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This paper intends to present a guide to prepare specific programs to develop emotional intelligence in children aged 0-3 years. We believe that, before applying higher age programs, it is critical to understand how prior learning was made. In program development we had in mind three basic theoretical approaches: the theory of the stages of early childhood development of French theorist Henri Wallon, noted for his efforts to describe the child's emotional development and the role of emotions in the building relationships and links between the infant and the outside world; the Emotional Intelligence Model of Mayer and Salovey (2007); and the principles formulated by Carrol Izard on preventive interventions focused on emotion (Izard, 2002). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes a study comparing articles from Latin America and other regions, to assess the quality of both methodology and results presentation. These articles were included in a systematic review about the prevalence of postpartum depression. The study is of the documentary research type with critical analysis of the literature. Two independent reviewers performed the critical analysis of the studies. The quality of the articles was measured according to the Loney Scale. Statistical analysis was applied and the hypotheses were tested through the usage of nonparametric tests. Thirty-four Latin American studies were identified, evaluated, and compared to a random sample of thirty-four articles from other regions. The quality of the methodology and results of the two groups of articles did not show a significant difference. In both cases, quality was found to be low. Scientific articles are evidences that can support decision-making both in the clinical practice and in public policymaking. For authors to generate scientific articles of quality that are reliable evidence is necessary to build the capability of researchers in developing rigorous methodologies to generate consistent results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The traditional management educational methods like in class group activities derive from Western democratic principles and work well in tolerant and pluralistic climate. However, in dogmatic and oppressive social environment, they just reinforce the dominant culture and create obstacles to fostering the students' critical reflexive thinking. Learning space becomes constrained by different overwhelming contextual factors: from group pressure to an authoritarian political background. On the case of the Russian business ethics classroom, this paper examines the influence of an oppressive context on the learning space and offers an approach to weakening this influence by intensifying students' critical reflexivity using writing assignments and supportive teacher's feedback based on a narrative therapy approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on Hannah Arendt's distinctions between thinking, action and judgment this paper develops a framework for leadership development. Leadership and leadership development are approached from a political perspective, which implies emphasizing the collective, relational and material aspects of leadership. Leadership is defined as the collective actions in in which unique subjects, who can think, act and judge for themselves, are engaged. Practices of thinking, action and judgment are seen as different dimensions of leadership development, which enables people to take part in politics. These dimensions help empower actors to lead themselves and to engage, interact, collaborate, communicate and to give space for others in collective action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last decades, there has been an increasing interest on knowledge in the business realm. Japanese scholar Ikujiro Nonaka was among the main theoretical and practical contributors to knowledge creation in organizations, as well as a promoter of including practical reason in the research of business topics such as decision-making, knowledge management, ethics and leadership. In his theory, a Western classical tradition, namely the virtue of phronesis, is combined with the Japanese notion of Ba (context-based learning), to explain the way people engage in communities of practice as opportunities for learning. This paper describes his theory of knowledge creation, pointing to phronetic leadership skills as essential drivers of knowledge creation in organizations, in light of the Western classical tradition. Finally, it discusses the scope and limits of Nonaka's contribution, as well as some challenges it posits in order to make the business realm a true space for learning and human flourishing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spirituality, understood as the search for the transcendent, and the personal experience of what constitutes the object of faith, is a fundamental tenet in any religious tradition. In the case of Christianity, in all its main branches (Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestantism), the importance of spirituality cannot be exaggerated. Rubem Alves (1933-2014), one of the most complex and creative thinkers that Brazilian Protestantism has produced, completely innovated the knowledge of spirituality, understood it from an erotic perspective, that is, a perspective of delight, and by the aesthesis-aesthetics experience. This paper intends to present some elements of this Alvesian understanding of spirituality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the multiple relations between the cinema and the contemporary argentine literature from the sociocultural point of view and from the aesthetics that emerge, in a broad sense, between both spaces. This text warns that actions in the field tend to constitute a common territory, in which, progressively, disarms the idea of the passage, the presence