Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a global initiative established by the United Nations to address the social, economic and environmental challenges facing the world by expressing the need to rationalize the consumptions of resources, especially natural resources, in order to reduce the impact on the planet. Businesses play a crucial role in achieving of the SDGs, as their economic activity can have direct and indirect impacts on the achievement. The purpose of this research is to analyze the relationship between commitment to sustainability and competence in a sample of students doing their business internship in Colombian industries in the Aburrá Valley, using the statistical technique “Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling” (PLS-SEM) with the statistical software Smart PLS 4. The results indicate that business commitment to sustainability has a positive and significant impact on the competitiveness of companies; with respect to brand value, corporate differentiation and competitive profit margin. The findings revealed that the most significant benefit is towards the brand's environmental reputation; by being perceived as companies related to sustainable consumption and living; In addition, they are companies with the ability to differentiate themselves from the competition. It is also observed that the organizational factors that most influence business commitment to sustainability are the values that guide actions and encourage appropriate ways of relating to the environment; reflected with the implementation of sustainability strategies.

This article examines peasant agriculture in the municipality of Monte Plata, Dominican Republic, in the context of agrarian capitalism and sectorial policy in the territory. It presents partial results from a broader study that included 121 interviews in twelve rural communities. Of these, 50 agricultural producers surveyed using structured questionnaires and 21 in-depth interviews and life histories with producers, technicians, and community leaders are analyzed here. The research combines a historical-structural approach with elements of neopositivist empiricism and adopts a mixed methodological design, descriptive-correlational in type. Quantitative data collection techniques (structured questionnaires) and qualitative ones (semi-structured interviews and life histories) were employed, applied through purposive sampling in rural communities of the municipality, without the intention of statistical inference. Based on the analysis of secondary data, it is estimated that more than 90% of the agricultural area is concentrated in a few capitalist and precapitalist latifundia (livestock and African palm), along with large and medium-sized farms operated by absentee producers. Residents are left with marginal lands, where micro-farms predominate that do not guarantee family reproduction, driving processes of pauperization, migration, and proletarianization. Three quarters of the surveyed holdings are 80 tareas (5 ha) or smaller, and one quarter do not exceed 8 tareas (0.5 ha). A growing differentiation between small livestock and crop producers is also observed, a product of commercialization and wage labor. Finally, policy guidelines aimed at an integral agrarian reform are proposed within the context of inclusive and sustainable rural territorial development.

Religious beliefs can influence how people perceive reality and make decisions, potentially contributing to the emergence of cognitive biases or distortions and, consequently, affecting memory. The literature linking cognitive biases, memory, and religious beliefs is limited, often focusing on specific biases and their influence on two of these variables. Addressing this gap, the present study aimed to investigate the correlation between these variables in Dominican adults. A virtual form was administered to a sample of 129 participants, utilizing the Colombian version of the Belief System Inventory (SBI-14-Col), the Spanish version of the Davos Assessment of Cognitive Biases Scale (DACOBS), and the Self-Monitoring Scale for Memory Systems (SMSQ). A correlational analysis was done, and its results revealed a positive correlation between religious beliefs and memory, indicating that stronger religious beliefs may be associated with enhanced memory. Moreover, religious beliefs were also linked to a higher tendency toward the jumping-to-conclusions bias, which, in turn, was associated with an elevated subjective assessment of memory. These findings should be interpreted with caution, given that the non-probabilistic sampling, the religious and cultural homogeneity of the sample, as well as the low reliability observed in some subscales, may have influenced the strength of the observed associations. The aim is to expand the existing knowledge in previous literature and encourage future research with a larger and more diverse sample in terms of culture and religious beliefs, using instruments and experimental designs tailored to the characteristics of the participant population.

Due to the ethical challenges in the practice of law in Colombia, this study employs a qualitative methodology to explore the ethical values essential for the education and professional practice of lawyers, aiming to address to this social issue. The theoretical framework includes a review of the concepts of ethics, morals and ethical values, as well as their philosophical foundations based on the perspectives of Aristotle and Martha Nussbaum, to identify the philosophical principles relevant to the analysis. Through semi-structured interviews conducted with law professionals who also serve as university professors, the study examines their perspectives on the essential ethical values required in both areas under investigation. The findings highlight critical thinking as a key ethical value in legal practice. Finally, the study offers a set of recommendations to help mitigate ethical issues by fostering critical thinking in legal education. These recommendations focus on three key strategies: establishing an institutional hierarchy of values, implementing active learning methodologies, and ensuring the consistent application of ethical values by both teachers and students. By integrating these approaches within academic settings, this study aims to influence legal practices, fostering a more ethically responsible professional environment.

