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Informal settlements in Latin America generally present high levels of vulnerability as they are located in multi-hazard zones. Faced with this problem, we propose to analyze how disaster risk has been constructed in the peri-urban area of the city of Quito. By means of a mixed methodological design, the case of the parish of El Condado and the neighborhood of Colinas del Norte are analyzed. The qualitative, quantitative, and socio-spatial information processed allows us to show at different scales that, although regularization policies have managed to formalize tenure and ownership in the sector, their legalization has not reversed the risk conditions and, on the contrary, has reproduced and generated other types of physical and social vulnerabilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the relationship between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization with Japan and South Korea. NATO's presence has generally been limited to Europe and the North Atlantic but has remained constant since the conflicts in Iraq and Syria (2001-current), however due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine (2022), the Organization after more than twenty-five years has again a conflict near its members. In this sense, given the size of Russia, the perception of threat has not only been limited to Europe, since in Asia, Russia's invasion has raised alarm in China's neighbours, particularly South Korea and Japan, since the success of Russia could increase China's assertiveness. NATO did not consider China a concern until 2022, (Domínguez, 2023) so the role of Tokyo and Seoul as diplomatic and military allies is very important. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This research employed empirical methods that relate rainfall to debris flow movements, which consist of series of accumulated rainfall that trigger these movements. Additionally, statistical thresholds were established using power law in linear coordinates (logarithmic relationship) and non-parametric statistics. Consequently, critical thresholds for triggering accumulated rainfall (LA) and antecedent accumulated rainfall (LAA) were established. Furthermore, this empirical-statistical model incorporates the local conditions of the study area, including certain physical parameters and soil moisture conditions, and combines them with the hazard conditions specific to the region for which they were defined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Covid 19 was a pandemic that forced people, institutions and companies to change the way they work and due to the restrictions that were imposed, the internet became the fundamental tool for everyone to continue carrying out their activities virtually. The applications and services offered on the internet were of great benefit, especially for small businesses who saw in commerce an opportunity to reach their customers with their products and these, in turn, a safe way of supplying themselves; but it is important to keep in mind when using these technologies that there are threats and computer security risks that could affect if you are not protected. The objective of this investigation was to analyze the main computer security risks to which the inhabitants of the El Carmen canton are exposed when carrying out electronic commerce activities in times of pandemic; A quantitative investigation was applied to analyze the possible risks and their level of severity, a MAGERIT Risk analysis methodology was used, considering the protection of personal information as an asset, a bibliographical investigation was carried out to select the most common online security risks and Instruments were designed based on the ISO 27001 standard focused on evaluating the controls to avoid the selected risks; For the study, a survey was applied using an online form to a sample of 384 people, who have made purchases over the Internet. From the results obtained, it stands out that the most used platforms for electronic commerce are WhatsApp, Facebook and online stores, finding a higher level of risk in transactions with online stores, the security risks with the highest probability of risks found were: adware, phishing and baiting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to contribute to the reduction of the negative impacts generated by forest fires in specific settlements, such as the campamentos (informal settlements); the present study addresses the situation of those precarious settlements located in the amphitheater of the commune of Valparaíso and the evaluation and classification of the threat by forest fire with respect to these settlements. A methodological adaptation is proposed from various similar studies, but this work is focused only on the threat and contemplates variables based on three categories such as historical occurrence, ignition and propagation. For this methodology, multicriteria analysis and the AHP method are used to estimate different weights for each variable in the weighting and obtain maps that show the classification at different levels of threat. The results of this study show that certain groups of campamentos or informal settlements on its own tend to be more prone to wildfires occurring in or around their surroundings, especially in rural-urban interface areas and in the upper parts of the Valparaíso amphitheater. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This work consists of a case study analysis of the upper basin of the Cuñapirú stream, located in the department of Rivera, in the area known as Puntas de Cuñapirú, identifying environmental problems and issues related to territorial transformations in the period 1990-2017. It aims to provide elements for understanding the processes of territorial transformations over a period of 27 years. he application of an environmental vulnerability model that integrates fragility and threat factors makes it possible to identify areas that are particularly sensitive to current andfuture impacts andfacilitates the identification of critical interactions in the environmental system, generating inputs for decision-makers. he application of the model was able to identify spatially the areas with the highest rate of urban expansion, which in turn constitutes the main threat and generates the highest levels of vulnerability. It was also possible to recognise which natural assets interact with these changes in land use (environmentalfragility). It is hoped that the results obtained will help to strengthen land-use planning and management capacities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article examines the standing threats to global security in the 21st century to identify and classify them. A hundred threats and social and environmental vulnerabilities were identified through the hermeneutic analogical documentary analysis of 25 sources, mainly supranational documents. These were organized based on supranational theories and theorists, such as Bouthoul, Kaldor, and Hamilton, in a four-group structure: traditional threats, new threats, asymmetric attacks on the population, and social and environmental vulnerabilities. Finally, the article addresses the ethical problem implied by these prevailing threats that continue to menace human dignity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The social, economic and cultural changes in recent years have caused new demands and readjustments in people's lives and behaviors, bringing as consequences negative reactions such as prolonged stress and rumination that facilitates getting hooked on issues and mistakes made. For all this, having instruments that operationalize these variables will give way to having current, reliable and accurate measurements. We worked with a convenience sampling made up of 388 people, aged between 17 and 62 years. As a result, the confirmatory factor analysis showed a total Alpha of .823 with two factors (Control and Uncontrol) for the Stress scale. For the Rumination scale, a total Alpha of .914 was found with two factors as well (Discomfort and Obsessive reflection). Regarding the correlations, associations were found between the factors of Stress with Rumination. Similarly, it was possible to develop two valid and reliable scales to evaluate the exposed scales. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to identify the security and defense threats in the context of the current criminal and terrorist multi-domain by reviewing the evolution of warfare from the beginning of the 20th century to the present, examining the emergence of new domains: the air domain and the space and cyberspace domains, in addition to the traditional land and maritime domains. Then, a documentary analysis identifies the new threats and defense and security decisions adopted by multilateral organizations in this regard. Finally, it evidences the acceleration of vital processes from the air domain, which has encouraged the mutation of ever greater threats converging in cyberspace today. The challenge is to anticipate, contain, deny, and deter new threats in a complex framework of transformations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The synergy between the Ecuadorian university and buen vivir has much to offer. Addressing this dynamic requires a deeper understanding of buen vivir and the indigenous tradition. These are worldviews that include a dialogue of knowledge and historical memory, based on the dignity of the other and on critical thinking, in the face of the predominant and global discourse of Western reality. This process calls for a new anthropological model that evidences different challenges. However, the proposal of "buen vivir" for Ecuadorian universities is current and belongs to the Latin American tradition. Currently, the Ecuadorian legal system has opted for this way of understanding the mission of university institutions and their social and research functions, as well as their contribution to the higher education system in the country, the region and the world. The challenge is a process of globalisation in which the university culture of the ego predominates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of the research was to analyze a high-level programming model for low-resource microcontrollers, which are those programming languages where several instructions are replaced by a sentence, these languages are fundamental since it generates code in a simple and easy way To understand programmers, in this way code is written that is valid for various machines and operating systems. It allows to use programming paradigms, and all this can be inserted into microcontrollers. Microcontrollers are programmable printed circuits nested in many objects in our daily lives. Due to their limited resources, they are often programmed in languages such as C or assembly language. Although these do not offer the same abstractions and the same guarantees as high-level languages because they are low-resource microcontrollers considered low-end. Next, this article proposes a set of solutions aimed at enriching the programming of microcontrollers with programming paradigms. The scientific method bibliographic review was used, allowing the investigation to be carried out. The results showed that these solutions bring a gradual increase in abstraction, in particular, making it possible to produce programs independent of the equipment used, which makes it possible to take advantage of the many advantages of the language while maintaining a small memory footprint. