La Equidad De Género En Los Agronegocios: Sector Comercio De Insumos Agropecuarios Y Servicios Veterinarios Del Cantón Machala

One of the most important global challenges is the eradication of gender inequality, an indicator that is constantly evaluated, and for which the countries of the world have developed public policies aimed at increasing the levels of equity in the population. The present investigation was carried out in the city of Machala, and for which it was proposed as an objective to establish the participation of women and men in agribusiness in the trade sector of agricultural inputs and veterinary services and their characteristics and as hypotheses that in the agribusiness in the sector of agricultural inputs and veterinary services, there is a great gender inequity, which is sought to scale; for its realization was taken the information of the national cadastre of agribusiness registered in Agrocalidad in the sector of agricultural inputs and veterinary services, which are a total of 75, of these, 35 were surveyed to determine the degree of equity and participation of the woman; the variables analyzed were the university academic degree of the local owners, the age and the reason to undertake. The data were analyzed using the chi-square test and using the statistical program SPSS 20. The results obtained demonstrate the low participation of women in this economic sector of the city of Machala

Lineamientos para ordenar la franja rural de influencia inmediata de la ciudad de Cuenca. El caso de la zona norte

Este trabajo se circunscribe al área de influencia inmediata norte de la ciudad de Cuenca, a la que se denomina periurbano, entendido como aquel espacio de carácter transicional en el que convergen y confluyen usos y funciones urbanas y rurales. El Ordenamiento Territorial, con una función ordenadora más estratégica, plantea el mejor aprovechamiento del territorio, sin embargo por la complejidad y escala de trabajo no especifica el tratamiento del periurbano, que a su vez presenta situaciones complejas que tampoco son tratadas por la planificación urbanística. En ese sentido, se aborda la construcción de un marco que permita entender el periurbano en base de conceptos y definiciones, y por otra parte hacer una revisión de las metodologías del Ordenamiento Territorial y de la Planificación Urbanística tradicionalmente desarrollada a nivel local; a fin de hacer una comparación y la conveniencia de su aplicación posterior en función de la realidad del área periurbana. Para entender el periurbano de Cuenca, se desarrolla una contextualización del territorio cantonal, luego se adopta una delimitación y se procede a su caracterización en sentido de sus particularidades y dificultades presentes, lo que permite en un siguiente momento, realizar su definición a nivel local. Se procede entonces, al planteamiento metodológico para la planificación del territorio periurbano de Cuenca; que de manera general incorpora del ordenamiento territorial, el enfoque del tratamiento como un sistema integral a través del análisis por componentes, pero con un mayor detalle en sus contenidos, referidos especialmente al uso y ocupación del suelo.This work is limited to the immediate area of influence north of the city of Cuenca, which is called suburban, understood as the transitional character space in which converge and come together rural and urban uses and functions. Land Management, with a more strategic ordering function raises the better use of the territory, however the complexity and scale of work does not specify the treatment of suburban, which in turn presents complex situations that are not addressed by urban planning. In that sense, it is building a framework to understand the suburban based definitions of concepts and approaches, and moreover a review of the methodologies of Land Management and Urban Planning traditionally developed locally in order to a comparison and convenience of later application based on the reality of the suburban area. To understand the suburban of Cuenca, contextualization of the cantonal territory is developed, then delimitation is adopted and proceeds to its characterization in the sense of its peculiarities and difficulties present, allowing a next time, make your definition locally. It then proceeds to the methodological approach for planning the suburban territory of Cuenca; which generally incorporates the territorial planning, the treatment approach as an integral system, through the analysis components, but with a higher waist in content referred particularly to the use and occupation of land.Magíster en Ordenación TerritorialCuenc

Evaluation of impacts of management in an anthropogenic peatland using field and remote sensing data

