Caelum

Caelum is a story about the hidden struggles of mental health told in an alternating chapter format that explores the journey of two characters: an angel, Tacenda, who seeks revenge on Mr. Mystical -an unloving God- and Dorian, a human, who is trying to find his place in life. The two experience parallel situations where they explore their emotions and reactions to life while Mr. Mystical makes everything much more complicated. Tacenda, however, has other plans, and seeks Dorian for help defeating those who have turned against him, causing his demise. As the story progresses and alternates between Tacenda’s quest and Dorian’s growth, the reader takes on the role of figuring out how the two are connected and learning how to navigate through the chaos that seems to surround the two me

La familia en la estimulación del hábito lector en niños de cuatro a seis años

El hábito lector es un proceso que se debe estimular en niños desde su primera infancia y los padres de familia son los responsables de la motivación de la lectura en el hogar. En nuestro país existen limitados estudios sobre los hábitos de lectura, sumando a ello las pocas investigaciones que se registran acerca de las estrategias que utilizan los padres para animar a esta importante actividad con sus hijos de cuatro a seis años. El trabajo investigativo realizado es de tipo cuantitativo-descriptivo, mediante la aplicación de una encuesta a padres de familia que tienen niños de cuatro a seis años. Este trabajo se desarrolló en la ciudad de Quito-Ecuador y permitió investigar aspectos como: prácticas o hábitos lectores de la familia, valoración del papel de la lectura, tipo de material de lectura utilizada en el hogar, las estrategias y actividades lectoras que los padres emplean con sus hijos. En conclusión, los padres presentan escasas prácticas lectoras y conocimientos de cómo estimular la acción de leer en sus hijos

Competencias del Docente del Futuro y su Contraste con las Políticas Educativas del Ecuador

The education of this century brings with it many challenges because it is a time of globalization and rapid changes, accompanied by a digital age where knowledge and information flow through the World Wide Web, which is the great world web, at a impressive speed, which has permeated the so-called screen culture that encompasses all spaces of human action, through the mass media, which constantly bombard people with news and information of all kinds. In this sense, the educator of the future must empower himself with the competencies or set of educational knowledge that allow him to manage in the new era, responding to sociocultural demands, in order to forge the new, competitive man, willing to solve problems and capable of living with their peers, the neuralgic axis or intentionality that is the basis of this essay approach that aims to reflect on the competences of the teacher of the future and their contrast with the educational policies carried out by Ecuador in the face of local, national and social demands. global, evaluating its scope and mistakes in the current sociopolitical reality. Finally, the information is the result of research in bibliographic sources, which urge governments to use educational policies that highlight the issue of information and communication technologies, together with the importance of the teacher in the creation of a world better and more human, for the high mission they fulfill.La educación del presente siglo trae consigo muchos desafíos por tratarse de una época de globalización y cambios vertiginosos, acompañados de una era digital donde el conocimiento y la información fluyen a través de la Word Wide Web, que es la gran telaraña mundial, a una velocidad impresionante, lo cual ha permeado en la llamada cultura de pantalla que abarca todos los espacios de la acción humana, a través de los medios de comunicación de masas, que bombardean constantemente a las personas con noticias e información de toda índole. En ese sentido, el educador del futuro debe empoderarse de las competencias o conjunto de saberes educacionales que le permitan manejarse en la nueva era, respondiendo a las exigencias socioculturales, a fin de forjar el hombre nuevo, competitivo, dispuesto a la resolución de problemas y capaz de vivir con sus semejantes, eje neurálgico o intencionalidad base del presente abordaje ensayístico que pretende reflexionar en torno a las competencias del docente del futuro y su contraste con las políticas educativas llevadas a cabo por el Ecuador ante demandas sociales de carácter local, nacional y global, evaluando sus alcances y desaciertos en la realidad sociopolítica actual. Finalmente, la información es resultante de la investigación en fuentes bibliográficas, que instan a los gobiernos al empleo de políticas educativas que coloquen de relieve el tema de las tecnologías de la información y comunicación, aunado a la importancia del docente en la creación de un mundo mejor y más humano, por la elevada misión que cumplen

SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence on the north coast of Peru: A cross-sectional study after the first wave

During the first wave, COVID-19 had devastating effects on developing countries like Peru, which reported more than 900,000 cases of the disease and more than 36,000 confirmed deaths from it. The informal settlements are counted in COVID-19 regional statistics, but they are very different from the rest of the region in terms of sanitation, access to water and sewage, housing conditions, and others. To make good decisions about public health, it is important to understand how the disease is spread in informal settlements. We did an observational, cross-sectional study in Puerto Pizarro, a remote port village in Tumbes, from November 11, 2020, to November 30, 2020, to assess the seroprevalence of COVID-19 after the first wave, as well as the sociodemographic factors and symptoms linked to a positive COVID-19 antibody lateral flow test. 1391 people older than 2 years old were given census and symptom questionnaires. They were also tested for the presence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies (IgG and IgM) in their blood. This study shows an adjusted seroprevalence of 24.82 percent (95% CI 22.49–27.25) posterior to the first wave of COVID-19 in Tumbes. Women had higher adjusted seroprevalence (28.03% vs. 21.11% [95% CI 24.83–31.41], p = 0.002). Extrapolating our adjusted prevalence of 24.82 per 100 persons to Tumbes (N = 251,541), 62,432 people were infected during the first wave, which is too high for adequate primary care in health institutions. Puerto Pizarro’s causespecific mortality rate was 198.49 per 100,000 inhabitants (deaths documented between May and December 2020), which was higher than Tumbes’ up to December 2020 (137.6 per 100,000 inhabitants). The presence of mostly symptomatic patients at health care facilities, the limited use of social networks, the scarce availability of eHealth technologies in government institutions, unused emergency telephone numbers, and the fear of dying if referred to the hospital may have led to underreporting cases. Participation of the community in epidemiological surveillance strategies is critical to assisting the Ministry of Health in the future success of the establishment of an eHealth surveillance monitoring program

The Third International Symposium on Fungal Stress – ISFUS

Stress is a normal part of life for fungi, which can survive in environments considered inhospitable or hostile for other organisms. Due to the ability of fungi to respond to, survive in, and transform the environment, even under severe stresses, many researchers are exploring the mechanisms that enable fungi to adapt to stress. The International Symposium on Fungal Stress (ISFUS) brings together leading scientists from around the world who research fungal stress. This article discusses presentations given at the third ISFUS, held in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil in 2019, thereby summarizing the state-of-the-art knowledge on fungal stress, a field that includes microbiology, agriculture, environmental science, ecology, biotechnology, medicine, and astrobiology

Cerebrovascular events and outcomes in hospitalized patients with COVID-19: The SVIN COVID-19 Multinational Registry

© 2020 World Stroke Organization.[Background]: Severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been associated with a significant risk of thrombotic events in critically ill patients. [Aim]: To summarize the findings of a multinational observational cohort of patients with SARS-CoV-2 and cerebrovascular disease. [Methods]: Retrospective observational cohort of consecutive adults evaluated in the emergency department and/or admitted with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) across 31 hospitals in four countries (1 February 2020–16 June 2020). The primary outcome was the incidence rate of cerebrovascular events, inclusive of acute ischemic stroke, intracranial hemorrhages (ICH), and cortical vein and/or sinus thrombosis (CVST). [Results]: Of the 14,483 patients with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2, 172 were diagnosed with an acute cerebrovascular event (1.13% of cohort; 1130/100,000 patients, 95%CI 970–1320/100,000), 68/171 (40.5%) were female and 96/172 (55.8%) were between the ages 60 and 79 years. Of these, 156 had acute ischemic stroke (1.08%; 1080/100,000 95%CI 920–1260/100,000), 28 ICH (0.19%; 190/100,000 95%CI 130–280/100,000), and 3 with CVST (0.02%; 20/100,000, 95%CI 4–60/100,000). The in-hospital mortality rate for SARS-CoV-2-associated stroke was 38.1% and for ICH 58.3%. After adjusting for clustering by site and age, baseline stroke severity, and all predictors of in-hospital mortality found in univariate regression (p < 0.1: male sex, tobacco use, arrival by emergency medical services, lower platelet and lymphocyte counts, and intracranial occlusion), cryptogenic stroke mechanism (aOR 5.01, 95%CI 1.63–15.44, p < 0.01), older age (aOR 1.78, 95%CI 1.07–2.94, p ¼ 0.03), and lower lymphocyte count on admission (aOR 0.58, 95%CI 0.34–0.98, p ¼ 0.04) were the only independent predictors of mortality among patients with stroke and COVID-19. [Conclusions]: COVID-19 is associated with a small but significant risk of clinically relevant cerebrovascular events, particularly ischemic stroke. The mortality rate is high for COVID-19-associated cerebrovascular complications; therefore, aggressive monitoring and early intervention should be pursued to mitigate poor outcomes

