The 2030 Challenge in the Quality of Higher Education: Metacognitive, Motivational and Structural Factors, Predictive of Written Argumentation, for the Dissemination of Sustainable Knowledge

The United Nations 2030 agenda includes quality university education, highlighting the importance of writing competence, as a basic skill for the dissemination of sustainable knowledge. However, there is little evidence of the factors that predict effective written communication to support such quality. Among these factors, the literature highlights motivation and writing metacognition, as well as the adequate structuring of the academic and/or scientific genre. The main novelty of the present research is the study of the relationships between the mentioned factors, measured with validated instruments. To this end, content analysis is first applied to determine the rhetorical moves of argumentative essays written by a sample of 72 university students. Secondly, the correlations between each of the rhetorical moves, metacognition and argumentative writing self-efficacy are calculated. The relationships are studied in depth, applying step-by-step linear regression models. Finally, the dependence of the results, observed with respect to unmeasured factors, is contrasted by means of a confirmatory analysis based on structural equations. The analyses show that it is the practical ability to express rhetorical moves—Conclusion and Bibliographic References—which predicts a students’ writing metacognition. Moreover, the minor relationship that argumentative self-efficacy shows with the expression of rhetorical moves, compared to writing metacognition, point to the need to consider another motivational dimension that is driving the learning of the argumentative essay at university level, a hypothesis that is confirmed with the structural equations model. These, and other findings, allow for the establishment of a series of educational quality criteria for the empowerment of written argumentation in academic and scientific contexts.Autonomous Community of Andalusia (Research Group ED.INVEST) HUM356University of Granada (Quality Innovation and Prospective Unit) 373Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness DER2017-89623-

Análisis de la producción científica latinoamericana sobre estrés docente (2010 – 2018)

The purpose of this research was to evaluate the scientific production on teacher stress. It is a cross-sectional descriptive study of articles published in journals indexed in the SciELO collection between 2010 and 2018. An estimate of publications per year, journals, institutional affiliations and publication topics was analyzed. It was found that between the aforementioned years, 60 articles on the subject have been published, out of which the years of greatest production fluctuate between 2014 and 2018. The main journals that published articles on this topic are: Research News in Education, Uninorte Health Magazine and the Magazine of Medical Sciences of Pinar del Río in Cuba. In addition, Brazil, Colombia and Cuba have the institutional affiliations with the highest number of published articles. We can conclude that teacher stress as a research variable has been studied gradually in Latin American countries; however, it is necessary to continue strengthening these studies in other databases.La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo evaluar la producción científica sobre estres docente. Es un estudio descriptivo transversal de los artículos publicados en revistas indizadas en la colección SciELO entre los años 2010 y 2018. Se analizó estimación de publicaciones por año, revistas, afiliaciones institucionales y temáticas de publicación. Se encontró que entre los años mencionados se han publicado 60 artículos sobre la temática, de los cuales los años de mayor producción fluctuan entre 2014 a 2018, las principales revistas de publicación sobre este tópico son: Actualidades Investigativas en Educación, Revista Salud Uninorte y Revista de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río; además Brasil, Colombia y Cuba son los afiliaciones a instituciones de estos países con mayor cantidad de artículos publicaods. Podemos concluir que el estres docente como variable de investigación viene siendo estudiado de a poco en países latinoamericanos; sin embargo, es necesario seguir fortaleciendo estos estudios en demás bases de datos

Planificación de compras y eficacia organizacional de la Municipalidad de Pueblo Libre, 2022

La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo; determinar la relación entre planificación de compras y la eficacia organizacional de la Municipalidad de Pueblo Libre, 2022. Se realizó bajo una metodología cuantitativa, de tipo básica, diseño no experimental, nivel descriptivo correlacional y un diseño no experimental transversal. La población estuvo conformada por el personal del área de Subgerencia de Logística y Patrimonio Logística de la Municipalidad de Pueblo Libre, para la muestra del estudio se consideró el total de la población, conformada por 15 trabajadores, de muestra fue censal. En la recolección de datos la técnica que se utilizo fue la encuesta y el instrumento utilizado fue el cuestionario. Los resultados demostraron que existe una correlación positiva alta (Rho Spearman = 0,899) y significativa Bilateral (sig.=0,001) entre la planificación de compras y la eficacia organizacional en de la Municipalidad de Pueblo Libre, 2022, de modo que se rechazó la hipótesis nula y se aceptó la hipótesis alterna

Estudio molecular de la hipersensibilidad a esporas en Castilla y León

Los aerosoles biológicos juegan un papel vital en las interacciones entre la atmósfera, biosfera, clima y salud pública. Uno de sus componentes con gran importancia alergológica son las esporas de hongos.Grado en Medicin

Bioorganic Nutritional Alternatives in Carrots (Daucus carota var. sativa), under Intensive Gardening