of the writer in the process of writing, and the obligatory direction literature/films. On the aesthetic level, the bond between both is more complex and paradoxical. The relationship is affirmed as the literature and the cinema work complementing each other, crossing each other and incorporating improper elements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reviews Forrahue. Matanza de 1912, written by the Mapuche writer Bernardo Colipán and co-authored with the Forrahue indigenous community located in Southern Chile. The book is a testimonial text that acts as a legal document and seeks to restore the truth in the context of Chile's historical account and collective memory. This text includes diagrams, photos and fragments in various types of handwriting, which we consider relevant in the reading and interpretation of this cultural artifact. From a symbolic perspective, the book is the place where the unburied bodies rest, allowing both the Chilean and Mapuche communities to mourn. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Levinas's work is explicitly placed within the heritage of the Phenomenological school. Nevertheless, he repeatedly uses notions drawn from the religious tradition, especially Jewish, up to the point of stating that Judaism is a "category of being". This paper analyses the role of Judaism as a category, beginning with a reconstruction of this notion in the most influential authors within Levinas's philosophy. Finally, the role and meaning that this categorial structure take on in Levinas will be shown, through the examination of four main components: the exposition of alterity as separation and glory; the relationship of responsibility as election and substitution; the understanding of temporality as creation and redemption; and the prophetical understanding of language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Idea of Phenomenology is the result of the first course in which Husserl presented disciplinary developments after the transcendental turn occurred around 1905. It is therefore not only an important document of this turning, but also a high-impact work on the subsequent phenomenological tradition. In this paper we study three aspects of the category of enigma (Rätsel): the way in which it characterizes transcendence, the figure of objectors and the issue of donation and its modes. This analysis will highlight unexplored aspects of transcendental phenomenology at its early stages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is an outline of some ways that lead us to think about the necessity of memory, inherent to the experience of the present. We will work around three thematic lines within the field of philosophy of history: first, the relation between the past and our present; second, the problem of the personal disposition of the subject of historical knowledge and his inevitable belonging to the present at the level of action; and the sense of a possible historical experience where the individual and the collective intersect each other, in relation to the question of establishing whether it is appropriate to make an exhaustive remembrance of those who died because of the armed conflict in Colombia. With this purpose, we will point out to a series of elements drawn from Benjamin's philosophy of memory so as to rehearse some possible connections with the philosophies of forgetfulness, remembrance and memory proposed by Nietzsche and Bergson. Thus, we seek to establish the reality of the past that is based on the virtual existence of recollection and, from there, to determine the ability of the latter to be updated in the form of vital forces, committed to making a future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a reflection on subjectivity in the context of consumer society, discussing two alternative approaches: on the one hand, the identification between subject and commodity, traceable, among others, to Bauman, and, on the other hand, Žižek's interpretation of subjectivity as an emerging surplus of the conflict within the symbolic order. The resulting exchange between these alternatives shows the constitutive relations of the subject of consumption in the dimension of desire, in the margin of freedom, and in the role of reflexivity. Finally, the understanding of the relationship between the subject and the material world is proposed as a constructive performativity of subjectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides an approach to the discourse analysis applied to the media under the Cognitive Linguistics. This qualitative research aims to analyze the conceptual metaphors related to the public education found in the opinion pieces. A content analysis for conceptual metaphors was carried out in two opinion pieces posted in 2017 in two Chilean cyber-media. The results show that the metaphors allow to conceptualize and characterize accurately the viewpoints communicated in the opinion pieces. In particular, the conceptual metaphors analyzed show the complex nature of the concept Public Education by associating it mostly with two source domains, loot and building, which emphasize some characteristics and valuation. Likewise, both opinion pieces coincide that the current situation is due to the policies adopted by the Chilean State, which is characterized negatively in those pieces by using the metaphor to attribute it some human traits like the cowardice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to disclose the response capacity of the Health Information Systems (HIS) in Colombia to support an inspection, surveillance and control model (ISC) driven towards the monitoring of the risks undermining the access, use and quality of the health services. This paper is based on a descriptive cross-sectional study under a risk management approach including a review of the regulations framework dealing with the threats to the effective enjoyment of the right to health (EERH) and the characteristics of the information reported by the actors in the system, which is required to carry out the said monitoring. The data supporting the monitoring to the health care processes and its impact on the population health are not enough to appropriately oversee the risks involved. Advantage should be taken from the changes currently taking place in the health system in order to rethink how the system performance is taken as monitored object. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To analyze the researches conducted in Latin America on education for health during the last ten years, identifying the different conceptual developments proposed about this theme and the criticism made about it. Methods: This is a qualitative research describing the state of the art; forty articles from Brazil, Colombia, Cuba and Mexico, and retrieved from searches in Pubmed, Lilacs, Redalyc, Scielo, Ovid, Science Direct, Oxford Journals, and Dialnet were examined. Results: The education for health is a multifocal and polysemic field with different purposes and theoretical trends. It was found that most of the authors cared for assuming a stance regarding this field, though few of them undertake the task to conceptualize both education and health. Conclusion: Different visions about education for health were perceived; however, this work criticizes the poor articulation observed in the papers between theory and practice on this regard. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper identifies the socio-economic and demographic determinants of the potential demand for microcredits in Argentina using Logit type estimation techniques based on a random, stratified and non-proportional survey covering 5.700 households in 20 urban sectors. The paper runs two regressions, one for the demand for microcredit with productive purposes and another for the demand for microcredit to improve or enlarge housing. It is concluded that the type of employment, labor informality, age, marital status and debt reoccurrence are determinants of the probability to apply for a microcredit for both purposes. Future research could replicate this methodology for different time periods to strengthen our results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents different conversations on management and organizations that have been published in ten of the main Latin American journals in the time period 2000-2014. The unit of analysis consisted of 3.210 papers classified in four conceptual axes: Management Theory, Organization Theory, Organizational Studies, and Research and Education in management and organizations. For the categorization, the Atlas.ti software, version 7.5, was used, complemented with content and frequency analysis methods. Thematic trends in management and organizations, the most prolific authors, the cooperation networks, as well as thoughts on research and education in this field were identified in this study. The results of the research invite to reflect on the basis of management and the implications of its interventions on organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is the first part of a detailed and in-depth analysis of the various criteria on costs developed by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, specifically with regard to the substantive consideration of this issue, for instance: normative basis, origin according to type of representation, criteria for quantifying and exoneration of this in the sentences of the Tribunal. The aim of this paper is to provide university researchers and potential litigants in the Inter-American System with the criteria used by the Continental Court, which show the practical treatment of the institute beyond generic and purely theoretical considerations frequently exposed in different forums. As will be seen below, this paper shows that the lack of legislation regulating the issue of costs, has adversely impacted the legal security of the system, given the different approaches that the Court has established in its resolutions in regard to this topic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since 4 September 2012, the official beginning of the peace process between the Colombian government and the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), there has been much discussion about the possible application of the doctrine of command responsibility in the prosecution of international crimes by national courts. However, the scope of this doctrine, as developed in international criminal law, should be differentiated from the notion of criminal liability by omission under the Colombian Criminal Code (CCC). This paper explores the forms of criminal liability and the factual hypothesis that the doctrine of command responsibility covers. It also examines some decisions of the Colombian courts in which the notion of criminal liability by omission of armed force members is applied (especially with regard to the general provision contained in article 25 CCC), indicating some legal problems that have arisen in this regard. This paper seeks to demonstrate that the doctrine of command responsibility and the general provision of article 25 CCC, though closely related, are not the same. In doing so, it claims that Colombian courts should apply norms of the criminal code’s special part to cover some factual hypothesis which are not covered by article 25 CCC, but still fall within the scope of the doctrine of command responsibility as defined, for example, in the Rome Statute. Finally, it maintains that the confusion of these two regimes of criminal liability could lead us to transfer into the Colombian legal system some of the problems faced in the application of international criminal law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to show that truth is neutral with respect to metaphysics and epistemology. In other words, the