cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Work addiction and its association with personality traits, general distress, and self-esteem among adult Italian workers
Creators: name: Soraci, Paolo
name: Griffiths, Mark D
name: Melchiori, Francesco M
name: Bravo, Giulia
name: Guaitoli, Eleonora
name: Del Fante, Elena
name: Scali, Lara
name: Grieco, Francesco
name: Cimaglia, Roberta
name: Di Bernardo, Carla
name: Pisanti, Renato
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2022
Subjects: Work addiction; Workaholism; Personality; Self-esteem; Psychological distress; Clinical psychology.

description: Background: Work addiction has become a topic of increasing research interest but has been little studied in Italy. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the associations between work addiction, assessed with a recently validated psychometric scale (i.e., Italian version of Bergen Work Addiction Scale, [BWAS]) and other psychological constructs. Methods: The sample comprised 367 Italian workers (Mean 16.11 years; SD±11.28) who completed a survey including the BWAS (Mean 19.422; SD±6.365), Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 (Mean 40.866; SD±29.865), Dutch Workaholism Scale (Mean 24.837; SD±6.488), Need for Recovery Scale (Mean 12.946; SD±7.340), Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI, Extraversion (Mean 4.253; SD±1.506); Agreeableness (Mean 5.431; SD±1.111), Conscientiousness (Mean 5.792; SD±1.067), Neuroticism (Mean 4.507; SD±1.480), Openness (Mean 4.801; SD±1.122), and Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale (Mean 21.850; SD±6.796). Results: The results indicated that work addiction was positively associated with stress, anxiety, and depression, as well as with the number of hours worked and need for recovery. Moreover, BWAS scores explained 20.1% of an individual’s general psychological distress (i.e., depression, anxiety, and stress). Personality variables explained only a small amount of the variance in work addiction (15.4%). Conclusion: In the present study, a positive and significant association was found between the BWAS (assessing work addiction) and the DUWAS (assessing workaholism). Although work addiction and workaholism are different constructs, they have many characteristics in common. The study expands the work addiction literature base and demonstrates important associating factors in the Italian context.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 10, No 3 (2022)
Entre cañonazos, balazos y golazos: Un análisis descriptivo de la metáfora en el uso de expresiones violentas para nombrar, designar e interpretar: Implemento, personajes, situaciones y/o acciones del microfútbol en Cartagena
Creators: name: Ruíz Toro, Danis Eduardo
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2006
Subjects: Análisis del discurso

description: Tesis (Profesional en Lingüística y Literatura) -- Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Ciencias Humanas. Programa de Lingüística y Literatura, 2006
description: La presente monografía es resultado de todo este proceso de investigación y análisis. Consta de tres capítulos: el primero, hace alusión a la historia Microfútbol y a la relación de este deporte con la violencia; el segundo realiza una descripción de los significados atribuidos a las expresiones metafóricas en los respectivos dominios (origen y destino) y puntualiza las correspondencias que los vinculan; el tercero, desarrolla las influencias que ejerce el referente de la violencia y la guerra como contexto global, nacional y local en la construcción de las metáforas.
Assessment On Practices And Challenges Of Consultancy Project Management: The Case Of Ethiopian Management Institute
Creators: name: Demisse, Demoze
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: EMI is one of the oldest as well as the prominent firm that delivers management consultancy services for government and other organizations for more than 50 years. However, the institute has passed through many challenges in managing the time and the quality of its constancy services. This study focused on analyzing the challenges of Consultancy Project Management Practices of the Institute. Descriptive research method was applied to find out EMI management consultancy projects practices and challenges. Both primary and secondary data were collected using structured questionnaires, interviews, and focused group discussions. The quantitative data were analyzed by descriptive statistical tools such as frequency distribution, percentage, mean score and mean score average. Qualitative data obtain through the semi structured interview, FGD, it was healed in EMI with consultants they identified human resource allocation, client's commitment to give feedback, organize and document lesson learned and weak contractual administration are the challenges in consultancy projects and documents such as plans ( GTP1,GTP2 and 2015 Good governance),reports( GTP1 performance report and 2015 annual plan performance report)and TOR review have been classified, categorized and registered under thematic areas and presented in narration. The finding reveals that EMI does have major gaps in preparation and implementations of Zorientation session with clients, and detail assignment plan preparation and problem diagnosis. Developing strong alternative solution with their respective merits and demerits is a major gap. Implementation phase of consultancy services is not practice in EMI and monitoring, evaluation and closure phase practice are weak as compared to other phases. Lack of required resources, lack of client commitment, and lack of competency of consultants, weak contractual administration, lack of strong monitoring and evaluation system, client needs fluctuations, poor incentive mechanism and lack of commitment of consultants are the major challenges that EMI faces in managing its consultancy services. The study recommended EMI to work on human capital and facility development,business categorization and to practice all management consultancy phases end to end
Parameterized Principal Component Analysis
Creators: name: Gupta, Ajay
name: Barbu, Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: When modeling multivariate data, one might have an extra parameter of contextual information that could be used to treat some observations as more similar to others. For example, images of faces can vary by age, and one would expect the face of a 40 year old to be more similar to the face of a 30 year old than to a baby face. We introduce a novel manifold approximation method, parameterized principal component analysis (PPCA) that models data with linear subspaces that change continuously according to the extra parameter of contextual information (e.g. age), instead of ad-hoc atlases. Special care has been taken in the loss function and the optimization method to encourage smoothly changing subspaces across the parameter values. The approach ensures that each observation's projection will share information with observations that have similar parameter values, but not with observations that have large parameter differences. We tested PPCA on artificial data based on known, smooth functions of an added parameter, as well as on three real datasets with different types of parameters. We compared PPCA to PCA, sparse PCA and to independent principal component analysis (IPCA), which groups observations by their parameter values and projects each group using PCA with no sharing of information for different groups. PPCA recovers the known functions with less error and projects the datasets' test set observations with consistently less reconstruction error than IPCA does. In some cases where the manifold is truly nonlinear, PCA outperforms all the other manifold approximation methods compared.
description: 36 pages, 15 figures
Affiliative Bonds and Cruel Behavior in Childhood Interspecific Relationships: A Conceptual Framework on the Psychodynamics of Affect Regulation
Creators: name: Mezzalira, Selene
name: Scandurra, Cristiano
name: Santaniello, Antonio
name: Mezza, Fabrizio
name: Saturnino, Claudia
name: Cristiano, Serena
name: Pizzo, Rosa
name: Maldonato, Nelson Mauro
name: Menna, Lucia Francesca
name: Bochicchio, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2022
Subjects: Affect regulation; Childhood interspecific relationship; Conduct disorder; Antisocial traits; Clinical psychology.

