Researching Finnish library responses to Covid-19 digital literacy challenges through the employment of reflective practice

Social distancing restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic were declared in Finland in March 2020. Libraries followed Government recommendations resulting in limited library service delivery across a variety of sectors. This research investigates challenges experienced by public, special and academic libraries in the Helsinki metropolitan area focussing on library staff reflections of digital literacy services offered during the pandemic. A multiple case study, with an emergent mixed methods research design was utilised. All data was gathered online due to Covid-19 restrictions: Quantitative data originated from an online survey of library staff; library websites were also audited. Qualitative data originated from semi-structured interviews. Triangulation of the data enabled a clear understanding of digital literacy challenges and responses. Overall, the mixed methods design and the data collection techniques, encouraged reflection upon experience, which in return informed a rich picture of the multiple case study. Results demonstrated that digital literacy challenges existed, particularly related to reaching library customers requiring digital support. Finnish libraries did not differentiate information literacy from digital literacy, as both were perceived as part of library service. Library staffs’ reflections corroborated similar research, for example, the impact of teleworking, on technology use and social aspects of working from home. Recommendations include undertaking further research on special libraries and promoting reflective practice as a mechanism for better understanding the views of library staff

Nurse Use of Coping Strategies and the Effect on Reported Stress

Undergraduate Student(s): Erick Infante, Abigail Guerrero, Johana Figueroa, Fransely Rivera, Sosa Edomwande, Berenice Lucio Research Mentor: Doreen Wagner Among nurses, do coping mechanisms make a difference in the reduction of reported emotional distress? Background: Emotional distress plays a vast role in a nurse\u27s mental health. The increase in emotional hardship, in recent years, has led to an increase in burnout and greatly contributed to the nursing shortage. The effects of patient mortality within healthcare workers is an issue that requires more attention and research. Therefore, the purpose of this research project is to analyze multiple research articles and determine which coping mechanisms show a reduction in emotional distress. Literature Review: Nurses go through large amounts of stress during their day-to-day work activities and in order to decrease said stress multiple coping mechanisms are used. This stress could not only include the stress from dealing with high maintenance patients but also from the amount of patients in their care, or a lack of teamwork. In the articles we viewed the most used coping mechanisms used by nurses to deal with these daily stressors varied but one consistent theme arose, the ability to communicate their grievances with others that understood what they were going through. Methodology: Several studies were systematically reviewed and were adapted from the EBSCOhost database. Articles were selected to further help in the study based on the key words: nurses, coping strategies, dying and end of life. The final twenty-four articles were appraised for quality, evidence level, and relative evidence to our guiding clinical question. Conclusion: It is hoped through these research studies, the use of identified coping mechanisms will benefit nurses by decreasing stress levels

Investigating the Relationship between Ethnicity and Degree Attainment

In January 2008, the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) presented their ‘Ethnicity, Gender and Degree Attainment Project’ report (HEA, 2008). Whilst the report does not locate clear causes for difference in degree attainment that can be directly linked to ethnicity and gender, it describes concerns from higher education institutions’ (HEIs) staff and students that black and minority ethnic (BME) groups are marginalised. While the HEA/ECU suggest that ‘[t]he causes of degree attainment variation with respect to gender and ethnicity were found to be unlikely to be reducible to single, knowable factors’ (2008, p.2), they do note that ‘even after controlling for the majority of contributory factors, being from a minority ethnic group…was still found to have a statistically significant and negative effect on degree attainment’ (ibid., p.2). The relationship between ethnicity, gender and degree attainment remains both troubling and uncertain

Responsabilidad Social Empresarial como Estrategia para el Financiamiento al Desarrollo en el marco de la Implementación de la Agenda 2030 en El Salvador.

Responsabilidad Social Empresarial (RSE), Financiamiento para el Desarrollo y la Agenda 2030 – Responsabilidad Social empresarial (RSE) en El Salvador y Agenda Nacional de Desarrollo Sostenible –Retos y perspectivas que enfrentan las empresas privadas para el financiamiento de la nueva agenda de desarrollo sostenible en El Salvador

Estrategias de vinculación académico - laboral

La Facultad de Arquitectura y Diseño de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México instrumenta estrategias de vinculación enfocadas a promoción del servicio social y prácticas profesionales, programas de inducción al mercado laboral, ferias virtuales de empleo, bolsa de trabajo, programas de seguimiento de egresados y convenios. Mismas que no se traducen en acciones que permitan alto impacto en la vinculación académico laboral. Por ello, el objetivo de este trabajo es hacer una descripción general de la situación actual y problemática de vinculación con sectores productivos. Para finalmente presentar estrategias que fortalezcan vínculos mediante la sistematización de procesos para cada sector

Differences in the relation between bone mineral content and lean body mass according to gender and reproductive status by age ranges

