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The SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic will disproportionately impact countries with weak economies and vulnerable populations including people with dementia. Latin American and Caribbean countries (LACs) are burdened with unstable economic development, fragile health systems, massive economic disparities, and a high prevalence of dementia. Here, we underscore the selective impact of SARS-CoV-2 on dementia among LACs, the specific strain on health systems devoted to dementia, and the subsequent effect of increasing inequalities among those with dementia in the region. Implementation of best practices for mitigation and containment faces particularly steep challenges in LACs. Based upon our consideration of these issues, we urgently call for a coordinated action plan, including the development of inexpensive mass testing and multilevel regional coordination for dementia care and related actions. Brain health diplomacy should lead to a shared and escalated response across the region, coordinating leadership, and triangulation between governments and international multilateral networks. Fil: Ibañez, Agustin Mariano. Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez; Chile. Universidad de San Andrés; Argentina. Universidad Autónoma del Caribe; Colombia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina Fil: Santamaria Garcia, Hernando. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; Colombia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina Fil: Guerrero Barragan, Alejandra. University of California; Estados Unidos Fil: Kornhuber, Alexander. University of California; Estados Unidos Fil: Mendonca Marques Ton, Alyne. Universidade Vila Velha; Brasil Fil: Slachevsky, Andrea. Universidad de Chile; Chile Fil: Teixeira, Antonio Lucio. No especifíca; Fil: Mar Meza, Beatriz Marcela. University of California; Estados Unidos Fil: Serrano, Cecilia Mariela. Unidad Asistencial "Dr. César Milstein"; Argentina Fil: Cano, Carlos. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; Colombia Fil: Arias Gonzalez, Carolina. University of California; Estados Unidos Fil: González Billault, Christian. Universidad de Chile; Chile Fil: Butler, Christopher. University of Oxford; Reino Unido. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Chile Fil: Bustin, Julian. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva y Traslacional. Fundación Ineco Rosario Sede del Incyt | Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva y Traslacional. Fundación Ineco Rosario Sede del Incyt | Fundación Favaloro. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva y Traslacional. Fundación Ineco Rosario Sede del Incyt; Argentina Fil: Duran Aniotz, Claudia. Universidad Adolfo Ibañez; Chile Fil: Acosta, Daisy. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña; República Dominicana Fil: Matallana, Diana L.. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; Colombia Fil: Acosta Alvear, Diego. University of California; Estados Unidos Fil: Trépel, Dominic. No especifíca; Fil: De Paula França Resende, Elisa. University of California; Estados Unidos. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Brasil Fil: Ferreira de Oliveira, Fabricio. Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo; Brasil Fil: Ibanez, Francisco. Universidad Nacional de San Juan; Argentina Fil: De Felice, Fernanda G.. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Brasil Fil: Navarrete, Gorka. Universidad Adolfo Ibañez; Chile Fil: Tarnanas, Ioannis. No especifíca; Fil: Meier, Irene B.. No especifíca; Fil: Smid, Jerusa. No especifíca; Fil: Llibre-Guerra, Jorge. University of California; Estados Unidos Fil: Llibre Rodriguez, Juan J.. Universidad de Ciencias Médicas; Cuba Fil: Fajersztajn, Laís. University of California; Estados Unidos. Universidade de Sao Paulo; Brasil Fil: Tadao Takada, Leonel. Universidade de Sao Paulo; Brasil Fil: Duque, Lissette. National Commission In Bioethics; Ecuador Fil: Okada de Oliveira, Maira. Universidade de Sao Paulo; Brasil Fil: Aparecida Camargos Bicalho, Maria. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; Brasil Fil: Behrens, María Isabel. Universidad Nacional de San Juan; Argentina. Universidad de Chile; Chile Fil: Pintado Caipa, Maritza. University of California; Estados Unidos Fil: Parra, Mario. University of Strathclyde; Reino Unido Fil: Wilson, Maxwell Z.. University of California; Estados Unidos Fil: De La Cruz Puebla, Myriam. Universidad de Barcelona; España. University of California; Estados Unidos Fil: Custodio, Nilton. Peruvian National Institute Of Health; Perú Fil: Santibanez, Rodrigo. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Chile. Universidad Católica de Chile; Chile Fil: Serafim, Rodrigo Bernardo. No especifíca; Fil: Melo Tavares, Ronnielly. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Brasil Fil: Piña Escudero, Stefanie Danielle. University of California; Estados Unidos Fil: Rodriguez, Tomas Leon. Universidad de Chile; Chile Fil: Dawson, Walter. University of California; Estados Unidos Fil: Miller, Bruce L.. University of California; Estados Unidos Fil: Kosik, Kenneth. University of California; Estados Unidos

This paper presents a language for courseware design that tries to overcome usability limitations shown by the Course Modeling Technique (CMT). The proposed language is able to deal with the key aspects of courseware design: objectives, contents, and instructional path. Given that its potential users are non-technical, the representation of the language is close to natural language. For its design, an emperical experimentation was made comparing its expressivity power regard to CMT. The results showed that the proposed language is more expressive and avoids some ambiguities that appears when CMT is used. Finally, the designers who participate in the tests, think that the new language is better than CMT in terms of effort required to use it.

It is clearly desirable that logical specifications and the programs that implement them should be as close as possible. Such a claim is often made in support of the logic programming paradigm. However, SLD-resolution, the basic procedural semantics for logic programming, is only defined for programs whose statements are Horn clauses. Most research for extending the Horn clause framework has been concerned with allowing negative literals in the bodies of the statements where SLD-resolution is extended with negation-as-failure. However, one of the main components of first order logic not allowed in clauses is (explicit) quantification. This paper addresses this problem by showing how SLD-resolution can be extended to allow for universally quantified implication formulas as conjuncts in the body of the statements. It will be shown that this technique includes negation-as-failure as a degenerate case.