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The climate-responsive design was a reality in expansion in the African Sub-Saharan regions since the 1950s. Such is the case of Angola and Mozambique, wide territories of sub-Saharan Africa testifying a significant developing impulse between the end of World War II and the Portuguese democratic revolution of 24th April 1974 which, the following year, led to the political independence of these two on forward African countries. Formal, technological and ideological quests for Modern Movement emerged as a cultural stimulus linked to geographical and climatic specificities, and these promoted new expressions and scales. The adaptation to the local climate was based on architectural programs and solutions developed to exploit the use of open spaces, using circulation galleries and introducing devices to maintain permanent air circulation and to control the admission of direct sunlight.

Este libro recoge la investigación enfocada en los elementos discursivos de varios autores  entorno a la reformulación de la modernidad ortodoxa que se produce tras la posguerra de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En un clima de inquietud, oportunidad y expectación de una sociedad de masas cambiante por el auge de la tecnología , surgen figuras relevantes como Cedric Price, Alison y Peter Smithson, Jaap Bakema en Europa o  Paul Rudolph,  y Bernard Rudosky en Norteamérica como voces críticas con potentes propuestas de reconducción disciplinar. Otros arquitectos como Richard Neutra o Eero Saarinen se alinean más claramente con el sistema pero abriendo nuevos campos de trabajo; mientras que movimientos coetáneos surgidos como el Neorrealismo italiano, la Internacional Situacionista o el Metabolismo japonés experimentan con arquitecturas intensamente focalizadas en cuestiones como el regionalismo, la movilidad o la infraestructura. Sara Williams Goldgahen y Réjean Legaul como editores, suplementan los estudios individuales contextualizando marcos generales comunes y aportando novedosas redefiniciones que permiten una interesante supralectura. 

   

   

Introduction: The study estimated the prevalence rate of Acute Respiratory Diseases and Symptoms (ESRA) and its risk factors (RF), it was carried out in three host neighborhoods: Salsipuedes (200 households), San Miguel (35) and Ampliación San Miguel (9) from the southeast region of the city of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, where the Salsipuedes stone mining company of sand and gravel for construction of roads and houses is located, for 35 years of extraction. Methodology: A cross-sectional epidemiological study was carried out, it began with a population census, where the survey was accepted in 156 (63.9 % of the total) and a structured questionnaire with closed and open questions was applied to an adult of each family. The questions were oriented to identify the signs and symptoms of incident and prevalent diseases (closed questions), on the other hand, six open qualitative questions related to how do you consider the activity of the sandbank that exists in your neighborhood?, to identify the perceptions of the risk for social, environmental and health damages, and whether or not they associated them with living in those neighboring host neighborhoods of the mining company. Results: The prevalence rate of ESRA in Salsipuedes was 5.6%, San Miguel 12.0% and Ampliación San Miguel 21.9% (total TP=7.6%) (p ≤ 0.05); Nine socioeconomic variables were explored, of which five (wooden wall of the house, proximity to the neighborhood, proximity to the international highway, home ownership and health perception) were statistically associated with stone mining activity with a significance value statistic of (p ≤ 0.05). Conclusions: Mining activities had an impact on ESRA associated with the proximity and conditions of housing and also influenced negative perceptions of health and the environment.

With the intention of showing a less explored fragment within the Marxism pro-duced in Latin America, this paper seeks to present the main concerns of OscarCorreas’s work. The jurist developed a legal conception that splicedwith the«cri-tique of political economy»inaugurated by Karl Marx. Reference is made to theclose relationship that operates in Correas’s work between value and legal form. Hiswork is as much a contribution to the«critical theories of law»as to Latin AmericanMarxism, the latter record being explored.

This paper analyzes food buying practices and market places during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, in Brazil. The data has been obtained through an online survey conducted to 158 consumers domiciled in the state of Paraná, in Brazil, and tabulated through simple analysis. The results show consumption preferences among locally produced food, highlighting the relevance of food acquisition channels based on proximity, especially in direct purchase from producers. This proximity relationship allows to obtain relevant information about how food is produced and processed, apart from the acknowledgement by people who had participated in such processes. It is concluded that the level of availability of information on the production method features, and relationships based on trust are key factors when choosing a marketing channels for food procurement.

Soberanía alimentaria, seguridad alimentaria y derecho a la alimentación son conceptos que cada vez escuchamos con mayor frecuencia en ambientes tanto expertos como sociales. Así también, su uso ha dejado de limitarse a un nivel puramente crítico sobre las políticas agrícolas a la escala internacional y nacional, permitiendo desarrollos teóricos, normativos y políticos de gran magnitud y, particularmente, de gran interés para las políticas públicas.

Introduction: In Costa Rica, approximately half of the children born annually have risk factors for hearing loss, generating hearing loss of various etiologies that can manifest before, during or after birth. This leads to altered results in neonatal hearing screening tests, such as otoacoustic emissions and automated auditory evoked potentials. Objective: it was proposed to determine the relationship between risk factors for hearing loss and hearing disorders in neonates, based on ICU admission references and the TANU database, between 2018 and 2019, at the Dr. Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia. Methodology: the research adopted a quantitative approach. Measures of central tendency and dispersion, tests of independence and Pearson's correlation, and a logistic regression model were performed. Results: there is a relationship between risk factors for hearing loss and auditory alterations in screening. Significant factors were found such as anoxia, intrauterine infections, syndromes, malformations associated with hearing loss, ototoxics, stay in the ICU greater than five days, weight less than 1500 g, age in days and intrauterine infections, which predict results of "refer" in screening tests. Conclusions: on the one hand, to carry out an audiological follow-up to neonates who present risk factors for hearing loss, and, on the other hand, to implement improvements in regard to the management of antecedents and hearing tests performed on neonates.

The article summarizes the outcomes of an international research project on Latin America, and aims to present the main types of economic organizations that differ from a market logic of the and the corresponding capitalist enterprises, in some cases opposing these. Seven patterns of alternative organizations are identified, with their respective contexts and trajectories of dissemination and institutionalization. These originated economic modes which are not typically capitalist, such as the communitarian, popular, cooperative or solidarity-based. The analysis is based on national studies conducted through bibliographic reviews, statistical analyses, case studies, and surveys applied in the more relevant sectors. In conclusion, the article highlights the central role played by the cooperative paradigm in the continent and the fact that the alternative organizations function as factors for containing a market-based logic and preserving collectivities whose life systems are based on other economic principles, in particular reciprocity