Aboveground forest biomass varies across continents, ecological zones and successional stages: refined IPCC default values for tropical and subtropical forests

For monitoring and reporting forest carbon stocks and fluxes, many countries in the tropics and subtropics rely on default values of forest aboveground biomass (AGB) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventories. Default IPCC forest AGB values originated from 2006, and are relatively crude estimates of average values per continent and ecological zone. The 2006 default values were based on limited plot data available at the time, methods for their derivation were not fully clear, and no distinction between successional stages was made. As part of the 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for GHG Inventories, we updated the default AGB values for tropical and subtropical forests based on AGB data from >25 000 plots in natural forests and a global AGB map where no plot data were available. We calculated refined AGB default values per continent, ecological zone, and successional stage, and provided a measure of uncertainty. AGB in tropical and subtropical forests varies by an order of magnitude across continents, ecological zones, and successional stage. Our refined default values generally reflect the climatic gradients in the tropics, with more AGB in wetter areas. AGB is generally higher in old-growth than in secondary forests, and higher in older secondary (regrowth >20 years old and degraded/logged forests) than in young secondary forests (20 years old). While refined default values for tropical old-growth forest are largely similar to the previous 2006 default values, the new default values are 4.0-7.7-fold lower for young secondary forests. Thus, the refined values will strongly alter estimated carbon stocks and fluxes, and emphasize the critical importance of old-growth forest conservation. We provide a reproducible approach to facilitate future refinements and encourage targeted efforts to establish permanent plots in areas with data gaps

BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model

Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be able to perform new tasks based on a few demonstrations or natural language instructions. While these capabilities have led to widespread adoption, most LLMs are developed by resource-rich organizations and are frequently kept from the public. As a step towards democratizing this powerful technology, we present BLOOM, a 176B-parameter open-access language model designed and built thanks to a collaboration of hundreds of researchers. BLOOM is a decoder-only Transformer language model that was trained on the ROOTS corpus, a dataset comprising hundreds of sources in 46 natural and 13 programming languages (59 in total). We find that BLOOM achieves competitive performance on a wide variety of benchmarks, with stronger results after undergoing multitask prompted finetuning. To facilitate future research and applications using LLMs, we publicly release our models and code under the Responsible AI License

Caso de impacto en un predio del municipio de Boyacá, prototipo en plataforma tecnologica de donación.

