University Of Veracruz Research Articles

Causas asociadas a la reprobación escolar en estudiantes de enfermería.

Introducción: Reprobación escolar es el resultado de un proceso que detiene, limita o no acredita el avance del alumno en su vida académica. La reprobación constituye una dificultad de los estudiantes para adquirir los conocimientos, habilidades y aptitudes que se concreta con el bajo rendimiento académico, la reprobación y en su forma extrema en la deserción. Objetivo: Identificar las causas de reprobación de los estudiantes de Licenciatura en Enfermería de una Facultad de la Universidad Veracruzana. Métodos: Estudio descriptivo, transversal con muestreo no probabilístico por conveniencia, con 93 participantes. Se aplicó el instrumento causas de reprobación en universitarios con 24 ítems, tres dimensiones, la primera atribuible a los estudiantes, la segunda a los docentes y la tercera a la situación socioeconómica. Resultados: La edad promedio fue de 22 años, predominando el sexo de las mujeres. El 55% respondió que reprueba por no organizar su tiempo para estudiar y realizan tareas cuando están presionados, el 46% atribuye reprobar por falta de retroalimentación, el 44% a la relación maestro-alumno. El 27% refiere reprobar por el uso de las redes sociales y el 24% porque tiene que trabajar para pagar sus estudios y sostener a su familia. Conclusiones: Las causas de reprobación de los estudiantes de enfermería son por no organizar el tiempo para estudiar y hacer tareas, falta de retroalimentación y relación maestro-alumno, trabajar para estudiar y sostener la familia.

Corporalidad, creación escénica y teatro comunitario en la Universidad Veracruzana Intercultural (UVI)

Este artículo explicita algunas directrices centrales de un proyecto de investigación, basado en el desarrollo de habilidades comunicativas y creativas en estudiantes universitarios para la creación escénica, la aplicación del teatro en la animación y conducción de acciones de revitalización lingüística de idiomas originarios, además de generar e implementar procesos de gestión para mejorar las condiciones de vida de comunidades, principalmente rurales, del estado de Veracruz. En particular, el proyecto se ha llevado a cabo en las zonas donde están ubicadas las cuatro sedes de la Universidad Veracruzana Intercultural y de manera específica, el artículo se centra en el trabajo realizado en la Sede Regional Grandes Montañas, donde ha sido posible consolidar un grupo de teatro bilingüe comprometido con la práctica de la animación sociocultural, mediante el teatro comunitario.

KIDNEY STONES FORMATION AND USE OF MEDICINAL PLANTS AS ANTIUROLITHIATIC AGENTS

There is an old and famous fact “the garden is the poor man’s apothecary” and treatment of each and every disease is hidden in nature. Medicinal plants are highly esteemed all over the world as a rich source of therapeutic agents for the prevention and treatment of various diseases. Since ages, herbs are being used for treating different ailments in different parts of world by different communities. A kidney stone, also known as a renal calculus is a solid concretion or crystal aggregation formed in the kidneys from dietary minerals in the urine. The problem of urinary stones or calculi is a very ancient one these stones are found in all parts of the urinary tract, the kidney, and the urinary bladder and may vary considerably in size. Urolithiasis is a complex process that occurs from series of several physicochemical event including super-saturation, nucleation, growth, aggregation and retention within the kidneys. Present article deals with reason, types of kidney stones, risk factors associated, diagnosis and treatment methods including many medicinal plants as herbal option for treatment of urinary stones. Peer Review History: Received 9 July 2017; Revised 7 August; Accepted 4 September, Available online 15 September 2017 Academic Editor: Ahmad Najib, Universitas Muslim Indonesia, Indonesia, ahmad.najib@umi.ac.id Received file: Reviewer's Comments: Average Peer review marks at initial stage: 5.0/10 Average Peer review marks at publication stage: 7.5/10 Reviewer(s) detail: Dr. R. Karthikeyan, Vignan pharmacy college, Guntur, A.P., India, rkcognosy@gmail.com Dr. Alfonso Alexander Aguileral, University of Veracruz, Mexico, aalexander_2000@yahoo.com

