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Introduction: chronic kidney disease (CKD) is characterized by its high prevalence of malnutrition, difficult to detect as it is underestimated by the usual tools. There is no valid or hospital-level nutritional screening tool in Spanish to identify patients with CKD at risk of malnutrition. Objective: to translate and accomplish the transcultural adaptation of Jackson‘s questionnaire (Renal Inpatient Nutrition Screening Tool [Renal iNUT]) to Spanish, which detects the risk of malnutrition in CKD inpatients and compares it with other nutritional tools. Methods: phase 1: translation, back-translation and transcultural adaptation of the questionnaire from the English to the Spanish version. A pilot test was carried out by nursing staff together with a satisfaction questionnaire. Phase 2: comparison of Renal iNUT with Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) and Subjective Global Assessment (SGA). Results: phase 1: the nursing staff’s perception was highly favorable. They found it easy or very easy to use and 90 % of them did it in a maximum of ten minutes. Phase 2: from 48 patients included, Renal iNUT detected 44 % at low risk of malnutrition, 28 % at intermediate risk and 28 % at high risk. Increased sensitivity of Renal iNUT (p < 0.007) vs MUST (62.5 vs 33.3 %) and similar specificity (87.1 vs 90.6 %) were found, together with an acceptable correlation compared to SGA (r = 0.75, 95 % CI: 0.67 to 0.83). Conclusions: the Spanish version of Renal iNUT is a useful and easy-to-understand tool for health professionals. We also confirm its good correlation with SGA, with greater sensitivity than MUST for the risk of malnutrition detection in CKD inpatients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyzes the 100% increase in the minimum wage in the northern border area of Mexico in 2019 and its total, gender, and sector effects on employment and wages. Based on data from the National Occupation and Employment Survey, differences-in-differences and event study design models are estimated to calculate the average and dynamic effects of the policy. The results show that the increase in the minimum wage did not statistically affect the probability of participating in the labor market or of being employed; however, among salaried workers, it did increase the probability of working in the formal sector by 1.38 percentage points, where this effect rises to 2.34 percentage points among women and was non-significant among men. Concerning the mean hourly wage, an increase of 3.27% was observed in formal salaried workers and of 3.56% among women, while no signifi- cant effects were found within informal salaried workers and men. Along the wage distribution, positive average effects were observed for formal wage earners up to the 50th quantile and among informal wage earners up to the 25th quantile. The increase in the minimum wage affected positively and to a greater extent women and low-wage workers. Moreover, since the wage increase was accompanied by other economic policies that appear to have reduced inflation, the results can be interpreted as an upper bound of the positive effects of the minimum wage in crease and in the absence of the other policies, or contexts where only the wage increase occurred, its effects on wages could have been smaller. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infects and gradually destroy CD4+ cells of the immune system and eventually leading to immunodeficiency. Gastrointestinal opportunistic parasitosis are a frequent cause of morbidity and mortality in HIV+ patients. Objective. To determine the prevalence of the opportunistic parasites Cryptosporidium spp., Cystoisospora belli and Cyclospora cayetanensis, in patients infected with HIV in the municipality of Veracruz. Mexico. Material and methods. 230 non-serial stool samples from patients with HIV were collected. The smears were analysed by direct method and modified Ziehl-Neelsen staining. Results. A prevalence of parasitism of 92.17% was found, 85.22% of Cryptosporidium spp., and C. cayetanensis were identified as mono-parasitism or in association with each other and with other nonopportunistic parasites. Cryptosporidium spp. was the most prevalent parasite (72.60%), followed by C. cayetanensis (57.78%), Endolimax nana (36.52%), Blastocystis spp. (17.83%) and Entamoeba Complex (7 .83%). No samples with Cystoisospora belli were identified. Conclusions. Compared to the only report of opportunistic parasites in the HIV+ population of the Veracruz municipality, there was an increase in the prevalence of Cryptosporidium spp. and a abscense of C. belli. Even with a greater access to antiretroviral treatment, in Mexico, parasitosis continue to have high prevalences. Therefore, routine monitoring of opportunistic parasitism is necessary, using appropriate techniques to avoid underdiagnosis and the risk of comorbidity and mortality that they represent in the HIV+ population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the evolution of cross-border workers who reside in Mexico and work in the United States and quantifies their economic importance. Based on census information and the enigh, a series of linear regression and Tobit models are estimated. During the 2000-2020 period, the number of cross-border workers grew slightly and the share of US-born within this group increased substantially. In 2020, cross-border workers contributed 7.3% of the salary mass and disbursed 7.5% of the total expenditures made in the municipalities of northern Mexico. Moreover, having a cross-border worker in the household is associated