The technological changes that have taken place worldwide in various areas in recent decades are evident, and the business world is no exception. Access to new information and communication technologies has allowed a dynamic interaction between the company-client relationships. It is especially in the field of versatility concerning the exponential increase in the use of mobile smart devices, tablets, cell phones facilitating the use of mobile applications, these have now become highly supportive tools for performing routine processes and tasks. In this document, the best benefits of the use of the most common mobile applications used in public and private companies in the city of Riobamba were determined, both for companies and for customers or users. An exploratory methodology was used with a probabilistic sample through a simple random sampling. The main global trends are evidenced in the results obtained through the surveys. It should be noted that there are wide use and preference in the use of applications in non-business versions. However, these tools foster customer loyalty and a sense of belonging on the part of company staff, while facilitating internal communication in organizations.

Background: The diabetic foot is the clinical entity that is represented as the main complication of diabetes, 20% of diabetics will need an annual hospitalization and of this 25% is due to the diabetic foot. The main objective of the study was to present and establish the demographic characteristics by means of classification scales of the diabetic foot in the patients who go to the Emergency Department of the General Hospital South Guasmo. Methods: A retrospective, descriptive, observational study was performed in patients with diabetic foot during the year 2018 and 2019. Age, gender, evolution time to present with diabetic foot, clinical characteristics according to the Wagner and Texas scale were analyzed. Microsoft Excel was used and the information was processed to obtain percentages of qualitative and quantitative variables, Pearson's correlation index was used for each classification. Results: 70 patients with diabetic foot were evaluated, 60% male, predominant age group of 51 to 60 years with 36%. Type of diabetes mellitus 2 with 86%, the evolution time for clinical presentation of the diabetic foot most frequently from 16 to 20 years with 36%. The Texas and Wagner scale were used for clinical characteristics, mortality rates were in favor with a higher percentage for the Wagner scale with 17% vs. 5% for Texas. Conclusions: Staging of the diabetic foot according to the scales used, and the clinical characteristics found is of medical importance, health promotion, prevention of diabetes mellitus and good management of complications is decisive from the first level of care in Health.

This research work determines the level of mechanical risks in the execution of palm oil extraction activities by workers in the company La Joya. The level of exposure, the probability of occurrence of the event and the consequences thereof were quantified using the William Fine method. To deepen the study, a statistical analysis of the accidents reported in 2017 was carried out using the Technical Note of Prevention (NTP) 236.

The investigation begins with the application of the matrix of identification of occupational hazards observing greater impact due to blows with mobile or immobile objects, falls at the same or different level, entrapment between objects, thermal contact, falling of detached objects, cuts and lacerations in the operators of palm oil extraction in the production area. Finally, a statistical analysis was applied with the application of the PJ Shipp tables, determining the months with the highest incidence of accidents with the graphic comparison per month of the curve of the accumulated frequency indices and the upper and lower limits determined by the records of the 2017. The results determine a degree of danger (GP) of 120 in the position of: Red oil production boiler and in the digester or hopper, with a GP of 48 the sterilization and maintenance post.

The main objective of this study was to propose the implementation of the Kahoot platform in the teaching of English vocabulary in the Level II of the Electronic Engineering in Control and Industrial Networks Career; by considering the effectiveness of the aforementioned technological tool and the main difficulties students present when learning English vocabulary. The approach was qualitative-quantitative, since both descriptive and inferential results were examined. The design was quasi-experimental, of documentary type and within the procedures four scenarios were considered; design of the measuring instruments, pretest and posttest; reliability and validity of the instruments; data collection; and results analysis and interpretation. For the sample 48 students of Level II of English were selected. During the intervention three Kahoot activities were implemented, cloze activity, quiz, and word order. From the tests applied at the beginning and at the end of the intervention, it was observed that the average of the Pre-test was 4.30 / 10 while in the Post-test the score was 7.45 / 10. The research allows us to conclude that students were not motivated to learn vocabulary because the classes were monotonous and printed dictionaries were used, hence the importance of introducing technology in the classroom. It was also observed that the activities offered by the Kahoot platform are effective, not only because there was an increase of 3.15 points in the academic performance of the students who participated in this study; but they also boosted the level of creativity and collaborative work of the students.

