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La inequidad y la pobreza son causas de enfermedades, y la compleja realidad actual exige desafíos no sólo al sistema de salud sino también a las universidades como instituciones formadoras de futuros profesionales que deberán responder a demandas concretas de intervención para tratar de disminuir al máximo esas inequidades. La formación de recursos humanos en salud con un perfil orientado hacia los problemas de las poblaciones al respecto y a la estrategia de la Atención Primaria de la Salud (APS) se torna, entonces, un desafío. La APS continúa siendo hoy la principal estrategia para lograr equidad y calidad en salud. Pensar nuevos escenarios de práctica, problematizar la realidad de la que formamos parte, son pasos ineludibles para lograr una formación profesional centrada en la comunidad.

We acknowledge financial support from the research programme ‘Environmental Policy, Economic Reform and Endogenous Technology’, funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). We gratefully acknowledge useful comments by Egbert Jongen, Richard Nahuis, Michiel de Nooij and Bob van der Zwaan on an earlier version of this paper. Of course, the usual disclaimer applies. Research Memorandum 0105

Recent cross-country empirical evidence indicates that the money-prices relationship depends on the level of inflation. This relationship is close to proportional for high inflation economies, but weakens when mean inflation is lower. Based on these findings, we focus on the Argentine experience along the last 30 years. Using descriptive analysis as well as cointegration tests we find that proportionality holds for the high inflation period but weakens under the low inflation regime. Money velocity is quite volatile but keeps a positive correlation with inflation in the long run. Under low inflation, velocity correlates negatively with money growth, a result consistent with the empirical evidence in the literature. We use VAR analysis to study the short-run dynamics of money and prices under high and low inflation. Including relevant macroeconomic variables such as the nominal interest rate, the exchange rate depreciation and GDP growth we study the transmission of nominal shocks to...

Promover la lactancia materna constituye una sencilla estrategia de prevención de la morbimortalidad infantil. Las decisiones y actitudes del equipo de salud condicionan los resultados de lactancia en una población. Por ello, capacitar a estudiantes de Medicina y motivarlos a participar en actividades diversas relacionadas con la lactancia constituye una estrategia de promoción a largoplazo. Se describen en este trabajo actividades encuadradas en la docencia, la extensión y la investigación que se realizan en la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Nacional de Tucumán tomando como eje a la lactancia. La docencia está representada por el Módulo Optativo Lactancia Materna, que se articula con el Voluntariado Universitario Apoyo a la Lactancia Materna y con el Proyecto de investigación sobre la misma temática. Se destaca la participación activa de los estudiantes y el valor de esta experiencia para su formación profesional y humana.

Article history: Received: 13 Mar 2012 Accepted: 28 May 2012 Available online: 21 Jan 2013 ZJRMS 2014; 16 (1): 91-93 Background: Color vision deficiency (CVD) is an X chromosome-linked recessive autosomal dominant. Determine the prevalence of color blindness in Qazvin population. Materials and Methods: In a cross sectional study color vision deficiency examined in 1853 individuals with age 10-25 years old who participated in private clinics and eye clinic of Bu-Ali hospital in Qazvin in 2010. The screening of color vision deficiency was performed using Ishihara test. Data were analyzed by SPSS-16 with χPP test with p<0.05. Results: Mean age of participant was 17.86±4.48 years. 59.5% of them were female. 3.49% of the total population had color vision deficiency that 0.93% and 2.56% were female and male respectively. Conclusion: color vision deficiency must be noticed by decision makers in health field for screen planning.

THIS CHAPTER DESCRIBES general trends in the growth and diffusion of telemedicine worldwide. It begins with a description of the diffusion in the United States, and is followed by examples from a range of other countries. A theoretical model is then presented that contains factors that affect the adoption of new technologies, particularly in a free market economy and with a high degree of professional autonomy. Attention is then focused on the analysis of important factors slowing the spread of telemedicine on several different levels.

