Transactional Design Research Articles

Innovation as a Foundation of Competitiveness of Smes on the Colombo-Venezuelan Frontier

Objective: This article is the result of a research carried out in a group of SMEs with the objective of analyzing innovation in this business commercial segment. Innovation has become a determining factor for the success of modern organizations due to their ability to generate products and services that satisfy customer needs. Theoretical Framework: Several authors with extensive research experience were consulted in order to add a theoretical construct to the research regarding innovation in organizations. Method: The methodology adopted for this research was executed under a quantitative, descriptive and analytical approach, with a field, non-experimental and transactional design. The information was obtained directly with the application of a structured instrument to an intentional sample applied to ten managers of SMEs on the Colombian-Venezuelan frontier. Results and Discussion: It was established that these do not receive adequate attention from management since all the evaluated indicators were located at a medium and low level in an instrument designed with a Likert scale. Research Implications: It can be inferred that the managers in question do not make significant implementations or changes in the products or services they market, failing to generate economic value due to the non-implementation of strategies that lead to an increase in operational income within the managed organizations. Originality/Value: The research carried out under the positivist paradigm due to its quantitative approach based on the rigorous application of the scientific method, is characterized by the possibility of generalization, which allows based on particular results to proceed to make generalizations that can be applied in similar circumstances.

Cloud Actor-Oriented Database Transactions in Orleans

Microsoft Orleans is a popular open source distributed programming framework and platform which invented the virtual actor model, and has since evolved into an actor-oriented database system with the addition of database abstractions such as ACID transactions. Properties of Orleans' virtual actor model imply that any ACID transaction mechanism for operations spanning multiple actors must support distributed transactions on top of pluggable cloud storage drivers. Unfortunately, distributed transactions usually perform poorly in this environment, partly because of the high performance and contention overhead of performing two-phase commit (2PC) on slow cloud storage systems. In this paper we describe the design and implementation of ACID transactions in Orleans. The system uses two primary techniques to mask the high latency of cloud storage and enable high transaction throughput. First, Orleans pioneered the use of a distributed form of early lock release by releasing all of a transaction's locks during phase one of 2PC, and by tracking commit dependencies to implement cascading abort. This avoids blocking transactions while running 2PC and enables a distributed form of group commit. Second, Orleans leverages reconnaissance queries to prefetch the state of all actors involved in a transaction from cloud storage prior to running the transaction and acquiring any locks, thus ensuring no locks are held while blocking on high latency cloud storage in most cases.

Compensation for Length of Service: The Case of Latin America Based on the Release of Intangible Social Benefits Promoting Economic Reactivation Post COVID-19

Reactivating the economy during a health crisis involves initiatives to enhance market activities both domestically and internationally. Various governments around the world have strategically decided to act, taking into consideration employment benefits. This research aimed to determine economic satisfaction in the Latin American population as a result of the release of Severance for Time of Service (Compensación por Tiempo de Servicio - CTS), an indicator of intangible labor performance. This study employed a descriptive-analytical methodology with a quantitative, nonexperimental transactional design, focusing on various countries in Latin America with emphasis on Costa Rica, Colombia, Chile, Peru, and Ecuador. The study applied a survey through a virtual form and concluded that 13% lacked or were unaware of the benefit of their time of work, 54% agreed with the measures of their government, and 14% showed disinterest in the calculation of the CTS. It was concluded that strategic economic reactivation, in tandem with employment benefits during a crisis, had a positive effect on the economy of active workers during the pandemic.
 
 Received: 3 November 2023 / Accepted: 29 January 2024 / Published: 5 March 2024

Building Inclusive Policies in Basic Level Education

Purpose: The purpose of study inclusive education is the answer to the social marginalization of people that are considered as imperfect or inhuman. The intention is to get recognition of discriminated people through inclusive public policies. In addition, the purpose of the research was to stablish the relationship of factors associated to institutional cultures, policies, and inclusive practices in teachers of basic education. Method: This research used the quantitative methodology, with a basic type, non-experimental and transactional design. The sample included 102 teachers of basic education and the instrument used Likert scale questions. Evaluating the results, there are factors related to the other elements were mentioned before. Those aspects have a connection with factors like sex, age, employment characteristics and employment status. Results and conclusion: Entities like the National Council of Education recognizes the evolution that exists with the inclusive public policies, including the action of all members involved, Adapting those objectives to the Peruvian reality, inclusion and diversity were included in the National Curriculum for Basic Education. The main goal of this action is to give students more opportunities in the education system, following the standards. Research implications: Inclusive education includes national and international policies, and aspects related to theorical and practical research. This paper shows the inclusive education as an educational ideal, considering visions of the area. It also has different beliefs about the purpose, the content, and the way of how education is organized. Originality/value: Inclusive teaching means a change to value and respect diversity, allowing that society can improve human development. To bet on inclusive education offers more and better opportunities to train, develop and invite the society to be part of a commitment.

