Good governance in the entities of the social economy

Entities of the Social Economy are ruled by practices of collective action and democratic participation within the framework of what is known as good governance. This is based on a set of values and principles belonging to the organisations. These practices reach beyond the frontiers of the entity and have an impact on society with the application of policies of local development, social and environmental responsibility, and cooperation. This article seeks to establish a relationship between said good governance practices and business results by means of a literature study, finally formulating a theoretical model of good governance in Social Economy, which will be contrasted empirically in subsequent studies.Social economy, good governance, democratic management, cooperation, results, social cohesion, organisational culture, efficient management.

Strategy for the modernization of the armed forced: a study made with small and medium companies of the sector of the spanish defence

Concerning the model Attitudes-Intentions of behaviour (Bagozzi, 1992) and the comprehensive model of Turnover (Griffeth & Hom, 2001), the present study intends to analyze the mediating role of three attitudes (affective commitment, general satisfaction and satisfaction oriented towards the client) in the relationship that variables characterizing the work (Job Motivating Potential, Perception of Employment Alternatives and Sacrifice Perception) establish with output variables (Intention of Turnover and Organization Recommendation). We used a heterogeneous sample of 303 workers belonging to different actors of hotel business. The results of the mediating tests clarify the importance of the considered attitudes in the way job characteristics affect the intentions of behavior of the hotel employees. In general, we think our results can contributed to develop a relevant model for explaining the behavioral intentions of the professionals working with clients (front-office), which conciliates the practices of human resources with the logic of the market

Digital library system: bridging the high cost of journals in a developing country.

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Oceanograhic data archaeology: contribution to the preservation of Ecuadorian oceanographic research.

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Digital museum of aquatic organisms of Ecuador.

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Model Based Development of Quality-Aware Software Services

Modelling languages and development frameworks give support for functional and structural description of software architectures. But quality-aware applications require languages which allow expressing QoS as a first-class concept during architecture design and service composition, and to extend existing tools and infrastructures adding support for modelling, evaluating, managing and monitoring QoS aspects. In addition to its functional behaviour and internal structure, the developer of each service must consider the fulfilment of its quality requirements. If the service is flexible, the output quality depends both on input quality and available resources (e.g., amounts of CPU execution time and memory). From the software engineering point of view, modelling of quality-aware requirements and architectures require modelling support for the description of quality concepts, support for the analysis of quality properties (e.g. model checking and consistencies of quality constraints, assembly of quality), tool support for the transition from quality requirements to quality-aware architectures, and from quality-aware architecture to service run-time infrastructures. Quality management in run-time service infrastructures must give support for handling quality concepts dynamically. QoS-aware modeling frameworks and QoS-aware runtime management infrastructures require a common evolution to get their integration

The pedagogical importance of evacuation drills in schools as a means of increasing the preventive culture in Spain

[ENG] Education centres in general represent one of the places in which safety becomes something totally essential, due to the special vulnerability of children. The normal day-to-day practice of a school, supposes a series of risks and therefore it is important for the Educational Community to work actively to ensure that the school environment is as safe as possible. Of all the possible risks, fire is perhaps one of the most feared by society, and it is also that which is most likely to occur. The Educational Community in general, should be aware that the spreading of a correct preventive culture, has as its starting point the “Educational Centre” (Lewis, 2009), and it is of vital importance that this prevention culture, reaches all the pupils and teachers in order to be able to increase the level of prevention in schools and to achieve important progress in this matter at a social level. The schools must be prepared to react correctly when faced with any emergency situation that may arise and thus, if it is important to carry out annual evacuation drills, it is even more determinant that the pupils receive adequate prevention training

Resistencia al desgaste de resinas compuestas en piezas posteriores después del cepillado dental simulado - in vitro

