Using Head, Heart and Hands to (De)construct Community Development in Tijuana, Mexico

Short-term international service-learning immersions can provide accessible ways for students to experience other countries and cultures, creating the possibility for development of the whole person in a global context. These programs often involve the physical labor of students, through building houses, serving food to migrants, and the like. As Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J. has observed, such service can be valued by the recipient community and for the participating student, and can challenge the mind to change. But how can such programs increase their value proposition in support of the organization’s mission? In other words, how might we employ minds as well as hands and hearts in other ways that promote justice work? This article describes an immersion program, academic course, and community-based research effort forged over a 25-year relationship between Seattle University and Esperanza, a non-governmental organization that focuses on community development, micro finance, and affordable housing in Tijuana, Mexico. Using the Ignatian pedagogical paradigm, a constellation of stakeholders—faculty, staff, students, and community partners—reflect on the partnership and the enhancements to a long-standing collaborative effort. Lessons learned are offered. Ultimately, we conclude that long-term reciprocal benefits can be achieved while also inviting participants to deepen their aspirations for social change in a global context

Pointing, Acquisition, and Tracking for Small Satellite Laser Communications

The CubeSat Laser Infrared CrosslinK (CLICK) mission is a technology demonstrator for a 2U inter-satellite link laser communications terminal deployed on a 6U CubeSat. The pointing, acquisition, and tracking (PAT) system has a full-cone, half-power pointing requirement of 14.6 arcsec to achieve full-duplex laser communications at 20 Mbps at ranges up to 580 km or more. The corresponding single-axis pointing requirement is ±5.18 arcsec (3σ). The PAT system utilizes the satellite’s attitude control system for coarse relative pointing and a fine pointing system (FPS) within the payload to mitigate residual pointing error and maintain the link under environmental and spacecraft-induced disturbances. The FPS uses a MEMS fast steering mirror (FSM) to maintain alignment of the transmit (Tx) and receive (Rx) laser signals. This paper presents a simulation of the FPS control system, which is being used to identify improvements in pointing margins and prototype the flight-level control system. The initial results give an improvement in fine pointing error due to the FPS control error of 28%: from ±2.27 arcsec (3σ) to ±1.63 arcsec (3σ) and an increase in overall fine pointing margin, including optomechanical error, from 0.06% to 5.4%

Conocimientos, actitudes y aceptabilidad de la vacuna contra el virus de papiloma humano entre padres de familia de niñas menores de 14 años, afiliados al Dispensario Punta Corral. Cuenca, enero 2022

Según la OMS, el VPH causa cáncer de cuello de útero, ocupa el cuarto lugar entre los tipos más comunes de cáncer que afectan a 604 127 mujeres, con un estimado de 341 831 muertes en 2020. La mayoría esas muertes se produjeron en las regiones menos desarrolladas, donde es el causante de casi el 12% de todos los cánceres femeninos. Objetivo Identificar los conocimientos, actitudes y aceptabilidad de la vacuna contra el VPH entre padres de familia de niñas menores de 14 años, afiliados al dispensario punta corral. Cuenca, enero 2022. Metodología Se realizó un estudio observacional, descriptivo y transversal, el universo está constituido por 131 padres con hijas menores de 14 años, afiliados al Seguro Social Campesino del Dispensario de Punta Corral utilizando un cuestionario ad hoc. Resultados: La mayoría de padres tuvieron un nivel de conocimiento muy bajo (46,6%), las actitudes hacia la vacunación fueron malas (88,54%). El 18,3% de los padres manifestaron tener a sus hijas vacunadas, adicionalmente 65,6% de los padres vacunarían a sus hijas contra el Virus del Papiloma Humano. Conclusiones: Los padres tuvieron un nivel de conocimiento muy bajo y malas actitudes frente a la vacunación lo cual evidenció una baja aceptabilidad de la vacuna contra el VPH. El conocimiento y las actitudes se asociaron a la decisión de los padres de familia de vacunar o no a sus hijas. No existió influencia sociodemográfica de sexo, edad y nivel de instrucción de los participantes en la aceptabilidad de la vacuna.According to the WHO, the Human Papillomavirus causes cervical cancer. It ranks fourth among the most common types of cancer, affecting 604,127 women, with an estimated number of 341,831 deaths in 2020. The majority of these deaths occur in less developed regions, where it is the cause of almost 12% of all female cancers. Objective: Identify awareness, perception and rate of approval of the Human Papillomavirus vaccine among parents of girls under 14 years old, affiliated with Punta Corral Health Center. Cuenca, January 2022. Methodology: The study is observational, descriptive and cross-sectional and is composed parents with girls under the age of 14 years who are affiliated with the Rural Social Security Health Clinic of the Punta Corral on January 2022. One hundred and thirty-one parents were surveyed using ad hoc documents as a tool. Results: Of the 131 parents surveyed, the majority had a very low level of knowledge (46.6%), attitudes towards vaccination were bad (88.54%). Only 18.3% of the parents stated that they had their daughters vaccinated, additionally 65.6% of the parents (86 people) would vaccinate their daughters against the Human Papilloma Virus. Conclusions: Parents had a very low level of knowledge and poor attitudes towards vaccination, which evidenced a low acceptability of the HPV vaccine. Knowledge and attitudes are associated with the decision of parents to vaccinate their daughters or not. It does not seem to be a sociodemographic influence of gender, age and educational level of the participants on the acceptability of the vaccine.MédicoCuenc

El diseño de un programa psicopedagógico orientado al fomento de la empatía como estrategia de disminución del Bullying entre adolescentes

