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This paper argues that there is a thread in the philosophy of E. Tugendhat binding together his moral and justice theories with his conceptual analysis. Oriented by the thesis that a conceptual analysis is necessary to explain what justice is, this paper reconstructs some aspects of Tugendhat's philosophy. It is divided in four sections: First, I delve into the author's definition and use of conceptual analysis. Second, I describe some features of Tugendhat's moral theory of contractualism. Third, I examine his theory of justice. Fourth, I conclude by framing my analysis within the debate between Rawls's and Tugendhat's theories of justice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work aims to analyze the studies conducted on people with disability under the approaches of rights and capabilities considering those aspects interesting in the public health field, such as the inequality, social justice, social determining factors, and well-being of collective groups. A narrative review of the both national and international literature concerning the disability was carried out under both the right approach and the capability approach. Searches were carried out based on keywords in Spanish, English and Portuguese. The quest for information provided 32 documents in total; regarding the approaches under study, 16 papers dealt with rights and disability, 11 papers with capabilities and disability, and 5 papers with both approaches. It can be concluded that the approaches of rights and capabilities have a dichotomous and non-linear relation. Regarding the disability, these two approaches indeed complement each other from their different fields, especially when it comes to cope with the barriers existing between people with disability in the spheres of education, employment and health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides some reflections on the discussions resulting from the UN declaration, A/64/L.63/Rev.1. It is a resolution dated July 26, 2010 whereby the UN enacts the drinking water and sanitation as an essential human right, which creates some obligations the private actors will demand the Member States to comply with. Based on the foregoing, the UN Member States, including Colombia, are now required to ensure a water supply with quality and 100% coverage to their inhabitants via an aqueduct. However, governments face, in turn, the challenge to preserve the water sources constituting the raw material for ensuring those rights the UN has enacted as claimable by all human beings. This way, this paper poses some questions and queries regarding the tasks to be undertaken by both the Colombian State and the private actors to comply with the UN directives, without detriment to the water sources and the environmental sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reflects on the connection between libraries and peace. Libraries depend on the peace in order to exist, develop and survive. In turn, libraries contribute to build and preserve the peace. The first part of this paper analyses the emergence of internationalist and pacifist movements during the 19th century and its relation to the modern advent of both the documentation science and the library science. Next, this paper discusses the role of the libraries in the consolidation of the peace as conceived of by the UNESCO and inquires into the different contemporary conceptions around the concept of peace. Finally, the role of the libraries in the construction of the peace is explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is intended to determine the worth of unpaid health care in Uruguay and to characterize the caregivers (either paid or unpaid) who serve ill people. These objectives are accomplished mainly through the quantitative analysis of the data gathered by the first National Survey of Unpaid Health Care (2013) in Uruguay. This survey enables to become aware and set the worth of the unpaid health care times (replacement cost method) and to characterize the unpaid caregivers. This paper shows how the unpaid health care provided by homes accounts for a third of whole health care aggregate in the Gross Domestic Product. Women are the main caregivers, thus assuming the costs of losing their autonomy and seeing reduced the opportunities to enjoy their rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Throughout the last 15 years, Colombian migrations experimented a massive geographical expansion without precedents. Within Latin America, Argentina stands out as the main destination, and therefore, the main objective of this paper is to analyze the origins and evolution of Colombian migrations to Argentina. Resorting to statistical and ethnographical elements, the paper shows the new migratory patterns of Colombian population to Argentina, even though the current migratory trend towards this country is descending. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The focus of this paper is to discuss the cycle of migration and its psychological impact on the lives of immigrants. An overview of current migration trends, a discussion on the cycle of immigration (Casas, 2014), and its psychological consequences are presented. A qualitative phenomenological approach was utilized to analyze the stories of four immigrants, which resulted in a thematic analysis that discusses the cycle of immigration and its impact. The paper concludes with a discussion of implications, limitations, and future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1836, at 19 years of age, Colombian philosopher José Eusebio Caro wrote a sociological and anthropological treatise titled Mecánica social (Social Mechanics) that illustrates in context the reception of French philosophy (sensualism, ideology, physiology) in 19th-century