Production and supervision of Spanish Doctoral Theses on Advertising: 1971-2010

Este estudio analiza la producción y dirección de tesis doctorales sobre publicidad en las universidades españolas. No sólo en las universidades que cuentan con facultades de Comunicación o Información, sino en todas aquellas que cuentan con alguna tesis doctoral sobre el tema y cuyo director figura de forma expresa. Para ello, se ha trabajado con una producción total de 260 tesis doctorales durante un período que abarca desde la creación de la Licenciatura de Publicidad en la universidad española en 1971 hasta el año 2010. Para los diferentes análisis se han aplicado técnicas bibliométricas. En el análisis se prestó atención a la evolución de la producción anual de las tesis doctorales, la distribución de la producción en las universidades, y en las facultades y departamentos responsables de las tesis doctorales. Finalmente, se analizó la producción de los directores de las tesis; así como los niveles de colaboración o cooperación en la dirección. El número de directores asciende a doscientos catorce. Las tesis dirigidas por más de un director se elevan a 25.This study analyses the production and supervision of doctoral theses on advertising in Spanish universities. Universities with Faculties of Communication or Information Science have been included, as have any others that had theses on advertising and in which the supervisor fi gures expressly. We worked with 260 doctoral dissertations from the period ranging the creation of the BA in Advertising in Spain in 1971 until 2010. Bibliometric techniques were applied for performing the different analyses. During the study we focussed on the evolution of the annual production of doctoral theses, the distribution of production among the universities, and also among the faculties or departments responsible for doctoral theses. Finally, we analysed the scholarly production of the supervisors themselves, as well as the levels of collaboration or cooperation during the supervision. A total of two hundred and fourteen supervisors were studied; twenty five theses had more than one supervisor.PublicadoPublicad

Herramientas de ayuda a la toma de decisiones en cáncer colorrectal: una revisión

Aim: The objective is to collect available patient decision aids (PDA) for colorectal cancer in any of the stages of the disease and to gather published studies about the use of these tools in the last ten years Methods: A systematic review (SR) of tools for Decision-making Aid in colorectal cancer was performed since year 2000. Search includes main databases (MEDLINE, PsycINFO, EMBASE, Cochrane) as well as websites of institutions working with PDAs to search available tools. Results: After the appraisal of the found articles, we finally selected 10 studies with PDA for colorectal cancer in which patients preferences in the decision making process, disseminating strategies of the tools or the way of presenting patient information were assessed. Through the websites of institutions working with PDAs we found six tools about screening in colorectal cancer. Conclusions: There is a growing interest to involve patients with colorectal cancer in the decision making process. To do so, it’s necessary to assess patients’ values and preferences and that’s why PDAs are effective in helping both, professionals and patients. They are useful for professionals for this assessment process, and also for patients, not just to make a decision but also for being satisfied with the final decisionObjetivo: El objetivo de este trabajo es conocer los estudios publicados es los diez últimos años sobre la utilización de herramientas de ayuda a la toma de decisiones en pacientes con cáncer colorrectal, en cualquiera de las fases de la enfermedad. Así como localizar las herramientas de ayuda a la toma de decisiones que están disponibles. Método: Se ha realizado una revisión de la literatura desde el 2000 hasta el 2010 en las bases MEDLINE, PsycINFO, EMBASE y Cochrane. Así como una búsqueda en páginas webs de distintas organizaciones para la localización de herramientas disponibles Resultados: Una vez realizada la selección de los artículos, se contó con 10 artículos que presentan herramientas, evalúan las preferencias de los pacientes a la hora de tomar decisiones, evalúan las estrategias de distribución de dichas herramientas o se evalúa la forma más eficaz de presentar la información en las herramientas. A través de la búsqueda realizada mediante las páginas webs de las organizaciones se encontraron seis herramientas propiamente dichas sobre el cribado de cáncer colorrectal. Conclusiones: cada vez es mayor el interés por implicar al paciente en la toma de decisiones con respecto al cáncer colorrectal. Para ello se hace necesaria la evaluación de las preferencias y valores de los pacientes y por eso el uso de herramientas de ayuda a la toma de decisiones puede ayudar a los profesionales en esa evaluación y a los pacientes, además de a tomar la decisión, a sentirse satisfecho con ella

