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  1. Untitled

    Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

    3, Garrido, J. . . C.R. Acad. Sci., 1950, 230, 1878. 4. Guan Ya-Siyan, Simonov, Docklady Acad. Sci., USSR, 1963, 149, 146. V.I., and Belov, N. V.. 5. Hoppe, W. . . Acta Cryst., 1963, 16, 1056,. 6. Main, D. and Woolfson, Ibid., 1963, 16, 1046. : M. M.. 7. McLachlan, D. and Proc. Nat. Acad. Sei, USA, 1957, 37, 846,. Harker, D. 8.

  2. Artificial Red Cells with Polyhemoglobin Membranes.

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    1981-09-01

    Y. Reciprocal binding of oxygen and diphosphoglycerate by human hemoglobin. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 59:526-532, 1968. 12. Bunn, H. F., Seal, U. S...and Scott, A. F. The role of 2,3- diphosphoglycerate in mediating hemoglobin function of mammalian red cells. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sciences 241:498-519

  3. Produtivismo acadêmico baseado em uma perspectiva habermasiana

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    Fábio Vizeu

    Full Text Available Resumo Este artigo argumenta que a questão da ética na prática acadêmica deve ser tratada com o mesmo cuidado adotado em outras práticas profissionais. Na verdade, uma dificuldade no debate sobre ética na prática acadêmica é desconsiderar que esta também consiste em uma prática social condicionada pelos mesmos problemas que a sociedade contemporânea enfrenta, especialmente em sua dimensão econômica. Nesse sentido, discute-se o utilitarismo na prática acadêmica com base no referencial da ética discursiva de Jürgen Habermas, explorando algumas inquietações sobre o produtivismo acadêmico brasileiro. Metodologicamente, usa-se o ensaio teórico como procedimento argumentativo, visando à construção de um texto menos formal e mais provocativo, instigando a reflexão e o debate, no meio, das questões pontuadas. Especificamente, observamos o problema da valorização quantitativa da produção sem a consideração da qualidade do trabalho acadêmico associado à tentativa de mensuração da atividade acadêmica, além da falta da devida reflexão sobre os valores ético-morais que circunscrevem a atividade científico-educacional no Brasil. Por último, para ilustrar a perspectiva apresentada, recorremos a situações hipotéticas da prática acadêmica e fazemos inferências sobre quatro correlações entre a orientação pragmática e questões éticas, considerando o constructo habermasiano da ação estratégica.

  4. Regulation of hTERT Expression and Function in Newly Immortalized p53(+) Human Mammary Epithelial Cell Lines

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    2007-06-01

    human mammary epithelial cell types by human papilloma virus 16 e6 or e7. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA 1995; 92:3687-91. 54. Shay JW, Pereira-Smith OM, Wright...Liu X-L, Chu Q, Gao Q, Band V. Immortalization of distinct human mammary epithelial cell types by human papilloma virus 16 e6 or e7. Proc Nat Acad

  5. Liquidambar orientalis Mill.

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    STORAGESEVER

    2009-01-19

    Jan 19, 2009 ... as in the chemical and cosmetic industry. Unfortunately ..... enzyme and random amplified polymorphic DNA loci in black spruce. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. ... Preparation of DNA from single rice seedlings. Rice. Genet.

  6. Targeting Androgen Receptor in Breast Cancer: Enzalutamide as a Novel Breast Cancer Therapeutic

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    2014-09-01

    Acad Sci U S A 2011; 108: 11878-83. 5. Kabos P, Finlay-Schultz J, Li C, Kline E, Finlayson C, Wisell J, Manuel CA, Edgerton SM, Harrell JC, Elias A...Dakocytomation, Carpinteria, CA, USA), cleaved caspase 3 (Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, MA, USA), Ki67 (sc-15402; Santa Cruz , Dallas, TX, USA) and...San Francisco, CA USA), glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (1:20,000 dilution; Sigma, St. Louis, MO USA), Topo 1 (C-21, 1:100 dilution; Santa Cruz

  7. Distributed SCI-based data acquisition systems constructed from SCI bridges and SCI switches

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    Wu Bin; Kristiansen, E.; Skaali, B.; Bogaerts, A.; Divia, R.; ); Perea, E.

    1994-01-01

    The IEEE standard 1596-1992, Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) provides novel possibilities to build data acquisition systems for large and very high rate experiments in high energy physics. The RD24 project at CERN started two years ago to investigate applications of SCI to data acquisition at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). As part of the RD24 project, simulation of large SCI-based data acquisition systems is performed by a simulator written in the object-oriented language MODSIM II. The goal of this paper is to investigate the difference between SCI switch- and SCI-based systems, and to study some of the design criteria for the SCI switch element to form the interconnection of large scale SCI-based data acquisition systems. 15 refs., 14 figs., 2 tabs

  8. Study protocol: Münster tinnitus randomized controlled clinical trial-2013 based on tailor-made notched music training (TMNMT).

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    Pantev, Christo; Rudack, Claudia; Stein, Alwina; Wunderlich, Robert; Engell, Alva; Lau, Pia; Wollbrink, Andreas; Shaykevich, Alex

    2014-03-02

    Tinnitus is a result of hyper-activity/hyper-synchrony of auditory neurons coding the tinnitus frequency, which has developed to synchronous mass activity owing the lack of inhibition. We assume that removal of exactly these frequency components from an auditory stimulus will cause the brain to reorganize around tonotopic regions coding the tinnitus frequency. Based on this assumption a novel treatment for tonal tinnitus - tailor-made notched music training (TMNMT) (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107:1207-1210, 2010; Ann N Y Acad Sci 1252:253-258, 2012; Frontiers Syst Neurosci 6:50, 2012) has been introduced and will be tested in this clinical trial on a large number of tinnitus patients. A randomized controlled trial (RCT) in parallel group design will be performed in a double-blinded manner. The choice of the intervention we are going to apply is based on two "proof of concept" studies in humans (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107:1207-1210, 2010; Ann N Y Acad Sci 1252:253-258, 2012; Frontiers Syst Neurosci 6:50, 2012; PloS One 6(9):e24685, 2011) and on a recent animal study (Front Syst Neurosci 7:21, 2013).The RCT includes 100 participants with chronic, tonal tinnitus who listened to tailor-made notched music (TMNM) for two hours a day for three months. The effect of TMNMT is assessed by the tinnitus handicap questionnaire and visual analogue scales (VAS) measuring perceived tinnitus loudness, distress and handicap. This is the first randomized controlled trial applying TMNMT on a larger number of patients with tonal tinnitus. Our data will verify more securely and reliably the effectiveness of this kind of completely non-invasive and low-cost treatment approach on tonal tinnitus. Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN04840953.

  9. Comparison of Escherichia coli tRNAPhe in the free state, in the ternary complex and in the ribosomal A and P sites by chemical probing

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    Douthwaite, S; Garrett, R A; Wagner, R

    1983-01-01

    tRNAPheE.coli was modified at accessible guanosine, cytidine, and adenosine residues using the chemical modification method described by Peattie and Gilbert [Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA, 77, 4679-4689 (1980)]. Modification characteristics of the tRNA in the free state, in the ternary complex...

  10. Photosynthetic Energy Transduction Publications | Bioenergy | NREL

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    metabolism, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA Image of altered membrane morphologies and lipid compositions in dark , partially confer FDX2 the redox potential and catalytic properties of FDX1, Photosynthesis Research Image of photobiological H2 Production: the O2 sensitivity of Hydrogenases, Photosynthesis Research Enhancing photo

  11. SCI-FI

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    Troiano, Giovanni Maria; Tiab, John; Lim, Youn Kyung

    2016-01-01

    Shape-changing interfaces (SCI) are rapidly evolving and creating new interaction paradigms in human-computer interaction (HCI). However, empirical research in SCI is still bound to present technological limitations and existing prototypes can only show a limited number of potential applications...... for shape change. In this paper we attempt to broaden the pool of examples of what shape change may be good for by investigating SCI using Science Fiction (Sci-Fi) movies. We look at 340 Sci-Fi movies to identify instances of SCI and analyze their behavioral patterns and the context in which they are used....... The result of our analysis presents four emerging behavioral patterns of shape change: (1) Reconfiguration, (2) Transformation, (3) Adaptation, and (4) Physicalization. We report a selection of SCI instances from Sci-Fi movies, which show how these behavioral patterns model functionalities of shape change...

  12. Stimulation of glycogen synthesis in hepatocytes by added amino acids is related to the total intracellular content of amino acids

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    Plomp, P. J.; Boon, L.; Caro, L. H.; van Woekom, G. M.; Meijer, A. J.

    1990-01-01

    Katz et al. [Katz, J., Golden, S. & Wals, P.A. (1976) Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 73, 3433-3437] were the first to report that in hepatocytes isolated from fasted rats and incubated with either dihydroxyacetone, glucose or other sugars, glycogen synthesis was greatly accelerated by addition of amino

  13. Targeting Mucosal Dendritic Cells with Microbial Antigens from Probiotic Lactic Acid Bacteria

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    2008-03-01

    this antigen-targeting approach to DCs, including B. anthracis protective antigen and botulinum toxin (heavy chain) in vivo. More studies are planned ...through impairment of germinal center development. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 91(7), 2639–2643 (1994). 45 Rescigno M, Urbano M, Valzasina B et al

  14. The pro region required for folding of carboxypeptidase Y is a partially folded domain with little regular structural core

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    Sørensen, P; Winther, Jakob R.; Kaarsholm, N C

    1993-01-01

    The pro region of carboxypeptidase Y (CPY) from yeast is necessary for the correct folding of the enzyme [Winther, J. R., & Sørensen P. (1991) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 88, 9330-9334]. Using fluorescence, circular dichroism, and heteronuclear NMR analyses, it is demonstrated that the isolated...

  15. Investigating Cooperation between KEAP1 and LKB1 Inactivation in Lung Adenocarcinoma

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    2017-08-01

    The tumor suppressor LKB1 kinase directly activates AMP -activated kinase and regulates apoptosis in response to energy stress. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA...Nrf2 signaling pathway. The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology 38, 317-332, doi:10.1016/j.biocel.2005.09.018 (2006). 24. Cullinan

  16. The gap of the area-weighted Motzkin spin chain is exponentially small

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    Levine, Lionel; Movassagh, Ramis

    2017-06-01

    We prove that the energy gap of the model proposed by Zhang et al (2016 arXiv:1606.07795) is exponentially small in the square of the system size. In Movassagh and Shor (2016 Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA) a class of exactly solvable quantum spin chain models was proposed that have integer spins (s), with a nearest neighbors Hamiltonian, and a unique ground state. The ground state can be seen as a uniform superposition of all s-colored Motzkin walks. The half-chain entanglement entropy provably violates the area law by a square root factor in the system’s size (˜\\sqrt{n} ) for s  >  1. For s  =  1, the violation is logarithmic (Bravyi et al 2012 Phys. Rev. Lett. 109 207202). Moreover in Movassagh and Shor (2016 Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA) it was proved that the gap vanishes polynomially and is O(n -c ) with c≥slant2 . Recently, a deformation of Movassagh and Shor (2016 Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA), which we call ‘weighted Motzkin quantum spin chain’ was proposed Zhang et al (2016 arXiv:1606.07795). This model has a unique ground state that is a superposition of the s-colored Motzkin walks weighted by tarea\\{Motzkin walk\\} with t  >  1. The most surprising feature of this model is that it violates the area law by a factor of n. Here we prove that the gap of this model is upper bounded by 8ns t-n2/3 for t  >  1 and s  >  1.

  17. Loss of PTEN as a Predictive Biomarker of Response to Lithium Chloride, A Potential Targeted Treatment for Breast Cancer

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    2013-11-01

    Acad Sci USA 2007; 104:7564-9. 11. Carpten JD, Faber AL, Horn C, Donoho GP, Briggs SL, Robbins CM, et al. A transforming mutation in the pleckstrin...overexpressing breast cancers with lithium citrate Toni M. Brand and Deric L. Wheeler* Department of Human Oncology; University of Wisconsin School of

  18. Plant mitochondrial genome: “A sweet and safe home'' for transgene

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    Aghogho

    2010-12-27

    Dec 27, 2010 ... mitochondria, transcription is mediated by at least one nuclear encoded RNA polymerase, having the RNA ... RNA editing was first discovered in plant mito- chondria (Covello and Gray, 1989; Heisel et al., ... yeast mitochondria lacking endogenous mtDNA. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 85: 7288-7292. Fox TD ...

  19. Climate-Conflict Research: Some Reflections on the Way Forward

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    2015-02-18

    T. The evolution of environment-conflict research: toward a livelihood framework. Global Envi- ron Polit 2012, 12:78–100. 7. Gemenne F, Barnett J...Levin SA. Trading-off fish biodiversity , food security, and hydropower in theMekong River Basin. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2012, 109:5609–5614. 52. Tol

  20. The Molecular Epidemiology of Malaria in Western Kenya

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    2002-09-01

    transcriptional activation. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1997 94(7): 3195-9. 27. Uglialoro AM, Turbay D, Pesavento PA, Delgado JC, McKenzie FE, Gribben JG, Hartl D...Uglialoro AM, Turbay D, Pesavento PA, Delgado JC, McKenzie FE, Gribben JG, Hartl D, Yunis EJ, Goldfeld AE. Identification of three new single nucleotide

  1. Sequence comparison of the rDNA introns from six different species of Tetrahymena

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    Nielsen, Henrik; Engberg, J

    1985-01-01

    model for the intron RNA of Cech et al. (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 80, 3903 (83)). Most of the sequence variation in the four new sequences reported here is found in single stranded loops in the model. However, in four cases we found nucleotide substitutions in duplex stem regions, two of them...

  2. The Role of VDR in Phosphorylation in Vitamin D-Induced Apoptosis

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    2001-07-01

    nuclear pellet was resuspended in Buffer A, Cytometer (Coulter Corp., Miami, FL) equipped with an argon laser . sonicated 2 x 10 s, and stored at -80 ’C...rickets type II with alopecia . Proc Natl Acad Sci [45] Mezzetti G, Barbiroli B, Oka T. 1,25-Dihydroxycholecalciferol re- USA 1997;94:9831-5. ceptor

  3. The Effects of Letter Spacing and Coloured Overlays on Reading Speed and Accuracy in Adult Dyslexia

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    Sjoblom, Amanda M.; Eaton, Elizabeth; Stagg, Steven D.

    2016-01-01

    Background: Zorzi et al. (2012, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 109, 11455) found evidence that extra-large letter spacing aids children with dyslexia, but the evidence for the coloured overlays is contradictory (e.g., Henderson et al., 2013, "J. Res. Special Educ. Needs," 13, 57; Wilkins, 2002, "Ophthalmic Physiol. Opt.," 22,…

  4. The DNA damage-inducible dinD gene of Escherichia coli is equivalent to orfY upstream of pyrE

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    Lundegaard, Claus; Jensen, Kaj Frank

    1994-01-01

    The DNA damage-inducible gene dinD, originally identified by Kenyon and Walker (C. J. Kenyon and G. C. Walker, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 77:2819-2823, 1980) by selection of the dinD::MudI (Ap lac) fusion, is shown here to be equivalent to the open reading frame orfY near pyrE. The evidence...

  5. rendimiento académico

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    Ernesto Barceló Martínez

    2006-01-01

    Full Text Available Esta investigación se propuso encontrar la posible relación entre el rendimiento académico y la ausencia de ciertas habilidades cognoscitivas denominadas desde la neuropsicología como funciones ejecutivas, en un grupo de estudiantes universitarios. Se exploró entonces el estado de las funciones ejecutivas en estudiantes universitarios que presentaban bajo y alto rendimiento académico. El diseño utilizado en esta investigación fue el transeccional descriptivo. El análisis de los resultados se hizo utilizando el paquete estadístico Statistical Package for Social Sciences (spss. Estos mostraron que, en general, no existen diferencias significativas entre los estudiantes de bajo y alto rendimiento académico. Es decir, mostraron que el rendimiento académico no está directamente relacionado con déficits a nivel de las habilidades ejecutivas, pero sí podría estarlo a nivel del lenguaje y de los antecedentes familiares, psicológicos y académicos en estos estudiantes.

  6. SCI peer health coach influence on self-management with peers: a qualitative analysis.

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    Skeels, S E; Pernigotti, D; Houlihan, B V; Belliveau, T; Brody, M; Zazula, J; Hasiotis, S; Seetharama, S; Rosenblum, D; Jette, A

    2017-11-01

    A process evaluation of a clinical trial. To describe the roles fulfilled by peer health coaches (PHCs) with spinal cord injury (SCI) during a randomized controlled trial research study called 'My Care My Call', a novel telephone-based, peer-led self-management intervention for adults with chronic SCI 1+ years after injury. Connecticut and Greater Boston Area, MA, USA. Directed content analysis was used to qualitatively examine information from 504 tele-coaching calls, conducted with 42 participants with SCI, by two trained SCI PHCs. Self-management was the focus of each 6-month PHC-peer relationship. PHCs documented how and when they used the communication tools (CTs) and information delivery strategies (IDSs) they developed for the intervention. Interaction data were coded and analyzed to determine PHC roles in relation to CT and IDS utilization and application. PHCs performed three principal roles: Role Model, Supporter, and Advisor. Role Model interactions included CTs and IDSs that allowed PHCs to share personal experiences of managing and living with an SCI, including sharing their opinions and advice when appropriate. As Supporters, PHCs used CTs and IDSs to build credible relationships based on dependability and reassuring encouragement. PHCs fulfilled the unique role of Advisor using CTs and IDSs to teach and strategize with peers about SCI self-management. The SCI PHC performs a powerful, flexible role in promoting SCI self-management among peers. Analysis of PHC roles can inform the design of peer-led interventions and highlights the importance for the provision of peer mentor training.

  7. Comparison of scientists of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA on the basis of the h-index

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    R. Mugnaini

    2008-04-01

    Full Text Available A new scientometric indicator, the h-index, has been recently proposed (Hirsch JE. Proc Natl Acad Sci 2005; 102: 16569-16572. The index avoids some shortcomings of the calculation of the total number of citations as a parameter to evaluate scientific performance. Although it has become known only recently, it has had widespread acceptance. A comparison of the average h-index of members of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (BAS and of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (NAS-USA was carried out for 10 different areas of science. Although, as expected, the comparison was unfavorable to the members of the BAS, the imbalance was distinct in different areas. Since these two academies represent, to a significant extent, the science of top quality produced in each country, the comparison allows the identification of the areas in Brazil that are closer to the international stakeholders of scientific excellence. The areas of Physics and Mathematics stand out in this context. The heterogeneity of the h-index in the different areas, estimated by the median dispersion of the index, is significantly higher in the BAS than in the NAS-USA. No elements have been collected in the present study to provide an explanation for this fact.

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    about how is it that the initial state of the 'language organ' in the baby, which must by definition be in bottom-up mode, later operates in a top-down fashion. References. Rauschecker J P and Tian B 2000 Mechanisms and streams for processing “what” and “where” in auditory cortex; Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97 11800– ...

  9. Structure of the Anthrax Research Literature

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    2006-01-01

    46 BARAKAT LA 2002 JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 287 863 31 READ TD 2003 NATURE 423 81 96 IVANOVA N 2003 NATURE 423 87 73 SCOBIE HM 2003 P NATL ACAD SCI USA...Authors collier, rj 9; leppla, sh 7; young, jat 5; wigelsworth, dj 3; scobie , hm 3; mogridge, j 3; liu, sh 3; liddington, rc 3; lacy, db 3

  10. Basics of SCI Rehabilitation

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    Full Text Available ... Cord Injury Rehabilitation Pediatric Spinal Cord Injuries Video Library SCI Medical Experts People Living with SCI Personal ... Cord Injury Rehabilitation Pediatric Spinal Cord Injuries Video Library SCI Medical Experts People Living with SCI Personal ...

  11. Basics of SCI Rehabilitation

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    Full Text Available ... Spinal Cord Injuries Video Library SCI Medical Experts People Living with SCI Personal Experiences by Topic Resources ... Spinal Cord Injuries Video Library SCI Medical Experts People Living with SCI Personal Experiences by Topic Resources ...

  12. Untitled

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    Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., U.S.A., 1929, 15, 896. 5. D. N. Read & sº ... Phys. Rev., 1934, 46, 571. 6. D. Coster and F. Brons ... Physica, 1934, 1, 155; Nature, 1934, 133, 140. 7. W. W. Watson ... ... Phys. Rev., 1932, 42, 509. -. 8. R. de L. Kronig .. . . Zs. f. Physik, 1928, 50, 347. 9. J. Kaplan * * ... Phys. Rev., 1930, 36, 788. 10. L. Gerő .

  13. Basics of SCI Rehabilitation

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    Full Text Available ... Injury Facts and Figures Care and Treatment After SCI Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Pediatric Spinal Cord Injuries Video Library SCI Medical Experts People Living with SCI Personal Experiences ...

  14. Genetic and morphological variations in the Indian mackerel Rastrelliger kanagurta (Cuvier 1817) from the Goa region

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    Menezes, M.R.; Naik, S.; Martins, M.

    stream_size 9 stream_content_type text/plain stream_name Proc_Indian_Acad_Sci_(Anim_Sci)_99_457.pdf.txt stream_source_info Proc_Indian_Acad_Sci_(Anim_Sci)_99_457.pdf.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset...

  15. Sex and Fertility After SCI

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  16. Sex and Fertility After SCI

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  17. Chemical Communications

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    2012-04-27

    Losick R, & Kolter R (2010) Amyloid fibers provide structural integrity to Bacillus subtilis biofilms. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107(5):2230-2234. 22...success of DNA transfection. One commonly used selection marker in bacteria confers antibiotic resistance to the cell. In order to demonstrate the...possibility of using antibiotic resistance as a cipher key, all seven FP genes were cloned into kanamycin-resistant expression vectors containing a T7

  18. p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase in Metastasis Associated with Transforming Growth Factor Beta

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    2006-06-01

    23): 12. sis--correlation in invasive breast carcinoma. N ppendices Rep 2. Dumont, N., A.V. Bakin, and C.L. Arteaga...Y. W. Nrf2 is essential for protection against acute pulmonary injury in mice. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96: 12731–12736; 1999. [15] Enomoto, A...proteomic analysis of all-trans-retinoic acid treatment reveals system- atic post-transcriptional control mechanisms in acute promyelocytic leukemia. Blood

  19. Systemic and Pulmonary Hypertension After Resuscitation with Cell-Free Hemoglobin

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    1992-07-01

    Endotoxin was measured using a kinetic turbidimetric modification of the Limulus amoebocyte lysate assay (9). The rabbit pyrogen test was performed...renal failure. This injury occurred in half of the animals that were resuscitated with HPLC purified, pyrogen -negative, low-residual- phosphate HbAo...oxide: an endogenous modulator of leukocyte adhesion. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 88:4651-4655, 1991. 17. Moncada, S., K. M. J. Palmer, E. A. Higgs. Nitric

  20. académico en adolescentes

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    Francoise Contreras

    2005-01-01

    Full Text Available Este estudio tuvo como propósito determinar si las variables psicológicas percepción de autoeficacia y ansiedad guardan relación con el rendimiento académico en un grupo de 120 estudiantes de secundaria de un colegio privado de Bogotá. Para ello, se aplicó la Escala de Autoeficacia Generalizada [EAG] y el Cuestionario de Ansiedad Estado - Rasgo [STAI]. Los resultados evidenciaron que la autoeficacia está asociada directamente con el rendimiento académico general, mientras que la ansiedad no. Al examinar por áreas de conocimiento, se encontró que tanto la autoeficacia como la ansiedad resultan ser significativas para la predicción del rendimiento académico. Se discute el papel contextual de la ansiedad así como de su posible mediación en la autoeficacia y el rendimiento académico.

  1. Quantifying the distribution of nanodiamonds in pre-Younger Dryas to recent age deposits along Bull Creek, Oklahoma Panhandle, USA

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    Bement, Leland C.; Madden, Andrew S.; Carter, Brian J.; Simms, Alexander R.; Swindle, Andrew L.; Alexander, Hanna M.; Fine, Scott; Benamara, Mourad

    2014-02-01

    High levels of nanodiamonds (nds) have been used to support the transformative hypothesis that an extraterrestrial (ET) event (comet explosion) triggered Younger Dryas changes in temperature, flora and fauna assemblages, and human adaptations [Firestone RB, et al. (2007) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104(41):16016-16021]. We evaluate this hypothesis by establishing the distribution of nds within the Bull Creek drainage of the Beaver River basin in the Oklahoma panhandle. The earlier report of an abundance spike of nds in the Bull Creek I Younger Dryas boundary soil is confirmed, although no pure cubic diamonds were identified. The lack of hexagonal nds suggests Bull Creek I is not near any impact site. Potential hexagonal nds at Bull Creek were found to be more consistent with graphene/graphane. An additional nd spike is found in deposits of late Holocene through the modern age, indicating nds are not unique to the Younger Dryas boundary. Nd distributions do not correlate with depositional environment, pedogenesis, climate perturbations, periods of surface stability, or cultural activity.

  2. Quantifying the distribution of nanodiamonds in pre-Younger Dryas to recent age deposits along Bull Creek, Oklahoma panhandle, USA.

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    Bement, Leland C; Madden, Andrew S; Carter, Brian J; Simms, Alexander R; Swindle, Andrew L; Alexander, Hanna M; Fine, Scott; Benamara, Mourad

    2014-02-04

    High levels of nanodiamonds (nds) have been used to support the transformative hypothesis that an extraterrestrial (ET) event (comet explosion) triggered Younger Dryas changes in temperature, flora and fauna assemblages, and human adaptations [Firestone RB, et al. (2007) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104(41):16016-16021]. We evaluate this hypothesis by establishing the distribution of nds within the Bull Creek drainage of the Beaver River basin in the Oklahoma panhandle. The earlier report of an abundance spike of nds in the Bull Creek I Younger Dryas boundary soil is confirmed, although no pure cubic diamonds were identified. The lack of hexagonal nds suggests Bull Creek I is not near any impact site. Potential hexagonal nds at Bull Creek were found to be more consistent with graphene/graphane. An additional nd spike is found in deposits of late Holocene through the modern age, indicating nds are not unique to the Younger Dryas boundary. Nd distributions do not correlate with depositional environment, pedogenesis, climate perturbations, periods of surface stability, or cultural activity.