Colombian philosophical thought. The purpose of this paper is to present critically Caro's theory of the will and to bring to light the philosophical sources from which he draw, especially physiology and its role as theoretical basis for both ideology and a new "scientific" anthropology that could, in turn, provide support for a science of morals and legislation, a major goal of French radical liberal thought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the figure of the intellectual in Michel Foucault and Maurice Blanchot, from three distinct perspectives: 1) The affirmation of the anonymity of language; 2) the critical approach against power; and 3) the ethics of thinking and writing. The intellectual is thus characterized as an anonymous voice among anonymous voices; as someone who holds power accountable; as a solidary guard for the anonymous--and his writing as the exercise of a specific kind of responsibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The European reception of Nicolás Gómez Dávila owes greatly to the reading and diffusion of his work prompted by Franco Volpi. This paper examines the way in which Volpi shaped the interpretations of the Colombian in light of his practical philosophy and critique of Modernity, emphasizing the vitality and the provocative character of Gómez Davila's thought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents, from an introductory point of view and oriented to non-experts in network theory, the fundamentals of graphs and networks that allow projecting information about cultural networks in a formal context. It also describes some of the most common measures and tools to design quantitative mechanisms for the subsequent analysis of these networks. This article does not pretend to be a complete course or tutorial on network theory, for that the reader can refer to any of the references listed at the end, but rather it is an introduction oriented to go through, in a single document, some of the details that are considered more important and that are usually leTh out of the initial explanations on the subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Agricultural activity in the rural sector has been studied mainly in terms of technical questions regarding cultivation; however, the organizational aspects that generate added value, such as knowledge, have rarely been addressed. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between knowledge management and innovation in rural agricultural organizations in northwestern Mexico. A questionnaire with composed of 36 items and a thorough interview was applied to seven leading organizations of the Yaqui Valley (YV). The results reveal a positive and significant relationship between knowledge management and innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper the influence of John Duns Scotus's thought in Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition is outlined, centering the analysis in the concepts of "univocal being" and "intrinsic mode". The novelty of this work lies on its effort to accurately locate the thesis of the univocity of being and the theory of intrinsic mode that goes along with it in the work of Duns Scotus. Subsequently, an attempt is made to determine the horizon of appropriation and the conceptual displacement operated by Gilles Deleuze in his own work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I shall address the connections between Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy and Caribbean thought. However, I will only focus on Antonio Benítez Rojo's essay The Repeating Island (1998), since I have found in it the presence--or expression--of some key deleuzian and deleuzo-guattarian concepts. I will use the deleuzian concept of repetition to defend this stance, as well as to argue that one may find some of the most interesting readings of Deleuze's texts in the work of Caribbean authors such as Benítez Rojo, not only in spite of their relative understanding and lack of exegetical rigour, but rather thanks to the fact that this is, in no case, their main intention. The angle I have chosen does not intend to point out consistencies or inconsistencies in Benítez Rojo's "appropriations" or "rewritings" of Deleuze and Guattari, for this would only keep us within the logic of the copy versus the original. Instead, this reading tries to destabilize the boundaries between philosophy and literature as well as between French ("Western", central, from the North) and Caribbean thought (supposedly non-Western, peripheral, and from the South). The undoing of these types of distinction intends to produce a new theatre of thought, a theatre of repetition, not of representation, in order to set up the scene for a contrapunteo (counterpointing: debate, quarrel, improvised versed duel) between two images of thought: one deleuzian, the other Caribbean. Thus, we embark upon this journey hoping to have an encounter that promises yet another becoming to Deleuze's philosophy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper outlines the ontology of problems in Deleuze's magnum opus, Difference and Repetition (1968). By ontology of problems I refer to the conceptualization of problems as a fundamentally ontological--not epistemological--subject. This problematic-being is the object of Ideas, which are at the core of Deleuzian ontology, as shown in the actualization of the virtual and its four aspects: differentiation [différentiation], individuation, dramatization, and differentiation [différenciation]. For this reason, a deeper comprehension of the ontology of problems serves as the most adequate prelude for a sound approach to all of Deleuzian ontology. In addition, this article highlights the philosophical and scientific sources upon which Deleuze draws in order to build his ontology