Cuestiones fundamentales de Dirección de Operaciones en la dirección y gestión hotelera

La investigación realizada tiene como propósito general enfocar la enseñanza de Dirección de Operaciones en la Universidad a las necesidades reales del sector. En este trabajo nos centramos en el estudio realizado en el ámbito empresarial, tratando de responder a la pregunta ¿cuáles son las necesidades del sector hotelero en lo que respecta a la formación en Dirección de Operaciones? Tras aplicar el método Delphi, se presentan los aspectos percibidos como más importantes por los expertos. Entre otras, destacan la medición de la satisfacción del cliente y la adecuada planificación y programación de los recursos humanos como tareas o cuestiones fundamentales en la dirección y gestión de estas empresas. Los resultados que se presentan podrían servir para orientar el contenido a impartir sobre Dirección de Operaciones en el ámbito universitario (grados y postgrados) si se pretende atender tales necesidades.The objective of our research is to focus the teaching of Operations Management at the University to the real needs of the sector. In this paper we focus in hospitality industry. We try to answer the following question: what are the needs of the hospitality industry in relation to tourism training in Operations Management? Delphi method is used. Some of the main issues perceived as most important by the experts are, for example: measurement of customer satisfaction and planning and scheduling of human resources. In our opinion, the results presented could be used to guide the tourism training at the University

Effectiveness of a continuing education program of drugs with fiscalized substance to improve pharmacy staff competencies: A multicenter, cluster-randomized controlled trial

Background: Drugs with fiscalized substances without a correct prescription may lead to undesirable side effects. Pharmacy staff needs to improve their competencies (knowledge, skills, and attitudes) to contribute to providing ambulatory pharmacy services and minimizing medication errors. Continuing education programs (CEP) could favor access to relevant and quality information on health promotion, disease prevention, and the rational use of drugs. Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of a continuing education program to improve pharmacy staff competencies to enhance the use of drugs with fiscalized substances. Methods: A multicenter, prospective, parallel-group, cluster-randomized, controlled clinical trial was conducted in drugstores and pharmacies in Colombia (ambulatory retail establishments). The intervention group (IG) received a CEP: a web-based social networking site, a virtual course, a dispensing information system, and face-to-face training. The control group (CG) received general written material on the correct use of drugs. We measured pharmacy staff’s skills, attitudes, and knowledge self-reported scores, and the simulated patient technique was used to assess the participant skills and attitudes in real practice. We used a questionnaire designed for this study, which was evaluated by a group of experts and piloted and showed a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.96. Results: Three hundred five drugstores and pharmacies were enrolled in two groups: IG (n = 153) and CG (n = 152). Out of the 750 potential participants, 88% (n=659) agreed to participate. The pharmacy staff’s skills, attitudes, and knowledge self-reported scores post-intervention were higher than baseline in both groups; however, the IG had statistically significantly higher scores than the CG. Post-intervention, the self-efficacy skills and attitudes in the IG improved by 88% (22 of 25) and in six of the seven assessed knowledge components (p<0.001). However, the dispensing criteria evaluated with simulated patient methodology showed no statistically significant differences between groups in the pharmacy staff’s skills and attitudes in real practice. Conclusions: Providing a continuing education program using different educational strategies improved the pharmacy staff’s competencies (assessed knowledge and self-reported skills and attitudes) to enhance the use of drugs with fiscalized substances. However, there were no improvements in skills and attitudes in real practice. These findings could show that pharmacy staff needs additional and continuous training/sustainability.Committee for Development Research and the sustainability of the University of AntioquiaprogramRandox Laboratorie

Diseño e implementación de una base de datos de imágenes de rango con decimación para la visualización en web

Las bases de datos son una herramienta para administrar y almacenar la información, mientras mejor esté distribuida, más fácil y eficiente será el acceso a esta. En la actualidad, y gracias al desarrollo tecnológico de campos como la informática y la electrónica, la mayoría de las bases de datos tienen formato electrónico, ya que ofrece un amplio rango de soluciones al problema de almacenar datos. En este artículo, presentamos el diseño de una base de datos para imágenes de rango, basada en el modelo relacional y una metodología de diseño consistente en tres pasos: diseño conceptual, diseño lógico y diseño físico. Dicha base de datos cuenta con acceso vía Web. Un algoritmo de multirresolución fue desarrollado e implementado para mejorar el costo computacional en visualización y renderización, utilizando parámetros de decimación basados en curvatura. Se desarrolló una plataforma Web para el acceso de forma amigable a la base de datos para que se puedan ingresar, actualizar y eliminar modelos, de forma confiable y sencilla. Actualmente, la base de datos cuenta con 40 modelos divididos en 3 categorías: rostros (22), museo (4) y objetos de forma libre (14). El algoritmo de multirresolución usado, arrojó resultados de ahorro en costo computacional hasta del 96%

