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The article presents an anthology of literary almanacs from the 18th century in Spain, specifically those related to astrology. The anthology, compiled and examined by Eva María Flores Ruiz, focuses on the almanacs published from 1733 to 1767, when they were officially banned by the Spanish government. The book is part of a broader research project on literary almanacs and astronomical forecasts in Spain during the 18th century. [Extracted from the article]

Resumen: En los dos decenios siguientes a la adopción del Pacto Internacional de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales, la OIT aplicó un enfoque realista al defender que el ejercicio de la seguridad y salud en el trabajo (SST) como derecho fundamental pasaba por garantizar ciertas condiciones económicas previas. El presente estudio histórico‐comparativo pasa revista a la actuación de la OIT en ese contexto, a la luz del nuevo complejo de incertidumbre sanitaria mundial y de la incorporación de la SST al marco de principios y derechos fundamentales en el trabajo. Se analiza también la aplicabilidad de un enfoque de realismo vigilante a la labor actual de la OIT en este campo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A Lista de Beall foi desativada em janeiro de 2017. Ela indicava potenciais editoras predatórias, que publicavam artigos de acesso aberto, não revisados por pares, visando o lucro. Isso leva a uma poluição do corpo de textos científicos por conta de informações pseudocientíficas não revisadas, o que é danoso para a ciência como um todo. Nesta entrevista, Beall discute alguns aspectos e impactos da publicação predatória, bem como o dilema da pesquisa de acesso aberto e o que diferentes entidades podem fazer para diminuir a influência das revistas predatórias. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article sets out to review and evaluate the charge of Eurocentrism frequently levelled against Marx and Marxism. The essay begins with an assessment of Esteban Torres's recent attempt to at least partially acquit Marx and Marxism of this charge. It relates Torres's discussion of the problem to broader polemics surrounding the topic. It hones in on debates about Marx's evolving views on European colonialism, and its relationship to capitalism. It pays special attention to the postcolonial critiques advanced by Edward Said and Dipesh Chakrabarty, as well as to more recent decolonial critiques advanced by Walter Mignolo and Ramón Grosfoguel. It also considers Marxist responses to these. It concludes with a revindication of the contributions of heterodox "Third World Marxists" such as Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire, arguing that what is at work in such figures thinking from and for the Global South is not a logic of diffusion, imitation, and mimicry, but rather, can be more accurately portrayed as translation, reinvention, and creative appropriation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Postcards from Leningrad (2007) by Venezuelan director Mariana Rondón questions how the guerrilla struggle in Venezuela in the 1960s goes through the forms of technical reproduction in the formulation of cultural discourses, social temporalities and regimes of historicity that, together, interrogate pasts, presents and futures. Through the analysis of the film, this article interrogates the postulation of identities at die crossroads of time, at the crossroads of discourses, behind a sense and a form of history and culture--of the Revolution, of Modernity-- intertwined by realities and fictions, by triumphs and failures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective was to analyze Corporate Social Responsibility as a competitive strategy in the Costa Oriental del Lago Industrial Slaughterhouse, Compañía Anónima (MATICOLCA). A descriptive research was carried out. The study was a field, non-experimental, cross-sectional study; the population used was 30 workers from the operational and administrative areas of the organization. The results obtained showed weaknesses to become a socially responsible company. To conclude, it was evidenced that a competitive positioning and loyalty strategy is not established, in the belief that there is very little competition in the sector, a situation that indicates an erroneous planning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective was to determine the relationship between human talent management and academic productivity at the Cabimas University Institute of Technology. The research was correlational, of comparative type with field design, non-experimental, transversal. The population consisted of 50 subjects assigned to the academic subdirection. The results showed weaknesses in the selection, orientation and performance evaluation processes; failures in the participation strategies, in the commitment to work, as well as in the shared responsibility. It is concluded that the pedagogical practice of the institution's personnel is not very innovative, which is affecting academic productivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Migrants fleeing economic hardship or violence are entitled to a range of protections and rights under domestic and international law, yet they are often denied such protections in practice. In an era of mass migration and restrictive responses for Central Americans fleeing to Mexico and the United States, Colombians seeking refuge in Ecuador, and Venezuelans displaced to Colombia, Peru, and elsewhere, migrant acceptance is often contingent on the expectation that they contribute economically to the host country while remaining politically and socially invisible. These unwritten expectations, which Jeffrey D. Pugh calls the "invisibility bargain," produce a precarious status in which migrants' visible differences or overt political demands on the state may be met with hostile backlash from the host society. In this context, governance networks of state and non-state actors form an institutional web that can provide indirect access to rights, resources, and protection, but simultaneously help migrants avoid negative backlash against visible political activism. Based on the findings in his book, Pugh discusses the implications of migration for the Latin American region at a time when governments have closed borders and increased restrictions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Background. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the Americas, and hypertension is the most significant modifiable risk factor. However, hypertension control rates remain low, and CVD mortality is stagnant or rising after decades of continuing reduction. In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the HEARTS technical package to improve hypertension control. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) designed the HEARTS in the Americas Initiative to improve CVD risk management, emphasizing hypertension control, to date implemented in 21 countries. Methods. To advance implementation, an interdisciplinary group of practitioners was engaged to select the key evidence-based drivers of hypertension control and to design a comprehensive scorecard to monitor their implementation at primary care health facilities (PHC). The group studied high-performing health systems that achieve high hypertension control through quality improvement programs focusing on specific process measures, with regular feedback to providers at health facilities. Findings. The final selected eight drivers were categorized into five main domains: (1) diagnosis (blood pressure measurement accuracy and CVD risk evaluation); (2) treatment (standardized treatment protocol and treatment intensification); (3) continuity of care and follow-up; (4) delivery system (team-based care, medication refill), and (5) system for performance evaluation. The drivers and recommendations were then translated into process measures, resulting in two interconnected scorecards integrated into the HEARTS in the Americas monitoring and evaluation system. Interpretation. Focus on these key hypertension drivers and resulting scorecards, will guide the quality improvement process to achieve population control goals at the participating health centers in HEARTS implementing countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Environmental protection is a priority at the international level and its evaluation a resource to guide timely decision-making. The objective of the present investigation is to design a procedure to establish an organizational ecosystem in the integrated evaluation of the environment. Consequently, the results provided by the procedure contribute to timely decision-making. The methods were applied: historical-logical, synthesis analysis, surveys, interviews, process modeling and participatory observation. The procedure was conceptualized, designed and applied, obtaining informational resources such as: lists, models and reports. Likewise, the workflow designed in the Business Process Modeling Notation was represented for its subsequent automation. It contributed to identify the capacities of human resources related to the evaluation of the state of the environment and the characteristics of this type of organizational ecosystem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The design of steel trusses is a frequent problem in civil engineering, which requires the experience of the design engineer to achieve a structural solution with good performance and that can satisfy the established needs. In recent years, the design of these systems has been supported by the application of various methods of optimization, which allow optimal solutions, meeting the proposed design objectives, automatically and in a shorter time. This research presents the application of a series of multi-objective metaheuristic algorithms for the automatic design of large-scale trusses. The NSGA-II, MOPSO and AMOSA algorithms were applied and the structures reported in the literature were considered to be made up of a high number of elements. The performance of the algorithms was evaluated based on the computational cost, the hypervolume criterion and the behavior that the algorithms have when increasing the amount of iterations per optimization cycle. The search space used in the optimization was discrete, restricted by the W steel profiles available in the Colombian market. The results obtained show that, for the proposed problems, the MOPSO algorithm is the most efficient, followed by the AMOSA and the NSGA-II which showed a higher computational cost. Finally, it is worth mentioning that the calculation times were less than one hour, for trusses close to a thousand elements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text focuses on the decline of the traditional conceptions of historical unity which, in different ways, encouraged the philosophies of history, as well as the ideologies that this generated, in the modern period. As a result of the comprehension of the limits of historical understanding which has emerged in an atmosphere of rapid change, the dislocation and discontinuity of the 20th century, the decline of the traditional concepts of historical unity through time have highlighted a new vision of human temporal finitude. According to the idea proposed here, the general interest in collective memory that has appeared in the last few decades is tightly linked with this new temporal perspective. In a current context in which mutation and discontinuity have undermined the long-term vision of the philosophy of history and previous ideologies, the concept of collective memory has become an essential prism through which the possibility of social cohesion over time is refracted. There where the contemporary concern about collective memory is stimulated by a search for group cohesion in the midst of changing collective perspectives, its temporal horizon has been frequently characterized by an immersion in the present or a «presentism». Nevertheless, beyond this limited perspective, lies a new outlook on collective memory and the limited scope of human historical comprehension which allows an emphasis on more complex and more qualified contemporary temporal orientations, which are those this article attempts to highlight. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]