En nombre de la historia: una crítica disciplinaria de la historia doble de la costa de orlando fals borda

Este artículo es la contraparte del ya mencionado debate sobre la obra de Fals Borda. A juicio de Ch. Bergquist, Fals en su Historia Doble de La Costa, ignora sistemáticamente los tres pilares metodológicos con los que trabaja el historiador: la historiografía, el adecuado manejo de las fuentes primarias y la posibilidad de comunicar su obra a nivel popular; con ello subvierte su propósito democrático y su compromiso político

Aviva chomsky. linked labor histories: new england, colombia, and the making of a global working class

Al explorar las conexiones entre la historia del trabajo en Nueva Inglaterra y Colombia durante el último siglo, Aviva Chomsky elabora una acusación severísima del capitalismo moderno, en especial del orden neoliberal contemporáneo. Chomsky, que enseña en el Salem State College en Massachussets, se mueve entre lo local y lo global a lo largo del libro; pero la primera parte se concentra en la industria textil de Nueva Inglaterra. Repasa luchas obreras centrales a comienzos del siglo xx, sigue el movimiento del capital primero hacia el sur de los Estados Unidos y después hacia Puerto Rico, México, Colombia y aún más lejos, y describe la transformación de la economía regional de Nueva Inglaterra y de su fuerza de trabajo en las décadas recientes. La segunda parte se concentra en la historia obrera reciente del norte de Colombia, dirigiendo la atención a las industrias del banano y el carbón, la primera relacionada con Nueva Inglaterra a través de la United Fruit Company de Boston (la Chiquita de hoy), la segunda convertida ahora en importante proveedor de carbón para Nueva Inglaterra y para Salem en particular

En Búsqueda de lo Popular en la Guerra de los Mil Días

Este artículo revisa los esfuerzos, comenzados hace cerca de treinta y cinco años por entender las dimensiones populares de la guerra, y luego entrar a discutir otros esfuerzos más recientes de los historiadores colombianos para ampliar nuestro entendimiento sobre este tema. El texto termina con algunas reflexiones de cómo los avances en la historia colombiana y los cambios en los asuntos colombianos y mundiales en las últimas décadas nos invitan a repensar todo el asunto de lo popular en la guerra de los mil días. Concluye con un planteamiento del autor acerca de: Esto puede influir en nuestro entendimiento de la historia colombiana de los siglos XIX y XX y de la crisis que enfrenta el país hoy

Eureka, un excelente libro de historia

Colombia y la economía mundial, 1830-1910. José Antonio Ocampo. Siglo XXI, Bogotá, 1984, 456 págs

Education of Children with Disabilities: Voices from Around the World

Education of Children with Disabilities: Voices from Around the World combines research on children with disabilities and women/girls with disabilities. These projects provided opportunities to interview disability professionals, policy-makers and persons with disabilities from around the world with the purpose of learning about needs, issues and services, in diverse countries. A unique international analysis, this research compares various cultural responses on the education of children with disabilities emphasizing the girl child. Discussion includes findings based on 177 interviews of disability professionals from over 57 countries including the stated reasons and consequences of lost educational opportunities. Techniques locating participants included internet searches, literature reviews, and personal referrals. Interviewees were selected based on their experiences with childhood disabilities and/or women and girls with disabilities. Many interviewees were persons with disabilities who shared their personal experiences. Through a qualitative analysis of the interviews some of the most prevalent themes that emerged were the importance of education and the disproportionate negative effect of disability on females. To measure the strength of these themes, an electronic survey was created using a Likert scale to measure the strength of agreement of each participant with the issues identified. Survey ratings added quantitative confirmation to the rich qualitative interviews. The education themes identified include school exclusion and barriers to education with a particular focus on the girl child, education quality and inclusive education

Investigation of Water Quality in the Ashepoo-Combahee-Edisto (ACE) Basin NERR: A GIS Approach

2010 South Carolina Water Resource Conference. Informing strategic water planning to address natural resource, community and economic challenges

Factors associated with the performance and cost-effectiveness of using lymphatic filariasis transmission assessment surveys for monitoring soil-transmitted helminths: a case study in Kenya.

