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One of the essential functions of university teachers lies in the decision-making process regarding the various components included in assessment process design, where the quality of assessment tasks is a key aspect. This study presents both validation of an instrument for students to evaluate the assessment tasks and the model that upholds the relationships between constructs that characterise the assessment tasks. Working from a review of the literature, a theoretical model has been devised featuring the characteristics of the assessment tasks and the relationships between them. The Analysis of the Assessment and Learning Tasks questionnaire (ATAE) has been designed to check them, based on a formative measurement model. Using a cohort design, a total of 1,166 questionnaires were obtained, completed by students from the Business Administration and Management (BAM) and Finance and Accounting (F&A) degree courses. The measurement model and the structural model were evaluated by means of the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) technique using SmartPLS_3 software. The results show no collinearity problems plus high levels of absolute and relative importance for each questionnaire item. From the students' perception, it should be highlighted that the challenging aspect of an assessment task is related to transfer of learning, and that this is measured by use of communication strategies and demonstration of in-depth understanding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The pending challenge of assessment in higher education, although also at other educational levels, continues to be its effective link with student learning. Students' strategic learning could and should be achieved by the assessment. This paper arises from the attempt to answer the question about what would be the future of assessment in higher education and it is presented under the form of a collaborative text that was elaborated by all the authors who sign it. This contribution offers a joint reflection by various authors from different contexts and regions on three essential aspects. First, the need for reflection and a change in assessment based on current trends that are demonstrating their timeliness and validity is highlighted. A second issue focuses on the value of technology for the changes that are taking place on assessment, but as long as it adapts to its principles and, therefore, does not imply a return to the last century under the dominance of models today widely overcome. Together with the use of technology-enhanced assessment, the interrelationship between assessment and learning implies to redesign assessment practices, to incorporate proposals from the fields of social justice and sustainable assessment, the design of authentic assessment tasks, to promote feedback and encourage students' participation. In brief, to collaborate to develop the students' evaluative judgment in order to achieve free, socially responsible and fair citizens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rule of "pico y placa" in different cities in Colombia is implemented to reduce the number of vehicles in transit during the day or during peak hours and as an effect, a decrease in gases emission. This work consists of the realization of an agent-based simulation model that allows to evaluate the implementation of this rule in the municipality of Medellín, its effects in terms gases emission and impact at the level of vehicular crowding. The primary information is that provided by the Mobility Secretary of Medellín and interviews with experts. Subsequently, the need to control the number of vehicles that transit is identified, since the amount of CO (carbon monoxide) emissions shows a significant decrease with the implementation of the rule respect to a system without mobility restrictions. It is also observed that the travel time in the selected crossing decreases considerably, due to the lower number of vehicles present. It also identifies to carry out further studies that shows a behaviour closer to reality, in terms of a larger geographical region and that include a larger set of pollutants when evaluating the simulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Zika is an emerging disease in Venezuela and in the state of Zulia, it generally evolves in a benign manner and can produce complications such as Guillain-Barré syndrome and microcephaly in newborns. Itis proposed to describe the clinical and epidemiological aspects of the Zika outbreak and the cases of microcephaly. The research is descriptive, cross-sectional, conducted from May 2016 to March 2017. The population consisted of 1,155 suspected cases, with a sample of 228 patients, resulting in 108 positive PCR in real time. The largest number of cases occurred at the age of 17 to 33 years (59.3%), with a predominance of females (81.5%), in the municipalities of Maracaibo and San Francisco (75%). In relation to the symptomatology, the frequent are rash (84.3%), headache and fever (76.9%), while arthralgia (65.7%) and myalgia (47.2%) are less common. During the outbreak, there were two deaths of the male sex, representing 1.9%; 146 cases with Guillain-Barré syndrome and 7 cases with microcephaly, corresponding to the male sex (85%), with a newborn gestational age of 37.4 weeks and 85% survival. The main recommendation should be directed to the control of the transmitting vector of the disease and to make the diagnosis of the suspicious cases for their confirmation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright of Revista Facultad Nacional de Salud Pública is the property of Universidad de Antioquia, Facultad Nacional de Salud Publica and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

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Objective: to identify the social representations (SR) of health education (HE) of the professors from the School of Medicine of the University of Antioquia in the city of Medellin. Methodology: a qualitative study was conducted focusing on the (SR), where the answer to the question "How do you define he?" given by 93 professors was analyzed. Results: the analysis of the data produced the following sr of he: 1) Medical Education associated with the educator's job; 2) Education for individuals and communities associated to the professional work done by health professionals; and 3) Appropriation of the knowledge for self-care. Discussion: the SR of the professors about he allowed us to understand: that there is no political intention for social reform in the curriculum; that the model of communication underlying this education is the informational one, although there are instances of the relational model; that an instrumental notion of HE exists. Thus, it is necessary to make health practitioners aware of the importance of the relational model of communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following essay focuses on one of the main factors in the marginal quality of Andrés Caicedo's literary works: his adoption of urban situations presented through teenaged characters markedly influenced by mass media and drug cultures. The connection and interrelation among this element and others such as his use of neogothic elements and his exploratory representations of sexuality and gender are also indicated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The research target was to value Sechium edule as a nutrition alternative for displaced families living in Popayan's marginal urban settlements, aiming to contribute to the traditional knowledge recuperation associated it's use and management, to identify the sociocultural significance as an alternative to mantain the links with the country, to evaluate the productivity and management possibilities in urban marginal areas. The process was carried out by means of "participative investigation" where actors participated on recreative dynamics, sensibilization and socialization workshops, knowledge generating and exchanging tours which also served for exchanging seeds, permitting to obtain information and empowerment with the process. Three communities of Popayan were defined as study areas, four settlements were selected and 116 interviews made. The settlements were visited monthly for informal dialogues with the participating families. The plant's management possibilities were studied and it's cultivation under an urban cultivation scheme in association with other orchard species incentivated. The adptation of the system under the settlement's condition was asessed as a an alimentary alternative for these population. The consumption of sub-utilized species and the ecotype's conservation were encouraged. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo enfoca en el rol de los instrumentos musicales, como idiófonos, membranófanos y aerófanos en el mundo prehispánico. Empieza con una descripción de los idiófonos, como el chicahuaztli que representaba el rayo de sol que fertilizaba la tierra y que era insignia del dios de la fecundidad Xipe Tótec. El artículo concluye con una descripción del uso de los membranófanos y aerófanos.

