Relationship of Organizational Commitment to Teamwork in a Municipality From Peru

Purpose: The general objective was to determine the relationship between organizational commitment and teamwork in a municipality from Peru.   Theoretical framework: The current literature has reported good findings on both organizational commitment and teamwork. However, there is still much to research and understand about OC and TE because it is an ever-evolving development.   Design/methodology/approach: A quantitative, applied, non-experimental, descriptive and correlational study was used, applying the questionnaires to 94 workers of the municipality.   Findings: The results revealed that organizational commitment is deficient 73% and teamwork is deficient 78%, also, the p=0.000<0.05, indicating that the variables retain a highly significant correlation, also, it is evident that they reached a Rho=82.9%.   Research, Practical & Social implications: We suggest a future research agenda and highlight the contributions made to organizational commitment and teamwork.   Originality/value: the organizational commitment maintains a very strong positive correlation with teamwork, evidencing that by generating in the workers a sense of belonging with the institution, as long as the best collaborators are offered job growth options and very strong affective bonds are created, then an assertive communication is achieved through permanent dialogue, the communication flow is improved and with it the needs of the employees are recognized, impacting positively in the decision making process, since the planned goals have been realistic to the resources and abilities of the employees.Resumen Propósito:   Se desearía como objetivo general determinar la relación del compromiso organizacional con el trabajo en equipo en una municipalidad, Perú. Marco teórico: La literatura actual ha reportado Buenos hallazgos tanto en el compromiso organizacional como en el trabajo en equipo. Sin embargo, aún hay mucho que investigar y aprender sobre el CO y el TE porque es un Desarrollo en evolución permanente. Diseño/metodología/enfoque:  Se utilizó un estudio cuantitativo, aplicado, no experimental, descriptivo y correlacional, aplicando los cuestionarios a 94 trabajadores del municipio. Resultados:  Los resultados revelaron que el compromiso organizacional es deficiente un 73% y que el trabajo en equipo es deficiente un 78%, asimismo, el p=0.000<0.05, señalando que las variables conservan una correlación altamente significativa, también, se evidencia que alcanzaron un Rho=82.9%. Investigación, implicaciones prácticas y sociales: Sugerimos una agenda de investigación futura y destacamos las contribuciones realizadas al compromiso organizacional y al trabajo en equipo. Originalidad/valor:  el compromiso organizacional mantiene una correlación positiva muy fuerte con el trabajo en equipo poniendo en evidencia que al generar en los trabajadores pertenencia con la institución, mientras se brinde opciones laborales de crecimiento a los mejores colaboradores y se creen lazos afectivos muy fuertes, entonces se logra una comunicación asertiva a través del diálogo permanente, se mejora el flujo comunicacional y con ello se logra reconocer las necesidades que mantienen los empleados impactando positivamente en la toma de decisiones trayendo ya que las metas planificadas han sido realistas a los recursos y habilidades de los empleados.Resumo Finalidade: O objectivo geral era determinar a relação entre o compromisso organizacional e o trabalho de equipa num município, Peru. Quadro teórico: A literatura actual tem relatado boas conclusões tanto sobre empenho organizacional como sobre trabalho de equipa. Contudo, ainda há muito a investigar e compreender sobre OC e TE porque se trata de um desenvolvimento em constante evolução. Concepção/método/abordagem: Foi utilizado um estudo quantitativo, aplicado, não experimental, descritivo e correlacional, aplicando os questionários a 94 trabalhadores do município. Resultados: Os resultados revelaram que o compromisso organizacional é deficiente em 73% e o trabalho de equipa é deficiente em 78%, também, os p=0,000<0,05, indicando que as variáveis mantêm uma correlação altamente significativa, também, é evidente que atingiram um Rho=82,9%. Investigação, implicações práticas e sociais: Sugerimos uma agenda de investigação futura e destacamos as contribuições feitas para o compromisso organizacional e o trabalho de equipa. Originalidade/valor: O compromiso organizacional mantém uma correlação positiva muito forte com o trabalho em equipa, demostrando que ao gerar nos funcionários um sentimento de pertença à instituição, desde que sejam dadas aos melhores colaboradores opções de trabalho para o crescimento e criados laços emocionais muito fortes, una comunicación asertiva é conseguida a través del diálogo permanente, o fluxo de comunicação é melhorado e assim as necessidades dos funcionários são reconhecidas, tendo um impacto positivo na tomado de decisões, uma vez que os objectivos planeados têm sido realistas em relação aos recursos e capacidades dos funcionários

