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Impact of international contemporary art fairs on urban development. Art Basel Miami from its origin
No full textSin financiaciónNo data JCR 2022No data SJR 20220,02 C4 IDR 202
The 2030 power sector transition in Spain: Too little storage for so many planned solar photovoltaics?
No full textThis work deals with the 2030 power transition in Spain following the pledges with the European Union targets of reaching climate neutrality, or net zero emissions, by 2050. Within this context, we analyze in this work the plan established by the Spanish government under the umbrella of the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan which fixes very specific objectives for the evolution of the electricity power mix for the period 2020–2050. In the case of photovoltaics, it would imply to multiply by almost a factor of four its 2020 value, reaching near 40 GW in 2030. Being photovoltaics a variable, non-dispatchable renewable energy, to take full advantage of it, it would be needed a large amount of storage capacity and backup power with very fast ramping responses. Otherwise, we would have to curtail part of the incoming solar photovoltaic energy. Based on historical data and making use of duck curves, we have also shown that the large growth of PV (2020–2030) will require needs of storage capacity and/or backup reaching values of 5 GW per hour during 4 h during the afternoon–evening. According to the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan, our results show that this plan has not yet properly foreseen these requirements and some curtailment may be needed.Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, Spain (RTI2018-100983-B-I00).15.9 Q1 JCR 20223.232 Q1 SJR 2022No data IDR 2022UE
Fisiología del Ejercicio
No full textEsta cuarta edición es reflejo del gran interés mostrado en el área de la Fisiología del Ejercicio durante más de 20 años por sus lectores, unido al mayor conocimiento de cómo responde el organismo al ejercicio, sus efectos sobre la salud y la necesidad de conocer la compleja realidad de los límites del cuerpo humano.Sin financiaciónNo data WoSNo data ScopusSPIUE
Relationship of Motor Impairment with Cognitive and Emotional Alterations in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis
No full textIntroduction: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurodegenerative disease that, despite mainly affecting women, is more severe in men and causes motor, cognitive and emotional alterations. The objective of this study was to determine the possible relationship between motor, cognitive and emotional alterations.
Materials and methods: This is a descriptive, observational and cross-sectional study, with 67 patients with MS (20 men and 47 women), who were given the following questionnaires: Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS), Two-Minute Walk Test (2MWT), Berg Balance Scale, Beck's Depression Inventory (BDI-II), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and Prefrontal Symptoms Inventory (PSI) to analyze their cognitive level, body mass index (BMI) and percentage of muscle mass. In addition, regression analysis was conducted to study the relationship among variables.
Results: No significant differences were found between men and women in any of the variables. Regarding the relationship between parameters, the regression analysis was statistically significant, showing an effect of age on the walking and balance performance (β ≅ -0.4, p < 0.05); in addition, there was a relationship between 2MWT and STAI A/S, indicating that both older age and a high anxiety state could impact walking performance. On the other hand, prefrontal symptoms showed moderate relationships with both anxiety and depression (β ≅ 0.6, p < 0.05); thus, high levels of anxiety and depression could increase prefrontal alterations.
Conclusions: There is a relationship between motor and emotional variables. Specifically, state anxiety is related to walking resistance. No relationship was found between depression and cognitive alteration and balance or walking ability. Only age has an effect in these relationships.Catholic University Foundation San Vicente Mártir (2018-203-001)No data JCR 20220.828 Q2 SJR 2022No data IDR 2022UE
A Four-Year Survey of Hemoparasites from Nocturnal Raptors (Strigiformes) Confirms a Relation between Leucocytozoon and Low Hematocrit and Body Condition Scores of Parasitized Birds
No full textParasitism is one of the most common life strategies on Earth, where the host and the parasite establish a successful relationship and continually adapt to each other. Most of the studies on wild birds show that those with hemoparasites are usually asymptomatic due to this host–parasite coevolution, so blood parasites are often detected as incidental laboratory findings.
