OBJECTIVES Establishing mercury and lead prevalence in a sample of people living in Bogotá, potential effects on their health and the relationship with areas of environmental exposure. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study involving a randomly and proportionally distributed sample of 401 people living in Bogotá, according to locality and their high, medium and low risk environmental exposu...

Centro de Investigación UNINAVARRA-CINA, Fundación Universitaria Navarra, Neiva, ColombiaGrupo de Investigación MICOBAC-UN, Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia.

Discussions on farm animal welfare have become frequent, especially in developed countries. The aim of this research was to study the perception of fish sentience, welfare and slaughter by highly educated citizens from Bogotá, Colombia, and Curitiba, Brazil. An online survey with 12 questions presented as open-ended, multiple choice and 5-point Likert-type scale formats was available to respond...

INTRODUCTION Limited resources in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) drive tremendous innovation in medicine, as well as in other fields. It is not often recognized that several important surgical tools and methods, widely used in high-income countries, have their origins in LMICs. Surgical care around the world stands much to gain from these innovations. In this paper, we provide a short...

BACKGROUND Emergency departments (EDs) are a critical, yet heterogeneous, part of international emergency care. The National ED Inventories (NEDI) survey has been used in multiple countries as a standardized method to benchmark ED characteristics. We sought to describe the characteristics, resources, capabilities, and capacity of EDs in the densely populated capital city of Bogotá, Colombia. ...

1 Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia y Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apt. 084303092, Balboa, Ancón, Panamá. [email protected]. Autor para correspondencia. 2 Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. [email protected]. ABSTRACT The role of animals as seed dispersal vectors, includin...

This paper evaluates transformative policy innovations with respect to security and taxation in the three main Colombian cities: Bogotá, Medellín, and Cali. In the first two, such policies were associated with huge success. Elsewhere we (Gutiérrez et al. 2009) have tagged these transformation processes as ‘urban/metropolitan miracles’. The term comes from the fact that both common citizens and ...

every year large amounts of grapes are stores in normal and cold rooms to offer off-season of grapes to the market which based on several reasons their quality and weight greatly decreases. therefore, in order to decrease the post harvest losses of grapes and selection of suitable cultivars for long time storage, this study was conducted in two experiments, one in a factorial experiment based o...

¿Cómo lograrlo? Los colombianos no se han puesto de acuerdo, en cierta medida porque alrededor de la paz hay muchos intereses que favorecen a los actores armados del llos que galopan bajo a s o m b r o sas ramas”. Son, en palabras del poeta, “las vastas noches alumbradas por una estrella de menta que enciende toda sangre”; es también “la hoja sola en que vibran los vientos que corrieron por los...

* Sanitary and Environmental Engineer. Master’s Degree in Environmental Engineering. PhD Candidate in Environmental Engineering at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. Associate Professor, Faculty of the Environment and Natural Resources Bogotá, D.C., Colombia. Email: [email protected] ** Systems Engineer. Master ́s Degree in Teleinformatics. IT PhD. Associate Professor, ...