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Introduction: The exponential development of the digital society and the permanent updating of information produce a favorable change in health professionals training. Objective: To expose the results in virtual training with EndNote for the teaching staff at the University of Medical Sciences of Las Tunas in the course 2023. Methods: A descriptive observational and longitudinal study was developed from October 9th to November 18th ,2023. Twenty-one professors were selected from the university by means of the non-intentional probabilistic sampling. Some data were gathered by means of two mixed questionnaires and the observation of the products of the activity of those involved. Tabulation and descriptive analysis of information was carried out using measures of absolute frequency, percentages, median and interquartile range using SPSS version 25 software. Results: The 21 participants in the experience developed the tasks set in the training with the use of the software, 90.5 % were women. The students had not received any prior training with EndNote nor were they familiar with it. A median of 10 was assigned to the importance of learning to use it and 9 to satisfaction with the training received. The skills evaluated had satisfactory results with a median of 4 or 5. Conclusions: The training described at the University of Medical Sciences of Las Tunas was satisfactory. The participants recognized the importance of learning how to use the program for their professional performance, but they identified the poor connection and lack of electricity as negative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this work is to computerize the information management process of the students of the Preparatory Faculty of the University of Medical Sciences of Havana. The preliminary investigation showed that the processing and handling of the information is done manually and is stored in notebooks that deteriorated over time. This made it difficult to register, search, update and retrieve information, which translates into inefficiencies. Through the MySQL modeling and development methodology, a database with different queries was developed; according to the assigned roles, there will be access to personal data of each student and especially the characterization of intercultural coexistence, an aspect to take into account in the comprehensive evaluation of students. The work was improved in terms of quantity and quality and the integrity, reliability and promptness of the information was guaranteed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Environmental Radiological Surveillance Laboratory (LVRA) of the Radiation Protection and Hygiene Center (CPHR), belonging to the Nuclear Energy and Advanced Technologies Agency of Cuba (AENTA), has within its state mandate the radiological surveillance of food. In the same way, it is considered the national reference laboratory to certify the radiological quality of nationally produced foods destined for export that require it. This laboratory has been operating, for more than 25 years, under an accredited Quality Management System, currently according to NC ISO/IEC 17025:17, by the National Accreditation Body of the Republic of Cuba. During the last two years, as part of the identified improvement opportunities, a Database Management System was developed, which allows systematizing the information related to the analysis of activity concentration in food in such a way that it makes it possible to increase the potentialities of use of these data. Both imported foods and nationally produced foods will be reported in this database, which are tested to assess compliance with the values established for radionuclides in food in national and/or international regulations, as the case may be. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: The information management speeds up the processes in different labor atmospheres, for which systems able to gather, organize and link the stored information are used. The cloud is based on existent technologies, such as virtualization and web services; it constitutes a computer landmark and it is adapted to diverse scenarios and contexts. Objective: To contribute the information management related to the databases of the polymerase chain reaction and the accreditation processes in the University of Medical Sciences from Santiago de Cuba through the cloud Infomed Santiago. Methods: An applied investigation of technological development was carried out in the Provincial Information Center of Medical Sciences, the University of Medical Sciences and the Provincial Center of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology in Santiago de Cuba, from June to December, 2021. Surveys were applied to 19 professionals of the sector who worked directly in the administration of information related to the databases mentioned. Results: The 19 professionals interviewed (100.0 %) affirmed that they used the electronic mail, the integrated chat, the cloud and other facilities that this tool offers to store and share information. Conclusions: The cloud allowed the information management related to the assistance and academic processes during the most critical period of COVID-19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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An understanding of the climate of coastal cities is crucial for orientating urban land management. For this reason, it is essential to have access to long series of meteorological information with periods greater than 30 years. A lack of information or inconsistency can make climate study difficult. Numerical models are a suitable tool for the generation of climate data. For these reasons, this study aims to assess the precision and accuracy of temperature, relative humidity, and