Assessing the development of second language syntax in Content and Language Integrated Learning

This study examined the effect of the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach on the English proficiency and syntax of a group of Andalusian learners. High-school students (n = 22) enrolled in CLIL and non-CLIL classes in the same school (I.E.S. Mariana Pineda) took an English proficiency test adapted from the University Entrance Examination. Students were assessed for syntactic development in English using an Elicited Imitation (EI) task in conjunction with an experimental design based on the syntactic properties of English. Pre-intervention academic achievement, socio-economic status (SES), and gender were included as covariates in the analyses. CLIL students scored significantly higher than non-CLIL students on the syntactic task (p = 0.002) and the proficiency test (p < 0.001). Results revealed a significant positive correlation between the scores obtained in the proficiency test and the EI task for the CLIL group (p < 0.01), but not for the non-CLIL group (p = 0.39). These findings advance a methodology to assess the English syntax of CLIL students.Este estudio examinó la efectividad del Aprendizaje Integrado de Contenidos y Lenguas Extranjeras (AICLE) respecto al dominio del inglés y la incorporación de su sintaxis en un grupo de estudiantes andaluces. Alumnos de instituto (n = 22) matriculados en clases AICLE y clases no-AICLE del mismo centro educativo (I.E.S. Mariana Pineda) realizaron un examen de inglés adaptado de la Prueba de Evaluación de Bachillerato para el Acceso a la Universidad. Se evaluó el grado de desarrollo de la sintaxis del inglés en los alumnos empleando una prueba de Imitación Elicitada (EI) en conjunción con un diseño experimental basado en las propiedades sintácticas del inglés. Se incluyeron como covariables en el análisis el nivel académico y socioeconómico previos a la intervención, así como el sexo del alumnado. Los alumnos AICLE obtuvieron mejores resultados que los no-AICLE en la prueba sintáctica (p = 0.002) y en el examen de inglés (p < 0.001). Los resultados evidenciaron una correlación significativa positiva entre la puntuación obtenida en el examen inglés y en la prueba EI para el grupo AICLE (p < 0.01), pero no para el no-AICLE (p = 0.39). Estos resultados proponen una metodología para evaluar la sintaxis inglesa de los estudiantes CLIL

An in-depth study of employees’ work engagement. Theoretical and practical implications for the governance of religious organisations

Currently, religious organisations constitute an unexplored context that represents a fundamental role of the service sector in areas such as social services, education, and health. These organisations exhibit a series of peculiarities that, in some respects, differentiate them from other entities. They are defined by the services they provide and the particular way they perform them. The transmission of values that prevail in their institutional culture is part of their mission and shapes their operations. These organisations could be desirable to individuals who identify with their foundational values. From this perspective, an essential factor in the governance of these institutions and a pivotal element in the fulfilment of their mission is their employees’ identification with their work. Employees may be authentic and live their spirituality at work and engage with the institution’s values. In this context, servant leadership is by excellence the leadership in these organisations. Servant leaders care about their workers’ benefits, put their needs first, and consider them in decision‐making

The Subjective Well-Being Challenge in the Accounting Profession: The Role of Job Resources

The main activity of the accountant is the preparation and audit of the financial information of a company. The subjective well-being of the accountant is important to ensure a balanced professional judgment and to offer a positive image of the profession in the face of the incorporation and retention of talent. However, accountants are subjected to intense pressures that affect their well-being in the performance of their tasks. In this paper, the job demands–resources theoretical framework is adopted to analyze the relationships between job demands, job resources, and the subjective well-being of a large sample of 739 accounting experts at the European level. Applying a structural equations model, the results confirm, on the one hand, the direct effects provided in the theoretical framework and, on the other, a new mediating role of job demands–subjective well-being relationship resources

El libro de las cremalleras

37 p. Recurso Electr?nicoEl libro de las cremalleras habla de la construcci?n de un lenguaje propio que parte de la experiencia que tuve como extranjero, desde donde quise explorar las relaciones existentes entre el aqu? y el all?. Trabajo con los encuentros y choques del potencial sensitivo constante del viaje, en el que recorro el espacio temporal entre los lugares que habito y que me transforman en una expresi?n sutil de lo diferente. Utilizo mi cuerpo que disloco mientras repito movimientos en el af?n por descubrir cosas nuevas, en especial pa?ses: cruzar fronteras, habitar lo desconocido sentir al ser humano que soy.The book of the zippers - is about creating a language from the experiences I had as a foreigner since I was always interested with the relationship between here and there. I work with the encounters and clashes of travel's constant sensitive potential; the one going across time and space, and between the places that transformed myself in a subtle expression of the different. I use my body and distort it while repeating movements with the eagerness of discovering new experiences: countries, crossing borders, living the unknown and feeling the human being I am. Keywords: here, travel, back, states, experiences, exploration

Kinetic models of migration of melamine and formaldehyde from melamine kitchenware with data of liquid chromatography

