Hispanic Women\u27s Experiences and Perceptions of Challenges in Higher Education Leadership

A lack of diversity exists in higher education leadership, particularly with Hispanic/Latina women. Differences in cultural backgrounds play a role when leaders who are mostly White consider individuals of other ethnicities for promotion. In 2016, only 3% of all higher education leadership positions were held by Hispanics/Latinos and even a smaller percentage were women. Identifying the challenges Hispanic/Latino women face in competing for leadership roles in higher education is needed to understand the factors needed to be overcome to succeed. A phenomenological qualitative study was conducted with 13 participants to explore how Hispanic/Latina women perceive the higher education work environment regarding their ability to advance and apply this information in supporting their ascension into leadership. Participants included women in higher education leadership positions who self-describe as being Hispanic/Latina. Data analysis was conducted using the modified Van Kaam method and supported by NVivo Software. The interview results indicated Hispanic/Latina women face challenges and experience barriers when ascending into leadership roles. In addition, very few Hispanic/Latinas hold these roles and lack mentors and role models. Furthermore, those who are foreign born experience greater barriers and having an accent is their greatest challenge. Most participants identified themselves as being collectivist and believe that their background and culture plays a role in being considered for ascension in higher education leadership positions. The findings of this study contribute to positive social change by providing insights to higher education administration on the challenges Hispanic/Latina women may face who aspire to ascend into leadership roles

El estrés y desempeño laboral en equipos de trabajo en área covid 19 de un Hospital de Guayaquil, Ecuador 2021

La presente investigación denominado el estrés y desempeño laboral en equipos de trabajo en área covid-19 de un Hospital de Guayaquil, Ecuador 2021 , tuvo como objetivo principal determinar la relación entre el estrés y el desempeño laboral en área covid-19 de un Hospital de la ciudad de Guayaquil, Ecuador, realizado mediante el tipo de investigación básica, mediante un enfoque cuantitativo, de tipo no experimental, de tipo no experimental, descriptivo correlacional, de corte transversal, con una población de 102 profesionales de la salud, utilizando como técnica para la recolección de datos la encuesta, donde se elaboró dos instrumentos para cada una de las variables respectivamente, obteniendo como resultado una relación inversamente proporcional entre el estrés y el desempeño laboral. Además, se utilizó la prueba de normalidad de datos de Kolmogorov Smirnov, donde encontramos una distribución normal en las puntuaciones del estrés y desempeño laboral obteniendo una p-valor<.05, donde rechazamos la Ho y luego realizamos la correlación de Spearman con p valor<.01 concluyendo que se encontró una relación inversamente proporcional entre las dimensiones del estrés y el desempeño laboral, a mayor presencia del estrés el desempeño laboral del personal de salud disminuye

Empresas familiares procesadoras del Sistema Producto Bovinos Leche Chiapas: análisis administrativo y organizacional

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar la gestión de las empresas familiares procesadoras de queso ubicadas en contextos rurales afiliadas al Comité Estatal del Sistema Producto Bovinos Leche Chiapas, a partir de contrastar la teoría administrativa con el análisis organizacional para revisar de qué manera se presenta en estas agrupaciones. Se parte del supuesto de que la transferencia de modelos organizacionales universales genera una reapropiación en el espacio local. Se revisan las principales propuestas teóricas económico-administrativas sobre la empresa familiar y se reflexiona sobre la necesidad de la visión organizacional para su estudio. Se da cuenta del papel del Comité como agente de cambio externo y se presenta la caracterización de la gestión en estas empresas después de recibir algunos cursos de capacitación al respecto. Se busca que la comparación teórica-empírica permita avanzar en el conocimiento sobre la gestión en este tipo de organizaciones y proporcione ideas respecto a cómo avanzar en el diseño e instrumentación de estrategias para promover el desarrollo armonioso de la empresa y de la familia, y facilitar el relevo generacional, considerando las particularidades del contexto.This document’s objective is to analyze what has been done on the management of the family businesses that are dedicated to cheese processing located in rural settings and affiliated to State Committee System-Product-Bovine-Milk Chiapas, to contrast management theory and use the organizational studies to check how it is presented in these clusters, assuming that the transfer of universal model generates appropriation in the local area. It reviews the main administrative-economic theoretical proposals on family businesses and reflects on the need of an organizational studies vision; it analyzes the role of the Committee as an external change agent and presents the characterization of these companies after receiving some training about it. It is intended that the theoretical empirical comparison can move forward in knowledge of management in these organizations and provide ideas about how to advance the design and implementation of strategies to promote the harmonious development of the company and family and facilitate generational change, considering the particularities of the context