description: Background: Childhood interspecific relationships can be viewed as a mirror of the person’s capacity to interact with other living beings. The interspecific relationship can involve different attachment styles, affect regulation skills, transitional object dynamics, and self-awareness and mentalization processes. Yet interspecific relationships can also be disrupted, since they can be associated with cruel behavior toward animals, which is in turn related to possible psychopathology. Method: We provided a conceptual framework based on the literature addressing the interspecific relationship in both its adaptive and positive features as well as in its disrupted aspects. Discussion: Pets have often been regarded as attachment figures that can aid children in socialization and growth processes. They have been deemed to represent “social catalysts” that tend to facilitate human relationships, thus increasing prosocial behaviors. On the dark side of the pet-child interaction, childhood abuse of animals tends to be associated with behavioral and emotional problems that have been thought of as underlying psychopathology (e.g., conduct disorder and antisocial personality traits). Childhood cruelty to animals seems to accompany emotion dysregulation, poor social information processing, and low empathy. Conclusions: Since the child-pet relationship has substantial implications for the individual’s mental health and for the potential development of psychopathology, addressing children’s attitudes toward animals can aid in understanding the affective and emotional dimensions of their interpersonal experience.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 10, No 3 (2022)
Evaluación del impacto del Plan Vallejo en el sector exportador de Colombia: 1980 - 2010
Creators: name: Marrugo González, Carlos Hernan
name: Vega Ortega, Fabian Andrés
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2014
Subjects: Importaciones, 1980 - 2010
Política de importación
Plan Vallejo - Investigaciones

description: Tesis (Economista).--Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Programa de Economía, 2014
description: El plan vallejo es un incentivo que permite importar materias primas sin pagar arancel ni IVA, cuyo destino sea la exportación. El objetivo general es analizar los efectos del plan vallejo en el sector exportador colombiano.
Impact of Covid-19 on mental health and the role of personality: Preliminary data from a sample of young Italian students
Creators: name: Guidotti, Sara
name: Coscioni, Gabriella
name: Pruneti, Carlo
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2022
Subjects: Covid-19; Personality; Anxiety; Depression; Vulnerability to stress.

