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Entertainment–Education? A Fotonovela? A New Strategy to Improve Depression Literacy and Help‐Seeking Behaviors in At‐Risk Immigrant Latinas
Authors: Hernandez Maria Y. , Organista Kurt C. 
Published: August 2013

AbstractResearch shows high risk for depression among immigrant Latinas known to increase during the acculturation process. Several barriers such as stigma and low health literacy result in an under‐utilization of needed treatment among these women. In response, this study replicated the effectiveness of a Spanish language fotonovela, a form of Entertainment–Education (E–E), designed to increase depression literacy, decrease stigma, and increase help‐seeking knowledge and behavior in Latinos. Specifically, this study evaluated a fotonovela delivered in a multifaceted approach to health education used by promotoras. A pretest–posttest randomized control group experimental design with 142 immigrant Latinas at risk for depression was employed. Results indicate significant posttest improvements in depression knowledge, self‐efficacy to identify the need for treatment, and decreased stigma in experimental as compared to control group participants. Findings support the application of E–E health literacy tools such as fotonovelas, delivered in multifaceted approaches to health education used by promotoras, to Latinas at risk for mental health concerns.
Accelerating the reduction in cervical cancer: What can we learn from the Safe Motherhood movement?
Authors: Tsu Vivien D. , Jeronimo Jose 
Published: August 2013

AbstractAs we move toward the post‐2015 development agenda, we should reflect on the accomplishments of the Safe Motherhood movement and derive potential lessons to strengthen programs to reduce the burden of cervical cancer. Five key areas have been the focus of attention over the years: definition of the magnitude and distribution of maternal mortality; identification of effective and feasible clinical solutions; advocacy to increase attention, resources, and commitment; leadership through international coalitions; and development of a framework for accountability, with targets and indicators. While efforts have been made in each of these areas for cervical cancer prevention, progress has been constrained by inadequate resources. Data are of variable quality, with few cancer registries in the countries where cervical cancer is most prevalent. There has been substantial progress in identifying feasible and effective clinical and programmatic interventions, and a growing consensus around meaningful indicators. Advocacy on behalf of cervical cancer prevention has been gaining momentum but leadership is still fragmented. With so many of the basic elements for cervical cancer prevention in place, we must use the lessons learned from the Safe Motherhood movement to accelerate the pace of scaling‐up cervical cancer prevention activities, saving millions of women's lives in the next decade.
ADMINISTRACION DE RECURSOS DE DISTRIBUCION: INDICADORES PARA LA PRIORIZACION EN TRANSPORTE
Authors: Bravo Juan José , Orejuela Cabrera Juan Pablo , Osorio Gómez Juan Carlos 
Published: August 2013

Due to the exigencies of new commercial trades, enterprises have seen forced to increment their competitive levels to become more efficient in the management of their limited resources. In this situation, It is natural that the top managers in the organizations consider the transportation in general and physical distribution in particular as an important field to study and improve, seeking important cost reductions. In this paper we present an study of the administration of distribution resources, focused in the right management of product dispatching, assuming resource limitations. We propose some metrics that constitute, when used in a combined way, a valuable support for planning dispatching process, considering a typical delivery from one (1) distribution center toward “n” warehouses which can be considered internal o external clients.
EL IMPACTO DEL USO EFECTIVO DE LAS TIC SOBRE LA EFICIENCIA TÉCNICA DE LAS EMPRESAS ESPAÑOLAS
Authors: Fernández Menéndez José , López Sánchez José Ignacio , Rodríguez Duarte Antonio , Sandulli Francesco 
Published: August 2013

A large number of studies about the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) impact on the productivity of firms have discovered that the mere investment in IT doesn’t suffice. Additional investments, organizational and human resource management practices, etc. are necessary. This study shows how the simple usage of IT has no relevant effect on firms productivity, but the frequency of the usage in the communications with clients and providers increases significantly the performance of the firms. This performance is evaluated as the technical efficiency in the process of transformation from inputs to outputs in the firm. The calculus of this efficiency has been done by a Data Envelopment Analysis model. This is an standard methodology in empirical studies about productivity but has rarely became a tool of choice when analysing the impact of the IT on firm performance.
MODELO DE INTELIGENCIA EMOCIONAL PARA DIRECTORES DE CENTROS DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN MÉXICO (Artículo publicado en inglés)
Authors: Trujillo Flores Mara Maricela , Rivas Tovar Luis Arturo 
Published: August 2013