Social Responsibility And Health Of The Environment Perceived By Users Of A Certain District Municipality

Social responsibility and health of the environment is part of the management policies of governments around the world. The constant degradation of biodiversity increasingly aggravates the health of the population. Under this vision, the objective of the article was to determine the relationship between social responsibility and environmental health perceived by users of a certain District Municipality, as well as the dimensions of quality of life, commitment to the community, waste collection and waste use. It is applied research, with a correlational and transactional design. The study sample was 80 users from the Chilca District Municipality, selected with a non-probabilistic technique, the instrument used was the survey. The results were validated through the Kendall tau b correlation coefficient of τ = 0.657 and a 99% confidence level, and the hypothesis was demonstrated by Z ≥ 2.58 with a bilateral significance of p < 0.01. It is concluded that the relationship between the two variables is moderate; however, adequate strategies must be promoted in the population to achieve awareness and commitment of municipal authorities, so that they comply with environmental health management policies.

Lifelong learning and personal learning environments: a productive symbiosis in higher education

The aim of this study was to analyze lifelong learning (LLL) and its relationship with the educational approach of the personal learning environment (PLE). In the last year students do various degrees at a university in Costa Rica. METHOD. Using a non-experimental, transactional design, we applied a probabilistic questionnaire where the representative sample was (n=1187). RESULTS. The results show that the LLL scale used is a valid, and the tool used to explore the topic is reliable. In addition, we saw a moderate inclination towards lifelong learning in the students, mainly about all the application capability of new knowings and skills in practical surroundings, and how they relate to the new learning with previous acquisitions. DISCUSSION. It is observed a significant relationship among this training approach and personal learning environments, characterized by the use of the potential offered by technological tools. It has been found significant differences by gender, knowledge area, academic performance, and internet connection hours. Among the conclusions, it is pointed out that the universities must foster the linked competences with LLL to boost the PLE of the learners and propitiate its optimum social and professional insertion along their vital route.

The impact of organizational compliance culture and green culture on environmental behavior: The moderating effect of environmental commitment

<abstract> <p>In this research, we aim to examine the moderating effect of environmental commitment on the relationships between organizational compliance culture and green culture on environmental behavior, under the theoretical stream of the Resource Based Theory (RBT) of the firm, and the Value-Belief-Norm theory (VBN). The research used a quantitative research approach, with a non-experimental transactional design. The sample consisted of 148 Mexican companies with a corporate value system that has implemented environmental sustainability practices, most of them incorporating the GRI guidelines, the SDGs and the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact into their strategies, policies, procedures, and initiatives. This study contributes to the literature in the field of environmental sustainability, with a first theoretical PLS-SEM model that studies moderating and control variables, through organizational compliance on environmental behavior. Our proposed PLS model is a complex hierarchical component model that brings together and simultaneously maps a higher-order construct combined with three lower-order constructs, with moderation effects, multi-group analysis and predictive performance assessment. The major research findings are both the positive impacts between the proposed higher-order construct, organizational compliance culture, and green culture, on environmental behavior, and the moderating effect of environmental commitment on the relationship between green culture and environmental behavior. The insights obtained enhance the understanding of the factors that determine the environmental behavior through organizational compliance culture and green culture, with the moderating effect of environmental commitment, and help senior management in making strategic decisions to align their environmental objectives in compliance with the 2030 agenda in the area of environmental sustainability. This study highlights the need for companies to strengthen the role of environmental commitment to improve the environmental sustainability and it mentions practical implications both for managers of organizations that are responsible for meeting the objectives of sustainable development, specifically in the environmental field, and for policymakers and authorities that guide environmental policies.</p> </abstract>

