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

This research presents applied case to small and medium companies in the footwear sector in the province of Tungurahua. The objective is to determine the most profitable instrumental feasibility or cooperation for the formation of a productive network. Entrepreneurs are asked about the critical factors, their importance and degrees of possible complements to identify the aspects that motivate the conformation of the network that are reflected in the indexes of beneficial cooperation (IBC). Finally, it is established that the highest IBC corresponds to the production factor, where it is recommended to initiate actions for the conformation of the network.

El libro en cada uno de sus ocho capítulos –recogidos en 246 páginas– logra exponer, de acuerdo al tema, una síntesis con su correspondiente caracterización técnica sobre el proceso de descentralización realizado en Ecuador durante el gobierno de Rafael Correa. En este sentido y a fin de tener un preámbulo inicial se puede apreciar el análisis del proceso de la descentralización y la Constitución de 2008, realizado por Luis Verdesoto, en donde el autor analiza la Constitución, la disposición legal del proceso como abierto y progresivo, las responsabilidades otorgadas a los gobiernos autónomos descentralizados, por niveles.

El Observatorio de la Pequeña y Mediana Empresa –PyME– es una iniciativa del Área de Gestión de la Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, creada el 9 de septiembre de 2010 bajo la misión de contribuir de manera científica, proactiva, crítica y sistémica a los procesos de investigación, diseño de políticas públicas y estratégicas empresariales y a la socialización de información confiable sobre el sector productivo con énfasis en el emprendimiento y las micro, pequeñas y mediana empresas nacionales e internacionales.

Dengue is an acute febrile disease caused by four dengue virus (DENV) serotypes whose prevalence in the Americas has quintupled between 2003 and 2013. The immune response against the infection with dengue virus involves cellular and humoral factors. We performed an observational and cross-sectional study to evaluate the levels of interleukins of the innate immune response (IL-8, TNFα), TH1 response (IFNγ), TH2 (IL-13) and regulatory (IL-10) in serum of patients during the acute phase of infection with the DENV1, DENV3 and DENV4 serotypes.

  Abortion in adolescents is a public health problem, because the complications arising from its practice are the main cause of death from 10 to 19 years, taking place under conditions that threaten the life, health and integrity of women. In the present investigation, the objective was to characterize clinically and epidemiologically abortions in adolescents seen in the Dr. Israel Ranuarez Balza" Hospital of the Guárico State during 2013. The methodology was a cross-sectional descriptive investigation.  

A cross-sectional study was conducted with the objective of analyzing the factors of physical hazards anddemographic-labor characteristics of the workers of an electric corporation in Barquisimeto, Lara State, 91persons attached to the departments of works and design were the population; it was considered a probabilisticsample of 75 workers through a stratified sampling by proportional affixation. A questionnaire was designed(validated according to the judgment of experts and with a Cronbach alpha coefficient = 0.847)

Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis is an infrequent clinical entity, usually present in immunocompromised persons, where the few cases reported in the literature are due to infections by free-living amoebas present throughout the world, standing out as the most common agents, the Acanthamoeba sp. and Balamuthia mandrillaris. It is characterized by an insidious clinical course, that can be prolonged, but equally fatal. The clinic corresponds to that of intracerebral space occupying lesions, with seizures and focal deficits such as hemiparesis and cranial nerve lesions. Alterations of the sensorium, headache and neck stiffness are equally common, however, fever is usually sporadic and low grade. Occasionally there are pictures of pneumonitis, kidney or liver failure and sepsis.

    A cross-sectional investigation was carried out with the objective of analyzing the clinical characteristics of the injuries caused by work-related accidents prevalent in workers of a Plastics Company. The population consisted of 105 records of medical records of workers who suffered accidents at work; 86 records formed the sample estimated by probabilistic sampling, the selection was made with the table of random numbers.  

This essay has the purpose of contributing to the historical reconstruction of the processes, protagonists and health care institutions of Sarare, in the Simón Planas municipality of the } Lara state between the 18th and 19th centuries; also contributing in this way to the social history, to the citizen identity and to the regional history of the medical sciences.

The rate of deterioration of fish and its safety are related to the hygienic management of the fish and its conditioning,consuming poorly cooked or raw fish can lead to food poisoning, hepatitis, cholera and parasitism. The dishesregularlyinvolved include sushi, sashimi and ceviche. The parasitic disease is caused by the larval phases of anematode of the family Anisakidae. The parasite develops as an adult in marine mammals that acquire the diseasethanks to the infective L3 form developed in fish. The human consumes poorly cooked fish and acquires L3 larva,causing gastric, intestinal and extraintestinal disease or a gastro-allergic modality. Fourty - five specimens ofMugilcephalus purchased in popular markets, refrigerators and stalls in the city of Barquisimeto were studied.Through the visual inspection we evaluated the freshness index and through microbiological analysis we detectedsanitary indicators, fecal contamination and pathogens. A recount of the larvae extracted during the visual inspectionand during in vitro digestion, the results indicate that the freshness of the specimens was 8.36 ± 3.28 points.Staphylococcus aureus appeared in 64.7% of the samples. The 82.2% of the specimens showed parasitism, with anaverage of 24.48 larvae per specimen. Microscopic examination of the parasites present structures that coincide withthe genus Anisakis. These larvae are foodborne, so that in the face of symptoms and history of consumption of theseproducts,its important to consider these parasites as etiological agentsof these diseases.