La autoconfianza en la decisión de adquirir una tarjeta de crédito en Bogotá

78 páginas : ilustraciones, gráficosEl consumidor cuenta con innumerables factores que influyen al momento de decidir que producto elegir o comprar, los cuales se construyen desde la educación hasta la cultura en la que se ha desenvuelto a lo largo de los años. Uno de estos factores que tienen incidencia es la autoconfianza que el consumidor se tenga, la cual se ha adquirido a lo largo de las decisiones que haya realizado durante su vida. Por esta razón, la autoconfianza está relacionada con aspectos psicológicos y comportamentales del consumidor. El proceso de la toma de decisiones de compra está presente en los productos y servicios de todo sector económico, incluyendo el financiero. Este último, objeto de esta investigación, a pesar de ser usado por la mayoría de las personas, tiene atado en Colombia, específicamente en Bogotá, concepciones culturales que lo convierten en un sector de mayor cuidado. Lo anterior se debe a que se está hablando del dinero producto del trabajo del consumidor y con el que se construirá su futuro, razón por la cual, las decisiones son tomadas con gran cautela.The consumer has innumerable factors that influence when deciding which product to choose or buy, which are built from education to the culture in which it has developed over the years. One of these factors that have an impact is the self-confidence that the consumer has, which has been acquired throughout the decisions made during his life. For this reason, self-confidence is related to psychological and behavioral aspects of the consumer. The purchase decision process is present in the products and services of every economic sector, including the financial sector. The latter, the subject of this research, despite being used by most people, has attached in Colombia, specifically in Bogota, cultural concepts that makes it a more careful sector. This is due to the fact that they are talking about money, that is the product of the consumer's work and which their future will be built with, which is why decisions are taken with great caution.Magíster en MercadeoMaestrí

Hot topics, urgent priorities, and ensuring success for racial/ethnic minority young investigators in academic pediatrics.

BackgroundThe number of racial/ethnic minority children will exceed the number of white children in the USA by 2018. Although 38% of Americans are minorities, only 12% of pediatricians, 5% of medical-school faculty, and 3% of medical-school professors are minorities. Furthermore, only 5% of all R01 applications for National Institutes of Health grants are from African-American, Latino, and American Indian investigators. Prompted by the persistent lack of diversity in the pediatric and biomedical research workforces, the Academic Pediatric Association Research in Academic Pediatrics Initiative on Diversity (RAPID) was initiated in 2012. RAPID targets applicants who are members of an underrepresented minority group (URM), disabled, or from a socially, culturally, economically, or educationally disadvantaged background. The program, which consists of both a research project and career and leadership development activities, includes an annual career-development and leadership conference which is open to any resident, fellow, or junior faculty member from an URM, disabled, or disadvantaged background who is interested in a career in academic general pediatrics.MethodsAs part of the annual RAPID conference, a Hot Topic Session is held in which the young investigators spend several hours developing a list of hot topics on the most useful faculty and career-development issues. These hot topics are then posed in the form of six "burning questions" to the RAPID National Advisory Committee (comprised of accomplished, nationally recognized senior investigators who are seasoned mentors), the RAPID Director and Co-Director, and the keynote speaker.Results/conclusionsThe six compelling questions posed by the 10 young investigators-along with the responses of the senior conference leadership-provide a unique resource and "survival guide" for ensuring the academic success and optimal career development of young investigators in academic pediatrics from diverse backgrounds. A rich conversation ensued on the topics addressed, consisting of negotiating for protected research time, career trajectories as academic institutions move away from an emphasis on tenure-track positions, how "non-academic" products fit into career development, racism and discrimination in academic medicine and how to address them, coping with isolation as a minority faculty member, and how best to mentor the next generation of academic physicians

Glial wingless/Wnt regulates glutamate receptor clustering and synaptic physiology at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction

Glial cells are emerging as important regulators of synapse formation, maturation, and plasticity through the release of secreted signaling molecules. Here we use chromatin immunoprecipitation along with Drosophila genomic tiling arrays to define potential targets of the glial transcription factor Reversed polarity (Repo). Unexpectedly, we identified wingless (wg), a secreted morphogen that regulates synaptic growth at the Drosophila larval neuromuscular junction (NMJ), as a potential Repo target gene. We demonstrate that Repo regulates wg expression in vivo and that local glial cells secrete Wg at the NMJ to regulate glutamate receptor clustering and synaptic function. This work identifies Wg as a novel in vivo glial-secreted factor that specifically modulates assembly of the postsynaptic signaling machinery at the Drosophila NMJ

La imagen y la narrativa como herramientas para el abordaje psicosocial en escenarios de violencia. Departamentos de Boyacá, Cundinamarca y Tolima

A lo largo de los años Colombia ha sido testigo de los innumerables sucesos de guerra y situaciones de violencia manifestadas en diversas formas de las cuales miles de personas han sido víctimas pasando por diferentes flagelos entre la violencia, el desplazamiento, la extorsión, los secuestros, el reclutamiento, la pobreza y la guerra; A lo largo del contenido del documento se presenta un análisis de violencia y esperanza del caso seleccionado correspondiente a el Relato N º 5 Carlos Arturo, el cual se desarrolla mediante unas preguntas orientadoras establecidas, así mismo se abordan 3 preguntas circulares, 3 preguntas estratégicas y 3 preguntas reflexivas debidamente seleccionadas con su respectivo análisis desde el campo psicosocial. Posteriormente en el desarrollo del presente documento se podrá encontrar el análisis y presentación de estrategias de abordaje psicosocial para el Caso de Peñas Coloradas en relación a los ítems orientadores, así como el informe analítico y reflexivo de la experiencia de foto voz realizada en el paso 3 del diplomado y el link del blog o página wix con las respectivas conclusiones del documento. Se presenta como fundamental la restitución de los derechos humanos y la rehabilitación de las víctimas de estos diferentes flagelos a causa de la violencia y la guerra, donde cobra importancia el verdadero reto para la psicología comunitaria, la cual se convierte entonces en que estos relatos se vuelvan el trabajo mancomunado e incansable, para que sean escuchados y transiten por el rol de víctima, para que a través de la potencialización de capacidad se vuelvan actores de su propio cambio.Over the years, Colombia has witnessed innumerable events of war and situations of violence manifested in various forms of which thousands of people have been victims going through different scourges between violence, displacement, extortion, kidnappings, conscription, poverty and war; Throughout the content of the document, an analysis of violence and hope of the selected case corresponding to Story No. 5 Carlos Arturo is presented, which is developed through established guiding questions, as well as 3 circular questions, 3 strategic questions and 3 reflective questions duly selected with their respective analysis from the psychosocial field. Later in the development of this document, it will be possible to find the analysis and presentation of psychosocial approach strategies for the Peñas Coloradas Case in relation to the guiding items, as well as the analytical and reflective report of the photo voice experience carried out in step 3 of the diploma and the link of the blog or wix page with the respective conclusions of the document. The restitution of human rights and the rehabilitation of the victims of these different scourges due to violence and war are presented as fundamental, where the real challenge for community psychology becomes important, which then becomes that these stories are return to joint and tireless work, so that they are heard and go through the role of victim, so that through the potentialization of capacity they become actors of their own change

The Sediment Green-Blue Color Ratio as a Proxy for Biogenic Silica Productivity Along the Chilean Margin

Sediment cores recently collected from the Chilean Margin during D/V JOIDES Resolution Expedition 379T (JR100) document variability in shipboard-generated records of the green/blue (G/B) ratio. These changes show a strong coherence with benthic foraminiferal δ18O, Antarctic ice core records, and sediment lithology (e.g., higher diatom abundances in greener sediment intervals), suggesting a climate-related control on the G/B. Here, we test the utility of G/B as a proxy for diatom productivity at Sites J1002 and J1007 by calibrating G/B to measured biogenic opal. Strong exponential correlations between measured opal% and the G/B were found at both sites. We use the empirical regressions to generate high-resolution records of opal contents (opal%) on the Chilean Margin. Higher productivity tends to result in more reducing sedimentary conditions. Redox-sensitive sedimentary U/Th generally co-varies with the reconstructed opal% at both sites, supporting the association between sediment color, sedimentary U/Th, and productivity. Lastly, we calculated opal mass accumulation rate (MAR) at Site J1007 over the last ∼150,000 years. The G/B-derived opal MAR record from Site J1007 largely tracks existing records derived from traditional wet-alkaline digestion from the south and eastern equatorial Pacific (EEP) Ocean, with a common opal flux peak at ∼50 ka suggesting that increased diatom productivity in the EEP was likely driven by enhanced nutrient supply from the Southern Ocean rather than dust inputs as previously suggested. Collectively, our results identify the G/B ratio as a useful tool with the potential to generate reliable, high-resolution paleoceanographic records that circumvent the traditionally laborious methodology.publishedVersio

