Association between the five factor personality dimensions and psychopathology symptoms

Treball Final de Grau en Psicologia. Codi: PS1048. Curs: 2018/2019.The 53-item Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI-53), a shorter version of the revised version of the Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90-R), is a widely used questionnaire that measures the internalizing symptoms of depression, phobic anxiety and obsessioncompulsion, as well as the externalizing symptom of hostility/aggression, the idea thought disorder of paranoid ideation and also somatization, in addition to the Global Scale Severity Index (GSI). The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between the five-factor model (FFM) personality dimensions and the 46- item Spanish version of the BSI (BSI-46) scales. A sample of 76 participants answered the Spanish version of the Big Five Personality Trait Questionnaire (BFPTSQ) and the Spanish BSI-46. The measures were administered online using the application Qualtrics. We hypothesized that (a) emotional stability would be mainly related to internalizing disorders, paranoid ideation, somatization and, to a lesser extent, hostility/aggression; (b) (low) agreeableness (antagonism) would be related to hostility/aggression; (c) introversion would be related to depression and obsessivecompulsive symptoms; (d) openness would be associated with the symptoms of paranoid ideation; and (e) the GSI would be related to emotional stability, antagonism, (low) conscientiousness and introversion. As predicted, emotional stability (low neuroticism) was related to all scales of psychological disorders. Antagonism was related to hostility/aggression. Introversion was related to symptoms of depression but, contrary to what we had hypothesized, it was not associated with obsessivecompulsive symptoms. Although it was predicted that openness would be associated with paranoid ideation symptoms, the results did not confirm this hypothesis. Finally, the GSI only showed association with emotional stability, although we expected it to be related to antagonism, (low) conscientiousness and introversion. Taking into account the results, we may conclude that the personality dimensions of the FFM are relevant in relation to psychopathological symptoms.El Inventario Breve de Síntomas de 53 ítems (BSI-53), una versión más corta de la versión revisada de la Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90-R), es un cuestionario ampliamente utilizado que mide los síntomas internalizantes de depresión, ansiedad fóbica y obsesión-compulsión, así como el síntoma externalizante de hostilidad/agresión, el trastorno del pensamiento ideación paranoide y también la somatización, además del índice de gravedad global (GSI). El objetivo del presente estudio fue examinar la relación entre las dimensiones de personalidad del modelo de cinco factores y la versión española de 46 ítems de las escalas BSI (BSI-46). Una muestra de 76 participantes contestó la versión española del cuestionario de los cinco factores de personalidad (BFPTSQ) y el BSI-46 en español. Las escalas fueron administradas online utilizando la aplicación Qualtrics. Nuestras hipótesis eran que (a) la estabilidad emocional estaría relacionada principalmente con los trastornos de internalización, la ideación paranoide, la somatización y, en menor medida, la hostilidad/agresión; (b) la (baja) amabilidad (antagonismo) estaría relacionada con la hostilidad/agresividad; (c) la introversión estaría relacionada con la depresión y los síntomas obsesivos-compulsivos; (d) la apertura estaría asociada con los síntomas de la ideación paranoide; y (e) el GSI estaría relacionado con la estabilidad emocional, antagonismo, la (baja) responsabilidad y la introversión. Como se predijo, la estabilidad emocional (bajo neuroticismo) se relacionó con todas las escalas de trastornos psicológicos. El antagonismo estaba relacionado con la hostilidad/agresión. La introversión estaba relacionada con los síntomas de la depresión pero, contrariamente a lo que habíamos hipotetizado, no estaba asociada con los síntomas obsesivo-compulsivos. Aunque se predijo que la apertura estaría asociada con los síntomas de la ideación paranoide, los resultados no confirmaron esta hipótesis. Finalmente, el GSI solo mostró asociación con la estabilidad emocional, aunque esperábamos que estuviera relacionado con el antagonismo, (baja) responsabilidad e introversión. Teniendo en cuenta los resultados, podemos concluir que las dimensiones de personalidad del Modelo de Cinco Factores son relevantes en relación con los síntomas psicopatológicos

Creativity and innovation in education. Case-study

Treball Final de Grau en Administració d'Empreses. Codi: AE1049. Curs 2018-201

Anàlisi comparativa de la traducció al català i al castellà dels 300 títols de les 300 pel.lícules nord-americanes més taquilleres compreses entre 1980 i 2010

Amb la intenció de descobrir per què alguns títols de pel·lícules han estat traduïts amb menys encert que alguns altres al llarg dels anys, en el present treball s’ha realitzat una anàlisi comparativa de la traducció al català i al castellà d’un seguit de títols de films originals en anglès segons les tècniques de traducció emprades. A més d’haver esbrinat amb quina tècnica s’havia traduït cadascun dels 300 títols seleccionats, també s’ha analitzat la freqüència d’ús d’aquestes tècniques entre les dècades dels 80 i del 2010 per tal d’observar quina havia estat la tendència d’us de les mateixes i, així, extreure’n les conclusions

