Browsing by Subject "Failure"

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    Las emociones experimentadas por los participantes en una competición matemática de resolución de problema
    (Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones, 2018) Amado, Nélia; Carreira, Susana
    Las emociones aún son insuficientemente investigadas cuando se estudia la experiencia de los jóvenes estudiantes, principalmente en el que concierne a las emociones positivas que implican en la actividad de resolución de problemas. Por otro lado, hay muchos estudios que se relacionan con las dificultades, la ansiedad, la resistencia y la pasividad, a menudo asociadas con el fracaso en las matemáticas. La investigación ha mostrado que la actividad matemática no puede verse estrictamente cognoscitiva y libre de emociones; en el contrario, el sistema afectivo juega un rol central en el aprendizaje de las matemáticas. En este artículo, presentamos resultados de un proyecto de investigación llevado a cabo en el contexto empírico de las competiciones matemáticas inclusivas que se realizan a través de Internet: SUB12 y SUB14. Se presentan y analizan datos de un cuestionario a los participantes, entrevistas abiertas y correos electrónicos intercambiados durante las competiciones. Las conclusiones del estudio señalan que los estudiantes experimentan fuertes emociones positivas, a saber, entusiasmo, alegría, disfrute, orgullo y felicidad, asociadas a un desempeño exitoso en la resolución de problemas matemáticos, como era de esperar. Los resultados también muestran que las emociones negativas frente a la dificultad y el fracaso tienden a ser emociones suaves que parecen ser transitorias y se convierten en emociones positivas. Explicamos estos resultados en función de las características específicas del entorno cultural de estos concursos, es decir, fomentando la búsqueda de ayuda, proporcionando comentarios positivos y dando a los participantes la oportunidad de mejorar.
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    Failure, Erasure, and Oblivion in Joâo Pedro Rodrigues and Joâo Rui Guerra da Mata’s Asian Trilogy: Red Dawn, The Last Time I Saw Macao, and Iec Long
    (Edinburgh University Press, 2022-02) Suárez, Juan A.; Filología Inglesa
    João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata’s “Asian Trilogy” comprises the films they co-directed in and about Macao, the former Portuguese enclave in southeast China. The films are relative oddities in the directors’ filmography, especially when contrasted with the flamboyant melodramas that preceded them (Odete [Two Drifters, 2005] and Morrer Como um Homem [To Die Like a Man, 2009]) and the oneiric, spiritual odyssey that followed them (O Ornitólogo [The Ornithologist, 2016]). While Rodrigues is the exclusive director of these better-known feature films, the “Asian films” are joint directorial efforts with Guerra da Mata, Rodrigues’s art designer and occasional co-writer. The existing literature on the trilogy has had surprisingly little to say about the films' queer affect; fails to explore the peculiar reading of contemporary Macao in the films; and passes over its cataclysmic temporality and apocalyptic ending and its related animal subplot. These disparate thematic strands are the main strands pursued in this chapter. They will be explored through the lens of what Judith Halberstam has identified as “the queer art of failure”. Failure in the film – or in Halberstam’s work – is not a trait to be decried; as it blocks the habitual avenues of identification and intelligibility, it promotes alternative paths of desire and cognition. Failure in these films affects personal and collective identity. It plagues the protagonists' lives and defines Macao as a living space that is oppressively fixated on novelty and as the endgame of decolonization and of former emancipatory projects. The Macao of the films is caught in the cyclical temporality of underworld ritual murder, mindless renewal, neo-capitalist spectacle, and gambling. Like its protagonists, Macao has nowhere to go but into the evocation of a past that can only be recreated as a bygone utopia or as a tourist attraction, or into a post-human future where people have vanished and only animals remain. The Last Time I Saw Macao is the central, lengthiest, and most complex piece in the trilogy and its concerns radiate to the other two titles. For this reason, it is the point of entry into the analysis of the three films.
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    Survival of financially distressed SMEs and out-of-court versus in-court reorganization: explanatory internal factors
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2021) Manzaneque, Montserrat; Merino, Elena; Sánchez, Jesús Antonio
    The Directive (EU) 2019/1023 of 20th June 2019 on preventive restructuring frameworks, have highlighted the need to evaluate, the possibilities of restructuring insolvent companies, but viable in the future. Based on the Theory of Resources, this research aims to identify those internal factors that contribute to explain the differences in the outcome of failure SMEs. To do this, a sample of 6,285 Spanish SMEs that failed in the 2008-2010 period was used and the evolution of each of them during the 2011-2013 period is observed. We have two aims: (1) to identify the internal differences influencing the path of reorganizations versus liquidation of failed SMEs, allowing a diagnosis of the firmt’s economic and financial situation in order to prevent its disappearance; and (2) to recognize significantly internal differences between reorganized outof- court and those reorganized in-court. Specifically, our results reveal that the ability of the firm to create value and to manage the receivable and working capital financial design and the level of historical slack contribute to understand the differences between SMEs that are able to overcome difficult situations and survive of those that are liquidated. In addition, our results also reveal that the level of assets and debts are the main difference between firms that opt for an out-of-court reorganization and those that follow a judicial reorganization process