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Interactive Strategy Training for Active Reading and Thinking en Español, or iSTART-E, is a new intelligent tutoring system (ITS) that provides reading comprehension strategy training for Spanish speakers. This paper reports on studies evaluating the efficacy of iSTART-E in real-world classrooms in two different Spanish-speaking countries. In Study 1, Chilean high school students (n = 22) who practiced with iSTART-E showed significant gains on a standardized comprehension assessment (LECTUM) from pretest to posttest. In Study 2 (n = 85), Argentinian middle school students who practiced with iSTART-E showed greater gains on the ECOMPLEC.Sec comprehension test compared to those in control classrooms. Together these results suggest that iSTART-E is an effective means of enhancing Spanish speakers' reading comprehension, with demonstrated transfer of training to standardized reading tests. [This paper was published in: "Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2018, LNAI 10948," edited by C. Penstein Rosé et al., Springer International Publishing AG, 2018, pp. 215-19.]

In the late 1980s, Argentina faced frequent blackouts due to a lack of investment in generation capacity and high electricity demand growth. Argentina was one of the first developing countries to implement the liberalisation and privatisation of public utilities. In 2015, the Argentine electricity market faced a crisis due to low capacity investment. This arose from consumer prices that poorly reflected the true electricity cost, increasing risk for companies to invest in new generation capacity. Since 2016, Argentine government has called an auction to increase generation capacity; in addition, the government has cut incentive to consumers looking for reduce the electricity demand. Moreover, Argentina’s government is promoting policies to increase renewable energy share. However, it is unknown how renewable energies may affect security of supply and electricity price. This paper presents a simulation model to analyse policies for increasing generation capacity and promote renewable energy in Argentina. In this paper is concluded that renewable energies do indeed reduce the energy dependency of fossil fuels, and they lead to reduce electricity prices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and English as a medium of instruction (EMI) are emerging as the preferred contexts of language learning. CLIL and EMI classes continue to proliferate in schools around the globe. The aim of this paper is to investigate the current research trends in studies of motivation to learn within EMI and CLIL settings. We sought to identify the current countries of research, educational levels, and themes that prevail in EMI and CLIL motivation research. We performed a topic search of the keywords "CLIL" or "EMI" and the keyword "motivation" in the "Web of Science" database for Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) articles published in 2020. We analyzed 17 articles related to motivation within EMI or CLIL contexts. The results showed that European countries produced the most research, with Spain being the most prolific. A majority of the studies took place at the secondary and tertiary levels of education. Comparative studies of CLIL or EMI contexts with that of traditional classrooms emerged as the prevailing theme. Future research could include more studies regarding the impact of CLIL on students at the primary level of education, in addition to studies of students from varied socio-economic backgrounds. [For the complete Volume 19 proceedings, see ED613922.]

WHO and UNICEF highlight vaccination as the most cost-effective method of prevention of infectious diseases. An effective public health strategy requires efficient tracking of vaccination to assess coverage, safety, and efficacy of these vaccines. Paper-based immunization records are still being used in most low and middle-income countries. Adequate Electronic Logistic Management Information Systems, Immunization Registries and Records are crucial for proper data collection and analysis, and for making better decisions at an individual and at a population level. In this paper we share our experience in the redesign of an interoperable immunization record to track vaccination, including the recently developed vaccines for the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work addresses the importance of innovation in entrepreneurial and business education to ensure that students develop the ability to make complex decisions and solve complex challenges. The intention was to incorporate the complexity theory in decision-making and problem-solving in business and entrepreneurship. To achieve this, we present the results of the first phase of our project, aiming to scale the levels of complex thinking in university students, discuss the need for business and entrepreneurship students to develop complex thinking competency (including its sub-competencies of critical, systemic, scientific, and innovative thinking) in the complexity of the business environment, analyze the relevance of system elements, apply their inductive and deductive reasoning, and create appropriate and relevant solutions. Our findings suggest that an educational model focused on developing complex thinking and its four sub-competencies can enable entrepreneurs to integrate sustainable development, increase their social engagement and critical thinking, develop their imaginative intelligence and discursive and reflective skills, and thus improve their decision-making and problem-solving processes. In the future, we plan to extend this analysis to the behavior of real-life entrepreneurs. [For the full proceedings, see ED654100.]