Most of these studies have been performed mainly in passerines and migratory species, but nocturnal raptors seem to be more exposed to blood parasite vectors than other avian species due to their behavior and distribution. Blood samples were collected from 134 individuals during a four-year period to assess the occurrence of blood parasites and parasitemia in different species of nocturnal raptors and their effect on hematological parameters. Thirty-five percent (95% CI: 27.5–43.5%) of individuals included in the study tested positive for at least one hemoparasite genus, and 11.2% showed coinfection. Leucocytozoon was the genus most frequently detected (32.1%), followed by Haemoproteus (11.2%), Trypanosoma and Plasmodium (2.2% each). The Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo bubo) was the species with the highest prevalence (94.7%). Moderate anemia and an increase in leukocyte counts were detected in the positive birds. Moreover, the positive animals showed a poor body condition score.Ministerio de Transición Ecológica y Reto Demográfico (MITECO)2.4 Q1 JCR 20220.524 Q1 SJR 2022No data IDR 2022UE
All I missed in the therapeutic relationship: The lived experience narrative of a mental health nurse receiving mental healthcare
No full textIntroduction
The therapeutic relationship is not always functional in clinical practice due to various factors, such as lack of time, lack of job motivation, exhaustion and rejection towards the person cared for.
Aim
The aim of this study is to illustrate to professionals the needs of the persons they care for and how they see the world.
Method
The aim was achieved through the development of a lived experience narrative.
Results
This lived experience narrative describes the experience of a mental health nurse since her first psychotic symptoms and her perceptions of the therapeutic relationship with mental health staff in her trajectory from the first psychiatric appointment until her last contact with the community mental health services.
Discussion
This narrative suggests that mental health professionals are sometimes far from discovering what service users are feeling and their precise needs. This highlights the need to humanize mental healthcare.Sin financiación2.7 Q1 JCR 20220.712 Q2 SJR 2022No data IDR 2022UE
Representing death. Between theatre and ritual in the Spanish funeral parlour
No full textAnte una creciente disconformidad con la arquitectura
funeraria de nuestro tiempo – en España, el tanatoriocrematorio–
como anfitrión de la despedida y la
celebración de la muerte, nos preguntamos en este
artículo, ¿en qué fallan exactamente estos edificios? ¿qué
características de su arquitectura afectan a nuestra
percepción del rito funerario?
Basándonos en la concepción sociológica del rito como
teatro, y en el análisis realizado de 325 tanatorios con
horno crematorio en España, comprendemos las
diferentes partes del edificio como escenas del rito –
introducción, nudo y desenlace–. Detectamos
características recurrentes, y tratamos de exponer cómo
la obra –la celebración de la muerte–, y sus actores –los
dolientes–, se ven afectados por decisiones de diseño
triviales. El análisis, con este enfoque empático, pretende
ser de ayuda para quienes se enfrenten al diseño de un
tanatorio en el futuro.
Si bien el cementerio ha recibido las atenciones de los
académicos, nada se ha escrito sobre el tanatoriocrematorio
en España desde el punto de vista de su
diseño. Creemos pertinente el estudio de estos edificios,
anónimos e industriales, como primer paso hacia una
reflexión sobre su arquitectura y nuestra propia relación la
muerte y sus ritos.Faced with growing discontent towards the funerary
architecture of our time - in Spain, the mortuarycrematorium
- as a host for the farewell and celebration of
death, we wonder in this article, what exactly is wrong with
these buildings, and what features of their architecture
affect our perception of the funeral rite?
The work is based on the sociological conception of the
rite as theatre, and the analysis of 325 funeral parlours
with crematorium ovens in Spain. We understand different
parts of the building as scenes to the ritual -introduction,
middle, and end-. In doing so, we detected recurrent
features and tried to expose how the play -the celebration
of death- and its actors -the mourners- are affected by
trivial design choices. With an empathetic approach, the
analysis is intended to help those facing the design of a
funeral parlor in the future.
