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O presente artigo se propõe a analisar a posição simbólica do feminino na sociedade brasileira contemporânea com foco nas religiões afro-brasileiras. Acima de tudo, analisamos a evolução social do culto à pombagira Maria Padilha como uma amostra da ascensão social feminina, que ocupa um lugar de sacralidade através desse simbolismo. Percebeu-se, mediante análise bibliográfica, que houve uma transição psicanalítica entre a mulher cristã Maria (sacralizada por meio de Jesus) e a posição da pombagira (que simboliza o sagrado feminino aproximado às esferas marginalizadas da sociedade) de modo que a liberdade e autonomia feminina são mais presentes no contexto das religiões afro-brasileiras.

The SALURBAL (Urban Health in Latin America) Project is an interdisciplinary multinational network aimed at generating and disseminating actionable evidence on the drivers of health in cities of Latin America. We conducted a temporal multilayer network analysis where we measured cohesion over time using the structural properties of the network and assessed diversity within and between different project activities according to participant attributes. Between 2017 and 2020 the SALURBAL network comprised 395 participants across 26 countries, 23 disciplines, and 181 institutions. We found that the cohesion of the SALURBAL network increased over time (clustering coefficient increased [0.83–0.91] and shortest path decreased [1.70–1.68]). SALURBAL also exhibited balanced overall diversity within project activities (0.5–0.6) by designing activities for different purposes such as capacity building, team-building, research, and dissemination. The network’s growth was facilitated by the creation of new diverse collaborations across a range of activities over time, while maintaining the diversity of existing collaborations (0.69–0.75 between activity diversity depending on the attribute). The SALURBAL experience can serve as an example for multinational research projects aiming to build cohesive networks while leveraging heterogeneity in countries, disciplines, career stage, and across sectors.

The study of displaced populations is often hampered due to missing, scattered, or incomplete data. Thus, making it harder for researchers, NGOs, policymakers, and migrants to understand the processes of migration and make informed decisions. Recent advances in computational methods and the availability of large-scale datasets provide effective alternatives to analyse, synthesise, and map the mechanics of migrants and displaced populations in a more cost-effective way. However, the study of how humans move around the world remains fragmented across borderlines and limited to specific times in a migrant’s journey, thus unable to provide a complete picture of the migration process. An important step towards realising this goal is to develop tools to combine public data and create visual representations to inform, make decisions and communicate about this highly complex phenomenon. In this chapter, we introduce a new multivariate visualisation tool to advance our understanding of the process of migration, the journeys, and challenges endured by migrants, refugees, and the displaced. The tool, called Voyage Viewer, is a first-of-its-kind open online tool that combines the power of novel and traditional data sources to create a more integral picture of how humans move around the world. By pairing novel data sources with a battery of conventional datasets, Voyage Viewer hopes to revolutionise how we understand, and most importantly, the way we can tackle humanitarian crises caused by forced displacement.

PurposeIn Latin America and the Caribbean, the access of students to higher education has presented an extraordinary growth over the past fifteen years. This rapid growth has presented a challenge for increasing the system resources and capabilities while maintaining its quality. As a result, the networked universities (NUs) organized themselves as a collaborative network, and they have become an interesting model for facing the complexity driven by globalization, rapidly changing technology, dynamic growth of knowledge and highly specialized areas of expertise. In this article, we studied the NU named Red Universitaria Mutis (Red Mutis) with the aim of characterizing the collaboration and integration structure of the network.Design/methodology/approachNetwork analytic methods (visual analysis, positional analysis and a stochastic network method) were used to characterize the organizational structure and robustness of the network, and to identify what variables or structural tendencies are related to the likelihood that specific areas of a university would collaborate.FindingsRed Mutis is a good example of regional NUs that could take advantage of the strengths, partnerships, information and knowledge of the regional and international universities that form the network. Analyses showed that Red Mutis has a differentiated structure consisting of academic and non-academic university areas with a vertical coordination (by steering and management) of the different university areas.Originality/valueThe methodology could be used as a framework to analyze and strengthen other strategic alliances between universities and as a model for the development of other NU in local and global contexts.

