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La locura, ¿una respuesta literaria a la violencia en Colombia? En torno a 'Delirio' de Laura Restrepo
2014
Resumen : Delirio , la novela mas internacional de la colombiana Laura Restrepo, nos acerca, desde un angulo particular, a la realidad vivida en el pais durante la decada de los noventa. En ella somos testigos de como la violencia moldea a su antojo las vivencias de tres generaciones de personajes cuyo entramado de voces nos llegan bien en forma de susurros, bien vociferando sus consecuencias delirantes. Es por ello que nos disponemos a examinar en este trabajo, en que medida aparece la locura como respuesta a los males de la nacion, atendiendo especialmente al modo en que esto contribuye a la construccion de la memoria del yo. Abstract: Delirio, the most international novel of Colombian wr…
Sistemi elettorali, electoral integrity e diritti umani. Il diritto alla partecipazione elettorale ed alla rappresentanza politica delle popolazioni …
2014
Measuring well-being in Colombian departments. The role of geography and demography
2021
This paper provides a composite indicator of well-being for the 33 Colombian departments in the year 2016. The indicator is built by adapting the well-known OECD Better Life Index to the regional level, and includes the dimensions of income, health, education, safety, housing, environment, labour market, and civic engagement and governance. As to the methodology, Data Envelopment Analysis and Multi-Criteria Decision-Making techniques are employed, an approach which enables a comparison of well-being across departments and the construction of rankings. The results yield several take-away messages. First, there are substantial disparities in well-being across Colombian departments. Second, de…
La legitimación del cooperativismo y de la economía social y solidaria en las políticas públicas de Iberoamérica. El fomento cooperativo desde el gob…
2016
La investigación doctoral plantea un supuesto sobre la Economía Social y Solidaria (ESS) en su forma cooperativa: “en las economías en desarrollo las acciones de promoción y fomento diseñadas por el Estado sin participación plural tienden a instrumentalizar las empresas cooperativas, para alcanzar objetivos de desarrollo económico diseñados por el Estado”. Bajo este supuesto se ha planteado la siguiente su tesis contraria: La formulación de las políticas públicas para el fomento de la Economía Social y Solidaria ha garantizado su legitimación. La tesis doctoral ha analizado el caso de la República de Colombia por diferentes elementos: (i) un contexto definido por más de cincuenta años de co…
Theoretical study on the molecular mechanism of the [5 + 2] vs. [4 + 2] cyclization mediated by Lewis acid in the quinone system
2013
[EN] The thermal and Lewis acid (LA) catalyzed cyclizations of quinone 1 involved in the synthesis of Colombiasin A and Elipsaterosin B have been theoretically studied using DFT methods at the B3LYP/6-311G(d,p) computational level. B3LYP calculations suggest that the formal endo [4 + 2] cycloadduct allowing the synthesis of Colombiasin A is preferentially formed under thermal conditions, while in the presence of the BF3 LA catalyst the formal [5 + 2] cycloadduct is seen, allowing the synthesis of Elipsaterosin B. The BF3 LA catalyst not only accelerates the nucleophilic attack on the C2 carbon of the quinone framework through a more polar C-C bond formation, but also provokes a different el…
Sustainable Development Goals in Strategy and Practice: Businesses in Colombia and Egypt
2021
Businesses may adopt strategies and practices that support sustainable development goals. Such strategies include considering social and environmental impacts as well as prioritizing socio-environmental benefits at a higher level than profits. Supportive practices comprise enhancing social benefits and limiting environmental harm. What SDG-related strategies and practices are businesses pursuing? Are businesses implementing practices and strategies? Do the practices and strategies differ across societies? A survey of representative samples of 399 businesses in Colombia and 413 businesses in Egypt was conducted in 2021, by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. The owner-managers reported that…
Real-time parameter estimation of Zika outbreaks using model averaging
2017
SUMMARYEarly prediction of the final size of any epidemic and in particular for Zika disease outbreaks can be useful for health authorities in order to plan the response to the outbreak. The Richards model is often been used to estimate epidemiological parameters for arboviral diseases based on the reported cumulative cases in single- and multi-wave outbreaks. However, other non-linear models can also fit the data as well. Typically, one follows the so called post selection estimation procedure, i.e., selects the best fitting model out of the set of candidate models and ignores the model uncertainty in both estimation and inference since these procedures are based on a single model. In this…
DNA sequence characterisation and phylogeography of Lymnaea cousini and related species, vectors of fascioliasis in northern Andean countries, with d…
2011
Abstract Background Livestock fascioliasis is a problem throughout Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela, mainly in Andean areas where the disease also appears to affect humans. Transmission patterns and epidemiological scenarios of liver fluke infection have shown to differ according to the lymnaeid vector snail species involved. These Andean countries present the vectors Lymnaea cousini, L. bogotensis and L. ubaquensis, unknown in the rest of Latin America. An exhaustive combined haplotype study of these species is performed by means of DNA sequencing of the nuclear ribosomal 18S RNA gene, ITS-2 and ITS-1, and mitochondrial DNA cox 1 gene. Results The conserved 5.8S rDNA sequence corroborated t…
Cogollo Ospina, S. (2015). Responsabilidad Social Perspectivas para la acción en Colombia. Medellín: Fundación Luis Amigó. 177 pp.
2019
Relative risk estimation of dengue disease at small spatial scale
2017
Abstract Background Dengue is a high incidence arboviral disease in tropical countries around the world. Colombia is an endemic country due to the favourable environmental conditions for vector survival and spread. Dengue surveillance in Colombia is based in passive notification of cases, supporting monitoring, prediction, risk factor identification and intervention measures. Even though the surveillance network works adequately, disease mapping techniques currently developed and employed for many health problems are not widely applied. We select the Colombian city of Bucaramanga to apply Bayesian areal disease mapping models, testing the challenges and difficulties of the approach. Methods…