This document analyzes the impact of the implementation of the Public Works Concessions Law (COP) on Chile’s economic growth, using the synthetic control method to construct a counterfactual representing the performance of GDP per capita in the absence of the intervention. Based on GDP per capita data from Chile and seven selected Latin American countries for the period 1980-1993, a synthetic model was developed that minimizes pre-intervention differences. The results indicate that, following the implementation of the policies in 1994, Chile’s GDP per capita began to significantly diverge from the synthetic counterfactual, particularly from 2002 onwards, suggesting a significant positive impact of the PPPs1 policies on the country’s economic growth.

This essay offers a philosophical reflection on how to investigate motherhood in women with disabilities from a critical and transformative approach. Drawing on a review of concepts such as dignity, otherness, and epistemic injustice, it analyzes the limits that have historically conditioned their exclusion as moral and reproductive subjects within academic discourse. In response, reproductive justice is proposed as an analytical framework that articulates material, symbolic, and political conditions, allowing for a critique of both biomedical approaches and the omissions of hegemonic feminism. With the aim of contributing to the strengthening of academic production in this field, the essay finally addresses the philosophical and methodological implications of adopting this framework in research on motherhood and disability, emphasizing the need to recognize situated knowledges, reconsider the aims of research, and actively challenge dominant interpretive frameworks.

The objective of the research was to evaluate the antimicrobial efficacy of the essential oil of ruda (Ruta graveolens) onStaphylococcus aureus subp aureus strain ATCC ®25904. the plant was collected from the Inapisí sector of Constantino Fernández, the oil was obtained with the hydrodistillation technician, 10 concentrations were evaluated (10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 100% ) in dilution with double distilled water, each dilution was handled a total of 5 ml and tween 80 was added as 0,1% as emulsifier, the results showed that the determined minimum inhibitory concentration of the essential oil was defined at 30%; with respect to the Bactericidal minimum concentration evidenced by the zero growth of colonies on the plate, which was established at 40% concentration; the antimicrobial sensitivity study statistically show significant differences between treatments with the 0,5% Tukey test, the best being at 90% concentration with 25,25 mm of inhibition halo formation, however the treatments starting at 30% and showed significant halos formation, concluding that Ruta graveolens oil has antimicrobial efficacy on the strain evaluate. 

The research was carried out at the "Sacha Wiwa" Experimental Center in the Guasaganda parish of the province of Cotopaxi, with the aim of evaluating different doses of organic fertilizers in the cultivation of chard (Beta vulgaris) a completely randomized block design was used with the Tukey multiple range means separation test (p < 0,05). The study involved 374 chard plants distributed in five treatments: T0 = Absolute control, T1 = Chemical control whose commercial formulation is 10-30-10, T2 = Vermicompost at 25% (0,34 kg / m2), T3 = Vermicompost at 50% (0,69 kg / m2) and T4 = Vermicompost at 75% (1,04 kg / m2). The variables analyzed included leaf length and width, number and weight of leaves at harvest, weight per plant at harvest, net weight per plot, number of roots at harvest, and cost analysis. The results indicated that the most effective dose of vermicompost was 0,69 kg/m2, standing out in variables such as plant height, leaf width, number of leaves at harvest, and leaf weight. Regarding the variables weight per plant, net weight per plot, and number of roots, significant improvements were also observed with this.   

The herbicide drift is problem in crops when it reaches non-target crops. The glyphosate drift after growth regulator application can influence in wheat response. This study assessed the effects of glyphosate drift after trinexapac-ethyl application on wheat. Two field experiments were conducted in winter season of 2018 and 2019. Cultivar TBIO Toruk and Sossego cultivars were used in 2018 and cultivar TBIO Audaz and Cultivar ORS Citrino in 2019. Wheat cultivars were treated with trinexapac-ethyl followed subdoses of glyphosate ranging from 0 to 72 g ae ha-1. The phytotoxicity from glyphosate was less than 10% to para Cultivar TBIO Toruk and Sossego. Glyphosate symptoms were slightly higher in cultivar TBIO Audaz cultivar treated with trinexapac-ethyl. The isolated effects of Trinexapac-ethyl and glyphosate reduced plant height, but the interaction of trinexapac-ethyl and glyphosate factors had a greater reduction on plant height in 2019. The interaction between trinexapac-ethyl and glyphosate promoted more damage  than they alone. Glyphosate reduced by up 11% cultivar TBIO Toruk yield but increase around 30% to cultivar Sossego yield. Cultivar TBIO Audaz was the most sensitive cultivar, with yield losses of up to 59% due to glyphosate drift. Overall, the effect of glyphosate on plant height was subdose dependent. Subsequent application of trinexapac-ethyl to plants exposed to the highest glyphosate subdoses resulted in decreased plant height and dry matter accumulation. Trinexapac-ethyl has no impact on wheat yield. The yield response was dependent of glyphosate subdose, cultivar and year.