description: Introduction: The aim of the present study is to describe the stress levels of university students during a new phase of the Covid-19 pandemic (Spring 2022) that is a gradual approach to normality. More specifically, the influence of personality traits able to modulate the distress was investigated. Materials and Methods: 120 students from the University of Parma were consecutively recruited. A state tests (Symptom Questionnaire) and two trait tests (P Stress Questionnaire and Cattell’s 16-Personality Factors) were administered. A comparison with similar data collected in 2019 was made. Moreover, the regression analyses calculated the amount of variance in psychopathological symptoms (anxiety, depression, somatization, and hostility) explained by the personality traits and the presence of behavior and lifestyles at risk for stress-related disorders. Results: The scores of the SQ showed psychopathological symptoms above the clinical cut-off for all global clinical scales (anxiety, depression, somatization, and hostility) with values significantly higher than those of the 2019 sample for anxiety, depression, and somatic complaints. The inferential analyses demonstrated that individual factors predicting anxiety are high levels of somatic tension and emotional instability and low levels of openness to change as well as the difficulty in disconnecting from commitments. The inability to relax also predicts somatizations, along with emotional instability, apprehension, and vigilance. Hostile mood is predicted by tension, emotional instability, and openness to change, along with poor warmth. Finally, depression has high tension, low social boldness, and the presence of somatic disorders as predictors. Conclusion: The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly increased levels of distress among university students. Moreover, specific personality factors were found to significantly predict the psychopathological symptoms. Certain individual traits, such as somatic tension, emotional instability, and reduced openness to change predict both anxiety activation and irritable mood. Other single traits seem to be more specific. Shy and introverted people are more prone to depression while distant and reserved persons tend to approach others with hostility. In conclusion, having the ability to identify individual factors predisposing to psychological distress could help the health professionals in implementing primary and secondary prevention programs.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 10, No 3 (2022)
Kirillov-Reshetikhin crystals $B^{1,s}$ for $\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}}_n$ using Nakajima monomials
Creators: name: Gunawan, Emily
name: Scrimshaw, Travis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E10, 17B37

description: We give a realization of the Kirillov--Reshetikhin crystal $B^{1,s}$ using Nakajima monomials for $\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}}_n$ using the crystal structure given by Kashiwara. We describe the tensor product $\bigotimes_{i=1}^N B^{1,s_i}$ in terms of a shift of indices, allowing us to recover the Kyoto path model. Additionally, we give a model for the KR crystals $B^{r,1}$ using Nakajima monomials.
description: 24 pages, 6 figures; v2 improved introduction, added more figures, and other misc improvements; v3 changes from referee reports
The Assessment Of Organizational Structure In Supporting Projects: The Case Of EthioDer Plc
Creators: name: Teferra, Beza
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: Project delivery for EthioDer private limited company has encountered completion delay and loss of team spirit in recent times. One of the sustainability focused strategies adopted by the EthioDer is by implementing capital projects in order to meet the medium and long term goals. However, studies have shown that an appropriate organizational structure is contingent upon the type of work performed and the environment in which the organization conducts its business functions and employees. Every organization must have a well-defined organization structure if it wants to be very competitive, productive, efficient, and dynamic if it wants to survive and grow by meeting the internal team and external consumer demand. Therefore, the main objective of this project work is to understand the basis of organizational structure used by EthioDer, to identify project implementation problem and to examine the cause and effect elements of the current structure on project team. According to David Thomas (2003), one of the main reason for using an inductive approach is to condense extensive and varied raw text data into a brief summary format. The research considered an inductive approach using qualitative research method for data collection and analyzing process. Sample of the various categories of employees was taken from the company's total population using snowball sampling technique. Interviews and focus group discussions were employed as the main tool for data collection exercise. Table Method was adopted at data analysis stage. The findings indicated that the organizational structure in place is a functional type of structure where its departments are grouped by areas of specialization within different functions. In EthioDer, the project generally occurs within the functions. Team members complete the project work over and above their responsibilities to normal departmental work. Communication primarily occurs within the same function. The study further revealed that the structure is the source of major problem negatively impacting on project performance (creating implementation delay) and the project team's output. Based on this, a 'projectised' organizational structure (a project equipped with its own resources and functions) to be adopted among other recommendation made by the study.
A review of mixed methods research on sexting
Creators: name: Dodaj, Arta
name: Prijatelj, Krešimir
name: Sesar, Kristina
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2022
Subjects: Clinical psychology; Mixed-methods; Sexting; Systematic review; Technology-mediated sexual interaction.

description: Backgrounds: Given the negative consequences associated with sexting experiences, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers have called for more thorough research on sexting. Research on sexting behaviour has primarily used quantitative methods. In recent years, mixed methods research has gained prominence in the field of sexting. However, to date, no systematic review of mixed methods studies on sexting has been conducted. The purpose of this article is to review empirical mixed methods studies on sexting. Methods: A thematic synthesis of the qualitative data and a narrative review of the quantitative data were conducted in accordance with standardised templates by study design (PRISMA guidelines). Ten databases were searched and eleven peer-reviewed articles from 2014 to 2022 that met the inclusion criteria were identified. Results: Qualitative and quantitative results were organized into three themes: the nature and extent of sexting, motivation for sexting and the consequences and outcomes of sexting. This mixed-methods systematic review shows that sexting is widespread among youth, there are various reasons for involvement in it and it can have both positive and negative consequences. Conclusion: The results of this study may be helpful to both practitioners working with youth and policy makers to better understand the phenomenon of sexting.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 10, No 3 (2022)
Quantum Melting of the Quasi-Two-Dimensional Vortex Lattice in kappa-(ET)2Cu(NCS)2
Creators: name: Brooks, J. S.
name: Hill, S.
name: Mola, M. M.
name: Qualls, J. S.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Análisis y proyecciones de la industria atunera en la costa Atlántica Colombiana
Creators: name: Lopez Herrera, Carolina De Jesús
name: Puello Arnedo, Ana Josefa
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2002
Subjects: Atún - Industria y comercio
Tesis - Administración Industrial

