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Clinical trials focused on anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) use multiple assessment methods to determine the effectiveness of the interventions; however, the tests used depend on the authors' criteria. The purpose of this study was to determine the assessment tools used in ACLR with autograft or allograft clinical trials. A search of the Cochrane, Scielo, Pubmed, Epistemonikos and PEDro databases was performed until May 10, 2024. Inclusion criteria focused on systematic reviews or meta-analyses from the last five years that specified the type of graft, included follow-up details, and were in English or Spanish. Exclusion criteria contained studies without population numbers, description of sex or no available access. There are post-surgical follow-up times to assess strength that exceed 24 months. The evaluation instruments used included the Limb Symmetry Index (LSI), isokinetic and isometric strength tests; clinical tests such as Lachman, Pivot Shift Test. Functional assessments such as Sigle leg Hop Test; Ccestionaries associated with surgery and function such as the IKDC, Lysholm, Tegner, Shellbourne Trumper; and finally, subjective assessments such as anterior knee pain, pain on kneeling, Active Join Position Sense Assessment. Numerous assessment tools are available after ACL reconstruction, but it is essential to identify the most effective ones in clinical settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is focused on the comparative construction between the variables of the ECLO work climate assessment and the different evaluation instruments of the work environment recognized in the market and implemented in companies due to the need to preserve adequate management in the mental health of employees, since they compromise the work climate and generate various effects on the progress of companies. Consequently, the development of the work was carried out through the methodology of systematic analysis comparing the variables of the different instruments and establishing the potential of each tool to measure organizational conditions. Allowing in this way to determine that ECLO has a great evaluative advantage over the other tests due to its wide content of components, which allow it to investigate several organizational aspects. The instruments share evaluation components, allowing for a comprehensive overview of organizational components to make managerial decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

INTRODUCTION: The clinical spectrum of SARS-CoV-2 infection ranges from asymptomatic infection to severe illness. When there are symptoms, they can be variable and appear on different days of the disease, which is why laboratory tests are necessary to place the patient in which stage of clinical evolution he is. The point of view is how to interpret the types of diagnostic tests commonly used for SARS-CoV-2. MATERIAL AND METHOD: It was a sample of 368 patients. The collected data was made up of three variables: rRT-PCR result, IgM and IgG. RESULTS: 43.4% of the subjects classified in scenario 1 (Healthy), followed by scenario 2 (Window period) and 5 (Active period of infection), with 28.3% and 17.3% respectively. The remaining percentage was classified as follows: scenario 3 (5.4%) (Early infection); stage 7 (2.4%) (Final period of infection); stage 8 (1.9%) (past infection and cured); scenario 6 (0.9%) (Disease evolving towards cure); stage 4 (0.4%) (Early infection with false negative PCR). COMMENTS: Detectable virus can be determined by PCR and a combination of IgG and IgM antibodies to establish a diagnostic timeline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

International organizations recommend students to develop some scientific competences during their academic process. Therefore, it was sought to analyze its development through the implementation of a didactic unit in a group of sixth graders. This research implemented a mixed focus under a quasi-experimental design that counted on an experimental group and a control group. A didactic unit, whose school activities were prepared attending to students' learning needs and styles, was implemented in this research, within two tests applied to determine the level of development of the scientific competence. Instruments for collecting qualitative information were considered (observation and a class journal), with the implementation of the didactic unit propitiated an increase in the level of development of the scientific competence. The observation and recording of a class journal helped prove the importance of implementing activities in which students take an active role. Designed activities which consider the styles, characteristics and needs of the students propitiate the development of the scientific competence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Problematizing some of the mains aspects of the sociologies of the individual is the aim of this article with the intention of collaborating for a better understanding of the concepts and methods that have been mobilized for the sociological objectification of individual existence. Three central perspectives of this field are discussed: Bernard Lahire's theory of action, Jean-Claude Kaufmann's theory of habits, and Danilo Martuccelli's theory of individuation. It is considered in that choice the similar type of sociological practice that these authors carry out, which is sustained by a continuous relationship between research and original theorization. The article presents the contributions of the sociologies of the individual to contemporary sociological theory, underlining them as part of a heterogeneous theoretical-methodological field still in development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ensuring the quality and functionality of a software product is to guarantee its correct structure, composition, execution, and integrity, but, in some cases, these characteristics are affected due to inefficient software management and development. The aim of this review was to identify good practices when using behavior-driven development. In its development, we investigated research articles categorized in indexed journals, in databases