Viabilidad de la exportación de carne de ovino a los Emiratos Árabes Unidos

Con un prometedor plan de exportación de carne de ovino a los Emiratos Árabes Unidos, surge la necesidad de investigar si es o no un mercado potencial, con el cual Colombia debe entablar una relación comercial. El mercado para la carne de ovino en los Emiratos Árabes Unidos es interesante para los productores colombianos, debido a que el 80% de la población de este país profesa la religión musulmana; quienes consideran la carne de ovino una carne limpia y la cual usan en sus preparaciones para las ocasiones especiales (Manzanera, 2013). De igual manera el consumo de carne Halal crece en este país de la mano del aumento poblacional y el auge del turismo, acompañado de la eliminación de aranceles a las importaciones de alimentos. Para realizar exportaciones a este país se debe analizar los requerimientos, identificar fortalezas y falencias del mercado colombiano y de esta manera realizar un proceso de exportación exitoso que se acomode y cumpla con todos los requerimientos y exigencias, no solo legales, sino también que encajen con las preferencias del consumidor y la cultura árabe. Con los conceptos, investigaciones y datos en general de Emiratos Árabes Unidos y Colombia, especialmente en la estructura comercial de cada uno de estos países, se espera resolver al problema o necesidad de investigación que da origen a este proyecto.

El fortalecimiento de organizacones terroristas en África a partir de la descentralización de Al Qaeda (2006-2013) a la luz de la teoría de guerra en red

El objetivo de esta monografía es analizar el proceso de descentralización de Al Qaeda a causa del debilitamiento de su centro en Afganistán por la intervención militar de la coalición occidental. Se estudia como Al Qaeda deja de ser una organización jerárquica, comenzando a organizarse en red. Estas trasformaciones se pueden explicar a la luz de los principales postulados de la teoría de Guerra en Red, que incluyen la falta de un liderazgo central, y la distribución en enjambre para atacar. Siguiendo la línea argumentativa, finalmente se demuestra que mediante la expansión de la red, Al Qaeda aún bajo su situación de debilidad ha mantenido vigente la yihad trasnacional a través de las organizaciones filiales en África.

Islam en Bogotá: procesos de conversión y subjetividad femenina

La presente monografía tiene como objeto de estudio los procesos de conversión al Islam y los cambios subsecuentes que se producen en las subjetividades femeninas de tres mujeres musulmanas en Bogotá. Para ello, se hace uso de diversas teorías sociológicas con las cuales se analiza el proceso de conversión religiosa como un acto social y las implicaciones de esta en las nuevas subjetividades femeninas islámicas. La metodología utilizada son las historias de vida, herramienta que permitió comparar experiencias de socialización a la luz de los procesos de conversión religiosa. Como resultado de esta investigación se encontró que existen diferentes tipos de conversiones, las cuales pueden ser catalogadas como fallidas o exitosas, en donde la subjetividad presentará mayores o menores cambios como consecuencia de estas.

Abad y señor de Rute. Don Juan de Córdoba y la repoblación de la banda morisca cordobesa

Study on the foundation of the new village of Rute close to the former border with the Muslim kingdom of Granada and the repopulation project and economic revitalization in the Sixteenth century by the dean don Juan Fernández de Córdoba, abbot and lord of Rute.

Conquerors, Brides and Concubines. Interfaith Relations and Social Power in Medieval Iberia.

As its title indicates, this book, which is divided into four chapters, seeks to provide an overview of “the diverse political, social and cultural functions that interfaith marriage alliances and other sexual encounters fulfilled within the overall dynamic of Christian- Muslim relations in the Iberian Peninsula during the medieval period, both within al- Andalus (…) and the expansionist Christian-dominated polities of the North” (4). In this sense, its chronological span reaches from the early eighth century (the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula by the Muslims) to 1492 (the Christian conquest of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada)

Relatório da prática de ensino supervisionada no âmbito do mestrado de Artes Visuais no 3º ciclo do Ensino Básico e no Ensino Secundário realizada na Escola Básica Integrada André de Resende e na escola Secundária Gabriel Pereira

