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Author Correction: Validating a breast cancer score in Spanish women. The MCC-Spain study (Scientific Reports, (2018), 8, 1, (3036), 10.1038/s41598-018-20832-0)
No full textDierssen-Sotos, T., Gómez-Acebo, I., Palazuelos, C., Fernández-Navarro, P., Altzibar, J.M., González-Donquiles, C., Ardanaz, E., Bustamante, M., Alonso-Molero, J., Vidal, C., Bayo-Calero, J., Tardón, A., Salas, D., Marcos-Gragera, R., Moreno, V., Rodriguez-Cundin, P., Castaño-Vinyals, G., Ederra, M., Vilorio-Marqués, L., Amiano, P., Pérez-Gómez, B., Aragonés, N., Kogevinas, M., Pollán, M., Llorca, J
An overview of research on gender in Spanish society
Get PDFThis article presents an overview of research on gender in Spanish society. Six areas of literature are examined including families, education, work, politics, sexuality, and men. The author argues that political factors have shaped the development of sociology of gender in Spain and that there are still important gaps in coverage in this area of sociological inquiry.Publicad
Health-related quality of life in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: A cross-cultural study between Spain and the United Kingdom
Get PDF\ua9 2024 Funuyet-Salas et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.Background It is unclear what biopsychosocial factors influence the impact of NAFLD on health-related quality of life (HRQoL), and if these factors are equally important predictors between different nationalities. Methods HRQoL (CLDQ) was measured in both Southern European (Spain, n = 513) and Northern European (United Kingdom -UK-, n = 224) cohorts of patients with NAFLD in this cross-sectional study. For each cohort, participant data were recorded on histological grade of steatohepatitis, stage of fibrosis and biopsychosocial variables. Regression analysis was used to explore which of these variables predicted HRQoL. Moderated mediation models were conducted using SPSS PROCESS v3.5 macro. Results Participants with severe fibrosis reported more fatigue, systemic symptoms and worry, and lower HRQoL than those with none/mild fibrosis, regardless of place of origin. In addition, body mass index (BMI) and gender were found to be significant predictors of HRQoL in both Spanish and UK participants. Female gender was associated with worse emotional function, higher BMI and more fatigue, which predicted lower participants’ HRQoL. UK participants showed more systemic symptoms and worry than Spanish participants, regardless of liver severity. The negative effects of gender on HRQoL through emotional function, BMI and fatigue were reported to a greater degree in UK than in Spanish participants. Conclusions UK participants showed a greater impairment in HRQoL as compared to Spanish participants. Higher fibrosis stage predicted lower HRQoL, mainly in the Spanish cohort. Factors such as female gender or higher BMI contributed to the impact on HRQoL in both cohorts of patients and should be considered in future multinational intervention studies in NAFLD
Modelo de implantação de informática na educação segundo uma visão sistêmica apoiada na gestão de mudanças
Get PDFTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção.O CGI (Comitê Gestor da Internet no Brasil) (2006), PNAD (Pesquisa Nacional por Amostras de Domicílios) (2005) e Censo Escolar (2005) apontam para uma realidade onde, apesar dos recentes esforços de vários governos, aproximadamente, 54% da população brasileira nunca usou um computador e 67% nunca navegou na Internet. Apenas 19% dos domicílios possuem computador e somente 25% das escolas básicas possuem computadores ligados à Internet. A situação é ainda mais grave quando se identifica que, mesmo nas escolas com conexão e computadores, muitas das salas de informática ficam trancadas e tornam-se alvo de sucateamento e furto de equipamentos, em geral, pela falta de formação dos professores ou pela ausência de uma política educacional que pressuponha as tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TIC ) como instrumento pedagógico. A democratização do acesso aos produtos tecnológicos e a inclusão digital é um desafio para a sociedade atual e requer esforços e mudanças na área educacional. Este trabalho visa o desenvolvimento e experimentação de um modelo sistêmico de informatização educacional de escolas, que enfatize a implantação da informática educacional em uma abordagem de gestão de mudança, através de ações voltadas ao contexto especifico do ambiente de atuação, de maneira a gerir e integrar aspectos sociais, gerenciais e tecnológicos que contribuam, direta e indiretamente, para a mudança desejada. Nesse processo de integração, a estratégia de incorporação tecnológica leva em conta a visão social da organização, evidenciando o entendimento da escola como um sistema sócio-técnico. Nesta visão, é através da integração dos elementos da comunidade escolar que se viabiliza que as TIC consigam adquirir um estatuto de instrumento educacional, sendo internalizadas pelos atores do processo ensino-aprendizagem. Neste modelo, o enfoque sistêmico, pressupõe uma constante validação e atualização (auto-regulação), onde é possível recuperar defasagens oriundas de momentos anteriores do processo através de um constante feedback. O modelo e as nuances permitem balizar decisões no momento de definição, implantação, acompanhamento e repetição do processo. The CGI (Brazil Internet Management Committee) (2006), PNAD (National Research for Sample Home) (2005) e School Census (2005) point to a reality where, although the recent efforts of some governments, 54% of Brazilian people never used a computer and 67% never accessed the Internet. Only 19% of the homes