Transmission assessment surveys (TAS) for lymphatic filariasis have been proposed as a platform to assess the impact of mass drug administration (MDA) on soil-transmitted helminths (STHs). This study used computer simulation and field data from pre- and post-MDA settings across Kenya to evaluate the performance and cost-effectiveness of the TAS design for STH assessment compared with alternative survey designs. Variations in the TAS design and different sample sizes and diagnostic methods were also evaluated. The district-level TAS design correctly classified more districts compared with standard STH designs in pre-MDA settings. Aggregating districts into larger evaluation units in a TAS design decreased performance, whereas age group sampled and sample size had minimal impact. The low diagnostic sensitivity of Kato-Katz and mini-FLOTAC methods was found to increase misclassification. We recommend using a district-level TAS among children 8-10 years of age to assess STH but suggest that key consideration is given to evaluation unit size

Prevalence of suicidal behaviour following traumatic brain injury: Longitudinal follow-up data from the NIDRR Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems

Objective: This study utilized the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems (TBIMS) National Database to examine the prevalence of depression and suicidal behaviour in a large cohort of patients who sustained moderate-to-severe TBI. Method: Participants presented to a TBIMS acute care hospital within 72 hours of injury and received acute care and comprehensive rehabilitation in a TBIMS designated brain injury inpatient rehabilitation programme. Depression and suicidal ideation were measured with the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9). Self-reported suicide attempts during the past year were recorded at each follow-up examination, at 1, 2, 3, 10, 15 and 20 years post-injury. Results: Throughout the 20 years of follow-up, rates of depression ranged from 24.8–28.1%, suicidal ideation ranged from 7.0–10.1% and suicide attempts (past year) ranged from 0.8–1.7%. Participants who endorsed depression and/or suicidal behaviour at year 1 demonstrated consistently elevated rates of depression and suicidal behaviour 5 years after TBI. Conclusion: Compared to the general population, individuals with TBI are at greater risk for depression and suicidal behaviour many years after TBI. The significant psychiatric symptoms evidenced by individuals with TBI highlight the need for routine screening and mental health treatment in this population

Multi-parallel qPCR provides increased sensitivity and diagnostic breadth for gastrointestinal parasites of humans: field-based inferences on the impact of mass deworming

BACKGROUND: Although chronic morbidity in humans from soil transmitted helminth (STH) infections can be reduced by anthelmintic treatment, inconsistent diagnostic tools make it difficult to reliably measure the impact of deworming programs and often miss light helminth infections. METHODS: Cryopreserved stool samples from 796 people (aged 2-81 years) in four villages in Bungoma County, western Kenya, were assessed using multi-parallel qPCR for 8 parasites and compared to point-of-contact assessments of the same stools by the 2-stool 2-slide Kato-Katz (KK) method. All subjects were treated with albendazole and all Ascaris lumbricoides expelled post-treatment were collected. Three months later, samples from 633 of these people were re-assessed by both qPCR and KK, re-treated with albendazole and the expelled worms collected. RESULTS: Baseline prevalence by qPCR (n = 796) was 17 % for A. lumbricoides, 18 % for Necator americanus, 41 % for Giardia lamblia and 15% for Entamoeba histolytica. The prevalence was <1% for Trichuris trichiura, Ancylostoma duodenale, Strongyloides stercoralis and Cryptosporidium parvum. The sensitivity of qPCR was 98% for A. lumbricoides and N. americanus, whereas KK sensitivity was 70% and 32%, respectively. Furthermore, qPCR detected infections with T. trichiura and S. stercoralis that were missed by KK, and infections with G. lamblia and E. histolytica that cannot be detected by KK. Infection intensities measured by qPCR and by KK were correlated for A. lumbricoides (r = 0.83, p < 0.0001) and N. americanus (r = 0.55, p < 0.0001). The number of A. lumbricoides worms expelled was correlated (p < 0.0001) with both the KK (r = 0.63) and qPCR intensity measurements (r = 0.60). CONCLUSIONS: KK may be an inadequate tool for stool-based surveillance in areas where hookworm or Strongyloides are common or where intensity of helminth infection is low after repeated rounds of chemotherapy. Because deworming programs need to distinguish between populations where parasitic infection is controlled and those where further treatment is required, multi-parallel qPCR (or similar high throughput molecular diagnostics) may provide new and important diagnostic information