Meeting the Needs of Central American Migrant Youth in Schools

The goal of this qualitative inquiry was to explore the barriers that Central American migrant youth face in California education settings while using the power of participatory action research to harness the direct voices of this unique and rapidly growing population. The current study examined narratives from 12 former students (ages 17-23) who migrated from Central America and enrolled in U.S. public schools during their adolescence. Participants were recruited by former staff and their peers using social media. Qualitative inquiry about their educational experiences was conducted via semi- structured interviews with the support of peer researchers using a questionnaire focused on themes of students’ educational history, country of origin, age of arrival, socioeconomic status, mental health, and school supports. Interviews were transcribed and coded thematically. Results showed that the developmental timing of migration, country of origin, family history, and reason for immigrating all had an impact on adjustment to school and mental health. Most notably, results indicated that the effects of mental health permeated all themes explored in this study suggesting that behavioral health care and social-emotional support services are an unmet need in this population. The research team has concluded that the diverse needs of this population require comprehensive efforts and supports in the school setting and have direct implications for social work in developing supports, policy, and best practices in direct service to support the complex needs of this population

Non-linear response of single-molecule magnets: field-tuned quantum-to-classical crossovers

Quantum nanomagnets can show a field dependence of the relaxation time very different from their classical counterparts, due to resonant tunneling via excited states (near the anisotropy barrier top). The relaxation time then shows minima at the resonant fields H_{n}=n D at which the levels at both sides of the barrier become degenerate (D is the anisotropy constant). We showed that in Mn12, near zero field, this yields a contribution to the nonlinear susceptibility that makes it qualitatively different from the classical curves [Phys. Rev. B 72, 224433 (2005)]. Here we extend the experimental study to finite dc fields showing how the bias can trigger the system to display those quantum nonlinear responses, near the resonant fields, while recovering an classical-like behaviour for fields between them. The analysis of the experiments is done with heuristic expressions derived from simple balance equations and calculations with a Pauli-type quantum master equation.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. B, brief report

SDN-AAA: Towards the standard management of AAA infrastructures

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a widely deployed technology enabling the agile and flexible management of networks and services. This paradigm represents an appropriate candidate to address the dynamic and secure management of large and complex Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) infrastructures. In those infrastructures, there are several nodes which must exchange information securely to interconnect different realms. This article describes a novel SDN-based framework with a data model-driven approach following the standard YANG, named SDN-AAA, which can be used to dynamically manage routing and security configuration in AAA scenarios.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure

Programa de gobierno abierto para la gestión por resultados en una municipalidad distrital de Utcubamba

El gobierno abierto se presenta como un asunto complicado y diverso, a pesar de los intentos por promover la transparencia, la participación de los ciudadanos y la responsabilidad en estas organizaciones, todavía hay obstáculos que reducen la efectividad del gobierno abierto, debido a ello se desarrolló esta investigación tuvo como objetivo proponer un programa de gobierno abierto para la gestión por resultados en una Municipalidad Distrital de Utcubamba. Se empleó la metodología cuantitativa de diseño no experimental y una investigación básica, en su nivel propositiva. Además de ello, la población fue de 100 trabajadores y una muestra de estudio de 80, como principal técnica de investigación se empleó la encuesta y como instrumento el cuestionario, la misma que fue aplicada y como resultados de presupuestos y resultados los encuestados expresan en un 57,6% muy malo y malo, una valoración regular el 13,8% y el 28,8% responden bien y muy bien, refiriéndose que, la política de gobierno abierto no fue implementadas de forma adecuada. Llegando a concluir que diseñar y validar el programa de gobierno abierto tiene mucha significancia debido a la propuesta de diversas actividades y el sustento con teorías, paradigmas y conceptos con la finalidad de erradicar dicha problemática

OSINT y big data: Monitorización y búsqueda en fuentes abiertas

En el presente trabajo analizaremos los medios de búsqueda de información que las nuevas tecnologías nos ha proporcionado en esta última década, demostrando la facilidad con la que nuestros datos personales pueden ser susceptibles de tratamientos ilícitos –o desconocidos–, especialmente cuando esta información provenga de fuentes accesibles al público, donde el volumen de datos que pueden obtenerse es casi ilimitado, generando efectos jurídicos significativos sobre nuestra esfera más personal. También examinaremos las implicaciones legales que el uso de estas tecnologías tiene sobre nuestra privacidad y hasta qué punto el hecho de compartir una publicación en nuestras redes permite a terceros obtener determinada información relativa a nosotros. Además, a raíz de la jurisprudencia hallada, veremos si es posible homogeneizar el avance de las Nuevas Tecnologías con la regulación que nos brinda el actual Reglamento Europeo de Protección de Datos y la Ley Orgánica 3/2018, en lo relativo al impacto tecnológico sobre la privacidad de las personas físicas