The intention of the present paper is to show that people have a series of educational needs in the era of information, so that they can become competent digital citizens. These educational needs are evident in the policies promoted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, which were well known to Latin American governments of the decades from the 1960s to the 1990s. Therefore, it is to be hoped that the educational reforms of 1990s have elements based on the principles of education that they advanced, which emphasises the preparation of subjects in the digital era, based on advances in information and communication technology, focusing on the teaching and learning of computer science. [For the complete Volume 17 proceedings, see ED596826.]

In the last seven years, there have been major changes in two South American countries that once firmly prohibited abortion: Argentina and Uruguay. In both, social movements have mobilized to demand legal abortion, and policies have been changed to grant increased access, to different degrees. Yet in each case, advances fall short of the goal of legalization and public provision. Instead, policies restrict access to abortion to specific cases and require different implementation regimes. In some cases, it has led to challenges by feminist lawyers in the courts. How have activists, lawyers and others addressed implementation as they continue to try to expand abortion rights around these policies? What can we learn from Uruguay and Argentina to better understand the role of litigation in abortion rights and reproductive justice in the rest of Latin America and around the world? This paper draws on interviews with lawyers and activists addressing abortion rights as well analysis of key cases based on court documents and media reports to compare legal mobilization on abortion in Argentina and Uruguay. Focusing on legal mobilization in the courts as a social movement tactic, the paper views cause lawyers and litigation as important resources for each movement. It argues that movement actors pursue their goals using strategic litigation that varies based on legal opportunity structures that vary across national contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the recognition that women in science receive unequal treatment during the development of their careers, gender committees have been established inside scientific societies with the aim of promoting actions ensuring attention to gender perspectives in science activities. In this paper, we present the main activities of the recently instituted Gender Committee of the Argentine Physical Society to improve the current situation in terms of gender in physics in Argentina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a discussion on potential conflicts originated by sensorimotor distractions when learning with mobile phones on-the-move. While research in mobile learning points to the possibility of everywhere, all the time learning; research in the area suggests that tasks performed while on-the-move predominantly require low cognitive processing. This work uses Bloom's taxonomy to identify low and high order thinking activities associated to the functionalities of a mobile phone. It also provides preliminary results from a survey identifying correlations between high and low cognitive processing tasks and locations involving users' sensorimotor engagement. [For the full proceedings, see ED571335.]

This paper will present and discuss the linguistic challenges that Argentinian university students of history and Danish university students of Spanish met during the course of a telecollaboration project based on synchronous communication in Skype. The purpose of this discussion is to identify linguistic pitfalls and the solutions adopted by both native and non-native participants in order to keep the conversations going in spite of misunderstandings, vocabulary limitations and other breaches in communication. The purpose of the discussion is to detect areas of strategic competence that need to be addressed in class, particularly for the benefit of the non-native speakers. [For the complete volume, see ED571330.]

