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Impacto generado por el Covid-19 en las MiPymes de la Orinoquia colombiana
Authors: Quiñonez Mosquera Alejandro , Navarro Sáenz Laura Daniela , Cortés Restrepo Madeleiny
Published: September 2023

Introduction: The world is going through an unexpected situation, which has left many companies in a precarious situation, especially Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) due to the appearance of Covid-19. This virus affected the economic performance of companies, which led to a reduction in the production of goods and services in different economic sectors, therefore, economic instability caused thousands of companies to declare bankruptcy and millions of people to lose their jobs. Objective: Taking the above into account, an investigation was carried out with the objective of analyzing the impact of the Covid-19 health emergency on MSMEs registered in the jurisdictions of the Villavicencio and Casanare Chambers of Commerce. Methodology: This research developed a quantitative methodology, using the survey prepared by the Ibero-American Observatory of MSMEs. Results: The sample is 267 MSMEs. 62% of the companies surveyed consider that they will increase their sales in the next year. The sectors that perceive the impact as negative the most are tourism and other services. No impact on international trade is perceived by businessmen. Conclusion: A negative impact and the adaptability of entrepreneurs are evident. As well as the presence of business resilience and an increase in innovation.
LA EDUCACIÓN GEOGRÁFICA, LA INTEGRACIÓN ESCUELA-COMUNIDAD Y LA ENSEÑANZA DE LA GEOGRAFÍA
Authors: Santiago Rivera José Armando
Published: September 2023

Desde fines del siglo XX la discusio?n sobre la renovacio?n de la Educacio?n Geogra?fica es un tema reite- rativo. Se exige que la ensen?anza de la geografi?a desarrolle los procesos pedago?gicos y dida?cticos para explicar las condiciones ambientales, geogra?ficas y sociales de la comunidad y entender la complejidad del mundo contempora?neo. Alli? ha sido inquietud la dificultad formativa ocasionada por la vigencia de los fundamentos de la geografi?a descriptiva y de la pedagogi?a tradicional, en la actividad cotidiana del aula escolar. Esta problema?tica determino? realizar una revisio?n bibliogra?fica y estructurar un planteamiento que analiza la situacio?n de la actual Educacio?n Geogra?fica, los desafi?os que enfrenta, la exigencia de facilitar la accio?n pedago?gica desde la integracio?n escuela-comunidad, con el objeto explicar su realidad geogra?fica. Concluye que la ensen?anza de la geografi?a debe atender la complicada situacio?n geogra?fica comunitaria y gestionar una labor formativa que armonice los propo?sitos de la escuela y las dificultades del lugar, acorde con los desafi?os del mundo globalizado y en procura de la formacio?n integral de los ciudadanos.

Palabras clave:

Educacio?n Geogra?fica, Escuela-Comunidad, Ensen?anza Geogra?fica.

Abstract

Since the late twentieth century, the debate on the renewal of Geographic Education is a recurring theme. It requires the teaching of geography develops educational and teaching processes to explain the environmental, geographical and social conditions of the community and understand the complexity of the contemporary world. There has been concern formative difficulties caused by the force of the fundamentals of descriptive geography and traditional pedagogy in everyday classroom activity. This problem determined to perform a structured literature review and an approach that analyzes the current situation of Geographic Education, the challenges faced, the requirement to provide the pedagogical action from the school-community integration, in order to explain their geographical reality. Concludes that teaching must address the complicated geography community geography and manage a training workshop to harmonize the purposes of the school and the difficulties of the place, commensurate with the challenges of the globalized world and seeks the integral formation of citizens}.

Keywords :

Geographic Education, School - Community Geographic Education.
LA MODERNIDAD COMO CONDICIÓN CULTURAL DE VIDA
Authors: Llerena Martínez Faisy
Published: September 2023

Mediante el siguiente arti?culo, se muestra los resul- tados de una investigacio?n en torno a lo que se considera uno de los procesos histo?ricos ma?s relevantes de la humanidad: La modernidad. Esta ha permitido cuestionar todo lo que rodea al hombre y lo que yace en el interior del mismo, valie?ndose de la razo?n y dejando a un lado los dogmas o valores, estableciendo un reto e impulsando el pensamiento para ir ma?s alla? de lo que ha sido sugerido o establecido como superior. En este sentido, el ser humano pasa a ser objeto de sumisio?n y obediencia a la ley superior, entendie?ndose a la divina si nos referimos al antiguo re?gimen para convertirse en centro de estudio y generador de saber.

Palabras clave: Ilustracio?n, Renacimiento, Sociedad, Raciocinio, Derecho, Estado laico, Razo?n, Modernidad, Dogmas.

Abstract

Through this article, I pretend to shed light on what I consider one of the most important historical processes of humanity, modernity. This has enabled us to question everything around us and what lies within us, availing of reason and leaving aside the dogmas and values, challenging us and pushing us to go beyond what has been suggested or established as superior.