  3. www.elearnSCI.org

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    Chhabra, H S; Harvey, Lee; Muldoon, S

    2013-01-01

    OBJECTIVE: To develop a web-based educational resource for health professionals responsible for the management of spinal cord injury (SCI). The resource:www.elearnSCI.org is comprised of seven learning modules, each subdivided into various submodules. Six of the seven modules address the educatio......OBJECTIVE: To develop a web-based educational resource for health professionals responsible for the management of spinal cord injury (SCI). The resource:www.elearnSCI.org is comprised of seven learning modules, each subdivided into various submodules. Six of the seven modules address...... the educational needs of all disciplines involved in comprehensive SCI management. The seventh module addresses prevention of SCI. Each submodule includes an overview, activities, self-assessment questions and references. DEVELOPMENT OF THE RESOURCE: Three hundred and thirty-two experts from The International...... Spinal Cord Society (ISCoS) and various affiliated societies from 36 countries were involved in developing the resource through 28 subcommittees. The content of each submodule was reviewed and approved by the Education and Scientific Committees of ISCoS and finally by an Editorial Committee of 23 experts...

  4. General topology meets model theory, on p and t.

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    Malliaris, Maryanthe; Shelah, Saharon

    2013-08-13

    Cantor proved in 1874 [Cantor G (1874) J Reine Angew Math 77:258-262] that the continuum is uncountable, and Hilbert's first problem asks whether it is the smallest uncountable cardinal. A program arose to study cardinal invariants of the continuum, which measure the size of the continuum in various ways. By Gödel [Gödel K (1939) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 25(4):220-224] and Cohen [Cohen P (1963) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 50(6):1143-1148], Hilbert's first problem is independent of ZFC (Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with the axiom of choice). Much work both before and since has been done on inequalities between these cardinal invariants, but some basic questions have remained open despite Cohen's introduction of forcing. The oldest and perhaps most famous of these is whether " p = t," which was proved in a special case by Rothberger [Rothberger F (1948) Fund Math 35:29-46], building on Hausdorff [Hausdorff (1936) Fund Math 26:241-255]. In this paper we explain how our work on the structure of Keisler's order, a large-scale classification problem in model theory, led to the solution of this problem in ZFC as well as of an a priori unrelated open question in model theory.

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  6. Non-collinear Generation of Angularly Isolated Circularly Polarized High Harmonics

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    2015-09-21

    harmonics co-propagate with the driving laser(s) after the interaction region. In this case, optically dense (typically aluminium ) filters must be...112, 4846–4851 (2014). 10. Mathias, S. et al. Probing the timescale of the exchange interaction in a ferromagnetic alloy . Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 109...0.1 Pa) and passed through a 200 nm aluminium filter (Luxel) before being dispersed using a grating-based spectrograph (Hettrick Scientific) and

  7. Theoretical evaluation of transcriptional pausing effect on the attenuation in trp leader sequence

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    The effect of transcriptional pausing on attenuation is investigated theoretically on the basis of the attenuation control mechanism presented by Oxender et al. (Oxender, D. L., G. Zurawski, and C. Yanofsky, 1979, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 76:5524-5528). An extended stochastic model including the RNA polymerase pausing in the leader region is developed to calculate the probability of relative position between the RNA polymerase transcribing the trp leader sequence and the ribosome translati...

  8. Interferon Antagonism as a Common Virulence Factor of Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses

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    of hSRP1 gamma, a tissue-specific nuclear transport factor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 95:582-7. 18. Prescott , J., C. Ye, G. Sen, and B. Hjelle. 2005...1Department of Microbiology 2Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases 3Emerging Pathogens Institute Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New...York, NY 10029, USA 4Department of Pathology and Immunology, Department of Molecular Microbiology 5Department of Medicine Washington University

  9. Vietnam Head Injury Study - Phase III: A 30-Year Post-Injury Follow-Up Study

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    from PHI. GAD - 19 - Glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) is the rate-limiting enzyme for the production of gamma-amino butyric acid ( GABA ) in the...brain. The adenosine triphosphate (ATP)- mediated control of GABA synthesis gradually declines with age and AD-related neurodegeneration (Marczynski...function and risk for schizophrenia . Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2001; 5;98(12):6917-22. Esposito L, Raber J, Kekonius L, Yan F, Yu G-Q, Bien-Ly N

  10. Activation of Hh Signaling: A Critical Biological Consequence of ETS Gene Anomalies in Prostate Cancer

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  11. Relación entre burnout y engagement académicos con variables sociodemográficas y académicas

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    Full Text Available Este estudio buscó esclarecer la interdependencia entre burnout académico ( BA y engagement académico ( EA en estudiantes universitarios del área de la salud, y profundizar en la carac - terización de esta relación a partir de sus asociaciones con variables sociodemográficas y académicas (desempeño académico, DA . Se utilizó un diseño observacional y correlacional de tipo multivariado con una muestra, constituida aleatoria y estratificadamente por 802 estudiantes de los programas de medicina, enfermería, fisioterapia y psicología de universi - dades privadas de Barranquilla, Colombia. Los instrumentos utilizados fueron el MBI - SS , el UWES-S y un cuestionario sobre condiciones socioeconómicas y académicas. El análisis de las relaciones halladas entre BA y EA permitió considerarlos articulados como extremos de un mismo continuo fenoménico o factor, compuesto por las dimensiones de vigor, dedicación, ineficacia académica y cinismo, con valores opuestos en los extremos o polos del factor. Se identificaron variables sociodemográficas y académicas asociadas con los polos del BA y del EA del factor reconocido, donde el BA resultó un buen predictor de mal DA , y el EA un buen predictor de buen DA .

  12. Split Malcev algebras

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  13. Early Critical Care Decisions and Outcomes after SCI: Track-SCI

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    injury represented grade 3 injury with super- imposed discrete foci of intramedullary T2 hypointensity attributed to the presence of macroscopic...Principal component analysis: a review and recent developments. Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci 2016;374: 20150202 CrossRef Medline 33. Linting M...recommendations for acute SCI.15 Earlier in the course of this patient population, high-dose methylprednisolone was used at the discretion of the treating spine

  14. Evaluation of the potential role of the new Cancer-Testis Antigen BORIS for the development of novel strategies of immunotherapy of cancer

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    BORIS/CTCFL (for brother of the regulator of imprinted sites), a paralogue of the transcription factor CTCF, is a recently described novel member of the cancer-testis (CT) antigen family (Loukinov D, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2002;99:6806). BORIS expression appears to be restricted to testicular germ cells and to a vast majority of neoplastic cells including both cancer cell lines and primary tumors (Klenova EM, et al. Semin Cancer Biol 2002;12:399)

  15. Detecting Repetitions and Periodicities in Proteins by Tiling the Structural Space

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    The notion of energy landscapes provides conceptual tools for understanding the complexities of protein folding and function. Energy landscape theory indicates that it is much easier to find sequences that satisfy the “Principle of Minimal Frustration” when the folded structure is symmetric (Wolynes, P. G. Symmetry and the Energy Landscapes of Biomolecules. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 1996, 93, 14249–14255). Similarly, repeats and structural mosaics may be fundamentally related to landscape...

  16. Role of Growth Hormone in Prostate Cancer

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    2007-02-01

    syndrome produced by targeted disruption of the mouse growth hormone receptor/binding protein gene (the Laron mouse). Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 94:13215... Laron mouse, in which the gene coding for both GHR and GH binding protein has been disrupted or knocked out, with the C3(1)/Tag mouse, which develops...the Laron mouse). Nevertheless, the new model presented here demonstrates that the loss of GHR produced a significant reduction in the level of PIN in

  17. Lycopene cyclase paralog CruP protects against reactive oxygen species in oxygenic photosynthetic organisms

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    In photosynthetic organisms, carotenoids serve essential roles in photosynthesis and photoprotection. A previous report designated CruP as a secondary lycopene cyclase involved in carotenoid biosynthesis [Maresca J, et al. (2007) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104:11784–11789]. However, we found that cruP KO or cruP overexpression plants do not exhibit correspondingly reduced or increased production of cyclized carotenoids, which would be expected if CruP was a lycopene cyclase. Instead, we show that...

  18. Basics of SCI Rehabilitation

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  5. Reveal genes functionally associated with ACADS by a network study.

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    Chen, Yulong; Su, Zhiguang

    2015-09-15

    Establishing a systematic network is aimed at finding essential human gene-gene/gene-disease pathway by means of network inter-connecting patterns and functional annotation analysis. In the present study, we have analyzed functional gene interactions of short-chain acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase gene (ACADS). ACADS plays a vital role in free fatty acid β-oxidation and regulates energy homeostasis. Modules of highly inter-connected genes in disease-specific ACADS network are derived by integrating gene function and protein interaction data. Among the 8 genes in ACADS web retrieved from both STRING and GeneMANIA, ACADS is effectively conjoined with 4 genes including HAHDA, HADHB, ECHS1 and ACAT1. The functional analysis is done via ontological briefing and candidate disease identification. We observed that the highly efficient-interlinked genes connected with ACADS are HAHDA, HADHB, ECHS1 and ACAT1. Interestingly, the ontological aspect of genes in the ACADS network reveals that ACADS, HAHDA and HADHB play equally vital roles in fatty acid metabolism. The gene ACAT1 together with ACADS indulges in ketone metabolism. Our computational gene web analysis also predicts potential candidate disease recognition, thus indicating the involvement of ACADS, HAHDA, HADHB, ECHS1 and ACAT1 not only with lipid metabolism but also with infant death syndrome, skeletal myopathy, acute hepatic encephalopathy, Reye-like syndrome, episodic ketosis, and metabolic acidosis. The current study presents a comprehensible layout of ACADS network, its functional strategies and candidate disease approach associated with ACADS network. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

  6. Preface: SciDAC 2009

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    Simon, Horst

    2009-07-01

    By almost any measure, the SciDAC community has come a long way since DOE launched the SciDAC program back in 2001. At the time, we were grappling with how to efficiently run applications on terascale systems (the November 2001 TOP500 list was led by DOE's ASCI White IBM system at Lawrence Livermore achieving 7.2 teraflop/s). And the results stemming from the first round of SciDAC projects were summed up in two-page reports. The scientific results were presented at annual meetings, which were by invitation only and typically were attended by about 75 researchers. Fast forward to 2009 and we now have SciDAC Review, a quarterly magazine showcasing the scientific computing contributions of SciDAC projects and related programs, all focused on presenting a comprehensive look at Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing. That is also the motivation behind the annual SciDAC conference that in 2009 was held from June 14-18 in San Diego. The annual conference, which can also be described as a celebration of all things SciDAC, grew out those meetings organized in the early days of the program. In 2005, the meeting was held in San Francisco and attendance was opened up to all members of the SciDAC community. The schedule was also expanded to include a keynote address, plenary speakers and other features found in a conference format. This year marks the fifth such SciDAC conference, which now comprises four days of computational science presentations, multiple poster sessions and, since last year, an evening event showcasing simulations and modeling runs resulting from SciDAC projects. The fifth annual SciDAC conference was remarkable on several levels. The primary purpose, of course, is to showcase the research accomplishments resulting from SciDAC programs in particular and computational science in general. It is these accomplishments, represented in 38 papers and 52 posters, that comprise this set of conference proceedings. These proceedings can stand alone as

  7. R-loops: targets for nuclease cleavage and repeat instability.

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    Freudenreich, Catherine H

    2018-01-11

    R-loops form when transcribed RNA remains bound to its DNA template to form a stable RNA:DNA hybrid. Stable R-loops form when the RNA is purine-rich, and are further stabilized by DNA secondary structures on the non-template strand. Interestingly, many expandable and disease-causing repeat sequences form stable R-loops, and R-loops can contribute to repeat instability. Repeat expansions are responsible for multiple neurodegenerative diseases, including Huntington's disease, myotonic dystrophy, and several types of ataxias. Recently, it was found that R-loops at an expanded CAG/CTG repeat tract cause DNA breaks as well as repeat instability (Su and Freudenreich, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 114, E8392-E8401, 2017). Two factors were identified as causing R-loop-dependent breaks at CAG/CTG tracts: deamination of cytosines and the MutLγ (Mlh1-Mlh3) endonuclease, defining two new mechanisms for how R-loops can generate DNA breaks (Su and Freudenreich, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 114, E8392-E8401, 2017). Following R-loop-dependent nicking, base excision repair resulted in repeat instability. These results have implications for human repeat expansion diseases and provide a paradigm for how RNA:DNA hybrids can cause genome instability at structure-forming DNA sequences. This perspective summarizes mechanisms of R-loop-induced fragility at G-rich repeats and new links between DNA breaks and repeat instability.

  8. Molecular Cloning and Function of FAS/APO1 Associated Protein in Breast Cancer.

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    Ariyama T, Abe T, Druck T, Ohta M, Huebner K, Yanagisawa J, Reed JC, Sato T: PTPN13, a Fas-associated protein tyrosine phosphatase, is located on...20. Yang, Q., and Tonks, N. K. (1991). Isolation of a cDNA clone encoding a human protein-tyrosine phosphatase with homology 7. Huebner, K., Druck , T...Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 91, 7477 (1994). Res. 53, 1945 (1993).(Fig. 3D ). In contrast to Jurkat cells which 13. The original description of PTP-BAS (12

  9. Evaluation of the Genetic Response of U937 and Jurkat Cells to 10-Nanosecond Electrical Pulses (nsEP)

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  10. Influence of atmospheric dry deposition of inorganic nutrients on phytoplankton biomass in the coastal Bay of Bengal

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  13. SCI based data acquisition architectures

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    Bogaerts, J.A.C.; Divia, R.; Renardy, J.F.

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    This paper discusses the Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI), an IEEE proposed standard (P1596) for interconnecting multiprocessor systems. The standard defines point to point connections between nodes, which can be processors, memories or I/O devices. Networks containing a maximum of 64K nodes with a bandwidth of one Gbyte/s between nodes, may be constructed. SCI is an attractive candidate to serve as a backbone for high speed, large volume data acquisition systems such as required by future experiments at the proposed Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Work has started to simulate SCI based architectures for data acquisition systems. The simulation program proved to be a useful tool to study SCI systems. First results are reported on a model of a large LHC experiment containing over 1000 nodes

  14. Hassan Nasiem Siddiquie (1934-1986) elected fellow 1983

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  2. SCI Hazard Report Methodology

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    Mitchell, Michael S.

    2010-01-01

    This slide presentation reviews the methodology in creating a Source Control Item (SCI) Hazard Report (HR). The SCI HR provides a system safety risk assessment for the following Ares I Upper Stage Production Contract (USPC) components (1) Pyro Separation Systems (2) Main Propulsion System (3) Reaction and Roll Control Systems (4) Thrust Vector Control System and (5) Ullage Settling Motor System components.

  3. Preface: SciDAC 2007

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    Keyes, David E.

    2007-09-01

    It takes a village to perform a petascale computation—domain scientists, applied mathematicians, computer scientists, computer system vendors, program managers, and support staff—and the village was assembled during 24-28 June 2007 in Boston's Westin Copley Place for the third annual Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) 2007 Conference. Over 300 registered participants networked around 76 posters, focused on achievements and challenges in 36 plenary talks, and brainstormed in two panels. In addition, with an eye to spreading the vision for simulation at the petascale and to growing the workforce, 115 participants—mostly doctoral students and post-docs complementary to the conferees—were gathered on 29 June 2007 in classrooms of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a full day of tutorials on the use of SciDAC software. Eleven SciDAC-sponsored research groups presented their software at an introductory level, in both lecture and hands-on formats that included live runs on a local BlueGene/L. Computation has always been about garnering insight into the behavior of systems too complex to explore satisfactorily by theoretical means alone. Today, however, computation is about much more: scientists and decision makers expect quantitatively reliable predictions from simulations ranging in scale from that of the Earth's climate, down to quarks, and out to colliding black holes. Predictive simulation lies at the heart of policy choices in energy and environment affecting billions of lives and expenditures of trillions of dollars. It is also at the heart of scientific debates on the nature of matter and the origin of the universe. The petascale is barely adequate for such demands and we are barely established at the levels of resolution and throughput that this new scale of computation affords. However, no scientific agenda worldwide is pushing the petascale frontier on all its fronts as vigorously as SciDAC. The breadth of this conference

  4. Seamounts in the Central Indian Ocean Basin: indicators of the Indian plate movement

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  7. Preface: SciDAC 2006

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    Tang, William M., Dr.

    2006-01-01

    The second annual Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) Conference was held from June 25-29, 2006 at the new Hyatt Regency Hotel in Denver, Colorado. This conference showcased outstanding SciDAC-sponsored computational science results achieved during the past year across many scientific domains, with an emphasis on science at scale. Exciting computational science that has been accomplished outside of the SciDAC program both nationally and internationally was also featured to help foster communication between SciDAC computational scientists and those funded by other agencies. This was illustrated by many compelling examples of how domain scientists collaborated productively with applied mathematicians and computer scientists to effectively take advantage of terascale computers (capable of performing trillions of calculations per second) not only to accelerate progress in scientific discovery in a variety of fields but also to show great promise for being able to utilize the exciting petascale capabilities in the near future. The SciDAC program was originally conceived as an interdisciplinary computational science program based on the guiding principle that strong collaborative alliances between domain scientists, applied mathematicians, and computer scientists are vital to accelerated progress and associated discovery on the world's most challenging scientific problems. Associated verification and validation are essential in this successful program, which was funded by the US Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE OS) five years ago. As is made clear in many of the papers in these proceedings, SciDAC has fundamentally changed the way that computational science is now carried out in response to the exciting challenge of making the best use of the rapid progress in the emergence of more and more powerful computational platforms. In this regard, Dr. Raymond Orbach, Energy Undersecretary for Science at the DOE and Director of the OS has stated

  8. Combined SCI and TBI: recovery of forelimb function after unilateral cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) is retarded by contralateral traumatic brain injury (TBI), and ipsilateral TBI balances the effects of SCI on paw placement.

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    Inoue, Tomoo; Lin, Amity; Ma, Xiaokui; McKenna, Stephen L; Creasey, Graham H; Manley, Geoffrey T; Ferguson, Adam R; Bresnahan, Jacqueline C; Beattie, Michael S

    2013-10-01

    A significant proportion (estimates range from 16 to 74%) of patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) have concomitant traumatic brain injury (TBI), and the combination often produces difficulties in planning and implementing rehabilitation strategies and drug therapies. For example, many of the drugs used to treat SCI may interfere with cognitive rehabilitation, and conversely drugs that are used to control seizures in TBI patients may undermine locomotor recovery after SCI. The current paper presents an experimental animal model for combined SCI and TBI to help drive mechanistic studies of dual diagnosis. Rats received a unilateral SCI (75 kdyn) at C5 vertebral level, a unilateral TBI (2.0 mm depth, 4.0 m/s velocity impact on the forelimb sensori-motor cortex), or both SCI+TBI. TBI was placed either contralateral or ipsilateral to the SCI. Behavioral recovery was examined using paw placement in a cylinder, grooming, open field locomotion, and the IBB cereal eating test. Over 6weeks, in the paw placement test, SCI+contralateral TBI produced a profound deficit that failed to recover, but SCI+ipsilateral TBI increased the relative use of the paw on the SCI side. In the grooming test, SCI+contralateral TBI produced worse recovery than either lesion alone even though contralateral TBI alone produced no observable deficit. In the IBB forelimb test, SCI+contralateral TBI revealed a severe deficit that recovered in 3 weeks. For open field locomotion, SCI alone or in combination with TBI resulted in an initial deficit that recovered in 2 weeks. Thus, TBI and SCI affected forelimb function differently depending upon the test, reflecting different neural substrates underlying, for example, exploratory paw placement and stereotyped grooming. Concurrent SCI and TBI had significantly different effects on outcomes and recovery, depending upon laterality of the two lesions. Recovery of function after cervical SCI was retarded by the addition of a moderate TBI in the contralateral

  9. Humans and elephants as treefall drivers in African savannas

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    Full Text Available and composition refl ect the ecological context of multiple spatial and temporal pro- cesses (Watt 1947, Vanak et al. 2012, Scholtz et al. 2014), complex interactive eff ects with other species (Dean et al. 1999, Sankaran et al. 2005), humans (Turner et al.... Southern African fi re regimes as revealed by remote sensing. – Int. J. Wildland Fire 19: 861 – 878. Archibald, S. et al. 2013. Defi ning pyromes and global syndromes of fi re regimes. – Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 110: 6442 – 6447. Asner, G. P...

  10. Identification of Genes Differentially Expressed During Heat Shock Treatment in Aedes aegypti

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    2009-01-01

    Chan, C. W. Cheng, and R. S. Wu. 2003. Cloning of theHSP70 gene in barnacle larvae and its expression under hypoxic conditions. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 46...665Ð671. Chuang, K. H., S. H. Ho, and Y. L. Song. 2007. Cloning and expression analysis of heat shock cognate 70 gene pro- moter in tiger shrimp ...in larvae , but not adults, of a polar insect. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 103: 14223Ð14227. Robich, R. M., J. P. Rinehart, L. J. Kitchen, and D. L

  11. A sub-GeV charged-current quasi-elastic νμ cross-section on carbon at SciBooNE

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    Walding, Joseph James

    2010-01-01

    Neutrino-nucleus charged-current quasi-elastic scattering is the signal interaction used by many neutrino oscillation experiments. For muon disappearance studies the signal mode is ν μ n → μp. Modern oscillation experiments, such as T2K, produce neutrino beams with peak beam energies of order a few-GeV. It is therefore vitally important to have accurate measurements of the charged-current quasi-elastic cross-section for future neutrino oscillation experiments. Neutrino-nucleus cross-sections in the few-GeV region are not well understood, with the main uncertainties coming from understanding of the neutrino beam flux and the final state interactions within nuclei. SciBooNE is a sub-GeV neutrino-nucleus cross-section experiment based at Fermilab, Batavia, USA, with the goal to measure neutrino cross-sections with precision of order 5%. SciBooNE took data from June 2007 until August 2008, in total 0.99 x 10 20 and 1.53 x 10 20 protons on target were collected in neutrino and anti-neutrino mode, respectively. In this thesis a ν μ charged-current quasi-elastic (CCQE) cross-section contained within the SciBar sub-detector is presented. A method to tag muons in SciBar was developed and three samples were isolated. An excess in backwards tracks in the one-track sample is observed. A Poisson maximum likelihood is used to extract the CCQE cross-section. The fit was applied using a basic fit parameter model, successfully used to obtain the cross-section in the SciBar-MRD matched CCQE analysis. This method was found to be insufficient in describing the data for the SciBar-contained CCQE analysis. By adding two migration parameters the cross-section was calculated to be 1.004 ± 0.031 (stat) -0.150 +0.101 (sys) x 10 -38 cm 2 /neutron, excluding backwards tracks with a χ 2 = 203.8/76 d.o.f. and 1.083 ± 0.030(stat) -0.177 +0.115 (sys) x 10 -38 cm 2 /neutron, including backwards tracks with a χ 2 = 659.8/133 d.o.f. Only neutrino beam and detector systematics have been

  12. SCI-NutriNord - a Nordic Initiative on Patient Education on Nutrition for People with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)

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    Steensgaard, Randi

    2017-01-01

    People with SCI are at high risk of developing secondary conditions of which several are linked to nutrition: overweight/obesity, chronic constipation and/or diarrhea and pressure sores are some examples. Proper nutrition is imperative to prevent and treat these conditions. However, there is a lack...... of evidence-based information materials about healthy eating for people with SCI at least in the Nordic languages. The aim of this multidisciplinary workshop is to: A. Inform about SCI-NutriNord and the first steps that have been taken in developing materials on nutrition as educational teaching aids...... to malnutrition Target group for this workshop is persons who have an interest in problem areas linked to nutrition and SCI, and who want to take part in the development of relevant patient education materials....

  13. Psychometric evaluation of the Spanish version of the MPI-SCI.

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    Soler, M D; Cruz-Almeida, Y; Saurí, J; Widerström-Noga, E G

    2013-07-01

    Postal surveys. To confirm the factor structure of the Spanish version of the MPI-SCI (MPI-SCI-S, Multidimensional Pain Inventory in the SCI population) and to test its internal consistency and construct validity in a Spanish population. Guttmann Institute, Barcelona, Spain. The MPI-SCI-S along with Spanish measures of pain intensity (Numerical Rating Scale), pain interference (Brief Pain Inventory), functional independence (Functional Independence Measure), depression (Beck Depression Inventory), locus of control (Multidimensional health Locus of Control), support (Functional Social Support Questionnaire (Duke-UNC)), psychological well-being (Psychological Global Well-Being Index) and demographic/injury characteristics were assessed in persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) and chronic pain (n=126). Confirmatory factor analysis suggested an adequate factor structure for the MPI-SCI-S. The internal consistency of the MPI-SCI-S subscales ranged from acceptable (r=0.66, Life Control) to excellent (r=0.94, Life Interference). All MPI-SCI-S subscales showed adequate construct validity, with the exception of the Negative and Solicitous Responses subscales. The Spanish version of the MPI-SCI is adequate for evaluating chronic pain impact following SCI in a Spanish-speaking population. Future studies should include additional measures of pain-related support in the Spanish-speaking SCI population.

  14. [SciELO: method for electronic publishing].

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    Laerte Packer, A; Rocha Biojone, M; Antonio, I; Mayumi Takemaka, R; Pedroso García, A; Costa da Silva, A; Toshiyuki Murasaki, R; Mylek, C; Carvalho Reisl, O; Rocha F Delbucio, H C

    2001-01-01

    It describes the SciELO Methodology Scientific Electronic Library Online for electronic publishing of scientific periodicals, examining issues such as the transition from traditional printed publication to electronic publishing, the scientific communication process, the principles which founded the methodology development, its application in the building of the SciELO site, its modules and components, the tools use for its construction etc. The article also discusses the potentialities and trends for the area in Brazil and Latin America, pointing out questions and proposals which should be investigated and solved by the methodology. It concludes that the SciELO Methodology is an efficient, flexible and wide solution for the scientific electronic publishing.