Environmental History of Mangrove Vegetation in Pacific West-Central Mexico during the Last 1300 Years

AbstractMangroves are a highly threatened ecosystem due to climate change and human activity, which increases coastal vulnerability. Knowledge about the ecological dynamics of mangroves on a centennial timescale can reveal the different responses in vegetation, which is useful for implementing basic actions for mangrove restoration, conservation and management. A mangrove ecosystem in the Cuyutlán Lagoon area along the Pacific coast of west-central Mexico is significantly altered as a result of industrialization, salt extraction, and road construction. The long-term dynamics of the mangrove ecosystem has also been controlled by Holocene climatic variability. This study reconstructs the environmental history of mangrove vegetation around the Cuyutlán Lagoon during the last ~1300 years in response to periods of human activity and climate change. The reconstruction was performed using paleoecological techniques in sediment cores that include the use of fossil pollen as a proxy for vegetation and magnetic susceptibility and geochemical data (determined by loss-on-ignition and X-ray fluorescence) as a proxy for past environmental changes. The chronology was determined using 14C dating and the age-depth model was constructed by linear interpolation. Redundancy analysis and non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) were used to discern patterns of distribution of the different proxies. Results revealed that the mangrove pollen assemblage of the Cuyutlán Lagoon was dominated by the arboreal taxa Rhizophora mangle, Euphorbiaceae, Moraceae and Pinaceae, herbaceous taxa like Poaceae, Chenopodiaceae/Amaranthaceae, and aquatics such as Typhaceae and Cyperaceae. NMDS showed a clear separation between two events of human activity—the Spanish Occupation of Colima (~AD 1523-1524) and the opening of the Manzanillo port (~AD 1824-1825). Climate change events such as the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) (~AD 800-1200) and the Little Ice Age (LIA) (~AD 1350-1850) were also successfully identified. The main responses were mangrove expansion (driven by R. mangle) during the LIA and the Manzanillo Port Opening, while the MCA was a highly perturbed period marked by multiple hurricane events and low or no pollen deposition in the sediment. During the Spanish Occupation, the aquatic taxa Typhaceae expanded together with an increase in Ca, Sr and carbonate contents

El control interno y la rentabilidad en la empresa Maclo investment SRL. Huaraz. 2021

El presente estudio tiene como objetivo determinar la relación entre el control interno y la rentabilidad en la empresa Maclo Investment SRL Huaraz. 2021. Fue un estudio de tipo básica, de diseño no experimental, de corte transversal. La población de estudio estuvo conformada por el gerente de la empresa Maclo Investment SRL, Huaraz - 2021 y 30 colaboradores de las diferentes áreas de la empresa, con una muestra censal, es decir se tomó como muestra a todos los elementos de la población. Como técnica de recolección de datos se empleó a la encuesta y dos cuestionarios, un instrumento que mide el Control Interno y otro que mide la Rentabilidad, ambos instrumentos han sido construidos por la investigadora. En cuanto al resultado, en la prueba de correlación de Pearson, el resultado ha sido ,758; para lo cual se utilizó el nivel de confianza 95% y dando como el nivel de significancia igual a ,000 razón a ello se rechaza la hipótesis nula y se concluye que: existe una alta relación entre el control interno y la rentabilidad en la empresa Maclo Investment SRL - Huaraz

MODA ACTUAL INSPIRADA EN LAS “PIN UP”