with an expenditure that is 56.8% higher in Mexico and 283.1% higher in the United States. Being a cross-border worker represents an effective strategy for the people from northern Mexico with the possibility of working in the United States to maximize their income and access a better quality of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study aimed to adapt the Positive Psychological Functioning Scale into Brazilian Portuguese and gather the first evidence of validity and accuracy of the instrument. Two samples were collected at different times; sample one was composed of 322 subjects, aged between 18 and 65 years (M=26.2, SD=8.58; being 79.2% female), while sample two was formed by 326 participants, aged between 18 and 60 years (M=27.2, SD=9.1; being 73.4% female). First, the cross-cultural adaptation was performed and considered the particular language aspects. Then, the confirmatory factor analyses performed indicated adequacy of the hierarchical structure composed of 11 first-order factors, all with good accuracy indicators for both samples. The results suggest that the version of the EFPP for Brazil is an adequate measure to measure the target construct and indicate the instrument's stability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The high rates of ideations, attempts and deaths by suicide among the community of autistic people is a topic that has been investigated frequently and in depth. Within a certain segment of Science, which instrumentalizes the neoliberal logic of suffering management, the phenomenon of suicide in the scope of autism is highlighted, to the same extent that the place reserved for the autistic subject becomes absent from his discursive practice. In this context, this work sought to produce a bibliographic survey on the subject in question, with the objective of highlighting the main lines of force acting on this specific dimension of suffering in autistic people. When the focus of the analysis fell on the forms of expression of these suffering subjects, it became essential to assume that the suicidal act highlights the marks of being, of lack of being and of anguish in face of the real - attributes of an experience suffering that the discourse of science tries to eliminate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The eosinophilic granuloma is defined by dense cellular infiltration of eosinophils, macrophages, and mast cells, in addition to collagenolysis foci. Canine eosinophilic granuloma is a rare inflammatory skin disease that affects the oral mucosa. However, the cutaneous eosinophilic granuloma is more evident and can be found in the scrotum, testicles, perineum, and flanks. The etiology of eosinophilic granuloma in dogs is unclear but allergic processes can originate in granulomatous nodules or plaques. Affected dogs may experience itching, swelling, and, occasionally, pain. The histopathological analysis is necessary for a definitive diagnosis. The present case report described a 12-year-old male dog, Poodle, with a history of swelling, itching, and pain in the scrotum. Complete clinical staging was performed through blood count, biochemistry analysis, thoracic radiographs, abdominal ultrasound, and electrocardiogram. The dog was submitted for surgical removal followed by histopathologic evaluation. Eosinophilic granuloma should be included in the differential diagnosis of solitary masses in the scrotal region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this study was to describe the Sokal case from Derridian deconstruction. For this, the contributions of Jacques Derrida (1975, 1986,1989, 1994,1997) and Alan Sokal (1997,1998) were used. The research was descriptive with documentary design. Based on the working method proposed by Sokal, taking deconstruction as a linking point between these authors seems more feasible. The results were typical of the descriptive method and are characterized by the expansion of the reflection around the case; the main conclusion is the reaffirmation of the insurmountable gap between the natural sciences and the humanities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on product of ruins, desert product of deserts, cavities, voids that expand and infinite plains of solitude. It mentions loneliness and need to see how the most perfect construction crumbles, how the fruit rots more exquisite. It also mentions rain flooded the city a thousand and a thousand times who saw cry, until the city.

Objective: To describe the behavior of neoplasms presentation of the central and intracranial nervous system, in a Mexican health institution specialized in neurosurgical sufferings. Methods: A descriptive study was carried out in a sample was made up of 7768 patients with histopathological diagnosis neoplasms of central and intracranial nervous system. They were assisted at the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, from Mexico City, from 2006 to 2017. The variables studied were the incidence and year of presentation of tumors, type of tumor, sex and age of presentation. Depending on the morphological and immunohistochemical diagnosis of tumors, these were categorized in accordance with the classification of tumors by 2007 WHO Central Nervous System. Simple frequencies were obtained; the incidence reason was calculated for each category. The trend over time was analyzed with the Pearson correlation coefficient; a p= 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: The general incident rate was 70.2 x 100 biopsies-year. The most frequent tumors were neurepithelial tissue (30.8%) and meninges (27.6%), with predominance in women (p <0.05). An increase