The point of departure for this study is the hypothesis that educational institutions and school systems can use the Internet to establish a new form of administrative and pedagogical contact within their school communities. The theoretical framework involves elements such as social, cultural, and technological change, situating in this context the educator and his/her appropriation of the technological culture. It then deals with the constitution of sociotechnical networks in the educational environment, having the Internet as a facilitator. In so doing, the text also touches on the issues of social networks and educational web portals. The fieldwork investigated the process of constitution of a sociotechnical network in a municipal school system. Observations, assessments, questionnaires, and interviews built a case study, in which it was possible to follow the creation, implementation, and use of an Internet portal as a new space for the communication, interaction, and exchange of information among the school community. The investigation centered on the figure of the educator and of his/her perception of this space. Based on the assumption that our relationship to technology entails a process of appropriation of the technological culture, which directly influences our actions in this networked society, we conclude that educational web portals can be used by schools in a productive way, in collaboration among the various agents of the educational community, once this process takes into account, amongst other factors, the technological culture of that particular community.

O processo de globalização trouxe para as grandes organizações uma série de consequências, entre as quais a prática das aposentadorias incentivadas, em que diversos trabalhadores experientes foram dispensados, muitos sem qualquer preparação para uma vida que pode durar mais do que o tempo dedicado ao trabalho. Hoje muitas organizações já reconhecem o valor dos trabalhadores mais velhos, que, se atualizados, podem continuar tão motivados quanto já demonstraram em capacidade e experiência. Entretanto, alguns precisam ou desejam se aposentar, aproveitando o tempo livre para realizar atividades de desenvolvimento pessoal, de lazer, de cuidado com a saúde, desenvolvimento de projetos pessoais, relacionamentos sociais e familiares e mesmo para o engajamento em uma atividade profissional mais prazerosa. Este artigo pretende oferecer uma perspectiva do envelhecimento dos trabalhadores nas organizações e do desafio de lidar com a aposentadoria, analisando-se aspectos e variáveis que podem fa...

In P G(2, q) a point set K is sharply transitive if the collineation group preserving K has a subgroup acting on K as a sharply transitive permutation group. By a result of Korchmáros, sharply transitive hyperovals only exist for a few values of q, namely q = 2, 4 and 16. In general, sharply transitive complete arcs of even size in P G(2, q) with q even seem to be sporadic. In this paper, we construct sharply transitive complete 6 ( √ q − 1)arcs for q = 4 2h+1, h ≤ 4. As far as we are concerned, these are the smallest known complete arcs in P G(2, 4 7) and in P G(2, 4 9); also, 42 seems to be a new value of the spectrum of the sizes of complete arcs in P G(2, 4 3). Our construction applies to any q which is an odd power of 4, but the problem of the completeness of the resulting sharply transitive arc remains open for q ≥ 4 11. In the second part of this paper, sharply transitive subsets arising as orbits under a Singer subgroup are considered and their characters, that is the possib...

Despite powerful advances in yield curve modeling in the last twenty years, comparatively little attention has been paid to the key practical problem of forecasting the yield curve. In this paper we do so. We use neither the no-arbitrage approach, which focuses on accurately fitting the cross section of interest rates at any given time but neglects time-series dynamics, nor

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The Pedagogy of Alternating consists in a methodology for the organization of schooling that conjugates different formative experiences distributed along distinct times and spaces aiming at a professional education. This method began to take shape in 1935 from the complaints that a small group of French farmers had about the educational system of their country, which in their view did not correspond to the specificities of education for the rural reality. The Brazilian experience with the Pedagogy of Alternating started in 1969 in the State of Espírito Santo, where the first three Escolas Famílias Agrícolas (Agricultural Family Schools) were built. Nevertheless, after 40 years of its implementation in this country, this pedagogical proposal is still little discussed within our academic milieu. In a research project that we have been developing we have conducted a survey of master and doctoral dissertations presented to Brazilian universities between 1969 and 2006. The objective of the present article is to discuss this production with a view to draw a first picture of the "state of the art" in this field of investigation. The survey includes 46 works, of which 7 are doctoral theses and 39 are master dissertations. In the text, we present the most recurrent themes of study, the regional distribution of this production, and what we regard as consensual aspects and limitations of these works.

Abstract. In this contribution we present experiments on color image enhancement for several dierent non-linear lters which originally were de ned for gray-level images. We disturb sample images by dierent types of noise and measure performance of the lters. We provide signal-to-noise measurements as well as perceived color dierence in E as dened by the CIE. All images and test programs are provided online on the internet so that experiments can be validated by arbitrary users on any image data.