of problems. Of special note are his references to several metaphysicians of differential calculus (Bordas-Demoulin, Maïmon, Hoëne-Wronski) and prominent mathematicians (Carnot, Abel, Galois, Riemann, Lautman) of the 19th and 20th centuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has sickened more than six million people worldwide. This context has led to an abundance of publications quickly since the beginning of the outbreak. In a few months, thousands of scientific papers have appeared. This article aims to provide a bibliometric analysis of the publications on COVID-19 in five high-impact journals indexed to the Web of Science Core Collection's Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) including The Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, Science, Nature, and JAMA-Journal of the American Medical Association. We found 169 documents associated with the search criteria. The findings indicate that China, the United States, and the United Kingdom are the most represented countries in these publications, The Lancet is the journal with the highest number of contributions with 66% of documents, and the University of Hong Kong leads the ranking of institutions. Future bibliometric and scientometric studies on COVID-19 should provide updated information to analyse other relevant indicators in this field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background/Objective: The Invalidating Childhood Environment Scale (ICES) is an instrument designed to assess retrospectively parental invalidation experience, according to Marsha Linehan's definition of invalidation. The main aim of this paper is to determine the factorial structure of the ICES. Three factor structures: Standard Model, Reduced Model, and 2 Factor Model are examined. Also, the association between invalidating experience and borderline symptoms is studied. Method: Data from a non-clinical, volunteer sample of 274 adults was collected. Participants completed 4 surveys: Demographic surveys, Invalidating Childhood Environment Scale (ICES), Borderline Symptoms List (BSL 23), and Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI). Statistical analyses included confirmatory factor analysis and multiple linear regression. Results: The results of the analysis presented indicate that the ICES is a reliable instrument, and that the 2 Factor Model is good fit and allows for a broader understanding of invalidation and it's qualities. The results of the linear regression analysis indicated a mild but significant association between invalidation and BPD symptoms. Internal consistency was acceptable for all levels. Conclusion: The outcome of this study shows that the ICES is a useful instrument that can be used to make progress in uncovering the role of childhood invalidation in BPD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to propose an integrated methodological approach for the categorization of assets using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA, Basic Additive Model version). The need for stakeholders to assess the possibility of bankruptcy, credit risk and the creation of investment portfolios has given rise to tools capable of evaluating financial assets. Given the increasing volume of data associated with assets, categorization into groups sharing homogeneous characteristics has sometimes been chosen. This strategy implies a significant reduction in time and cost of analysis. The system selected for the analysis includes the companies that traded on the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange over the period 2009-2010. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As business intelligence is for companies, territorial intelligence is for local authorities. However, it is not the simple exportation of business intelligence concepts and tools, but overall a new discipline characterized by the amalgamation of collective human intelligence and computer intelligence. As a result, geographic knowledge bases, rules and inference engines are not only based on logic but also on topology, geometry and linguistics, and must take multiple actors' points of view into account. The scope of this paper will be to present the concepts necessary to construct such systems, i.e. to pass from intelligence to geographic knowledge engineering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research develops an initial proposal of a Decision Support System -DSS- to plan the production and distribution of new fresh agricultural products. This system is based on a hierarchical approach, which can be applied to enterprises as a planning module or as a stand-alone system for crop production. In this paper is stressed the importance of the DSS for small and mediumsized companies, or for small group of growers that need to improve coordination between their growing and market decisions. The DSS covers the strategic, tactical and operational decisions for every season, focusing on new product introduction. The aim of DSS is increasing the competitiveness of growers in a highly variable and complex marketplace. The agri-food sector still needs evolving to meet increasing demands, understand particular tastes of new consumers and evaluating the requirements of new players. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we compare the methods proposed by Peña and Prieto (2001), and Filzmoser, Maronna, and Werner (2008) to detect outliers in a set of Argentine companies that quote their shares in the Stock Exchange. A significant heterogeneity between observations can be a consequence of the presence of outliers. The detection of outliers is an important task for the statistical analysis since they distort descriptive measures and parameters estimators. There are different multivariate methods to detect outliers, such as distance-based methods and projection pursuit methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Energy efficiency and sustainability are important factors to address in the context of smart cities. In this sense, a necessary functionality is to reveal various preferences, behaviors, and characteristics of individual consumers, considering the energy consumption information from smart meters. In this paper, we introduce a general methodology and a specific two-level clustering approach that can be used to group, considering global and local features, energy consumptions and productions of households. Thus, characteristic load and production profiles can be determined for each consumer and prosumer, respectively. The obtained results will be generally applicable and will be useful in a general business analytics context. La efficiencia energética y la sostenibilidad son factores importantes a abordar en el contexto de las ciudades inteligentes. En este sentido, una funcionalidad necesaria consiste en revelar varias preferencias, comportamientos y características de los consumidores individuales, considerando la información de consumo de energía de los metrocontadores inteligentes. En este artículo presentamos una metodología general y un enfoque de agrupamiento en dos niveles teniendo en cuenta las características globales y locales del consumo de energía y la producción de los hogares. Por lo tanto, se pueden determinar los perfiles característicos de carga y producción para cada consumidor y prosumidor, respectivamente. Los resultados obtenidos serán de aplicación general y serán útiles en un contexto de análisis empresarial general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, optimization algorithms are used to solve a batch assignment problem of parallel processing furnaces in American Glass Products (AGP), a world leader company in the design and manufacturing of curved armored glass for transportation purposes. The problem consists in optimizing the bending process, which is considered to be the bottleneck workstation in the armored glasses production line in AGP. The objective is to maximize the efficiency of the furnaces and minimize the tardiness delivery of orders. Due to the complexity and constraints of the problem, we developed a proper dispatch algorithm and a Tabu search technique. The results are encouraging: the indicators of furnace usage hours and tardiness delivery improved by 32 % and 7 %, respectively compared to the decisions made in the plant during an actual production week. This work was the winner of an operation research challenge between around 100 graduate students. The challenge was organized by Javeriana University and AGP. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Colombia is a country with great potential for the exploitation of geothermal energy due to its high volcanic activity caused by the subduction between the Nazca and South American tectonic plates. However, this energy is yet to be exploited. This article seeks to describe, by means of a literature review and information processing, the current status of geothermal energy in Colombia, including the current regulations, the limitations, the recommendations to develop the geothermal energy, and some of the most important projects, studies, and research papers that have been emerged on the discovery, exploration, and exploitation of geothermal energy within the country, emphasizing the areas where exploration projects have been initiated, such as the Nevado del Ruiz volcano, the Tufiño-Chiles-Cerro Negro volcanic system, the Azufral volcano geothermal area, and the Paipa geothermal area. Over the years, energy vulnerability in Colombia and a government policy of fostering sustainable development in different territories have generated favorable conditions for the exploitation of geothermal resources. Nevertheless, there are several technical, infrastructural, legal, and institutional barriers that slow the proper development of these projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores how social networks allow that migrants and their transnational families may control when and how communicate in order to keep in contact in real time with their homeland communities, as well as preserving their traditions and practices. This way, they keep a copresentiality (Baldassar, 2016). This work is conducted under a qualitative methodology including dyadic interviews to twenty subjects from different Colombian families who experienced that one of their family members went to Chile. The results show noticeably that WhatsApp is the most frequently used social network due to its assorted features for getting connected both synchronically and diachronically. The subjects reported an increase in the feeling of distancing and separation despite the digitally-enabled closeness. The evidence also shows some efforts by the migrants to maintain their roles as a mother, a brother or a son thanks to the use of social networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze the processes developed in Brazil and Portugal intended to integrate the Primary Health Care and the Specialized Health Care. Primary Health Care conceived of as the first step for accessing to the health system stands out among the most usual initiatives and thus the family doctors are attributed a prevailing role. It is also emphasized the territorialization of the health services based on the geographic location, the referral to specialized doctors and the implementation of clinic protocols agreed between the parties. The main results indicate that in Brazil they implemented decentralized regulatory systems, and, in Portugal they created local health units (structures owned by the health ministry that integrate primary health care and specialized health care provided by the