The Influence Of Fraternity Membership On The Leadership Identity Development Of Latino Men Attending Primarily White Institutions (PWIs)

With the projected increase in the number of Hispanic/Latino students enrolling in postsecondary institutions, there has been an increase in studies on student success that have focused more on Hispanic/Latino students attending Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs). One of the key factors that emerged as an under-examined but important aspect for the success of Hispanic/Latino students has been leadership development (Lozano, 2015, p. 3). Little is known about the “leadership development, capacity, and experiences while in college” of Hispanic/Latino males (Garcia, Huerta, Ramirez, & Patrón, 2017, p. 1). Garcia et al. (2017) pointed out that “scholars have examined the leadership development of college students” (p. 1); however, no research was identified that was conducted on Hispanic/Latino males. Currently in the literature there are “only a handful of studies [that] have been published about Latino males in higher education within the last decade” (Pérez & Taylor, 2016, p. 4). This qualitative phenomenological study examined how membership in a social fraternity influences the leadership identity development of Hispanic/Latino men attending predominantly White institutions (PWIs). Seven participants who self-identified as Hispanic/Latino males and who are members of social fraternities were interviewed. Using Komives’ et al. (2006) leadership identity development (LID) model as the theoretical framework for this study, three themes emerged from the data, 1) Leadership Development in Social Fraternities, 2) Student Organization Involvement, and 3) Peers and Mentors. The implications of these findings are that institutions need to encourage Hispanic/Latino male students to get involved in social fraternities that align with their own personal values and beliefs. Results from this study revealed that membership in social fraternities has the strong potential to successfully develop or further develop the leadership identity development of Hispanic/Latino males at PWIs while creating a closer affinity to the institution

Programa para la formación y actualización ético-profesional del árbitro deportivo

The objective of the research was to design a program to train sports referees ethically and professionally, when facing the problem of how to favor the professional efficiency of the sporting referees of the Sagua de Tánamo municipality. The main methods used were analysis-synthesis, induction-deduction, observation, survey, interview and nominal group technique. In assessing relevance, the main result is that the content of the program corresponds to the needs of the trained arbitrators and the weaknesses of the process. As a most important conclusion, it is assumed that the program by its content is relevant to incorporate it into the process of training and ethical updating of the sports referee.La investigación tuvo como objetivo diseñar un programa para formar ética y profesionalmente árbitros deportivos, al enfrentar el problema de cómo favorecer la eficiencia profesional de los árbitros deportivos del municipio Sagua de Tánamo. Los principales métodos utilizados fueron análisis-síntesis, inducción-deducción, observación, encuesta, entrevista y técnica grupo nominal. Al evaluar la pertinencia se alcanza como resultado principal que el contenido del programa se corresponde con las necesidades de los árbitros formados y las debilidades del proceso. Como conclusión más importante, se asume que el programa por su contenido es pertinente para incorporarlo al proceso de formación y actualización ética del árbitro deportivo

Determinación de estándares de producción por medio de tiempos con cronómetro y balanceo de línea en la empresa Confejeans

La industria de manufactura depende esencialmente de los volúmenes de producción altos, en los que el costo unitario sea tan bajo que puedan entrar a competir en un mercado amplio con calidad, cantidad y precio. La planeación y programación de la producción en esta clase de industria, se basa en los tiempos de ciclo y en el aprovechamiento de la capacidad disponible para la producción. Por tanto, los tiempos estándar determinan a lo largo de la planeación, una medida de recursos requeridos para la consecución del plan de producción. El tiempo de confección en CONFEJEANS proporcionará a la dirección de producción una confianza alta sobre su programa, puede además de determinar las cantidades, la secuencia optima de fabricación que elimine cuellos de botella y controle la improductividad presente en la planta. La coordinación entre los recursos humanos, técnicos y la inversión que debe hacer la empresa en su proceso productivo, constituyen las herramientas que de forma cuantificable pueden medir en el tiempo los resultados y el cumplimiento de los objetivos estratégicos expuestos por la misma. Los sistemas de información, los cuales deben poseer las características de confiable, robusto y práctico, pueden disminuir el tiempo requerido para el ajuste de la información a la realidad y darle más tiempo al analista para plantear las estrategias pertinentes con miras a la mejora continua

