Portafolio de cursos sobre el proceso de gestión editorial en las revistas científicas para la formación continua de las personas profesionales en Bibliotecología, dirigido a la Escuela de Bibliotecología y Ciencias de la Información de la Universidad de Costa Rica

El presente trabajo final de graduación nace de la problemática detectada con respecto a la falta del reconocimiento académico formal de la labor profesional en el área de gestión editorial; se propone una formalización académica desde la formación continua por competencias con la propuesta de un portafolio de cursos para esta labor desde el área de la Bibliotecología, debido a las características inter, multi y transdisciplinar de esta ciencia. Se plantean dos objetivos generales: Primero, analizar las competencias necesarias para la gestión editorial de las revistas científicas desde la experiencia de las personas a cargo del proceso editorial, para la comprensión de la labor que desempeñan dentro de la Universidad de Costa Rica; y el segundo, proponer un portafolio de cursos en gestión editorial de las revistas científicas dentro de la formación continua como apoyo a la formación continua para la especialización de esta labor desde la Escuela de Bibliotecología y Ciencias de la Información de la Universidad de Costa Rica. La metodología aplicada es de carácter cualitativo, se aplicaron entrevistas semiabiertas a una población de diez directores y doce editores de las revistas científicas pertenecientes a los primeros diez lugares del ranking del UCRIndex junto con observaciones del espacio físico y otras características de contexto en el área laboral de los editores. Estas se analizaron y compararon para determinar las conclusiones de esta fase de diagnóstico para posteriormente proponer un portafolio de cursos por competencias con base en estos datos y acorde a las necesidades que se revelaron a través del diagnóstico. Este portafolio está basado en el perfil profesional de un editor en gestión editorial de revistas científicas; está compuesto por ocho módulos: fundamentos de la gestión editorial, administración del proceso editorial, estructura de la publicación científica de revistas, ética en la publicación científica, normalización de la publicación científica de vii revistas, herramientas tecnológicas para gestión editorial, estudios métricos aplicados a la publicación científica y posicionamiento de las publicaciones científicas. Para finalizar se propone una estrategia de implementación de este portafolio desde la Escuela de Bibliotecología y Ciencias de la Información, con miras a establecer un técnico superior de esta nueva rama en donde el profesional en bibliotecología se puede desempeñar. Se concluye que el profesional en Bibliotecología está capacitado para desarrollar la labor de un editor de revistas científicas, ya que su perfil por competencias adquirido desde su formación académica universitaria desde el bachillerato es afín con la gestión editorial. También se expone la necesidad urgente de especializar a nivel académico esta labor para así garantizar un reconocimiento de los profesionales que la llevan a cabo. Se describen diferentes recomendaciones tanto para la Escuela de Bibliotecología y Ciencias de la Información (EBCI), como para el Colegio Profesional en Bibliotecología de Costa Rica, la Universidad de Costa Rica y su Vicerrectoría de Investigación; las escuelas, institutos y centros de investigación que apoyan las revistas científicas y en general a los profesionales en el área de Bibliotecología.UCR::Vicerrectoría de Docencia::Ciencias Sociales::Facultad de Educación::Escuela de Bibliotecología y Ciencias de la Informació

What are we missing? Risk behaviors among Arabâ American adolescents and emerging adults

Background and purposeResearch on Arabâ Americans as a distinct ethnic group is limited, especially when considering the health of Arabâ American youth. This study describes health risk (substance use, violence); health promotive behaviors (hope, spirituality); and sexual activity (oral, vaginal, anal sex) of Arabâ American adolescents and emerging adults (aged 15â 23) within their life context, as well as the association between these behaviors.MethodsA secondary analysis of data on a subset of Arabâ American participants obtained from a randomizedâ control trial was utilized to conduct mixed methods analyses. Qualitative analyses completed on the openâ ended questions used the constant comparative method for a subsample (n = 24) of participants. Descriptive quantitative analyses of survey data utilized bivariate analyses and stepwise logistic regression to explore the relation between risk behaviors and sexual activity among the full sample (n = 57).ConclusionsQualitative analyses revealed two groups of participants: (a) multiple risk behaviors and negative lifeâ events, and (b) minimal risk behaviors and positive lifeâ events. Quantitative analyses indicated older youth, smokers, and those with higher hope pathways were more likely to report vaginal sex.Implications for practiceThe unique cultural and social contexts of Arabâ American youth provide a framework for recommendations for the prevention of risk behaviors.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/134166/1/jaan12352.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/134166/2/jaan12352_am.pd

The adoption of generic immunosuppressant medications in kidney, liver, and heart transplantation among recipients in Colorado or nationally with Medicare part D

Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/144701/1/ajt14722.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/144701/2/ajt14722_am.pd

Randomized controlled trial of a comprehensive home environment-focused weight-loss program for adults.

