Hábitos de consumo de videojuegos en universitarios españoles

La presente investigación determina los hábitos de consumo de videojuegos en los estudiantes universitarios españoles. Para ello, y siempre a través de la técnica de la encuesta, se comprueba que los universitarios españoles consideran las aplicaciones móviles de juego como videojuegos; se determinan sus patrones en la adquisición de videojuegos y se comparan los dispositivos que prefieren para consumir videojuegos (ordenadores o consolas) con los que más utilizan (smartphones). Finalmente, se especifican cuáles son para ellos las cinco características más importantes en un videojuego. Así, se obtienen conclusiones significativas para este target como, por ejemplo, que utilizan durante más tiempo los dispositivos móviles a pesar de preferir los tradicionales para consumir videojuegos, lo que refuerza un auge de la tendencia play everywhere entre dichos estudiantes universitarios

What We Talk About When We Talk About Psychometrics?

[EN]Understanding the meaning of the term psychometrics can be approached from different perspectives, such as the consultation of dictionaries, the point of view of international experts, or the analysis of a linguistic corpus. For this study, an up-to-date Spanish corpus was used as the starting point. The sample consisted of 90 valid documents from which the first text was selected so that the frequencies of the themes came from independent texts. The method used was structured tabular thematic analysis (ST-TA). The results indicate that the most frequent meaning in Spanish is that related to the analysis of the quality of measurements, followed by that referring to evaluation, and finally that of a methodological approach in general. This is consistent with the dictionaries of authorities, but departs from the majority perspective of international experts, who consider that psychometrics does not necessarily have to be linked to psychology.[ES]El significado del término psicometría se puede abordar desde distintas perspectivas, tales como la consulta de diccionarios, el punto de vista de expertos internacionales o el análisis de un corpus lingüístico. Para este estudio, se ha partido de un corpus actualizado del español. La muestra fue de 90 documentos válidos de los que se seleccionó el primer texto de modo que las frecuencias de los temas procedieran de textos independientes. El método empleado fue el análisis temático tabular estructurado (AT-TE). Los resultados indican que la acepción más frecuente en español es la relativa al análisis de la calidad de las medidas, seguida de la que refiere a la evaluación y finalmente la de un enfoque metodológico en general, lo que es coherente con los diccionarios de autoridades, pero se aleja de la perspectiva mayoritaria de expertos internacionales, que consideran que la psicometría no tendría por qué vincularse a la psicología

Evaluación física y mecánica de mezclas fresado y base granular para su empleo como agregados en la conformación de bases estabilizadas de pavimentos flexibles

Trabajo de InvestigaciónEl presente trabajo tiene como fin evaluar propiedades físicas y mecánicas que pueden verse afectadas al reemplazar un porcentaje de material virgen por pavimento reciclado (RAP) en un base granular convencional. Se propuso una metodología para dicha evaluación, ejecutando ciertos ensayos de laboratorio bajo la norma INVIAS 2013, obteniendo resultados representativos que permitieron realizar los respectivos análisis, comparaciones y conclusionesINTRODUCCIÓN 1. GENERALIDADES 2. METODOLOGÍA 3. RESULTADOS Y ANÁLISIS DE RESULTADOS 4. ANÁLISIS DE ALTERNATIVAS 5. CONCLUSIONES Y RECOMENDACIONES BIBLIOGRAFÍA ANEXOSPregradoIngeniero Civi

Moving from Racist to Antiracist Practices: Using Lewin’s Field Theory to Examine Career Help-Seeking Behaviors and Intentions of Black First-Generation Students Attending Predominantly White Institutions

This study examined person and environment contextual factors associated with career decision-making difficulties among Black first-generation students (FGSs) attending predominantly white institutions (PWIs). Using Lewin’s field theory, we investigated the predictive value of person and environment factors on help-seeking behaviors for 63 Black FGS attending PWIs. We used a non-experimental correlational research design, along with hierarchical regression analysis, to investigate the predictability of contextual factors on previous career services use and intention to seek counseling for racist career barriers. Change/loss in advisor and lack of information were associated with previous career services use, whereas intention to seek counseling for racist career barriers was predicted by age, gender, interaction self-efficacy, and academic competitiveness within their program. Findings of this study can be used to develop and implement antiracist college counseling and career advising services. We explore implications for practice, include suggestions for policy modifications, discuss the limitations of our study, and finally, provide recommendations for future research

Corporate social responsibility as a strategic shield against costs of earnings management practices

We highlight how Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can be strategically used against the negative perception from earnings management (EM). Using international data, we analyse the effect of CSR and EM on the cost of capital and corporate reputation. Results confirm that CSR strategy is positively valued by investors and other stakeholders. Contrary to EM, CSR has a positive effect on corporate reputation and lowers the cost of capital. In addition, we also find that the favorable effect of CSR on cost of capital is consistently more intense in firms that show signs of EM indicating that the market does not identify when CSR practices are used as a strategy to mask EM. We also demonstrate how institutional factors influence the above relationship

The Impact of the JUNTOS Conditional Cash Transfer Programme on Foundational Cognitive Skills: Does Age of Enrollment Matter?

This paper studies the relationship between the age of enrolment in Peru’s conditional cash transfer programme, JUNTOS, and the foundational cognitive skills of a sample of children aged between 5 and 12 years old. Using a difference-in-differences approach and exploiting within-household variation, we show that younger siblings in recipient households display significantly higher levels of inhibitory control than their older counterparts (0.11 standard deviations), having benefited from the programme for the first time at a relatively earlier age. In high-income countries, this behavioural trait has been linked to later-life outcomes such as job success, physical health, and even reduced risk of criminality. Conversely, we find little evidence that enrolment age is associated with long-term memory, working memory, or implicit learning. Employing a threshold estimator, we show that relative gains in inhibitory control are most clearly defined where a child benefits from the programme before they reach 80 months of age (6.7 years). In an extension to our main results, we then conduct mediation analysis, demonstrating that a small but meaningful proportion of this benefit (6.5%) operates through changes in the probability of the child’s timely entry into primary school