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2. Playing With Matches.
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Forbes, Steve
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TARIFF on paper ,FREE trade - Abstract
This article reports on tariffs placed on high quality paper from China that is allegedly subsidized by the Chinese government. A discussion is presented about the United State's Commerce Department's motivation for the tariffs and the hope for approval of free-trade agreements with Colombia, Peru, Panama, and South Korea.
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- 2007
3. Service Needs, Context of Reception, and Perceived Discrimination of Venezuelan Immigrants in the United States and Colombia.
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Scaramutti, Carolina, Schmidt, Renae Danielle, Ochoa, Lucas Gregorio, Brown, Eric Christopher, Vos, Saskia Renee, Mejia Trujillo, Juliana, Perez Gomez, Nicolas Augusto, Salas-Wright, Christopher, Duque, Maria, and Schwartz, Seth
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MENTAL health services ,VENEZUELANS ,COMMUNITY organization ,HEALTH services accessibility ,PERCEIVED discrimination ,IMMIGRANTS - Abstract
Executive Summary: Millions of Venezuelans have fled their country in hopes for a better future outside the political and financial turmoil in their home country. This paper examines the self-reported needs of Venezuelans in the United States and Colombia. Specifically, it looks at perceived discrimination in each country and its effect on the service needs of Venezuelan immigrants. The authors used data from a larger project conducted in October to November 2017 to perform a qualitative content analysis on the specific services that participants and others like them would need following immigration. The sample consisted of 647 Venezuelan immigrant adults who had migrated to the United States (n = 342) or Colombia (n = 305). Its findings indicate statistically significant differences between the two countries. Venezuelan immigrants in the United States were more likely to identity mental health and educational service needs, while those in Colombia were more likely to list access to healthcare, help finding jobs, and food assistance. When looking at perceived discrimination, means scores for discrimination were significantly greater for participants who indicated needing housing services, who indicated needing assistance enrolling children in school and who indicated needing food assistance, compared to participants who did not list those needs. Venezuelans who had experienced greater negative context of reception were less likely to indicate needing mental health services, where 11.9 percent of those who did not perceive a negative context of reception responded that they needed mental health services. Evaluating existing service networks will be essential in working to bridge the gap between the services provided to and requested by Venezuelans. Collaboration between diverse government actors, community-based organizations (CBOs) and other stakeholders can help identify gaps in existing service networks. CBOs can also facilitate communication between Venezuelan immigrants and their new communities, on the need to invest in necessary services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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4. Entrepreneurial Decisions and Problem-Solving: A Discussion for a New Perspective Based on Complex Thinking
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Patricia Esther Alonso-Galicia, Adriana Medina-Vidal, and Simona Grande
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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.]
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- 2023
5. Over Three Decades of Data Envelopment Analysis Applied to the Measurement of Efficiency in Higher Education: A Bibliometric Analysis
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Pham Van, Thuan, Tran, Trung, Trinh Thi Phuong, Thao, Hoang Ngoc, Anh, Nghiem Thi, Thanh, and La Phuong, Thuy
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The higher education efficiency evaluation model using the data envelopment analysis method has interested many researchers. This paper uses bibliometric analysis on publications extracted from the Scopus database to provide a comprehensive overview of research publications on the measurement of higher education efficiency based on data envelopment analysis: its growth rate, major collaboration networks, the most important and popular research topic. A total of 169 related publications were collected and analyzed from 1988 to 2021. The analysis results show that: Publications published every year have increased sharply in the last six years; The quality of publications is relatively high as publications tend to be published in journals with high-ranking indexes; Countries with the most influence in studies on this topic are: Italy, China, Spain, the USA, and the United Kingdom; Authors with the most influence in this research direction are Agasisti T., Abbott M., Doucouliagos C., Avkiran N.K., and Johnes J.; The research cooperation among countries and among affiliations is not strong. Finally, the paper has provided recommendations for future studies based on the findings.
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- 2022
6. A Review of Research on the Use of Social Media in Language Teaching and Learning
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Istifci, Ilknur and Dogan Ucar, Asiye
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The various possibilities that social media offers to language learners and teachers have long been recognized by researchers within the field of language instruction, and many studies have been carried out in an attempt to address and unpack its potential contributions. This paper aims to review such research on the use of mainstream social media in language teaching and learning published in "Computer Assisted Language Learning," a top tier (i.e., Q1) journal indexed in major citation index systems (e.g., Arts & Humanities Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index and Scopus), between the years 2016-2020 inclusive. For the purposes of the study, a total of 23 articles that meet the selection criteria is reviewed and presented in five sections. The first section deals with the majority of the articles, which are found to be on the use of social networking in language teaching and learning. In the following sections, studies on the use of videoconferencing, wikis, blogging and forums are discussed. Collectively, the studies reviewed in this paper outline a critical role for the use of social media in language instruction and the study aims to provide valuable insights for researchers, teachers and learners.
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- 2021
7. Fostering Cultural Competence Awareness by Engaging in Intercultural Dialogue -- A Telecollaboration Partnership
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Villalobos-Buehner, María
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This study measured changes in cultural awareness levels between two groups of US students in their third semester of a Spanish class. One group (experimental group) collaborated via Skype with a group of English language learners from a Colombian university and the other group (control group) did not. The experimental group met seven times during the semester to discuss a variety of cultural topics such as health care and gastronomy. The control group addressed the same topics by examining them among members of the same class. Both groups answered a pre and post self-awareness questionnaire. Mixed factorial analysis of variance (ANOVA) results showed significant differences between the two groups. There was no change in scores from pretest to posttest for the control group, but scores in the trained group increased significantly. Students from the treatment group show substantial gains in skills, knowledge, and awareness of themselves in their interactions with others in one semester. [For the complete proceedings, see ED600837.]
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- 2019
8. Propuestas para una adecuada recepción del derecho a acceder a tratamientos y medicamentos experimentales: caso Estados Unidos-Colombia.
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Duque Giraldo, Mateo
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TAX exemption ,TAX credits ,DRUG approval ,BURDEN of proof ,DRUG accessibility - Abstract
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- 2020
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9. Re-Imagining Teacher Professional Development and Citizenship Education: Lessons for Import from Colombia
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Noonan, James M.
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This paper examines the role of teachers in the implementation of citizenship education in Colombia. Consistent with its highly-decentralized school system, Colombia's National Program of Citizenship Competencies was developed with the participation of many local, national, and international partners. Among the most involved and most critical participants were the primary implementers of the reform: teachers. Teacher training is important to student achievement, but in a context that also seeks to teach democratic citizenship, training must be attentive to reciprocal learning and shared leadership. This paper highlights the impact of teacher training in one rural department and how a cross-cultural collaboration between Colombian and US-based educators benefited practitioners on both sides. Four key lessons on the design and delivery of professional development on citizenship education (and more broadly) are offered for educators and policymakers: the use of democratic pedagogy; the promotion and extension of teachers' self-awareness; the cross-pollination of perspectives across all levels; and a humble and inclusive expertise. (Contains 1 figure and 10 footnotes.)
