Search results for "context"
showing 10 items of 6304 documents
Social Sustainability on Competitiveness in the Tourism Industry: Toward New Approach?
2020
The achievements made over the years of policies seeking to stimulate tourism demand have led to a great increase in the number of tourists arriving in many destinations. Some destinations have begun to suffer problems derived from the success of policies focused solely on increasing the number of arrivals. The objective of this work is to analyze the role of social sustainability in the analysis of tourism competitiveness. Methodologically, this study has been developed from the analysis of papers published in journals indexed in the Journal Citations Reports and Scopus. This has been complemented with information extracted from a number of well-known studies regarding tourism competitiven…
Fabry Disease With Concomitant Lewy Body Disease
2019
AbstractAlthough Gaucher disease can be accompanied by Lewy pathology (LP) and extrapyramidal symptoms, it is unknown if LP exists in Fabry disease (FD), another progressive multisystem lysosomal storage disorder. We aimed to elucidate the distribution patterns of FD-related inclusions and LP in the brain of a 58-year-old cognitively unimpaired male FD patient suffering from predominant hypokinesia. Immunohistochemistry (CD77, α-synuclein, collagen IV) and neuropathological staging were performed on 100-µm sections. Tissue from the enteric or peripheral nervous system was unavailable. As controls, a second cognitively unimpaired 50-year-old male FD patient without LP or motor symptoms and 3…
"Boire un verre dans un bar...!" - Modulation de l'expérience d'un produit par le contexte. Apport de l'immersion à l'étude des influences contextuel…
2013
The overall aim of the present thesis is to study contextual influences on food behaviour (including variables coming from the environment and from the consumer). To this purpose, an immersive method using a space with physical elements was used, in order to evoke a realistic situation within a laboratory setting. Here, the method consisted in designing an immersive bar evoking the situation of “having a drink in a bar”. Two variants of the bar were created and five studies were implemented in these spaces to study how context influences food choices and evaluation. Our approach consisted in taking the product as central in the link between the consumer and the environment and not as a cont…
Journalistic construction of Science through the Mass Media: Towards a taxonomy of the broadcast of Scientific knowledge
2011
Scientific facts are broadcasted through the media are part of the cultural heri-tage of this Society. In Spain, the presence of scientific content in audiovisual media is scarce. By the way, on press, are more elaborate, and the tendency is to give more coverage to scientific news, for reasons we’ll argüe throughout this paper. It’s important fact to assess the construction process of science journalism media and the process of recontextualization of speech, once stories will be moved from the scientific press to the media. In this article we propose a taxonomy of forms of broadcast scientific facts through the media. After analyzing television news stories for a decade, the classification…
Using Contextual Action Theory for conceptualization and research on adolescent development
2019
Recently, scholars’ calls for psychology to move beyond traditional ways of conceptualizing and researching human behaviour have increased. Contextual Action Theory (CAT) is a conceptual, methodological, and practical framework that is consistent with these calls. In CAT action is conceptualized as a complex, dynamic, and multidimensional system that can be comprehended from multiple levels of organization and from multiple perspectives. The Action-Project Method (A-PM) is the research method that emerged from CAT. It is a qualitative, naturalistic, process-oriented, longitudinal methodology that has been used to study joint, goal-directed actions and projects. The focus of data gathering a…
La description du conditionnel français dans quatre grammaires finlandaises
2016
The present study aimed to explore whether the French grammar books produced in Finland between 1990 and 2015 show signs of contextualization in their description of the French conditional form. The research plan for the present study was inspired by the one used by the research program GRAC (Grammaire et contextualisation) that aims to discover the varieties of descriptions of the French grammar in different countries. Contextualization is understood as differences in relation to the standard French description of the French lan-guage. The grammar books studied in the present study are all in Finnish and are used by Finnish students learning French. Therefore it is expected that the common…
Development and Preliminary Validation of Social Media as an Educational and Professional Tool Student Perceptions Scale (SMEPT-SPS)
2021
Although social media has an increasing presence both in university and sports settings, in the sports-management education context, no instruments (without being focused on one particular social-media platform, e.g., Facebook and Twitter) have been developed and validated that globally allow the academy to explore the perceptions of sports-management students concerning the educational and professional learning potential that these tools offer. Therefore, this research’s main objective is to develop and perform a preliminary validation of the social media as an educational and professional tool student perceptions scale (SMEPT-SPS). This study sample was composed of 90 Spanish undergraduat…
Tissue‐dependent differences in Bardet–Biedl syndrome gene expression
2019
BACKGROUND INFORMATION Primary cilia are highly conserved multifunctional cell organelles that extend from the cell membrane. A range of genetic disorders, collectively termed ciliopathies, is attributed to primary cilia dysfunction. The archetypical ciliopathy is the Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS), patients of which display virtually all symptoms associated with dysfunctional cilia. The primary cilium acts as a sensory organelle transmitting intra- and extracellular signals thereby transducing various signalling pathways facilitated by the BBS proteins. Growing evidence suggests that cilia proteins also have alternative functions in ciliary independent mechanisms, which might be contributing …
Huntingtin controls neurotrophic support and survival of neurons by enhancing BDNF vesicular transport along microtubules.
2004
AbstractPolyglutamine expansion (polyQ) in the protein huntingtin is pathogenic and responsible for the neuronal toxicity associated with Huntington's disease (HD). Although wild-type huntingtin possesses antiapoptotic properties, the relationship between the neuroprotective functions of huntingtin and pathogenesis of HD remains unclear. Here, we show that huntingtin specifically enhances vesicular transport of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) along microtubules. Huntingtin-mediated transport involves huntingtin-associated protein-1 (HAP1) and the p150Glued subunit of dynactin, an essential component of molecular motors. BDNF transport is attenuated both in the disease context and b…
Las actitudes, conocimientos y prácticas de los docentes de la ciudad de Esmeraldas (Ecuador) ante la educación inclusiva : un estudio exploratorio
2014
El estudio es de carácter exploratorio-descriptivo cuyo objetivo general es conocer las actitudes, conocimientos y las prácticas de los docentes de la Ciudad de Esmeraldas (Ecuador) ante la educación inclusiva. Además, se añaden como escalas secundarias, el contexto escolar y social. El instrumento de recogida de datos es un cuestionario de elaboración propia. Se ha realizado un estudio sobre las propiedades métricas del instrumento, un análisis de los descriptivos de los ítems respecto a las 5 escalas estudiadas en el cuestionario, un estudio diferencial univariado y multivariado. Finalmente, se valoran positivamente tanto las actitudes como las prácticas de estos docentes, obteniendo en l…