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Erratum: Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
(Corporación Universidad de la Costa, 2019-06-28)
Interpretation: By quantifying levels and trends in exposures to risk factors and the resulting disease burden, this assessment offers insight into where past policy and programme efforts might have been successful and ...
The thinking styles of the university teacher
(Corporación Universidad de la Costa, 2019-08-15)
This article is related to the ways of thinking of the teacher; his goal was to understand the thinking styles of the university teacher from two out of the five cognitive and behavioral expressions in Sternberg’s ...
Responsible communication strategies for small and medium-sized enterprises
(Opción, 2019)
Organizational communication must respond to the demands of social responsibility and corporate sustainable development, establishing systemically productive interactions. The research aimed to propose responsible communication ...
Effects of turbulization on the disc pump performance
(Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2019-09-26)
Disc pumps are used for difficult pumping applications, such as, pumping of high suspension
solids and abrasives, viscous fluids, air entrained and shear sensitive fluids. The pumping
mechanism, based on the boundary ...
Data set on wind speed, wind direction and wind probability distributions in Puerto Bolivar - Colombia
(Corporación Universidad de la Costa, 2019)
This paper presents wind speed and direction data measured with
a weather station located in Puerto Bolivar, department of La
Guajira, situated in the extreme north of Colombia, whose
geographic coordinates are 12 110
N ...
Structure‐guided tuning of a selectivity switch towards ribonucleosides in Trypanosoma brucei purine nucleoside 2' deoxyribosyltransferase
(Universidad de la Costa, 2019-07-02)
The use of nucleoside 2’‐deoxyribosyl‐transferases (NDTs) as biocatalysts for the industrial synthesis of nucleoside analogues is often hindered by their strict preference for 2’‐deoxyribonucleosides. We now show that a ...
Una mirada a la creatividad del docente desde una práctica pedagógica reflexiva
(Corporación Universidad de la Costa, 2019-12-14)
The article aims to analyze the creativity of the teacher in the context of emerging theoretical approaches such as reflective pedagogical practice. Methodologically, two moments of research are approached: firstly, we ...
Clustering of top 50 latin american universities in SIR, QS, ARWU, and webometrics rankings
(Procedia Computer Science, 2019)
Every year, international rankings of the universities are published reflecting their positioning through the evaluation of academic and research quality criteria established in their methodologies. The positioning of Latin ...
Using Data-mining Techniques for the prediction of the severity of road crashes in Cartagena, Colombia
(Universidad de la Costa, 2019)
Objective: Analyze the road crashes in Cartagena (Colombia) and the factors associated with the collision and severity. The aim is to establish a set of rules for defining countermeasures to improve road safety. Methods: ...
Evidence for welding of a block and ash pyroclastic flow deposit: the case of Cerro Bravo Volcano, Colombia
(Universidad de la Costa, 2019-12-13)
Cerro Bravo is an active composite volcano located in the San Diego—Cerro Machín Volcano-Tectonic Province (SCVTP), the northernmost volcanic chain in the Colombian Andes. Among the products associated with the volcano, ...