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- 2010
10. Diferenciación oligopólica del café verde colombiano en el mercado estadounidense.
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Rendón Cardona, Andrés Julián
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OLIGOPOLIES ,GREEN bean ,COFFEE ,IMPERFECT competition - Abstract
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- 2013
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11. Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence across the Americas
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Ceo-DiFrancesco, Diane, Mora, Oscar, and Collazos, Andrea Serna
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Foreign language telecollaboration offers innovations to enhance language instruction. Previous research has cited its use to develop linguistic skills and intercultural competence (Belz, 2003; Blake, 2013; Chun, 2015; O'Dowd, 2000; Schenker, 2014). This article reports preliminary outcomes of a pedagogical project which leveraged telecollaborative practices in both English and Spanish as a foreign language in order to document the processes of Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) development. [For the complete volume, see ED571330.]
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- 2016
12. Teaching of Topology and Its Applications in Learning: A Bibliometric Meta-Analysis of the Last Years from the Scopus Database
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Vizcaíno, Diego, Vargas, Victor, and Huertas, Adriana
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In this work, a bibliometric analysis of the investigations of the last 54 years focused on the teaching of topology and its applications in the learning of other areas of knowledge was carried out. The articles that appear in the SCOPUS database were taken into account under the search criteria of the words topology and teaching, connected with the Boolean expression AND in the search field ABS. As a result, 329 articles were obtained which, based on the PRISMA methodology, were reduced to 74 papers. In them publication trends, impact of publications, citation frequencies, among others, were compared. In addition, its use was identified for learning topology at different levels of training, areas of knowledge where this discipline is most applied and strategies used to teach these applications.
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- 2023
13. END 2015: International Conference on Education and New Developments. Conference Proceedings (Porto, Portugal, June 27-29, 2015)
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World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (WIARS) (Portugal) and Carmo, Mafalda
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We are delighted to welcome you to the International Conference on Education and New Developments 2015-END 2015, taking place in Porto, Portugal, from 27 to 29 of June. Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human being, in the way one thinks, feels and acts. One of the most important contributions resides in what and how we learn through the improvement of educational processes, both in formal and informal settings. Our International Conference seeks to provide some answers and explore the processes, actions, challenges and outcomes of learning, teaching and human development. Our goal is to offer a worldwide connection between teachers, students, researchers and lecturers, from a wide range of academic fields, interested in exploring and giving their contribution in educational issues. We take pride in having been able to connect and bring together academics, scholars, practitioners and others interested in a field that is fertile in new perspectives, ideas and knowledge. We counted on an extensive variety of contributors and presenters, which can supplement our view of the human essence and behavior, showing the impact of their different personal, academic and cultural experiences. This is, certainly, one of the reasons we have many nationalities and cultures represented, inspiring multi-disciplinary collaborative links, fomenting intellectual encounter and development. END 2015 received 528 submissions, from 63 different countries, reviewed by a double-blind process. Submissions were prepared to take form as Oral Presentations, Posters, Virtual Presentations and Workshops. It was accepted for presentation in the conference, 176 submissions (33% acceptance rate). The conference also includes a keynote presentation from an internationally distinguished researcher, Professor Dr. Martin Braund, Adjunct Professor at Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town, South Africa and Honorary Fellow in the Department of Education at the University of York, UK, to whom we express our most gratitude. This volume is composed by the proceedings of the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2015), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.) and had the help of our respected media partners that we reference in the dedicated page. This conference addressed different categories inside the Education area and papers are expected to fit broadly into one of the named themes and sub-themes. To develop the conference program we have chosen four main broad-ranging categories, which also cover different interest areas: (1) In TEACHERS AND STUDENTS: Teachers and Staff training and education; Educational quality and standards; Curriculum and Pedagogy; Vocational education and Counseling; Ubiquitous and lifelong learning; Training programs and professional guidance; Teaching and learning relationship; Student affairs (learning, experiences and diversity); Extra-curricular activities; Assessment and measurements in Education. (2) In PROJECTS AND TRENDS: Pedagogic innovations; Challenges and transformations in Education; Technology in teaching and learning; Distance Education and eLearning; Global and sustainable developments for Education; New learning and teaching models; Multicultural and (inter)cultural communications; Inclusive and Special Education; Rural and indigenous Education; Educational projects. (3) In TEACHING AND LEARNING: Educational foundations; Research and development methodologies; Early childhood and Primary Education; Secondary Education; Higher Education; Science and technology Education; Literacy, languages and Linguistics (TESL/TEFL); Health Education; Religious Education; Sports Education. (4) In ORGANIZATIONAL ISSUES: Educational policy and leadership; Human Resources development; Educational environment; Business, Administration, and Management in Education; Economics in Education; Institutional accreditations and rankings; International Education and Exchange programs; Equity, social justice and social change; Ethics and values; Organizational learning and change. The proceedings contain the results of the research and developments conducted by authors who focused on what they are passionate about: to promote growth in research methods intimately related to teaching, learning and applications in Education nowadays. It includes an extensive variety of contributors and presenters, who will extend our view in exploring and giving their contribution in educational issues, by sharing with us their different personal, academic and cultural experiences. (Individual papers contain references.)
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- 2015
14. Trends Influencing Researcher Education and Careers: What Do We Know, Need to Know and Do in Looking Forward
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Castelló, Montserrat, McAlpine, Lynn, and Pyhältö, Kirsi
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EARLI SIG 24, Researcher Education and Careers (SIG-REaC), was founded because increasing interest has emerged within the EARLI community into understanding different aspects of doctoral and post-PhD researcher educational and career development. This special issue brings together the outcome of our first scholarly discussion at the SIG-REaC inaugural meeting in September 2014 in Barcelona. The goal of each of the five co-authored papers is to make visible what has been overlooked, and to attend to methodological considerations in order to draw out future lines of research. As a collection, the papers address multiple levels and issues of researcher education: establishing the multifaceted phenomenon that is researcher education and careers and providing key concepts that others might take up, e.g., informal/invisible curriculum; the personal as a sphere of activity that may collide with the sphere of work; drivers of education that can provide cross-national points of comparison. Further, by identifying gaps in the literature, these papers together lay out an ambitious research agenda in a number of areas related to researcher education. In the process, they provide an extensive list of references well worth exploring since they represent the knowledge networks of over thirty researchers. In this editorial paper the Sig-REac is presented, and the characteristics of the papers, their limitations and some future challenges of researcher education are discussed.
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- 2015
15. Una revisión de los efectos del Tratado de Libre Comercio entre Colombia y Estados Unidos.
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Hernández, Gustavo
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ECONOMIC research ,TARIFF ,COMPUTABLE general equilibrium models ,FREE trade ,INTERNATIONAL economic relations - Abstract
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- 2014
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16. FEATURING RECENT RURAL SOCIOLOGICAL MATERIALS FROM LATIN AMERICA.
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Smith, T. Lynn
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POPULATION ,SOCIAL sciences ,EMIGRATION & immigration - Abstract
This article presents several books related to sociology. "Hacia una sociologia del surco: Resultados del Sexto Congreso Nacional de Sociologia de Morelia," by Roberto Agramonte. In this small volume the distinguished professor of sociology and director of the Department of Cultural Interchange at the University of Havana summarizes succinctly the program of Mexico's Sixth National Sociological Congress and appraises with keen insight most of the major papers presented at it. "El hombre y Ia tierra en Boyacd: Bases socio-históricas para una ref orma agraria," by Orlando Fals Borda. This volume contains an intensive study of the institutionalized relations between man and the land in the Department of Boyacá, Colombia. The study was done with the aid of a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the English version was presented as a Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Florida. "Migraciones internas en Costa Rica," by Wilburg Jimenez Castro. Based largely upon materials gathered in the 1950 census of population, this volume contains the results of one of the most thorough going studies of rural-urban and interregional migration ever done in Latin America.
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- 1958
17. Proceedings of the CIAE Pre-Conference (61st, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 4-6, 2012)
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American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE), Commission for International Adult Education (CIAE)
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The Commission on International Adult Education (CIAE) of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) provides a forum for the discussion of international issues related to adult education in general, as well as adult education in various countries around the globe. The following purposes summarize the work of the Commission: (1) To develop linkages with adult education associations in other countries; (2) To encourage exchanges between AAACE and associations from other countries; (3) To invite conference participation and presentations by interested adult educators around the world; and (4) To discuss how adult educators from AAACE and other nations may cooperate on projects of mutual interest and benefit to those served. The Commission holds its annual meeting in conjunction with the AAACE conference. The following papers are presented at the 2012 CIAE Pre-Conference: (1) Religious Rites and Celebrations As Frameworks for Lifelong Learning in Traditional Africa (Mejai B.M. Avoseh); (2) A Confucian Model for Scholarly Development (Elizabeth Anne Erichsen and Qi Sun); (3) The Use of Learning the Contract Within a University Setting in an Italian University (Monica Fedeli, Ettore Felisatti, and Mario Giampaolo); (4) The Cross-Culture Readiness Exposure Scale (CRES) (Emmanuel Jean Francois); (5) International History and Philosophy of Andragogy: Abbreviated for 2012 with Newer Perspective and Insights (John A. Henschke); (6) Exploring Cross-Cultural Learning Styles Differences of African and American Adult Learners (Alex Kumi-Yeboah and Waynne James); (7) An Educational Preparatory Program for Active Aging: Preliminary Results Based on Proactive Coping Theory (Ya-Hui Lee, Hui-Chuan Wei, Yu Fen Hsiao, Liang-Yi Chang, and Chen-Yi Yu); (8) Global Work Competencies and the Identification and Selection of Candidates for Expatriate Assignments (Arthur Ray McCrory); (9) Adult Education/Learning in South Africa: Promises and Challenges (Matata Johannes Mokoele); (10) Cross-Cultural Use of Surveys and Instruments in International Research: Lessons Learned From A Study in Turkey and the United States (Claudette M. Peterson, Anita Welch, Mustafa Cakir, and Chris M. Ray); (11) English Only? English-Only Policies, Multilingual Education and its Ramifications on Global Workforce Productivity (Orlando A. Pizana and Alex Kumi-Yeboah); (12) Reflections On A Research Experience at an International Treasure: The Alexander N. Charters Library of Resources for Educators of Adults (Lori Risley); (13) Bridging Adult Education Between East and West: Critical Reflection and Examination of Western Perspectives on Eastern Reality (Qi Sun and Elizabeth Anne Erichsen); (14) The Challenges and Prospects of Adult Education Programmes in Nigerian Universities (Nneka A. Umezulike); (15) The Perceived Impact of Women for Women International (WFWI) Non-formal Learning Programmes for Rural Women in Nigeria (Loretta C. Ukwuaba and Nneka A. Umezulike); (16) Perceptions of Needed Attitudinal Competencies Compared by Geographical Region (Helena Wallenberg-Lerner and Waynne B. James); (17) Identifying Intercultural Sensitivity Competencies Through Focus Group Research (Melanie L. Wicinski and Arthur Ray McCrory); and (18) Measuring Intercultural Sensitivity at the Army Medical Department Center and School: The IRB Process--Challenges and Lessons Learned (Roberta E. Worsham and Melanie L. Wicinski). Individual papers contain figures, tables, references and footnotes.
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- 2012
18. Choosing a field: How graduate student choices of field sites reflect different ideas of 'real' anthropology in Colombia and the United States.
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Macía, Laura
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GRADUATE students ,ANTHROPOLOGY ,ETHNOLOGY ,GRADUATE education - Abstract
This paper examines the decisions and motivations of graduate students in cultural anthropology when defining the field sites and topics of their final projects. The decisions among students at the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia are contrasted with those at the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. A review of recent final projects in both universities was conducted, along with a survey and some follow-up questions with students in both institutions. A main difference found is that students at los Andes are more willing to do applied fieldwork at 'home', while students at Pittsburgh are far more reluctant to do so and prefer to go to distant fields. This distinction is partly explained by the histories of the anthropologies practised in each locale, and of what have been considered 'proper' field sites in cultural anthropology. In particular, a vision of anthropology as an applied enterprise emerged at different historical moments in these two geo-political locations, and those visions are associated with quite different, opposed values today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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19. ANÁLISIS DE CORTO PLAZO DEL CONTAGIO DE VARIABLES Y NOTICIAS FINANCIERAS EN ESTADOS UNIDOS Y COLOMBIA.
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Corredor Velandia, César Augusto and Vega Mazzeo, Stefano
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GRANGER causality test ,VECTOR autoregression model ,STOCK exchanges ,ECONOMIC shock ,INVESTORS ,MARKET volatility - Abstract
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- 2012
20. Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP): A Review of Publications from 1990 to 2010
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Mangabeira, Victor, Kanter, Jonathan, and Del Prette, Giovana
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Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP), a therapy based on radical behaviorism, establishes the priority of the therapeutic interaction as a mechanism of change in psychotherapy. Since the first book on FAP appeared in 1991, it has been the focus of many papers and has been incorporated by the community of behavior therapists. This paper is a review of 80 international publications on FAP from 1990 to 2010, including publications from Brazil, the United States, Spain, Switzerland and Colombia. The goal was to analyze how FAP has been treated and developed across these 20 years, and also to propose some directions for further studies. The analysis suggests a diverse range of FAP publications, points to the necessity of more empirical studies with tighter control of variables and objective measurement of data to better understand FAP's process and effectiveness, and highlights the importance of increased communication between international research groups to increase the potential benefits of singular and collective research efforts on FAP. (Contains 2 tables and 7 figures.)
