bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
An Overview of the Cruise Industry and Its Economic Impacts
Authors: Papadopoulou Georgia
Published: October 2020

The cruise industry is one of the dynamic markets with high investment in port facilities worldwide and in building luxury cruise ships as well. It incorporates elements of the product market, educational activities, and has developed into a spectacular destination. Cruising includes a great part in the tourism chain, including transport, catering, tourism, leisure, and travel. The aim of the chapter is to examine the economic and statistical data of the cruise industry and cruise tourism through a European approach, based on secondary data and research. It further explores the economic impact of the European cruise industry on the European economies. Moreover, the chapter tries to compare the economic impact of the European cruise among the previous years and to ascertain whether these impacts benefit the European economies or not. The evolution of the direct economic impacts are captured and a discussion about the total economic impacts of the European cruise sector is given. This study would offer facilitation in directing future research relevant to cruise tourism.
Hydroxychloroquine and QTc: beyond COVID-19
Authors: Castagna Alberto , Vetta Francesco , Attisani Giuseppe , Costa Raffaele , Ruberto Carmen , Vespertini Viviana , Cosco Lucio , Ruotolo Giovanni
Published: October 2020

Hydroxychloroquine is an antimalarial drug also known for its anti-inflammatory and antiviral effects, which have raised the interest of many researchers for its potential use in COVID-19 patients. It is known that this drug, being able to influence the cardiac repolarization phase with QTc interval prolongation, can be potentially harmful, chiefly in elderly subjects with frailty syndrome, several comorbidities and polypharmacotherapy. Therefore, although electrocardiogram monitoring of QTc prolongation is the focal point for reducing the arrhythmic risk of these patients, in order to identify the most exposed patients, the traditional Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment should be combined with a multiparametric risk score for QTc prolongation.
Squeak Noise Prediction of a Door Trim Panel Using Harmonic Balance Method
Authors: Utzig Lukas , Fuchs Arno , Weisheit Konrad , Marburg Steffen
Published: October 2020

Squeak and rattle noise in a vehicle’s interior is perceived as an annoying sound by customers. Since persistent noise (e.g. engine, wind or drive train noise) has been reduced continuously during the last decades, the elimination of sounds, which have their origin in the vehicle’s interior components, is getting more important. Therefore, noise prediction based on simulation models is useful, since design changes can be realized at lower costs in early virtual development phases. For this task, linear simulation methods are state of the art for the identification of noise risk, but in general without knowing if a sound is audible or not. First approaches have been developed based on the Harmonic Balance Method to predict squeak noise and assess their audibility. This paper presents vibroacoustic measurements at a door trim panel for squeaking and non-squeaking configurations. Vibrations are excited harmonically by a force controlled low noise shaker. The system response is measured in a semi-anechoic chamber by acceleration sensors and audibility is assessed. Additionally, a 3D finite element model is built and the Harmonic Balance Method using a dry friction law is applied to predict the acoustic behavior. Finally, the simulation results are compared to the measurements. A good agreement between simulation and experiment can be observed.
The conceptual challenges of invasive alien species to non-human rights
Authors: Futhazar Guillaume
Published: October 2020

This article aims to explore potential friction points that may arise with the emergence of new natural non-human rights holders (for instance, individual animals, rivers, Pacha Mama and so on). Specifically, the article relies on the case of invasive alien species (IAS) to highlight that animal rights can collide with rights of the environment. Indeed, IAS represent a serious environmental threat and are, as such, at the centre of numerous global, regional and national regulations that favour early eradication as the best course of action. However, in a rights paradigm, this collision amounts to a conflict between the right to life of individuals from IAS and the right to integrity of the threatened ecosystems. This article addresses how such conflicts might be solved by relying on an analogy with the lawful restrictions of human rights. It highlights how, even in a rights paradigm, eradicating individuals from IAS could remain legal, albeit more strictly controlled. It also points to the inevitable questions of representation that such situations entail. As the rights of natural non-humans clash, the issue becomes, in turn, a discussion among humans. This discussion requires legal frameworks and principles to be legitimate and accountable. This article seeks to describe some of these principles by relying on an analysis of current practices in different fields. In sum, the article argues that it is not inherently problematic to solve conflicts between natural non-human rights. However, the human discussion to solve this conflict has to be based on epistemic plurality to gain in legitimacy.
Is there a need for a new, an ecological, understanding of legal animal rights?
Authors: Favre Brian
Published: October 2020

Legal animal rights may, in the short term, offer an efficient means to improve the living conditions of animals and how they are treated by human societies. This article argues that this shift to adopt an animal rights framing of the human-animal interaction might also risk producing certain counterproductive effects. It suggests that there is a need for a broader reassessment of the relationships between the human and animal worlds. This article posits that the adoption of legal animal rights as a workable legal solution for the better protection of animals has been increasingly accepted because rights frameworks rely upon a core premise of Western jurisprudence, namely legal subjectivism and the epistemological and axiological assumptions it conveys. The article argues that such an individualistic and dualist approach to legal animal rights will ultimately reveal itself to be insufficient and unable to capture animals as members of concrete social and environmental entanglements. Rather, a true legal revolution is required, which would evoke an ecological understanding of law itself.
Design Fiction as a Practice for Researching the Social
Authors: Markussen Thomas , Knutz Eva , Lenskjold Tau
Published: October 2020

