Big Data and Skills Frameworks to Determine Recommended Profiled of Soft Skills for IS Development

Information systems development (ISD) is a social activity where non-cognitive skills (NCS), frequently known as soft skills, are a key factor. Previous efforts to determine the recommended NCS for the ISD professional roles got limited results due to the use of manual procedures, absence of reference frameworks and small size of samples. This work presents a new approach which exploits existing reference models like ESCO, e-CF and NCSF (NCS Framework) as basis to analyse big datasets offered by tools like the ESCO database with thousands of relations between occupations and skills and the Ovate tool with millions of online vacancies. The combination of information from job market with the opinion of experts from ESCO provides a stronger basis for recommended NCS profiles for ISD professional roles, a promising option for an aspect not extensively explored

Analysis of Mobile Commerce in the SMEs of the European Union

This paper examines the situation of e-commerce and m-commerce in SMEs in the European Union and analyses if their behaviour in this field is determined by a series of factors, such as the size of the company, the type of business, turnover, etc. which may also influence their needs of specific training for their employees. This study is based on an online survey responded by 674 SMEs from eight different countries in Europe, aimed at providing training assistance to SMEs to support their efforts towards m-commerce. The objective is the analysis of the skills and knowledge to be recommended to employees of SMEs for a better preparation to implement the companies\u27 strategy of m-commerce. Although analysis of results from survey has supported the initial goal of developing training courses for m-commerce which include different economic, legal and technical topics, it has mainly provided very relevant conclusions on the factors which impact the adoption of e-commerce and m-commerce by SMEs

Healthy Sitting Behaviour Enhancement using a Smart Chair System

The aim of this paper is to present a smart chair prototype to monitor the sitting behaviour of people in wheelchair to re-educate them about long periods of time standing still and in the same position and giving them a feedback about this. The project is mainly focused on those who have been in a wheelchair for a short time. The sitting posture monitoring in the developed smart chair system can help or promote people to achieve and maintain healthy sitting behaviour, and prevent or reduce diseases caused by poor sitting behaviour, like bedsores (pressure ulcers)

Implementing a Mobile Application for Street Lighting Evaluation

Nowadays, energy consumption is on the rise. This is not sustainable in the long run. The highest energy use in Town Councils takes place in street lighting installations. In order to help in this problem, we present a mobile service to evaluate the electrical consumption of these infrastructures. This new tool is able to make an estimation of energy demand of installations; on an easy and intuitive way thanks to an evaluation methodology which reduces the need of a large list of parameters used by other programs. As a result, the developed application also gives users the opportunity to compare the efficiency of the installation evaluated with others previously evaluated to increase energy efficiency. The application was tested with two different experiments to ensure its correct running and to evaluate both the estimation accuracy and usability

Mobile Usability: An Experiment to Check Whether Current Mobile Devices are Ready to Support Frames and iFrames

Frames have traditionally been identified as a usability issue in websites for computers. Literature points out that they may also be a problem for mobile websites but no studies have been carried out to prove it. Since mobile devices have changed a lot in recent years, it is necessary to check whether frames are still a problem for those devices. In this paper we have performed an experiment with twenty-two mobile devices, to test whether the content can be showed in their browsers, as well as their behavior with different configuration of frames and iframes and whether behavior of bookmarks and the back button is correct or not. The results show that frames and iframes should be avoided in mobile devices because they can cause many problems, which are explained in detail in this paper

Estudio de caso sobre el programa “Financiación de Proyectos Asociativos de cacao en Tumaco” implementado por IC Fundación

102 páginas y anexos.El objetivo del presente trabajo es documentar y valorar, bajo la modalidad de un estudio de caso cualitativo y a la luz de las teorías de la Inversión Social Privada y la Construcción de paz desde el sector privado, el programa de “Financiación de proyectos asociativos de cacao”, implementado por IC Fundación, en el municipio de Tumaco, a partir de enero de 2015. El programa ofrece un modelo de acompañamiento y otorgamiento de crédito que ha sido estructurado en 4 fases y sobre la base de un proceso de debida diligencia en la empresa comunitaria que requiere el crédito, con el fin de identificar organizaciones líderes que utilicen los recursos como una herramienta para la viabilidad de sus negocios y que estén dispuestas a cambiar su visión de beneficiarios por la de empresarios auto-sostenibles, apuntando a la generación de impactos sociales en sus comunidades. Desde que IC Fundación inició su operación en Tumaco, se han otorgado aproximadamente 9 créditos destinados a apoyar la compra de cacao para exportación: el valor de dichos desembolsos oscila entre $20 millones y$150 millones de pesos por crédito, beneficiando así a cerca de 1.680 productores asociados, para apoyar la exportación de 87,5 toneladas de cacao.MaestríaMagíster en Responsabilidad Social y Sostenibilida

Factores familiares asociados a los Trastornos Alimentarios: una revisión

From a multifactorial perspective this study present a review about the family factors associated to eating disorders, considering theoretical and empirical contributions in national and international journals articles . The find of the research about the Eating Disorders and Family, indicate that the principal topics investigated are: family functioning, daughters and fathers relationships, stressful experiences, family psychopathology, attitudes and behaviors about weigh, eating and body image in the affected families. We conclude recognizing the heterogeneity of the families with Eating Disorders and the complex combination of family factors associated to eating psychopathology. More research is suggested about: family functioning in EDNOS patients, the father´s role, protective factors, coping stress, body image and family food

Creación de rutas senderistas mediante análisis de redes y algoritmo multicriterio. Aplicación en el parque natural Sierra de las Nieves

En este trabajo se presenta una aplicación para la creación de rutas de senderismo personalizadas a cada senderista en función de criterios como dificultad, motivación y capacidad física. La aplicación ejecuta un sistema recomendador basado en el análisis de redes y en el algoritmo de búsqueda A* para calcular las rutas que cumplan con los criterios del usuario. Para implementar el sistema se han utilizado herramientas de software libre como postgreSQL (para la base de datos), postGIS (para la creación de la información geográfica) y pgrouting (para el análisis de redes). La base de datos está cargada con capas de información geográfica públicas a escala 1/10.000 que contienen la localización de la red de caminos y sendas. A partir de ella se extrae la información que necesita el buscador y se analizan los grafos que cumplen con las condiciones impuestas por el usuario. El recomendador se ejecuta en un entorno web y el resultado que se devuelve al usuario puede ser consultado en la misma web o exportado a otros formatos (jpg, gpx o kml), con lo que el recorrido propuesto para hacer senderismo puede ser visualizado en diversos dispositivos móviles (smartphones, tablets, navegadores). El geoportal implementado (http://analisisgeografico.uma.es/sierranieves/) cumple con los estándares del Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), de manera que la información generada es compatible con otras plataformas universales.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Estimation of Energy Consumption in Street Lighting using Mobile Devices

The growing energy consumption is not sustainable in the long run. Taking into account that street lighting is one of the highest energy consumers in cities, this paper aims to develop a methodology to estimate the energy consumption of these installations with as few input variables as possible. In addition, the paper presents a mobile application developed to help lighting managers not only on the energy consumption evaluation, but suggesting the possible improvements on current systems which can save energy in case that they are implemented

Maintenance of street lighting systems using mobile phones

There is no doubt that street lighting systems have an important role in cities promoting comfort, as well as enhancing safety and security. These kinds of systems require maintenance in order to guarantee operation and reduce energy consumption. To help with certain maintenance tasks, a new smartphone application has been developed. The aim of this tool is to set up street lighting energy efficiency level at the same time that the illuminance level is evaluated. The benefit of this tool is that maintenance staff can assess energy efficiency on an easy and quick way, achieving a result report. In addition, a new Bluetooth device was created to perform the measurements, being necessary to perform a brief study about its accuracy compared with a mobile phone ambient light sensor and an external sensor