Estructuración de los procesos administrativos para la acreditación de calidad del Colegio Shalom en Armenia, Colombia

El presente trabajo de grado surge a partir de la búsqueda de complementariedad entre la organización de los procesos administrativos para la gestión educativa en La Fundación Colegio Cristiano Shalom, basados en la normatividad de la Asociación de Colegios Cristianos Internacionales (ACSI), que se dispone para entrar en todos sus departamentos con conceptos de calidad, educación eficaz, organización escolar, y liderazgo, con el fin de desarrollarlos en la administración y el personal docente y su liderazgo, entre otros; teniendo un mayor énfasis en la realización del manual de procedimientos de gestión del talento humano, donde se resalte su modificado componente filosófico (Plataforma estratégica), a partir de los criterios que contiene esta fase -- Todo esto implica un reto para el colegio dentro de su región, pues significa un cambio radical en la forma de llevar a cabo los procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje, cuestiones nuevas sin antecedentes en las revoluciones de la educació

RECONFIGURING PEDESTRIAN ENVIRONMENTS A design proposal applied to corridors in Medellín’s traditional center

The rise of vehicular mobility during the 20th century led to a progressive decline of pedestrian mobility and one of the primary activities of human beings: walking. However, conflicts generated by urban growth and environmental deterioration have raised questions about how we think and intervene in our cities, giving rise to a gradual shift in mobility paradigms. Today, pedestrian, and non-motorized mobility have reemerged as central topics for both public agendas and the intervention on urban space. This shift has brought into the debate a variety of reflections about spatial design and quality and the human experience of space. To demonstrate the importance of pedestrian environments as a key space for sustainable mobility practices and based on a methodological proposal developed as part of a master's work, this paper presents a design proposal applied to Bolívar corridor, between Calle 44 San Juan and Calle, in the center of Medellín. Keywords: Pedestrian environments, walkability, urban design, Medellín Topic: 3. Public space and urban project in the contemporary metropolis.El auge de la movilidad vehicular durante el siglo XX significó el reemplazo progresivo de la movilidad peatonal y de una acción primaria del individuo: el caminar. Sin embargo, los conflictos generados por el crecimiento urbano y el deterioro ambiental han traído cuestionamientos acerca de las formas de pensar e intervenir nuestras ciudades dando lugar a una transformación gradual de paradigmas de movilidad. Hoy, la movilidad peatonal y la movilidad no motorizada se han vuelto temas recurrentes, tanto en agendas públicas como en la construcción del espacio urbano, visibilizando una importante variedad de reflexiones sobre el diseño, la calidad y la experiencia espacial. Para evidenciar la importancia de los entornos peatonales como espacio clave de las practicas cotidianas de movilidad sostenible y partir de una propuesta metodológica desarrollada como parte de un trabajo de maestría, esta ponencia presenta una propuesta de diseño aplicada al corredor Bolívar, entre calle 44 San Juan y Calle, en el centro de Medellín.  Palabras clave: Entornos peatonales, caminabilidad, diseño urbano, Medellín. Bloque temático: 3. Espacio público y proyecto urbano en la metrópolis contemporánea.Peer Reviewe

Framing a counter-city: The story of Sheffield Otherwise

Urban planning and design have often been complicit in perpetuating the systems of oppression embedded in colonial, capitalist, hetero-patriarchal, and racist spatial structures. Amid the current civilizational crisis, how can we enable possibilities for emancipatory and counter-hegemonic planning (Friedmann, 1989) and design? In order for new possibilities to emerge, we need to unmake what we know and look for radical approaches and practices that allow us to understand our responsibility to create counter-cities that nurture radical hope. This article presents the project Sheffield Otherwise, an exploration using research-design practices to shape a counter-city. Through a learning alliance, we partner with two community organisations working with diasporic and queer communities to reveal and frame their legacies and stories as part of the living heritage of Sheffield. We use counter-archiving and counter-mapping methodologies to engage with these counterpublics that have been excluded from official narratives, urban policies, and public space representations. In doing so, this project challenges hegemonic narratives about stigma and questions hegemonic planning and design practices that often lack understanding of the spatial heritage of diverse communities. Based on this experience, we argue that Counter-City constitutes a radical approach to imagining spatial justice that requires crystallising counter-hegemonic planning and design practices with subaltern counterpublics using methods such as counter-archiving and counter-mapping

RECONFIGURACIÓN DE ENTORNOS PEATONALES Una propuesta de diseño aplicada a corredores del centro tradicional de Medellín

