Evaluation of privacy assurance methods and guideline development: Implications for dr’s higher education institutions

This project evaluates the actual mechanism of privacy assurance in the Dominican Republic\u27s Higher Education institutions towards a standardization process. International regulations and type codes such as U.S Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), and Spain Castilla\u27s University de La-Mancha conduct code for personal data protection have been examined in order to obtain a ground for comparing and evaluating Dominican Republic\u27s higher education privacy assurance methods. The evaluation of the Dominican Republic\u27s actual higher education was developed through investigation of the different processes and procedures that people who are responsible of the students personal data, follow to achieve their tasks. Interviews to those involved in the process have also been made. After the evaluation process several flaws were identified and a guideline developed to assist universities and higher education institutions in managing and enhancing their privacy safe methods. The creation of a good practices code for privacy assurance of student\u27s personal data has been recommended as a Universities\u27 self-regulated approach, which should precede a centrally regulated code or law

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Fermat-linked relations for the Boubaker polynomial sequences via Riordan matrices analysis

The Boubaker polynomials are investigated in this paper. Using Riordan matrices analysis, a sequence of relations outlining the relations with Chebyshev and Fermat polynomials have been obtained. The obtained expressions are a meaningful supply to recent applied physics studies using the Boubaker polynomials expansion scheme (BPES).Comment: 12 pages, LaTe

Cognitive Processes during Acute Psychosis: The Role of Heightened Responsibility and Catastrophic Misinterpretations

Background: This study investigated the role of cognitive mechanisms underlying obsessive compulsive and panic disorders in psychosis, and in particular, their possible contributions to acute psychosis. Method: A total of 90 participants were recruited comprising three equal-size groups, including two clinical groups (acute and stable) and one non-clinical matched control group. Symptom severity and distress was assessed using the PSYRATS, and questionnaire measures of anxiety and obsessive beliefs were administered to all participants. Results: Individuals with a diagnosis of psychosis reported significantly higher levels of obsessional beliefs and anxiety sensitivity than the non-clinical group. Furthermore, acutely psychotic patients reported a significantly higher sense of responsibility and catastrophic misinterpretation than the stable psychiatric controls, and than samples of OCD and GAD patients. Conclusions: Results suggest that these anxiety processes are particularly important during acute psychotic episodes, beyond the reported comorbidity. The theoretical and clinical implications of these findings, the limitations of the methodology employed, and suggestions for future research are discussed

Perfil del consumidor verde de la generación millennials de universidades privadas de la ciudad de Chiclayo 2018

En los últimos años se ha puesto énfasis en despertar la conciencia medioambiental, surgiendo un nuevo grupo de consumidores denominado “consumidores verdes” quienes optan por hábitos de compra y consumo más sustentables, siendo los millennials, generación de personas nacidas entre 1980 y 2000 quienes lideran esta tendencia y al ser un segmento que a futuro formará gran parte de la PEA en el Perú, es importante saber lo que piensan y lo que quieren, es por ello, que el presente estudio buscó determinar el perfil del consumidor verde de la generación millennials de universidades privadas de la ciudad de Chiclayo a fin de conocer cuáles son sus características y preferencias específicas como segmento de mercado. Para ello, se realizó una investigación descriptiva de enfoque mixto, la muestra estuvo conformada por 430 estudiantes de 18 a 25 años (millennials), de ambos sexos pertenecientes a universidades privadas de Chiclayo: USAT, USMP y USS a los que se les aplicó un cuestionario tipo Likert, basado en el modelo propuesto por Izaguirre, Vicente & Fernández. Dentro de los resultados obtenidos, se pudo establecer que los consumidores verdes, en su mayoría son mujeres de ocupación estudiantes y practicantes que aún reciben apoyo económico por parte de su familia, estos adquieren productos ecológicos principalmente por sus beneficios para la salud y están dispuestos a pagar un sobreprecio de hasta 25% más por ellos, además son las categorías de alimentos y de cuidado e higiene personal las preferidas, siendo los supermercados el principal canal de compra. Finalmente, se concluyó que los estudiantes de la USAT y USMP se parecen, tanto en gustos, estilos de vida y hábitos de compra mientras que los estudiantes de la USS asumen otra realidad, así mismo, se muestra a la ciudad de Chiclayo como un mercado en crecimiento y, por lo tanto, una oportunidad de negocio

Mapping Digital Media: Spain

The Mapping Digital Media project examines the global opportunities and risks created by the transition from traditional to digital media. Covering 60 countries, the project examines how these changes affect the core democratic service that any media system should provide: news about political, economic, and social affairs.Since 2005, Spain has designed and implemented aggressive digitization policies that secured the switchoff of analog television in 2010, and developed the digital terrestrial television (DTT) market to saturation point. As a result, cable and satellite subscription services have experienced some decline since 2008. The rapid rise of free-to-air (FTA) digital television has not, however, been replicated in radio, where take-up of the assigned digital audio broadcasting (DAB) standard has been marginal, with little promise of imminent significant growth. This is attributed to a policy focus on digital television, the absence of a digital radio publicity campaign and a switch-off deadline, and the cost of upgrading to digital radio faced by consumers and broadcasters alike.The roll-out of broadband infrastructure has been successful, accounting for 99 percent of all fixed-line connections in 2010. But the consumers' cost of connection remains one of the highest in the European Union (EU), and an enduring digital divide is reflected in the fact that fixed-line internet connections reached only 22 percent of households in 2010.The report also calls for the setting up of an independent regulatory authority on audiovisual matters; the effective implementation of self-regulatory codes concerning media and children; a comprehensive policy program involving concerted action by state institutions, universities, and journalism associations/unions to tackle problems of journalists' pay and conditions; the effective implementation of ethical codes and principles to challenge the abusive dominance of opinion and ideological polarization in the media; the setting up by the Government of a radiocommunications agency to handle radio spectrum policy;the delegation of DTT licensing to this radiocommunications agency; improved publicity for public tenders through the approval of a law on transparency and citizens' access to public information; the promotion of media literacy in school curricula; and finally, the protection of RTVE's political and financing independence to ensure the provision of non-partisan and good-quality journalism to Spanish society