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De manera general en este documento se hacen anotaciones sobre algunas características del perfil social y económico del adulto mayor en nuestro país. El inicio de la vejez se considera a partir de los 65 años según lo determina la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), a esta etapa de la vida se le denomina también adulto mayor (AM). Al individuo que ha alcanzado esta edad se le considera una persona única, histórica e irrepetible en quien se presenta un deterioro biológico, intrínseco, deletéreo, progresivo, programado e irreversible, producto de un decremento bioquímico y psicológico, con disminución de las capacidades de adaptación al medio interno y externo.

In Mario Vargas Llosa’s novels appear some characters as journalist. Sometimes they are just part of the environment, but at times they are just an important role in his work’s development, for example, in Conversación en la Catedral (1969), Pantaleón y las visitadoras (1973), La tía Julia y el escribidor (1977) and La guerra del fin del mundo (1981), the perception of these novels does not necessarily converge with what Vargas Llosa thinks about them, since the novel transfigure the events and includes points of view which are not those of the author, who is interested on the verisimilitude of the his stories. These pages explore the journalists as characters, as well as journalism in press and on radio, in some Peruvian Bobel Prize’s novels.

This research project was focused on the conception of Information and Communication Technologies as a mediation tool in reading and cultural habits of B.A. students of two campuses of the University of Guadalajara in Jalisco, Mexico: The University Center of Economic and Management Sciences (CUCEA) and The University Center of the South Coast (CUCOSTASUR), both of them offer the B.A. in Management. The objective is analyzing the role of information and communication technologies as tools that could give an advantage about the reading exercise among higher education students, it is thought that reading habits make possible the increasing of their cultural, human and social capital, and, as a consequence they could face professional challenges successfully. The methodological approach used in this research was quantitative; the research problem was explained through data obtained by applying a questionnaire to a sample of 120 students of a total population of 172 students of that Bachelor in Arts. The results show that most of the students read with frequency but their reading is not related to the B.A. they are studying, also they normally read in printed aids because of the reading habit generated around them, however, derived of globalization process students have access to information and communication technologies and even though its use for reading (mostly academic readings) is low, being in contact with this type of technology, possessing in a personalize way one or more device with Internet access and especially its use in classrooms with academic purposes, could generate the reading habit through them and, as a consequence, increasing the level of reading skills in students.

This paper presents the results of a series of tests for geometric and mechanical characterization of concrete block (from 8 local factories) and cement mortar used in masonry in the region of Tuxtla Gutierrez. The laboratory tests were performed according to standards and protocols of Mexican organisms. The results of the analyzed samples show that the height of the blocks is very variable and differs from the standard values while the other dimensions and wall thicknesses comply with the regulations. The compressive strength of the mortar specimens is good (4 times higher than required). The total water absorption of the blocks is greater than the maximum allowed (12%) in half of cases tested, but the volumetric weight does not reach, in any case, the minimum one required (1700 kg/m³). The compression strength of individual pieces and block piles (manmade with type I mortar) is much lower than that required in the regulations (60 kg/cm² and 50 kg/cm² respectively). The quality and poor strength shown by the tests carried out warn of the need for regulation and local control of the block manufacturing process.

The Tojolabales of Buenavista Bawitz, in the Chiapas state, make throughout the year a circuit of pilgrimages to different sacred points of the entity which has as fundamental purpose to impretrate the rains to the ray-saints. From the study of the ritual and the worldview we will examine the image of Saint Bartholomew, patron of Venustiano Carranza wich is visited by Tojolabales on april of every year. We will see how its climate management capacity derive of a series of conceptions: its faculty of transmuting in ray its association with the hills and the corn.

El libro titulado mediante una puntillosa interrogante "¿ADIÓS DEMOCRACIA DE PARTIDOS? Una mirada desde la Comunicación Política y la Opinión Pública" del profesor e investigador chiapaneco Alberto Zuart Garduño, publicado por Editorial Fragua en este año 2019, repara en un tema de profunda actualidad política. Su objeto de estudio es la crisis de confianza, de representación y la pérdida de identidad de los electores que se ha evidenciado en los partidos políticos tradicionales en México; y esta innegable realidad que se nos ha revelado a los ciudadanos en edad de votar en las últimas elecciones presidenciales desde el año 2000, acentúa una nueva manera de pensar y actuar dentro de la democracia mexicana.

Mexico ranks first in cases of bullying in basic education, affecting more than 18 million students, both public and private institutions (OCDE, 2014). Students affected by bullying suffer repeated humiliations and acts of violence, resulting in low self-esteem, low school performance, attrition, and sleep problems. In addition to presenting severe emotional conflicts and depression, which in some cases leads to death. The present study presents results of an analysis of the construction of concepts and perceptions about bullying, harassment and intimidation by upper secondary students, which allows the possibility of reflecting that the imputation of violence to a school aetiology is frequently postulated; But rarely proved.

The mass media are cultural industries of high consumption amongst Mexican population, becoming a reference to explain the popular culture and the social behavior. From them, television keeps going a high popular influence mass, from messages that seek to respond to the information and entertainment needs of all sectors. In matter of gender and cultural representation, the TV messages associate the masculine figure with the stereotype of the strong, successful and productive man, which invisibilizes a reality of the masculinities in Mexico, transgress the human development and reinforces the inequity between man and women. This situation implies in a silent conflict that violence the Human Rights and the legal environment of the television as a media. That is why is necessary to rule the media and the message in order to transform the traditional structures of power in the democratic systems, taking the cognitive mediation as an alternative method of solution of controversies.

The economy of Chiapas faces a structural crisis, which is why this paper analyzes its performance with a long-term vision (1900-2015). There is still no research about the causes of its low growth, which has lagged it behind the national average and maintains it as the federal entity with the highest levels of poverty and increasing flows of migration to the United States of America. The production of studies on the subject and the regional results of the change of national strategy in this regard since 1982 is null. That is why this investigation deals with such effects. It is worth noting the lack of an analytical base supported on the predominant economic policy in Mexico and its brand in impoverished territories in a context dominated by global trends that alter the regions of the countries in many ways.

Caleidoscopio sonoro. Músicas urbanas en Chiapas (2017) de Martín de la Cruz López Moya, es un libro que se plantea desde la frontera como lugar de enunciación. No me refiero solamente al lugar geográfico, Chiapas, sino a la convivencia de discursos y planteamientos que hallo en él. Me referiré a tres sentidos de frontera.