La educación ambiental en los medios televisivos. Estudio de caso: Oromar TV

El actual artículo de investigación tiene el propósito de analizar la educación ambiental en los medios televisivos de la provincia de Manabí. Para lo cual, se decidió tomar como estudio de caso el canal Oromar TV. Esto con el objetivo de medir el impacto social que provocan los medios masivos en lo que concierne a la concientización y cuidado del medio ambiente en esta provincia. Además de examinar las producciones de contenidos formativos enfocados hacia la educación ambiental dentro de la programación de este canal. La metodología que se aplicó para la indagación es de tipo cualitativa, de modo que se utilizó la técnica del análisis documental para la revisión de la programación del canal Oromar TV, esto se llevó a cabo en un periodo de muestra de dos meses. Los resultados obtenidos demuestran que existen falencias dentro de la programación del canal Oromar TV, debido a las escasas producciones de contenido educativo. Por lo tanto, se concluye que, al no existir un incremento de programas televisivos formativos, y ausencia total de producciones especializadas en el área de educación ambiental en el canal Oromar TV, eso podría ocasionar un desconocimiento en la audiencia televisiva en lo que se refiere a materia de prevención y cuidado del medio ambiente en la provincia de Manabí.//The current research article has the purpose of analyzing environmental education in television media in the province of Manabí. For which, it was decided to take the Oromar TV channel as a case study. This with the objective of measuring the social impact caused by the mass media in regard to the awareness and care of the environment in this province. In addition to examining the production of training content focused on environmental education within the programming of this channel. The methodology that was applied for the investigation is of qualitative type, so that the technique of documentary analysis was used for the revision of the programming of the Oromar TV channel, this was carried out in a sample period of two months. The results obtained show that there are shortcomings in the programming of the Oromar TV channel, due to the scarce productions of educational content. Therefore, it is concluded that, in the absence of an increase in training television programs, and total absence of specialized productions in the area of environmental education in the Oromar TV channel, that could cause a lack of knowledge in the television audience in regard to in matters of prevention and care of the environment in the province of Manabí

Proyecto de creación de una empresa organizadora de eventos corporativos en la ciudad de Guayaquil

Este proyecto surge como una solución a las empresas insatisfechas con la calidad de sus eventos y aquellas empresas que no han realizado eventos pero si es importante para estas. Es un mercado nuevo en Ecuador que esta creciendo a un ritmo rápido, nuestro proyecto en si pretende crear una compañía referente de la calidad, variedad, innovación y creatividad en cuanto a diseñar y organizar eventos se refiera y brindar solución a las empresas al momento de diseñar y organizar eventos sociales, lanzamientos de productos y capacitaciones. Este proyecta presenta un plan de negocios para poner en marcha una empresa Organizadora de Eventos, quien se encargará de todos los detalles en el diseño, coordinación y control de un evento. El proyecto está dirigido a empresas que no cuentan con un departamento específico para realizar eventos en su compañía y que no cuentan con tiempo suficiente para organizar un evento. La función principal de este proyecto es crear una empresa que a través del diseño convierta el evento anhelado para toda empresa en una realidad y así lograr que su evento sea el mejor de todos. De esta manera podemos ahorrar el tiempo de las empresas (clientes) y ampliar las oportunidades de negocios de los proveedores

Media and campaign effects on vote choice at national elections in Europe : a review of a multilingual research landscape

This article reviews the empirical research literature on campaign and media effects on vote choice at national elections in European countries for the post-World War II period. Particular efforts are undertaken to obtain a comprehensive picture by including publications in many different languages. With regard to the amount of research, but also the topics addressed, the survey reveals considerable differences between countries. Studies of campaign effects have focused on the temporal dynamics of campaigns, on the modes of campaign communications (such as personal contacts at the local level, advertising on TV and in the press or online social media) and on certain aspects of its content. Research on media effects has explored the role of partisan bias and certain topical categories of news (climate of opinion, issue and candidate coverage) as well as specific new media formats, notably televised candidate debates and vote advice applications (VAA). Overall, the review reveals that there is little in the way of an integrated and consolidated body of campaign and media effects research on national elections in Europe. While political communication research increasingly acknowledges the potential importance of news media and political parties’ electioneering for voting behaviour, there appears as of yet to be little convergence regarding approaches and research findings. Particularly striking is the degree to which research questions are guided by national institutional contexts

Distribution of antiretroviral treatment through self-forming groups of patients in Tete province, Mozambique

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Toward open sharing of task-based fMRI data: the OpenfMRI project