ECONOMICS AND ADVANCED CALCULATION METHODS OF FINANCIAL ENGINEERING

Topicality. The article defines the place and implementation of the tasks of financial engineering. In recent years, against the background of the active use of trade and financial instruments, the complexity of monetary relations between enterprises and financial institutions and the wide spread of computer technologies increase the relevance of the topic.Aim and tasks. The main purpose of the article is to determine the possibility of misuse of financial instruments reflecting the system of risk management, which is an element of financial engineering, which is considered as a means of achieving the competitiveness and strategic advantage of organizations.Research results. In the modern world, the processes of making managerial decisions are becoming more and more complex, while it is necessary to take into account an increasing number of factors that affect the financial results of an enterprise. Decision-makers are required to use mathematical skills in the design of financial transactions, knowledge of the basics of computer modeling. Today, not a single major financial institution in the world, including central banks, can work without computer mathematical models of modern financial science. From this point of view, a new direction in the training of specialists is relevant - financial engineering.Materials and methods. While conducting the research, sources related to financial engineering were examined, articles related to the complexity of monetary relations between enterprises and financial institutions and the wide spread of computer technologies were analyzed. Content analysis, induction, deduction, and comparative analysis methods were used during the research.Conclusion. The conclusion of the study is that the use of innovative financial technologies or the borrowing and use of advanced financial instruments from us requires a qualitatively new arrangement of cooperation, which is not possible under implementing sanctions. The final result is that the use of innovative financial technologies, the organization of the professional association of economists and financiers of the country, the creation and development of self-regulating organizations, the formation of a community of highly qualified specialists and the development of the quality management system of educational services are necessary for the development of machine building in Azerbaijan.

Advertising – digital communication for the socio–cultural development of the ancestral cultural sanctuaries of the red road: Yololo (Chongón) and Cempohualli (Guale)

The objective of this work was to analyze the management of digital communication in the ancestral cultural sanctuaries Yololo Chicomoztoc Teocalli and Campo Hualli located in Chongón and Guale in Ecuador, respectively, the links between digital communication and socio-cultural developmentwere examined, offering a unique experience by sharing on digital platforms the services that these places provide and the benefits they bring. The research is of a non-experimental and transactional design, of an exploratory type, for which research tools were used that allowed obtaining relevant data, which were analyzed and interpreted, providing valuable information for creating and implementing communication strategies on digital platforms. In a simple and friendly way.

Tecnologías ancestrales para la sostenibilidad en comunidades periurbanas

The strong pressure exerted by urban planning on rural territories means that they are threatened in their ways of life and production, the exodus of the young generation threatens the loss of ancestral knowledge in crop management, making agricultural activity vulnerable. Hence, the objective of this study was to evaluate the sustainability of ancestral technologies around green onion in the community of El Bajo, San Francisco, Zulia, Venezuela. The work is framed in the empirical-inductive exploratory episteme, correspondent a non-experimental ex post facto, transactional design. For the analysis, the Management Sustainability Index was estimated, compound of partial economic, social, environmental and technological indices. For each index, indicators valued on a scale of 0 to 2 were displayed; where 0 represents low sustainability and 2 high sustainability, these were reflected in a questionnaire applied to farmers. In addition, an analysis of main components was carried out, which allowed establishing groups from the generated indices. The results showed that the ancestral technology of producing under the "Barbacoas" system has an average sustainability of 1.22, revealing that the economic factor (IPSE 0.9) represents the lowest contribution to sustainability and the technological factor (IPST 1,45) the one with the greatest contribution, the use of "Barbacoas" is supported by the solid knowledge of ecological agronomic practices that have been used for decades and that have been inherited from generation to generation. The principal components analysis allowed us to identify three components or factors that explain 77.2% of the total variance, group 1, for whom the technology of Barbacoas as a production system (ISPT 60.9%) has greater weight, represented by experienced farmers, older adults; group 2, those who produce based on the generation of sufficient income to satisfy the elementary needs of the family, within these, are the farmers with a medium level of education (IPSE 86.5%) and in group 3 those who attach importance to aspects related to the protection of the environment and its relationship with production (IPSA 87.7%). Despite the fact that there are few active farmers, the results reveal important differences that threaten the continuity of this technology. The path to the sustainability of the territories begins with the union and organization of farmers, promoting the interaction of institutions, government and community.

Learning at the university through technology-mediated activities (El aprendizaje universitario a través de actividades mediadas por tecnologías)

ABSTRACT The current demands of the digital society are conditioned by the use of technologies. In the current situation, it is necessary to rethink formal higher education, in order to centre the leading role of the process on the students and to complement the formal offer with other types of learning and skills acquired in non-formal and informal contexts. The purpose of this study is to analyse the technology-mediated activities carried out by students at the National University of Costa Rica. A quantitative, non-experimental and transactional design has been carried out, using the PLEAS scale, with a sample of 1,187 final year students from 51 university degrees. The data show an intense use of ICT for activities related to accessing information, a moderate use for creating content and, to a lesser extent, for sharing information. The importance of training in technology for the use and development of personal learning environments is highlighted. It is recommended to recognize complementary inputs from informal and non-formal settings to benefit students’ personal and professional skills.

