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Objective. To analyze the population management of dogs and cats in Bogota between 2004 and 2021 within the “One Welfare” framework. Materials and Methods. This is a retrospective, descriptive study that includes an analysis of public and private interventions related to the sterilization, adoption, and slaughter of companion animals, discriminating by location, species, sex, and sector (public or private). The available information was organized using Excel®, with a descriptive analysis and results expressed in frequencies, proportions, and rates. Results. Between 2004 and 2021, 750.949 cats and dogs were sterilized in the public sector and 217.276 in the private sector; 22.126 were adopted through the district adoption program, 101.165 animals were slaughtered, of which 8.8% were cats; after the year 2005 cats were included in the population estimates and after 2014 information was collected from private veterinarians (sterilization) who contributed with the 29% of the total number of interventions. Conclusions. The population growth of animals demands health, policies, and environmental attention, and its ethical management must be kept, although it should be complemented with actions from various sources where these animals live. The One Welfare approach is a method that recognizes the interconnections between animal, human, and environmental welfare and facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration to improve their welfare, as well as complements and communicates with One Health. This paper contributes, therefore, by presenting in an organized and compared way the available management statistics, for the decision-makers and the interested community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to describe the geographical patterns and the incidence of residential segregation in daily mobility at the urban agglomerations of Bogotá, Cali and Medellín. Starting from a conceptual reflection on residential segregation, the impact on daily mobility and the need to undertake comparative studies, different geostatistical techniques are used to calculate a quality of life indicator at a micro scale. Moreover, the relationship with daily mobility is evaluated in order to compare the incidence of residential segregation in the social groups commuting trips. As a result, it is obtained that segregation presents particularities in its geographical patterns in the three case studies and that there is a low probability of interaction between low and high quality of life social groups, also, there is a daily mobility of non-work trips that is significantly restricted to an interaction between the population with the same quality of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Communication skills are a universal element of training. This is true of healthcare personnel who, as human beings, act within a personal, family and emotional context. The aim of this paper is to identify the level of communication skills among a group of third and sixth semester students of a surgical instrumentation programme in Bogotá. A mixed design was used; evaluation tools were employed and the two groups of the programme were observed. The main findings showed that the skills of the two groups of students in the programme were acceptable. According to this categorisation, the level of performance was considered to be standard, meaning there were errors in reading comprehension, writing and speaking, spelling, and use of punctuation marks; in addition, the students’ understanding of concepts in verbal, non-verbal and written communication was partial. It is concluded that it is important to consider incorporating activities in the classroom to promote the development of oral and written communication skills, given that healthcare staff need to talk to patients and other staff members, as well as to write notes and reports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to transfer the pedagogy of environmental education, which reinforces pro-environmental behaviors, to everyday settings by adopting a conceptual and methodological approach. For this purpose, a training path was implemented with the educational community of the Colegio Jorge Gaitán Cortés in Bogotá, Colombia. Five groups of pedagogical interventions were performed there: (1) resignification of relationships with the environment through interpretive tours, (2) inter-institutional articulation for environmental education, (3) curricular focus on environmentally relevant behaviors, (4) implementation of environmental volunteering, and (5) institutional actions for environmental sustainability. This paper also reviews other studies in this field that revolve around three perspectives: environmental education to generate pro-environmental cultural behaviors and practices, the concept of educating city, and the interdisciplinary study of environmental aspects. The results indicate that pedagogic actions should be transferred to the immediate environment and the everyday lives of the educational community. In addition, experiential and cognitive approaches can be combined to encourage the socio-environmental acknowledgement of environmentally friendly spaces in the city, identity formation, and the establishment of bonds with the territory. The pedagogical emphasis on pro-environmental actions enabled students to come up with solutions to problems that are relevant to them. The path towards the construction of a culture of environmental sustainability and, particularly, the consolidation of the achievements of pedagogical interventions require medium and long-term processes that influence the habits and lifestyle of the members of the educational community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the curriculum implemented in the Interinstitutional Doctoral Program at Pedagógica Nacional University. As a doctoral graduate, each participant is oriented to develop self-management skills to become a professional researcher in chemical education. In order to achieve this objective, an 81 credits curriculum has been designed and developed for more than twenty years, in which the research project is an important piece. The present review aims to offer a deep insight into the path followed by one graduate from this Program, describing not only his doctoral experience, but also his professional development as a researcher working for a public education institution in Bogotá. To better understand this process in doctoral education, authors focus on main achievements in terms of knowledge, articles and books published and presented in national and international