Dante Castillo

Smart farming (SF) integrates digital technologies, automation, and data analytics to enhance agricultural decision-making and sustainability. However, adoption in emerging economies remains limited due to structural constraints. This study examines the determinants of SF adoption intention in Honduras using an extended Technology–Organization–Environment (TOE) framework that incorporates technological attributes, farm manager characteristics, organizational factors, and business environmental conditions. A cross-sectional survey of 313 agricultural workers, mainly young and female, was analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The model explained 80.8% of the variance in adoption intention. Among the eleven hypothesized predictors, only government support and changes in the digital environment showed significant positive effects. Technological factors, managerial capabilities, organizational conditions, and competitive pressure were not significant. These findings indicate that, in structurally constrained agricultural systems, external enabling conditions—particularly institutional support and digital infrastructure—play a decisive role in shaping adoption intention. The results highlight the need for policies that strengthen rural connectivity, technical training, financing mechanisms, and institutional assistance to facilitate effective implementation of smart farming technologies. The study validates the TOE framework in an emerging economy and underscores the contextual variability of its explanatory dimensions.

Background/Objectives: Occupational justice has expanded conceptually and empirically over the past two decades, addressing inequalities related to health, participation, and rights. However, there has been no comprehensive bibliometric analysis of its global scientific output. The objective of this study was to analyze evolution, distribution, editorial structure, collaboration networks, and thematic domains of the literature on occupational justice, using classical bibliometric laws and scientific mapping techniques. Methods: A bibliometric study was conducted on 238 articles and reviews indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (1982–2026), retrieved using the subject equation TS=(occupational NEAR/0 justice). The laws of Price (growth), Lotka (prolific authors), Bradford (journal dispersion), and Zipf (semantic concentration) were applied. Scientific mapping was performed using co-authorship and co-occurrence analysis from Keywords Plus^® via VOSviewer. Results: Scientific output showed exponential growth (R² = 87.29%), with an acceleration beginning in 2015 and thematic diversification between 2021 and 2026. The geographic distribution revealed a marked centrality of the Global North, along with the emergence of research hubs in the Global South. Just ten journals accounted for 75% of the output, forming a robust editorial nucleus. Co-authorship networks revealed three transnational clusters and bridge authors who facilitate the circulation of knowledge. The thematic map identified three interdependent macro-clusters: health and well-being, occupational practice and science, and justice and rights. Conclusions: Bibliometrics highlights the rapid expansion and editorial concentration of occupational justice, identifies geographic and thematic gaps, and proposes new agendas in digital, environmental, and decolonial fields. Although limited by its sources and methods, it helps guide priorities for more inclusive research, policies, training, and interventions.

Le décrochage scolaire dans les programmes de rescolarisation des jeunes et adultes : une évaluation de l'expérience chilienne: L’objectif de la recherche est d’analyser l’éducation des adultes mise en oeuvre par le Ministère de l’éducation au Chili, sur la base de l’expérience des acteurs de l’enseignement eux-mêmes, afin de comprendre la signification de l'éducation des adultes, qu´ils donnent à leurs expériences, leurs trajectoires éducatives et sociales, en ce qui concerne leur articulation avec l'offre éducative fournie par le ministère de l'éducation. Cette recherche vise à contribuer à la compréhension de certains principes qui permettent aux étudiants d’exprimer leurs attentes et leurs significations avec la formation offerte par le ministère de l’éducation. Pour cette raison, la compatibilité de la littératie scolaire avec l'inclusion sociale et le renforcement de l'exercice de la citoyenneté et de la participation sociale seront également étudiés. Du point de vue méthodologique, une recherche sur une approche interprétative globale est proposée, mise en oeuvre selon les lignes directrices des approches qualitatives, en dépit de l’incorporation d’un contexte quantitatif. Du point de vue qualitatif, il est proposé, à partir d’un échantillon structurel situé dans la région métropolitaine, d’analyser les discours et les représentations des principaux acteurs scolaires, étudiants, enseignants et gestionnaires, afin de déterminer la pertinence et la qualité de Adultes, axés sur la signification et les attributs de ces acteurs scolaires. La recherche se justifie, dans la mesure où les résultats obtenus par l'éducation des adultes, soulignent que cette population étudiante abandonne ces programmes précocement, augmentant les facteurs de risque d'échec scolaire et diminuant l'impact des politiques publiques en faveur de l'inclusion sociale et l'exercice de la citoyenneté des secteurs les plus négligés du Chili.

This study examines the financial behavior of university students in Economics, Business Administration, and Accounting in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, using the FB–13 instrument. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses validate a three-dimensional structure: (1) financial planning and control, (2) savings and financial preparation, and (3) fulfillment of obligations, with high internal consistency (α = 0.915), supporting its psychometric robustness in Latin American academic contexts. Based on a sample of 714 students with diversity in gender, age, work experience, and parental status, the analyses confirmed that the FB–13 model best fits a three-factor structure. Significant correlations were identified between financial behavior and experiential variables such as age, work experience, and parenthood, while traditional sociodemographic attributes such as gender, residence, marital status, employment, and educational level showed limited associations. These findings suggest that personal experiences have a greater influence on the configuration of financial practices than conventional demographic categories. The study acknowledges limitations related to cross-sectional design, non-probabilistic sampling, and self-reported data, yet these do not diminish its contributions. By validating the FB–13 in Honduras, the research offers comparative evidence and promotes cultural diversity in financial behavior literature. Future research should move toward longitudinal and qualitative studies that explore the role of family dynamics, work contexts, and personal aspirations in responsible financial behaviors.