  15. Conhecimento dos acadêmicos e profissionais da fisioterapia sobre dor: uma revisão sistemática

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    Alan Carlos Nery dos Santos

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    Full Text Available Estudos demonstram que acadêmicos e profissionais da fisioterapia apresentam limitações no conhecimento sobre diversos aspectos do tema “dor”. Isso pode implicar em abordagens inadequadas e em maior sofrimento dos pacientes. Assim, objetivou-se revisar estudos que investigaram o conhecimento de acadêmicos e profissionais da fisioterapia sobre dor, bem como os que propuseram estratégias para modificar tal conhecimento. Trata-se de uma revisão sistemática, e foram consultadas as bases de dados EBSCOhost, LILACS, PubMed, REDALYC e SciELO, por meio do cruzamento das palavras-chave: “pain”, “knowledge”, “education”, “curriculum”, “physical therapy specialty” e os seus correspondentes em português. Foram considerados elegíveis os estudos observacionais ou experimentais que analisaram o conhecimento sobre aspectos clínicos, fisiopatológicos e manejo da dor. Também foram elegíveis os que testaram estratégias para modificar o conhecimento sobre dor. A triagem pelos títulos e resumo resultou em 84 estudos. Contudo, apenas cinco foram incluídos. Esses analisaram o conhecimento sobre aspectos gerais da dor, sendo publicados entre 2003 e 2016. Apenas 60% dos estudos investigaram participantes da fisioterapia, sendo que 100% deles verificaram o conhecimento por meio de questionários autoaplicáveis. Quatro estudos utilizaram questionários validados. Somente 20% testaram estratégias para modificar o conhecimento sobre dor. Os resultados desta revisão indicam que o tema “dor” é abordado apenas como subtema complementar, o que, embora permita o aprendizado, não tem sido suficiente para garanti-lo. Profissionais da fisioterapia apresentam inconsistência entre o conhecimento teórico e os seus papeis no manuseio e na assistência humanizada da dor. Estratégias de ensino-aprendizagem ativas podem aprimorar o conhecimento acadêmico sobre dor.

  16. SCI implementation study for LHCb data acquisition

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    Müller, H

    1998-01-01

    This paper proposes the use of SCI 1 as a scalable standard to implement the eventbuilder network between the Readout-Units and the Subfarm Controllers of LHCb. SCI [Ref 1] allows for a memory bus-like interconnection between the data sources and the CPU farm, this implies that sources can directly write data to event-buffers in the farm. This data-driven eventbuilding is enhanced by DMA engines as part of the SCI adapters at the source buffers. In general, data may be either written from the sources (event driven DMA for the full readout) or pulled from the destination (demand-driven DMA for the phased readout). A mixture of both readout architectures is possible, a second level push and a third level pull scheme could simultaneously coexist across the same physical network. Sources and destinations are interconnected via very high bandwidth SCI rings ( 4-8 Gbit/s). By using SCI switches, bandwidth scaling up to any required throughput is possible. The functionalities of a Readout Unit (RU) and a Subfarm Con...

  17. What Are the Treatments for Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)?

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    ... What are the treatments for spinal cord injury (SCI)? Unfortunately, there are at present no known ways ... function of the nerves that remain after an SCI. SCI treatment currently focuses on preventing further injury ...

  18. Molecular identification of a myosuppressin receptor from the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae

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    Schöller, Susanne; Belmont, Martin; Cazzamali, Giuseppe

    2005-01-01

    The insect myosuppressins (X1DVX2HX3FLRFamide) are neuropeptides that generally block insect muscle activities. We have used the genomic sequence information from the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae Genome Project to clone a G protein-coupled receptor that was closely related to the two...... previously cloned and characterized myosuppressin receptors from Drosophila [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100 (2003) 9808]. The mosquito receptor cDNA was expressed in Chinese hamster ovary cells and was found to be activated by low concentrations of Anopheles myosuppressin (TDVDHVFLRFamide; EC50, 1.6 x 10...... identification of a mosquito neuropeptide receptor....

  19. Performance of the SciBar cosmic ray telescope (SciCRT) toward the detection of high-energy solar neutrons in solar cycle 24

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    Sasai, Yoshinori; Nagai, Yuya; Itow, Yoshitaka; Matsubara, Yutaka; Sako, Takashi; Lopez, Diego; Itow, Tsukasa; Munakata, Kazuoki; Kato, Chihiro; Kozai, Masayoshi; Miyazaki, Takahiro; Shibata, Shoichi; Oshima, Akitoshi; Kojima, Hiroshi; Tsuchiya, Harufumi; Watanabe, Kyoko; Koi, Tatsumi; Valdés-Galicia, Jose Francisco; González, Luis Xavier; Ortiz, Ernesto; Musalem, Octavio; Hurtado, Alejandro; Garcia, Rocio; Anzorena, Marcos

    2014-12-01

    We plan to observe solar neutrons at Mt. Sierra Negra (4,600 m above sea level) in Mexico using the SciBar detector. This project is named the SciBar Cosmic Ray Telescope (SciCRT). The main aims of the SciCRT project are to observe solar neutrons to study the mechanism of ion acceleration on the surface of the sun and to monitor the anisotropy of galactic cosmic-ray muons. The SciBar detector, a fully active tracker, is composed of 14,848 scintillator bars, whose dimension is 300 cm × 2.5 cm × 1.3 cm. The structure of the detector enables us to obtain the particle trajectory and its total deposited energy. This information is useful for the energy reconstruction of primary neutrons and particle identification. The total volume of the detector is 3.0 m × 3.0 m × 1.7 m. Since this volume is much larger than the solar neutron telescope (SNT) in Mexico, the detection efficiency of the SciCRT for neutrons is highly enhanced. We performed the calibration of the SciCRT at Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica (INAOE) located at 2,150 m above sea level in Mexico in 2012. We installed the SciCRT at Mt. Sierra Negra in April 2013 and calibrated this detector in May and August 2013. We started continuous observation in March 2014. In this paper, we report the detector performance as a solar neutron telescope and the current status of the SciCRT.

  20. Experiences using SciPy for computer vision research

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    Eads, Damian R [Los Alamos National Laboratory; Rosten, Edward J [Los Alamos National Laboratory

    2008-01-01

    SciPy is an effective tool suite for prototyping new algorithms. We share some of our experiences using it for the first time to support our research in object detection. SciPy makes it easy to integrate C code, which is essential when algorithms operating on large data sets cannot be vectorized. The universality of Python, the language in which SciPy was written, gives the researcher access to a broader set of non-numerical libraries to support GUI development, interface with databases, manipulate graph structures. render 3D graphics, unpack binary files, etc. Python's extensive support for operator overloading makes SciPy's syntax as succinct as its competitors, MATLAB, Octave, and R. More profoundly, we found it easy to rework research code written with SciPy into a production application, deployable on numerous platforms.

  1. A millennium approach to data acquisition: SCI and PCI

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    Mueller, Hans; Bogaerts, A.; Lindenstruth, V.

    1996-01-01

    The international SCI standard IEEE/ANSI 1596 a is on its way to become the computer interconnect of the year 2000 since for a first time, low latency desktop multiprocessing and cluster computing can be implemented at low cost. The PCI bus is todays's dominating local bus extension for all major computer platforms as well as buses like VMEbus. PCI is a self configuring memory and I/O system for peripheral components with a hierarchical architecture. SCI is a scalable, bus-like interconnect for distributed processors and memories. It allows for optionally coherent data caching and assures error free data delivery. First measurement with commercial SCI products (SBUS-SCI) confirm simulations that SCI can handle even the highest data rates of LHC experiments. The event builder layer for a millennium very high rate DAQ system can therefore be viewed as a SCI network (bridges, cables and switches) interfaced between PCI buses on the front end (VME b ) side and on the processor farm Multi-CPU) side. Such a combination of SCI and PCI enables PCI-PCI memory access, transparently across SCI. It also allows for a novel, low level trigger technique: the trigger algorithm can access VME data buffers with bus-like latencies like local memory, full data transfers become redundant. The first prototype of a PCI-SCI bridge for DAQ is presented as starting point for a test system with built-in scalability. (author)

  2. Development and initial evaluation of the SCI-FI/AT.

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    Jette, Alan M; Slavin, Mary D; Ni, Pengsheng; Kisala, Pamela A; Tulsky, David S; Heinemann, Allen W; Charlifue, Susie; Tate, Denise G; Fyffe, Denise; Morse, Leslie; Marino, Ralph; Smith, Ian; Williams, Steve

    2015-05-01

    To describe the domain structure and calibration of the Spinal Cord Injury Functional Index for samples using Assistive Technology (SCI-FI/AT) and report the initial psychometric properties of each domain. Cross sectional survey followed by computerized adaptive test (CAT) simulations. Inpatient and community settings. A sample of 460 adults with traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) stratified by level of injury, completeness of injury, and time since injury. None SCI-FI/AT RESULTS: Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and Item response theory (IRT) analyses identified 4 unidimensional SCI-FI/AT domains: Basic Mobility (41 items) Self-care (71 items), Fine Motor Function (35 items), and Ambulation (29 items). High correlations of full item banks with 10-item simulated CATs indicated high accuracy of each CAT in estimating a person's function, and there was high measurement reliability for the simulated CAT scales compared with the full item bank. SCI-FI/AT item difficulties in the domains of Self-care, Fine Motor Function, and Ambulation were less difficult than the same items in the original SCI-FI item banks. With the development of the SCI-FI/AT, clinicians and investigators have available multidimensional assessment scales that evaluate function for users of AT to complement the scales available in the original SCI-FI.

  3. Opening Comments: SciDAC 2008

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    Strayer, Michael

    2008-07-01

    Welcome to Seattle and the 2008 SciDAC Conference. This conference, the fourth in the series, is a continuation of the PI meetings we first began under SciDAC-1. I would like to start by thanking the organizing committee, and Rick Stevens in particular, for organizing this year's meeting. This morning I would like to look briefly at SciDAC, to give you a brief history of SciDAC and also look ahead to see where we plan to go over the next few years. I think the best description of SciDAC, at least the simulation part, comes from a quote from Dr Ray Orbach, DOE's Under Secretary for Science and Director of the Office of Science. In an interview that appeared in the SciDAC Review magazine, Dr Orbach said, `SciDAC is unique in the world. There isn't any other program like it anywhere else, and it has the remarkable ability to do science by bringing together physical scientists, mathematicians, applied mathematicians, and computer scientists who recognize that computation is not something you do at the end, but rather it needs to be built into the solution of the very problem that one is addressing'. Of course, that is extended not just to physical scientists, but also to biological scientists. This is a theme of computational science, this partnership among disciplines, which goes all the way back to the early 1980s and Ken Wilson. It's a unique thread within the Department of Energy. SciDAC-1, launched around the turn of the millennium, created a new generation of scientific simulation codes. It advocated building out mathematical and computing system software in support of science and a new collaboratory software environment for data. The original concept for SciDAC-1 had topical centers for the execution of the various science codes, but several corrections and adjustments were needed. The ASCR scientific computing infrastructure was also upgraded, providing the hardware facilities for the program. The computing facility that we had at that time was the big 3

  4. Fee-based services in sci-tech libraries

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    This timely and important book explores how fee-based services have developed in various types of sci-tech libraries. The authoritative contributors focus on the current changing financial aspects of the sci-tech library operation and clarify for the reader how these changes have brought about conditions in which traditional methods of funding are no longer adequate. What new options are open and how they are best being applied in today's sci-tech libraries is fully and clearly explained and illustrated. Topics explored include cost allocation and cost recovery, fees for computer searching, an

  5. La gestión de conocimiento en las relaciones académico-empresariales. Un nuevo enfoque para analizar el impacto del conocimiento académico

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    2011-01-01

    La necesidad de introducir las teorías basadas en el conocimiento para explicar las Relaciones Académico-Empresariales (RA-E) y el impacto que ha generado el conocimiento académico en su zona de influencia, llamese empresas, parte básicamente de los señalamientos que hacia Acs, et al., (1991: 363) con respecto a la incapacidad de los estudios económicos para reconocer qué modos y mecanismos de transmisión de conocimientos se dan lugar entre la investigación académica y las empresas debido a l...

  6. MathSci

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    De Robbio, Antonella

    1997-01-01

    This paper shows the prestigious mathematics database MathSci, produced by American Mathematical Society (AMS). It is an indexing resource that deals with the whole literature about mathematics. The subject involved in referred to mathematical sciences and others relating such as Statistics, Information science, Operative research and Mathematics Physics. Moreover it indexes sciences related to applied mathematics such as Astronomy, Astrophysics, Biology, Compartmental Sciences, Thermodyn...

  7. Servicios Académicos Del Programa De Acceso Inclusivo, Equidad Y Permanencia: Impacto En El Rendimiento Académico 2015

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    Fredes, Pablo; Cornejo, María Francisca; Urbina, Loreto; Villaroel, Mirza; González, Francisca

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    Dado que la Universidad de Santiago de Chile tiene para el proceso de admisión una alta valoración por la trayectoria académica (40% Ranking-10% NEM), los estudiantes que ingresan a la Universidad son en general estudiantes talentosos que han aprovechado al máximo las oportunidades en su contexto, sin embargo, las tasas de cobertura curricular de los establecimientos de los que provienen son bajas; por este motivo la Universidad les ofrece a estos estudiantes nivelación y acompañamiento acadé...

  8. Basics of SCI Rehabilitation

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  9. Orgasm and SCI: what do we know?

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    Alexander, Marcalee; Marson, Lesley

    2018-06-01

    narrative review OBJECTIVES: To determine the percentage of persons with SCI able to achieve orgasm and ejaculation, the associations between ejaculation and orgasm and the subjective and autonomic findings during these events, and the potential benefits with regards to spasticity. Two American medical centers METHODS: Data bases were searched for the terms orgasm and SCI and ejaculation and SCI. Search criteria were human studies published in English from 1990 to 12/2/2016. Approximately 50% of sexually active men and women report orgasmic ability after SCI. There is a relative inability of persons with complete lower motor neuron injuries affecting the sacral segments to achieve orgasm. Time to orgasm is longer in persons with SCIs than able-bodied (AB) persons. With orgasm, elevated blood pressure (BP) occurs after SCI in a similar fashion to AB persons. With penile vibratory stimulation and electroejaculation, BP elevation is common and prophylaxis is recommended in persons with injuries at T6 and above. Dry orgasm occurs approximately 13% of times in males. Midodrine, vibratory stimulation, clitoral vacuum suction, and 4-aminopyridine may improve orgasmic potential. Depending on level and severity of injury, persons with SCIs can achieve orgasm. Sympathetically mediated changes occur during sexual response with culmination at orgasm. Future research should address benefits of orgasm. Additionally, inherent biases associated with studying orgasm must be considered.

  10. Glassy selenium at high pressure: Le Chatelier's principle still works

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    Brazhkin, V. V.; Tsiok, O. B.

    2017-10-01

    Selenium is the only easily vitrified elementary substance. Numerous experimental studies of glassy Se (g -Se) at high pressures show a large spread in the data on the compressibility and electrical resistivity of g -Se. Furthermore, H. Liu et al. [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105, 13229 (2008), 10.1073/pnas.0806857105] have arrived at the surprising conclusion that the volume of glass increases during pressure-induced crystallization. We have performed high-precision measurements of the specific volume and electrical resistivity of glassy selenium (g -Se) at high hydrostatic pressures up to 9 GPa. The measured bulk modulus at normal pressure is B =(9.0 5 ±0.15 ) GPa and its pressure derivative is BP'=6.4 ±0.2 . In the pressure range P <3 GPa, glassy selenium has an anomalously large negative second derivative of the bulk modulus. The electrical resistivity of g -Se decreases almost exponentially with increasing pressure and reaches 20 Ω cm at a pressure of 8.75 GPa. The inelastic behavior and weak relaxation of the volume for g -Se begin at pressures above 3.5 GPa; the volume and logarithm of the electrical resistivity relax significantly (logarithmically with the time) at pressures above 8 GPa. Bulk measurements certainly indicate that the volume of g -Se glass in the crystallization pressure range is larger than the volumes of both appearing crystalline phases (by 2% and 4%). Therefore, the "volume expansion phenomenon" suggested in [H. Liu et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105, 13229 (2008), 10.1073/pnas.0806857105] is not observed, and the pressure-induced crystallization of glassy selenium is consistent with the laws of thermodynamics.

  11. Intracellular transport and sorting of mutant human proinsulins that fail to form hexamers.

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    Quinn, D; Orci, L; Ravazzola, M; Moore, H P

    1991-06-01

    Human proinsulin and insulin oligomerize to form dimers and hexamers. It has been suggested that the ability of prohormones to self associate and form aggregates may be responsible for the sorting process at the trans-Golgi. To examine whether insulin oligomerization is required for proper sorting into regulated storage granules, we have constructed point mutations in human insulin B chain that have been previously shown to prevent formation of insulin hexamers (Brange, J., U. Ribel, J. F. Hansen, G. Dodson, M. T. Hansen, S. Havelund, S. G. Melberg, F. Norris, K. Norris, L. Snel, A. R. Sorensen, and H. O. Voight. 1988. Nature [Lond.]. 333:679-682). One mutant (B10His----Asp) allows formation of dimers but not hexamers and the other (B9Ser----Asp) prevents formation of both dimers and hexamers. The mutants were transfected into the mouse pituitary AtT-20 cells, and their ability to be sorted into regulated secretory granules was compared to wild-type insulin. We found that while B10His----Asp is sorted somewhat less efficiently than wild-type insulin as reported previously (Carroll, R. J., R. E. Hammer, S. J. Chan, H. H. Swift, A. H. Rubenstein, and D. F. Steiner. 1988. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 85:8943-8947; Gross, D. J., P. A. Halban, C. R. Kahn, G. C. Weir, and L. Villa-Kumaroff. 1989. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 86:4107-4111). B9Ser----Asp is targeted to granules as efficiently as wild-type insulin. These results indicate that self association of proinsulin into hexamers is not required for its targeting to the regulated secretory pathway.

  12. Basics of SCI Rehabilitation

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  14. Influencia de la autoeficacia académica y la procrastinación académica sobre el cansancio emocional de estudiantes de la Universidad Alas Peruanas, Lima, 2015

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    Gutiérrez Torres, Andrés Martín

    2015-01-01

    Objetivo: determinar cuánta es la influencia de la autoeficacia académica y la procrastinación académica sobre el cansancio emocional de estudiantes de la Universidad Alas Peruanas, Lima, 2015. Metodología: se usó un diseño observacional, transversal, retrospectivo y correlacional-causal. La muestra no probabilística fue de 332 estudiantes de Psicología de una universidad privada de Lima, quienes fueron evaluados con tres instrumentos: Escala de Autoeficacia para Situaciones Académicas, E...

  15. Mecanismos de busca acadêmica: uma análise quantitativa

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    Diego Buchinger

    2014-04-01

    Full Text Available Os mecanismos de busca consolidaram a pesquisa por informação na internet,sendo os mecanismos de busca acadêmicos (MBAs, hoje, os principais meios para alcançar fontes científicas, como artigos de eventos ou periódicos. Ao invés de gastar horas em uma biblioteca, os MBAs ganham em popularidade pela facilidade de automatizar uma busca e acessar inúmeras bases de dados simultaneamente. Contudo, o caráter incremental das bases de materiais científicos e dos diversos MBAs existentes impõe um desafio aos pesquisadores, que é determinar um MBA que melhor atenda aos seus anseios de pesquisa. Nesse contexto, uma análise quantitativa dos recursos providos pelos MBAs foi realizada com objetivo de determinar quais são os melhores para facilitar as buscas por conteúdo científico, considerando recursos de busca, de refinamento e auxiliares. Dentre um grupo de 40 MBAs iniciais, sete apresentaram-se com σ = 0,5 acima da média nos critérios utilizados, na seguinte ordem: 1o Web of Knowledge; 2o Engineering Village; 3o Scopus SciVerse; 4o IEEE Xplore; 5o ACM Digital Library; 6o Science Direct; e 7o Springer Link. Esses MBAs deveriam ser melhor explorados pelos pesquisadores pois tem inúmeros recursos capazes de facilitar sobremaneira e elevar a qualidade do trabalho de pesquisa.

  16. Brain transcriptional responses to high-fat diet in Acads-deficient mice reveal energy sensing pathways.

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    Full Text Available How signals from fatty acid metabolism are translated into changes in food intake remains unclear. Previously we reported that mice with a genetic inactivation of Acads (acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase, short-chain, the enzyme responsible for mitochondrial beta-oxidation of C4-C6 short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs, shift consumption away from fat and toward carbohydrate when offered a choice between diets. In the current study, we sought to indentify candidate genes and pathways underlying the effects of SCFA oxidation deficiency on food intake in Acads-/- mice.We performed a transcriptional analysis of gene expression in brain tissue of Acads-/- and Acads+/+ mice fed either a high-fat (HF or low-fat (LF diet for 2 d. Ingenuity Pathway Analysis revealed three top-scoring pathways significantly modified by genotype or diet: oxidative phosphorylation, mitochondrial dysfunction, and CREB signaling in neurons. A comparison of statistically significant responses in HF Acads-/- vs. HF Acads+/+ (3917 and Acads+/+ HF vs. LF Acads+/+ (3879 revealed 2551 genes or approximately 65% in common between the two experimental comparisons. All but one of these genes were expressed in opposite direction with similar magnitude, demonstrating that HF-fed Acads-deficient mice display transcriptional responses that strongly resemble those of Acads+/+ mice fed LF diet. Intriguingly, genes involved in both AMP-kinase regulation and the neural control of food intake followed this pattern. Quantitative RT-PCR in hypothalamus confirmed the dysregulation of genes in these pathways. Western blotting showed an increase in hypothalamic AMP-kinase in Acads-/- mice and HF diet increased, a key protein in an energy-sensing cascade that responds to depletion of ATP.Our results suggest that the decreased beta-oxidation of short-chain fatty acids in Acads-deficient mice fed HF diet produces a state of energy deficiency in the brain and that AMP-kinase may be the cellular energy

  17. Hawkes process as a model of social interactions: a view on video dynamics

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    We study by computer simulation the 'Hawkes process' that was proposed in a recent paper by Crane and Sornette (2008 Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 105 15649) as a plausible model for the dynamics of YouTube video viewing numbers. We test the claims made there that robust identification is possible for classes of dynamic response following activity bursts. Our simulated time series for the Hawkes process indeed fall into the different categories predicted by Crane and Sornette. However, the Hawkes process gives a much narrower spread of decay exponents than the YouTube data, suggesting limits to the universality of the Hawkes-based analysis.

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    Mitchell, Lawrence; Cates, Michael E, E-mail: lawrence.mitchell@ed.ac.u [SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, JCMB Kings Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ (United Kingdom)

    2010-01-29

    We study by computer simulation the 'Hawkes process' that was proposed in a recent paper by Crane and Sornette (2008 Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 105 15649) as a plausible model for the dynamics of YouTube video viewing numbers. We test the claims made there that robust identification is possible for classes of dynamic response following activity bursts. Our simulated time series for the Hawkes process indeed fall into the different categories predicted by Crane and Sornette. However, the Hawkes process gives a much narrower spread of decay exponents than the YouTube data, suggesting limits to the universality of the Hawkes-based analysis.

  19. Exploring the free energy surfaces of clusters using reconnaissance metadynamics

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    Tribello, Gareth A.; Cuny, Jérôme; Eshet, Hagai; Parrinello, Michele

    2011-09-01

    A new approach is proposed for exploring the low-energy structures of small to medium-sized aggregates of atoms and molecules. This approach uses the recently proposed reconnaissance metadynamics method [G. A. Tribello, M. Ceriotti, and M. Parrinello. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 107(41), 17509 (2010), 10.1073/pnas.1011511107] in tandem with collective variables that describe the average structure of the coordination sphere around the atoms/molecules. We demonstrate this method on both Lennard-Jones and water clusters and show how it is able to quickly find the global minimum in the potential energy surface, while exploring the finite temperature free energy surface.

  20. Maximal Fluctuations of Confined Actomyosin Gels: Dynamics of the Cell Nucleus.

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    Rupprecht, J-F; Singh Vishen, A; Shivashankar, G V; Rao, M; Prost, J

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    We investigate the effect of stress fluctuations on the stochastic dynamics of an inclusion embedded in a viscous gel. We show that, in nonequilibrium systems, stress fluctuations give rise to an effective attraction towards the boundaries of the confining domain, which is reminiscent of an active Casimir effect. We apply this generic result to the dynamics of deformations of the cell nucleus, and we demonstrate the appearance of a fluctuation maximum at a critical level of activity, in agreement with recent experiments [E. Makhija, D. S. Jokhun, and G. V. Shivashankar, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 113, E32 (2016)PNASA60027-842410.1073/pnas.1513189113].

  1. Hawkes process as a model of social interactions: a view on video dynamics

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    Mitchell, Lawrence; Cates, Michael E, E-mail: lawrence.mitchell@ed.ac.u [SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, JCMB Kings Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ (United Kingdom)

    2010-01-29

    We study by computer simulation the 'Hawkes process' that was proposed in a recent paper by Crane and Sornette (2008 Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 105 15649) as a plausible model for the dynamics of YouTube video viewing numbers. We test the claims made there that robust identification is possible for classes of dynamic response following activity bursts. Our simulated time series for the Hawkes process indeed fall into the different categories predicted by Crane and Sornette. However, the Hawkes process gives a much narrower spread of decay exponents than the YouTube data, suggesting limits to the universality of the Hawkes-based analysis.

  2. The road to understanding an ion pump

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    Toyoshima, Chikashi

    2016-04-01

    In the past 25 years or so I have been working almost exclusively on two proteins: the Ca2+-ATPase of muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum, and the Na+, K+-ATPase expressed in all animal cells, both are membrane ion pumps representing P-type ion translocating ATPases. My ambition as a scientist is to completely understand the meaning of their atomic structures. How I became a scientist is described elsewhere (Nuzzo R 2006 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103 1165-7), and focus here is given to my struggle towards a deep understanding of Ca2+-ATPase. This is a long but very fascinating and rewarding journey.

  3. Preface: SciDAC 2005

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    Mezzacappa, Anthony

    2005-01-01

    On 26-30 June 2005 at the Grand Hyatt on Union Square in San Francisco several hundred computational scientists from around the world came together for what can certainly be described as a celebration of computational science. Scientists from the SciDAC Program and scientists from other agencies and nations were joined by applied mathematicians and computer scientists to highlight the many successes in the past year where computation has led to scientific discovery in a variety of fields: lattice quantum chromodynamics, accelerator modeling, chemistry, biology, materials science, Earth and climate science, astrophysics, and combustion and fusion energy science. Also highlighted were the advances in numerical methods and computer science, and the multidisciplinary collaboration cutting across science, mathematics, and computer science that enabled these discoveries. The SciDAC Program was conceived and funded by the US Department of Energy Office of Science. It is the Office of Science's premier computational science program founded on what is arguably the perfect formula: the priority and focus is science and scientific discovery, with the understanding that the full arsenal of `enabling technologies' in applied mathematics and computer science must be brought to bear if we are to have any hope of attacking and ultimately solving today's computational Grand Challenge problems. The SciDAC Program has been in existence for four years, and many of the computational scientists funded by this program will tell you that the program has given them the hope of addressing their scientific problems in full realism for the very first time. Many of these scientists will also tell you that SciDAC has also fundamentally changed the way they do computational science. We begin this volume with one of DOE's great traditions, and core missions: energy research. As we will see, computation has been seminal to the critical advances that have been made in this arena. Of course, to

  4. A prototype DAQ system for the ALICE experiment based on SCI

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    Skaali, B.; Ingebrigtsen, L.; Wormald, D.; Polovnikov, S.; Roehrig, H.

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    A prototype DAQ system for the ALICE/PHOS beam test an commissioning program is presented. The system has been taking data since August 1997, and represents one of the first applications of the Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) as interconnect technology for an operational DAQ system. The front-end VMEbus address space is mapped directly from the DAQ computer memory space through SCI via PCI-SCI bridges. The DAQ computer is a commodity PC running the Linux operating system. The results of measurements of data transfer rate and latency for the PCI-SCI bridges in a PC-VMEbus SCI-configuration are presented. An optical SCI link based on the Motorola Optobus I data link is described

  5. Basics of SCI Rehabilitation

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  10. Calidad del dormir, insomnio y rendimiento académico en estudiantes de medicina

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    Alvaro Monterrosa Castro

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    Full Text Available Es alta la prevalencia de mala calidad del sueño en estudiantes universitarios, especialmente de medicina. Los disturbios del dormir repercuten de manera negativa en la salud mental, física y en la calidad de vida. El objetivo es evaluar la calidad del dormir e insomnio y su asociación con el rendimiento académico, en estudiantes de medicina de una universidad pública del Caribe Colombiano. Estudio transversal, realizado en estudiantes de primero a décimo semestre de medicina de la Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia. Se aplicó formulario de datos socio demográfico y académico, así como la Escala de Insomnio de Atenas y el índice de calidad de sueño de Pittsburgh. Puntuación de Atenas > 5 indica insomnio y Pittsburgh >5: malos dormidores. Participación voluntaria, estratificada por sexo y semestre. Los datos fueron analizados con Epi-Info 7. Valor de p<0.05 estadísticamente significativo. Participaron 210 estudiantes. Edad: 19.7±2.0. Varones: 49.0%, procedentes de Cartagena: 69%. Promedio académico: 3.8±0.2. Rendimiento académico alto: 31.4%. Se estimaron como malos dormidores el 88.1%. No se observaron diferencias significativas entre buenos dormidores y malos dormidores en cuanto a rendimiento académico. El 46.6% presentaban insomnio. Los estudiantes con rendimiento académico alto, tuvieron significativamente menor presencia de insomnio. Los estudiantes con insomnio y malos dormidores tuvieron presencia significativamente mayor de somnolencia diurna. Se concluye que en estudiantes de medicina de una universidad colombiana fue elevada la presencia de malos dormidores, pero ello no se asoció con el rendimiento académico. El insomnio también fue elevadamente prevalente y si tuvo asociación significativa con el rendimiento académico.

  11. Basics of SCI Rehabilitation

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  12. Length of stay and medical stability for spinal cord-injured patients on admission to an inpatient rehabilitation hospital: a comparison between a model SCI trauma center and non-SCI trauma center.

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    Ploumis, A; Kolli, S; Patrick, M; Owens, M; Beris, A; Marino, R J

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    Retrospective database review. To compare lengths of stay (LOS), pressure ulcers and readmissions to the acute care hospital of patients admitted to the inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) from a model spinal cord injury (SCI) trauma center or from a non-SCI acute hospital. Only sparse data exist comparing the status of patients admitted to IRF from a model SCI trauma center or from a non-SCI acute hospital. Acute care, IRF and total LOS were compared between patients transferred to IRF from the SCI center (n=78) and from non-SCI centers (n=131). The percentages of pressure ulcers on admission to IRF and transfer back to acute care were also compared. Patients admitted to IRF from the SCI trauma center (SCI TC) had significantly shorter (P=0.01) acute care LOS and total LOS compared with patients admitted from non-SCI TCs. By neurological category, acute-care LOS was less for all groups admitted from the SCI center, but statistically significant only for tetraplegia. There was no significant difference in the incidence of readmissions to acute care from IRF. More patients from non-SCI centers (34%) than SCI centers (12%) had pressure ulcers (PSCI TCs before transfer to IRF can significantly lower acute-care LOS or total LOS and incidence of pressure ulcers compared with non-SCI TCs. Patients admitted to IRF from SCI TCs are no more likely to be sent back to an acute hospital than those from non-SCI TCs.

  13. Amphibian and reptile communities in eleven Sites of Community Importance (SCI: relations between SCI area, heterogeneity and richness

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    Full Text Available Seven species of amphibians and reptiles were observed in eleven Sites of Community Importance (SCI of the Lodi Province (NW Italy. Distribution and relative abundance of amphibians appeared more variable than reptiles. Some species of conservation concern as R. latastei were influenced by habitat physiognomy, i.e. the surface of wooded areas are important in predict presence and relative abundance of this species. SCI with wider surfaces and higher habitat heterogeneity included higher number of species. Species richness, here considered as a raw index of biodiversity value and community quality, was significantly related to SCI area and habitat heterogeneity; since this significant positive relation is confirmed both for amphibians and reptiles we suggest that, in planning of natural areas, priority must be retained for biotopes able to host the higher number of species.

  14. Opening Remarks: SciDAC 2007

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    Strayer, Michael

    2007-09-01

    Good morning. Welcome to Boston, the home of the Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins, baked beans, tea parties, Robert Parker, and SciDAC 2007. A year ago I stood before you to share the legacy of the first SciDAC program and identify the challenges that we must address on the road to petascale computing—a road E E Cummins described as `. . . never traveled, gladly beyond any experience.' Today, I want to explore the preparations for the rapidly approaching extreme scale (X-scale) generation. These preparations are the first step propelling us along the road of burgeoning scientific discovery enabled by the application of X- scale computing. We look to petascale computing and beyond to open up a world of discovery that cuts across scientific fields and leads us to a greater understanding of not only our world, but our universe. As part of the President's America Competitiveness Initiative, the ASCR Office has been preparing a ten year vision for computing. As part of this planning the LBNL together with ORNL and ANL hosted three town hall meetings on Simulation and Modeling at the Exascale for Energy, Ecological Sustainability and Global Security (E3). The proposed E3 initiative is organized around four programmatic themes: Engaging our top scientists, engineers, computer scientists and applied mathematicians; investing in pioneering large-scale science; developing scalable analysis algorithms, and storage architectures to accelerate discovery; and accelerating the build-out and future development of the DOE open computing facilities. It is clear that we have only just started down the path to extreme scale computing. Plan to attend Thursday's session on the out-briefing and discussion of these meetings. The road to the petascale has been at best rocky. In FY07, the continuing resolution provided 12% less money for Advanced Scientific Computing than either the President, the Senate, or the House. As a consequence, many of you had to absorb a no cost extension for your

  15. GeoSciML and EarthResourceML Update, 2012

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    CGI Interoperability Working Group activities during 2012 include deployment of services using the GeoSciML-Portrayal schema, addition of new vocabularies to support properties added in version 3.0, improvements to server software for deploying services, introduction of EarthResourceML v.2 for mineral resources, and collaboration with the IUSS on a markup language for soils information. GeoSciML and EarthResourceML have been used as the basis for the INSPIRE Geology and Mineral Resources specifications respectively. GeoSciML-Portrayal is an OGC GML simple-feature application schema for presentation of geologic map unit, contact, and shear displacement structure (fault and ductile shear zone) descriptions in web map services. Use of standard vocabularies for geologic age and lithology enables map services using shared legends to achieve visual harmonization of maps provided by different services. New vocabularies have been added to the collection of CGI vocabularies provided to support interoperable GeoSciML services, and can be accessed through http://resource.geosciml.org. Concept URIs can be dereferenced to obtain SKOS rdf or html representations using the SISSVoc vocabulary service. New releases of the FOSS GeoServer application greatly improve support for complex XML feature schemas like GeoSciML, and the ArcGIS for INSPIRE extension implements similar complex feature support for ArcGIS Server. These improved server implementations greatly facilitate deploying GeoSciML services. EarthResourceML v2 adds features for information related to mining activities. SoilML provides an interchange format for soil material, soil profile, and terrain information. Work is underway to add GeoSciML to the portfolio of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications.

  16. Competencias profesionales de los académicos en la educación superior

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    Full Text Available http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1983-4535.2011v4n1p129   El desarrollo profesional de los profesores y los líderes universitarios es un proceso continuo en la educación superior. Docencia, investigación, servicio, desarrollo personal y gestión son las competencias profesionales que un académico puede desarrollar durante su carrera. Se desarrolló un instrumento de auto-reporte que permite analizar la discrepancia entre la maestría que el personal académico y directivo aprecia de sus competencias académicas, personales y de gestión así como la importancia que la institución les asigna. Se presentan dos casos de instituciones donde estos instrumentos se aplicaron a gerentes y académicos. Se analiza el uso de este instrumento para el desarrollo de políticas y prácticas de gestión del talento académico y gerencial de las instituciones de Educación Superior.

  17. ComSciCon: The Communicating Science Workshop for Graduate Students

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    Sanders, Nathan; Drout, Maria; Kohler, Susanna; Cook, Ben; ComSciCon Leadership Team

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    ComSciCon (comscicon.com) is a national workshop series organized by graduate students, for graduate students, focused on leadership and training in science communication. Our goal is to empower young scientists to become leaders in their field, propagating appreciation and understanding of research results to broad and diverse audiences. ComSciCon attendees meet and interact with professional communicators, build lasting networks with graduate students in all fields of science and engineering from around the country, and write and publish original works. ComSciCon consists of both a flagship national conference series run annually for future leaders in science communication, and a series of regional and specialized workshops organized by ComSciCon alumni nationwide. We routinely receive over 1000 applications for 50 spots in our national workshop. Since its founding in 2012, over 300 STEM graduate students have participated in the national workshop, and 23 local spin-off workshops have been organized in 10 different locations throughout the country. This year, ComSciCon is working to grow as a self-sustaining organization by launching as an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit. In this poster we will discuss the ComSciCon program and methods, our results to date, potential future collaborations between ComSciCon and AAS, and how you can become involved.

  18. Estrés académico y funcionalidad familiar en estudiantes de odontología

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    Full Text Available Objetivo: Asociar estrés académico y funcionalidad familiar en estudiantes de odontología. Metodología: Estudio de corte transversal en una muestra probabilística de 251 estudiantes de odontología de una universidad pública de Cartagena de Indias (Colombia. Se midieron características sociodemográficas, estrés académico (escala SISCO y funcionalidad familiar (APGAR familiar. Se estimó ocurrencia (prevalencias, asociación entre variables (odd ratios y análisis multivariable (regresión logística nominal. Resultados: El estrés académico se presentó en 87,3 % de los estudiantes; la situación más estresante en el entorno académico fue la evaluación docente; la disfuncionalidad familiar se comportó como un factor asociado para el estrés académico (OR=2,32. En el análisis de regresión logística, el modelo que mejor que explica el estrés académico estuvo conformado por los siguientes factores: la participación familiar, sexo y ciclo académico cursado (p= 0,0001; X2= 22,9. Conclusiones: La disfuncionalidad familiar puede agravar las situaciones de estrés académico en estudiantes de odontología e influir en su rendimiento académico, lo que ameritaría la necesidad de una atención permanente a la relación entre el entorno familiar y la universidad en aras del desarrollo integral de los universitarios.

  19. DOI in scientific journals of SciELO portal

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    Full Text Available The research provides a description of the SciELO journals portal and the DOI identifier through its range, year of creation, history, management, policy, structure, ISBN-A and reference sources. It provides information on the implementation of the DOI in citations styles APA and Vancouver, and standards ISO 690-2010 and ABNT6023-2002. The work aimed to explore the degree of implementation of the DOI in scientific journals in SciELO, identify where DOI display, knowing the amount of publishers as DOI prefix, determine the number of journals titles including the ISSN suffix code and identify the degree of implementation of the DOI in the styles and standards of citations available in SciELO. Descriptive methodology was applied where data were collected through direct observation of the websites of the 898 current journals available between the months of December 2012 and January 2013 in SciELO portal. It concludes that less than 50% of the countries in SciELO are currently using the DOI in its publications, primarily displayed code in HTML files, only 30 of the 929 publishers implemented it and most include the ISSN identifier within the suffix. While using the DOI in all citations of the articles, not does so strict as the provisions of the rules and styles.

  20. Aprendizaje autorregulado, metas académicas y rendimiento en evaluaciones de estudiantes universitarios

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    Full Text Available Objetivo. Explorar la relación entre aprendizaje autorregulado, metas académicas y rendimiento en una evaluación académica de ocho estudiantes universitarias. Método. Se realizó una entrevista semi- estructurada, una observación directa de una sesión de estudio y protocolos verbales durante y después de la sesión. Resultados. En relación con las metas académicas, se encontró que tres estudiantes tuvieron u na única orientación a metas de dominio por aproximación, mientras que cinco orien taron a múltiples metas académicas. Respecto al aprendizaje autorregulado, se encontraron estudiantes con b ajos y altos niveles. En la relación entre aprendizaje autorregulado, metas académicas y rendimiento en la evaluación fue posible identificar tres grupos de estudiantes: (a altos niveles de autorregulación y orientación única a metas de dominio por aproximación, (b bajos niveles de autorregulación y múltipl e orientación a metas de dominio y ejecución en tendencias de aproximación y evitación, y (c variaciones en el nivel de autorregulación con múltiple orientación a metas académicas. Todas las estudiantes obtuvieron cali ficaciones aprobatorias en la evaluación, independientemente de su nivel de autorregulación y de la orientaci ón a metas académicas. Conclusión. El abordaje procedimental del aprendizaje autorregulado, en función de las metas académicas, permitió obtener información relevante para la comprensión de este proceso, por lo que se recomienda seguir realizando este tipo de estudios para dar cuenta de los diferentes fu ncionamientos de las estudiantes universitarias en tiempo real, de sus variaciones y relación con otros aspectos motivacionales involucrados en sus procesos de aprendizaje.

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  2. Overview of the Spinal Cord Injury--Quality of Life (SCI-QOL) measurement system.

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    Tulsky, David S; Kisala, Pamela A; Victorson, David; Tate, Denise G; Heinemann, Allen W; Charlifue, Susan; Kirshblum, Steve C; Fyffe, Denise; Gershon, Richard; Spungen, Ann M; Bombardier, Charles H; Dyson-Hudson, Trevor A; Amtmann, Dagmar; Kalpakjian, Claire Z; Choi, Seung W; Jette, Alan M; Forchheimer, Martin; Cella, David

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    The Spinal Cord Injury--Quality of Life (SCI-QOL) measurement system was developed to address the shortage of relevant and psychometrically sound patient reported outcome (PRO) measures available for clinical care and research in spinal cord injury (SCI) rehabilitation. Using a computer adaptive testing (CAT) approach, the SCI-QOL builds on the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) and the Quality of Life in Neurological Disorders (Neuro-QOL) initiative. This initial manuscript introduces the background and development of the SCI-QOL measurement system. Greater detail is presented in the additional manuscripts of this special issue. Classical and contemporary test development methodologies were employed. Qualitative input was obtained from individuals with SCI and clinicians through interviews, focus groups, and cognitive debriefing. Item pools were field tested in a multi-site sample (n=877) and calibrated using item response theory methods. Initial reliability and validity testing was performed in a new sample of individuals with traumatic SCI (n=245). Five Model SCI System centers and one Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center across the United States. Adults with traumatic SCI. n/a n/a The SCI-QOL consists of 19 item banks, including the SCI-Functional Index banks, and 3 fixed-length scales measuring physical, emotional, and social aspects of health-related QOL (HRQOL). The SCI-QOL measurement system consists of psychometrically sound measures for individuals with SCI. The manuscripts in this special issue provide evidence of the reliability and initial validity of this measurement system. The SCI-QOL also links to other measures designed for a general medical population.

  3. Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature.

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    Himmelstein, Daniel S; Romero, Ariel Rodriguez; Levernier, Jacob G; Munro, Thomas Anthony; McLaughlin, Stephen Reid; Greshake Tzovaras, Bastian; Greene, Casey S

    2018-03-01

    The website Sci-Hub enables users to download PDF versions of scholarly articles, including many articles that are paywalled at their journal's site. Sci-Hub has grown rapidly since its creation in 2011, but the extent of its coverage has been unclear. Here we report that, as of March 2017, Sci-Hub's database contains 68.9% of the 81.6 million scholarly articles registered with Crossref and 85.1% of articles published in toll access journals. We find that coverage varies by discipline and publisher, and that Sci-Hub preferentially covers popular, paywalled content. For toll access articles, we find that Sci-Hub provides greater coverage than the University of Pennsylvania, a major research university in the United States. Green open access to toll access articles via licit services, on the other hand, remains quite limited. Our interactive browser at https://greenelab.github.io/scihub allows users to explore these findings in more detail. For the first time, nearly all scholarly literature is available gratis to anyone with an Internet connection, suggesting the toll access business model may become unsustainable. © 2018, Himmelstein et al.

  4. Plagio e integridad académica en Alemania

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    Full Text Available Alemania es quizá uno de los países europeos que, ya desde el siglo XVIII, ha mantenido un debate público más intenso sobre prácticas científicas y académicas deshonestas, relacionadas especialmente con tesis doctorales. Este debate fue especialmente productivo a finales del siglo XIX, dando lugar desde entonces, para evitar estas prácticas inaceptables, a la obligatoriedad de publicar todas las tesis doctorales, como requisito previo a la expedición del título de doctor por cualquier universidad alemana. Este trabajo analiza los avances más importantes en plagio e integridad académica en Alemania, especialmente después del escándalo surgido en 2011 a raíz del plagio de la tesis doctoral del Ministro de Defensa Guttenberg, como son la creación de una eficaz metodología colaborativa de investigación del plagio en trabajos científicos o académicos utilizando Internet y las redes sociales, materializada en la Wiki «VroniPlag». También se describe someramente en este trabajo la consolidación definitiva de la figura del «Defensor de la Ciencia», como instrumento de ámbito nacional para prevenir, gestionar y combatir la deshonestidad científica, aparte de la publicación en 2013 de una nueva versión del manual de referencia al respecto «Sicherung guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis». Por último se analizan las conclusiones de la experiencia alemana relacionada con la ética académica, también desde una perspectiva histórica, pues sus recientes logros y avances pueden servir de referencia a otros países europeos.

  5. Sensitivity of the SCI-FI/AT in Individuals With Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury.

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    Keeney, Tamra; Slavin, Mary; Kisala, Pamela; Ni, Pengsheng; Heinemann, Allen W; Charlifue, Susan; Fyffe, Denise C; Marino, Ralph J; Morse, Leslie R; Worobey, Lynn A; Tate, Denise; Rosenblum, David; Zafonte, Ross; Tulsky, David; Jette, Alan M

    2018-03-31

    To examine the ability of the Spinal Cord Injury-Functional Index/Assistive Technology (SCI-FI/AT) measure to detect change in persons with spinal cord injury (SCI). Multisite longitudinal (12-mo follow-up) study. Nine SCI Model Systems programs. Adults (N=165) with SCI enrolled in the SCI Model Systems database. Not applicable. SCI-FI/AT computerized adaptive test (CAT) (Basic Mobility, Self-Care, Fine Motor Function, Wheelchair Mobility, and/or Ambulation domains) completed at discharge from rehabilitation and 12 months after SCI. For each domain, effect size estimates and 95% confidence intervals were calculated for subgroups with paraplegia and tetraplegia. The demographic characteristics of the sample were as follows: 46% (n=76) individuals with paraplegia, 76% (n=125) male participants, 57% (n=94) used a manual wheelchair, 38% (n=63) used a power wheelchair, 30% (n=50) were ambulatory. For individuals with paraplegia, the Basic Mobility, Self-Care, and Ambulation domains of the SCI-FI/AT detected a significantly large amount of change; in contrast, the Fine Motor Function and Wheelchair Mobility domains detected only a small amount of change. For those with tetraplegia, the Basic Mobility, Fine Motor Function, and Self-Care domains detected a small amount of change whereas the Ambulation item domain detected a medium amount of change. The Wheelchair Mobility domain for people with tetraplegia was the only SCI-FI/AT domain that did not detect significant change. SCI-FI/AT CAT item banks detected an increase in function from discharge to 12 months after SCI. The effect size estimates for the SCI-FI/AT CAT vary by domain and level of lesion. Findings support the use of the SCI-FI/AT CAT in the population with SCI and highlight the importance of multidimensional functional measures. Copyright © 2018 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  6. Methodology for the development and calibration of the SCI-QOL item banks.

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    Tulsky, David S; Kisala, Pamela A; Victorson, David; Choi, Seung W; Gershon, Richard; Heinemann, Allen W; Cella, David

    2015-05-01

    To develop a comprehensive, psychometrically sound, and conceptually grounded patient reported outcomes (PRO) measurement system for individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). Individual interviews (n=44) and focus groups (n=65 individuals with SCI and n=42 SCI clinicians) were used to select key domains for inclusion and to develop PRO items. Verbatim items from other cutting-edge measurement systems (i.e. PROMIS, Neuro-QOL) were included to facilitate linkage and cross-population comparison. Items were field tested in a large sample of individuals with traumatic SCI (n=877). Dimensionality was assessed with confirmatory factor analysis. Local item dependence and differential item functioning were assessed, and items were calibrated using the item response theory (IRT) graded response model. Finally, computer adaptive tests (CATs) and short forms were administered in a new sample (n=245) to assess test-retest reliability and stability. A calibration sample of 877 individuals with traumatic SCI across five SCI Model Systems sites and one Department of Veterans Affairs medical center completed SCI-QOL items in interview format. We developed 14 unidimensional calibrated item banks and 3 calibrated scales across physical, emotional, and social health domains. When combined with the five Spinal Cord Injury--Functional Index physical function banks, the final SCI-QOL system consists of 22 IRT-calibrated item banks/scales. Item banks may be administered as CATs or short forms. Scales may be administered in a fixed-length format only. The SCI-QOL measurement system provides SCI researchers and clinicians with a comprehensive, relevant and psychometrically robust system for measurement of physical-medical, physical-functional, emotional, and social outcomes. All SCI-QOL instruments are freely available on Assessment CenterSM.

  7. Usos de Internet y éxito académico en estudiantes universitarios

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    Full Text Available El uso de la tecnología provoca cambios sociales. Esto incluye el trabajo en el ámbito universitario en donde está cambiando tanto la forma de ejercer la docencia como la forma de aprender y se requiere conocer el efecto del uso de la tecnología sobre el rendimiento del alumnado. En este trabajo se investigó la incidencia del uso de Internet sobre el éxito académico del alumnado de cinco universidades de Ecuador. Se levantó una muestra aleatoria de 4.697 personas y se las categorizó en perfiles de uso de Internet para actividades académicas y para entretenimiento, utilizando análisis factorial y análisis clúster. Las categorías resultantes se utilizaron como variables independientes en modelos de regresión logística multinomial que buscaban determinar si el uso de Internet tenía incidencia sobre el éxito académico. Los resultados muestran que quienes realizan actividades interactivas con pares y profesores o quienes utilizan de forma balanceada las distintas herramientas de Internet tienden a un mayor éxito académico que aquellos que solo buscan información. En lo referente al entretenimiento, se encontró una incidencia positiva del uso de Internet sobre el éxito académico. Los estudiantes que realizan descargas de contenido de audio, video y software, y quienes utilizan todas las posibilidades de entretenimiento, presentan menor tendencia a suspender que los estudiantes que utilizan mínimamente Internet. En cuanto al género se presentan diferencias en los usos académicos y de entretenimiento.

  8. Sex and Fertility After SCI

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  10. Measurements of Neutrino Charged Current Interactions at SciBooNE

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    Nakajima, Yasuhiro [Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502 (Japan)], E-mail: nakajima@scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp

    2009-08-15

    The SciBooNE experiment (FNAL-E954) is designed to measure neutrino-nucleous cross sections in the one GeV region. Additionally, SciBooNE serves as a near detector for MiniBooNE by measuring the neutrino flux. In this paper, we describe two analyses using neutrino charged current interactions at SciBooNE: a neutrino spectrum measurement and a search for charged current coherent pion production.