El propósito de este artículo es presentar el diseño de un programa psicopedagógico orientado al fomento de la empatía como estrategia de disminución del Bullying en adolescentes escolarizados. Para poder realizar este objetivo, fue necesario realizar un diagnóstico de necesidades, con una muestra de 73 estudiantes de secundaria, 5 docentes y 2 autoridades educativas. Una vez detectadas las necesidades de la institución educativa, se procedió a realizar el diseño y desarrollo del programa. La intervención preventiva realizada es un programa de nombre CONECTA, que busca desarrollar la empatía en alumnos de secundaria, a través del servicio social para mejorar las relaciones con compañeros de clase. CONECTAestá basado en el modelo de Gerdes y Segal (2009, 2010, 2011) en el que se menciona la acción empática como resultado del servicio social. Al igual, CONECTAestá basado en cuatro elementos que se deben incluir un programa de servicio social, según Puig (2009).En cuanto al diseño de CONECTA, se decidió utilizar el modelo de Backward Design Wiggins y McTighe (2005) para asegurar su correcta alineación y que los objetivos del programa se cumplan. CONECTAcuenta con tres módulos; el primer módulo se integra por dos sesiones, el segundo módulo por tres sesiones,y el tercer módulo, por tres sesiones.The purpose of this article is to present the design of a psycho-pedagogical program aimed at fostering empathy as a strategy to reduce bullying in school adolescents. In order to achieve this objective, it was necessary to carry out a needs assessment, with a sample of 73 high school students, 5 teachers and 2 educational authorities. Once the needs of the educational institutionwere detected, the design and development of the program was carried out. The preventive intervention carried out is a program called CONECTA, which seeks to develop empathy in secondary school students, through social service to improve relationships with classmates. CONECTAis based on the Gerdes and Segal (2009, 2010, 2011) model in which empathic action is mentioned as a result of social service. Likewise, CONECTAis based on four elements that must be included in a community service program, accordingto Puig (2009).Regarding the design of CONECTA, it was decided to use the Backward Design Wiggins and McTighe (2005) model to ensure its correct alignment and that the objectives of the program are met. CONECTA has three modules; The first module consists of two sessions, the second module for three sessions, and the third module for three sessions

Possible Discovery Channel for New Charged Leptons at the LHC

We propose a channel for the possible discovery of new charged leptons at the Large Hadron Collider. The proposed final state contains three same-sign leptons, making this new channel practically back- groundless. The method is illustrated for two different cases: the four-family Standard Model and the Grand Unified Theory based on the E6 gauge group. An example study taking 250 GeV as the charged lepton mass shows that in both models, about 8 signal events can be expected at 14 TeV center-of-mass energy with 1 fb^-1 of integrated luminosity. Although the event yield might not be sufficient for detailed measurements of the charged lepton properties, it would be sufficient to claim discovery through a counting experiment.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures. v2 update includes an estimate of the backgrounds, consideration of the EW oblique parameters, and minor improvements. v3 update includes detector acceptance and ttbar backgroun

Z boson production in Pb+Pb collisions at √Snn = 5.02 TeV measured by the ATLAS experiment

The production yield of Z bosons is measured in the electron and muon decay channels in Pb+Pb collisions at √S = 5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Data from the 2015 LHC run corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.49 nb are used for the analysis. The Z boson yield, normalised by the total number of minimum-bias events and the mean nuclear thickness function, is measured as a function of dilepton rapidity and event centrality. The measurements in Pb+Pb collisions are compared with similar measurements made in proton-proton collisions at the same centre-of-mass energy. The nuclear modification factor is found to be consistent with unity for all centrality intervals. The results are compared with theoretical predictions obtained at next-to-leading order using nucleon and nuclear parton distribution functions. The normalised Z boson yields in Pb+Pb collisions lie 1-3σ above the predictions. The nuclear modification factor measured as a function of rapidity agrees with unity and is consistent with a next-to-leading-order QCD calculation including the isospin effect. nn -

Search for flavour-changing neutral currents in processes with one top quark and a photon using 81 fb−1 of pp collisions at s=13TeV with the ATLAS experiment

A search for flavour-changing neutral current (FCNC) events via the coupling of a top quark, a photon, and an up or charm quark is presented using 81 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data taken at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events with a photon, an electron or muon, a b-tagged jet, and missing transverse momentum are selected. A neural network based on kinematic variables differentiates between events from signal and background processes. The data are consistent with the background-only hypothesis, and limits are set on the strength of the tqγ coupling in an effective field theory. These are also interpreted as 95% CL upper limits on the cross section for FCNC tγ production via a left-handed (right-handed) tuγ coupling of 36 fb (78 fb) and on the branching ratio for t→γu of 2.8×10−5 (6.1×10−5). In addition, they are interpreted as 95% CL upper limits on the cross section for FCNC tγ production via a left-handed (right-handed) tcγ coupling of 40 fb (33 fb) and on the branching ratio for t→γc of 22×10−5 (18×10−5)

Measurement of Azimuthal Anisotropy of Muons from Charm and Bottom Hadrons in pp Collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector.

The elliptic flow of muons from the decay of charm and bottom hadrons is measured in pp collisions at sqrt[s]=13  TeV using a data sample with an integrated luminosity of 150  pb^{-1} recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The muons from heavy-flavor decay are separated from light-hadron decay muons using momentum imbalance between the tracking and muon spectrometers. The heavy-flavor decay muons are further separated into those from charm decay and those from bottom decay using the distance-of-closest-approach to the collision vertex. The measurement is performed for muons in the transverse momentum range 4-7 GeV and pseudorapidity range |η|<2.4. A significant nonzero elliptic anisotropy coefficient v_{2} is observed for muons from charm decays, while the v_{2} value for muons from bottom decays is consistent with zero within uncertainties