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- 2012
21. COLOMBIA -- ESTADOS UNIDOS Y LOS CAMBIOS POLÍTICOS EN LA REGIÓN: UNA APROXIMACIÓN.
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Arana, Roberto González and Godoy, Horacio
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FREE trade , *POLITICAL change , *INTERNATIONAL relations ,FOREIGN relations of the United States - Abstract
This paper analyses current dynamics of the relationship between Colombia and the United States. The Free Trade Agreement negotiations, the atoned conflict in Colombia and the Plan Colombia have been central issues in bilateral relations. Recent political changes in the region promise to affect not only Colombia's bilateral relations with its neighbors, but have an effect on US.-Colombian relations. The paper evaluates the particularities of president Uribe's Democratic Security policy, and the state of U.S.-Colombia relations during the Uribe administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
22. Understanding What Literacy Is and Where It Comes From: Lessons and Implications from a Study of Teachers and Teacher Educators
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Mora, Raúl A.
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This keynote address will discuss the findings and implications stemming from a study of what literacy means for a group of 12 teachers and teacher educators. It will also discuss the factors that have caused the ongoing evolution of these ideas about literacy. Relying on the idea of a "permeable literacy continuum," which uses five major literacy paradigms as its unit of analysis, this study shows that ideas about literacy have moved toward more inclusive frameworks, where more diversity of readings and writing genres, a more fluid connection between literacy and technology, and a permanent process of reflection about what literacy means are salient issues in today's conversations about literacy. This plenary will also engage the author and the audience on a reflexivity process about what literacy means in an ELT context and the challenges that rethinking literacy in ELT in this new millennium entails.
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- 2011
23. Why Children Matter: Investing in Early Childhood Care and Development.
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Bernard Van Leer Foundation, The Hague (Netherlands)., Cohn, Ruth, and Chetley, Andrew
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This publication reflects the philosophy and support of the Bernard van Leer Foundation for early childhood care and development. It highlights different approaches to early childhood care and development and explains why the foundation believes that investing in early childhood is one of the best ways of building a brighter, better future. The publication seeks to assist policy makers and program planners in their search for realistic, effective, and affordable ways to enhance early childhood care and development. The various approaches to early childhood interventions included in this document are run by a variety of partner organizations in the countries concerned: local and national governments, nongovernmental organizations, universities, and community agencies. They are given as examples of programs that build on local culture and local realities. Eight chapters cover the following topics: (1) why children matter; (2) the importance of the early years; (3) why parents are important; (4) involving parents; (5) involving the community; (6) benefits of early childhood interventions; (7) quality and cost; and (8) developing an agenda for action. Fourteen examples included as sidebars in the chapters profile efforts of several countries or address special topics. Contains 37 references. (TJQ)
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- 1994
24. El porque de la importancia de la ninez: Dedicando esfuerzos a la atencion y desarrollo de la primera infancia (Why Children Matter: Investing in Early Childhood Care and Development).
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Bernard Van Leer Foundation, The Hague (Netherlands)., Cohen, Ruth, and Chetley, Andrew
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This Spanish-language publication reflects the philosophy and support of the Bernard van Leer Foundation for early childhood care and development. It highlights different approaches to early childhood care and development and explains why the foundation believes that investing in early childhood is one of the best ways of building a brighter, better future. The publication seeks to assist policy makers and program planners in their search for realistic, effective, and affordable ways to enhance early childhood care and development. The various approaches to early childhood interventions included in this document are run by a variety of partner organizations in the countries concerned: local and national governments, nongovernmental organizations, universities, and community agencies. They are given as examples of programs that build on local culture and local realities. Eight chapters cover the following topics: (1) why children matter; (2) the importance of the early years; (3) why parents are important; (4) involving parents; (5) involving the community; (6) benefits of early childhood interventions; (7) quality and cost; and (8) developing an agenda for action. Fourteen examples, included as sidebars in the chapters, profile efforts of several countries or address special topics. Contains 37 references. (HTH)
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- 1994
25. Trayectorias de la enseñanza de las matemáticas en ingeniería: entornos colombiano y norteamericano.
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Mejía-Aguilar, Guillermo, Arévalo-Viveros, Luis Fernando, Lizcano-Dallos, Adriana Rocío, and Mendoza-Higuera, Edith Johanna
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MATHEMATICS education ,ENGINEERING mathematics ,ENGINEERING education ,LEARNING ,CURRICULUM ,MATHEMATICS - Abstract
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- 2023
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26. Hegemonía y aliados periféricos: la Pax Americana y sus apoyos a la seguridad en Colombia.
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Urueña-Sánchez, Mario and Dermer-Wodnicky, Miriam
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POLITICAL elites ,HEGEMONY ,COMPARATIVE studies ,DECISION making ,INTERNATIONAL relations ,SECURITY management - Abstract
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- 2022
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27. El acceso a la justicia a partir del mecanismo de solución de controversias previsto en el TLC COL-USA.
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Insignares Cera, Silvana
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INTERNATIONAL trade dispute resolution , *COMMERCIAL treaties -- Law & legislation , *ACCESS to justice -- Law & legislation , *SMALL business , *CONSTITUTIONAL law , *COMMERCIAL treaties ,COLOMBIA-United States relations - Abstract
Este artículo es el resultado de una investigación cuyo principal objetivo fue analizar el acceso a la justicia en el mecanismo de solución de controversia previsto en el Tratado de Libre Comercio suscrito entre Colombia y Estados Unidos (TLC COL-USA) y su impacto en los sectores económicos colombianos. De esta forma, se analizó la temática a partir de la conceptualización teórica del acceso a la justicia construida a partir de la doctrina y de la jurisprudencia tanto colombiana como estadounidense, así como del análisis del Sistema de Solución de Controversias consagrado en el TLC y su relación con un agente del sector productivo colombiano especifico como son los microempresarios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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28. Striking a Balance: Conscientious Objection and Reproductive Health Care from the Colombian Perspective.
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CABAL, LUISA, ARANGO OLAYA, MONICA, and MONTOYA ROBLEDO, VALENTINA
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ABORTION laws ,HEALTH care reform ,COURTS ,HEALTH services accessibility ,HEALTH insurance ,HEALTH policy ,REPRODUCTIVE health ,REFUSAL to treat - Abstract
Conscientious Objection or conscientious refusal (CO) in access to reproductive health care is at the center of current legal debates worldwide. In countries such as the US and the UK, constitutional dilemmas surrounding CO in the context of reproductive health services reveal inadequate policy frameworks for balancing CO rights with women's rights to access contraception and abortion. The Colombian Constitutional Court's holistic jurisprudence regarding CO standards has applied international human rights norms so as to not only protect women's reproductive rights as fundamental rights, but to also introduce clear limits for the exercise of CO in health care settings. This paper reviews Latin American lines of regulation in Argentina, Uruguay, and Mexico City to argue that the Colombian Court's jurisprudence offers a strong guidance for future comprehensive policy approaches that aim to effectively balance tensions between CO and women's reproductive rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
29. Government Spending across the World: How the United States Compares. National Issue Brief No. 144
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University of New Hampshire, Carsey School of Public Policy, Ettlinger, Michael, Hensley, Jordan, and Vieira, Julia
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In this brief, authors Michael Ettlinger, Jordan Hensley, and Julia Vieira analyze how much the governments of different countries spend, and on what, to illuminate the range of fiscal policy options available and provide a basis for determining which approaches work best. They report that the United States ranks twenty-fourth in government spending as a share of GDP out of twenty-nine countries for which recent comparable data are available. The key determinant of where countries rank in overall government spending is the amount spent on social protection. The United States ranks last in spending on social protection as a share of GDP and twenty-second in per capita spending. The United States ranks at or near the top in military, health care, education, and law enforcement spending. Measuring government spending by different methods and including tax expenditures does not appear to significantly alter the conclusion that the United States is a low-tax, low-spending country relative to the other countries examined, particularly when compared to its fellow higher-income countries. [This paper is an evolution of a previous work, "Comparing Public Spending and Priorities Across OECD Countries" (ED606844).]