Educational leadership of teachers in the selfregulation learning process of university students

This study investigated the influence of teachers’ educational leadership on the self-regulation learning process of the first-semester university students of the Social Communication and Journalism program in a higher education institution in Colombia. Nonexperimental quantitative methodology and transactional correlational design were employed wherein the MLQ and the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire were used. The data collected were analyzed, thus revealing that for the educational leadership variable, the transformational leadership style presented the highest percentage of participation among teachers, and for the self-regulation learning variable, it was found that students do use self-regulation strategies.
 Keywords: Self-regulated learning, educational leadership, transformational leadership theory, academic achievement.

Agribusiness potential of castor oil plant (Ricinus communis L.) in Mexico

Objective: To describe the agribusiness potential of the castor oil plant in Mexico through the collection and analysis of agricultural, industrial and commercial information that allows decision making for the formulation of future productive projects to generate economic, social and technological impacts.Design/Methodology/Approach: The study is descriptive with a transactional design. The information was collected on national and international agrifood statistical and documentary information platforms.Results: Different attempts have been made in Mexico in commercial and research projects related to the cultivation, production and transformation of castor oil, with results that are not very encouraging due to the lack of knowledge about productive, technological and commercial processes. However, on the other hand, the need for the industrial sector to import oil to produce high-value products is evident. Study Limitations/Implications: Isolated efforts have been made by each of the actors in the castor oil agribusiness, which has prevented the sector’s consolidation.Findings/Conclusions: An intelligent management of agricultural production must be implemented through the establishment of commercial crops with the adoption of basic technological packages applied to each region in particular, with great attention to the availability of planting seed, which should have agronomic potential, use of nutrition and management of pests and diseases, as well as to foresee all the cultural tasks ofmaintenance of the crop and harvesting modality that guarantee yield in the field and quality raw material. Currently, there is a deficit in the castor oil market in the country, which leads to high business prospects and business opportunities.

Canva and Collaborative Learning in Virtual Environments with Students from the Private Universities of Lima-Peru

The use of digital tools in the educational sector has generated great impacts in the development of virtual classes, since they provide the possibility of interaction between students to carry out work in groups, such is the case of Canva, which facilitates the creation of online infographic materials with creative designs, through the active contribution of each of the members, which can be evaluated in real time by the teacher. The general objective of the research was to determine the relationship between the use of Canva in collaborative learning in virtual environments with students from private universities in Lima. The study was of a basic or pure type, with a quantitative approach, correlational-causal level, transactional design and explanatory level. The sample was obtained by simple random probabilistic sampling and was made up of 217 participants; the technique applied was the survey, the instruments were two questionnaires validated by the judgment of four experts, with a Cronbach's Alpha (0.982 and 0.976), the Descriptive and inferential statistical analysis was performed using the IBM SPSS Statistics 25 program. According to the results obtained, they show that the variables studied have a positive and significant correlation, since 41.1% of the variability of collaborative learning depends on the use of Canva, in the same way, 37.4% of reciprocity, 33.6% of responsibility and 32.4% of affective and positive relationships depend on the use of Canva in students from private universities in Lima-Peru , which denotes the importance of this digital tool in the interaction of students to carry out collaborative work.

All in One: Design, Verification, and Implementation of SNOW-optimal Read Atomic Transactions

Distributed read atomic transactions are important building blocks of modern cloud databases that magnificently bridge the gap between data availability and strong data consistency. The performance of their transactional reads is particularly critical to the overall system performance, as many real-world database workloads are dominated by reads. Following the SNOW design principle for optimal reads, we develop LORA, a novel SNOW-optimal algorithm for distributed read atomic transactions. LORA completes its reads in exactly one round trip, even in the presence of conflicting writes, without imposing additional overhead to the communication, and it outperforms the state-of-the-art read atomic algorithms. To guide LORA’s development, we present a rewriting-logic-based framework and toolkit for design, verification, implementation, and evaluation of distributed databases. Within the framework, we formalize LORA and mathematically prove its data consistency guarantees. We also apply automatic model checking and statistical verification to validate our proofs and to estimate LORA’s performance. We additionally generate from the formal model a correct-by-construction distributed implementation for testing and performance evaluation under realistic deployments. Our design-level and implementation-based experimental results are consistent, which together demonstrate LORA’s promising data consistency and performance achievement.