Guidelines for Linked Data generation and publication: an example in building energy consumption

Linked Data is the key paradigm of the Semantic Web, a new generation of the World Wide Web that promises to bring meaning (semantics) to data. A large number of both public and private organizations have published their data following the Linked Data principles, or have done so with data from other organizations. To this extent, since the generation and publication of Linked Data are intensive engineering processes that require high attention in order to achieve high quality, and since experience has shown that existing general guidelines are not always sufficient to be applied to every domain, this paper presents a set of guidelines for generating and publishing Linked Data in the context of energy consumption in buildings (one aspect of Building Information Models). These guidelines offer a comprehensive description of the tasks to perform, including a list of steps, tools that help in achieving the task, various alternatives for performing the task, and best practices and recommendations. Furthermore, this paper presents a complete example on the generation and publication of Linked Data about energy consumption in buildings, following the presented guidelines, in which the energy consumption data of council sites (e.g., buildings and lights) belonging to the Leeds City Council jurisdiction have been generated and published as Linked Data

Acuerdos comerciales, competitividad y crisis en la citricultura valenciana

[ES] La campaña 2018-2019 se ha convertido para el sector citrícola valencia-no en una de las peores de su historia reciente. El malestar acumulado en algunos de los grupos de productores más afectados ha provocado incluso una inédita movilización ciudadana de protesta. El elemento detonante ha sido el nuevo acuerdo comercial entre la UE y los países sudafricanos. Este acuerdo se inscribe en la progresiva liberalización de las importaciones citrícolas por parte de la UE. En este nuevo escenario, las debilidades en materia de estructura, organización y calidad comercial del sector lo hacen especialmente vulnerable en campañas abundantes y accidentadas como ésta. Las consecuencias pueden ser dramáticas para muchos operadores si no se producen cambios profundos en las estrategias competitivas del sector, que hasta la fecha carecen de un enfoque integrador y ambicioso.Compes López, R.; García Alvarez-Coque, JM.; Martinez Gomez, VD. (2019). Acuerdos comerciales, competitividad y crisis en la citricultura valenciana. Distribución y consumo. 158(3):38-46. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/165520S3846158

A Morphological and Size-Based Study of the Changes of Iron Sulfides in the Caples and Torlesse Terranes (Otago Schist, New Zealand) during Prograde Metamorphic Evolution

It is widely accepted that metamorphism induces a remobilization of iron sulfides, sweeping away original ones while creating new ones. This paper analyzes size distributions of iron sulfides in several samples from the Caples and Torlesse terranes from the Otago Schist (New Zealand) using high-resolution X-ray computed tomography, which allows all iron sulfides larger than the resolution at which X-ray scans were performed to be characterized. Framboids and clusters of framboids are common in unmetamorphosed samples, but disappear in greenschist/amphibolite facies samples, where iron sulfides have anhedral habits. By contrast, the size and standard deviation of the new iron sulfides both remain within the same range. The results illuminate the evolution of iron sulfides throughout metamorphism, proposing boundaries for the metamorphic processes based on the shape of these iron sulfides