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30. Advancing adolescent capacity to consent to transgender-related health care in Colombia and the USA
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Romero, Katherine and Reingold, Rebecca
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AUTONOMY (Psychology) , *DECISION making , *HUMAN rights , *INFORMED consent (Medical law) , *REPRODUCTIVE health , *LEGAL status of transgender people , *ADOLESCENCE ,MEDICAL care for teenagers - Abstract
Many sexual and reproductive health care services, including gender reassignment treatment, facilitate reproductive autonomy and self-determination of gender identity. Individuals who are unable to refuse or consent to these services on their own behalf, such as adolescents, are at risk of violations of their rights to privacy and self-determination. This paper explores the issue of adolescent capacity to consent to transgender-related health care in Colombia and the United States (USA), focusing on the two countries' struggles to balance the rights of adolescents to make autonomous and confidential decisions with the rights of their parents. Unfortunately, many countries, including Colombia and the USA, have been slow to develop jurisprudence and legislation that explicitly protect transgender adolescents' capacity to consent to gender assignment treatment. Courts in Colombia, however, have developed jurisprudence that restricts parents' ability to make medical decisions on behalf of their infant intersex children, which lays a strong normative foundation for advancing adolescent capacity to consent to transgender-related health care. It is a strategy that may prove effective in other countries in the Americas, even those with different frameworks for adolescent medical decision-making capacity, such as the USA. Beaucoup de services de soins de santé sexuelle et génésique, y compris le traitement pour changer de sexe, facilitent l'autonomie génésique et l'autodétermination de l'identité sexuelle. Les individus incapables de refuser ou d'accepter ces services, comme les adolescents, risquent des violations de leur droit à la confidentialité et à l'autodétermination. L'article examine la question de la capacité des adolescents à donner leur consentement à des soins de santé liés à la transsexualité en Colombie et aux États-Unis d'Amérique, en se centrant sur la lutte des deux pays pour équilibrer les droits des adolescents à prendre des décisions autonomes et confidentielles avec les droits de leurs parents. Malheureusement, beaucoup de pays, notamment ces deux-là, ont tardé à définir une jurisprudence et une législation qui protègent explicitement la capacité des adolescents transsexuels à consentir au traitement de changement de sexe. Les tribunaux en Colombie ont néanmoins développé une jurisprudence qui restreint la capacité des parents à prendre des décisions médicales au nom de leur nourrisson intersexuel, ce qui constitue un solide fondement normatif pour faire progresser la capacité des adolescents à accepter des soins de santé liés à la transsexualité. C'est une stratégie qui peut se révéler efficace dans d'autres pays aux Amériques, même s'ils disposent de cadres différents pour la capacité de décision médicale des adolescents, comme les États-Unis. Muchos servicios de salud sexual y reproductiva, incluido el tratamiento de reasignación de sexo, facilitan la autonomía reproductiva y autodeterminación de identidad de género. Las personas que no pueden negarse o dar su consentimiento para recibir estos servicios, tales como adolescentes, corren el riesgo de sufrir violaciones de sus derechos a la privacidad y autodeterminación. En este artículo se explora el asunto de la capacidad de los adolescentes para consentir en recibir servicios de salud para personas transgénero en Colombia y Estados Unidos (EE. UU.), con un enfoque en la lucha de los dos países por sopesar los derechos de los adolescentes de tomar decisiones autónomas y confidenciales y los derechos de sus padres. Desgraciadamente, muchos países, incluidos Colombia y EE. UU., se han demorado en formular jurisprudencia y legislación que proteja explícitamente la capacidad de adolescentes transgénero para consentir en recibir tratamiento de asignación de sexo. Sin embargo, las cortes de Colombia han creado jurisprudencia que limita la capacidad de los padres para tomar decisiones médicas en nombre de sus bebés intersexuales, lo cual sienta una sólida base normativa para promover la capacidad de los adolescentes para consentir en recibir servicios de salud para personas transgénero. Es una estrategia que podría resultar eficaz en otros países en las Américas, incluso aquellos con diferentes marcos para la capacidad de toma de decisiones médicas en la adolescencia, tales como EE. UU. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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31. Insights from a cross-sectional binational study comparing obesity among nonimmigrant Colombians in their home country and Colombian immigrants in the U.S.
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Devia C, Flórez KR, Costa SA, and Huang TT
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- Female, Humans, Male, Colombia epidemiology, Colombia ethnology, Cross-Sectional Studies, United States epidemiology, New York City epidemiology, Sex Factors, Emigrants and Immigrants statistics & numerical data, Obesity epidemiology, Obesity ethnology
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Background: Latinos in the United States (U.S.) represent a heterogeneous minority population disproportionally impacted by obesity. Colombians in the U.S. are routinely combined with other South Americans in most obesity studies. Moreover, most studies among Latino immigrants in the U.S. solely focus on factors in the destination context, which largely ignores the prevalence of obesity and contextual factors in their country of origin, and warrant transnational investigations., Methods: Using 2013-17 data from the New York City Community Health Survey (NYC CHS, U.S.) and the National Survey of the Nutritional Situation (ENSIN, Colombia), Colombians that immigrated to the U.S. and are living in NYC (n = 503) were compared to nonimmigrant Colombians living in their home country (n = 98,829). Prevalence ratios (PR) for obesity (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m
2 ) by place of residence were estimated using multivariable logistic regression adjusting for socio-demographic characteristics and daily consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages., Results: The prevalence of obesity was 49% greater for immigrant Colombians living in NYC when compared to nonimmigrant Colombians living in in their home country (PR = 1.49; 95% CI 1.08, 2.07). Colombian immigrant men in NYC were 72% more likely to have obesity compared to nonimmigrant men living in their home country (PR = 1.72; 95% CI 1.03, 2.87). No significant differences were found in the adjusted models among women., Conclusions: Colombian immigrants in NYC exhibit a higher prevalence of obesity compared to their nonimmigrant counterparts back home and sex strengthens this relationship. More obesity research is needed to understand the immigration experience of Colombians in the U.S. and the underlying mechanisms for sex difference. Public health action focused on women in Colombia and both Colombian men and women immigrants in the U.S. is warranted to avert the long-term consequences of obesity., (© 2023. BioMed Central Ltd., part of Springer Nature.)- Published
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32. On the North–South trade in the Americas and its ecological asymmetries
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Muñoz, Pablo, Strohmaier, Rita, and Roca, Jordi
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GLOBAL North-South divide , *INTERNATIONAL trade , *EXPORTS , *VALUE added (Marketing) , *SURPLUS (Economics) - Abstract
There has been a long and intensive debate within the scientific community about the role of international trade in the development of countries. During the last decades, the focus of attention has moved from the pure economic level to the environmental aspects of international trade. Establishing a simplified system of North–South trade for one reference period (2003), this paper attempts to test empirically the extent of potential asymmetries with regard to extracted material flows, and contrasts the results with the economic benefits from trade (in terms of value-added). The South is thereby represented by a selection of Latin American countries (Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico), the North comprises one of their main commercial partners, the United States. At the methodological level, a multi-regional input–output analysis is used as the tool of investigation. Results generally support the hypothesis that the South was feeding the North's societal metabolism. South–North material exports were 1.6 times larger than North–South material exports, resulting in a net deficit for the South of 324 million tons. Moreover, material intensity of exported commodities from the South was twice as high as that from the North. It is worth highlighting, however, that part of the North-South hypothesis fails for the sample of countries since the larger part of the economic surplus has remained in the South, contrarily to what would have been expected. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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33. Passado e presente nas relações Colômbia-Estados Unidos: a estratégia de internacionalização do conflito armado colombiano e as diretrizes da política externa norte-americana.
