Impact of the Nursing Home Visit to the newborn/ infant/family

Objective: To identify the impact of the home visit to the newborn/infant/family, when performed by nurses, on the health and well-being of the child and family. Methodology: A systematic review of the literature was carried out following the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology, based on a research on the EBSCO and pubmed platform, and bibliographical references of the articles found, with the chronological frieze 2010 and 2017. Were included Randomized controlled trials evaluating the impact of the home visit of nursing performed when they were newborns/infants, in the health and wellbeing of the child and family, in children/adolescents/families. Results: We selected 11 articles, randomized controlled trials, 7 experimental and 4 follow-up. The data systematization process was carried out using tables that facilitated the analysis of the studies. We have found studies that evaluate the impact of the home visit to the newborn/infant/family in the short (2) and long (9) term, developed with great heterogeneity in the intervention of the home visit performed and evaluated impacts, but the results show gains in the well-being of children and families. Conclusions: It is evident from the results found that the home visit of the newborn/ infant/family, performed by nurses, has a positive impact on the health and well-being of the child and the family

The Impact of Cognitive versus Affective Aspects on Consumer Usage of Financial Service Delivery Channels

This paper explores the consumer decision-making process when using service delivery channels. Among service delivery channels, the main focus of the research concerns technology-based delivery channels. Technology continues to change the delivery function of companies and to affect customers’ usage decisions regarding the delivery channels available. Understanding how customers react to the technology-content of channels and decide how to use the delivery channels of the firm is a key asset for achieving profitability and differentiation. This conclusion is particularly valuable as firms address the financial impact of new technology-based channels and their success in transferring low value-added transactions to electronic channels. Despite the development of new technology-based delivery channels, there is limited knowledge about how customers react to, choose and use these channels. The paper addresses this research void by developing a model that describes customers’ attitudes and usage frequency behavior in the context of banking delivery channels. A set of hypotheses concerning affective and cognitive determinants of consumers’ behavior is derived from the model. These hypotheses were generated after extensive research into the fields of services marketing, psychology and innovation theories, together with insights provided by a series of in-depth interviews conducted with bank managers and customers. A questionnaire was mailed to users of the four main bank delivery channels. The findings demonstrate that consumer decision concerning usage frequency differs between delivery channels, and illustrate which factors should be stressed in order to affect this decision.

A Survey on the Economics of Behaviour-Based Price Discrimination

Economists have long been interested in understanding the profit, consumer surplus and welfare effects of an ancient marketing strategy: Price Discrimination. While it is not new that firms try frequently to segment customers in order to price discriminate, what has dramatically changed, with recent advances in information technologies, is the quality of consumer-specific data now available in many markets and how this information has been used by firms for price discrimination purposes. Specifically, thanks to information technology it is nowadays increasingly feasible for sellers to segment customers on the basis of their purchasing histories and to price discriminate accordingly. This form of price discrimination has been named in the literature as Behaviour-Based Price Discrimination (BBPD). For a long time economists have been concerned in understanding the economic effects of price discrimination in monopolistic markets. However, because imperfect competition is undoubtedly the most common economic setting, recent research on the field has been concerned with the following issues. Firstly, how are profit, consumer surplus and welfare affected when firms practice some form of price discrimination in imperfectly competitive markets? Secondly, in which circumstances may competitive firms have an incentive to price discriminate or rather to avoid it? As we will see, conclusions regarding the profit and welfare effects of price discrimination are strongly dependent upon the form of price discrimination, which in turn depends upon the form of consumer heterogeneity and the different instruments available for price discrimination. Basically, the aim of this survey is to clarify the two aforementioned issues in imperfectly competitive markets.

Price discrimination and targeted advertising: a welfare analysis

We present a monopolistic model of price discrimination by means of targeted informative advertising. Targeting is defined as the ability of the monopolistic to direct messages with differentiated contents to groups of buyers with different valuations for the good. We show that only if targeting is perfect will the monopolistic behave in a socially desirable way.informative advertising, targeting, price discrimination

Competitive Targeted Advertising with Price Discrimination

This paper investigates the effects of price discrimination by means of targeted advertising in a duopolistic market where the distribution of consumers' preferences is discrete and where advertising plays two major roles. It is used by firms as a way to transmit relevant information to otherwise uninformed consumers, and it is used as a price discrimination device. We compare the firms' optimal marketing mix (advertising and pricing) when they adopt mass advertising/non-discrimination strategies and targeted advertising/price discrimination strategies. If firms are able to adopt targeted advertising strategies, we find that the symmetric price equilibrium is in mixed strategies, while the advertising is chosen deterministically. Our results also unveil that as long as we allow for imperfect substitutability between the goods, ?rms do not necessarily target more ads to their own market. In particular, firms' optimal marketing mix leads to higher advertising reach in the rival's market than in the firms' own market, provided that advertising costs are sufficiently low in relation to the consumer's reservation value. The comparison of the optimal marketing-mix under mass advertising strategies and targeted advertising strategies reveals that targeted advertising might constitute a tool to dampen price competition. In particular, if advertising costs are sufficiently low in relation to the value of the goods, we obtain that average prices with non-discrimination (mass advertising) are below those with price discrimination and targeted advertising (regardless of the market segment). Accordingly, when (i) goods are imperfect substitutes, (ii) advertising is not too expensive, and (iii) targeted advertising constitutes an effective price discrimination tool, price discrimination through targeted advertising may be detrimental to social welfare since it boosts industry profits at the expense of consumer surplus.