Context: One oftoday´s challenges is to provide food to all inhabitants, taking into account the growth of global population, especially into the cities. Accordingly, the urban farming systems are important, as they offer a real solution in face of the people’s demands. Objective: To compare different bioorganic nutritional alternatives and their influence on growth and yield indicators in carrots (Daucus carota var. sativa). Methods: This research was done at Ernesto Che Guevara intensive green garden (UEB No. 2), from the Agricultural Company of Esmeralda municipality, between December 2016 and March 2017, on non-gley plastic dark soil with high fertility. A completely randomized experimental design was applied, with five treatments and three replicas, the indicators evaluated were plant height, root length, and yield. Results: The best agronomic indicators were achieved in the treatments based on fortified liquid humus enriched with boron, calcium, and zinc, which did not differ among them, but were different from the natural liquid humus, and the control. The fortified liquid humus produced the highest yields and the best economic results. Conclusions: A favorable response was observed to bioorganic alternatives in terms of plant growth and yields. The fortified liquid humus had the best economic effect, with a remarkable increase in revenues, compared to the control

Revaluation of agri-food waste to obtain bioethanol

Objective: Bioethanol production from the alcoholic fermentation of agri-food waste. Design/methodology/approach: Agri-food waste was collected for a month and separated into fruit and legume residues; their size was reduced, and they were washed with hot acetone. A batch of 100 g of residue underwent acid hydrolysis with 5% H2SO4 solution at 125 °C, the hydrolysate was fermented with Saccharomyces cerevisiae at 30 °C for 48 h; the ferment was distilled at 78° C. The amount of sugars was determined by phenol-sulfuric method. The °Brix, density and % w/w of ethanol were measured in a density meter. Results: From the fruit residues an organic fraction was obtained with a total sugar amount of 53.3 g/100 g of residue and 9.6 °Brix, generating 45 mL of distillate with 3.8 % w/w of bioethanol. The organic fraction from the legume residues had a total amount of sugar of 19.4 g and 4.140 °Brix, generating 30 mL of distillate with 2.5 % w/w of bioethanol. Limitations on study/implications: The rapid decomposition of waste by the attack of bacteria and fungi complicates its long-term storage. Findings/conclusions: Fermentable sugars can be obtained from the evaluated agri-food waste to obtain bioethanol. In this way they can be integrated into the value chain as feedstock, reducing their accumulation and the environmental impact generated by their final disposal.Objective: to produce bioethanol from the alcoholic fermentation of agri-food waste.Design/methodology/approach: food waste was collected for one month and separated into fruit and fabaceous waste; its size was reduced and then washed with hot acetone. A batch of 100 g of residue underwent acid hydrolysis with 5 %H 2 SO 4 at 125 °C, the hydrolysate was fermented with Saccharomyces cerevisiae at 30 °C for 48 h; the ferment was then distilled at 78 °C. The sugar content was determined following the phenol-sulfuric method. Brix degrees, density andpercentage w/w ethanol were measured with a densimeter.Results: from the fruit residues, an organic fraction was obtained with a total sugar content of 53.3 g/100 g of residue and 9.6 °Brix, generating 45 mL of distillate with 3.8 % w/w of bioethanol. From the fabaceae residues, an organic fraction was obtained with a total sugar content of 19.4 g and 4.140 °Brix, generating 30 mL of distillate with 2.54 % w/w of bioethanol.Study limitations/implications: Rapid decomposition of waste due to bacterial and fungal decomposition complicates long-term storage.Findings/conclusions: fermentable sugars can be obtained from the evaluated agri-food waste to obtain bioethanol. In this way, they can be integrated into the value chain as raw materials, reducing their accumulation and the environmental impact generated by their final disposal

Coping strategies used by health-care workers during the SARS-COV2 crisis. A real-world analysis.

El artículo ha sido publicado en la revista Psychiatry Research [Elsevier]. Está disponible en: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165178122005066?via%3Dihub[EN]The aim of this paper is to analyze the main coping strategies used by frontline teams during the first days of the COVID pandemic confinement in Spain. This information could be necessary in order to carry out training programs that allow a better handling of future emergency situations, as well as acting more effectively and with less negative emotional impact. A questionnaire was used to identify different psychological profiles for coping, and in turn, other relevant variables were analyzed. The most used strategies by health professionals were problem solving, desiderative thinking and social support. Emotional expression and social support were used more by women. Significantly different behaviors were found in desiderative thinking (lower in people of 35-50 years old, and social support, higher in people 35 years old). The symptoms most commonly experienced by medical personnel were: sleep disorders, anxiety, tension, depressive symptoms, gastrointestinal symptoms and general somatic muscular symptoms. A relationship could be determined between the age/gender of the workers and the participants' overall assessment of their ability to cope with the COVID-19 stress situation they had experienced (men 50 years old and women between 35 and 50 years old, who felt able or very able to cope with the stress caused by the health emergency. However, women 50 years old believed they were able to cope poorly with the circumstances. The advantage of specific training plans in order to help with some stress symptoms could be suggested, aimed at the acquisition of tools based on problem solving, and emotional management in stressful and emergency situations

La Biblioteca Virtual de Salud de la provincia Holguín: un diagnóstico preliminar

Aimed at the development of the Medical Virtual Library of Holguin Province a preliminary diagnosis of existing conditions was carried out. The main concepts related to the virtual library are exposed, institutions with a higher scientific potential in health care areas are identified as well as the products and information services that can be moved to the web. The strategy to the introduction of the virtual library is provided as well as its extension to the different institutions of the Health Care System of the province. Finally, some critical aspects for the success of this project are exposed