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La siguiente comunicación presenta los resultados de una investigación que tiene como objetivo identificar los valores relacionados con la felicidad que aparecen en los spots electorales para las Elecciones a las Cortes Generales Españolas de los partidos políticos tradicionales (PP, PSOE e IU) y emergentes (Podemos y C's), así como estudiar su función y construcción dentro de estas piezas electorales a lo largo del tiempo (1993- 2015). A partir de un análisis de contenido cualitativo y de orientación narratológica, esta investigación revela que hay una serie de valores relacionados con la felicidad que aparecen en todos los partidos y que suelen presentarse como la finalidad última de las acciones políticas. Los discursos de la muestra seleccionada señalan que la felicidad se suele encontrar tras las elecciones en un futuro indeterminado, pero nunca automáticamente después de votar a un partido u a otro, tras la llegada al gobierno de determinada formación política o al finalizar una legislatura. De este modo, la obtención de la felicidad se convierte en un proceso sin fin, en el que el bienestar nunca se alcanza plenamente mediante el ejercicio político. No obstante, los resultados también muestran que, en el discurso electoral, los partidos suelen presentarse como propiciadores de felicidad, y los ciudadanos pueden adoptar distintos roles en función cada partido.

Although there seems to be a growing interest in the study of the citizen's happiness as an alternative measure of a country's progress to GDP, happiness as a public concern is still an ambiguous concept, hard to define. Moreover, different notions are used indiscriminately to talk about the same thing. This investigation aims to determine the conceptions of happiness, well-being and quality of life that originate from the indexes that different governments and public institutions around the world have created to study them. Through the Scoping Review method, this study identifies the recent academic research in this field (a total of 267 documents between 2006 and 2016) from some of the most popular social sciences databases around the world, Web of Science, Scopus, JSTOR, Sage, EBSCO, IBSS and Google Scholar, and in Spain, ISOC and Dialnet. These 267 documents referenced 53 different indexes and researches. The Grounded Theory method has been applied to a sample of 13 indexes in order to identify the main categories they use to determine these three concepts. The results show that these are multi-dimensional concepts and similar indicators are used indistinctly to measure happiness, well-being and quality of life.

En este artículo se demuestra que existió una relación de correspondencia entre la polarización que, expresada en percepciones de certidumbre e incertidumbre institucional, surgió sobre la confiabilidad de la elección Presidencial de julio del 2006 y sus resultados y la preferencia o no por la democracia como forma de gobierno. Por otra parte se analizan los precedentes que llevaron a un resurgimiento de las percepciones de incertidumbre institucional en el contexto de la sucesión Presidencial. La evidencia principal proviene de la encuesta postelectoral realizada por el Proyecto de Elecciones Nacionales Comparadas. El trabajo concluye que la relación que se presenta tiene implicaciones para el proceso de consolidación democrática en México, el cual no puede trascender aún la etapa de la estabilización de las reglas electorales.

The available research in the mediation arena regarding child custody disputes indicates a lack of and growing need for effective intervention techniques. The authors present practicing mediators with a specific intervention model for interviewing, safeguarding, and empowering children in the process of mediating custody disputes. The mediation model utilizes a structured, strategic, and process‐oriented approach with a family systems theoretical orientation and may be used in private or court‐connected settings. The model presented here goes beyond the child‐centered interview norm to the inclusion of the child in the process to assist parents in decision making. The model supports the current California statute under Family Code Section 3023, which states that "if a child is of sufficient age and capacity to reason so as to form an intelligent preference as to custody, the court shall consider and give due weight to the wishes of the child in making an award of custody or modification." The model does, however, maintain the position that the final decision continues to lie with the parents or the courts and not the child.

Learn by doing with this user-friendly introduction to time series data analysis in R. This book explores the intricacies of managing and cleaning time series data of different sizes, scales and granularity, data preparation for analysis and visualization, and different approaches to classical and machine learning time series modeling and forecasting. A range of pedagogical features support students, including end-of-chapter exercises, problems, quizzes and case studies. The case studies are designed to stretch the learner, introducing larger data sets, enhanced data management skills, and R packages and functions appropriate for real-world data analysis. On top of providing commented R programs and data sets, the book's companion website offers extra case studies, lecture slides, videos and exercise solutions. Accessible to those with a basic background in statistics and probability, this is an ideal hands-on text for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as researchers in data-rich disciplines

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