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Didactic strategies applied in the teaching-learning process are mechanisms that allow students to take advantage of the knowledge imparted by the teacher and demonstrate absolute mastery, even more so, in times of pandemic when classes are virtual. Therefore, an investigation was carried out with the objective of implementing didactic strategies with synchronous and asynchronous activities for a better learning of the nomenclature of inorganic chemistry. The methodology used was quasi-experimental, with a quantitative approach and a descriptive, correlational and explanatory scope; 83 students from the first year of bachillerato at Unidad Educativa Baños  were applied a survey using the pre-test and post-test scheme. The results were analyzed with descriptive statistics, Chi square and correlation, It determined frequencies of never, few times and moderately (35.58, 52.88 and 14.54%) on the knowledge of the nomenclature of inorganic chemistry.  These values changed significantly after applying the didactic strategies with synchronous and asynchronous activities, showing in the post- test that 11.40% are on the medium scale, almost always 37.33% and always 51.27%. It is concluded that the didactic strategies improved the level of knowledge of the nomenclature of inorganic chemistry.

Gamification emerged as a business strategy; nevertheless, the empirical evidence regarding its use in education has validated it as an innovative technique in various learning environments. Under these circumstances, this study examined the effects of gamification on the development of the writing skill in tenth grade students of English as a foreign language. The research design followed a quantitative methodology, and it was based on the statistical analysis of the results of tests – based on writing tasks and graded on the basis of a validated rubric – applied before and after a ten-week intervention, which used the Classcraft platform as its main tool. The findings of the study demonstrated a statically relevant improvement of the development of the aforementioned macro-skill in the participants of the study. This improvement was particularly connected to vocabulary acquisition, grammar practice, and organization of ideas, as well as aspects related to motivation. These results add to the body of empirical evidence on the topic, and they position gamification as an active technique whose inclusion in the teaching-learning process of English as a foreign language is suggested. 

This study seeks to analyze in a holistic way the satisfaction of patients who make use of emergency services of public hospitals in the central zone of Ecuador, one of the most sensitive areas which is under constant scrutiny by users and physicians whoever give continuity to the treatment of patients. Through structural equations modeling (SEM) it was evidenced that there is a positive and significant relationship between the quality of service and satisfaction, as well as between the latter and the loyalty of the users. There was no direct relationship between the quality and the loyalty of the patients. These results highlight the importance of these variables for the integral evaluation of the satisfaction and loyalty of the clients of an organization.

The measures adopted by the Government to prevent the spread of COVID-19 left their mark on socioeconomic indicators at the national level. Small businesses in the city of Quito had to implement strategies to stay active in the market. It is necessary, then, to investigate the effects of these measures to promote economic reactivation in this business group at the end of mandatory confinement. The purpose of this study was to discover those indicators that account for the employment situation, financial result and contribution to the fiscal coffers of small businesses in Quito; for this, the exploratory method with a descriptive - analytical approach was used, comparing the periods 2019, 2020 and 2021, having as relevant results: for the year 2021 the number of small companies increased, by 61, at the end of this same year the number of employees increased by an equivalent to 5.61% of the employees who lost their jobs in the previous period, for its part, tax collection increased by 1.75%. In conclusion, the flexibility to access financing sources helps to form new companies but market conditions do not favor their commercial performance and generate an acceptable degree of profitability, the weakened socioeconomic aspects have not been remedied with the implemented government measures. The strategies to achieve the efficient management of small businesses, in order to promote their productivity, is an aspect that deserves further investigation.

Today's society is significantly differentiated by multidirectional communication, which allows citizens to use the media, produce with them and get involved with new models of participation, coexistence and education. The foregoing raises the question: How is the use of social networks as emerging collaborative learning environments in times of tele-education? In this first study, with high school students and teachers in the city of Guayaquil (Ecuador), it was found that the use of social networks or platforms such as YouTube and Instagram are now used as tools that support the management of teaching-learning. of teachers and students. The research had a mixed, exploratory-descriptive approach. The techniques used were surveys and focus groups, with their respective instruments, their responses served to triangulate the information obtained. The context is situated with students from 15 to 20 years old and teachers of various subjects, from II and III of high school of the 2021-2022 school year, based on the use of social networks as virtual learning environments (EVA). These study subjects belong to the categorization in the stratification of socioeconomic level C- and D. The results show that there is a trend in the sharing and creation of content by teachers and students, especially mediated by the social networks YouTube and Instagram, giving these resources a new function in their use to achieve learning. sustainable and sustainable (satisfactory).