The large-scale sharing of task-based functional neuroimaging data has the potential to allow novel insights into the organization of mental function in the brain, but the field of neuroimaging has lagged behind other areas of bioscience in the development of data sharing resources. This paper describes the OpenFMRI project (accessible online at http://www.openfmri.org), which aims to provide the neuroimaging community with a resource to support open sharing of task-based fMRI studies. We describe the motivation behind the project, focusing particularly on how this project addresses some of the well-known challenges to sharing of task-based fMRI data. Results from a preliminary analysis of the current database are presented, which demonstrate the ability to classify between task contrasts with high generalization accuracy across subjects, and the ability to identify individual subjects from their activation maps with moderately high accuracy. Clustering analyses show that the similarity relations between statistical maps have a somewhat orderly relation to the mental functions engaged by the relevant tasks. These results highlight the potential of the project to support large-scale multivariate analyses of the relation between mental processes and brain function

Benign Lymphoid Hyperplasia Presenting as Bilateral Scleral Nodules

Purpose. To report a case of transient lymphoid hyperplasia presenting as bilateral nodular scleral mass in a young male patient. Design. Observational case report. Methods. Chart review. Causes of scleritis were considered and excluded based on detailed history, physical examination, and laboratory investigations. Results. Excisional biopsy of scleral lesions indicated lymphoid tissue. Immunohistochemical studies revealed a polyclonal population of T and B cells consistent with a benign reactive process. Conclusions. Chronic exposure of the ocular adnexa to many allergens and irritants may lead to activation of the inflammatory cascade. In severely allergic patients activation may be exponential and elicit an immune-mediated response resulting in a transient lymphoid reactive process

Periodismo en las Redes Sociales y las Nuevas Narrativas dentro de la Comunicación Digital

Journalism is one of the professions that is constantly changing with the technological innovations that man is developing, every year new generations of students of this race are looking for new ways to disseminate information in a dynamic and instantaneous way. That is why, the use of social networks within journalism has become an important tool for communicators, but there is a great challenge, is how it should be written in digital communication and specifically in social networks. This article aims to give basic guidelines to narrate the news in a professional way in the world digital communication, but mainly in social networks, as many students of journalism try to understand the origins and digital narrative techniques that are being used in the various newspapers online today.El periodismo es una de las profesiones que va cambiando constantemente con las innovaciones tecnológicas que el hombre va desarrollando, cada año nuevas generaciones de estudiantes de esta carrera buscan conocer novedosas formas de difundir la información de manera dinámica e instantánea. Es por eso, que el uso de las redes sociales dentro del periodismo se ha convertido en una herramienta importante para los comunicadores, pero existe un gran desafío, es de cómo debe de redactarse dentro de la comunicación digital y específicamente en las redes sociales. Este artículo tiene como objetivo dar pautas básicas para narrar las noticias de un modo profesional en el mundo de la comunicación digital, pero principalmente en las redes sociales, ya que muchos estudiantes de periodismo tratan de comprender los orígenes y técnicas narrativas digitales que se están utilizando en los distintos periódicos online en la actualidad

Microcrystalline testing used in combination with Raman micro-spectroscopy for absolute identification of novel psychoactive substances

Two new psychoactive substances, namely 4-methylmethcathinone (mephedrone) and 5,6-methylenedioxy-2-aminoindane (MDAI) were analysed with a novel combination of microcrystalline tests followed by Raman micro-spectroscopy to facilitate their absolute identification. The discrimination power of the proposed combination was successfully demonstrated through the analysis of the positional isomers 2- and 3-methylmethcathinone. The addition of mercury dichloride as a microcrystalline test reagent produced specific microcrystals of each tested analyte. The robustness of the method was evaluated in the presence of common cutting agents (caffeine and benzocaine) as well as on street samples. The crystal lattice structures of mephedrone, 2-methylmethcathinone and MDAI mercury dichloride microcrystals were determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction. This confirmed the presence of both drug and reagent together in the lattice and accounts for the distinct habit of the observed microcrystals. Raman spectra of the formed microcrystals differed from those obtained from their standard salt form by loss and/or gain of some vibrational modes. Particularly important was the appearance of the mercury chloride link to each tested drug molecule which showed as strong bands at low wavenumbers. Its presence was corroborated by its detection in the crystal lattice. It was therefore concluded that microcrystalline testing followed by Raman micro-spectroscopy satisfies the technique combination requirement for psychoactive substances recommended by the Scientific Working Group for the Analysis of Seized Drugs (SWGDRUG) and provides a rapid and cheap analysis route. The proposed technique combination also aids the development of new microcrystalline tests as it allows for confirmation of the uniqueness of the developed microcrystals almost in-situ rather than growing single crystals for often long periods of time needed for single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis