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From Analysis to Formulation of Strategies for Farm Advisory Services (Case Study: Valencia – Spain). an Application through Swot and Qspm Matrix
2019
Abstract European agriculture should meet new increasing internal and contextual challenges. For example, the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy in 2003 introduced the cross-compliance, among other novelties, as compulsory for farmers. To better meet this and other requirements, Member States had to set up the so-called Farm Advisory System, operational across the European Union in 2007. From a sample of actors involved in the provision of farm advisory services in the region of Valencia (Spain), the present study aimed to identify the most appropriate strategies to implement such services. SWOT method has been applied to examine the internal and external environment. Based on this di…
Resilience and the Aging Process: Assessment Tools and Needs
2015
Abstract Successful resilience is a variable often related to an optimal aging process and that might have a role on education. However, literature is rather limited when dealing with assessment instruments for the elderly in the Spanish language. The objective of this work is to examine the Brief Resilient Coping Scale (Sinclair &Wallston, 2004), a four item likert scale, in the Spanish elderly. This scale was administrated to a sample of 920 elderly Spanish participants, and the data set analysed in terms of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis and internal consistency. The scale demonstrated good psychometric properties. Furthermore, the homogeneity indices were higher than in th…
Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic shoulder and elbow score in Finnish-speaking overhead athletes
2022
Background The Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic Shoulder and Elbow score (KJOC) is developed to evaluate the shoulder and elbow function in overhead athletes. To date, the score has not been adapted into Finnish language. The aim of this study was to perform a cross-cultural adaptation of the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic Shoulder and Elbow score (KJOC) into Finnish language and evaluate its validity, reliability, and responsiveness in overhead athletes. Methods Forward–backward translation method was followed in the cross-cultural adaptation process. Subsequently, 114 overhead athletes (52 males, 62 females, mean age 18.1 ± 2.8 years) completed the Finnish version of KJOC score, Disabilitie…
Revista complutense de educación
2020
Este artículo se encuentra disponible en la siguiente URL: https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RCED/article/view/63205/4564456553652 Introducción. Las normas legales se fundamentan en unos principios y valores que las instituciones escolares asumen y expresan en las diferentes dimensiones de su planificación y, sobre todo, en su acción. En aras de hallar los valores comunes que se supone impregnan los hechos educativos de cualquier escuela española, nos hemos decantado por realizar un estudio axiológico del currículo básico, que es el texto legal que orienta los desarrollos curriculares autonómicos y, en última instancia, de cada centro y equipo docente. Presentamos un estudio axiológico del …
Early Immersion in Minority Language Contexts: Canada and Finland
2020
This chapter discusses early immersion in a minority language in two bilingual countries, Canada and Finland. In Canada, immersion in the minority language, French, has been implemented since the mid-1960s and Finland introduced immersion in Swedish in the mid-1980s. As the core features of immersion education evolve in tandem with second language education theorizing (particularly as it relates to the interdependence and hybridity between and within languages), so too does the need to revisit the relevance of these core features across different contexts. In this vein, this chapter compares how changing socio-political realities in the two contexts have influenced program development in re…
Children’s strategic participation in a bilingual Early Childhood Education and Care Centre
2020
This article considers children’s language learning experiences at an early childhood education and care centre (ECEC) in Central Finland. The article draws on data gathered as part of a Master’s thesis study (Holmila, 2019) which looked at the perspectives of staff, parents and children regarding the use of English as part of the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) methodology at the ECEC, with a view to future developments of CLIL provision. This article considers what can be learned from the children’s perspectives. Following a brief overview of the advantages of bilingual educational programmes and the educational context for this study, the main section of this article focu…
Parental Perceptions of the Ideal Foreign Language Teacher : Voices from Eight Countries
2020
Early language education has become a global trend as parents from around the world increasingly enroll their children in language classes at preschool or pre-preschool ages. The younger the FL learners are, the greater the parents’ role in their children’s learning process – and the more they may be motivated to be involved in their children’s schoolwork, learning aims, and the way they are being instructed. But what do they want from FL teachers when their children are just beginning their language studies? This topic brought together 14 students from different parts of the world. Students from Canada, China, Colombia, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, and Vietnam enrolled in the…
Estudio de variación en el uso de atenuación II: Microanálisis de secuencias discursivas, actos de habla y recursos atenuantes
2020
Resumen El estudio de la atenuación pragmática ha sido priorizado en los últimos años, especialmente en las disciplinas que trabajan con el habla, como el análisis del discurso y de la conversación. Sin embargo, la variabilidad sociopragmática y geolectal en usos y recursos de atenuación, al menos para el caso del español, apenas se ha abordado. A ello se dedica el presente trabajo, que se complementa con la investigación presentada en el artículo de Cestero y Albelda (2020); así se pretende dar cuenta del estado actual de la investigación variacionista sobre la estrategia atenuadora, especialmente desarrollada en el marco del Proyecto para el estudio sociolingüístico del español de España …
Estudio de variación en el uso de atenuación I: Hacia una descripción de patrones dialectales y sociolectales de la atenuación en español
2020
Resumen La atenuación es un fenómeno pragmático de gran complejidad que se ha convertido en objeto de estudio priorizado en las últimas décadas, en las que se ha abordado, especialmente, desde disciplinas que trabajan con el habla, como la pragmática y el análisis del discurso. Uno de los aspectos menos trabajado en relación con las estrategias de atenuación en español, no obstante, es la variabilidad sociopragmática y geolectal en usos y recursos de atenuación. Este último es el cometido fundamental de este trabajo -que se complementa con la investigación presentada en el artículo de Albelda y Cestero (en este mismo volumen, 2020)-, en el que se pretende dar cuenta del estado actual de la …
Inferring Phytoplankton, Terrestrial Plant and Bacteria Bulk δ¹³C Values from Compound Specific Analyses of Lipids and Fatty Acids.
2015
Stable isotope mixing models in aquatic ecology require δ13C values for food web end members such as phytoplankton and bacteria, however it is rarely possible to measure these directly. Hence there is a critical need for improved methods for estimating the δ13C ratios of phytoplankton, bacteria and terrestrial detritus from within mixed seston. We determined the δ13C values of lipids, phospholipids and biomarker fatty acids and used these to calculate isotopic differences compared to the whole-cell δ13C values for eight phytoplankton classes, five bacterial taxa, and three types of terrestrial organic matter (two trees and one grass). The lipid content was higher amongst the phytoplankton (…