The aim of this paper is to contribute to a new conceptual foundation for design fiction. Much attention is dedicated to theorising how design fictions relate to our so-called actual world. This work can be seen as an attempt at securing the seriousness and legitimacy of design fiction as an approach to design research. The theory of possible worlds has proven promising in this regard. We argue, however, that a detailed understanding of design fiction is still lacking. In design fiction literature, authors often engage in critiquing techno-centric approaches while paying less attention to how design fiction has a potential to foster social change in situated actual affairs. We argue that analysis should start from the messy unfolding of the design event itself rather than from big ontological discussions of the boundaries between fiction and reality. To grasp the messiness of design fiction, we offer an interdisciplinary framework, bridging knowledge domains such as literally theory and design anthropology.
Concept Cars as Vehicles for Change in SMEs
Authors: Mejía Sarmiento Javier Ricardo , Pasman Gert , Hultink Erik Jan , Stappers Pieter Jan
Published: October 2020

Making prototypes of fictitious artifacts has long been applied in corporations as a design-led way to envisioning the future. These techniques make use of design to explore speculative futures translating abstract questions into concrete objects and bringing the human dimension and experience into futures techniques. The design-led strategic foresight techniques follow making activities – including visual synthesis, prototyping and storytelling – and result in experimental and experiential artifacts offering concrete, hands-on and specific images of the futures. An example of these techniques is the making and sharing of concept cars, a long-standing practice in the automotive industry. These artifacts facilitate the sharing of future visions, which embody future ideas, to diverse people.

Whereas corporations use these design-led strategic foresight techniques as a driver for innovation, small and medium-sized enterprises, which are the backbone of society and the global economy, have been deprived of these kinds of explorations due to their being resource intensive.

To help these enterprises, we developed DIVE (design, innovation, vision and exploration) based on design-led strategic foresight techniques developed by corporations but adapted to the scale and needs of these small players. DIVE helps external designers and company representatives in making and sharing artifacts to envision the future of their company. The technique follows an analogy that invites participants to make a hole in the world as it is and descend underwater to the speculative futures and then come back to the reality. Along with this plunge into fiction, participants identify trends, create ideas about the future, and make a prototype of an artifact that is subsequently used to motivate people to talk about the company’s future and present. This artifact, the vision concept, includes ideas about the future product or service, the context and the business itself.

This paper aims to evaluate DIVE as a design-led strategic foresight technique and focuses on the benefits and limitations of its application. It includes two cases that explored the future of the shopping experience for the company Solutions Group. It is a Colombian medium-sized enterprise that develops and produces point-of-purchase materials for consumer goods corporations such as Procter & Gamble. In both cases, the participants employed DIVE activities to make and share a vision concept. At the end of the cases, the DIVE outcomes were validated by three external innovation experts.

DIVE proved its efficacy in supporting designers in setting future visions, prototyping vision concepts and stories and making recommendations for different time frames, and participants also learned about the strategic value of design.
Exploring Weak Signals to Design and Prototype for Emergent Futures
Authors: Diez Tomas , Tomico Oscar , Quintero Mariana
Published: October 2020

While technology and design have progressed greatly, they have also produced imbalances that affect the way we live and work. Additionally, they have also contributed to the use of the planet’s resources to fill our homes with unnecessary devices and objects. We must de-objectify and de-colonise the way we design technologies to make for more inclusive and diverse futures. One way to do that is to recognise our shortcomings and experiment with them in a way that is productive and promotes a more peaceful coexistence among living systems.

This research explores the concept and practice of identifying these shortcomings via the “Atlas of Weak Signals”. The Atlas is a tool for combatting future challenges by actively creating opportunities for design interventions to dissolve the troubling problems of our times. In order to support this claim, we present and analyse a series of projects developed over the course of a master’s programme. Specific emphasis is placed on how the Atlas of Weak Signals was generated between students and faculty as a methodology to better understand the view of the world in which we live today from the one in which we design from. The projects are mapped in relation to emerging trends in both local and global contexts and the interconnections between these trends as generators of design opportunities. To conclude, we present the lessons we learned in the form of a toolkit so other design practitioners, researchers, teachers, and students can generate their own methods and tools.
The Illegal Town Plan: Anecdotal Speculation for Coastal Futures
Authors: Ward Matt , Loizeau Jimmy
Published: October 2020

The Illegal Town Plan aims to understand and develop community- based futures for economic and social development. This case study describes and analyses an ongoing practice-based research project that began in 2015. The project, ambitious in its scope, has engaged with communities that have been stripped of power to develop and present new visions of their hometown. Located in Rhyl, North Wales, the design team has developed strategies, ideas, and possibilities with the people who rejected a European future. This project proposes a form of economic, architectural, and design speculation that aims to reimagine regeneration in a post-BREXIT Britain.

