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Currently, human beings are increasingly immersed in the world of technology, where the activities carried out on a daily basis depend on the use of this technology. Startups, whether small or medium-sized companies, present a competitive disadvantage; in many cases they can lose business opportunities due to the absence of these technological tools. In the case of deliveries, they have been able to take advantage of mobile applications that can be shared in real time, to cover the requirements or orders made by customers who want to stay at home or order from their workplaces certain products as varied as food, clothing, technological devices, among others. The objective was to determine the socioeconomic contribution of those who carry out the home service activity in the city of Portoviejo. The application of a survey made it possible to collect information to know a series of aspects related to the activities carried out by the delivery services. The sample was made up of twenty individuals and was worked with non-probabilistic sampling, chosen randomly. The methodology involved descriptive and exploratory activities; the approach was longitudinal. The results indicated that the charge for carrying the order does not exceed three dollars, this depends on the distance. The conclusions showed that people are already accustomed to this type of purchase, the diversity of stores that are among customers' favorites tends to increase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes from a holistic perspective the theoretical and legislative references of the domestic public service from the Administrative Law of Water from comparative law, with emphasis on how the Cuban legislator regulated it in the water regulations, Law No. 124, that allows determining the impact of this non-compliance on the legislative gaps in the legal system studied. Theoretical and empirical methods, as well as techniques and procedures of scientific research, the doctrinal theoretical analysis of the categories involved in the delimitation of legislative gaps were used for its construction, based on the most representative theoretical references to conclude. As in the Cuban legal system, the public home service is protected, as other laws provide to follow the legal logic. That of analysis and synthesis, to systematize the main elements studied; comparative law, to know the regulatory treatment of the domestic public water service. The bibliographic review, to know the criteria of scholars on the subject. Results: the identification of legislative gaps in the aforementioned legal norm is provided and the omission of not regulating the public home service in the legal norms in the Cuban legal system is noted as an idea to defend in an adequate manner, incident to its future perfection by the of the legislator from the contribution of the comparative study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper analyzes the development of Pitrufquén (located in the Araucanía Region, Chile, and founded in 1897) from a historical, territorial, urban, and architectural point of view. It is proposed that the city’s development is framed in a new moment, where the Chilean State abandons military criteria and assumes economic-territorial factors where the railroad’s presence is a determining factor. The choice of the site, its particular layout, and the development of its architecture are evidence of this change. From the historical point of view, it is analyzed how, in Pitrufquén, the Mapuche society had cattle raising as the main economic activity, as it had pastures to feed the cattle, the land was suitable for crops, and there was a vital ford to cross the Toltén River. This strategic location was maintained and accentuated by the city’s founding and the railroad’s arrival in 1898, turning the town into a railhead for progress towards the south of the country. In the case of the urban layout, its peculiarity was addressed since, together with Lonquimay, these are the only sections in the La Araucanía region organized based on an ellipse, which, in the case of Pitrufquén, also coexists with a checkerboard layout. The study analyzed its squares, diagonal avenues, and the perimeter ring road. At an architectural level, the article explores the three layers or aspects of the city: The first one studies the wooden architecture with works from the late 19th and early 20th centuries; the second refers to public architecture, represented by buildings such as the municipality, public services, the post office, and others; and a third layer addresses the modern architecture, such as housing and stores from the period between 1940 and 1960. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the problem of duplicate registration in the database of refugees in Kenya, which has led to Kenyan citizens being at risk of statelessness. It is estimated that over 40,000 Kenyans have fallen victim to this duplication, which prevents them from obtaining a national identification card and fully enjoying their rights. The causes of this duplication include the voluntary registration of some Kenyan communities in the refugee database to access aid, as well as the registration of children born to refugee fathers and Kenyan mothers. This situation has resulted in limitations on freedom of movement and access to government services and socio-economic opportunities for the affected individuals. The Kenyan government has issued an ultimatum to UNHCR to design a plan for the closure of the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps. The article discusses the issue of duplicate registration in Kenya and the actions taken to address it. The NGO Haki na Sheria has filed an appeal to halt the repatriation process for victims of duplicate registration. The Kenyan Data Protection Act and the establishment of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner are mentioned. The Kenyan government has been conducting review processes to resolve the problem, and a plan for socio-economic inclusion has been designed for both refugee and host communities. The article highlights the importance of raising awareness about data security and the risks of duplicate registration. [Extracted from the article]