The comparative research establishes the connection between technology use and language development in 4-year-old children. Furthermore, this research included 34 kids who attend to Preschool at Sagrada Familia School. The 34 kids were assigned into two groups, an experimental group and a control group. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used throughout the information gathering techniques. So, to get the kids’ language development level, language sub-test from psychomotor development test TEPSI was used. The test’s images were used with the experimental group while technology was used with the control group. The test results were obtained, and they were analyzed by a statistics program. Additionally, the techno-logy use promoted the language assessment obtaining appropriate scores in relation to the kids’ age. Definitely, technology has to be taken as a supportive key to language development on digital natives. It is in that way how new research areas emerge about technology and its therapeutic use in early stimulation areas.

An innovative approach of learning in higher education level is certainly flipped classroom, the application of new technology in the educational field is helping educations with real advantages in this digital era that engages learners and tutors in flipped classroom learning. The present study assesses an efficient revision of the bibliography on the flipped classroom, with the aims of advantages with its challenges that face two main actors; university learners and professors. The effect of the flipped model and its improvement to higher education is conducted on the interest of its operation in several academic fields. It is discussed the advantages and interests of the flipped model in teaching contents breaking the traditional model with the access and application of technological tools in the academic context. The research concludes with a suggestion based on the influence of technology as a resource of learning acquisition and the evidence of improvement in learner’s academic lives with the performance and practice of the flipped model approach.

The present work is an investigation on the use of Common Mallow (Malva Sylvestris) and Guarumbo (Cecropia Peltata) mucilage, for the formulation of sparkling wine in which the removal of free gold by the flotation method was completed. For this, the hydrophobicity of gold had to be induced with surfactants such as the common detergent and with the help of the viscosity given by the mucilage, the generation of a stable foam was achieved, with a sufficient height where the mineral was concentrated, recovering 72%, compared to 81% obtained with conventional tests.

The maintenance audit allows to identify opportunities for improvement in the activities carried out by a company to maintain or restore physical assets in the operating conditions desired by its users. The proposal of the present work is to provide a tool that allows to apply a maintenance audit to any type of organization such as industrial companies, hospitals, and others. The proposed audit process consists of four phases: planning, doing, verifying and acting, in accordance with the guidelines of ISO 19011. The criteria of the evaluation instrument were defined by the Delphi technique and subsequently weighted using the multicriteria analysis technique called Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP).Once the questionnaire was determined, it was executed in accordance with the planning and a diagnosis was made of the state of maintenance management of a cement company in Ecuador, obtaining 62 conformities and three nonconformities as a result of the audit, so the company an evaluation of 92%, equivalent to a “cuasi satisfactory” maintenance management. In addition, it will be identified that there is potential to improve aspects related to: maintenance human resources, maintenance management control, maintenance planning and programming, to obtain 100% conformities.

Con el objetivo de establecer adecuaciones en el proceso de enseñanza de la técnica de carrera que permita un correcto desempeño de la técnica de las carreras planas se realizó el presente trabajo investigativo, Que está centrado en el proceso que conllevan al aprendizaje de la técnica de carrera, donde se llevó a cabo un análisis prospectivo, de naturaleza cualitativa-cuantitativa que permitió indagar acerca del fenómeno estudiado. Se ejecutó una investigación crítica, reflexiva y propositiva acerca de las formas de enseñanza y procedimientos metodológicos, encaminados a un aprendizaje significativo de la técnica de las carreras planas, elementos estos fundamentales para la aplicación de la observación durante el desempeño técnico. Los resultados de la investigación comprobaron las deficiencias existentes en el proceso. Para la validez de los ejercicios evaluados de la ficha de observación se comprobaron a través de los procesamientos estadísticos de Test de Student y el concerniente análisis e interpretación, esto nos condujo a la ejecución de parámetros que ayudaron al desarrollo y mejoría del componente técnico, creando de este modo una guía de ejercicios.

The supported computer simulation of the CAE software helps to validate the prototypes, which have features of functionality that is to say that they are subject to operational loads, the simulation is based on the application of the preprocess, process and postprocess stages. In the preprocessing stage the geometric conditions of the splints are determined, which are obtained through the application of reverse engineering such as 3D scanning, in this stage the type of material with which the splint will be constructed for this PLA (Polylactic Acid) material research is proposed, the boundary conditions are established that are the operating restrictions as well as the loads that will be submitted, an analysis of the mesh quality is established so that the results converge.