The case study questions how we, as designers, evolve and develop processes and practices, popularised through the evolution of Critical and Speculative Design (CSD), to think through alternative social, political, and economic futures. The project utilises open, interdisciplinary, and diverse dialogues with the intention of building a heightened notion of engagement and agency. We hope to demonstrate practices that allow speculation to become democratised away from the gallery and into the world.

Through conversation with two politicians, the authors were confronted by a growing realisation that there was a deep problem at the heart of regional development. There was a gap, a schism, between the community and those tasked with the future of their economic prosperity. For the last four years, we’ve been trying to support the people of Rhyl to bridge this gap. As a form of participatory speculation, this project aims to build a new language and discourse of speculation in which underrepresented voices become key to the ambitions of a small town and where the outlier is valued for opening alternatives.

There have been many criticisms of critical and speculative design approaches in recent years. This project builds on nearly two decades of CSD experience (in both research and education) to imagine the evolution of the approach.

Through a process of anecdotalisation, this case study gives four semi-fictional accounts of extraordinary moments that aim to give insight into the unseen process of an experimental design practice.
Job Insecurity in Private Education Sector Considering COVID-19 Pandemic: Bangladesh Panorama
Authors: Imran Md. Ali , Ahmed Ikbal
Published: October 2020

Job insecurity is one of the vexed questions here in the COVID-19 pandemic situation. Private sector employees are agonizing mostly due to this problem. In the midst of July within three months of the crisis, about 13 percent of people have become unemployed in the country due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The educational institutions are closed in Bangladesh from 17 March 2020 due to this crisis. So the private education sector job holders are in a precarious situation in terms of their job security. In this study, we investigate the vacillation of job security for private education employees. For this purpose we questioned 100 private education sector employees such as School, College and University to find out the actual scenarios. Most of the private educational institution depends on its own income from the student’s tuition fees; hence the trouble to manage it for the deadlock condition and their employees are also in a financial dilemma. Though some of them are started online programs in the true picture, they will suffer as the ballgame advancing. Bangladesh's government announces thirty thousand core incentives to face economic hazards. The particular employees in this stratum are benefited from trivial brink. Some lay off strategy can save both the victimized party.
Pengaruh Pemberian Lemna Minor Sebagai Pakan Sapi Perah Terhadap Kadar Lemak, Berat Jenis, dan Bahan Kering Tanpa Lemak Susu Friesian Holstein
Authors: Tanuwiria U Hidayat , Christi Raden Febrianto
Published: October 2020

Abstract 

Lemna minor is a water plant that is easily obtained and has a good nutrient content that is high in protein. High protein for livestock can be used for production purposes. The study aims to determine the effect of administration of lemna minor on fat content, specific gravity, and dry matter without fat milk of friesien holstein dairy cows. The object of the study was 20 second-to-four-month FH lactating cows in the Dairy Farmer Group of Kp Tanggung Renteng Village, Pamegatan Village, Cikajang District, Garut Regency, West Java Province, then kept for 60 days and given feed according to treatment, namely R0 = Grass 60% + Concentrate 40%, R1 = 50% Grass + 40% Concentrate + 10% wet Lemna, R2 = 60% Grass + 37% Concentrate + 3% Dry Lemna, R3 = 50% Grass + 37% Concentrate + 10% Wet Lemna + 3% Dry Lemna, R4 = Grass 45% + Concentrate 38% + Wet Lemna 15% + Dry Lemna 2%. The results showed that the effect of administering lemna minor did not affect on fat content, specific gravity, and dry matter without milk fat. The conclusion that administration of lemna minor in dairy cattle feed cannot increase fat content, specific gravity, and dry ingredients without fat Holstein friesien milk. 

Keywords : lemna minor, fat content, density, solid non fat

 

Abstrak 

Lemna minor merupakan tanaman air yang mudah diperoleh dan memiliki kandungan nutrient yang baik yaitu protein tinggi. Protein yang tinggi bagi ternak dapat dimanfaatkan untuk meningkatkan produksi.  Penelitian bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh pemberian lemna minor terhadap kadar lemak, berat jenis, dan bahan kering tanpa lemak susu sapi perah friesien holstein. Objek penelitian yang digunakan adalah 20 ekor sapi FH laktasi kedua sampai empat bulan di Kelompok Peternak Sapi Perah Kp Tanggung Renteng Desa Pamegatan Kecamatan Cikajang Kabupaten Garut Provinsi Jawa Barat kemudian dipelihara selama 60 hari dan diberikan pakan sesuai dengan perlakuan yaitu R0= Rumput 60% + Konsentrat 40%, R1= Rumput 50% + Konsentrat 40% + Lemna basah 10%, R2= Rumput 60% + Konsentrat 37% + Lemna Kering 3%, R3= Rumput 50% + Konsentrat 37% + Lemna Basah 10% + 3% Lemna Kering, R4= Rumput 45% + Konsentrat 38% + lemna basah 15% + Lemna Kering 2%. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pengaruh pemberian lemna minor tidak berpengaruh terhadap (P>0,05) kadar lemak, berat jenis, dan bahan kering tanpa lemak susu. Kesimpulan bahwa pemberian lemna minor dalam pakan sapi perah tidak dapat meningkatkan kandungan lemak, berat jenis, dan bahan kering tanpa lemak susu friesien Holstein. 