The implementation of health Information Technologies (IT) contributes to improve quality of care and management processes. In spite, evidence shows that the rates of IT adoption are not the expected ones. Since 2004, Public Healthcare System of Buenos Aires city has been implementing a Healthcare Information System with a difficult adoption in clinical setting. In December 2015, the Government made some changes that allowed the implementation of an Electronic Health Record in 20 Primary Care Centers. This paper describes the change management strategies that were designed in order to transform a difficult implementation into a successful one. The combination of timely approach to change management, good governance and specialized human resources were keys to achieve this goal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Much of the scholarship on "contaminated communities" - spaces in which people live in areas affected by widespread pollution - assumes that residents will either publicly protest the existence of contamination once they are aware of its health effects or will remain "acquiescent" on the issue, and it will fail to become a salient political priority. This scholarship hinges on recognizing public contention according to familiar tropes - protests, marches, roadblocks, and the like, which in turn are motivated by people's level of awareness and understanding of health risks they face. In this paper, I analyze how what might look like "acquiescence" on contamination is a result of the embeddedness of environmental contention in everyday routines and political power struggles. Based on two years of ethnographic observations and interviews, this paper shows how local political party networks frame people's discourse and action on widespread pollution in Palpalá, Argentina, a hub for mineral processing in the country's Northwest. I show how people's aversions, frustrations, alienation from or loyalty to local party politics mediate organization and discourse on environmental contamination, despite a general awareness of health risks incurred by exposure to toxic industrial pollution. Understanding how local politics and political networks are bound to residents' relationship to "action" on contamination complicates existing literature that links people's understandings of the gravity of environmental risks to their likelihood to act collectively on them, and also complicates scholarly definitions of what "action" looks like among residents of contaminated spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a newly flourishing research agenda, food sovereignty continues to generate heated debates in critical agrarian studies. In this paper, these debates are extended to the sparse literature on agrarian mobilization in Argentina with the aim of not only presenting a fuller account of the state of this relatively young literature but also demonstrating how Argentina's case can contribute to resolving the problem of conceptual ambiguity in defining food sovereignty. (1) My assessment suggests that a class-informed approach can simultaneously capture social differentiation and homogenization in agrarian communities, while in the mean time setting tangible standards for the inclusivity of movement alliances, local-national tensions, and state-movement interactions. (2) This paper also advises against the use of fixed formulas to assess food sovereignty, profile its target population and regulate relationships with the state. Rather, excessive conceptual rigidity may obstruct a clear understanding of how the balance of class forces and historical conditions in a given geography configure the form and content of food sovereignty movements. (3) I suggest conceptualizing food sovereignty as a social mobilization process and outcome that principally stem from social class cleavages. Relatedly, my literature review on agrarian mobilization in Argentina demonstrates that peasants' awareness of their own material grievances is an important factor in food sovereignty mobilization. However, the literature also highlights that material grievances do not translate into agrarian mobilization only by themselves. Collective action is triggered when a number of mediating determinants come into play including classcultural grievances, state-society relations, alliance-building, and leadership dynamics. This calls for a comprehensive framework that can take into account the multi-scalar and multi-faceted character of food sovereignty movements in all their complexity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2014 Argentina has initiated the development of a new policy mix promoting the diffusion of renewable energies in the country. In this paper, we analyse the associated policy making processes and the impacts of the emerging policy mix on socio-technical change in the electricity sector, with a particular focus on the development of a domestic industry. Our analysis is based on a novel analytical framework which enriches the literature on policy mixes for sustainability transitions with key concepts from the Advocacy Coalition Framework for analysing policy change. Methodologically, we conduct a qualitative analysis drawing on document analysis and expert interviews with key stakeholders. We find that the design of the Argentinean policy mix has been heavily influenced by a dominant advocacy community (AC1) with fiscal policy and investments in renewable energy as its main motivation. In contrast, a second but less resourceful advocacy community (AC2) has been arguing, albeit in a fairly uncoordinated manner, to also support the formation of a domestic renewables industry, but its influence on the policy