Character Strengths and Psychological Well-Being in Workers of a Food Company

The study of character strengths and psychological well-being shows the relevance of creating and maintining healthy organizations by promoting and caring for people´s optimal physical and mental function. The present study has a quantitative approach with a descriptive-correlational scope and it was carried out in a company of the agri-food sector with the participation of 95 employees. The application of instruments was carried out in a period of three weeks in two different forms: in person and written down. The results show the close relationship between the presence of Character Strengths and optimal well-being

Nest survival of the Two-Banded Plover (Charadrius falklandicus) population in Northern Chubut Province, Patagonia Argentina

Current efforts to monitoring the Two-Banded Plover (Charadrius falklandicus), an endemic shorebird to southern South America, have provided information on their breeding biology at beaches with human disturbance in northern Patagonia, Argentina. We estimate annual nest survival and describe causes of nest failure at two beaches with high and low levels of human disturbance located in Puerto Madryn (42°S, 65°W). Fieldwork surveys were conducted by foot using the nearest road track between October and December, 2012. We recorded spatial coordinates of each nest and the distance to the: high tide line, road track, nearest con-specific nest. We floated eggs to estimate hatching dates and nests were monitored 3-5 weekly to verify success (≥1 egg hatched) or failure (human impact, flooding, abandoned, and predation). We used encounter histories for 41 nests found throughout an 89-day nesting season to estimate the DSR (Daily Survival Rate) from the beginning of incubation and analyze competing models with RMark package in R. The most common cause of nest failure at Parana was human impact: vehicles trampled eggs (80%, n=7), followed by predation (20%, n=2). By contrast, at Las Canteras the most common cause was flooding by extraordinary high tides (50%, n=3), followed by parental abandonment (33%, n=2) and human impact (17%, n=1). The DSR was highest in Las Canteras (0.983; n=22), than in Parana (0.966; n=19). Management actions to protect plovers from harmful human disturbance are urgently need it.Fil: Hevia, Glenda Denise. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Centro Nacional Patagónico. Centro para el Estudio de Sistemas Marinos; ArgentinaFil: D'amico, Veronica Laura. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Centro Nacional Patagónico. Centro para el Estudio de Sistemas Marinos; ArgentinaFil: Bertellotti, Néstor Marcelo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Centro Nacional Patagónico. Centro para el Estudio de Sistemas Marinos; ArgentinaFil: Galindo Espinosa, Daniel. No especifíca;Fil: Sandercock, Brett. Kansas State University; Estados UnidosNorth American Ornithological Conference VIWashingtonEstados UnidosSmithsonian Migratory Bird CenterAmerican Ornithological Societ

La constitución de sujetos - usuarios frente a los discursos del Trabajo Social en formación en tres campos de práctica profesional: Registraduría Nacional del Estado Civil (RNEC), Instituto Nacional Penitenciario y Carcelario (INPEC) y Consultorio Social MInuto de Dios de Zipaquirá (CSMDZ), desde una perspectiva posestructualista

El presente documento recupera experiencias de la vida cotidiana y acercamientos teóricos en torno a la constitución de sujetos en tres campos específicos de desarrollo profesional de la Corporación Universitaria Minuto Dios. Esta investigación se basa por un lado, en la perspectiva posestructuralista, específicamente en la del filósofo francés Michel Foucault, quien plantea un análisis del ejercicio del poder en la cotidianidad, a partir de los discursos que están inmersos en ella; y por otro lado, la perspectiva psicoanalítica, desde los planteamientos de Jacques-Alain Miller, quien representa postulados Lacanianos, los cuales proponen una mirada hacia el sujeto que va más allá de la mirada de individuo, reflexionando de una manera alternativa la constitución de sujeto en relación con los discursos; en consecuencia, ésta aporta desde el Trabajo Social crítico, un análisis del ejercicio académico-profesional, posibilitando la construcción y deconstrucción de discursos y prácticas frente a la realidad, bajo tres categorías de análisis: Poder, Sujeto y concepción en Trabajo Social