Kata kunci : lemna minor, kadar lemak, berat jenis, bahan kering tanpa lemak
Social Work Practice with Local Communities in Balochistan: Essential for Political Engagement
Authors: Bashir Siraj , Zia Muhammad Faisal , Abrar Naheed
Published: October 2020

The article argues a variety of characteristics of social work, wide community practice movements, and necessities for political engagement in local communities in Balochistan. Drawing on secondary knowledge and also the author's observations and analysis on community development in Balochistan, it highlights a question: do social work practice in local communities typically, and notably through political engagement? The analysis shows wide community practice movements in Balochistan and argues that social                  work and their profession are practically absent in local communities, and after they are thus engaged, most of them don't interact politically. Insight of local communities’ backgrounds and people’s depressing circumstances, the very important for social work to interact politically in community practice are mentioned. These are as follows: holding to values social work practice with communities, creating access and gaining acceptance, awareness-raising and capability building, difficult artful and oppressive community power structures, and make certain property community development. Finally, it's argued that too with success address these necessities, social work might have to alter its non-political and non-religious unbiased stand, wherever appropriate. In several conditions, social workers have to be compelled to specialize in the profession’s basic values and principles and keenly interact with local politics and power structures so on improving the living conditions of individuals and local communities in Balochistan.
Disparaging Wives through Humor: A Linguistic Analysis of Jokes on Pakistani Social Media
Authors: Iqbal Ammara , Mahmood Muhammad Asim , Azher Musarrat
Published: October 2020

Abstract

Humor is a tool to develop and to strengthen mutual  relationships among people. Humor sometimes is used to show superiority of a person, sect, caste or gender to other. This particular study about the linguistic structure of randomly selected jokes is made in order to highlight different stereotypes that are associated with the Pakistani wives. For this purpose a corpus of 60 jokes is developed by collecting jokes randomly in Urdu languge related to wives, using facebook pages,“Husband & Wife jokes” and “Laughing colours” and then twenty jokes are further selected under specific themes for analysis. These jokes are translated into English language and then analyzed using the Atordo’s and Raskin’s model of (GTVH) general theory of verbal humour (1991). This study also throws light on the fact that the stigmas attached with pakistani wives in the form of jokes are widely accepted and enjoyed even by  wives themselves that is giving way to their disparaged identity in our society. Hence, the aim of this study is to make the Pakistani women and the wives aware of the intensity of this situation and to provoke them to reject this practice of their disrespect and exploitation through verbal humour. This study will also prove helpful for the future reserch in order to check and make variations in the attitude of the participants and the receivers of the jokes to discourage jokes which are the source of disresopect for any other sect or gender.

Key words: Verbal humor, GTVH, wives in jokes,
Role of Public Service Awareness Messages in Developing Precautionary Attitude towards Breast Cancer Detection Among Pakistani Women
Authors: Iftikhar Moneeba , Yousaf Zahid
Published: October 2020

The study was aimed at scrutinizing the effects of the Public Service Awareness Messages about breast cancer detection among women in terms of developing precautionary measures for the life-threatening disease in order to fight against it before time. Breast Cancer is the most common cancer among the women around the world and especially in Pakistan. The study has been carried out with a survey with 300 women of Lahore, Pakistan and found that Public Service Awareness Messages have been significantly perceived by them. PSAMs are important tool for providing information and spreading awareness regarding the disease. The fear appeal of the messages changed the behavior of the viewers for taking precautionary measures. Public Service Awareness Messages regarding healthcare make people conscious about their health and they believe that precautionary measures can prevent the dreadful comings of this disease.
Women's Experiences And Perspectives Of Induced Abortions In Urban Slum Areas Of Karachi, Pakistan
Authors: Iftikhar Zain , Nasreen Shagufta
Published: October 2020

Unsafe abortion is one of the leading causes in developing countries where the rate of obtaining an abortion is high due to financial issues and the desire of a male child. This paper is extracted from a study about roles of midwives in unsafe and induced abortions in the urban slums of Karachi city. The objective of this paper is to discuss the causes of induced abortions and to explore the experiences of women having induced abortions. The study was conducted through interviewing schedule based upon open and close ended questions. The interview guide included questions about the causes of abortions, problems faced by women during the process, and effects on their social and economic aspects of their lives. Results show that the major reason of induced abortion is poverty, including others like large family size and family pressure due to economic burden, male child preference, social stigmas and sometimes due to partner choice. Findings of the study suggest that abortion is a traumatic experience which involved intentional death of an unborn child. It has also been discovered that women experience abortion, felt grief, shame, sorrow, and depression. The study concludes that induced abortion is used as a contraceptive method by poor women. As they are performed in unhygienic and illegal methods, they become a health risk which affects women lives socially, economically, physically and psychologically. The findings of the study will help in understanding the problems faced by women having induced abortions. Additionally, it would also assist in developing gender based reproductive health programs in developing countries.
Album “The Kemerovo Regional Museum of Fine Arts”
Authors: Chertogova M.Y.
Published: October 2020

In 2019, as part of the events dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Museum, the album "The Kemerovo Regional Museum of Fine arts" (now the Kuzbass Museum of Fine Arts) was published. This is the first publication about the Kuzbass Museum of Fine Arts — a regional cultural institution of the Kemerovo region, opened in 1969. The album is based on research that reveals the history of the Museum in its fundamental aspects: the origins, the ascetics, the buildings that housed the Museum, and the art collection.

