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Agroecosystems are socioecosystems where people perceive, value, and benefit from the goods and services provided by nature, while also modifying it according to their preferences and decisions. Due to intensive management, functions, services, and biodiversity have been altered and lost, making the ecological restoration of these landscapes a current priority. To recognize the perceptions and valuations of ecosystem services associated with native forests, and their relationship with the restoration preferences of producers in the Espinal Region, southeast of Córdoba, tools derived from ethnobiological approaches (in-depth interviews with key actors, semi-structured surveys, free listings, Likert scales, and projective tests) were used. Models were created to evaluate the relationship between sociodemographic and productive variables, valuations, and restoration preferences. The regulatory and support services associated with native forests were the most mentioned and valued. Provisioning services were the least valued, particularly by older producers with patches of forest already present on their fields. Agricultural producers preferred to restore areas with low-quality soils and areas with temporary or permanent flooding. Those producers with forest fragments on their fields chose to enrich them, while the rest preferred the implementation of forest buffers. For this purpose, they selected native plant species from the region, which they associated with forest patches and which were also recommended by experts. Including valuations assigned to native forests, age, and the presence of patches owned by the producers being studied, along with economic, contractual, and field characteristics (soil type, presence of flooding), will allow the design of restoration actions adapted to the specific contexts of each producer and, therefore, ensure their success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: This study seeks to explore, describe, and quantify the effects that the experiences of incarceration have on women in prison contexts in Argentina. Methodology: The results of an original database were analyzed. The database includes two surveys conducted by the Center for Latin American Studies on Insecurity and Violence (CELIV/UNTREF) in 2013 and 2019 in prisons of the Federal and Buenos Aires Penitentiary System. The sample consisted of 845 males and 188 females who participated in the survey in 2013, and 838 males and 200 females in 2019. Results: The results of this study indicate that there are gender differences in the effects of incarceration on the inside, which are mainly crystallized in the behavior of the nearby containment networks. For women, contact with their emotional environment is more limited than for men. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The microeconomic research about private expenditures on educational goods and services shows that the variation in investment levels reflects differences in income, socio-demographic characteristics, and the average number of household members. There are few studies in Latin America, however, that also explore the income elasticity of educational demand. This article addresses this important gap in Mexico, using data from the 2020 National Survey of Household Income and Expenditures. By means of Engel curves and tobit regression analysis, this article outlines the values assigned to education according to family traits. In particular, the results show that, as we focus on economically wealthier households, education is no longer a superior good, without becoming a necessity good. In addition, the data show evidence of gender differences that are opposite to those pointed out in the peer-reviewed literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The situation of Spanish Early Career Researchers (ECRs) during the pandemic is presented, taking into account the main changes caused by confinement in their work habits and academic communication practices. Based on the information extracted from interviews and surveys, the transformations experienced in the following areas are analyzed: distance teaching, research production, the evaluation system and the metrics used, the progress of open science, peer review, ethically questionable practices, collaboration and networking, online meetings and conferences, scientific dissemination and outreach and the use of social networks. After the pandemic, some disruptions have reversed. However, others have remained. The pandemic has normalized the use of virtual and hybrid events and promoted researchers' dissemination practices, among other changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is a growing consensus about the complementary nature of institutional and noninstitutional politics as means to push forward policy agendas. However, the bulk of research tends to concentrate on one aspect of this relationship, namely, how social movements influence the political arena, for example by impacting different stages of the policymaking process and creating new political parties. There is comparatively less understanding of the reverse dynamics: the degree to which political parties also influence the protest arena by adopting and utilizing strategies and tactics commonly associated with social movements and by connecting to demonstrators. Focusing on Argentina and Chile, two countries that have experienced massive protest waves in recent years, this article examines the presence of political parties in the organization, staging, and channeling of demonstrations. Given that the reception of political parties in demonstrations is closely tied to whether they are welcome in the protest arena or not, we also analyze how Argentine and Chilean protesters perceive political parties and the level of identification they feel with them. Our primary data source comes from 1 935 surveys conducted as part of the Caught in the Act of Protest: Contextualizing Contestation (ccc) network between 2015 and 2017. We found that political parties in Argentina exhibit stronger ties to social movements compared to those in Chile. We