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Mediterranean bioconstructions along the Italian coast
2018
Marine bioconstructions are biodiversity-rich, three-dimensional biogenic structures, regulating key ecological functions of benthic ecosystems worldwide. Tropical coral reefs are outstanding for their beauty, diversity and complexity, but analogous types of bioconstructions are also present in temperate seas. The main bioconstructions in the Mediterranean Sea are represented by coralligenous formations, vermetid reefs, deep-sea cold-water corals, Lithophyllum byssoides trottoirs, coral banks formed by the shallow-water corals Cladocora caespitosa or Astroides calycularis, and sabellariid or serpulid worm reefs. Bioconstructions change the morphological and chemicophysical features of prima…
Mediterranean rocky reefs in the Anthropocene: Present status and future concerns
2021
Global change is striking harder and faster in the Mediterranean Sea than elsewhere, where high levels of human pressure and proneness to climate change interact in modifying the structure and disrupting regulative mechanisms of marine ecosystems. Rocky reefs are particularly exposed to such environmental changes with ongoing trends of degradation being impressive. Due to the variety of habitat types and associated marine biodiversity, rocky reefs are critical for the functioning of marine ecosystems, and their decline could profoundly affect the provision of essential goods and services which human populations in coastal areas rely upon. Here, we provide an up-to-date overview of the statu…
Estudio de la Gestión de la Seguridad y Salud en el sector construcción valenciano
2015
[EN] Construction is a sector with a high accident rate due to its own characteristics (high component of labor and develops outdoor) and its organizational characteristics as working patterns, methods of implementation and higher outsourcing. Management of Health and Safety is a determining factor in obtaining best execution of work and lower rates of accidents. This paper presents a study of the current level of Health and Safety Management in the construction sector in Valencia (Spain) from a survey of a group of technicians with experience in the sector. The main results are the size of the company is an important key to health and safety, both in terms of training as in the management …
Characterization of the LGBTI-speaking community discourse. An approach to Hispanic queer linguistics.
2020
Toda subcultura forma una comunidad lingüística particular en la que, aunque se comparta la lengua con el resto de la sociedad, varía el habla en ciertos aspectos. Es el caso de la comunidad de habla LGTBI, que se hace servir de un léxico peculiar, así como una fraseología característica, unas estructuras gramaticales especiales y, en definitiva, unos recursos pragmáticos muy llamativos que tienen como objetivo mitigar ciertos enunciados, intensificar otros en determinados contextos y construir actos de habla afiliativos que expresen solidaridad social. Por otro lado, cumple una función muy importante en la construcción identitaria de sus usuarios. En este trabajo se propone un análisis pra…
Colegialidad docente: validación lógica del instrumento para autoevaluación docente en España y México
2018
Se describe el proceso de diseño y validación del instrumento de evaluación de la colegialidad docente en su fase de validación lógica (validación de constructo) mediante el juicio de expertos a través de una metodología mixta (cuantitativa y cualitativa). El instrumento, que forma parte del modelo de evaluación para la cohesión social (Jornet, 2012), ha sido diseñado y validado en España, y posteriormente se llevó a cabo el proceso de adaptación en México. Los resultados muestran diferencias significativas entre las valoraciones de expertos de ambos contextos y ponen de manifiesto divergencias en cuanto a la organización de los sistemas educativos, lo que ayuda a definir el instrumento par…
Validación de una medida de Clima de Servicio en las organizaciones
2012
Service climate is critical for organizations pertaining to the service sector. It reflects the importance organizations attribute to service quality and efforts to please customers. Using previous work of Schneider, White, and Paul (1998) as starting point, this research validates a measure of service climate in the Spanish language. Data from two survey study projects were brought together. A total of 120 hotels, located in Spain, participated in the research. The sample consisted of 508 frontline hotel employees distributed in 152 work-units. Our results confirmed that construct and predictive validity are satisfactory, with four factors describing the facets of service climate: Global S…
Language Planning in Latvia as a Struggle for National Sovereignty
2018
Focuses in particular on the language policies of the Second Independence period, directed at ensuring the Latvian language the status of sole official language of the country. The chapter also examines the Russian-Latvian ethno-linguistic ‘cleavage’ in the context of the new language policies.
La lengua materna y la traducción en el aula de lenguas extranjeras: ¿dos recursos perjudiciales?
2020
Mother tongue (MT) and translation have been two undervalued resources in foreign language (FL) classrooms since the rise of monolingual methods. However, already in the 21st century, the Council of Europe promotes the adoption of plural approaches to language teaching (see Candelier et al., 2013), in which the teacher may work with the entire linguistic repertoire found within the classroom, including the MT. Therefore, our aim in this article is to review and reassess the criticisms that claim that MT and translation slow down the learning of the new language with the aim of moving away from this position and defending the importance of these two resources in today’s classrooms, in which …
Lazos entre lingüística e ideología desde un enfoque historiográfico (ss. XVI-XX)
2020
Los 17 trabajos reunidos en este volumen estudian, desde una óptica historiográfica, la manifestación explícita y/o implícita de ideologías en textos de carácter metalingüístico. Tomando como eje las relaciones entre lingüística e ideología y su proyección en el ámbito social, político o didáctico, se analiza aquí el contenido de obras gramaticales, lexicográficas y ortográficas, historias de lenguas, artículos periodísticos, discursos, manifiestos y otros escritos publicados en la horquilla comprendida entre los siglos XVI y XX. Aunque el grueso de los trabajos se articula en torno a textos sobre el español tanto en su variedad europea como americana, también se da aquí cabida a contribuci…
Foreign Language Teacher Burnout: A Research Proposal
2011
Burnout is a serious psychological syndrome that can affect not only an individual’s well-being, but also the functioning of whole organisations, such as schools. It consists of three basic stages: exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment. Not only personal variables, but also work-setting characteristics influence burnout. The teaching profession is claimed to be extremely demanding, hence teachers seem to be prone to burnout. This may be the reason why the syndrome has already been investigated in reference to teachers of various subjects or school levels. Yet, there has been no research to date attempting to investigate burnout in foreign language teachers. It m…