The aim of this text is to address the historical structuring of the waste problem in Mexico and the emergence and evolution of its regulations, highlighting the influence of regulations from the United States. The history of solid urban waste regulations in both countries is briefly reviewed, recognizing that they result from second and third-level processes in order to uncover epistemic frameworks and empirical domains underlying conflicts through an analytical and comparative documentary method from interdisciplinarity and complex systems perspectives. The influence of American regulations on those of our country is revealed, stemming from structural inertias of industrialization and neoliberalism. This text examines how this matter was regulated in different Mexican sanitary codes of the last century until the General Law for the Prevention and Integral Management of Waste, through environmental laws and their regulations over the last 40 years as well as regulations on public services in Mexico City; without neglecting the review of Mexican municipal law. Likewise, the history of American waste legislation from the 1960s to the present is reviewed for a comparative perspective. It is concluded that by understanding the genesis of the problem and the construction of solutions from neighboring countries rather than simply emulating them, true opportunities to solve the waste problem in Mexico and promote respect for human rights would be facilitated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Royal Decree-Law 6/2023 of 19 December on urgent measures to implement the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan concerning the public service of justice, public administration, local governance, and patronage, has reformed procedural laws in the civil, criminal, administrative and employment jurisdictions. This article reviews each jurisdiction's reforms, with a particular focus on their practical effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The development of globalization has allowed countless societies to join the digital era, which is characterized by access to information through online channels. The use of e-government and the functioning of online services went from being an option to a necessity, since they became imperative for the vast majority in the development of citizens' activities. The objective of this research was based on analyzing the use of egovernment and the level of performance of online services of the Government of Mendez in the processes of attention to citizenship, which seeks to adapt to the needs and demands of citizens in the digital era. In addition, a mixed methodological design was applied, based on a series of questions that were addressed to the mayor of Santiago de Méndez, the ICT department and the staff working within the GADM. The result was that the online service does not have a good online performance, due to the lack of financial resources to obtain more efficient digital tools that generate benefits to citizens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The search for effective management by regional governments requires the optimization of resources, the strengthening of managerial skills and improving the delivery of public services. The objective of the research is to evaluate how managerial competencies and management for results influence the organizational effectiveness of the Regional Government of Ayacucho. Regarding the methodology, the type of research was applied in a descriptive explanatory level and nonexperimental cross-sectional design. The population consisted of 405 employees, while the sample size was determined by convenience, identifying 109 employees. The results show that organizational effectiveness is located in a range from good to fair, an assessment based on the positive performance of strategic and social effectiveness with a good level of 33% and 30.3% respectively, and operational and economic effectiveness show a fair performance with 29.4% and 33.9% respectively. The conclusion is that managerial competencies and management for results are determining factors in the organizational effectiveness of the institution, due to the role played by the goals achieved, the efficiency of resources and assertive communication with the population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this research was based on analyzing the perception of efficiency of municipal management in relation to the provision of services in the provincial municipality of Piura 2023, through a correlational methodology that allowed measuring that the provision of municipal services does not They respond to the category "political inertia", but to the identification of a political actor. The article begins with a debate on the inertia of public policies, and consequently, the problems of representativeness in electoral contexts, and their possible impact on the implementation process. Subsequently, the debate is contrasted with results from a perception measurement tool, using a cross-sectional and descriptive non-experimental design. The tool confirms a strong correlation between the municipal management variable and the service provision variable, showing a Pearson coefficient of 0.99, which demonstrates the importance of the identity of the political actor in citizenship. Different dimensions of each study variable confirmed this strong