Analysis of Alpha Activity Levels and Dependence on Meteorological Factors over a Complex Terrain in Northern Iberian Peninsula (2014–2018)

Alpha ambient concentrations in ground-level air were measured weekly in Bilbao (northern Spain) by collecting aerosols in filters between 2014 and 2018. Over this period, the alpha activity concentrations in the aerosol’s samples range from 13.9 µBq/m3 to 246.5 µBq/m3, with a mean of 66.49 ± 39.33 µBq/m3. The inter-annual and intra-annual (seasonal and monthly) variations are analyzed, with the highest activity in autumn months and the lowest one in winter months. Special attention has been paid to alpha peak concentrations (weekly concentrations above the 90th percentile) and its relationship with regional meteorological scenarios by means of air mass trajectories and local meteorological parameters. The meteorological analysis of these high alpha concentrations has revealed two airflow patterns-one from the south with land origin and one from the north with maritime origin-mainly associated with these alpha peak concentrations. Surface winds during representative periods of both airflow patterns are also analyzed in combination with 222Rn concentrations, which demonstrated the different daily evolution associated with each airflow pattern. The present results are relevant in understanding trends and meteorological factors affecting alpha activity concentrations in this area, and hence, to control potential atmospheric environmental releases and ensure the environmental and public health

Heat-Wave Events in Spain: Air Mass Analysis and Impacts on 7

The present paper describes and characterizes the air mass circulation during the heat-wave events registered during the period 2005-2014 over Spain, paying special attention on the role of the Saharan circulations. With this purpose, backward trajectories at 500, 1500 and 3000 m in Seville (south), Madrid (centre) and Bilbao (north) during the thirteen heat-wave events identified during this period are analysed. Finally, the impact of the heat-wave events and of each advection pattern on 7Be activity concentrations is also analysed. The air mass results indicate that the heat-wave events are characterized roughly by western, southern and nearby advections, with a higher frequency of the first two types. The analysis shows a general and large impact at lower levels of westerly flows and an increase of African air masses with height. The Saharan air masses present a different spatial impact over Spain, with a decreasing occurrence and a decrease in the simultaneous occurrence percentage from south to north. The 7Be activity concentrations during these events show an increase of concentrations in central and southern areas and a small decrease in northern Spain. This increase is not associated with Saharan air masses, but instead to the arrival of distant westerly air masses.JRC.G.II.7-Nuclear securit

From the Prescriptive to the Authors and the Works. The Teaching of Literature in Colombia (1932-1936)

Esta tesis es producto de una investigación desde la perspectiva Foucaultiana, genealógica arqueológica, orientada primero que todo al juicioso y paciente desempolvamiento de los archivos en donde se encuentran discursos y enunciados en torno a la enseñanza de la literatura y a la literatura entre el año 1932 y 1936, para luego pasar a una lenta selección, categorización, organización y análisis, siempre con la premisa de darle voz a los documentos. La enseñanza de la literatura durante este periodo estuvo marcada por la preponderancia del perfeccionamiento del lenguaje (preceptiva literaria) y un gran interés general por la literatura que se ve reflejado en diferentes ámbitos de la vida en la Colombia de la época. Se podría decir que la literatura no fue un propósito en sí mismo sino el resultado de diferentes fuerzas entre las que se puede mencionar, el discurso de la retórica, el periodismo, el discurso patriótico, etc.Universidad Pedagógica NacionalMagister en EducaciónMaestríaThis thesis is the product of an investigation from the Foucaultian perspective, archaeological genealogical, oriented first of all to the judicious and patient dusting of the archives where there are discourses and statements about the teaching of literature and literature between the year 1932 and 1936, before moving on to a slow selection, categorization, organization and analysis, always with the premise of giving documents a voice. The teaching of literature during this period was marked by the preponderance of language improvement (literary requirement) and a great general interest in literature that is reflected in different areas of life in Colombia at the time. It could be said that literature was not a purpose in itself but the result of different forces among which we can mention, the speech of rhetoric, journalism, the patriotic speech, etc

Analysing the performance of radiological monitoring network during nuclear accidents

