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This paper compares and analyzes the questions and problems of Genetics raised between 2010 and 2019) in the university entrance exams of four autonomous communities (Andalucia, Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura and Murcia). After analyzing the 160 tests collected, it is found that there are differences between the communities both in the structure of the tests, the presence or not of certain contents and their evaluations in the correction. In relation to Genetics problems, differences between communities are also appreciated and certain aspects that can be improved from the didactic point of view are maintained. The need to modify the entrance exams is raised according to the desirable equity of the same. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to study how the students of Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO) valued the reliability of the information contained in the Internet to carry out a task in a science class. To do this, 156 students from this educational stage, from 3rd and 4th of ESO, from four institutes in the municipality of Murcia took part in the study. We set them a task: they had to answer some questions about "acid rain" and they could use two web pages that the participants could independently select. Once the activity has been carried out, we ask them some questions about the pages used, the credibility of the content found and the reasons or criteria used to grant it such reliability. In addition, we study the dependence of the reliability with some social variables (age, gender, center) and the relationship between the reliability granted and the efficiency in the search for information. e results show contributions to better understand digital competence developed by the particpants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of a comparative study that seeks to identify conceptions of the importance of four types of formal content in history teaching (periods of history, cross-cutting themes in history, history of places, and national historical processes) among a group of Colombian (M = 764) and Spanish (N = 648) students in the last year of compulsory education in the cities of Bogotá and Murcia, respectively. A descriptive approach was followed based on a closed-ended questionnaire relating to historical consciousness, with item responses measured on a Likert scale. The results support the idea that the interest shown by students in the formal content proposed is an indicator that calls for a critical review of the structure and organization of history curricula in the two contexts studied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we shall address the Murcian language that appears in several novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the Region of Murcia in order to verify if it constitutes a real sample of the Spanish language spoken in Murcia. To achieve this aim, we shall carry out a historical review to understand the origin of Murcian regionalism and the intellectual movement that emerged at the end of the 19th century. The regionalism born in Murcia in the nineteenth century is a twofold phenomenon, namely, both a political and cultural regionalism. Political regionalism, on the one hand, will be related to the Canton of Cartagena, a federalist insurrection that took place on July 12, 1783 whose goal was to proclaim itself as an independent canton. Cultural regionalism, on the other hand, is intimately tied to the association of the Murcian dialect with the so-called panocho, satirical speech of the Huerta de Murcia among whose predecessors include: Pedro Díaz Cassou, José Martínez Tornel and Andrés Blanco y García. This cultural and intellectual movement aims at promoting a regional identity of Murcia, mainly focusing on a linguistic identity and Murcia's customs and traditions. In addition, it will be worth stressing the great the importance of social stratification in explaining the regional and linguistic identity, since most of Murcia's society came from rural environments with a low level of education. Finally, we also mean to provide a considerable amount of reliable linguistic data which contributes to the studies on the nineteenth-century Spanish language, one of the most little studied within the discipline of History of the Spanish Language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work raises the possibilities of study offered by the repartimientos to deepen into the knowledge of the Andalusian fanādiq, the Castilian alhóndigas, and the Aragonese alfondechs. The repartimientos information found for the cities of Valencia, Murcia, and Seville, have been deeply analyzed. The aim is to identify the alhóndigas and the alfondechs of these cities to approach to the fanādiq of al-Andalus through the quantification, location and characteristics gathered. In this paper, after a brief presentation of the repartimiento system and its characteristics, we focus and develop the relationship between these three types of buildings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, the Region of Murcia has promoted new tourism models related to heritage and the sea. However, despite the richness of its maritime history and heritage, it has not done so in a complementary manner. The Mar Menor-La Manga area has only boosted the maritime aspect in relation to nautical activities, leaving their heritage relegated to a second place. This paper seeks to vindicate the importance of the Maritime Heritage, History, and Culture associated with this area and to show the opportunities offered by its proper enhancement through a case study: the implementation of an underwater heritage trail in the Phoenician wreck of the "Bajo de la Campana" as part of the "Isla Grosa" Project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Botanical Garden located in what once was the Murcia "Instituto Provincial de Segunda Enseñanza", founded in 1837, is one of the few remaining gardens of the historical high schools of Spain. At that time, the school was considered to be one of the best in the country and it still keeps some of the specimens that were used to teach botany. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries professors of Natural History and Agriculture developed the activity of their departments in connection with this space, giving way to an excellent collection of plants and a valuable set of scientific and teaching materials. Today the gardens are part of a public park where the activities carried out are very different from the teaching functions for which they were originally conceived, to the extent that the plants are even at risk. This paper seeks to explore both the history of this educational space and the intrahistory of the activities carried out in it in relation to the teaching of sciences and the staff involved. It also aims to safeguard the heritage of the educational institutions of the Region of Murcia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze the existing tensions within the wool carders’ guild of Murcia regarding the annual election of their main authorities – the so-called veedores – from the second half of the fifteenth century to the early sixteenth century. In this period, the guild´s elite sought to monopolize the designation of these authorities, with the resistance of several guild members. As a consequence of this conflict, the local council interceded several times by changing the election system with the aim of calming the tensions, although with no success. Our objective is to identify the interests of the main actors involved in the conflict, in order to analyze the social nature of this dispute. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Almost all the towns of the kingdom of Murcia received generous royal privileges throughout the late Middle Ages that suppressed or lowered the customs tax burden, especially the almojarifazgo, the toll and the tithe. Such grants were granted to them as a borders territorys and scarce in resources, which always remained sparsely populated, so that the monarchs, through these advantages, sought to attract a greater number of settlers and enhance economic development through trade with the neighboring regions or by the sea. This paper reviews such tax exemptions and how those who obtained them fought for your accomplishment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents the theoretical and methodological helping boost selfsustainable changes in the complex relational universe in disadvantaged neighborhoods of the Región de Murcia (Spain). Below are the results of an investigation aimed at characterizing the practices on the local level linked to social work with communities in Región de Murcia. The analysis of community practices to identify the ideal the experiences of Community action in consideration of good practice in the promotion of local coexistence through citizen participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the Southeast peninsular, anticyclonic situations and advections are fed in winter with polar / continental arctic air is common. Under these conditions, intrabetic basins and river valleys are very prone to the development of inversions breakup temperature. A clear example is the Media Vega del Segura in the winter months. In this paper these major factors and situations of inversion breakup temperature registered with Vega during the period 2000-2013 are analyzed. To complement the study, a proposal frost hazard mapping in the Huerta de Murcia for different winter months is done. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spanish social economy enterprises (SEE), like capital-based ones, have been facing a general economic crisis since 2008. SEE in the Murcia region are no exception. They are mainly small and mediumsized companies and because of their lack of size and structure they face considerable competitive difficulties in fighting this situation. This paper is based on a survey of 102 social economy enterprises in the Murcia Region, essentially labour companies and cooperatives in the service and industrial sectors, which was conducted in early 2010. To examine the situation in which companies from these sectors - mostly micro-enterprises - find themselves, information was collected on their main ratios in 2009, their expectations and their assessment of the competitive context and the main difficulties they face in the current situation of economic and social crisis. The extensive questionnaire made it possible to classify these enterprises into four types, based on the evolution of their main economic ratios (jobs, sales, investment and profits), and in a second stage, to consider the relation with whether or not the companies had adopted active innovation strategies and strategic planning. This made it possible to define the companies that had been able to improve or at least maintain the levels of their principal ratios even in times of crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the validation of a questionnaire to assess user perceptions of an emergency department. The study also includes the analysis of social non-modifiable variables in order to assess whether the perceived quality is affected by them. The sample consisted of 860 subject users Emergency Health Service of Murcia during the years 2008 and 2009. The exploratory factor analysis revealed three factors: Professional competence (α= .92), Organization (α= .60) and Infrastructure (α= .63). Factor scores correlated positively with overall patients' satisfaction scores. The lineal regression analysis confirms the relevance of these factors to predict satisfaction. No significant differences by gender and educational level were detected in Professional Competence. The Infrastructure assessment is influenced by sex and Organization for both variables. The questionnaire has proven its utility for detecting areas of improvement and for planning intervention strategies in the areas of organization and infrastructure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the present paper was to analyze whether a difference exists in the progress of mental and motor development and the quality of attachment in a sample of preterm infants when receiving the Vojta's physiotherapy technique vs. other therapy techniques. The ages for assessing the mental and motor development were first trimester, 6, 12 and 18 months and for assessing the quality of attachment were 15 months. Their families were attended at different Centres for Infant Development and Early Intervention (CDIAT) from the Region of Murcia since the early months of infants' life. The results revealed that the mental and motor development of infants receiving the Vojta therapy was significantly better, but there was no difference between the two samples in the attachment security. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Public spaces represent one of the most visible scenes involved in the process of assimilating immigrants in Spanish towns and cities. The new neighbours use public spaces as an instrument for social networking and finding direction, and in so doing, transform these spaces in various ways. This article analyses this process, which involves the creation of two types of spaces and generate quite distinct dynamics, perceptions and evaluations. Some of these spaces are shared by neighbors from different backgrounds. Others, with large concentrations of immigrants from the same culture and/or national origin, have become ethnified spaces. The central thread of the analysis is the concept of sociability, it is based on research conducted by the author in the city of Valencia and several municipalities of Campo de Cartagena (Murcia, Spain). The paper studies the different strategies employed in the use and appropriation of public spaces by the immigrant communities, in particular the Ecuadorians. It analyses the opinions that arise from these communities regarding the effects the new neighbors have on the local population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to study EI in high ability (gifted, talented and academically talented) and average ability (non-gifted or talented) students and look for differences between them depending on their cognitive profile. The participants comprising the high-ability (G&T) sample were drawn from different schools in Murcia (Spain). The initial identification of G&T required that the students met several criteria which included a) nomination by teachers based on the Renzulli (1978) model; b) ability test scores (BADyG, Yuste, Martínez y Galve, 2001); and c) a creativity test (Test of Creative Thinking, Torrance, 1974). The final sample of G&T students included 182 (boys and girls). Their age ranged from 6 to 12 years old, and they took the EQ-i: YV (Emotional Quotient Inventory Youth Version, Bar-On & Parker 2000). In addition, the same test was completed by a non-gifted or average abilities sample from different schools in Murcia (Spain) composed of 1,393 students aged 6-17 years (boys and girls). The findings showed statistically significant differences between the high ability students (gifted, talented and academically talented) and non-gifted or talented. High ability students score higher in adaptability and stress management than non-gifted or talented ones. In addition, the data showed gender differences in emotional intelligence. Girls obtained higher scores in interpersonal and stress management than boys, but boys obtained higher scores in adaptability than girls. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The adaptation to EHEA of the Spanish University involves a wide range of changes in the existing curricula of Documentation. The launch of the new title 'Bachelor in Information and Documentation' implies the implementation of a compulsory subject -the Grade Thesis-oriented to the realization of a research project at the end of the studies, with the objective of introducing the student in basic or applied research about any of the subjects studied along the grade. The object of this paper is to analyze the main themes of the projects developed in the LIS studies of the University of Murcia; and verify their degree of consistency with the subjects of the present curriculum and with the proposed compulsory subjects for the new title; checking whether if, at the end of their studies, the students channelled their activity within the main subjects of the curriculum or whether they directed their research into elective subjects and even into collateral subjects of their curricula. This review provides very valuable information with a view to this launching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present a project of bibliographical and documental research that consists in collecting, classifying, analyzing and digitally diffusing the illustrations contained in the printed matters (books, pamphlets, loose papers, etc.) from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries that are deposited in the libraries of the Region of Murcia. The general aim is the diffusion of information of difficult access, i.e. the engravings, taking advantage of the information technologies. We have established as partial objectives those of locating, identifying, digitizing, describing and disseminating the engravings. In order to achieve these objectives, a specific methodology has been devised, and accomplished in three successive phases: digitization, description and database management,. The result is a digital book engravings repository that allows for their retrieval by author, title, keywords, source, publisher, dates and other elements. This repository will improve the access to the information and it marks a new experience in metadata application for the description of images, whose effectiveness we will evaluate in a future phase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) usually have wide cooperation networks. High levels of cooperation facilitate the acquisition of knowledge by clients, suppliers and competitors. The objective of this paper is to analyze the influence trust, compromise, knowledge, the management team, and the expected benefits have on three levels of cooperation (suppliers, clients and competitors). The results indicate that whilst expected benefits are the key to moving on to further levels of cooperation, trust is needed. Satistical confirmation of the hypothesis was carried-out using a logistical polytomic regression model, and the data came from 88 SMEs in Murcia, Spain. An additional investigation in other regions, to analyze the interrelation of different forms of IT cooperation in SMEs and large enterprises, could help improve the rigor of the results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]