correlation. It is concluded about the risks to public policy that the meters tend to favor the identity of the political actor over efficiency, but also about the cruciality of the actor in the stability and continuity of policies that require long-term efforts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present study aimed to identify the relationship between workload and burnout syndrome and psychosomatic symptoms in female customer service workers in a government organization in Mexico City. A non-experimental investigation explored two extreme workload groups: 1) 45 participants with a high workload level; and 2) 48 participants with a low workload level. A parametric comparison showed significant differences in the level of occupational burnout between groups; six above-average psychosomatic manifestations resulted in the high workload group. In conclusion, a high workload relates to developing burnout syndrome and psychosomatic manifestations in female customer service workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions applied to contain it have had on urban public transport services in the five Spanish cities with a population in the interval of 170,000 inhabitants. To do this, the passenger data of the different urban transport systems of these cities have been studied, their evolution throughout the pandemic and in the so-called new normality has been analyzed, and they have been compared with those of previous years. The result shows a fairly similar percentage decrease in most cases, which also corresponds to the trend registered in the set of urban services in Spain. There is no relationship between the existing passenger traffic in each service before the pandemic and the decrease experienced during it. However, those cities that previously registered a higher volume of users show a greater percentage recovery in 2021 than those whose volume of travelers was lower. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The European discursive-institutional framework on social innovation and democratic local governance is characterized by proposing the local level as a strategic space in which to promote new solutions to current social problems and to promote innovative citizen initiatives that co-manage public goods and services. The main objective of this study is to know how local public policy and management are incorporating and signifying the discursive-institutional framework of Citizen Social Innovation to advance in democratic governance. Through a qualitative methodology, focused on semi-structured interviews, a critical analysis of the discourse from Fairclough's thesis is carried out. The perceptions of people working in the management of public policy of the City Council of Valencia illustrate the relationship between discourse, discursive practice, and social practice necessary to respond to the objective on the process of signification. In this sense, the city of Valencia reflects in its most recent plans and strategies what is apparently not only an incorporation of these objectives but also a legitimization of practices based on them. Finally, the case illustrates the complexities and the diversity in the application of this European framework to local contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the interaction between efficient public management and administrative systems in the context of the Jackson Nieto Savings Bank, addressing the need to improve public service through the adoption of transparent and innovative administrative management practices. This mixed-method study analyzes how these practices can optimize operational processes, ensure financial integrity, and strengthen trust between users and society. The importance of adapting to an ever-changing financial environment is highlighted, emphasizing the influence of financial globalization and the need to implement administrative systems that effectively respond to these challenges. Through a methodology that combines qualitative and quantitative techniques, the study sought to evaluate the impact of administrative strategies on operational efficiency and user satisfaction, with the aim of identifying opportunities for improvement and promoting more effective and responsible management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Decree-Law 80/2023 of 6 September provides an exceptional procedure for granting connection capacity to electricity consumption facilities in high-demand areas. This procedure aims to enhance the grid access conditions required to implement industrial investments, address potential grid-connection capacity constraints, promote proper risk management associated with the necessary investments in the national electrical grid, and ensure the necessary predictability for those industrial investments. It also designates Sines as a high-demand area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Chile is one of the fastest aging countries in Latin America, and the country is currently at an advanced stage of demographic transition. Projections highlight that that in another decade, Chile will emerge as an aging economy. Within the framework of the Fondecyt Regular 1201115 project: "Gender and Aging: An Ethnography on the Social and Moral Organization of Care in the Peñalolén commune (Santiago, Chile)," in this article, we address the findings of a case study on the social organization of elderly care in the Peñalolén commune (Metropolitan Region, Chile). We do so in conjunction with social and gender inequalities from a feminist perspective. The aim of the article is to analyze the social perceptions about aging held by professionals of municipal services working with the elderly population in this specific context. We conducted interviews with these workers using an ethnographic approach that integrated both digital and