Knowledge In Colombia Research Articles

Una mirada a la representación de la experiencia femenina en el cine y la cultura colombiana a través del lente de Ciro Guerra en La sombra del caminante (2004), Los viajes del viento (2009) y El abrazo de la serpiente (2015)

Ciro Guerra’s La sombra del caminante/Wandering Shadows (2017), Los viajes del viento/ The Wind Journeys (2009) and El abrazo de la serpiente/The Embrace of the Serpent (2015) address critical issues in Colombian history and avoid spectacularizing violence and poverty while dignifying many of the challenges faced by marginalized groups in Colombia. However, this trilogy of films is still characterized by a masculine presence and lacks female representation. From an intersectional perspective, this article connects the absence of feminine experiences in this set of films with the insufficient recognition that has historically been given to women’s contributions and participation in the construction of historical memory, artistic creation and preservation of ancestral knowledge in Colombia

Intake of Animal Protein and Dietary Sources in the Colombian Population: Results of the National Nutrition Survey (ENSIN-2015).

Background There is a lack of knowledge in Colombia about dietary intake and sources of animal protein. Design Cross-sectional, nationally representative surveys. Setting. Colombia. Participants. n = 32,457 participants aged from 1 to 64 years. The sample analyzed included 21,036 boys and nonpregnant girls, 10,099 adults, and 1,322 pregnant women, 118 of whom were below 18 years of age. Results Protein intake was 32.9 g/d (95% CI: 32.4, 33.4) per 1,000 kilocalories. The relative contribution (%) of total protein to the total energy intake/day (acceptable macronutrient distribution) was 13.2% (95% CI: 13.0, 13.3). The acceptable macronutrient distribution (AMDR) for animal protein for those aged 1 to 64 years was 7.8% (95% CI: 7.6, 8.0), with a minimum of 7.1% (95% CI: 6.7, 7.5), which was for children aged from 13 to 17 years, and a maximum of 8.3% (95% CI: 8.1, 8.5), for children aged from 1 to 4 years (P=0.018). For all groups, animal protein made up the majority of total proteins, with 62.6% (95% CI: 61.7, 63.6) for preschoolers, 55.8% (95% CI: 53.2, 58.4) for school-aged children, 54.6% (95% CI: 53.0, 56.1) for adolescents, 58.1% (95% CI: 57.5, 58.7) for adults, and 57.5% (95% CI: 55.2, 59.7) for pregnant women (P=0.027). The three main dietary sources of animal protein were red meat (17.8%), chicken (16.3%), and eggs (10.5%). The sources of vegetal protein were bread-arepa-pasta (20.0%), cereals (19.8%), and legumes (8.2%). Conclusions Protein intake is excessive according to the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA), while it is not excessive from the perspective of the AMDR.

CyberColombia: a Regional Initiative to Teach HPC and Computational Sciences

The series Summer School HPC Colombia is an initiative to extend high-performance computing-related knowledge in Colombia, and more widely in Latin America, and integrate expertise and research from academia and industry in the same event. This year’s edition, which is the third in the series, was carried out entirely online due to the outbreak of the COVID 19 pandemic during the first half of the year 2020. In this paper, we summarise the aims, development, deployment, and results of the Summer School HPC Colombia2020event. It is an example of the potential that the use of virtual tools and environments has to grow education for HPC

Magnetic and gamma-ray spectrometric airborne geophysical data for investigating potential mineral resources and generating geoscientific knowledge in Colombia

The Servicio Geológico Colombiano has made available several airborne magnetometry and gamma-ray spectrometry datasets. The information was acquired in 15 blocks that cover approximately 520,000 square kilometers of Colombian territory, representing more than 850,000 linear kilometers of information. The data were collected along flight lines separated by 500 meters or 1000 meters, depending on the area, with sampling rates of 10 Hz (8 meters) and 1 Hz (80 meters) for the magnetometry and gamma-ray spectrometry data, respectively. The information is stored in 30 databases separated for each block and for each of the geophysical methods used. The Servicio Geológico Colombiano has provided a web portal that provides detailed specifications for each database and allows interested parties to see the terms and conditions to access the datasets and to check possible restrictions on access to information. To date, there is no geophysical database in Colombia with the coverage and resolution of these data sets, which will be very useful for geological research and research on potential mineral resources and to support geohazard monitoring, land-use planning and providing a baseline dataset for environmental monitoring.