An algorithm to identify the most motivated employees

This article is (c) Emerald Group Publishing and permission has been granted for this version to appear here (please insert the web address here). Emerald does not grant permission for this article to be further copied/distributed or hosted elsewhere without the express permission from Emerald Group Publishing Limited.Purpose - In this paper, the aim is to present an algorithm to identify the most motivated employees according to the corporate human resources policies applied in a knowledge-based company. Design/methodology/approach - First, the author presents a complete table with motivation factors found in the literature. Then, a fuzzy tool, i.e. an adequacy index, is used in order to include subjectivity and uncertainty from personal perceptions both from employees and managers in the model. Findings - An algorithm to identify the most motivated employees according to corporate motivation policies designed by managers is found. 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Porous catalysts Separate to accumulate: A sequential templating technique yields bifunctional catalysts with controlled separation of cooperative catalytic functionalities

Corma Canós, A. (2016). Porous catalysts Separate to accumulate: A sequential templating technique yields bifunctional catalysts with controlled separation of cooperative catalytic functionalities. Nature Materials. 15(2):134-136. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/101669S13413615

Heterogeneous catalysis: understanding the fundamentals for catalyst design

[EN] Taking the chemoselective hydrogenation of substituted nitroaromatics as a base case, it will be shown that it is possible to design improved and new catalysts by attacking the problem in a multidisciplinary way. By combining molecular modeling with in situ operando spectroscopy, and with micro-kinetic and isotopic studies, it is possible to determine how and where on the catalysts the reactant molecules interact. Then, materials synthesis methods can be applied to prepare catalysts with the desired surface active sites and their selective interaction with the reactants.This work was funded by the Spanish Government (Severo Ochoa program SEV2012-0267). The support of the European Union by (ERC-AdG-2014-671093 – SynCatMatch) is also acknowledged.Corma Canós, A. (2016). Heterogeneous catalysis: understanding the fundamentals for catalyst design. Faraday Discussions of the Chemical Society. 188:9-20. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6fd00066eS92018

El impuesto sobre el incremento del valor de los terrenos de naturaleza urbana (IIVTNU)

Treball Final de Grau en Gestió i Administració Pública. Codi: GA1242. Curs acadèmic 2015-201

Fuzzy Modeling Approach to On-Hand Stock Levels Estimation in (R, S) Inventory Systems with Lost Sales

[EN] Purpose: One challenge in inventory control models is to know the stock available at the beginning of the cycle to satisfy future demands, i.e. to know the on-hand stock levels at order delivery. For inventory managers, this knowledge is necessary to both determine service levels and establish the control parameters of the inventory policy. However, the calculation of on-hand stock levels when unfilled demand is lost is mathematically complex since on-hand stock cannot be negative by definition. The purpose of this paper is to propose a new approach to estimate on-hand stock levels when the inventory is periodically reviewed and unfilled demand is lost, through the use of fuzzy techniques. Design/methodology/approach: This paper applies fuzzy set techniques for the calculation of the on-hand stock levels at order delivery in the lost sales context, based on the uncertainty that real demand introduces. To this end, we propose a new approach based on modeling the on-hand stock as an imprecise Markov chain using possibility functions, which reduces significantly the computational effort required to obtain the on-hand stock levels. Findings: To illustrate the performance of the proposed method, two experiments are carried out. The first experiment shows that the proposed fuzzy method correctly calculates on-hand stock levels with insignificant deviation with respect the exact vector. Additionally, the results illustrate that the fuzzy method simplifies the calculation and highly reduces the computational efforts. The second experiment shows the performance of the fuzzy method when it is used to estimate service levels by means of the fill rate. The results show that the proposed method accurately estimates the fill rate with average deviations lower than 0.00015. Practical implications: Knowing the on-hand stock vector is important for inventory managers to establish the control parameters of the system, i.e. to determine the minimum base stock level, S, that guarantees the achievement of a target service level. The difficulty of this estimation is that to obtain the on-hand stock vector in a lost sales context requires a huge computational effort and it is difficult to implement in companies' information systems. However, the proposed fuzzy method leads to a very accurate calculation of the on-hand stock vector significantly reducing the computational costs, which makes this method easily implementable in practical environments. Originality/value: Fuzzy set techniques have been widely used in inventory models to introduce the uncertainty of demand, costs or shortage. However, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper which deals directly with fuzzy estimation of on-hand levels.This work was supported by Generalitat Valenciana under the project with reference GV/2017/032.Guijarro, E.; Babiloni, E.; Canós-Darós, MJ.; Canós-Darós, L.; Estelles Miguel, S. (2020). Fuzzy Modeling Approach to On-Hand Stock Levels Estimation in (R, S) Inventory Systems with Lost Sales. Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management. 13(2):464-474. https://doi.org/10.3926/jiem.3071S46447413