mix has been limited, with policy strategy and instrument mix design clearly dominated by the more powerful AC1. However, incremental policy learning has led to adjustments in the instrument mix, thereby alleviating some barriers for the domestic industry. Based on our intermediary findings for this nascent policy subsystem of renewable energy in Argentina, we derive implications for better integrating the industrial policy dimension in Argentina's policy mix for the energy transition towards renewables. In addition, we argue on further implications for other countries and for enriching the literatures that guided this analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Following the 2008 global financial crisis, emigration rates out of much of Southern Europe, particularly Spain, radically increased. Spanish emigration's global character presented a novel opportunity to study the role that considerably different destinations have on European individuals' white ethnoracial identity and status. Through two years of ethnographic observations of and 135 interviews with Spanish emigrants in New York City, Buenos Aires, and London, this paper is an international comparative/Transatlantic analysis of how race/whiteness operates for Spaniards in the U.K., the U.S., and Argentina in both social and institutional settings. In the U.S. context, I engage more heavily on concepts of boundaries between whites and Hispanics/Latinos. Particularly, I focus on the Hispanic/Latino and white boundaries and engage with both Mary Waters' "ethnic options" and Michel Lamont's "symbolic boundaries" frameworks. For Latin America, much of the literature on whiteness has actually focused on Brazil, and the role that class plays in transitions to whiteness for some mixed-raced groups. The key conceptual framework that operates in the region is the notion of a raced-based pigmentocracy that has been the legacy of both the Portuguese and Spanish colonial regimes. I believe that Argentina, being a predominantly European country, adds a different layer of complexity to this race literature that often looks at far more racially diverse/mixed countries in the region, particularly the aforementioned Brazil and Mexico. The U.K. context has been heavily shaped by both the broad implementation of the EU and the ultimately successful Brexit campaign, so there I focus on how regional panethnic ties have begun taking hold post-2008 financial crisis, especially between Southern Europeans, Northern Europeans, and Eastern Europeans. Overall, I develop the concept of "contextual whiteness," which I argue better captures the more nuanced manner by which the white identities operate across political, cultural, and national lines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the relational dynamics of police-criminal collusion: the illicit relationships and hidden transactions between law enforcement officers and drug dealers. While depictions of clandestine interactions are common in popular culture, social scientific research has been limited and has focused primarily on the exchange of money for non-enforcement of the law. Drawing on an original legal archive of court cases in Argentina, this article dissects the dynamics of police-criminal collusion. Beyond non-enforcement, we find that illicit relations allow for the exchange of material and informational resources and the manipulation of bureaucratic procedures marked by frequent mistakes, improvisations, and corrections. The paper concludes by considering the implications of these findings for understanding the systemic violence of the drug trade and the possibilities for using judicial records to examine state actions hidden from public view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the authors will try to do an in depth study and analysis of Argentina's economy. Argentina, just like any other country during the last six or seven years, had its own economic meltdown. Recently though, it seems that other economic problems are impacting Argentina. The goal in this paper is to present and discuss the current situation, and if possible to make some projections. To that end the authors are going to present data for about thirty five years, including Gross Domestic Product, Growth Rates, Population, Unemployment and Trade. Based on this the conclusions will be derived. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A Chatbot or Conversational Agent is a computer application that simulates the conversation with a human person (by text or voice), giving automated responses to people's needs. In the healthcare domain, chatbots can be beneficial to help patients, as a complement to care by health personnel, especially in times of high demand or constrained resources such as the COVID-19 Pandemic. In this paper we share the design and implementation of a healthcare chatbot called Tana at the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires. Considering best practices and being aware of possible unintended consequences, we must take advantage of information and communication technologies, such as chatbots, to analyze and promote useful conversations for the health of all people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Argentina, atrocities of the last dictatorship (1976 - 1983) continue to resonate not only through ongoing trials but also in sites where detainees were disappeared, tortured, and exterminated. Many of those former detention centres have been recovered and converted into memorial spaces. This work delves into the controversy over one of the most notorious sites in Buenos Aires known as ESMA. With a keen eye on architecture, it analyses the manner by which repressors utilized and modified ESMA as a clandestine centre. Turning critical attention to the afterlife of that space allows for deep introspection into how human rights groups repurposed the same space. Chief among the curatorial techniques is the management of the site's temporal mode linking the past with the present. The current incarnation of ESMA reveals a history of brutality that was once concealed. By thoughtful design, the site now provides a performative anchor through which visitors - as secondary witnesses - can empathize with sufferers. The analysis is guided by the performative theory of Taylor (1997) and the dramaturgy of Goffman (1959) while taking informative cues from Nora (2002; 1989). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article addresses gender in IT courses in the UNLP, taking into consideration multiple contexts: a) The proportion of gender in STEM courses in the UNLP and specifically IT courses (these numbers are compared with a previous analysis from 2009). b) Gender statistics in computer science courses in Argentina. c) The international gender context globally and in the US in particular. The paper also describes some of the actions carried out to promote the study of IT and perspective of young students about their future job prospects. Due to the fact that the women studying IT degrees in UNLP largely exceed by 60% the figures of national statistics these action are referred to as good practices for reducing gender gap. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the study is to examine business education that aims to prepare students to understand poverty and design sustainable solutions for people living in subsistence in a yearlong course at a Midwestern U.S Land-grant university. I conduct a case study of the course in order to understand the curriculum and pedagogical arrangements and to examine the experiences of the course participants. Theoretically, my project is situated at the intersections of globalization and education studies, capabilities approach, and critical pedagogy. Theoretically informed and empirically grounded, my study offers a more nuanced understanding of pedagogical possibilities to prepare students to understand the conditions of poverty around the world and to contribute to global poverty reduction in the age of globalization.

In 1999, the Province of San Luis (Argentina) approved the creation of the so-called 'Escuelas Experimentales Autogestionadas' (SelfManaged Experimental Schools) inspired by the US charter schools, but with important differences. This article explores the circumstances under which the project was dismantled and abandoned prematurely. The study included a thorough documental analysis and interviews with key informants including members of the project's steering committee, scholars, members of the evaluation committee and the external audit, government and ex-government officials of the Ministry of Education, and teachers. We found strong incompatibilities among the guiding principles of the project, i.e. democratization, cooperativeness, autonomy and plurality, the practices of the provincial rentier political system, and the traditional structures of power bureaucratically organized at the national level.

During the last decades, scholarly research on inequality, identity formation, and conflict in Latin America tended to abandon the concept of class. Through different arguments and explanations, several scholars have claimed that class is no longer relevant for explaining both people's identity and more general patterns of collective action. In this context, research on class consciousness and identity was either abandoned or relegated to case studies and single-country investigations. As a result, recent sociological research has not explored the political-economic mechanisms through which the class structures of different countries leads to national variations in class identity. In this paper we aim to fill this gap by developing a comparative study of subjective class identification in Argentina and Chile. To do so, we use quantitative data to develop a micro-analysis of the individual determinants of class identity in both countries, with a specific focus on class location and class trajectories (biographical and work trajectories). Based on this, we then develop a macro-analysis of the processes by which the political economy each county--for instance, the uneven development of Neoliberalism--has shaped different patterns of class identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Energy production and use are important contributions to greenhouse gases. Argentina does not escape that situation. As of 2014, 53% of greenhouse gases' emissions originate in energy. A way to mitigate emissions is through energy efficiency (EE). There is evidence that the potential of EE to reduce emissions is almost as high as the deployment of renewable (OECD/EIA 2016). There are many articles that measure the contribution of EE as a way to compensate the energy use using decomposition techniques, and also several that study decoupling between energy and economic activity, and there are few papers that link both. There is no study of that kind for Argentina. This work attempts to fill that gap. The results show that energy intensity has compensated activity expansion for the 2004 y 2017 period, and there has been a weak decoupling between energy final demand and GDP. That same kind of decoupling has occurred in industry and the agricultural sector (the intensity effect has been relatively lower in the latter). When both sectors are taken together, a reduced structure effect can be observed. Yearly decoupling and decomposition