Análisis de la realidad agroindustrial en el municipio Arauca- Arauca

The Municipality of Arauca has had a decelerated development process in the agricultural and agroindustrial sector, which has been framed within the armed conflicts that take place in the country, the present state weakness, the disarticulation and deficiency that exists in the road mesh , Institutional development, corporate and trade weakness, and high corruption rates in the public sector. The present article intends to show the valuation of the technological infrastructure, the organizations and the institutional support. To achieve this objective, the AHP or Hierarchical Analytic Process was used, using secondary information sources such as: policy documents, documents of public and private entities, studies and statistics of United Nations agencies and academic documents. The analysis of the information collected has led to the determination that the production chain of cocoa and meat-dairy products have the potential of agro-industrial development, but there are no objective conditions to consolidate the banana and forestry.El Municipio de Arauca ha tenido un proceso de desarrollo desacelerado en el sector agropecuario y agroindustrial, el cual ha estado enmarcado dentro de los conflictos armados que tienen lugar en el país, la debilidad estatal presente, la desarticulación y deficiencia que existe en la malla vial, desarrollo institucional, debilidad gremial y empresarial y los altos índices de corrupción del sector público. El Presente artículo pretende mostrar la valoración de la infraestructura tecnológica, las organizaciones y el apoyo institucional. Para cumplir este objetivo se utilizó la metodología AHP o el Proceso Analítico Jerárquico, utilizando fuentes de información secundaria como: documentos de política, documentos de entidades públicas y privadas, estudios y estadísticas de organismos de Naciones Unidas y documentos académicos. El análisis de la información recabada ha llevado a determinar que tienen potencial de desarrollo agroindustrial la cadena productiva del cacao y carne-lácteos, por el contrario no existen condiciones objetivas que permitan consolidar la cadena productiva del plátano y forestal como eje de desarrollo local

Psicometric properties of an instrument for measuring patient’s satisfaction with physical therapy (medrisk) in spanish population: cultural diversity

The Spanish-language versión of the MedRisk Insttrument for Mesauring Partient Satisfaction with Physical therapy Care was validated in a simple of 203 Spanish-speakers patients in New York City. The purpose of this investigation is to adapt this instrument to Spanish population (patients who assist to physical therapy services in Spain); to corroborate if exist a psychometric equivalence and to identify if Spanish patients consider relevant the same dimensions as the preliminary validation. Relevance: At time to used a measurement instrument that has been validated in another country, it is necessary to assure that it is not only reliable and valid to the country where was developed, but also it needs to be appropriated to the patients subjects of the current investigation. Participants: A total of 300 patients of the Hospital of San Juan de Dios del Aljarafe (in Sevilla, Spain) participated in this study (44% men and 56% women between 13 and 93 years old). Methods: It has been done a cross-sectional descriptive study. Data were collected between April 2008 and November 2009.To the patients involved in the research, it was applied the original 20-item version of the MRPS (18 items and two global measures) and not the validated 12-item MRPS (10 items and two global measures). The main investigator randomly selected days during which the data were collected. The sample was taken finally on by convenience: all patients, in these selected days, who assist to medical care once they were done with their prescribed physiotherapy treatment. Analysis: Like Spanish version in New York, factor structure was investigated using item-correlation and exploratory factor analysis. Group-level reliability for single test administration was assessed using the Cronbach alpha. Results: Factor structure: the inter-item correlation matrix revealed that 3 items were not significantly correlated to both of the global measures . These 3 items were not included in the subsequent analysis. Principal components analysis revealed 4 eigenvalues greater than 2.0 explaining 67.93% of the cumulative variance. This suggested a 4-factor solutions. Following varimax rotation, a total of 14 items loaded on four factors were retained. Reliability: The Cronbach alpha was .87 Conclusions: Spanish version of MRPS that was validated with Spanish-speakers patients in New York is similar but not identical to the validation obtained with Spanish Population. In both of them, 9 of the 12 and 14 items finally selected in each other, have a coincidence. In the first one, there is a conclusion of two factors, internal and external. And in our investigation there were obtained 4 dimensions, 2 of them refer to internal factors (respect of the healthcare team and professional behavior of the therapist) and 2 that does it to external factors (adaptation of the center and accessibility)Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Identification of a cytokine network sustaining neutrophil and Th17 activation in untreated early rheumatoid arthritis

© 2010 Cascão et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Introduction: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease characterized by sustained synovitis. Recently, several studies have proposed neutrophils and Th17 cells as key players in the onset and perpetuation of this disease. The main goal of this work was to determine whether cytokines driving neutrophil and Th17 activation are dysregulated in very early rheumatoid arthritis patients with less than 6 weeks of disease duration and before treatment (VERA). Methods: Cytokines related to neutrophil and Th17 activation were quantified in the serum of VERA and established RA patients and compared with other very early arthritis (VEA) and healthy controls. Synovial fluid (SF) from RA and osteoarthritis (OA) patients was also analyzed. Results: VERA patients had increased serum levels of cytokines promoting Th17 polarization (IL-1b and IL-6), as well as IL-8 and Th17-derived cytokines (IL-17A and IL-22) known to induce neutrophil-mediated inflammation. In established RA this pattern is more evident within the SF. Early treatment with methotrexate or corticosteroids led to clinical improvement but without an impact on the cytokine pattern. Conclusions: VERA patients already display increased levels of cytokines related with Th17 polarization and neutrophil recruitment and activation, a dysregulation also found in SF of established RA. 0 Thus, our data suggest that a cytokine-milieu favoring Th17 and neutrophil activity is an early event in RA pathogenesis.This work was supported by a grant from Sociedade Portuguesa de Reumatologia/Schering-Plough 2005. RAM and RC were funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) SFRH/BD/30247/2006 and SFRH/BD/40513/2007, respectively. MMS-C was funded by Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship PERG-2008-239422 and a EULAR Young Investigator Award

Are motivational and self-regulation factors associated with 12 months’ weight regain prevention in the NoHoW study? An analysis of European adults

© The Author(s) 2023. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecom‑ mons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the dataPurpose: Preventing weight regain can only be achieved by sustained changes in energy balance-related behaviors that are associated with weight, such as diet and physical activity. Changes in motivation and self-regulatory skills can support long-term behavioral changes in the context of weight loss maintenance. We propose that experiencing a supportive climate care is associated with enhanced satisfaction of basic psychological needs, intrinsic goals, and autonomous motivation. These factors are expected to be associate with the utilization of self-regulation skills, leading to more sustained behavior changes and ultimately preventing weight regain. This hypothesis was tested in this ancillary analysis of the NoHoW trial, where the study arms were pooled and followed for 12 months. Methods: The NoHoW was a three-center, large-scale weight regain prevention full factorial trial. In this longitudinal study, data were collected in adults who lost > 5% weight in the past year (N = 870, complete data only, 68.7% female, 44.10 ± 11.86 years, 84.47 ± 17.03 kg) during their participation in a 12-month digital behavior change intervention. Weight and validated measures of motivational- and self-regulatory skills-related variables were collected at baseline, six- and 12 months. Change variables were used in Mplus' path analytical models informed by NoHoW's logic model. Results: The bivariate correlations confirmed key mediators' potential effect on weight outcomes in the expected causal direction. The primary analysis showed that a quarter of the variance (r2 = 23.5%) of weight regain prevention was achieved via the mechanisms of action predicted in the logic model. Specifically, our results show that supportive climate care is associated with needs satisfaction and intrinsic goal content leading to better weight regain prevention via improvements in self-regulatory skills and exercise-controlled motivation. The secondary analysis showed that more mechanisms of action are significant in participants who regained or maintained their weight. Conclusions: These results contribute to a better understanding of the mechanisms of action leading to behavior change in weight regain prevention. The most successful participants used only a few intrinsic motivation-related mechanisms of action, suggesting that habits may have been learned. While developing a digital behavior change intervention, researchers and practitioners should consider creating supportive climate care to improve needs satisfaction and intrinsic goal contents. Trial registration: ISRCTN, ISRCTN88405328 , registered 12/22/2016.The NoHoW study has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (grant agreement number 643309).info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Humedal Torca-Guaymaral : iniciativas para su conservación

Diferentes iniciativas del Estado, empresas privadas y distritales, junto con la participación ciudadana se han desarrollado para la conservación de Humedales del Distrito capital. Esta coyuntura de intereses, en pro de la conservación de estos ecosistemas estratégicos, impulsa la idea de realizar desde la academia la publicación del libro Humedal Torca-Guaymaral: iniciativas para su conservación, desarrollado en el marco de la Red de Universidades Sostenibles –RAUS- por la Universidad Sergio Arboleda. El objetivo de esta publicación es divulgar a la comunidad en general, el estado de conservación del Humedal Torca-Guaymaral y las iniciativas de desarrolladas para su preservación. Este libro incluye capítulos relacionados con el diagnóstico ambiental del humedal a través de la recopilación bibliográfica de informes técnicos; literatura científica y académica publicada; la iniciativa de recuperación de las quebradas de la cuenca Torca elaborado por Conservación Internacional en el sector de Torca; el proceso de conservación de la conectividad biológica a través de la construcción participativa desarrollado por la Fundación Torca Guaymaral en el sector de Guaymaral; la caracterización ecológica del componente acuático resultado del proyecto de aula e investigación del Semillero Humedales Urbanos de la Universidad Sergio Arboleda y la estrategia pedagógica para la Gobernanza del agua en el Humedal Torca-Guaymaral, propuesta por el Semillero Agua del Bosque de la Universidad El Bosque