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The Wine Attributes with the Greatest Influence in the Process of Consumer Choice in Spain
Get PDFThe commercialisation of wine in Spain is problematic due to two concrete circumstances: the decrease in wine consumption because of a consumer shift toward substitute drinks and the greater presence of national and foreign wine in the interior market, which involves an increase in business competitiveness. The increase in competitiveness of quality Spanish wine depends on producing enterprises’ knowledge of wine consumer preferences so they can offer consumers what they demand. In order to respond to this matter and better adapt supply, 421 wine consumers were surveyed using the Best-Worst Scaling methodology. Various segmentations were also made by consumer income and age groups. The results indicate that the two main attributes which condition consumers in choosing wine are the region of origin and having tasted it previously. The region of origin attribute is valued in general by consumers over 34 years old who have a monthly family income above 1,500 €. The attribute of having tasted it before, which on many occasions is associated with the price attribute, is valued particularly by younger consumers and those with lower incomes.Consumer behaviour, Wine attributes, Food Marketing, Consumer/Household Economics,
Dr. Rodolfo D. Torres talk at University of Washington Tacoma: After Latino Metropolis
No full textThe role of class and spatial politics in Latino Los Angeles will be the subject of this timely talk. Professor Rodolfo D. Torres is co-author of the highly acclaimed book, Latino Metropolis (University of Minnesota Press, 2000). He will revisit this important book
How corporate governance and globalization can run afoul of the law and good practices in business: The Enron's disgraceful affair.
Get PDFThe purpose of this paper is to set out the Enron’s demise into the perspective of Corporate and Global Governance. To accomplish this target, the incremental cash flow model is expanded to give room for governance issues, while a functional introduction to information sets is developed, including bounded rationality, asymmetric information, opportunistic behavior, transaction costs and agency problems. Then, corporate governance is linked to globalization by means of some recent approaches that go beyond a narrow economic mindset to encompass a far-reaching dynamics. Taking advantage of such background, the Enron’s story is tracked down over a span of fifteen years since its starting day to its bankruptcy filing. Leading events are explained from corporate and global governance viewpoints, while an in-depth analysis is worked out on Enron’s complex game of deception and breach of contracts: the outrageous affiliated limited partnerships, the lavish pay package to its executives, the involvement with global governance through the Indian affair and the Taliban connection. It is for the incremental cash flow model to explain malfeasance with cash flows from assets, and how cash flows to creditors were actually contrived. Furthermore, to highlight how cash flows were swindled from stockholders and, finally, how Enron made wheeling and dealing with cash flows on behalf of its managers.corporate governance, global governance, incremental cash flow model, globalization, information sets, good practices.
From lockdown to Liberation: How inflexible thinking, obsessive-compulsive and affective symptoms shape pandemic adjustment
Get PDFBackground The COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted daily life, and the transition to post-pandemic living presented additional psychological challenges. Previous research shows that individuals with obsessive-compulsive traits and pre-existing mental health histories were vulnerable to adjustment difficulties, which appear to be mediated by depression, anxiety, and stress. Aims This study examined the relationship between post-pandemic adjustment and mental health variables in a population-based cohort during the final lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, tracking outcomes over six months to assess causality. The study was pre-registered on the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/v4c28). Method A cohort of 343 UK adults was assessed online at baseline, three, and six months. Self-report measures included the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Revised (OCI-R), Compulsive Personality Assessment Scale (CPAS), Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21), Post-Pandemic Adjustment Scale (PPAS) and COVID-19 Safety Behaviour Scale. Cognitive flexibility was assessed using the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (CST: at baseline) and the Intradimensional-Extradimensional Set-Shifting Task (IDED: at 3 months). Results Approximately 28 % of participants were identified as poor adjusters. Mediation analysis revealed that obsessive-compulsive symptoms, compulsive personality traits, and a history of mental health disorders predicted post-pandemic adjustment difficulties indirectly via depression, anxiety, and COVID-19 safety behaviours. While we found no evidence that adjustment was linked to cognitive flexibility on the WCST, exploratory analyses showed that poorer adjustment was linked to reversal learning issues on the IDED task. Conclusion This study replicated our prior findings, identifying obsessive-compulsive symptoms and traits, mental health histories, and cognitive inflexibility as key risk factors for poor post-pandemic adjustment. Moreover, depression, anxiety, and stress mediated these difficulties, suggesting potential markers for identifying at-risk individuals and guiding interventions for future public health crises
Rodolfo Lenz
No full textIn this article the author intends to offer an overall profile of Dr. Rodolfo
Lenz’ versatile personality, portraying him as the man, the phonetician, the
expert scholar in Araucanian, the orthographer, the methodologist, the
compulsive scientist. All these personality traits contributed to renovate in
Chile the interest in language, in foreign language methodology and the
institutionalization of folklore as a science, which earned him the Chilean
nationalityEn este trabajo el autor se propone dar una visión de conjunto de la polifacética
personalidad del Dr. Rodolfo Lenz: el hombre, el fonetista, el araucanista, el
lexicógrafo, el gramático, el ortógrafo, el metodólogo, el científico compulsivo.
