The Mirror Effect : Identity And Minorisation Among The Quechuas And Amazighs In Catalonia

The borders of minoritised communities and national minorities are different than the nation-state ones; they are affected by local dynamics, the nation-state framework, and the global English-dominant context. In this paper, I analyse the concepts of minorisation and identity in two minoritised migrant communities, the Quechua and the Amazigh, living in another minoritised community, Catalonia. I will evaluate double and triple minorisation and the mirror effect on these communities. Double or triple minorisation happens when a particular individual or population sector is affected by more than one type of discrimination (Parella, 2003). The mirror effect happens when a particular individual or community from a minoritised background establishes contact with another minoritised community, triggering a change of identity, and cultural and linguistic ideologies and representations (Cortes-Colome, 2016). I will analyse a set of collected qualitative data, mainly semi-structured interviews with individuals from both communities residing in Barcelona. This is the first study to address these issues on minoritised communities in Catalonia

Lessons from Health, Health Care, and Health Disparities Among Latinx Populations Scientific Panel, in New York City-2021

On September 28, 2021, the City University of New York- CUNY’s Institute for Health Equity (CIHE) hosted the online panel: Health, Health Care, and Health Disparities Among Latinx Population as part of the Speaker Series for Hispanic Heritage Month. The panel was conformed of four experts representing scientists, managers, and future researchers from the biomedical field. Participants were CUNY students, faculty, and individuals from the broader NYC community affiliated with CUNY college campuses. The panelists represented different professional roles, fields, and interests. The common denominator among them was their personal and professional commitment to serving Latinx populations. The main discussion focused on: the need to develop structural interventions that address societal factors to maximize the effect of clinical and individual-based interventions; the role and importance of community engagement; the need to use advocacy and community-centered approach; the significance of flexibility to adapt research portfolios and geographic location, which COVID-19 highlighted; and the need and urgency to increase the pool of Latinx HD researchers and practitioners at all levels and in all stages of the career pathway

Implementación de conexiones calificadas viga-columna en porticos no arriostrados especiales de acero resistentes a momento en el Ecuador.

It is proposed the implementation of design and construction procedures for beam-to-column moment resistant connection in steel special moment frames (PEARM) for Ecuador, which will ensure and guaranteed a good performance of the connection under severe seismic loads. It’s essential the ductility and good seismic performance of beam-to-column connections because the way of absorbing energy from an earthquake for a structure is by ductile deformation of the members. The capacity of energy dissipation by deformation of a PEARM is based by the formation of plastic hinges at the base of the columns, beams and columns. This is where comes the importance of beam-to-column connections, which is the capability to transmit forces from the columns to the plastic hinges of the beams. There are two ways to guarantee a good seismic performance of a beam-tocolumn moment resistant connection: 1) by using the pre-qualified connections, for example, following the American seismic provision which has undergone by sufficient testing, analysis, evaluation and review from highly qualified academic and professional personal; and 2) by making cyclic testing in laboratory for qualification of the of beam-to-column connection to observe and proof the good seismic performance. This thesis focuses on the analysis of these alternatives and the requirements to be implemented in Ecuador.Se propone la implementación de procedimientos de diseño y construcción de conexiones viga-columna pórticos no arriostrados especiales de acero resistentes a momento (PEARM) en el Ecuador, que aseguren y garanticen un buen desempeño de la conexión bajo cargas sísmicas severas. Es fundamental la ductilidad y buen desempeño sísmico en las conexiones viga-columna ya que la forma de absorber la energía proveniente de un sismo por parte una estructura es mediante deformaciones dúctiles de los miembros de dicha estructura. La capacidad de disipación de energía mediante deformaciones de un PEARM se basa en la formación de rotulas plásticas en la base de las columnas, columnas y vigas. Es ahí donde viene importancia de la conexiones viga-columna, al transmitir las fuerzas sísmicas provenientes de las columnas hacia las rotulas plásticas de las vigas. Existen dos alternativas para garantizar un buen desempeño sísmico en las conexiones resistentes a momento viga-columna: 1) mediante la utilización de conexiones pre calificadas como, por ejemplo, siguiendo los procedimientos establecidos en las normas de construcción sismo resistentes para estructuras de acero en Estados Unidos, la cuales tiene un vasto respaldo de ensayos en laboratorio, análisis, evaluación y revisiones por parte de personal académico y profesional altamente calificado; y 2) mediante la calificación en laboratorio de las conexiones viga-columna realizando ensayos bajo cargas cíclicas para observar y comprobar su buen desempeño sismo resistente. La presente tesis se enfoca en el análisis de estas alternativas y los requerimientos para ser implementadas en el Ecuador