A new approach, stemming in the Aristotelian classical conception of First Philosophy, is put forward for consideration at the endless but fruitful discussion about the universal concept of communication, held from its philosophical and epistemological spheres among researchers and theorists of the academy. In principle, this approach intends to establish the what is and the what for of communication. Subsequently, which is its object of study, and its category in knowledge. Finally, the contribution by some of the most important theorists of communication is briefly examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Los organismos Helicobacter spp son observados con frecuencia en el estómago de gatos y de perros, la relación entre estos microorganismos y la patología gástrica aún no ha sido claramente comprendida, difiriendo de la enfermedad gástrica humana donde el Helicobacter pylori es de gran importancia. Helicobacter spp se puede encontrar en todas las regiones gástricas, aunque con menos frecuencia y número en el antro. La presencia de múltiples especies de estos organismos se ha demostrado en los estómagos de gatos y los perros, donde pueden desempeñar diferentes funciones en la patogenia de la enfermedad gástrica. No hay relación entre la densidad de la colonización y la severidad de la inflamación de la mucosa o el número de los folículos linfoides observados en perros, no obstante en gatos, el helicobacter gástrico fue asociado a los cambios comparables a los de la gastritis crónica. Esta revisión bibliográfica contempla los aspectos importantes y de actualidad de la prevalencia, patogenia, vías de transmisión, aspectos relacionados con la salud pública, métodos diagnósticos y tratamientos de la helicobacteriosis canina y felina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This current document, which is the result of a piece of research, makes a tour of the pedagogic thinking of Paulo Freire and Luis Oscar Londoño Zapata, its relationship with the personalist Christian thought, the influence of the theology of liberation and how through the knowledge of reality itself, the subject can determine himself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the exchange of communication between and among different cultures over time through the work of Spanish sociologist Manuel Martín Serrano. It examines the impact of globalization during the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including innovations in technology, on communication. The author comments on Serrano's ideas regarding transculturation, or cultural exchanges between societies. The representative aspects of communication, social reproduction, and public communication are also explored.

When ore components, valuable and gangue minerals, require separation by means of physical processing, it is important to obtain a suitable liberation grade among such mineral species, which in turn will allow the adequate interaction of them with the physical and chemical agents for extraction. Liberation grade studies by mean of ore microscopy (OM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) are important for design of mineral processing flow sheets, as well as for optimization of processes. In this paper several studies performed are shown, to demonstrate the uses of the scanning electron microscopy (SEM) with energy dispersion spectroscopic (EDS) analysis to obtain the liberation degree of the minerals of an ore and its application for design, control and optimization in mineral processing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We describe the case of a Boxer dog, male 9 years old was presented with cardiac tamponade four times by recurrent pericardial effusions, which undertaken a partial pericardiectomy subphrenic as definitive treatment. During surgery a small mass was detected in the cardiac base, whose size was not visible during echocardiography done to the patient. Biopsy of the mass corresponded to a paraganglioma or quimodectoma. The division of this was not possible due to its vascularisation, but partial single pericardiectomy subphrenic allowed prolong survival in this patient with an excellent quality of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes a case of a 3 month old female miniature schnauzer that exhibited excessive salivation, ataxia and disorientation after consuming puppy food. The physical examination revealed delayed growth for the puppy's age, an altered mental status, and a behavior of pushing its head against the walls. Hematological tests revealed a five-fold increase in ALT and a three-fold increase in FA. Abdominal X-rays revealed microhepatica, confirmed by ultrasound. Portosistemic anastomosis was the presumptive diagnosis. Medical and dietary treatment resulted in a favorable clinical evolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this work (Part II) it is to check the resistance of the union bars elements which conform the metallic structure of the Spanish greenhouse cultivation, EMBA-MSC, under the extreme climatic conditions of our country for the case of the lash of winds hurricane of up to 180 km/h, as well as to carry out the dynamic analysis to check the occurrence of the resonance effect in the same one. The calculation will be carried out applying modern techniques of analysis and simulation, applying the Method of the Finite Elements (MEF). In this part, it is obtained the maximum tensions which are taken place in the different elements of the structure, starting from the calculation of the loads produced by the wind in different directions, the first four values and the respective ways of its structure frequencies, as well as the wind speed critical value for which the resonance phenomenon could show up. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]