The present study aims: (1) to explore the influence of lean mass (LM) on bone mineral content (BMC), (2) to investigate the pubertal influences on the BMC–LM relation, and (3) to perform Z-score charts of BMC–LM relation, stratified by gender and reproductive status categorized by age ranges. A cross-sectional analysis was conducted using 4001 healthy subjects between 7 and 90 years participating in the Health Workers Cohort Study. Of these, 720 participants were ≤ 19 years, 2417 were women ≥ 20 years, and 864 were men ≥ 20 years. Using Dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), we measured BMC and LM. Participants’ pubertal development was assessed according to Tanner’s stage scale. To describe BMC–LM relation, simple correlation coefficients were computed. To produce best-fit equations, an ANOVA test was conducted. Z-score graphs for the BMC–LM relation were obtained. In general, the BMC–LM correlations were linear and highly significant. For boys, curves were virtually parallel, with similar intercepts and a progressive displacement of values toward the upper-right region of the graph, for each Tanner subgroup. For girls, curves for Tanner 1-2 and 4-5 stages were parallel; but, in girls Tanner 4-5, the intercepts were significantly higher by about +300–400 g of BMC (P < 0.001). For postmenopausal women, the curve was parallel to that for the premenopausal but showed a lower intercept (P < 0.001). We provide DXA reference data on a well-characterized cohort of 4001 healthy subjects. These reference curves provide a reference value for the assessment and monitoring of bone health in all age groups included in the present study.Fil: Denova Gutiérrez, Edgar. Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública; MéxicoFil: Clark, Patricia. Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez. Unidad de Investigación en Epidemiología Clínica; México. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; MéxicoFil: Capozza, Ricardo Francisco. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Rosario; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Centro de Estudios de Metabolismo Fosfocálcico; ArgentinaFil: Nocciolino, Laura Marcela. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Rosario; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Centro de Estudios de Metabolismo Fosfocálcico; ArgentinaFil: Ferretti, Jose Luis. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Rosario; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Centro de Estudios de Metabolismo Fosfocálcico; ArgentinaFil: Velázquez Cruz, Rafael. Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica México. Laboratorio de Genómica del Metabolismo Óseo; MéxicoFil: Rivera, Berenice. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; MéxicoFil: Cointry, Gustavo Roberto. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Rosario; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Centro de Estudios de Metabolismo Fosfocálcico; ArgentinaFil: Salmerón, Jorge. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; México. Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública; Méxic

Factores socioeducativos que inciden en el sistema educativo a nivel nacional en la continuidad de la formación académica de los estudiantes en educación básica, media y superior, durante el año 2018

La investigación responde a los factores socioeducativos que inciden en el sistema educativo a nivel nacional en la continuidad de la formación académica de los estudiantes en educación básica, media y superior. Uno de esos factores en el cual se ha direccionado la investigación, es la actualización docente y como ésta incide en el proceso de enseñanza aprendizaje que reciben los estudiantes de las universidades privadas y públicas de la zona central de El Salvador

Análisis de la práctica de graficación en estudiantes de ingeniería en un contexto de laboratorio de física

The aim of this research is to characterize the graphing practices in first semester Physical Engineering students in a lab context. An ethnographic methodology is used to collect data, and the paper follows a framework that considers Graphing a social practice. For the analysis, five components in scientific environments were used: ongoing concerns, standard practices, material resources, linguistic resources, and breakdowns. The intent is to account for the confrontations, difficulties, and participation of 44 students in the first semester of the Physical Engineering Program in the social graphing practice as they construct and interpret Cartesian graphs. A summary of the results obtained is presented, and a categorization of graphing components during the experimental practice is shown. This categorization allowed us to find some difficulties students exhibit when interpreting and constructing cartesian graphs.El objetivo principal de esta investigación es caracterizar la práctica de graficación en estudiantes del primer semestre de Ingeniería Física dentro de situaciones experimentales en un contexto de laboratorio. Para ello se utiliza una metodología etnográfica en la toma de datos y se integra a esta investigación un marco de referencia que considera a la graficación como una práctica social. Para el análisis se hace uso de cinco componentes en ambientes científicos: inquietudes en desarrollo, prácticas estándar, recursos materiales, recursos lingüísticos y rupturas. La intención es dar cuenta de los enfrentamientos, dificultades y participación de un grupo de 44 alumnos de primer semestre en Ingeniería Física, en la práctica social de graficación, mientras construyen e interpretan gráficas cartesianas. Por tanto, se presenta una síntesis de los resultados obtenidos y se logra mostrar una categorización de los componentes de la graficación durante la práctica experimental, y se asume que dicha categorización permitió caracterizar algunas dificultades que presentan los estudiantes en la interpretación y construcción de gráficas cartesianas

Nivel de adherencia a la guía de atención de neumonía adquirida en la comunidad en el Hospital Universitario San Jorge de Pereira, Colombia

Objetivos: Determinar las variables que se asocian con la falta de adherencia a la guía de atención de Neumonía Adquirida en la Comunidad (NAC) en el Hospital Universitario San Jorge de Pereira (HUSJ). Materiales y métodos: Estudio de corte transversal sobre todos los pacientes mayores de 18 años de cualquier sexo con diagnóstico de ingreso o egreso de NAC entre el 1 de enero de 2010 y 30 de marzo de 2012. La información se tomó de las historias clínicas considerando variables socio-demográficas, clínicas (diagnóstico, síntomas, comorbilidades), paraclínicas (leucograma, Rayos-X, hemocultivos) y terapéuticas (tiempo de hospitalización, costos y medicamentos). Se determinó la adherencia a la guía según cumplimiento de ésta. Se aplicaron pruebas de X2 y regresión logística. Resultados: se hallaron 297 casos de NAC, con ligero predominio masculino (159 hombres vs 138 mujeres) y edad promedio 56,3±22,4 años. La adherencia a la guía fue de 14,1% de casos. Los antibióticos más empleados fueron Ampicilina+Sulbactam en 180 pacientes (60,6% de los casos), Ceftriaxona en 53 (17,8%) y Claritromicina en 31 (10,4%). Se realizaron 92 hemocultivos y el 8,6% reportó cocos gram positivos.  El costo bajo de hospitalización (p=0,03, OR:2,07; IC95%: 1,02-4,14) y reporte de radiografía de tórax (p&lt;0,001, OR:16,7; IC95%:2,26-124,11) se asociaron de manera estadísticamente significativa con adherencia a la guía. La falta de adherencia se asoció al desconocimiento de la guía por parte de los médicos. Discusión: El HUSJ debe difundir su guía de atención de NAC, socializarla entre los médicos y hacerle seguimiento a la implementación con el fin de reducir la estancia hospitalaria, las complicaciones y costos