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The Covid-19 pandemic has tested the healthcare systems of countries worldwide, causing distress and anxiety in the general population, and healthcare workers have not been an exception. Objective: To detect the prevalence of anxiety and insomnia in public healthcare personnel working with Covid patients and their families. Method: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted using the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 (GAD-7) and the Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS). The sample consisted of 130 healthcare professionals. The study took place at the Regional Hospital and the Social Security Institute in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, throughout 2022. Data was collected using Google Forms. The main variables included gender, age, qualifications, professional experience, and weekly working hours. Results: The results revealed that 32,1 % of healthcare workers experienced anxiety, particularly nurses, doctors, women, and younger personnel. Additionally, 29,5 % suffered from insomnia, with a higher prevalence among women and younger healthcare workers, while physiotherapists and radiologists experienced fewer sleep problems. A correlation between anxiety and insomnia was observed. Conclusion: The study detected the prevalence of anxiety and insomnia and their associated factors in frontline healthcare workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Anxiety symptoms were present in 32,1 % of participants, and 29,5 % experienced insomnia. There is a need to develop both general and more specific measures to prevent or mitigate the main psychological consequences in these professionals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This research study proposes a method to assess the dimensions of service quality in an industrial tank washing company, articulating a control chart and a new multivariate quality indicator. The concepts of multivariate statistical control, service quality, and Six Sigma are used as a theoretical framework. The primary information corresponds to five quality dimensions in the cleaning service for 12 months to monitor service performance periodically and indicator capacity globally. Hotelling's T2 chart periodically assesses the quality dimensions and showed the greatest performance variability in: tank arrangements, cleaning, and polishing. In conclusion, the multivariate quality indicator proved to be adequate to globally assess service dimensions and to specify whether service performance is consistent and stable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research study proposes a method to evaluate the quality of service of a user service unit in a water service company in Colombia. Based on the theoretical foundation associated with the quality of service and the Six Sigma concept, service quality dimensions were identified to consolidate their valuation and to analyze the results in terms of defects per parts per million (DPMO), sigma level, and performance. It was found that the performance of the service quality dimensions was satisfactory due to the results obtained in all calculated metrics. The results showed that the user's attention center had an excellent performance during this research study. In conclusion, the present study provides a service quality evaluation method to the service sector in a public service company by using Six Sigma. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the following investigation has been to analyze study habits in Paraguayan university students. 521 subjects, 187 men and 334 women participated. The General Student Profile questionnaire has been used: the student's trade. The results show that students have bad study habits, dedicate little time and, for the most part, combine work and study. The present investigation confirms that if there are bad study habits, the student works and also considers that between 1 and 5 hours of study per week are sufficient, it becomes a risk factor of low performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A control method was designed for the quality dimensions performance of a service center in a higher education institution. This relied on theoretical approaches of quality service, Six Sigma, and T-square multivariate control chart. The method was designed to integrate quality dimensions by contextualizing performance level calculations associated with the Six Sigma metrics. This was performed using the total reception applications presented at the delivery service unit for 11 periods. The quality dimensions identified with lower performances included: 1) Receiving and recording timely information and 2) organization and relevant response. Drafting and structure of the statement dimension showed to have one of the highest performances based on the desired performance of the variables. The method allowed establishing the multivariate standard control limit of the service. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This research presents a method for the creation of business profiles of export companies in the city of Barranquilla - Colombia. The method is supported by the development of unsupervised data learning techniques, Principal Component Analysis and Cluster analysis. The database used corresponds to primary financial information of 107 companies registered in the Chamber of Commerce of Barranquilla. First, a review of the context of global and local exports is presented. Next, the analysis of components allowed the creation of new uncorrelated variables and the joint visualization of variables in a two-dimensional space. Subsequently, the cluster analysis of the companies was interpreted in the cluster analysis according to the financial items studied. The work shows that the methodology employed allows identifying the type of service that an enterprise needs to achieve the best levels of performance, which in turns facilitates the implementation of development plans and of public and private policies of business promotion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research work proposes a methodology for evaluation and forecasting for companies located in the Industrial Port Zone of the city of Barranquilla, Colombia. Based on an empirical and rational analysis, supported by the concepts of technical efficiency, purely technical efficiency, additive efficiency, efficiency of scale and of mixing, as well as in the algorithm for machine learning GLMNET. Work was done with 29 companies that presented their complete financial statements for the year 2017 in the Chamber of Commerce of Barranquilla - Colombia. As a result, it was found an average technical efficiency of 72.79%, a purely technical efficiency of 82.54% and an additive efficiency of 59.45%. In addition, the projections required to make inefficient organizations achieve efficiency are contributed. From the study, it can also be observed that 11 companies were constituted as benchmarks to measure the companies of the Free Zone of the Port of Barranquilla. It is noteworthy that the algorithm GLMNET delivered a good result in the prediction of group membership of efficient and inefficient enterprises, with an accuracy of 93.1%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a consequence of globalization and the constant migratory flows, the social body of Western States is changing rapidly. The identification of Western societies on homogeneous funds is difficult to achieve in our days because there is a growing social diversity in a growing multicultural context. In this sense, multiculturalism is also a way for the evidence of identity among the members of the social body. Fundamentally, many individuals of Muslim creed have the need to solve the successive civil conflicts that they have according to the precepts of their Religion. For this reason, the demand for the settlement of controversies according to the Sharia is frequent. In this sense, our object of study focuses on the great city that the application of Sharia is having in the Western States and its repercussion in the maintenance of public order and security, with special attention to the defense of Spanish public order. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A method to define and evaluate financial efficiency profiles is presented. The multivariate calculus and its tools of Conglomerate Analysis and Multivariate Discriminant Analysis ADM were used as a theoretical basis. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with output optimization was also used. For this, a rational and empirical approach research was done, considering 58 medium-sized companies of the export sector of the city of Barranquilla in Colombia. As a result, a method was provided to establish and evaluate financial efficiency profiles in medium-sized export companies of the area. The financial efficiency profiles of the export sector are also determined. The efficiency levels of the financial profiles of the clusters were 41.17%, 53.82% and 54.01% respectively. It is concluded that the cluster analysis showed favorable conditions to classify business groups with profiles of differentiated financial efficiency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A method for the design of business profiles in the chemical sector of Colombia is presented. Statistical concepts were used for calculating multivariate cluster analysis and multivariate discriminant analysis (ADM). A sample of 80 companies that submitted their financial statements to the Information System and Business Report for year 2015 was considered for the study. With the items of the financial statements, the financial indicators Gross Margin, Operational Margin and Net Margin were calculated and through a rational quantitative analysis in which multivariate analysis techniques were applied, three business groups were identified from which financial profiles were defined. The ADM generated a discriminating capacity of 98.03% to classify future companies in the identified profiles. It is concluded that the indicators Gross Margin, Operational Margin and Net Margin are consistent and reliable to discriminate, evaluate and project business financial profiles in the analyzed sector [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present research article proposes a method to classify University engineering programs, placing special attention to relations between the subjects of the curriculum and the 12 areas of knowledge established in the body of competencies published by the Institute of industrial and System Engineers (IIES). Techniques of unsupervised data analysis such as Principal Components Analysis (PCA) and cluster analysis were used for the proposed classification. Twenty-one programs, accredited by high quality in Industrial Engineering in Colombia, are used as units of study. The results show that factors such as international accreditation, size of the faculties of engineering and University profile, influence the grouping of the programs of study. The research allowed to classify three large main components and profiles of accredited programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most common neurodevelopmental disorder in childhood and adolescence, with a cumulative overall prevalence of 5,29%. Treatment individualization (TI) is increasingly implemented and should be a continuous process focus in the patients and his environment. The variability associated with ADHD prevalence, diagnosis, treatment and all possible moderating factors make the implementation of this TI is essential for the correct management of the disorder. The approach to the child/adolescent with ADHD from a personalized perspective allows creating a therapeutic plan according to their needs, getting the achievement of the adequate response. This paper proposes an approach model for the implementation of TI in patients with ADHD, based on the specific knowledge of each individual and their situation and biological, psychological and social environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Negatively worded items have been long used in the measurement of psychological constructs, since almost the beginning of the psychometric practice. However, this strategy interferes in the examination of the scales' latent structures, as it has been shown in several studies. This paper aims to provide new evidence on this topic, in order to clarify the negatively worded items effect, by using two versions of the Rosenberg' Self-Esteem Scale (1965), one in its original form, with positive and negatively worded items, and the other one in a transformed version, in which all the items are positive, in order to test if, in this latest version, the method effect associated to negatively worded items still remains. The sample was composed by 390 high-school and university students from Valencia, Spain. Several alternative (including CTCM) structural equation models have been tested, and their fit indices are compared. Results offer empiric evidence on the method effect associated to negatively worded items. This effect disappears when items are worded in a positive way and, thus, Rosenberg' Self-Esteem Scale structure is composed by just one factor: the self-esteem factor. Implications of these results are pointed out in the discussion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study proposes to approach the phenomenon by providing a networking context to Corporate Social Responsibility, the influences it receives from globalization, and the way it influences the bioregional borderland development of Ciudad Juarez and El Paso. The lens of social responsibility serves to examine a return to the private and social contextualization which occurs when an enterprise proactively uses its capacity to invest its resources on the benefit of society. In doing so, it contributes to creating an environment for investment and sustainable socioeconomic and sociopolitical growth by tapping into the support of different stakeholders and by capitalizing on transnational and personal and institutional networks. This study will use social network analysis to study the civic, corporate and governmental sectors in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, and El Paso, Texas, and the proposed actions in the past decade to promote bioregional economic development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The community tourism is developing in the world as an alternative to the traditional trips. This way, this type of tourism allows a major contact with the local community and the experimentation with new sensations. In this paper we present a study realized in an area of Nicaragua about the perception that have the residents to develop, across the local community, a tourist destination based on the important resources of ecological character of the zone and on the hospitality of his inhabitants. The