The rise of vehicular mobility during the 20th century led to a progressive decline of pedestrian mobility and one of the primary activities of human beings: walking. However, conflicts generated by urban growth and environmental deterioration have raised questions about how we think and intervene in our cities, giving rise to a gradual shift in mobility paradigms. Today, pedestrian, and non-motorized mobility have reemerged as central topics for both public agendas and the intervention on urban space. This shift has brought into the debate a variety of reflections about spatial design and quality and the human experience of space. To demonstrate the importance of pedestrian environments as a key space for sustainable mobility practices and based on a methodological proposal developed as part of a master's work, this paper presents a design proposal applied to Bolívar corridor, between Calle 44 San Juan and Calle, in the center of Medellín

Perceived liveability, transport, and mental health: A story of overlying inequalities

Introduction: This paper examines the links between perceived liveability and mental health, questioning the role transport-related variables and features of the built environment play in the relationship between the two concepts. By exploring a topic not often tackled from the perspective of transport and health studies, the paper positions the concept of perceived liveability as a mechanism to capture the subjective interpretations of the built environment by residents of different socioeconomic backgrounds and mobility behaviours. Methods: The paper uses Cali, Colombia as an example of a rapidly growing city in the global South. We analyse data collected from an online participatory planning instrument where over 300 participants responded to questions on their mental health and their perceptions of the built environment, urban design, access to leisure facilities, and so forth. We use a Structural Equations Model that incorporates mental health and perceived liveability as latent variables. The paper also draws from secondary data to map both the spatial distribution of the various determinants of perceived liveability as well as the scores of the two latent constructs analysed. Results: We demonstrate that perceived liveability can be expressed as a latent variable, causing scores and correlations in measured variables associated with the urban form, the environment, access to transport, and fear of crime. On the whole, higher liveability scores are linked with higher mental health scores, and car users tend to score higher in both perceived liveability and mental health scores. Conclusions: There are meaningful links between perceived liveability and mental health influenced by transport-related drivers such as mode choice. Findings concerning car users suggest that transport investments in cities like Cali tend to accommodate already socio-economically advantaged residents. When testing our hypothesis that proximity to mass transit infrastructure could increase liveability, the results were inconclusive, which suggests a limited “liveability footprint” of public transport infrastructure

Experiencia en el uso de protocolos Biomed-2 para el estudio de reordenamientos de TCR e inmunoglobulinas en proliferaciones linfoides en el Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, Colombia

Introduction: The European BIOMED - 2 consortium was created to evaluate clonality in lymphoproliferations of difficult diagnosis. In Colombia, the implementation of these tests began in 2015 at the Instituto Nacional de Cancerología ESE, Bogotá, INC. Objectives: To determine the behavior of the rearrangement tests for lymphoid clonality and to know the difficulties for its implementation in our environment, a series of retrospective and consecutive cases of lymphoid proliferation subjected to the BIOMED-2 protocols is described. Materials and methods: Clinical and histological data and the results of the rearrangement analysis of all cases of lymphoid proliferation subjected to the BIOMED 2 protocols between February 2015 and May 2019 were collected from the clinical history. Results: 132 samples were recovered, of which 47 corresponded to reactive lymphoid hyperplasias, 62 to T lymphomas, 19 to B lymphomas and 3 to lymphoid neoplasms of not established lineage. In only one case did DNA extraction fail. The greatest diagnostic difficulty for the pathologist, according to these results, is the analysis of T lymphoid infiltrates, most of which (44) are skin lesions. Conclusions: Clonality tests are tests that can be used in tissues of different quality in our environment, and they contribute to the diagnosis of lymphoid proliferations that are difficult to classify. Finally, it is important to carry them out and interpret them in an interdisciplinary way, considering each case separately.Introducción. El consorcio europeo BIOMED – 2 se creó para determinar si una población linfoide de difícil clasificación patológica es clonal. En Colombia la implementación de estas pruebas comenzó en el 2015 en el Instituto Nacional de Cancerología E.S.E, Bogotá, INC. Objetivos. Determinar el comportamiento de las pruebas de reordenamientos para clonalidad linfoide y conocer las dificultades para su realización en nuestro medio, a través de la descripción de la adaptación local y los resultados en una serie de casos retrospectiva y consecutiva de proliferaciones linfoides sometidas a los protocolos BIOMED – 2. Materiales y métodos. Se recolectaron de la historia clínica los datos clínicos, histológicos y los resultados de los análisis de reordenamientos de todos los casos de proliferaciones linfoides sometidas a los protocolos BIOMED 2 entre febrero de 2015 y mayo de 2019. Resultados. Se recuperaron 132 casos, de los cuales 47 se clasificaron gracias a Biomed 2 como hiperplasias linfoides reactivas, 62 a linfomas T, 19 a linfomas B y 3 a neoplasias linfoides de linaje no establecido. En solo un caso falló la extracción de ADN. La mayor dificultad diagnóstica para el patólogo, según estos resultados, es el análisis de los infiltrados linfoides T, la mayor parte de los cuales (44) son lesiones cutáneas. Conclusiones. Las pruebas de clonalidad son pruebas que pueden usarse en tejidos de diversa calidad en nuestro medio, y contribuye al diagnóstico de proliferaciones linfoides de difícil clasificación. Por último, es importante realizarlas e interpretarlas de manera interdisciplinaria, considerando cada caso por separado

