Estudio de interrelaciones entre el cuento La reina de las nieves y Frozen, el reino del hielo (Propp, Andersen, Disney)

Las páginas que se desarrollan a continuación proponen como base fundamental una comparación entre la narración de Andersen: La reina de las nieves y la adaptación del mismo cuento por Disney en Frozen, el reino del hielo. Dos medios diferentes, el literario y el audiovisual nos servirán para unir mediante el anclaje directo de la obra de Vladimir Propp: Morfología del cuento maravilloso sus contrastes y similitudes en aspectos funcionales y estructurales en relación al mismo. Un análisis posterior de corte analítico-descriptivo en nuestra acotada investigación nos lleva a encontrar otros intereses igualmente importantes, relacionados con la narratología y simbología en los que se presentan de igual forma analogías y contrastes. Las sorpresas no quedan exentas a pesar de la diferencia de edad de las publicaciones exploradas

The future of an illusion: Paradoxes of Corporate Social Responsibility

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the psychological strategies as well as the rhetorical and discursive arguments developed in organizations and by individuals when they have to cope with the paradoxes and changes related to CSR. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses the perspective of the paradox as an analytical framework to parse strategies developed in organizations as they cope with tensions and changes related to CSR. The authors conducted 50 semi-structured interviews with stakeholders and the authors performed a qualitative analysis with the information compiled. Findings – The main strategies for dealing with CSR paradoxes and changes consist of developing perceptual and motivational biases as well as explicative heuristic ones through which, from a discursive perspective, a coherent and conciliatory framework is presented with rhetoric that play a fundamental role in justifying CSR as a present hope over a future illusion regardless of the past reality. Originality/value – The lesson to be drawn from the exploration is the following: managers and CSR officers need to leave behind fear, anxiety and defensive attitudes and accept the paradox by re-contextualizing the tension as a stimulus for conscious and reflexive confrontation with emotional equilibrium, this being defiantly motivating as a sensemaker. In this way, the approach to the present inconsistencies in CSR should not involve a dismissal of conflictive situations but rather the development of the capacity to transcend the tension emanating from them and to learn to manage organizations from this paradoxical reality

Assessing the relevance of higher education courses

The establishment of the European Higher Education Area has involved specifying lists of professional competencies that programs are expected to develop, and with this the need for procedures to measure how every course within a higher education program is aligned with the program’s competencies. We propose an instrument for characterizing this alignment, a process that we call assessing the relevance of a course. Using information from the course syllabus (objectives, contents and assessment scheme), our instrument produces indicators for characterizing the syllabus in terms of a competence list and for assessing its coherence. Because assessment involves quality, the results obtained can also be used to revise and improve the course syllabus. We illustrate this process with an example of a methods course from a mathematics teacher education program at a Spanish university

Proposal of an index to evaluate the ‘dewaterization’ of the urban water cycle and a practical application

Analyses of the relationship between water and energy do not account for the fact that the energy used in the urban water cycle is a consumer of water. To ensure the efficient use of water resources, the operator must know the raw water use associated with the energy input of the urban water infrastructure. The main contribution of this research is the proposal of an index that measures how much raw water is consumed by the energy used to produce 1 cubic m of water. The resulting index is a decision-making tool that enables the sustainable use of water resources. This article first explains the index, which is called the Water Footprint of the Urban Water Cycle. It then provides examples of how to apply the proposed method; among other applications, it can be used to establish a classification of energy sources based on their relative consumption of raw water, according to the electricity generation mix in each service area. The proposed method is useful for operators, policymakers and other stakeholders, enabling them to make decisions that contribute to the ‘dewaterization’ of the urban water cycle.European CommissionSpanish State Research AgencyRegional Government of AndalusiaEuropean Regional Development Fun

Prym varieties, curves with automorphisms and the Sato Grassmannian

Este trabajo trata las variedades de Prym, curvas con automorfismos y Grassmannian de Sato.The aim of the paper is twofold. First, some results of Shiota and Plaza-Martín on Prym varieties of curves with an involution are generalized to the general case of an arbitrary automorphism of prime order. Second, the equations defining the moduli space of curves with an automorphism of prime order as a subscheme of the Sato Grassmannian are given

Distinguishing Linear vs. Non-Linear Integration in CA1 Radial Oblique Dendrites: It’s about Time