In this sense, the human becomes the subject of submission and obedience to the higher law of the divine understood if we refer to the former regime to become a center of learning and generating knowledge.

Keywords: Illustration, Renaissance, Society, Rationality, Law, Secular state, Reason, Modernity, Dogma.
PUEBLOS INDI?GENAS Y DESARROLLO: EL ROL DE LA CONSULTA PREVIA EN LOS PAI?SES ANDINOS
Authors: Hernández Vidal Augusto
Published: September 2023

Los estados son garantes de los derechos indi?genas al mismo tiempo que deben facilitar la explotacio?n de los recursos naturales para mantener el crecimiento de las economi?as nacionales. Hoy los pueblos indi?genas andinos utilizan el lenguaje de los colonizadores en los espacios poli?ticos para expresar sus propias ideas sobre el desarrollo y resistir la explotacio?n de los recursos naturales. Hay un proceso de coordinacio?n poli?tica entre los pueblos indi?genas que fomenta resistencia en contra de los cambios que promueve el desarrollo. En este arti?culo se propone una posicio?n cri?tica frente a la consulta previa segu?n la cual ella se constituye como una estructura que promueve el asentamiento progresivo de los paradigmas del desarrollo en territorio indi?gena. Tiene como objetivo llamar la atencio?n sobre el cara?cter neutral de la consulta previa. 

Abstract

States are guarantors of indigenous rights at the same time they encourage the exploitation of natural resources to sustain the growth of national economies. Andean indigenous peoples use the language of the colonizers in political spaces to express their own ideas about development and resist the exploitation of natural resources. There is a political process of coordination among indigenous peoples that promotes resistance against the changes endorsed by development. In this article, a critical position about prior consultation is proposed, according to which prior consultation constitutes a structure that promotes the progressive establishment of development paradigms within indigenous territories. This article aims to draw attention to the neutral nature of prior consultation.
POSTMODERNIDAD Y PERSONALIDAD HEROICA, CUANDO EL SUFRIMIENTO ES PLACENTERO
Authors: Korstanje Maximiliano
Published: September 2023

El presente ensayo examina no solo como se forma el miedo moderno y su relacio?n con la tragedia, sino las diversas formas culturales de vivirla respecto al futuro. Se antepone la figura de la personalidad heroica como una construccio?n moderna centrada en la necesidad de sentir placer por la pe?rdida. Esta tendencia lleva a las personas a sentirse u?nicas respecto a otras. Si el he?roe es aquel que no se doblega ante el destino, tambie?n es un ser que lleva tras si? una historia de dolor y sufrimiento. Ahora bien, tanto los pai?ses de raigambre cultural latino como los germa?nicos han elaborado diferentes formas de vivir lo tra?gico; lo cierto es que el futuro, como construccio?n social, juega un rol importante en dichos procesos. Mientras para los anglosajones el futuro se mantiene como una entidad inmutable que no puede ser modificada, para los latinos el futuro se construye solo desde el presente. 

 

Abstract 

This essay aims to review how to form not only the modern man’s fear and its relationship with tragedy but also the way to live it according to the future. Heroic personality is chosen as a modern figure focused on the need of pleasure feeling by the loss. This trend makes people consider themselves unique related to others. If the hero is that one who does not bow down to the fate, it is also a human being who has a pain and suffering story behind him. Now, in those countries of deep-seated Latin cultural roots such as German countries have established different ways of living. One thing is true, the future as social construction plays an important role in those processes. While English speaking countries the future is kept as the immutable entity which can not be modified. For Latin, people future is built only based on the present.
CONFIABILIDAD Y VALIDEZ DE UN INSTRUMENTO QUE MIDE PERCEPCIONES DE CORRUPCIO?N
Authors: García Lirios Cruz , Carreón Guillén Javier , Hernández Valdés Jorge , Aguilar Fuentes José Alfonso , Rosas Ferrusca Francisco Javier , Morales Flores María de Lourdes , García Estrada Erle
Published: September 2023

El presente trabajo se propuso estudiar la corrupcio?n desde una aproximacio?n multicultural en la que el Estado es el eje rector de instituciones y medios de comunicacio?n en torno a la seguridad pu?blica, aunque se discutieron sus li?mites a partir de un enfoque intercultural donde la sociedad esta? organizada a fin de observar y emprender la paz pu?blica. Se realizo? un estudio transversal con una muestra no probabili?stica de 330 habitantes de una localidad en el centro de Me?xico. Mediante un modelo estructural [?2 = 14,02 (18 gl) p < 0,001; GFI = 0,995; RMSEA = 0,000], la actitud fue el indicador de la legitimidad socio-poli?tica (? = 0,91). La hipo?tesis nula de ajuste de las relaciones de dependencia hipote?ticas con respecto a los datos observados fue aceptada y se describieron escenarios posibles de relacio?n entre las poli?ticas multiculturales e interculturales. 