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SANTOS, MARCELO
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INTERNATIONAL relations , *WAR , *GLOBALIZATION - Abstract
This article aims to analyze the dynamics of the relationship between Colombia and United States, with emphasis on the Uribe Government. For this purpose, the internationalization strategy of the Colombian armed conflict and the aspects of the U.S. intervention under Plan Colombia were examined. In the final analysis, this paper suggests that recent political changes in the United States have impacted the guidance for U.S. - Colombia relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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34. Environmental impact assessment in Colombia: Critical analysis and proposals for improvement.
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Toro, Javier, Requena, Ignacio, and Zamorano, Montserrat
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ENVIRONMENTAL impact analysis ,CRITICAL analysis ,ENVIRONMENTAL policy ,ENVIRONMENTAL quality ,ENVIRONMENTAL regulations - Abstract
Abstract: The evaluation of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) systems is a highly recommended strategy for enhancing their effectiveness and quality. This paper describes an evaluation of EIA in Colombia, using the model and the control mechanisms proposed and applied in other countries by Christopher Wood and Ortolano. The evaluation criteria used are based on Principles of Environmental Impact Assessment Best Practice, such as effectiveness and control features, and they were contrasted with the opinions of a panel of Colombian EIA experts as a means of validating the results of the study. The results found that EIA regulations in Colombia were ineffective because of limited scope, inadequate administrative support and the inexistence of effective control mechanisms and public participation. This analysis resulted in a series of recommendations regarding the further development of the EIA system in Colombia with a view to improving its quality and effectiveness. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2010
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35. NATURAL GAS TRANSPORT.
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Correa, Tomás and Osorio, Nelson
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NATURAL gas transportation ,NATURAL gas vehicles ,PETROLEUM industry ,GAS industry equipment ,TRANSPORTATION industry ,NATURAL gas pipelines ,GAS industry ,GAS fields ,MANAGEMENT - Abstract
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- 2009
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36. ANTECEDENTES HISTÓRICOS DE LA DEUDA EXTERNA COLOMBIANA. DE LA PAZ BRITÁNICA A LA PAZ AMERICANA.
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Gómez, Mauricio Avella
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FOREIGN investments , *INTERNATIONAL economic relations ,FOREIGN relations of the United States - Abstract
This second paper from Mauricio Avella describes the complete cycle of capital exports originating in the United States in the 1920's: the conversion of United States into a creditor nation; the role of New York as the dominant financial center; and the distribution of United States investments, particularly in South America. Moreover, it examines the availability of these exports to Colombia, and the consequences from collapsing of external credit granted by the United States. Finally, it reviews the balance of the main international creditors when the export cycle of American capital closed in the 1920's. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
37. Foreign trade and payments.
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INTERNATIONAL trade ,BALANCE of trade ,SALES ,FINANCE - Abstract
Reports developments related to foreign trade in Colombia as of January 2004. Assessment of trade balance; Expansion of sales into U.S. market; Stabilization of current-account deficit.
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- 2004
38. Changes in widowhood and divorce and expected durations of marriage.
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Goldman, Noreen and Goldman, N
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LIFE expectancy ,MARRIAGE ,WIDOWHOOD ,DIVORCE ,LONGEVITY ,COMPARATIVE studies ,DEMOGRAPHY ,RESEARCH methodology ,MEDICAL cooperation ,MORTALITY ,RESEARCH ,RESEARCH funding ,SINGLE people ,EVALUATION research - Abstract
A new interpretation of mathematical formulas developed by Keyfitz illustrates how the concept of entropy (H) can be applied to the analysis of marriage dissolution. The quantities H(divorce) and H(widowhood) indicate the changes in marriage duration which would result from small, constant changes in duration-specific divorce and widowhood rates, respectively. An examination of values for the United States, Nepal and Colombia illustrates the utility of H(i) in assessing the impact of changes in widowhood and divorce and clarifies the relationship between H and changes in life expectancy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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39. Breastfeeding and childhood obesity: A 12‐country study.
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Ma, Jian, Qiao, Yijuan, Zhao, Pei, Li, Wei, Katzmarzyk, Peter T., Chaput, Jean‐Philippe, Fogelholm, Mikael, Kuriyan, Rebecca, Lambert, Estelle V., Maher, Carol, Maia, Jose, Matsudo, Victor, Olds, Timothy, Onywera, Vincent, Sarmiento, Olga L., Standage, Martyn, Tremblay, Mark S., Tudor‐Locke, Catrine, and Hu, Gang
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ADIPOSE tissues ,BODY weight ,BREASTFEEDING ,BREASTFEEDING promotion ,CHI-squared test ,CONFIDENCE intervals ,FOOD habits ,GESTATIONAL age ,CHILDHOOD obesity ,RESEARCH funding ,SLEEP ,STATURE ,EDUCATIONAL attainment ,BODY mass index ,ACCELEROMETRY ,DISEASE prevalence ,CROSS-sectional method ,SEDENTARY lifestyles ,PHYSICAL activity ,DATA analysis software ,WAIST circumference ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,ODDS ratio ,ONE-way analysis of variance - Abstract
This study aimed to examine the association between breastfeeding and childhood obesity. A multinational cross‐sectional study of 4,740 children aged 9–11 years was conducted from 12 countries. Infant breastfeeding was recalled by parents or legal guardians. Height, weight, waist circumference, and body fat were obtained using standardized methods. The overall prevalence of obesity, central obesity, and high body fat were 12.3%, 9.9%, and 8.1%, respectively. After adjustment for maternal age at delivery, body mass index (BMI), highest maternal education, history of gestational diabetes, gestational age, and child's age, sex, birth weight, unhealthy diet pattern scores, moderate‐to‐vigorous physical activity, sleeping, and sedentary time, exclusive breastfeeding was associated with lower odds of obesity (odds ratio [OR] 0.76, 95% confidence interval, CI [0.57, 1.00]) and high body fat (OR 0.60, 95% CI [0.43, 0.84]) compared with exclusive formula feeding. The multivariable‐adjusted ORs based on different breastfeeding durations (none, 1–6, 6–12, and > 12 months) were 1.00, 0.74, 0.70, and 0.60 for obesity (Ptrend =.020) and 1.00, 0.64, 047, and 0.64 for high body fat (Ptrend =.012), respectively. These associations were no longer significant after adjustment for maternal BMI. Breastfeeding may be a protective factor for obesity and high body fat in 9‐ to 11‐year‐old children from 12 countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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40. Health equity and COVID-19: global perspectives.
