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The article presents the results of a literature review whose objective was to produce a summary and analysis on diversity in the gerontological field in Latin America and the Caribbean. Studies carried out between 2010 and 2021 on the aging experiences of older people with disabilities, members of the LGBT community, migrants, and Indigenous peoples were reviewed. The literature review was guided by the SALSA (Search, AppraisaL, Synthesis and Analysis) method. The results were analyzed by group, showing central themes for each one: for the disability group, limitations in old age as generators of deterioration and decline, making social participation impossible; for the LGBT group, the weight of social norms that restrict the expression of dissident sexual and gender identities; for the migration group, the intersection with the theme of care and the ambivalences linked to a binational life course; and for the Indigenous group, the tensions between the worldview of First Nations people and the cultural changes impacting their social role. Transversal discursive axes were identified in the corpus, highlighting the unequal and exclusionary old age that many people experience at the same time as the capacity for agency, reinvention, and resistance that these elderly people manifest in their daily practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the development of a system for the generation and detection of optical pulses in the nanosecond range. The system consists of two modules: an excitation module and a detection module. The objective of the system is to perform time-resolved fluorescence measurements. The system uses a photodetector to transform the fluorescence signal into an electrical signal, a signal conditioning circuit, and a digitizing system. The system meets the necessary requirements for time-resolved measurements applications, such as fluorescence measurements. [Extracted from the article]

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A partir de un enfoque basado en tareas se analizan los patrones de empleo ocupacionales y de calificación en los mercados laborales urbanos del Brasil, Colombia y México entre 2002 y 2015. Se observa una fuerte disminución del empleo en ocupaciones de calificación media y un ligero aumento en las de baja y alta calificación. Según una descomposición shift-share, la disminución se explica por cambios intrasectoriales (hipótesis de rutinización) en ciertos casos (secretarios y taquígrafos), y por cambios intersectoriales en otros (artesanos y operadores de máquinas). Los cambios tecnológicos afectaron negativamente a las mujeres y beneficiaron a los jóvenes y a los más calificados. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En este artículo se documentan tres canciones populares para niños en el triqui de Chicahuaxtla, una lengua indígena tonal que se habla en el Estado de Oaxaca, México. El artículo comienza con una descripción general de la lengua, por ejemplo, donde se habla y su estado actual. Las canciones fueron seleccionadas porque se enseñan a todos los niños de la Escuela Primaria Bilingüe Indígena Emiliano Zapata en Miguel Hidalgo Chicahuaxtla, se consideran valiosas por su contenido cultural y son bien conocidas por todo el pueblo. También se incluyen tres grabaciones de cada canción que consisten en interpretaciones habladas, cantadas y por último, tocadas en pizzicato en el violín o rasgueadas en la guitarra igual que partituras que hicimos de las canciones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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De las experiencias de dolor que produce un desequilibrio general en el funcionamiento de una persona, se encuentra la pérdida de un ser querido y la posterior fase de duelo. La muerte, como realidad humana, pone en evidencia la fragilidad y vulnerabilidad de la persona, poniéndola además en una situación de crisis existencia!, con la necesidad de encontrar un sentido de vida frente a la pérdida. En esta perspectiva, este artículo riene el objetivo de presentar, desde la psicología existencial y la psicología cognitiva constructivista, el papel de la espiritualidad como estrategia de afrontamiento en el duelo. Para ello se analizan las posturas de ambos enfoques, y se relacionan con la experiencia de profesionales de la psicología y otras ciencias sociales, en el acompañamiento de personas en duelo. Con base en el análisis de los textos y de las experiencias compartidas, se concluye que la espiritualidad es una estrategia de afrontamiento cognitivo importante en la elaboración del duelo, ya que permite a la persona encontrar un nuevo sentido a su existencia e integrar este sentido a su contacto con el mundo. Al vivir la ausencia de la persona que ha fallecido, se fortalece una sensación de bienestar físico, emocional, psicológico y espiritual frente al duelo y experiencia de muerte. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A clinical case report of 3 years old child was conducted. The child has a history of overweight since having 2 months of age and retardation of the psychomotor development that began at the age of 3 months with symptoms of generalized obesity, high size, convergent strabismus, horizontal nystagmus, macrocrania, and facial dysmorphia. The first likely diagnosis was a metabolic endocrine syndrome. The child was referred from the Provincial Service of Endocrinology, for further studies and to determine the final diagnosis to the Pediatric Endocrinology Service cat the Pediatric Teaching Hospital of Havana a bibliographic checking of the medical literature regarding to the first diagnosis was done and the main clinical characteristics, studies and treatment were presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the impact that the social responsibility commitments of multinational companies are can have in the settlement of labor disputes that arise in its supply chain through a landmark case that occurred in Peru. There, the en masse dismissal of union members and their representatives by the textiles company Topy Top was resolved through the intervention of two international brands that were clients of that company. This intervention not only enabled the reinstatement of the workers, but also generated a series of instruments designed to develop a mature system of industrial relations. Through an analysis of the agreements and instruments adopted and the way the relationship between the company and the union developed thereafter, we evaluate the role that multinational companies can assume to ensure the compliance of fundamental labor rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In Latin American literary studies, many discussions of nature in fiction lead to parallel considerations of elements that are not considered part of the natural world: culture and technology. Considering the basic concepts of ecocriticism, this essay analyses the manner in which nature flourishes within some Latin American novels of the 20th and 21st centuries. In this study, we will begin with a brief discussion of the background of canonical literary texts to come to an understanding of nature and technology. We will then move onto an ecocritical reading of later Latin American fiction by Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa and Roberto Bolaño. Moreover, we will discuss the potential interest of the Latin American urban novel in ecocritical analysis as well as the manner in which these authors create a relationship between man, culture, technology, and nature in their novels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Desde la crisis financiera de 2008 hay 8 millones más de europeos sin empleo. La recesión prolongada entraña otros riesgos examinados aquí: exclusión laboral, costos económicos del desempleo de larga duración y pérdida del potencial generador de empleo de las empresas. Ante esta situación, el autor analiza críticamente las políticas europeas, en especial la austeridad impuesta en 2010 y sus implicaciones a largo plazo para las economías, sociedades y mercados laborales europeos. Destaca asimismo los hallazgos empíricos de los artículos del presente número, que sugieren la urgencia de adoptar políticas capaces de corregir las tendencias actuales. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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La actuación incompleta frente a la crisis ha acarreado secuelas. Desde el principio se hizo hincapié en los estímulos a la economía, en reducir las pérdidas de empleos y en el sostén a los estratos más débiles. Así se logró impedir otra Gran Depresión, a costa de ahondar los déficits públicos, pero se cometió el error de salvar los bancos a la deriva sin reformar el sistema financiero disfuncional que había desencadenado la crisis. Ahora, la reacción de los mercados financieros a la elevación del endeudamiento público ha hecho volver al mundo al rumbo tradicional de una economía política de libre mercado, saneamiento de la hacienda pública, adelgazamiento del Estado y retroceso de la protección social. Ahora acechan dos peligros: la agravación de la desigualdad y la inestabilidad económica. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From pre-Colombian times until mid twentieth century, the Suarez river valley in Colombia was an important cotton production area characterized by its mountainside farming of crops such as sugar cane and other subsistence products. Such farming paralleled an important home-made textile production that had its downfall due to the competition from the English textile industry. A wealthy farm owner tried to update the state of the art of local textile industry in his lands, but he was unable to transform the agricultural aspect of the activity. The article describes farming techniques, competition from another regional enterprise for limited primary material, trading problems, difficulties emerging from a deficient transportation network, and the lack of capacity for this mountainside cotton to meet the needs of regional factories and to compete with the mechanical production of the flat lands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With more than ten years of life, Revista Latina de Comunicación Social has become an important showcase of thought and of Ibero-American research in the field of social communication. Retrieving the keywords or, failing that, the titles of articles published, we have analyzed the issues covered and their evolution. The methodology is based on statistics of words (originals), of the conceptual discussed and the coocurrences of these fields in the description of each article fields in which they were regrouped to identify the topics. Through eleven years, attention was most payed on the press, journalism, television and new digital technologies (Internet). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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