have a computer and only 25% of the basic schools have computer with access to the Internet. The situation is even more serious when is identified that even in the schools with connection and computers, many of the computer rooms are locked and become target of trashing and equipment robery, usually, because the lack of formation of the teachers or the absence of educational politics that understand the technologies of computer science and communication as a pedagogical instrument. The democratization of the access to the technological products and the digital inclusion are a challenge to the current society and require efforts and changes in the educational area. This work aims at the development and experimentation of a systemic model of educational computerization of schools, that emphasizes the implantation of educational computer science in focus of change management, through actions faced to the specific context of the working environment, in way to manage and integrate social aspects, managemental and technological, that contribute direct and indirect ways, to the desired change. In this process of integration, the strategy of technological incorporation care about the social vision of the organization, evidencing the understanding of the school as a system partner-technician. In this vision, it is through the integration of the elements of the school community that makes possible that the technologies of computer science and communication achieve a statute of educational instrument, being internalized for the actors of the process teach-learning. In this model, the systemic approach, estimates a constant validation and update (self-regulation), where is possible to recover from imbalance derived from previous moments of the process through a constant feedback. The model and its variables allow to demarcate decisions in the definition moment, implantation, accompaniment and repetition of the process
Detective fiction in Cuban society and culture.
No full textPhDThe object of this thesis is to reach towards an understanding of Cuban society through a
study of its detective fiction and more particularly contemporary Cuban society through
the novels of the author and critic, Leonardo Padura Fuentes.
The method has been to trace the development of Cuban detective writing and to
read Padura Fuentes in the light of the work of twentieth century Western European
literary critics and philosophers including Raymond Williams, Antonio Gramsci, Terry
Eagleton, Roland Barthes, Jean Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, Jean François Lyotard and
Jean Baudrillard in order to gain a better understanding of the social and historical
context from which this genre emerged.
By concentrating on the literary texts, I have explored readings which lead out into
an analysis of the broader philosophical, political and historical issues raised by the
Cuban revolution. Since it deals primarily with modes of deviance and notions of legality
and justice within the context of the modern state, detective fiction is particularly well
suited to this type of investigation. The intention is to show how this is as valid in the
Cuban context as it is in advanced capitalist societies where such research has already
been carried out with some success.
The thesis comprises an introduction, ten chapters and a conclusion. The chapters
are divided into three sections. Chapters 1 to 3 attempt a broad theoretical, historical and
socio-political analysis of the cultural reality within which the Cuban revolutionary
detective genre emerged. Chapters 4 to 6 analyse the Cuban detective narrative from its
inception in the early part of the twentieth century until the emergence of Leonardo
Padura Fuentes as the foremost exponent of the genre in Cuba after 1991. Chapters 7-
10 concentrate upon the work of Leonardo Padura Fuentes, offering a reading of his
detective tetralogy informed by the preceding discussion.
The contribution made by the thesis to knowledge of the subject is to build upon the
work of Seymour Menton and Amelia S. Simpson on the development of the Cuban
detective novel and to provide analyses of the pre-Revolutionary Cuban detective
narrative and the work of Leonardo Padura Fuentes for the first time in the English
language. The thesis concludes that the study of this popular genre in Cuba is of crucial
importance to the scholar who wishes to reach as full an understanding of the social
dynamics within that society as possible. In particular, it proves that Cuban detective
fiction provides a useful barometer of social change which records the shifts in the Cuban
Zeitgeist that have taken place over the past century
Evaluación del estado de los árboles de la UPTC en relación con los principios de las prácticas silviculturales urbanas
Get PDFSpa: En la práctica con proyección empresarial realizada en Corpoboyacá, en la subdirección de Ecosistemas y Gestión Ambiental con el equipo de restauración y reforestación, se propuso una evaluación del estado actual de los árboles en un sector de la universidad, el cual está conformado por la zona del Edificio Rafael Azula, la parte frontal del edificio Aulas, el sendero que comunica los edificios anteriores con la entrada principal de la universidad. El diagnóstico del arbolado se
hizo con base en las practicas silviculturales urbanas, realizado en cuatro etapas: el reconocimiento del área de estudio, análisis de la relación del arbolado con el entorno con base a una matriz de impactos, soluciones y/o recomendaciones de mejora y, por último, mediante un encuentro virtual, en modalidad de conversatorio tratar temas de arbolado en Colombia, que hace falta y como solventar las carencias desde la academia.
