This paper explores the role of personality, self-efficacy, and impression management as predictors of contextual performance in an academic setting. It also analyses whether self-efficacy and impression management mediate the relationship between personality and contextual performance. The influence of personality on job performance has received considerable attention by researchers. Since the development of the Five-Factor Model (FFM; Costa & McCrae, 1985, 1992), personality has been more clearly shown as a valid predictor of both job performance (
Parks and town squares can play an important role by offering spaces for cognitive restorativeness in urban contexts. Therefore, it is important that these spaces be designed in a way that encourages restorativeness. Indeed, their perceived quality should motivate users to stay and take advantage of them. Yet, it is not clear whether perceptions as to the quality of these spaces is relevant in promoting restorativeness. Thus, the aim of this study is to analyze whether elements of environmental quality perceived by users of public spaces favor restorativeness both in parks and squares. Environmental and social aspects are taken into consideration, since restorative experiences involve cognitive and physiological recovery, as well as a component of interaction with the environment. In this research, 519 users of 32 urban public spaces—town squares and parks—on the island of Tenerife (Spain) participated. Participants evaluated these spaces using four dimensions that focused on spaces’ perceived environmental quality: design of spaces, care of spaces, social interaction, and presence of sensorial elements. Additionally, we evaluated the perceived restorativeness of each space. The results showed that the design of spaces, care of the spaces, social interaction, and presence of sensorial elements explain the variance in perceived restorativeness, although with different weights for parks and squares. We found that perceived quality of a space is a key predictor of its restorativeness. This means that maintaining parks and town squares is a relevant task given that they contribute to reducing cognitive overload, increasing sustainability, and facilitating health care in urban settings.
The post-functionalization of a chiral catalyst offers the advantage of providing it with additional physical characteristics that, together with its enantioselective capacity, increase its overall synthetic value. Taking advantage of the modularity and polyfunctionality of carbohydrate-derived ligands, herein we report the synthesis of two mixed P/S catalysts functionalized with a pyrene group through the 6 position of the sugar by carbon chains of different lengths. Using the hydrogenation of methyl (Z)-α-acetamidocinnamate as the model reaction has shown that the proximity of the pyrenyl group to the catalytic center is detrimental to the activity and enantioselectivity of the hydrogenation process, the most efficient catalyst being the complex derived from pyrenebutyric acid 12. The study of the supramolecular π-π interaction of the most active complex 12 with SWCNTs by UV-Vis spectroscopy shows, that in ethyl acetate complex 12 is totally adsorbed onto the SWCNT surface, while in methylene chloride there is an equilibrium between the adsorbed and the free form of the complex, allowing the use of complex 12 and SWCNTs in a catch and release process. Interestingly, it has been determined that the nanocatalyst 12/SWCNT is more enantioselective than complex 12 alone, affording (S)-N-acetylphenyl alanine 16 in quantitative yield and 96% ee.
<p>El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar los conocimientos, concepciones erróneas y lagunas de conocimiento de los tutores de las primeras etapas de escolaridad sobre las Dificultades Específicas de Aprendizaje en lectura y escritura. Una muestra de 149 profesores de 15 centros de la isla de Tenerife respondió una escala de 38 ítems agrupados en tres dimensiones: Síntomas/diagnósticos, Información General e Intervención, con 3 alternativas de respuesta (verdadero, falso y no sé). Se obtuvo un porcentaje medio de respuestas correctas superior al 50% en las tres áreas. Los contrastes mostraron que los tutores tienen un porcentaje significativamente mayor de conocimientos en el área de Intervención, más concepciones erróneas en la de Síntomas/diagnósticos y más lagunas de conocimientos en la de Información General.</p>
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