Diseño de una propuesta de Diccionario de Competencias y Herramientas de Coaching Ejecutivo dirigida al equipo de ventas de una institución de educación superior.
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Ultra Wideband radar-based gait analysis for gender classification using artificial intelligence
Gender classification plays a vital role in various applications, particularly in security and healthcare. While several biometric methods such as facial recognition, voice analysis, activity monitoring, and gait recognition are commonly used, their accuracy and reliability often suffer due to challenges like body part occlusion, high computational costs, and recognition errors. This study investigates gender classification using gait data captured by Ultra-Wideband radar, offering a non-intrusive and occlusion-resilient alternative to traditional biometric methods. A dataset comprising 163 participants was collected, and the radar signals underwent preprocessing, including clutter suppression and peak detection, to isolate meaningful gait cycles. Spectral features extracted from these cycles were transformed using a novel integration of Feedforward Artificial Neural Networks and Random Forests , enhancing discriminative power. Among the models evaluated, the Random Forest classifier demonstrated superior performance, achieving 94.68% accuracy and a cross-validation score of 0.93. The study highlights the effectiveness of Ultra-wideband radar and the proposed transformation framework in advancing robust gender classification.
Adil Ali Saleem mail , Hafeez Ur Rehman Siddiqui mail , Muhammad Amjad Raza mail , Sandra Dudley mail , Julio César Martínez Espinosa mail ulio.martinez@unini.edu.mx, Luis Alonso Dzul López mail luis.dzul@uneatlantico.es, Isabel de la Torre Díez mail ,
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Background: Physical activity in children and adolescents represents one of the most important lifestyle factors to determine current and future health. Aim: The aim of the study is to assess the lifestyle and dietary factors linked to physical activity in younger populations across five countries in the Mediterranean region. Design: A total of 2,011 parents of children and adolescents (age range 6–17 years) participating to a preliminary survey of the DELICIOUS project were investigated to determine children's adequate physical activity level (identified using the short form of the international physical activity questionnaire) as well as diet quality parameters [measured as Youth-Healthy Eating Index (Y-HEI)] and eating and lifestyle factors (i.e., meal habits, sleep duration, screen time, etc.). Logistic regression analyses were performed to assess the odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for the associations between variables of interest. Results: Younger children of younger parents currently working had higher rates and probability to have adequate physical activity. Multivariate analysis showed that children and adolescents who had breakfast (OR = 1.88, 95% CI: 1.38, 2.56) and often ate with their family (OR = 1.80, 95% CI: 0.90, 3.61) were more likely to have an adequate level of physical activity. Children and adolescents who reported a sleep duration (8–10 h) closest to the recommended one were significantly more likely to achieve adequate levels of physical activity (OR = 1.88, 95% CI: 1.38, 2.56). Conversely, those with more than 4 h of daily screen time were less likely to engage in adequate physical activity (OR = 0.77, 95% CI: 0.54, 1.10). Furthermore, children and adolescents in the highest tertile of YEHI scores showed a 60% greater likelihood of engaging in adequate physical activity (OR = 1.60, 95% CI: 1.27, 2.01). Conclusion: These results emphasize the importance of promoting healthy diet and lifestyle habits, including structured and high quality shared meals, sufficient sleep, and screen time moderation, as key strategies to support active behaviors in younger populations. Future interventions should focus on reinforcing these behaviors through parental guidance and community-based initiatives to foster lifelong healthy habits.
Alice Rosi mail , Francesca Scazzina mail , Maria Antonieta Touriz Bonifaz mail , Francesca Giampieri mail francesca.giampieri@uneatlantico.es, Achraf Ammar mail , Khaled Trabelsi mail , Osama Abdelkarim mail , Mohamed Aly mail , Evelyn Frias-Toral mail , Juancho Pons mail , Laura Vázquez-Araújo mail , Josep Alemany Iturriaga mail josep.alemany@uneatlantico.es, Lorenzo Monasta mail , Nunzia Decembrino mail , Ana Mata mail , Adrián Chacón mail , Pablo Busó mail , Giuseppe Grosso mail ,
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A systematic review of deep learning methods for community detection in social networks
Introduction: The rapid expansion of generated data through social networks has introduced significant challenges, which underscores the need for advanced methods to analyze and interpret these complex systems. Deep learning has emerged as an effective approach, offering robust capabilities to process large datasets, and uncover intricate relationships and patterns. Methods: In this systematic literature review, we explore research conducted over the past decade, focusing on the use of deep learning techniques for community detection in social networks. A total of 19 studies were carefully selected from reputable databases, including the ACM Library, Springer Link, Scopus, Science Direct, and IEEE Xplore. This review investigates the employed methodologies, evaluates their effectiveness, and discusses the challenges identified in these works. Results: Our review shows that models like graph neural networks (GNNs), autoencoders, and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are some of the most commonly used approaches for community detection. It also examines the variety of social networks, datasets, evaluation metrics, and employed frameworks in these studies. Discussion: However, the analysis highlights several challenges, such as scalability, understanding how the models work (interpretability), and the need for solutions that can adapt to different types of networks. These issues stand out as important areas that need further attention and deeper research. This review provides meaningful insights for researchers working in social network analysis. It offers a detailed summary of recent developments, showcases the most impactful deep learning methods, and identifies key challenges that remain to be explored.
Mohamed El-Moussaoui mail , Mohamed Hanine mail , Ali Kartit mail , Mónica Gracia Villar mail monica.gracia@uneatlantico.es, Helena Garay mail helena.garay@uneatlantico.es, Isabel de la Torre Díez mail ,
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Transformer-based ECG classification for early detection of cardiac arrhythmias
Electrocardiogram (ECG) classification plays a critical role in early detection and trocardiogram (ECG) classification plays a critical role in early detection and monitoring cardiovascular diseases. This study presents a Transformer-based deep learning framework for automated ECG classification, integrating advanced preprocessing, feature selection, and dimensionality reduction techniques to improve model performance. The pipeline begins with signal preprocessing, where raw ECG data are denoised, normalized, and relabeled for compatibility with attention-based architectures. Principal component analysis (PCA), correlation analysis, and feature engineering is applied to retain the most informative features. To assess the discriminative quality of the selected features, t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) is used for visualization, revealing clear class separability in the transformed feature space. The refined dataset is then input to a Transformer- based model trained with optimized loss functions, regularization strategies, and hyperparameter tuning. The proposed model demonstrates strong performance on the MIT-BIH benchmark dataset, showing results consistent with or exceeding prior studies. However, due to differences in datasets and evaluation protocols, these comparisons are indicative rather than conclusive. The model effectively classifies ECG signals into categories such as Normal, atrial premature contraction (APC), ventricular premature contraction (VPC), and Fusion beats. These results underscore the effectiveness of Transformer-based models in biomedical signal processing and suggest potential for scalable, automated ECG diagnostics. However, deployment in real-time or resource-constrained settings will require further optimization and validation.
Sunnia Ikram mail , Amna Ikram mail , Harvinder Singh mail , Malik Daler Ali Awan mail , Sajid Naveed mail , Isabel De la Torre Díez mail , Henry Fabian Gongora mail henry.gongora@uneatlantico.es, Thania Chio Montero mail ,
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Association between blood cortisol levels and numerical rating scale in prehospital pain assessment
Background Nowadays, there is no correlation between levels of cortisol and pain in the prehospital setting. The aim of this work was to determine the ability of prehospital cortisol levels to correlate to pain. Cortisol levels were compared with those of the numerical rating scale (NRS). Methods This is a prospective observational study looking at adult patients with acute disease managed by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and transferred to the emergency department of two tertiary care hospitals. Epidemiological variables, vital signs, and prehospital blood analysis data were collected. A total of 1516 patients were included, the median age was 67 years (IQR: 51–79; range: 18–103) with 42.7% of females. The primary outcome was pain evaluation by NRS, which was categorized as pain-free (0 points), mild (1–3), moderate (4–6), or severe (≥7). Analysis of variance, correlation, and classification capacity in the form area under the curve of the receiver operating characteristic (AUC) curve were used to prospectively evaluate the association of cortisol with NRS. Results The median NRS and cortisol level are 1 point (IQR: 0–4) and 282 nmol/L (IQR: 143–433). There are 584 pain-free patients (38.5%), 525 mild (34.6%), 244 moderate (16.1%), and 163 severe pain (10.8%). Cortisol levels in each NRS category result in p < 0.001. The correlation coefficient between the cortisol level and NRS is 0.87 (p < 0.001). The AUC of cortisol to classify patients into each NRS category is 0.882 (95% CI: 0.853–0.910), 0.496 (95% CI: 0.446–0.545), 0.837 (95% CI: 0.803–0.872), and 0.981 (95% CI: 0.970–0.991) for the pain-free, mild, moderate, and severe categories, respectively. Conclusions Cortisol levels show similar pain evaluation as NRS, with high-correlation for NRS pain categories, except for mild-pain. Therefore, cortisol evaluation via the EMS could provide information regarding pain status.