in embryonic tumors (p <0.005) was evidenced. Conclusions: A tendency was not found in the increase of tumors of the central nervous system over the period studied. However, the incidence of this type of neoplasms is high. They cause high mortality and disability in those who have them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From a perspective akin to the New materialism field, our analysis is more interested in the textile materialization processes, rather than their materiality. This entails an understanding of the fibers in their fluid condition, as a material that is constantly developing and in permanent dialogue, through mediation networks, with humans and other-than-humans. We intend to assemble, under a common perspective, different methodological approaches that are generally not articulated in research, as well as different scales of perception of the material. A multitemporal vision is included, which seeks to rescue the persistent points and connections between different pasts. These proposals were applied to depositional pre-Hispanic contexts belonging to a sector of Puna de Antofagasta de la Sierra (NW of Catamarca, Argentina). The textile pieces under analysis display particular space-time associations, which refer to the 6th-7th and 14th-15th centuries of the Christian Era, approximately. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: As an initiative to improve the quality of health care, the trend in biomedical research focused on health disparities and sex has increased. Objective: Carry out a characterization of the scientific evidence on health disparity, defined as the gap between the distribution of health and the possible gender bias in access to medical services. Materials and methods: A simultaneous search of the scientific literature was performed in the MEDLINE PubMed database of two fundamental descriptors: Healthcare disparities and Sexism. Subsequently, a main semantic network was built and some structural subunits (communities) were identified for the analysis of information organization patterns. Open source software was used: Cytoscape to analyze and visualize the semantic network and MapEquation for community detection, as well as ad hoc code available in a public access repository. Results: The core network corpus showed that the terms on heart disease were the most common among the descriptors of medical conditions. Patterns of information related to public policies, health services, social determinants and risk factors were identified from the structural subunits, but with a certain tendency to remain indirectly connected to the nodes of medical conditions. Conclusions: Scientific evidence indicates that gender disparity does matter for the quality of care for many diseases, especially those related to the circulatory system. However, there is still a gap between the medical and social factors that give rise to possible disparities by sex. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Comparasion of the FMVZ strain of transmisible gastroenteritis virus of pigs with the Massachusetts strain of infectious bronchitis virus of birds, revealed by neutralization, complement fixation and immunodifusion test, that there are antigenic relations between the two viruses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Governance is a polysemic term frequently used in environmental science, economics and international relations, the meaning of which is in dispute. The transnational character and the complexity of the problems where the economy and the environment intersect constitute factors that contribute to the ubiquity of the term in the three aforementioned disciplines. In this article we study the meaning of governance in documents and dissemination material of international, global, and Latin American organizations, based on the social representations present in them, performing a content analysis through statistics textual. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article addresses an anti-liberal newspaper, O Mestre Barbeiro, published in Porto Alegre in 1835 during the months prior to the outbreak of the Revolução Farroupilha. The proposal is to analyze two aspects: on the one hand, the farcical delegation of the writing in the figure of a barber and the pertinence of the identity traits of that figure --it is deduced that the mestre barbeiro was black-- in a context in which the access to citizenship of the subaltern sectors was being questioned (including the slaves and ex-slaves). On the other hand, the mechanisms used to (de)compose the discourse of the imaginary writer, located in the ideological antipodes of the true author of the journal, through a cumulative series of cuts and additions that resulted in a distortion of his senses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The law does not coincide with positive normativity, but expresses a much broader and deeper framework; it cannot be considered abstractly, isolated from the human activity in which it takes form, separated from the facts -from the events, from the behaviours, from the actions- external and superimposed on the fluid process of the real. The law, on the contrary, has to be detected in the tissue of experience, in the concreteness of history. The valorisation of the "fact" as the genesis of the building process of the legal phenomenon, therefore, cannot prescind from a meticulous analysis of the concrete dynamism of the existential experience and from the causality of human behaviour, that structure the legal experience and constitute its condition of possibility. Reflecting on man in his ontologically