Technological research methodology to manage organizational change

Change is a process that is part of the nature of people; however, within organizations, it should be seen as an invention that will generate benefits in the markets. The main objective of this work is to design a technological methodology to manage change from seven administrative models. For this, a bibliographic review was carried out; the method applied was analysis-synthesis; the example technique was used to comment; the support instruments were a standard data collection form and a comparative table to analyze this data vertically and horizontally. The methodology was validated in the research units of a local university. The main results were 1) The change of management within organizations is an invention; 2) administrative models of change are used to manage it; 3) but, to be successful in managing change, the methodology of technological research is required in addition to the administrative process

Death in the Scottish curriculum : denying or confronting?

The important role of schools in supporting children experiencing bereavement is established, yet less is known about how school curricula include death as part of life and this limits our understanding of the systemic structures that shape children’s knowledge and experience of death. To address this gap, this paper discusses an analysis of the Scottish curriculum to explore the extent to which death features in compulsory education for children aged 3 to 15 years. The findings show that whilst death is present across the curricula, certain types of ‘knowing’ death are promoted, largely situated across religious teaching, which may limit children’s engagement with the multiple and complex ways in which death features across individual, social, physical, and relational domains. By integrating the concepts of death systems and death ambivalence, the paper develops new knowledge on the interplay between curricula and sense making around death in children’s lives that has practical utility

Geological Characterization, Mapping and Sampling of the Tailing Pond From Cerro El Toro, Region La Libertad-Perú

The present article shows the working methodology of the project field Development and validation of a clean technology for the integral treatment of neutralization of effluents and metallurgical tailings in the use of calcareous agents 1 Geological Characterization 2 Delimitation of the area of environmental influence for legal exploitation 3 Mapping 4 Sampling 5 Calculation of the volume of tailings 6 Study of the environmental impact of legal exploitation relationships It should be noted each one of these activities are important as part of the methodology of work in field which one are developed in the tailing Cerro El Toro which has been divided the aforementioned relationship into 73 sampling points grouped according to the relationships Salinas 1 Salinas 2 Salinas 3 Montoro and Melva whose volume has been determined through the software AutoCAD Civil which has determined that tailings have the following volume Salinas 1 1917 5 m3 Salinas 2 20331 48 m3 Salinas 3 18375 m3 Montoro 668 56 m3 y Melva 27945 5 m3 whose volume allowed the obtention of a representative sample of the tailing for been studied of their Environmental Quality of tailing which gives through the geochemical characterization analysis with the purpose of determining the Real Impact of the pollution of tailing in the mining communities of Shiracmaca and Coigobamb

Explotación de aguas subterráneas mediante sistema convencional y sistema eléctrico

The present investigation was carried out in tubewells with optimum flow rates greater than 20 l/s with casing depths greater than 60 ml, located in the Ilave basin, where tubewells are registered, specifying that only 0.65% corresponds to groundwater. The problem of the altiplano is that most of the infrastructure is to capture surface water, its volumes have strong variations in summer compared to winter, its exploitation involves major engineering constructions, so the alternative of exploiting groundwater is an option, which allowed us to answer the question: How does the technical characteristics of the wells influence the construction costs and operating costs in the exploitation of groundwater. The objective was to determine the influence of construction costs and to establish the influence of operating costs on the profitability of groundwater production using conventional diesel and electric systems. The results allowed to determine that the technical characteristics, construction and operating costs influence the profitability, and the change to an electric system significantly improves the exploitation process.La presente investigación se realizó en los pozos tubulares con caudales óptimos mayores de 20 l/s con profundidades de entubado mayores a 60 ml, ubicados en la cuenca Ilave, donde se registran pozos tubulares, precisando que solo el 0.65% corresponde a aguas subterráneas. El problema del altiplano es  que el mayor número de infraestructura es para captar  aguas superficiales, sus volúmenes presentan fuertes variaciones en verano respecto al invierno, su explotación implica importantes construcciones de ingeniería, por lo que la alternativa de explotar aguas subterráneas es un opción, lo que nos permitió responder la interrogante: Como influye las características técnicas de los pozos en los costos de construcción y costos de operación en la explotación de aguas subterráneas. El objetivo fue determinar la influencia de los costos de construcción y establecer la influencia de los costos de operación en la rentabilidad de la producción de aguas subterráneas mediante el sistema convencional a diésel y sistema eléctrico. Los resultados permitieron determinar que las características técnicas, los costos de construcción y operación influyen en la rentabilidad, y el cambio a un sistema eléctrico del proceso de explotación mejora significativamente

Financial crisis and pension reform in Spain:the effect of labour market dynamics

We analyse the effect of post-financial crisis unemployment dynamics on the Spanish pension system’s financial health using Aggregate Accounting. We compare the basic scenario where the current labour market dynamics persist with a full employment (best-case) scenario. We find that economic risk is the main driver of unsustainability in the short run. However, in the long run, the main driver of expenditures lies in the ageing demographic structure. Our results suggest that future reforms should increase labour market participation but confirm that recent pension reforms do not attain sustainability in the long run, indicating the need of further pension reforms

Impact of COVID-19 on quality of life in Peruvian older adults: construct validity, reliability and invariance of the COV19-Impact on Quality of Life (COV19-QoL) measurement

The aim of the present study was to translate into Spanish and evaluate the psychometric evidence of the Impact on Quality of Life (COV19-QoL) applied to a sample of Peruvian older adults (N = 298; 58.1% women, 41.9% men, mean age 65.34 years [SD = 11.33]). The study used techniques from the Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT). The findings confirmed the single factor structure of the COV19-QoL, high internal consistency reliability, measurement invariance by gender, and all items demonstrated adequate discrimination and difficulty indices. In this sense, the items allow adequate discrimination between low, medium and high levels of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on quality of life. In addition, a greater perceived impact of the pandemic on quality of life is necessary to answer the higher response options of the COV19-QoL. In conclusion, the COV19-QoL is a valid measurement scale of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the quality of life of Peruvian older adults

