Cultural myopia : a challenge to Spanish education

This paper considers current thinking about intercultural attitudes in Spain. It attempts to demonstrate reasons why the Spanish approach to interculturalism, particularly in schools, has not been at the forefront of societal, governmental, or educational thinking. Until the 1980s Spain's emigration exceeded those entering the country. Today, trends have changed. Following a brief historical account of Spain's pluralistic cultural roots, contemporary views are debated concerning the impact of recent immigration, signalling the dangers of ignoring immigrants' needs and abilities within the community. It is argued by the writers that opportunities are being missed in education (and elsewhere) by the cultural myopia influencing Spanish schools and society. The increasing inspection, linguistically and culturally, is diminishing opportunities for the celebration of the wider cultural diversity that exists. This paper seeks to rouse those in education, whose predispositions lie in societal hierarchy and cultural introversion.peer-reviewe

Linking Old Librarianship to New: Aligning 5-Steps of The Innovator\u27s DNA in Creating Thematic Discovery Systems for the Everglades

This poster presentation from the May 2015 Florida Library Association Conference, along with the Everglades Explorer discovery portal at http://ee.fiu.edu, demonstrates how traditional bibliographic and curatorial principles can be applied to: 1) selection, cross-walking and aggregation of metadata linking end-users to wide-spread digital resources from multiple silos; 2) harvesting of select PDFs, HTML and media for web archiving and access; 3) selection of CMS domains, sub-domains and folders for targeted searching using an API. Choosing content for this discovery portal is comparable to past scholarly practice of creating and publishing subject bibliographies, except metadata and data are housed in relational databases. This new and yet traditional capacity coincides with: Growth of bibliographic utilities (MarcEdit); Evolution of open-source discovery systems (eXtensible Catalog); Development of target-capable web crawling and archiving systems (Archive-it); and specialized search APIs (Google). At the same time, historical and technical changes – specifically the increasing fluidity and re-purposing of syndicated metadata – make this possible. It equally stems from the expansion of freely accessible digitized legacy and born-digital resources. Innovation principles helped frame the process by which the thematic Everglades discovery portal was created at Florida International University. The path -- to providing for more effective searching and co-location of digital scientific, educational and historical material related to the Everglades -- is contextualized through five concepts found within Dyer and Christensen’s “The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the five skills of disruptive innovators (2011). The project also aligns with Ranganathan’s Laws of Library Science, especially the 4th Law -- to save the time of the user.

The expression profile of secondary metabolites in biofilms of B. amyloliquefaciens CECT 8237 biocontrol strain

The contribution of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens CECT 8237 (UMAF6639) strain to the plant protection against bacterial and fungal pathogens is mainly based on: i) the production of antimicrobial compounds, ii) the plant-growth promotion capability and iii) the induction of systemic resistance in plant host. In previous works, we demonstrated the relevant implication of the three families of lipopeptides in the biocontrol activity and biofilm formation on melon leaves. The analysis of the genome sequence revealed features previously identified in other Bacillus strains, such as genes related to biofilm formation, phytostimulation and induction of systemic resistance in the host plant, and novel genomic regions non-conserved within the Bacillus genus, and therefore with potential genes implicated in the biocontrol activity. Considering the relevance of biofilm formation and production of secondary metabolites in biocontrol, we analyzed the expression profile of several secondary metabolites produced by CECT 8237 in biofilm inducing conditions. To do so, we optimized an in situ detection method based on MALDI-TOF analysis of secondary metabolites within the bacterial colony and in supernatants and pellicles of B. amyloliquefaciens biofilms. We found a major accumulation of these secondary metabolites in the core and middle area of the colony and in the spent medium compared to pellicle. Further studies will help elucidating the real implication of these molecules in the bacterial ecology or in its mechanisms of defence, against competitors, and/or offense, against pathogens and its possible relation with the niche they occupy. This work was supported by grants from the Plan Nacional I+D+I (AGL-2012-31968) and Incentivos a Proyectos de Excelencia de la Junta de Andalucía (P10-AGR-57-97), both cofinanced by FEDER funds (EU). This work was also supported by grant from Koppert B.V. (8.06/60.4086) and European Research Council-Starting Grant BacBio ERC637971.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

La responsabilidad social empresarial de una empresa minera y el desarrollo sostenible del distrito de Huamachuco en el año 2021