This study examines the financial behavior of university students in Economics, Business Administration, and Accounting in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, using the FB–13 instrument. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses validate a three-dimensional structure: (1) financial planning and control, (2) savings and financial preparation, and (3) fulfillment of obligations, with high internal consistency (α = 0.915), supporting its psychometric robustness in Latin American academic contexts. Based on a sample of 714 students with variation in gender, age, work experience, and parental status, the findings reveal significant correlations between financial behavior and experiential variables such as work experience and parenthood, while traditional sociodemographic attributes show limited association. These results highlight the relevance of lived experiences in shaping financial practices and address a notable gap in culturally grounded validation of financial behavior instruments. The study acknowledges limitations related to cross-sectional design, non-probabilistic sampling, and self-reported data, yet these do not diminish its contributions. By validating the FB–13 in Honduras, the research offers comparative evidence and promotes cultural diversity in financial behavior literature. Future research should pursue longitudinal and qualitative approaches, assess the role of digital financial tools, and inform educational and institutional strategies that integrate family and work contexts to strengthen financial literacy and resilience among university students.

The purpose of this article is to understand the perceptions that students, teachers and principals have regarding the aspects that affect the educational retention of adolescents who attend "second chance schools” in Santiago, Chile. The information collected for the study comes from 56 semi-structured interviews with students, teachers and principals in each of the selected Integrated Education Centers for Young People and Adults. The transcripts of the interviews were subject to an ethnographic narrative analysis and, for the codification and construction of categories the Atlas.ti software was used with all materials. The actors identified the most important determinants to promote educational retention and avoid students dropping out of school: the academic demands of students; affective accompaniment for students; and that the school is a welcoming. Place Finally, the authors identified the need to review the school reintegration processes for children and adolescents who do not adapt to "normal” conditions in the schools.

This review article aims to systematically identify the relationship between sports drinks and healthy behavior. This systematic literature review was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guideline criteria, and eligibility criteria were established using the PICOS tool (population, interventions, comparators, outcomes, and study) from about 1000 records of sports drinks articles identified in the various Web of Science Core Collection databases. The literature review stages determined a reduced set of 15 articles relating these drinkable supplements to healthy behavior. This study concludes that water consumption should be emphasized for non-athletes, sports drinks should be labeled to indicate water consumption and carry a warning label, and more randomized clinical trials should be considered to ensure conclusive results for health decision making.

The aim of this study is to present an overview of the current scientific literature pertaining to ocean literacy. We applied a bibliometric method to examine relational patterns among publications in a set of 192 papers indexed from 2004 to 2023 in Web of Science Core Collection, applying Price’s, Lotka’s, Bradford’s, and Zipf’s bibliometric laws to add more validation to VOSviewer and processing both data and metadata. The findings indicate a significant exponential growth in scientific output from 2004 to 2022 (R² = 86%), with a substantial amount of scientific research being focused on ocean literacy. The analysis shows the thematic trends of terminologies such as knowledge and citizen perception of climate change in relation to oceans; the benefits of biodiversity management and ocean conservation; and ocean education and its relation to behavior and attitudes towards and awareness of oceans. The research and its theoretical perspectives prompt an investigation of the impacts of ocean literacy outside of education, thanks to the contributions of authors from more than fifty countries dedicated to the study of these activities.

This paper analyzes the thematic trends in school garden studies over the past few decades, using a relational bibliometric methodology on a corpus of 392 articles and review articles indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection. The paper seeks to understand how researchers have studied the concept over the last few decades in various disciplines, spanning approximately eighty Web of Science categories. The results show that there is a critical mass of scientific research studying school gardens. The analysis shows the thematic trends in discussion journals, discussion terminology, and consolidates classic papers and some novel authors and papers. The studies and their theoretical trends lead to refocusing the analysis on the effects of school gardens beyond the educational, thanks to the contribution of authors from more than fifty countries engaged in the study of these activities. This work constitutes new challenges for this line of research, raising interdisciplinary research challenges between horticultural, environmental, technological, educational, social, food, nutritional, and health sciences.

This research provides an overview of the current state of scientific literature related to suicide and physical activity (PA). A bibliometric analysis of studies published between 1996 and 2022 in The Web of Science (WoS) was carried out, applying the traditional bibliometric laws, using Microsoft Excel and the VOSviewer software for data and metadata processing. A total of 368 documents (349 primary research and 19 reviews) were extracted from 70 WoS categories. The results revealed an exponential increase in scientific production from 2017 to 2022 (R² = 88%), revealing the United States hegemony being the most productive country, with 156 of the publications (42.4%), the most cited (4181 citations) being the centre of a collaborative network with links to 35 countries and having April Smith, from the Miami University, as the most prolific author (eight publications) and Thomas Joiner, from the Florida State University, as the most cited author (513 citations). The Psychiatry WoS category, with 155 papers, had the highest number of publications, and The Journal of Affective Disorders, from Elsevier, had the highest number of published papers within this category.