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Grupos de trabajo internacionales para facilitar una perspectiva reflexiva sobre el papel de la empresa para un mundo más sostenible. Una experiencia “COIL” para integrar el aprendizaje de los ODS en la formación de empresa
Get PDFEl proyecto se enfocó en facilitar a los alumnos la oportunidad de colaborar en equipos distribuidos, compuestos por miembros de universidades de diferentes países. Estos equipos llevaron a cabo un análisis de casos reales de empresas que destacan en sostenibilidad económica, social y medioambiental, reflexionando sobre el papel de la empresa en la sociedad. A través de un proyecto de aprendizaje colaborativo internacional (COIL), estudiantes de la Universidad de Navarra trabajaron en equipos mixtos con sus pares de las universidades de Guelph (Ontario, Canadá), IPMI (Jakarta, Indonesia) y Dominican University (River Forest, EEUU)
Towards Transparent Decision-Making Processes Within Museums: Case Study of Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC)
No full textUnderstanding that good decision-making is paramount for the success of an organization and recognizing that strategic decision-making inside museums is a topic that has been over-passed by researchers, this paper intends to contribute to the relevance of the subject through the implementation of an innovative tool. Decision-making in museums is normally focused on the intuition, subjectivity, and experience of the curator, who brings all his knowledge to the exhibition programming. However, museums’ management and environment are constantly changing, thus the application of this tool would aim to make decisions in a more democratic, transparent, inclusive, and accurate manner. Besides, it will be easier to understand how distinct subjects can work together, demonstrating successful results to improve the decision-making process when programming and measuring temporary exhibition seasons in museums. This paper describes the design and implementation of the Multi-Attribute Utility Theory (MAUT) for the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC). It also analyzes and evaluates the decision-making process when scheduling exhibitions for a season
How palliative care professionals develop coping competence through their career: a grounded theory.
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Background: Palliative care professionals face emotional challenges when caring for patients with serious advanced diseases. Coping
skills are essential for working in palliative care. Several types of coping strategies are mentioned in the literature as protective.
However, little is known about how coping skills are developed throughout a professional career.
Aim: To develop an explanatory model of coping for palliative care professionals throughout their professional career.
Design: A grounded theory study. Two researchers conducted constant comparative analysis of interviews.
Setting/participants: Palliative care nurses and physicians across nine services from Spain and Portugal (n = 21). Theoretical sampling
included professionals who had not continued working in palliative care.
Results: Professionals develop their coping mechanisms in an iterative five-stage process. Although these are successive stages,
each one can be revisited later. First: commencing with a very positive outlook and emotion, characterized by contention. Second:
recognizing one¿s own vulnerability and experiencing the need to disconnect. Third: proactively managing emotions with the support
of workmates. Fourth: cultivating an integrative approach to care and understanding one¿s own limitations. Fifth: grounding, care
on inner balance and a transcendent perspective. This is a transformative process in which clinical cases, teamwork, and selfcare
are key factors. Through this process, the sensations of feeling overwhelmed can be reversed because the professional has come to
understand how to care for themselves.
Conclusions: The explicative model presents a pathway for personal and professional growth, by accumulating strategies that
modulate emotional responses and encourage an ongoing passion for work
Una oda a los árboles
No full textEste libro está dirigido, principalmente, a estudiantes de Grado en Filosofía que hayan cursado una introducción a la Lógica. Esto no excluye a otros posibles lectores: he procurado que el libro estuviera totalmente auto-contenido (excluyendo, quizá, este prefacio).
La unidad del texto es de procedimiento más que temática, pues muestra cómo los árboles de Smullyan pueden adaptarse para diversos grupos de lógicas no clásicas. En la parte final de la redacción del libro me puse romántico y decidí llamarlo como se llama, así que está también muy románticamente dividido en cuatro paisajes: el bosque clásico, el bosque de tres valores, el bosque modal y otros paisajes. Los contenidos de cada parte están vagamente significados en sus nombres y no me parece apropiado desvelar aquí todos los secretos. Solamente diré que, además del material que puede encontrarse en otros libros en inglés (particularmente el libro de Priest [33], aunque éste cubre muchos más temas que los tratados en este libro), en este se habla de lógicas no-reflexivas y no-transitivas, consecuencia global y metainferencias
Empirically exploring the veracity of the new stakeholder perspective in strategy: Documenting workforce rents
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Without compelling empirical proxies for economic profits, we may need to reconsider the decades of empirical research purporting to inform our theories of competitive advantage. The new stakeholder perspective suggests that stakeholders may capture significant shares of the firm's economic profits that should be incorporated into these proxies. In this article, we propose a novel empirical approach to measuring stakeholder rents and then apply our approach to measure workforce rents across the population of all Belgian firms employing workers from 2008 to 2016. Our results demonstrate substantial variance in workforce rents among firms, with some firms allowing most of the economic profits they generate to flow to the workforce. We discuss the implications of our findings in detail and lay out a pathway for future research.