It was recently shown that multiple excitatory inputs to CA1 pyramidal neuron dendrites must be activated nearly simultaneously to generate local dendritic spikes and supralinear responses at the soma; even slight input desynchronization prevented local spike initiation (Gasparini and Magee, 2006; Losonczy and Magee, 2006). This led to the conjecture that CA1 pyramidal neurons may only express their non-linear integrative capabilities during the highly synchronized sharp waves and ripples that occur during slow wave sleep and resting/consummatory behavior, whereas during active exploration and REM sleep (theta rhythm), inadequate synchronization of excitation would lead CA1 pyramidal cells to function as essentially linear devices. Using a detailed single neuron model, we replicated the experimentally observed synchronization effect for brief inputs mimicking single synaptic release events. When synapses were driven instead by double pulses, more representative of the bursty inputs that occur in vivo, we found that the tolerance for input desynchronization was increased by more than an order of magnitude. The effect depended mainly on paired-pulse facilitation of NMDA receptor-mediated responses at Schaffer collateral synapses. Our results suggest that CA1 pyramidal cells could function as non-linear integrative units in all major hippocampal states

Does service quality matter in measuring performance of water utilities?

Quality is a dimension of water services that has been repeatedly omitted in the study of performance of water utilities. In this paper, we make use of Data Envelopment Analysis techniques (DEA) to compute both conventional quantity-based and quality-adjusted indicators of technical efficiency for a sample of Spanish water utilities. The key assumptions are that a lack of quality (bad quality) can be regarded as a bad output, and the existence of a trade-off between quantity and quality. Our main results indicate that quality matters in measuring technical performance, the difference between conventional and quality-adjusted evaluations representing the opportunity cost of maintaining quality. Averages and distribution functions significantly differ between both assessments of performance, although water utilities do not seem to rank differently

La opinión de la infancia sobre su experiencia de hospitalización

Antecedentes: la lectura de una carta que un chico de 14 años entregó tras su último ingreso hospitalario, hizo reflexionar a los componentes de nuestro grupo de investigación (CTS-152) sobre la vivencia de la hospitalización de niños y adolescentes. En esa carta, se exponían los aspectos positivos y negativos de su experiencia y unas propuestas de mejora. Objetivos: el objetivo de nuestra investigación fue preguntar a una amplia muestra de pacientes del Hospital Infantil Virgen del Rocío de Sevilla, su opinión acerca de las experiencias vividas durante su hospitalización. Material y métodos: a los niños hospitalizados en las diferentes unidades, se les entregó una carta desde la Escuela del Hospital donde se pedía que respondieran destacando los aspectos positivos y negativos de su estancia hospitalaria, así como que describieran los cambios que realizarían para que fuera el hospital de sus sueños. Además, se recogían una serie de datos sociodemográficos en un breve cuestionario. Resultados: la muestra estaba compuesta por 127 pacientes, que escribieron en sus cartas 327 comentarios positivos, 163 opiniones de carácter negativo y 190 propuestas de mejora. Los primeros estaban referidos más frecuentemente al trato humano recibido, las segundas a elementos de la habitación que no les gustaban y las propuestas iban encaminadas a mejoras en las infraestructuras hospitalarias. Conclusiones: La experiencia de la hospitalización infantil en nuestro contexto suscita comentarios positivos tanto por el trato humano recibido, como por poder disfrutar de espacios como la escuela o la ciberaula, aunque también es vista por los pequeños usuarios del sistema sanitario como mejorable.Background: after reading a letter that a boy of 14 years gave after his last hospitalization, made the components of our research group (CTS-152) reflect on the experience of hospitalization of children and adolescents. In that letter, the patient outlined the positive and negative aspects of his experience and proposals for improvement. Objectives: The aim of our research was to inquire a large sample of patients at Children’s Hospital Virgen del Rocío (Seville), their opinion about their experiences during their hospitalization. Material and methods: children hospitalized in different units received a letter from the Hospital School which asked for their responses highlighting the positive and negative aspects of their hospital stay, and to describe the changes they would hold to be the hospital of their dreams. In addition, a series of data were collected in a brief demographic questionnaire. Results: The sample consisted of 127 patients, who wrote in his letters 327 positive comments, 163 negative views and 190 proposals for improvement. The former were more often referred to human treatment received, the second were about elements of the room they did not like and the proposals were aimed at improvements in hospital infrastructures. Conclusions: The experience of the child hospitalization in our context raises positive comments because of the human relationship and the fact of enjoyment of spaces as the school or the cyber classroom, but the hospitalization is also seen by the small users of the sanitary system as improvable

Prevalence of positive prick test to anaesthetic drugs in the surgical population

Producción CientíficaPrevalence of patients with positive prick tests to anaesthetics occurred in 4.7% of the surgical populatio