Effect of flavonols on wine astringency and their interaction with human saliva

[EN] The addition of external phenolic compounds to wines in order to improve their sensory quality is an established winemaking practice. This study was aimed at evaluating the effect of the addition of quercetin 3-O-glucoside on the astringency and bitterness of wines. Sensory results showed that the addition of this flavonol to wines results in an increase in astringency and bitterness. Additionally, flavonol-human salivary protein interactions were studied using fluorescence spectroscopy, dynamic light scattering and molecular dynamic simulations (MD). The apparent Stern-Volmer (KsvApp) and the apparent bimolecular quenching constants (kqApp) were calculated from fluorescence spectra. The KsvApp was 12620 ± 390 M 1, and the apparent biomolecular constant was 3.94 1012 M 1 s 1, which suggests that a complex was formed between the human salivary proteins and quercetin 3-O-glucoside. MD simulations showed that the quercetin 3-O-glucoside molecules have the ability to bind to the IB937 model peptide

Analysis of Local and Global Aromaticity in Si3C5 and Si4C8 Clusters. Aromatic Species Containing Planar Tetracoordinate Carbon

The minimum energy structures of the Si3C5 and Si4C8 clusters are planar and contain planar tetracoordinate carbons (ptCs). These species have been classified, qualitatively, as global (π) and local (σ) aromatics according to the adaptive natural density partitioning (AdNDP) method, which is an orbital localization method. This work evaluates these species’ aromaticity, focusing on confirming and quantifying their global and local aromatic character. For this purpose, we use an orbital localization method based on the partitioning of the molecular space according to the topology of the electronic localization function (LOC-ELF). In addition, the magnetically induced current density is analyzed. The LOC-ELF-based analysis coincides with the AdNDP study (double aromaticity, global, and local). Moreover, the current density analysis detects global and local ring currents. The strength of the global and local current circuit is significant, involving 4n + 2 π- and σ-electrons, respectively. The latter implicates the Si-ptC-Si fragment, which would be related to the 3c-2e σ-bond detected by the orbital localization methods in this fragment.Fil: Torres Vega, Juan J.. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; PerúFil: Alcoba, Diego Ricardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires; ArgentinaFil: Oña, Ofelia Beatriz. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas; ArgentinaFil: Vasquez Espinal, A.. Universidad Andrés Bello; ChileFil: Baez Grez, R.. Universidad Andrés Bello; ChileFil: Lain, Luis. Universidad del País Vasco; EspañaFil: Torre, Alicia. Universidad del País Vasco; EspañaFil: García, Victor Raúl. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; Perú. Universidad Andrés Bello; ChileFil: Tiznado, William. Universidad Andrés Bello; Chil

Dynamic Intracellular Metabolic Cell Signaling Profiles During Ag-Dependent B-Cell Differentiation

© 2021 Díez, Pérez-Andrés, Bøgsted, Azkargorta, García-Valiente, Dégano, Blanco, Mateos-Gomez, Bárcena, Santa Cruz, Góngora, Elortza, Landeira-Viñuela, Juanes-Velasco, Segura, Manzano-Román, Almeida, Dybkaer, Orfao and Fuentes.Human B-cell differentiation has been extensively investigated on genomic and transcriptomic grounds; however, no studies have accomplished so far detailed analysis of antigen-dependent maturation-associated human B-cell populations from a proteomic perspective. Here, we investigate for the first time the quantitative proteomic profiles of B-cells undergoing antigen-dependent maturation using a label-free LC-MS/MS approach applied on 5 purified B-cell subpopulations (naive, centroblasts, centrocytes, memory and plasma B-cells) from human tonsils (data are available via ProteomeXchange with identifier PXD006191). Our results revealed that the actual differences among these B-cell subpopulations are a combination of expression of a few maturation stage-specific proteins within each B-cell subset and maturation-associated changes in relative protein expression levels, which are related with metabolic regulation. The considerable overlap of the proteome of the 5 studied B-cell subsets strengthens the key role of the regulation of the stoichiometry of molecules associated with metabolic regulation and programming, among other signaling cascades (such as antigen recognition and presentation and cell survival) crucial for the transition between each B-cell maturation stage.We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Spanish Health Institute Carlos III (ISCIII) for the grants: FIS PI14/01538, FIS PI17/01930 and CB16/12/00400. We also acknowledge Fondos FEDER (EU) and Junta Castilla-León (COVID19 grant COV20EDU/00187). Fundación Solórzano FS/38-2017.The Proteomics Unit belongs to ProteoRed, PRB3-ISCIII, supported by grant PT17/0019/0023, of the PE I + D + I 2017-2020, funded by ISCIII and FEDER. AL-V is supported by VIII Centenario-USAL PhD Program. PJ-V is supported by JCYL PhD Program and scholarship JCYL-EDU/601/2020. PD and EB are supported by a JCYL-EDU/346/2013 Ph.D. scholarship

