Progressive Constructions in the Spanish Spoken in Puerto Rico

The continuous contact between English and Spanish in the Puerto Rican society has resulted in a situation that promotes the use of English as a linguistic model for imitation. Researchers such as Vázquez (1974: 75-77) have posited that interpolation of adverbial phrases in progressive constructions and other variations in the use of the gerund in Puerto Rican Spanish are the direct result of interference from English. Others such as Morales (1986: 41) have pointed out that in the linguistic interferences in the Spanish spoken in Puerto Rico, the speaker selects syntactic rules or processes from the English language. Therefore, it can be hypothesized that those speakers with the greatest amount of contact with English will produce these innovative forms with greater frequency than those with limited English interference. This paper tests these hypotheses through the examination of the following structure: forms with semantically telic verbs in a progressiveconstruction (e.g. 'Estaba disparando un tiro.' 'S/He was firing a shot.'). These progressive constructions were obtained through sociolinguistic interviews of 18 speakers of Puerto Rican Spanish. The participants also completed a questionnaire which revealed the level of contact with English that each speaker had. A total of 501 tokens from their speech was examined. These tokens were correlated with a variety of factors based on the information collected by the questionnaires. The quantitative analysis of these factors was accomplished by using the statistics package for sociolinguistic analysis, GoldVarb 2.0. The main results were that those speakers who had no exposure to English in the United States have a positive correlation with usage of relic verbs in progressive constructions, while those with more exposure to English at higher levels of education have a negative correlation for usage of telic verbs in progressive constructions. On the other hand, those speakers who used Spanish as well as English outside the home have a higher frequency of usage of telic verbs in progressive constructions than those who only used Spanish in the same linguistic domains

Non-destructive soluble solids content determination for ‘Rocha’ Pear Based on VIS-SWNIR spectroscopy under ‘Real World’ sorting facility conditions

In this paper we report a method to determine the soluble solids content (SSC) of 'Rocha' pear (Pyrus communis L. cv. Rocha) based on their short-wave NIR reflectance spectra (500-1100 nm) measured in conditions similar to those found in packinghouse fruit sorting facilities. We obtained 3300 reflectance spectra from pears acquired from different lots, producers and with diverse storage times and ripening stages. The macroscopic properties of the pears, such as size, temperature and SSC were measured under controlled laboratory conditions. For the spectral analysis, we implemented a computational pipeline that incorporates multiple pre-processing techniques including a feature selection procedure, various multivariate regression models and three different validation strategies. This benchmark allowed us to find the best model/preproccesing procedure for SSC prediction from our data. From the several calibration models tested, we have found that Support Vector Machines provides the best predictions metrics with an RMSEP of around 0.82 ∘ Brix and 1.09 ∘ Brix for internal and external validation strategies respectively. The latter validation was implemented to assess the prediction accuracy of this calibration method under more 'real world-like' conditions. We also show that incorporating information about the fruit temperature and size to the calibration models improves SSC predictability. Our results indicate that the methodology presented here could be implemented in existing packinghouse facilities for single fruit SSC characterization.Funding Agency CEOT strategic project UID/Multi/00631/2019 project OtiCalFrut ALG-01-0247-FEDER-033652 Ideias em Caixa 2010, CAIXA GERAL DE DEPOSITOS Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (Ciencia)info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Formation of abilities in the interface extracurricular period of training and beginning of the professional performance as nurse