Propuesta de rediseño curricular para la carrera de Derecho, mediante la formación basada en competencias

The objective of this study was to propose the curricular redesign of the “San Agustín” Law degree, through competency-based training, in response to the demands, social needs and expectations of professional training, in correspondence with the development of legal sciences. from the Technical University of Oruro, Bolivia. The type of research was descriptive-exploratory and propositional, with a non-experimental and transactional design. The results indicated that 52% of those surveyed endorse the current curriculum as excellent and good. It is concluded that the curricular redesign of the study plan, of the Law degree, is achieved through competency-based training, based on the study and analysis of the “quality” element in the graduates, to identify the difficulties and problems that they face, contrasting them with the study profile, in order to determine that the current study plan does not meet the current challenges.

Environmental Awareness in University Students According to Gender and Age

Environmental awareness is the constant articulation that exists between man and his environment. For this, the human being relies on his experiences, wisdom and praxis. The objective was to describe the levels of environmental awareness of students of the health career. The approach was quantitative, of a substantive type and a non-experimental, transactional design. For this study, the sample consisted of 500 students drawn through probability sampling. The technique used was the survey and the instruments were the questionnaire on a Likert scale, Cronbach's alpha. Regarding the conclusion, it was found that 45.8% of all students presented unacceptable levels of environmental awareness. Of 20 years, 42% of the female gender presented an unacceptable level of environmental awareness, while men, 28.2% of unacceptable level of environmental awareness. From 21 to 23 years old, 11.4% presented an unacceptable level. Regarding students over 24 years of age, 6.2% presented an unacceptable level.

Dynamics of the behavior of competitiveness factors in the textile sector

The research studied the dynamics of the factors that determine competitiveness in the textile sector in Huancayo, Peru, given that in recent years it has been affected, with repercussions on profits, economic-financial stability, jobs, among others. Competitiveness is given by the interaction of various resources, actors and circumstances, which generate situations that could be auspicious or detrimental to the sector and other sectors. As a general perspective, Porter's Competitive Diamond Model and Action-Participatory Research have been used, combining scientific rigor with industrial practice. In applied research of non-experimental transactional design, an Attitude Scale was used as an instrument with 62 items and Likert-type answers, considering 7 latent variables. The methodological intervention was carried out on a sample of 75 sectoral experts. The factors that mainly determine the competitiveness of the textile sector are the structure, rivalry and strategy developed by the companies with a path coefficient of 0.812, the understanding of the behavior of the demand with a path value of 0.912 and the actions of the Government with an inverse relation of 0.824 for the respective path coefficient; while no relation has been established with the variable Integration or cluster.

Structural Transactional Analysis: Ego Selves and Ego States - Cause-Effect and Interventions

This article identifies the physiological, neurological, and psychological determinants that arise from constraints imposed by both genetic and environmental factors, originating human behaviours. The determinants, called Ego Selves, that organise the phenomena that Eric Berne classified, structured, conceptualised, and defined to mould transactional analysis and design instruments to assist professionals and patients to adjust behaviours, are analysed. A different form of presenting the adapted Child, differentiating it from Berne’s model where the adapted Child is shown as a part of the natural Child, is presented. Parent-Adapted Child, and the Adult ego states, adjusting their manifestation and organization to the physiological development of their corres-ponding ego self, are identified, proposing that the Adapted Child is a part of the Parent ego state. Contamination is reviewed and adjusted for cons-istency between cause and effect, identifying that the contaminated ego state is the Parent ego state, creating a delusion based on injunctions that generate an illusion in the adapted Child portion of it which in turn causes the natural child’s emotional reaction, considerably limiting the Adult ego state's capabilities to intervene. Script analysis is reviewed and organised indicating that the script is a life plan initiated at conception and ending at death, and that it is indispensable for survival, having adequate and inadequate segments that may limit lifespan and quality of life. Occurrences, neurophysiological factors, and memories involved in their development and implementation are also identified. Suggestions and examples for the integrated development of intervention strategies and tactics to adjust behaviours and fulfil contracts are presented in the corresponding section.

Day-ahead-real-time Market Transaction Rolling Optimization Mechanism based on System Security Operation Constraints

Under the "dual carbon" goal and background, as the scale of investment and construction of new energy projects and grid-connected transmission continue to increase, the safe operation of the power system and power market transactions will usher in new opportunities and challenges. Based on the micro-grid Day-ahead-real-time market two-stage transaction design theory, this paper proposes a micro-grid Day-ahead-real-time market two-stage rolling adjustment optimization transaction mechanism based on system security operation constraints, and briefly analyzes the income situation.