  11. SCI Longitudinal Aging Study: 40 Years of Research.

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    Krause, James S; Clark, Jillian M R; Saunders, Lee L

    2015-01-01

    The Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Longitudinal Aging Study was initiated in 1973 and has conducted 8 assessments over the past 40 years. It was designed to help rehabilitation professionals understand the life situation of people with SCI, but it has developed into the most long-standing study of aging and SCI and has resulted in over 50 publications. Our purpose was to provide a detailed history of the study, response patterns, utilization of measures, and a summary of key findings reported in the literature. Five participant samples have been incorporated over the 40 years, with enrollment in 1973, 1984, 1993 (2 samples), and 2003. A total of 2,208 participants have completed 6,001 assessments, with a particularly large number of assessments among those who are more than 40 years post injury (n = 349). The overall results have indicated changing patterns of outcomes over time as persons with SCI age, with some notable declines in participation and health. There has been a survivor effect whereby persons who are more active, well-adjusted, and healthier live longer. This study has several important features that are required for longitudinal research including (a) consistency of follow-up, (b) consistency of measures over time, (c) addition of new participant samples to counteract attrition, and (d) inclusion of a large number of individuals who have reached aging milestones unparalleled in the literature. Data from this study can inform the literature on the natural course of aging with SCI.

  12. SciServer Compute brings Analysis to Big Data in the Cloud

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    Raddick, Jordan; Medvedev, Dmitry; Lemson, Gerard; Souter, Barbara

    2016-06-01

    SciServer Compute uses Jupyter Notebooks running within server-side Docker containers attached to big data collections to bring advanced analysis to big data "in the cloud." SciServer Compute is a component in the SciServer Big-Data ecosystem under development at JHU, which will provide a stable, reproducible, sharable virtual research environment.SciServer builds on the popular CasJobs and SkyServer systems that made the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) archive one of the most-used astronomical instruments. SciServer extends those systems with server-side computational capabilities and very large scratch storage space, and further extends their functions to a range of other scientific disciplines.Although big datasets like SDSS have revolutionized astronomy research, for further analysis, users are still restricted to downloading the selected data sets locally - but increasing data sizes make this local approach impractical. Instead, researchers need online tools that are co-located with data in a virtual research environment, enabling them to bring their analysis to the data.SciServer supports this using the popular Jupyter notebooks, which allow users to write their own Python and R scripts and execute them on the server with the data (extensions to Matlab and other languages are planned). We have written special-purpose libraries that enable querying the databases and other persistent datasets. Intermediate results can be stored in large scratch space (hundreds of TBs) and analyzed directly from within Python or R with state-of-the-art visualization and machine learning libraries. Users can store science-ready results in their permanent allocation on SciDrive, a Dropbox-like system for sharing and publishing files. Communication between the various components of the SciServer system is managed through SciServer‘s new Single Sign-on Portal.We have created a number of demos to illustrate the capabilities of SciServer Compute, including Python and R scripts

  13. La inteligencia emocional y el rendimiento académico

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    Sandoval, M.; Castro, R.

    2016-01-01

    A partir de que Goleman la da a conocer en los años 90´s, se ha explorado, y realizado investigación sobre la inteligencia emocional (I.E.); en el ámbito académico hay múltiples trabajos que afirman que existe una correlación entre dicha inteligencia y el rendimiento académico. Para Salovey et al. Inteligencia emocional es un conjunto de competencias que abarca la evaluación, expresión y uso de emociones, para facilitar las actividades cognitivas, el conocimiento acerca de las emociones y la ...

  14. SciDAC advances and applications in computational beam dynamics

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    Ryne, R; Abell, D; Adelmann, A; Amundson, J; Bohn, C; Cary, J; Colella, P; Dechow, D; Decyk, V; Dragt, A; Gerber, R; Habib, S; Higdon, D; Katsouleas, T; Ma, K-L; McCorquodale, P; Mihalcea, D; Mitchell, C; Mori, W; Mottershead, C T; Neri, F; Pogorelov, I; Qiang, J; Samulyak, R; Serafini, D; Shalf, J; Siegerist, C; Spentzouris, P; Stoltz, P; Terzic, B; Venturini, M; Walstrom, P

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    SciDAC has had a major impact on computational beam dynamics and the design of particle accelerators. Particle accelerators-which account for half of the facilities in the DOE Office of Science Facilities for the Future of Science 20 Year Outlook-are crucial for US scientific, industrial, and economic competitiveness. Thanks to SciDAC, accelerator design calculations that were once thought impossible are now carried routinely, and new challenging and important calculations are within reach. SciDAC accelerator modeling codes are being used to get the most science out of existing facilities, to produce optimal designs for future facilities, and to explore advanced accelerator concepts that may hold the key to qualitatively new ways of accelerating charged particle beams. In this paper we present highlights from the SciDAC Accelerator Science and Technology (AST) project Beam Dynamics focus area in regard to algorithm development, software development, and applications

  15. SciDAC Advances and Applications in Computational Beam Dynamics

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    Ryne, R.; Abell, D.; Adelmann, A.; Amundson, J.; Bohn, C.; Cary, J.; Colella, P.; Dechow, D.; Decyk, V.; Dragt, A.; Gerber, R.; Habib, S.; Higdon, D.; Katsouleas, T.; Ma, K.-L.; McCorquodale, P.; Mihalcea, D.; Mitchell, C.; Mori, W.; Mottershead, C.T.; Neri, F.; Pogorelov, I.; Qiang, J.; Samulyak, R.; Serafini, D.; Shalf, J.; Siegerist, C.; Spentzouris, P.; Stoltz, P.; Terzic, B.; Venturini, M.; Walstrom, P.

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    SciDAC has had a major impact on computational beam dynamics and the design of particle accelerators. Particle accelerators--which account for half of the facilities in the DOE Office of Science Facilities for the Future of Science 20 Year Outlook--are crucial for US scientific, industrial, and economic competitiveness. Thanks to SciDAC, accelerator design calculations that were once thought impossible are now carried routinely, and new challenging and important calculations are within reach. SciDAC accelerator modeling codes are being used to get the most science out of existing facilities, to produce optimal designs for future facilities, and to explore advanced accelerator concepts that may hold the key to qualitatively new ways of accelerating charged particle beams. In this poster we present highlights from the SciDAC Accelerator Science and Technology (AST) project Beam Dynamics focus area in regard to algorithm development, software development, and applications

  16. Continuity of integrated density of states – independent randomness

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    Abstract. In this paper we discuss the continuity properties of the integrated density ... Density of states; Wegner estimate; Hölder continuous. 1. Introduction ..... and inverse spectral theory (Goa, 2000), Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Math. Sci.) 112(1).

  17. BlockSci: Design and applications of a blockchain analysis platform

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    Kalodner, Harry; Goldfeder, Steven; Chator, Alishah; Möser, Malte; Narayanan, Arvind

    2017-01-01

    Analysis of blockchain data is useful for both scientific research and commercial applications. We present BlockSci, an open-source software platform for blockchain analysis. BlockSci is versatile in its support for different blockchains and analysis tasks. It incorporates an in-memory, analytical (rather than transactional) database, making it several hundred times faster than existing tools. We describe BlockSci's design and present four analyses that illustrate its capabilities. This is a ...

  18. Note: Recombination of H+ and OH− ions along water wires

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    Lee, Song Hi; Rasaiah, Jayendran C.

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    Transport and recombination of hydrogen and hydroxide ions along a hydrogen-bonded water wire are studied by molecular dynamics simulation using a dissociating model for water. The results are compared with a recent CP-MD study of neutralization in bulk water [A. Hassanali, M. K. Prakrash, H. Eshet, and M. Parrinello, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 108, 20410 (2011)]. The translocation of H + and OH − along the wire is faster than in the bulk water, followed by compression of the water wire when two water molecules separate the transported ions. Neutralization occurs with the concerted transfer of three protons as in the bulk water, followed by energy dissipation along the water chain

  19. What determines the structures of native folds of proteins?

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    Trovato, Antonio; Hoang, Trinh X; Banavar, Jayanth R; Maritan, Amos; Seno, Flavio

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    We review a simple physical model (Hoang et al 2004 Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 101 7960, Banavar et al 2004 Phys. Rev. E at press) which captures the essential physico-chemical ingredients that determine protein structure, such as the inherent anisotropy of a chain molecule, the geometrical and energetic constraints placed by hydrogen bonds, sterics, and hydrophobicity. Within this framework, marginally compact conformations resembling the native state folds of proteins emerge as competing minima in the free energy landscape. Here we demonstrate that a hydrophobic-polar (HP) sequence composed of regularly repeated patterns has as its ground state a β-helical structure remarkably similar to a known architecture in the Protein Data Bank

  20. On the ability of the Viking gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer to detect organic matter.

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    Biemann, Klaus

    2007-06-19

    A recent paper by Navarro-Gonzalez et al. [Navarro-Gonzalez R, Navarro KF, de la Rosa J, Iniguez E, Molina P, Miranda LD, Morales P, Cienfuegos E, Coll P, Raulin F, et al. (2006) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103:16089-16094] claims to show that the Viking GCMS (gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer) experiment, which carried out a search for organic matter at the surface of Mars in 1976, "may have been blind to low levels of organics." To rebut this assertion, the Viking experiment, test data, and results on Mars are reviewed, and the fallacies in the design, execution, and interpretation of the new experiments presented by Navarro-Gonzalez et al. are critically examined.

  1. Vortex dynamics and Lagrangian statistics in a model for active turbulence.

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    James, Martin; Wilczek, Michael

    2018-02-14

    Cellular suspensions such as dense bacterial flows exhibit a turbulence-like phase under certain conditions. We study this phenomenon of "active turbulence" statistically by using numerical tools. Following Wensink et al. (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 109, 14308 (2012)), we model active turbulence by means of a generalized Navier-Stokes equation. Two-point velocity statistics of active turbulence, both in the Eulerian and the Lagrangian frame, is explored. We characterize the scale-dependent features of two-point statistics in this system. Furthermore, we extend this statistical study with measurements of vortex dynamics in this system. Our observations suggest that the large-scale statistics of active turbulence is close to Gaussian with sub-Gaussian tails.

  2. Vida académica de la facultad

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    Full Text Available Distinciones académicas / Novedades docentes / Libro' 'Manual de Rehabilitación Médica" / Texto de Obstetricia y Perinatología / xv Curso Anual Medicina Interna / Libros Publicados en la Facultad de Medicina Universidad Nacional De Colombia, 1999.

  3. Analysis of Sci-Hub downloads of computer science papers

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    Full Text Available The scientific knowledge is disseminated by research papers. Most of the research literature is copyrighted by publishers and avail- able only through paywalls. Recently, some websites offer most of the recent content for free. One of them is the controversial website Sci-Hub that enables access to more than 47 million pirated research papers. In April 2016, Science Magazine published an article on Sci-Hub activity over the period of six months and publicly released the Sci-Hub’s server log data. The mentioned paper aggregates the view that relies on all downloads and for all fields of study, but these findings might be hiding interesting patterns within computer science. The mentioned Sci-Hub log data was used in this paper to analyse downloads of computer science papers based on DBLP’s list of computer science publications. The top downloads of computer science papers were analysed, together with the geographical location of Sci-Hub users, the most downloaded publishers, types of papers downloaded, and downloads of computer science papers per publication year. The results of this research can be used to improve legal access to the most relevant scientific repositories or journals for the computer science field.

  4. Complete moment convergence of weighted sums for processes ...

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    Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Math. Sci.) Vol. 124, No. 2, May 2014, pp. 267–279. c Indian Academy of ... College of Mathematics and Statistics, Chongqing Technology and Business. University ...... (1995) (Oxford: Clarendon Press). [14] Wang X J ...

  5. CERN Computing Colloquium | Scientific Databases at Scale and SciDB | 27 May

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    by Dr. Michael Stonebraker (MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge MA, USA) Monday 27 May 2013 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at CERN ( 222-R-001 - Filtration Plant ) Abstract: As a general rule, scientists have shunned relational data management systems (RDBMS), choosing instead to “roll their own” on top of file system technology.  We first discuss why file systems are a poor choice for science data storage, especially as data volumes become large and scalability becomes important. Then, we continue with the reasons why RDBMSs work poorly on most science applications.  These include a data model “impedance mismatch” and missing features. We discuss array DBMSs, and why they are a much better choice for science applications, and use SciDB as an exemplar of this new class of DBMSs. Most science applications require a mix of data management and complex analytics.  In most cases, the analytics entail a sequence of linear a...

  6. Implicación familiar, autoconcepto del adolescente y rendimiento académico

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    Ana Álvarez

    2015-12-01

    Full Text Available El objetivo de este trabajo fue analizar la relación específica entre las diferentes formas de implicación familiar, las dimensiones del autoconcepto del estudiante y su rendimiento académico. En el estudio han participado 503 estudiantes de la Enseñanza Secundaria Obligatoria (ESO y el primer curso de Bachillerato. Los datos fueron recogidos a través de dos inventarios (Cuestionario de Implicación Familiar –CIF-, Escala de Evaluación del Autoconcepto -ESEA-2 y las calificaciones académicas. Los datos fueron analizados mediante análisis multivariados de la varianza y a través de análisis de senderos. Los resultados mostraron relación significativa entre las dimensiones de la implicación familiar percibida y las dimensiones del autoconcepto, excepto el reforzamiento de logro. Por otra parte, la relación entre implicación familiar percibida y rendimiento académico es mediada parcialmente por el autoconcepto académico.

  7. Modelo Explicativo del Desempeño Académico desde la Autoeficacia y los Problemas de Conducta

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    Virgelina Castellanos Páez

    2017-02-01

    Full Text Available Se analizó un modelo explicativo del desempeño académico para conocer si los problemas de atención median la relación entre la autoeficacia académica y el desempeño académico, y si la ansiedad y la depresión moderan dicha relación. Participaron 326 estudiantes (11-18 años, quienes diligenciaron el Youth Self-Report (Achenback & Rescorla, 2001 y la escala de autoeficacia de Aguilar, Valencia y Martínez (2001. El desempeño académico se obtuvo del promedio de calificaciones de dos bimestres académicos en lenguaje, ciencias y matemáticas. El análisis de regresión mostró que los problemas de atención median la relación entre la autoeficacia, explicando el 40% de la varianza. La variable ansiedad-depresión moderó esta misma relación evidenciando que, a mayores niveles de ansiedad y de depresión, menor autoeficacia académica y menor desempeño académico. En suma, la relación entre la autoeficacia académica y el desempeño académico fue afectada por los problemas de conducta.

  8. Treatment of Nueropathic Pain after SCI with a Catalytic Oxidoreductant

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    2016-10-01

    include under the details per task section below. Although we did not find an effect of BuOE2 in reducing functional deficits following ischemic SCI, we...SCI. Epidermal growth factor (EGF) is a protein that supports cell proliferation. An upregulation following injury was observed in the epicenter...Figure 25: Effect of BuOE2 on expression of leptin in the rat spinal cord at 24 hours post-SCI. Leptin is a hormone which regulates energy homeostasis

  9. Sex and Fertility After SCI

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  10. Sex and Fertility After SCI

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  11. vocacional y esfuerzo académico

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    Daniel González Lomelí

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    Full Text Available El objetivo del presente estudio fue determinar si existen relaciones entre las variables latentes, factores de carrera, seguridad vocacional y el esfuerzo académico en una muestra constituida por 229 estudiantes de primer semestre de las Licenciaturas en Psicología y Químico-Biólogos de una universidad pública. Se utilizó el Inventario Ampliado de Factores de Carrera (IAFC. Se realizaron análisis estadísticos descriptivos de las variables demográficas y análisis factoriales de ecuaciones estructurales para las variables descritas en el modelo teórico. Se logró conformar un modelo multifactorial de Factores de Carrera que explica 33% de la varianza de la seguridad vocacional y 10% de la varianza del esfuerzo académico. El modelo presenta bondad de ajuste y sugiere el desarrollo de tecnología educativa mediante el uso de instrumentos diagnósticos que permitan diferenciar al estudiantado vocacionalmente “seguro” del “inseguro” en poblaciones universitarias similares a la muestra estudiada

  12. A leitura acadêmica na formação docente: dificuldades e possibilidades

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    Antônio Lailton Moraes Duarte

    2016-01-01

    Full Text Available Este artigo objetiva refletir sobre a importância da leitura para formação docente no tocante a aspectos relacionados à frequência, aos objetivos e aos interesses de leitura acadêmica. Para tanto, fundamentamo-nos, principalmente, nas obras de Kramer (2002, Cavalcante Jr. (2005a,b, Freire (1993 e Matêncio (1994. Para sua execução, contamos com a participação de alunos de um curso de Pedagogia, matriculados em uma disciplina do sétimo semestre da Universidade Estadual do Ceará. Os estudantes preencheram um questionário com questões relacionadas ao seu perfil-leitor eàs dificuldades e possibilidades de leitura acadêmica na universidade. Os resultados demonstram que a leitura de textos acadêmicos deve ser um componente para que os alunospossam obter novos aprendizados. Além do mais, a leitura acadêmica de textos que relacionam teoria e prática deve ser constante para que o futuro profissional possa basear, conforme Farias (2009, a sua ação docente no conhecimento elaborado e na realidade dada a fim de formar habilidades interlocutivas na leitura. Assim, os professores universitáriosdevem priorizar textos do interesse dos alunos para que estes possam lê-los estabelecendo seus objetivos de leitura e também percebendo laços com sua prática profissional, uma vezque o uso frequente de procedimentos metacognitivos são exigidos durante a leitura de textos acadêmicos.Palavras-chave: Leitura; formação de professores; discurso acadêmico.

  13. Women's Sexual Health and Reproductive Function After SCI.

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    Courtois, Frédérique; Alexander, Marcalee; McLain, Amie B Jackson

    2017-01-01

    Sexual function and to a lesser extent reproduction are often disrupted in women with spinal cord injuries (SCI), who must be educated to better understand their sexual and reproductive health. Women with SCI are sexually active; they can use psychogenic or reflexogenic stimulation to obtain sexual pleasure and orgasm. Treatment should consider a holistic approach using autonomic standards to describe remaining sexual function and to assess both genital function and psychosocial factors. Assessment of genital function should include thoracolumbar dermatomes, vulvar sensitivity (touch, pressure, vibration), and sacral reflexes. Self-exploration should include not only clitoral stimulation, but also stimulation of the vagina (G spot), cervix, and nipples conveyed by different innervation sources. Treatments may consider PDE5 inhibitors and flibanserin on an individual basis, and secondary consequences of SCI should address concerns with spasticity, pain, incontinence, and side effects of medications. Psychosocial issues must be addressed as possible contributors to sexual dysfunctions (eg, lower self-esteem, past sexual history, depression, dating habits). Pregnancy is possible for women with SCI; younger age at the time of injury and at the time of pregnancy being significant predictors of successful pregnancy, along with marital status, motor score, mobility, and occupational scores. Pregnancy may decrease the level of functioning (eg, self-care, ambulation, upper-extremity tasks), may involve complications (eg, decubitus ulcers, weight gain, urological complications), and must be monitored for postural hypotension and autonomic dysreflexia. Taking into consideration the physical and psychosocial determinants of sexuality and childbearing allows women with SCI to achieve positive sexual and reproductive health.

  14. Discontinuous ventilator weaning of patients with acute SCI.

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    Füssenich, Wout; Hirschfeld Araujo, Sven; Kowald, Birgitt; Hosman, Allard; Auerswald, Marc; Thietje, Roland

    2018-05-01

    Retrospective, single centre cohort study. To determine factors associated with ventilator weaning success and failure in patients with acute spinal cord injury (SCI); determine length of time and attempts required to wean from the ventilator successfully and determine the incidence of pneumonia. BG Klinikum Hamburg, Level 1 trauma centre, SCI Department, Germany. From 2010 until 2017, 165 consecutive patients with cervical SCI, initially dependent on a ventilator, were included and weaned discontinuously via tracheal cannula. Data related to anthropometric details, neurological injury, respiratory outcomes, and weaning parameters were prospectively recorded in a database and retrospectively analysed. Seventy-nine percent of all patients were successfully weaned from ventilation. Average duration of the complete weaning process was 37 days. Ninety-one percent of the successfully weaned patients completed this on first attempt. Age (>56 years), level of injury (C4 and/or above), vital capacity (25 kg/m 2 ), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) significantly decreased the chance of successful weaning. These factors also correlated with a higher number of weaning attempts. High level of injury, older age, and reduced vital capacity also increased the duration of the weaning process. Patients with low vital capacity and concurrent therapy with Baclofen and Dantrolene showed higher rates of pneumonia. We conclude that mentioned factors are associated with weaning outcome and useful for clinical recommendations and patient counselling. These data further support the complexity of ventilator weaning in the SCI population due to associated complications, therefore we recommend conducting weaning of patients with SCI on intensive or intermediate care units (ICU/IMCU) in specialised centres.

  15. ScienceDirect through SciVerse: a new way to approach Elsevier.

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    Bengtson, Jason

    2011-01-01

    SciVerse is the new combined portal from Elsevier that services their ScienceDirect collection, SciTopics, and their Scopus database. Using SciVerse to access ScienceDirect is the specific focus of this review. Along with advanced keyword searching and citation searching options, SciVerse also incorporates a very useful image search feature. The aim seems to be not only to create an interface that provides broad functionality on par with other database search tools that many searchers use regularly but also to create an open platform that could be changed to respond effectively to the needs of customers.

  16. Sex and Fertility After SCI

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  20. Escritura y argumentación académica: trayectorias estudiantiles, factores docentes y contextuales (Academic Writing and Argumentation: Trajectories Student-Teachers and Contextual Factors (Ecriture et argumentation académique: trajectoires, facteurs enseignants et contextuels (Escrita e argumentação acadêmica: trajetórias estudantis, fatores docentes e contextuais

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    Full Text Available ResumenEn el presente artículo de investigación, intentamos contribuir a la discusión sobre las alternativas para ocuparse de la escritura académica en la Universi- dad. Articulamos aportes teóricos sobre escritura y argumentación, al atender a sus potencialidades epis- témicas. El objetivo es ponderar el impacto de inter- venciones docentes y de factores contextuales en las trayectorias de estudiantes principiantes y avanzados de una universidad pública argentina que participaron o no, de programas de alfabetización académica. Me- diante triangulación de datos, comprobamos proviso- riamente dos hipótesis de trabajo: la relación entre la calidad de los escritos académicos estudiantiles y una intervención didáctica sistemática, y la incidencia de diversos factores contextuales en los itinerarios acadé- micos estudiantiles.AbstractIn this research paper we try to contri- bute to the discussion on alternatives to deal with academic writing in colle- ge. Theoretical studies articulate wri- ting and argumentation, according to their epistemic potentialities. The aim is to assess the impact of educational interventions and contextual factors in the trajectories of beginners and ad- vanced students of a public university involving Argentina or not, academic literacy programs. By triangulating data, we test two hypotheses tempo- rarily work: the relationship between the quality of student academic wri- ting and systematic educational inter- vention, and the incidence of various contextual factors on student learning paths.RésuméDans le présent article de recherche on essaye de contribuer au débat par rapport aux alternatives de s'occu- per de l'écriture académique à l'Uni- versité. On articule les contributions théoriques par rapport à l'écriture et l'argumentation, en faisant attention aux potentielles épistémiques. L’objec- tif est pondérer l'impact des interven- tions des enseignants et de facteurs contextuelles dans

  1. Sex and Fertility After SCI

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  2. Preface: SciDAC 2008

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    2008-07-01

    The fourth annual Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) Conference was held June 13-18, 2008, in Seattle, Washington. The SciDAC conference series is the premier communitywide venue for presentation of results from the DOE Office of Science's interdisciplinary computational science program. Started in 2001 and renewed in 2006, the DOE SciDAC program is the country's - and arguably the world's - most significant interdisciplinary research program supporting the development of advanced scientific computing methods and their application to fundamental and applied areas of science. SciDAC supports computational science across many disciplines, including astrophysics, biology, chemistry, fusion sciences, and nuclear physics. Moreover, the program actively encourages the creation of long-term partnerships among scientists focused on challenging problems and computer scientists and applied mathematicians developing the technology and tools needed to address those problems. The SciDAC program has played an increasingly important role in scientific research by allowing scientists to create more accurate models of complex processes, simulate problems once thought to be impossible, and analyze the growing amount of data generated by experiments. To help further the research community's ability to tap into the capabilities of current and future supercomputers, Under Secretary for Science, Raymond Orbach, launched the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program in 2003. The INCITE program was conceived specifically to seek out computationally intensive, large-scale research projects with the potential to significantly advance key areas in science and engineering. The program encourages proposals from universities, other research institutions, and industry. During the first two years of the INCITE program, 10 percent of the resources at NERSC were allocated to INCITE awardees. However, demand for supercomputing resources

  3. Measurement of Bone: Diagnosis of SCI-Induced Osteoporosis and Fracture Risk Prediction.

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    Troy, Karen L; Morse, Leslie R

    2015-01-01

    Spinal cord injury (SCI) is associated with a rapid loss of bone mass, resulting in severe osteoporosis and a 5- to 23-fold increase in fracture risk. Despite the seriousness of fractures in SCI, there are multiple barriers to osteoporosis diagnosis and wide variations in treatment practices for SCI-induced osteoporosis. We review the biological and structural changes that are known to occur in bone after SCI in the context of promoting future research to prevent or reduce risk of fracture in this population. We also review the most commonly used methods for assessing bone after SCI and discuss the strengths, limitations, and clinical applications of each method. Although dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry assessments of bone mineral density may be used clinically to detect changes in bone after SCI, 3-dimensional methods such as quantitative CT analysis are recommended for research applications and are explained in detail.

  4. Circulating sclerostin is elevated in short-term and reduced in long-term SCI.

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    Battaglino, Ricardo A; Sudhakar, Supreetha; Lazzari, Antonio A; Garshick, Eric; Zafonte, Ross; Morse, Leslie R

    2012-09-01

    Spinal cord injury (SCI) causes profound bone loss due to muscle paralysis resulting in the inability to walk. Sclerostin, a Wnt signaling pathway antagonist produced by osteocytes, is a potent inhibitor of bone formation. Short-term studies in rodent models have demonstrated increased sclerostin in response to mechanical unloading that is reversed with reloading. Although sclerostin inhibition has been proposed as a potential therapy for bone loss, it is not known if sclerostin levels vary with duration of SCI in humans. We analyzed circulating sclerostin in 155 men with varying degrees of SCI who were 1 year or more post-injury. We report that sclerostin levels are greatest in subjects with short-term SCI (≤5 years post-injury) and decrease significantly over the first 5 years post-injury. There was no association between sclerostin and injury duration in subjects with long-term SCI (>5 years post-injury). In subjects with long-term SCI, sclerostin levels were positively associated with lower extremity bone density and bone mineral content. These data suggest that sclerostin levels are initially increased after SCI in response to mechanical unloading. This response is time-limited and as bone loss progresses, circulating sclerostin is lowest in subjects with severe osteoporosis. These findings support a dual role for sclerostin after SCI: a therapeutic target in acute SCI, and a biomarker of osteoporosis severity in chronic SCI. Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  5. Motivação e envolvimento acadêmico: um estudo com estudantes universitários

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    Full Text Available Resumo Pesquisas sugerem que motivação e envolvimento acadêmico sejam variáveis importantes para o contexto educacional. Assim, a presente pesquisa teve por objetivo principal investigar a relação entre estes construtos. A amostra foi composta por 406 estudantes universitários, a maioria (81,3% com idades variando entre 20 e 30 anos, do sexo feminino (55,2% e de instituições de ensino superior pública (70,4%. Estes responderam a Escala de Motivação Acadêmica (EMA, a Escala de Envolvimento Acadêmico (EEA e a questões sociodemográficas. Os resultados apontaram correlação positiva e significativa entre motivação e envolvimento acadêmico. Foram encontradas ainda diferenças em relação ao sexo, ao período e área do curso e ao envolvimento com atividades extracurriculares. Tais resultados foram discutidos à luz das teorias do envolvimento acadêmico e da autodeterminação. Sugere-se a realização de novas pesquisas a fim de melhor compreender as variáveis que influenciam na motivação e no envolvimento acadêmico de estudantes universitários.

  6. Violência: conceito e vivência entre acadêmicos da área da saúde

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    Full Text Available Trata-se de uma investigação sobre conceitos e vivências sobre violência de acadêmicos do último ano dos cursos de graduação em Enfermagem, Medicina e Odontologia da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Caracterizada como uma pesquisa descritiva exploratória com abordagem qualiquantitativa com 175 acadêmicos, a proposta foi compreender qual a definição de violência para os acadêmicos, quais suas vivências sobre o tema e qual a inserção que o tema violência teve durante a formação acadêmica. As definições sobre violência estiveram fortemente relacionadas a uma visão técnica e priorizaram os danos físicos sofridos pelas pessoas agredidas. Diante de uma situação de violência os acadêmicos reproduziram sentimentos de medo, impotência, raiva e indignação e não reagiram ao presenciar tais atos; evidenciaram que o profissional de saúde não identifica situações de violência quando presta assistência de forma superficial às vítimas; e que a formação acadêmica não discute o tema suficientemente.

  7. Overview of the Spinal Cord Injury – Quality of Life (SCI-QOL) measurement system

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    Tulsky, David S.; Kisala, Pamela A.; Victorson, David; Tate, Denise G.; Heinemann, Allen W.; Charlifue, Susan; Kirshblum, Steve C.; Fyffe, Denise; Gershon, Richard; Spungen, Ann M.; Bombardier, Charles H.; Dyson-Hudson, Trevor A.; Amtmann, Dagmar; Z. Kalpakjian, Claire; W. Choi, Seung; Jette, Alan M.; Forchheimer, Martin; Cella, David

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    Context/Objective The Spinal Cord Injury – Quality of Life (SCI-QOL) measurement system was developed to address the shortage of relevant and psychometrically sound patient reported outcome (PRO) measures available for clinical care and research in spinal cord injury (SCI) rehabilitation. Using a computer adaptive testing (CAT) approach, the SCI-QOL builds on the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) and the Quality of Life in Neurological Disorders (Neuro-QOL) initiative. This initial manuscript introduces the background and development of the SCI-QOL measurement system. Greater detail is presented in the additional manuscripts of this special issue. Design Classical and contemporary test development methodologies were employed. Qualitative input was obtained from individuals with SCI and clinicians through interviews, focus groups, and cognitive debriefing. Item pools were field tested in a multi-site sample (n = 877) and calibrated using item response theory methods. Initial reliability and validity testing was performed in a new sample of individuals with traumatic SCI (n = 245). Setting Five Model SCI System centers and one Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center across the United States. Participants Adults with traumatic SCI. Interventions n/a Outcome Measures n/a Results The SCI-QOL consists of 19 item banks, including the SCI-Functional Index banks, and 3 fixed-length scales measuring physical, emotional, and social aspects of health-related QOL (HRQOL). Conclusion The SCI-QOL measurement system consists of psychometrically sound measures for individuals with SCI. The manuscripts in this special issue provide evidence of the reliability and initial validity of this measurement system. The SCI-QOL also links to other measures designed for a general medical population. PMID:26010962

  8. La superación en gestión académica del directivo universitario

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    Full Text Available Se planteó como objetivo sistematizar los fundamentos teóricos que sustentan el proceso de superación a directivos universitarios para la gestión académica. Se utilizó métodos del nivel teórico y empírico como el histórico lógico, analítico-sintético, el análisis documental, la observación, el inventario de dificultades, cuestionarios, entrevistas, los cuales posibilitaron caracterizar epistemológicamente el proceso de superación a directivos universitarios con énfasis en la gestión académica, arribar a nuevos conceptos, y distinguir aspectos significativos de la superación a directivos en gestión académica. PALABRAS CLAVES: Directivos, gestión académica, proceso formativo, superación.

  9. O preparo dos acadêmicos de enfermagem brasileiros para vivenciarem o processo morte-morrer

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    Bernieri, Jamine; Hirdes, Alice

    2007-01-01

    Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo geral investigar o preparo dos acadêmicos de enfermagem frente à morte. A metodologia é de natureza qualitativa, realizada através de 15 entrevistas semi-estruturadas com acadêmicos de Enfermagem do sexto e sétimo semestres de uma instituição de ensino superior localizada no norte do Rio Grande do Sul. Os resultados apontam as dificuldades dos acadêmicos de enfermagem entrevistados em lidar com o processo morte-morrer dos pacientes assistidos em estágio; a dif...

  10. Can FES-rowing mediate bone mineral density in SCI: a pilot study.

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    Gibbons, R S; McCarthy, I D; Gall, A; Stock, C G; Shippen, J; Andrews, B J

    2014-11-01

    A single case study. To compare proximal tibia trabecular bone mineral density (BMD) of a participant with complete spinal cord injury (SCI), long-termed functional electrical stimulation-rowing (FES-R) trained, with previously reported SCI and non-SCI group norms. To estimate lower limb joint contact forces (JCFs) in the FES-R trained participant. UK University and orthopaedic hospital research centre. Bilateral proximal tibial trabecular BMD of the FES-R trained participant was measured using peripheral quantitative computerised tomography, and the data were compared with SCI and non-SCI groups. An instrumented four-channel FES-R system was used to measure the lower limb JCFs in the FES-R trained participant. Structurally, proximal tibial trabecular BMD was higher in the FES-R trained participant compared with the SCI group, but was less than the non-SCI group. Furthermore, left (184.7 mg cm(-3)) and right (160.7 mg cm(-3)) BMD were well above the threshold associated with non-traumatic fracture. The knee JCFs were above the threshold known to mediate BMD in SCI, but below threshold at the hip and ankle. As pathological fractures predominate in the distal femur and proximal tibia in chronic SCI patients, the fact that the FES-R trained participant's knee JCFs were above those known to partially prevent bone loss, suggests that FES-R training may provide therapeutic benefit. Although the elevated bilateral proximal tibial BMD of the FES-R participant provides circumstantial evidence of osteogenesis, this single case precludes any statement on the clinical significance. Further investigations are required involving larger numbers and additional channels of FES to increase loading at the hip and ankle.

  11. Factores asociados al rendimiento académico en estudiantes de medicina

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    Full Text Available Objetivos: Determinar y evaluar los factores que estuvieran incidiendo en el desempeño académico de nuestros estudiantes de primer semestre de medicina. Metodología: Se caracterizó la población en búsqueda de factores que se analizaron posteriormente para determinar asociación y predicción, a través de un modelo de regresión logística, del rendimiento académico final. Resultados: Se analizaron 80 estudiantes de edades comprendidas entre 17 y 18, la mayoría mujeres, procedentes de Bogotá, de colegios mixtos, privados y monolingües. El grupo fue homogéneo por factores sociodemográficos, culturales, escolaridad y de motivaciones. Se detectaron rasgos de violencia intrafamiliar, de consumo de alcohol y cigarrillo pero no de drogas psicoactivas. Los resultados obtenidos en la prueba de aptitudes diferenciales y generales (BADyGs del aprendizaje fueron bajos. El análisis mostró que el no leer como pasatiempo, la presencia de violencia intrafamiliar, el haber fumado marihuana, el provenir de un colegio mixto, el no haber realizado estudios profesionales, de quien se depende económicamente, las notas de biología, bioquímica y del promedio trimestral fueron los factores que se asocian con fracaso académico o pérdida de cupo. La variable que predice fracaso académico cuando se controla por los otros factores incluidos en el modelo es el promedio trimestral y la que determina pérdida de cupo es la nota del laboratorio de bioquímica. Conclusiones: Aunque existen factores previos al ingreso que puedan explicar el desempeño académico, es importante evaluar el rendimiento durante el semestre para intervenir rápidamente y evitar el fracaso.

  12. Resiliencia, optimismo y burnout académico en estudiantes universitarios

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    Full Text Available En este estudio se analiza la relación entre la resiliencia, el optimismo disposicional y las dimensiones que constituyen el burnout académico (agotamiento emocional, cinismo y baja eficacia. Para ello, se evaluó a una muestra formada por 463 estudiantes de la Universidad de León. Se emplearon los siguientes instrumentos: Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey (MBI-SS, 10-item Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (10-item CD-RISC y Life Orientation Test Revised (LOT-R. Los resultados revelan que el burnout académico se relaciona significativamente con la resiliencia y el optimismo. Concretamente, la resiliencia se relaciona positivamente con la eficacia mientras que el optimismo se relaciona positivamente con la eficacia pero negativamente con el agotamiento. Además, la resiliencia predice la eficacia mientras que el optimismo predice el agotamiento. Sin embargo, el cinismo no se relaciona ni con la resiliencia ni con el optimismo. Por último, se contemplan las implicaciones de los resultados obtenidos para el diseño de programas de prevención del burnout académico en estudiantes universitarios.

  13. Multiconjugado académico para turismo: un programa en contexto

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    Full Text Available El trabajo docente implica generar propuestas académicas integrales que involucren las actividades sustantivas de la Universidad pública con sus respectivas interacciones. El presente artículo intenta describir una propuesta académica que despliega lo que la autora ha denominado “El Multiconjugado Académico” compuesto por los tres (3 ejes fundamentales del quehacer universitario; la Docencia, entendida como el conjunto de actividades emprendidas para la comunicación y enseñanza de conocimientos, habilidades, ideas o experiencias; la Investigación, como proceso formal y sistemático para el descubrimiento y desarrollo de un cuerpo de conocimientos universales, y la Proyección social como la respuesta consciente y organizada a las problemáticas sociales no atendidas. La dinámica del presente artículo plantea que las tres funciones no se desarrollan ni se conciben como partes aisladas dentro del quehacer universitario; por el contrario, defiende la premisa de que constituyen un sistema integrado de actividades que se conjugan para el logro de los objetivos universitarios.

  14. Charged-Current Neutral Pion production at SciBooNE

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    SciBooNE, located in the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab, collected data from June 2007 to August 2008 to accurately measure muon neutrino and anti-neutrino cross sections on carbon below 1 GeV neutrino energy. SciBooNE is studying charged current interactions. Among them, neutral pion production interactions will be the focus of this poster. The experimental signature of neutrino-induced neutral pion production is constituted by two electromagnetic cascades initiated by the conversion of the π 0 decay photons, with an additional muon in the final state for CC processes. In this poster, I will present how we reconstruct and select charged-current muon neutrino interactions producing π 0 's in SciBooNE.

  15. Regularity of the interband light absorption coefficient

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    Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Math. Sci.) Vol. 120, No. 3, June 2010, pp. 351–362. ... 1. Introduction. In the theory of disordered systems, one of the quantities that is ... integrated density of states, whose continuity properties and its behaviour near ...

  16. Scintillating fibre (SciFi) tracker

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    128 modules – containing 11 000 km of scintillating fibres – will make up the new SciFi tracker, which will replace the outer and inner trackers of the LHCb detector as part of the experiment’s major upgrade during Long Shutdown 2 (LS2)

  17. Deserción universitaria y alfabetización académica

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    Giohanny Olave-Arias; llene Rojas-García; Mireya Cisneros-Estupiñán

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    El artículo pone en relación la deserción universitaria con la alfabetización académica, entendida como el nivel de desarrollo de la lectura y la escritura. El desarrollo del artículo consta de tres momentos: contextualización del problema de la deserción universitaria en Colombia; prácticas de lectura y escritura que generan dificultades de aprendizaje; importancia de la alfabetización académica para mejorar las habilidades lectoras de los estudiantes.

  18. Results of the PERI survey of SciDAC applications

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    Supinski, Bronis R de; Hollingworth, Jeffrey K; Moore, Shirley; Worley, Patrick H

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    The Performance Engineering Research Institute (PERI) project focuses on achieving superior performance for Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) applications on leadership class machines through cutting-edge research in performance modeling and automated performance tuning. This focus requires coordinated activities to engage SciDAC application teams. The initial application engagement activity was a survey of these teams to determine their performance goals, the criticality of those goals, current performance of their applications, application characteristics relevant to performance and their plans for future optimization. Using a web-based questionnaire, PERI researchers have worked with application developers to provide this information for over twenty-five applications. This paper describes the initial analysis of the application characteristics and performance goals, as well as current and future application engagement activities driven by these results. While the survey was conducted primarily to meet PERI needs, the results represent a snapshot of the state of SciDAC code development and may be of use to the DOE community at large. Overall, the results show that SciDAC application teams are engaged in significant new code development, which will require flexible performance optimization techniques that can improve performance as the applications evolve

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    Sensitive Compartmented Information ( SCI ) References: See Enclosure 1 1. PURPOSE. In accordance with the authority in DoD Directive (DoDD...collateral, special access program, SCI , and controlled unclassified information (CUI) within an overarching DoD Information Security Program...use, and dissemination of SCI within the DoD pursuant to References (a), (c), and (e) and Executive Order 12333 (Reference (h)). 2

  20. Sci-Hub: What Librarians Should Know and Do about Article Piracy.

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    Hoy, Matthew B

    2017-01-01

    The high cost of journal articles has driven many researchers to turn to a new way of getting access: "pirate" article sites. Sci-Hub, the largest and best known of these sites, currently offers instant access to more than 58 million journal articles. Users attracted by the ease of use and breadth of the collection may not realize that these articles are often obtained using stolen credentials and downloading them may be illegal. This article will briefly describe Sci-Hub and how it works, the legal and ethical issues it raises, and the problems it may cause for librarians. Librarians should be aware of Sci-Hub and the ways it may change their patrons' expectations. They should also understand the risks Sci-Hub can pose to their patrons and their institutions.

  1. Holy sci-fi! where science fiction and religion intersect

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    Nahin, Paul J

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    Can a computer have a soul? Are religion and science mutually exclusive? Is there really such a thing as free will? If you could time travel to visit Jesus, would you (and should you)? For hundreds of years, philosophers, scientists, and science fiction writers have pondered these questions and many more. In Holy Sci-Fi!, popular writer Paul Nahin explores the fertile and sometimes uneasy relationship between science fiction and religion. With a scope spanning the history of religion, philosophy, and literature, Nahin follows religious themes in science fiction from Feynman to Foucault, and from Asimov to Aristotle. An intriguing journey through popular and well-loved books and stories, Holy Sci-Fi! shows how sci-fi has informed humanity's attitudes towards our faiths, our future, and ourselves.

  2. Letramentos acadêmicos e multimodalidade em contexto de EaD semipresencial

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    Komesu, Fabiana

    2012-01-01

    De uma perspectiva teórica enunciativo-discursiva, este artigo tem como objetivo discutir o processo de constituição do texto em contexto digital, de maneira particularizada, por meio da problematização de modos e recursos semióticos atualizados na produção acadêmica do universitário que utiliza computador com acesso à internet no processo de Educação a Distância (EaD) semipresencial. Interessa investigar como o modelo de letramentos acadêmicos pode ser articulado ao estudo da multimodalidade...

  3. Deserción universitaria y alfabetización académica

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    Giohanny Olave-Arias

    2013-12-01

    Full Text Available El artículo pone en relación la deserción universitaria con la alfabetización académica, entendida como el nivel de desarrollo de la lectura y la escritura. El desarrollo del artículo consta de tres momentos: contextualización del problema de la deserción universitaria en Colombia; prácticas de lectura y escritura que generan dificultades de aprendizaje; importancia de la alfabetización académica para mejorar las habilidades lectoras de los estudiantes.

  4. Physics Motivations of SciBooNE

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    Hiraide, K.

    2007-01-01

    SciBooNE is a new experiment for measuring neutrino-nucleus cross sections around one GeV region, which is important for the interpretaion of neutrino oscillation experiments. Physics motivations of the experiment are described here

  5. Interactive computer graphics for bio-stereochemical modelling

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    Proc, Indian Acad. Sci., Vol. 87 A (Chem. Sci.), No. 4, April 1978, pp. 95-113, (e) printed in India. Interactive computer graphics for bio-stereochemical modelling. ROBERT REIN, SHLOMONIR, KAREN HAYDOCK and. ROBERTD MACELROY. Department of Experimental Pathology, Roswell Park Memorial Institute,. 666 Elm ...

  6. A SciCode web site: building bridges between owners and users

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    Gaver, C. [Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., Mississauga, Ontario (Canada)

    2000-07-01

    Web technology is a tool that is gaining in popularity. Properly used, it is a powerful tool that has tremendous potential for providing better communication. It can also be effective as a training tool, an information-sharing tool, and as a means of simplifying work load, and facilitating compliance with Company procedures. The issue is one of communication. The challenge facing many large or geographically-distributed companies is how to communicate information to their staff and to their customers. Procedures overseeing quality-assurance programs and commitment to ensuring the quality of products need to be communicated to customers. Equally important is customer feedback. This information from users becomes the kernel for future product development. The issue is even more important when speaking of scientific analysis computer programs (SciCodes). Regular ongoing communication between Primary Holders and End Users is essential in the development and use of SciCodes. Without this communication, quality assurance is at risk. Quality assurance processes are an integral part in developing any SciCode. End Users also have a role to play. Primary Holders keep End Users informed of improvements or new releases. End Users must ensure they act on this information. Equally important, End Users must communicate problems or suggestions to the Primary Holder to remedy or incorporate in new releases. In other words, quality assurance processes become most effective when both Primary Holder and End Users are involved. This requires communication. Web technology offers AECL a means of providing regular, ongoing communication between its scientific-code (SciCode) Primary Holders-Owner Branches and the End Users of these codes within and outside the Company. Using the experience we have gained by developing the Y2K SciCode Web sites, setting up online documentation systems, and incorporating lessons learned from the Y2K project we have developed a model that is geared to

  7. A SciCode web site: building bridges between owners and users

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    Gaver, C.

    2000-01-01

    Web technology is a tool that is gaining in popularity. Properly used, it is a powerful tool that has tremendous potential for providing better communication. It can also be effective as a training tool, an information-sharing tool, and as a means of simplifying work load, and facilitating compliance with Company procedures. The issue is one of communication. The challenge facing many large or geographically-distributed companies is how to communicate information to their staff and to their customers. Procedures overseeing quality-assurance programs and commitment to ensuring the quality of products need to be communicated to customers. Equally important is customer feedback. This information from users becomes the kernel for future product development. The issue is even more important when speaking of scientific analysis computer programs (SciCodes). Regular ongoing communication between Primary Holders and End Users is essential in the development and use of SciCodes. Without this communication, quality assurance is at risk. Quality assurance processes are an integral part in developing any SciCode. End Users also have a role to play. Primary Holders keep End Users informed of improvements or new releases. End Users must ensure they act on this information. Equally important, End Users must communicate problems or suggestions to the Primary Holder to remedy or incorporate in new releases. In other words, quality assurance processes become most effective when both Primary Holder and End Users are involved. This requires communication. Web technology offers AECL a means of providing regular, ongoing communication between its scientific-code (SciCode) Primary Holders-Owner Branches and the End Users of these codes within and outside the Company. Using the experience we have gained by developing the Y2K SciCode Web sites, setting up online documentation systems, and incorporating lessons learned from the Y2K project we have developed a model that is geared to

  8. Science and Development Network (SciDev.net) - Phase IV | IDRC ...

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    SciDev.net was set up in 2001 as an organization dedicated to providing reliable and authoritative information about science and technology (S&T) for the developing world. SciDev.Net does this primarily through a free-access website, but also by organizing training workshops and other activities in the developing world.

  9. www.elearnSCI.org: a global educational initiative of ISCoS.

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    Chhabra, H S; Harvey, L A; Muldoon, S; Chaudhary, S; Arora, M; Brown, D J; Biering-Sorensen, F; Wyndaele, J J; Charlifue, S; Horsewell, J; Ducharme, S; Green, D; Simpson, D; Glinsky, J; Weerts, E; Upadhyay, N; Aito, S; Wing, P; Katoh, S; Kovindha, A; Krassioukov, A; Weeks, C; Srikumar, V; Reeves, R; Siriwardane, C; Hasnan, N; Kalke, Y B; Lanig, I

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    To develop a web-based educational resource for health professionals responsible for the management of spinal cord injury (SCI). The resource:www.elearnSCI.org is comprised of seven learning modules, each subdivided into various submodules. Six of the seven modules address the educational needs of all disciplines involved in comprehensive SCI management. The seventh module addresses prevention of SCI. Each submodule includes an overview, activities, self-assessment questions and references. Three hundred and thirty-two experts from The International Spinal Cord Society (ISCoS) and various affiliated societies from 36 countries were involved in developing the resource through 28 subcommittees. The content of each submodule was reviewed and approved by the Education and Scientific Committees of ISCoS and finally by an Editorial Committee of 23 experts. The content of the learning modules is relevant to students and to new as well as experienced SCI healthcare professionals. The content is applicable globally, has received consumer input and is available at no cost. The material is presented on a website underpinned by a sophisticated content-management system, which allows easy maintenance and ready update of all the content. The resource conforms to key principles of e-learning, including appropriateness of curriculum, engagement of learners, innovative approaches, effective learning, ease of use, inclusion, assessment, coherence, consistency, transparency, cost effectiveness and feedback. www.elearnSCI.org provides a cost effective way of training healthcare professionals that goes beyond the textbook and traditional face-to-face teaching.

  10. Estrés académico y su relación con el rendimiento académico en estudiantes de la modalidad de estudios a distancia de la Universidad Católica los Ángeles de Chimbote sede Lima 2013

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    Buendia Torres, Alcidez

    2015-01-01

    El presente trabajo de investigación centró su atención en el estrés académico de los estudiantes universitarios en un contexto académico de estudios en la modalidad a distancia. El principal objetivo fue determinar la existencia o no de una correlación entre el estrés académico y el rendimiento académico, estas asociaciones fueron a su vez analizadas a nivel de intensidad del estrés, factores estresores, reacciones o síntomas y estrategias de afrontamiento del estrés. Las h...

  11. Evolución de los Cuerpos Académicos en la Universidad de Guanajuato Evolución de los Cuerpos Académicos en la Universidad de Guanajuato

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    2012-02-01

    Full Text Available The members of the Academic Community have slowly placed themselves in the local and national scene. They work towards a universal educational goal. This requires the renewal of systems and strategies to create knowledge adaptable to the dynamic changes of a globalized world. The quality of higher education depends on many factors, one of the most important, is the professor; as such, the Academic Community takes seriously the professor’s tenure track as well as the overall education. This education implies a deep conceptual understanding of taught academic disciplines, this ideally is demonstrated by the completion of a PhD degree. This is why the University of Guanajuato has placed emphasis on the conformation of Academic Communities. Furthermore, permanent support to the faculty is offered to study graduate degrees with the idea of creating and applying new knowledge and offering them the installations that wil allow them to fulfill their academic functions. The perseverance of the work of the Academic Communities has contributed to their consolidaton in such a way that in 2002 there were only five Academic Communities and now a day there are 14.Los Cuerpos académicos han transitado paulatinamente hacia su posicionamiento en el ámbito estatal y nacional. Avanzan hacia una universalidad que requiere renovar esquemas y ampliar estrategias que se dirijan hacia la generación del conocimiento asumiendo un papel protagónico para insertarse en la dinámica del cambio en un mundo globalizado. La calidad de la educación superior está en función de múltiples factores, pero entre éstos el más importante es el profesor de carrera; es por ello que los Cuerpos Académicos contemplan un profesorado con formación completa que los capacite y habilite para el conjunto de las funciones académicas que les compete. Esta formación implica profundizar sus conocimientos en un nivel superior al que impartan, idealmente la formación completa es el

  12. Sharp Adams-type inequality invoking Hardy inequalities

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    Mohamed Khalil Zghal

    2018-03-22

    Mar 22, 2018 ... Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Math. Sci.) (2018) 128:13 ... where ∇ j u denotes the j-th order gradient of u, namely. ∇ j u = { j. 2 u if j is even, ... As emphasized above, Proposition 1.1 has been at the origin of numerous applications.