same management team). In conclusion, this work underlines the need to develop a true investment policy intended to strengthen the response capacity in the specialized health care and to add more value to the work performed by the primary care professionals. This way, they will strengthen the collaborative culture that will translate into successful integration processes with results such as good health and user's satisfaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to discuss how the public budget and the model of basic attention in public health could affect the infant mortality rates in a certain territory. The research was carried out in the Southern Coastal Territory of Bahia, in the State of Bahia, Northeast Region of Brazil. It is a quantitative and descriptive investigation, based on secondary data referring to the period from 2006 to 2015, collected between 2017 and 2018 in official Brazilian public data banks. It was verified that, although the average rate of infant mortality fell gradually from 2006 in the territory, it is still higher than the national average within the investigated period. In 2006, the average rate of the territory was 35.53% and decreased to 18.56% in 2015. However, throughout the period the average rate remained higher than the Brazilian average, which is 18%. Infant mortality rates have a strong relationship with social, economic, and environmental factors. In the case investigated, they are associated with the fragmentation and fragility of public health service networks in the municipalities of the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction : Therapeutic efforts aimed at treating mycosis caused by Candida spp. have focused on the use of azoles; however, their benefits have been subject to discussion in scientific literature, due to the extensive and well-described resistance mechanisms. Objective : To describe the resistance mechanisms to fluconazole expressed by the Candida glabrata species, so they are considered within the variables of eligibility for intervention. Method : An integrative review was carried out using the guiding question: what are the fluconazole resistance mechanisms expressed by the Candida glabrata species? Twenty-nine studies obtained from the PubMed database met the criteria for the critical analysis proposed by the PRISMA instrument, which was used for the selection of articles for review included in this paper. The analysis elements were organized in the following categories: overexpression of efflux pumps and modifications in the enzyme lanosterol 14-alpha-demethylase. Results : The resistance mechanisms to fluconazole expressed by Candida glabrata are mainly determined by the upregulation of Adenosine triphosphate Binding Cassette (ABC) pumps and by the modification of the point of attachment with its pharmacological target: the enzyme lanosterol 14-alpha-demethylase. Conclusion : The resistance mechanisms expressed by Candida glabrata are associated with the structural modification of the pharmacological target and the overexpression of efflux pumps, in a way different to other species. It is suggested that Candida glabrata is intrinsically less susceptible to fluconazole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the complex scenario of the issue of women. To do this, she outlines the feminine movement trajectory in the last few years, indicating a value of her own in its specificity. The study of Edith Stein's reflections is relevant for understanding her biblical and anthropological foundations of the "differentiation" and "unity" between both sexes. In this regard, and supported by a phenomenology of religion, this study examines the peculiar way of being a man or a woman, along with the "common vocation" attributed to a human being. A complex reading of steiniana work and mainly her Conferences on Women makes it possible to clarify what this natural feminine and masculine vocation consists of and if they belong to an original order. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviewing the documents of the II General Conference of the Latin American Episcopate (1968), a lack of specifically missiological reflection emerges. However, Medellin offers essential elements for a proper Latin American missionary debate. The objectives of this paper are: to recall the contributions of the Melgar Document in preparation to Medellin, to remember Bishop Samuel Ruiz' conference "Evangelization in Latin America" and to share some considerations about the major lines that characterize the Final Document. From this study it is possible to glimpse emerging problems, missionary perspectives, some gaps and, in particular, the fundamental axes upon which it may be possible to set up a Theology of Mission from Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main characteristic of Sarlo's reading of Saer is a peculiar type of formalism. Her reading impulse lies in this articulation: the focus on the artistic technique (poetic, narrative), considered semantically functional, recoverable, and subject to a decision-making process; the relationship between that poetic of the form and an intertextual program whose center is Borges, with Saer's corresponding place in the history of Argentinian literary history, and, as a consequence of the unifying force of that formal and intertextual approach, a judgement about the highest value of Saer's work arises, which Sarlo describes as "perfect." At the same time, our paper develops approximations to a potential blind spot in that reading. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the context of a corpus of Argentinian academic crime fiction writers (which includes authors such as Ricardo Piglia and Guillermo Martínez), in this paper I propose an approach to this sub-genre based on the novel Filosofía y Letras (1998) by Pablo De Santis. I thus show and analyze three substantive issues of this novel: the representation of academics as crazy and miserable subjects, the construction of a crime fiction plot lacking the presence of a strong detective figure and the representation of the building of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (building that finally becomes the protagonist of the novel). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the premise that, for Beatriz Sarlo, a link with the present is the center of a radical critical experience, in this paper we locate, map and interpret the series of texts and interventions in which the intensity of this condition is redistributed, around the year 2007, as a turning point. Our hypothesis is that it is in this redistribution of writings and writing practices (synthesized in the volume Escritos de literatura argentina and in the journalistic articles published in the newspaper Perfil, and later gathered in Ficciones argentinas), and not necessarily in what can be considered as its first programmatic formulation of 1987 (literature written in the present as a critique of the present), that we must read in Beatriz Sarlo's work a (critical) theory of the present. This crossover of experiences with time (experiences of clashes, of ends, of re-establishments) also and above all shows that what has changed for Sarlo after these twenty years (1987-2007), together with the place and value of the present in literature (the subject of a formal elaboration/content to be represented), is the place and the very function of criticism in relation to the present of this literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper develops a critical reading of Viajes. De la Amazonia a las Malvinas which focuses on the evaluation of Beatriz Sarlo's autobiographical rhetoric, the ways in which her testimonial writing articulates narration and essay, personal experience and knowledge. On the one hand, it reconstructs the strategies of self-figuration that aim to sustain the image of the author as a moralist who exercises criticism of contemporary customs (those of tourism as a practice of mass culture, in general, and those of "ideological tourism" that young Latin Americans practiced towards the end of the 1960s and beginning of the 1970s, in specific). On the other hand, it evaluates the success of the means by which Sarlo is able to transcend the narcissism typical of autobiographical remembrance: the theoretical framework (centered on the concept-value of "programme leap"), the essayistic experimentation with the styles of presentation (those of travel narratives and those of ideological criticism) and the search for a nuanced tone, able to transmit the coexistence of heterogeneous affections without inhibiting the possibility of a return to the past in the present as a process still in progress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper has selected Beatriz Sarlo's more than eighty articles, reviews and debate interventions published in Punto de Vista magazine as a text corpus for analysis. In order to organize said corpus, we have divided it into four sections: 1) Argentinian literature: The past; 2) Argentinian literature: The present; 3) intellectuals; 4) literary theory, cultural theory. All the sections comprise reviews of the articles and seek to propose, for each case, a set of interpretative hypotheses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

May 68 has been characterized and interpreted in many ways. In this paper I provide an account of three characterizations among the most important: a political crisis; a psycho-drama and a carnival; and a crisis of civilization. I also provide the reasons making me thinking that Raymond Aron is right in most of his contentions about what happened 50 years ago. I also explain the reasons why the May 68 legacy would impossible to claim. However, I contend that the anti-hierarchical criticism by the Parisian students must be taken more seriously. To do so, I make some reflections on the arguments by neuroscientist Henri Laborit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the behavior of inequality in the distribution of family income under the different macroeconomic regimes in force during the last four decades in Argentina. It also evaluates the factors explaining the changes thereof. This work examines the hypothesis that during the said decades an inequality matrix associated with a persistent structural heterogeneity in the social-occupational systems would have been established, even though if there was a context of active distributive policies. To prove this hypothesis, a model is developed to decompose the Gini coefficient, distinguishing the income contribution to the family-income inequality by different economic sectors. The information is gathered by using the Household Permanent Survey of the Argentinian National Institute for Statistics and Census, specifically, the one applied to the Great Buenos Aires as it was the only one having complete information for the study term. The findings reveal that the highest distributive inequality is explained with a higher inequity in labor earnings, higher concentration of income by the most upgraded economic sectors and the impoverishment of the low-productivity sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides an analysis of the concept Populism and how it relates to the violence in Colombia during the 20th-century last three decades and the 21st-century first decade, putting special emphasis on the pioneer work by historian Marco Palacios. We explore the idea that the conceptualization of populism in Colombia develops concurrently, on one hand, with the dispute around the notion of violence in the 20th-century second half and, on the other hand, with the idea that the "incomplete populism" was a causal explanation to the times of the bloody armed fights in Colombia. In addition, these events have made the Colombian political case instilled with an idea of exceptionality as compared to the other countries of Latin America. To do this work, we gathered some theoretical contributions from the conceptual history by Reinhart Koselleck and from the history of political languages by Elías Palti. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I examine the connections between the hogging of lands, the oil palm tree cultivations, and the para-militarism in Colombia through the lens of the primitive accumulation. To do so, I analyze three concrete cases: the Bajo Atrato en Chocó [a river basin], Mapiripán in Meta Province, and Las Pavas in the South Bolívar Province. These three Colombian locations have undergone violent events including forced displacement and land deprivation, with subsequent projects for growing oil palm trees on a broad scale. The discussion brings into contention the agricultural biofuel international market and the need by the Colombian State to take some territories that were previously hostile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The mindfulness refers to a general layout to deal, with awareness, the present moment involving an active and reflective acceptance, and a non-judgmental attitude. Although the benefits of mindfulness in clinical settings are known, the aim of this paper is to analyze the relationships between specific facets of Mindfulness and specific symptoms of anxiety and depression in Spanish population as well as gender differences, considering the personality effects. In this study was used a sample of 176 subjects (51.7 % female, 48.3 % male), aged between 18 and 69 years (M = 29; SD = 9.66) residents on Murcia and Andalusia (Spain). The results showed that in women with high anxiety, Describe facet is able to predict anxious-depressive symptoms while in the case of man are the facets of Do not judge and Do not react. In women with high depression scores the facets that best predict specific symptoms are Describe and Do not judge , whereas in the case of men with high depression, is the Do not judge facet. In conclusion, the results, could improve the effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions for the prevention and treatment of anxiety and depression disorders, both in men and women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studied the body image and its differences by physical activity and Body Mass Index (BMI), in a sample of 2942 Lithuanian adolescents (1405 males and 1537 females), aged between 11 and 19. Body image was measured with the questionnaire HBSC, physical activity with questionnaire PACE, and BMI through the formula height/weight2, classifying the adolescents according to the IOTF. The results indicated that girls saw themselves fatter than boys (t 2935.50= 11.37; p =0.000; d =0.420). The adolescents that performed less physical activity (t 2012.21= 2.57; p =0.010; d =0.115) and those with excess weight/obesity (t 392.04= 14.86; p =0.000; d =1.501) had worse body image. It is recommendable to implement physical activity programs and psychological programs to improve the body image and the body composition of Lithuanian adolescents, paying special attention to girls, those who do less physical activity and those who are overweight/obese. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a study of the article 333 of the Colombian Criminal Code, which establishes the crime of environmental contamination by exploitation of mining or hydrocarbon deposits. It analyzes the semantics and scope of this rule, establishing the criminal effects deriving from it. The paper focuses on the challenges that the article poses for the principle of legality, and address some dogmatic problems of it. This paper is part of the results of the research Environmental Criminal Law in the Context of the Company. Problems Surrounding the Crime of Environmental Pollution, supported by Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to describe the theoretical, statutory, precedentual and case law on one of the forms to perform anticompetitive practices, which is bid-rigging, and its most important current trend: horizontal shareholding. Likewise, this paper states the atypical and almost embryonary stage of competition law in Latin America, and how it impacts repression to anticompetitive practices in public procurement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper puts the spotlight on the dominant 'imaginary' (Castoriadis 1987) governing writing research, focusing in particular on the way in which evaluation regimes shape analytic orientations towards writing as a phenomenon. Drawing on data from three different research projects- student writing ( e.g. Lillis 2001), scholars' writing for publication (e.g. Lillis and Curry 2010), writing in professional social work (e.g. Lillis, 2017)-the paper has three objectives: 1) to illustrate the normative evaluative approach towards writing evident in practises of uptake within the evaluation regimes, that is by teacher, reviewer, manager/inspector; 2) to signal that some widely used analytic categories/frames used across writing research traditions may mirror features of evaluation regimes and lead to a misrecognition, rather than an illumination of what is going on; 3) to illustrate the value of ethnographically oriented approaches, in particular work which explores writing through a focus on trajectories (of texts and of people) for opening up our research imaginaries and for making visible key dimensions to the phenomena we are exploring. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the first 25 years of the Colombian Constitution of 1991. It marks the excessive optimism that the Constitution was received with by the people and the academy in general. However, over the years, although the Constitution changed the Colombian political reality significantly, it started to lose its charm. Among other reasons, (i) this Constitution could not satisfy the high expectations generated, (ii) the continuous reforms that the political class made to it, derailing the original model, and (iii) the way the political system managed to adapt to the new constitutional system so well that we could say "everything changed to stay the same". Moreover, we present the risk implied by a judicial democracy for the Colombian political system. Finally, this paper invites not falling into extreme points (nihilism, on the one side, ingenuity, on the other), so a critical skepticism is suggested regarding what is presented today as Constitution and its immediate future, in post-conflict times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of an empirical study that systematized environmental judicial opinions handed down by Colombia's highest administrative Court --Consejo de Estado-- over a 17-year period (1998-2015). Thanks to a research grant, the authors and a team of coders systematized, using state-of-the art content analysis methodologies, more than 250 opinions handed down by Colombia's highest administrative Court. The results presented in this paper show the most important trends of collective environmental litigation in Colombia: types of plaintiffs and defendants; type of environmental resources involved in the case; plaintiffs' success rates; most litigious regions and cities; overall effects of economic incentives on the type of litigation, among several other subjects. This paper concludes that collective environmental litigation has been instrumental to protect environmental resources in Colombia, one the most biodiverse countries in the world. Finally, the paper concludes that the elimination in 2011 of the economic incentive in favor of litigants did not favor public interest litigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the recognition of digital inclusion as a fundamental right in Colombia, thus contributing to the progress of the constitutional theory about the recognition of fundamental rights in Colombia. In recent years, the digital divide has attracted widespread attention of the national and international community. This digital divide has been intrinsically associated with the concept of fundamental right, since digital inclusion is considered as a key factor in social and individual progress. In this paper we conduct the evaluation of the doctrine and the case law criteria on the inclusion of new fundamental rights and the protection using the action for protection (tutela). This evaluation is carried out through a document review and legal interpretation that allows identifying some arguments to justify the consideration of digital inclusion as an inclusion to fundamental rights in the Colombian legal system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The primary objective of this paper, one of the products derived from the author's doctoral thesis, is to indicate how the current Brazilian Constitution innovates to define cultural heritage and establish measures for its preservation. With this purpose, the author makes a genealogy of the so-called "Cartas Políticas" of Brazil, which addressed heritage issues. Without examining the process that led to their formation in depth, this paper aims to demonstrate how the current Constitution extends the concept of heritage, albeit with some limitations, such as the naturalization of cultural diversity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers a critical view of the processes of memory in Europe and the narratives of such events, as this can become a benchmark and a guideline for critical historiographic reflection on the violent events of the past, and how they are preserved and transmitted. The text states that the academic field constantly uses a repetition of the war scheme, which is too limited and unfair, and barely relates to historical facts. Believing that memory research is not a rigorous historical approach, and reflecting on the representations of events neglecting their origin, does not constitute an assessment tool and can lead to the wrong conclusions. This paper particularly examines the case of concentration camps, the role of Germany and Russia, the guilt issue connected with memory politics, the epidemic of mechanical repetition in academic texts, or the idea of «replacing a historical model for a memorial model» (Rabotnikof). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper makes the claim that the overall structure of Plato's Laws follows the principle of indirect access to the knowledge of human soul, which consists in the understanding that a philosophical approach to the soul is only possible initially through an image of it. The structure of the Laws can be interpreted as a movement towards the soul's interior, beginning with the famous image of the puppet. According to this image, the movement opens with the analysis of the non-rational elements of the soul, which are capable of an harmonic relation with the rational element, and advances bit to bit to the rational or epistemic element. The political necessity of undertaking the dialectical investigation in order to attain a philosophical knowledge of the human soul and its specific excellence appears only at the end of the dialogue. In this way, the structure of the Laws dramatizes the progressive birth of philosophy, conceived as the dialectical investigation of the unity of virtue, starting from the initial understanding of the human soul contained in the myth of the puppet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]