This paper introduces a new methodology for the development of appropriate technology that allows satisfying energy needs in rural communities. The methodology integrates the technological development, taking particularly into account the assessment of environmental impacts as well as evaluation of the functionality of the technology. Therefore, it is implemented as a case study in the development of a solar wood-dryer in an artisan community in Mexico. Relevant issues were identified for the success of the methodology, which includes identifying key participants in the community, as well as the use of specialized simulation- and computer-based design tools, and a prior evaluation of the potential environmental impacts through Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) of the solar wood-dryer. Three geometries of a solar wood-dryer prototype were proposed and analyzed with computer-based simulations, which showed better interior heat transfer than the traditional wood brick-dryer. LCA revealed that the new solar wood-dryer prototype has environmental impacts in all analyzed categories that are 5% or smaller than those of the traditional dryer. Therefore, it was demonstrated that the solar wood-dryer developed with our introduced methodology leads to less environmental impacts compared to those of the traditional wood brick-dryer previously used by the rural community.
El artículo en cuestión, tuvo entre sus propósitos, profundizar en el efecto ejercido por los procesos cognoscitivos sobre la salud física y mental; advirtiendo la capacidad del hombre, en esquematizar múltiples ideas sobre sí mismo, procurando su autosanación. Se trata de un artículo documental, con diseño documental y método hermenéutico-dialéctico, donde la técnica aplicada para el análisis e interpretación de contenidos, fue la documentación; del mismo modo fueron aprovechados como instrumentos investigativos la hermenéutica crítica y el círculo hermenéutico. En su montaje se tuvo en cuenta la obra de diferentes autores, entre los que se destacan: Losada (2017), Del Águila (2015), De la Maza (2015), Madrigal (2013), así como otros tantos. Pudo reflexionarse con relación al impacto que ejercen factores psicológicos especiales, sobre el sistema inmune, nervioso central y endocrino, dando cuenta de los beneficios que en ello se ciernen; igualmente, se dejó claro que con pensamientos fatalistas, el paciente puede obrar en contra de su mejora física, dando lugar al surgimiento de la enfermedad o a la peoría de un cuadro clínico preexistente. Finalmente, pudo concluirse que la psiconeuroinmunoendocrinología, ofrece herramientas específicas ante fenómenos biológicos de diverso orden, favoreciendo los procesos de sanación y rediseñando el entramado epistémico, con apoyo a la imaginación guiada.
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