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The purpose of this article is to characterize the community care actions that have been part of the coping strategies adopted during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in the Independencia commune in Santiago, Chile. Despite the fact that the organized community mobilized resources and worked tirelessly to sustain life from the very beginning of the pandemic, the authorities have insisted on blaming the population for the spread of the virus, pointing to an alleged neglect of care. As part of a qualitative case study, intended to characterize community response to the pandemic, twelve semi-structured interviews were held with members of different social organizations in Independencia, along with a number of ethnographic visits. The analysis characterizes the territory, and addresses the social consequences left by the pandemic, the community actions taken in this context, and the community's assessment of these. The results allow us to sustain that organizational logics have changed in Independencia since the so-called Chilean Estallido Social or Social Outburst which took place in October 2019, and, in this context of socio-political crisis and deficient state response, the health emergency is being dealt with by means of community care actions. We conclude that people respond to the consequences of the pandemic collectively, through actions intended to sustain life, and to constitute a political praxis derived from the revitalization of the community fabric as a result of the social outbreak. The originality and contribution of this article is that it addresses an experience that encourages reflection on the importance of care in sustaining a community. It points to an anthropology of community care that promotes and disseminates the possibilities of a caring social life, understanding that we exist in a world that requires extensive reparations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Background: From the perspective of institutional theory, this paper studies the relation between the abilities of family-member CEOS and the financial performance of listed family companies, in a setting of formal institutional weakness. Methodology: The study sample is composed of non-financial family firms listed in the Mexican Stock Exchange during the 2001-2014 period. Econometric analysis is attained through linear models for panel data, estimated by ordinary least squares (ols). To take into account endogeneity concerns, regressions are run through the generalized method of moments (gmm). Results: The results obtained indicate that better corporate financial outcomes are achieved with external CEOS than with family-member CEOS, even when their abilities, in terms of experience and academic background, are similar. The inverse relation found between family-member CEOS and financial performance was moderated when the CEOS had a high business-related academic background, thus acquiring the skills and greater perspective needed to cope with the higher transaction costs and increased business risks present in environments of formal institutional weakness as is the case in Mexico. Conclusions: In a context of formal institutional weakness, investment in businessrelated higher education --of high quality, and in one's own country-- is a good long-term strategy for family businesses that wish to promote a family-member CEO. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La experiencia de la República Centroafricana deja en claro que los esfuerzos mundiales por aumentar la cantidad de niños escolarizados, particularmente en áreas afectadas por conflictos y para niños desplazados, deben prestar más atención a la seguridad y la rendición de cuentas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper considers financial, operational, solvency, and performance ratios in order to detect when there were balance sheets' variations related to the 1994 Mexican currency crisis. Quarterly data for 88 non-financial Mexican companies that survived the crisis are used, and tests for structural change are performed. Results show that generally firms' balance sheets deteriorated between the fourth quarters of 1993 and 1995. Although in most cases firms' balance sheets improved after the crisis, the recovery was partial and gradual, and overall this episode was prejudicial even for surviving companies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes an implementation of digital controllers in a simulation environment for including a hardware platform for running programs generated on a workstation. These programs for both the controller and the plant are generated by software based on parameters using digital control theory for real processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Los autores comunicaron, en un estudio controlado aleatorizado previo, los importantes efectos beneficiosos de la terapia cognitiva en la prevención de recaídas en los pacientes con trastorno bipolar después de un año de terapia. Este estudio presenta los datos de un seguimiento adicional de 18 meses y ofrece una supervisión del efecto terapéutico durante 30 meses. Método: Pacientes con trastorno bipolar I según el DSM-IV (n = 103) que padecían recaídas frecuentes fueron asignados, de forma aleatorizada, a un grupo de terapia cognitiva más medicación o a una condición de control exclusivamente farmacológica. Examinadores independientes, que desconocían la condición del grupo de los pacientes, evaluaron a los pacientes cada 6 meses. Resultados: Durante los 30 meses, el grupo de terapia cognitiva mostró una evolución clínica significativamente más favorable en cuanto al tiempo de recaída. No obstante, el efecto de la prevención de recaídas se observó sobre todo a lo largo del primer año. En el grupo de terapia cognitiva, los 900 días que duraron los episodios bipolares también se acortaron en 110 días (IC 95% = 32 a 189) durante los 30 meses, y los 450 días de episodios bipolares de los últimos 18 meses, en 54 días (IC 95% = 3 a 105). Los análisis multifactoriales de la varianza revelaron que durante los últimos 18 meses el grupo de terapia cognitiva experimentó una mejoría significativa en las puntuaciones del estado de ánimo, el funcionamiento social, el control de los pródromos bipolares y la cognición disfuncional en cuanta a la consecución de objetivos. Conclusiones: Los episodios bipolares de los pacientes pertenecientes al grupo de terapia cognitiva duraron significativamente menos días una vez controlado el efecto del cumplimiento terapéutico. Los resultados mostraron, sin embargo, que la terapia cognitiva no redujo las recaídas de forma significativa durante los últimos 18 meses del período de estudio. Futuros estudios deberán examinar el efecto de las sesiones de refuerzo o de la terapia de mantenimiento. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

La esquizofrenia se considera, en la actualidad, un trastorno de la asociación neuronal funcional que genera síntomas que afectan a diferentes aspectos de la actividad mental, como la percepción, la atención, la memoria y las emociones. Los sustratos neuronales de sus componentes emocionales no se han estudiado en profundidad mediante técnicas de neuroimagen funcional. Estudios previos por neuroimagen examinaron a pacientes con esquizofrenia medicados. Los autores determinaron el flujo sanguíneo cerebral regional (FSCr] durante la realización de una tarea que exigía a los pacientes no medicados reconocer el valor emocional de las imágenes visuales y determinar su carácter placentero o desagradable. Método: Los autores examinaron el FSCr de 17 voluntarios sanos y de 18 pacientes con esquizofrenia que no habían recibido medicación antipsicótica durante un mínimo de 3 semanas mientras respondían a estímulos visuales agradables o desagradables. Se midieron las zonas de aumento o disminución del FSCr utilizando el método [16O] H2O. Resultados: Cuando los pacientes evaluaron conscientemente las imágenes desagradables, no activaron el circuito de reconocimiento miedo-peligro filogenética mente más antiguo (p. Ej. , la amígdala) que utilizaron los voluntarios sanos, aunque sí las valoraron correctamente como desagradables. Los pacientes tampoco mostraron una activación en las regiones de la corteza prefrontal utilizadas, habitualmente, para reconocer el carácter placentero de las imágenes y no pudieron reconocerlas como tales. Las áreas con menor FSC estaban muy dispersas y comprendían regiones subcorticales como el tálamo y el cerebelo. Conclusiones: La utilización de las disfunciones de los sistemas neuronales para demostrar su atribución emocional concuerda con los problemas generalizados de expresión emocional que presentan los pacientes con esquizofrenia. La importante diseminación de dichas aIteraciones sugiere el papel decisivo que desempeñan los núcleos subcorticales en la disfunción generalizada de la asociación neuronal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]