La lengua jaqi aru (aymara) como elemento de identidad

A partir de un enfoque que rechaza las identidades sociales y étnicas como esencias ontológicas puras y ahistóricas, y considerándolas, al contrario, como construcciones cronológicamente ubicables, resultado de procesos complejos de larga duración, se discutirá el papel que juega el idioma en la autoidentificación de los aymara peruanos. Se dividirá el artículo en dos secciones. En la primera, se discutirá el punto de vista de los actores sociales en relación a la lengua aymara y, en la segunda, se mostrará la manera en que el Estado peruano define a los aymara a través de los censos basados en un indicador exclusivamente lingüístico. Se tendrán en cuenta, además, las demandas indígenas de participación en la construcción de los parámetros censuales y la carga inferiorizante que la lengua aymara ha padecido en el curso de la historia con respecto al más prestigiado castellano. Paraules clau: Lengua, identidad, aymara, Perú, censo Abstract This paper starts from an approach that rejects the notion of social and ethnic identities as pure and ahistorical ontological essences, and instead takes them to be chronologically locatable constructions resulting from complex long-duration processes. The article is divided into two sections. First, I will discuss the social actor's point of view in reference to the Aymara language. Second, I will show how the Peruvian state defines the Aymaras through the census, using an exclusively linguistic marker. Indigenous demands for participation in the construction of the census parameters are considered, as well as the asymmetric treatment of the Aymara language as inferior in relation to Spanish, which has historically enjoyed a position of prestige. Key words: language, identity, Aymara, Peru, censu

Relational Aggression: A Classroom Guidance Activity with Middle School Students

A graduate student created and implemented a classroom guidance activity with middle school students on the topic of relational aggression. The purpose of this activity was to promote awareness on the prevalence of relational aggression and measure the sample student’s participation in relationally aggressive behaviors. A twenty item pre and postsurvey on aggression was given to a sample of 75 students at a Western New York middle school. The sample included 41 females and 34 males, ranging in age from 12-14. The sample included students from Caucasian, African American, Hispanic, and Asian racial backgrounds. Also included is a review of the current literature on relationally aggressive behaviors, differences in boys and girls in respect to relational aggression, the importance of relationships, cliques and popularity, the impact of aggression, and rationale for school based awareness and intervention. The project demonstrated that most students reported relationally aggressive behaviors before the classroom guidance activity was presented. There was an approximate 7% decrease in relationally aggressive behaviors on 17 of the survey items. Three of the survey items showed a 6% increase in reported behavior after the guidance activity. The project demonstrated that relational aggression occurs among boys and girls, and that it occurs across different racial groups. It also demonstrated that relational aggression is an important issue among middle school students. Implications for school based awareness, prevention, and intervention are necessary to combat relational aggression are also presented

Search for the Supersymmetric Higgs boson in the pp -> b + Phi; Phi -> bb-bar channel with the CMS detector at LHC.

In this thesis the analysis performed for the search of the Higgs boson predicted by the Minimal Super-symmetric Standard Model (MSSM) is presented. The process on which the search is grounded is the Higgs boson production in association with b-quarks with the subsequent decay in a b-quark pair. The analyzed data sample has been recorded by the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland, during the 2011 data-taking. The data sample consists of a total integrated luminosity of L = 4.8 fb-1, recorded with different trigger paths along the 2011 LHC operations. The trigger have been updated during the data-taking in order to cope with the increasing pp collisions instantaneous luminosity provided by the LHC. The background to the signal events has been estimated through two data-driven methods. The systematic uncertainties related to the background have been estimated for both the shape and normalization. The signal is modeled through Monte Carlo simulation technique for different hypothesis of the Higgs boson mass. The systematic uncertainties related to the signal model, from different sources, have been estimated. A possible signal contribution in the analyzed data sample is investigated through a t to the data using the background templates estimated from the data-driven methods and the signal model from Monte Carlo simulation. The systematic uncertainties, as well as the statistics uncertainties, for both the signal and background have been taken into account in the t. The results are compatible with the expected background within the statistics and systematic uncertainties. No signal is found in the data within the sensitivity of the analysis. The sensitivity of the analysis has been calculated in the background only hypothesis. This is reported as upper limits on the cross section of the Higgs boson produced in association with two b-quarks times the branching ratio of the decay into a b-quark pair. This values are also interpreted as upper limits on parameters of the MSSM model. The results of the analysis discussed in this thesis have been combined with those obtained by the DESY (Hamburg, Germany) CMS group, exploiting a different analysis strategy for searching the Higgs boson in the same channel. The combined upper limits from the two analysis improve the sensitivity of the CMS experiment to a Higgs boson signal produced through the tested channel with respect to the single analysis

What do bean, broccoli and tomatoes have in common?

Position Paper of the Horizon 2020 project BRESOV (Breeding for Resilient, Efficient and Sustainable Organic Vegetable production