Competence Training in Higher Education: The case of the Technological Master "Prestación de Servicios Profesionales" from the Colegio de Postgraduados (México).

The Competency-Based Education in the context of training is intended as a comprehensive approach that seeks to link education with the productive sector and increase the potential of individuals, in the face of social, economic, political and cultural transformations that suffers the world and the contemporary society; this is how educational services associated to the rural area takes part of the global revalorization of the role of learning and knowledge. Under the competence approach and taking into account the CONOCER model, we design a Technological Master from the “Colegio de Postgraduados” identifying the competences needed so that the students, professional from different areas of knowledge, managed to develop them, but mainly to achieve the goal of developing the capacities of producers in Mexican rural area

Análisis de los valores que construyen la identidad del mexicano

Resumen: Se presentan los resultados de una investigación sobre la identidad del mexicano, los valores que lo definen y las diferencias sociodemográficas y territoriales entre la visión del ?otro? y la ?propia?, en una muestra de 629 habitantes de dos municipios potosinos. Para el análisis se utilizó la prueba de chi-cuadrada para encontrar diferencias entre grupos (pmenor que0.05). Se demostró que los valores evaluados son específicos de lo sociodemográfico y territorial; entre ellos, ser honrado y ser trabajador fueron los más comunes. Hubo diferencias entre los habitantes urbanos y los rurales: aquéllos se percibieron como fiesteros y entrones, y éstos, como ahorradores, trabajadores y sinceros. La conclusión es que en función de los valores no existe una definición única en la identidad del mexicano, pues existen subculturas que se explican por los aspectos estudiados

La Empresariabilidad en Prestadores de Servicios Profesionales Agropecuarios del Estado de Campeche, México

La empresarialidad definida como la capacidad o competencia para generar y crear nuevas iniciativas empresariales tiene su relevancia en el desarrollo territorial y económico. Por lo que los gobiernos estatales buscan apoyar a los productores agropecuarios en el desarrollo de sus competencias empresariales basados en una red de prestadores de servicios profesionales (PSP). El objetivo del artículo fue analizar la construcción del concepto de empresarialidad derivado de auto-percepciones (actitudes positivas) y características de los PSP del medio agropecuario (edad y años como prestadores). Se aplicó un cuestionario con 60 afirmaciones evaluadas en una escala de Likert de 0 a 6, a 105 PSP del estado de Campeche, México; de los que sólo se retuvieron 71 observaciones completas y validas y con las cuales se generó un índice de empresarialidad. El índice se obtuvo como la suma de los valores individuales de cada reactivo, donde 0 era el mínimo y 360 el máximo posible (M= 279.23, DS= 35.30, Min= 62, Max= 339). A fin de reducir el número de variables, frases que reflejaban actitudes positivas y que explicaban el índice de empresarialidad, se realizó un análisis factorial obteniéndose 14 constructos, se conservaron dos frases independientes, así como la edad y el número de años como PSP, para ser utilizados en un análisis de regresión jerárquica. Los resultados muestran que las variables de persistencia, innovación, autoestima, independencia, compromiso, y preferir estar sólo, así como otras características están positiva y significativamente asociadas con mayores niveles de empresarialidad (pmenor que0.001), mientras que las variables que no explicaron la misma fueron el riesgo y tomar la iniciativa. La edad y los años de experiencia no estuvieron significativamente asociados con mayores niveles de empresarialidad. Por lo que se concluye que las actitudes positivas son importantes para explicar la autopercepción de empresarialidad, mientras que esta última no depende de la edad de los sujetos. La consecuencia del estudio para los gobiernos estatales radica en fomentar proyectos productivos que impliquen el desarrollo de competencias relacionadas con ser emprendedor, ya que se logran actitudes positivas en los actores locales que repercutirán en una mayor competitividad

Topological structures of the resistive pressure gradient turbulence with averaged poloidal flow

When a significant averaged poloidal flow is generated by the resistive pressure-gradient-driven turbulence the topological properties of the flow structures can change in some radial regions where the shear flow is large. We have applied the topological analysis approach that we have developed (2013 J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 46 375501) to this situation and found that in addition to the filamentary vortex structures there are deformed toroidal structures that seem to act as transport barriers. Analysis of all these structures is presented here.This research was sponsored by DGICYT (Dirección General de Investigación Científica y Técnica) of Spain under Project No. ENE2012-38620-C02-02. One of us (B.A.C) also gratefully acknowledges the support from a 'Cátedra de Excelencia' from Universidad Carlos III and Banco de Santander

Syndemics and the PrEP Cascade: Results from a Sample of Young Latino Men Who Have Sex with Men.

Young Latino men who have sex with men (MSM) are a highly vulnerable population for HIV infection. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a novel biomedical HIV prevention tool that may aid in reducing the disparity in HIV incidence among Latino MSM. However, PrEP use is disproportionally low among Latino MSM and, therefore, identifying barriers along the PrEP continuum of care (the "PrEP cascade") would provide insight into how to best deploy PrEP interventions. Syndemics theory is a prominent framework employed in HIV prevention; however, to date, no known studies have applied this theory to PrEP. Thus, the aim of the current study was to explore the association between syndemics and the PrEP cascade, including the degree to which psychosocial and structural syndemic constructs are related to the PrEP cascade. Participants were 151 young Latino MSM (M age = 24 years; SD = 3) residing in San Diego, California, who completed a battery of online self-report measures. Results indicated high levels of syndemic indicators and varying levels of engagement across the PrEP cascade. As syndemic indicators increased, the odds of engagement across the PrEP cascade were significantly lowered. Psychosocial and structural syndemic factors accounted for unique variance in the PrEP cascade. Results highlight the need for combination interventions that address both psychosocial and structural barriers to PrEP use and persistence among young Latino MSM

On the Cauchy problem for a nonlinearly dispersive wave equation

We establish the local well-posedness for a new nonlinearly dispersive wave equation and we show that the equation has solutions that exist for indefinite times as well as solutions which blowup in finite times. Furthermore, we derive an explosion criterion for the equation and we give a sharp estimate from below for the existence time of solutions with smooth initial data.Comment: arxiv version is already officia

Redox and Catalytic Properties of Promoted NiO Catalysts for the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Ethane

[EN] NiO and metal-promoted NiO catalysts (M-NiO, with a M/(M+Ni) atomic ratio of 0.08, with M = Nb, Sn, or La) have been prepared, tested in the oxidative dehydrogenation (ODH) of ethane, and characterized by means of XRD, TPR, HRTEM, Raman, XPS, and in situ XAS (using H-2/He, air or C2H6/He mixtures). The selectivity to ethylene during the ODH of ethane decreases according to the following trend: Nb NiO Sn NiO > La NiO > NiO, whereas the catalyst reducibility (determined by both TPR and XAS using H-2/He mixtures) shows the opposite trend. However, different reducibility and catalytic behavior in the absence of oxygen (ethane/He mixtures) have been observed, especially when comparing Nb- and Sn-promoted NiO samples. These differences can be ascribed mainly to a different phase distribution of the promoter. The results presented here are discussed in terms of the nature of active and selective sites for ODH of ethane in selective and unselective catalysts, but also the role of promoters and the importance of their phase distribution.The authors would like to acknowledge the DGICYT in Spain CTQ2012-37925-C03-2, CTQ2015-68951-C3-1-R, and CTQ2015-68951-C3-3-R. Authors thank European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, ESRF (Project CH-4512; BM25-SpLine Beamlime). Authors from ITQ also thank Project SEV-2016-0683 for financial support. D.D. thanks MINECO and Severo Ochoa Excellence Program for his fellowship (SVP-2014-068669). B.S. also thanks UV-INV-AE16-484416. Finally, the authors thank the Electron Microscopy Service of Universitat Politecnica de Valencia for their support.Delgado-Muñoz, D.; Solsona Espriu, BE.; Ykrelef, A.; Rodriguez-Gomez, A.; Caballero, A.; Rodríguez-Aguado, E.; Rodriguez-Castellón, E.... (2017). Redox and Catalytic Properties of Promoted NiO Catalysts for the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Ethane. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 121(45):25132-25142. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b07066S25132251421214