Recreación física en comunidades de montaña, su vínculo con la naturaleza

Interesting recreational offers are not always available, this motivated the authors of this research to intervene, proposing a recreational program to promote the development of healthy and formative physical recreational activities in harmony with nature in the La Güira mountain community for children between six and nine years old. Methods such as analysis synthesis, induction deduction, modeling, survey, interview and observation were exploited. The users showed interest in consuming the program, which contributed to the healthy and instructive occupation of free time, providing a recreational option that fully corresponds to their needs and interestsNo siempre están a disposición ofertas recreativas que sean interesantes, esto motivó a los autores de esta investigación a intervenir, proponiendo un programa recreativo para potenciar el desarrollo de actividades físico recreativas sanas y formativas en armonía con la naturaleza en la comunidad de montaña La Güira, para niños entre seis y nueve años. Se explotaron métodos como el análisis síntesis, inducción deducción, la modelación, encuesta, entrevista y la observación. Los usuarios mostraron interés por consumir el programa, contribuyó a la ocupación sana e instructiva del tiempo libre, aportando una opción recreativa en plena correspondencia con sus necesidades e interese

Soy mujer porque tengo un hombre: el oráculo paterno en un caso de histeria.

En la presente investigación se desarrolla como problemática principal, el decir del padre en la constitución de la estructura histérica de una paciente. Veremos la lucha por el falo como elemento principal del malestar que le aqueja en la relación de pareja al sujeto, esta rivalidad supondrá la dinamica edípica por la cual, la paciente establece sus relaciones afectivas, al igual que el enigma de la feminidad se jugara en la identificación con la madre. El objetivo principal de la investigación es, analizar la importancia de la figura paterna en la construcción de la identidad en un caso de histeria femenina. De tal modo que, el estudio presenta un diseño de estudio de caso con corte cualitativo, abordado por el método psicoanalítico; siendo que, es el diseñó más adecuado para dar cuenta del objetivo principal, produciendo al final, la construcción del caso clínico en cuestión, donde se utilizan los fragmentos de las viñetas de sesión para ejemplificar la teoría abordada. Por conclusión tendremos como el decir del padre supondrá para la histérica un modo de rivalización por el falo, condicionando sus relaciones afectivas

Communicative context, expectations, and adaptation in prosodic production and comprehension

It is generally assumed that prosodic cues that provide linguistic information are driven primarily by the linguistic content of an utterance. However, research has shown that information from different levels of language often interact and affect the production and comprehension of an utterance (e.g., Brown-Schmidt, 2009; Remez, 1981; Ganong, 1980). If prosody operates in a similar manner to other levels of language, speakers and listeners should be sensitive to things such as communicative context, sentence structure, and listener expectations. This paper explores this possibility through a variety of studies. Part 1 investigates whether speakers have the capacity to adjust subtle acoustic-phonetic properties of the prosodic signal when they find themselves in contexts in which accurate communication is important. Thus, we examine whether the communicative context, in addition to discourse structure, modulates prosodic choices when speakers produce acoustic prominence. We manipulated the discourse status of target words in the context of a highly communicative task (i.e., working with a partner to solve puzzles in the computer game Minecraft), and in the context of a less communicative task more typical of psycholinguistic experiments (i.e., picture description). Speakers in the more communicative task produced prosodic cues to discourse structure that were more discriminable than those in the less communicative task. In a second experiment, we found that the presence or absence of a conversational partner drove some, but not all, of these effects. Together, these results suggest that speakers can modulate the prosodic signal in response to the communicative and social context. Part 2 investigates whether listener expectations influence the processing of intonational boundaries. In a boundary detection task, we manipulated a) the strength of cues to the presence of a boundary and b) whether or not a location in the sentence was a plausible location for an intonational boundary to occur given the syntactic structure. In Experiment 1, listeners are instructed to report where they heard disfluencies, even though there were no disfluencies present in the recordings. Listeners report hearing disfluencies at the locations that had intonational boundaries, and they are equally likely to report them in licensed and unlicensed locations for boundaries. This suggests that listeners can interpret prosodic cues to boundaries as disfluencies, and that their expectations as to where disfluencies might occur are more flexible than they are for where boundaries might occur. Experiment 2 makes use of a 2 trial version of the boundary detection paradigm to investigate whether listeners who reported hearing boundaries at unlicensed locations in previous studies (Buxó-Lugo & Watson, 2016) had done so because of adaptation to new types of input. The results replicate previous studies, and find no evidence for adaptation having occurred throughout those experiments. Lastly, we propose 2 studies to investigate whether listeners can adapt to new mappings between prosodic and syntactic structure