La innovación en el sector agropecuario es indispensable para el desarrollo de la economía rural, es por esto que las asociaciones de productores agrícolas son la base para que los modelos de negocio de las economías colaborativas sean casos exitosos de emprendimiento. En tal virtud en Colombia en la ola tendencias novedosas de financiación alternativa, encontramos al Crowdfunding como el vehículo que permitirá promover el desarrollo del agro en Colombia, ya que conectará de manera directa a los agricultores con los inversionistas que buscan invertir en proyectos alternativos. Con el marco normativo local que se estipuló a través del Decreto 1357 del año 2018, el mercado alternativo de deuda de Crowdfunding representa una gran oportunidad para los agricultores, ya que es una financiación a cero costos para los proyectos productivos que se sustenta en la confianza y la calidad de los modelos de negocio. Dado lo anterior, por medio de esta investigación se definirán los pilares que los agricultores deben seguir para convertirse en la contraparte de los acreedores que financien sus proyectos, por medio de las plataformas autorizadas en nuestro país de Crowdfunding.Innovation in the agricultural sector is essential for the development of the rural economy, this is why the associations of agricultural producers are the basis for the business models of the collaborative economies to be successful cases of entrepreneurship. For instance in Colombia in the wave of innovative alternative financing trends, we have found the Crowdfunding as the vehicle that will allow to promote the development of agriculture in Colombia, since it will directly connect farmers with investors looking to invest in alternative projects. 10 With the national regulatory framework that was stipulated through Decree 1357 of the year 2018, the alternative debt market of Crowdfunding represents a great opportunity for farmers, since it is a zero-cost financing for productive projects based on trust and the quality of business models. According of previous idea, through this research, an alternative funding proposal will be designed through the Crowdfunding methodology for the agricultural sector, applied to a potato crop in the municipality of Samacá

Desarrollo de la conciencia fonológica en niños de cuatro a cinco años: edad, género y nivel socioeconómico

En este artículo se analiza el desarrollo fonológico en niños de cuatro a cinco años, considerando la edad, el género y el nivel socioeconómico. El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar el desarrollo de la conciencia fonológica en niños de Educación Inicial para detectar posibles problemas y dificultades en la adquisición de la lectoescritura. El estudio corresponde a un diseño no experimental transversal descriptivo. La muestra fue determinada según criterio no probabilístico intencional, conformada por 54 niños y niñas con desarrollo típico del lenguaje pertenecientes a Educación Inicial de dos instituciones, una pública y otra privada, organizados en dos grupos etarios. La conciencia fonológica fue evaluada a través del Test de Habilidades Metalingüísticas (THM). Además, se diseñó un cuestionario dirigido a los padres de familia para evidenciar los factores considerados dentro del estudio. Los datos fueron sometidos a un análisis descriptivo. Los resultados avalan que el desarrollo fonológico es progresivo: a) existen diferencias significativas en las habilidades metalingüísticas: segmentación silábica y detección de rimas; b) los niños del grupo de cinco años tienen un rendimiento mayor; c) en género, las niñas obtuvieron una diferencia favorable en el desarrollo fonológico; y, d) el nivel socioeconómico es un factor positivo, a favor de los niños pertenecientes a instituciones privadas. PALABRAS CLAVE: Desarrollo fonológico; comprensión fonológica; nivel fonético; educación inicial; nivel socioeconómico. Development of phonological awareness in children from four to five years: age, gender and socio-economic level. ABSTRACT This article analyzes the phonological development in children between four and five years old, considering age, gender, 9and socioeconomic status. The objective of this research is to analyze the development of phonological awareness in Early Childhood Education children to detect possible problems and difficulties in the acquisition of literacy. The study corresponds to a descriptive cross-sectional non-experimental design. The sample was determined according to an intentional non-probabilistic criterion, made up of 54 boys and girls with typical language development belonging to Initial Education of two institutions, one public and one private, organized into two age groups. Phonological awareness was tested through the Metalinguistic Skills Test (THM). In addition, a questionnaire was designed for parents to demonstrate the factors considered within the study. The data were subjected to a descriptive analysis. The results support that phonological development is progressive: a) there are significant differences in metalinguistic skills: syllabic segmentation and rhyme detection; b) children in the five-year-old age group perform better; c) in gender, girls obtained a favorable difference in phonological development; and d) the socioeconomic level is a positive factor, a favor of the children belonging to private institutions. KEYWORDS: Phonological development; phonological understanding; phonetic level; Initial education; socioeconomic level