such as IEEE, ScienceDirect, Scielo, Scopus, and Redalyc, prepared between 2016 and 2020. The analysis and review allowed to identify good practices, such as the use of scenarios that are exclusively for tests of functionality; the organization of characteristics in folders, according to system scenarios; the contextualization of the operation in the same language as the clients, to facilitate communication; the use of labels to group scenarios; the organization of characteristics according to needs; and the generation of scenarios without dependency. We concluded that these good practices allow for adequate communication, structured software design, functional quality of each component of the code, and, above all, for an efficient product with a minimum risk of loss of resources and a high margin of success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is devoted to the experience of using distance technologies in training for the program "Translator in the field of professional communication", it's features in blended format and the organization of testing for distance learning. Testing is one of the most technologically advanced forms of conducting automated control with controlled quality parameters. In this sense, none of the well-known forms of student knowledge control can be compared with testing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Testing is a modern high-quality method of knowledge check. Informatization which began in the late XX - early XXI century contributed to the growth of various tests. However, the inclusion of tests in the educational process is at a slower pace. This is largely due to the lack of a methodological basis for test development. It is proved that the test control methodology is an interdisciplinary theory that combines the achievements of pedagogy, psychology, measurement theory, quality theory, statistics, mathematics, organization and management theory. The article describes the principle of the testing methodology; the type and kinds of tests are determined, as well as the methodological principles for high-quality text creation. The criteria are described that must be met by tests: relations with education and training, objectivity, systematicity and comprehensive nature, relevance, the relationship of increasing difficulty content and form, and test optimality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Contemporary political disputes over the past are often characterized as a struggle between the historical facts and the narratives that are constructed about those facts. This presentation returns to the classical rhetorical tradition to think about the relationship between memory and rhetoric and the relationship between facts and accounts. The talk is grounded in a concrete example of efforts to remember a displaced community and the interplay between material facts and communal narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article deals with the preliminary proceeding, about investigation, collection and evaluation of the evidences in medieval penal trial. The opening of the article is about the origin of the inquisitorial trial and the gradual differentiation from the traditional accusatorial trial; then it's about the different probatory instruments used in proceeding; finally it's about the evaluation methods of evidences from judge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to disclose the results of a field test protocol planned and implemented to evaluate the performance behavior of a 1200 kW engine-generator, originally operated with natural gas, converted to liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from Cusiana oil wells in Colombia. The peculiarity of the liquefied petroleum gas from Cusiana, a byproduct in the drying process of the natural gas, is its high butane content (above 30%). For the assessment of the LPG fuel on the performance of the engine-generator set, it was coupled a resistive load bank, and instrumented for low and high speed data, and emissions. It was designed an experimental procedure that combines starting, steady state, and transient loads. The analysis focuses mainly on the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the quality of the energy generated the fuel consumption, and the developed power. In general, the engine-generator has operated normally with Cusiana LPG fuel in the state of enlistment in which it was tested, maintaining satisfactory thermal regimes. It has delivered power in a stable manner under the conditions of load according to the forecasts of its owners, although much lower than the nominal rated power advertised for natural gas. The acceleration, velocity and displacement vibration values do not exceed the limit values given by the ISO 8528-9. The operation of the engine was safe, and at no point of operation detonation was detected for the loads. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research on the prosecution of human trafficking is scarce in South America. This paper provides evidence of criminal procedures for this offense in Madre de Dios, one of Peru's emblematic gold mining enclaves. I demonstrate that prosecutors' behaviour is shaped by a plurality of actions, which contrasts contemporary scholarship focus on rational choice theory. I also shed light on penal selection patterns, or why prosecutors prioritize some cases instead of others. Although discretion is certainly a key aspect, I find that other variables--such as the cultural organization within justice practitioners--play an important role to explain the aforementioned behaviour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reviews concepts, methodologies and quality standards in software testing processes. The process used to validate and verify the degree of fulfillment of requirements initially raised for the development of the Integrated Platform for the Provision of Services and Health Monitoring Plans in the Work - ASSIST, is presented. The platform was developed by the company SYSNET, within the framework of the competition 709 done by Colciencias in 2015 for a group of four Health Provider Institutions - IPS. This methodology for software testing processes can be considered as a good practice in Software Engineering for the verification and validation of requirements through product testing. This facilitates the development of applications and the quality assurance of the software product. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mathematical knowledge tests in the Primary Education Degree are necessary at the start of the subject Mathematics and its Didactics. The Indispensable Knowledge and Skills Test for students of 6th of Primary in the Region of Madrid has been chosen and the arithmetics and geometry problems from 2011 and 2014 selected, giving them to the degree students during academic years from 11/12 to 14/15. Out of the 390 subjects the sample consist of, in two of the years analyzed the students obtain marks above 50 % in elementary arithmetics. The highest mark in elementary geometry is 38 %. This indicates that the student's elementary mathematics knowledge is poor or, given it was ever good, students have lost it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes the main tests faced by individuals belonging to the middle classes in Cali, in the framework of its relations of friendship and couple. These challenges that affect different areas of your personal life, work and family are part of the relational dynamics that characterized such groups and that are the product of the economic, political and cultural transformations that have characterized the recent history of Colombian society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses in depth, a conviction for the offense of receiving, issued by the Circuit Criminal Court 30 of Bogotá (Colombia), in term of the adversarial system provided in the Legislative Act 03 of 2002 and Act 906 of 2004. Through a deconstruction process, I show the arguments of the judicial office to take an adverse choice to the interests of the sentenced and the possible flaws that could incur, based on the guidelines of the criminal dogmatic, the improper evidence assessment and the failure of the constitutional principles underlying criminal proceedings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the design of a computational tool for software test documentation. The tool manages documents as the master plan test; level plans, cases and procedures test; anomalies report and test reports, which are part of a proper documentation of software testing. Using package and use cases diagrams the functionality available in the tool is described, which has been designed from the IEEE 829 Standard. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines some of the best known proficiency tests in English, with particular focus on the oral component. Attention is paid to the following issues, among others: the weighting of oral elements in testing, the criteria used for the assessment of oral skills and the relation of these to the general guidelines in the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR), and the kinds of tasks and marking systems used for assessment. Our aim is to evaluate these tests as a means of determining the extent to which they can be considered valid tools for the assessment of oral performance, considering their significance, relevance and implications in the broader context of the modern world. We contend that, as is the case with teaching processes in general, which need to be continuously evaluated and reformulated, this is true of English testing, especially oral skills, given the special nature of the spoken language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The crushing of tractor operators is the main risk of accident when using agricultural machines. Protection structures are an alternative to prevent suffering injury operator when a rollover is present. The objective of this work is to evaluate the performance of these structures mounted on agricultural tractors sold in Mexico. The methodology is based on the Mexican standard NMX-O-181-SCFI-2003, which is the OECD code 4. The tests were conducted in the test laboratory of the National Center of Farm Machinery Standardization (CENEMA) belonging to INIFAP. A total of 50 protection structures were tested, mounted on 107 tractor models. From these, 13 structures have been rejected because they do not meet the objective of protecting the security zone when a rollover occurs. The main cause of rejection is the invasion of the safety zone before starting with the application of loads. This means that in most cases there isn't a resistance problem in structures, the problem is the configuration of tractor tested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Eleven years have passed since the Constitutional Court of Colombia began to evident procedural excess (Case T-1306,2001).In this figure, the work presented here argues that there are two variants, one of which is directly related to the evidentiary issue. In this sense, i.e., when evident procedural excess is preached as an error of the trial judge related to the topic of evidence, and more accurately when reviewing writ he is forced to practice a certain number of them it is hard not to conclude that with regard to evident procedural excess we are taking over guardianship to a form of last resort in terms of proof, and not only for the protection of fundamental rights. Moreover, it can be argued that the Constitutional Court, under the idea that the judge has a duty to pursue the truth, and above all find it, he ventures into the relevant facts of each case which involves evident procedural excess or, at least, suggests precisely the way forward for the trial judge to give the fundamental right to a party. However, It be must be said that this incursion by the constitutional judge in matters of the ordinary headquarters, is due to, in part, and within the strict limits of the figure discussed here, the fact that in Colombia on matter of evidence we share two systems: the inquisitorial and regulatory system; equally, to the way some rules of procedural law (especially related to - the duty of judges to decree evidence) are expressed, but above all, to an understanding of what the process itself means in relation to the protection of fundamental rights and the prevalence of substantive law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The order in which evidence is presented to a criminal court might influence the verdict. This study investigated the serial position effect in a judicial context. 