paper states that in order to make an analysis about our daily use of truth discourse, it is not necessary to refer to neither the nature of the world nor the nature of our epistemic capacities. The text is composed by three sections. In the first one, it makes explicit the common-sense intuitions which seem to bring truth to either metaphysics or epistemology. In the second one, the text analyzes the role of the predicate «is true» in our natural languages. In the third section, the intuitions aforementioned are considered with the purpose of examining its intuitive status and its alleged relationship with both metaphysics and epistemology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main purposes of this paper are to explore the state of implementation of the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Programmes and their contribution to the construction of integrated social protection systems in Latin America on one hand, and to discuss the most important achievements and challenges in fighting against poverty in Colombia. With this target, the article begins with a brief review of the overall situation of the CCT Programmes in Latin America. This is followed by a comparative analysis of actions undertaken in some countries in the region in order to face the main threats related to the public policies to eradicate poverty. It enables to draw an analysis about the management of such challenges in Colombia. Finally, the last part of the paper suggests some hypotheses and proposals in order to address the problems identified above. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article assesses the ways in which regional institutions, understood as norms and institutional bodies, contribute to the formation of collective identity in the Andean Community (AC). Departing from the previous existence of an Andean identity, grounded on historical and cultural issues, the paper takes three case studies to show the terms in which regional institutions contribute to the formation of three dimensions of collective identity in the AC. Namely, these are the cultural, ideological, and inter-group dimensions. The paper shows that although the ideas held about an Andean collective identity by state representatives and Andean General Secretariat AGS) bureaucrats hold are very diverse, the AC institutional framework provides a strong basis for the emergence of collective identity among member states. Three explanations are provided in this regard: First, the benefits obtained from Andean norms and regional institutional organisms make states identify with the regionalist project and with each other. Second, regional organisms provide spaces for state interaction where state representatives learn from each other and identify between them. Third, the AGS operates as an independent agent that exerts pressure over member states to keep the pace of regionalism. The paper argues that these explanations account for an effect of 'institutional inertia' that has helped to maintain the AC regionalist project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Impulsivity is a widely studied construct and has been characterized by a lack of consensus among authors about its definition, characteristics and assessment. This has provoked that impulsivity can be seen as a complex construct. We have conducted a systematic review of impulsivity in adolescents, in order to identify the different definitions, analyze the measures that are used to assess impulsivity and point out the different features which are related to the research on impulsivity. The literature was collected in an exhaustive search from several databases: Web of Knowledge, Scopus, PsycINFO, Scielo, Redalyc, Google School and Cochrane, where a set of 3,457 papers was selected. From this initial set, we reviewed 108 papers. Our results showed the definitions of impulsivity, the population, the evaluation measures and the relationship with other variables. We concluded that, (a) impulsivity has multiple definitions, (b) the most used measure to assess the construct is the MFFT and (c) we found that impulsivity has been research on topics such as behavioral problems, cognitive measures, assault and family issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The development of cyberspace law poses a challenge to the traditional borders of law. The increase of activities and business deals on the internet has awakened the interest of lawyers, civil servants, businessmen, and scholars regarding the manner on how to determine internet jurisdiction. The goal of this paper is to establish the criteria for determining jurisdiction that are being used by courts when they have to resolve cases on the internet. The paper analyses academic literature and selected cases in the US, Europe, Colombia, and the world with qualitative and inductive method, using primary and secondary sources, documentary review, and direct observation techniques. The conclusions are that: 1) Differences between common or civil law systems seem to be disappearing when new rules emerge to establish jurisdiction on the internet; 2) An alternative use of both new online and traditional offline rules is observed in resolving cases by the courts, especially in the US; 3) International cases suggest that courts have applied traditional rules rather than online rules like the Zippo test, Calder tests, or the mere accessibility among others; 4) European (Germany, Netherlands) and the Colombian cases show that they prefer use offline criteria, although we can find some online rules. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to show that truth is neutral with respect to metaphysics and epistemology. In other words, the paper states that in order to make an analysis about our daily use of truth discourse, it is not necessary to refer to neither the nature of the world nor the nature of our epistemic capacities. The text is composed by three sections. In the first one, it makes explicit the common-sense intuitions which seem to bring truth to either metaphysics or epistemology. In the second one, the text analyzes the role of the predicate «is true» in our natural languages. In the third section, the intuitions aforementioned are considered with the purpose of examining its intuitive status and its alleged relationship with both metaphysics and epistemology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an embedded system that detects in real time the movement intention to control a prosthetic hand. This work shows that using temporal characteristics of simple calculation can provide subsets of feature vectors discernible enough as to use simple pattern classifiers. Thus, this paper proposes a classifier, which is based on the minimum distance from the centroid of the groups characterizing the movements to identify, by modifying the known algorithm K-nearest neighbors. Movement intention classification results obtained from the developed system are shown: using the percentage of success as an effectiveness measurement, by conducting tests over three persons with healthy muscles. The experimental results show that this system can be used effectively for the control of execution of four motor primitives on a prosthetic robotic hand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this historiographic paper is to carry out a critical analysis about one particular moment of the scientific trajectory of María Martina Casullo (1940-2008). In the first place, the article reviews her studies about the risk factors in adolescents from an epidemiologic-preventive approach since 1985. Secondly, the work points out how these epidemiologic studies concerning depression, suicidal risk and psychological unease were the kickoff for the analysis of the salutogenic or protective processes that prevent people to fall ill even when facing adverse environmental situations. Finally, this study concludes that these researches are the main record of the field that subsequently Casullo defined as salutogenic or positive psychology in Argentine at the end of 20th century. Thus, this paper critically analyzes the naturalized and whig tradition in psychology that has neglected the ideological and political conditions of the emergence of positive psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Like other cognitive skills, the ability to reason causally changes during the course of development from early childhood to adulthood. There is, however, no agreement about how its development occurs. In this paper we propose a theoretical analysis to understand this process, namely, the idea that causal reasoning is a domain-general ability that is gradually enriched by the refinement of metacognitive skills, which allows reasoning independently from the immediate context. This proposal is based on the analysis of evidence of causal reasoning in young children, as well as evidence of integration of these skills during early adolescence with processes of argumentation and explanation. The paper also points out some methodological differences in studies with children and adolescents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the theoretical perspective of market orientation proposed by Narver et al. (2004), this paper analyzes its relationship with innovation success and the moderating role of market and internally focused learning orientation. By ordinary least squares estimation of linear regression function it was found that reactive market orientation has a positive linear effect on innovation success. Meanwhile, proactive market orientation has an inverted U shaped effect that is moderated by market focused learning orientation. The paper demonstrates that each orientation type effects depend on the learning process type. It therefore follows that the enterprise's innovation success would have better results when combining an adequate market orientation and the learning process type applied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Hemifacial microsomia (HM) is one of the most common congenital facial malformations of newborns worldwide. Despite its prevalence, little is known about its etiology. Features of HM vary among different reports in the literature, affecting ears, mouth, and mandible on one or both sides. Purpose and Methods: We performed a systematic literature review to determine if there is new evidence regarding the pathological origins of HM. During a seven-month period (September 2010-April 2011) an exhaustive electronic database search was constructed. An inclusion criterion, which set the specific parameters of the electronic database search for this review, was implemented using a number of built-in search tools. Results: A total of 1,250 published reports were displayed upon entry of the Boolean phrase "etiology AND hemifacial microsomia." Of these papers, all of the publications selected for by the inclusion criterion had been published within the last ten years. Concomitantly, with regards to etiological origins, selection of a specific paper had to convey theories or experimental approaches of which had not been published as the main focus of a report more than three times in all with regards to previous documented literature with hemifacial microsomia as its basis. This final inclusion criterion left only eight studies eligible for this review. Reports included the suggestion of an etiologic role of growth hormone deficiency, fluoxetine ingestion, SALL4 expression, BAPX1 expression, and trisomy of chromosome 10. It appears that both genetic and environmental factors play a role in the etiology of HM. These factors include gene mutations, variation in serotonin receptor binding, growth hormone imbalances, and chromosomal abnormalities. Future studies in humans should determine the frequency of etiologic coding mutations in SALL4, BAPX1, and