В 2019 году в рамках мероприятий, посвященных 50-летию музея, издан альбом «Кемеровский областной музей изобразительных искусств» (ныне Музей изобразительных искусств Кузбасса). Это первое издание о Музее изобразительных искусств Кузбасса (МИИК) — областном учреждении культуры Кемеровской области, открытом в 1969 году. Основой альбома является исследование, раскрывающее историю музея в ее фундаментальных аспектах: истоки, подвижники, здания, в которых размещался и размещается музей, и художественная коллекция.
Creativity Skill Proses in Project Based Learning: A Case Study of Distance Learning in Pacitan
Authors: Ardhyantama V. , Widodo S.
Published: October 2020

Learning creativity skill is important for students. Distance learning during the Covid-19 period is the best option for study. However, students' needs among cognitive, affective, psychomotor and various skills need to be well accommodated. This study aims to describe the process of creativity in project-based learning in distance learning. The research subjects were 10 elementary school education students grade 2nd. The learning project was carried out at home with online guidance and discussion due to the conditions of Covid-19 which made it impossible to gather. The learning project that is designed is to create a learning media for beginning reading for elementary school students. Wallas' creative process includes 5 stages: preparation, incubation, intimacy, illumination and verification. Distance learning projects are carried out in 7 stages, namely: (1) formulating learning outcomes, (2) understanding concepts, (3) skills training, (4) designing the project, (5) making the project proposal, (6) executing projects and (7) project report. The results showed that in distance project learning can still be done to train creativity with paying more in accessibility of communication and following the learning stage
Effective Management of Private Schools in Nigeria: Necessity for Governments’ Intervention
Authors: Egbebi John Oluyemi , Wakili Olayinka Tijani
Published: October 2020

Private schools and owners invest a lot of worthwhile input in the provision of functional educational service delivery thus paving way for further access, equity and fair play to every intending learner as complement to the effort of government, the public school providers in Nigeria. This development actually met the world declaration of the expectation from all nations of the world to provide mass, quality and free education to all citizens. By and large, education service delivery as a social service requires huge sum of money in its operations across all levels of educational institutions – basic, post basic and tertiary. The paper examined effective management of private schools in Nigeria and the necessity for governments’ intervention. In a nutshell, the paper espoused: the world demand on provision of quality education; available sources of funding for private school ownership; challenges of private school ownership and management; justification for the establishment of private schools to support government established institutions; comparism of funding and management pattern of private schools in Nigeria and diaspora; and core constraints of private schools. The paper concludes and recommends that, respective governments, their agencies and parastatals should participate actively in rendering adequate support regarding award of grant-in-aid to owners of private schools; and that cost of registration and set up cost on infrastructural facilities for private schools - low, medium and high scales should be cut down by FME or SMoEs , ZIE, LIE, UBEC, TRCN, and similar institutions thus, affordable to create more access to learners with standards.
Perspectives on the Strategies for Teaching and Learning English as a Second Language at the University of Juba, South Sudan
Authors: Apadier Majok Mabor Matoc
Published: October 2020

In line with South Sudan’s vision of a self- governing community, much hope was invested in the English speaking world thereby making a shift from Arabisation from the North. As a result, the English language was adopted a marker of identity and opposition to Arabic, language of government, education as well as international communication. As part of South Sudan’s look south policy, English was made to be a second language as opposed to a foreign language. In tandem with this country’s vision the University of Juba is not spared from the adoption of English as the language of instruction and a learning subject.  Due to the democratisation of schooling and education for all, enrolment in the learning of English is increasing and resultantly large classes are emerging.  In view of this, the paper therefore examines and provides preliminary results on the nature and feasibility of some teaching and learning of English in large classes at the University of Juba. This was done in light of the principles and concepts of Richards and Rodgers’ (2001) Communicative Language Teaching approach. It emerges from the findings that in the absence of a teaching framework there is no uniformity on the strategies that being adopted by both learners and teachers in the learning and teaching of English as a second language.
Incidencia de recreación y el tiempo libre en el comportamiento de los estudiantes de escuela de la parroquia Anconcito –Ecuador
Authors: Ludeña Mariela
Published: October 2020