En el presente trabajo de investigación, se tiene por objetivo determinar la relación que existe entre la Responsabilidad Social Empresarial de una empresa minera y el Desarrollo Sostenible de los pobladores del distrito de Huamachuco en el año 2021. En ese sentido se realizó una investigación cuantitativa con diseño metodológico no experimental – Transversal y de carácter descriptivo - explicativo. Para medir las variables se aplicó como técnica una encuesta la cual se realizó a una muestra de 50 personas pertenecientes al distrito de Huamachuco. Como instrumento se aplicó un cuestionario, el cual es conformado por 32 ítems en una escala de Likert, validada por cuatro expertos en el tema y con una confiabilidad del alfa de Cronbach de 0.821 y 0.713 para cada una de las variables, respectivamente. Para procesar la información se usaron las técnicas de análisis cuantitativo, para estadística descriptiva principalmente la distribución de frecuencias y para análisis inferencial el coeficiente de correlación de R de Pearson, analizada a través del paquete estadístico IBM SPSS versión 26. Los resultados obtenidos mostraros un valor R de 0.313 y un nivel de significancia de 0.027 el cual es menor que α = 0.05, por lo tanto, se afirma que existe una relación entre la responsabilidad social empresarial de una empresa minera y el desarrollo sostenible del distrito de Huamachuco en el año 2021

Pasantia en asistencia en la revisión, modificación, edición y solicitud de información necesaria para la liquidación de contrato de interventoria

En el siguiente trabajo se encuentra las actividades desarrolladas por el pasante para liquidar el proyecto de interventoria, ademas de los conocimientos adquiridos en este procesoThe following work is the Activities of paragraph liquidate the Project through auditing , in addition to the knowledge gained in this proces

Productividad y calidad de servicio de la empresa Repsol Comercial SAC - Puente Piedra – 2021

La presente tesis de investigación titulada: Productividad y calidad de servicio de la empresa Repsol comercial sac - Puente Piedra – 2021, tiene como objetivo general fue Determinar cómo se relaciona la Productividad y la calidad de servicio de la empresa Repsol Comercial sac, Puente Piedra 2021, teniendo como población a los trabajadores en general de la empresa Repsol comercial sac el cual se encuentra conformado por personal administrativo y vendedores de playa. El cual tiene un enfoque cuantitativo ya que se recopilo información para luego procesarlo a través del programa estadístico (SPSS), La metodología que se aplico es Básica – Descriptiva y correlacional con un diseño no experimental – transversal, ya que indagamos conocimientos teóricos sin el hecho que se apliquen. Para ello, se obtuvo como resultados del cruce de información y el spss que las deficiencias en la calidad en la calidad deservicio afectaban directamente a la productividad disminuyendo las ganancias. Se concluye, que el entorno, la interacción y la tecnología están directamente relacionados con una mejora en la calidad del servicio, asimismo se visualiza que los colaboradores ven con un enfoque medio de 6.67% a la calidad del resultado el cual es el proceso final de cómo se sintió el cliente con la atención

The pivotal functionality of the amyloid protein TasA in bacillus physiology and fitness

Biofilms are complex bacterial communities formed on any virtual surface and composed of cells embedded in an extracellular matrix. Studies on Bacillus subtilis have demonstrated this tissue-like structure comprised of diverse exopolymeric substances (eps) including exopolysaccharides, the protein BslA, and TasA and TapA the two main components of the amyloid fibers that confer robustness to the architecture of the biofilm. It has been demonstrated that the genetic pathways involved in formation of biofilms are active in the interaction of B. subtilis with plant surfaces. Indeed, we previously showed that surfactin acts as a self-trigger of biofilm in the plant phylloplane, which connected with the suppressive activity of B. subtilis against phytopathogenic fungi. These findings led us to hypothesize a major contribution of the extracellular matrix in the ecology of B. subtilis in the poorly explore plant phylloplane. In this work, we show that the amyloid protein TasA has a meaningful role in adhesion and biofilm formation over the plant phylloplane, however, despite the inability of the tasA mutant to form a biofilm, it still retained a similar antagonistic activity compared to the wild type strain. An in-depth transcriptomic analysis of the mutant led us to find unexpected variations in the expression levels of over 300 genes, including the overexpression of: i) production of acetoin ii) secondary metabolites and non-ribosomal peptides iii) eps and other biofilm-related components and iv) general stress, among others. These findings suggested that besides the structural role, TasA might have a regulatory function on the physiological stage of the cells. Indeed, an allele of TasA unable to restore biofilm formation allowed us to separate both functions, supporting the importance of this functional amyloid in regulating bacterial physiology and fitness.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech