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Viva la U! Quality Is What Is Important: The Effect of Colombia’s Flagship Public College on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes

Hernando Bayona-Rodríguez · Camilo Ernesto López Guarín

This research investigates the impact of Colombia’s flagship public university on academic and labor market outcomes. Utilizing a regression discontinuity design, findings reveal that admitted applicants significantly increase their enrollment probabilities, graduate rates, labor market entry, and wages compared to mar...

Effects of Permeability and Gravity on Capillary Imbibition in Filter Paper

Josefina Janeth Miranda-Blancas · José Martínez-Trinidad · Abraham Medina-Ovando · Luis Alfonso Moreno-Pacheco · y 3 más

Capillary imbibition is the process by which liquids are absorbed into porous materials as a result of capillary pressure differences at the pore scale. Accurate characterization of imbibition dynamics, particularly in the presence of gravitational potential, is essential for understanding fluid transport in diverse sy...

Turning Colombian Banana Waste into a Lignocellulosic Carbocatalyst: A Green Photocatalytic Route for Mercury Remediation

Hasleidy Úsuga-Guerra · Milton Rojas · John Rojas · Lis Manrique-Losada · y 3 más

Mercury pollution from artisanal and small-scale gold mining remains one of the most persistent environmental threats due to the high toxicity, mobility, and bioaccumulation of Hg(II). In this work, Colombian banana pseudostem waste is valorized into a lignocellulosic carbocatalyst through pyrolysis at 500 °C followed...

Educación Superior Inteligente: Innovación, Inteligencia Artificial y Transformación Educativa

Daysi Lorena Caiza López · Carlos Aníbal Herrera Esquivel · Guido Nino Guida Acevedo · Judith Ernestina Vera León · y 5 más

El libro Educación Superior Inteligente: Innovación, Inteligencia Artificial y Transformación Educativa constituye una obra académica orientada al análisis de los profundos cambios que atraviesa la educación superior en el contexto de la revolución digital y la sociedad del conocimiento. A través de un enfoque reflexiv...

Orofacial Motricity: From the Emergence of a Field to the Path Toward Global Terminology Standardization

Lucas Ferreira · Roberta Lopes de Castro Martinelli · Gislaine Aparecida Folha · Gabriele Ramos de Luccas · y 15 más

Background: The consolidation of specialized fields in health care requires not only scientific evidence and clinical refinement, but also clearly defined scope, competencies, and language, since terminological ambiguity increases overlap and hinders communication, comparability, education, and the organization of care...

IoT-Based Biomedical Monitoring System for Preventive Maternal Healthcare and Early Detection of Obstetric Complications

Quiñonez, Diana · Benavides, Yanira · Dulce-Villarreal, Edgar · Cervelion, Alvaro · y 1 más

Severe Maternal Morbidity (SMM) is defined as the condition in which a woman survives life-threatening complications during pregnancy, childbirth, or the postpartum period, representing a key indicator of the quality of obstetric care. In Colombia, SMM remains a critical challenge, with recent increases in incidence an...

Gender dynamics in Vietnam’s forage seed system: barriers, opportunities, and empowerment pathways

Mateo Pazos Cárdenas · Sebastián Giraldo Aguirre · Aura María Bravo · Stefan Burkart · y 4 más

The perception of quality of care and respect of human rights in mental healthcare facilities among users during and after the pandemic in Sardinia, Italy

Elisa Cantone · Vanessa Barrui · Michela Atzeni · Giulia Cossu · y 12 más

Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has strongly challenged health systems, but Italian community mental health services, rooted in the Basaglia reform and the World Health Organization (WHO) QualityRights framework, may have preserved a high perception of care quality and respect for human righ...

Partners in Governance, Partners in Crime?

René Urueña

Abstract This article examines the growing use of international organizations as intermediaries in domestic public procurement in Latin America, asking how immunity law should respond when they become partners in governance. It argues that these arrangements operate as institutional bypassing, allowing states to channe...

Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in Colombian Active Distribution Networks: Models, Impacts, and Research Challenges

César Augusto Marín Moreno · Kevin Alexander Leyton-Valencia · Luis Fernando Grisales-Noreña · Rubén Iván Bolaños · y 1 más

The rapid growth of electric mobility is reshaping active distribution networks (ADNs), where electric vehicle charging stations (EVCS) introduce spatially concentrated, time-dependent, and highly simultaneous demand. This paper develops a network-oriented framework to evaluate EVCS integration in ADNs by coupling Colo...