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    Estudiantes Facultad de Arquitectura: una visión de futuro

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    IlustracionesEste volumen está constituido por una serie de capítulos en los que se presentan resultados de trabajos y reflexiones que surgieron de actividades de estudiantes de los diversos programas de la Facultad de Arquitectura. Sus visiones, frescas y esperanzadoras, alimentan visiones optimistas, pero responsables, sobre cómo cada cual está comprometido en lograr un mundo mejor. De esta manera, el lector encontrará en este libro motivos suficientes para sentir que esta próxima generación de profesionales está lista y dispuesta a asumir los retos que les competen desde ahor

    Connections : safe spaces for women and youth in Latin America and The Caribbean

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    RESUMEN: Este libro se puede leer en muchos niveles. Uno de ellos puede no ser muy obvio para aquellos que están acostumbrados a leer sobre violencia e inseguridad en América Latina. Es el nivel que le da a este libro un estatus de originalidad y una contribución que va más allá de la región: el ser una forma de conocimiento destinada no solo a interpretar el mundo, sino a cambiarlo […], visibiliza la importancia de un proceso de investigación ajustado al tipo de conocimiento que produce. Aquí se conectan el proceso y el resultado, lo que debería propiciar un debate más amplio con respecto a cómo y qué sabemos de la naturaleza de la violencia y la agencia social para reducirla […]. Esta visión es particularmente relevante en contextos donde el Estado reproduce la violencia, con terribles impactos, en especial en periferias excluidas. […] El proceso de investigación abordado en este libro transgredió muchas fronteras. Hubo fronteras entre países, barreras lingüísticas, fronteras en torno a la educación, el conocimiento y la experiencia, y entre etnias, géneros y generaciones. […] este proceso reunió a académicos, activistas y líderes comunitarios de cinco países de América Latina y uno del Caribe, incluyendo comunidades indígenas en México y Guatemala […]. La violencia está en el tiempo y en el espacio y se reproduce entre las generaciones en diversos espacios de socialización. Este proceso de investigación que trasciende las fronteras, plantea una discusión que atraviesa los diferentes casos sobre cómo los déficits y las desigualdades materiales, las violencias estatales en nombre de la ‘seguridad’, las especificidades culturales, de género y generacionales de la experiencia y la comprensión de la violencia, así como las diversas formas de criminalidad, se cruzan y se reproducen a través del tiempo y el espacio. Jenny Pearce, investigadora y profesora en el Latin American and Caribbean Centre (LACC) de la London School of Economics and Political ScienceABSTRACT: This book can be read on many levels. One level may not be so obvious to those who are used to reading about violence and insecurity in Latin America. It is the level which gives this book a claim to true originality and a contribution beyond the region. This contribution is to form of scholarship aimed not only to interpret the world but to change it […], this text visibilizes the significance of the research process to the kind of knowledge that is produced. It connects process and outcome, and this should start a wider debate about how as well as what we know about the nature of violence and the social agency to reduce it […]. This is particularly relevant in contexts where the State reproduces violence, with terrible impacts on the margins. The research process discussed in this book transgressed many boundaries. There were intercountry borders, linguistic barriers, boundaries around education, knowledge and experience and between ethnicities, genders and generations. […] the research process brought together scholars and community activists and actors from five Latin American and one Caribbean country. And within Latin America there were indigenous communities in Mexico and Guatemala who participated […]. Violence is located in time and space. It is reproduced inter-generationally through varied socialisation spaces. The boundary crossing research process, raises cross case discussion about how material deficits and inequalities, state violences in the name of ‘security’, cultural, gender and generational specificities of experience and understanding of violence, and varied forms of criminality, intersect and reproduce through time and space. Professor Jenny Pearce. Latin American and Caribbean Centre (LACC), London School of Economics and Political Scienc

    Clonal chromosomal mosaicism and loss of chromosome Y in elderly men increase vulnerability for SARS-CoV-2

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    The pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19) had an estimated overall case fatality ratio of 1.38% (pre-vaccination), being 53% higher in males and increasing exponentially with age. Among 9578 individuals diagnosed with COVID-19 in the SCOURGE study, we found 133 cases (1.42%) with detectable clonal mosaicism for chromosome alterations (mCA) and 226 males (5.08%) with acquired loss of chromosome Y (LOY). Individuals with clonal mosaic events (mCA and/or LOY) showed a 54% increase in the risk of COVID-19 lethality. LOY is associated with transcriptomic biomarkers of immune dysfunction, pro-coagulation activity and cardiovascular risk. Interferon-induced genes involved in the initial immune response to SARS-CoV-2 are also down-regulated in LOY. Thus, mCA and LOY underlie at least part of the sex-biased severity and mortality of COVID-19 in aging patients. Given its potential therapeutic and prognostic relevance, evaluation of clonal mosaicism should be implemented as biomarker of COVID-19 severity in elderly people. Among 9578 individuals diagnosed with COVID-19 in the SCOURGE study, individuals with clonal mosaic events (clonal mosaicism for chromosome alterations and/or loss of chromosome Y) showed an increased risk of COVID-19 lethality

    Yellow fever reemergence in Venezuela – Implications for international travelers and Latin American countries during the COVID-19 pandemic

