La Procuraduria General de la Nacion abrio investigacion disciplinaria y suspendio provisionalmente por tres meses al gobernador de San Andres Ronald Housni Jaller por presuntas irregularidades en la celebracion de contratos para la operacion del servic

La Procuraduria General de la Nacion prorrogo por tres meses la suspension provisional de la Secretaria de la Mujer Genero y Desarrollo Social de Cordoba Sandra Gomez Urbina investigada por presuntas irregularidades en la ejecucion de ocho convenios in

La Procuraduria General de la Nacion destituyo e inhabilito por 10 aos al auxiliar administrativo adscrito a la Secretaria de Educacion de Medellin Antioquia Jose Luis Mazo Londoo por alterar informacion en los registros de una estudiante en 2015

La Procuraduria General de la Nacion abrio investigacion disciplinaria contra el secretario de Planeacion de la Alcaldia de Villavicencio Meta Nelson Rodriguez Ortiz la directora de Ordenamiento Territorial Monica Liliana Avellaneda Barreto y la sec

La accionante aduce que las decisiones adoptadas por las Salas Disciplinarias del Consejo Seccional de la Judicatura de Bogota y del Consejo Superior de la Judicatura en el marco de un proceso disciplinario iniciado en su contra y mediante las cuales se l

The trafficking of women as a widespread phenomenon is a complex topic with manifold consequences which have a direct bearing on the manner in which the problem of trafficking is understood by regulatory institutions and their proposed solutions. Governmental strategy must respond to this multidimensional phenomenon through state tools to counteract the effects of crime and recognize that women, men, children and adolescents may be vulnerable to this scourge indiscriminately. Nevertheless, we must recognize that, due to cultural facts, women and girls make up the majority of its victims and specific actions are required for them. 

Public administration scholarship has yet to explore the relationship between job sector choice and public service motivation in developing countries. My dissertation aims to contribute to the field by investigating the factors that explain job sector decisions among highly skilled individuals through focusing on a sample of Colombian citizens who have pursued education abroad. More specifically, I draw on the fields of job sector choice and public service motivation to identify, both quantitatively and qualitatively, factors affecting the job sector decisions of internationally educated Colombians. I answer my research questions through an analysis of quantitative data gathered from the Colombian international scholarship program Colfuturo, and also through an analysis of qualitative data gathered from interviews with highly skilled individuals working in various sectors. The main conclusion reached is that the Colombian public sector remains an attractive employer, especially within certain groups of the population. However, other groups remain doubtful about accepting a public sector job. The Colombian government still has to adjust its recruitment strategies in terms of, among other things, salaries, duration of contracts, open access and transparency. Crucially, the results collected raise an important question concerning what the Colombian government should do, that is, whether it should facilitate access to government jobs for captive groups or, instead, attract qualified individuals currently working in other sectors. According to the quantitative and qualitative evidence provided herein, the answer is that both strategies are necessary if the Colombian government wants to increase its critical mass of highly qualified people, particularly within the upper echelons of government.

En el presente trabajo hemos realizado un estudio numérico de un modelo matemático de poblaciones estructuradas por la edad con difusión espacial. Estos modelos matemáticos están adquiriendo un enorme interés por su aplicabilidad al estudio de la dinámica de diferentes poblaciones como, por ejemplo, bacterias o células tumorales. La imposibilidad de resolver este tipo de modelos, excepto en situaciones muy simples, hace necesario el uso de métodos numéricos para la obtención de aproximaciones a su solución. Sin embargo, el número de trabajos dedicados a este fin es muy escaso en la literatura. En este estudio se pone de manifiesto el papel que tiene la difusión en estos modelos en diferentes situaciones. Para ello se propone un nuevo método numérico basado en la integración a lo largo de las curvas características en las variables tiempo-edad, y de elementos finitos para la variable espacial. Se considerará la situación, especialmente ardua, en la que el coeficiente de difusión depende de la función de densidad, además de añadir la actualmente interesante situación de que la edad máxima de los individuos sea finita.