The objective of this paper is to show the results of IE-Martruj, a model designed for measuring emotional intelligence in directors of research centers (RCs), which was applied to 43 directors of research centers in Mexico. The validation model and reliability tests are described in detail, as well as the mathematical formulae used. As a general conclusion of this research, we show that: The model studied is an adequate instrument for the task proposed, and that the Emotional intelligence (EI) of directors of RCs is positively associated with: motivation, self-assessment, self-regulation, empathy and social skills. Also, the following hypotheses were tested with positive results: H1 - Motivation, initiative, optimism and involvement are conditions positively correlated with the effectiveness of directors of RCs.H2 – Self knowledge, emotional awareness, precise self evaluation and self awareness are positively correlated with each other, and are essential parts of intrapersonal intelligence.H3 - Self-regulation, self control, adaptability and self awareness are positively correlated with each other, and are also part of intrapersonal intelligence.H4 - Empathy, comprehension of others, development of subordinates’ skills, readiness to serve, capacity to manage diversity, and political coherence exhibited by an RC director are positively correlated with each other, and are part of interpersonal intelligence.H5 Social skills exhibited by directors, that are also part of interpersonal intelligence, allow a director to exert a greater influence on the working group, facilitating communication, conflict management, leadership, collaboration, cooperation and development of team skills.
LA INFLUENCIA DE LA CULTURA Y DEL ESTILO DE GESTIÓN SOBRE EL CLIMA ORGANIZACIONAL. ESTUDIO DE CASO DE LA MEDIANA EMPRESA EN LA DELEGACIÓN IZTAPALAPA
Authors: Guillén Mondragón Irene , Aduna Mondragón Alma Patricia 
Published: August 2013

This document analyzes the cultural and profile cultural influence on the organizational climate of organizations located at Iztapalapa’s area, in México City. The approach to the the culture and the organizational climate was done by organizational analyses and comparative case study about medium enterprises looking for the degree of association between the culture, the organizational climate and the relationship with the management style in the definition of the labour climate. The results recognize the specificities and particular characteristics of some Mexican enterprises, and provide analysis tools that allow a better understanding of the enterprises in Mexico. The approach to the organizational climate allows an understanding of factors related with work satisfaction and the problems small and medium Mexican enterprises (PyMES) have to face.
KNIGHT Y SUS APORTES A LA TEORÍA DEL EMPRENDEDOR
Authors: Tarapuez Chamorro Edwin , Zapata Erazo Jairo Andrés , Agreda Montenegro Esperanza 
Published: August 2013

At the end of XIX century, Economists attention was centered in the study of business capabilities and some facts that determinate a type of benefit improperly studied until that moment, arising the concept of entrepreneur. Knight considers the entrepreneur as unique productive factor; he settles down a clear distinction between risk and uncertainty and by means of them explains the benefit perceived. The entrepreneur is conceived by Knight, as a dynamic and innovating agent of development. Knight explains that the entrepreneur’s benefit comes from his ability to manage uncertainty.
GESTIÓN HUMANA: TENDENCIAS Y PERSPECTIVAS
Authors: Saldarriaga Ríos Juan Guillermo 
Published: August 2013

This article refers to the trends and perspectives of human management that have been imposed currently on the world, and which in their way, try to optimize the management of the personal in the organization and contribute to the development and increase of the productiveness. A State of the Art was done in order to determine recent tendencies about this topic what let us conclude that the discourses about this tendencies describe a human being that is “rescue” inside the organization, which not necessarily corresponds to the reality of the human management process followed inside national and international organizations.
EL ÉXITO DE LAS PYMES EN COLOMBIA: UN ESTUDIO DE CASOS EN EL SECTOR SALUD
Authors: Franco Angel Mónica , Urbano Pulido David 
Published: August 2013