Las que se quedan: Género, Migración y Control Social

Migration impacts family structure, affecting both those who leave and those who stay, forcing all to confront a process of change and accommodation as a result of new realities. However, people are able to develop different strategies, more or less effective, allowing them to maintain their family bonds as well as to develop new networks of solidarity among the members of their communities. This is true for both sides of the frontier particularly in the case of coffee growing areas of central Veracruz, in the southeastern part of Mexico, where men typically migrate leaving women in care of the children and their households, under the tutelage of their relatives. The absence of men in their communities -- (e.g., their husband, brothers, etc.) allows women to experience new forms of autonomy derived from the necessity of doing tasks and playing roles which normally belong to men, even if they do so under the control and vigilance of the community. Also, they become closer to other women who live in similar situations and learn from each other to relate and help themselves in this hard process that can last years. Community media, like Radio Teocelo of Veracruz, transmitting in the area since more than 40 years, has represented an important collective vehicle promoting community development. In association with this radio, a group of researchers and students of the Psychology Faculty at the University of Veracruz, have designed a special radio program called: Women Voices from migration: the other side of the coin, in air from March 2010 to March 2011, as an strategy to promote women’s development giving them a voice to share and learn from one another’s experiences around migration.

COLLABORATIVE AND PARTICIPATORY PLANNING PROCESSES AND METHODS FOR LOCAL DEVELOPMENT

In 2006, The University of Veracruz (UV), the State Government of Veracruz and the United Nations Program for Human Settlements (UN/Habitat) signed an agreement to promote the urban and territorial development of the Veracruz State. This event is the result of The University of Veracruz’s policies on the production of knowledge for the improvement of social and economic conditions in Veracruz through the involvement of the University organization in the real problems of different groups within society. Under this agreement, the University has made a commitment to promote sustainable development in the main regions of Veracruz, fi rstly through the implementation of strategic regional planning using inclusive and participatory methods; and secondly, through the strengthening of state and local authorities’ capacities for the development and implementation of urban and regional policies that have an effective and integral impact on the social, environmental and economic dimensions of cities. The purpose of this paper is to present the participatory exercises conducted by the multidisciplinary academic group of The University of Veracruz, under UN/Habitat-UVVeracruz State Government agreement following the UN methodology to promote Local Economic and Territorial Development. This paper explains these participatory planning experiences, methods and the results in the context of the central urban region of Veracruz State (made up of 15 municipalities).

Building hybrid knowledge at the Intercultural University of Veracruz, Mexico: an anthropological study of indigenous contexts

The ‘interculturalization’ of educational institutions designed for, and sometimes by, indigenous peoples has reached the realm of higher education. In Mexico, ‘intercultural universities or colleges’ are being created either by state governments, NGOs and community organizations or by academic institutions. In this paper, one of these ‘intercultural university’, pilot projects – the Universidad Veracruzana Intercultural (UVI) – which offers a BA in Intercultural Management for Development in four indigenous regions in the State of Veracruz, is ethnographically studied and comparatively analysed. With the UVI as the research subject, the main interest consists of examining the potential for inter‐ or cross‐cultural dialogue, which resides in these emerging and hybrid institutions, which have started to construct new bridges between conventional, ‘western’, academic knowledge, on the one hand, and local, community‐rooted, ‘indigenous knowledge’, on the other. Three dimensions are analysed in this anthropological study: the intercultural dimension (the dialogue between different cultures and world views), the interlingual dimension (the relation between linguistic systems which have historically coexisted in the four regions where the fieldwork is conducted), and the dimension that is focused on the interaction between academic, community and organizational actors.

Intercultural University of Veracruz: a holistic project promoting intercultural education

This paper describes the Intercultural University of Veracruz (UVI), an institutional Programme at the University of Veracruz in Mexico (Universidad Veracruzana Intercultural), as a product of the analysis and research carried out over a 10‐year period on cultural diversity and education. There were several institutions and over 20 people involved in the project. In November 2004, the UVI was formally created and, within a record time, it was operating. By December 2005, four centres were established in four different intercultural regions of Veracruz: Selvas, Grandes Montañas, Huasteca and Totonacapan. A web site, partially written in several indigenous languages, was created to disseminate its activities. UVI is working closely with the Laboratory of Intercultural Studies at the University of Granada and INTER Group of UNED, both in Spain. We present its rationale, the process that led to its creation, and its current status.

A multidisciplinary graduate level project-based programme in applied statistics

The use of a project-based approach for designing a one-year graduate level programme in applied statistics is addressed. The pedagogical approach, academic setting, and learning activities are described in a multidisciplinary context. Some comments on implementation of such a programme based on the results from five successive graduating classes at the University of Veracruz (1994–2000) are included.