173 research outputs found
Otec diseñando capacitaciones desde el teatro MMY Escénica
No full textTesis para optar al grado de Magíster en AdministraciónAutor, no envía autorización para ingresar a Portal de Tesis Electrónicas de la U. de ChileParte I y IIEste plan de negocio c
orresponde a la creación de la primera
OTEC
ESCÉNICA del país, lo que la
hace diferente a todas la
s que hoy en día existen en Chile. Esta diferencia viene dada por la
forma,
técnica
s y herramientas que se utilizarán
para entregar
las capacitaciones. É
stas se generan en un 100%
desde las técnicas y herramientas del teatro, es decir, a cada capacitación, independiente del tema a
t
ratar, se le incorporan
juegos de roles, d
inámicas teatrales u otras actividades que sean necesarias para
poder lograr el objetivo del curso
:
“solucionar un problema o entregar una mejora real en la operación
contingente de la empresa
”. L
os cursos son creados con y para la empresa, no existen 2 cu
rsos iguales
en
MMY
Escénica
, sumado a esto
,
cada curso tiene un
módulo
final de educación financier
a para la
familia,
lo que hace una distinción automática co
n el resto de los OTEC del país
.
Este plan de negocio nace debido a la necesidad de capacitaciones de calidad, por parte de 5 empresas:
Prontomatic, Intertrade, Laboratorio Ballerina,
Agrícola
Ballerina y
Holgrei, empresas donde los
fundadores del OTEC ocupan cargos gerenciales de relevan
cia, con lo cual han conseguido ser
considerados como organismo de capacitación exclusivo para ellas.
Con este desafío se plantea un OTEC
que innove y logre un desempeño sobresaliente en el mercado de
la capacitación
,
a través de la entre
ga de servicios,
e
n el área de administración de personal, enfocada
en aumentar la empleabilidad y desarrollo de habilidades personales como: liderazgo, trabajo en
equipo,
manejo de temas difíciles y
finanza
s personales, siendo impartidos,
alejándose de las
capacitaciones t
radicionales y transformándose en el primer OTEC escénico del país, donde todas las
capacitaciones se desarrollan teniendo como base las técnicas y herramientas teatrales.
La OTEC está compuesta por un equipo de profesionales
de alto nivel ejecutivo y
act
ores
pedagogos,
con enormes ga
nas de emprender y desarrollar esta nueva forma de capacitar.
La OTEC en general ofrece servicios profesionales de gran utilidad para ayudar a los directivos de las
organizaciones a identificar y definir los principales proble
mas que
las
afectan
, con el objetivo de
alcanzar sus propósitos fundamentales
.
El plan de negocio muestra una oportunidad de inversión importante
ya que para los
inversionista
s,
la
TIR esperada en
un
pla
zo de 3 años corresponde a un 88%, con un VAN de
$53.617.032
World Bank-supported adjustment programs : country performance and effectiveness
No full textSimple comparisons of growth rates in countries that have had at least two structural adjustment loans (SALs) or at least three adjustment loans show that their growth has improved more than that of other countries. But simple comparisons of the performance of groups of countries are poor estimators of the effectiveness of adjustment programs because the performance of an adjusting country is the result of: (a) the policies that would have been in place even without adjustment loans from the Bank; (b) world economic conditions; (c) the effects of the Bank-supported program; and (d) internal shocks to the economy. After explicitly controlling for external shocks and nonprogram determinants of performance, the authors find that adjustment lending programs have usually increased the growth rate of GDP and the ratio of exports to GDP, and have increased the saving-to-GDP ratio over early 1980s levels. But the average ratio of investment to GDP has fallen below 1970s levels. For countries that have reduced most of their policy inefficiencies, achieving a sustainable growth rate in the 1990s will require higher investment rates than those achieved in the 1980s.Economic Theory&Research,Economic Stabilization,Poverty Impact Evaluation,Environmental Economics&Policies,Achieving Shared Growth
Using the N1 print tuning effect to predict poor reading in Chinese in Hong Kong children