 

Abstract

This paper aims to study corruption from a multicultural approach in which the state is the principal axis of political institutions and the media about public safety, in connection with that its boundaries, are analyzed from an intercultural approach in which society is organized in order to observe and undertake joint actions in favor of public peace. A cross-sectional study with a probabilistic sample of 330 residents of a town in central Mexico is conducted. By using a structural model [?2 = 14.02 (18 gl) p <0.001; GFI = 0.995; RMSEA = 0.000], it is determined that the attitude is the leading indicator of the socio-political legitimacy (? = 0.91). The null hypothesis of setting hypothetical relationships dependence on observed data is accepted and possible relationships between multicultural and intercultural policies in different scenarios are described. 

 

Resumo

O presente estudo pretende examinar a corrupc?a?o a partir de uma abordagem multicultural em que o Estado e? o eixo condutor das instituic?o?es e meios de comunicac?a?o no que tange a? seguranc?a pu?blica, embora seus limites fossem discutidos a partir de uma abordagem intercultural em que a sociedade esta? organizada com o propo?sito de observar e pensar a paz pu?blica. Um estudo transversal com uma amostra probabili?stica de 330 moradores de uma cidade no centro do Me?xico foi realizado. Usando um modelo estrutural [?2 = 14,02 (18 gl) p <0,001; GFI = 0,995; RMSEA = 0,000], a atitude foi o indicador da legitimidade sociopoli?tica (? = 0,91). A hipo?tese nula de ajustes das relac?o?es de depende?ncia hipote?ticas sobre os dados observados foi aceito e foram descritos cena?rios possi?veis de relac?a?o entre as poli?ticas multiculturais e interculturais.
Incidence of infections associated with the use of invasive devices in an ICU after application of the Improvement Science Method
Authors: Michels Júnior Vilto , Sousa Jiliélisson Oliveira de , Parma Gabriel Oscar Cremona , Schuelter-Trevisol Fabiana , Trevisol Daisson José
Published: September 2023

Objective: To reduce the incidence density of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI), and catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) in the intensive care unit (ICU) using the Improvement Science method. Methods: This was a single-center retrospective cohort study. A collaborative quality improvement team developed and implemented local changes to HAI-related processes and protocols. Pre-intervention, intervention, and post-intervention periods were compared. The study was conducted at the Adult ICU of a hospital in southern Brazil. Variables were analyzed using interrupted time series analysis with segmented linear regression, simple correlation, and hypothesis testing. Results: There was a reduction in the incidence density of all infections. VAP was reduced from 27.2% to 7.2% (p < 0.001), CLABSI from 3.0% to 0.9% (p = 0.017), and CAUTI from 8.3% to 1.8% (p < 0.001). The ICU stay was also reduced from 6.7 to 6 days (p = 0.018). Conclusion: There was an improvement in all the evaluated parameters. Ongoing monitoring of related indicators and adherence to implemented measures are essential to sustain improvements. Applying the Improvement Science methodology can reduce the incidence of HAIs in the ICU.
Weight loss as a predictor of poor prognosis in patients hospitalized for COVID-19
Authors: Paiva Brena Letícia Gomes de , Barros-Neto João Araújo , Silva Maria Bárbara Galdino , Silva Clécia Alves da , Augusto Flaviani Diogo Reis , Vasconcelos Sandra Mary Lima , Ramiro Claudia Porto Sabino Pinho
Published: September 2023

Objective: To evaluate the relationship between weight loss and markers of poor prognosis in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in the state of Pernambuco. Methods: A multicenter, cross-sectional study coupled with prospective analysis variables involving 71 individuals with COVID-19 admitted for hospitalization in 8 public hospitals in Recife, in the State of Pernambuco. Individuals of both sexes, aged ≥ 20 years, hospitalized from June 2020 to June 2021 were included. Sociodemographic, clinical, and nutritional data and prognostic markers were collected. Results: The average age was 54.6±15.6 years, with 54.9% of individuals being male. It was found that 26.8% of the patients were diabetic and 52.1% were hypertensive. The anthropometric profile indicated that 56.3% were overweight and 5.6% were underweight. Positive screening for sarcopenia was observed in 16.9%. The median weight loss was 3.1% (0.0-6.6%), with a loss > 5% evident in 29.6% of the sample. It was found that weight loss was more frequent in men (16 (41.0%) vs. 5 (15.6%); p = 0.020) and that demographic, clinical, and nutritional variables were not associated with body weight loss. There was no statistical association between weight loss and prognostic variables (p NS). Conclusion: Although the study did not demonstrate an association between weight loss and prognostic variables, this should be considered when assessing patients with COVID-19 and should be investigated and treated as an essential health promotion measure.
Arginine and Histidine-modified Layered Double Hydroxides Facilitate Transgene Expression in Cancer Cells in Vitro
Authors: Nundkumar Nirasha , Singh Sooboo , Singh Moganavelli
Published: September 2023

Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) have interesting properties and structures that enable them to carry nucleic acids, such as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). This study synthesized LDHs using the co-precipitation method and functionalized with the amino acids arginine (Arg) and histidine (His) to promote proton-sponge activity for enhanced transgene expression. The LDHs were characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA). The interaction of the LDHs with the reporter gene plasmid DNA (pCMV-Luc DNA) was determined using agarose gel electrophoresis. Cytotoxicity and transgene expression was assessed using the 3-(4, 5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2.5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) and luciferase reporter gene assay in the human embryonic kidney (HEK293), colorectal carcinoma (Caco-2) and hepatocellular carcinoma (HepG2) cells. The DNA: LDH complexes were relatively non-cytotoxic to all cells, and the highest transgene expression was achieved in the HEK293 cells exhibiting the most significant degree of transfection, followed by the Caco-2 cells. The His-LDH complexes displayed more than a two-fold increase in transfection than the Arg-LDHs, especially in the HEK293 cells at the optimal binding ratio. The non-functionalized LDHs demonstrated high transfection, which exceeded that of the His-LDH and Arg-LDH by 20% and 30%, respectively, in the Caco-2 cells. Little difference was noted in the HepG2 cells, which presented with the lowest transfection. These LDHs have demonstrated the potential to bind, protect, and efficiently deliver pDNA in vitro.
Development of the ehive Digital Health App: Protocol for a Centralized Research Platform
Authors: Hirten Robert P , Danieletto Matteo , Landell Kyle , Zweig Micol , Golden Eddye , Orlov Georgy , Rodrigues Jovita , Alleva Eugenia , Ensari Ipek , Bottinger Erwin , Nadkarni Girish N , Fuchs Thomas J , Fayad Zahi A
Published: September 2023

Background

The increasing use of smartphones, wearables, and connected devices has enabled the increasing application of digital technologies for research. Remote digital study platforms comprise a patient-interfacing digital application that enables multimodal data collection from a mobile app and connected sources. They offer an opportunity to recruit at scale, acquire data longitudinally at a high frequency, and engage study participants at any time of the day in any place. Few published descriptions of centralized digital research platforms provide a framework for their development.

Objective

This study aims to serve as a road map for those seeking to develop a centralized digital research platform. We describe the technical and functional aspects of the ehive app, the centralized digital research platform of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York. We then provide information about ongoing studies hosted on ehive, including usership statistics and data infrastructure. Finally, we discuss our experience with ehive in the broader context of the current landscape of digital health research platforms.

Methods

The ehive app is a multifaceted and patient-facing central digital research platform that permits the collection of e-consent for digital health studies. An overview of its development, its e-consent process, and the tools it uses for participant recruitment and retention are provided. Data integration with the platform and the infrastructure supporting its operations are discussed; furthermore, a description of its participant- and researcher-facing dashboard interfaces and the e-consent architecture is provided.

Results

The ehive platform was launched in 2020 and has successfully hosted 8 studies, namely 6 observational studies and 2 clinical trials. Approximately 1484 participants downloaded the app across 36 states in the United States. The use of recruitment methods such as bulk messaging through the EPIC electronic health records and standard email portals enables broad recruitment. Light-touch engagement methods, used in an automated fashion through the platform, maintain high degrees of engagement and retention. The ehive platform demonstrates the successful deployment of a central digital research platform that can be modified across study designs.

Conclusions

Centralized digital research platforms such as ehive provide a novel tool that allows investigators to expand their research beyond their institution, engage in large-scale longitudinal studies, and combine multimodal data streams. The ehive platform serves as a model for groups seeking to develop similar digital health research programs.

International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID)

DERR1-10.2196/49204
Twitter Misinformation Discourses About Vaping: Systematic Content Analysis
Authors: Al-Rawi Ahmed , Blackwell Breanna , Zemenchik Kiana , Lee Kelley
Published: September 2023

Background

While there has been substantial analysis of social media content deemed to spread misinformation about electronic nicotine delivery systems use, the strategic use of misinformation accusations to undermine opposing views has received limited attention.

Objective

This study aims to fill this gap by analyzing how social media users discuss the topic of misinformation related to electronic nicotine delivery systems, notably vaping products. Additionally, this study identifies and analyzes the actors commonly blamed for spreading such misinformation and how these claims support both the provaping and antivaping narratives.

Methods

Using Twitter’s (subsequently rebranded as X) academic application programming interface, we collected tweets referencing #vape and #vaping and keywords associated with fake news and misinformation. This study uses systematic content analysis to analyze the tweets and identify common themes and actors who discuss or possibly spread misinformation.

Results

This study found that provape users dominate the platform regarding discussions about misinformation about vaping, with provaping tweets being more frequent and having higher overall user engagement. The most common narrative for provape tweets surrounds the conversation of vaping being perceived as safe. On the other hand, the most common topic from the antivape narrative is that vaping is indeed harmful. This study also points to a general distrust in authority figures, with news outlets, public health authorities, and political actors regularly accused of spreading misinformation, with both placing blame. However, specific actors differ depending on their positionalities. The vast number of accusations from provaping advocates is found to shape what is considered misinformation and works to silence other narratives. Additionally, allegations against reliable and proven sources, such as public health authorities, work to discredit assessments about the health impacts, which is detrimental to public health overall for both provaping and antivaping advocates.

