Integración social de los refugiados guatemaltecos en México y perspectivas de retorno.

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¿Ciberdemocracia, utopía o posible realidad?

Existe un amplio consenso acerca de que vivir en democracia es la única manera de vivir en sociedad con dignidad. La cuestión clave es hasta qué punto las tecnologías de la comunicación pueden poner sus enormes potencialidades al servicio del desarrollo de la ciudadanía. Es urgente una "cultura tecnológica" que permita incorporar la técnica a un proyecto de liberación e humanización en nuestra sociedad cibernética. La técnica debe convertirse en tecnología de la liberación

La democracia y el futuro del socialismo.

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La religión y sus falsos sucedáneos

El reencantamiento del mundo del que está siendo testigo la sociedad actual es una reacción, hasta cierto punto comprensible, frente a la crisis de identidad y a la deshumanización de una sociedad donde predominan una competitividad y un individualismo hedonista y consumista exacerbados. Pero es un reencantamiento que, a parte de su traumática versión fundamentalista, configura un mundo ambiguo y polimorfo, que garantiza la ceremonia de la confusión. Es necesario, pues, para poder aprovechar su posible potencial humanizador distinguir entre la “verdadera religión” y sus falsos sucedáneo,The reenchantment of the World which our present society is witness of, is a reaction, to a certain extent understandable, to the identity crisis and the dehumanization of a society where competitiveness, hedonistic individualism and extreme consumerism prevail. Apart from its traumatic fundamentalist version, this reenchantment configures a polyform and ambiguous world, which guarantees the confusion ceremony. In order to take advantage of its possible humanizing potential, it is necessary to distinguish between the true religion and its false substitute

La crisis de la teoría marxista del Estado y el fin del socialismo real.

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Globalization, Citizenship, Interculturalism and Cyberspace

Este artículo recuerda cómo la globalización se ha entendido demasiado a menudo como una cuestión económica, olvidando nociones básicas como la justicia y los principios morales. Para recuperarlos se propone un gobierno cooperativo en la esfera internacional que evite la estandarización cultural y sus peligros, tales como el nacionalismo radical. Es necesario así abrir un espacio para los ciudadanos dentro de un diálogo intercultural.This paper deals on how globalization has been understood many times as a economic issue and has forgotten basic questions such as justice and moral principles. To do so it is required to propose a cooperative government for the international sphere. Also culture suffers a process of standarization with clear dangers such as radical nationalism. Then it is necessary to open a space to citizens with an inter-cultural dialogue

La crisis de la teoría marxista del Estado y el fin del socialismo real.

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Effectiveness of a strategy that uses educational games to implement clinical practice guidelines among Spanish residents of family and community medicine (e-EDUCAGUIA project):A clinical trial by clusters

This study was funded by the Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias FIS Grant Number PI11/0477 ISCIII.-REDISSEC Proyecto RD12/0001/0012 AND FEDER Funding.Background: Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) have been developed with the aim of helping health professionals, patients, and caregivers make decisions about their health care, using the best available evidence. In many cases, incorporation of these recommendations into clinical practice also implies a need for changes in routine clinical practice. Using educational games as a strategy for implementing recommendations among health professionals has been demonstrated to be effective in some studies; however, evidence is still scarce. The primary objective of this study is to assess the effectiveness of a teaching strategy for the implementation of CPGs using educational games (e-learning EDUCAGUIA) to improve knowledge and skills related to clinical decision-making by residents in family medicine. The primary objective will be evaluated at 1 and 6months after the intervention. The secondary objectives are to identify barriers and facilitators for the use of guidelines by residents of family medicine and to describe the educational strategies used by Spanish teaching units of family and community medicine to encourage implementation of CPGs. Methods/design: We propose a multicenter clinical trial with randomized allocation by clusters of family and community medicine teaching units in Spain. The sample size will be 394 residents (197 in each group), with the teaching units as the randomization unit and the residents comprising the analysis unit. For the intervention, both groups will receive an initial 1-h session on clinical practice guideline use and the usual dissemination strategy by e-mail. The intervention group (e-learning EDUCAGUIA) strategy will consist of educational games with hypothetical clinical scenarios in a virtual environment. The primary outcome will be the score obtained by the residents on evaluation questionnaires for each clinical practice guideline. Other included variables will be the sociodemographic and training variables of the residents and the teaching unit characteristics. The statistical analysis will consist of a descriptive analysis of variables and a baseline comparison of both groups. For the primary outcome analysis, an average score comparison of hypothetical scenario questionnaires between the EDUCAGUIA intervention group and the control group will be performed at 1 and 6months post-intervention, using 95% confidence intervals. A linear multilevel regression will be used to adjust the model. Discussion: The identification of effective teaching strategies will facilitate the incorporation of available knowledge into clinical practice that could eventually improve patient outcomes. The inclusion of information technologies as teaching tools permits greater learning autonomy and allows deeper instructor participation in the monitoring and supervision of residents. The long-term impact of this strategy is unknown; however, because it is aimed at professionals undergoing training and it addresses prevalent health problems, a small effect can be of great relevance. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02210442.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe

The European Reference Genome Atlas: piloting a decentralised approach to equitable biodiversity genomics.

ABSTRACT: A global genome database of all of Earth’s species diversity could be a treasure trove of scientific discoveries. However, regardless of the major advances in genome sequencing technologies, only a tiny fraction of species have genomic information available. To contribute to a more complete planetary genomic database, scientists and institutions across the world have united under the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), which plans to sequence and assemble high-quality reference genomes for all ∼1.5 million recognized eukaryotic species through a stepwise phased approach. As the initiative transitions into Phase II, where 150,000 species are to be sequenced in just four years, worldwide participation in the project will be fundamental to success. As the European node of the EBP, the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) seeks to implement a new decentralised, accessible, equitable and inclusive model for producing high-quality reference genomes, which will inform EBP as it scales. To embark on this mission, ERGA launched a Pilot Project to establish a network across Europe to develop and test the first infrastructure of its kind for the coordinated and distributed reference genome production on 98 European eukaryotic species from sample providers across 33 European countries. Here we outline the process and challenges faced during the development of a pilot infrastructure for the production of reference genome resources, and explore the effectiveness of this approach in terms of high-quality reference genome production, considering also equity and inclusion. The outcomes and lessons learned during this pilot provide a solid foundation for ERGA while offering key learnings to other transnational and national genomic resource projects.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

La ética y el marxismo

Se examina la cuestión relativa a la existencia o inexistencia de una filosofía moral en el marxismo, haciendo referencia a la obra de A. F. Shishkin, Ética marxista, Méjico: Grijalbo, 1966. Al centrar su interés fundamentalmente en las condiciones sociales de la libertad, K. Marx no dedicó a la ética un lugar específico en sus escritos. Sin embargo, investigando dichos escritos, autores posteriores a Marx han sabido extraer implicaciones éticas, encontrando en ellos un ethos humanista y comunitarista preocupado por la libertad. Sin embargo, en la práctica los marxistas han consentido el derrocamiento violento del orden establecido. Se sugiere que la ética marxista se basa en el relativismo; el marxismo rechaza la moralidad de clase y trata de expresar aspectos comunes a toda la humanidad. Marx creía que el modo de producción material y la infraestructura económica determina el proceso general de la vida política, social e intelectual. Los marxistas justifican la violencia revolucionaria cuando esta sirve al propósito de producir un cambio en la infraestructura capaz de generar una sociedad nueva y humanizada y un nuevo tipo de relaciones sociales. El marxismo contiene valores importantes: el valor del trabajo humano, la necesidad de justicia social, el rechazo del egoísmo y la utilidad práctica del pensamiento. Su contribución más importante consiste en la atención que prestó a los posibles condicionantes socioeconómicos de determinados sistemas morales