Maria Gomez

This note aims to analyse the most important aspects of the conceptual history’s reception in Spain given the recent publication of the book History of Concepts and Political Philosophy. In order to accomplish such a purpose, this note will be divided in three sections. Firstly, I will present the Reinhart Koselleck’s conception of Begriffsgeschichte. Secondly, I will address the question of the contributions made by the University of Padua. Finally, I will present the two directions that conceptual history has maintained in the Spanish reception.

This paper presents an investigation on the state of the art in the studies about the philosophy of fray Luis de León. The article constitutes a bibliographical revision of the investigations that have been done since 1991, the year of fray Luis’s 4th death anniversary. Since it is impossible to include all published papers from recent years, the article proposes a classification of the existing studies in four important sections: commemoration of anniversaries, translations of manuscripts, philosophical studies and conclusions.

This article reports on the methodology for setting the Mexican User Satisfaction Index for Social Programs as tested in seven national social programs. The evaluation is based on Structural Equation Modeling. How satisfaction takes the central place of the SEM, which postulates its causes and effects, contributes to the increased validity and reliability of satisfaction indicators that allow benchmarking between social programs. The MUSI model is an adaptation of the American Customer Satisfaction Index model. The MUSI methodology includes qualitative and quantitative techniques. The estimation model is by the Partial Least Squares. In each of the seven social programs, no statistical evidence was found to reject the main relationships postulated by the ACSI’s model: that Perceived Quality impacts Satisfaction, and Satisfaction impacts Trust. The improvement opportunity areas were also identified for each program. These results give valid and reliable feedback to public policies.

Cellular identity and its response to external or internal signalling variations are encoded in a cell's genome as regulatory information. The genomic regions that specify this type of information are highly variable and degenerated in their sequence determinants, as it is becoming increasingly evident through the application of genome‐scale methods to study gene expression. Here, we speculate that the same scenario applies to the regulatory regions controlling where DNA replication starts in the metazoan genome. We propose that replication origins cannot be defined as unique genomic features, but rather that DNA synthesis initiates opportunistically from accessible DNA sites, making cells highly robust and adaptable to environmental or developmental changes.