Variables del marketing que permiten el desarrollo económico de un destino de sol y playa: Benidorm

Esta investigación se centra en el marketing turístico, en la lealtad hacia los destinos turísticos que sean de sol y playa (estudiándose en este caso Benidorm), para conocer si la fidelización de los turistas contribuye al desarrollo económico de los destinos de sol y playa. Dentro del objetivo que se persigue con esta investigación es mejorar el conocimiento del concepto de fidelización en los destinos turísticos y realizar un estudio empírico para analizar cada uno de los elementos que permiten la fidelización y la lealtad de un destino turístico de sol y playa. Y una vez analizadas las variables positivas, negativas y de fidelización de un destino turístico se interpretan todos los resultados mediante un análisis descriptivo de la media y de la desviación típica

Evaluación continua a través de Moodle para involucrar al alumnado en su proceso de aprendizaje

El artículo presenta los resultados de un estudio orientado a conocer los efectos de un sistema de evaluación continua voluntaria usando la plataforma Moodle y un amplio banco de actividades, basadas en trabajos individuales y colaborativos, que el alumnado puede escoger. El objetivo de proponer este sistema de evaluación es doble. Por un lado, se persigue involucrar al alumnado ausente en el seguimiento de la evaluación continua mediante un entorno virtual. Por otro lado, se quiere motivar al alumnado en general en su aprendizaje a través de actividades continuas y orientadas a la práctica. El estudio se ha llevado a cabo en el contexto de una asignatura formada por dos grupos de los estudios de Administración y Dirección de Empresas de la Universidad de Barcelona. Como indicadores de bondad del sistema se han considerado la participación del alumnado en las actividades de evaluación y las notas finales. Los resultados han puesto de manifiesto la capacidad del sistema de involucrar al alumnado que asiste a clase en la realización de un mínimo de actividades y mejorar su aprendizaje, así como la incapacidad de involucrar significativamente al alumnado que no asiste a clase. Como conclusiones del estudio se apuntan la importancia de diseñar un buen modelo de feed-back y apostar más por tareas pensadas desde los enfoques de la evaluación auténtica.This article presents the results of a study aimed at getting to know the effects of a voluntary system of ongoing evaluation by means of the Moodle platform and a wide range of activities, based on individual and collaborative work, to be chosen by the students. There is a double objective for proposing such an evaluation system. On the one hand, it pursues to involve absent students in the follow-up of the ongoing evaluation through a virtual environment; while, on the other hand, engaging students in general in their own learning by means of continuous, practice-oriented activities. The study has been contextualised within a course that consists of two groups in the Business Administration Studies of the University of Barcelona. Student participation in the evaluation activities and their final grades have been taken as indicators for a satisfactory system. Results have exposed the capacity of the system, in the case of those students who attend classes, for getting them involved in improving their learning by engaging in a minimum number of activities. It has also shown its inability to involve to a significant extent those students who do not attend classes. The conclusions of the study point out towards the importance of designing a good feed-back model and towards a further support to activities designed from approaches of authentic assessment

Evaluación continua a través del Moodle para involucrar al alumnado en su proceso de aprendizaje

El artículo presenta los resultados de un estudio orientado a conocer los efectos de un sistema de evaluación continua voluntaria usando la plataforma Moodle y un amplio banco de actividades, basadas en trabajos individuales y colaborativos, que el alumnado puede escoger. El objetivo de proponer este sistema de evaluación es doble. Por un lado, se persigue involucrar al alumnado ausente en el seguimiento de la evaluación continua mediante un entorno virtual. Por otro lado, se quiere motivar al alumnado en general en su aprendizaje a través de actividades continuas y orientadas a la práctica. El estudio se ha llevado a cabo en el contexto de una asignatura formada por dos grupos de los estudios de Administración y Dirección de Empresas de la Universidad de Barcelona. Como indicadores de bondad del sistema se han considerado la participación del alumnado en las actividades de evaluación y las notas finales. Los resultados han puesto de manifiesto la capacidad del sistema de involucrar al alumnado que asiste a clase en la realización de un mínimo de actividades y mejorar su aprendizaje, así como la incapacidad de involucrar significativamente al alumnado que no asiste a clase. Como conclusiones del estudio se apuntan la importancia de diseñar un buen modelo de feed-back y apostar más por tareas pensadas desde los enfoques de la evaluación auténtica

