La presente tesis se enmarcó dentro de la línea de tecnologías de información y enfocado en el desarrollo de una aplicación web para la mejora de la gestión de inventarios en la empresa Lima Motor S.R.L, utilizando la Tecnología de Identificación por Radio Frecuencia (RFID). Los puntos de venta de la empresa Lima Motor S.R.L no contaban con procesos automatizados para la gestión de inventarios de sus vehículos automotores menores, se realizaban de forma manual, por lo cual se identificó la necesidad de automatizarlos y poderlos hacer más eficientes. Se planteó como objetivo el desarrollo de una aplicación web basado en el modelo de revisión continua y se utilizó la tecnología RFID en la mejora de la gestión de inventarios de vehículos automotores menores en la empresa Lima Motor S.R.L, lo cual permitió realizar las transferencias de vehículos entre los puntos de venta, registrando sus entradas y salidas, actualización de stock, toma de inventario y reportes de tiempo de rotación. Finalmente se comprobó la hipótesis, comparando los resultados de la aplicación web con registros manuales manejados anteriormente. De los resultados obtenidos de las pruebas realizadas con la aplicación web se llegó a la conclusión que el grado de certeza es de un 95%.

AbstraktSyfte: Att beskriva den information om anhörigstöd som presenteras på hemsidor ikommuner i norra Sverige.Bakgrund: Äldre personer bor kvar hemma längre och behöver i större utsträckninghjälp av sina anhöriga. Anhöriga behöver ofta stöd för att klara denna uppgift.Kommunerna har en skyldighet att erbjuda anhörigstöd, men kan ha svårt att nå ut medsin information om vilket stöd de har att erbjuda.Metod: En dokumentanalys med kvalitativ och kvantitativ ansats. Information omanhörigstöd inhämtades från alla Norrlands 54 kommuners hemsidor. Innehålletanalyserades genom manifest kvalitativ analys och kvantitativ analys för jämförelsermellan kommunerna.Resultat: Studien visade att 96 % av kommunerna har information om anhörigstöd påsina hemsidor. Informationen varierade mellan kommunerna. De två vanligaste stödenvar anhörigkonsulent och avlösning i hemmet. Studien visade att stadsområdena hademer och utförligare information än landsbygdsområden, och att kommunerna ilandsbygden i de flesta fall hade mer information än kommuner i glesalandsbygdsområden.Slutsats: Utbudet och omfattningen av de olika anhörigstöd som kommunernaerbjuder varierar. Om kommunerna skulle utveckla sin information på hemsidornaskulle det vara ett resurssparande och kostnadseffektivt sätt att nå ut med sininformation. Vidare forskning skulle behövas för att få veta hur kommunerna utvärderarden information de lägger ut på hemsidorna.Nyckelord: Anhörigstöd, webb-baserad, information, kommun, Norrland, omvårdnad

<p>With a surge of digital video content appearing on the Internet in the emerging apparatus of electracy, YouTube launched an archive for new media and steadily grew into a successful global community of individuals who participate by way of commenting, remixing, subscribing, and uploading. Inspired by Gregory Ulmer's notion of digital cognition and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's philosophical approach to the idiot, this thesis reinvents the theory of videocy and chooses to embrace its early association to idiocy. With insight from Jean Burgess and Joshua Green, who take a sociological approach to YouTube, and Sarah Arroyo, who examines participatory composition in video culture, we can envisage YouTubers as producers within a choric (from Jacques Derrida's <i> chora</i>) network. The pedagogical potential of this digital era, as developed by Patricia Lange, and its connection to Tubing, as approached by Arroyo and Geoffrey Carter, will reclaim the "weird" for didactic rhetoric. </p>