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Shadmi, Efrat, Chen, Yingyao, Dourado, Inês, Faran-Perach, Inbal, Furler, John, Hangoma, Peter, Hanvoravongchai, Piya, Obando, Claudia, Petrosyan, Varduhi, Rao, Krishna D., Ruano, Ana Lorena, Shi, Leiyu, de Souza, Luis Eugenio, Spitzer-Shohat, Sivan, Sturgiss, Elizabeth, Suphanchaimat, Rapeepong, Uribe, Manuela Villar, and Willems, Sara
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EPIDEMICS ,HEALTH services accessibility ,HEALTH status indicators ,HUMAN rights ,HUMANITARIANISM ,MEDICAL needs assessment ,MEDICAL quality control ,MINORITIES ,PUBLIC health ,SOCIOECONOMIC factors ,HEALTH equity ,AT-risk people ,COVID-19 - Abstract
The COVID-19 is disproportionally affecting the poor, minorities and a broad range of vulnerable populations, due to its inequitable spread in areas of dense population and limited mitigation capacity due to high prevalence of chronic conditions or poor access to high quality public health and medical care. Moreover, the collateral effects of the pandemic due to the global economic downturn, and social isolation and movement restriction measures, are unequally affecting those in the lowest power strata of societies. To address the challenges to health equity and describe some of the approaches taken by governments and local organizations, we have compiled 13 country case studies from various regions around the world: China, Brazil, Thailand, Sub Saharan Africa, Nicaragua, Armenia, India, Guatemala, United States of America (USA), Israel, Australia, Colombia, and Belgium. This compilation is by no-means representative or all inclusive, and we encourage researchers to continue advancing global knowledge on COVID-19 health equity related issues, through rigorous research and generation of a strong evidence base of new empirical studies in this field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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41. The Participant Effects of Private School Vouchers across the Globe: A Meta-Analytic and Systematic Review
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Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE), Shakeel, M. Danish, Anderson, Kaitlin P., and Wolf, Patrick J.
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The objective of this meta-analysis is to rigorously assess the participant effects of private school vouchers, or in other words, to estimate the average academic impacts that the offer (or use) of a voucher has on a student. This review adds to the literature by being the first to systematically review all Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) in an international context. This paper presents three meta-analytic estimates of the impacts of school vouchers: (1) just in the U.S.; (2) just outside the U.S.; and (3) globally including the U.S. and all other countries. The initial research was guided by the following question: What is the impact of private school vouchers globally on the student achievement of those students offered the vouchers? The RCTs included in this analysis were located in four countries: the United States of America, Kenya, Colombia, and India. The U.S. studies covered programs in Charlotte, North Carolina; Dayton, Ohio; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; New York City; Toledo, Ohio; and Washington, D.C. The participants in the RCTs were children who attended private schools through a school voucher. The grades analyzed ranged from K-12, although most individual RCTs included a shorter grade range in their analysis. The programs evaluated were publicly or privately funded school voucher or K-12 "scholarship" programs. The research design of the studies that inform the meta-analysis was random assignment of children to treatment and control groups. Most studies had a one-stage randomization through administration of a lottery while one study in Andhra Pradesh, India was based on a two-stage randomization (randomly assign students within randomly assigned villages). For this meta-analysis, researchers identified publications from computer and networked searches through a variety of sources. For math scores, the effect sizes are positive for twelve studies except for Rouse (1998), Bettinger (2003), and Muralidharan and Sundararaman (2015). For reading studies, the effect sizes are positive for thirteen studies except for Krueger and Zhu (2004). Overall global effect size from meta-analysis indicates null impacts on math scores [95% CI: -0.003 to 0.057 standard deviations] and positive, but small impacts on reading scores [95% CI: 0.066 to 0.127 standard deviations]. For reading outcome measures, the effect size is positive overall for studies in and outside of the U.S. The effect size is much greater for non-U.S. regions (d = 0.136) [95% CI: 0.087 to 0.185 standard deviations] than for U.S. (d = 0.071) [95% CI: 0.032 to 0.111 standard deviations]. Additionally, the effect size for privately funded vouchers (d = 0.102) [95% CI: 0.064 to 0.139 standard deviations] is more than that for publicly funded vouchers (0.087) [95% CI: 0.033 to 0.142 standard deviations]. Details on search and exclusion process, along with tables and figures, are appended.
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42. Drivers and Interpretations of Doctoral Education Today: National Comparisons
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Andres, Lesley, Bengtsen, Søren S. E., del Pilar Gallego Castaño, Liliana, Crossouard, Barbara, Keefer, Jeffrey M., and Pyhältö, Kirsi
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In the last decade, doctoral education has undergone a sea change with several global trends increasingly apparent. Drivers of change include massification and professionalization of doctoral education and the introduction of quality assurance systems. The impact of these drivers, and the forms that they take, however, are dependent on doctoral education within a given national context. This paper is frontline in that it contributes to the literature on doctoral education by examining the ways in which these global trends and drivers are being taken up in policies and practices by various countries. We do so by comparing recent changes in each of the following countries: Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, the UK, and the USA. Each country case is based on national education policies, policy reports on doctoral education (e.g., OECD and EU policy texts), and related materials. We use the same global drivers to examine educational policies of each country. However, depending each national context, these drivers are framed in considerably different ways. This raises questions about (1) their comparability at a global level and (2) the universality of the PhD. Also we find that this global-local nexus reveals unresolved tensions within the national doctoral educational frameworks.
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43. Costs of health care in the last-year-of-life in Colombia: Evidence from two contributive regime health plans.