Open source software is gaining space, along with its culture and philosophy, it is used in some cases without realizing that it is present, as is the case with Mozilla Firefox, Chromium, the Linux operating system or its Android derivative. On the other hand, nowadays, bibliometrics is very important, since it constitutes a powerful tool that influences the deliberations made by academics or society in general on any topic discussed. In recent years, the use of open source software has developed rapidly throughout the world; however, no consolidated topics related to open source software have been found in scientific production. The objective of this study was to explore the dimensions and trends related to open source software in Spanish-speaking countries for the identification of important achievements and main research fields with reference to this topic. Calculations were made with the extracted data using the R programming language for statistical analysis, together with the Bibliometrix package to determine scientometric variables; while the bibliometric visual approach was carried out using VOSviewer. The results indicate that research related to open source software in Spanish-speaking countries has evolved in recent years. They show how the realities in scientific production are different, varied and with a multidisciplinary character, this topic being able to play a crucial role in the development of these other disciplines.

The objective of this article is to analyze the impact caused by informal mining in the economic, social and environmental aspects in Peru from 2018 to 2022, the methodology used is descriptive with a qualitative approach, the technique applied was documentary analysis and the instrument used was the triangulation matrix, which allowed collecting and analyzing data from selected articles and documents obtained from databases such as Scopus, Web of science, Scielo, Redalyc and Proquest, covering relevant topics on informal mining. After analyzing the documentation, the first result was obtained that informal mining had an impact on economic activity, tax collection and the level of employment due to the slow process of formalization by the state and as a second result for the beginning of 2022 it was obtained that the Mining expansion, such as artisanal, informal and openly illegal mining, gained greater importance, above all, gold mining occupying territories and four areas with the presence of informal mining were identified, such as Puno, Madre de Dios, La libertad and the middle south (Ica , Arequipa, and Ayacucho). Thus concluding that the mining issue plays an important role in the Peruvian economy, thus contributing 12% to the GDP, 60% of exports and 21% of the stock of foreign direct investment, generating business and greater employment in commercial activity and On the other hand, the Peruvian financial markets were willing to support large investments and structural reforms in mining, causing the economy to have sustained economic growth during the last decades.

The entities from their creation to the present have gone through various transformational processes in order to improve their organizational structure and guide them to business success. Communication has been one of the main components positively affected by these processes that began in the 1940s and that half a century later led this tool to consolidate it as a key element in institutional management. Despite the aforementioned, the reality is that currently the information related to this topic is dispersed, vaguely addressed and sometimes scarce, which makes it difficult to carry out new studies in this field, since it is not clearly known what has already been analyzed and what still needs to be investigated on the subject. Therefore, this research has the objective of compiling and structuring from a theoretical perspective the route that the evolution of communication has followed in the organizational field and how it affects the reality of modern companies. This study was carried out thanks to an exhaustive documentary research carried out between the months of February 2020 and January 2022 in the Scielo, Dialnet and DSpace databases, identifying a total of 83,474 works regardless of the period or subject area, making use of terms such as "internal communication", "business communication", "communication flows", among other words and from which the most relevant works were taken that allowed to clearly and precisely show the evolution of communication in companies.

Textual production plays a very important role in the acquisition and transmission of knowledge; however, various studies show deficiencies in this communicative competence; therefore, the need arises to investigate these weaknesses, but focused on the textual characteristics of the production of written texts. Therefore, the objective of the study was to describe the levels of textual characteristics in the production of expository articles in students of a private university in Lima, Peru. The study had a quantitative approach, a non-experimental design of a descriptive nature. The sample consisted of 109 university students from the II cycle of the Academic Unit of General Studies. The instrument applied was the expository text evaluation rubric whose objective was to evaluate expository articles written by university students. This instrument assesses the structure, organization, purpose, objectivity, theme, audience and the linguistic marks of the written text. The results showed that 46.8% of the total number of respondents was located at an acceptable level and only 1.8%, at excellent, therefore, it was concluded that the students showed deficiencies in the use of textual characteristics when writing. his expository articles. This motivates to investigate and work on strategies, projects, programs, modules or workshops aimed at improving this competence, essential for the professional training of university students.

The uncontrolled and inefficient consumption of natural resources has led, in recent years, to the constant degradation of the environment, today, concern about this issue has become a global trend, it is for this reason that organizations have seen the need to include in their planning and organizational strategic objectives, policies that contribute to environmental care, in this way, eco-efficiency is considered as an administrative strategy that leads organizations towards sustainability. The present work includes a systematic bibliographic review of the different articles within the theme of eco-efficiency, the objective of this document is to demonstrate the importance of the implementation of this concept in organizations, thus in this context, it is also intended to show the transcendental of eco-efficient waste management, for this purpose several tools used for its estimation are included, as is the case of the DEA methodology and some of its variations, the key factors of influence, whether they are internal organizational or environmental, in various types of regional, business, industrial and municipal organizations and sectors, for all this, academic publications in English and Spanish obtained from Journal, EBSCO and free access databases such as academic Google were used. From the bibliographic review it was obtained that: Environmental Science and Pollution Research, contains 16% of the publications, Business Strategy and the Environment, with an average of 11.28, is the journal with the greatest impact, China is the country with the highest number of publications with 38%. Some regions of various countries, municipalities and various types of industry were the organizational sectors covered by this study.