structured relationship in space-time is, consequently, unavoidable for an integral understanding of law that is only attainable in the continuum of science and philosophy. The absolute Newtonian concept of time and space is now replaced by the Einsteinian space-time continuum. In fact, it's not that the human being lives in time, but rather that he lives the time. The law, therefore, is not related or connected to man as a consequence of time, but is expressed in the time lived by the human beings, who by living it also historicise it. The existential experience in the space-temporal dimension that structures the fact highlights, then, a relevant criticality of legal formalism and the recognising that legal science, although pure, should and wants to remain within the confines of its rigorous methods, cannot avoid contact with the fact expressed in the time lived by the human beings, who produces the law and structures the legal order. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objetivo: En este estudio, se propuso establecer la relación entre la pérdida de peso y la evolución de las artropatías en un grupo de pacientes obesos sometidos a cirugía bariátrica. Materiales y Método: Investigación correlacional y de corte longitudinal, retrospectivo, donde se revisaron 33 historias de pacientes obesos mórbidos con artralgia en cualquier articulación, sometidos a cirugía bariátrica. Se realizó el análisis descriptivo de las variables numéricas según la distribución de los datos. Como prueba de relación se utilizó la Prueba T de Student para comparación de proporciones, asumiendo un valor p < 0,05. Resultados: 63,3% fueron femeninas, siendo la rodilla la principal articulación afectada (51,5%), con reducción considerable de su índice de masa corporal poscirugía. Al compararse los promedios del IMC inicial, a los 3, 6 y 12 meses, se encontraron diferencias estadísticamente significativas (p < 0,01). La desaparición de la artralgia en la mayoría de los pacientes ocurrió durante los primeros 3 meses, principalmente pacientes con obesidad grado I y II, en contraste con aquellos pacientes con obesidad grado III y IV, quienes requirieron un mayor lapso, para lograr la desaparición total de la artralgia. Conclusiones: La disminución gradual del dolor articular estuvo en relación directa a la reducción de las cifras de peso del paciente ya operado, mejorando la calidad de vida de los pacientes de la muestra. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores the theoretical foundations and the characteristics of a didactic strategy designed for peer assessment in initial teacher training, it characterizes the comments that students make about their classmates' texts and it describes the participants' opinions about the proposal. The results show that the majority of students achieved sophisticated revisions that addressed the overall improvement of the texts produced by their peers, reviewed the adequacy of the texts to their audience and analysed the coherence of the texts produced. The reception of the proposal was very good, focused on dialogue and cooperation to improve written composition. Besides, it was possible to reflect on the persuasion activities involved in the class and rethink the suggestions proposed by the reviewers of the text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Official Development Assistance (ODA) received a new boost at the start of the 21st century, but this did not translate into a meaningful decrease in poverty and inequality on the periphery. In Latin America, under the leadership of governments called progressive or post-neoliberal, significant advances were observed to this effect, with the Movement for Socialism (MAS) in Bolivia paradigmatic in terms of socioeconomic development and the political and cultural inclusion achieved. Beginning with a critique of US ODA to Latin America, and considering the case of Bolivia, this paper seeks to open up potential ways of underpinning a theoretical line in the political praxis of development that maintains a positive sense of this notion, and which is at the same time able to break with the neoliberal perspective and dispute the scepticism of post-structuralist radicalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this research was to evaluate the droppings of bovine and ovine and the peanut shell (Arachis hypogaea L.) as a substrate to produce Eisenia foetida Sav. earthworm. The experimental design was randomized blocks with three replicates and seven treatments: peanut shell, bovine droppings, ovine droppings, and combinations of them. The variables analyzed were population of young worms (without clitellum), adults (with clitellum) and total population. The substrates were deposited in 0.72 m3 wooden crates and pre-composted. When the temperature of the substrates was in the range of 23-25 °C and the humidity between 75-80%, 50 earthworms were inoculated per box. Sixteen counts were made (one per week), using a PVC tube (40 cm long and 10.16 cm diameter). In each count eight samples of substrate were taken for each of the treatments and their repetitions, following a zigzag pattern. Significant differences (Tukey, p< 0.05%) were obtained by treatment in the three variables. The mixture "peanut shell-sheep droppings-bovine droppings" recorded the highest number of young worms (113.29). The combination "peanut peel -bovine droppings", as well as "bovine droppings alone", showed the largest population of adult earthworms (98.94 and 94.89). The total population was greater in the treatments "peanut peel-bovine droppings" and "peanut peel-sheep droppings-bovine droppings" (196.50 