The Youngest Victims: Children and Youth Affected by War

In 1989, the United Nation Convention on the Rights of the Child declared, “[state parties] shall take all feasible measures to ensure protection and care of children who are affected by an armed conflict.” In addition to attempting to secure the welfare of children in armed conflict, the Convention went on to ban the recruitment and deployment of children during armed conflict. Despite the vast majority of sovereign nations signing and ratifying this agreement, this treaty, unfortunately, has not prevented children and youth from witnessing, becoming victims of, or participating in political, ethnic, religious, and cultural violence across the past three decades. This chapter offers an “ecological perspective” on the psychosocial consequences of exposure to the trauma of war-related violence and social disruption

Manual de Bioseguridad y Sanidad en Cuyes

El presente manual tiene por finalidad ser una fuente de consulta técnica de las principales enfermedades de importancia económica para productores interesados en la crianza de cuyes, incluyendo un didáctico protocolo de necropsia que facilite el diagnóstico presuntivo de la causa de muerte. Dentro de los aspectos sanitarios, el propósito fundamental de todo productor debe ser la prevención y el control de las enfermedades más importantes ya sea de tipo infeccioso o parasitario, teniendo en cuenta aspectos importantes sobre la bioseguridad que debe implementarse en una granja de cuyes

Modelling across the process life cycle: A risk management perspective

The process life cycle is a well established concept, having increasingly become a corporate and regulatory imperative. Motivated by a history of major commercial, environmental and societal failures or disasters, the product and process life cycle is underscored by the application of risk management principles. Decision making, driven principally by considerations of a wide range of risks provides the context for the modelling that occurs across the life cycle, especially that for product and process. This paper illustrates, analyses and discusses the role of modelling within the multidisciplinary life cycle framework, emphasising the centrality of the process issues and the growing need of the process engineering comunity to look beyond the confines of process engineering. The paper considers the application of risk management principles to the modelling life cycle, highlighting some of the unfulfilled challenges in this area