Lazer e consumo na percepção dos estudantes universitários by Márcia Botelho Oliveira, Neuza Maria da Silva, Renato Mareto

“…Data were quantitatively analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences – SPSS, version 17.0, with which we performed exploratory and variance analysis, Cronbach’s Alpha cal- culation, frequency analysis and cross tabulations. …”
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Desplazamiento, trayectorias y poblamiento urbano. El caso de la Comuna 3 Manrique, Medellín, 1970-2010 by Carlos Andrés Aristizábal Botero, Óscar Manuel Cárdenas Avendaño, Claudia Jannet Rengifo González

“…Se recurrió a fuentes de información cualitativas —testimonios y entrevistas— y cuantitativas —caracterizaciones por organizaciones sociales de víctimas, ONG locales, la Unidad de Víctimas y la Universidad de Antioquia— recolectadas entre 2010 y 2015 en el territorio. …”
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Two Portuguese Cochlear Implanted Dizygotic Twins: A Case Report by Joana Rita Chora, Helena Simões-Teixeira, Tiago Daniel Matos, Jorge Humberto Martins, Marisa Alves, Raquel Ferreira, Luís Silva, Carlos Ribeiro, Graça Fialho, Helena Caria

“…Individual’s hearing performance after cochlear implant (CI) is variable and depends on different factors such as etiology of deafness, age at implantation, and social/family hearing environment. Here we report the case of dizygotic twins, boy and girl, presenting with neurosensorial profound deafness prior CI (age of implantation = 3.5 years old). …”
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Par-delà les temps qui courent : comment la pandémie de covid-19 nous invite à refonder notre rapport au temps by Coline Ruwet

“…Time has been widely discussed in the social sciences for decades. It is also at the heart of the institutional definition of “sustainable development”. …”
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Investigating the Challenges and Barriers of Home Businesses from the Perspective of Business Experts and Owners (Case study of rural communities of Isfahan province) by ahmad hajarian, ahmad taghdisi, hamid barghi

“…The first group included experts from the Bureau of Co-operation, Labor and Social Welfare, and the Bureau of Cultural Heritage, Crafts and Tourism, and the second group consisted of home business owners. …”
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La integración regional centroamericana en ciencia, tecnología e innovación: un nuevo desafío by Mónica Casalet Ravenna, Edgar Buenrostro Mercado

“…Para acrecentar la interacción nacional que apoye el desarrollo de un capital social y cognitivo regional en ciencia, tecnología e innovación es fundamental construir una agenda de trabajo conjunta y colaborativa que oriente la creación de instrumentos de financiamiento para nuevas actividades, además de estimular la consolidación de un entorno institucional capaz de fortalecer las capacidades de absorción de conocimientos y la articulación entre la ciencia y el sector productivo regional, para generar un proceso sostenido de innovación.…”
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The Political Economy of Tourism in Brazil (2003-2016): a “Positive” yet still Neoliberal Agenda? by Thiago Duarte Pimentel, Mariana Pereira Chaves Pimentel, Marcela Costa Bifano de Oliveira, Dominic Lapointe

“…These are pre-conditions with which one must contend, even if considering the possibility of reorienting the activity toward a more socially redistributive agenda.…”
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WhatsApp and English Learning: Students’ Perceptions and Challenges in Pandemic Era by Rena Juliana

“…The results showed that students used social media to learn and improve their English skills. …”
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Influential factors in the competitiveness of mature tourism destinations by Margarida Custódio Santos, Ana Maria Ferreira, Carlos Costa

“…The first area concerns the deterioration of the destinations’ infrastructure; the second is related to the destinations’ management, namely the lack of a shared strategic vision among stakeholders; the third area is associated with the loss of economic vitality in the destinations; finally, the fourth area includes the impact of tourism development over the years on the territory, specifically social, environmental and cultural impacts. The results obtained from the empirical study allow us to conclude that the lack of environmental problems, not being overdeveloped in terms of construction and having maintained authenticity are all perceived by tourists as more important for the competitiveness of tourism destinations than factors normally considered more relevant, such as prices and the quality of accommodations.…”
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Marx y la crisis de la sociedad del trabajo. Prólogo by Juan Diego González Rúa