used methodology is based on a work of field realized in the above mentioned zone during September to November, 2008. As principal results we emphasize the perception on the part of the local community that the tourist development can generate wealth and create jobs, at though for it a technical training previous is necessary on the part of different public and private organizations, standing out the NGOs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The border between two cultural, educational, and economically distinct worlds is reflected in Melilla, a Spanish (and European Union) city located in northern Africa. In this article, we analyze the economic and educational reality of this city, which in various national and community settings has been considered as a laboratory for testing policies on multicultural integration and models of regional public financing. We analyze the results in detail, in terms of their possible application to other geographic areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Warr's vitamin model (1994, 1996) is a prevalent theoretical model on occupational stress, and it presents hypothesis pretty different to other prevalent model of work stress as well as accurate predictions. Amongst the most relevant hypothesis are those of non-linear relationships between working conditions and worker's well-being, and the moderator effects of personal characteristics on the stressors-well-being relationships. Nevertheless of its theoretical appealing Warr's model has not been widely tested, and when empirically tested the results are contradictory. The aim of this paper is to empirically test the two broad hypothesis of Warr's vitamin model: non-linear effects of working conditions on well-being, and moderator effects of personal characteristics on these relationships. The dependent variables used are the general health questionnaire and its two components, anxiety and depression. Results do not support the non-linear hypothesis of Warr's model, and the support for the moderator effects of personal characteristics on the stressors-well being is weak [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The synthesis of the Catalogue of Perceptible Earthquakes from 1528 to 1990, which have been obtained and elaborated to be used at the same time as a Data Base in a PC, is presented. Although usually, the periods of time which are used in seismic analysis are limited due to the lack of instrumental information, this Catalogue contain the enough amount of information to allow the extension of that periods of time. As a complement of the Catalogue, examples from the Atlas of Isoseismal Maps of Perceptible Earthquakes which epicenter located in Cuba, was also finished. The last one is fundamental for the characterization of Seismic Attenuation in Cuba in terms of intensity, for Seismic Hazard assessment. The temporal-spatial analysis of the perceptible earthquakes permit us to evaluate the Seismogenic Zones from the Seismotectonic point of view. Furthermore a theoretic-experimental analysis of the Attenuation's Law of Seismic Intensity from Greater Antilles, and the main parameters associated to Seismogenic Zones of Cuba, is showed. These ones were obtained from Isoseismal Maps of perceptible and large earthquakes. The results obtained from the probabilistic and deterministic Seismic Hazard Assessment, for different regions all over the country, have been unified in this paper. From the Seismic Hazard Map resulting, the Seismic Zonation Map with Engineering Purposes was also obtained; the last one was proposed for the New Seismic Cuban Design Code. As a contribution to the characterization of Cuban Seismicity an spatial -- temporary -- energetic analysis of the perceptible aftershocks was made, including their relation with our Seismogenic Zones, obtaining an empirical relationship between the Length of Rupture and the Magnitude values, estimated by Macroseismic Data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The characterization of seismic hazard of province and Santiago de Cuba city in terms of intensity, acceleration, velocity and displacement is presented. Seismic hazard's parameters are show in maps using recurrence periods for each value of these ones and in probabilistic form for different times of useful life and probability of occurrence for a grid of 1 km² in Santiago de Cuba basin, including different hazard's levels. All the seismic hazard's parameters were prepared like a Digital Data Base for their implementation in GIS with the aim to prevention and seismological disaster management, which are important for planning, projection and design of development of these territories. Actually these parameters are the basis for city and land planning, also for others projects in this territory. In this way these ones are taking as a reference element in the preparedness plan by the Civil Defense in case of large earthquakes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the role of women in communication research. It does so by studying their presence/absence in the bibliographies of the syllabus of 108 theoretical courses of journalism degrees taught in 36 colleges in Spain during the 2020-2021 academic year. The work investigates the roles and presences of women in the field of communication, measuring the degree of visibility of women scientists and their contributions in a statistical and comparative way to that of male researchers, quantifying the citation patterns according to the gender of the authors. The data were analyzed with the free statistical software R (version 4.0.3) and a descriptive and inferential analysis was performed. The main results regarding the citation patterns of the research are: 1) an under-citation of publications written by female scientists; 2) an over-citation of publications by male researchers; and 3) the nonexistence of gender homophily (researchers do not tend to cite more authors of their same gender), since female authors are little cited and this low visibility is due to both female and male faculty members. The most referenced author is Elizabeth Noelle-Neumann, one of the few "classics" present, indicating a Matilda effect regarding the historical erasure of female contributions. In conclusion, the paper argues for the need to transform not only citation practices, but an entire scientific culture that denies women as a source of reference and authority from the early stages of university education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A methodology to classify and predict users in virtual education environments, studying the interaction of students with the platform and their performance in exams is proposed. For this, the machine learning tools, main components, clustering, fuzzy and the algorithm of the K nearest neighbor were used. The methodology first relates the users according to the study variables, to then implement a cluster analysis that identifies the formation of groups. Finally uses a machine learning algorithm to classify the users according to their level of knowledge. The results show how the time a student stays in the platform is not related to belonging to the high knowledge group. Three categories of users were identified, applying the Fuzzy K-means methodology to determine transition zones between levels of knowledge. The k nearest neighbor algorithm presents the best prediction results with 91%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]