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This paper investigated the causes that lead university students to abandon their careers as well as the reasons that would drive their return. With the application of the Net Promoter Score (NPS) metric, it was found that 301 (69.95 %) of the 551 students who left the institution did not return. The economic factor (56.8 %), the academic organization (20 %) and health (13.6 %) were identified as the main causes of student dropout. Students would be willing to return if better technological platforms were implemented (27.2 %), if tuition and enrollment costs were reduced (31.8 %), and if a job bank were made available (27.3 %). Promoter (23.6 %), passive (34.9 %) and detractor (41.5 %) students were identified; the promoters are those who are willing to recommend the educational institution and at the other extreme are the detractors who are capable of harming the image of the institution. In conclusion, the intention to return to their studies depends on the type of student. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper makes a comparison between the drug violence in Peru and Colombia. These two countries are the greater cocaine producers in the world, but present different levels of violence. In the case of Peru there are low levels of violence, whilst in the case of Colombia, the levels are high. The paper argues that the cocain cultivation and production in itself is not a source of high levels of violence. The intensity of the violence depends on the presence of other variables that will be proposed and analized here. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Journal of the Paraguayan Institute, a cultural initiative that arose in the national intellectual atmosphere on the last decade of the 19th Century and the first of the 20th Century, was published between 1896 y 1909. In this journal spread some papers that constitute the early manifestations of a psychological thought in Paraguay. Although of theoretical features, the articles reflected the assimilation of ideas that were being discussed in the international psychology at that time. This article explores the contents of these essays and puts them in the historical context in which they emerged. The methodology is the documentary analysis of published sources, in particular the relevant articles for psychology contained in this journal. In the conclusion are analyzed the implications of these publications for the development of psychology in the preuniversity period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study of seismic intensity attenuation plays an important role in the analysis of menace that includes historical events. Mapping the intensity attenuation is usually done by regressing the intensity versus distance. Nowadays there are different ways to examine the characteristics of a seismic event using instrumental means, however, the experts face the problem of qualitative nature of the sources of information and the mapping of the relationship between intensity, magnitude and distance for the generation of risk scenarios based on historical information. This paper presents an alternative to map this relationship through artificial neural networks (ANN). As a result, we propose a procedure that was validated through the mapping of the intensities of 68 earthquakes that occurred northern South America, between 1766 and 2004. We found that ANNs present advantages with respect to the conventional models of regression: a. they preserve in a better way the first statistical moment, b. they reflect a minor approximation error and c. the variance explained by the ANN is better than the one from the models of statistical regression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the construction of a photographical image exhibited in 2003 alongside the presentation of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (August, 2003) as an icon of the internal armed conflict in Peru between 1980 and 2000, this paper presents a reflection on the uses and abuses inflicted, by way of an image, on a survivor of a massacre that took place in April 2003 and whose body thus becomes a battlefield for the memories of the different actors involved in the internal armed conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the way in which the jesuit missionaries used to report on the progress of their work in the Marañón region starting in the XVII century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]