Beyond counting species : a new way to look at biodiversity

In modern ecology, the traditional diversity indices (usually of richness, abundance, and species evenness) have been highly revealing and useful for monitoring community and ecosystem processes. However, around two decades ago, a pioneering research team noticed that these indices did not completely resolve their open questions. Thus, they suggested changing the way biodiversity was measured. At its base, this new methodology considers the distance between species (in phylogenetic or functional terms) before subsequently applying the appropriate biodiversity indices. Including phylogenetic and functional elements in the evaluation of diversity allows us to approach the concept of biodiversity in a more comprehensive way

PACo: A Novel Procrustes Application to Cophylogenetic Analysis

We present Procrustean Approach to Cophylogeny (PACo), a novel statistical tool to test for congruence between phylogenetic trees, or between phylogenetic distance matrices of associated taxa. Unlike previous tests, PACo evaluates the dependence of one phylogeny upon the other. This makes it especially appropriate to test the classical coevolutionary model that assumes that parasites that spend part of their life in or on their hosts track the phylogeny of their hosts. The new method does not require fully resolved phylogenies and allows for multiple host-parasite associations. PACo produces a Procrustes superimposition plot enabling a graphical assessment of the fit of the parasite phylogeny onto the host phylogeny and a goodness-of-fit statistic, whose significance is established by randomization of the host-parasite association data. The contribution of each individual host-parasite association to the global fit is measured by means of jackknife estimation of their respective squared residuals and confidence intervals associated to each host-parasite link. We carried out different simulations to evaluate the performance of PACo in terms of Type I and Type II errors with respect to two similar published tests. In most instances, PACo performed at least as well as the other tests and showed higher overall statistical power. In addition, the jackknife estimation of squared residuals enabled more elaborate validations about the nature of individual links than the ParaFitLink1 test of the program ParaFit. In order to demonstrate how it can be used in real biological situations, we applied PACo to two published studies using a script written in the public-domain statistical software R

Evolution of the Urban Form in the British New Towns

[EN] Even if the urban experience of the British New Towns, created after the New Towns Act of 1945 as a solution to the problems derived from the superpopulation of great cities such as London, is already far in time it can still offer us some lessons. Lessons which could help us when intervening in current process of development and transformation of the urban form. This article analyses these experiences from its morphology, studying their formal characteristics and the organization of the several uses of the city, as well as the diachronic evolution of their criteria of spatial composition. The First New Towns mainly followed the characteristics stated in the Reith Report [HMSO, 1946 a] and the consequent New Towns Act [HMSO, 1946 b], which defined the scale of the new cities, their uses and zoning, location, areas, distances, social structure or landscape among other. Their urban forms evolved with time and were the result of many strategic and design decisions taken which determined and transformed their spatial and physical profiles. According to the Town and Country Planning Association [TCPA, 2014] New Towns can be classified in three Marks as for their chronology and the laws that helped to create them. But if we focus in their urban form, we can find another classification by Ali Madani-Pour, [1993] who divides them into four design phases, which give answer to different social needs and mobility. The analysis of the essential characteristics and strategies of each of the phases of the New Towns, applied to the configuration of the urban form of some of the New Towns, the ones which gather better the approach in each of the phases, will allow us to make a propositional diagnose of their different forms of development, the advances and setbacks; a comparative analysis of different aspects such as mobility and zoning, local and territorial relations, structure or composition. The conclusions of the article pretend to recognize the contributions, which come from their urban form and have them as a reference for new urban interventions in the current context, with new challenges to be faced from the integral definition of the city.Deltoro Soto, MJ.; Blasco Sánchez, MDC.; Martínez Pérez, FJ. (2018). Evolution of the Urban Form in the British New Towns. En 24th ISUF International Conference. Book of Papers. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 533-542. https://doi.org/10.4995/ISUF2017.2017.6484OCS53354

Black-box modeling to estimate tissue temperature during radiofrequency catheter cardiac ablation: feasibility study on an agar phantom model