precipitation obtained in situ and derived from the Reanalysis NCEP/NCAR in eight coastal cities in different climates of Argentina. To do so, we studied the climatic series for the 1960-2019 period and those generated with the Reanalysis. Both series were statistically compared, considering diverse time scales and applying statistical methods. Time series were analysed using the quantile regression method to assess the study of the extremes in all the variables. The temperature presented a good agreement in climatic (60 years), monthly, and model scales. Relative humidity had higher results on the seasonal scale (mainly in winter and autumn), except for the cities located in warm and humid climates. Finally, rainfall registered good agreement in all temporal scales studied for cities located in temperate and arid climates. Results represent an essential database to orientate management plans and improve the quality of life and the coastal environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The work offers an overview of the procedure to obtain the necessary base of events to support decision-making when floods occur, with the Plataforma Modular Integrada (PMI). These events are also defined and characterized from a study carried out in the Yanuncay river basin in Ecuador. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The importance that has acquired the trend of database-as-a-service (DBaaS) and the relationship that providers have directly in the management of information when offering a service in the cloud, are key factors in the management of information. The negative impact on monetary resources, performance and information security has inspired an analysis on cloud service acquisition in order to mitigate errors in DBaaS adoption. The present work intends to propose the development of a methodological guide that strengthens the DBaaS acquisition processes in SMEs, managing to minimize its impact on the loss or disuse of monetary resources, infrastructure, and security. For this purpose, a document review is carried out, including documents from 2008 to 2018, a period in which countries with high performance levels in research on cloud computing and database management services published significantly. The creation of a methodological guide in the selection of DBaaS providers in SMEs, establishes methods, paths and outstanding strategies when acquiring a DBaaS service. The priority is to know in detail how the service level agreements oriented to the adoption of Cloud Services are developed and managed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: During the COVID-19 health crisis, the information in the media has focused mainly on this topic and the interest of citizens has also increased in this regard. Objective: This work shows the profiles of the Spanish users regarding the consumption of information during confinement. Methodology: For this, an online survey was carried out that was pioneering at the time of its launch, which has allowed us to obtain a significant sample. The methodology established for data management has been carried out by counting unique users, machine learning techniques have been used, and the affinity analysis model has been used to discover co-occurrence relationships in the items. Results: In this way, we have been able to determine which means have been most reliable for citizens when it comes to learning about the coronavirus and whether there is a correlation in terms of the means they consume between them. Conclusions: Definitively, co-occurrence has been established between users who trust a certain medium and other means that are also trusted and they have a similar ideological trend. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A Data Warehouse (DW) is a data repository containing data from different sources. It is used to support decision-making through data analysis as it allows quantitative indicators such as amounts. However, data analysis lack of data of diffuse nature. For instance, in an academic context, the answer to the query "What students scored with good final grade" cannot be obtained from a traditional DW because they do not handle qualitative information. Due to the limitations of traditional DW the use of fuzzy logic may extend its capabilities through a fuzzy DW (FDW). This paper presents an implementation of FDW aimed at allowing qualitative analysis of scholar data supporting decision making process. The FDW implemented operate fuzzy measures, fuzzy facts, fuzzy relations and fuzzy levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article, derived from a piece of research, sets out the main features of the National System of Reference for the Evaluation of the Colombian Scientific Publications (Publindex), achievements, progress, interactions, and their contributions to the measurement of scientific publications in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fuzzy cognitive maps are a technique that has received an increasing attention due to its ability to represent causal knowledge being this a great help in the decision making process, especially in situations with a high degree of uncertainty and / or highly complexity in which the decision maker needs to know the impact of the actions on a system. Static analysis can help determining which aspects of the system should be influenced or reducing the number of criteria addressed; however proposals have primarily focused on a single measure of centrality, usually degree centrality to find the most important node, thus ignoring other equally important measures of centrality. In this paper a technique for performing static analysis in fuzzy cognitive maps based on the use of aggregation operators particularly the dependent OWA, Ordered Weighted Averaging (DOWA) in order to obtain a composite measure of