El presente artículo pretende estudiar la obtención de prácticas recreacionales que influyan positivamente en el comportamiento de los estudiantes, para lo cual se plantea: ¿De qué manera la recreación y el tiempo libre incide en el comportamiento de los estudiantes del nivel medio de la escuela de educación básica “Virginia Reyes González” durante el periodo lectivo 2014- 2015? el objetivo principal busca el que permita mejorar el comportamiento de los estudiantes. La investigación se basa en las teorías de Piaget, Grushi y Castro Ruiz, que se basan en el conocimiento y el aprendizaje y orienta hacia una corriente epistemológica constructivista de tipo científico con categoría psicológica, ya que el contenido abarca problemas de comportamientos educativos. Establece una investigación aplicada de tipo descriptiva-exploratoria, a través del uso de encuestas y entrevistas donde se quiere comprobar si la aplicación de la recreación, ocio y el tiempo libre mejorará el comportamiento de los estudiantes. Los resultados obtenidos muestran que la recreación ayuda al niño al desarrollo de la personalidad; a elevar su autoestima, y a ser mejores estudiantes; siendo es importante la recreación para mejorar el comportamiento mediante el desarrollo de su creatividad, que satisface sus intereses; se proponen juegos recreativos pedagógicos, y la elaboración de un manual de recreación para mejorar el comportamiento de los estudiantes.
Desarrollo de modelos polinomiales para el cálculo de densidad de materiales azucareros en función del °Brix y Temperatura y su aplicación a sistemas informáticos
Authors: Vasquez Oscar , Orellana Parra Marcos , Hinojosa Caballero Ana
Published: October 2020

Esta investigación busca la determinación de un modelo matemático aplicado a sistemas informáticos, que permita calcular la densidad de materiales azucareros (con pureza superiores a 75%) en función de la temperatura y °Brix. Esta determinación es de sumo interés para los balances másicos azucareros que dependen de la densidad y °Brix de los materiales azucareros, ambos son influenciado por la temperatura, por lo que deben ser corregidos y llevados a 20°C, que es la temperatura estándar para los diferentes cálculos másicos en los ingenios azucareros, cuyo fin persigue determinar la eficiencia de recuperación de azúcar en la fábrica. A los diferentes datos para °Brix, densidad y temperatura utilizados en esta investigación, extraídos de los libros de tecnología azucarera de uso general en los ingenios, con el uso del programa Microsoft Excel, y aplicando los diferentes modelos de ajuste de curva, ya sea lineal, exponencial, logarítmico y polinomial, este estudio estableció el modelo polinomial en base al método de los mínimos cuadrados como una propuesta confiable para el cálculo de la densidad de materiales azucareros corregida a 20°C, considerando que en el cálculo del coeficiente de regresión sus valores obtenidos fueron de 0.99999, es decir cercano al valor ideal de un coeficiente de regresión que es 1. Además, los resultados generados por este modelo en el sistema informático fueron similares con los obtenidos en el sitio web www.sugarengineers.co.za/density/index.php, conociendo que este sitio web es un referente mundial en el quehacer de la ingeniería azucarera.
Factores que inciden la percepción de la imagen de un político en el escenario electoral
Authors: Sotomayor Pereira Jorge Guido , Barrezueta Rodriguez Magaly Anabel , Brito Gaona Luis Felipe , Serrano Orellana Bill Jonathan
Published: October 2020

En los últimos tiempos los políticos no solo buscan presentar sus propuestas de trabajo, también es su prioridad cuidar la imagen que proyectan a sus votantes, permitiéndoles promover su popularidad en el mercado electoral; la imagen no se vincula con la estética más bien es el poder que ejerce su presencia ante los demás; la mayoría de las veces éstas estrategias son utilizadas en las campañas de obtención de votos, favoreciendo el contacto directo con el elector siendo este el mayor desafío en la contienda electoral que catapulta al personaje en la palestra política. La imagen se crea de acuerdo al medio en el que se desarrolla, el rol que se asume debe simbolizar la realidad que viven los electores, si se omite esta particularidad la imagen no va a tener sustento suficiente frente a los votantes que se desean captar. Los políticos planifican acciones que ayudan a afianzar su imagen utilizando estrategias de marketing, las cuales permiten dinamizar las formas de comunicación y promoción; partiendo desde la planificación hacia la evaluación de los procesos y control de resultados. El presente trabajo investigativo tiene por objetivo determinar los factores que influyen en la percepción de la imagen de un político en el escenario electoral; se considera que la imagen es el sello personal de un político y se debe cimentar en su propia esencia, los símbolos, gestos, posturas, comportamiento y acciones repercute en la aceptación de su mercado; para afianzar la imagen política se deberá crear una buena opinión pública basada en la credibilidad e integridad que ayude a diferenciarse de sus homólogos, utilizando recursos simbólicos que ayuden a la consolidación de la imagen del político y su ideología.
La Plataforma Virtual como fortalecimiento al proceso enseñanza-aprendizaje en las aulas de la Educación Ecuatoriana
Authors: Álava Mieles Ida Aurora , Illescas Zaruma Mery Sulay , Loor Delgado Ernesto Alejandro
Published: October 2020