Diagnóstico de la promoción de los ciclos formativos en las Islas Baleares

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Variational quantum circuits for machine learning. An application for the detection of weak signals

[EN] Featured Application Quantum classifier to detect weak signals. Quantum computing is a new paradigm for a multitude of computing applications. This study presents the technologies that are currently available for the physical implementation of qubits and quantum gates, establishing their main advantages and disadvantages and the available frameworks for programming and implementing quantum circuits. One of the main applications for quantum computing is the development of new algorithms for machine learning. In this study, an implementation of a quantum circuit based on support vector machines (SVMs) is described for the resolution of classification problems. This circuit is specially designed for the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers that are currently available. As an experiment, the circuit is tested on a real quantum computer based on superconducting qubits for an application to detect weak signals of the future. Weak signals are indicators of incipient changes that will have a future impact. Even for experts, the detection of these events is complicated since it is too early to predict this impact. The data obtained with the experiment shows promising results but also confirms that ongoing technological development is still required to take full advantage of quantum computing.Griol-Barres, I.; Milla, S.; Cebrián Ferriols, AJ.; Mansoori, Y.; Millet Roig, J. (2021). Variational quantum circuits for machine learning. An application for the detection of weak signals. Applied Sciences. 11(14):1-22. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11146427S122111

Detecting Weak Signals of the Future: A System Implementation Based on Text Mining and Natural Language Processing

[EN] Organizations, companies and start-ups need to cope with constant changes on the market which are difficult to predict. Therefore, the development of new systems to detect significant future changes is vital to make correct decisions in an organization and to discover new opportunities. A system based on business intelligence techniques is proposed to detect weak signals, that are related to future transcendental changes. While most known solutions are based on the use of structured data, the proposed system quantitatively detects these signals using heterogeneous and unstructured information from scientific, journalistic and social sources, applying text mining to analyze the documents and natural language processing to extract accurate results. The main contributions are that the system has been designed for any field, using different input datasets of documents, and with an automatic classification of categories for the detected keywords. In this research paper, results from the future of remote sensors are presented. Remote sensing services are providing new applications in observation and analysis of information remotely. This market is projected to witness a significant growth due to the increasing demand for services in commercial and defense industries. The system has obtained promising results, evaluated with two different methodologies, to help experts in the decision-making process and to discover new trends and opportunities.This research is partially supported by EIT Climate-KIC of the European Institute of Technology (project EIT Climate-KIC Accelerator-TC_3.1.5_190607_P066-1A) and InnoCENS from Erasmus + (573965-EPP-1-2016-1-SE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP).Griol-Barres, I.; Milla, S.; Cebrián Ferriols, AJ.; Fan, H.; Millet Roig, J. (2020). Detecting Weak Signals of the Future: A System Implementation Based on Text Mining and Natural Language Processing. 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El ritual de ofrendas en el Egipto antiguo: análisis iconográfico de la viñeta 148 del Libro de la Salida al Día.

El Libro de la Salida al Día es uno de los documentos más importantes del Egipto antiguo y una de las producciones religiosas más complejas de esta civilización que, debido a su gran riqueza de información, sigue presentando hoy muchos interrogantes. Este Libro es una compilación de textos que llamamos recitaciones porque en origen estaban creados para ser recitados, que a su vez solían ir acompañados de una viñeta que ilustraba el contenido narrado en dicho texto con el fin de que el difunto adquiriese su admisión en el Más Allá y poder así vivir eternamente en la Duat. En este trabajo hemos realizado el análisis iconográfico de una de estas viñetas, concretamente la catalogada como 148, que hace referencia al ritual de ofrendas y a ciertos elementos que el difunto debe conocer con el objetivo de alcanzar el Más Allá. Es por ello que, además de analizar cada elemento iconográfico que aparece en la viñeta y su significado, y realizar una catalogación de esta estableciendo sus modelos y variantes, también hemos profundizado en cómo evoluciona estructuralmente la misma

Arva : prospecciones en un centro productor de ánforas Dressel 20 (Alcolea del Río, Sevilla)

La campaña de excavación realizada en 1991 en las proximidades de sector termal de la ciudad romana de Arva (Alcolea del Río, Sevilla) ha permitido localizar tres hornos dedicados a la producción de ánforas Dressel20. Uno de ellos se data en época flavio-trajanea; los dos restantes se sitúan en un momento post-severiano. El conjunto parece formar parte del sector artesanal de Arva, situado junto al Guadalquivir.The 1991 season of excavations near the baths of the Roman city of Arva (Alcolea del Río, SevilIe) alIowed us to locate three pottery kilns especialized in the production ofDressel 20 amphorae. One of them was dated in the flavian-trajanean period.The remaining two were still active in the post -severian period. The whole area seems to be part of the craftmanship sector in Arva on the Guadalquivir river