Aspectos todos que contribuyeron a renovar profundamente en Chile el
estudio de las ciencias del lenguaje, la metodología de la enseñanza de las
lenguas extranjeras y la fundación del folclor como ciencia, por todo lo cual
el Gobierno le confirió nuestra nacionalida
Psychedelics, OCD and Related Disorders: Setting Methodological Strategies for Future Studies
Get PDFBackground: there is interest in the potential of psychedelics as treatments for Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders (OCRDs), though research in this field is still at an early stage. In this review, we examine the methodological issues present in existing research investigating the use of psychedelics in OCRDs, as a basis for improved trial design. Methods we searched PubMed and PsycInfo for published studies and Clinicaltrial.gov for unpublished studies investigating the use of psychedelic in individuals with OCRDs. We reviewed the identified studies and described the main methodological issues undermining study outcomes. We analyzed the published selected papers using standard tools (Cochrane Risk of Bias for Non-Randomized Studies, ROBINS-I). Results we found just two published and seven unpublished studies. Risk of bias analysis revealed a critical risk of bias, primarily related to experimental design (e.g., absence of adequate control condition), expectation bias among study participants and problems ensuring adequate blinding. The analysis of unpublished studies, although limited, identified parallel concerns, while also highlighting the implementation of promising strategies for advancing the field. Discussion there is a shortage of unbiased evidence. Although the shortcomings in the design of the few existing studies raise important concerns, early potential efficacy justify further, well-designed research. Potential strategies, some of which already implemented in ongoing studies, to address current issues and improve the validity of future studies include the use of blinded raters and of a credible control (such as virtual reality), the choice of a lower drug dose and the inclusion of only drug-naive subjects
El funcionalismo de rodolfo lenz
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This paper deals with the contributions to Hispanic Linguistics by the German-Chilean linguist Rodolfo Lenz (1863–1935), some of whose proposals – often attributed to other scholars – may be seen as an alternative to the ideas of the prestigious Andrés Bello (1781–1865). The paper first reviews those aspects of his work which anticipate some of the basic tenets of Functional Grammar, such as the notion of ‘transposition’ (function shifting), his views on sentential structure, and his treatment of passives as attributive constructions. The paper also explores Lenz’s contributions to Indo-European linguistics and his theoretical affinities with, if not anticipations of, the work of other well-known linguists like Búhler, Tesnière, Hjelmslev, and Benveniste. In sum, the author seeks to vindicate Rodolfo Lenz and his insightful views in both general linguistic theory and Spanish grammar.</jats:p
Rodolfo Lenz
Get PDFIn this article the author intends to offer an overall profile of Dr. Rodolfo Lenz’ versatile personality, portraying him as the man, the phonetician, the expert scholar in Araucanian, the orthographer, the methodologist, the compulsive scientist. All these personality traits contributed to renovate in Chile the interest in language, in foreign language methodology and the institutionalization of folklore as a science, which earned him the Chilean nationality.En este trabajo el autor se propone dar una visión de conjunto de la polifacética personalidad del Dr. Rodolfo Lenz: el hombre, el fonetista, el araucanista, el lexicógrafo, el gramático, el ortógrafo, el metodólogo, el científico compulsivo. Aspectos todos que contribuyeron a renovar profundamente en Chile el estudio de las ciencias del lenguaje, la metodología de la enseñanza de las lenguas extranjeras y la fundación del folclor como ciencia, por todo lo cual el Gobierno le confirió nuestra nacionalida
Tres propuestas escénicas para "La Granada" de Rodolfo Walsh
Get PDFLa obra dramática de Rodolfo Walsh mereció muy poco atención por parte de la crítica. La autora de este artículo analiza tres diferentes puestas en escena de La granada (1965, 1985 y 2003), como un modo de hacer justicia a la tarea creativa del prestigioso escritor, desaparecido por la última dictadura miliar argentina, en 1977.The dramatic texts of Rodolfo Walsh have received little critical attention. The author of this paper focuses on three different stagings of La Granada (1965, 1985 y 2003), as a way of rendering of what is due to the prestigious writer, desaparecido by the argentine military dictatorship on 1977.Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educació
Carta, Rubén Darío a Rodolfo Espinosa, 1908 Junio 11
No full textabstract: Handwritten letter from Rubén Darío to Rodolfo Espinosa, the Foreign Minister of Nicaragua. Rubén Darío reports to the Minister about diplomatic matters. Darío was in Madrid when the letter was written. Rodolfo Espinosa Ramírez (November 11, 1876 - December 1, 1944) was a Nicaraguan politician and diplomatic. Among other positions, Ramírez was Managua's Mayor and he also was Foreign Minister in the José Santos Zelaya's government.The original Rubén Darío Papers 1882-1945 (MSS-339) are located at ASU Libraries Archives & Special Collections. For more information about visiting the collection see http://hdl.handle.net/2286/L.A.0.At the time of this letter, Rubén Darío was Resident Minister of Nicaragua in Spain.Letter has references to several people, all of them are related to political and diplomatic life: Marqués de Viana (José de Saavedra y Salamanca); the Queens Cristina (María Cristina Habsburgo-Lorena) and Victoria (Victoria Eugenia de Battenberg).Alfonso XIII (May 17, 1886 - February 28, 1941), was Spain's King between 1886-1931.Manuel Allendesalazar y Muñoz de Salazar (August 24, 1856 - May 17, 1923) was a Spaniard politician. He was Minister during the reign of Alfonso XIII.José Santos Zelaya (November 1, 1853 - May 17, 1919) was a military and Nicaraguan politician who served as President of Nicaragua from 1893 to 1909
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