Framing a counter-city: The story of <em>Sheffield Otherwise</em>

Urban planning and design have often been complicit in perpetuating the systems of oppression embedded in colonial, capitalist, hetero-patriarchal, and racist spatial structures. Amid the current civilizational crisis, how can we enable possibilities for emancipatory and counter-hegemonic planning (Friedmann, 1989) and design? In order for new possibilities to emerge, we need to unmake what we know and look for radical approaches and practices that allow us to understand our responsibility to create counter-cities that nurture radical hope. This article presents the project Sheffield Otherwise, an exploration using research-design practices to shape a counter-city. Through a learning alliance, we partner with two community organisations working with diasporic and queer communities to reveal and frame their legacies and stories as part of the living heritage of Sheffield. We use counter-archiving and counter-mapping methodologies to engage with these counterpublics that have been excluded from official narratives, urban policies, and public space representations. In doing so, this project challenges hegemonic narratives about stigma and questions hegemonic planning and design practices that often lack understanding of the spatial heritage of diverse communities. Based on this experience, we argue that Counter-City constitutes a radical approach to imagining spatial justice that requires crystallising counter-hegemonic planning and design practices with subaltern counterpublics using methods such as counter-archiving and counter-mapping

Mujeres atrateñas, oficios reparadores y espacios de vida

In Chocó, the groups Artesanías Guayacán (municipality of Bojayá) and Artesanías Choibá (municipality of Quibdó) gather black women around textile practices. In these spaces women tell their experiences amid the armed conflict and create collective knowledge that allows them to rebuild their lives. In this article we present the ways in which the daily practices of these women support life in a river disputed by various political, economic and armed actors. We also show how their strategies and struggles generated subjectivation processes that changed the places usually assigned to women in the communities and local organizational processes, redefining public and domestic spaces.En el Chocó, los grupos Artesanías Guayacán&nbsp;(municipio de Bojayá) y Artesanías Choibá (municipio de Quibdó) congregan a mujeres negras&nbsp;alrededor de oficios textiles. En estos espacios propios las mujeres narran las experiencias vividas&nbsp;en medio del conflicto armado y crean&nbsp;conocimientos colectivos que les permiten rehacer&nbsp;la vida. En este artículo exponemos las formas&nbsp;en que las prácticas cotidianas agenciadas por estas mujeres atrateñas sostienen la vida en un río disputado por diversos actores políticos, económicos y armados. También mostramos&nbsp;de qué modo sus estrategias y luchas generaron&nbsp;procesos de subjetivación que cambian los&nbsp;lugares usualmente asignados a las mujeres en las comunidades y los procesos organizativos locales, redefiniendo los espacios públicos y&nbsp;domésticos

Efecto de tres dietas en el cultivo experimental del róbalo (Centropomus undecimalis Bloch, 1792)