are generally in that same direction, but results differ for some biannual changes. In general, the findings are in line with the literature. Energy intensity reductions are crucial to be able to increase economic activity and at the same time decrease energy use. Un alto porcentaje de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero (GEI) del planeta provienen de la producción y el uso de la energía. Argentina no escapa a esta situación ya que, al 2014, 53% de los GEI provienen de dicha fuente. Una de las principales formas de reducir los GEI es a través de eficiencia energética (EE). Según fuentes internacionales, estas tienen tanto potencial de reducción de emisiones como la introducción de energías renovables. Hay más de medio centenar de trabajos en el mundo que han medido la contribución de la EE para morigerar el uso de energía por medio de las llamadas técnicas de descomposición. No hay ningún estudio publicado para Argentina que lo haga. Este documento llena este vacío. Lo que permiten los métodos de descomposición es diferenciar qué parte de los cambios en la demanda energética se deben a variaciones en: la actividad productiva, la estructura productiva, y la intensidad en el consumo de energía. Los resultados encontrados muestran que entre 2004 y 2017 el consumo de energía para uso final subió en gran medida debido a la variación en el nivel de actividad y la disminución en la intensidad energética tuvo un efecto compensador. Ese mismo desacople débil entre energía y actividad se encontró en la industria y en el agro, aunque fue menor en este último caso. Cuando se consideran ambos sectores en su conjunto, se encuentra un muy reducido efecto estructura ya que la composición de la actividad económica ha cambiado poco. En general, los resultados aquí encontrados son similares a la literatura. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Raman lidar at the Central (Raman) Laser Facility of the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina, has been operational since September 2013. In this paper, the Auger Raman Lidar performance is discussed in terms of the data quality for the assessment of the aerosol contribution to the atmospheric UV optical transparency, and how much this is important for the reconstruction of the UHECR properties, based on the Auger Fluorescence Detector observations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this study was to investigate and analyze the most relevant aspects that influence the development and implementation of electronic informed consent for genetic studies. Interviews were conducted with experts in the area within our institution, the different informed consents available and the number of genetic studies requested in the last 5 years were analyzed. Professionals acknowledged the ethical dilemmas related to the genetic studies and the importance of having an electronic informed consent that not only provides the patient with the information necessary to understand the implications of the study, but also be flexible enough to adapt to the various genetic studies today. The development of informed consent is a challenge for health IT professionals, due to the complexity of the information it contains and the ethical implications it represents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the implementation of an electronic health record (EHR) system in the public system of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, different patient indexing strategies were devised and implemented. We sought to assess the association between these strategies and effective indexing (proportion of patients who are indexed and have a consultation registered in the EHR). Strategies were grouped into three modalities (High, Intermediate, and Low intensity). We estimated hazard ratios (HR) comparing the High and Low intensity to the Intermediate strategies. The crude analyses showed a significant difference between the curves (p < 0.0001). In the multivariate analysis, the HRs of High and Low intensity interventions showed on average, values above 1 from 0 to 90 days compared to the Intermediate intensity strategy (High: 2.08 (1.65, 2.52); Low: 2.59 (2.29, 2.9)). From that point on, the HRs of both strategies were not different from 1. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to analyze the Entrepreneurial capital, Leadership and Innovation performance by conducting a comparative study from high-tech firms in Argentina. The final sample comprises 233 SMEs from the technology-based sector located in Argentina. Hypotheses were tested using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The results show that entrepreneurial capital and leadership enhance innovation performance of high-tech companies and that the intensity of these relationships varies depending on the size of the firms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article starts from the paradigm of training as a perspective in development, in evolution, in constant transformation from its various potentialities; Postgraduate education in Latin America is going through a boom time due to the creation of regional spaces for international competitiveness and is inserted into the challenge of responding objectively to the expansion of knowledge in tourism. In this sense, there is a lack of an assessment in the discipline and its training, in contrast to the growth of the sector and the dynamics of globalized education. This research favors the qualitative approach, a comparative method that correlates and integrates a set of categories that are expressed in a particular way on the continent, in each region or country; as well as in each of the institutions