Planta de tratamiento de aguas residuales en Pomasqui

The community Pomasqui it is limited by one of the most polluted rivers in the city of Quito; the “Monjas” river. In order to regenerate this and other rivers there is already a wastewater treatment plant under construction in Quitumbe; but this neighborhood will keep sending their sewage directly to the river. The cleaning of the river will avoid the rejection of Pomasqui and San Antonio towards this natural resource and convert it a natural path that connects them. The objective of this project is to be able to make an infrastructure that is friendly to a community in order to maintain a constant interaction with the people who live around it. The relationship is given by including a community program that teaches about what is happening in the treatment plant and exposes the results of this treatment in orchards and gardens as part of the equipment of the linear park. By incorporating the coliseum of the community as part of the project it guarantees that the project becomes a landmark.Pomasqui tiene como límite uno de los ríos más contaminados de Quito; el rio Monjas. Para lograr una rehabilitación de este y otros ríos ya existe en construcción una planta en el sector de Quitumbe; aún así los habitantes de dicho sector eliminan sus aguas hacia el rio manteniendo su insalubridad. Gracias a esta planta, las comunidades de Pomasqui y San Antonio dejarían de dar la espalda al rio e incorporarían un eje natural como elemento de conexión entre ambos sectores que se proyectaría como un parque lineal. Este proyecto tiene como objetivo lograr que una infraestructura se incorpore a una comunidad de una manera amigable manteniendo una interacción constante con las personas de dicho sector. Esta relación se da gracias a un programa de carácter comunitario que capacita sobre lo que pasa dentro de la infraestructura y expone los resultados del tratamiento de sus aguas grises por medio de jardines y huertos que comienzan como parte del equipamiento general del parque lineal. Al incorporar el coliseo ya existente como parte del programa se garantiza que el proyecto se convierta en un hito más dentro de esta comunidad

Integrated Medical Emergency System work’s results. Cienfuegos, from September 2021 to September 2022

Foundation: the medical emergencies integrated system has the purpose of improving the care quality for patients receiving emergency medical services.Objective: to describe the Integrated System of Medical Emergencies’ work results.Methods: descriptive, cross-sectional study, carried out between September 2021 and September 2022 in the Cienfuegos province, about the emergency system operation. The analyzed variables were: conditions and most frequent causes of transfer through the system; days and hours in which the services are requested.Results: acute respiratory diseases were the ones that most caused transfers. Among the chronic non-communicable diseases, acute myocardial infarction, acute coronary syndrome and cerebrovascular disease were the diseases, in ascending order, that most caused requests for medical transfers; Tuesday the day with the most requests.Conclusions: respiratory diseases cause a high number of requests for transfer to medical emergencies, followed by chronic non-communicable diseases.</p

Escherichia coli β-Galactosidase Inhibitors through Modifications at the Aglyconic Moiety: Experimental Evidence of Conformational Distortion in the Molecular Recognition Process

Herein, we describe the use of thioglycosides as glycosidase inhibitors by employing novel modifications at the reducing end of these glycomimetics. The inhibitors display a basic galactopyranosyl unit (1-4)-bonded to a 3-deoxy-4-thiopentopyranose moiety. The molecular basis of the observed inhibition has been studied by using a combination of NMR spectroscopy and molecular modeling techniques. It is demonstrated that these molecules are not recognized by Escherichia coli bgalactosidase in their ground-state conformation, with a conformational selection process taking place. In fact, the observed conformational distortion depends on the chemical nature of the compounds and results from the rotation around the glycosidic linkage (variation of F or Y) or from the deformation of the six-membered ring of the pentopyranose. The bound conformations of the ligand are adapted in the enzymatic pocket with a variety of hydrogen-bond, van der Waals, and stacking interactions.Fil: Calle, Luis. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas. Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas; España;Fil: Roldós, Virginia. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas. Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas; España;Fil: Cañada, Javier F.. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas. Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas; España;Fil: Uhrig, Maria Laura. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Centro de Investigaciones en Hidratos de Carbono; Argentina;Fil: Cagnoni, Alejandro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Centro de Investigaciones en Hidratos de Carbono; Argentina;Fil: Manzano, Veronica Elena. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Química, Física de los Materiales, Medioambiente y Energía; Argentina; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Centro de Investigaciones en Hidratos de Carbono; Argentina;Fil: Varela, Oscar Jose. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Centro de Investigaciones en Hidratos de Carbono; Argentina;Fil: Jiménez Barbero, Jesús. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas. Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas; España