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    In the last few years, Venezuela has been the epicentre for multiple concurrent epidemics (syndemics) of emerging and reemerging infectious and tropical diseases. These events have severe implications for public health control efforts in Latin American and other regions due to the latent threat of case importation. At the top of the list, the resurgence of vector-borne diseases (VBD), such as malaria and dengue pose substantial challenges for the region [5]. On the other hand, the reemergence of vaccine-preventable diseases (VPD) due to low immunization coverage has led to new and multiple outbreaks of measles, diphtheria and other vaccine-preventable infections that are once again affecting many populations.http://scienti.colciencias.gov.co:8081/cvlac/visualizador/generarCurriculoCv.do?cod_rh=0000153095https://scienti.minciencias.gov.co/cvlac/visualizador/generarCurriculoCv.do?cod_rh=0000451070https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1447-1458https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9429-0058https://scienti.minciencias.gov.co/gruplac/jsp/visualiza/visualizagr.jsp?nro=00000000000695Marlen.martinezg@[email protected]://scholar.google.com/citations?user=o3Y7mZwAAAAJ&hl=eshttps://scholar.google.es/citations?user=flSrsSIAAAAJ&hl=e

    Yellow fever reemergence in Venezuela – Implications for international travelers and Latin American countries during the COVID-19 pandemic

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    The global challenges of the long COVID-19 in adults and children

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    Institución Universitaria Visión de las Américas. Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas. Faculty of Medicine. Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina. Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia / Universidad Científica del Sur. Faculty of Health Sciences. Lima, Peru / Lebanese American University. Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine. Beirut, Lebanon.Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas. Faculty of Medicine. Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina. Pereira, Colombia.Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas. Faculty of Medicine. Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina. Pereira, Colombia.Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas. Faculty of Medicine. Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina. Pereira, Colombia.Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas. Faculty of Medicine. Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina. Pereira, Colombia.Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas. Faculty of Medicine. Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina. 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Buenos Aires, Argentina / Hospital de Enfermedades Infecciosas F. J. Muñiz. Buenos Aires, Argentina.University of Buenos Aires. Cátedra de Enfermedades Infecciosas. Buenos Aires, Argentina / Hospital de Enfermedades Infecciosas F. J. Muñiz. Buenos Aires, Argentina.Centro de Referencia de Salud Dr. Salvador Allende Gossens. Policlínico Neurología. Unidad Procedimientos. Santiago de Chile, Chile.Hospital Salvador Bienvenido Gautier. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.Universidad Central del Ecuador. Jefatura de Cátedra de Enfermedades Infecciosas. Quito, Ecuador.Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.Hospital Roosevelt. Guatemala City, GuatemalaNational Autonomous University of Honduras. Institute for Research in Medical Sciences and Right to Health. Tegucigalpa, Honduras.National Clinical Coordinator COVID-19-WHO Studies. Colombia / Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Facultad de Medicina. Clinica Colsanitas. Clinica Universitaria Colombia. 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Division of Infectious Diseases. Aurora, CO, USA.Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital. Institute of Medicine. Kathmandu, Nepal / Hospital and Research Centre, Dr. D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth. Dr. D. Y. Patil Medical College. Department of Microbiology. Pune, Maharashtra, India / Dr. D.Y. Patil Dental College and Hospital. Department of Public Health Dentistry. Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Maharashtra, India.Universidad Cesar Vallejo. Escuela de Medicina. Trujillo, Peru.Universidad de San Martín de Porres. Facultad de Medicina Humana. Chiclayo, Peru.Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Institute of Microbiology. Beutenbergstraße, Jena, Germany / Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. School of Medicine. Postgraduate Program in Infectious Diseases. Quito, Ecuador.Universidad Simón Bolivar. Faculty of Health Sciences. Barranquilla, Colombia.Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare. Specialty Internal Medicine and Quality Department. Dhahran, Saudi Arabia / Indiana University School of Medicine. 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    At-admission prediction of mortality and pulmonary embolism in an international cohort of hospitalised patients with COVID-19 using statistical and machine learning methods

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    By September 2022, more than 600 million cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection have been reported globally, resulting in over 6.5 million deaths. COVID-19 mortality risk estimators are often, however, developed with small unrepresentative samples and with methodological limitations. It is highly important to develop predictive tools for pulmonary embolism (PE) in COVID-19 patients as one of the most severe preventable complications of COVID-19. Early recognition can help provide life-saving targeted anti-coagulation therapy right at admission. Using a dataset of more than 800,000 COVID-19 patients from an international cohort, we propose a cost-sensitive gradient-boosted machine learning model that predicts occurrence of PE and death at admission. Logistic regression, Cox proportional hazards models, and Shapley values were used to identify key predictors for PE and death. Our prediction model had a test AUROC of 75.9% and 74.2%, and sensitivities of 67.5% and 72.7% for PE and all-cause mortality respectively on a highly diverse and held-out test set. The PE prediction model was also evaluated on patients in UK and Spain separately with test results of 74.5% AUROC, 63.5% sensitivity and 78.9% AUROC, 95.7% sensitivity. Age, sex, region of admission, comorbidities (chronic cardiac and pulmonary disease, dementia, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, obesity, smoking), and symptoms (any, confusion, chest pain, fatigue, headache, fever, muscle or joint pain, shortness of breath) were the most important clinical predictors at admission. Age, overall presence of symptoms, shortness of breath, and hypertension were found to be key predictors for PE using our extreme gradient boosted model. This analysis based on the, until now, largest global dataset for this set of problems can inform hospital prioritisation policy and guide long term clinical research and decision-making for COVID-19 patients globally. Our machine learning model developed from an international cohort can serve to better regulate hospital risk prioritisation of at-risk patients

    The value of open-source clinical science in pandemic response: lessons from ISARIC

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    The value of open-source clinical science in pandemic response: lessons from ISARIC

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