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En Costa Rica se han realizado importantes avances en la promoción y la atención de personas estudiantes con alto potencial. A pesar del progreso en la legislación, persiste la dificultad para alcanzar un consenso conceptual al mantenerse diferentes definiciones y usos de los términos: alto potencial, alta dotación y talento. Además, se conservan raíces del enfoque de normalidad que insisten en privilegiar a un grupo estudiantil con procesos de identificación y con procedimientos para la optimización de sus potencialidades y de sus talentos. A partir de esta realidad se hace necesario reflexionar sobre la posibilidad de orientar acciones que garanticen una educación integral para toda la comunidad de estudiantes. Esto plantea importantes desafíos, ya que exige concebir la diversidad como una característica inherente de las personas. Como parte de la atención de esta heterogeneidad, se debe garantizar que cada persona estudiante cuente con la oportunidad de participar en procesos de evaluaciones psicopedagógicas y reciba una mediación oportuna e individualizada con personas profesionales capacitadas, desde la implementación de un currículo flexible que les permita a todos y todas lograr optimizar y expresar sus potencialidades. ; In Costa Rica important advances have been made in the promotion and care of the students with high potential. Despite the legislation progress, it exists a difficulty in reaching conceptual consensus keeping different definitions and uses of the following terms: high potential, high endowment, and talent. Additionally, the roots of the normality approach that insist on privileging a student's group with identification processes and procedures for perfecting their potentialities and talents are supported. Based on this reality, the author finds necessary to consider on the possibility of redirect the existing actions in a way that guarantee education quality for the entire student´s community. This creates important challenges since it requires conceiving diversity as an inherent ...

En este ensayo se realiza un análisis de la psicopedagogía en el contexto costarricense a partir de una exhaustiva revisión bibliográfica. Se resalta el papel protagónico de las universidades, las cuales forjaron el camino para el desarrollo de la psicopedagogía por medio de su intervención investigativa y formativa en el país. El creciente interés por mejorar los procesos de aprendizaje y la investigación educativa son acontecimientos significativos que impulsaron la institucionalización de la psicopedagogía como especialidad universitaria. No es hasta 1998, cuando surge como profesión, que se otorgan los primeros diplomas en licenciatura en psicopedagogía en la Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica. Actualmente, el campo psicopedagógico enfrenta desafíos como la consolidación epistemológica, la delimitación de las funciones profesionales y el aumento de los escenarios de ejercicio profesional.

Máster Universitario en Migraciones Internacionales Contemporáneas ; Tras el estallido de la Revolución Cubana en 1959 comienza en Cuba una nueva etapa de su historia como consecuencia de sus oleadas migratorias. El motivo más claro que aporta este proyecto es conocer de primera mano la voz de esas migraciones cubanas y su impacto tanto a nivel nacional como internacional, habida cuenta del momento histórico-político de acercamiento con EEUU. En este sentido, la historia de vida, como investigación cualitativa, me ha permitido conocer a través de sus entrevistas, la situación previa a la salida de aquellos que emigraron y los que no, los motivos de su desplazamiento, la elección del país de acogida, su acogimiento, sus experiencias relacionales, y el posible retorno a su país de origen, descubriendo tras ello una realidad para muchos desconocida. ; After the outbreak of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, in Cuba begins a new stage of its own history as a result of their migratory waves. The clearest reason that offers this project is to learn first-hand the voice of those migrants and realize its impact in a national and international level, with special attention to its historical and political stage of rapprochement with the United States. In this sense, the history of life, as qualitative research, has allowed me to know, through their interviews, their situation before left the country or the life of those who remained in the island, the reasons for their displacement and the choice of the host country, their placement, relational experiences, and the possible return to their country of origin. Discovering at all time, a reality for many unknown.

