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This study aimed to determine the relationship between carbon footprint levels and the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of secondary School students and the staff of a Private Denominational School. The research was carried out in three parts: the calculation of the carbon footprint of the school, following the methodology of the Protocol of Greenhouse Gases; the measurement of the carbon footprint in the study population, through the calculator of emissions of Dragonfly Management in Climate Change and Communication, and the application of a test of knowledge, attitudes and practices. The results showed that the emissions per year in the educational institution were 25.36 tCO2e and the average emission of the study population was 2.18 tCO2e. Thecorrelation analysis showed that there is a negative correlation of -0.228 between the carbon footprint and the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of the population, that is when one increases, the other begins to decrease. In conclusion, according to the correlation analysis, there is a relationship between knowledge, attitudes and practices and the carbon footprint, however, it is a weak correlation, because the Person's index is below 0.5.

The quality of academic services, along with the institutional image and organizational culture are key factors in the university licensing process. This study explores the relationship between the quality of academic services and the organizational culture in the institutional image of a private denominational institution. It's a correlational research and used a quantitative approach. It is a multiple purpose causal correlation that seeks to explain existing relationships, through multiple linear regression analysis ANOVA. Three instruments were applied: Denison's 60-item Organizational Culture Survey (DOCS); The Student Satisfaction Scale Instrument for Educational Quality (SEICE) of 93 items and the Escobar's Institutional Image questionnaire for selected audiences of 31 items. The culture andquality instruments used as an evaluation the Likert scale of five points, in the case of the image instrument through positive and negative signs was scored. The instruments were applied to a population of 221 people of the public students of a confessional private university. Among the results, significant relationships were obtained between the studied variables and their dimensions. We conclude that the positive evaluation of the institutional image is affected by the organizational culture and the quality of educational services.

The Argentine Questionnaire on Attitudes vis-a-vis Situations of Aggression(Moreno y Pereyra, 2000) was adapted to the educational environment. For its preliminary validation, 143 Argentine teachers participated. The items turned out to be discriminative and they were grouped, based on a Factorial Exploratory Analysis, into three dimensions that are related to the theory: Passivity (α = .90), Aggressiveness (α = .95) and Prosocial behavior (α = .92). The constructive validity was also tested by analyzing the hypothesis that confirms teachers with a high level of burnout syndrome have a greater tendency to behave negatively when faced with situations of aggression in the classroom context. These results were also related to the theory (p< .001). Based on these analyses, it is concluded that the preliminary version of the instrument is apt for submission to psychometric studies of a more rigorous nature and wider.

Goal: To determine the relationship between the type of eating patterns and the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in adults of the Southeastern Peru. Materials and Methods: It was a quantitative, non-experimental, cross-sectional and correlational study. The sample wasselected by non-probabilistic sampling at the researcher’s convenience, according to inclusion and exclusion criteria, made up of 130 adults. Results: The prevalence of metabolic syndrome in the study population was 27%. A 62% had an omnivorous pattern, between western and Mediterranean, 39.2% had vegetarian food pattern, corresponding to lacto-ovo-vegetarian and vegan. There was a statistically significant relationship between dietary patterns and indicators of metabolic syndrome (p <0.05). Conclusion: There is a significant relationship between eating patterns and metabolic syndrome in participants, where those who had adherence to a healthy diet (lacto-ovo-vegetarian and vegan) showed a lower prevalence (1.5%) of the metabolic syndrome, western pattern (23.1%).

This article aims to expose an experience collaborative learning in a group of college students from a private institution in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico, one in which through an augmented reality game, Pokémon Go, it was possible to contribute to the ethical recognition. Although the limitation of this text is recognized, to only focus on this mobile application, it is considered that the issues raised is valuable in itself, as it contributes to raising an example that ethics training can help trends or issues time (trending topics) that are relevant for young digital users.

From a theoretical perspective from political science, this article identifies and analyzes the various institutional capacities involved in the development of policy linkage in a state-run university Argentina. The empirical data on which this study is based were generated through documentary analysis from the university under study and supplemented with semi-structured interviews applied to various officials in the subject. The results show that the university developed institutional capacities linked to the creation of a structure of ad hoc interaction that serves as the link between the territory and the university, and the implementation of a policy of incentives to promote community participation academic in these activities as well as the involvement of the university in public and private spaces and the active leadership of the university managers responsible for this function.

The objective of this article is to explain the relationship between academic writing and linguistic awareness that must be present during the process of preparing, reviewing and controlling research reports. The academic writing uses a formal writing, respectful of the science of language, both in its descriptive aspects and in its prescriptive or normative aspects. Linguistic awareness depends on knowledge of what language is and how it works from the simplest structures of sounds to the complex forms of words, phrases, sentences and paragraphs. Linguistics is the science of language. Its own and distinctive fields are phonetics, semantics and grammar. Let's briefly review each of them.

When talking about physical health, almost everyone knows what needs to be done to preserve it. But when we ask how to maintain good mental health, many doubt and do not know what to say. However, it is possible to regulate our mental and emotional well-being, influencing our thoughts, feelings, desires and mood. It is possible to make decisions of the utmost importance for mental health. And reaching those decisions, we will enjoy a balanced state of mind and achieve our goals. In addition, we will be preventing anxiety, discouragement, guilt, the feeling of inferiority and many other ailments of the psychic nature. In this essay, the reader will find a series of practical and simple application tips to enjoy peace of mind.

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