The primary objective of this study is to identify and analyze the determining success factors of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Colombia in terms of both internal and external factors employing the theories of resources and capabilities and institutional economics as the theoretical reference framework. An qualitative study was conducted for an in-depth analysis of four different Colombian companies. The most relevant findings of this study reveal that the success determining factors of these SMEs are: the entrepreneur's knowledge and experience, the company's prestige and reputation, the supporting measures and specialization of the industry, and the influence of the communities in which their business is conducted.
INVERSIÓN EXTRANJERA DIRECTA Y CONSTRUCCIÓN DE FERROCARRILES EN COLOMBIA: EL CASO DEL FERROCARRIL DE PANAMÁ (1849-1869)
Authors: Correa Restrepo Juan Santiago 
Published: August 2013

The mid nineteenth century experienced one of the most successful foreign investment processes in Latin America and particularly in Colombia with the construction and operation of the Panama Railroad Company. This railway was designed and operated as a route that bridged the Atlantic and the Pacific. It was one of the most profitable companies at the time and clearly reflected the economic and political interests of the United States. The company became one of the most prominent transport monopolies in its day and was one of the most valuable fiscal assets for the Colombian government.
8-pCPT, an Epac activator, impairs conditioned place preference based on nucleus accumbens amphetamine in rats
Authors: Park Sung Woo , Roohbakhsh Ali , Beninger Richard J. 
Published: August 2013

ObjectivesDopamine receptor-mediated 3′,5′-cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP)-dependent intracellular signalling is important for reward-related learning. cAMP activates cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) and exchange protein directly activated by cAMP (Epac). We tested the hypothesis that reward-related learning may be mediated by Epac.MethodsWe evaluated conditioned place preference (CPP) on the basis of nucleus accumbens (NAc) injections of amphetamine (20 μg/0.5 μl/side) plus Sp-adenosine 3′,5′-cyclic monophosphorothioate triethylamanine (Sp-cAMPS) (0.1, 1.0, 10, 15, 20 μg/0.5 μl/side), an activator of both PKA and Epac, or amphetamine (20 μg) plus 8-(4-chlorophenylthio)-2′-O-methyladenosine-3′,5′-cyclic monophosphate (8-pCPT) (0.73, 1.27, 1.45, 2.89, 5.78, 11.56 μg/0.5 μl/side), an activator of Epac.ResultsIn agreement with previous results, Sp-cAMPS dose-dependently impaired CPP. 8-pCPT impaired CPP at one dose (1.45 μg/0.5 μl/side) and we replicated this effect three times.ConclusionThe results implicate Epac in the acquisition of reward-related learning.
Let's get real about virtual: online health is here to stay
Authors: PRAINSACK BARBARA 
Published: August 2013

SummaryA lot has been written about the opportunities of the Internet for medicine, and lately, also for disease research specifically. Although it remains to be seen how significant and sustainable a change this will result in, some recent developments are highly relevant for the area of genetic research. User-friendly, low-threshold web-based tools do not only provide information to patients and other users, but they also supply user-generated data that can be utilized by both medical practice and medical research. Many of these developments have been below the radar of mainstream academic research so far. Issues related to data quality and standardization, as well as data protection and privacy, still need to be addressed. Dismissing these platforms as fads of a tiny privileged minority risks missing the opportunity to have our say in these debates.
The Multitude and the Many-Headed Hydra: Autonomist Marxist Theory and Labor History
Authors: Burgmann Verity 
Published: August 2013