centrality is proposed. The applicability of the proposal is demonstrated by a case of study related to the analysis of success critical factors for the data integration projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We describe the case of Facso, a database of the minutes and other documents of the Board of the Faculty of Social Sciences, which illustrates the integration of Unesco's WinIsis database management system with Dropbox acting as a "virtual hard disk" on the cloud. Various routing options are shown, even incorporating the old Ms-dos .bat executable commands. This has been tested in a 64-bit version with Windows XP, Windows 7, and Windows 8 using Oracle's Virtual Box, and on 32-bit PC desktop, notebook, and netbook platforms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article spells out the methodological and technical problems that arise when building a database on politicians holding a position in representative institutions. Using the example of an existing database of Spanish MPs (1980-2011 ), the authors discuss the criteria they have used and the solutions applied to solve several challenges: parsimony, social desirability, multicollinearity, temporality control, adjustment to electoral results, level of information, and electoral cycles. Some descriptive statistics related to the data as well as research questions regarding political elites are also put forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article presents a way to gather images about experiences on collection conservation in archives and libraries that are published on Internet. For that purpose, a guide about visual identification of deterioration or good practices is designed. In this way, several steps are followed: search, selection, description of materials up to the promotion and publication of such work on the E-LIS repository. The analysis of the results showed that is necessary to improve the way in which the information is retrieved. Based on this, a new tool will be developed in a more dynamic environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article presents several reports relating to information sciences. The author comments on the relationship between the social media website Facebook and the semantic web as well as a description of the process of data curation. The implications of advancements in information and communication technologies are also examined.

The semantic web has enough critical mass to expand its technological scope to content management systems (cms). Currently, an increase in the application of interoperable standards to publish large datasets is detected. Rdf, owl and sparql are replacing traditional developments based on relational database management systems for management and storage of information. Cms are beginning to use these technologies to publish content with semantic web formats, and to define mappings with elements of rdf vocabularies. In this regard, Cms also incorporate features to add semantic information into the xhtml code using rdfa and applying sparql to query data or incorporate external data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Entity-relationship diagram (ERD) is one of the used in modelling the domain information. Several proposals have emerged for speeding up and improving the software development process by either automatically or semi-automatically obtain the ERD. Natural language, controlled languages, and intermediate representations have been used in such a task. The stakeholders (people with some concern in application development), when untrained, are incapable to understand several of such representations. As a consequence, stakeholder active participation in software development is highly restricted. Trying to solve these problems, a set of heuristic rules for automatically obtaining ERD and its SQL-based equivalence is proposed in this paper. The starting point is UN-Lencep, a controlled language already used for generating other artefacts belonging to software application development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The OvidSP® information service is described. OvidSP offers a unified platform for access to a wide range of information resources (e-journals, e-books, etc.) to professionals in the health-care and medical areas. OvidSP is the result of the evolution of the previous SilverPlatter and Ovid platforms, based on a detailed market research to identify and satisfy the information management needs of the user communities. OvidSP also provides additional information retrieval capabilities by means of Ovid Universal Search™, giving simultaneous access to databases from other providers like PubMed, SpringerLink, Ebsco-Host, ScienceDirect, Wiley InterScience, UpToDate, etc., as well as to internal information resources like the library opac, and clinical decision-support tools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The existing data warehouse development methodologies focus on large enterprises, since they have been defined by numerous working groups, with experience in developing such type of systems which also require a considerable financial investment. On the other hand, there is no methodology for micro, small and medium enterprises, which have very specific characteristics, such as low working capital, low access to financing, low technological level, low formation of human talent and this enterprises are usually understaffed. This paper presents a methodology for data warehouse development that takes into account these characteristics, taking some particularities from the agile methodologies such as the use of few artifacts, few roles, small working groups, active participation of the client and the detailed activities definition for the project to develop satisfactorily. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]