Superplastic deformation of directionally solidified nanofibrillar Al2O3-Y3Al5O12-ZrO2 eutectics

Nanofibrillar Al2O3–Y3Al5O12–ZrO2 eutectic rods were manufactured by directional solidification from the melt at high growth rates in an inert atmosphere using the laser-heated floating zone method. Under conditions of cooperative growth, the ternary eutectic presented a homogeneous microstructure, formed by bundles of single-crystal c-oriented Al2O3 and Y3Al5O12 (YAG) whiskers of ≈100 nm in width with smaller Y2O3-doped ZrO2 (YSZ) whiskers between them. Owing to the anisotropic fibrillar microstructure, Al2O3–YAG–YSZ ternary eutectics present high strength and toughness at ambient temperature while they exhibit superplastic behavior at 1600 K and above. Careful examination of the deformed samples by transmission electron microscopy did not show any evidence of dislocation activity and superplastic deformation was attributed to mass-transport by diffusion within the nanometric domains. This combination of high strength and toughness at ambient temperature together with the ability to support large deformations without failure above 1600 K is unique and shows a large potential to develop new structural materials for very high temperature structural applications

Relevance of gastrointestinal manifestations in a large Spanish cohort of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: what do we know?

SLE can affect any part of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. GI symptoms are reported to occur in >50% of SLE patients. To describe the GI manifestations of SLE in the RELESSER (Registry of SLE Patients of the Spanish Society of Rheumatology) cohort and to determine whether these are associated with a more severe disease, damage accrual and a worse prognosis. METHODS: We conducted a nationwide, retrospective, multicentre, cross-sectional cohort study of 3658 SLE patients who fulfil =4 ACR-97 criteria. Data on demographics, disease characteristics, activity (SLEDAI-2K or BILAG), damage (SLICC/ACR/DI) and therapies were collected. Demographic and clinical characteristics were compared between lupus patients with and without GI damage to establish whether GI damage is associated with a more severe disease. RESULTS: From 3654 lupus patients, 3.7% developed GI damage. Patients in this group (group 1) were older, they had longer disease duration, and were more likely to have vasculitis, renal disease and serositis than patients without GI damage (group 2). Hospitalizations and mortality were significantly higher in group 1. Patients in group 1 had higher modified SDI (SLICC Damage Index). The presence of oral ulcers reduced the risk of developing damage in 33% of patients. CONCLUSION: Having GI damage is associated with a worse prognosis. Patients on a high dose of glucocorticoids are at higher risk of developing GI damage which reinforces the strategy of minimizing glucocorticoids. Oral ulcers appear to decrease the risk of GI damage. © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology

Retos actuales de la farmacia

Retos actuales de la farmacia es un proyecto que está coordinado por Leobargo Manuel Gómez Oliván y un equipo de investigadores que forman parte del claustro de la Facultad de Química en el área de posgrado, ellos han incentivado el espíritu investigador y científico de los estudiantes adscritos al programa para adentrarse en el ámbito farmacéutico. Los capítulos que conforman esta edición son el reflejo de la actividad académica desarrollada en este posgrado en las diferentes áreas de acentuación que lo conforman: farmacia molecular, farmacia social y tecnología farmacéutica