Dengue Infections in Colombia: Epidemiological Trends of a Hyperendemic Country.

Dengue is a major public health problem in hyperendemic countries like Colombia, the understanding of the epidemiological trends is important for the development of efficient public health policies. We conducted a systematic review of the epidemiologic data on dengue in Colombia from 1971 to 2020. A total of 375 relevant citations were identified, 36 of which fulfilled the inclusion criteria. The data of dengue and severe dengue cases, infection fatality rate, and serotype distribution were used to understand and identify gaps in the epidemiological knowledge in Colombia. The epidemiology of dengue in this country was characterized by five main outbreaks in 1998, 2002, 2010, 2013, and 2019 with high fatality rates in comparison with the average values reported in the Americas. The case fatality rate of severe dengue exceeded 2% and all four serotypes co-circulate throughout the country with some regional variations. Overall, the behavior of dengue in Colombia is influenced by multiple factors including seasonal temperature variation and socioeconomic conditions. Additionally, the most important barriers in the epidemiological surveillance of dengue may be due to the insufficient notification rate in some regions and the low active search for the circulation of different serotypes.

La investigación en Comunicación en Colombia vista desde Web of Science

La investigación en comunicación en Colombia es considerada ya un campo consolidado en el contexto nacional, pero no lo es en su proyección internacional. Las bases de datos internacionales y en particular Web of Science se han constituido en una forma extendida de legitimación del conocimiento en la ciencia dentro de Academia Global, pero apenas se ha estudiado la investigación colombiana en comunicación en estos productos. El presente artículo indagó cómo ha sido la producción y circulación de conocimiento en lo que se considera la base de datos más usada a nivel internacional, la Web of Science. Los resultados dan cuenta que la investigación de autores vinculados a la academia colombiana pasó de una figuración muy baja en los años noventa, a un crecimiento importante en 2008 y de manera exponencial en el 2015. La creación de la base de datos Emerging Source Citation Index contribuyó enormemente a este cambio. Del presente análisis se derivan varias implicaciones sobre la producción y apropiación del conocimiento en comunicación en Colombia.

Correspondence, “cultural pilgrimage”, and the transnational legitimation of philological and linguistic knowledge in Colombia, 1876–1911

AbstractDuring the last three decades of the nineteenth century and the first ten years of the twentieth, a small group of Colombian intellectuals became respected linguistic and philological authorities. Through their research on Spanish language, aboriginal languages and Latin classics – inspired by the historical and comparative paradigm for the study of language – they obtained recognition from the European scientific community, mainly in Germany and France. By focusing on Rufino José Cuervo, the most prominent Colombian philologist/linguist at the turn of the century, this article attempts to show that the successful integration of these intellectuals in transnational scientific networks, as well as their privileged position among the Spanish and Latin American letrados resulted mainly from two cultural practices: correspondence and “cultural pilgrimage”. These practices played a key role in Cuervo’s strategy of cultural communication and transmission that aimed to establish contact with prominent figures in linguistic and philological studies in Europe in order to validate and legitimate his work, particularly his opinion on the question of the unity of the Spanish language.