Conclusions

We conclude that the spread of misinformation and the accusations of misinformation dissemination using terms such as “fact check,” “misinformation,” “fake news,” and “disinformation” have become weaponized and co-opted by provaping actors to delegitimize criticisms about vaping and to increase confusion about the potential health risks. The study discusses the mixed types of impact of vaping on public health for both smokers and nonsmokers. Additionally, we discuss the implications for effective health education and communication about vaping and how misinformation claims can affect evidence-based discourse on Twitter as well as informed vaping decisions.
The Effect of Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Major Depressive Disorder: Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint)
Authors: Lin Ziyi , Cheng Lu , Han Xue , Wang Hongqiong , Liao Yuhua , Guo Lan , Shi Jingman , Fan Beifang , Teopiz Kayla M , Jawad Muhammad Youshay , Zhang Huimin , Chen Yan , Lu Ciyong , McIntyre Roger S
Published: September 2023

BACKGROUND

Many people living with major depressive disorder (MDD) in China do not receive treatment owing to a lack of mental health services, along with significant stigma toward mental illness. Internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (ICBT) has been proposed to increase access to mental health care for people with MDD.

OBJECTIVE

The aims of this study were to (1) evaluate the efficacy of ICBT for depressive symptoms in patients with MDD; (2) evaluate the effect of ICBT on anxiety symptoms, nonspecific psychological distress, general self-efficacy, depression stigma, social function, and health-related quality of life (HRQoL); and (3) explore the acceptability of and satisfaction with the ICBT program among participants.

METHODS

Patients with MDD were enrolled and randomized to the ICBT group or the waiting-list control (WLC) group. The ICBT group received ICBT delivered through a WeChat mini-program with general support by nonspecialists. Participants in the 2 groups were self-evaluated online at baseline and posttreatment for changes in the primary outcome (ie, depressive symptoms) and secondary outcomes (ie, anxiety symptoms, nonspecific psychological distress, general self-efficacy, depression stigma, social functional impairment, and HRQoL). Changes in outcomes were measured by changes in overall scores on respective scales, and response and remission rates were calculated based on depressive symptoms. The acceptability of and satisfaction with the ICBT program were measured by treatment adherence and participants’ feelings (ie, modules seriously completed, perceived benefit, and satisfaction).

RESULTS

We included 40 patients who were randomly assigned to the ICBT group and 44 who were assigned to the WLC group. Compared with the WLC group, the ICBT group had fewer depressive symptoms, fewer anxiety symptoms, less nonspecific psychological distress, and greater general self-efficacy. Moreover, the ICBT group had higher response (18/31, 58%) and remission rates (17/31, 55%). The adherence rate in the ICBT group was 78% (31/40), and the majority of participants who completed all ICBT modules were satisfied with the ICBT program.

CONCLUSIONS

ICBT demonstrated greater improvements in depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, nonspecific psychological distress, and general self-efficacy among selected patients with MDD in comparison with the findings in waiting-list controls. The ICBT program in this study had good acceptability and satisfaction among participants.

CLINICALTRIAL

Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (ChiCTR2100046425); https://tinyurl.com/bdcrj4zv
System-Wide Change Is Essential to Value the Contributions of Women in Medicine and Science (Preprint)
Authors: Jain Shikha , Allan Jessica M , Bhayani Rakhee K
Published: September 2023

UNSTRUCTURED

The persistent and pervasive gender gap in health care is a fact backed by data, science, and evidence. This editorial aims to describe some of the challenges that continue to persist. Many of the strategies outlined can be implemented both locally and nationally to effect meaningful change and work toward closing the existing gender gap in health care.
Designing a Novel Digitally Delivered Antiracism Intervention for Mental Health Clinicians: Exploratory Analysis of Acceptability (Preprint)
Authors: Brown Tashalee Rushell , Amir Habiba , Hirsch Drew , Jansen Madeline Owens
Published: September 2023

BACKGROUND

There is a great need for evidence-based antiracism interventions targeting mental health clinicians to help mitigate mental health disparities in racially and ethnically minoritized groups.

OBJECTIVE

This study provides an exploratory analysis of mental health clinicians’ perspectives on the acceptability of a web-based antiracism intervention.

METHODS

Mental health clinicians were recruited from a single academic medical center through outreach emails. Data were collected through individual 30-minute semistructured remote video interviews with participants, then recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using content analysis.

RESULTS

A total of 12 mental health clinicians completed the study; 10 out of 12 (83%) were female candidates. Over half (7/12, 58%) of the respondents desired more robust antiracism training in mental health care. Regarding the web-based antiracism intervention, (8/12, 67%) enjoyed the digitally delivered demo module, (7/12, 58%) of respondents suggested web-based content would be further enhanced with the addition of in-person or online group components.