El término “pin up” se refiere a la fotografía que surgió en los años 20, ilustraciones de mujeres en actitudes sonrientes, picaras y muy eróticas a la cámara; el auge fuerte del estilo se dio en las década de los 40 y 50, convirtiéndose de una fotografía a una moda urbana con mujeres de carne y hueso; caracterizadas por dejar ver un poco más de piel, dando inicio al destape de la figura femenina; que se identificó por exhibir la silueta ajustada, cuerpos voluptuosos, cintura reducida y busto grande; fue tan exitoso este estilo que actualmente sigue influyendo en la moda, las “pin up” revolucionaron el concepto de la belleza femenina.Palabras clave: moda, pin up, silueta, voluptuosa, figura, ropa, tendencia.ABSTRACT.The term “pin up “ it refers to the picture that emerged in the 20s , illustrations of women in attitudes smiling , naughty and very erotic to the camera; strong style boom occurred in the 40s and 50s, becoming a photograph to an urban fashion with women of flesh and blood ; characterized by reveal a little skin , starting the unveiling of the female figure ; which it was identified by displaying the fitted silhouette , voluptuous bodies , small waist and large bust ; this style was so successful that today continues to influence fashion, “pin up “ revolutionized the concept of female beautyKeywords : fashion, pin up , silhouette, voluptuous figure, clothing, trend

Safety and Belonging in Immigrant-Serving Districts: Domains of Educator Practice in a Charged Political Landscape

Drawing from a context of reception framework, this article asks the following questions: How do educators describe issues of safety and belonging in the context of a charged immigration policy climate? What practices have educators developed to support immigrant-origin youth? And, what are the relationships between educators’ perceptions of safety and belonging and educator practices? We analyze educators’ survey responses administered across six school districts in different contexts across the United States, including the Northeast, Midwest, South, and West. We synthesize four domains of educator practice: signaling affirmation, building shared knowledge and capacity, finding and mobilizing resources, and creating space for conversation. Through this work, we connect the domain of safety as a perennial theme to safety as a practice. We discuss the implications of this and the need for future work that critically analyzes educators’ practice in relation to immigrant-origin youth for more generative contexts—contexts of development, not merely reception

Low genetic diversity contrasts with high phenotypic variability in heptaploid Spartina densiflora populations invading the Pacific coast of North America

Species can respond to environmental pressures through genetic and epigenetic changes and through phenotypic plasticity, but few studies have evaluated the relationships between genetic differentiation and phenotypic plasticity of plant species along changing environmental conditions throughout wide latitudinal ranges. We studied inter‐ and intrapopulation genetic diversity (using simple sequence repeats and chloroplast DNA sequencing) and inter‐ and intrapopulation phenotypic variability of 33 plant traits (using field and common‐garden measurements) for five populations of the invasive cordgrass Spartina densiflora Brongn. along the Pacific coast of North America from San Francisco Bay to Vancouver Island. Studied populations showed very low genetic diversity, high levels of phenotypic variability when growing in contrasted environments and high intrapopulation phenotypic variability for many plant traits. This intrapopulation phenotypic variability was especially high, irrespective of environmental conditions, for those traits showing also high phenotypic plasticity. Within‐population variation represented 84% of the total genetic variation coinciding with certain individual plants keeping consistent responses for three plant traits (chlorophyll b and carotenoid contents, and dead shoot biomass) in the field and in common‐garden conditions. These populations have most likely undergone genetic bottleneck since their introduction from South America; multiple introductions are unknown but possible as the population from Vancouver Island was the most recent and one of the most genetically diverse. S. densiflora appears as a species that would not be very affected itself by climate change and sea‐level rise as it can disperse, establish, and acclimate to contrasted environments along wide latitudinal ranges

Phenotypic plasticity of polyploid plant species promotes transgressive behaviour in their hybrids

Hybridization is a frequent process that leads to relevant evolutionary consequences, but there is a lack of studies regarding the relationships of the variability of the response of parental plant species to environmental gradients and the responses of their hybrids at a phenotypic level. We designed an experiment in which we exposed two reciprocal cordgrass hybrids, Spartina maritima × densiflora and S. densiflora × maritima, and their parental species to four salinity concentrations for 30 days. The main objectives were to compare the performance of the hybrids with that of their parents, to distinguish the phenotypic inheritance operating in the hybrids and to analyse the relationships between the variability in the responses of the parents and the responses of their hybrids to salinity. We characterized the responses and the degree of variability for 37 foliar traits. Both hybrids presented greater salinity tolerance than their parents, showing their highest percentage of transgressive traits at both extremes of the salinity gradient. When the parental plants themselves showed a more plastic response for a given trait, there was a greater chance that their hybrid developed a transgressive behaviour for this trait. This finding supports a new focus to be applied for the artificial development of vigorous hybrid crops