Deep submarine infiltration of altered geothermal groundwater on the south Chilean Margin

Submarine groundwater discharge is increasingly recognized as an important component of the oceanic geochemical budget, but knowledge of the distribution of this phenomenon is limited. To date, reports of meteoric inputs to marine sediments are typically limited to shallow shelf and coastal environments, whereas contributions of freshwater along deeper sections of tectonically active margins have generally been attributed to silicate diagenesis, mineral dehydration, or methane hydrate dissociation. Here, using geochemical fingerprinting of pore water data from Site J1003 recovered from the Chilean Margin during D/V JOIDES Resolution Expedition 379 T, we show that substantial offshore freshening reflects deep and focused contributions of meteorically modified geothermal groundwater, which is likely sourced from a reservoir ~2.8 km deep in the Aysén region of Patagonia and infiltrated marine sediments during or shortly after the last glacial period. Emplacement of fossil groundwaters reflects an apparently ubiquitous phenomenon in margin sediments globally, but our results now identify an unappreciated locus of deep submarine groundwater discharge along active margins with potential implications for coastal biogeochemical processes and tectonic instability.publishedVersio

Management control systems in innovation companies: A literature based framework

Past research has traditionally argued that management control systems (MCSs) may present a hindrance to the creativity of innovation companies. This theoretical paper surveys the literature to focus an investigation on the MCSs of innovation companies. Within the object of control paradigm the paper develops and presents a theoretical model of the impact of eleven external, organisational and innovation related contingency factors on the MCSs in companies that engage in innovation activities. We also suggest measures for further empirical research. By formulating hypotheses on 43 potential interactions the model predicts contradictory influences on two direct control categories, results and action control, but stresses the importance of two indirect categories, personnel and cultural control. More specifically, the high levels of technological complexity and innovation capability in this type of company are expected to be negatively associated with the application of results and action control, whereas personnel and cultural seem to be more appropriate. Furthermore, important sources of finance, venture capital and public funding, are both hypothesised to be positively associated with the application of results, action and personnel control; whereas only public funding is predicted to be positively related to the application of cultural control. The principal contribution of this paper lies in synthesising the literature to provide a model of the impact of a unique set of eleven contingency factors for innovation companies on a broad scope of controls. In addition, the contingency model, if empirically validated, would add value by inferring the particular forms of management control which would be beneficial in innovative company settings. © 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Increased Incidence of Vestibular Disorders in Patients With SARS-CoV-2

OBJECTIVE: Determine the incidence of vestibular disorders in patients with SARS-CoV-2 compared to the control population. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective. SETTING: Clinical data in the National COVID Cohort Collaborative database (N3C). METHODS: Deidentified patient data from the National COVID Cohort Collaborative database (N3C) were queried based on variant peak prevalence (untyped, alpha, delta, omicron 21K, and omicron 23A) from covariants.org to retrospectively analyze the incidence of vestibular disorders in patients with SARS-CoV-2 compared to control population, consisting of patients without documented evidence of COVID infection during the same period. RESULTS: Patients testing positive for COVID-19 were significantly more likely to have a vestibular disorder compared to the control population. Compared to control patients, the odds ratio of vestibular disorders was significantly elevated in patients with untyped (odds ratio [OR], 2.39; confidence intervals [CI], 2.29-2.50; CONCLUSIONS: The incidence of vestibular disorders differed between COVID-19 variants and was significantly elevated in COVID-19-positive patients compared to the control population. These findings have implications for patient counseling and further research is needed to discern the long-term effects of these findings