trisomy 10 in HM cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes how power feminism, a mainstream feminist trend in international legal discourse, was incorporated into the Colombian legal system through the process of design and discussion of indicators to measure the Colombian government's compliance with the Constitutional Court's orders regarding internal forced displacement in the country. To do so, this paper examines the participation of Corporación Sisma Mujer, one of the most well-known Colombian women's rights ngos, in the debates inside and outside the Constitutional Court that led this Court to adopt a battery of indicators to track internally displaced women's effective enjoyment of rights, and in general a women-sensitive approach to forced displacement. To unveil the theoretical foundations of Corporación Sisma Mujer's interventions and strategies before the Constitutional Court, this article combines a theoretical approach with documentary research and interviews. Nancy Fraser's paper Rethinking the Public Sphere, and Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Hila Shamir and Chantal Thomas' concept governance feminism constitute the basic theoretical framework. Documents drafted by Sisma Mujer and Constitutional Court decisions that accepted, appropriated and transformed Sisma's claims are analyzed through the lens of Fraser and Halley, Kotiswaran, Shamir and Thomas' theoretical contributions. Interviews with Sisma's staff, and with other relevant actors complement what is found in documents and judicial decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Kenya has been measuring corruption since the 2007, in the context of on-going performance contracting reforms. It has developed Corruption eradication performance indicators, and tasked the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (eacc) to monitor and evaluate their implementation. This paper seeks to evaluate the impact of these approaches to measuring corruption. How are these indicators produced? How is corruption conceptualized, and what kinds of questions are asked in the surveys that inform these indicators? To what extent do these indicators reflect the "true picture" of corruption? Do these indicators contribute to decisionmaking on corruption in Kenya? What impact have these indicators had on the fight against corruption? By examining production and use of the corruption indicators by Transparency International-Kenya and the Government in the context of the fight against corruption and institutional reform in Kenya over the last decade, this paper seek to explore whether and how do these indicators affect the work of policy-makers, civil society, institutions, and government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses two central issues: the first one briefly presents two stages of anthropological development of Paul Ricœur's anthropologic deployment, as an effort to think human being with a renewed logic. The second one states that in such philosophical journey a plus of meaning is inserted into the language of faith which accompanies the anthropological development itself and, in turn, exceeds and contains the philosophical specific task, and also makes clear how such an assignment exceeds the explicit aims of the French author. In other words, this paper only seeks to outline a 'gesture of openness' in contemporary philosophy, accepting its heritage, and assuming renewed hues, deeps and scopes, allowing the philosophical work and human being go beyond themselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to identify different profiles of emotional regulation, and to see if they differ in academic stress coping strategies. The participants were 487 physiotherapy students (74% female) from different universities, aged between 18 and 40 years. The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) and Cuestionario de Estrés Académico (CEA) were applied. A total of three emotional regulation profiles were obtained in the cluster analysis. The first one is composed of students with low emotional regulation, a second group with mixed results was obtained and a third cluster shows students with high emotional regulation. Statistically significant differences in all the coping strategies were found between the profiles of low and high emotional regulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper analyses the psychometric properties of the My-School (MS) 3D simulation program, which was designed to detect students at risk of drug abuse and bullying. In particular, two empirical studies have been carried out to evaluate, on the one hand, the content validity of the scenes, and on the other, the validity criterion (predictive) of the software. Specifically, in terms of the evaluation of content validity, the results showed the existence of a substantial agreement among the expert judges regarding the relevance, coherence, clarity and low bias of situations. In relation to the criterion validity, there were no differences between the answers given in the program and the interviews. The MS software thus has adequate validity properties for detecting students at risk of substance use and bullying. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to show how important the ecclesial cultural heritage has been for The Church's work, its historic evolution and legislative development both regarding ecclesial and civil issues. The current society has been producing different legal-civil frameworks for the heritage protection. These tools should be used by The Church according to the call made by the Roman Pontiffs in the recent years. Therefore, this paper seek to let known some legislative tools concerning both the civil and the canonic law to allow a better efficiency in the protection of this heritage, focused mainly in the Colombian case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues that the evaluation of religious truth claims is one of the conditions for the possibility of interreligious dialogue. This thesis takes dis tance from the theories that, bracketing the truth of religious claims, suggest that it is enough with argumentative, pragmatic or ethical criteria for making dialogue possible. Firstly, it explores the role of truth in dialogue; then it analyses the features and functions of religious truth claims, showing its differences with regard to other types of truth. The last part presents two criteria to evaluate the truth of religious claims in dialogue--one based on the meaning-giving function of religion, and the other on the historical and relational character of religious truth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a reading of El pentágono, the first novel by the Argentine writer Antonio Di Benedetto. This reading tries to overcome the generic classifications that are divided between literary realism and the fantasy genre. But it also discusses the purely antirealistic interpretation of the novel. To this end, it uses the concept of imagination and proposes a hypothesis that intends to be generalizable across the rest of the work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes an understanding of Juan Goytisolo's novel El sitio de los sitios as a cultural response to the crisis of traditional Western models of rationality. The article focuses on the study of the dynamics of global social decomposition and the emergence of marginal figures seeking to recover their transgressive capacity through their bodies and the appropriation of urban space. By bringing memoricide and ethnic cleansing in the novel as negative expressions of modernity, Goytisolo questions the role of the reader, the author and the novel itself as essential elements in the literary representation of reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to reconstruct how the category of aesthetic experience has become central in contemporary aesthetics. Drawing from the contribution of different theorists and philosophers of art we approach the potential and limits of this category, paying attention to both proposals that defend it, and to criticisms that accuse it of having become a new form of ideology. Apparently, the concept of work of art has become obsolete, and the understanding of contemporary art has been channeled through the concept of aesthetic experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Beyond the stereotypes and simplifications of René Girard's work, this paper defends the critical, independent and complex character of his thought. One year after his death and in the 25th anniversary of his dialogue with several liberation theologians, we come back to the proceedings of the meeting. In this volume we can recognize the richness and nuances of Girard's thinking, exemplified in his perspective on the Christ's Passion, that he originally regarded as a non-sacrificial narrative, and then accepted as sacrificial, but keeping his own denunciation of the logic of sacrifice and agreeing with the theologians present at the meeting about its relation with the persistence of poverty, exclusion, and indifference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The figure of angels is present in Jewish biblical tradition and in Jewish intertestamental literature. Even though researchers speculate on the lack of a "Jewish angelology," the angel figure plays a leading role in the administration of Heaven and Earth. From the characterization of the figure of the angels in Maimonides, this paper seeks to understand why he attempts to rationalize the angelology and the political-theological implications of that rationalization. Specifically, we are going to analyze the role of angels in the administration of the universe and their relationship with men, as well as their dispute with the heavenly power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research work aims to delve into the background issues that led to the protection acts of the film productions in Colombia. In addition, this paper reflects on how the legislative evolution concerning film issues occurred hand in hand with the industry growth in our country. The scope of the copyrights for every film author and interpreter in our country is also explored herein. Finally, this work studies the evolution of their copyrights and how it relates to the film industry in Colombia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Framework contracts are a frequently used tool in the legal dealings. However, they have been studied scantily in the Colombian legal doctrine despite the difficulties they posit in both the theory and the practice. This paper aims to examine the notion of framework contract in order to differentiate it from other related legal concepts, study its legal nature, and ascertain its legal effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: Electronic medical records (EMRs) typically contain both structured attributes and narrative text. The usefulness of EMRs for research and administration is hampered by the difficulty in automatically analyzing their narrative portions. Accordingly, this paper proposes a strategy for prioritizing EMRs (SPIRE), using natural language processing in combination with the analysis of structured data to identify and rank EMRs that match queries intended to find patients with a specific disease posed by clinical researchers and health administrators. Materials and Methods: The resulting software tool was evaluated technically and validated with three cases (heart failure, pulmonary hypertension and diabetes mellitus) and compared against expert-obtained results. Results and Discussion: Our preliminary results show high sensitivity (70%, 82% and 87%) and specificity (85%, 73.7% and 87.5%) in the resulting set of records. The AUC was between 0.84 and 0.9. Conclusions: SPIRE was successfully implemented