Este estudio permite conocer la incidencia del uso de la plataforma virtual “Moodle”, en el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes del Colegio Técnico Provincia de Bolívar. El método de trabajo consistió en valorar el conocimiento de los estudiantes sobre las herramientas virtuales aplicadas en el aula, a través de instrumentos de cuestionarios, además se realizó una encuesta del grado de satisfacción en el uso de la misma. Por otra parte, los docentes fueron entrevistados para conocer el grado de interés y participación en el manejo de herramientas virtuales. Al respecto, los contenidos del curso se basaron en los lineamientos curriculares del Ministerio de Educación del Ecuador. La población estudiada es de 91 alumnos que corresponden al Primer año de Bachillerato General Unificado. Los resultados obtenidos revelaron el interés de los docentes por las herramientas de comunicación, chat, lo que originó el diseño de foros dentro del proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje. Esta investigación mostró un 90% de nivel de satisfacción en el manejo de los recursos tecnológicos.
Semántica creciente y decreciente a partir de conocimientos previos en la redacción científica
Authors: Villao Villacrés Francisco , Garofalo García Ruth
Published: October 2020

El presente estudio de investigación se fundamenta en el desarrollo de las habilidades para la redacción de los textos científicos, lo que exige un dominio semántico que haga posible la distribución del proceso comprensivo, para la utilización correcta de signos lingüísticos a través de palabras, expresiones y oraciones. Para esta investigación se aplicó el método cualicuantitativo integrado por los estudiantes de quinto, sexto y séptimo semestre de la Carrera de Inglés de la Universidad Laica “Vicente Rocafuerte” de la ciudad de Guayaquil, con el propósito de identificar las dificultades que los estudiantes de educación superior presentan al expresar los conocimientos en redacción científica. Mediante el análisis de sus antecedentes lexicales y con el afán de proponer soluciones didácticas en el ejercicio de su profesión y mejorar la calidad de su producción escrita, se aplicaron un test de diagnóstico y según criterios de evaluación dio como resultado la baja calidad de escritura utilizada por los entes en estudio; detectándose que los conocimientos previos no están presentes en el proceso evaluativo. Se pretende sembrar en los estudiantes un tipo de investigación de calidad haciendo uso del aprendizaje significativo, el mismo que tiene como objetivo detectar las falencias en la escritura de redacciones, párrafos, ensayos, etc. Con el afán de contribuir al desarrollo de la escritura en un país en vías de desarrollo.
Visión epistemológica de la investigación educativa
Authors: Figueroa Martínez Ericka , Salazar Veloz Maritza , Iglesias Mora Pedro
Published: October 2020

En el presente trabajo se pretende exponer las corrientes filosóficas que llevan al pragmatismo, desde un concepto epistemológico. Para al mismo tiempo, identificar su valor en la investigación educativa. Este no es el más importante, es solo que tienen un espacio considerable en las creencias de los investigadores y en el debate académico busca la eficiencia y la utilidad. La reflexión se hace desde una perspectiva que entra a razonar sobre la época actual y en la que se muestran argumentos básicos de la interacción entre el pragmatismo y el conocimiento de la verdad. La investigación ha sido desarrollada a partir de la consulta de una extensa bibliografía, tomando en consideración las opiniones de varios estudiosos que toman como campo la educación. Por ello desde múltiples perspectivas, las distintas corrientes del pensamiento social y filosófico de los últimos siglos han estado atadas a la evolución del proceder científico de producir el conocimiento, como llegar a la verdad en la ciencia, por lo que reflexionar sobre ello ofrece la oportunidad de apropiarse de criterios que pueden ser útiles para el desarrollo del contexto educativo donde se labora.
Estilo de aprendizaje, materiales en múltiples modalidades sensoriales, neurociencia, neuromito
Authors: Mendieta Villalba Nadia Mercedes , Tapia Celi Jorge Humberto , Valle Navarro Carlos , Tobar Bohorquez María Leonor
Published: October 2020

La neurociencia ha cambiado radicalmente la comprensión de cómo aprende el cerebro y los procesos de aprendizaje-enseñanza en el aula. Un nuevo enfoque es el de un maestro que facilita el aprendizaje con materiales curriculares para múltiples modalidades sensoriales, con el propósito de una interconexión integral de los hemisferios cerebrales del estudiante. Sin embargo, todavía existe la creencia falsa persistente o neuromito de que el estudiante aprende mejor si la información recibida está de acuerdo con su estilo de aprendizaje. La presente investigación demostró que el nuevo alcance de la neurociencia es correcto. A través de la experimentación, el desempeño académico de dos grupos en el curso de 7º nivel de Estrategias de Manufactura, para la carrera de Ingeniería Industrial para el período 48 en la Universidad Politécnica Salesiana en Guayaquil. La prueba de Barsch se aplicó a los estudiantes del primer grupo de 6701 estudiantes para clasificarlos de acuerdo con sus preferencias de aprendizaje sensorial e identificar sus estilos preferidos menos especiales para reforzarlos. No se hizo nada para el segundo grupo de 6760 estudiantes. Además, durante las clases se aplicaron materiales para múltiples modalidades sensoriales y técnicas grupales de enseñanza-aprendizaje para ambos grupos. Finalmente, se ha demostrado que no es necesario detectar la modalidad sensorial que mejor se adapta al aprendizaje del alumno, lo más importante es que el maestro recurra a los mejores materiales que puede diseñar, planificar o preparar para impartir el curso y para reforzar el estilo de aprendizaje menos preferido por el alumno.
Competencias docentes del joven profesor de educación física de segunda enseñanza
Authors: Castillejo Olán Rubén
Published: October 2020

