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Proposal for a provisional protocol for the care and identification of dental transmission routes of COVID-19 in Latin America : a Literature review
2020
Background The new coronavirus called COVID-19 originated in the city of Wuhan, China and has currently spread to different continents, leading the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a "pandemic". Therefore, the aim of this review was to present a new proposal for a care protocol in Peruvian Dentistry: Provisional review of the diagnosis, treatment, epidemiological characteristics, routes of transmission and recommendations of COVID-19. Material and methods A search of digital scientific literature was made in the databases: Science Direct, Pubmed and Google Scholar. The Boolean operators AND, OR and NOT: "Covid-19" "Dental" "Routes of transmission. They were included Scientific art…
Jacqueline Woodson’s narrative style in The Other Side: An African American picture book for children
2012
The Other Side (2001) is a children’s story with multicultural characters and themes that can be regarded as an aesthetic exploration of the human experience in the process of the acquisition of knowledge. Following the Black Arts Movement, Jacqueline Woodson’s work portrays many of the issues that are present in the real world but seldom appear in children’s literature, such as racial division or interracial relationships. Using the metaphor of a fence, this African American author reveals issues of loneliness and friendship, inclusion and exclusion, and the overcoming of prejudice and segregation through the wisdom of Clover and Annie, an African American and a white girl, who become frie…
Smiling is Fun, an online intervention for the prevention and treatment of emotional disorders
2016
Los trastornos emocionales representan una problemática en Salud Mental que conlleva un elevado costo personal y social, por lo que diseñar herramientas para su tratamiento y prevención es uno de los desafíos actuales de la psicología clínica. El programa Sonreír es Divertido es un sistema online diseñado bajo la perspectiva transdiagnóstica y el protocolo unificado de Barlow. En este trabajo se presenta una descripción del programa y datos preliminares de su eficacia, obtenidos en un estudio piloto llevado a cabo en España. El programa se muestra capaz de disminuir la sintomatología depresiva y ansiosa, así como de mejorar el afecto positivo y negativo de los participantes. Estos datos pre…
Tradition and Foreign Influences in the 19th Century Codification of Criminal Law: Dispelling the Myth of the Pervasive French Influence in Europe an…
2018
Any civil law student knows that most of provisions in any European or Latin American civil code derive from Roman law, that they were the outcome of a long and gradual scholarly elaboration extending from 12th century glossators to the natural lawyers of the 18th century. However, there is no such consensus about criminal law. The civil law tradition has doubtlessly committed more effort to the scholarly development of private law institutions than to those of public law, privileging civil law over criminal law. The main consequences of this fact are twofold: (i) 19th century criminal jurisprudence is sometimes presented as if had arisen out of the blue, or as if institutions contained in …
Public Financial Management Reforms: The Role of Ipsas in Latin-America
2016
Summary During the last 30 years, many public administration reforms promoted by New Public Management have been undertaken. These reforms have spread to Latin-American countries and include changes in governmental accounting systems, where the implementation of International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSASs) has been a stimulus for modernization. This article aims to clarify the situation of IPSASs implementation in the Latin-American context as well as the stimuli for and effects of their implementation. The analysis shows that there is an emerging international trend to adopt IPSASs in Latin-American countries although at the same time, there are evident obstacles to achieving …
Scientific production in clinical medicine and international collaboration networks in South American countries
2012
Background: International collaboration is increasingly used in biomedical research. Aim: To describe the characteristics of scientific production in Latin America and the main international collaboration networks for the period 2000 to 2009. Material and Methods: Search for papers generated in Latin American countries in the Clinical Medicine database of ISI Web of Knowledge v.4.10 - Current Contents Connect. The country of origin of the corresponding author was considered the producing country of the paper. International collaboration was analyzed calculating the number of countries that contributed to the generation of a particular paper. Collaboration networks were graphed to determine …
Factors that increase wheezing risk in nursing infants in the first year of life
2016
Puritāņu sievišķības un Indiāņu mežonības atspoguļojums agrīnās ASV nebrīves stāstījumos
2018
Maģistra darbā tiek pētīts Puritāņu sievišķības un Indiāņu ‘mežonības’ atspoguļojums Mērijas Rovlandsones, Hannas Dustonas un Mērijas Džemisones nebrīves stāstījumos. Pētījuma teorētiskajā daļā tiek pētīti avoti par puritānismu, puritāņu reliģiskajiem uzskatiem un attiecībām starp puritāņu kolonistiem un indiāņiem. Pētījumā iekļauta arī teorija par nebrīves stāstījumiem un sieviešu lomu tajos. Darbā tika pielietota diskursa analīze, literārā analīze, vēsturiskā analīze, dzimtes vēsture, sieviešu vēsture un postkoloniālā teorija. Mērijas Rovlandsones nebrīves stāstījums mēģina atveidot tradicionālos puritānisma uzskatus, ka sievietes pildīja tām sabiedrības uzticētās lomas, tas ir, viņas bij…
Qualidade docente e eficácia escolar
2008
Este texto visa a explorar uma faceta do funcionamento do sistema escolar que permite associar a implementação de políticas públicas, no caso, a distribuição dos professores pelas escolas e salas de aula, e à avaliação dos impactos dessa distribuição do ponto de vista da busca por maior igualdade de oportunidades. Para discutir essa questão, usaremos os dados de pesquisa realizada no Brasil, na Argentina, no Chile e no México, com informações de 96 escolas e professores, assim como de 2048 alunos de 4ª série que estudavam em escolas situadas em bairros pobres de Belo Horizonte, Buenos Aires, Santiago e Guanajuato. Inicialmente, discutimos alguns dos elementos das políticas educacionais lati…
A retrospective international study on factors associated with injury, discomfort and pain perception among cyclists
2019
International audience; Although cycling has been associated with overuse/fatigue and acute injuries, there is lack of information regarding associated risk factors and prevention factors. The objective of the study was to determine the factors associated with injury, and perceptions of discomfort and pain in cyclists. A total of 739 cyclists completed an online questionnaire between February and October 2016. The questionnaire acquired information on participant demographics, characteristics related to cycling profile and fitness training, bike components and cycling posture, self-reported perceptions of comfort and pain, and injuries sustained in the last 12 months. Logistic regression mo…