Mentoring in the acquisition of professional skills through practices in companies by degree students

Abstract This work has had as objective to analyze the skills acquired through internships in business companies by students of the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University Pompeu Fabra. The internship is a basic item in order to obtain a hard connection between the University and social-economic world where University and Enterprises develop their activity. In this study we want to know about two aspects. The first one, we want to know the profit that is obtained from the Student as a consequence of internship and mentoring. Also, we want to study about the importance of mentoring as a principal element that establishes the relationship between the Student and the Company. Moreover, it has sought to analyze if certain factors such as the size of the company where the practices has been performed, the study rank level that was achieved or the fact of being a man or a woman, were among the determining factors at the time of acquiring the skills. The results presented here indicate that the size of the company that have been making the practices and the gender of the student are related to the acquisition of certain skills. There was not a statistically significant relationship related to the rank level have by the students in the practice. In the future we are going to study if the labor market Integration is easier if the Student has performed work placement. Keywords Skills; employability; internship; meatoring.

Experimental implementation of tightly focused beams with unpolarized transversal component at any plane

The aim of this paper is to provide a formal framework for designing highly focused fields with specific transversal features when the incoming beam is partially polarized. More specifically, we develop a field with a transversal component that remains unpolarized in the focal area. Moreover, its longitudinal component exhibits non-zero values on axis. Special attention is paid to the design of the input beam and the development of the experiment. The implementation of such fields is possible by using an interferometric setup combined with the use of digital holography techniques. Experimental results are compared with those obtained numerically.

La comunicolog��a y el estudio transversal del paisaje. Articulaciones conceptuales y propuesta de indicadores comunicativos para la evaluaci��n de los paisajes

La gesti��n y evaluaci��n del paisaje exige la necesaria convergencia de disciplinas en aras de delimitar los valores que la propia sociedad otorga al paisaje. El establecimiento de metodolog��as de an��lisis de tipo cualitativo parece satisfacer, en la mayor��a de los casos, las necesidades de la comunidad cient��fica en relaci��n con la catalogaci��n del paisaje. Las dificultades surgen cuando lo que pretende es clasificar el paisaje a partir de indicadores m��s de tipo cualitativo, lo que implica, sin lugar a dudas, la b��squeda de disciplinas que aporten m��s luz al ya de por s�� complejo estudio de los denominados como valores intangibles del paisaje. La Comunicolog��a representa, en este sentido, un aporte disciplinario novedoso, sobre todo en el sentido de intentar habilitar un lenguaje del paisaje, a partir del cual fijar los cimientos de su interpretaci��n simb��lica e identitaria. As��, las contribuciones te��ricas del interaccionismo simb��lico, de la ecolog��a humana, de la psicolog��a cognitiva o de la semi��tica visual, entre otras, permiten vislumbrar las posibilidades de estudio del paisaje desde un punto de vista comunicol��gico. En este ensayo se sit��an los indicadores de evaluaci��n de los paisajes en la ��rbita de la aportaci��n disciplinar de la Comunicolog��a. De ah�� se abre un horizonte de posibilidades infinitas para el que se podr��a denominar como ���abordaje comunicol��gico del paisaje���, con especiales sinergias en la concepci��n del paisaje como elemento activo de comunicaci��n.

Music-supported training is more efficient than functional motor training for recovery of fine motor skills in stroke patients

MOTOR IMPAIRMENTS ARE COMMON AFTER STROKE but efficacious therapies for these dysfunctions are scarce. Extending an earlier study on the effects of music-supported training (MST), behavioral indices of motor function were obtained before and after a series of training sessions to assess whether this new treatment leads to improved motor functions. Furthermore, music-supported training was contrasted to functional motor training according to the principles of constraint-induced therapy (CIT). In addition to conventional physiotherapy, 32 stroke patients with moderately impaired motor function and no previous musical experience received 15 sessions of MST over a period of three weeks, using a manualized, step-bystep approach. A control group consisting of 15 patients received 15 sessions of CIT in addition to conventional physiotherapy. A third group of 30 patients received exclusively conventional physiotherapy and served as a control group for the other three groups. Fine as well as gross motor skills were trained by using either a MIDI-piano or electronic drum pads programmed to emit piano tones. Motor functions were assessed by an extensive test battery. MST yielded significant improvement in fine as well as gross motor skills with respect to speed, precision, and smoothness of movements. These improvements were greater than after CIT or conventional physiotherapy. In conclusion, with equal treatment intensity, MST leads to more pronounced improvements of motor functions after stroke than CIT.

Un estudio transversal sobre la percepci��n de la vitalidad etnoling����stica en j��venes y adultos de Catalunya = A cross-sectional study on ethnolinguistic vitality perception in young and adulthood people from Catalonia

El estudio utiliza un dise��o transversal en el campo de la percepci��n de la vitalidad etnoling����stica. Es el primero que compara la percepci��n de la vitalidad etnoling����stica, as�� como los factores asociados, entre adultos j��venes y adultos, en relaci��n con los grupos castellanohablantes y catalanohablantes de la Comunidad Aut��noma de Catalu��a. Para ello, se aplic�� el 'Cuestionario de vitalidad etnoling����stica subjetiva' (CVS) a una muestra de 527 participantes, 268 j��venes y 259 adultos, de los cuales se seleccion�� una submuestra de individuos que ten��an el catal��n como lengua materna y se identificaban como catalanes (n=301). En ambas muestras se aduce una tendencia a descriminar favorablemente la vitalidad percibida por el grupo catal��n, aspecto que se acent��a significativa en el grupo de j��venes estudiados en relaci��n al grupo de edad de los adultos. Se discuten los resultados seg��n las repercusiones te��ricas y pragm��ticas de los estudios realizados en el ��mbito de la comunicaci��n intergrupal

Habilitats comunicatives per a l���aprenentatge en l���entorn virtual = Communicative skills for learning in a virtual environment

The virtual learning environments are an option in permanent training with great possibilities for adults who look for studies that are compatible with their jobs and with their family life. So as to participate in determined learning as much in attitudes as knowledge and skills. The article is dedicated to analysing the necessary linguistic habits for moving within an environment of this type and offers didactic proposals that can facilitate the active participation in a virtual course and widen the perspectives of the control of new channels of communication with objectives that are different to learning

Las habilidades motrices b��sicas en educaci��n primaria: aspectos de su desarrollo = Key motor skills in primary education: developmental aspects

The physical education curriculum stresses the importance of improving students��� key motor skills. This idea agrees with the contributions of research into motor development concerning the important role these skills play in child development. In order to facilitate this improvement is essential to know the different basic aspects of how these key motor skills evolve as well as the essential factors related to the characteristics and conditions of educational practice