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Prada, Sergio Iván
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MEDICAL care costs ,HEALTH planning ,MEDICAL care ,MEDICAL care cost statistics ,MEDICARE - Abstract
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- 2018
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44. 'CityVille': Collaborative Game Play, Communication and Skill Development in Social Networks
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Del-Moral, María-Esther and Guzmán-Duque, Alba-Patricia
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This paper has as its aim to analyze how CityVille, a videogame hosted on Facebook and oriented to the construction of a virtual city, can favor collaboration between gamers along with the exchange of strategies, equally contributing to learning transfer and skill acquisition. The first step consists in identifying the opportunities which the said game can offer in order to develop skills and promote learning formats linked with planning and resource management, after which a presentation is made of the opinions expressed by a sample of gamers (N = 105)--belonging to the Fans-CityVille community--about the priorities established by them to communicate with their neighbors and the skills that they believe to have acquired playing this game. 85.7% of them state that they communicate with others to share strategies and expand their city. Unlike women, who value collaboration, men prioritize competition. Designing their city has enhanced a number of gamer skills in different proportions: creative skills (71.4%); organizational ones (68.0%); skills associated with decision-making and problem-solving (67.0%); and interpersonal skills through interaction with others (61.9%). The CityVille game mode favors skill development and helps to create a ludic atmosphere of collaboration and optimal strategy exchange through communication between neighbors by strengthening their mutual relationships. Its formula moves away from the often-criticized competitive practices of other games.
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- 2014
45. PAN-AM HIGHWAY.
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Fitzgerald, Mark
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PROFESSIONAL employees ,NEWSPAPER publishing ,HUNGER strikes ,DEATH - Abstract
Present updates on several professionals in the newspaper publishing industry in various countries. Hunger strike committed by several independent Cuban journalists in the U.S.; Murder of Juan Carlos Benavidez on August 22, 2003 in Colombia; Attack led by ousted "Excelsior" director Rafael de la Huerta to the offices of the newspaper in Mexico City.
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46. Everybody's favorite laundryman.
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Cook, James
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MONEY laundering investigation ,MONEY laundering ,NARCOTICS ,INTERNATIONAL trade ,ACTIONS & defenses (Law) - Abstract
The article looks at money laundering in the narcotics trade, focusing on the prosecution of Eduardo Orozco-Prada, involved in a big money-laundering case in the U.S., as of December 5, 1983. Attention is paid to his currency exchange business in Colombia, his bank accounts and transactions, as well as his relationship with Eduardo Garcia, personable account manager at Citibank and an undercover agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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47. An Assessment of the Growth in Coverage of Social and Environmental Issues in Graduate Accounting Courses
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Green, Sharon and Weber, James
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The paper examines if there has been an increase in the attention paid to social and environmental issues (SEI) in accounting curricula. Using schools participating in the Aspen Institute's Beyond Grey Pinstripes (BGP) program, we measure the increase in the number of accounting courses incorporating SEI across the biennial application years of 2005, 2007 and 2009. We also examine the percentage of SEI coverage in accounting courses between 2007 and 2009. Our findings suggest that there was not an appreciable increase in the number of accounting courses dealing with SEI between 2005 and 2007, but that the increase was significant during the period from 2007 to 2009. Further, the increase over the four-year period from 2005 to 2009 was also significant. In addition, there is a significant increase in the percentage of SEI coverage in accounting courses between 2007 and 2009. Implications of these findings are discussed.
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48. Do associations between objectively-assessed physical activity and neighbourhood environment attributes vary by time of the day and day of the week? IPEN adult study.
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Cerin, Ester, Mitáš, Josef, Cain, Kelli L., Conway, Terry L., Adams, Marc A., Schofield, Grant, Sarmiento, Olga L., Siqueira Reis, Rodrigo, Schipperijn, Jasper, Davey, Rachel, Salvo, Deborah, Orzanco-Garralda, Rosario, Macfarlane, Duncan J., De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse, Owen, Neville, Sallis, James F., and Van Dyck, Delfien
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PHYSICAL activity ,ACCELEROMETERS ,COMPARATIVE studies ,CONFIDENCE intervals ,EMPLOYMENT ,GEOGRAPHIC information systems ,HEALTH behavior ,MOTOR ability ,POPULATION geography ,PROBABILITY theory ,REGRESSION analysis ,SEASONS ,SELF-evaluation ,SEX distribution ,SURVEYS ,TIME ,MATHEMATICAL variables ,WORLD health ,RESIDENTIAL patterns ,SOCIOECONOMIC factors ,EDUCATIONAL attainment ,CROSS-sectional method ,DATA analysis software ,MEDICAL coding ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,ADULTS ,PSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
Background: To more accurately quantify the potential impact of the neighbourhood environment on adults' physical activity (PA), it is important to compare environment-PA associations between periods of the day or week when adults are more versus less likely to be in their neighbourhood and utilise its PA resources. We examined whether, among adults from 10 countries, associations between objectively-assessed neighbourhood environment attributes and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) varied by time of the day and day of the week. The secondary aim was to examine whether such associations varied by employment status, gender and city. Methods: This cross-sectional study included 6,712 adults from 14 cities across 10 countries with ≥1 day of valid accelerometer-assessed MVPA and complete information on socio-demographic and objectively-assessed environmental characteristics within 0.5 and 1 km street-network buffers around the home. Accelerometer measures (MVPA min/h) were created for six time periods from early morning until late evening/night, for weekdays and weekend days separately. Associations were estimated using generalized additive mixed models. Results: Time of the day, day of week, gender and employment status were significant moderators of environment-MVPA associations. Land use mix was positively associated with MVPA in women who were employed and in men irrespective of their employment status. The positive associations between MVPA and net residential density, intersection density and land use mix were stronger in the mornings of weekdays and the afternoon/evening periods of both weekdays and weekend days. Associations between number of parks and MVPA were stronger in the mornings and afternoon/evenings irrespective of day of the week. Public transport density showed consistent positive associations with MVPA during weekends, while stronger effects on weekdays were observed in the morning and early evenings. Conclusions: This study suggests that space and time constraints in adults' daily activities are important factors that determine the impact of neighbourhood attributes on PA. Consideration of time-specific associations is important to better characterise the magnitude of the effects of the neighbourhood environment on PA. Future research will need to examine the contribution of built environment characteristics of areas surrounding other types of daily life centres (e.g., workplaces) to explaining adults' PA at specific times of the day. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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49. Indicadores de competitividad del cultivo del arroz en Colombia y Estados Unidos.
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Chica L., Jaqueline, Tirado O., Yeimy Carolina, and Barreto O., Joan Manuel
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FREE trade ,FOOD security ,NATIONAL security ,FREE enterprise ,ECONOMIC impact ,RICE - Abstract
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- 2016
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50. CORPORATE AMERICA'S COLOMBIAN CONNECTION.
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France, Mike and Burnett, Victoria
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MONEY laundering ,DRUGS & crime - Abstract
Discusses how so-called peso brokers use United States manufacturers to wash the Colombian narcotics cartels' cash. The case of Myriam Arana, a peso broker, who pleaded guilty to money-laundering in 1996; The amount of money laundered by peso brokers, according to the US Treasury Department; How the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is combating peso brokering.
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- 1997
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