Initiatives towards a participatory smart city. The role of digital grassroots innovations

[EN] In this paper we explore the role of Digital Grassroots Innovation (DGI) in the construction of a more participatory smart city. 18 DGIs from four Spanish cities (Santander, Valencia, Bilbao, and San Sebastián) were analysed. They belong to 4 different types of digital innovation: Open Hardware: understood as projects inspired by the maker movement; Open Knowledge: large groups of citizens who join through online platforms to collectively create a new type of knowledge or social projects; Open Data: innovative ways of opening, capturing, using, analysing and interpreting data; and Open Networks: networks of citizens who are developing new networks and infrastructures, to collectively share resources and solve problems. In all cases, the DGIs constitute a varied repertoire of initiatives where the purpose of digital innovation is not only to solve problems that affect citizens, but also to make spaces for the creation and empowerment of critical citizens that are vigilant of the actions of public and private powers. In this sense, innovation not only refers to the design and materialisation of new products or processes, but also to the contribution that the DGI is making to the construction of citizenship and, therefore, to the construction of democracy.This work was supported by INAP [grant number 140] and Plan Estatal de I + D+i under [grant number CSO2016-80152-R]. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación.Boni Aristizábal, A.; Lopez-Fogues, A.; Fernández-Baldor, Á.; Millan, G.; Belda-Miquel, S. (2019). Initiatives towards a participatory smart city. The role of digital grassroots innovations. Journal of Global Ethics. 15(2):168-182. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449626.2019.1636115S168182152Geels, F. W., & Schot, J. (2007). Typology of sociotechnical transition pathways. Research Policy, 36(3), 399-417. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2007.01.003Hollands, R. G. (2008). Will the real smart city please stand up? City, 12(3), 303-320. doi:10.1080/13604810802479126Luque-Ayala, A., & Marvin, S. (2015). Developing a critical understanding of smart urbanism? Urban Studies, 52(12), 2105-2116. doi:10.1177/0042098015577319McFarlane, C., & Söderström, O. (2017). On alternative smart cities. City, 21(3-4), 312-328. doi:10.1080/13604813.2017.132716

Clinical and Neuropsychological Correlates of Prefrailty Syndrome

Physical frailty is closely associated with cognitive impairment. We aim to investigate the neuropsychological profiles of prefrail and non-frail dementia-free community-dwelling older adults using a comprehensive neuropsychological evaluation, and to examine the association between specific frailty criteria and clinical and neuropsychological scores. Participants completed a comprehensive standardized neuropsychological evaluation (covering cognitive domains such as memory, executive functions, language and attention), and frailty assessment. Frailty was assessed according to biological criteria: unintentional weight loss, exhaustion, low physical activity, slowness, and weakness. The sample comprised 60 dementia-free community-dwelling adults, aged 65 years or older (range 65-89 years; 60.0% women). Forty-two participants were classified as robust (no frailty criteria present), and 18 as prefrail (1 or 2 frailty criteria present). We explored neurocognitive differences between the groups and examined the association between specific criteria of frailty phenotype and clinical and neuropsychological outcomes with bivariate tests and multivariate models. Prefrail participants showed poorer cognitive performance than non-frail participants in both memory and non-memory cognitive domains. However, delayed episodic memory was the only cognitive subdomain that remained significant after controlling for age, gender, and educational level. Gait speed was significantly associated with general cognitive performance, immediate memory, and processing speed, while grip strength was associated with visual episodic memory and visuoconstructive abilities. Both gait speed and grip strength were negatively associated with depressive scores. Our results suggest that prefrailty is associated with cognitive dysfunction. The fact that specific cognitive domains may be susceptible to subclinical states of physical frailty may have important clinical implications. Indeed, early detection of specific cognitive dysfunctions may allow opportunities for reversibility