Extração e Caracterização de Carbonato de Cálcio Obtido a partir do Mexilhão Dourado (Limnoperna Fortunei)

Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso apresentado ao Instituto Latino-Americano de Tecnologia, Infraestrutura e Território da Universidade Federal da Integração Latino- Americana, como requisito parcial à obtenção do título de Bacharel em Engenharia Química.Na região do rio Paraná, um problema comum é a presença de um pequeno mexilhão nativo do sul da China. Essa espécie invasora representa um problema para a fauna e flora aquática local e afeta estruturas flutuantes e barragens requerendo a remoção manual da espécie, gerando um custo econômico e uma grande quantidade de resíduos. Tendo em consideração o mencionado anteriormente e a composição química rica em CaCO3 da espécie invasora, o presente trabalho tem como objetivo propor uma metodologia para o aproveitamento dos resíduos gerados. Foram avaliadas cinco metodologias de extração do CaCO3 da concha do mexilhão dourado: calcinação a 400°C com uma anterior lavagem da matéria prima, duas lavagens da matéria prima e calcinação a 400°C, uma lavagem e calcinação a 500°C e duas lavagens da matéria prima e calcinação a 500°C e a última metodología utilizada foi a realizada com uma calcinação de 500°C e lavagem com hipoclorito de sódio, com a finalidade de determinar a metodologia mais eficiente para a obtenção de um carbonato de cálcio de pureza relativamente elevada. Os resultados obtidos apontam que existe uma possível viabilidade nas metodologias, mais especificamente as que empregam a calcinação a 500°C, obtendo uma conversão da massa de matéria prima para produto final de aproximadamente 70%, com a presença majoritária no produto final de minerais de carbonato de cálcio. Os melhores resultados foram obtidos para a amostra submetida a duas etapas de lavagem e calcinação a 500°C, com uma granulometria média aproximada de 64 μm, e maior presença de carbonato de cálcio puro, com uma concentração de 99,85% de CaCO3 com a possível presença de magnésio

Indicadores de gestión del capital intelectual para la banca comercial cubana

Aim: To establish indicators of management of intellectual capital in the framework of Cuban commercial banking. Methods: The methodology of logical approach, consisting in the definition of moments and steps that ensure the design of indicators to measure management of intellectual capital in this sector. Besides, mathematical and statistical methods were applied, along with experimental empirical methods, expert opinion, and content analysis. Main results: To provide the Cuban banking sector with a system of indicators customized to the current development trends, in keeping with international practice. Conclusions: From the total number of 58 indicators (30 quantitative and 28 qualitative), 55 were selected. Although the intellectual capital tends to mix (due to its basically intangible character) with human capital, the structural capital comprised most indicators. This study corroborates the banking trend toward quality and diversification of processes and products through excellence in innovation.Objetivo: Elaborar indicadores para la medición de la gestión del capital intelectual, contextualizados en los bancos comerciales cubanos. Métodos: Se aplicó la metodología del enfoque del marco lógico, consistente en la definición de momentos y pasos que, con una secuencia lógica, posibilitó el diseño de los indicadores de medición de la gestión del capital intelectual para este sector. Se aplicaron métodos estadísticos matemáticos, empíricos experimentales, criterio de expertos y análisis de contenido. Principales resultados: Dotar al sector bancario cubano de un sistema de indicadores contextualizado en sus tendencias actuales de desarrollo y en correspondencia con las prácticas internacionales. Conclusiones: Se propusieron 58 indicadores (30 cuantitativos y 28 cualitativos); de estos los expertos dejaron 55, donde —a pesar de que el capital intelectual tiende a confundirse (por su carácter netamente intangible) con el capital humano—, el componente capital estructural posee la mayor cantidad de indicadores. Se reafirma así la tendencia de la banca hacia la calidad y diversificación de los procesos y productos bancarios, potenciados a través de innovación de excelencia