  13. Ausentismo, presentismo y rendimiento académico en estudiantes de universidades peruanas

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    Chafloque Céspedes, Raquel; Vara-Horna, Arístides; Lopez-Odar, Dennis; Santi-Huaranca, Inés; Diaz-Rosillo, Alberto; Asencios-Gonzalez, Zaida

    2017-01-01

    El objetivo de la presente investigación fue determinar el efecto del ausentismo y presentismo sobre el rendimiento académico en los estudiantes de pregrado de las Escuelas de Negocios e Ingenierías en las Universidades Peruanas. El estudio se sustenta en una encuesta de autoreporte a 8,203 estudiantes de las escuelas de negocios e ingenierías de las universidades peruanas. Se emplearon escalas para analizar el ausentismo, presentismo y rendimiento académico que mostraron adecuadas propiedade...

  14. The SCI Exercise Self-Efficacy Scale (ESES: development and psychometric properties

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    Ho Pei-Shu

    2007-08-01

    Full Text Available Abstract Background Rising prevalence of secondary conditions among persons with spinal cord injury (SCI has focused recent attention to potential health promotion programs designed to reduce such adverse health conditions. A healthy lifestyle for people with SCI, including and specifically, the adoption of a vigorous exercise routine, has been shown to produce an array of health benefits, prompting many providers to recommend the implementation of such activity to those with SCI. Successfully adopting such an exercise regimen however, requires confidence in one's ability to engage in exercise or exercise self-efficacy. Exercise self-efficacy has not been assessed adequately for people with SCI due to a lack of validated and reliable scales, despite self efficacy's status as one of the most widely researched concepts and despite its broad application in health promotion studies. Exercise self efficacy supporting interventions for people with SCI are only meaningful if appropriate measurement tools exist. The objective of our study was to develop a psychometrically sound exercise self-efficacy self-report measure for people with SCI. Methods Based on literature reviews, expert comments and cognitive testing, 10 items were included and made up the 4-point Likert SCI Exercise Self-Efficacy Scale (ESES in its current form. The ESES was administered as part of the first wave of a nationwide survey (n = 368 on exercise behavior and was also tested separately for validity in four groups of individuals with SCI. Reliability and validity testing was performed using SPSS 12.0. Results Cronbach's alpha was .9269 for the ESES. High internal consistency was confirmed in split-half (EQ Length Spearman Brown = .8836. Construct validity was determined using principal component factor analysis by correlating the aggregated ESES items with the Generalised Self Efficacy Scale (GSE. We found that all items loaded on one factor only and that there was a

  15. Uma Reflexão sobre Autoria Acadêmica

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    Francisco José da Costa

    2017-06-01

    Full Text Available Este estudo tem como objetivo apresentar elementos para um debate sobre a ética das práticas de autoria no campo científico brasileiro. Os autores utilizam exemplos ilustrativos para explorar as práticas de pseudoautoria, estabelecendo relações entre essas práticas, as coerções oriundas do campo acadêmico e o habitus dos agentes sociais. Foi elaborada uma definição preliminar do que seja autoria a fim de possibilitar a discussão sobre dois problemas centrais, que são: a lógica de “colocar o nome” e o plágio. Uma das principais contribuições deste trabalho repousa na reflexão orientada para a construção de uma prática aperfeiçoada de autoria, possibilitando a crítica e a autocrítica dos agentes do meio acadêmico sobre algumas práticas problemáticas de autoria.

  16. 76 FR 10395 - BreconRidge Manufacturing Solutions, Now Known as Sanmina-SCI Corporation, Division...

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    2011-02-24

    ... Solutions, Now Known as Sanmina-SCI Corporation, Division Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Design and Manufacturing, a Subsidiary of Sanmina-SCI Corporation, Including On- Site Leased Workers From Kelly Services... Manufacturing Solutions, now known as Sanmina-SCI Corporation, Division Optoelectronic and Microelectronic...

  17. Vida académica de la facultad

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    1999-01-01

    Enciclopedia Académica sobre el Lenguaje en las Ciencias de la Salud / Convenio con la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares / Libro de Biología / XI Congreso de actualización en Rehabilitación Médica. Dolor crónico, diagnóstico y manejo integral / Primer Congreso Latinoamericano de Estudiantes de Nutrición y Dietética

  18. Autorregulación y rendimiento académico en la transición secundaria–universidad

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    2012-05-01

    Full Text Available El objetivo del presente estudio consistió en identificar los niveles deautorregulación académica y su relación con el rendimiento académico y determinadas variablessociodemográficas en estudiantes universitarios. En esta investigación no experimental de campoparticiparon 172 estudiantes del Ciclo de Iniciación Universitaria de la Universidad Simón Bolívar.La autorregulación se midió mediante la Escala de Aprendizaje Autorregulado PCR (Lezama, 2005.Los resultados obtenidos sugieren niveles moderados de autorregulación en el aprendizaje, así comoligeras diferencias en cuanto al género, tipo de institución y ligera significancia entre reflexiónautorregulatoria y rendimiento académico. Así mismo, las correlaciones positivas encontradas entrepuntaje de ingreso e índice académico final, sugieren la asociación del rendimiento previo en el éxitoacadémico en función de las notas.

  19. Opening Comments: SciDAC 2009

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    Strayer, Michael

    2009-07-01

    Welcome to San Diego and the 2009 SciDAC conference. Over the next four days, I would like to present an assessment of the SciDAC program. We will look at where we've been, how we got to where we are and where we are going in the future. Our vision is to be first in computational science, to be best in class in modeling and simulation. When Ray Orbach asked me what I would do, in my job interview for the SciDAC Director position, I said we would achieve that vision. And with our collective dedicated efforts, we have managed to achieve this vision. In the last year, we have now the most powerful supercomputer for open science, Jaguar, the Cray XT system at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF). We also have NERSC, probably the best-in-the-world program for productivity in science that the Office of Science so depends on. And the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility offers architectural diversity with its IBM Blue Gene/P system as a counterbalance to Oak Ridge. There is also ESnet, which is often understated—the 40 gigabit per second dual backbone ring that connects all the labs and many DOE sites. In the President's Recovery Act funding, there is exciting news that ESnet is going to build out to a 100 gigabit per second network using new optical technologies. This is very exciting news for simulations and large-scale scientific facilities. But as one noted SciDAC luminary said, it's not all about the computers—it's also about the science—and we are also achieving our vision in this area. Together with having the fastest supercomputer for science, at the SC08 conference, SciDAC researchers won two ACM Gordon Bell Prizes for the outstanding performance of their applications. The DCA++ code, which solves some very interesting problems in materials, achieved a sustained performance of 1.3 petaflops, an astounding result and a mark I suspect will last for some time. The LS3DF application for studying nanomaterials also required the development of a

  20. Understanding Quality of Life in Adults with Spinal Cord Injury Via SCI-Related Needs and Secondary Complications.

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    Sweet, Shane N; Noreau, Luc; Leblond, Jean; Dumont, Frédéric S

    2014-01-01

    Understanding the factors that can predict greater quality of life (QoL) is important for adults with spinal cord injury (SCI), given that they report lower levels of QoL than the general population. To build a conceptual model linking SCI-related needs, secondary complications, and QoL in adults with SCI. Prior to testing the conceptual model, we aimed to develop and evaluate the factor structure for both SCI-related needs and secondary complications. Individuals with a traumatic SCI (N = 1,137) responded to an online survey measuring 13 SCI-related needs, 13 secondary complications, and the Life Satisfaction Questionnaire to assess QoL. The SCI-related needs and secondary complications were conceptualized into factors, tested with a confirmatory factor analysis, and subsequently evaluated in a structural equation model to predict QoL. The confirmatory factor analysis supported a 2-factor model for SCI related needs, χ(2)(61, N = 1,137) = 250.40, P SCI-related needs (β = -.22 and -.20, P SCI-related needs of individuals with SCI and preventing or managing secondary complications are essential to their QoL.

  1. Scientific Data Processing Using SciQL

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    Y. Zhang (Ying); M.L. Kersten (Martin)

    2012-01-01

    htmlabstractScientific discoveries increasingly rely on the ability to efficiently grind massive amounts of experimental data using database technologies. To bridge the gap between the needs of the Data-Intensive Research fields and the current DBMS technologies, we are developing SciQL (pronounced

  2. Differential Impact and Use of a Telehealth Intervention by Persons with MS or SCI.

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    Mercier, Hannah W; Ni, Pensheng; Houlihan, Bethlyn V; Jette, Alan M

    2015-11-01

    The objective of this study was to compare outcomes and patterns of engaging with a telehealth intervention (CareCall) by adult wheelchair users with severe mobility limitations with a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) or spinal cord injury (SCI). The design of this study is a secondary analysis from a pilot randomized controlled trial with 106 participants with SCI and 36 participants with MS. General linear model results showed that an interaction between baseline depression score and study group significantly predicted reduced depression at 6 mos for subjects with both diagnoses (P = 0.01). For those with MS, CareCall increased participants' physical independence (P SCI (P = 0.005). Those with SCI missed more calls (P SCI, and in increasing health care access and physical independence for those with a diagnosis of MS. Future research should aim to enhance the efficacy of such an intervention for participants with SCI.

  3. SciELO: un proyecto cooperativo para la difusión de la ciencia SciELO: A cooperative project for the dissemination of science

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    C. Bojo Canales

    2009-10-01

    Full Text Available Se describe el modelo SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online para la publicación y difusión electrónica de revistas científicas, su origen y evolución, su metodología, componentes, servicios y potencialidades, así como su implantación en España. Con 13 países participantes que suponen 8 portales certificados y 5 portales en desarrollo, más dos portales temáticos, en febrero de 2009 SciELO.org recogía 611 revistas y 195.789 artículos, de los cuales el 46% eran de Ciencias de la Salud, lo que lo convierte en una de las iniciativas de acceso abierto más importantes de cuantas existen. España se une al proyecto en 1999 y lanzó su portal "SciELO España" en 2001, con 4 revistas. En la actualidad incluye 39 títulos del área de Ciencias de la Salud, entre ellos la Revista Española de Sanidad Penitenciaria que se ha incorporado a la colección en 2007 y tiene accesibles 6 números correspondientes a los años 2007 y 2008. Se concluye afirmando que el modelo SciELO contribuye al desarrollo de la investigación y la ciencia, ofreciendo una solución eficiente y eficaz para impulsar y aumentar la difusión de las publicaciones científicas del área iberoamericana.The article describes the SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online model for the electronic publication and dissemination of scientific journals, its origin and evolution, methodology, components, services and potential, and its implantation in Spain. It consists of thirteen participant countries with eight certified web portals, with another 5 under development and another two thematic ones. In February 2009 Scielo.org had 611 magazines and 195,789 articles of which 46% were about health sciences. Spain became a project member in 1999 and launched the SciELO web portal in 2001, as well as 4 magazines. It currently has 39 titles in the field of Health Sciences; one of which is the Revista Española de Sanidad Penitenciaria, which joined the project in 2007 and which

  4. Development and psychometric characteristics of the SCI-QOL Bladder Management Difficulties and Bowel Management Difficulties item banks and short forms and the SCI-QOL Bladder Complications scale.

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    Tulsky, David S; Kisala, Pamela A; Tate, Denise G; Spungen, Ann M; Kirshblum, Steven C

    2015-05-01

    To describe the development and psychometric properties of the Spinal Cord Injury--Quality of Life (SCI-QOL) Bladder Management Difficulties and Bowel Management Difficulties item banks and Bladder Complications scale. Using a mixed-methods design, a pool of items assessing bladder and bowel-related concerns were developed using focus groups with individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) and SCI clinicians, cognitive interviews, and item response theory (IRT) analytic approaches, including tests of model fit and differential item functioning. Thirty-eight bladder items and 52 bowel items were tested at the University of Michigan, Kessler Foundation Research Center, the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, the University of Washington, Craig Hospital, and the James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY. Seven hundred fifty-seven adults with traumatic SCI. The final item banks demonstrated unidimensionality (Bladder Management Difficulties CFI=0.965; RMSEA=0.093; Bowel Management Difficulties CFI=0.955; RMSEA=0.078) and acceptable fit to a graded response IRT model. The final calibrated Bladder Management Difficulties bank includes 15 items, and the final Bowel Management Difficulties item bank consists of 26 items. Additionally, 5 items related to urinary tract infections (UTI) did not fit with the larger Bladder Management Difficulties item bank but performed relatively well independently (CFI=0.992, RMSEA=0.050) and were thus retained as a separate scale. The SCI-QOL Bladder Management Difficulties and Bowel Management Difficulties item banks are psychometrically robust and are available as computer adaptive tests or short forms. The SCI-QOL Bladder Complications scale is a brief, fixed-length outcomes instrument for individuals with a UTI.

  5. On two functional equations originating from number theory

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    Reducing the functional equations introduced in Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Math. Sci.) 113(2) (2003) 91–98 and in Appl. Math. Lett. 21 (2008) 974–977 to equations in complex variables and quaternions, we find general solutions of the equations. We also obtain the stability of the equations.

  6. Boundedness of composition of operators associated with different ...

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    Indian Acad. Sci. (Math. Sci.) Vol. 124, No. 1, February 2014, pp. 81–92. c Indian Academy of Sciences. Boundedness of composition of operators associated with different ... Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary: 42B20 ..... To prove Theorem 1.5, we need the following discrete Calderón's reproducing formula,.

  7. Schrödinger operators on a periodically broken zigzag carbon ...

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    Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Math. Sci.) Vol. 127, No. 3, June 2017, pp. 471–516. DOI 10.1007/s12044-017-0342-7 ... Gunma 371-0816, Japan. E-mail: .... Making use of the same method in [8, Theorem 1.1], we see that the operator H is unitarily ...

  8. Rendimiento académico y calidad de vida relacionada con la salud en estudiantes de odontología

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    Shyrley Díaz Cárdenas

    2017-01-01

    Full Text Available Objetivo:Asociar rendimiento académico y la calidad de vida relacionada con la salud (CVRSen estudiantes de odontología de la Universidad de Cartagena.Materiales y métodos:Estudio de corte transversal realizado en 347 estudiantes, previoconsentimiento informado. Se diseñó y aplicó encuesta autodiligenciada para indagar variablessociodemográficas yCVRS(WHOQOL-BREF. El rendimiento académico fue obtenido a través dela Secretaría Académica de la institución. Se estimaron ocurrencias (prevalencias y asociacionesentre variables (odds ratios con un nivel de confianza del 95 %Resultados:35,2 % de los estudiantes presentaron bajo rendimiento académico, y los prin-cipales motivos de pérdidas de asignaturas fueron poco tiempo dedicado a estudiar (20,1 % ymetodología académica utilizada (13,8 %. Según el cuestionarioWHOQOL-BREF, 37,7% de losestudiantes percibió que presenta una buenaCVRSy sentirse bastante bien con su salud (52,2%. Se encontró asociación entre los estudiantes con bajo rendimiento académico y compromisodel dominio social evaluado por elWHOQOL-BREEF(OR=2,13,IC95 %=1,12-4,06 p=0,02 yser adolescente (OR=1,7,IC95 %=1,04-3,05 p=0,03.Conclusión:Se halló asociación entre bajo rendimiento académico y compromiso con el dominiosocial de los estudiantes en relación con laCVRSy ser adolescente. El contexto universitario debemirar de una manera holística el desarrollo académico del estudiante en aras del mejoramientode su calidad de vida.

  9. SciSpark's SRDD : A Scientific Resilient Distributed Dataset for Multidimensional Data

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    Palamuttam, R. S.; Wilson, B. D.; Mogrovejo, R. M.; Whitehall, K. D.; Mattmann, C. A.; McGibbney, L. J.; Ramirez, P.

    2015-12-01

    Remote sensing data and climate model output are multi-dimensional arrays of massive sizes locked away in heterogeneous file formats (HDF5/4, NetCDF 3/4) and metadata models (HDF-EOS, CF) making it difficult to perform multi-stage, iterative science processing since each stage requires writing and reading data to and from disk. We have developed SciSpark, a robust Big Data framework, that extends ApacheTM Spark for scaling scientific computations. Apache Spark improves the map-reduce implementation in ApacheTM Hadoop for parallel computing on a cluster, by emphasizing in-memory computation, "spilling" to disk only as needed, and relying on lazy evaluation. Central to Spark is the Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD), an in-memory distributed data structure that extends the functional paradigm provided by the Scala programming language. However, RDDs are ideal for tabular or unstructured data, and not for highly dimensional data. The SciSpark project introduces the Scientific Resilient Distributed Dataset (sRDD), a distributed-computing array structure which supports iterative scientific algorithms for multidimensional data. SciSpark processes data stored in NetCDF and HDF files by partitioning them across time or space and distributing the partitions among a cluster of compute nodes. We show usability and extensibility of SciSpark by implementing distributed algorithms for geospatial operations on large collections of multi-dimensional grids. In particular we address the problem of scaling an automated method for finding Mesoscale Convective Complexes. SciSpark provides a tensor interface to support the pluggability of different matrix libraries. We evaluate performance of the various matrix libraries in distributed pipelines, such as Nd4jTM and BreezeTM. We detail the architecture and design of SciSpark, our efforts to integrate climate science algorithms, parallel ingest and partitioning (sharding) of A-Train satellite observations from model grids. These

  10. Looking Into Pandora's Box: The Content Of Sci-Hub And Its Usage

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    Greshake, Bastian

    2017-01-01

    Despite the growth of Open Access, potentially illegally circumventing paywalls to access scholarly publications is becoming a more mainstream phenomenon. The web service Sci-Hub is amongst the biggest facilitators of this, offering free access to around 62 million publications. So far it is not well studied how and why its users are accessing publications through Sci-Hub. By utilizing the recently released corpus of Sci-Hub and comparing it to the data of  ~28 million downloads done through ...

  11. SciLab Based Remote Control of Thermo-Optical Plant

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    Miroslav Jano

    2011-11-01

    Full Text Available The paper deals with the web-based implementation of the control system of a thermo-optical plant. The control of the plant is based on the SciLab software which originally is not designed for web-based applications. The paper shows a possible way to circumvent this limitation. The ultimate goal is to enable remote controlled experiment using SciLab. The paper also describes possible tools for communication and control of the real plant and visualization of results.

  12. Implication of altered autonomic control for orthostatic tolerance in SCI.

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    Wecht, Jill Maria; Bauman, William A

    2018-01-01

    Neural output from the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) are integrated to appropriately control cardiovascular responses during routine activities of daily living including orthostatic positioning. Sympathetic control of the upper extremity vasculature and the heart arises from the thoracic cord between T1 and T5, whereas splanchnic bed and lower extremity vasculature receive sympathetic neural input from the lower cord between segments T5 and L2. Although the vasculature is not directly innervated by the parasympathetic nervous system, the SA node is innervated by post-ganglionic vagal nerve fibers via cranial nerve X. Segmental differences in sympathetic cardiovascular innervation highlight the effect of lesion level on orthostatic cardiovascular control following spinal cord injury (SCI). Due to impaired sympathetic cardiovascular control, many individuals with SCI, particularly those with lesions above T6, are prone to orthostatic hypotension (OH) and orthostatic intolerance (OI). Symptomatic OH, which may result in OI, is a consequence of episodic reductions in cerebral perfusion pressure and the symptoms may include: dizziness, lightheadedness, nausea, blurred vision, ringing in the ears, headache and syncope. However, many, if not most, individuals with SCI who experience persistent and episodic hypotension and OH do not report symptoms of cerebral hypoperfusion and therefore do not raise clinical concern. This review will discuss the mechanism underlying OH and OI following SCI, and will review our knowledge to date regarding the prevalence, consequences and possible treatment options for these conditions in the SCI population. Published by Elsevier B.V.

  13. Vida académica de la facultad

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    Full Text Available Enciclopedia Académica sobre el Lenguaje en las Ciencias de la Salud / Convenio con la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares / Libro de Biología / XI Congreso de actualización en Rehabilitación Médica. Dolor crónico, diagnóstico y manejo integral / Primer Congreso Latinoamericano de Estudiantes de Nutrición y Dietética

  14. ¿Oferta o renovación académica?

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    Serani Prádenas, Edmundo

    2017-01-01

    Aunque sin divulgar una definición, lo que es altamente preocupante, las autoridades universitarias han legitimado el término "Renovación de la Oferta Académica", el que en nuestra opinión tiene importantes limitaciones.

  15. Os estudos acadêmicos de literatura: uma experiência constitutiva

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    Eunice T. Piazza Gai

    2015-07-01

    Full Text Available O artigo apresenta uma reflexão sobre o tema dos estudos acadêmicos de literatura. Embasa-se na leitura de diversos autores, tais como Platão, Vygotsky, Compagnon, Palmer, Bruner, Secchieri, entre outros. Defende a ideia de que é necessário rever as práticas acadêmicas que consideram os textos literários de um ponto de vista exógeno. Em contrapartida, seria preferível que os estudos de literatura se voltassem para as questões da sua natureza intrínseca, ou seja, que ocorressem, a partir da reflexão sobre a especificidade do conhecimento por ela veiculado e sobre as possibilidades de constituição de sentido propiciadas pelo trabalho hermenêutico.

  16. Programa de Acompañamiento para Estudiantes en Riesgo Académico

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    Chinchilla-Brenes, Sonia

    2006-01-01

    Informe El Programa de Acompañamiento para estudiantes en Riesgo Académico lo generó el Departamento de Orientación y Psicología del ITCR con el objetivo de atender mediante diversas acciones de acompañamiento y asesoría psicoeducativa a estudiantes de primer ingreso que, por sus características psicoeducativas y socioeconómicas, muestren más probabilidades de obtener bajo rendimiento académico o altas tasas de deserción. Se espera con ello favorecer el ajuste a la universidad, la permanen...

  17. SCI- databasen - En klinisk rygmarvsskade database

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    Vibjerg, Jørgen; Østergaard, Niels; Hagen, Ellen Merete

    2015-01-01

    SCI- databasen - En klinisk rygmarvsskade database Målet med databasen er at indsamle vigtige data for rygmarvskadede patienter med henblik på at sikrer information der kan bruges til fremtidig forskning. Målet er desuden at kunne bruge databasen i et fremtidig klinisk arbejde, der som et...

  18. Malaria-specific metabolite hemozoin mediates the release of several potent endogenous pyrogens (TNF, MIP-1 alpha, and MIP-1 beta) in vitro, and altered thermoregulation in vivo.

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    Sherry, B A; Alava, G; Tracey, K J; Martiney, J; Cerami, A; Slater, A F

    1995-01-01

    A characteristic feature of malaria infection is the occurrence of periodic bouts of fever. Experimental and clinical studies have strongly implicated inflammatory cytokines, like tumour necrosis factor (TNF), in the induction of these intermittent fevers [Clark et al., Infect Immunol 32:1058-1066, 1981; Clark et al., Am J Pathol 129:192-199, 1987; Karunaweera et al., Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 89:3200-3203, 1992], but the malaria-specific metabolite(s) which induce the production of such endogenous pyrogens have not yet been fully characterized. It is well known that during the course of malaria infection, a unique schizont component, alternatively referred to as "malaria pigment" or hemozoin, is released along with merozoites as the host erythrocyte bursts [Urquhart, Clin Infect Dis 19:117-131, 1994]. We have recently determined that the core structure of hemozoin comprises a novel insoluble polymer of heme units linked by iron-carboxylate bonds [Slater et al., Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 88:325-329, 1991; Slater et al., Nature 355:167-169, 1992]. We now report that purified native, as well as chemically synthesized, hemozoin crystals potently induce the release of several pyrogenic cytokines, including TNF, MIP-1 alpha, and MIP-1 beta, from murine macrophages and human peripheral blood monocytes in vitro. Also, intravenous administration of chemically synthesized preparations of hemozoin to anaesthetized rats results in a marked drop in body temperature. A similar drop in body temperature is observed following the intravenous injection of other well-characterized pyrogenic cytokines (e.g., TNF) which are known to induce a fever response in awake animals, and is thought to reflect the inability of rats to appropriately regulate their body temperature while anaesthetized. As a consequence of its ability to induce pyrogenic cytokines in vitro, and thermal dysregulation in vivo, we propose that this unique parasite metabolite is an important pyrogen released by malaria

  19. Giant Plagioclase Basalts, eruption rate versus time

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    R.Narasimhan(krishtel emaging) 1461 1996 Oct 15 13:05:22

    I found the GPB lavas to be very interest- ing because in some ... by Venkatesan et al (1993) and thus in a way validates my approach. ... and age calculation of lavas from phenocrysts. Keywords. Deccan Trap; Giant Plagioclase Basalts; eruption duration. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Earth Planet. Sci.), 111, No. 4, December ...

  20. Untitled

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    11 Ramanathan KG, On the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction, Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Math. Sci),. 93 (1984) pp. 67-77. (12) Ramanathan K G, Ramanujan's continued fraction, Indian J. Pure Appl. Math, 16(7) (1985) pp. 695-724. 13) Ramanujan S, The lost notebook and other unpublished papers, (Narosa, New Delhi) ...

  1. Geometric structures on loop and path spaces

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    Indian Acad. Sci. (Math. Sci.) Vol. 120, No. 4, September 2010, pp. 417–428. .... that a vector field X in a Riemannian manifold (M,g) is locally gradient-like .... Note that if we apply this map to γ (t) itself, we get a curve x(t) ∈ Tγ(0)M. Now we.

  2. Gaussian curvature on hyperelliptic Riemann surfaces

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    Indian Acad. Sci. (Math. Sci.) Vol. 124, No. 2, May 2014, pp. 155–167. c Indian Academy of Sciences. Gaussian curvature on hyperelliptic Riemann surfaces. ABEL CASTORENA. Centro de Ciencias Matemáticas (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,. Campus Morelia) Apdo. Postal 61-3 Xangari, C.P. 58089 Morelia,.

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    Proc. Indian Acad. Sci., (Engg. Sci), Vol. 6, Pt. 1, March 1983, pp. 47-58, GPrinted in India. Wood burning stoves: Material selection and thermal shock testing of fired ceramic bodies. C R CHAPLIN. Department of Engineering, University of Reading, Reading RG62AY, U.K.. Abstract. The overal design philosophy of ...