O presente estudo teve como objetivos: compreender como o estágio extracurricular em uma instituição hospitalar privada pode contribuir no processo de formação de competências dos enfermeiros tomando como parâmetro às competências previstas na Lei de Diretrizes e Bases (LDB) e as requeridas pelo Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz (HAOC); identificar o perfil de enfermeiro requerido pelo HAOC, em relação ao conjunto de conhecimentos, habilidades e atitudes profissionais; avaliar o estágio extracurricular remunerado segundo a percepção dos alunos que vivenciaram esta experiência nesta instituição campo da pesquisa e problematizar as expectativas da diretora assistencial, dos enfermeiros gerentes e da enfermeira do Serviço de Educação Continuada do HAOC quanto ao perfil do enfermeiro para a instituição, frente à vivência do aluno estagiário visando subsidiar o redirecionamento dessa experiência para a consecução do perfil requerido. Utilizando metodologia qualitativa e referencial teórico sobre os conceitos e diferentes abordagens sobre competência, a formação profissional do enfermeiro no Brasil, os Rumos da Educação Mundial para o Século XXI (Relatório Delors,1998), o Estágio Extracurricular em Enfermagem e no HAOC, desenvolvemos a pesquisa entrevistando 8 estagiários extracurriculares (cursando o 4º ano de graduação) e 8 enfermeiros gestores do HAOC. Nos dados obtidos, analisados através da análise de conteúdo, aflora, de forma completa e total por parte de todos os entrevistados, as competências relacionais e atitudinais como prioritárias e fundamentais no perfil do enfermeiro para a instituição em que foi realizada a pesquisa. Comparando-se as competências gerais apontadas para o enfermeiro pela LDB e as expectativas dos gerentes e dos estagiários extracurriculares requeridas para o enfermeiro que atua no HAOC notou-se uma divergência: maior ênfase em competências técnicas requeridas pelas Diretrizes Curriculares contra uma maior ênfase em competências relacionais e atitudinais para o enfermeiro do HAOC. Os estagiários ingressam no programa de estágio extracurricular buscando aquisição de competências nos pilares do aprender a conhecer e aprender a fazer, e não só adquirem estas, mas atribuem maiores ganhos nas competências nos pilares do aprender a viver juntos e aprender a ser. A avaliação sistematizada do estágio extracurricular mostrou-se importante, pois revelou pontos essenciais do perfil do enfermeiro requerido pela instituição e permitiu problematizar as expectativas tanto dos enfermeiros quanto dos estagiários, cumprindo com os objetivos propostosThe present study it had as objective: to understand as the extracurricular period of training in a private hospital institution can contribute in the process of formation of abilities of the nurses taking as parameter to the abilities foreseen in the Law of Lines of direction and Bases (LDB) and the required ones for the German Hospital Oswaldo Cruz (HAOC); to identify the profile of nurse required for the HAOC, in relation to the set of professional knowledge, abilities and attitudes; according to to evaluate the extracurricular period of training remunerated perception of the pupils who had lived deeply this experience in this institution field of the research and to problematizar the expectations of the assistencial director, the controlling nurses and the nurse of the Service of Continued Education of the HAOC how much to the profile of the nurse for the institution, front to the experience of the probationary pupil aiming at to subsidize the redirecionamento of this experience for the achievement of the required profile. Using qualitative methodology and referencial theoretician on the concepts and different boardings on ability, the professional formation of the nurse in Brazil, the Routes of the World-wide Education for Century XXI (Report Delors, 1998), the Extracurricular Period of training in Nursing and the HAOC, we develop the research interviewing 8 extracurricular trainees (attending a course 4º year of graduation) and 8 managing nurses of the HAOC. In the gotten data, analyzed through the content analysis, it arises, of complete and total form on the part of all the interviewed ones, relationary and atitudinais the abilities as with priority and basic in the profile of the nurse for the institution where the research was carried through. Comparing the general jurisdictions pointed with respect to the nurse for the LDB and the expectations of the controlling and the required extracurricular trainees for the nurse who acts in the HAOC a divergence was noticed: bigger emphasis in abilities techniques required for the Curricular Lines of direction against a bigger emphasis in relationary and atitudinais abilities for the nurse of the HAOC. The trainees enter the program of extracurricular period of training searching acquisition of abilities in them pillars of learning to know and to learn to make, and they not only acquire these, but pillars of learning attribute to greaters profits in the abilities in them to live together and to learn to be. The systemize evaluation of the extracurricular period of training revealed important, therefore it disclosed essential points of the profile of the nurse required for the institution and allowed in such a way to problematizar the expectations of the nurses how much of the trainees, fulfilling with the considered objective

POLISH HIGHLY SKILLED FEMALE WORKERS ON THE ITALIAN LABOUR MARKET: A QUALITATIVE SURVEY IN THE PROVINCE OF ROME

This article aims at studying the mobility of Polish highly skilled female workers who live in Italy, and at analysing their integration into the society and the labour market, with particular reference to the problem of brain waste. Using the biographical approach we analyse the reasons for migration from a transnational perspective. We highlight the active role of the Polish social network that explains the high presence of Polish people in Rome, determined by more than purely economic reasons. Eventually, in the light of brain waste, we try to understand the role of the academic and career paths by looking into possible problems related to the adequate utilisation of professional competences and acknowledgement of the level of educational attainment

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Language contact and dialect contact: cross-generational phonological variation in a Puerto Rican community in the midwest of the United States

LoC Class: PC4095, LoC Subject Headings: Spanish language--Dialects--Ohio--Lorain, Spanish language--Variation, Spanish language--Phonology, Languages in contact--United State

Cardiovascular pre-participation screening of young competitive athletes for prevention of sudden death: proposal for a common European protocol.

Consensus Statement of the Study Group of Sport Cardiology of the Working Group of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology and the Working Group of Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases of the European Society of Cardiology