seek to link this outcome to divergent and historically rooted patterns of protest dynamics in both countries and discuss the implications of our findings in the conclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The marketing of banana derivatives is of great importance because it is a source of employment and economy for local stores, businesses and pantries. Added value is attributed to the sale of banana flour because it is a food with essential nutritional contributions. such as vitamins A, B, C and D, their nutritional properties are composed of proteins, lipids, fats and ashes that are beneficial for human muscle tissues. In the country, banana cultivation is intended for foreign trade and there are a large quantity of foods that do not satisfy the needs of customers, regarding their price, convenience and benefits, therefore the investigation has been carried out with the objective of carrying out an analysis of banana flour marketing in the canton of La Maná, the techniques and Instruments used to obtain the information were surveys and questionnaires. The research population was made up of 160 stores, 10 pantries and 20 commercials. Commercials and stores sell larger quantities of banana derivatives in quantities of 200 grams, and monthly they sell around 140 to 160 kilograms of banana flour, the best-selling brand is Banasoya, the price of the product varies between 0.60 and 1.00 dollars, each sale has a profit of 0.35 dollars. Consumers mostly buy the banana flour product biweekly, to make cakes and pastries, in a quantity of 11.33 kg at a price of 0.60 to 0.80 dollars. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Open review is one of the components of open science that scientific journals are incorporating in their editorial processes. In contrast to open access to literature and research data, open review still raises many doubts and concerns among the involved parties (editors, reviewers and authors). This article aims to analyze the perception of editors of Brazilian academic journals on open peer review. To achieve this, a questionnaire was sent to 3,208 editors, out of which 351 responded to the full set of 42 questions. The editors expressed satisfaction with the current model of scientific communication, the double-blind model, and disagreed with any type of identification of reviewers. However, they perceived an advantage in open review, as it allows for mutual interaction between authors and reviewers with the goal of improving the quality of content. As barriers, they pointed out conflicts of interest and rivalries that open review might generate and the difficulty in finding reviewers willing to accept this review model. The overall conclusion points to a conservative profile among editors regarding the introduction of open peer review practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the definition of health policies and decision-making on the part of health officials, there is often a prevailing separation between clinical practice, epidemiology, and public health. Although this division is naturalized from the viewpoint of hospitals and public agencies, it is artificial in the context of concrete territories and communities, where problems are not structured according to the fragmentation of knowledge, but rather express the complexities of the problems faced by individuals and population groups. In this context, this article compiles and analyzes studies on the ecology of medical care carried out between 1928 and 2018 that have revisited the pioneering study "The ecology of medical care" by White, Williams and Greenberg. The discussion is structured around three central issues: 1) recurrent themes in studies on the ecology of medical care; 2) health information systems and health surveys; and 3) the institutional hegemony of hospitals in the health field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concept of democracy is central to our political systems and citizens are constantly asked in surveys about their views on democracy and related issues. However, these questions usually omit the fact that the democracy is a complex concept and only rarely are questions asked about how respondents understand democracy. Combining insights from political theory and survey methodology, this study analyses questions from the seven surveys that have been carried out in Spain to date that have directly addressed these conceptions. Some remarks are provided in the conclusion about the strengths and weaknesses of the questions asked so far, as well as some general recommendations for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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National Innovation Surveys (NIS) constitute the accepted international methodological instrument for compilation of information for measuring and analyzing the innovating behavior of enterprises in a determined economy. This article is intended to state the principal conceptual elements, as well as the most important methodological aspects to be taken into consideration in determining the innovation activity in Cuban enterprises, by means of the application of NIS and the comparison between their results. The analysis of the three NIS carried out in Cuba and the comparability among them made possible to determine for a twenty year period of factual information (1997-2017), the behavior of the fundamental aspects and the system of relations that characterized the innovating behavior in Cuban enterprises. The selection of the enterprises was based on their significant contribution to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Fact-checking has become a global journalism movement that is considered essential to fight against disinformation and address demands for new communication processes. Spanish-speaking fact-checking is constantly growing, with the number of platforms in Latin America and Spain increasing by more than 100% from 2018 to 2021. Collaboration networks between these platforms are also being implemented to address disinformation beyond national borders in the Spanish-speaking world. However, academic research regarding this phenomenon has mainly