Análisis espacial de la composición florística de huertos familiares en Malinalco, Tenancingo y Villa Guerrero, Estado de México

TESIS DE MAESTRÍAEl objetivo de este trabajo se realizó mediante un análisis espacial de la composición florística y de la distribución biogeográfica de los huertos familiares en Malinalco, Tenancingo y Villa Guerrero, enriquecido con la perspectiva etnobotánica. Para tal fin se hizo uso del análisis espacial basado en fotointerpretación cartográfica a partir de imágenes de satélite, procesos en campo, un análisis comparativo, el cálculo de la composición florística y un análisis de factores que inciden en los procesos de cambio. El análisis espacial de la composición florística de huertos familiares que responde al problema de la diversidad biológica y cultural de México es resultado de la forma, ubicación y topografía de su territorio, así como de las relaciones entre los grupos humanos y los ecosistemas. De acuerdo con las condiciones geográficas, la mayor parte de la Región Sur del Estado de México, de donde los municipios de Malinalco, Tenancingo y Villa Guerrero se encuentran localizados, pertenece al ecosistema de bosque subtropical caducifolio, donde la interacción de los factores fisiográficos, biológicos y socioculturales favorece una amplia agrobiodiversidad en los distintos ambientes. Los huertos suelen ser espacios contiguos a las residencias de sus propietarios (Vogl et al., 2004) aunque algunas veces se encuentren a una cierta distancia de las mismas. Se trata de espacios complejos donde convergen numerosos elementos culturales, ecológicos, sociales y económicos (Gispert et al., 2004). La distribución espacial y estructura de los huertos no es uniforme en las viviendas de las comunidades de la región, tampoco es uniforme la composición florística, ni la superficie. Mediante la información obtenida, se diagnostico el cambio, la pérdida y/o beneficios de comunidades vegetales dentro de la zona y se obtuvo información actualizada sobre el estado vegetal correspondiente a parte de la zona sur del estado. Los datos satelitales nos proporcionaron una perspectiva más amplia de la situación actual de la zona y aportó un conocimiento más detallado para la implementación de estrategias, para mejorar estos agroecosistemas, como beneficio local, regional y global. El estudio encuentra sustento teórico en: Los Agroecosistemas (Altieri y Merrick, 1987; Gutiérrez, 2007, 2011 y 2012); los Sistemas Agroforestales Indígenas (Alcorn, 1990); Los Huertos de Traspatio (Méndez y Gliessman, 2002), la Organización y el Ordenamiento Espacial de los Individuos (Pielou, 1979). Las plantas alimentarias, ornamentales y medicinales, ocupan los tres primeros lugares de importancia en los agro ecosistemas con huertos familiares. Las investigaciones que se realizaron en los espacios geográficos que ocupan los huertos familiares, proporcionaron elementos valiosos de análisis para reconsiderar la importancia de las funciones y utilización de las partes de las plantas existentes.CONACY

Solution-focused brief therapy as an alternative to clinical social work in Chile

This manuscript consists in a three-paper dissertation that compiles relevant research and practice regarding solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) with Latinos and Latin Americans who present alcohol use disorders. In this sense, the first paper is a systematic review on all the empirical studies of SFBT with Latinos that have been published and not published from January 1990 to December 2014 and uncovers the scarcity of empirical studies on SFBT in Latin American countries. Findings suggest that this approach is a promissory alternative to intervene with Latinos and Latin American people who present varied psychosocial problems. More empirical studies examining different conditions will inform regarding its effectiveness. The second article corresponds to the description of an exploratory linguistic adaptation of the SFBT approach for Chilean, clinical, and vulnerable population who are alcohol users, following a qualitative approach. Findings suggest that this population understood main SFBT techniques after changing phrasing to make them clearer and simpler. In addition, practitioners should consider issues such as stigma of alcohol use in women, inclusion of family members in the treatment process, and being attentive to what client wants; all of these considerations are consistent with SFBT. The third article presents a pilot implementation of the approach with the population to which the approach was culturally adapted, four social workers were trained in SFBT and eight individuals with alcohol problems received a three-session SFBT. Data were analyzed using visual analysis, percentage of non-overlapping data, linear regression, and hierarchical linear modeling. Main findings suggest that individuals receiving SFBT trended to increase their abstinent days, decrease their depression scores, consequences of alcohol use, and improve their self-reported wellbeing. These three papers build on the small literature available until now regarding SFBT with Latin Americans, and sit the basis for continue to build more empirical research that provides Latin American practitioners with an evidence-based intervention to implement with their clients.Social Wor