AbstractThe autonomist Marxist critique of determinist Marxism offers even more valuable insights for labor historians than that mounted by earlier antideterminists, such as Sartre and Thompson, who emphasized proletarian agency to counter determinist orthodoxy in which the accumulative logic of capital unilaterally shapes the world. Autonomist Marxism is more far-reaching. It places labor at the very beginning of the labor-capital dialectic: Labor can exist independently of capital, but capital needs to command labor to ensure profit; therefore, capitalist development does not occur due to internal momentum but in reaction to labor's tendency to unloose itself from capital. Linebaugh and Rediker offer a similar hypothesis in exploring the myth of the many-headed hydra—and demonstrate the fruitfulness of such an approach. By contrast, the notion of the multitude in Hardt and Negri'sEmpirehas not been well received by labor historians due to its inexplicable abstraction when read in isolation from other autonomist texts. This article attempts to rescue the ideas of autonomist Marxist philosophers, especially Toni Negri, from the enormous condescension of labor history.
Syndicalism and Strikes, Leadership and Influence: Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, and the United States
Authors: Darlington Ralph 
Published: August 2013

AbstractThe explosion of industrial and political militancy that swept the world during the early years of the twentieth century gave the revolutionary syndicalist movement a prominence and notoriety it would not otherwise have possessed, while at the same time providing a context for syndicalist ideas to be broadcast and for syndicalists to assume the leadership of major strikes in a number of countries. This article sheds new light on the complex nature of the relationship between syndicalism and strikes by means of an international comparative analysis of the revolutionary syndicalist movements in France, Spain, Italy, Britain, Ireland and United States. It presents evidence to suggest ideological/organizational initiative and leadership was of immense importance in understanding how syndicalist movements could be simultaneously a contributory cause, a symptom, and a beneficiary of workers' militancy.
The Workers' Movement and Political Change in Spain, 1956–1977
Authors: Sampere Xavier Domènech 
Published: August 2013

“That the number of our Members be unlimited” … Today we might pass over such a rule as a commonplace: and yet it is one of the hinges upon which history turns. It signified the end to any notion of exclusiveness, of politics as the preserve of any hereditary elite or property Group … To throw open the doors to propaganda and agitation in this “unlimited” way implied a new notion of democracy, which cast aside ancient inhibitions and trusted to self-activating and self-organising processes among the common people.E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class
The decline of labor history in the research agenda of senior Spanish scholars matches the surprising interest in it of young researchers as indicated by the opening of new lines of research and the explosion of studies on other social movements that also have a strong class character in their origins. Moreover, despite the progressive decline of published academic research on the quintessential social movement, the truth is that its history is still crucial for understanding the political and social dynamics of the late Franco regime and the first years of democracy for at least two reasons.
Using public health scenarios to predict the utility of a national syndromic surveillance programme during the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games
Authors: MORBEY R. A. , ELLIOT A. J. , CHARLETT A. , IBBOTSON S. , VERLANDER N. Q. , LEACH S. , HALL I. , BARRASS I. , CATCHPOLE M. , McCLOSKEY B. , SAID B. , WALSH A. , PEBODY R. , SMITH G. E. 
Published: August 2013

SUMMARYDuring 2012 real-time syndromic surveillance formed a key part of the daily public health surveillance for the London Olympic and Paralympic Games. It was vital that these systems were evaluated prior to the Games; in particular what types and scales of incidents could and could not be detected. Different public health scenarios were created covering a range of potential incidents that the Health Protection Agency would require syndromic surveillance to rapidly detect and monitor. For the scenarios considered it is now possible to determine what is likely to be detectable and how incidents are likely to present using the different syndromic systems. Small localized incidents involving food poisoning are most likely to be detected the next day via emergency department surveillance, while a new strain of influenza is more likely to be detected via GP or telephone helpline surveillance, several weeks after the first seed case is introduced.
Transcatheter treatment for pulmonary artery occlusion secondary to pulmonary embolism in an infant
Authors: El Tahlawi Mohammad , Assaidi Anass , Fraisse Alain 
Published: August 2013

AbstractWe report a case of successful recanalisation of the left pulmonary artery after occlusion due to embolic thrombi in a 9-month-old infant after surgical repair of a common atrioventricular canal with tetralogy of Fallot. A transhepatic approach was used because of caval vein thrombosis. After the failure of high-pressure balloon angioplasty, the left pulmonary artery was successfully recanalised with cutting balloons, followed by stent implantation with an excellent result.
Impacts of policy measures on the development of state-owned forests in northeast China: theoretical results and empirical evidence
Authors: Jiang Xuemei , Gong Peichen , Bostedt Göran , Xu Jintao 
Published: August 2013

