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Efficiency and productivity gains of robotic surgery: The case of the English National Health Service

Health Economics, Volume 33, Issue 8, Page 1831-1856, August 2024.
Abstract This paper examines the effect of new medical technology (robotic surgery) on efficiency gains and productivity changes for surgical treatment in patients with prostate cancer from the perspective of a public health sector organization. In particular, we consider three interrelated surgical technologies within the English National Health ...
Laia Maynou, Alistair McGuire, Victoria Serra‐Sastre   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impacto de calidad de vida en trabajadores del sector privado ecuatoriano: ley humanitaria 2020

Ágora de Heterodoxias
Esta investigación surge de la situación que vivió el Ecuador por el ovid-19 en el año 2020, en la cual el gobierno implementó la Ley Orgánica de Apoyo Humanitaria.
Karina Vallejo León, Roberto López Chila, Lizbeth Flores Bastidas   +2 more
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The new Spanish far‐right movement: Crisis, national priority and ultranationalist charity

Nations and Nationalism, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 476-492, July 2024.
Abstract During the Great Recession, a group of identitarian nativist associations emerged in Spain, which, over time, gave shape to a new social movement: the Cultural Associations of National Aid (Asociaciones Culturales de Ayuda Nacional). Based on a digital ethnography and critical discursive analysis, this paper aims to examine their worldview and
Francisco Jiménez Aguilar, Antonio Álvarez‐Benavides   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

El tiempo de trabajo de las cuidadoras inmigrantes de personas mayores

Alternativas, 2010
Este artículo realiza una aproximación a las condiciones laborales de las trabajadoras inmigrantes que cuidan personas mayores en su domicilio, a través de su dimensión temporal: tiempo de trabajo y horarios.
Martín Coppola, Eva, Rogero García, Jesús   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

A comparison and development of methods for estimating shrub volume using drone‐imagery‐derived point clouds

Ecosphere, Volume 15, Issue 5, May 2024.
Abstract Shrub volume is used to calculate numerous, essential ecological indicators in rangeland ecosystems such as biomass, fuel loading, wildlife habitat, site productivity, and ecosystem structure. Field techniques for biomass estimation, including destructive sampling, ocular estimates, and allometric techniques, use shrub height and canopy widths
Georgia R. Harrison, Abhinav Shrestha, Eva K. Strand, Jason W. Karl   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Expanding the Spatial Reach and Human Impacts of Critical Zone Science

Earth's Future, Volume 12, Issue 3, March 2024.
Abstract Two major barriers hinder the holistic understanding of subsurface critical zone (CZ) evolution and its impacts: (a) an inability to measure, define, and share information and (b) a societal structure that inhibits inclusivity and creativity. In contrast to the aboveground portion of the CZ, which is visible and measurable, the bottom boundary
Kamini Singha, Pamela L. Sullivan, Sharon A. Billings, Leon Walls, Li Li, Karla M. Jarecke, Holly R. Barnard, Nicole M. Gasparini, Risa D. Madoff, Saroj Dhital, Candace Jones, Eric C. Kastelic, Lin Ma, Paula Perilla‐Castillo, Boyoung Song, Tieyuan Zhu   +15 more
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Jornadas laborales y apoyo educativo limitado en representantes de los estudiantes de Sexto Grado

Ciencia y Educación
El objetivo del estudio fue determinar la relación entre las jornadas laborales de los representantes y el apoyo educativo limitado en los estudiantes de sexto grado de la Unidad Educativa Vesta Cevallos, del cantón Bolívar, durante el año 2026.
Karla Nathaly Cañar Tayupanda, Gema Quinche Flores Navarrete, María Elizabeth Guanga Guanga, Milton Alfonso Criollo Turusina   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Vicisitudes del nuevo derecho a la desconexión digital

Saber, Ciencia y Libertad, 2017
Las transformaciones que la tecnología ha creado en las relaciones de trabajo actuales superan el grado de modernización normativa que los pensadores del derecho laboral presentan.
Luz Dary Naranjo Colorado
doaj   +1 more source

Failing kidneys: Hotspots, blind spots and biopolitics of indifference

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 24-39, March 2024.
Abstract Chronic kidney disease of non‐traditional cause (CKDnt) is commonly associated with monocropping agriculture, heat stress and impoverished working conditions, referred to as CKDnt “hotspots.” The condition is also emerging in various sites of environmental contamination, raising questions as to whether multiple variants of the condition exist ...
Ciara Kierans, César Padilla‐Altamira
wiley   +1 more source

Condiciones laborales e indicadores de salud mental en profesionales de la medicina y enfermería en Chile durante la pandemia por COVID-19

Enfermería Global
Antecedentes: La salud mental del personal sanitario fue afectada por la pandemia de SARS-CoV-2 y sus consecuencias asociadas, entre ellas, el cambio en las condiciones laborales.
Paula Peña-Roa, Sandra Venegas González, Margarita Cancino, Oscar Terán-Mendoza   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source