Benefits of physical activity (PA) in breast cancer survivors (BCS) are well established. However, programs to promote PA among BCS tailored to real-world contexts within low- to middle-income countries are limited. Cross-sector co-creation can be key to effective and scalable programs for BCS in these countries. This study aimed to evaluate the networking process to engage multisector stakeholders in the co-creation of a PA program for Colombian BCS called My Body. We employed a mixed-methods design including semistructured interviews, workshops and a social network analysis of centrality measures to assess stakeholders' engagement, resources and skills enabling the collaborative work, challenges, outcomes and lessons learned. The descriptive analysis and the centrality measures of the network revealed that 19 cross-sector stakeholders engaged in the My Body collaborative network. Through ongoing communication and cooperation, My Body built relationships between the academic lead institutions (local and international), and local and national public, private and academic institutions working in public health, sports and recreation, social sciences and engineering fields. The outcomes included the co-creation of the community-based PA program for BCS, its implementation through cross-sector synergies, increased relationships and communications among stakeholders, and successful dissemination of evidence and project results to the collaboration partners and other relevant stakeholders and community members. The mixed-methods assessment enabled understanding of ways to advance cross-sector co-creation of health promotion programs. The findings can help to enable continued development of sustainable cross-sector co-creation processes aimed at advancing PA promotion.Collaborative work among stakeholders and researchers from different governmental sectors and disciplinary fields can be key to design and implement effective and scalable programs to promote physical activity (PA) among breast cancer survivors (BCS). This might be particularly critical in low- to middle-income countries where the implementation of evidence-based health-promoting programs tailored to real-world contexts are limited. This study aimed to evaluate the networking process to engage multisector stakeholders in the co-creation of a PA program for Colombian BCS. We employed qualitative methods and social network analyses to assess stakeholders’ engagement, resources and skills enabling the collaborative work, challenges, outcomes and lessons learned. The co-creation of the program improved synergies between research, policy and practice. Communication through several channels including e-mail and workshops was the key resource to advance the collaborative work. Stakeholders underscored that cross-sector networking allowed allocating resources and achieving shared goals. Sustainable cross-sector collaborative processes are key for health promotion.

Backround: Santa Ana is home to an Afro-descendant rural population of the island of Barú in Cartagena, Colombia. While a popular area for tourism, Santa Ana’s population is affected by multidimensional poverty, precarious work conditions, homelessness, broken streets and sewer systems, limited quality education, and lack of recreation and sport spaces. While Santa Ana’s Community Action Board aims to unify efforts and resources to solve these problems, the state’s capacity to meet the requirements of the Board is limited. Methods: We evaluated the relationship between healthy lifestyles and characteristics of Santa Ana’s school using the Our Voice Citizen Science Research Method. This systemic approach combines information and communication technologies with group facilitation to empower adolescents to: 1) collect and discuss data about factors in their local environments that facilitate or hinder well-being within their school community; 2) identify relevant local stakeholders who could help to address the issues identified; and 3) advocate collectively for local improvements to support increased well-being at a community level. Results: Eleven citizen scientists ages 13 to 17 years from the science club of Institución Educativa Santa Ana were recruited and together conducted 11 walks within the school to collect data about the facilitators and barriers to student well-being. They identified barriers to well-being related to school infrastructure, furniture, bathrooms, and sense of belonging. They then advocated with school stakeholders and reached agreements on concrete actions to address identified barriers, including fostering a culture among students of caring for school property, and presenting their findings to the community action board. This methodology allowed the community to realize how students can become agents of change and take collective action when motivated by practice-focused methodologies such as Our Voice. Project ripple effects, including greater empowerment and participation in collective actions by students, also were observed. Conclusions: This study underscores the importance of the school’s built environment in the well-being of students in rural areas. The Our Voice method provided the opportunity to inform school-based interventions, and promoted ripple effects that expanded productive dialogue to the community level and generated systemic actions involving actors outside of the school community.

Community-based physical activity programs, such as the Recreovía, are effective in promoting healthy behaviors in Latin America. To understand Recreovías’ challenges and scalability, we characterized its social network longitudinally while studying its participants’ social cohesion and interactions. First, we constructed the Main network of the program’s Facebook profile in 2013 to determine the main stakeholders and communities of participants. Second, we studied the Temporal network growth of the Facebook profiles of three Recreovía locations from 2008 to 2016. We implemented a Time Windows in Networks algorithm to determine observation periods and a scaling model of cities’ growth to measure social cohesion over time. Our results show physical activity instructors as the main stakeholders (20.84% nodes of the network). As emerging cohesion, we found: (1) incremental growth of Facebook users (43–272 nodes), friendships (55–2565 edges), clustering coefficient (0.19–0.21), and density (0.04–0.07); (2) no preferential attachment behavior; and (3) a social cohesion super-linear growth with 1.73 new friendships per joined user. Our results underscore the physical activity instructors’ influence and the emergent cohesion in innovation periods as a co-benefit of the program. This analysis associates the social and healthy behavior dimensions of a program occurring in natural environments under a systemic approach.