description: Tesis (Administrador Industrial)-- Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Programa de Administración Industrial, 2002.
description: El análisis realizado en este trabajo tiene como principal finalidad la formulación de cursos de acción que sirvan de base para las decisiones tomadas por los empresarios del sector atunero, buscando que estas contribuyan a su continuo desarrollo y estabilidad, lo que se debe ver reflejado en importantes aportes a la sociedad, el medio ambiente y la economía nacional.Para poder definir los cursos de acción que se recomiendan, se realiza un estudio evaluativo de la documentación relacionada con la competitividad de la Industria Atunera, el marco legal que la regula, la cadena productiva del atún, entre otros, y se analizan las respuestas de entrevistas no estructuradas con funcionarios del sector de la costa atlántica. Para tal fin se hizo uso de información consignada en revistas, folletos, artículos de periódicos, informes, páginas web, etc., que brindaron un gran aporte al desarrollo del trabajo. Actualmente las empresas atuneras de Colombia viven inmersas en una gran incertidumbre respecto a si se renueva o no para el año 2004 el Sistema General de Preferencias arancelarias (SGP) del cual ha sido producto, creado a partir de una decisión unilateral tomada por la Unión Europea que consiste en la reducción del gravamen arancelario para los productos de estas empresas en un 100%, para los países andinos. Así mismo, acuerdos comerciales como el ALCA tienen repercusiones en la estabilidad de las empresas atuneras y, de acuerdo a la estructura de cada una de estas, se puede convertir en un arma de doble filo, puesto que para empresas cuya constitución sea fuerte y se adapte fácilmente a los cambios, el acuerdo le permitirá aprovechar la medida al máximo, incrementando sus niveles de exportación, ofreciendo productos realmente competitivos a nivel internacional, mientras que, una empresa débil e inestable se va a ver amenazada por el ingreso de productos extranjeros a nuestro territorio cuya calidad y precio supere los ofrecidos por empresas nacionales, además del riesgo de la creación de plantas productivas de empresas extranjeras en nuestro país. Por lo anterior se hace necesario que desde ahora, las empresas del sector se apropien de estrategias que les permitan además de asegurar su permanencia en el mercado, la incursión en mercados globales, con productos competitivos tanto en calidad, servicio, precio, etc.
Assessing Sleep Habits in Italian Community-Dwelling Adolescents: Psychometric Properties of the School Sleep Habits Survey Scales
Creators: name: Somma, Antonella
name: Marelli, Sara
name: Castronovo, Vincenza
name: Gialdi, Giulia
name: Castelnuovo, Alessandra
name: Mombelli, Samantha
name: Lonati, Irene
name: Masso, Giovanni
name: Fossati, Andrea
name: Ferini-Strambi, Luigi
name: Nosetti, Luana
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2022
Subjects: Sleep–Wake Problems Behaviour Scale; Sleepiness Scale; Morningness/Eveningness Questionnaire; High school student adolescents; Factor structure; Taxometrics.