and used in the context of a university hospital information system, enabling clinical researchers to obtain prioritized EMRs to solve their information needs through collaborative search templates with faster and more accurate results than other existing methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aiming to contribute to the development of didactics in some fields of the education disciplines, this paper proposes some instruments to validate Didactic Learning Environments (DLE) in the context of educating language and communication teachers (LC) on and for the diversity. Under the framework of an architecture to validate the DLEs, some instruments are proposed herein to validate didactic designs built after the Design theory and the mutual intelligibility that rules practice communities where LC teachers are educated. The result is a qualitative and quantitative toolkit whose function is to assess the DLEs in two instances: as a planned design and as a design in action. The elements assessed in the first instance include: didactical design, technological mediations, and educational accessibility. In the execution instance, the assessment includes: development of the didactical design, the social relations produced due to the accessibility, and the diversity acceptance in the settings intended for teacher formation. In general, this work provides some reflections as coadjutors in shaping the design for the DLE validation instruments as a field integrated to the emerging education research processes in didactics. In particular, this proposal of instruments allows the interested parties to map the relation network created with the efforts to understand the learning processes of the narrative, at the classroom of the future LC teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the protests and popular demonstrations that took place in the city of Belo Horizonte between 2012 and 2015, having as theoretical background the new mobility paradigm. Through a quantitative and qualitative analysis of three hundred and twenty three journal articles and reports, firstly we verify he composition and intensity of the protest motives that claim the right, access and quality of urban mobility. In a second moment, it was shown how the spaces of mobility and the movement of the bodies present in those events are fundamental in the composition of performative repertoires of political groups. Our finds show that urban mobility is not only a complex and extremely important political agenda, but that the very act of moving and / or interrupting the flow of movement of this city are fundamental strategies in the search for visibility and dissemination of political challenges on the public scene. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Argentina is the most sued country in the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and one of the most Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) signed (58 in total, 55 into force). Most of these lawsuits were filed by transnational corporations (TNCs) by the 2001-2002 crisis and linked to economic sectors related to natural resources. 20% of these claims are related to the drinking water and sanitation, which also makes Argentina in the country that has received claims in ICSID this sector. These are cases of social conflict and where the role of the state is evident as a regulator against the claim of protection of private property by TNCs, which highlights a legal asymmetry that favors the protection of investments on the protection of rights humans, particularly the human right to water recognized by the UN in 2010. Taking the Argentine case as a witness, this paper will present an asymmetry that violates the most basic foundations of international law, highlighting the need to revise the international investment protection regime and its relevance to the human rights obligations erga omnes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To explore the experiences and life events regarding the cultural competence in the public health practice. Methods: A qualitative meta-synthesis covering the databases Medline, OvidNursing, OvidJournal, Embase and BVS-LILACS, including papers in English, Spanish and Portuguese between 2009 and 2014. Ten studies were included and assessed by using the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme in Spanish (CASPe). The three stages of the meta-aggregation programme were applied to do the obtaining and synthesis of findings. Results: The findings were aggregated in six categories and two types of results: 1) paradoxes when providing public health care to people from different culture and 2) going beyond the barriers – the daring by the public health nurses. Conclusion: The nurses experienced and expressed their cultural competence from the paradoxical situation produced when encountering another culturally different people. They showed a stance open to both understand and make sense of the other's culture, even though it was hard to produce culturally competent interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Previous scholarship highlights migration from the Global South to the Global North. This paper focuses on South-South migration using a case study of a Kaqchikel Maya woman, Brenda, migrating from Guatemala to El Salvador. Her life history and participant-observation data were gathered over the course of 18 months between 2010 and 2015. In her case, migration within Central America encouraged ethnic revitalization, particularly through her investment in Kaqchikel language and clothing. Such revitalization might be a common occurrence among indigenous women and is a significant consequence for indigenous women because of the reinforcement of gendered ethnic work as women are responsible for reproducing indigenous language and the use of ethnically marked clothing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]