La generacion e implementacion de estrategias para disminuir la transmision de SARS-CoV-2 son un reto imperante para el pais. Las estrategias deben ser dinamicas y especificas para cada region busc...

PurposeThis study aims to identify the most relevant causal factors and the feedback loops of the dynamics between Tuta absoluta incidence in tomato crops and farmers' reactions to the problem. The authors seek to develop a conceptual model based on farmers' know-how to address crop damage by T. absoluta at a local and regional levels in order to determine how to confront this problem in the tomato-growing region of Sáchica, Colombia.Design/methodology/approachCommunity-Based System Dynamics (CBSD) is a participatory research methodology in which a group of stakeholders identifies relevant variables and the cause-effect relations among them which are then arranged into a causal loop diagram. The authors implemented this methodology in a workshop, focused on the farmers' insights related to the pest situation at the local and regional level, to achieve a causal loop diagram that explained pest dynamics and their potential management.FindingsThe relevant factors for the presence of T. absoluta, seen in the causal loop diagram, vary regionally and locally. At the local level, the pest impacts tomato production, farmers' well-being and their cash flow, while at the regional level, it affects market dynamics and environment and promotes regional coordination among farmers. Farmers propose product innocuity as a key regional objective. They also proposed establishing a planting calendar and census of greenhouses to control the pest throughout the region and the tomato supply.Research limitations/implicationsFirst, the synthesized model could not be validated with the farmers due to the COVID 19 epidemic. However, the authors held sessions with experts to analyze each result. Second, decision-makers from the local government did not participate in the workshop. Nevertheless, the approach of the workshop was aimed at understanding the mental models of the farmers since they are the ones who decide how pests are managed. Finally, even though farmers showed interest in projects aimed at proposing area-wide, long-term and wide pest control strategies, there is a risk that they will not adopt the proposed changes, due to risk aversion.Originality/valueCBSD has not been applied to agricultural systems to analyze impacts from pests at the local and regional levels. The results of this study contribute to designing future interventions for pest control in the region, along with the factors which may turn out to be “side effects” or unwanted results. To design pest control interventions at a regional level, a sound understanding of the variables or factors that control the system dynamics at various levels is required. This study represents the first step towards that end.

We know little about how smoking prevention interventions might leverage social network structures to enhance protective social norms. In this study we combined statistical and network science methods to explore how social networks influence social norms related to adolescent smoking in school-specific settings in Northern Ireland and Colombia. Pupils (12–15 years old) participated in two smoking prevention interventions in both countries (n = 1344). A Latent Transition Analysis identified three groups characterized by descriptive and injunctive norms towards smoking. We employed a Separable Temporal Random Graph Model to analyze homophily in social norms and conducted a descriptive analysis of the changes in the students’ and their friends’ social norms over time to account for social influence. The results showed that students were more likely to be friends with others who had social norms against smoking. However, students with social norms favorable towards smoking had more friends with similar views than the students with perceived norms against smoking, underlining the importance of network thresholds. Our results support the notation that the ASSIST intervention takes advantage of friendship networks to leverage greater change in the students' smoking social norms than the Dead Cool intervention, reiterating that social norms are subject to social influence.

What is the impact of social class on college integration? Higher education institutions are becoming more diverse, yet the integration of underprivileged students remains a challenge. Using a social network approach, we analyze the general integration of low socioeconomic status (SES) students, as well as how segregated by class these friends are. The object of analysis is the extreme case of an elite university that, based on a government loan program (Ser Pilo Paga), opened its doors to many low-SES students in a very unequal country, Colombia. Using a mixed methods perspective, including a survey, 61 in depth interviews, and ethnographic observation, we analyze friendship networks and their meanings, barriers, and facilitators. Contrary to the literature, we find that low-SES students had, on average, the same number of connections and were no more isolated than students from upper social classes. Also, low-SES students’ networks were not more segregated, even if relations with the upper classes were less likely and required more relational work than with middle or lower class friends. This high level of social integration stemmed from the intense relational work that low-SES students engage in, so as to fit in. Middle class friends act as a catalyst that can enable cross-class friendships.

La Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira (UTP), a través de la Vicerrectoría de Investigaciones Innovación y Extensión, busca promover la extensión universitaria como una estrategia que permite el intercambio, la aplicación y la integración del conocimiento científico, tecnológico, artístico y cultural; al igual que la vinculación con la realidad social, cultural, económica y productiva de la región y del país, al darle valor a las capacidades institucionales y al generar una articulación e integración entre la docencia y la investigación, la cual permita la identificación de problemáticas y la propuesta de alternativas de solución; además de las oportunidades en el sector externo para realizar intervenciones y alianzas que conduzcan a fortalecer y aportar al desarrollo económico, cultural y el bienestar de la comunidad en general. En este sentido, para el año 2019 se ofertó, a los miembros de la comunidad universitaria, la «Convocatoria interna para la financiación de proyectos de extensión social, cultural y artístico» cuya ejecución se realizaría en el año 2020 y cuyo objetivo era fomentar el desarrollo de proyectos de carácter social, cultural, artístico, los cuales permitieran la solución y transformación de problemáticas que involucrarán o beneficiarán sectores de diferentes comunidades Apropiación social del conocimiento CONTENIDO Población beneficiada ...............................................................................................54 Conclusiones..............................................................................................................54 Fotografías..................................................................................................................55 Bibliografía .................................................................................................................58 Capítulo cuatro Generación de Apropiación Social del Conocimiento en Temas de Procesamiento, Bioconservación y Nutrición, a los Productores del Mercado Agroecológico de la Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira Alimentos para la Vida...................................................................................................................................63 Resumen .....................................................................................................................64 Abstract.......................................................................................................................65 Introducción...............................................................................................................65 Objetivos.....................................................................................................................66 Objetivo general.........................................................................................................66 Objetivos específicos.................................................................................................66 Metodología ..............................................................................................................67 Resultados...................................................................................................................68 Población beneficiada ...............................................................................................70 Conclusiones..............................................................................................................71 Bibliografía .................................................................................................................71 Fotografías..................................................................................................................74 Capítulo cinco Cursos de refuerzo basados en aprendizaje activo, social y cultural, para afrontar el contexto de la enseñanza en ingeniería desde una visión interdisciplinaria............................................................................................................79 Resumen .....................................................................................................................79 Abstract ......................................................................................................................80 Introducción...............................................................................................................81 Objetivos.....................................................................................................................84 Objetivo general.........................................................................................................84 Objetivos específicos.................................................................................................84 Metodología ...............................................................................................................85 Resultados...................................................................................................................88 Población beneficiada ...............................................................................................89 Conclusiones..............................................................................................................89 Bibliografía .................................................................................................................90 Capítulo seis Laboratorios andantes: Fotografía estenopeica como interfaz cultural de la memoria colectiva..........................................................................................................95 Resumen .....................................................................................................................95 Abstract ......................................................................................................................96 Introducción...............................................................................................................97 Objetivos.................................................................................................................. 101 Objetivo general...................................................................................................... 101 Objetivos específicos.............................................................................................. 101 Metodología ........................................................................................................... 101 Resultados................................................................................................................ 105 Conclusiones........................................................................................................... 108 Bibliografía .............................................................................................................. 109 Capítulo siete Divulgación académica y cultural de los productos turísticos y rol del arenero artesanal en el turismo de la Virginia, Risaralda.................................................. 113 Resumen .................................................................................................................. 113 Abstract ................................................................................................................... 114 Introducción............................................................................................................ 114 Objetivos.................................................................................................................. 116 Objetivo general...................................................................................................... 116 Objetivos específicos.............................................................................................. 116 Metodología ............................................................................................................ 117 Resultados................................................................................................................ 117 Población beneficiada ............................................................................................ 119 Conclusiones........................................................................................................... 120 Bibliografía .............................................................................................................. 120 Capítulo ocho Proyecto de actualización en cirugía general........................................................ 125 Resumen .................................................................................................................. 125 Abstract.................................................................................................................... 126 Introducción............................................................................................................ 127 Objetivos.................................................................................................................. 127 Objetivo general...................................................................................................... 127 Objetivos específicos.............................................................................................. 128 Metodología ............................................................................................................ 128 Resultados................................................................................................................ 128 Población beneficiada ............................................................................................ 140 Conclusiones........................................................................................................... 141 Bibliografía .............................................................................................................. 141 Capítulo nueve Implementación de metodologías de enseñanza/aprendizaje en niños de tercera infancia y adolescentes a través de conceptos y proyectos de la aeronáutica (Aerokid)....................................................................................................................... 145 Resumen .................................................................................................................. 145 Abstract.................................................................................................................... 146 Introducción............................................................................................................ 147 Objetivos.................................................................................................................. 148 Objetivo general...................................................................................................... 148 Objetivos específicos.............................................................................................. 148 Metodología ............................................................................................................ 148 Resultados................................................................................................................ 158 Población beneficiada ............................................................................................ 158 Conclusiones........................................................................................................... 158 Bibliografía .............................................................................................................. 159 Capítulo diez “Contagio: Cursos de Extensión de Educadores Noveles para Población Migrante”...................................................................................................................... 163 Resumen .................................................................................................................. 163 Abstract.................................................................................................................... 164 Introducción............................................................................................................ 165 Objetivos.................................................................................................................. 166 Objetivo general...................................................................................................... 166 Objetivos específicos.............................................................................................. 166 Metodología ............................................................................................................ 167 Población beneficiada ............................................................................................ 169 Evento de cierre, 19 de noviembre: Narrativas migratorias: experiencias de viaje............................................................................................... 170 Medios de difusión................................................................................................ .171 Datos sobre la inscripción de los cursillistas....................................................... 171 Sobre la migración.................................................................................................. 173 Conclusiones........................................................................................................... 173 Bibliografía .............................................................................................................. 177 Capítulo once Los mercados agroecológicos en Pereira, Dosquebradas y Santa Rosa: una expresión de dinámicas sociales y economías posibles....................................... 181 Resumen .................................................................................................................. 181 Abstract.................................................................................................................... 182 Introducción............................................................................................................ 183 Objetivos.................................................................................................................. 185 Objetivo general...................................................................................................... 185 Objetivos específicos.............................................................................................. 185 Metodología ............................................................................................................ 185 Resultados................................................................................................................ 187 Población beneficiada ............................................................................................ 196 Conclusiones........................................................................................................... 198 Bibliografía .............................................................................................................. 200 Capítulo doce Identificación e implementación de medidas integrales basadas en minería de datos para la disminución de la deserción al interior de la facultad de ingenierías de la Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira ......................................... 205 Resumen .................................................................................................................. 205 Abstract.................................................................................................................... 206 Introducción............................................................................................................ 206 Objetivos ................................................................................................................. 208 Objetivo general...................................................................................................... 208 Objetivos específicos.............................................................................................. 208 Metodología ............................................................................................................ 208 Resultados................................................................................................................ 209 Resultados preliminares......................................................................................... 225 Población beneficiada ........................................................................................... 226 Conclusiones........................................................................................................... 226 Bibliografía .............................................................................................................. 227