Inicialmente, se hizo un reconocimiento del sector, donde se hizo un listado de las especies encontradas, se logró identificar 201 individuos en el área de estudio, se encontró que la más del 50% son especies introducidas y poco menos de la mitad de los individuos son de origen nativo.
En la segunda etapa, se realizó una matriz de impactos de acuerdo a los efectos identificados que interfieren en el crecimiento del árbol y lo que el árbol interfiere con el entorno; se encontró que se debe realizar planificación de establecimiento, mantenimientos en cuanto a fertilización, cortes y podas planificados, lo anterior con conocimiento basado en capacitaciones técnicas a la administración y personal que maneje el arbolado en la universidad. Siguiente se estableció los
servicios que cumple el arbolado en el lugar, con base a esto se hicieron recomendaciones para potenciar sus funciones ecosistémicas y minimizar los daños que se presentan por agentes externo e interno. Por último, teniendo el objetivo de difundir los temas silviculturales urbanos en la ciudad se realizó en conversatorio virtual titulado “Silvicultura urbana y sostenibilidad ambiental” contando con panelistas de la universidad distrital, UPTC, Corpoboyacá y Alcaldía de Bogotá, se
desarrollaron temas ambientales entorno al cuidado y gestión del árbol, teniendo como conclusión investigar sobre planificación del arbolado, realizar más espacios de conocimiento y hacer mesas de trabajo en pro de la gestión del arbolado en las ciudades.Bibliografía y webgrafía: páginas 91-101.PregradoIngeniero Ambienta
Efecto del secado en la concentración de compuestos bioactivos y la actividad antioxidante de plantas forrajeras
No full textLas especies forrajeras contienen compuestos bioactivos con propiedades beneficiosas para la salud; sin embargo, su concentración varía según la especie y puede verse afectada por el proceso de secado. Este estudio evaluó cinco especies: botón de oro (Tithonia diversifolia (Hemsl.) A.Gray), colla negra (Smallanthus pyramidalis (Triana) H.Rob.), dalia silvestre (Dahlia imperialis Roezl ex Ortgies), morera (Morus alba L.) y saúco (Sambucus nigra L.), con el objetivo de determinar su contenido de compuestos bioactivos y actividad antioxidante, así como el efecto de tres métodos de secado: horno, deshidratación solar y ventana refractiva. La metodología empleada consistió en la aplicación de técnicas espectrofotométricas específicas como cloruro de aluminio para la cuantificación de flavonoides, Folin-Ciocalteu para fenoles totales, vainillina para taninos condensados y DPPH para evaluar la actividad antioxidante. Los resultados obtenidos fueron los siguientes: antes del secado, la colla negra presentó la mayor concentración de fenoles totales, la dalia silvestre el mayor contenido de flavonoides, y el botón de oro los niveles más altos de taninos condensados y actividad antioxidante. El secado por ventana refractiva fue el método más eficiente para preservar estos compuestos, destacándose el saúco con 1282.46 mg de ácido gálico equivalente para fenoles totales, 637.94 mg de catequina equivalente para flavonoides y 257.83 mg de catequina equivalente para taninos condensados, todas las unidades en 100 g de materia seca. Asimismo, el botón de oro alcanzó la mayor actividad antioxidante, con 2374.90 µmol de equivalentes Trolox por 100 g de materia seca. En contraste, la deshidratación solar también mostró buenos resultados, especialmente en botón de oro y saúco, mientras que el secado en horno fue el menos favorable, aunque la morera presentó una actividad antioxidante relativamente alta. En conclusión, la ventana refractiva se posiciona como la mejor alternativa para preservar y potenciar los compuestos bioactivos en especies forrajeras deshidratadas
Agriculture and society in Central Mexico : the Valley of Tulancingo in the late colonial period (1700-1825)
Get PDFThis study provides a first approach to the economic and social history of the
Valley of Tulancingo in the late colonial period. In examining the development of
this agricultural area of central Mexico, the author discusses the broader
transformations that affected the country as a whole during the eighteenth and
early nineteenth centuries: population growth, migration, urbanization, and the
commercialization of agriculture. On this score, the study participates in the
current debate on the best way to characterize the Mexican agricultural sector at
the end of the colonial rule. Most modern historiography tends to emphasize that
demographic growth transformed the traditional balance between population
and resources and was a major cause of economic and social disruption in the
countryside. The author combines new evidence with recent findings from the
specialist literature, to argue that Tulancingo fully participated in the roster of
economic and social changes of the period. The work begins with a description of
Tulancingo's population trends and an analysis of the spatial distribution of the
population. It goes on with an analysis of the Valley's agricultural economy,
describing the complementary rural elements of Indian communities and
haciendas, and examining a series of related transformations in landholding,
marketing, and social relations. This study will be of interest to anyone
concerned with Mexican economic and social history, or the history of
agriculture
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