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Mompox's Branch, is located in close to the county of Cantera, municipality of Margarita (Bolivar), where there have been natural disasters related to floods, affecting human lives, structures and agricultural areas. The objective of the research is to identify and analyze the areas of threat and vulnerability due to flooding in the Mompox's branch (Magdalena River). The methodology consisted of taking information in the field and spatial analysis, through bathymetry, measurements of the water surface and river flow; For the evaluation of threat and vulnerability, a land use map was made by supervised classification of high-resolution satellite images verified with the land cover methodology of the IGAC (Agustín Codazzi Geographical Institute); The hydrodynamic behavior was calculated with the Hec-Ras software, exposing the flooded areas in return periods of 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 years; showing the areas of vulnerability and threat to which the sector is subjected. Concluding, that the Mompóx branch and its interconnections with nearby bodies of water favor an increase in the water level, due to the fact that the water table rises supersaturating the soil, generating floods; the area with high threat is 792.28 hectares, equivalent to 39.61% of the total area. The percentage of homes with high vulnerability is 76%. Livestock is one of the main economic activities, occupying an approximate area of 101.29 hectares, equivalent to 18.60% of the total study area and has a high vulnerability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Latin America shows an accelerated urbanization process and a development model that generate and intensify social and environmental problems. Added to these problems are the risks triggered by climate change that affect today's cities. In Argentina, its effects are manifested differentially over the regions, impacting cities and human settlements. In this scenario, this paper proposes to explore the environmental risk faced by Argentinean cities in a context of climate change from two dimensions: threat and resilience. For this, two synthetic indices were built using the Mean Index Coefficient methodology for each dimension and subsequently the results were articulated by defining risk categories. Results were spatially represented using a Geographic Information System. Gran Posadas, Corrientes, and Salta reach the most unfavorable situations following by Gran La Plata, Gran Mendoza, Gran San Juan, Gran Tucumán-Tafí Viejo, and the Buenos Aires counties. The importance of focusing on adaptation measures under the concept of urban resilience is highlighted. New questions arise from this work and invite further research whose results will allow progress towards sustainability and urban resilience by including them in local policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Disasters constitute complex phenomena that are the result of socioenvironmental and territorial processes that reconfigure nature and society. Despite the undeniable role of nature in the construction and production of disasters, these disasters are conditioned by historical processes of accumulation that make certain populations vulnerable. The ethnic and racial component of this vulnerability plays a central role in determining who will be more affected. The disaster of 1960 in the commune of Saavedra (Chile) is an empirical example of this. Here the impacts and destruction caused by the strongest earthquake registered in history and subsequent tsunami are not only marked by the magnitude of this phenomenon but are the result of a process of historical construction of the territory. This article analyzes this disaster from a historical and critical geography perspective that seeks to expose how the territory and its population are transformed, generating the necessary conditions for a disaster to take place. Through the revision of texts of explorers, military reports, maps, autobiographies, scientific research projects, site visits, and the support of system of geographic information, this article seeks to reconstruct the process of the conformation of territory in Saavedra, highlighting the direct relationship that exists between the invasion of the Mapuche territory Lafkenche by the Chilean State and the worst disaster in its history more than a decade later. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article titled "Zoonosis Prevention with a One Health Approach: MASCOLIVE Veterinary Clinic's Strategy in Veterinary Assistance" presents the strategy implemented by the MASCOLIVE Veterinary Clinic in Havana, Cuba, to reduce the risks of zoonosis in the human-animal-environment interface. During its first year of operation, the clinic has followed strict biosecurity procedures, animal welfare measures, and protection and hygiene protocols for workers and pet owners, among others. As a result, no cases of zoonosis have been reported among the clinic's staff and animal owners, which has strengthened relationships with animal and public health institutions. The application of this strategy is expected to provide significant support in addressing health threats to the population served by MASCOLIVE. [Extracted from the article]

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In San Juan de Pasto, an area of high seismicity, the buildings on land constitute a value of the nation's cultural interest; Most of the historical buildings in Colombia are of this type, such as the Imperial Theater (1922). Therefore, it is a challenge for Colombian engineering and for the Ministry of Culture to determine seismic vulnerability to regulate the protection of heritage; however, the Sismo Resistente Norm of Colombia does not regulate structural analysis and recovery due to lack of research. This article offers as response the static and dynamic evaluation of the materials, in light of the structures to determine the seismic vulnerability of the wall, this is resolved with the mechanical physical characterization by the mechanics of the fracture, ultrasonic speed tests, for project consolidation methods, based on a non-linear analysis and obtain the curves with performance capacity, the average damage ratio, and thus promote consolidation methods with seismic response criteria, over-eff ort index, and intervention costs They are conditioned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to show how the social imaginary around the Venezuelan immigrant in Colombia can be constructed from the written press, taking as a subject of study articles of the newspapers El Tiempo and El Espectador, mainly during the years 2016 and 2017, period in which immigration increases. The correlation of the imaginary is established from the perspective of Manuel Baeza, with the concept of nationalism from Jürgen Habermas and the generation of social uncertainty by Arjun Appadurai. In the analysis it is possible to observe that the theoretical categories are reflected in what constitutes an excluding imaginary and immigration as a threat. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article will deal with the transformation of the idea of security in Latin America during the last decades, considering historical contexts and its impact in the concept definition. It will also reflect upon the concrete progress made in integration and coordination related to security in traditional terms: the South Cross and the South American Defense Council. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article analyzed the coverage of disaster risk management in three regions of Latin America. This, in order to know if the paradigm shifts, from being focused on the disaster to thinking about risk as a social construction, was reflected in the journalistic discourses. From the content analysis of 130 news, it was shown some defects on the writing like the privilege of official sources and press releases, as well as the simple recount of the facts without analysis or context. It was evident that the focus remains on the disaster, which represents an opportunity to exercise prevention journalism that introduces DRM as a cross-cutting theme in the media agenda, aligned with topics such as poverty or corruption and health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: evaluate the effects of Vaginal Progesterone combined with nifedipine compared to the single use of nifedipine in the threat of preterm delivery in pregnant women between 24-34 weeks with cervical length ≤ 25mm in the Hospital Materno Infantil Germán Urquidi. Method: a prospective, comparative and analytical cohort study was conducted. It is a design of two groups (comparative) where the selection of patients was made according to inclusion and exclusion criteria, we evaluated 231 patients. Results: the time to exceed the Preterm Childbirth episode, 67% of the patients who used progesterone plus nifedipine resolved the event within the first hour compared to 50% of patients who used only nifedipine. With the combination of progesterone and nifedipine, the episode of Premature Birth Threat between 24 and 34 weeks of gestation was controlled within 1 hour, with the sole use of nifedipine, from 32-34 weeks there is an average of 2 hours in excess of episode. With only nifedipine as tocolytic, 80% of the patients verified delivery at 5 days. Only 20% were able to exceed 10 days of latency. The combination progesterone + nifedipine achieved that 30% of the patients reached a latency between 21-30 days, Gestational age at birth with the combination progesterone + nifedipino reaches 80% an age less than or equal to 37 weeks 6 days. Conclusions: the combination of vaginal progesterone plus nifedipine substantially improves the neonatal prognosis in all the results obtained, the use of nifedipine alone has less beneficial effects in this investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The tourism effect on Production Systems (ps) can be analyzed as the risk of loss and as a consequence of threat and vulnerability. In Western Antioquia, tourism is a transformative activity, so we evaluated if it threatens traditional ps and the risks posed. The study looked at the intensity of tourism and determined the vulnerability of six traditional ps, considering multiple external and internal factors. We found that tourism indeed represents a risk for traditional ps and that the most vulnerable ones are those where technology is inadequate for biophysical conditions, where the operator is not the owner or where generational succession is lacking. Planning strategies are required to promote tourism with cultural identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The problem of houses located on artificial underground caves in conjunction with the need for housing in Mexico represents a (physical, social, economic, urban and political-legal) risk; along with the vulnerability of housing and population and urban growth. The threat of mining subsidence becomes a risk when the population is settled in places on artificial underground caves. That is, risk is the product of the actions of a population on nature; therefore, a problem that develops in a historical process. The homes located on artificial underground caves have an eminent and imminent risk, so the understanding and explanation of the phenomenon is essential, based on historical processes, identifying architectural urban problems before, during and after the disaster; from the interaction of two key players: the estate-town and social participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information is the most valuable asset of an organization, and therefore, it is necessary to implement increasingly sophisticated techniques to protect it. Among the different techniques that can be used to measure risk analysis information, we can count security fuzzy logic and knowledge-based systems. The application of the properties of fuzzy logic allows risk analysis of information security from the approaches and experiences of specialists, creating a fuzzy system that takes into account the subjectivity of analysis and in turn it is a tool of simple use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of three research projects that have allowed to gather evidence of the recurrence of natural hazards and disasters in the state of Colima. Describes the procedure for forming bases chronological data, complications to gather information and input from these tools to observe a broad perspective the most significant events that have affected a society for a long time. And it explains that there is a link between reports of adverse events and cultural relationships that develop over time human groups with nature, which in some cases induces an adaptive process to disasters and is part of what has been called a "culture of disaster". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]