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- ItemBayesian Nonparametric Biostatistics(2015) Johnson, Wesley O.; Carvalho, Miguel de
- ItemExperimenting with an OLAP Approach for Interactive Discovery in Process Mining(2015) Pizarro, Gustavo; Sepúlveda Fernández, Marcos Ernesto
- ItemGenetics of body composition: From severe obesity to extreme leanness(2020) Cortes Mora, Víctor Antonio; Santos Martin, José LuisThis chapter describes common genetic variations influencing body composition as well as rare mutations causing monogenic obesity or extreme leanness. Large population-based genome-wide association studies (GWAS) revealed more than 500 genetic loci associated with body mass index (BMI) and adiposity traits in the population. Common variations in FTO and MC4R genes are the most statistically consistent signals across studies. Although discoveries of new gene variants through GWAS are important for expanding underlying knowledge on body fat accumulation, their small effect make them insufficient for predicting obesity. Most cases of monogenic obesity are derived from rare mutations in genes belonging to the leptin-melanocortin pathway, such as LEP, LEPR, MC4R, or POMC genes. On the other extreme of BMI, the study of congenital generalized lipodystrophy syndrome has revealed mutations in AGPAT2, BSCL2, PTRF, and CAV1 genes. The evaluation of obesity and leanness as opposite phenotypes represents an interesting approach to assessing causal gene variations related to body composition.
- ItemKey issues in education and poverty(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019) Gómez Nocetti, Viviana De Lourdes; Gaete Silva, Alfredo; Gomez Nocetti, Viviana De Lourdes; Gaete Silva, Alfredo
- ItemLuis Poirot ¿Dónde está la fotografía?(Dibam, 2017) Hurtado, María de la Luz
- ItemProcess mining in primary care: A literature review(2018) Williams, Richard; Rojas Balcazar, Erick; Peek, Niels; Johnson, Owen A.Process mining is the discipline of discovering processes from event logs, checking the conformance of real world events to idealized processes, and ultimately finding ways to improve those processes. It was originally applied to business processes and has recently been applied to healthcare. It can reveal insights into clinical care pathways and inform the redesign of healthcare services. We reviewed the literature on process mining, to investigate the extent to which process mining has been applied to primary care, and to identify specific challenges that may arise in this setting. We identified 143 relevant papers, of which only a small minority (n=7) focused on primary care settings. Reported challenges included data quality (consistency and completeness of routinely collected data); selection of appropriate algorithms and tools; presentation of results; and utilization of results in real-world applications.
- ItemThe politics of citizenship education in Chile(2020) Mardones Zúñiga, RodrigoThis chapter reviews citizenship education in Chile as a national public policy vis-à-vis the international academic and political debates in the field. Chile’s citizenship education policy appears highly conditioned by successive paradigmatic experiments– progressive education (1930–1950), Christian democratic reformism (1964–70), socialist revolution (1970–73), and authoritarian and neoliberal (1973–90). Since 1990 civic education policy in Chile has tried to update to the international paradigm on citizenship education, conditioned in this attempt by a long transition to democracy and the recent appearance of a student social movement agitating for a shift away from neoliberal educational policies. As a result, Chile has partially adopted international standards in its citizenship education curricular guidelines, with some notable omissions such as the ideas of global citizenship and multiculturalism. Actors’ interests and preferences, as well as normative ideas and debates, are ubiquitous; therefore, no adversarial or deliberative approach by its own could explain citizenship education as a public policy. Instead, the analysis provided in this chapter applies an institutional perspective that integrates the adversarial and deliberative approaches into a long-term process that defines institutional development, historical legacies, and social and political context.