“…El estrepitoso colapso de los socialismos realmente existentes, junto con el fracaso del sistema socialista como organización económico-social hegemónica, fue interpretado por muchos como un signo de la obsolescencia de las ideas marxistas. …”
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Influence of cataract surgery on the psychological well-being of the elderly by Neyda Alina González Pérez, Idania María Otero Ramos, Yusimí Guerra Véliz, Niurka Pérez Vazquez, Yunay Ruiz Hurtado, Keilym Artiles Martínez

“…Cataract surgery, by improving visual acuity, can promote social participation, autonomy and functionality and presumably positively influence the psychological well-being of older adults. …”
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The interrelationship between food security, climate change, and gender-based violence: A scoping review with system dynamics modeling. by Pooja Agrawal, Lori Ann Post, Janis Glover, Denise Hersey, Piya Oberoi, Brian Biroscak

“…Gender-based violence (GBV) is a global public health and human rights problem that is exacerbated by social and environmental stressors for a multitude of interpersonal, cultural, and economic reasons. …”
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Early childhood constraint therapy for sensory/motor impairment in cerebral palsy: a randomised clinical trial protocol by Garey Noritz, Olena Chorna, Jill Heathcock, Alexandra Key, Helen Carey, Ellyn Hamm, Mary Ann Nelin, Micah Murray, Amy Needham, James C Slaughter, Nathalie L Maitre

“…It is a disorder resulting from sensory and motor impairments due to perinatal brain injury, with lifetime consequences that range from poor adaptive and social function to communication and emotional disturbances. …”
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The role and function of the Musi Rawas learning activities center as a non-formal unit by Hartoyo Hartoyo, Sudarwan Danim, Muhammad Kristiawan

“…Several inhibiting factors that occur are a lack of human resources, especially learning tutors, very minimal funding support from the Regional Government, social conditions in the surrounding community that are less supportive and less enthusiastic about the activities being carried out. …”
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Can vulnerability and agency co-existin the presence of violence? by Hanzline R. Davids, Eugene Lee Davids

“…Kate Brown (2015) contours these complexities and richness of vulnerability across five subthemes/subtypes, namely, innate, situational, social disadvantage, universal, and risk vulnerability. …”
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Introduction of smart technologies in event-management: socio-cultural aspect by V. A. Shelginskaya

“…The event industry is currently undergoing a period of active social change and technological innovation driven by the approach of the fourth industrial revolution and the advent of new methods of data processing by artificial intelligence. …”
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Continuum Approximation Model for Transit Service Design with Stochastic Demand by Liang Xia, Haibo Li, Yingfei Fan, Xinguo Jiang

“…Travel demand is commonly predefined as a constant during the planning period in transit service design, but it varies daily with many factors, for example, weather, vacation, and social activity. Under the uncertain demand, the transit system operates in two states, that is, unsaturation and saturation, distinguished by whether or not the capacity of transit vehicle satisfies the possible demand. …”
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Systems Science and Childhood Obesity: A Systematic Review and New Directions by Asheley Cockrell Skinner, E. Michael Foster

“…The 21 included studies addressed four general areas of systems science in obesity: (1) translating interventions to a large scale, (2) the effect of obesity on other health or economic outcomes, (3) the effect of geography on obesity, and (4) the effect of social networks on obesity. In general, little research addresses obesity from a true, integrated systems science perspective, and the available research infrequently focuses on children. …”
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Diseño de espacios educativos significativos para el desarrollo de competencias en la infancia by Yenny Otálora Sevilla

“…Un espacio educativo significativo es un ambiente de aprendizaje que promueve y fortalece el desarrollo de competencias sociales y cognitivas en los niños. Este artículo ofrece elementos conceptuales y metodológicos de la psicología educativa que facilitan el diseño de espacios educativos significativos para el desarrollo de competencias infantiles dentro y fuera del aula. …”
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Preventive activity of police bodies: realities and challenges in the conditions of martial law by A. O. Ivanov

“…In particular, these are changes in the trends and structure of illegal activity in the country; the growth of migration flows, both of an internal and external nature; increase in the number of firearms in civilian circulation; activation of social movement; the need for the police to perform a number of previously uncharacteristic tasks, etc. …”
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