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The article describes a case study of lifelong e-training for postgraduates delivered jointly by the Carlos III University of Madrid and Spain's National Library from 2011 to 2017. It addresses course and participant characteristics as well as the results of an assessment aimed to determine both student satisfaction and effective skill transfer to the work environment. This unique professional training initiative may serve as a model in an area where librarians and professors are seldom seen to collaborate in online training on an equal footing.

Introduction. In Colombia, only 24% of patients on the waiting list received a renal transplant, most of them from cadaveric donors. HLA A-B-DR is considered for organ allocation, but recent evidence suggests that HLA A-B is not associated with transplant outcomes. The objective of this study was to evaluate the relevance of HLA A-B-DR on graft survival in kidney transplant recipients. Methods. Retrospective cohort study that included 1337 kidney transplant recipients with a cadaveric donor in Colombiana de Trasplantes from 2008 to 2023. A Propensity Score Matching (PSM) was applied to adjust the covariates in comparison groups for compatibility, and the relationship of HLA A-B-DR with kidney graft survival was evaluated using the log rank test and Cox regression. Results. There were 38.7% female patients, with median age of 47 years, and BMI 23.8 kg/m2. After adjusting the covariates with PSM for the comparison groups, HLA A-B matching was not significantly related to graft loss, with HR of 0.99 (95% CI 0.71-1.37) and 0.75 (95% CI 0.55-1.02), respectively. Only HLA DR matching was significant for graft loss with an HR of 0.67 (95% CI 0.46-0.98). Conclusions. This study suggests that HLA A-B matching does not significantly influence graft loss, whereas HLA DR matching does improve graft survival in renal transplantation with a cadaveric donor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To optimize coffee (Coffea arabica L.) production in Colombia, adaptation strategies that improve water use must be developed. Therefore, the objective of this study was to determine evapotranspiration under standard conditions (ETc), reference evapotranspiration (ETo), and the crop coefficient (Kc) of coffee plants interplanted between maize (Zea mays L.) (coffee–maize) for the first 12 mo of growth and coffee grown without maize from 13 to 46 m after transplanting (MAT). In this study, ETc was measured using the eddy covariance method. The ETc of coffee–maize ranged from 4.17 to 4.71 mm d–1, while ETc of coffee–sun averaged 4.32 ± 0.07 mm d–1 between 13 and 24 MAT and 4.09 ± 0.03 mm d–1 between 25 and 43 MAT for coffee trees in the reproductive stage. The Kc was 0.87 for coffee plants between 0 and 12 MAT, 0.98 ± 0.01 between 13 and 24 MAT, and 0.97 ± 0.02 between 25 and 43 MAT. Maize intercropped between coffee trees produced an adapted microclimate for the first 2 mo, allowing energy used for evapotranspiration processes (latent heat flux) to be greater than energy used for air warming (sensible heat flux), although there was low soil water availability. Kc values are a foundation for optimizing coffee crop water use under climate and soil conditions for the intertropical Andean hillside region. Core Ideas: Eddy covariance was a suitable method to evaluate crop evapotranspiration at ecosystem scale in coffee crops.Sensible heat greater than latent heat indicates water stress in Coffea arabica plants.Crop coefficients for coffee crops in Colombia are a valuable tool for planning crop management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The ability to predict the likelihood of violent behavior is an important task that is not constrained by cultures, borders, or geographic regions. This qualitative study analyzed 15 semi-structured interviews with forensic professionals to understand violence risk assessment (VRA) processes and procedures in Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico. Participants reported a range of procedures for assessing violence risk, including the use of structured VRA tools. Most evaluators considered common risk factors, but several culturally relevant risk and protective factors emerged from the interviews. Perceived strengths and limitations of VRA measures were explored. Findings may inform risk assessments with culturally diverse adults. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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By evaluating two grassroots organizations that belong to the Red de Semillas Libres de Colombia (RSLC; Free Seed Network of Colombia), we show how the recovery, conservation, and defense of native and creole seeds have two types of effects on agroecological scaling. The first is a horizontal or scaling out effect, given that these activities involve the adoption of agroecological practices which allow for spreading knowledge, principles, and practices among seed custodians, their local communities and organizations, and the networks of these organizations. The second is a deepening effect, given that: 1) seed custodianship reaffirms and/or generates new peasant and indigenous identities and ways of life; 2) seed recovery, conservation, and defense conform a multi-dimensional process that is material, political, and symbolic, which provides cultural and territorial rootedness, and 3) strengthening of the social-organizational fabric through collective actions and strategies by seed custodians in their territories in defense of native and creole seeds. These processes propitiate fertile conditions for scaling peasant agroecology and contribute to the construction of seed sovereignty, which is an essential aspect of struggles to preserve and reproduce and native and creole seeds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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El juez de tutela garantiza el derecho e integra la noción de daño con la de derechos fundamentales a través del mecanismo ideado por la Constitución de 1991, la acción de tutela. Por lo tanto, se puede acceder a la reparación del derecho fundamental y con ella, el interés legitimo, como fuente de toda reparación. El juez debe definir los mecanismos idóneos para garantizar la protección del derecho fundamental lesionado, y por lo tanto debe restablecerlo; de lo contrario, el juez está en la obligación de ordenar la indemnización pecuniaria. Así, el juez de tutela establece la indemnización como consecuencia de la pérdida económica que soportó la persona, y el juez debe definir si el derecho lesionado tiene un contenido económico y en ese caso decretar la indemnización, no en un sentido reparador sino para que la persona continúe gozando de su derecho. En materia de responsabilidad extracontractual, el juez analiza el daño desde el punto de vista de la víctima y no desde el punto de vista del autor del daño, puesto que la víctima no tiene el deber de soportarlo. Por lo tanto, el daño da un título legítimo de reparación de un perjuicio de orden patrimonial o extrapatrimonial, colectivo o individual, y la acción de tutela garantiza la reparación de un daño que no tiene un contenido pecuniario. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article makes a review of the Roman intercessio, the right to veto, more justice in the Aragon kingdom, recurso de amparo* (application to a court for immediate protection of basic liberties when threatened by a public authority or private institution) during the Colony period, public action of the first Republic in Colombia, as well as protective elements of citizens' rights. We think that the study is important so that public law can achieve a doctrinal development in our country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]