focused on fact-checking practices without paying much attention to the professionals themselves: the fact-checkers. Understanding the challenges faced by these professionals in Spanish-speaking contexts is key to contributing to the development of this activity beyond the Anglo-Saxon perspective. In this work, we conducted a survey (n = 52) among Spanish and Latin American fact-checkers. The professionals were asked about their perception on fact-checking's link to journalism, the competences they believed necessary for fact-checking, the main difficulties they usually face, as well as their thoughts on proposals for potential improvements. The survey results were then enriched by conducting 13 in-depth interviews of Spanish-speaking professionals and academics with expertise in fact-checking. Studying these variables is key to design new, more adequate and attractive curricular proposals to improve the training of future journalists and help them face the enormous and complex but necessary and urgent task of fighting disinformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Las escalas cualitativas formadas por términos lingüísticos son utilizadas por diversas disciplinas para determinar preferencias y diversos aspectos de la vida de los individuos. Aunque es habitual asignar números a las categorías de respuesta de estas escalas, no es adecuado utilizar codificaciones numéricas cuando los individuos perciben proximidades psicológicas distintas entre las categorías consecutivas de la escala, es decir, cuando las escalas cualitativas no son uniformes. En este trabajo se propone un procedimiento ordinal para jerarquizar un conjunto de alternativas a partir de las valoraciones mostradas por un grupo de individuos mediante una escala cualitativa no necesariamente uniforme. Dicho procedimiento está basado en las proximidades ordinales entre las categorías de respuesta de las escalas. El procedimiento propuesto se ilustra con un ejemplo tomado del Barómetro del Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS) de mayo de 2011. || Qualitative scales formed by linguistic terms are used by different disciplines to determine preferences and different aspects of individuals’ lives. Although it is usual to assign numbers to the response categories of scales, it is not suitable when individuals perceive different proximities between the consecutive categories of the scale, that is, when scales are not uniform. In this paper, an ordinal procedure is proposed to order a set of alternatives from the assessments given by a group of individuals through a qualitative scale not necessarily uniform. This procedure is based on ordinal proximities between the response categories of scales. The proposed procedure is illustrated with an example taken from the Barometer of the Center for Sociological Research of May 2011.

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Objective. To estimate the willingness to vaccinate against Covid-19 (acceptance) in the Mexican population and to identify socioeconomic factors associated with vaccine hesitancy and refusal. Materials and methods. We estimated the acceptance, refusal and hesitancy proportions using data from the Covid-19 National Health and Nutrition Survey conducted from August to November 2020. Factors associated with refusal and hesitancy were explored using multinomial logistic regression. Results. Covid-19 vaccination acceptance was 62.3%, refusal 28.2% and hesitancy 9.5%. Refusal and hesitancy were associated with being female, having older age, lower educational level, lower socioeconomic status and working in the informal sector. Conclusion. National campaigns to incentivize vaccine acceptance need to consider specific subgroups were the likelihood of hesitancy and refusal is high. In Mexico, refusal and hesitancy were higher in vulnerable groups, and people at a higher risk of Covid-19 complications and death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the Region of Murcia, man-nature coevolution has generated multifunctional cultural landscapes of enormous interest, among which arid landscapes stand out for their uniqueness. These systems provide many ecosystem services, including cultural ones related to the aesthetics of landscapes and feelings of well-being, although, in general, the population has little attachment to them. This work tries to know the perception that the citizens have on different landscapes of the Region of Murcia and, especially, on the arid landscapes and the dry rivers (ramblas) that flow through them. To do this, individual questionnaires have been used on population of 185 participants who were asked about their preferred and non-preferred landscapes and were asked to describe the rambla's landscape. Perception differences were detected according to the profession, and age of the participants in various landscapes. The arid landscapes turned out to be the worst valued by the population and surprisingly the ramblas were described by the respondents with words referring both to the natural environment and to the emotions, which reveals the importance of the non-material benefits that human obtains from the nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The talares represent the main native forest of the Buenos Aires province; however, they are in danger. Given their extreme vulnerability, it is not only necessary to promote their conservation, but also their restoration. The native plant nurseries represent a key link in restoration projects. In this work, the first survey of native plant nurseries in the distribution area of talares of Buenos Aires was carried out to characterize and evaluate them as possible restoration nodes. During 2019, surveys to these nurseries were carried out either in person or online. More than 70% of the nurseries were concentrated in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area and their objectives comprise commercialization, conservation/restoration or education. More than 60% of the nurseries were less than 5 years old and less than 500 m2 in size, and they do not control humidity, temperature and/or light; however, they have greenhouses. These characteristics seem to reflect an increase in society's interest on native plants in recent years, which would have led to the development of new nurseries at small scale. The main plant species of the talares were cultivated in these nurseries, so they could be very important actors when planning restoration projects of these forests. We emphasize the importance of consolidating a network of collaboration between nurseries, scientists, protected areas, and government agencies in order to restore this ecosystem. In this way, it is necessary to expand the scope of this study in order to know the native plant nurseries in the rest of the country, associated with other endangered ecosystems, and to be able to evaluate if Argentina is in a position to meet its internal goals and international restoration commitments. We hope that the results of this work will promote joint collaborations to restore the talares of Buenos Aires and other ecosystems in Argentina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sharenting --dissemination on social networks of images and comments about children, minors, by their parents--, is a growing phenomenon (Kopecky et al., 2020; Bessant, 2018). The Covid-19 pandemic has increased the use of social networks, especially during the months of confinement. Social networks have helped to alleviate the separation, and to the extent that communication with family and friends has been frequent, they have also contributed to an increase in sharenting (Saud; Mashud; Ida, 2020). It is still unknown if this phenomenon is specific or if, on the contrary, confinement has contributed to changing social attitudes towards this parental activity (Bessant; Nottingham; Oswald, 2020). In any case, the need to reflect on the consequences and on the rights that come into play in sharenting has become evident. The research presented studies sharenting from the right to freedom of expression of parents, and the rights to private life of children under their guardianship and their digital identity; also from the perspective of the minor's vision of this parental activity. A review of the bibliography shows the variety of arguments that have expressed the modalities of balance between these rights present in sharenting. The research is completed with a survey of children and adolescents between 13 and 18 years old, carried out in March 2020. This is how we respond to the criticism of the studies on the rights of minors for not including their own vision (Cowden, 2016). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We explore the relationship between the right turn and authoritarian backlash in Latin America in terms of public opinion. Is there evidence of a right turn in public opinion? What is the relationship at the individual level between ideology and democratic support, particularly among those who identify with the right? Are people who identify with the "new right" less committed to democracy than other citizens? We study these questions using six waves of public opinion surveys conducted in 17 Latin American countries between 2008 and 2019. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: The food label helps the consumer to decide the products purchased and their eating habits. Applications for mobile devices that allow the scan of a product label are tools increasingly used by the population. Objectives: Conduct a pilot study to learn about the use of mobile applications as a tool to obtain nutritional information by food consumers. Methodology: A questionnaire was prepared, distributed to 293 participants, related to the download of apps that scan food labels, their use and the opinion of the survey on their usefulness and reliability. Results: 34.5% of the respondents are users of applications with food label scanning. 70% use them when shopping, to find out the global information on foods or the composition of certain nutrients. However, only a third considers that this information is completely useful and reliable. Conclusion: Due to the growing use by the population of mobile applications to evaluate the labeling of foods, they should include scientifically verified, useful and truthful information. Furthermore, users should have an adequate knowledge to interpret the information received through these apps. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Quantitative and qualitative descriptive research. Objective: to validate the survey on the perception of nursing graduates in Chile, regarding the National Exam taken and applied. Methodology: qualitative, using the Delphi method with experts in the areas of nursing, education, and evaluation; and quantitative, using Cronbach's alpha analysis with the SPSS system. Results: The K was between 0.95 to 1, which suggests that all of the experts had a high degree of competence in the opinion topic. The objectives proposed in the 21-item survey were linked. In 8 items 100% of the experts stated their agreement with the aspects raised by the National Nursing Exam Commission; in 10 items 80%, in 2 items 50% and in 1 item 33%. Cronbach's alpha method estimated the internal consistency reliability of the instrument to be 0.97, demonstrating a high degree of internal consistency among the items analyzed. Conclusions: to validate an instrument it is necessary to rigorously complete each step with a sequence that allows one to account for validity and reliability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Salinas y Arenales de San Pedro del Pinatar Regional Park is a saline wetland located in the north of the restinga of Mar Menor lagoon (Region of Murcia, southeast Spain). It is part of the Natura 2000 Network, and has been declared a special conservation area and special protection area, as well as being an important enclave for salt production and tourism. This study offers a preliminary assessment of the ecosystem services of this regional park through pre-test surveys answered by users of the protected area. The contingent valuation method, as well as the choice experiments method declared preference methods were used. Some 262 tourist pre-test surveys were conducted between August and December 2019, and these guided the writing of the final surveys. In addition, the ecosystem services offered by the regional park were defined by analysing the Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services in its latest version V5.1 (obtaining 32 types of ecosystem services that are evaluated in the final surveys with four response options). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the opinions on and attitudes towards the end of life among the population residing in Argentina. The data presented are taken from the Second National Survey of Religious Beliefs and Attitudes in Argentina, which was conducted on a multi-stage sample of 2421 cases in 89 districts throughout the country. Opinions about the end of life include positions in favor of euthanasia, requesting life extension through life support technologies, and leaving death to God's will. Religious beliefs and affiliations prove to be determining variables in the positions taken by Argentine citizens regarding the end of life, death, and euthanasia. Furthermore, among those without any religious affiliation, some positions of autonomy over their bodies stand out: prolonging life and bringing life to an end, which means that their support for euthanasia can be assumed. The data presented here intend to contribute to planning health policies about the end-of-life process. The different views on this process or, in other words, the beliefs, values, and needs of patients and their families have a unique relevance that must be considered in the organization of care settings in end-of-life contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Measuring quality of life and wellbeing is a huge challenge that we have just only started to address, as digital technologies tend to find new ways of measuring it and the researchers develop new methods, scales, and surveys. However, in these cases, incidental findings and ethical issues may appear. In order to better address possible conflicts arising in this context, this article provides a brief review of concepts (e.g. wellbeing, quality of life), followed by an attempt to pave the way for the future drawing on guidelines regarding improved technology-enabled measurement of wellbeing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the international level, the adoption of the BIM (Building Information Modeling) methodology is rapidly expanding and is already a reality in several countries. The level of implementation and maturity differ between different countries. Several governments are encouraging a paradigm shift in the construction sector, looking for this change to promote greater efficiency and productivity. However, for this change to occur, it is necessary to know its level of implementation in order to define the best incentive strategies. In comparison with other countries, Portugal appears to be in an early stage of adopting BIM. This delay is more pronounced in the Center and Alentejo regions, which are the subject of this study. The results can serve to improve strategies for adopting the BIM methodology in the AEC sector in these regions. In this survey, it was found that 73% of respondents have some knowledge of BIM. This result is higher than that obtained in a study carried out in Portugal in 2015, and may be a consequence of the numerous initiatives carried out to disseminate the BIM methodology that occurred between the years 2015 and 2018. In other parameters, there are no significant differences between the results of the two surveys. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The regular paper publications sector has implemented significant business model transformations to embrace digitalization, with the press being the most affected of all. This has contributed not only to the migration of traditional mastheads to a digital format, in search of a hybridization process, but also to the development of new digital brands. In these circumstances, credibility emerges as a critical factor to consider when selecting sources of information. Along these lines and with regards to the online press, two research objectives arise: to analyze which factors can influence, and which factors are influenced by, the credibility of an online masthead. The methodology used in this study is based on quantitative research using surveys conducted with university students and structural equation modeling. The main conclusions demonstrate that coverage is the main variable in terms of generating credibility and that this also contributes to reader perception regarding greater confidence, accuracy, and sympathy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Covid-19 pandemic has produced not only a terrible sanitary crisis but also several problems related to the circulation of disinformation in the context of hybrid and increasingly fragmented media systems. In this work, we analyze a polemical question included in the Center for Sociological Research (CIS) survey conducted in April about the appropriateness of limiting free circulation of information to avoid diffusion of fake news and disinformation. The goals are to (1) analyze the sociodemographic traits of those in favor of limiting the free circulation of information, and (2) explore their general political preferences and affiliations, and the association with attitudes regarding freedom of information. The results obtained through a quantitative methodological approach based on contingency tables and standardized residuals indicate that the most common sociodemographic profile of those in favor of limiting the flow of information is the following: young women (between 18 and 25 years) with secondary education who live in small municipalities and belong to the lower social class. Moreover, the findings illustrate that there is a significant statistical association between supporting the limitation of information and different indicators of supporting the Socialist government: voting and sympathizing with the Socialist Party, self-location in the extreme left, and trusting both the central government management of the crisis and the leadership of Pedro Sánchez. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]