This is an author-created, un-copyedited versíon of an article published in Physiological Measurement. IOP Publishing Ltd is not responsíble for any errors or omissíons in this versíon of the manuscript or any versíon derived from it. The Versíon of Record is available online at http://doi.org/10.1088/0967-3334/31/4/009[EN] The aim of this work was to study linear deterministic models to predict tissue temperature during radiofrequency cardiac ablation (RFCA) by measuring magnitudes such as electrode temperature, power and impedance between active and dispersive electrodes. The concept involves autoregressive models with exogenous input (ARX), which is a particular case of the autoregressive moving average model with exogenous input (ARMAX). The values of the mode parameters were determined from a least-squares fit of experimental data. The data were obtained from radiofrequency ablations conducted on agar models with different contact pressure conditions between electrode and agar (0 and 20 g) and different flow rates around the electrode (1, 1.5 and 2 L min¿1). Half of all the ablations were chosen randomly to be used for identification (i.e. determination of model parameters) and the other half were used for model validation. The results suggest that (1) a linear model can be developed to predict tissue temperature at a depth of 4.5 mm during RF cardiac ablation by using the variables applied power, impedance and electrode temperature; (2) the best model provides a reasonably accurate estimate of tissue temperature with a 60% probability of achieving average errors better than 5 °C; (3) substantial errors (larger than 15 °C) were found only in 6.6% of cases and were associated with abnormal experiments (e.g. those involving the displacement of the ablation electrode) and (4) the impact of measuring impedance on the overall estimate is negligible (around 1 °C).This work was supported by the 'Plan Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica, Desarrollo e Innovacion Tecnologica del Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia' of Spain (TEC200801369/ TEC) and by an R&D contract (CSIC-20060633) between Edwards Lifescience Ltd and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). The English revision and correction of this paper was funded by the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain. We thank L Melecio for his invaluable technical support in conducting the experiments.Blasco-Giménez, R.; Lequerica, JL.; Herrero, M.; Hornero, F.; Berjano, E. (2010). Black-box modeling to estimate tissue temperature during radiofrequency catheter cardiac ablation: feasibility study on an agar phantom model. Physiological Measurement. 31(4):581-594. https://doi.org/10.1088/0967-3334/31/4/009S581594314Hong Cao, Tungjitkusolmun, S., Young Bin Choy, Jang-Zern Tsai, Vorperian, V. R., & Webster, J. G. (2002). Using electrical impedance to predict catheter-endocardial contact during RF cardiac ablation. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 49(3), 247-253. doi:10.1109/10.983459Hong Cao, Vorperian, V. R., Jang-Zem Tsai, Tungjitkusolmun, S., Eung Je Woo, & Webster, J. G. (2000). Temperature measurement within myocardium during in vitro RF catheter ablation. 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Customer-based brand equity and customer engagement in experiential services: insights from an emerging economy

The aim of this research is to analyze links between customer-based brand equity and customer engagement in the field of experiential services (e.g., private health clinics)—taking an emerging economy context as our reference. The authors put forth a chain of effects—based in Social Capital Theory—to test the impact of customer-based brand equity on customer engagement, mediated by satisfaction and customer reputation. Causal model estimation results suggest that customer-based brand equity has both a direct, positive impact on customer satisfaction and customer reputation and an indirect impact on customer engagement. The final section of the paper presents theoretical discussion of the results and the main implications for business practice

Actividad en espectáculos públicos y régimen jurídico laboral

[Esta tesis fue leída por su director en un acto póstumo de homenaje a Doña Gloria María Hidalgo Rúa, fallecida dos semanas antes de la lectura y defensa de su tesis. Por tanto, no aparece en TESEO, siendo este repositorio el único punto de acceso al texto completo

Data Sources as a Driver for Market‑Oriented Tourism Organizations: a Bibliometric Perspective

This paper presents a conceptual framework that accurately represents the current and future perspectives of data-driven companies in tourism by means of an analysis of the data sources used in the data-driven tourism research literature, as well as the research topics to which they are applied. For this purpose, a bibliometric analysis of data-driven tourism research is carried out. The framework of the study is all tourism-related publications whose research was based on data sources during the period 1982–2020. The results show some of the basic bibliometric performance indicators and the maps of science. The main themes of research interest are identified, and the conceptual evolution is obtained based on these maps. Three major thematic areas are identified: tourism research topics, information sources, and data analysis techniques. Based on these three thematic areas, the conceptual model of data architecture and processes of a data-driven organization in the tourism sector are obtained. An additional qualitative analysis of the three thematic areas is performedCRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Natur