Managerial Summary
This article examines the extent to which companies pay their workforces above (below) what the labor market demands as a way of exploring how much of the company's economic profits go to stakeholders other than shareholders. We demonstrate a wide range of over (under) payments to workforces in a large sample of Belgian firms from 2008 to 2016. One of the important contributions of our paper is developing a method to determine over (under) payments for the workforce, but our method can also be applied to other stakeholders. We hope our work provides an empirical approach for others to explore how stakeholders capture portions of the economic profits that companies create
Novel classification method to predict the accuracy of UWB ranging estimates
Get PDFReal time location systems (RTLSs) are becoming more relevant in a more data driven economy and society due to their wide range of application cases. When the location of an object needs to be tracked with high accuracy, ultra wideband (UWB) technology is usually the best option. Nevertheless, UWB ranging estimates are not completely immune to some sources of error such as non line of sight (NLOS) or multipath conditions. Thus, this paper proposes a real-time classification model based on machine learning (ML) to predict if received ranging estimates are in line of sight (LOS) or NLOS conditions and discard those in NLOS. However, it is also shown that classifying measurements as LOS or NLOS does not guarantee detecting inaccurate ranging estimates, since LOS measurements can also yield large errors. As an example, the ranging root mean square error (RMSE) of the data labelled as LOS in a UWB based localization system database in the literature is of 0.714 m, significantly higher than the theoretical accuracy of a UWB system. Thus, a novel ML-based classification model is proposed to predict the magnitude of the ranging error. After applying the proposed classification model in the same data, the ranging RMSE of those ranging samples classified as most accurate is of only 0.183 m, significantly lower than the best RMSE we can obtain on the classical LOS/NLOS classification approach
Leisure time activities in adolescents predict problematic technology use
No full textThe problematic use of technology of children and adolescents is becoming a growing problem. Research has shown that excessive technology use predicts a variety of psychological and physical health problems. The aim of this study was to analyze the role of leisure time activities (structured and unstructured) in adolescents as a predictor of problematic technology use. Participants were 7723 adolescents, of which 55% were girls, from four Spanish-speaking countries (Chile, Spain, Mexico, and Peru) between the ages of 13 and 18 years. The evaluation instrument applied was the YOURLIFE project self-report questionnaire. Two executive functions were measured: goal setting and inhibitory control. Using structural equation modeling, findings indicated that structured leisure time activities predicted less PTU, whereas unstructured activities predicted more PTU, MLχ2 (69, N = 7723) = 806.60; CFI = 0.929, RMSEA = 0.042, and the model had good predictive capacity for PTU (R2 = 0.46). Structured and unstructured activities also showed indirect effects on PTU through executive functions. As adolescents spent more time in unstructured leisure activities, poorer goal setting, inhibitory control skills, and more PTU were found. The opposite was true for structured leisure time activities. Implications of structured leisure activities to develop executive functioning and to prevent PTU for adolescents are discussed
“Embajadores secretos” en la Warsaw Medical University. Crisis por enfrentamiento entre el rectorado y los alumnos
No full textDiciembre de 2020 fue uno de los momentos más oscuros de lo que llevamos del siglo XXI. Ese
invierno cayó en medio de la pandemia de coronavirus, cuando aproximadamente 10.000 personas al día morían en todo el mundo a causa del virus.
Aunque en febrero de 2020 el coronavirus se había convertido en pandemia global, no fue hasta
marzo cuando millares de pacientes inundaron los hospitales polacos. Desde entonces, el personal hospitalario abandonó su ritmo normal de turnos de trabajo y pasó a jornadas de sol a sol,
fines de semana incluidos. Tras descansar pocas horas en sus casas, acudían a su hospital como
soldados, a luchar en primera línea. Pero muy a menudo, temerosos de propagar el virus dentro
de sus propias familias, permanecían en el hospital durante semanas, a veces meses.
Para los trabajadores de primera línea de la Universidad Médica de Varsovia (UMV), en la capital
de Polonia, el 27 de diciembre de 2020 marcó un importante punto de inflexión. Algunos afortunados estaban en casa, celebrando las vacaciones de Navidad con sus familias; otros solos,
cumpliendo las estrictas restricciones gubernamentales para frenar la propagación del virus;
pero la mayoría estaba junto a la cama de sus pacientes, sacrificando una de las festividades más
importantes del año en la católica Polonia
European guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of breast lesions with uncertain malignant potential (B3 lesions) developed jointly by EUSOMA, EUSOBI, ESP (BWG) and ESSO
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Breast lesions of uncertain malignant potential (B3) include atypical ductal and lobular hyperplasias, lobular carcinoma in situ, flat epithelial atypia, papillary lesions, radial scars and fibroepithelial lesions as well as other rare miscellaneous lesions. They are challenging to categorise histologically, requiring specialist training and multidisciplinary input. They may coexist with in situ or invasive breast cancer (BC) and increase the risk of subsequent BC development. Management should focus on adequate classification and management whilst avoiding overtreatment. The aim of these guidelines is to provide updated information regarding the diagnosis and management of B3 lesions, according to updated literature review evidence.
Methods
These guidelines provide practical recommendations which can be applied in clinical practice which include recommendation grade and level of evidence. All sections were written according to an updated literature review and discussed at a consensus meeting. Critical appraisal by the expert writing committee adhered to the 23 items in the international Appraisal of Guidelines, Research and Evaluation (AGREE) tool.
Results
Recommendations for further management after core-needle biopsy (CNB) or vacuum-assisted biopsy (VAB) diagnosis of a B3 lesion reported in this guideline, vary depending on the presence of atypia, size of lesion, sampling size, and patient preferences. After CNB or VAB, the option of vacuum-assisted excision or surgical excision should be evaluated by a multidisciplinary team and shared decision-making with the patient is crucial for personalizing further treatment. De-escalation of surgical intervention for B3 breast lesions is ongoing, and the inclusion of vacuum-assisted excision (VAE) will decrease the need for surgical intervention in further approaches. Communication with patients may be different according to histological diagnosis, presence or absence of atypia, or risk of upgrade due to discordant imaging. Written information resources to help patients understand these issues alongside with verbal communication is recommended. Lifestyle interventions have a significant impact on BC incidence so lifestyle interventions need to be suggested to women at increased BC risk as a result of a diagnosis of a B3 lesion.
Conclusions
These guidelines provide a state-of-the-art overview of the diagnosis, management and prognosis of B3 lesions in modern multidisciplinary breast practice