Extractive Geographies in Sponsored Media: Colombia’s Large-Scale Coal Mining in the 1980s

This article examines corporate and institutional visual media surrounding the early years of the Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia. The analysis of a varied corpus of educational television, magazine photography, and a short film made by Exxon shows how an extractive enterprise sought to present its impacts as contained and justified. Images and narratives produced an illusion of geographical and temporal separation between the mine and the lifeworlds it impacted. While the material repeats well-known tropes of modernization and the technological sublime, it also works in specific ways within a context that produced sacrifice zones in Indigenous territories

Extractive Geographies in Sponsored Media: Colombia’s Large-Scale Coal Mining in the 1980s

This article examines corporate and institutional visual media surrounding the early years of the Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia. The analysis of a varied corpus of educational television, magazine photography, and a short film made by Exxon shows how an extractive enterprise sought to present its impacts as contained and justified. Images and narratives produced an illusion of geographical and temporal separation between the mine and the lifeworlds it impacted. While the material repeats well-known tropes of modernization and the technological sublime, it also works in specific ways within a context that produced sacrifice zones in Indigenous territories

Interaction Design for Audiences: A Proposition for Building Resilience and Recovery for COVID-safe Independent Cinemas

As in the broader cultural sector, COVID-19 has created unprecedented challenges for cinema exhibitors in the UK and worldwide. Venues have been forced to close for months, operate with substantial uncertainty, or re-open with reduced capacity. Still, their position remains precarious and the challenges to the sustainability of the sector are ongoing: changing restrictions and associated increased costs, reduction in production and distribution pipelines. The British Film Institute highlighted that the pandemic poses an existential threat, especially to independent exhibitors and those operating in remote or deprived areas. Thus, COVID-19 has also highlighted existing inequalities, the digital divide, and the need to expand the audiences’ diversity. Meanwhile, in sectoral events, panels have reflected on how exhibitors and audiences have become more accustomed to accessing media experiences online, and how this new digital literacy will support cinemas’ efforts to attract cinemagoers in their reopening. Prior to COVID-19, the use of interaction design for new cinematic experiences had attracted the interest of festivals, filmmakers and researchers. In this position paper, we argue that interaction design and technologies can help independent cinemas to engage and galvanise new audiences to patronise COVID-safe venues. From low-end online platforms to high-end immersive experiences, new technologies are transforming connectivity across society, and have the potential to support access for D/deaf, neurodivergent, and disabled audiences, but adoption by exhibitors is so far limited. We outline the research needs and priorities in this field. These include identifying facilitators and obstacles to industry adoption of interactive forms, and mapping experiences and attitudes across the sector. Together with directions for immediate practical solutions, it is crucial to gather critical data for future research use, in order to pave the way for long-term solutions and design innovation, so that the sector can build resilience, recover and reach underserved audiences

Interaction Design for Audiences: A Proposition for Building Resilience and Recovery for COVID-safe Independent Cinemas

As in the broader cultural sector, COVID-19 has created unprecedented challenges for cinema exhibitors in the UK and worldwide. Venues have been forced to close for months, operate with substantial uncertainty, or re-open with reduced capacity. Still, their position remains precarious and the challenges to the sustainability of the sector are ongoing: changing restrictions and associated increased costs, reduction in production and distribution pipelines. The British Film Institute highlighted that the pandemic poses an existential threat, especially to independent exhibitors and those operating in remote or deprived areas. Thus, COVID-19 has also highlighted existing inequalities, the digital divide, and the need to expand the audiences’ diversity. Meanwhile, in sectoral events, panels have reflected on how exhibitors and audiences have become more accustomed to accessing media experiences online, and how this new digital literacy will support cinemas’ efforts to attract cinemagoers in their reopening. Prior to COVID-19, the use of interaction design for new cinematic experiences had attracted the interest of festivals, filmmakers and researchers. In this position paper, we argue that interaction design and technologies can help independent cinemas to engage and galvanise new audiences to patronise COVID-safe venues. From low-end online platforms to high-end immersive experiences, new technologies are transforming connectivity across society, and have the potential to support access for D/deaf, neurodivergent, and disabled audiences, but adoption by exhibitors is so far limited. We outline the research needs and priorities in this field. These include identifying facilitators and obstacles to industry adoption of interactive forms, and mapping experiences and attitudes across the sector. Together with directions for immediate practical solutions, it is crucial to gather critical data for future research use, in order to pave the way for long-term solutions and design innovation, so that the sector can build resilience, recover and reach underserved audiences

