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On April 28, 2021, a social outbreak occurred in Colombia, a demonstration in which the main protagonists were the excluded, racialized and marginalized youth of the country's cities. In this context, the city of Cali was consolidated as the epicenter and referent of social mobilizations at national level, due to the high number of resistance points, the permanence in the streets of the demonstrators, and the embryonic bet of social organization of the Union of Resistance Cali (URC). This paper seeks to reconstruct the process of consolidation of the URC, delving into the difficulties it faced and exalting the organizational forms that emerged in the context of the social outbreak in the city of Cali. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the affective features of the linguistic attitudes of students from different geolectal areas of Colombia who attend to a university in Cali. This city is characterized by its cultural and dialectal plurality, partly due to forced migrations from armed conflict areas. In addition, in recent years, the Colombian State has boosted the access of top students to the university, mostly from rural areas. The diversity of uses of the language that students have built in their home contexts could get in tension with the dynamics of the college environment. From a mentalist perspective in which internal phenomena susceptible of self-observation prevail, it seeks to extrapolate the affective features of the linguistic attitudes of the population studied through a matched-guise and a questionnaire, instruments that inquire perceptions regarding five dialects very frequent used in the university. The results show different assessments of the dialects and an opinion on the Bogota accent as central, prestigious and standard, strongly associated with forms of academic orality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Herein we present some features of the epistemological crises in the educational field, behind the notions of development and communication for development; we also outline some emerging outlooks for each of those features. Thus, in this paper, we share some significant experiences in community communication from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Cali campus) as initiatives that attempt to redeploy the value of different knowledge fields, of intercultural education, of new ways of arranging economic and social life beyond development, as well as the value of invigorating and making visible such transformation proposals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An experience of project incubation for business initiatives is presented in the paper. That experience was developed by the management of technological based projects at Free University of Cali, with the participation of students and professors of the University. There were formulated 18 projects in different economic activities, managing to reach the business plans, to incubate a 38% and to formalize a 17%, with an expectation about the achievement of the total incubation of the projects; taking into account the low desertion level to the program and the market, technical, legal, financial an economic viability that show the business plans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper the results of electromagnetic field characterization produced by wireless communication systems, such radio, TV antennas and mobile telephone base stations in urban environments are presented. The characterization was carried out in 110 sites in the city of Cali - Colombia during three measurement campaigns. In general, the values found were lower than 5% of the reference level established by the International Commission for the Protection of Non-Ionizing Radiation, ICNIRP (0,2 mW/cm²) and adopted by the Colombian government. However, in three sites the measured values were close to this level and in other two sites the level was exceeded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to establish a new urban imaginary of the city of Cali by recognizing its tree landscape potential that identifies the city in its singularity. Graphic-visual representation is the methodology that allows sintaxtic, semantic and pragmatic components, that together with an Urban incursión methodology, designed by this research project that incorporates the method of imagery creation for the purpose of developing a proposing a new one at the social level. A Project is obtained, that develops urban incursión methods and towards a second part that determines the genius-loci of green areas. In a following stage, on-line virtual routes, as well as others are developed in search of an esthetic qualification of the actors that define them as well as the social imagery that results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on in-depth interviews following categories of class, generation and gender, the paper explores the arrival and diffusion of television in the city of Cali (Colombia) between 1954 and 1970. Memories about this slow and uneven process are interpreted within a framework that includes central features of modernization in the region such as the transformation of domestic areas, the acquisition of home appliances, and the revaluation of female labour, among others. Through a detailed description of the role of television in multiples areas of daily life, the study examines the process of incorporation of communication technologies into domestic spheres, understood as an area of convergence for public and private life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the description and correlation of the psychosocial variables anxiety, depression, Perceived Health Control (PHC) and Perceived Control of Life Stress Events (PCLSE) in women diagnosed with HIV/Aids. The research was a non-experimental, descriptive and correlational study, with a transversal design. The sample was composed of 47 HIV/Aids diagnosed women attended at health services from Cali, Colombia. The measures consisted of the Socio-demographic, psychosocial and biomedical information interview for HIV/Aids diagnosed women (designed by the authors) and the Psychological variables assessment battery, adapted for HIV/Aids diagnosed women. The main results show that 23,4% of the sample presents clinical signs of anxiety, 10,63% of depression, 6,3% show low levels of PHC, and the 100% presented moderate levels of PCLSE. The anxiety and depression variables presented a positive correlation, as did PCLSE with anxiety and depression; depression with PHC and anxiety with PHC presented a negative correlation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents a non-experimental and descriptive research, aimed to identify the use of legal and illegal psychoactive drugs and the psychosocial associated risk and protective factors in a sample of 763 college students from Cali, Colombia. A questionnaire to evaluate the use of 4 illegal drugs, 2 legal drugs and 13 psychosocial factors was designed and validated. It was found that the legal drug with a higher level of consume was alcohol and the illegal drug was marijuana. The results show a significant association of psychosocial risk and protective factors with the use of both legal drugs (alcohol c² = 16,54, p = 0,000; tobacco c² = 39,07, p = 0,000) and the use of all the illegal drugs (marijuana c² = 28,41, p = 0,000; ecstasy c² = 17,04, p = 0,000; opiates c² = 6,77, p = 0,034; and cocaine c² = 8,89, p = 0,012). The associated factors for all drugs are specifically: disruptive behaviors, self-control, beliefs and valuation of PAS and the relation with consumers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]