JRODOS was used to simulate the dispersion of airborne radioactive material from a point source over the period 2012–2015. In total, 1331 radioactive plumes were simulated with the objective to investigate the influence of changes in meteorological conditions in the performance of the monitoring network. For this purpose, the existing set of 84 monitoring stations included in the EUropean Radiological Data Exchange Platform (EURDEP) system in an area of 200 km around the source point is taken as reference. A methodology is presented for quantitative evaluation of the variability of the number of stations affected, the time of the first detection, the maximum registered and differences between the maximum values match in the network and in the simulated plumes. The results show seasonal differences in all of these parameters according to changes in the size and shape of the affected area due to meteorological conditions. There are large differences in the number of monitoring stations affected by the plumes, from 2 to 74; in the timing and location of the first alert given by the network, from 1 to more than 5 h and faster along the west-east axis from the source; and in level of maximum gamma dose rate detected by the monitoring stations, from 0.17 nSv/h in summer to 0.22 nSv/h in autumn. These results show the need to consider this type of analysis over the years in the design of monitoring networks and in the development of nuclear emergency preparedness and response (EP&R) plans

La danza infantil como mecanismo de prevención y resiliencia frente a la violencia de género.

El presente artículo tiene como principal objetivo, proponer a la danza infantil como una metodológica para la prevención y resiliencia frente a la violencia contra la mujer y los miembros del núcleo familiar. La danza infantil es el arte que trabaja en el infante su cuerpo, su mente y su espíritu, y logra alcanzar la humanización, culturización y socialización, generando cambios de patrones establecidos tanto en hombres como en mujeres. En este sentido y con el apoyo de varios estudios teóricos realizados con anterioridad con respecto a la danza y sus beneficios, se analiza las prácticas dancísticas de “Baby Dance Ecuador Escuela de Danza”, desarrollados en los años 2018 y 2019, y los beneficios que adquirieron los estudiantes bailarines que participaron en la puesta en escena de las obras dancísticas “La fille mal Gardée” y “El sueño de una noche de Verano”, además, de su participación en el Concurso All Dance 2019. Esta investigación se basa en un análisis cualitativo sobre las experiencias de niños y niñas antes, durante y después de los mencionados eventos y que según sus testimonios la práctica de la danza llegaría a generar una herramienta que permita erradicar anti valores como la violencia, para que la sociedad alcance una verdadera igualdad de género, con la finalidad de establecer un mecanismo potente de paz, armonía, reconciliación con el pasado, desafío con el presente y esperanza en el futuro.The main objective of this article is to propose children's dance as a methodology forprevention and resilience in the face of violence against women and members of the family. Children's dance is the art that works on the infant's body, mind and spirit, andachieves humanization, culturalization and socialization, generating changes in established patterns in both men and women. In this sense and with the support of several theoretical studies previously conducted regarding dance and its benefits, the dance practices of "Baby Dance Ecuador Escuela de Danza" are analyzed, developed in 2018 and 2019, and the benefits acquired by the student dancers who participated in the staging of the dance works "La fille mal Gardée" and " A Midsummer Night's Dream", in addition, to their participation in the All Dance 2019 Competition. This research is based on a qualitative analysis of the experiences of boys and girls before, during and after the mentioned events and that according to their testimonies the practice of dance would come to generate a tool to eradicate anti-values such as violence, so that society reaches a true gender equality, in order to establish a powerful mechanism for peace, harmony, reconciliation with the past, challenge with the present and hope for the future

16 Years (2006–2021) of Surface Ozone Measurements in Córdoba (Southern Spain): Trends and the Impact of the COVID-19 Lockdown

Surface ozone concentrations (O3) during the period 2006–2021 are analysed at Córdoba city (southern Iberian Peninsula) in suburban and urban sampling sites. The aims are to present the levels and temporal variations, to explore trends and to quantity the variation in O3 concentrations in the context of the COVID-19 lockdown. The O3 means are higher in the suburban station (62 µg m−3 and 51.3 µg m−3), being the information level threshold only exceeded twice during this period. The daily evolution shows a maximum at about 17:00 UTC, whereas the minimum is reached at about 9:00 UTC, with higher levels in the suburban station. The seasonal evolution of this daily cycle also presents monthly differences in shape and intensity between stations. The trends are analysed by means of daily averages and daily 5th and 95th percentiles, and they show a similar increase in all of these parameters, with special emphasis on the daily P95 concentrations, with 0.27 µg m−3 year−1 and 0.24 µg m−3 year−1. Finally, the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown shows a decline in O3 concentrations over 10%