description: Background. In the field of adolescent sleep research, different sleep surveys have been implemented; however, psychometric properties of these instruments have been investigated only minimally. Methods. In order to assess the psychometric properties of the Sleep–Wake Problems Behaviour Scale (SWP), the Sleepiness Scale (SLS), and the Morningness/Eveningness Questionnaire (ME), a moderately large sample of community-dwelling Italian adolescents (N = 778; 59.8% female; mean age = 15.77 years) was administered the Italian translation of the School Sleep Habits Survey. Results. Internal consistency estimates values were satisfactory for all measures; dimensionality analyses suggested a unidimensional structure for SWP, SLS and ME, respectively. Goodness-of-fit statistics for the one-factor model of the SLS, SWP, and ME scale items were adequate for all measures. Non-redundant taxometric analysis results consistently suggested a dimensional latent structure for the SLS, SWP, and ME, respectively. Conclusion. Our findings supported the use of the SLS, SWP, and ME total scores as measures of sleepiness, sleep-wake problem, and morningness/eveningness, at least among Italian community-dwelling adolescents, and encourage practitioners to rely on the conventional percentiles in order to interpret the SLS, SWP, and ME total scores.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 10, No 3 (2022)
Spatial non-adiabatic passage using geometric phases
Creators: name: Benseny, Albert
name: Kiely, Anthony
name: Zhang, Yongping
name: Busch, Thomas
name: Ruschhaupt, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum technologies based on adiabatic techniques can be highly effective, but often at the cost of being very slow. Here we introduce a set of experimentally realistic, non-adiabatic protocols for spatial state preparation, which yield the same fidelity as their adiabatic counterparts, but on fast timescales. In particular, we consider a charged particle in a system of three tunnel-coupled quantum wells, where the presence of a magnetic field can induce a geometric phase during the tunnelling processes. We show that this leads to the appearance of complex tunnelling amplitudes and allows for the implementation of spatial non-adiabatic passage. We demonstrate the ability of such a system to transport a particle between two different wells and to generate a delocalised superposition between the three traps with high fidelity in short times.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures
Challenges of Software Development Projects: In the Case of Information Network Security Agency (INSA)
Creators: name: Weldebrhan, Reda
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: There are various software development project processes and disciplines, based on software engineering's disciplinary approach. This research focuses on the challenges that occur during software development projects and why they occurred. There are so many challenges to produce a quality software product within a time frame and allocated budget. In the dynamic world challenges are inevitable. In a global market, opportunities are clubbed with challenges. Business sustainability is therefore depends on how effectively the businesses convert challenges into opportunities. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches were used to conduct the study and purposive sampling was adopted to gather data. The total sample size taken for the survey was 45 employees of INSA. Data obtained through questionnaire were analyzed using SPSS and Microsoft excel tools. Moreover, the data obtained using interviews was analyzed qualitatively. The questionnaire of the study was conducted using a five Likert scale, namely, strongly disagree, disagree, neutral, agree and strongly agree. The frequency distribution and the percentage of the answers to the questionnaires on the challenges of software development projects in the case of INSA using the 5-point Likert scale shows that 54.68% of the respondents agree on the occurrence of challenges during the software development process, 27.34% of the respondents disagree of the occurrence of the challenges during software development process. The remaining 17.98% of respondents were neutral to the challenges happening during the software development processes. The result shows as there were visible challenges during the software development processes
Experimental Evidence for Intra-Atomic Noncollinear Magnetism at Thin Film Probe Tips
Creators: name: Bode, M.
name: Heinze, S.
name: Kubetzka, A.
name: Pietzsch, O.
name: Wiesendanger, R.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Psychological symptoms and Quality of Life in adults with Chiari malformation type I: an Assessment by the Italian version of Chiari Symptom Profile
Creators: name: Benedetto, Loredana
name: Oró, John J.
name: Mueller, Diane M.
name: Panarello, Deborah
name: Lo Turco, Erica
name: Caruso, Gerardo
name: Germanò, Antonino Francesco
name: Ingrassia, Massimo
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2022
Subjects: Chiari malformation; Quality of Life; Assessment; Anxiety; Depression; Psychological intervention.

description: Chiari malformation type I (CM-I) is a rare condition with physical and neurological manifestation changing across people. Being a chronic and debilitating disease, a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach is needed for evaluating patient’s experienced Quality of Life (QoL) and psychological correlates of CM. Objectives: The aim of this study was to develop the Italian adaptation of Chiari Symptom Profile (CSP), a questionnaire assessing the core symptoms of Chiari malformation and their impact on people’s lives. Secondly, the occurrence of anxiety/depression symptoms and associations with patient-reported QoL were explored. Methods: 172 adults with diagnosed CM-I (N=79 with neurosurgery) completed an online questionnaire measuring general QoL (WHOQOL-brief), disease-related QoL (CSP), and symptoms of anxiety/depression (HADS). Participant’s demographic and clinical data were also collected. Results: The Italian version of CSP showed excellent reliability both in total (Cronbach alpha = .97) and factorial scores (alphas from .87 to .95) assessing four domains of Chiari-related QoL (functional, physical, social, and psychological). For construct validity, significant correlations (p .001) resulted among severity of CM symptoms, social and daily limitations assessed by CSP and general QoL. Participants’ age at neurosurgery and condition (with/without neurosurgery treatment) did not significantly impact QoL scores, but perceived QoL worsened with increasing age. Among participants, 32% reported clinical anxiety and 14% depression symptoms (with higher incidence of depression in non-operated participants). Participants with clinical anxiety/depression reported a worse QoL in all domains of CSP (functional, physical, social, and psychological). Conclusion: Findings suggest the need to include in CM treatment a continuous psychological support, identifying the patients most at risk who, in time, they may experience greater psychological suffering.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 10, No 3 (2022)
Psychological inflexibility components as trans-diagnostic predictors of emotional symptomatology and suicide risk among young adults
Creators: name: Sierra, Marge Alejandra
name: Ortiz, Eliana
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2022
Subjects: Psychological Inflexibility; Emotional Symptomatology; Suicide Risk Contextual Behavioral Science; Risk Factors.