and 197.33). It was concluded that the combination of bovine droppings with peanut shell is a suitable substrate for earthworm production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since its origins, the relationship between education and mass media has been complex. In recent years, this complexity has increased due to the emergence of new modes of knowledge that challenge traditional pedagogical models and that require taking into account new codes and communication channels. In this article we expose and develop basic concepts to address the problem of the incorporation of media discourse in high school, among which stand out media education and media competence. We present then a general proposal, to guide its teaching. This proposal is based on the theoretical-methodological framework of the critical analysis of discourse -specifically in the three dimensions systematized by Fairclough (1995) of textual, discursive and social practice-, in the critical approaches on the media discourse and in the conceptions about of media education, media competence and critical literacy. It also considers some results of surveys applied to students and teachers in 2016. The ultimate purpose is to contribute to debate, reflection and pedagogical action to enable the training of subjects capable of understanding and producing media messages from a critical, participatory and creative perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research presents an analysis of the lexical variation of the Brazilian Portuguese for the variants obtained by question 039 of the Lexical-Semantic Questionnaire of ALiB, covering the concept of tangerina. Data of the Linguistic Atlas Project of Brazil from 118 Brazilian municipalities are analyzed, summarizing the speech of 472 natural informants of nine federal states. The objective of this approach is to discuss the proposal of dialectal division of Antenor Nascentes (1953) with regard to the area of the sulista subspeech under the lexical perspective. Considering the variants diatopical behavior, the territory investigated can be divided into two areas, a northern and a southern, representing, respectively, two possible speech, the sulista and the paulista. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In scientific-technological literacy, teaching biotechnology can mean an opportunity to promote responsible citizen participation. Our specific goals were to identify the content and strategies that teachers select for teaching biotechnology and to establish the way in which the controversial biotechnological issues are addressed. To that end, we worked with biology teachers from 21 high schools through a semi structured questionnaire and interviewed eight teachers in order to perform a more in-depth analysis. Based on these results, we found that teachers use the science, technology, society and environment approach, select contents linked to genetic engineering and maintain expository practices, as well as practices closer to the techno-scientific nature of biotechnological knowledge. For controversial biotechnological issues, teachers propose group work, guided discussions, article analysis and search for information on the Internet. We believe that the characteristics of biotechnology education encourage us to think about teacher training opportunities that consider specific strategies for teaching biotechnology and its socio-scientific controversies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this work, we present a new record of piche llorón Chaetophractus vellerosus (Cingulata, Dasypodidae) for the south of the Santa Fe province. At present, the existing records for this type of armadillo included a fossil record and three current records for the north of the province, with no data for the southern region. In June 2018, using Tomahawk-type traps, two specimens (male and female) were captured in two field plots of the Estancia 'Santa Marta', located about 3 km south of Christophersen. There are two disjunct populations in Argentina, one located to the north-center of the country and another to the east of the Pampas region. This is the first record of this species for the Pampas region of the Santa Fe. Although it matches with the predictions of the proposed distribution area, could slightly extend the distribution of the population of the north-center. The few records of this species for the Santa Fe province show the urgent needs for fieldworks that study the local fauna in a province where more than 80% of natural environments have been lost and transformed into agricultural fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is a small number of transborder students who reside in Mexico but go to school in the United States. Less than 2.5 percent of students residing in border cities such as Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez or Nogales, are transborder students. Pupils born in Mexico that go to school in the United states represent less than 1 percent of the student population in all educational levels. Country of birth, having parents that are international commuters, and household income are elements that enable or limit transborder membership. High earnings are the central factor for Mexicans that want to go to school del otro lado. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to explain academic performance with the aid of an innovative technique: Fuzzy-set, Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA). To do so, different, objective factors, which affect, higher education, are analyzed and the academic performance of university students is also considered. Specifically, data of students on different, degrees in the Faculty of Business Sciences of the Pablo de Olavide University of Seville since 2009 was used, but, it, is believed that, the methodology described can be easily extrapolated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studied the relationship between stressful life events (SLE) and psychological symptoms (externalizing and internalizing symptomatology) and school and family adaptation in childhood. Participants were 552, 53.4% boys and 46.6% girls, aged between 10-12 years. Patients receiving treatment in mental health services and a community group were compared. At least one SLE in the past two years is experienced by 88.2% of children. SLE were significantly higher in the clinical group than in the community group. SLE are related to the increased presence of symptoms and lower levels of adaptation. The association between family SLE and hyperactivity symptoms is stronger in the clinical group than in the community group. Having experienced SLE and being a patient predict both symptomatology and adaptation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A 79-year-old woman with multiple pathologies and multiple osteolytic lesions during the Covid-19 pandemic. Histopathological and radiological differential diagnosis of injuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Endometriosis is the presence of functional endometrial tissue in the pelvic peritoneum and it affects several age groups. That is why the impact of endometriosis in quality of life is considerable. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of dienogest in patients with pelvic pain associated to endometriosis (PPAE). Methods: The evaluation of the effectiveness was carried out through a systematic review using the Cochrane methodology. It was used Markov model, which considers two states of health (with and without PPAE), with the possibility of weekly transition. Women between 18 and 45 years with PPAE were included, in a temporary horizon of 26 weeks. A level of statistical significance of 95% was used forap< 0.05, with a multivariate probabilistic analysis of sensibility, as well as a univariate analysis of sensibility in several scenarios. Results: The probability that the female patient did not experience PPAE with the initial treatment was 87.91% with dienogest, 80.07% with danazol, 84.93% with medroxyprogesterone (injectable and oral) and 89.17% with gosereline. The probability that the female patient abandoned her initial treatment was 9% with dienogest, 12.07% with danazol, 9.6 and 6.75% with medroxyprogesterone injectable and oral, respectively, and 10.8 and 3.6% 3-monthly and monthly with gosereline. Conclusion: Compared to danazol, medroxiprogesterone and gosereline, dienogest is the most efficient alternative to treat PPAE. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Inocybe sindonia (Fr.) P. Karst. and Amanita rubescens Pers. are species typically associated to Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco and Pinus radiata D. Don respectively. Both species have been introduced in South America together with timber species plantations. Basidiomes of I. sindonia were found occurring under Nothofagus dombeyi (Mirb.) Oerst., while basidiomes of A. rubescens were found under N. pumilio (Poepp. & Endl.) Krasser in protected areas that are under invasion of exotic conifers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the major influence of Virgil's Aeneid on the epic poem Nuevo Mundo y Conquista of Francisco de Terrazas, the first Mexican poet. The fragmentary poem recreates the conquest of Mexico by Hernán Cortés, which Terrazas himself witnessed as one of Cortés' companions. The comparative study analyses every formal and thematic parallel between both poems, and demonstrates the need to revise the definition of epic for this period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on contributions from historical reading, bibliographical material and analyses of Louis Marin's visual representation, this paper addresses the formats of a group of printed texts published by the gaucho-esque writer Luis Peréz between 1830 and 1833, specifically a series of loose leaf pages and the two newspapers El Gaucho and La Gaucha. Its aim is to explore links between the material features of these works, the type of reader which the author attempted to attract, and the meaning and ideology of his texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Learning cell division requires complex reasoning and therefore a way to address it is through the creation of external representations by the student. One possible strategy is the construction of animations through a modification of the Stopmotion technique known as Slowmation, which allows to create videos with resources that are available in secondary school classrooms. Thus, in this paper it is evaluated how an instructional design for cell division through its representation with animations, promotes the construction of meaning in high school classrooms. The proposal was developed with 71 students of 2nd year at three high schools in the city of Cordoba, Argentina (13-14 years old). For the evaluation, student dialogues were recorded throughout the animation process, photographic records were taken and at the end a survey was applied to students. From the results we found that creating animations allowed the construction of meanings, promoted the modification of ideas and created spaces for explaining concepts by the teacher, conceptual thinking among students and the identification of possible confusion that requires teacher intervention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Autobiographical features are often found in María Luisa Puga’s narrative. Nevertheless the game of fiction in La forma del silencio that includes extra-textual references to her own life and the alleged writing of a novel that is never finished, places it in the genre of autofiction. In this genre, Puga connects an exploration of herself and the city with her reflections on writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