studied corresponding to Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Costa Rica. The aforementioned categories of analysis are associated with the emergence of the programs, themes, historical perspective, contextualization of the programs, competencies, which allow determining their particularities and their conformation in regional spaces. The educational offer shows similarities in the construction of programs in accordance with development policies, focused on areas of tourist influence, and demanded by the needs of the sector. The topics addressed, the skills developed and the graduation profiles are differential and attend to the particular characteristics of the institution, inferring a relationship with the research scopes and the trajectory of the professors. It was possible to show that the studied programs respond to the needs of the country where they are developed, and to the evolution and paradigms of national tourism, however, they are projected towards an education with international competitiveness that seeks to respond to the development of global competencies from a vision particular and subjective oriented more towards the sector and devoid of a prospective reflection of the tourist activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Signature whistles are stereotyped and individually distinctive acoustic signals used as individual recognition calls, for maintaining group cohesion and during stressful situations. Here, it’s proved the occurrence of stereotyped whistles and how it changes, by an isolated adult female of short-beaked common dolphin ( Delphinus delphis ) kept in rehabilitation. Twenty-three hours of continuous recordings were collected until the dolphin death for hepatitis. A total of 64 whistles were analyzed along the hours and only an ascendingdescending frequency contour was detected. The number of whistles decreased during the rehab period. Whistles showed a mean peak frequency contour (PFC) of 9.45 ±1.09 kHz, a mean maximum frequency value of 12.0.4 ±1.65 kHz, a mean minimum frequency of 7.04 ±1.16 kHz, a mean duration of 0.75±0.27 seconds and a number of harmonics ranging from 1 to 3. The low variability of whistles parameters along the hours and the only whistle contour found in an isolated and stressed dolphin support the hypothesis of stereotyped whistles. It is the first evidence of the use of this signal by Delphinus delphis in Southwestern Atlantic Ocean (SWAO) and is first step to understand the sound production related to the rehabilitation process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In an international context of low carbon energy transition, many countries have started deploying renewable power generation which has placed interest in the development of energy storage to harvest residual load. Argentina has recently set a 20% renewable electric energy consumption target by December 31th 2025. This study aims to estimate whether Argentina will produce residual load by 2026 assuming full deployment of renewable energy for three different demand scenarios. An energy demand forecasting model for Argentina was developed using a hybrid model (similar day method and SARIMA time series) based on historical hourly energy demand data of Argentina from 2007-2017, and macroeconimic data. To estimate inflexible generation, bottom-up aggregate generation models were developed for wind and solar energy. 2017-2018 inflexible generation data was used to build Monte Carlo simulations, regressions and time series models. 2008-2018 hydroelectric power generation data was also included in the residual load estimation. This study shows that by 2026 residual load is unlikely to generate surplus energy to be stored, at least, at a moderate scale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A central challenge Afrodescendant activists in Argentina confront is the pervasive belief that there are no black Argentines, and therefore an impossibility of anti-black racism there. Furthermore, the lack of scholarship on racial politics in Argentina is disconcerting. This gap results from insufficient institutional data on racism in the country, the complicated nature of studying race due to a separation of the word negro (black) from phenotype, and the perpetuated myth of Argentina as a "white" nation which falls outside the purview of Latin America's racialized nations. Drawing upon twenty-two months of ethnographic fieldwork, this article analyses institutional and quotidian forms of racism and their relationship to the affective power of race in Argentina. I argue that we can understand the social processes of racialization in Argentina by unpacking the meanings behind affective practices and interactions of self-making and othering. Showing how both blackness and whiteness are constructed in these moments illustrates the affective power of race by illuminating the social capital invoked through such practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While medications can improve the health of patients, the prescription process is complex and prone to errors. The structured medical order entry systems (CPOE) with clinical decision support (CDS) are increasingly implemented to improve patient safety, however the organizations that decide to implement them will have several challenges: understanding which classes of CDS can admit their systems, ensure that clinical knowledge is adequate and design tools for proper monitoring. We share our experience of over ten years of development and implementation of clinical decision support tools during drugs prescription process and tools that have allowed us to monitor them correctly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Atopic