Although the cemetery has been the subject of scholarly
attention, nothing has been said about the mortuarycrematorium
in Spain from a design point of view. We
believe it is pertinent to study these anonymous and
industrial buildings as a first step towards reflecting on
their architecture and our relationship with death and its
rites.Sin FinanciaciónNo data JCR 2023; No data SJR 2023; 0,02 C4 IDR 202
Regulating Response Speed Promotes Associative Learning
No full textCasadevante et al. (Curr Psychol 42: 4272–4285, 2023) used an objective test and found that regulation of response speed was related to better performance in a category learning task. The present study aims at analysing whether the relation between regulation of response speed and learning exists in an associative learning task. We developed ad hoc the
Treasure Forest, an objective test consisting of a computerized associative learning task. We conducted a frst study with 86 university students to assess the relation between spontaneous response speed and learning. Results showed that participants who acted slowly learned more than their mates who acted faster (t (83) = 8.898, p < .001, η2 = .672). Moreover, some students who began the task acting too fast to learn decreased their response
speed by the second half of the task and simultaneously their learning index improved (t (11) = 2.325, p < .05, d = .721). Hence, self-regulating the response speed was linked to associative learning. We conducted a second study to analyse the infuence of an external speed regulation on learning. The intervention group (N = 99) was prevented from clicking more than one click per second while the control group (N = 85) acted without restrictions.
The intervention group achieved a higher learning index than the control group, who acted faster (t (160) = 4.828, p < .001, η2 =.117). Hence, regulating response speed promoted associative learning. We concluded that regulating response speed promoted associative learning, and we hypothesized that training self-regulation of response speed may improve learning and academic performance. Besides, we highlight the utility of employing objective test for analysing self-regulation.Sin financiación4.3 Q2 JCR 20221.463 Q1 SJR 2022No data IDR 2022UE
Quantitative Diet, Body Composition and Sprint Performance in Female Professional Beach Handball Players
No full textWomen’s elite sports have experienced an exponential increase in the last decade, as has beach handball (BH). The high demands of this sport mean that athletes need to be in superior physical condition, so nutrition and body composition are determining factors in their sporting performance. For this reason, the aim of this study was to analyze, compare and correlate the most relevant variables of food intake (quantitative), body composition (focus on the bone mass characteristics) and sprint performance in female professional BH players. Thirty-three women from the National Spanish Team participated in this study. Dietary assessment, anthropometric measurements and sprint tests were performed. In general, the players had a low carbohydrate intake and adequate protein intake, with no significant differences depending on the category and playing position. For senior players, positive correlations were found between protein intake and bone mass (r = 0.584, p = 0.022), polyunsaturated fatty acid intake and muscle mass (r = 0.387, p = 0.026) and finally between fat mass and animal protein intake (r = 0.569, p = 0.027). Body composition was similar in both categories; however, goalkeepers had the highest fat (22.6 ± 3.86%, 16.2 ± 4.84 kg) component (vs. wings: 17.4 ± 3.53%, p = 0.031/vs. specialists: 11.1 ± 1.91 kg, p = 0.034), and senior players had higher muscle mass (kilograms). It is worth noting the finding that players with a greater trochanter height had significantly lower sprint times (p = 0.014 and p = 0.048 for 5 and 10 m, respectively). Certain bone characteristics, such as iliospinale height, biacromial and bimalleolar diameters, mesosternal perimeter and biceps skinfold, differ depending on the position. In addition, the greater speed of the senior players may be due to the greater specialization, number of training sessions performed and specific bone characteristics, such as trochanter height. In this regard, the data provided in this study will assist with establishing criteria for the selection of talent for this sporting discipline.Sin financiación5.9 Q1 JCR 20221.291 Q1 SJR 2022No data IDR 2022UE
Seguridad en el Medio Oriente y en el Magreb. Entre construcciones nacionales y cooperación internacional
No full textLa obra aborda el análisis de la seguridad en la región de Oriente Medio y el Norte de África desde el punto de vista de sus autores, que abarca la historia, la geopolítica y la política de esta región compleja.Sin financiaciónNo data 2022UE