Neste relatório irão ser expostos os trabalhos realizados com as turmas do 7º ano, na Escola E.B.I. André de Resende e 12º ano, na Escola Secundária Gabriel Pereira. Ainda será mencionada a participação numa actividade extracurricular, no âmbito das Necessidades Educativas Especiais. Nesta área foi também realizada uma exposição com os trabalhos dos alunos da Escola E.B. I. André de Resende, juntamente com escolas pertencentes a outros agrupamentos da região. O estágio mencionado previu proporcionar uma vivência entre alunos, professores e os restantes funcionários da escola. Não obstante, também o contacto exterior e a ligação interdisciplinar. Seguindo as orientações curriculares do Ministério da Educação, em cada caso especifico foram planificadas aulas adequadas ao ensinamento dos conteúdos determinados. ABSTRACT: ln this report will be exposed the works performed together with the 7th grade classes of Escola E.B.I. André de Resende and with the 12th grade of Escola Secundária Gabriel Pereira. Also, it will be mentioned the participation in an extracurricular activity in the scope of Special Educational Needs. ln this area was also performed an exhibit of the works of the students from Escola E.B.I. André de Resende, along with schools belonging to other inter-school groupings of the region. The mentioned traineeship predicted the enabling of a relationship between students, teachers and school community, as well as contact with the exterior and an interdisciplinary connection. According to the curricular orientations of Ministério da Educação, for each specific case were planned classes adequate to teach the determined subjects.

"Portuguese Observatory of Taeniasis and Cysticercosis": A "One Health" example for epidemiological surveillance of one neglected disease in a European country

Cysticercosis results from the ingestion Taenia solium eggs directly by faecal-oral route or contaminated food or water. Human tapeworm carriers who have become infected after ingesting pork meat contaminated with cysticerci release these eggs. Cysticercosis occurs after tapeworm eggs are ingested by an intermediate host (pig or human) and then hatch, migrate, and lodge in the host's tissues, where they develop onto larval cysticerci. When they lodged in the central nervous system of humans, results in the disease condition called Neurocysticercosis (NCC), with a heterogeneous manifestations depending of the locations of cysts, number, size and their stage of evolution (1). Consequently the prognostic ranges from asymptomatic to situations leading to death in 2% to 9.8%. of cases (7) In swine’s there are few studies, but recent works have proved that animals, for the same reasons, also have neurological abnormalities, expressed by seizures, stereotypic walk in circles, chewing motions with foamy salivation included tonic muscle contractions followed by a sudden diminution in all muscle tone leading to collapse (2). Conventional domestic wastewater treatment processes may not be totally effective in inactivating parasites eggs from Taenia solium, allowing some contamination of soils and agricultural products (11). In Portugal there are some evidence of aggregation of human cysticercosis cases in specific regions, bases in ecological design studies (6). There are few information about human tapeworm carriers and social and economic factors associated with them. Success in knowledge and consequently in lowering transmission is limited by the complex network of biological and social factors that maintain the spread. Effective control of mostly zoonosis require One Health approach, after a real knowledge and transparency in the information provided by the institutions responsible for both animal and human health, allowing sustained interventions targeted at the transmission cycle's crucial nodes. In general, the model used to control, reflects a rural reality, where pigs are raised freely, poor sanitation conditions and incipient sanitary inspection. In cysticercosis, pigs are obligate intermediate hosts and so considered as first targets for control and used as sentinels to monitor environmental T. solium contamination (3). Usually environmental contamination with Taenia spp. eggs is a key issue in most of studies with landscape factors influencing presence of Taenia spp. antigens in both pigs and humans (5). Soil-related factors as well as socio-economic and behavioural factors are associated with the emergence of significant clustering human cysticercosis (4,5). However scarce studies has been produced in urban environmental and in developed countries with the finality to characterize the spatial pattern. There are still few data available regarding its prevalence and spatial distribution; Transmission patterns are likely to exhibit correlations as housing conditions, water supply, basic sanitation, schooling and birthplace of the individual or relatives, more than pigs rearing free, soil conditions (9). As a matter of fact, tapeworm carriers from endemic zones can auto-infect or transmit infection to other people or arrive already suffering NCC (as a result of travelling to or being a citizen from an endemic cysticercosis country) to a free cysticercosis country. Transmission is fecal-oral; this includes transmission through person-to-person contact, through autoinfection, or through contaminated food This has been happening in different continents as North America (5.4–18% been autochthonous), Europe and Australia (7). Recently, case reports of NCC have also emerged from Muslim countries. (10). Actually, different papers relate an epidemic situation in Spain and Portugal (7, 8). However the kind of study done does not authorize such conclusion. There are no evidence that infections were acquired in Portugal and there are not characterized the mode of transmission. Papers with these kind of information will be allow to have economic consequences resulted from artificial trade barriers with serious consequences for pig producers and pig meat trade. We need transparency in information’s that allow provide the basis to support the development and targeting of future effective control programmes (and prove we need that). So, to have a real picture of the disease, it is necessary integrate data from human, animal and environmental factors surrounding human and pig cases to characterize the pattern of the transmission. The design needs to be able to capture unexpected, and not common outcomes (routine data). We need to think “One Health” to get a genuine image of the situation.