. Methods: Twenty-two DS people were assessed with the Kaufman Brief Test of Intelligence (KBIT) and Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) tests, and fMRI signals were recorded in a resting state over a six-minute period. In addition, 22 controls, matched by age and sex, were evaluated with the same rs-fMRI procedure. Results: There was a significant difference in complexity indicators between groups: the control group showed less complexity than the DS group. Moreover, the DS group showed more variance in th...

1) Vamos a aprender cúales son las modalidades.
2) Comó se conceptualizan las diferentes teorías de las modalidades
3) Cúal es la importancia de  las modalidades
4) Por qué esto es significativo para las teorías de posibilidad, epistemología y los metodos de las ciencias.

William Brant uncovers social causes of violence, in search of reductive measures. Multiple legal systems are explored as reducers and implementers of violence and threats, especially criminal justice systems. War, propagandizing, power, corporate and governmental involvement in social domination, statehood, dangerous ideologies, and tribal sexual domination are explored in many cultures. Various levels and methods are given for observing, measuring and analyzing how people think and behave regarding the law, including examples of comedy. A theoretical chapter presents legal theory in relation to conceptions of possibility and misconceptions. These ideas are applied to judiciaries, which expose winning strategies for lawyers' desired verdicts. Dr. Brant accounts for the interconnections between sexual selection, legal systems and wars. 

Editorial Foreword (Discarded by publisher without reason)

In William A. Brant’s assessment, contributors to jurisprudence converse primarily among themselves, are part of an inbred, intellectual elite, have little understanding of the nations and peoples of the world, and are thus poorly positioned to improve their lot. With his work, Brant sets out to change this take on jurisprudence and its accomplishments. His aim is to reduce violence and augment fairness in the world through an understanding of legal systems and the ways in which they protect people from violence as well as how they promote and cause violence. Brant’s standing to break from the ways of traditional philosophers of law is secure, as he is able to make first-hand observations that we need but don’t get from most scholars of jurisprudence; this work unfolded as Brant lived in, and interacted with broad sectors of the citizenries of, the US, Colombia, Germany, Bulgaria, Mexico, China and several other nations. He sought views about the legal order ranging from those of the mainstream, law-abiding citizen to those who, for one reason or another, hold the law in low regard or have little if any respect for it.
Throughout the work, Brant offers multiple, innovative proposals, including an elevation of the importance of the sociological imagination over the autobiographical and biographical, and a call for a sociological analysis of comedy about the law to gauge audience responses to the varying forms the intended humor might take. Among the more intriguing of Brant’s ideas is his challenge to the legal system to test itself with an eye to identifying problems and implementing improvements. One test might involve the introduction of fictitious bills to the legislative branch. Another involves the use of undercover agents to observe and participate in crimes as they investigate law enforcement. In Brant’s words, “Like the undercover police officer who reveals herself at some point to some people, members of the party who pass the bogus bill could reveal the bill as one that was used to test whether support for the bill is likely to involve favoritism on part of members of the party who introduce it.  It could test the legislative system’s process of lawmaking and introduce the flaw in the system thereafter. Lawmakers could be persuaded or required to promote and allow for fake bills to be presented intermittently to bolster support for them, despite their sketchy or maleficent content.  Assessments of such cases could be valuable for understanding, improving, and preventing unfairness and injustices in the legislative branch of government.”  Likewise, Brant envisions fictitious cases involving actors who test judges and juries on their abilities to make decisions with fairness and justice and adds a component to the testing to maximize its transparency and utility. Says Brant, “Moreover, the public broadcast of such investigative procedures and their results would be thoroughly informative if properly undertaken.”   
Founded as Natural Law Studies by Virginia Black, the VIBS special series Studies in Jurisprudence publishes works in all areas of philosophy of law and maintains a special interest in the relationship between values and morality and the laws of nations and peoples. Beyond Legal Minds is a welcome and valuable addition to the investigations of this series.

Vincent Luizzi
Editor
Studies in Jurisprudence

Brant describe los conceptos de generación humana, juventud y adolescencia en unas relaciones con los conceptos de reproducción y selección sexual.  Los análisis estadísticos de las sociedades agrarias (ej. Angola y Zambia) y áreas no desarrolladas de muchas naciones (ej. en los barrios de unos afroamericanos de los EE. UU.) demuestran que los adolescentes entre las edades de 10 y 20 años son el grupo más volátil para los aumentos masivos en la reproducción sexual.  El grupo puede cambiar mucha la frecuencia de la reproducción sexual. 
Los ritos de pasaje son descritos ritualísticamente por los antropólogos.  Lo que falta es un análisis sociológico.  Con la dominación sexual tribal, los adolescentes frecuentemente no pueden impregnarse las chicas porque ellos tienen las mutilaciones de sus genitales.  Los chicos tienen las mutilizaciones de sus genitales por las circuncisiones rituales.  Brant proporciona algunos de los detalles y estadísticas involucrados en la reproducción de adolescentes y ejemplos de violencia sexual dirigida a adolescentes. Plantea la hipótesis de que los procesos de selección sexual, incluida la selección intersexual e intrasexual, son causas de violencia y dominación sexuales contra los adolescentes.  Sin las habilidades para defender sus propios derechos, requieren que otros alcancen la libertad y escapen de la dominación.

This article provides an critical ethical analysis of the MMA business industry via comparing the discipline and fighting of the Samurai and the philosophy of Judo during combat situations to Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) "fighting as entertainment."  The article focuses on MMA as a business industry that has various impacts on societies.  It is demonstrated that the mass broadcasting of MMA has a negative societal impact, causing the rate and intensity of violence to increase in the society.  In U.S. history, fighting as work has developed through slavery and the lower classes, and an interview of a former slave is provided, which describes the brutality of the "mandingo fights."  Fighting served as a way for winners to lift themselves out of poverty, but only if they were freemen.  In the 21st, fighting via the MMA industry is argued to be a way to change people's conceptions of work as something to which to sacrifice your own body and mind, as a means of supporting the military industrial complex, excessive nationalism and cheating via controlling the odds for gambling via controlling the fighters and the situations they face before bouts.

This essay is about changing people's conceptions of their own values and potential so that they realize how unique and important they are in relation to humanity.  It is argued that each human being is worth billions of dollars and is needed for our planet and the continuation of the human species.

Este ensayo trata de cambiar las concepciones de las personas sobre sus propios valores y potencial para que se den cuenta de lo únicos e importantes que son en relación con la humanidad. Se argumenta que cada ser humano vale miles de millones de dólares y es necesario para nuestro planeta y la continuación de la especie humana.

This essay gives practical examples for people to increase their professional communication skills and reduce unprofessionalism at workplaces via emailing.  The structure of emails and examples of emails at workplaces to reject unwanted invitations are described.  Comparisons of telephoning and text messaging are given.  The styles of communication, including humor and manipulation, are included in order to give messengers the best ideas about how to manage this aspect of professional life as well as how to establish effective work-life boundaries and handle false accusations.

This short essay provides practical information about the assessment of suicidal behavior at the workplace.  A short guide is provided to aid people at the workplace in order to prevent suicide, workplace violence and injuries at work.  Sociological information is provided from the Bureau of Labor Statistics regarding violence, injuries, suicides and self-destructive behaviors at U.S. workplaces.  The use of manipulation via non-suicidal individuals who express that they are suicidal is also described, and various resources from the Center for Disease Control in the USA are given to aid in the prevention of suicide.