El constante incremento de la información de la empresa Construcciones Reyes, ha llegado el punto de no poder llevar el control adecuado, se suma con la situación de los clientes con respecto a la comunicación que se pueda transmitir, es una comunicación verbal que no tiene algún sustento formal para la validación del mismo. Con la implementación de una web móvil, se mejoraron los procesos de la gestión de trazabilidad. La importancia de sistematizar la información de los procesos, ejecutando un proceso de ingeniería hace que asegure un producto de calidad, flexibilidad y la seguridad hacia los clientes. La metodología XP, se aplica como la guía para la elaboración de la web móvil durante la recolección de datos. El presente proyecto aplica estos conceptos para poder mejorar la gestión de la trazabilidad de las órdenes de trabajo de la empresa Construcciones Reyes. La implementación demuestra que la gestión de la trazabilidad de las órdenes de trabajo da como resultados la satisfacción de los clientes, que ha aumentado a 65% por la gran seguridad y confianza en la finalización de sus pedidos y las deudas con el proveedor han bajado el 30% evitando las cancelaciones de las ordenes de trabajo.

<p> This study investigated the relationships between international students' use of social networking sites (SNS), their acculturative stress and social connectedness. A survey was conducted among 63 international students who attended a rural, Midwestern University in the United States. To keep in contact with individuals from their home country and individuals in the U.S., international students reported using both U.S.-based SNS such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as SNS geared towards their home countries, such as Weibo and WeChat. Positive correlations were found between Guilt and Culture Shock, Culture Shock and Homesickness, Guilt and Homesickness, Guilt and Perceived Hatred, Culture Shock and Perceived Hatred, Perceived Discrimination and Perceived Hatred, Perceived Discrimination and Culture Shock, and between Perceived Discrimination and Guilt. Hours spent per day on social networking sites was negatively correlated with Perceived Hatred, Guilt and Social Connectedness, but positively correlated with Relationship Maintenance, Social Surveillance, Socializing, Culture Shock and Perceived Discrimination. Social Connectedness was negatively associated with all five components of Acculturative Stress and Social Surveillance, but positively associated with Relationship Maintenance. The findings suggest that international students' SNS use may be associated with their ability to adjust to life in the foreign country and to continue feeling connected to a network of social support. The small sample size and other limitations are discussed, as are the potential implications.</p>

<p>Higher education scholars, policy makers, and administrators know little about the experiences of undergraduate students who matriculate with minimal experience with technology. It is often assumed that all students, particularly traditionally-aged students, have significant experience with, knowledge of, and comfort with technology. Although that assumption is correct for many students, it is false for others. Despite the enormous increase in the use of Web-based assessment surveys and the increasing importance of accurate assessment and accountability data, those efforts may not be collecting adequate and accurate data about and from all students. </p><p> This study explores the non-response bias of first-year undergraduate students on a self-administered Web-based survey. First, data were collected with a supplemental survey added to the Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement (BCSSE). K-means clustering was used with this newly constructed Internet Access and Use survey to classify students according to their Internet access and use experiences. Second, demographic data from BCSSE and the Internet access and use data were included in a logistic regression predicting response to the subsequent National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). </p><p> The Internet Access and Use instrument proved to be a viable way to classify students along lines of their previous Internet access and use experiences. However, that classification played no meaningful role predicting whether students had completed NSSE. Indeed, despite its statistical significance the final logistic regression model using provided little meaningful predictive power. </p><p> Generalizing the results of this study to all Web-based surveys of undergraduate college students with random or census sampling indicates that those surveys may not introduce significant non-response bias for students who have had less access to the Internet. This is particularly important since that population is already vulnerable in many ways as being disproportionately composed of first-generation students, underrepresented minority students, and students with lower socioeconomic statuses. This reassures assessment professionals and all higher education stakeholders that cost- and labor-efficient Web-based surveys are capable of collecting data that do not omit the voices of these students. </p>

