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Deforestation has increased in different areas of the world due to the development of antropic activities such as the expantion od agricultural and livestock frontiries growth of areas of human settlements, among others. The displacement of vegetation cover is one of the factors that affect the water supply and regulation service. In the work, a methodology was developed and applied to understand the incidence of the contraction of the forest cover to the water regulation capacity of the Murrí river that is born in the area of the Las Orquídeas National natural Park, Colombia. It was identified that the basin experiences the process of changing native forest cover for pasture, however, its incidence on the water regime could not be statistically evidenced. This phenomenon may be associated with fact that the park area represents 8.4 % of the total area of the basin and the change in coverage in this does not exceed the resilience capacity of the basin. It is recommended to ratify the methodology with a greater number of satellite images and study the resilience capacity of Colombian hydrographic basins to plan the human activities that generate the change of land cover in a sustainable way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The double religious membership is an emerging category of the theology of religious pluralism, approaching the faith experiences of mystics and theologians. They deepen their Christian experience from Eastern spiritualities. Based on their assumptions, the research on Nasa, Misak and Kogui ancestral Christian religiosity is an approach for the analysis of their beliefs. Their contributions to the reflections are based on the religious diversity of Colombia in a theological key. The qualitative hermeneutic methodology approached the topic of double affiliation from theological experiences and reflections. The different ways of understanding the double or multiple belief, from the liminality between religions, the hybridization of beliefs and the bilingual religious language, originated experiences of faith to enter into the Mystery. In Latin America, theologies and syncretic practices pose presuppositions for approaching understandings of the ancestral and Afro-descendant faith experience. The recognition of Amerindian religious expressions challenges theological reflections with possibilities of understanding and interaction. The different dialogical perspectives and readings, taking as a reference the faith of the people assumed and lived in context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Human occupation and its productive activities give rise to changes in the Earth's natural covers that affect ecosystem services and, specifically, water regulation. According to the multi-temporal integrated analysis of the coverage and hydrological, it was possible to demonstrate that the upper basin of the Chinchiná River, which is of strategic importance for the city of Manizales, due to its natural conditions of soils and natural coverage, does not have a good capacity for water regulation that is it deteriorates with the expansion of grass covers and herbaceous vegetation. The importance of the study lies in the fact that the knowledge of the relationship between the water regulation capacity versus vegetation cover allows projecting the adequate use of the land in order not to further affect the regulation capacity of the surface runoff that serves as the basis of the biodiversity and supply of the city of Manizales. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Colombia is one of the countries characterized for a high spatial-temporal variability of hydroclimatological variables defined by a wide range of macro climatic phenomena. One of this is the Quasi-Biennal oscillation phenomenom, which hasn't been too much studied in the national context. In the survey was evaluated the phenomenom's incidence over the water regime of the tributaires of Betania's reservoir, who is important from the point of view of hydropower production and agricultural activity. It was encountered that the macro climatic event could show itself in a term from 4 to 7 months and its contribution to the year-on-year variability of flows is even of the 13.7%. taking into account that the anthropic interventions in the area affect the levels of the flows where the results are reflected when obtaining the correlations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The objective established for this study was to identify the religious beliefs of primary school students in a context of cultural diversity and the perspectives of curriculum design proposed by religious education in educational institutions the Cauca Colombia. Using qualitative methodology: micro-ethnography, non --structured informal interviews were conducted with-grades 3, 4 and 5 students to identify their religious beliefs. In order to reveal the programmatic elements of the religion class curriculum, teachers conducted participant observation, as well as implementing field diaries to track religion class and the interactions of students. The analysis of institutional documents and the study plans for religion of the respective grades complemented the investigative and comparative work done by the teacher. The findings showed religious plurality in schools in the Cauca with interaction between Catholic, Christian, and indigenous students with ancestral beliefs, who valued the religion class, but questioned why only one religion was presented and not that to which they belonged. The proposal of religious education in the institutions participating in the study used, the standards of the Catholic Church as a reference, but there are schools in which the teachings of the indigenous worldview and Christian churches are being integrated as an experience of dialogue and interaction beyond proselytizing purposes such as progressing toward tolerance and peace in the school environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objetive: To characterize the oral health status of elderly individuals aged 65 and older of the city of Manizales. Materials and Methods: Descriptive study carried out with 318 adults, randomly selected. The probability sampling had a confidence level of 95%, a margin of error of 5%, and p = 0.30. Sociodemographic variables, affiliation to GSSH, TMJ examination using Helkimo Index, periodontal health status using ESI and CPITN indexes, oral hygiene status using the Oleary index; COP-D and root caries indexes for hard dental tissue, prosthetic status and oral mucosal examination were also included. Results: The average age of the population studied was 74 years with predominance of females. Forty per cent (40%) of the population reported signs and symptoms for Helkimo's index. Clicking was the predominant joint sound. The total ESI applied was 66.7-4.5 and, according to CPITN, 95% of the population evaluated required some type of periodontal treatment. The average COP-D was 23 and the root caries index was 17.5%. Eighty-seven per cent (87%) of the population showed total or partial edentulism, 60.5% required prosthesis, 31% had soft tissue injuries such as traumatic ulcer, increased tissue growth due to prosthesis and sub-prosthetic stomatitis. Conclusion: Oral health of elderly individuals reveals poor care throughout their lives. It is necessary that health authorities expand and execute preventive programs intended to improve the oral health of this population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]