description: Trans-diagnostic approaches assume that most mental health disorders are behavioral manifestations of few functional units that represent a psychological risk towards the development of symptomatology. Psychological inflexibility is one of these trans-diagnostic units and evidence suggest that its components are risk factors that can predict emotional symptomatology and suicide risk levels. The present study aims to establish two classification models that predict the probability of having clinical levels of emotional symptomatology and higher suicide risk based on psychological inflexibility components. 513 people consented and completed an online survey as the only evaluation moment including Depression Anxiety and Stress Scales-21, Acceptance and Action Questionnaire - II, Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire, Perseverative Thinking Questionnaire, Valuing Questionnaire and Generalized Pliance Questionnaire as instruments. Participants had a mean age of approximately 27 years, the majority of them were cisgender, heterosexual and identified as women. Two dichotomous variables were created to classify clinical and high-risk cases, these variables were used as dependent on a backwards conditional binary logistic regression for each. Results show that psychological inflexibility is a trans-diagnostic risk factor for both emotional symptomatology and suicide risk. However, not every component was confirmed as a significant predictor. Experiential avoidance, cognitive fusion and repetitive negative thinking are supported as trans-diagnostic risk factors for emotional symptomatology, while only experiential avoidance and generalized pliance were predictive of a higher risk of committing suicide. In conclusion, the proposed models could be useful to identify clinical symptomatology or a higher risk of suicide, which is essential for the design and implementation of preventive interventions.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 10, No 3 (2022)
New Evidence for a Low-Temperature Magnetic Ground State in Double-Perovskite Iridates with Ir5+(5d4) Ions
Creators: name: Terizc, J.
name: Zheng, H.
name: Ye, Feng
name: Zhao, H. D.
name: Schlottmann, P.
name: De Long, L.
name: Cao, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report an unusual magnetic ground state in single-crystal, double-perovskite Ba2YIrO6 and Sr doped Ba2YIrO6 with Ir5+(5d4) ions. Long-range magnetic order below 1.7 K is confirmed by DC magnetization, AC magnetic susceptibility and heat capacity measurements. The observed magnetic order is extraordinarily delicate and cannot be explained in terms of either a low-spin S=1 state, or a singlet Jeff=0 state imposed by the spin-orbit interactions (SOI). Alternatively, the magnetic ground state appears consistent with a SOI that competes with comparable Hund's rule coupling and inherently large electron hopping, which cannot stabilize the singlet Jeff=0 ground state. However, this picture is controversial, and conflicting magnetic behavior for these materials is reported in both experimental and theoretical studies, which highlights the intricate interplay of interactions that determine the ground state of materials with strong SOI.
description: 6 figures
Strongly Enhanced Orbital Moments and Anisotropies of Adatoms on the Ag(001) Surface
Creators: name: Cabria, I.
name: Dederichs, P. H.
name: Ebert, H.
name: Huhne, T.
name: Nonas, B.
name: Zeller, R.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Exploratory effects of structured mindfulness programs (MBCT and MBSR) on posttraumatic growth, alexithymia and type D personality
Creators: name: Teixeira, Ricardo João
name: Marques, Mariana Vaz
name: Brandão, Tânia
name: Pinto, Raquel
name: Pereira, Anabela
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2022
Subjects: Mindfulness programs; Alexithymia; Type D personality; Posttraumatic growth; Dispositional mindfulness.

description: Background: Mindfulness practices might become an important intervention strategy, but also a prevention approach, with regular practice helping people to cope with adverse daily situations, adopting more conscious attitudes and behaviors, responding, instead of reacting. This exploratory study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of two of the main structured mindfulness-based interventions (MBCT, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy program; and MBSR, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program), applied to adults, to assess their impact on psychological variables. Method: Participants completed self-report measures concerning posttraumatic growth, alexithymia, dispositional mindfulness, and type D personality, in an initial moment (before the program; n=126), in a second moment (at the end of the program; n=44), and in a third moment (four months after the end of the program; n=13), thus fulfilling a 6-month study protocol. Results: The results showed a significant increase in the levels of positive psychological changes after a traumatic event, alexithymia, dispositional mindfulness, and type D personality, after participating in these programs and later, 4 months after the programs have ended, only for the MBCT group. Conclusions: Despite some limitations inherent to this type of study, that future studies should consider, the results reinforce the value of conducting and comparing the efficacy of different mindfulness programs, in isolation, or complementing individual therapy.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 10, No 3 (2022)
Estudio de factibilidad para el montaje de una unidad de servicio integrado automotriz en la ciudad de Cartagena
Creators: name: Calderón Santos, Amelia
name: Cárdenas González, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 1992
Subjects: Estudio de mercado
Estudios de factibilidad
Estudio financiero
Localización