To Kill a Black Swan: The Credibility Revolution at CEDE, 2000-2018

The growing displacement of theory and other forms of wide-ranging knowledge of social phenomena by empirical research methods in economics is widely noted by economists and historians of economic knowledge. Less attention has been devoted, however, to understand the materialization of such changes in the scientific practices in a specific research center. This article studies the recent transformations in the epistemological practices at CEDE, a research center that is both, highly influential in the production of economic knowledge in Colombia, and does not belong to the core economics research centers that lead the debates regarding the recent changes in the discipline. I use a machine learning technique called Topic Modeling, interviews to CEDE researchers, and exegesis of papers to identify a shift in the production of knowledge in microeconometrics at CEDE during the years 2000 and 2018. I explain this shift by characterizing two sets of epistemological practices. The first one, usually present during the years 2000 and 2006, establishes a complementary relationship between wide-ranging knowledge (theory included) and data estimation techniques in order to achieve a broad comprehension of the phenomenon under study. The second one, usually present during the years 2009 and 2018, prioritizes data estimation techniques over theoretical models and contextual knowledge in order to achieve a causal comprehension of one variable in the phenomenon under study. Because epistemological practices make truth claims, each one establishes its own criteria about what constitutes a valid research through a distinct way of replicating a scientific experiment. The shift I identify implies a recent tendency to disdain research works that cannot make a strong causal inference.

Epilepsy surgery perceptions and knowledge in Colombia

Background: Selected patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy benefit from epilepsy surgery, however significant delays remain.

Youth Studies in Colombia: State of the Art

This study is based on the most recent state of the art report about Youth in Colombia; the article summarizes the process of construction of youth as a specialized field of knowledge in Colombia. It reviews the researches and studies carried out during a period of 20 years (1985–2003) in 18 Colombian cities. This state of the art is a model that aims at transcending the cataloguing and abstract-type synthesis of research studies, in order to consolidate a more profound analysis that will account for the thematic treatment and the underlying notions of young subjects. The project has been produced on the basis of the following questions: What knowledge of male and female Colombian youth has been produced? Who has produced it? How has it been produced and what kind of subject is being constructed? After 2003, there is a sustained production of bibliography concerning the main topics of the youth condition, with progressively qualified contributions. By contrast, the State since 2006 has practically abandoned the institutionality that had been created for designing and managing public policies on youth.

La historia de la enseñanza de la historia: un saber escolar inestable

La historia de la enseñanza de la historia en Colombia, tradicionalmente ha estado articulada a la trayectoria que ha marcado la formalización de la historia como disciplina académica universitaria, configurando su enseñanza como un ejercicio dependiente, subordinado y siempre deficitario de los avances logrados desde su investigación. La reciente emergencia del campo investigativo de la historia de los saberes escolares en Colombia, se ha venido constituyendo en una posibilidad de indagar por la historia de la enseñanza de la historia, desde otros referentes teóricos y metodológicos, que además, de potenciar la categoría de “saber pedagógico”, permite la exploración de otros discursos que han configurado históricamente este saber, asociados a la formación de docentes, a las políticas públicas, a los textos escolares y a la investigación sobre este campo. El presente artículo, aprovechando la coyuntura de los Bicentenarios, intenta mostrar esta perspectiva teórica y algunos esbozos iniciales sobre las formas que ha tomado la enseñanza de la historia a lo largo del siglo XX y la primera década del siglo XXI.

Sistemas inteligentes, ingeniería e hidroinformática

Este trabajo presenta un marco conceptual y referencial de los denominados Sistemas Inteligentes en el marco de su empleo en la ingeniería y particularmente en la nueva disciplina de la hidroinformática. Estos incluyen dos grandes ramas: la inteligencia computacional y los sistemas basados en el conocimiento. En los primeros se pueden incluir los paradigmas de la inteligencia artificial que son las redes neurona les artificiales, los algoritmos genéticos y la lógica difusa. En los segundos se pueden catalogar los sistemas basados en reglas como los árboles de decisión y los sistemas expertos (difusos). En general, todos los sistemas inteligentes ofrecen otra posibilidad para aproximar la compleja problemática que existe en el estudio de los hidrosistemas. Por consiguiente este trabajo representa un esfuerzo por promocionar su uso y divulgación en nuestro medio, sobre todo entre los ingenieros civiles, ambientales y en general todos los profesionales y geocientíficos involucrados de alguna manera u otra con los recursos hídricos en Colombia.