Nairnonman Store: programa avanzado para la formación empresarial estrategias digitales para negocios

El presente trabajo de grado para opta al título de Administración de empresas contiene una estrategia digital de mercadeo para un negocio de bicicletas, consta de un plan y selección de medios y de todos los conocimientos aprendidos en el curso Estrategias digitales para negocios. La estrategia se trata del lanzamiento de un producto para lograr posicionamiento y ventas para la marca Naironman Store

Seroprevalencia de Mycobacterium avium Subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) en una granja de ganado de carne de bosque húmedo tropical en Caucasia, Antioquia, Colombia

The present study determines the seroprevalence of MAP in beef cattle of a farm in tropical moist forest located in the municipality of Caucasia. Blood samples from all animals over two years of age (n=151) were obtained together with information on the epidemiological characteristics of the animal (age, breed, sex, parity, reproductive state, days postpartum). Serum samples were analyzed with an Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) and the information analyzed using descriptive and analytic statistics (two-way frequency tables). ELISA results showed a seroprevalence of 33.8% (IC 95% 26.1-41.4) showed statistically significant association between ELISA results and breed. According to the results, high seroprevalence of paratuberculosis level was determined in a beef farm for the first time in Colombia. Further studies on beef cattle herds should be carried out to increase the knowledge of the prevalence of this disease in the country.El presente estudio se realizó para determinar la seroprevalencia a MAP en ganado de carne de una granja en bosque húmedo tropical ubicada en el municipio de Caucasia. Se tomaron muestras de sangre de todos los bovinos mayores de dos años (n=151) y se obtuvo información de características individuales (edad, raza, sexo, número de partos, estado reproductivo y días posparto). Las muestras de suero fueron analizadas mediante el Ensayo por inmunoabsorción ligado a enzimas (ELISA), mientras que la información fue analizada usando estadística descriptiva y analítica (Prueba de chi cuadrado y prueba exacta de Fisher). Los resultados de ELISA mostraron una seroprevalencia del 33.8% (IC 95% 26.1-41.4) y el análisis estadístico mostró asociación estadísticamente significativa entre el resultado de ELISA y la raza. De acuerdo a los resultados, un alto nivel de seroprevalencia fue determinado en ganado de carne por primera vez en Colombia. Futuros estudios en este tipo de ganado deben ser realizados para aumentar el conocimiento de la prevalencia de la enfermedad en el país

Urban morphology and solar access: densification study Loja’s historic downtown (Ecuador)

El presente artículo estudia la compacidad, la morfología urbana y el acceso solar en Loja para estimar el potencial solar disponible en las fachadas de exteriores de una manzana consolidada ubicada en el centro histórico. Proponiendo tres escenarios de densificación, en donde se analizaron tres morfologías resultantes de la variación de la altura de las edificaciones y que representan un incremento de edificabilidad de aproximadamente 150%, se llegó a determinar que la reducción del potencial solar varía del 16% al 28%.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version

Accesibilidad a acciones de promoción de la salud y prevención de población hipertensa de Pereira, Colombia, 2008. La mirada del paciente.

Este es un estudio descriptivo donde participaron 422 personas hipertensas, y se evaluó la percepción que tienen sobre acciones de promoción y prevención

Transcriptome and gene expression analysis of three developmental stages of the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei

Coffee production is a global industry valued at approximately 173 billion US dollars. One of the main challenges facing coffee production is the management of the coffee berry borer (CBB), Hypothenemus hampei, which is considered the primary arthropod pest of coffee worldwide. Current control strategies are inefficient for CBB management. Although biotechnological alternatives, including RNA interference (RNAi), have been proposed in recent years to control insect pests, characterizing the genetics of the target pest is essential for the successful application of these emerging technologies. In this study, we employed RNA-seq to obtain the transcriptome of three developmental stages of the CBB (larva, female and male) to increase our understanding of the CBB life cycle in relation to molecular features. The CBB transcriptome was sequenced using Illumina Hiseq and assembled de novo. Differential gene expression analysis was performed across the developmental stages. The final assembly produced 29,434 unigenes, of which 4,664 transcripts were differentially expressed. Genes linked to crucial physiological functions, such as digestion and detoxification, were determined to be tightly regulated between the reproductive and nonreproductive stages of CBB. The data obtained in this study help to elucidate the critical roles that several genes play as regulatory elements in CBB development