This article reports the results of a longitudinal research carried out in 2015 on a population of sixth grade students, with the objective of proving that the reading method used to learn to read does not guarantee better reading comprehension on the future, because reading comprehension requires different processes than those involved in decoding. For this study, 189 students...
INTRODUCTION. Increase infantilism, treating adults as children may sound inaccurate, but apparently the current social system in Ecuador privileges dependence and has been transferred processes from basic education to higher educational environments. This leads to the idea that there is currently infantilization of the university student, understood as a state of dependence and...
INTRODUCTION. In the current study, we looked for evidence that allowed us to extend to the Ecuadorian environment and the Latin American context, the findings of international research on the use of the Attachment Q-set (AQS) in the evaluation of the attachment behavior of preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder (AQS). OBJECTIVE. The aim of this study was to explore the...
INTRODUCTION. This paper presents an approximate approach to the current impact of the complexity and systems sciences through the analysis of some indicators of their written scientific production. OBJECTIVE. Specify what are the sciences of complexity and systems, and perform the analysis of their current impact through different methods and techniques to visualize their...
Innovation is a strategy that promotes business development, contributes to improving levels of productivity; however, the effectiveness of this depends on the chain of different factors, depending on the capabilities and characteristics of organizations INTRODUCTION. Is fundamental to analyze the influence of the organizational culture in promoting or repressing business...
INTRODUCTION. The selection of materials is an important stage in the design and development of products, through the use of multi-criteria methods, it is possible to establish a reliable selection methodology, converging in a unique and reliable solution. OBJETIVE. To apply multi-criteria methods for the selection of the structural side part of a vehicle, to obtain greater...
INTRODUCTION. Internal organizational communication is a key process within companies because it facilitates the achievement of strategic objectives, however, in practice this system is managed in an empirical way, which is detrimental to other organizational processes. OBJECTIVE. To determine the situation of internal organizational communication in productive sector...
INTRODUCTION. A computational method is developed for the dynamic simulation of the pedestrian protection system and material change analysis, in order to reduce costs in tests that commonly require destructive tests and that hinder the process of prototyping in the face of the need to increase the number of pieces manufactured in Ecuador. OBJECTIVE. Validate a computational...
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INTRODUCTION. The organizations constitute an integrated socio-technical system within a socioeconomic and political context, the analysis of their interaction in a period of time is the proposal of this article for an intense dynamic industry in the last years of operation. OBJECTIVE. Determine specific analytic dimensions for a company in the energy sector in Ecuador during a...
The purpose of this study is to establish the relationship between the use of internet for entertainment and the use of internet for school education learning. It corresponds to a non-experimental quantitative research, transsectional temporality and descriptive scope. A survey was applied to eight grade students of General Basic Education and second year students of high school...
This article presents an algorithm for regions of interest generation with high potential to contain a pedestrians over monocular images. The generation of these regions has been built using an algorithm to generate search hyperplanes in function of the road-surface together with the generation of random windows on this area plus a variation of the pyramidal sliding window...
INTRODUCTION. The reinforcement of resins with natural fibers is used worldwide and due to the biodiversity of Ecuador it’s natural origin fibers would suppose a contribution to the manufacture of parts as composite materials. OBJECTIVE. Characterize the mocora fiber as reinforcement of unsaturated polyester resin, determine the properties of the material and find the viability...
This article is the result of the Graduation Seminar for a degree in Special Education with an emphasis in Visual Disability from the University of Costa Rica, which primarily objective was to analyze if the teaching methodology to read Braille, used by the itinerant educators of visual disability, adjusts to the dual-route approach of visual word recognition. A qualitative...
INTRODUCTION, bullying is a problem that is producing considerable consequences for the educational community, families and society, it is important to identify the perception by students of the presence in their educational contexts of situations of violence. OBJECTIVE. Determine indicators of school bullying in educational institutions. METHOD. To measure School Bullying, the...
The university, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, is a recognized university in Ecuador for its ability to generate science and technology, which is consistent with the national objectives of migrating towards a knowledge economy. However, the creation of knowledge is an incomplete process if it is not transmitted to their peers or serves as a contribution to a society problem. The...
INTRODUCTION. This article analyzes the bonds of insecure attachment with parents and/or primary caregivers and childhood trauma experiences, as factors that increase the risk of suicidal behavior in adolescents. OBJECTIVE. The objective was to explore the relationship of early experiences of insecure attachment and childhood trauma, with the behavior of suicidal risk in a group...
INTRODUCTION. Health workers throughout their full working day are exposed to different risks. This study focuses on in-itinere accidents, related especially to night shifts and extended working hours; as well as an increase in traffic accidents, its consequences and the public health problem that this represents. OBJECTIVE. To determine the risk of in itínere accidents in...
INTRODUCTION The need to tackle the challenges of population aging is a task that requires the implementation of innovations and adaptations for specific populations in the contexts in which the elderly live. This paper attempts to respond to the particular needs of the elderly in rural areas in residential areas. OBJECTIVE To test the efficiency of an active aging program that...
Women entrepreneurship has gained relevance to the academic and scientific community for a little more than 30 years, however most studies cover internal aspects of entrepreneurial intention, such as tastes, perceptions and what happens in the mind of the enterprising or the entrepreneur. INTRODUCTION. This is why it is important to know what happens with the environment, how the...
INTRODUCTION. The application of technology in business management has become a determining factor for businesses to be effective, efficient, innovative and competitive. OBJECTIVE. This study demonstrates the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in medium-sized enterprises (MEs) in the commercial sector of Quito that belong to the classifier G according to the...
INTRODUCTION. Innovation is fundamental for organizational growth and differentiation; however, its effectiveness derives from the existence of a culture of innovation, where individual characteristics play a fundamental role OBJECTIVE. The present study aims to identify the differences in the perceptions of workers of an organization according to the relationship between the...