Objective. To evaluate the effect of three diets on the growth of juvenile common snook (Centropomus undecimalis) maintained in freshwater ponds Materials and methods. 108 juvenile of common snook were homogenous and randomly distributed in a pond, divided into 9 corrals of 50 m2. Three diets were applied (D1: commercial food for trout, 45% protein; D2: commercial food for cobia, 50% protein and D3: fresh fish, 17.52% protein). The experimental treatments were assigned in triplicate and diets were supplied in two daily doses. Biometrics were performed every 20 days to assess: weight, size, Length-Weight correlation, Feed Conversion Factor (FCA), Condition Factor (K), Specific Growth Rate (SGR) and survival; during 120 days. The results were evaluated with a one-way ANOVA, when differences (p&lt;0.05) were found the means were compared by test Median Mood, otherwise a pos-hoc test was performed (Tukey HSD). Results. Applying the test of Mood Median significant differences were found, showing the highest growth with D2, where values of SGR=0.65±0.09 g/day; FCA=3.76 and K=0.81±0.06. Survival was D1=51.4%, D2=50% and D3=77.8% without inferring statistically among the different diets.  Conclusions. The culture of this species in freshwater ponds with commercial food for cobia, is viable in terms of growth and weight gain.Objetivo. Evaluar el efecto de tres dietas sobre el desempeño de juveniles de róbalo (Centropomus undecimalis) mantenidos en estanques de agua dulce. Materiales y métodos. 108 juveniles de róbalo fueron distribuidos homogénea y aleatoriamente en un estanque dividido en 9 corrales de 50 m2. Se suministraron tres dietas (D1: alimento comercial para truchas, 45% de proteína; D2: alimento comercial para cobia, 50% de proteína y D3: pescado fresco, 17.52% de proteína). Los tratamientos experimentales fueron asignados por triplicado y se les suministró cada dieta en dos dosis diarias. Se realizaron biometrías cada 20 días evaluando: peso, talla, relación Longitud-Peso, Factor de Conversión Alimenticia (FCA), Factor de Condición (K), Tasa Específica de Crecimiento (SGR) y supervivencia final; durante 120 días. Los resultados fueron evaluados con un ANOVA a una vía, cuando no se encontraron diferencias (p&gt;0.05) las medias fueron comparadas mediante la prueba de la Mediana de Mood. En caso de significación estadística del ANOVA, se aplicó la prueba de comparación múltiple de Tukey HSD. Resultados. Se encontraron diferencias estadísticas entre los tratamientos, mostrando los mayores crecimientos y rendimientos con D2, con valores de SGR=0.65±0.09 g/día; FCA=3.76 y K=0.81±0.06. La supervivencia fue D1=51.4%, D2=50% y D3=77.8% sin diferir estadísticamente entre las diferentes dietas. Conclusiones. El cultivo de esta especie en estanques de agua dulce con suministro de alimento comercial para cobia es viable en términos de crecimiento y ganancia en peso

Effectivity of the standard bidding documents as a garanty for transparency principle. Case study: Municipality of Barichara, Santander

La Ley 1150 de 2007 entregó facultades a la Agencia Nacional de Contratación Pública Colombia Compra Eficiente para adoptar documento tipo en la actividad contractual del estado, rogativa realizada desde diferentes aristas del espectro político de nuestro país que pugnaban por la creación de un sistema que estandarizara la elaboración de los pliegos de condiciones, repercutiera en una mayor participación de contratistas en las ofertas estatales, y por ende representara la materialización de los principios de selección objetiva y transparencia que son pilares del estatuto de contratación. A pesar de su aplicación paulatina, el sistema de pliegos tipo se erige como una de las medidas más eficaces en el combate contra la corrupción y aquella que permite que los mejores candidatos se interesen en ofertar sus servicios al estado colombiano. Sin embargo, surge la pregunta sobre qué tan efectivo resulta este sistema y si, en la práctica, sí se evidencian los cambios. Por eso, a través del presente trabajo de investigación, nuestro propósito en caracterizar y comparar los procesos de licitación pública adelantado en el municipio de Barichara, Santander, a través del sistema de pliegos tipo, con aquellos desarrollados antes de la entrada en vigencia de la normativa que estableció su obligatoriedad en la contratación de obras de infraestructura de transporte y de infraestructura para agua potable y saneamiento básico.Universidad Libre Seccional Socorro - Facultad de derecho y ciencias políticasLaw 1150 of 2007 empowered the National Agency of Public Procurement Colombia Compra Eficiente to adopt standard documents in the state’s contracting activity, a request made from different sides of the political spectrum of our country that fought for the creation of a system that would standardize the preparation of the bidding documents, would have a greater participation of contractors in state bids, and thus represent the materialization of the principles of objective selection and transparency that are pillars of the contracting statute. In spite of its gradual application, the system of standard bidding documents is one of the most effective measures in the fight against corruption and one that allows the best candidates to be interested in offering their services to the Colombian state. However, the question arises as to how effective this system is and if, in practice, changes are evidenced. Therefore, through this research work, our purpose is to characterize and compare the public bidding processes carried out in the municipality of Barichara, Santander, through the system of standard bidding documents, with those developed before the entry into Works of the regulations that established its obligatory nature in the contracting of transportation, potable Works and basic sanitation infrastructure Work