scientific specialized journals or events. This study therefore describes the research competencies developed by a Doctoral graduate and suggests that this topic should be addressed in research to further analyze and support such evolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The fourth industrial revolution is a stage characterized by the use of different technologies in all areas, and this means changes in the way companies work. The health emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the closure of a significant number of manufacturing companies. Industry 4.0 represents an opportunity to face this crisis for SMEs in the manufacturing sector in the city of Bogotá (Colombia). The purpose of this paper is to present a diagnosis related to the implementation of the fourth industrial revolution in small and medium-sized manufacturing companies. In this way, we contribute to establish a roadmap that allows the implementation of these technologies in Colombian companies. The methodology was divided into three phases: in the first, characteristics of the problem were identified; the second phase consisted of collecting information through a survey of 100 SMEs in the manufacturing sector; while the third phase reports the results obtained. Among the conclusions of the study, it is highlighted that 85% of the companies studied do not carry out training in industry 4.0 tools. Besides, only 18.6% of these firms have an investment plan in 4.0 technologies, just 3.9% use specialized software to process their data, and 36.3% of companies do not use any cybersecurity method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a reflection produced after a series of interventions carried out at the sector known as "The Bronx", in the city of Bogotá, financed by the national and district governments. The main aim was, on one hand, to understand the role that some dynamics play in order to prevent crime, and, on the other hand, to design and implement a strategy in local schools that will help to reduce the individual vulnerability of young people in the sector. The work proposals develop social policy guidelines articulating elements of human geography, sociology, and psychology, around proposals such as the Zonas de Orientación Escolar (School Guiding Zones, Indications about the importance of considering the effect that territorial dynamics have on the effectiveness of the design and implementation of social policies, as well as the difficulty of defining indicators that allow comparability with similar experiences, can be found among the conclusions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of a comparative study that seeks to identify conceptions of the importance of four types of formal content in history teaching (periods of history, cross-cutting themes in history, history of places, and national historical processes) among a group of Colombian (M = 764) and Spanish (N = 648) students in the last year of compulsory education in the cities of Bogotá and Murcia, respectively. A descriptive approach was followed based on a closed-ended questionnaire relating to historical consciousness, with item responses measured on a Likert scale. The results support the idea that the interest shown by students in the formal content proposed is an indicator that calls for a critical review of the structure and organization of history curricula in the two contexts studied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents part of the work carried out in the framework of the Modural project "Sustainable mobility practices in Latin American metropolises: a comparative study of Bogota and Lima", launched in January 2020. Modural is an international and multidisciplinary project financed by the anr (French National Research Agency). It focuses on sustainable mobility practices and on the specific situation of deprived outskirts. The paper has two objectives. First, to highlight the socio-spatial patterns of mobility inequalities and the struggles in the peripheries in Lima and Bogotá. Second, to present the methodology for selecting the areas with the greatest social disadvantage and the greatest difficulties in daily mobility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Large Technological System (LTS) is a central concept in the epistemologies of Action-Network Theories (ant), related with poststructuralist epistemologies, and an important tool for the analysis of territorial systems. In this paper, we will use the lts concept to examine the hydrologic system of the Metropolitan Area of Bogotá, making emphasis on three aspects: the natural structure, the technological complex, and the normative framework. The goal was to explore the metropolitan geopolitics of water use in La Sabana de Bogotá and the particularities in the water governance, highlighting the incidence of municipalism and the interaction of a wide group of private, governmental, and civic actors. It was examined the physical infrastructure provided by the Empresa de Acueducto y Alcantarillado de Bogotá (eab-esp) that works as a quasi-monopoly actor in water management as well as their interaction with the highly autonomous municipalities. Other actors such as the real estate, floriculture, mining, and dairy activities was included in the analysis. The report gives special attention to the highly complex relationships between them and how they work in a complex and multiscale normative framework. The text concludes emphasizing the different challenges of water governance in a context of rapid metropolisation, complexing economic relations and climate and environmental change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research paper aims to analyze the impact of corruption and labour informality on Colombia's regional competitiveness in the period 2016 - 2019. For this purpose, some variables of the Departmental Competitiveness Index of the Private Competitiveness Council related to the phenomena of corruption and labor informality were chosen. Through the STATIS methodology, the performance of 25 departments and the city of Bogotá was reviewed around the variables selected. It is evident that there is a decrease in the value of the index for the four years of the study, due to the corruption scandals that the country experienced during those years and the limited effectiveness of the policies of inclusion to labor formality. It is concluded that the states of Antioquia, Casanare, Atlántico, Cundinamarca, Quindío, Risaralda and the capital city Bogotá, have performed well in aspects of labor market efficiency and government transparency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]