Pulmonary Vein Activity Organization to Determine Atrial Fibrillation Recurrence: Preliminary Data from a Pilot Study

[EN] Ablation of pulmonary veins has emerged as a key procedure for normal rhythm restoration in atrial fibrillation patients. However, up to half of ablated Atrial fibrillation (AF) patients suffer recurrences during the first year. In this article, simultaneous intra-atrial recordings registered at pulmonary veins previous to the ablation procedure were analyzed. Spatial cross-correlation and transfer entropy were computed in order to estimate spatial organization. Results showed that, in patients with arrhythmia recurrence, pulmonary vein electrical activity was less correlated than in patients that maintained sinus rhythm. Moreover, correlation function between dipoles showed higher delays in patients with AF recurrence. Results with transfer entropy were consistent with spatial cross-correlation measurements. These results show that arrhythmia drivers located at the pulmonary veins are associated with a higher organization of the electrical activations after the ablation of these sites.This research was funded by Spanish Ministry of Research and Innovation : PID2019-109547RB-I00. This research was supported by the PID2019-109547RB-I00 National Research Program RETOS from the Spanish Ministry of Research and Innovation and partialy by GVA (PROMETEO/2018/078) & ISCIII (CB16/11/00486). Thanks to Michael Charles Willoughby for English language and scientific editing services.Cervigón, R.; Moreno, J.; Millet Roig, J.; Pérez-Villacastín, J.; Castells, F. (2020). Pulmonary Vein Activity Organization to Determine Atrial Fibrillation Recurrence: Preliminary Data from a Pilot Study. Mathematics. 8(10):1-13. https://doi.org/10.3390/math8101813S113810Andrade, J., Khairy, P., Dobrev, D., & Nattel, S. (2014). The Clinical Profile and Pathophysiology of Atrial Fibrillation. 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J., & Anselmino, M. (2019). Stroke-independent contribution of atrial fibrillation to dementia: a meta-analysis. Open Heart, 6(1), e000984. doi:10.1136/openhrt-2018-000984Wattigney, W. A. (2002). Increased Atrial Fibrillation Mortality: United States, 1980-1998. American Journal of Epidemiology, 155(9), 819-826. doi:10.1093/aje/155.9.819Krijthe, B. P., Kunst, A., Benjamin, E. J., Lip, G. Y. H., Franco, O. H., Hofman, A., … Heeringa, J. (2013). Projections on the number of individuals with atrial fibrillation in the European Union, from 2000 to 2060. European Heart Journal, 34(35), 2746-2751. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/eht280January, C. T., Wann, L. S., Calkins, H., Chen, L. Y., Cigarroa, J. E., Cleveland, J. C., … Yancy, C. W. (2019). 2019 AHA/ACC/HRS focused update of the 2014 AHA/ACC/HRS guideline for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation. Heart Rhythm, 16(8), e66-e93. doi:10.1016/j.hrthm.2019.01.024Haïssaguerre, M., Jaïs, P., Shah, D. 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Ecosystem Model Proposal in the Tourism Sector to Enhance Sustainable Competitiveness

[EN] Service companies in developed countries represent 70-80% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In Spain, within the service sector, tourism is the main contributor and is growing annually. This is obviously an opportunity for the country due to its benefits and economic e¿ects but at the same time a well-structured, sustainable and competitive model for its continued development is needed in order to adopt best practices and reference innovative models from other sectors. A qualitative approach using Case Study, Grounded Theory and Delphi Method has been conducted to study the tourism sector in the city of Gandia, Valencia (Spain). Results show that a tourist destination with its different components and stakeholders involved in its value chain can be interpreted as an ecosystem and so reference ecosystem models could be adopted to boost the development of a region. Considering the results obtained, this study can contribute to the development of a tourist destination in a sustainable and innovative way.Morant-Martínez, O.; Santandreu Mascarell, C.; Canós-Darós, L.; Millet Roig, J. (2019). Ecosystem Model Proposal in the Tourism Sector to Enhance Sustainable Competitiveness. Sustainability. 11(23):1-15. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11236652S115112