dermatitis is a common chronic dermatological disease in childhood that can affect people's quality of life. The aim of this study was to inquire about the difficulties, needs and interests related to the disease that people with eczema and their caregivers have; in order to develop a tool that is useful for the follow-up of the illness. Electronic surveys were sent to potential users and interviews were conducted with professionals who are specialized on the subject. The main findings allowed us to understand the challenges and situations they face on a daily basis, such as the difficulties related to the family support, the queries on the eczema flare-ups, the struggles with the adherence to treatment and the needs of optimizing their quality of life. These results helped us design a tool that allows patients and their companions to better monitor their disease while optimizing communication with their health professionals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hofstede's 6D model is comprised of power distance, individualism, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, long-term orientation, and indulgence. The two countries of Argentina and the United States score differently in terms of the norm 6D factors. For starters, power distance is rated similarly for both countries. Argentina has a score of 49, while the United States has one of 40. In Argentina, status is important. The types of clothes you wear and people you hang around define your societal status. The same is true for the United States. Image is very important for individuals in both countries. The power distance score could be an influencing factor is how clothing retail stores advertise. In the United States, advertising efforts from retail stores try to project an image of who should shop in their store. The portrayals of people in Old Navy ads are much different than people in Men's Warehouse. People that want to be a part of a group would purchase clothes from the same retail shop as the current members of that group. One alarming difference between the two countries is individualism. Argentina scores lower than the United States. The people of Argentina tend to be collectivist, helping their family and in-group. The United States, on the other hand, is very high on individualism. Individuals in the United States help only themselves and immediate family. Individuals of the United States find it easier to be self-sufficient and initiative. In the work place, if a problem needed to be solved, management would expect employees to find the means to resolve it. This can tie into customer service by the fact that an employee would be responsible for handling an unsatisfied customer. Argentina may require more intervention from management in handling a similar situation. Masculinity is a dimension that is within ten units of each other. Both countries feel the need to be the "winner" or the best that they can be. As a result, it is common place to have a system in place that tracks the performance of employees. In terms of customer service, management identifies metrics to define good customer service. Employees are monitored and routinely scored based on these metrics. Management would let the employee be aware of their score and at times provide feedback. The purpose of this is to drive the employee to outperform the expectations of management. This could positively impact customer service. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two main decisions were made in Argentina to mitigate the impact of the recent volcanic activity in de country basically affected by the presence of volcanic ash in the air and deposited over the Argentinean territory. The first one was to create a risk management commission were this risk between others were studied, and second to develop new ground based remote sensing technologies to be able to identify and inform the risk close to the airports. In addition the Japanese government program for Science and Technology joint Research Partnership between Argentina, Chile and Japan for Sustainable Development (SATREPS) accepted to fund this cooperation due to the potential future utilization of the research outcomes to the benefit of the society. This work present the actual achievements and expected advance of these projects that try to joint efforts between national and international agencies as well as countries on behalf of a better understanding of the risks and a joint collaboration on the mitigation of suspended ashes impact over the aerial navigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Health information systems face the challenge of collecting data on patients' gender identity. The absence of this information may lead the patients to situations of vulnerability and discrimination. The objective of this study is to describe the process of designing and developing an Electronic Health Record according to the Argentine Gender Identity Law. This health record allows clinics to record legal names and surnames, other social names, gender identity, sex at birth, and legal sex. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Updating electronic health record systems to meet new clinic needs and government regulations presents an ongoing challenge for health care organizations. To redesign an existing system for two HIV clinics in Argentina, we employed a three-phase approach of exploration, participatory design, and prototyping. The process and resulting architecture of the HIV-centered "RedClin" electronic health record may inform electronic health records at other clinics in Latin America and worldwide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]