El perfil de competencias del profesor de Educación Física que labora en el nivel medio de educación, en su etapa de inducción profesional, está sustentado un modelo que expresa el saber, el saber – hacer, y el saber - ser de su actividad laboral; en su construcción se emplearon los métodos del enfoque sistémico y la modelación; así como el análisis de documentos, las encuestas, observación y entrevistas. Este perfil está conformado por un conjunto de competencias docentes de naturaleza compleja, a decir: competencia pedagógica-didáctica, competencia físico-recreativa-deportiva y competencia investigativa; así como las descripciones detalladas de las cualidades que han de caracterizar el desempeño de este profesional; y su contenido permite modelar el estado deseado, en su desempeño, lo que se constituye un referente para la determinación del contenido de su crecimiento profesional.
Aplicación del Big Data como estrategia de negocio en proyectos de emprendimiento en Ecuador
Authors: Merizalde Medin Mildred Verónica , Ballagán Guambo Elizabeth Margoth
Published: October 2020

El presente artículo tiene como objetivo analizar la aplicación del Big Data en negocios de emprendimiento, diferenciar los términos de Big Data, Data Analytics y Data Mining, su relación y que deben considerar los emprendedores al momento de aplicarlos en sus modelos de negocios. Existen variedad de modelos relacionados al Big Data, estos se enfocan en procesos de negocio y marketing, los cuales fundamentan los criterios de decisión de una empresa. Se analizarán diferentes modelos, criterios relacionados al Big Data y estadísticas del emprendimiento en el Ecuador presentando como resultado, la consolidación de los principios que definen el almacenamiento y procesamiento de grandes volúmenes de información y la relación entre los factores críticos del emprendimiento, el ciclo de vida de los negocios emprendedores y los diferentes modelos Big Data que pueden aplicarse a lo largo del mismo.
Análisis del uso de data mining de las redes sociales y su influencia en la competitividad de las PYMES
Authors: Salazar Loor Sara Abigail , Ponce Intriago Karina Elizabeth
Published: October 2020

La presente investigación tiene como finalidad mostrar información documental y analítica sobre el uso de Data Mining de las redes sociales y su incidencia en la competitividad de las PYMES en Ecuador. En la misma, se detallan teorías de la variable Minería de Datos que hacen énfasis en sus procesos, metodologías y sus beneficios en especial para el análisis de perfiles de los clientes mientras que para la variable Competitividad se destaca el factor de Tecnología, permitiendo establecer que las redes sociales deben ser vistas como una oportunidad para las PYMES debido a la gran cantidad de datos que se encuentran en ellas, ya que al ser procesados mediante Data Mining es posible la identificación de patrones significativos relacionados al comportamiento, fidelización e interés de los clientes y de rentabilidad, campañas, ciclo de vida de un producto o servicio de la empresa, lo cual conlleva a la generación de información que al ser gestionada correctamente se convierte en conocimiento para la creación y selección de estrategias que desarrollen “valor añadido” o competitividad.
Influencia de la ansiedad en el rendimiento deportivo en futbolistas
Authors: Aldás Ramos Andrea Cristina , Saltos Salazar Lenin Fabián , Robayo Carrillo Jessy Mariana
Published: October 2020

La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo determinar, la relación existente entre la ansiedad precompetitiva y las características psicológicas relacionadas al rendimiento deportivo de los futbolistas de la máxima categoría, en el Club Deportivo Macará de la ciudad de Ambato. La aplicación de los reactivos se realizó a una muestra total de 37 personas de sexo masculino de entre 18 y 34 años. La variable de ansiedad precompetitiva fue evaluada con el Inventario de Ansiedad Precompetitiva (CSAI-2) de Martens (1990), y la variable de las características psicológicas relacionadas al rendimiento deportivo fue evaluada con el Cuestionario de Características Psicológicas Relacionadas al Rendimiento Deportivo (CPRD) de Mahoney y Perkins (1987). El método estadístico usado para comprobar la hipótesis fue el Chi-cuadrado, con el que se verificó que no existe relación entre la ansiedad precompetitiva y las características psicológicas relacionadas al rendimiento deportivo.
La mediación como solución de conflictos o mera expectativa: enfoque de análisis a resultados de procesos atendidos en varios centros de mediación. Guayaquil-Ecuador
Authors: Astudillo Orellana Washington René , Rodríguez Sandoval Mercedes Patricia
Published: October 2020

De entre los medios para solucionar los conflictos de intereses jurídicamente trascendentes se encuentra la heterocomposición, donde la solución va a provenir de un tercero ajeno a la controversia, por lo que se califica de imparcial. Dentro de la heterocomposición se encuentra la mediación, un medio de solución de conflictos que no busca suplir a la función judicial sino más bien complementarla, pues además de contribuir a la descongestión de los jueces y tribunales ejercita los principios de mínima intervención penal, subsidiariedad y economía procesal. Como dijo Séneca: “Nada se parece tanto a la injusticia como la justicia tardía”.