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En el artículo se describen y analizan los resultados de un estudio realizado para investigar la relación entre la práctica físico-deportiva y la calidad de vida percibida (CVP). La muestra del estudio estuvo integrada por un colectivo de ciudadanos (968), pacientes de Atención Primaria, entrevistados mientras se encontraban en las salas de espera, de cuatro Centros de Atención Primaria (CAP) de la ciudad de Terrassa. Los objetivos del estudio fueron: 1) Evaluar la relación entre la percepción de calidad de vida y la actividad físico-deportiva; 2) Verificar si, en tal percepción, hay diferencias significativas entre hombres y mujeres. Las conclusiones fueron las siguientes: Existe una percepción mejor de la calidad de vida entre los usuarios que realizan actividad físico-deportiva que entre los pacientes sedentarios, sea la actividad moderada o intensa. Las mujeres que realizan actividad físico-deportiva mejoran su percepción de Calidad de Vida en mayor grado que los hombres. Las mujeres mejoran su CVP en el ámbito social y los hombres en el ámbito físico, por lo que la práctica deportiva es una fuente de la socialización de las mujeres. Abstract. The article describes and analyzes the results of a study carried out to investigate the relationship between physical-sports practice and perceived quality of life (QOL). The study sample was made up of a group of citizens (968), Primary Care patients, interviewed while they were in the waiting rooms of four Primary Care Centers (CAP) in the city of Terrassa. The objectives of the study were: 1) To evaluate the relationship between the perception of quality of life and physical-sports activity; 2) Verify if, in such perception, there are significant differences between men and women. The conclusions were as follows: There is a better perception of the quality of life among users who perform physical-sports activity than among sedentary patients, be it moderate or intense activity. Women who perform physical-sports activity improve their perception of Quality of Life to a greater degree than men. Women improve their CVP in the social sphere and men in the physical sphere, so sports practice is a source of women's socialization.

The actual triple-C, as a combination of economic and financial crises, in addition to the crisis in credibility of economic policy, has fostered North-North and South-North immigration. The objective of this work is to determine the dimension of immigrant´s entrepreneurship, according to their recipient countries being factor driven, efficiency driven, and innovation driven economies. We demonstrate that efficiency driven nations are characterized by modera-te demographic growth and immigrant´s entrepreneurial activity along with a very discrete immigration, while the innovation driven nations are defined by a negative demographic growth and discrete immigrant´s entrepreneurial activity along with an important reception of immigrants.

Purpose: The present study identifies the professional skills profile that a Public Affairs (PA) practitioner of a major company or an organization representing the interests of various economic sectors should have in Spain. Design/methodology: The study uses a mixed qualitative and quantitative methodology. The initial identification of the competences, as well as the general functions of the profile to be evaluated, has been carried out using the in-depth interview technique with the directors of APRI (Association of Professionals of Institutional Relations of Spain), who defined these competencies from their expert perspective. Subsequently, through a survey of seventy-two managers, sufficient data were obtained to statistically process the information and obtain significant results in the identification of such competences. This information has been processed, firstly, through factorial analysis, which has made it possible to synthesize these competences. Once the analysis of factors was carried out, a cluster analysis is added for the classification of the respondents or managers. Findings: The perception of the interviewed executives has been determined regarding the functions that an institutional relations practitioner must fulfill. It should be noted that this is a profession for which there is no clarity about the role and the legitimacy of its members, particularly in Spain. In fact, it is associated with a function that is seen as exerting undue pressure on political power. A field study was conducted to determine the opinion of these managers on the competences that a professional in institutional relations should have. Originality/value: This study provides a description of the job position of a person responsible for institutional relations in Spain. Moreover, it adds a typology of managers, according to the competences defined for the person responsible for institutional relations.

En el presente artículo se recogen las conclusiones de un estudio que analiza la relación entre la práctica físico-deportiva de los usuarios de centros deportivos públicos de la ciudad de Terrassa (provincia de Barcelona) y la calidad de vida percibida por los mismos, estudio realizado sobre una muestra de 674 usuarios practicantes de actividad física en ocho centros deportivos públicos abiertos en el momento de la recogida de información. Analizando la variable calidad de vida percibida, el equipo investigador ha logrado definir perfiles de usuarios de los centros deportivos públicos de Terrassa y medir cómo éstos perciben su calidad de vida, habiendo podido distinguir colectivos que no están siendo atendidos actualmente por tales centros deportivos o que lo están siendo de manera incorrecta o insuficiente. Las conclusiones del estudio permitirán al Ayuntamiento de Terrassa una mejor orientación de su política pública en materia de actividad físico-deportiva, en función de las características de sus usuarios/clientes y de su percepción sobre el impacto que tal actividad físico-deportiva practicada en las condiciones actuales tiene en su calidad de vida percibida, es decir, en función de la demanda actual y latente. Abstract. This study analyzes the relationship between the physical-sports practice of users of public sports centers in the city of Terrassa and their perceived quality of life, in a sample of 674 users who practice physical activity in eight public sports centers open at the time of the data collection. Analyzing the variable “perceived quality of life”, the research team managed to define user profiles of the public sports centers of Terrassa and measure how they perceive their quality of life, defining groups that are either not currently being attended or that are being improperly treated by the current centers. This will allow the City Council to orient its public policy in the area of physical and sports activity, given the characteristics of its users / customers and the perceived quality of life, that is, based on current and latent demand.