<p> Communication now is easier than ever before. One consequence of this is the emergence of virtual communities, unconstrained by physical proximity. We perform two investigations into changing social trends. We study a corpus of 100 years of newspaper articles to see if we can find evidence to support the popular intuition that as news cycles have sped up, the public's attention span has gotten shorter. We find no such evidence: to the contrary, we find that the typical length of time that a person's name stays in the news has not changed over time, and celebrities now stay in the news for longer than ever before. We also investigate a new kind of community on Twitter called a group chat, where members have regular meetings to discuss a broad range of topics, from medical conditions to hobbies. We find that the phenomenon is growing over time, and paint a broad picture of the topics which one could find a group chat to discuss. With a view to helping connect new participants to group chats they may not have been able to find or might not have been aware of, we design an algorithm to rank group chats in the context of a topic given as a query.</p>

<p> Digital literacy is fast becoming a necessary skill for mediating life in the 21st century. Digital technologies, digital media, and digital devices have become ubiquitous and intrinsic in modern society and using one to interact with the others requires specific skills&mdash;digital literacies&mdash;be learned. The purpose of this research was to understand the extent to which Baby Boomers are digitally literate, the digital devices they understand and use, and the purposes for which they are using them. </p><p> Residents living in a specific group of age-restricted communities comprised of people 55 years of age and older were e-mailed requests to participate in an online survey. More than 8,200 homes received the invitations and 659 people agreed to participate. The survey consisted of 17 three-part, forced-choice questions and five demographic identifiers. To analyze the data, the researcher used SPSS and ran chi-square tests on each response comparing Older Boomers to Younger Boomers regarding specific digital activities in which they engaged, the device(s) they used, and the frequencies with which they engaged in those activities. </p><p> The results of this study indicate that the Baby Boomers in the study possess basic functional digital literacies. They use the Internet daily to read news, check weather, and look up recipes, directions, and medical information. While participation in the various activities was fairly even between both Boomer groups, Younger Boomers tend to send and receive text messages, bank online, pay bills online, search for recipes, save online bookmarks, visit social networks, read blogs, and take online classes more than Older Boomers. The majority of respondents were women, college educated, with annual household incomes of $75,000.00 or more. The most popular digital devices used were laptops, desktops, tablets, and smartphones, respectively and respondents averaged using three different digital devices while engaging in their digital activities. The trend is toward decreasing use of desktop and laptop computers and a corresponding increase in the use of tablets and smartphones.</p>

<p> The purpose of this study was to determine whether viewing the Facebook profiles of women differing in levels of attractiveness and thinness would influence the viewer's self-esteem, eating patterns, and body image. Specifically, it was hypothesized that viewing the profile of an attractive, thin woman would result in the reduction of self-esteem and body image with an increase in eating disorder-related thoughts and behaviors, while viewing the Facebook profile of a heavier and less attractive woman would bolster self-esteem and body image while reducing disordered eating thoughts and behaviors in a college-aged, female population. Contrary to the hypotheses, none of the analyses revealed a significant interaction. However, there was a significant main effect for time on eating attitudes and behaviors, suggesting that participants' attitudes toward eating became significantly worse over time. This study is unique in that it is the first to experimentally test whether the attractiveness level of the viewed Facebook profile would affect body image, self-esteem, and/or eating attitudes.</p>

<p> This study was influenced by the researcher's personal interest in the topic as well as a pilot study he conducted; it produced results that inspired him to do further research. The Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission assisted in distributing the Qualtrics survey through their Facebook page and Twitter account. Thus, the researcher utilized a non-probability convenience and volunteer sample of 789 Saudi Arabian students studying in the United States. </p><p> This study was guided by the Uses and Gratification Theory to examine the use of smartphones as a news resource and the potential gratifications students experienced with this type of use. The findings showed reliance upon using smartphones for accessing news with several experienced gratifications. An emergent habit of checking news frequently among respondents was revealed by the data analysis. Additionally, the findings indicated that respondents have feelings of being overwhelmed by the large amount of news as well as feeling isolated without their smartphones. The findings point to a noticeable amount of sharing news via social networking sites while using smartphones. Overall, an argument of a cultural impact of using smartphones exists, contrary to respondents' perceptions.</p>