Burnout Syndrome in Healthcare Personnel from Arequipa City (Peru)

Originales[ES] Introducción: El síndrome de burnout fue descrito por primera vez en 1974 por Freudenberger, y desde entonces ha generado una gran cantidad de investigación sobre sus síntomas más característicos como son el agotamiento emocional, la despersonalización y la baja realización personal. Entre las tres profesiones de mayor riesgo se tiene al personal de salud, los profesores y los policías. Objetivo: El objetivo de la presente investigación fue valorar la prevalencia del síndrome de burnout en personal de salud de la ciudad de Arequipa (Perú), y analizar comparativamente los datos en función del sexo, los ingresos económicos, el estado civil, el tiempo de servicio, el cargo, la profesión y la institución de procedencia. Método: Se trabajó con un diseño de investigación de tipo descriptivo y se aplicó el Inventario de Burnout de Maslach, que consta de 22 ítems y cuenta con adecuados índices de validez y confiabilidad (α= .76). Resultados: Se evaluaron a 213 trabajadores del sector salud que laboran en hospitales y postas de salud de la ciudad. El 35.7% son varones y el 63.8% son mujeres, con 37 años de edad como promedio. Los resultados indican que altos porcentajes de profesionales del sector salud tienen algunos síntomas del síndrome de burnout, y solo un 5.6% tiene el síndrome de burnout en nivel severo. Además, se registraron diferencias entre los trabajadores en función del sexo, el tiempo de servicio, el cargo, la profesión y la institución en la que laboran. [EN] Introduction: Burnout syndrome was described for the first time by Freudenberger in 1974. It has been generating since then a large amount of research about its main symptoms, such as emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and inefficacy. Healthcare personnel, teachers and policemen are described as being amongst the three highest-risk professional jobs.Objective: The aim of the current research was not only to value the prevalence of the burnout syndrome in the health personnel from Arequipa city (Peru), but to compare the data according to genre, economic income, marital status, working period, job tittle, profession and home institution. Method: A descriptive design was used applying the Maslach Burnout Inventory, which consists of 22 items and counts with validity and reliability (α= .76) adequate indexes. Results: 213 people from the healthcare sector who work in hospitals and healthcare centers at Arequipa city were tested. 35,7% are males and 63,8% are females, with an average age of 37 years old. The results indicate that high percentages of professionals in healthcare services suffer some symptoms of burnout syndrome, and only 5,6% have the burnout syndrome at severe levels. Moreover, differences among workers relating genre, working period, job tittle, profession and work institution were registered. Discussion: It was concluded not only that the burnout syndrome have a concerned presence in healthcare personnel, especially in the depersonalization dimension, but also that the differences according to demographic variables could be explained by work environment and job conditions.N

Subarachnoidal Neurocysticercosis non-responsive to cysticidal drugs: a case series

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Neurocysticercosis (NC) is one of the most frequent parasitic diseases of the central nervous system. Cysticidal drugs, albendazole and praziquantel, are generally effective when parasites localize in the parenchyma. In contrast, parasites lodged in the subarachnoid basal cisterns are less responsive to treatment.</p> <p>Case Presentation</p> <p>The clinical and radiological pictures of six Mexican patients non-respondent to cysticidal treatment are presented.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>The possible factors involved in the cysticidal non-response are discussed and hints are provided of potentially useful changes to therapeutic protocols.</p

Energy Landscape and Global Optimization for a Frustrated Model Protein

The three-color (BLN) 69-residue model protein was designed to exhibit frustrated folding. We investigate the energy landscape of this protein using disconnectivity graphs and compare it to a Go model, which is designed to reduce the frustration by removing all non-native attractive interactions. Finding the global minimum on a frustrated energy landscape is a good test of global optimization techniques, and we present calculations evaluating the performance of basin-hopping and genetic algorithms for this system.Comparisons are made with the widely studied 46-residue BLN protein.We show that the energy landscape of the 69-residue BLN protein contains several deep funnels, each of which corresponds to a different β-barrel structure

Pulsed administration for physiological estrogen replacement in mice

Estrogens are important regulators of body physiology and have major effects on metabolism, bone, the immune- and central nervous systems. The specific mechanisms underlying the effects of estrogens on various cells, tissues and organs are unclear and mouse models constitute a powerful experimental tool to define the physiological and pathological properties of estrogens. Menopause can be mimicked in animal models by surgical removal of the ovaries and replacement therapy with 17β-estradiol in ovariectomized (OVX) mice is a common technique used to determine specific effects of the hormone. However, these studies are complicated by the non-monotonic dose-response of estradiol, when given as therapy. Increased knowledge of how to distribute estradiol in terms of solvent, dose, and administration frequency, is required in order to accurately mimic physiological conditions in studies where estradiol treatment is performed. In this study, mice were OVX and treated with physiological doses of 17β-estradiol-3-benzoate (E2) dissolved in miglyol or PBS. Subcutaneous injections were performed every 4 days to resemble the estrus cycle in mice. Results show that OVX induces an osteoporotic phenotype, fat accumulation and impairment of the locomotor ability, as expected. Pulsed administration of physiological doses of E2 dissolved in miglyol rescues the phenotypes induced by OVX. However, when E2 is dissolved in PBS the effects are less pronounced, possibly due to rapid wash out of the steroid. </p