A profound review of the literature on entrepreneurship reveals that it does not exist a specific information tool to measure the individuals’ readiness for entrepreneurship. The purpose of this research has been building such kind of instrument to estimate the individuals’ readiness for entrepreneurship. Its design takes in consideration the inclusion of the main variables identified by the literature as those most associated with entrepreneurial profiles. These variables have been grouped into three categories: sociological, psychological and managerial-entrepreneurial. Each group provides batteries of items which are evaluated thanks to a specific scoring system. The final objective is to provide a system to calculate individual scores of readiness for entrepreneurship and, at the same time, partial scores on concrete aspects of it. The information tool is presented at this paper and will be tested and refined in the near future.

Presentación del monográfico: "¿Y qué tienen que hacer las armas con las doncellas?". Mujeres y libros de caballerías Presentation of the Monograph: "Y qué tienen que hacer las armas con las doncellas?”: Women and the Romances of Chivalry

Riyadh's entrepreneurial ecosystem is one of the most important drivers of entrepreneurship and innovation in the MENA region, as Saudi Arabia aims to achieve economic diversification within its industry, and thus reduce its dependence on oil. This paper analyzes how Riyadh's entrepreneurial ecosystem is achieving these goals and explores the differences between entrepreneurs and owner-managers operating in the Riyadh ecosystem to identify their strengths and weaknesses in guiding Saudi policymakers' decision-making. Using GEM data for Saudi Arabia and analyzing the ten pillars (connectivity, leadership, knowledge, talent, finance, culture, formal institutions, services and intermediaries, physical infrastructure, and demand) of the Stem model, the authors applied ANOVA tests for the quantitative variables and Chi-squared tests for the qualitative variables and rescaled the results to 0–10-point scales for ease of interpretation. We found that among the ten pillars studied, there were four that have improved the most in the Riyadh entrepreneurial ecosystem: two systemic (networks, talent) and two environmental (physical infrastructure and formal institutions), while it was in the systemic pillars (leadership, financing, and knowledge) where the least progress has been made in the period 2019–2022. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As the world economy is globalized, crises are rapidly spread due to the massive use of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies), also affecting the entrepreneurial values involved in business creation processes. In this sense, digital marketing has a key role to play, as it can serve as a tool based on technology applied to foster nascent entrepreneurship. Using data for GEM Latin American countries, and applying clustering analysis based on the K-means method, the objective of this work is to test if the actual First Global Financial Crisis (FGFC) has altered the entrepreneurial values in Latin American firms. The main result of this work is that the traits of entrepreneurial activity in GEM Latin American countries have progressively shifted from quantity to quality, so digital marketing is having an increasing importance.

The Economics of Happiness is one of the research areas of greatest growth in recent years. Throughout this work, a venture based model in which satisfaction of Spanish entrepreneurs with their professional life is performed. We analyze the responses of 9,989 entrepreneurs using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), and six hypothesis are discussed. The results show that, for the Spanish case, there is a strong consistency in the results the opportunity entrepreneurs present greater satisfaction than necessity entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneurship research is progressing towards the construction of indexes that integrate the information of the three predominant approaches: the entrepreneurial activity output; the population’s entrepreneurial behavior, values and aspirations; and the context in which entrepreneurship takes place. In this study we compare the Global Competitiveness Index data, one of the objective sources of information selected among those recognized as descriptors of national contexts, with the national entrepreneurial context qualitative information provided by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. The main purpose of this research is to contribute to the knowledge of entrepreneurial context sources of information by opening a discussion around the usefulness and contribution that could make the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor source in this field, and to determine if it is recommendable to proceed to its formal validation in the short time. The obtained results evidence that the two sources do not overlap to the degree of substituting one by the other and that the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor provides relevant qualitative details about the state of entrepreneurial context that are interesting to complement the Global Competitiveness Index information. The conclusion is to recommend the formal validation of this source, being also necessary to make comparisons with other relevant sources and to clear up its role in the progress of the integrated indexes construction.

The presence of Greek and Byzantine elements is evident in Spanish chivalric romance. One of the clearest examples of this is found in the names of people and places that appear in their pages. A review of chivalric anthroponomy, especially focused on the Amadisian cycle, offers a number of names that have an etymology with a Greco-Roman origin or that are directly homonymous with mythological characters.

The lists of soldiers and warriors, present in the classic and in the romance epic, represent a common motif in the chivalric romances. This article will analyze the reappearance of a list of knights from the Sergas de Esplandián, whose writer was Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, to Lisuarte de Grecia of Feliciano de Silva. This reappearance means that Feliciano copied directly and alerts us to the possibility of copies in more passages. The structure and repetition of these lists, in which the oral component and the audience are fundamental, give us some clues about the narrative dispositio of these texts.

This research aims to investigate how combinations of factors lead to the entrepreneurial intention and propensity of engineering university students. The study proposes the application of a configuration approach (Qualitative Comparative Analysis) with a sample of 10,008 engineering students from 43 universities in 10 European countries. The findings show that entrepreneurial intention and propensity do not depend only on a single driver but on the interplay of multiple factors. The intensity of entrepreneurship education is a necessary but not sufficient condition. Different recipes brought to light in the analysis belong to similar socioeconomic contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La inclusión de la muerte de Amadís de Gaula en el Lisuarte de Grecia de Juan Díaz, de escaso agrado para los lectores, ocasionaría que este libro de caballerías no conociese ninguna edición más allá de la princeps ni el éxito cosechado por el resto del ciclo amadisiano, sumiendo al texto en el olvido de la crítica. El presente artículo pretende analizar, por un lado, la descripción y narración de dicha muerte y sepultura del rey Amadís, así como el lamento y duelo por la misma, en conexión con la devoción pasionaria y diversos pasajes bíblicos y, por otro, su relación con el código establecido para el ritual fúnebre medieval, que conecta dicho ceremonial con el de diversos monarcas del Medievo y, en el plano literario, con el de otros caballeros como Tristán, Tirant y Palmerín, con los que se establecerán semejanzas y diferencias.