9 results match your criteria: "Ecotec University[Affiliation]"
Sci Total Environ
November 2024
Departamento de Procesos Químicos, Biotecnología y Alimentos, Facultad de Ingenierías y Ciencias Aplicadas, Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Portoviejo, Ecuador. Electronic address:
Vet Sci
February 2024
Department of Animal Production, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics, Agrarian University of Ecuador, Guayaquil 090104, Ecuador.
Reproductive physiology is one of the first systems which is altered when an animal suffers from an imbalance. This is crucial in tropical dairy farming, where maintaining homeostasis and production is particularly demanding. Lameness is a disorder commonly identified by impaired walking, but its early diagnosis could reduce the negative repercussions on production, welfare, and postpartum conception.
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February 2024
Departament of Psychology, Ecotec University, Samborondón, Guayas, Ecuador.
Purpose: Informal caregivers constitute a vulnerable population group that has forsaken their activities and life projects with the sole purpose of caring for a dependent individual without receiving any form of compensation in return. Emotionally, this population has been neglected by both the state and family members, exacerbating distress levels among them. The objective is to analyze the impact of emotional coping strategies on the experiences of distress and emotional burden among adult informal caregivers tending to hospitalized individuals.
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December 2022
Department of Education Sciences, Language, Culture and Arts, Rey Juan Carlos University, 28032 Madrid, Spain.
The growing problem of mental health in the university population, as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, has generated the need to consider positive variables to address this situation. Life satisfaction and academic engagement are two constructs that emerge as conceptual tools oriented in this direction. The present study sought to describe the effect of academic engagement on life satisfaction in a sample of Chilean university students.
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December 2022
Didactics and School Organization, Faculty of Education, National Distance Education University (UNED), 28040 Madrid, Spain.
This research analyzes the supervision of non-university virtual training due to the unexpected non-face-to-face teaching scenario caused by COVID-19 with a graphic model using the SULODITOOL instrument. It arises as a research line of the Chair of Education and Emerging Technologies, Gamification and Artificial Intelligence of the Pablo de Olavide University (Seville) and is developed under the auspices of other assessment instruments within the framework of the functions and attributions of the Education Inspectorate of Spain. The aforementioned instrument is made up of 10 weighted supervisory indicators using fuzzy logic.
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July 2022
ESPAE Graduate School of Management, ESPOL Polytechnic University Campus Las Peñas, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
The Asian giant has agitated foreign trade in Latin America due to easy access to this market, tariff policies, and international agreements. In the face of a globalized world, in the last decade fisheries and aquaculture entrepreneurs of Latin American countries have taken on the challenge of getting their products known at International Fisheries and Aquaculture Exhibition fairs in Asian countries, which has generated an increase in the exportation of their products. Fishing and aquaculture exports are a variable of the economy of each country reflected in the gross domestic product and foreign exchange results.
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June 2023
Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Immunology, Central University of Venezuela, Los Chaguaramos 1050-A, Caracas, 50109, Venezuela.
Tumour relapse, chemotherapy resistance, and metastasis continue to be unsolved issues in cancer therapy. A recent approach has been to scrutinise drugs used in the clinic for other illnesses and modify their structure to increase selectivity to cancer cells. Chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), known antimalarials, have successfully treated autoimmune and neoplastic diseases.
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February 2022
Department Agricultural Economics, Finance, and Accounting, University of Cordoba, Córdoba, Spain.
This study investigates the satisfaction and adequacy of citizens through the expected quality and perceived quality in the areas of planning and territorial viability, experience in the provision of municipal services and citizen experience in environmental issues, in order to provide tools for territorial decision making for the citizens' well-being. In our research PLS software is used for the analysis of hypotheses. A questionnaire was delivered to a sample of 521 citizens, representing the spectrum of the population, and the statistical study of the responses yielded results on citizen satisfaction and loyalty.
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December 2020
Management, Economic Applied and Stadistics, Universidad de Córdoba, Avda. de Medina Azahara 5, 14071 Córdoba, Spain.
The aim of this research is to study visitor loyalty at a destination with heritage sites and to use the results to improve the competitiveness of the destination. This study used the SPSS AMOS software with a model of structural equations to evaluate the proposed hypotheses. A questionnaire was given to a sample of 428 tourists who visited the heritage sites in Córdoba.
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