No full textThis study examined how we can use N1 to predict group membership of poor readers among 46 Hong Kong children (Age: M=8.26, SD=0.72 years old). An offline behavioral reading fluency measure was used to define the grouping; the children who performed in the bottom 15% (after adjusting the effect based on age) in a reading fluency task were defined as the poor readers (n=7), and the remaining children were defined as the typically developing readers (n=39). Electroencephalogram was recorded during a Chinese character lexical decision task, where the children were asked to press a button whenever they saw a real character, and press another button whenever they saw anything that was not a real character. There were four experimental conditions each with 60 trials, including real character, pseudo character, noncharacter, and stroke combination. The N1 in both the left and right occipital-temporal areas were used to predict group membership. Results indicated that the overall correct prediction was at 80.4%, with sensitivity at 71.4% and specificity at 82.1%. Among all the N1 contrasts, the N1 lexicality contrast (real character minus pseudo character) provided the highest odd ratio = 2.51 to the model. These results indicate the possibility of using the N1 to predict poor reader status
The relationship between N1 print tuning and literacy in Chinese children
No full textTo examine how word-likeness affects N1 during single character Chinese word processing, and its relationship to literacy measures, 14 grade 2 to 3 children (M=7.67, SD=0.57 years old) were given Chinese literacy measures, including tasks of word reading and one-minute word reading. Electroencephalogram was recorded during a character lexical decision task. Comparisons among four experimental conditions, including real character, pseudo character (combining real radicals in their legal positions), reversed character (reversing the radical position of a real character to form an illegal character), and stroke combination were made for N1 peak latency and mean amplitude. Peak latency results indicated that the stroke combination had the fastest N1. Mean amplitude results indicated a significant word-likeness effect and a significant laterality by word-likeness interaction. Follow up contrasts showed these patterns on N1: Left hemisphere: Real = Pseudo < Reversed < Stroke; Right hemisphere: Real = Pseudo = Reversed < Stroke. Word reading and one-minute word reading were significantly correlated with the coarse character tuning effect. These results indicate word-likeness can be reflected in the N1. Radical position legality and radical information are the most important influences on N1. This neurological indicator was strongly correlated with both word reading (r=-.78, p<.01) and one-minute word reading (r=-.68, p<.01)
Real-life epidemiology and current outcomes of hospitalized adults with invasive fungal infections
No full textWe aimed to describe the current epidemiology of both hosts with invasive fungal infections (IFI) and causative fungi. And detail outcomes of these infections at 12 weeks in a real-life cohort of hospitalized patients. The study was retrospective and observational to describe IFI diagnosed in a tertiary hospital (February 2017 - December 2021). We included all consecutive patients meeting criteria for proven or probable IFI according to EORTC-MSG and other criteria. A total of 367 IFI were diagnosed. 11.7% were breakthrough infections, and 56.4% were diagnosed in the intensive care unit (ICU). Corticosteroid use (41.4%) and prior viral infection (31.3%) were the most common risk factors for IFI. Lymphoma and pneumocystis pneumonia were the most common baseline and fungal diseases. Only 12% of IFI occurred in patients with neutropenia. Fungal cultures were the most important diagnostic tests (85.8%). The most frequent IFI were candidemia (42.2%) and invasive aspergillosis (26.7%). Azole-resistant candida strains and non-fumigatus aspergillus infection represented 36.1% and 44.5% of the cases, respectively. Pneumocystosis (16.9%), cryptococcosis (4.6%) and mucormycosis (2.7%) were also frequent, as well as mixed infections (3.4%). Rare fungi accounted for 9.5% of infections. Overall IFI mortality at 12 weeks was 32.2%; higher rates were observed for Mucorales (55.6%), Fusarium (50%) and mixed infections (60%). We documented emerging changes in both hosts and real-life IFI epidemiology. Physicians should be aware of these changes to suspect infections and be aggressive in diagnoses and treatments. Currently, outcomes for such clinical scenarios remain extremely poor.© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The International Society for Human and Animal Mycology
Fluorescent in situ hybridization of pre-incubated blood culture material for the rapid diagnosis of histoplasmosis
No full textFluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) has been shown to be useful for the detection of Candida and Cryptococcus species in blood culture materials. FISH procedures for the detection of Histoplasma capsulatum var. capsulatum have not been reported so far. This study describes the development and evaluation of fluorescently labeled rRNA-targeting FISH probes to detect and identify H. capsulatum in blood cultures. All three analyzed H. capsulatum reference strains and clinical isolates showed positive signals with the newly designed specific oligonucleotide probes for H. capsulatum, whereas negative reactions were observed for all three nontarget yeast species and the two nontarget bacteria. The assay was also successfully applied for detections of H. capsulatum cells in pre-incubated blood culture samples of patients with clinical suspicion of histoplasmosis (n = 33). The described FISH-based assay was shown to be easy to apply, sensitive, and specific (compared to polymerase chain reaction) for the detection and identification of H. capsulatum in this proof-of-principle analysis. Larger multicentric assessments are recommended for a thorough diagnostic evaluation of the procedure. © The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The International Society for Human and Animal Mycology
Comparison of the rolling circle amplification and ligase-dependent reaction methods for the identification of opportunistic Exophiala species
No full textPubMedID: 29087521We developed two ligase-dependent probe amplification assays based on rolling circle amplification (RCA) and the ligase-dependent reaction (LDR) to differentiate species of Exophiala targeting the rDNA internal transcribed spacer region. We focused on Exophiala dermatitidis and E. phaeomuriformis, two opportunistic inhabitants of indoor wet cells, and further detected E. heteromorpha, E. xenobiotica, and E. crusticola; 57 reference isolates representing the five species were tested. Depending on the RCA probes used, the sensitivity was 100%, and the specificity ranged from 3.7% to 88.6% (median: 46.1%). In contrast, the sensitivity and specificity of the LDR probes targeting the same isolates were 88.6-100% (median: 95.8%) and 95.4-100% (median: 97.7%), respectively. We analyzed 198 additional environmental isolates representing the same Exophiala species. Overall, the sensitivity and specificity of LDR ranged from 89.7% to 100% (median: 94.1%) and from 93.9% to 100% (median: 96.9%), respectively. The assessment of performance and validation of LDR probes using SYBR Green quantitative polymerase chain reaction revealed high reproducibility and an acceptable range limit, in line with the guidelines of the European Network of GMO Laboratories. In conclusion, the LDR assay was more reliable and less expensive than RCA for species-level identification of Exophiala isolates. © 2017 The Author(s).TF2014 D3This study was funded by the Research Fund of C¸ ukurova University (project no: TF2014 D3)
Risks and outcomes of invasive fungal infections in pediatric allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients receiving fluconazole prophylaxis: A multicenter cohort study by the Turkish Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation Study Group
No full textPubMedID: 29608706Invasive fungal infections (IFIs) are a major cause of infection-related morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Data from pediatric settings are scarce. To determine the incidence, risk factors and outcomes of IFIs in a 180-day period post-transplantation, 408 pediatric patients who underwent allogeneic HSCT were retrospectively analyzed. The study included only proven and probable IFIs. The cumulative incidences of IFI were 2.7%, 5.0%, and 6.5% at 30, 100, and 180 days post-transplantation, respectively. According to the multivariate analysis, the factors associated with increased IFI risk in the 180-day period post-HSCT were previous HSCT history (hazard ratio [HR], 4.57; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.42-14.71; P = .011), use of anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) (HR, 2.94; 95% CI 1.27-6.80; P = .012), grade III-IV acute graft-versus-host-disease (GVHD) (HR, 2.91; 95% CI 1.24-6.80; P = .014) and late or no lymphocyte engraftment (HR, 2.71; 95% CI 1.30-5.62; P = .007). CMV reactivation was marginally associated with an increased risk of IFI development (HR, 1.91; 95% CI 0.97-3.74; P = .063). IFI-related mortality was 1.5%, and case fatality rate was 27.0%.The close monitoring of IFIs in pediatric patients with severe acute GVHD who receive ATG during conditioning is critical to reduce morbidity and mortality after allogeneic HSCT, particularly among those with prior HSCT and no or late lymphocyte engraftment. © The Author(s) 2018
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