description: Tesis (Administrador de Empresas).--Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Programa de Administración de Empresas, 1992
description: El presente estudio tiene por objeto demostrar si es factible o no instalar una unidad de servicio integrado automotriz en la ciudad de Cartagena que sea confortable y funcional a la altura de los grandes que existen en el país. El cual ofrecería una gran ventaja competitividad cimentada en la gerencia de servicio, atención personalizada y una amplia gama de servicios adicionales dirigidos al cliente.
Assessment of Project Risk Management Practices in Real Estate Projects in Addis Ababa
Creators: name: Manyazewal, Kalkidan
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Real estate projects experience more risks and need to manage them as effectively and efficiently as possible. As many of these projects completed with a budget overrun, a schedule delay and a change in the original scope, managing the risks that cause these problems seems the way to tackle them and attain objectives. This study is conducted with an objective of examining risk management practices among selected real estate projects to find out if risk management is being practiced as it should be theoretically. This is achieved by investigating three real estate projects: Mexico site and Abware site projects that are owned by Flintstone homes and Alemgena site project that is owned by Hassenias real estate. The study uses purposive or judgmental sampling to select respondents that have adequate knowledge and significant role in the projects' risk management practice. Primary data was gathered through interview and survey questionnaires and analyzed using SPSS statistical software by employing tables, percentages and charts. The findings show that, despite the risky nature of real estate projects, risk management is not being implemented and practiced to the level needed and a huge gap is seen between what should be theoretically applied and what is being practiced in the projects. It is also found that project risk management plan is not integrated to the parent organizations' corporate strategic plan and little is being done to develop team members' awareness to risk and its management. It is recommended that real estate projects should improve their risk management practice by identifying risks earlier in the project and planning for them in advance, by integrating risk plan with other organizational and project plans and by developing employees' awareness on risk and its management.
Adverse effects of new psychoactive drug use. Psychological insights of addiction
Creators: name: Ciucă-Anghel, Daniela Madalina
name: Stan, Miriana
name: Anghel, Elena Elisabeta
name: Bălălău, Denisa
name: Paunica, Ioana
name: Dumitriu, Anca Silvia
name: Paunica, Stana
name: Baconi, Daniela Luiza
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2022
Subjects: Addiction; Adler; Behavior; Clinical Psychology; Heroin; NPS; Side effects.

description: Background. When it comes to addicts, the main goal is to solve their addiction, but the real challenge is to understand the patient along with identifying those specific trigger factors that lead to the addictive behavior inset and outlining a pattern for it. Although the current information on drugs is accessible to almost everyone, young people continue to use them, and the national trend is on the rise. Objectives. The present research includes aim to highlight the main side effects experienced in the past by addict patients, currently undergoing methadone substitution treatment at the C.E.T.T.T. St. Stelian in Bucharest. Based mostly on Adlerian concepts, the study aims to outline the possible triggers that determine certain social behaviors, for example, prone to various addictions. Methods. To characterize the study group from a psychological point of view, the methods of qualitative research interview and observation and survey were applied. The possible triggers of addictive behavior were highlighted by comparison with a group of non-drug users who voluntarily participated in the study. Results. The results obtained from the total of 40 subjects included in the study (20 addicts and 20 non-drug users) outlined significant correlations between drug use and the level of education, the sex of the patients, and the degree of awareness of health problems arising from drug use. Drug addicts also identified addiction as a lifeline to their problems. Violence and a history of an unhappy childhood could also lead to addictive behavior. The connection between place and motive for drug use was also outlined. In some cases, concepts such as inferiority complex, sense of social community or social interest, and self-esteem and compensation have been outlined. Conclusion. Combining toxicology and psychology the anonymous interview/survey used on a wider scale in both detoxification centers and as well as in schools could provide clues on possible prone to various addictions. The research could be therefore useful for the early detection of possible addiction tendencies.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 10, No 3 (2022)
Hamiltonian Simulation by Qubitization
Creators: name: Low, Guang Hao
name: Chuang, Isaac L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the problem of approximating the time-evolution operator $e^{-i\hat{H}t}$ to error $ε$, where the Hamiltonian $\hat{H}=(\langle G|\otimes\hat{\mathcal{I}})\hat{U}(|G\rangle\otimes\hat{\mathcal{I}})$ is the projection of a unitary oracle $\hat{U}$ onto the state $|G\rangle$ created by another unitary oracle. Our algorithm solves this with a query complexity $\mathcal{O}\big(t+\log({1/ε})\big)$ to both oracles that is optimal with respect to all parameters in both the asymptotic and non-asymptotic regime, and also with low overhead, using at most two additional ancilla qubits. This approach to Hamiltonian simulation subsumes important prior art considering Hamiltonians which are $d$-sparse or a linear combination of unitaries, leading to significant improvements in space and gate complexity, such as a quadratic speed-up for precision simulations. It also motivates useful new instances, such as where $\hat{H}$ is a density matrix. A key technical result is `qubitization', which uses the controlled version of these oracles to embed any $\hat{H}$ in an invariant $\text{SU}(2)$ subspace. A large class of operator functions of $\hat{H}$ can then be computed with optimal query complexity, of which $e^{-i\hat{H}t}$ is a special case.
description: 23 pages, 1 figure; v2: updated notation; v3: accepted version
Cuestionario Infodemia. Análisis del consumo de noticias e información de actualidad 2021.
Creators: name: Sánchez-Reina, J Roberto
name: González-Lara, E. Fernanda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Infodemia
COVID-19
Alfabetización Mediática e Informacional