Raúl López-Izquierdo mail , Elisa A. Ingelmo-Astorga mail , Carlos del Pozo Vegas mail , Santos Gracia Villar mail santos.gracia@uneatlantico.es, Luis Alonso Dzul López mail luis.dzul@uneatlantico.es, Silvia Aparicio Obregón mail silvia.aparicio@uneatlantico.es, Rubén Calderón Iglesias mail ruben.calderon@uneatlantico.es, Ancor Sanz-García mail , Francisco Martín-Rodríguez mail ,
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Tipo de documento: Tesis (Masters)
Fecha de publicación: 2022-03-07
URI: https://repositorio.unini.edu.mx/id/eprint/1158
Resumen:
Los resultados de las organizaciones están vinculados con el nivel de las competencias de su talento humano. En el presente estudio se desarrolla el diseño de una propuesta de Diccionario de Competencias y Herramientas de Coaching Ejecutivo dirigida al equipo de ventas de una institución de educación superior, que está conformado por comportamientos observables, conductas y niveles asociados de cada una de las competencias establecidas a través de métodos de entrevista con los Directivos; siendo estas, Planificación, Organización y Negociación. El objetivo es abordado a través del enfoque de investigación cualitativa en virtud que las propuestas se ajustan a la necesidad de contar con herramientas desarrolladas a través de metodologías inductivas que permiten la flexibilidad de comparar propuestas de diferentes autores y establecer las propuestas planteadas para trabajar el Coaching Ejecutivo, por lo que esta propuesta no es experimental.Las propuestas de herramientas que miden los niveles requeridos y actuales de las competencias de los que se convertirían en sujetos de estudio, se basaron en instrumentos de medición técnica con escalas de medición de Likert para la mejor comprensión y clasificación de los niveles, según los puestos de trabajo; en virtud que, a través de estas mediciones basadas en los comportamientos asociados permitirá a los Directivos al implementarlas, establecer el diagnóstico en los equipos de ventas para quien fue desarrollado, u otras áreas de interés; ya que, no son limitativas las aplicaciones y se habilitan para futuras investigaciones.Los resultados evidentes luego de las entrevistas y los cuestionarios dirigidos a los Directivos, son el Diccionario de Competencias y conductas observables que contiene los niveles esperados, a partir de los criterios consensuados respecto al desempeño requerido en el equipo de ventas; sin embargo, se identificó la necesidad de contar con herramientas que permitan ir estableciendo los niveles actuales e ir acompañando con otras herramientas que establezcan las acciones y acompañen la implementación con el objetivo de impulsar el desarrollo personal y transformacional para que cada integrante del equipo pueda alcanzar las metas establecidas. La contribución a través de las herramientas propuestas, se manifiesta para cada una de la siguiente forma: a) la herramienta de Diccionario de Competencias diseñado para el equipo de ventas de la institución de educación superior, permitirá a los Directivos mejorar su gestión del talento humano, b) el contar con una evaluación diseñada para contribuir a la consecución de las metas definidas que contribuirá con identificar los niveles de desempeño y productividad de los colaboradores, c) contar con cuatro herramientas del coaching ejecutivo a disposición de Directivos que enriquecen el proceso práctico de aplicación contribuye al alcance de las metas, toda vez sean implementadas, d) el estudio es limitado a abarcar etapas de diseño y formulación de propuestas; y, se propone y recomienda a investigadores que en un futuro puedan considerarlo en implementaciones que permitan concluir en resultados de una investigación experimental.