The Vehicle, Fall 2000

Vol. 42, No. 1 Table of Contents I Never Even Knew the Room NumberJeremy Hartzellpage 5 Charcoal Sketches of the MoonAlex Cardonapage 6 A Street, a Cat, the Sky, my Shoes, my Feet, TonightJanet Windeguthpage 7 Mainlining AmoreShanna Hullpage 9 Forest ChoirJeremy Hartzellpage 10 Ritual Timepiece ConfigurationsStella Linkpage 11 Carpe DiemRobb Dunnpage 12 Lost in AmericaTodd Beardpage 13 NeurastheniaBen Erwinpage 14 CowardVeronica Espinosapage 15 UntitledCarrie Smiglapage 16 When I Close My EyesJeremy Hartzellpage 17 Brigstaff ButterflyShanna Hullpage 18 Mice in the MotelRobb Dunnpage 19 The EscapeShanna Hullpage 21 RunningNicholas Janquartpage 29https://thekeep.eiu.edu/vehicle/1073/thumbnail.jp

The Vehicle, Fall 2000

Vol. 42, No. 1 Table of Contents I Never Even Knew the Room NumberJeremy Hartzellpage 5 Charcoal Sketches of the MoonAlex Cardonapage 6 A Street, a Cat, the Sky, my Shoes, my Feet, TonightJanet Windeguthpage 7 Mainlining AmoreShanna Hullpage 9 Forest ChoirJeremy Hartzellpage 10 Ritual Timepiece ConfigurationsStella Linkpage 11 Carpe DiemRobb Dunnpage 12 Lost in AmericaTodd Beardpage 13 NeurastheniaBen Erwinpage 14 CowardVeronica Espinosapage 15 UntitledCarrie Smiglapage 16 When I Close My EyesJeremy Hartzellpage 17 Brigstaff ButterflyShanna Hullpage 18 Mice in the MotelRobb Dunnpage 19 The EscapeShanna Hullpage 21 RunningNicholas Janquartpage 29https://thekeep.eiu.edu/vehicle/1073/thumbnail.jp

Evaluation of comparative advantages in the profitability and competitiveness of the small-scale dairy system of Tulancingo Valley, Mexico

This article combines a Policy Analysis Matrix with a sensitivity and poverty line analysis with the objective of evaluating the economic contribution of comparative advantages to the private profitability and competitiveness of small-scale dairy systems. For 1 year, socioeconomic data were collected from 82 farms selected from four strata via statistical sampling. Two scenarios were established to determine the quantitative contribution of comparative advantages: (1) a simulated scenario, which accounted for the cost of purchasing the total food and the opportunity cost of the family labour force (FLF), and (2) an actual production scenario, which accounted for the cost of producing food and eliminating the payment of the FLF and included other incom

Manganese Inhalation Induces Dopaminergic Cell Loss: Relevance to Parkinson’s Disease

Parkinson’s disease (PD) experimental models are crucial in the assessment of possible therapies. Nevertheless, even though PD was one of the first neurodegenerative conditions to be modeled, there are limitations such as spontaneous recovery; lack of bilateral damage, which is a PD characteristic; animal intensive care after neurotoxin administration; and ultrastructural and biochemical nonspecific alterations but mostly the neurodegenerative time course observed in humans. In this chapter, we investigated the effects of divalent and trivalent manganese inhalation on rats and mice to obtain a novel PD animal model inducing bilateral and progressive dopaminergic cell death. We found that after 5 or 6 months of inhalation, there was more than 70% decrease in the number of TH-immunopositive neurons, and these alterations are correlated with an evident motor performance deficits manifested as akinesia, postural instability, and action tremor. More interesting is the fact that these alterations were reverted with l-DOPA treatment, implying that the motor alterations are associated with nigrostriatal dopaminergic innervation, postulating new light for the understanding of manganese neurotoxicity as an appropriate PD experimental model. Our results are contributing to the development of a suitable PD animal model, reproducible, sensitive, time-efficient, and readily applicable behavioral tests

Comparison of uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery pulmonary anatomic resections with multiport robotic-assisted thoracic surgery: a multicenter study of the European experience