Description, The scaling of mortality in cities of the Americas varies widely by cause and region., We explored how mortality scales with city population size using vital registration and population data from 742 cities in 10 Latin American countries and the United States. We found that more populated cities had lower mortality (sublinear scaling), driven by a sublinear pattern in U.S. cities, while Latin American cities had similar mortality across city sizes. Sexually transmitted infections and homicides showed higher rates in larger cities (superlinear scaling). Tuberculosis mortality behaved sublinearly in U.S. and Mexican cities and superlinearly in other Latin American cities. Other communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional deaths, and deaths due to noncommunicable diseases were generally sublinear in the United States and linear or superlinear in Latin America. Our findings reveal distinct patterns across the Americas, suggesting no universal relation between city size and mortality, pointing to the importance of understanding the processes that explain heterogeneity in scaling behavior or mortality to further advance urban health policies.

While there are many definitions of citizen science, the term usually refers to the participation of the general public in the scientific process in collaboration with professional scientists. Citizen scientists have been engaged to promote health equity, especially in the areas of environmental contaminant exposures, physical activity, and healthy eating. Citizen scientists commonly come from communities experiencing health inequities and have collected data using a range of strategies and technologies, such as air sensors, water quality kits, and mobile applications. On the basis of our review, and to advance the field of citizen science to address health equity, we recommend (a) expanding the focus on topics important for health equity, (b) increasing the diversity of people serving as citizen scientists, (c) increasing the integration of citizen scientists in additional research phases, (d) continuing to leverage emerging technologies that enable citizen scientists to collect data relevant for health equity, and (e) strengthening the rigor of methods to evaluate impacts on health equity. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Public Health, Volume 43 is April 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.