Artículo de publicación ISIPeatlands are a type of wetland characterized by the accumulation of organic matter, called peat, and are important carbon reservoirs. In areas with poor drainage, human-induced forest fires and logging can produce flooded conditions and organic matter accumulation, which generates an ecosystem called anthropogenic peatland. Productive management activities such as Sphagnum moss harvesting and livestock grazing take place there. Our hypothesis was that productive management has a strong impact on the aboveground C reservoir and increases the presence of exotic species. We established 44 sampling points in a 16-ha anthropogenic peatland on Chiloe Island, Chile, comparing productive and conservation types of managements. Carbon stocks, vegetation structure and composition variables were quantified. These variables were used to classify the ecosystem into microsites to analyze the different locations in the peatland. In addition, predictive models of aboveground carbon were created using Landsat 8 OLI and Pleiades images. The results revealed a carbon stock of 11.99 +/- 0.77 kg C m(-2), which is smaller than in natural peatlands, and showed a wide variability of conditions within the peatland itself. This variability, mainly expressed in aboveground carbon, produces microsites dominated by either shrubs, species of the genus Juncus or grasses. Productive management reduced accumulated carbon in the aboveground stock and in the woody debris. However, the strongest impact was found on the vegetation variables, with a decrease in total cover, cover of shrubs and herbaceous plants, and in vegetation height. There was also an increase in the richness and presence of exotic species. The spatial prediction of aboveground carbon yielded significant results using only spectral indices, showing also that the impact of productive management is not homogenous, being less intense in waterlogged areas. This study is the first to quantify carbon reservoirs in this type of ecosystem and to propose variables that can be used as indicators of the impact of human activities.FONDECYT 113093

Do we need experts? The facilitator of problem-based learning in medical education

El presente documento pretende ampliar la discusión sobre la experticia de los facilitadores en la implementación del aprendizaje basado en problemas (ABP) en medicina, a través de un estudio de caso cualitativo-descriptivo basado en la experiencia de la Universidad del Rosario con una metodología modificada del ABP, denominada actividades integradoras del aprendizaje por sistemas (AIAS). En un primer momento se hace una contextualización general sobre esta metodología de enseñanza y, posteriormente, se reflexiona sobre su implementación en la reforma curricular del Programa de Medicina de la Universidad del Rosario (PMUR). Siguiente a esto, se profundiza en la discusión de la literatura alrededor de los facilitadores expertos y no expertos, contrastándola con el caso puntual del PMUR.This document aims to expand the discussion on the expertise of facilitators in the implementation of problem-based learning (PBL) in medicine, through a qualitative-descriptive case study based on the experience of the Universidad del Rosario with a modified methodology ABP, called integrative system learning activities (AIAS). At first, a general contextualization is made about this teaching methodology and, later, it is reflected on its implementation in the curricular reform of the Medicine Program of the University of Rosario (PMUR). Following this, the discussion of literature around expert and non-expert facilitators is deepened, contrasting it with the specific case of PMUR

Appendix A. A complete listing of species found in the anthropogenic peatland using the nomenclature of the Instituto de Botánica Darwinion (www.darwin.edu.ar).

A complete listing of species found in the anthropogenic peatland using the nomenclature of the Instituto de Botánica Darwinion (www.darwin.edu.ar)

Biodiversidad en la cuenca del Orinoco. Bases científicas para la identificación de áreas prioritarias para la conservación y uso sostenible de la biodiversidad

Es un placer para el Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt presentar a la comunidad científica, conservacionista y autoridades ambientales de Colombia y Venezuela la obra Biodiversidad de la cuenca del Orinoco: bases científicas para la identificación de áreas prioritarias para la conservación y el uso sostenible de la biodiversidad. Este libro es fruto de un esfuerzo de una década de trabajo y recoge numerosos proyectos de carácter institucional que han venido desarrollándose en la Orinoquia, incluyendo el Plan de acción en biodiversidad para la cuenca del Orinoco (2005-2015), además de los resultados de reuniones técnicas de carácter binacional

Measurement of CPCP-Averaged Observables in the B0→K∗0μ+μ−B^{0}\rightarrow K^{*0}\mu^{+}\mu^{-} Decay

International audienceAn angular analysis of the B0→K*0(→K+π-)μ+μ- decay is presented using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.7  fb-1 of pp collision data collected with the LHCb experiment. The full set of CP-averaged observables are determined in bins of the invariant mass squared of the dimuon system. Contamination from decays with the K+π- system in an S-wave configuration is taken into account. The tension seen between the previous LHCb results and the standard model predictions persists with the new data. The precise value of the significance of this tension depends on the choice of theory nuisance parameters