description: Este cuestionario forma parte del Proyecto Infodemia 2021. El estudio ha tenido como objetivo recoger datos relacionados con el consumo de noticias y otra información de actualidad relacionada con la pandemia por la COVID-19. El estudio se encuentra coordinado por el Centro de Investigación y Transferencia Rizoma Redes (México/España), en colaboración con investigadores de la Univesitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (España).
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Evidence for a nematic phase in La$_{1.75}$Sr$_{0.25}$NiO$_{4}$
Creators: name: Zhong, Ruidan
name: Winn, Barry L.
name: Gu, Genda
name: Reznik, Dmitry
name: Tranquada, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Determining the nature of electronic states in doped Mott insulators remains a challenging task. In the case of tetragonal La$_{2-x}$Sr$_{x}$NiO$_{4}$, the occurrence of diagonal charge and spin stripe order in the ground state is now well established. In contrast, the nature of the high-temperature "disordered" state from which the stripe order develops has long been a subject of controversy, with considerable speculation regarding a polaronic liquid. Following on the recent detection of dynamic charge stripes, we use neutron scattering measurements on an $x=0.25$ crystal to demonstrate that the dispersion of the charge stripe excitations is anisotropic. This observation provides compelling evidence for the presence of electronic nematic order.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, plus supplemental 3 pages with 2 figures; final version accepted for publication
Understanding the characteristics of prolonged social withdrawal (hikikomori)
Creators: name: Amendola, Simone
name: Cerutti, Rita
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2022
Subjects: Social withdrawal; Social isolation; Social avoidance; Social distance; Hidden youth.

description: Mental and public health professionals have paid increasing attention to the hikikomori phenomenon. With this letter, we aim to extend scientific knowledge on the characteristics of hikikomori and pre-hikikomori as reported by Italian participants using previously unpublished data. Presented findings suggest that stressful events and difficulties in interpersonal relationships and in adjusting to the increasing life-phase-related social demands may exert a prominent role in leading to hikikomori.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 10, No 3 (2022)
Exact nonequilibrium transport in the topological Kondo effect
Creators: name: Béri, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A leading candidate for experimental confirmation of the non-local quantum dynamics of Majorana fermions is the topological Kondo effect, predicted for mesoscopic superconducting islands connected to metallic leads. We identify an anisotropic, Toulouse-like, limit of the topological Kondo problem where the full nonequilibrium conductance and shot noise can be calculated exactly. Near the Kondo fixed point, we find novel asymptotic features including a universal conductance scaling function, and fractional charge quantisation observable via the Fano factor. In the universal regime, our results apply for generic anisotropy and even away from the Kondo limit as long as the system supports an emergent topological Kondo fixed point. Our approach thus provides key new qualitative insights and exact expressions for quantitative comparisons to future experimental data.
description: v2: accepted version
Análisis de la influencia de una modelación con resortes VS una modelación con zapatas empotradas, en los costos para un edificio de diez pisos y regular en planta
Creators: name: Barreto Contreras, Oscar De Jesús
name: Mercado García, Jesús Javier
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2016
Subjects: Ingenieria de cimentaciones

description: Tesis (Ingeniero Civil)-- Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Ciencias e Ingenierías. Programa de Ingeniería Civil, 2016
description: El objetivo de este trabajo radica en realizar un análisis comparativo de los sistemas de modelación con resortes y la modelación con zapatas empotradas o modelación tradicional, con el fin de determinar las ventajas y desventajas económicas, que permitan la selección del sistema más eficiente según las características propias de una edificación de diez pisos de la ciudad de Cartagena.