Background: Robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) has seen increasing interest in the last few years, with most procedures primarily being performed in the conventional multiport manner. Our team has developed a new approach that has the potential to convert surgeons from uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) or open surgery to robotic-assisted surgery, uniportal-RATS (U-RATS). We aimed to evaluate the outcomes of one single incision, uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (U-RATS) against standard multiport RATS (M-RATS) with regards to safety, feasibility, surgical technique, immediate oncological result, postoperative recovery, and 30-day follow-up morbidity and mortality. Methods: We performed a large retrospective multi-institutional review of our prospectively curated database, including 101 consecutive U-RATS procedures performed from September 2021 to October 2022, in the European centers that our main surgeon operates in. We compared these cases to 101 consecutive M-RATS cases done by our colleagues in Barcelona between 2019 to 2022. Results: Both patient groups were similar with respect to demographics, smoking status and tumor size, but were significantly younger in the U-RATS group [M-RATS =69 (range, 39-81) years; U-RATS =63 years (range, 19-82) years; P<0.0001]. Most patients in both operative groups underwent resection of a primary non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) [M-RATS 96/101 (95%); U-RATS =60/101 (59%); P<0.0001]. The main type of anatomic resection was lobectomy for the multiport group, and segmentectomy for the U-RATS group. In the M-RATS group, only one anatomical segmentectomy was performed, while the U-RATS group had twenty-four (24%) segmentectomies (P=0.0006). All M-RATS and U-RATS surgical specimens had negative resection margins (R0) and contained an equivalent median number of lymph nodes available for pathologic analysis [M-RATS =11 (range, 5-54); U-RATS =15 (range, 0-41); P=0.87]. Conversion rate to thoracotomy was zero in the U-RATS group and low in M-RATS [M-RATS =2/101 (2%); U-RATS =0/101; P=0.19]. Median operative time was also statistically different [M-RATS =150 (range, 60-300) minutes; U-RATS =136 (range, 30-308) minutes; P=0.0001]. Median length of stay was significantly lower in U-RATS group at four days [M-RATS =5 (range, 2-31) days; U-RATS =4 (range, 1-18) days; P<0.0001]. Rate of complications and 30-day mortality was low in both groups. Conclusions: U-RATS is feasible and safe for anatomic lung resections and comparable to the multiport conventional approach regarding surgical outcomes. Given the similarity of the technique to uniportal VATS, it presents the potential to convert minimally invasive thoracic surgeons to a robotic-assisted approach

Processes in meat oxidation and usage of rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus (L.) Schleid.,) as a natural antioxidant

Objective: Lipid oxidation of meat is one of the most important factors affecting shelf life and is one of the decisive factors in the consumer's purchase decision of the product. Therefore, information related to lipid oxidation using rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus (L.) Schleid.) as a natural antioxidant is described and analyzed. Design/methodology/approach: Mechanisms of oxidation were explored and described, as well as the alternatives to stop this process and different methodologies to measure antioxidant activity and innovative alternatives that are currently being investigated. Results: Appling antioxidants is one of the most widely used methods to counteract the oxidation process in meat. Currently, using herbs and spices has gained great acceptance, as in the case of rosemary. Its usage obtained satisfactory results for inhibiting and delaying lipid oxidation. Limitations of the study/implications: Using rosemary may have some drawbacks such as incorporating a strong flavor to the meat and the effects that its active compounds may have when exposed to oxygen, heat and humidity. Therefore, it is necessary to research for alternatives that will allow better preservation and availability of its compounds. Findings/conclusions: Nanoencapsulation of rosemary may be an alternative to the drawbacks of its use, working as a protective barrier for improved performance and improving food safety. However, this innovation is just being explored and is therefore not possible to have a certainty of success when using these new technological alternatives

Vejez y vulnerabilidad. Retratos de casos y perfiles de estudio en contextos diversos: grandes regiones, localidades rurales y territorios migrantes

México está inmerso en una acelerada transición demográfica, es el séptimo lugar entre los países con envejecimiento acelerado en Latinoamérica, con 9.7% de adultos mayores de 60 años (CONAPO, 2013). La investigación en nuestro país en torno a los sectores envejecidos tiene ya más de un cuarto de siglo, y ha contribuido al desarrollo de los estudios sobre este grupo de la población bajo las tendencias no sólo locales y regionales, sino también internacionales; respondiendo a las necesidades sociales que se modifican a través de la historia.Desde el área de especialización de cada autor, se pone particular atención en las condiciones de la vida cotidiana y las estrategias que se generan para enfrentar y reducir la vulnerabilidad, así como en los retos que se afrontarán por e l tendiente proceso de envejecimiento de la población, principalmente en los ámbitos socioculturales y de salud.Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Méxic