CONCLUSIONS

Our results suggest a strong need for additional antiracist training for mental health clinicians. Overall, participants responded favorably to novel web-based delivery methods for an antiracism intervention. These findings provide important support for future development and pilot testing of a large-scale digitally enhanced antiracist curriculum targeting mental health clinicians.
Mapping the Global Conversation on Sports Analytics: A Methodology for Twitter Data Collection (Preprint)
Authors: Olson Alexander Walker , Pyndiura Kyla , Thomas Scott
Published: September 2023

BACKGROUND

Twitter has been extensively used for understanding public opinion in various domains, yet the discourse surrounding sports analytics has not been thoroughly examined.

OBJECTIVE

The aim of this study is to map and characterize the global conversation on sports analytics as it occurs on Twitter, focusing on geographic distribution, topics of interest, and user engagement.

METHODS

We employed a multi-stage data collection methodology, starting with three seed accounts involved in sports analytics. Tweets and metadata were collected from users followed by these seed accounts over the last three years. Noun phrases were identified using the spaCy toolkit and were scored based on their frequency relative to a random sample of 1.6 million tweets. Subsequently, term pairs were queried to collect more tweets, focusing on user interactions and topics discussed.

RESULTS

A total of 3,159,738 tweets were collected from over two million authors. Tweet frequency varied significantly across the seed accounts, with Sportlogiq having the highest median tweets per account. About 1.7% of users provided geolocation data. Topics were largely consistent across different countries, focusing on sports, technology, and business. Community detection algorithms identified 34 clusters with at least 1,000 members each, discussing topics ranging from specific sports to technology.

CONCLUSIONS

The sports analytics discourse on Twitter is active and internationally based, albeit with a significant presence in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Seed accounts did not bias geographic distribution. Topics were consistent across countries, emphasizing the global nature of this community.
Economic crisis and Covid-19: Potential Effects on Criminality, Poverty and Mortality rates in Brazilian Municipalities
Authors: Raiher Augusta Pelinski
Published: September 2023

This paper aimed to analyze possible effects of the economic crisis caused by Covid-19 on criminality, poverty and mortality rates in Brazilian municipalities. With this purpose, the year 2015 was analyzed for being the period when the country went through the greatest recession in the recent years. The Propensity Score Matching Method was used to evaluate the impact of a sharp decrease in the GDP (Gross Domestic Product). The data surveyed showed that the recession did not occur in the same way in all municipalities, so that many of them were not affected by economic decline. In addition, two social aspects (mortality and poverty) did not present correlation with the GDP fall. Also, no difference of effect was observed in the variation of these variables between the municipalities that experienced the recession and those where there was economic growth. Therefore, if a sharp decrease in the GDP of some municipalities occurs, they will not necessarily have worse social aspect results than other Brazilian spaces.
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Published: September 2023

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Quality control in the provision of medical dental care in Ukraine
Authors: Vakhnenko O.M.
Published: September 2023

The article considers the quality control system of medical dental care and the components of this system. A list of the main current legal documents regulating the quality control system of medical care is presented. The degrees of quality control of medical care are analyzed. The implementation of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards in Ukraine is highlighted. An analysis of the Standards of Accreditation of Health Care Institutions is provided, which deal with the issues of the quality of medical care. The state of work on the creation of medical and technological documents for the standardization of medical dental care is analyzed. Suggestions for adaptation of the quality control system of medical care in dental institutions are presented.
Adam Smith: antídoto al neoliberalismo
Authors: Marshall Wesley C.
Published: September 2023

Este artículo busca establecer un diálogo entre la obra de Adam Smith y el Neoliberalismo en sus múltiples aspectos: su obra escrita; su tratamiento de otros pensadores y sus obras; y su forma de gobernar. Aquí se argumenta que Adam Smith ha sido coptado por el pensamiento neoliberal para promover ideas que son todo lo contrario de las favorecidas por Smith. Sus citas más famosas se malinterpretan deliberadamente, dado que su significado explícito en el texto es que toda la actividad humana está determinada por “poderes divinos”, lo cual es un anatema para el pensamiento neoliberal, que eleva el dinero y los mercados al reino de lo divino. Los textos de Smith no solo sirven como evidencia de las formas engañosas del neoliberalismo, sino que también ofrecen advertencias proféticas de cómo tanto la religión como la ciencia pueden ser capturadas por las autoridades y distorsionadas a su voluntad.
Adam Smith, recursos naturales y financiarización
Authors: López Vania
Published: September 2023