Creative Collaboration: Providing Inclusive Access to FIU Libraries\u27 Collections

The FIU Libraries Special Collections and Cataloging departments are immersed in a project to make primary source materials more accessible to the South Florida community and internationally. This presentation will demonstrate how archivists and catalogers worked collaboratively to provide access by leveraging traditional approaches and new tools to increase discoverability in Finding Aids and the library catalog. Throughout the years, the archives at FIU Libraries has collected historical records that represent the history of the Hispanic community in Miami. Although Miami is known as having a large Hispanic community, the discovery of collection material represents a challenge for non-English speakers which has led to the under use of collection materials. The archivists and catalogers have identified language as one of the barriers in locating materials in the Finding Aids. As part of the FIU Libraries larger initiative to provide equitable access to our collections, the Special Collections and Cataloging departments have decided to enhance access to collections using the original language of the community documented in addition to English. We will discuss our processes working with specific collections to provide bi-language description, multiple points of access, and full text transcription

Creation of Interactive VR Application that Supports Reasoning Skills in Anatomy Education

For our creative work thesis, we developed a VR (Virtual Reality) Program that allows a user to view and interact with muscles and nerves of a canine leg that would support students to understand the relationships between nerves and muscles. Using an industry-style pipeline, we developed anatomically accurate models of canine muscles and nerves, which we textured, rigged, and animated for use in an educational virtual reality platform. The end goal of the project is to create and measure the efficacy of a visually dynamic experience for the user, allowing them to generally explore canine limb anatomy, and to specifically visualize deficits in muscle movement, produced by user interaction with the canine nervous system. This tool explores the possibilities of Virtual Reality and seek to improve upon existing methods of higher-level anatomy education. Traditionally, higher level anatomy education is taught through the use of cadaver dissections, two-dimensional anatomical diagrams and didactic lectures. However, these traditional methods of teaching anatomy have many limitations and are not enough to build a visual-spatial understanding of anatomical structures. Virtual reality is a strong tool that allows students to directly manipulate anatomical models and observe movements in a three-dimensional space. While the literature has been filled with VR applications that aim to fill this need, many existing tools offer only a static model for the user to explore by rotation, adding and subtracting layers, and viewing labels to learn about the anatomical structure. We seek to increase the level of dynamic interaction that the user has, by allowing the user’s touch of the models to change the animation and movement of the three-dimensional models in their environment. Our outcome is a VR learning tool that has potential for further exploration in higher level anatomy education. Our creative work employs the methodologies of “art-based research”. Art based research can be defined as the systematic use of the artistic process, the actual making of artistic expressions as a primary way of understanding. The project was created iteratively while working with content experts, specifically anatomy experts from Dept. of Veterinary Sciences at Texas A&M University. Implementing anatomy education using virtual reality and developing a universal pipeline for asset creation allows us the freedom to dynamically build on our application. This means that our tool can accommodate for the addition of new muscle and nerves. By continuing to develop our virtual reality application in future works, we can expand the breadth of knowledge a user can gain from interacting with our application

Creation of Interactive VR Application that Supports Reasoning Skills in Anatomy Education

For our creative work thesis, we developed a VR (Virtual Reality) Program that allows a user to view and interact with muscles and nerves of a canine leg that would support students to understand the relationships between nerves and muscles. Using an industry-style pipeline, we developed anatomically accurate models of canine muscles and nerves, which we textured, rigged, and animated for use in an educational virtual reality platform. The end goal of the project is to create and measure the efficacy of a visually dynamic experience for the user, allowing them to generally explore canine limb anatomy, and to specifically visualize deficits in muscle movement, produced by user interaction with the canine nervous system. This tool explores the possibilities of Virtual Reality and seek to improve upon existing methods of higher-level anatomy education. Traditionally, higher level anatomy education is taught through the use of cadaver dissections, two-dimensional anatomical diagrams and didactic lectures. However, these traditional methods of teaching anatomy have many limitations and are not enough to build a visual-spatial understanding of anatomical structures. Virtual reality is a strong tool that allows students to directly manipulate anatomical models and observe movements in a three-dimensional space. While the literature has been filled with VR applications that aim to fill this need, many existing tools offer only a static model for the user to explore by rotation, adding and subtracting layers, and viewing labels to learn about the anatomical structure. We seek to increase the level of dynamic interaction that the user has, by allowing the user’s touch of the models to change the animation and movement of the three-dimensional models in their environment. Our outcome is a VR learning tool that has potential for further exploration in higher level anatomy education. Our creative work employs the methodologies of “art-based research”. Art based research can be defined as the systematic use of the artistic process, the actual making of artistic expressions as a primary way of understanding. The project was created iteratively while working with content experts, specifically anatomy experts from Dept. of Veterinary Sciences at Texas A&M University. Implementing anatomy education using virtual reality and developing a universal pipeline for asset creation allows us the freedom to dynamically build on our application. This means that our tool can accommodate for the addition of new muscle and nerves. By continuing to develop our virtual reality application in future works, we can expand the breadth of knowledge a user can gain from interacting with our application