European legislation has established a specific migration limit (SML) of 15 mg kg−1 for formaldehyde and 2.5 mg kg−1 for melamine. Formaldehyde resins are used in the manufacture of melamine kitchenware. Formaldehyde is listed in group 1 of the IARC list of carcinogenic compounds. To determine the quantity of formaldehyde and melamine as potential migrants from different types of melamine kitchenware (glass, mug, cutlery, big cup and bowl), a HPLC-DAD method has been implemented. This method is an alternative to the ones proposed in technical guidelines to determine formaldehyde by UV–vis spectrophotometry and melamine by HPLC. The final objective was to fit the migration kinetic curves of these two analytes in melamine kitchenware. After the method was validated, decision limit (CCα) and detection capability (CCβ) were calculated for both analytes, when the probabilities of false positive (α) and false negative (β) were fixed at 0.05; being CCβ 0.269 mg L−1 and 0.311 mg L−1 for melamine and formaldehyde respectively. CCα and CCβ were also calculated at the SML of both analytes. The migration testing were conducted with simulant B (3% acetic acid (w/v) in aqueous solution), the conditions of each exposure being 70 °C for 2 h. The quantities of melamine and formaldehyde found in the third exposure of the total kitchenware analysed were between 0.21 and 1.09 mg L−1 and between 0.55 and 3.86 mg L−1, respectively. Migration kinetic curves were built for each type of kitchenware with the data of sixteen consecutive migration cycles (70 °C each 30 min). The SML for melamine was surpassed in the mug, in the big cup and in the bowl after eleven, thirteen and one cycles, respectively. When more cycles were carried out in the mug, the values of the accumulated quantity of formaldehyde and melamine were 15.30 and 6.79 mg L−1, respectively, after thirty-two cycles. Both concentrations exceeded the corresponding SML.MINECO (AEI/FEDER, UE) and Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Castilla y León through projects CTQ2017-88894-R and BU012P17 respectively (all co-financed with FEDER funds

Servant Leadership in a Social Religious Organization: An Analysis of Work Engagement, Authenticity, and Spirituality at Work

Religious organizations represent a main part of the third sector and the social economy. Social faith-based institutions have some unique features that, in some respects, differentiate them from other entities, as they are characterized and defined not only by the services they provide, but also by how they provide them. It is part of their mission to convey the values that prevail in their institutional culture while developing their activities, being attractive to those workers who identify with their values. From this point of view, a key element of these entities’ success is that their employees feel identified with their work so that they are engaged in the institution and its values. The style of leadership exercised in such organizations is critical to fostering these attitudes and their long-term survival. This paper aims to study the link between perceived servant leadership by followers and work engagement, as well as the mediating role of authenticity and spirituality at work in this relationship. To this end, 270 workers from a Spanish Catholic organization in the social sector were surveyed. These data were processed by PLS (partial least squares). The results show that a servant leadership style by itself does not directly promote work engagement among employees of the target organization. The engagement of these workers comes through two mediating variables: authenticity and spirituality at work. This study covers a gap in the literature because although there are studies arguing that a strategy of servant leadership is critical to these organizations, to our knowledge, they do not finish demonstrating the fundamental roles that attitudes of authenticity and spirituality at work play in the perception of this type of leadership, achieving greater work engagement

Empleo de xerogeles orgánicos de carbono en la remoción de clorfenamina mediante foto Fenton-like solar

Propósito y método del estudio: El propósito de este estudio se basa en la implementación de un xerogel orgánico de carbono (XOC) dopado con un metal de transición para la degradación del antihistamínico clorfenamina. La síntesis de los XOC se realizó por el método sol-gel siguiendo su respectivo método de curado, donde se variaron las relaciones de la sal del metal. Posteriormente en un simulador solar se evaluaron los diversos materiales a diferentes condiciones y a través de pruebas fotocatalíticas directas y empleando H2O2 para propiciar un proceso foto Fenton-like heterogéneo (FFLH). Contribuciones y conclusiones: El material con la mayor caída de concentración fue el XOC dopado con hierro. La caracterización del material reveló la inserción de complejos de Fe(III) enlazado a grupos oxigenados del tipo carboxílicos que promueven la activación del material con radiación visible, lo que lo convierte en un material viable para la oxidación de contaminantes presentes en fase acuosa. El estudio cinético reveló que las constantes cinéticas de degradación fueron 9.34×10- 1 min-1 , 1.78×10-1 min-1 y 51.7×10-1 min-1 para los procesos FFLH, fotocatalítico y fotolítico respectivamente. Los subproductos derivados de los diversos procesos posteriores a la degradación presentaron una baja toxicidad al ser comprobados mediante pruebas de citotoxicidad. Además, se obtuvo el mecanismo de activación del catalizador, demostrando que el proceso ocurre por la vía de la formación del radical •OH. Los resultados en su conjunto demuestran que el empleo de XOC dopados con Fe en procesos de FFLH es una vía factible para la degradación de la clorfenamina

Improving Vegetables' Quality in Small-Scale Farms Through Stakeholders' Collaboration