La importancia de los recursos naturales en la obra de Adam Smith para analizar los procesos de mercantilización de la naturaleza es uno de los ejes principales del presente ensayo. Por ello en el presente artículo se realizará una descripción histórica desde el siglo XV hasta mediados del siglo XX intentando contrastar las distintas escuelas del pensamiento económico y el papel que ocuparon en el análisis económico, de la obra de Adam Smith. A partir de la escuela clásica, nace el origen a la economía ambiental (escuela neoclásica), cuya concepción de los recursos naturales ha mercantilizado su valor de uso. El incremento de los procesos de privatización y financiarización de la naturaleza cobra auge en el curso del desarrollo capitalista a nivel internacional. Predominan políticas ambientales relacionadas con los impuestos, derechos de propiedad, pago por servicios ambientales, incluyendo un conjunto de instrumentos financieros como bonos, productos derivados y otros mecanismos de mercado que han profundizado los problemas de degradación ambiental, contaminación y sobreexplotación, abriendo las brechas de la desigualdad económica y ecológica entre los países desarrollados y no desarrollados.
El orden del caos. La ley general de la acumulación capitalista en América Latina y más allá
Authors: Niño de Rivera Raúl
Published: September 2023

Reseña al libro “The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation in Latin America and Beyond. Actuality and Pertinece”. Lorenzo Fusaro y Leindad Alcalá (coordinadores), Londres & New York, Lexington Books.
Russian Literature in Japanese Film: Cross-cultural Adaptations in the Silent Era
Authors: Pinar Alex
Published: September 2023

Since the beginning of the film industry in Japan, many short films and movies based on Western literary works were made, especially during the 1910s and 1920s. Several of those films were based on fashionable Russian literary works that had been staged in Shingeki (new drama) theaters. This study examines the adaptations of Russian literature produced from the early 1910s until the end of the silent-film era in the 1930s, focusing specifically on films based on Tolstoy’s novel Resurrection, the drama The Living Corpse, and Gorky’s play The Lower Depths. It is shown that the early adaptations, filmed in the 1910s, aimed to closely adhere to the original literary works by maintaining key plot events and recreating the cultural milieu through sets, costumes, and staging. However, starting from the 1920s, adaptations followed intercultural and intertextual processes, freely modifying the works to suit the Japanese cultural context. This shift in the approach to adapting Western literary works was influenced by the social, political, and cultural changes experienced by the country during those decades.
Traducción material y traducción medial: dos procesos fundamentales en la producción y circulación del arte moderno y contemporáneo
Authors: Giovine Yáñez María Andrea
Published: September 2023

El concepto de traducción se encuentra en el corazón de la concepción, producción y circulación del arte. El arte en sí mismo es un proceso de traducción de la experiencia vital. En la raíz de la noción de representación está la noción de traducción intersemiótica, pues para concretar en términos materiales específicos una idea o imagen mental que tiene un referente en la realidad es necesario trasladar elementos de un sistema de signos a otro. La noción de mímesis en cuanto copia de la realidad también guarda una estrecha relación con el concepto de traducción, sobre todo cuando se piensa en un cierto modo de concebir la traducción desde el ideal de fidelidad a un texto original. El arte moderno y contemporáneo, profundamente híbridos e intermediales, han hecho de la noción misma de traducción uno de sus ejes conceptuales y uno de sus procesos de producción medulares. Muchas obras implican reflexiones y apuestas conceptuales y materiales en torno a la traducción misma: de un lenguaje a otro, de lo analógico a lo digital, de la presencia a la virtualidad, de una materialidad a otra, de un contexto medial a otro. El presente texto tiene el objetivo de plantear los conceptos de traducción medial y traducción material y mostrar algunos ejemplos específicos de estos dos procesos fundamentales tanto en la producción como en la circulación del arte moderno y contemporáneo. Me ocuparé de la traducción material y medial en su faceta procedimental, en cuanto proceso de producción conceptual y material del arte, y en su faceta de reproductibilidad, como parte esencial en las dinámicas de circulación de las obras en reproducciones impresas y digitales.
THE ECONOMIC EFFECT OF THE INTRODUCTION OF THE “SMART HOME” SYSTEM IN PRESCHOOL INSTITUTIONS
Authors: Ivanova I. B. , Nikitin L. A.
Published: September 2023

The smart home system is a modern design solution for saving energy resources, which in our time and in the future will not lose its relevance. The concept of “smart house” (smarthouse) radically changes the views on the principles of the organization of everyday life in a modern building. This technology does not just turn devices on and off, it can control the internal environment of the room depending on the time of stay of people and their number. The article discusses the concept of “smart home” in the construction and operation of kindergartens, presents the market of available offers of “smart” systems. The calculation of the economic effect of the introduction of the “smart home” system in preschool institutions is carried out. The calculation algorithm is presented, which provides for the consideration of qualitative parameters. A review of the “smart home” system option packages offered on the market has been conducted. On average, savings on housing and communal services payments after installing the Smart Home system will amount to 10 % of the monthly payment amount. The introduction of the “smart home” system in preschool institutions will reduce utility bills, thereby saving budget funds.
THE HUMAN CAPITAL: VITAL, SOFT, HARD, META AND MENTAL SKILLS
Authors: Nekipelova I. M. , Nekipelov E. Sh.
Published: September 2023