Conducción del Desarrollo Metropolitano desde lo local, Análisis de los planes municipales de desarrollo urbano de cinco municipios de la Zona Metropolitana de Toluca 1985-2015

Un - Habitat (2009) ha observado que principalment e en países subdesarrollados existen problemas en los enfoques de planeación urbana, en los cuales hay una ruptura en sus marcos teóricos y prácticos lo que ocasiona que no se reconozca que las ciudades ya no son las mismas que en siglos anteriores, debido a que en la actualidad han surgido otros factores que antes no eran de importancia o que simplemente no se consideraban en la planeación urbana como son cuestiones relacionadas con el diseño e instrumentación de la política ambiental, reestructuraciones e conómicas y sociales, que en suma han incidido en los procesos institucionales y sociales de las urbes. Por lo tanto, se requiere hacer énfasis en el papel de la planeación urbana para que afronte los actuales fenómenos urbanos donde los instrumentos de d esarrollo urbano han quedado obsoletos ante los nuevos retos que enfrentan las ciudades en el siglo XXI.Las transformaciones territoriales que acontecen en la sociedad contemporánea requieren de formas novedosas de intervención, de ahí la importancia de considerar el papel que juegan los instrumentos de desarrollo urbano como es el caso de los Planes Municipales de Desarrollo Urbano (PMDU). El tema de esta investigación se sustenta en el argumento de Ha bitat (2009) presentado en el informe Planning Suatainable Cities: Global Report on Human Settlements donde menciona que los enfoques de planeación urbana y sus instrumentos han cambiado muy poco debido a la persistencia de enfoques anteriores como la Pla neación Urbana Moderna (PLUM), no han podido ser bien aplicados y adaptados a las nuevas formas de vida en las ciudades, ya que muestran un rápido crecimiento contribuyendo a los problemas urbanos actuale

Producción y exportación de cebolla amarilla dulce de la empresa Shuman Produce Peru S. A. C, al mercado de Estados Unidos - 2021

El presente trabajo de investigación tuvo como objetivo principal determinar la relación que existe entre la producción y la exportación de cebolla amarilla dulce de la empresa Shuman Produce Perú SAC al mercado de Estados Unidos, 2021. El método empleado fue de enfoque cuantitativo, de alcance descriptivo – correlacional, de diseño no experimental, transversal. La población considerada fue la totalidad de trabajadores de la empresa Shuman Produce Perú S.A.C., y la muestra fue no probabilística la cual consto de 15 trabajadores. Para la recolección de datos se empleó la técnica encuesta, y el instrumento utilizado fue el cuestionario; la validez del instrumento fue a través del juicio de expertos y se comprobó la confiablidad del instrumentó a través del Alfa de Cronbach resultando 0,966 para la Producción y 0,959 para la Exportación. En cuanto a los resultados obtenidos del cuestionario, se analizaron estadísticamente en el programa IBM SPSS Statistics versión 25, utilizando el coeficiente de correlación Rho de Spearman para comprobar la hipótesis de la investigación, dando como resultado un coeficiente de correlación Rho de Spearman = 0,764** y un nivel de significancia de 0,001, concluyendo que sí existe relación entre las variables, siendo una relación positiva alta y significativa.The main objective of this research work was to determine the relationship between the production and export of sweet yellow onion from the company Shuman Produce Peru SAC to the United States market, 2021. The method used was a quantitative approach, with a descriptive scope - Correlational, non-experimental, cross-sectional design. The population considered were all the workers of the company Shuman Produce Perú S.A.C., and the sample was non-probabilistic, which consisted of 15 workers. For data collection, the survey technique was used, and the instrument used was the questionnaire; the validity of the instrument was through expert judgment and the reliability of the instrument was verified through Cronbach's Alpha, resulting in 0.966 for Production and 0.959 for Export. Regarding the results obtained from the questionnaire, they were statistically analyzed in the IBM SPSS Statistics version 25 program, using Spearman's Rho correlation coefficient to test the research hypothesis, resulting in a Spearman's Rho correlation coefficient = 0.764* * and a significance level of 0.001, concluding that there is a relationship between the variables, being a high and significant positive relationship