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Ultra-processed foods consumption as a promoting factor of greenhouse gas emissions, water, energy, and land use: A longitudinal assessment
No full textBackground: Dietary patterns can produce an environmental impact. Changes in people's diet, such as the increased consumption of ultra-processed food (UPF) can not only influence human health but also environment sustainability. Objectives: Assessment of the impact of 2-year changes in UPF consumption on greenhouse gas emissions and water, energy and land use. Design: A 2-year longitudinal study after a dietary intervention including 5879 participants from a Southern European population between the ages of 55-75 years with metabolic syndrome. Methods: Food intake was assessed using a validated 143-item food frequency questionnaire, which allowed classifying foods according to the NOVA system. In addition, sociodemographic data, Mediterranean diet adherence, and physical activity were obtained from validated questionnaires. Greenhouse gas emissions, water, energy and land use were cal-culated by means of the Agribalyse & REG; 3.0.1 database of environmental impact indicators for food items. Changes in UPF consumption during a 2-year period were analyzed. Statistical analyses were conducted using computed General Lin-ear Models. Results: Participants with major reductions in their UPF consumption reduced their impact by -0.6 kg of CO2eq and -5.3 MJ of energy. Water use was the only factor that increased as the percentage of UPF was reduced. Conclusions: Low consumption of ultra-processed foods may contribute to environmental sustainability. The processing level of the consumed food should be considered not only for nutritional advice on health but also for environmental protection. Trial registration: ISRCTN, ISRCTN89898870. Registered 05 September 2013, http://www.isrctn.com/ ISRCTN89898870
IBERIFIER Reports: Analysis of the Impact of Disinformation on Political, Economic, Social and Security Issues, Governance Models and Good Practices: The cases of Spain and Portugal
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Los tratados geopónicos castellanos del siglo XVI como grupo textual y como corpus para el estudio de la lengua española
No full textQualitative insights and a first evaluation tool for teaching with cognitive discourse function: “comparing” in the CLIL science classroom
Get PDFIn CLIL research, Dalton-Puffer’s recent construct of the Cognitive Discourse
Function (CDF) (2013) - a taxonomy of seven cognitively and linguistically defined academic operations (such as “explain” or “define”) - is now gaining increased attention as a
useful tool to make the question of integration of language and content more tangible and
operational.
However, little is known about these functions’ specific nature, their teachability, their possible impact on students’ L2 content learning and their assessment. This paper aims to address
these questions by focusing on one CDF in the CLIL science context, the CDF of “comparing”, a subtype of “classifying”.
The objective of this article is twofold. First, it provides a developed account of the CDF
of “comparing” based on previous research, illustrated by qualitative insights from a study
in which secondary students learned science through an explicitly CDF-based teaching approach, using representative pre- and post-test examples. Second, building on this enhanced
understanding of the CDF, it presents an evaluation tool for assessing students’ CDF-based
content performance.
The discussion compares this analysis with previous research and outlines the advantages
of an explicit CDF-teaching approach to help students significantly display their subject
contents in a more complete, precise, and explicit way.En AICLE se está empezando a prestar atención al marco de las funciones
cognitivas del discurso (FCD) (Dalton-Puffer, 2013), una taxonomía compuesta por siete
operaciones académicas (como “explicar” o “definir”), que resulta útil para concretar la integración de contenidos y lenguas.
Sin embargo, poco se sabe sobre la naturaleza específica de estas funciones, cómo se pueden
enseñar y evaluar y su impacto en el aprendizaje de contenidos. Este artículo se centra en una
FCD (“comparar”, un subtipo de “clasificar”) en el aula AICLE de ciencias.
En primer lugar, se ofrece un análisis de esta FCD basado en investigaciones previas, que se
ilustra con ejemplos cualitativos de un estudio en el que un grupo de alumnos de ciencias de
Educación Secundaria recibió una enseñanza explícitamente basada en esta En segundo lugar, a partir de esta interpretación de la FCD “comparar”, se ofrece una herramienta para evaluar cómo los alumnos presentaron sus contenidos de clase desde el enfoque
de las FCD.
En la discusión se compara este análisis con investigaciones previas y se señalan las ventajas
de una enseñanza explícita con FCD para que los estudiantes presenten los contenidos de
clase de manera más completa, precisa y explícita
Cardiac Fibrosis in heart failure: Focus on non-invasive diagnosis and emerging therapeutic strategies
No full textHeart failure is a leading cause of mortality and hospitalization worldwide. Cardiac fibrosis, resulting from the
excessive deposition of collagen fibers, is a common feature across the spectrum of conditions converging in
heart failure. Eventually, either reparative or reactive in nature, in the long-term cardiac fibrosis contributes to
heart failure development and progression and is associated with poor clinical outcomes. Despite this, specific
cardiac antifibrotic therapies are lacking, making cardiac fibrosis an urgent unmet medical need. In this context,
a better patient phenotyping is needed to characterize the heterogenous features of cardiac fibrosis to advance
toward its personalized management. In this review, we will describe the different phenotypes associated with
cardiac fibrosis in heart failure and we will focus on the potential usefulness of imaging techniques and circulating biomarkers for the non-invasive characterization and phenotyping of this condition and for tracking its
clinical impact. We will also recapitulate the cardiac antifibrotic effects of existing heart failure and non-heart
failure drugs and we will discuss potential strategies under preclinical development targeting the activation of
cardiac fibroblasts at different levels, as well as targeting additional extracardiac processes
Raúl González Salinero, Moralidad, persecución y martirio en los orígenes del cristianismo: Una construcción ideológica, Guillermo Escolar, Madrid 2022, 228 pp. [RESEÑA]
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