Determinar la resistencia al desgaste de las resinas compuestas después del cepillado dental simulado, in vitro. Materiales y Método: Se realizó un estudio experimental con un muestreo No probabilístico por conveniencia. Se seleccionó cuatro piezas dentarias por cada tipo de resina compuesta, Filtek z350, Admira, Tph-3 y Tetric Ceram. Se empleó una máquina de desgaste tipo pepsodent. Resultados: Se encontró que la resina compuesta Filtek z-350 obtuvo un menor desgaste en su estructura después de haber sido sometida a la manipulación donde inicialmente pesaba 13.1473 gramos para posteriormente pesar 13.1303 gramos, en comparación con la resina TPH3, donde inicialmente pesaba 14.2580 gramos y posteriormente 14.0333 gramos. Conclusiones: Existe una disminución en la estructura superficial de las cuatro resinas compuestas, donde la resina Filtek Z-350 obtuvo mayor resistencia al desgaste después del cepillado dental simulado, in vitro.To determine the wear resistance of the Composite resins after brushing simulated. Material and method: An experimental study was carried out with a nonprobabilistic sampling for convenience. Four teeth were selected for each type of resin composite, Filtex z350, Admira, Tph-3 and Tetric Ceram. A machine wear. Results: The results of this study indicate that the composite resin Filtex z-350 obtained a less wear and tear on your structure after having been subjected to manipulation where initially weighed 13.1473 13.1303 grams for later even though grams, in comparison with the resin TPH3, which could be ascertained, was the one that obtained a greater wear and tear on your structure where initially weighed 14.0333 14.2580 grams and grams. Conclusions: There is a decline in the surface structure of the four composite resins, where the Fiitex Z-350 resin obtained greater resistance to wear after handling.Tesi

Creación y dirección de las entidades de la economía social. Teoría y práctica

El objetivo de este libro es abordar los aspectos más relevantes para la Creación y Dirección de Empresas o Entidades en el ámbito de la Economía Social. En concreto se expondrán las teorías del emprendimiento y el perfil del emprendedor social, los modelos de negocios orientados a la Economía Social, las habilidades directivas necesarias para dirigir este tipo de Entidades. También se desarrollaran las pautas necesarias para realizar un plan de negocio y de viabilidad empresarial. Así como, las estrategias de gobierno empresarial utilizadas en las Entidades de Economía Social. Para concluir, se estudiara el marco de las ayudas al fomento, difusión, formación e investigación de las Entidades de Economía Social (EES), sus diferentes estructuras organizativas, administrativas y financieras y su respaldo por parte de las administraciones públicas, siendo las sociedades laborales y cooperativas el núcleo más representativo de entidades donde se dirigen estas ayudas. Al final del libro se incluyen diversas prácticas y una colección de preguntas tipo test que abarcan todos los contenidos teóricos expuestos en el libro y las referencias bibliográficas más distinguidas. Este libro se ha elaborado para utilizarlo como manual de referencia y que sirva de base teórica para la impartición de la asignatura “Creación y Dirección de las Entidades de la Economía Social” del Máster Universitario en Dirección de Entidades de la Economía Social de la Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT)

ROV's Video Recordings as a Tool to Estimate Variation in Megabenthic Epifauna Diversity and Community Composition in the Guaymas Basin

Patterns in benthic megafauna diversity in littoral and intertidal zones in the Gulf of California have been associated with both habitat heterogeneity and substrate type. Current knowledge of invertebrate communities in hard bottom habitats at depths > 200 m in the Gulf is poor due to the methodological limitations inherent in sampling deep habitats. Using video imagery of benthic habitats coupled with environmental data from the Remotely Operated Vehicle Doc Ricketts, we documented variation in the diversity and community composition of the benthos from 849 to 990 m depth in the NW limit of the Guaymas Basin, in relation to dissolved oxygen and substrate characteristics. This depth range overlaps an oxygen minimum zone where oxygen drops to levels < 0.5 ml L-1 and strong gradients in a narrow depth range occur. Dissolved oxygen varied along our benthic survey from 0.200 to 0.135 ml L-1. We observed high taxonomic richness across an area of rocky outcrops through the lower transition zone. This megafaunal pattern differs from reports from other oxygen minimum zones characterized by a great abundance of a few species. Taxonomic richness diminished at depths with reduced dissolved oxygen in the lower boundary of the oxygen minimum zone with increasing soft sediment cover. We found that rocky outcrops and structure-forming organisms such as corals, sponges, and oyster aggregations supported a higher diversity (H' = 0.8) than soft sediment (H' = 0.7) as have been observed in other habitats such as seamounts. Environmental variables that explained most of the megafaunal variation were substrate type (18.4%), depth (1.14%) and temperature (0.9%). Salinity (0.45%) and dissolved oxygen (0.3%) were less important factors to explain the megafaunal composition variance. Substrate type played a key role in the diversity and composition of benthic megafauna. These results broaden our understanding concerning the potential roles of substrate characteristics in the community composition of the deep-sea benthic megafaunal assemblages in the Gulf of California and oxygen minimum zones in general