Behavioral weight loss programs (BWL) provide limited instruction on how to change the environmental context of weight-regulating behaviors, perhaps contributing to regain. Drawing on social ecological models, this trial evaluated a comprehensive weight loss program that targeted both an individual’s behavior and their physical and social home environment

Socio‐ecological drivers of vertebrate biodiversity and human‐animal interfaces across an urban landscape

Urbanization can have profound impacts on the distributional ecology of wildlife and livestock, with implications for biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services and human health. A wealth of studies have assessed biotic responses to urbanization in North America and Europe, but there is little empirical evidence that directly links human activities to urban biodiversity in the tropics. Results from a large-scale field study conducted in Nairobi, Kenya, are used to explore the impact of human activities on the biodiversity of wildlife and livestock with which humans co-exist across the city. The structure of sympatric wildlife, livestock and human populations are characterized using unsupervised machine learning, and statistical modelling is used to relate compositional variation in these communities to socio-ecological drivers occurring across the city. By characterizing landscape-scale drivers acting on these interfaces, we demonstrate that socioeconomics, elevation and subsequent changes in habitat have measurable impacts upon the diversity, density and species assemblage of wildlife, livestock and humans. Restructuring of wildlife and livestock assemblages (both in terms of species diversity and composition) has important implications for the emergence of novel diseases at urban interfaces, and we therefore use our results to generate a set of testable hypotheses that explore the influence of urban change on microbial communities. These results provide novel insight into the impact of urbanization on biodiversity in the tropics. An understanding of associations between urban processes and the structure of human and animal populations is required to link urban development to conservation efforts and risks posed by disease emergence to human health, ultimately informing sustainable urban development policy

Successful and unsuccessful cannabis quitters: Comparing group characteristics and quitting strategies

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>In order to improve treatments for cannabis use disorder, a better understanding of factors associated with successful quitting is required.</p> <p>Method</p> <p>This study examined differences between successful (<it>n </it>= 87) and unsuccessful (<it>n </it>= 78) cannabis quitters. Participants completed a questionnaire addressing demographic, mental health, and cannabis-related variables, as well as quitting strategies during their most recent quit attempt.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Eighteen strategies derived from cognitive behavioral therapy were entered into a principal components analysis. The analysis yielded four components, representing (1) Stimulus Removal, (2) Motivation Enhancement, (3) (lack of) Distraction, and (4) (lack of) Coping. Between groups comparisons showed that unsuccessful quitters scored significantly higher on Motivation Enhancement and (lack of) Coping. This may indicate that unsuccessful quitters focus on the desire to quit, but do not sufficiently plan strategies for coping. Unsuccessful quitters also had significantly more symptoms of depression and stress; less education; lower exposure to formal treatment; higher day-to-day exposure to other cannabis users; and higher cannabis dependence scores.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>The findings suggest that coping, environmental modification, and co-morbid mental health problems may be important factors to emphasize in treatments for cannabis use disorder.</p

Course and Severity of Maternal Depression: Associations with Family Functioning and Child Adjustment

Number of lifetime episodes, duration of current episode, and severity of maternal depression were investigated in relation to family functioning and child adjustment. Participants were the 151 mother–child pairs in the Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression (STAR*D) child multi-site study. Mothers were diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder; children (80 males and 71 females) ranged in age from 7 to 17 years. Measures of child adjustment included psychiatric diagnoses, internalizing and externalizing symptoms, and functional impairment. Measures of family functioning included family cohesion, expressiveness, conflict, organization, and household control; parenting measures assessed maternal acceptance and psychological control. Children of mothers with longer current depressive episodes were more likely to have internalizing and externalizing symptoms, with this association being moderated by child gender. Mothers with more lifetime depressive episodes were less likely to use appropriate control in their homes

Remission of Maternal Depression: Relations to Family Functioning and Youth Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms

Family functioning and parenting were hypothesized to mediate the relation between remission of maternal depression and children's psychosocial adjustment. Participants were 114 mother-child dyads participating in the Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression Child 3-month follow-up. All mothers had been diagnosed with major depressive disorder and were treated initially with citalopram; 33% of mothers experienced remission of depressive symptoms. Youth ranged in age from 7 to 17. Remission of maternal depression was associated with changes in children's reports of their mothers' warmth/acceptance, which in turn partially mediated the relation between maternal depression remission and youth internalizing symptoms, accounting for 22.9% of the variance

Association of genetic variation with systolic and diastolic blood pressure among African Americans: the Candidate Gene Association Resource study

The prevalence of hypertension in African Americans (AAs) is higher than in other US groups; yet, few have performed genome-wide association studies (GWASs) in AA. Among people of European descent, GWASs have identified genetic variants at 13 loci that are associated with blood pressure. It is unknown if these variants confer susceptibility in people of African ancestry. Here, we examined genome-wide and candidate gene associations with systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) using the Candidate Gene Association Resource (CARe) consortium consisting of 8591 AAs. Genotypes included genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data utilizing the Affymetrix 6.0 array with imputation to 2.5 million HapMap SNPs and candidate gene SNP data utilizing a 50K cardiovascular gene-centric array (ITMAT-Broad-CARe [IBC] array). For Affymetrix data, the strongest signal for DBP was rs10474346 (P= 3.6 × 10−8) located near GPR98 and ARRDC3. For SBP, the strongest signal was rs2258119 in C21orf91 (P= 4.7 × 10−8). The top IBC association for SBP was rs2012318 (P= 6.4 × 10−6) near SLC25A42 and for DBP was rs2523586 (P= 1.3 × 10−6) near HLA-B. None of the top variants replicated in additional AA (n = 11 882) or European-American (n = 69 899) cohorts. We replicated previously reported European-American blood pressure SNPs in our AA samples (SH2B3, P= 0.009; TBX3-TBX5, P= 0.03; and CSK-ULK3, P= 0.0004). These genetic loci represent the best evidence of genetic influences on SBP and DBP in AAs to date. More broadly, this work supports that notion that blood pressure among AAs is a trait with genetic underpinnings but also with significant complexit