The series of studies accomplished and compiled in the present thesis had as a main objective the evaluation of the suitability of the Colombian Artemia franciscana for the aquaculture industry. Further, an evaluation of six newly reported populations (Salina Cero, Kangarú, Tayrona, Bahía Hondita, Pusheo and Warrego) is included. In addition to the description of biotypes, physicochemical parameters were recorded for each population studied. The habitats where Artemia has actually been registered in Colombia are of marine (thalassohaline) origin, thus they are sodium and chloride rich. The application of biometric tools to determine possible cyst and nauplius size differences among the different Colombian populations has been successful at further separating some of the most promising Artemia populations of potential aquaculture use. Further, cysts from Tayrona show the smallest size, followed by Galerazamba, Kangarú, Manaure, Salina Cero and Pozos Colorados. Galerazamba has the thinnest chorion, followed by Tayrona, Salina Cero, Manaure, Pozos Colorados and Kangarú. Additionally, nauplii from Galerazamba present a small size followed by Manaure, Salina Cero, Pozos Colorados and Tayrona. The determination of FAME from Manaure, Galerazamba, Salina Cero and Tayrona, suggested high EPAs but low DHAs. Hence, all four populations sampled are not considered suitable for marine aquaculture unless fortified with DHA rich emulsions, according to actual aquaculture quality standards. The cyst quality study, conducted on cysts batches, shows that cyst collection and processing techniques need to be improved in order for them to be suitable for the growing Colombian aquaculture industry. The outcome of the population distribution study, shows Manaure, Galerazamba and Salina Cero as having a stable mean population distribution with a balanced adult (38%, 36% and 19%, respectively) to juvenile+nauplius proportion (62%, 64% and 81%, respectively), as well as a stable female:male sex ratio (1:0.84, 1:0.88 and 1:0.84, respectively). In contrast, Tayrona exhibits an unstable population distribution with a high proportion of adults (82%) and low juvenile+nauplius (18%) and female:male ratio (0.88:1), thus recruitment of the juvenile and nauplius cohort to assure continuity of the species in this biotope is below sustainable levels. The results for the reproductive experiments (mean cyst production per female) do not entirely agree with the estimated cyst production potential at each site (field work results). These results difference is likely to be due to the interaction in the field among the three parameters (salinity, percent O2 saturation, and nitrate) on cyst production, particularly in the case of Salina Cero. Similarly, nitrate levels might have been affected by salinity. The latter may be supported, in part, by the observation of low nitrate levels during the peak of cyst production during this study. The genetic study on some Caribbean Artemia franciscana strains based on RAPDs generated two similar dendrograms with the same separation for the two Caribbean population clusters (middle Caribbean: Pozos Colorados, Tayrona, Manaure, Venezuela-PAV, Bonaire and Curaçao and lower Caribbean: Galerazamba and Salina Cero). Moreover, the clustering pattern obtained suggests that the populations in these two clusters are not genetically identical. Further, the splitting of the Artemia populations coincides with the existence of a geographical barrier in Colombia named the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. The Sierra Nevada might constitute a geographic barrier to shorebirds and hence Artemia cyst dispersal further south. The discriminant analysis based on morphometric characters, assigns male and female individuals into their proper population group (North American and Caribbean coast) to which they belong by only one discriminant function (100% confidence). However, male morphometric characters separate better population groups than the female characters, since all Colombian populations are correctly clustered in the Caribbean coast whereas the SFB population fall into the North American group, with no overlapping between both, as it happens with females. Similarly, for Artemia populations classified by their geographic origin, male and female individuals again separate the Colombian populations from the North American (SFB) populations. According to the analysis, Salina Cero male population is similar to its neighboring Galerazamba population and is also related to the other Colombian populations, and this is consistent with the previous findings using RAPDs and also likely to be explained by the existence of a geographic barrier (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta). Apparently, as deduced from the influence of lunar cycles and sampling time study the conglomerates formed by brine shrimp are asynchronous. Finally, it is recommended to conduct Artemia surveys preferably late in the evening or alternatively during early morning since Artemia tends to distribute more uniformly during the evening (dark and cool), when water temperature is lower, particularly in saltworks, where the evaporation basins are shallow.

El proyecto describe una de las posibles aplicaciones del “Análisis Conjunto” como herramienta de soporte a la hora de planificar una intervención urbana. Aunque el “Análisis Conjunto” se ha utilizado ampliamente en el diseño de productos y en las áreas de marketing, ha tenido un uso limitado en los temas de ciudad y territorio en donde se encuentra relacionado principalmente con la evaluación y valoración ambiental, y el diseño inmobiliario. Esta tesis busca utilizarlo para evaluar un nuevo sistema de transporte. El “Análisis Conjunto” es una técnica estadística. En donde, de la combinación de un número limitado de atributos se crean productos o en este caso proyectos “ficticios”; luego los encuestados eligen cuál de estos proyectos se ajusta mejor a sus gustos y necesidades, y en función de sus preferencias se cuantifican las utilidades o beneficios de cada una de las características que los componen. Esto permite que los proyectos reales se potencialicen con los atributos que tienen mayor éxito desde la perspectiva de los usuarios. Esta tesis se basa en la implementación de un Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) en el Centro Cultural Universitario (CCU) de la Zona Metropolitana de Guadalajara, México. El PRT es un novedoso sistema de transporte público, constituido por vehículos automatizados (sin conductor) con capacidad de tres a seis personas, conducidos sobre guías o vías exclusivas de tamaño reducido. El CCU es un proyecto, abierto al público en general, que comprende principalmente la biblioteca pública del estado de Jalisco, el Auditorio Telmex, un conjunto para artes escénicas, el museo de ciencias ambientales y un distrito cultural que albergará complejos residenciales, comerciales, oficinas, hoteles, escuelas de artes, centros universitarios, un parque mediático y un parque temático.