AbstractState-owned forest enterprises (SOFEs) in northeast China play important roles both in timber production and in the maintenance of ecological security. This paper examines the effects of a number of policy measures on the behavioral choices of the SOFEs. The results show that the extent to which SOFE supervising authorities emphasized the improvement of forest resources in their annual evaluation of the SOFEs had significant impacts on the harvest and investment decisions and the development of forest resources. Promotion of the management and utilization of non-timber resources, as well as reforms aiming to increase the efficiency of forest protection and management, reduced timber harvests and increased investment, which in turn led to improvements of forest resources, although the effects were small. In contrast, reforms aimed at timber harvest and afforestation activities actually contributed to increasing timber harvest, which affected the development of the forest resources negatively.
Greening China's rural energy: new insights on the potential of smallholder biogas
Authors: Christiaensen Luc , Heltberg Rasmus 
Published: August 2013

AbstractThis study assesses a new generation of smallholder biogas, an applied sustainable energy technology currently being rolled out on a massive scale in rural China. In the past, the implementation of biogas programs has been largely disappointing, in China (and elsewhere). User satisfaction with the new program is high, based on purposively collected data from 2,700 households in five provinces, and the available evidence suggests tangible environmental and economic benefits. There are strong indications of fuel switching away from fuelwood and crop residues. Less time is spent on fuelwood collection and cooking, which benefits women especially. Adopters save on fertilizers by using biogas residues. Finally, problems with suspension and interrupted supply appear lower than in earlier studies. Overall, these initial findings are grounds for optimism about the potential for scaled-up smallholder biogas to deliver safe and clean rural energy, in China and beyond, provided critical conditions are met.
Magnified Vision, Mediated Listening and the ‘Point of Audition’ of Early Romanticism
Authors: LOUGHRIDGE DEIRDRE 
Published: August 2013

ABSTRACTEmploying the term ‘point of audition’ to describe the spatial position musical works imply for their listeners, this article examines the use of technologies for extending the senses to define new points of audition in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Popular literature on natural philosophy promoted magnifying instruments as windows onto distant or hidden realms and as tools for acquiring knowledge. On the operatic stage and in writers' metaphorical musings, kindred sensory extensions were imagined for hearing. These contexts connected (magic) mirrors and magnifying instruments to their musical analogues: muted tone and keyboard fantasizing. The development of these associations in opera and literature made it possible for instrumental music to position listeners as eavesdroppers upon unknown realms. Such a point of audition is shown to be implied by the Adagio un poco mosso of Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto. By examining material practices and discourses surrounding sensory extension, this article demonstrates the relevance of technologically mediated observation to musical culture at the turn of the nineteenth century, and its contribution to the otherworldly orientation characteristic of romantic listening.
SUBDOMINANT RETURNS IN THE VOCAL MUSIC OF J. S. BACH
Authors: ANSON-CARTWRIGHT MARK 
Published: August 2013

ABSTRACTBach's vocal oeuvre contains a significant number of movements (about thirty-five), including but not limited to those in modified da capo form, with a concluding reprise of opening thematic material in the subdominant key. Some of these ‘subdominant returns’ involve strict parallelism, whereby the entire A section returns at the new pitch, thus transforming the original ‘departing’ modulation from I to V into a ‘returning’ modulation from IV to I. Many subdominant returns, however, occur in a range of contexts, which resist straightforward formal categorization. One example is the opening chorus from the St Matthew Passion. While the unusual da capo in this movement has elicited provocative commentary by Karol Berger and others in recent years, the significance of the subdominant return (here and elsewhere) has not been examined in depth. This study begins with a comprehensive survey of subdominant returns in Bach's vocal oeuvre, and then examines cyclic and linear aspects of form through detailed analysis of six movements that exhibit this procedure.