Esta revisión contempla los procesos de cambio que afrontan las sociedades y las organizaciones y, de manera coherente, las administraciones públicas. Son muchos los elementos que favorecerán el cambio en las administraciones públicas pero todos ellos serán insuficientes sin contar con el factor humano. Por ello, esta revisión se fundamenta sobre las conclusiones de los estudios que han confirmado las importantes contribuciones del liderazgo a los procesos de cambio organizativo, a los resultados, a la salud y al bienestar de las plantillas, siendo el liderazgo una importante línea de estudio dentro de la psicología positiva. De igual forma, son numerosas las vías de investigación centradas en la comprensión de los efectos a nivel psicológico y neurobiológico producidos por prácticas contemplativas como mindfulness. Por ello, resulta de interés revisar y relacionar estos constructos.

The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10693-015-0230-1 ; We examine the role of the investor type in the fee structure of pension plans. Our examination uses a data set of employer-sponsored and individual private pension funds in Spain. We find different determinants of the fees between these two pension plans. We find evidence of market penetration strategies in individual plans but none in employer-sponsored plans. In these plans, the fees are negatively related to their financial groups' market share, whereas in individual plans this relation is negative for management fees but positive for custodian fees. Further, except in the case of custodian fees in individual plans, we find that all fees diminish when the custodian and management firms belong to different financial groups. ; This paper has received financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (ECO2012-35946-C02-01). Isabel Abinzano particularly acknowledges the financial support of the Andalusian Regional Government (P12-SEJ-1733).

This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Emerging Markets Finance and Trade on 2014/12/7, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.2753/REE1540-496X490504. ; We analyse the impact of default probability in four leading Latin American stock markets (Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico). We find no positive default risk premium except in the case of Brazil, and in fact find a negative risk premium for Argentina and Mexico. The latter effect tends to fade when the analysis accounts for size and BTM market variables. Although we find no size effect in any of the markets considered, the BTM effect is very strong in all of them, and our results reveal a consistent relationship, analogous to that found in more developed markets, between default probability and the size and book-to-market variables. ; This paper has received financial supp ort from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (ECO2009-12819) and the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (ECO2012-35946-C02-01). Isabel Abinzano particularly acknowledges the financial support of the Andalusian Regional Government (P09-SEJ-4467).

This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Applied Economics Letters on May 2016, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2015.1093074 ; We test for the existence of Favorite-Longshot Bias (FLB) in tennis betting exchanges. Despite these being order-driven markets, with no direct participation from bookmakers, we have found very similar results to those obtained by Lahvička (2014) for bookmakers' betting markets: the bias is stronger in matches between lower ranked players, in later round matches and in high profile tournaments. This suggests that bookmakers' adjustments to respond to informed betting are not the main driver of FLB. The varying magnitude of the bias across different types of event in the main market also weakens arguments linking FLB to gamblers' risk preferences, and suggests the need to consider the microstructure features of the market together with the cognitive biases highlighted in the behavioral finance literature. ; This article has received financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [ECO2012- 35946-C02-01]. Isabel Abinzano particularly acknowledges the financial support of the Andalusian Regional Government [P12-SEJ-1713].

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Abinzano, I., Muga, L. and Santamaria, R. (2014), Is default risk the hidden factor in momentum returns? Some empirical results. Account Finance, 54: 671–698, which has been published in final form at doi:10.1111/acfi.12021. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. ; This paper analyzes the role of default risk in the momentum effect focusing on data from four developed European stock markets (France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom). Using a market-based measure of default risk, we show that it is not the hidden factor behind this effect. While the loser portfolio is characterized by high default risk, small size, high BTM and illiquidity, characterization of the winner portfolio is somewhat more complex. Given that the momentum strategy is the return differential between the winners and the losers, factors such as the stock market cycle or the evolution of momentum portfolios against their reference point make momentum profits difficult to forecast. ; This paper has received financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (ECO2009-12819) and the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (ECO2012-35946-C02-01). Isabel Abinzano particularly acknowledges the financial support of the Andalusian Regional Government (P09-SEJ-4467).