1831 Swiss criminal judges received a filmed mock trial with a specific order stemming from the combination of 3 witnesses: a forensic expert, an eyewitness and an alibi witness. The evidence order was completely counterbalanced and each witness represented a different type of testimony chosen in accordance with the legal practice. If judges rendered their verdict on the basis of the first witness, a primacy effect would be observed. Conversely, if the last testimony would be preponderant, a recency effect would influence their judgment. Results showed a recency effect based on a defence eyewitness whose placement in the last position provoked significantly less condemnations. Furthermore, the probative value estimated by the judges for each piece of evidence was not associated with its serial impact. Results are discussed in relation to legal decision-making and the identification of a central witness mediating order effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study describes the process of developing the Experiences of Violence in Couple and Family Relationships in University Students Questionnaire, its psychometric properties and the results of the pilot study. The research design used for this study was a nonexperimental, transversal co relational design. The nonrandomized sample consisted of 267 students. The final version of the questionnaire consisted of 41 items and four sub-scales which measured experiences with violence in a relationship as an Aggressor and as a Victim, Observed between the Parents and in the Parent-child relationship as a victim. The total scale and the subscales obtained adequate reliability indexes. On average, the sample reported ten experiences with violence in different contexts. The results of this study contribute data on the prevalence of violence in college students' romantic and family relationships which in turn, provide valuable information for planning prevention and early intervention efforts with this population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When arguments are refuted in mathematics classrooms, the ways in which they are refuted can reveal something about the logic of practice evolving in the classroom, as well as about the epistemology that guides the teachers' teaching. We provide four examples that illustrate refutations related to the logic of practice, in which sufficiency and relevance are grounds for refutation, as opposed to falsehood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The burden of proof rests upon the person who makes the allegation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The norms that regulate the validation of evidence in Venezuelan labor proceedings were analyzed to determine the scope and limits of the labor judge.The research was of a descriptive, documentary, observational and non-experimental type, based on verdicts issued by the Social Cassation Court of the Supreme Court of Justice. Results indicated that healthy criticism as a system for the validation of evidence adopted by the legislator constitutes an adaptation of Venezuelan judicial ordinance to modern conceptions, in which the judge in this evaluative activity must use reason and logic, psychology, as well as other scientific and technical knowledge to facilitate his task of reconstructing past events, examining the evidence as a whole, and reasoning out and justify his decisions, so that he can exercise legal control over the judgment. Conclusions were that the success of this system depends on the preparation and training of competent and capable judges for the administration of justice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Se comparó la capacidad discriminatoria, costo y facilidad de aplicación de tres pruebas para medir el comportamiento higiénico en 60 colonias de abejas melíferas en un primer experimento. Las crías operculadas de estas colonias fueron sacrificadas al puncionarlas con un alfiler entomológico (P), y congelarlas en congelador a -18°C (CC) con nitrógeno líquido a -195°C (CN2). Se determinó el porcentaje de crías removidas por las abejas 24 h después de que fueron sacrificadas. Como consecuencia de la poca discriminación entre colonias inicialmente encontrada con la prueba P, se realizó un experimento adicional con 50 colonias, reduciendo el tiempo de lectura a 8 h y se verificó el efecto producido por la emanación de olores y fluidos de las crías sacrificadas. Las colonias fueron significativamente más higiénicas (P < 0.01) con la prueba P (88%), en comparación con la de CC (69%) y CN2 (65%). Se encontraron correlaciones significativas entre pruebas (r > 0.54, P < 0.01) y entre repeticiones dentro de pruebas (r > 0.37, P < 0.01). La variación entre colonias fue mayor con las pruebas CN2 y CC que con la P. La prueba P fue la más económica y práctica de aplicar (6.59 pesos, 0.58 dólares, por colonia), pero mostró menor capacidad discriminatoria, que no se incrementó aun cuando se redujo el tiempo de lectura. Este resultado pudo deberse al fuerte estímulo provocado por olores y hemolinfa emanados de las crías sacrificadas. Las pruebas CN2 y CC mostraron alta capacidad discriminatoria, pero la primera fue más cara (14.80 pesos, 1.31 dólares) y la menos práctica. La prueba CC fue la segunda más económica (10.15 pesos, 0.90 dólares) y práctica. Se recomienda aplicar cualquiera de las pruebas de congelación para medir el comportamiento higiénico de colonias de abejas melíferas por su confiabilidad. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital information and Procedure Law, face us with the greatest challenge such is the use of Digital information, which dominate all our activities, in an environment that, despite we like or not, exists and to that, we must put under, as is The law and Procedure Law. It is necessary to have tech and legal knowledge, in order to achieve a correct treatment in legal area, where the requirements and forms have an origin and foundation that they always look for to preserve the confidence in a as sensible subject as is the Judiciary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]