The article is devoted to there search of skills that form the human capital. The need for research is due to the transformation of social spaсe in general, as well as with changes in economic, educational and labor relations. These transformations have affected human professional activities and showed that a person is weak being faced with changes in the external and internal environment. There search revealed that the division of all skills into hard skills and soft skills, which takes place in modern science, has no exact basis. However, this division is very important, because these skills are necessary for a person to carry out successful professional activities. The research also showed that the isolated vital skills are not studied and do not have an exact terminological definition. In this regard, the authors proposed to single out mental skills and meta skills separately. The authors gave definitions and the list of skills that make up both groups. As a mental skills were named: 1) fast decision-making, fast retrieval of information from memory, quickability to react, rapid adaptation to changing rules, quick selection of required parameters for solving problems, which are due to the speed of thinking; 2) ability of a person to change his behavior in a changed situation, changing roles, ability to assess effects, ability to run multiple jobs in parallel, effectively switching from one task to another, planning the best effective ways to solve the problem, ability to solve complex problems, neutralization of routine work, which are determined by flexibility of thinking. Meta skills included logical thinking, critical thinking, analogical thinking, creative thinking, tactical and strategic thinking. At the end of the study, it was concluded that the implementation of all types of skills forms human capital. Human capital, in turn, comes into clash with other human capitals and in interaction with them and forms a human resource.
FORMATION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENTERPRISE THROUGH SELECTION ACCORDING TO THE MARKET ASSESSMENT OF PERSONNEL PRODUCTIVITY
Authors: Stepus A. F. , Galyamova E. F.
Published: September 2023

In order to ensure sustainable development in modern conditions, many enterprises have to solve the problem of personnel optimization, which involves increasing the efficiency of business activities by reducing personnel costs and competent allocation of labor resources. The selection of the most efficient candidates at the recruitment stage can be considered as a preventive measure to avoid personnel errors that lead to losses in the future. The article presents a method for predicting the working capacity of personnel, which allows to gain access to labor resources with high potential and prevent possible losses in the future. The paper analyzes the objective factors that affect the performance of the staff. The method of correlation analysis revealed those factors, the influence of which is the most significant. As a result of the analysis, formulas for predicting working capacity are proposed, taking into account the influence of two factors - length of service and the number of violations of labor discipline. The developed formulas were put into practice at JSC “Izhevsky motozavod “Aхion-Holding”. Checking the forecasting accuracy showed minor deviations of the forecast values from the actual ones. Approbation of these formulas in practice allows us to conclude that it is possible to use them in manufacturing enterprises.
PREPARING TO ORGANIZE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ INDEPENDENT WORK USING PROFESSION-ORIENTED BLOGGING
Authors: Gareyev A. A.
Published: September 2023

Modern approaches to the organization of students’ independent work based on the use of information and communication technologies are both a promising opportunity and a challenge for education due to its ongoing digitalization. This paper attempts to describe an algorithm for the preparation to such an independent work based on students’ profession-oriented blogging in a foreign language. This algorithm can be replicated by any foreign language teacher interested in developing the professional foreign language competence of future technical university graduates and implies a number of procedures. Starting from the analysis of regulatory documentation and determining the objectives and methods of students’ independent work, it is then suggested to form an expert group for further evaluation of this independent work’s results, the structure, content and levels of the competences to be developed, to organize a pedagogical assessment of the criteria to evaluate these results, as well as to prepare the information content and think through the technical support. The results of experimental work enable us to speak of high effectiveness of the given algorithm, as it implies the focus on professional orientation of students’ independent work which most foreign language teachers find challenging.
FEATURES OF THE TRANSLATION OF KOREAN ETIQUETTE FORMS OF POLITENESS INTO RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH (on the example of KYUNG SUK SHIN’S novel “Please look after mom”)
Authors: Khamatgalieva A. R.
Published: September 2023

The politeness category demonstrates significant national specifics in terms of linguistic expression, in the forms in which this category is implemented. There is a particular interest in the comparison of the politeness category in European and East Asian linguistic cultures, which are so noticeably different from each other in many ways. The article discusses the features of the translation of the national specifics of the politeness category of the Korean language into other languages, namely, into Russian and English, using the example of Kyung Suk Shin's novel “Please look after mom”, which reveals various traditional and special features of the Korean language, culture and society. The politeness category is inherent in all languages, however, it has differences in composition, means of employing language tools and functions. Comparative analysis of translations of the work “Please look after mom” allows us to conclude that the Korean language has a complex system of politeness forms, which indicates the socio-personal relationships between speakers, listeners and the persons in question, which is the distinguishing feature of the Korean language from other languages. The peculiarities of the politeness category in the Korean language include the fact that it is expressed in polite forms of verbs (namely verb endings), nominal suffixes, and various forms of addresses and personal pronouns.