in-person methodological strategies, and subjected the information collected to a thorough discourse analysis using MaxQDA software (2001 version). The results reveal that the interviewed professionals' perceptions of old age intermingle the definitions of old age derived from regulatory and public policy frameworks with their own personal and professional experiences in the communal territory. They also demonstrate the multidimensional nature of the inequalities faced by the elderly in Peñalolén, perceived by professionals as demands to be addressed in the exercise of their work. In sum, we propose a perspective of old age and aging that considers its complexity in terms of situated territorial experience by applying ethnographic listening with a gender perspective of the various actors working with the elderly individuals in each context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The frontier between Brazil and Venezuela is approximately 2,199 kilometers long. It has been the scene of marked tensions and migratory flows due to the Venezuelan crisis, especially centered between the cities of Pacaraima (in Brazil) and Santa Elena de Uairén (in Venezuela). This border passes through isolated and difficult-to-access areas, with little public service infrastructure and currently has only one land crossing point, between the cities of Pacaraima and Santa Elena de Uairén. In this context, the fundamental objective of this essay is to analyze the territorial dynamics between the two countries, in the period 2016 and 2021, seeking to emphasize, from the perspective of the frontier in motion, the main socioeconomic consequences generated by mobility in this part. of the Amazon. The methodology used is based on the review of reports from Brazilian government agencies and pre-existing bibliographies of related research in Venezuela-Brazil. The question of the border strip implies the (re)cognition of the diversity and interdependence of the challenges, potentials and specificities of the two regions. The results point out important challenges in integration, health and education due to migration, as well as the similarities and differences in the internal dynamics of these two important countries in the border area, mainly in stimulating the sustainable and integrated development of the borders, valuing their cultural, environmental and economic wealth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this study we aim to determine the topics and languages of information materials for foreign patients in Spain that are currently available in open access as well as to compile good practices in this regard. In addition, we aim to develop a multilingual corpus of health information texts useful for translators and interpreters in public services. The results show a general inclusive trend and there are several examples of good practices regarding the variety of health topics approached and languages in which the translated materials are available online. They also show the important work done especially by associations and foundations. However, there are very few texts with information on how the Spanish health system works and especially on the patients' rights and obligations. Moreover, the inclusion of more topics would also be helpful. Furthermore, the level of representation of the different languages is still unequal within the same autonomous community and between the different autonomous communities. The same applies regarding the topics approached and the number of translated texts that should be available. Our article proposes a basic work plan, a list of materials to be translated in the Madrid region, and a corpus of texts that can be manipulated for thematic research and to generate terminological materials for translators and interpreters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The access to public information is a democratic right that is not just for people who can communicate effectively within their dominant culture but for all citizens, thus it must be available and accessible to all. However, linguistic and cultural difficulties regarding the access and use of public services, as well as communication facilitation at all levels are problems which have not yet been tackled by authorities in Spain. The services currently used to tend to communication-related needs between the non-Spanish speaking population and healthcare professionals are not completely effective in Spanish hospitals, and most medical professionals will explain that, in their consultations with migrants who do not speak Spanish, they ask them to bring along a family member or friend who speaks Spanish. Concerning mental health--an area in which communication is of the utmost importance and treatment very frequently involves therapy and, thus, communication between the health provider and the patient--, language and cultural barriers often create further obstacles for an adequate treatment. This paper will present the results of a narrative inquiry of a sample of mental health clinicians on their perceptions and experiences when working with non-Spanish speaking patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the public communication system in the new government of the so-called Fourth Historical Transformation of Mexico. It argues that, despite the establishment of important norms to regulate such political communication and relevant efforts to improve its quality, the State public media were not able to maintain their autonomy and succumbed to government pressures to become legitimization apparatuses of the Lopezobradorist power system. Hence, the urgent need for Mexican society to build true State media of neutral public service committed to democratic progress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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