34-year-old woman, 16 weeks pregnant, with a personal history of cervical conization and previous cesarean section. Consultation for discomfort in the right groin region and signs of inflammation in the area, without a clear tumor. She refers that in the first pregnancy she presented the same symptoms. In the intergestational period she has not noticed these symptoms. On physical examination, the 16-week pregnant abdomen did not reveal clear signs of hernia, although there was slight pain on palpation. It was decided to request a pelvic ultrasound to rule out the presence of hernia or other soft tissue lesions in the groin region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The entry into force of the Auditing Oversight Act (Law no. 148/2015, of 9 September) has modified the legal framework applicable to ?large limited liability companies?, foreseen in Article 413 of the Portuguese Companies Code. By way of the cross-reference foreseen in Article 396, this has greatly reduced the number of companies which may exempt their officers from the legal obligation of pledging security as collateral for liability arising from wrongful acts, performed in their capacity as officers. This modification raises relevant questions regarding the prospective and retroactive effect of the new framework, namely, the moment after which such officers will be obliged to pledge security. Likewise, it forces a revisit to another contentious issue, concerning the consequences of breaching this legal duty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Given the importance that journalistic discourse acquires in actual societies and the role given to university students as critical subjects of reality, this research, based on sociocultural and critical perspectives of reading and on the concepts of media education and media competence, aims to determine what are the difficulties that show admitted students in Humanities from a public university in Argentina to interact with texts from the press. To do it we stop at the analysis -mainly qualitative- of the answers to a test of understanding of a text of opinion published in a national newspaper. Partial results allow us to emphasize the need to develop strategies that encourage critical reading of media at the university level and to enrich the media competence of students as individuals committed to social issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Atlantic Forest is an ecosystem historically managed without restrictions. Over the years, this situation led to a fragmentation of the forest environment with the consequent loss of habitats for all kinds of organisms in the region. The present work is a checklist of macrofungi found in a native forest in Oberá (Misiones, Argentina), where conservation and regeneration practices have been held since 2009 to recover its natural state. Sampling took place in different seasons for 3 years. 136 species have been identified, distributed in 13 orders, 32 families and 86 genera. The objective of the present work was to set a precedent of macrofungi diversity in the area. This will allow studying macrofungi ecological succession and their potential as bio-indicators of forest recovery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Andalusia has been historically a peripheral area within European capitalism. This paper aims to present the actuality of this situation changing the usual focus, from the study of rural issues to the production of space. In order to do this, some theoretical aspects regarding peripheral urbanism and the theory of the second circuit of capital accumulation of Henry Lefebvre and David Harvey will be discussed. These models will be compared with the case of Andalusia, considering secondary sources and public statistics data about social and economic structure. Finally, the paper concludes that in the transition from a commodity-export pattern to another one based in the articulation between tourism and real-estate bubble, Andalusia retains its position as a peripheral and subordinated area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Autobiographical features are often found in María Luisa Puga's narrative. Nevertheless the game of fiction in La forma del silencio that includes extra-textual references to her own life and the alleged writing of a novel that is never finished, places it in the genre of autofiction. In this genre, Puga connects an exploration of herself and the city with her reflections on writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present the comparative analysis, throughout an extensive trajectory (6th century to the end of the 19th century), of a set of animal and vegetable fiber yarns that were recovered from archaeological excavations in Antofagasta de la Sierra, Argentine southern Puna. We focus on three themes, as "guiding threads": the raw material, the spinning modes and color use. We discuss continuities and changes over time, and we wonder about their implications in technical aspects and the worldview, especially from the impact of the Hispanic invasion. That is why, from a heuristic point of view, we consider native ontologies, as views more closely located in relation to local archaeological contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, I analyze the meanings associated to contemporary social mobilities. Within these broad disciplinary, historical and social perspectives, it specifically focuses on recognizing the ways in which the discursive construction of absences raises new questions on theoretical developments in thinking and psychosocial research. In this respect, it has been shown that absences, both individual or collective, affect emotions, the construction of social links, and are a key element in memory practices. This is contextualized as social action or individual skills. For the writing of this article, I consider the ideas of prominent scholars such as Max Weber, on the autonomy of migrations. And Abdelmalek Sayad and his ideas on the need to constitute the sociology of absences. In doing so, the article takes on the challenge of co-producing disciplinary knowledge to focus on absences and absentees. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, I analyze the meanings associated to contemporary social mobilities. Within these broad disciplinary, historical and social perspectives, it specifically focuses on recognizing the ways in which the discursive construction of absences raises new questions on theoretical developments in thinking and psychosocial research. In this respect, it has been shown that absences, both individual or collective, affect emotions, the construction of social links, and are a key element in memory practices. This is contextualized as social action or individual skills. For the writing of this article, I consider the ideas of prominent scholars such as Max Weber, on the autonomy of migrations. And Abdelmalek Sayad and his ideas on the need to constitute the sociology of absences. In doing so, the article takes on the challenge of co-producing disciplinary knowledge to focus on absences and absentees. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The training service delivery organizations today is primarily focused on developing technical skills to enhance professional performance and thereby the quality of service. This training usually occurs under learning paradigms that serve poorly or exclude the development of personal resources, ie human variables that make the difference between a technically flawless service or customer experience service guided by values, professional ethics and personal excellence. This article briefly discusses the differences between training schemes and proposes keys to incorporate technical training current models elements of personal development aimed at the humanization of service delivery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo se propone iniciar una reconstrucción del punto de partida de los llamados "estudios culturales" en América Latina, entre 1955 y 1975, aproximadamente. Parte de la crisis del modelo dominante respecto de las comunicaciones masivas y de la industria cultural, condenada sin apelación desde diferentes vertientes ideológicas: posiciones conservadoras, de la Escuela marxista-hegeliana de Frankfurt, del funcionalismo norteamericano, etc. Si bien no existe un "mapa" de las reacciones contra esa doxa imperante, el autor propone una primera aproximación que hace centro en el Río de la Plata, pero que extiende sus consideraciones a otros países (Chile, México, Venezuela) del continente. Y señala las lecturas (la revisión de Walter Benjamin, el italiano Antonio Gramsci, la semiología y el estructuralismo franceses) así como el contexto político- cultural (guerra fría, rebelión argelina, revolución cubana, resistencia popular peronista) que explican ese cambio. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rise of financing alternatives to traditional banking has been increasingly worthy of the attention of both market players and regulators. Crowdfunding, in all its different types, is one of the most popular of such fundraising alternatives. Equity crowdfunding has been deserving of a differentiated treatment by young entrepreneurs, startups and SMEs, due to its potential for disruption. However, it presents sensible regulatory challenges to the capital markets sector. Consensus has not been reached on how to properly mitigate the risks that such investments entail. In the absence of specific regulation, doubts persist on which regulatory framework should apply to equity crowdfunding, both on national and European level. Such indefinition has created an area with rising opportunities to create a legal model that allows for the fulfilment of the mechanism's potential. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A descriptive and retrospective investigation of the patients older than 18 years to whom an endoscopy of the higher digestive duct was practiced in the Gastroenterology Service from "Simón Bolívar" People's Clinic Hospital, in Carabobo State, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela was carried out in the period of January, 2010 to December, 2012, aimed at checking if there was infection due to Helicobacter pylori in this zone of the digestive system, according to some clinical, epidemiological and endoscopic variables of interest. Among the excellent results of the case material there was the infection caused by this bacteria which was more frequent in the 31-60 years age group and in the female sex; also, the epigastralgia and the erosive erythematous pangastritis were mostly associated with the microorganism. It could be concluded that the endoscopy is the key stone for the diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]