[EN] Small farms are responsible for 80% of theworld¿s agricultural production although they have difficulties to meet the market quality requirements. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs where modern retailers invest in empowering small farmers have been implemented obtaining an increase of the supply chain (SC) profits in cases where supply and demand are balanced. In this paper, a MILP model based onWahyudin et al. (In: Proceedings of the international multiconference of engineers and computer scientists, Hong Kong, pp. 877¿882, [1]) to select the investments to carry out by modern retailers, and the product flow through the SC in situations of supply and demand imbalance is proposed. Its objective is to find out if collaboration programs have a positive impact on SC profits when supply and demand are not balanced. This model allows for the rejection of demand and product wastes. Results show that collaboration programs positively impact on the SC profits and consumer satisfaction level when there is an imbalance between demand and supply.The first author acknowledges the partial support of the Programme of Formation of University Professors of the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport (FPU15/03595), and the partial support of Project Development of an integrated maturity model for agility, resilience and gender perspective in supply chains (MoMARGE). Application to the agricultural sector. Ref. GV/2017/025, funded by the Generalitat Valenciana. The other authors acknowledge the partial support of Project 691249, RUC-APS: Enhancing and implementing Knowledge based ICT solutions within high Risk and Uncertain Conditions for Agriculture Production Systems, funded by the EU under its funding scheme H2020-MCSA-RISE-2015.Esteso, A.; Alemany Díaz, MDM.; Ortiz Bas, Á. (2020). Improving Vegetables' Quality in Small-Scale Farms Through Stakeholders' Collaboration. Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering. 95-103. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44530-0_12S95103Wahyudin RS, Hisjam M, Yuniaristanto, Kurniawan B (2015) An agri-food supply chain model for cultivating the capabilities of farmers in accessing capital using corporate social responsibility program. In: Proceedings of the international multiconference of engineers and computer scientists, Hong Kong, pp 877–882Lowder SK, Skoet J, Raney T (2016) The number, size, and distribution of farms, smallholder farms, and family farms worldwide. World Dev 87:16–29Sutopo W, Hisjam M, Yuniaristanto (2011) An agri-food supply chain model for cultivating the capabilities of farmers accessing market using social responsibility program. Int Sch Sci Res Innov 5(11):1588–1592Sutopo W, Hisjam M, Yuniaristanto (2012) An agri-food supply chain model to enhance the business skills of small-scale farmers using corporate social responsibility. Makara J Technol 16(1):43–50Sutopo W et al (2013a) A goal programming approach for assessing the financial risk of corporate social responsibility programs in agri-food supply chain network. Proc World Congr Eng 2013:732–736Sutopo W, Hisjam M, Yuniaristanto (2013b) An agri-food supply chain model to empower farmers for supplying deteriorated product to modern retailer. In: IAENG transactions on engineering technologies: special issue of the international multiconference of engineers and computer scientists 2012. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 189–202Grillo H, Alemany MME, Ortiz A, Fuertes-Miquel VS (2017) Mathematical modelling of the order-promising process for fruit supply chains considering the perishability and subtypes of products. Appl Math Model 49:255–278Sutopo W, Hisjam M, Yuniaristanto (2013c) Developing an agri-food supply chain application for determining the priority of CSR program to empower farmers as a qualified supplier of modern retailer. In: 2013 World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science, pp 1180–1184Esteso A, Alemany MME, Ortiz A (2017) Conceptual framework for managing uncertainty in a collaborative agri-food supply chain context. Working conference on virtual enterprises. Springer, Cham, pp 715–72

Métodos y Modelos Deterministas e Inciertos para la Gestión de Cadenas de Suministro Agroalimentarias

[EN] The market for agricultural products has grown substantially. At the same time, social concern in food issues such as food safety, food quality, traceability and sustainability is constantly increasing. These reasons have pointed out the need of new models and tools to manage the agri-food supply chains while considering the characteristics that differentiate them from other industrial supply chains as well as the uncertainties present in the sector. Thus, the aim of this paper is to present the current status of a project which mains objectives are to describe the complexity faced by agri-food supply chain decision makers, and to develop new tools based on mathematical programming models to help the decision making process in agri-food supply chain planning. These models novelty will include the consideration of the inherent characteristics of agri-food supply chains and the sources of uncertainty present in the sector. The proposed models and tools will be applied to a real agri-food supply chain in order to prove their validity and applicability and to compare the results obtained by deterministic and uncertain tools.[ES] El mercado de productos agrícolas está en continuo crecimiento, al igual que la preocupación social en temas alimentarios como la calidad y seguridad alimentaria. Esto genera la necesidad de desarrollar modelos y herramientas para gestionar las cadenas de suministro agroalimentarias de manera ajustada y teniendo en cuenta sus características y fuentes de incertidumbre inherentes. Este articulo presenta el estado actual de un proyecto cuyos principales objetivos son: describir la complejidad enfrentada por los decisores de las cadenas de suministro agroalimentarias, y desarrollar nuevas herramientas basadas en programación matemática para apoyar la toma de decisiones en este sector.This research has been supported by the Program of Formation of University Professors (FPU) of the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (FPU15/03595)Esteso, A.; Alemany Díaz, MDM.; Ortiz Bas, Á. (2017). Deterministic and Uncertain Methods and Models for Managing Agri-Food Supply Chain. Dirección y organización (Online). (62):41-46. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/108673S41466