  4. Riesgo familiar total en familias con escolares según rendimiento académico

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    CAROLINA LUCERO ENRÍQUEZ GUERRERO

    2009-12-01

    Full Text Available Este artículo presenta los resultados del estudio cuyo objetivo fue establecer las diferencias en el riesgo familiar entre dos grupos de familias: con niños escolares de alto rendimiento y niños de bajo rendimiento académico en un centro educativo distrital de Bogotá. Metodología: estudio descriptivo comparativo transversal con un componente analítico y abordaje cuantitativo; la muestra fue de 186 familias, durante abril a julio de 2007. Los resultados muestran predominio de familias nucleares en ambos grupos (65%, relación inversa entre el riesgo familiar total evaluado por el instrumento RFT 7-70 y el rendimiento académico del escolar de la familia, es decir que las familias que registraron riesgo alto (9% y medio (31% en mayor proporción son familias con escolares de bajo rendimiento académico, frente al predominio del riesgo familiar bajo (78% en las familias con niños de alto rendimiento. Se aplicó t de student para diferencia de medias y se encontró asociación (P = 0,02 entre el riesgo familiar total alto y el bajo rendimiento académico del escolar. En conclusión, estos resultados sugieren principalmente que se deben priorizar los factores de riesgo que determinan mayor riesgo familiar en familias con escolares de bajo rendimiento académico y dar atención de salud integral con enfoque familiar e intersectorial, y participación activa de la comunidad. Continuar investigando en posibles asociaciones entre salud individual, prácticas de salud, educación, ambiente socioeconómico y psicoafectivo de la familia y el logro educativo de escolares en familias con niños en edad escolar.

  5. sciARTbooklet: Rachael Nee / Potato Powered Cosmos

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    Hoch, Michael

    2017-01-01

    Rachael Nee rachaelnee@gmail.com graduated from MA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts, UK with Distinction in 2015, her art practice is concerned with energy, entropy and matter. www.rachaelnee.comart@CMS_sciARTbooklet: web page : http://artcms.web.cern.ch/artcms/ A tool to support students with their research on various scientific topics, encourage an understanding of the relevance of expression through the arts, a manual to recreate the artwork and enable students to define and develop their own artistic inquiry in the creation of new artworks. The art@CMS sciART booklet series directed by Dr. Michael Hoch, michael.hoch@cern.ch scientist and artist at CERN, in collaboration with the HST 2017 participants (S. Bellefontaine, S. Chaiwan, A. Djune Tchinda, R. O’Keeffe, G. Shumanova)

  6. Inteligencia emocional y rendimiento académico en estudiantes universitarios

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    Martha Luz Páez Cala

    2015-01-01

    Full Text Available El estudio tuvo como objetivo describir la inteligencia emocional y determinar su relación con el rendimiento académico en estudiantes universitarios. Participaron 263 estudiantes, a quienes se les aplicaron diversos instrumentos, entre ellos el cuestionario EQ -i de Bar O n para medir la inteligencia emocional. Se encontró un cociente de inteligencia emocional promedio de 46,51, sin diferencias según género, pero sí para cada programa: 62,9 para Economía; 55,69 en Medicina; 54,28 en Psicología y 36,58 para Derecho. Se encontró correlación entre el valor de IE y nota promedio hasta el momento (p = .019, mayor para Medicina (p = .001, seguido de Psicología (p = .066; no se encontró relación en los otros programas. Se presenta un modelo de dependencia cúbica entre coeficiente de inteligencia emocional y rendimiento académico significativo para el total de la población de Medicina y Psicología. Así mismo se encontró dependencia significativa de este coeficiente con programa (p = .000 y semestre (p = .000, aunque esta última presenta tendencia clara solo para Medicina. Los resultados coinciden con los de otros estudios que encuentran correlación entre inteligencia emocional y rendimiento académico.

  7. Pedagogía y créditos académicos

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    MARTHA SOLEDAD MONTERO G.

    2006-01-01

    Full Text Available La reforma educativa, de los años noventa, diseña, monta, pone en marcha y ejecuta tres políticaspara la educación superior, con el objetivo de ampliar la cobertura educativa, a partir de estrategias,que tienen que ver con el acceso, el uso de nuevas metodologías y tecnologías, las MesasRegionales de Cobertura y el apoyo a la gestión de las instituciones de Educación Superior. De ahí,que, para señalar, los efectos que surgen de la implementación de los créditos académicos en launiversidad, este artículo: (i describe de manera esquemática la política de ampliación de lacobertura, con el propósito de situar la concepción de crédito académico en la política deeducación superior en Colombia (ii mostrar la función que cumplen los créditos académicos enel currículo (iii y por último, señalar la relación que, al parecer existe entre noción de créditoacadémico y sus implicaciones en las practicas pedagógicas dentro de la reforma educativa parala Educación Superior.

  8. SciCloud: A Scientific Cloud and Management Platform for Smart City Data

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    Liu, Xiufeng; Nielsen, Per Sieverts; Heller, Alfred

    2017-01-01

    private scientific cloud, SciCloud, to tackle these grand challenges. SciCloud provides on-demand computing resource provisions, a scalable data management platform and an in-place data analytics environment to support the scientific research using smart city data....

  9. OPENING REMARKS: SciDAC: Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing

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    Strayer, Michael

    2005-01-01

    Good morning. Welcome to SciDAC 2005 and San Francisco. SciDAC is all about computational science and scientific discovery. In a large sense, computational science characterizes SciDAC and its intent is change. It transforms both our approach and our understanding of science. It opens new doors and crosses traditional boundaries while seeking discovery. In terms of twentieth century methodologies, computational science may be said to be transformational. There are a number of examples to this point. First are the sciences that encompass climate modeling. The application of computational science has in essence created the field of climate modeling. This community is now international in scope and has provided precision results that are challenging our understanding of our environment. A second example is that of lattice quantum chromodynamics. Lattice QCD, while adding precision and insight to our fundamental understanding of strong interaction dynamics, has transformed our approach to particle and nuclear science. The individual investigator approach has evolved to teams of scientists from different disciplines working side-by-side towards a common goal. SciDAC is also undergoing a transformation. This meeting is a prime example. Last year it was a small programmatic meeting tracking progress in SciDAC. This year, we have a major computational science meeting with a variety of disciplines and enabling technologies represented. SciDAC 2005 should position itself as a new corner stone for Computational Science and its impact on science. As we look to the immediate future, FY2006 will bring a new cycle to SciDAC. Most of the program elements of SciDAC will be re-competed in FY2006. The re-competition will involve new instruments for computational science, new approaches for collaboration, as well as new disciplines. There will be new opportunities for virtual experiments in carbon sequestration, fusion, and nuclear power and nuclear waste, as well as collaborations

  10. Neuropathic pain and SCI: Identification and treatment strategies in the 21st century.

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    Hatch, Maya N; Cushing, Timothy R; Carlson, Gregory D; Chang, Eric Y

    2018-01-15

    Pain is a common complication in patients following spinal cord injury (SCI), with studies citing up to 80% of patients reporting some form of pain. Neuropathic pain (NP) makes up a substantial percentage of all pain symptoms in patients with SCI and is often complex. Given the high prevalence of NP in patients with SCI, proper identification and treatment is imperative. Indeed, identification of pain subtypes is a vital step toward determining appropriate treatment. A variety of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments can be undertaken including antiepileptics, tricyclic antidepressants, opioids, transcranial direct current stimulation, and invasive surgical procedures. Despite all the available treatment options and advances in the field of SCI medicine, providing adequate treatment of NP after SCI continues to be challenging. It is therefore extremely important for clinicians to have a strong foundation in the identification of SCI NP, as well as an understanding of appropriate treatment options. Here, we highlight the definitions and classification tools available for NP identification, and discuss current treatment options. We hope that this will not only provide a better understanding of NP for physicians in various subspecialties, but that it will also help guide future research on this subject. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

  11. Institutional profile: the national Swedish academic drug discovery & development platform at SciLifeLab.

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    Arvidsson, Per I; Sandberg, Kristian; Sakariassen, Kjell S

    2017-06-01

    The Science for Life Laboratory Drug Discovery and Development Platform (SciLifeLab DDD) was established in Stockholm and Uppsala, Sweden, in 2014. It is one of ten platforms of the Swedish national SciLifeLab which support projects run by Swedish academic researchers with large-scale technologies for molecular biosciences with a focus on health and environment. SciLifeLab was created by the coordinated effort of four universities in Stockholm and Uppsala: Stockholm University, Karolinska Institutet, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Uppsala University, and has recently expanded to other Swedish university locations. The primary goal of the SciLifeLab DDD is to support selected academic discovery and development research projects with tools and resources to discover novel lead therapeutics, either molecules or human antibodies. Intellectual property developed with the help of SciLifeLab DDD is wholly owned by the academic research group. The bulk of SciLifeLab DDD's research and service activities are funded from the Swedish state, with only consumables paid by the academic research group through individual grants.

  12. género y rendimiento académico

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    Elberto Antonio Plazas

    2006-01-01

    Full Text Available Se pretendió establecer si existía un efecto de interacción entre el estatus sociométrico y el género sobre el rendimiento académico en una muestra de 156 estudiantes (88 niñas y 68 varones de educación secundaria de un reconocido colegio público de Valledupar (Colombia. El estatus sociométrico se evaluó según las nominaciones de los pares para categorizar a los estudiantes en seis grupos: popular, rechazado, excluido, controvertido, promedio y no clasificado. El análisis de varianza no reveló un efecto significativo de la interacción del estatus sociométrico y el género sobre el rendimiento académico, aunque sí mostró un efecto significativo independiente de las dos variables principales. En la prueba post hoc, se presentó una relación directa entre el rendimiento y la Preferencia Social, así como entre el rendimiento y el Impacto Social, y una diferencia significativa entre niñas y varones controvertidos.

  13. Novel Random Mutagenesis Method for Directed Evolution.

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    Feng, Hong; Wang, Hai-Yan; Zhao, Hong-Yan

    2017-01-01

    Directed evolution is a powerful strategy for gene mutagenesis, and has been used for protein engineering both in scientific research and in the biotechnology industry. The routine method for directed evolution was developed by Stemmer in 1994 (Stemmer, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 91, 10747-10751, 1994; Stemmer, Nature 370, 389-391, 1994). Since then, various methods have been introduced, each of which has advantages and limitations depending upon the targeted genes and procedure. In this chapter, a novel alternative directed evolution method which combines mutagenesis PCR with dITP and fragmentation by endonuclease V is described. The kanamycin resistance gene is used as a reporter gene to verify the novel method for directed evolution. This method for directed evolution has been demonstrated to be efficient, reproducible, and easy to manipulate in practice.

  14. Herpesvirus papio contains a plasmid origin of replication that acts in cis interspecies with an Epstein-Barr virus trans-acting function.

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    Pesano, R L; Pagano, J S

    1986-01-01

    Herpesvirus papio (HVP) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) are closely related biologically and biochemically; lymphoblastoid cells infected with either virus contain episomal viral DNA. The putative origin of replication for EBV plasmids (oriP) has been assigned to a 1,790-base-pair fragment (cis) in the short unique region of the genome which requires a viral function supplied in trans from elsewhere in the genome (J. Yates, N. Warren, D. Reisman, and B. Sugden, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 81:3806-3810, 1984). We report here the identification of the putative origin of replication (cis) in HVP; we assigned it to the HVP EcoRI K fragment. The results indicate that the HVP replication process requires both a cis and a trans-acting function, analogous to that found in EBV. Images PMID:3023667

  15. An item-oriented recommendation algorithm on cold-start problem

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    Qiu, Tian; Chen, Guang; Zhang, Zi-Ke; Zhou, Tao

    2011-09-01

    Based on a hybrid algorithm incorporating the heat conduction and probability spreading processes (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 107 (2010) 4511), in this letter, we propose an improved method by introducing an item-oriented function, focusing on solving the dilemma of the recommendation accuracy between the cold and popular items. Differently from previous works, the present algorithm does not require any additional information (e.g., tags). Further experimental results obtained in three real datasets, RYM, Netflix and MovieLens, show that, compared with the original hybrid method, the proposed algorithm significantly enhances the recommendation accuracy of the cold items, while it keeps the recommendation accuracy of the overall and the popular items. This work might shed some light on both understanding and designing effective methods for long-tailed online applications of recommender systems.

  16. Plant biotechnology for food security and bioeconomy.

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    Clarke, Jihong Liu; Zhang, Peng

    2013-09-01

    This year is a special year for plant biotechnology. It was 30 years ago, on January 18 1983, one of the most important dates in the history of plant biotechnology, that three independent groups described Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated genetic transformation at the Miami Winter Symposium, leading to the production of normal, fertile transgenic plants (Bevan et al. in Nature 304:184-187, 1983; Fraley et al. in Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 80:4803-4807, 1983; Herrera-Estrella et al. in EMBO J 2:987-995, 1983; Vasil in Plant Cell Rep 27:1432-1440, 2008). Since then, plant biotechnology has rapidly advanced into a useful and valuable tool and has made a significant impact on crop production, development of a biotech industry and the bio-based economy worldwide.

  17. Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) biodosimetry

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    Desrosiers, Marc; Schauer, David A.

    2001-01-01

    Radiation-induced electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) signals were first reported by Gordy et al. [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 41 (1955) 983]. The application of EPR spectroscopy to ionizing radiation dosimetry was later proposed by Brady et al. [Health Phys. 15 (1968) 43]. Since that time EPR dosimetry has been applied to accident and epidemiologic dose reconstruction, radiation therapy, food irradiation, quality assurance programs and archaeological dating. Materials that have been studied include bone, tooth enamel, alanine and quartz. This review paper presents the fundamentals and applications of EPR biodosimetry. Detailed information regarding sample collection and preparation, EPR measurements, dose reconstruction, and data analysis and interpretation will be reviewed for tooth enamel. Examples of EPR biodosimetry application in accidental overexposures, radiopharmaceutical dose assessment and retrospective epidemiologic studies will also be presented

  18. Identification and characterization of two dermorphins from skin extracts of the Amazonian frog Phyllomedusa bicolor.

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    Mignogna, G; Severini, C; Simmaco, M; Negri, L; Erspamer, G F; Kreil, G; Barra, D

    1992-05-11

    Skin extracts of South American hylid frogs of the subfamily Phyllomedusinae contain dermorphins and deltorphins, opioid heptapeptides highly selective for either mu or delta receptors. In all these peptides, a D-amino acid is present in the second position. The structure of the precursors for Ala-deltorphins was recently deduced from cloned cDNAs derived from skin of Phyllomedusa bicolor (Richter et al. (1990) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 87, 4836-4839). From the amino acid sequence of these precursors, the existence of three peptides related to dermorphin could be predicted. From methanol extracts of skin of Ph. bicolor we have isolated two of these peptides, [Lys7]dermorphin-OH and [Trp4,Asn7]dermorphin-OH. The biological activity of these new dermorphins and their amidated counterparts is presented.

  19. Role of laminin receptor in tumor cell migration

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    Wewer, U M; Taraboletti, G; Sobel, M E

    1987-01-01

    Polyclonal antisera were made against biochemically purified laminin receptor protein as well as against synthetic peptides deduced from a complementary DNA clone corresponding to the COOH-terminal end of the laminin receptor (U.M. Wewer et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 83: 7137-7141, 1986......). These antisera were used to study the potential role of laminin receptor in laminin-mediated attachment and haptotactic migration of human A2058 melanoma cells. The anti-laminin receptor antisera reacted with the surface of suspended, nonpermeabilized melanoma and carcinoma cells. The anti-laminin receptor...... antisera blocked the surface interaction of A2058 cells with endogenous laminin, resulting in the inhibition of laminin-mediated cell attachment. The A2058 melanoma cells migrated toward a gradient of solid phase laminin or fibronectin (haptotaxis). Anti-laminin antiserum abolished haptotaxis on laminin...

  20. Alternative perspective on the control of transpiration by radiation.

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    Mott, Keith A; Peak, David

    2011-12-06

    Stomatal responses to light are important determinants for plant water use efficiency and for general circulation models, but a mechanistic understanding of these responses remains elusive. A recent study [Pieruschka R, Huber G, Berry JA (2010) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107:13372-13377] concluded that stomata respond to total absorbed radiation rather than red and blue light as previously thought. We tested this idea by reexamining stomatal responses to red and blue light and to IR radiation. We show that responses to red and blue light are not consistent with a response to total absorbed radiation and that apparent stomatal responses to IR radiation are explainable as experimental artifacts. In addition, our data and analysis provide a method for accurately determining the internal temperature of a leaf.

  1. Mejora en la motivación por la Lectura Académica: la mirada de estudiantes motivados

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    Carla Muñoz

    2016-01-01

    Full Text Available Dada la importancia de la lectura académica en la formación universitaria y que uno de los factores gravitantes en este tipo de tarea son los aspectos motivacionales, el presente trabajo tuvo como objetivo identificar los elementos, que según los propios protagonistas explicarían el incremento de su motivación por la lectura de textos académicos. El estudio de carácter mixto se realizó en dos fases. En una primera fase fueron identificados a partir de una muestra amplia (n=1205 estudiantes con alta motivación por la lectura académica y que hubiesen experimentado un cambio motivacional positivo (n=10. En una segunda fase, estos casos fueron sujetos de entrevistas en profundidad y el análisis de estas entrevistas se recogen en este artículo. Los resultados muestran como causas de la mejora de la motivación por la lectura académica, dinámicas vinculadas con el desafío, el ingreso a la lógica universitaria (desescolarización y las proyecciones académico/profesionales de estos estudiantes; procesos que se encuentran vinculados a los primeros años de formación, favorecidos por docentes que promueven una dinámica académica en la formación. Se discuten finalmente las implicaciones de estas dinámicas para la formación universitaria.

  2. Constructing large scale SCI-based processing systems by switch elements

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    Wu, B.; Kristiansen, E.; Skaali, B.; Bogaerts, A.; Divia, R.; Mueller, H.

    1993-05-01

    The goal of this paper is to study some of the design criteria for the switch elements to form the interconnection of large scale SCI-based processing systems. The approved IEEE standard 1596 makes it possible to couple up to 64K nodes together. In order to connect thousands of nodes to construct large scale SCI-based processing systems, one has to interconnect these nodes by switch elements to form different topologies. A summary of the requirements and key points of interconnection networks and switches is presented. Two models of the SCI switch elements are proposed. The authors investigate several examples of systems constructed for 4-switches with simulations and the results are analyzed. Some issues and enhancements are discussed to provide the ideas behind the switch design that can improve performance and reduce latency. 29 refs., 11 figs., 3 tabs

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    In this case first, the linear multiple regression equation of the dependent variable (weather factors) is worked out in the form: y are G1 -- blac -- bac2 -- b3ac3 + . . . -- (2). Keywords. Curvilinear technique; graphical approximation; yield-response curve. Proc, Indian Acad. Sci. (Earth. Planet. Sci.), 108, No. 4, December 1999 ...

  4. GeoSciML v3.0 - a significant upgrade of the CGI-IUGS geoscience data model

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    Raymond, O.; Duclaux, G.; Boisvert, E.; Cipolloni, C.; Cox, S.; Laxton, J.; Letourneau, F.; Richard, S.; Ritchie, A.; Sen, M.; Serrano, J.-J.; Simons, B.; Vuollo, J.

    2012-04-01

    GeoSciML version 3.0 (http://www.geosciml.org), released in late 2011, is the latest version of the CGI-IUGS* Interoperability Working Group geoscience data interchange standard. The new version is a significant upgrade and refactoring of GeoSciML v2 which was released in 2008. GeoSciML v3 has already been adopted by several major international interoperability initiatives, including OneGeology, the EU INSPIRE program, and the US Geoscience Information Network, as their standard data exchange format for geoscience data. GeoSciML v3 makes use of recently upgraded versions of several Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and ISO data transfer standards, including GML v3.2, SWE Common v2.0, and Observations and Measurements v2 (ISO 19156). The GeoSciML v3 data model has been refactored from a single large application schema with many packages, into a number of smaller, but related, application schema modules with individual namespaces. This refactoring allows the use and future development of modules of GeoSciML (eg; GeologicUnit, GeologicStructure, GeologicAge, Borehole) in smaller, more manageable units. As a result of this refactoring and the integration with new OGC and ISO standards, GeoSciML v3 is not backwardly compatible with previous GeoSciML versions. The scope of GeoSciML has been extended in version 3.0 to include new models for geomorphological data (a Geomorphology application schema), and for geological specimens, geochronological interpretations, and metadata for geochemical and geochronological analyses (a LaboratoryAnalysis-Specimen application schema). In addition, there is better support for borehole data, and the PhysicalProperties model now supports a wider range of petrophysical measurements. The previously used CGI_Value data type has been superseded in favour of externally governed data types provided by OGC's SWE Common v2 and GML v3.2 data standards. The GeoSciML v3 release includes worked examples of best practice in delivering geochemical

  5. Spinal Cord Injury Community Survey: Understanding the Needs of Canadians with SCI.

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    Noreau, Luc; Noonan, Vanessa K; Cobb, John; Leblond, Jean; Dumont, Frédéric S

    2014-01-01

    There is a lack of literature regarding service needs of people with SCI living in the community. Better assessment of expressed and met and unmet needs would help in the development of effective service delivery. From a national SCI Community Survey in Canada, the aim was to identify the most critical service needs of people living in the community at least 1 year post discharge from rehabilitation and the support they received to meet their needs. Data were collected mainly through a secure Web site and encompassed demographics, personal and household income, an SCI severity measure, and an SCI community needs measure containing information on 13 SCI-related needs. A total of 1,549 persons with SCI (traumatic lesion, n = 1,137; nontraumatic lesion, n = 412) across Canada completed the survey. Most critical needs for community integration were expressed by a substantial proportion of survey participants, but significantly more expressed and met needs were reported by persons with a traumatic than a nontraumatic lesion. Personal and environmental characteristics influenced the probability of expressing and meeting needs (eg, severity of injury and household income). Help and support to meet expressed needs were received from government agencies, community organizations, and friends or family. Better assessment of expressed and met or unmet needs for services remains a challenge but will serve as a tool to optimize service delivery in the community. Environmental barriers to services, particularly the process of getting needs met and associated costs, remain an issue that requires a reconsideration of some aspects of access to services.

  6. Percepções Acadêmicas sobre o Ensino e a Aprendizagem em Anatomia Humana

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    Cléton Salbego

    Full Text Available Esta pesquisa investiga as percepções de acadêmicos sobre o processo de ensino e aprendizagem na disciplina de Anatomia Humana oferecida nos cursos de Ciências Biológicas e Enfermagem de uma universidade da Região Centro-Oeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, com caráter descritivo e exploratório, realizada com dez acadêmicos de cada um dos cursos envolvidos, regularmente matriculados na disciplina e frequentando o Laboratório de Anatomia Humana. Os depoimentos foram coletados por meio de entrevistas semiestruturadas e analisados à luz da análise de conteúdo. Emergiram percepções acerca do processo de ensino e aprendizagem da disciplina e da sua relevância para a formação profissional. Conclui-se que as percepções dos acadêmicos apontam obstáculos enfrentados para uma aprendizagem efetiva. As dificuldades despertam nos estudantes sentimentos de impotência e desânimo. Nesse contexto, surge um grande desafio: propor estudos que considerem a opinião dos acadêmicos, promovendo espaços de troca e construção coletiva do processo de formação.

  7. Hacia una didáctica de la escritura académica en la universidad

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    Victoria Yolanda Villaseñor López

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    Full Text Available La lectura y escritura académicas en la universidad escasamente han sido atendidas como materia y contenido de enseñanza por los profesores. Se asume tácitamente que los alumnos han adquirido, durante su formación en los niveles y grados escolares previos, las competencias suficientes para desempeñarse como lectores y escritores especializados en las temáticas del estudio disciplinario. Sin embargo, los escritos de los estudiantes muestran un panorama poco optimista respecto a las competencias que han adquirido y desarrollado. Ante esta necesidad, y a partir de algunas dificultades específicas de escritura identificadas en las versiones de un capítulo de tesis de estudiantes del 8o semestre de la Licenciatura en Educación de Adultos (UPN, se emprendió una intervención didáctica para orientar la escritura académica. Tales fueron los objetivos de investigación e intervención que se atendieron y de los cuales trataremos en el presente artículo. Al final, descubrimos que la escritura académica guiada puede dar lugar a versiones del desempeño académico y sus expresiones disciplinarias cada vez más logradas y exitosas.

  8. GeoSciML version 3: A GML application for geologic information

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    International Union of Geological Sciences., I. C.; Richard, S. M.

    2011-12-01

    After 2 years of testing and development, XML schema for GeoSciML version 3 are now ready for application deployment. GeoSciML draws from many geoscience data modelling efforts to establish a common suite of feature types to represent information associated with geologic maps (materials, structures, and geologic units) and observations including structure data, samples, and chemical analyses. After extensive testing and use case analysis, in December 2008 the CGI Interoperability Working Group (IWG) released GeoSciML 2.0 as an application schema for basic geological information. GeoSciML 2.0 is in use to deliver geologic data by the OneGeology Europe portal, the Geological Survey of Canada Groundwater Information Network (wet GIN), and the Auscope Mineral Resources portal. GeoSciML to version 3.0 is updated to OGC Geography Markup Language v3.2, re-engineered patterns for association of element values with controlled vocabulary concepts, incorporation of ISO19156 Observation and Measurement constructs for representing numeric and categorical values and for representing analytical data, incorporation of EarthResourceML to represent mineral occurrences and mines, incorporation of the GeoTime model to represent GSSP and stratigraphic time scale, and refactoring of the GeoSciML namespace to follow emerging ISO practices for decoupling of dependencies between standardized namespaces. These changes will make it easier for data providers to link to standard vocabulary and registry services. The depth and breadth of GeoSciML remains largely unchanged, covering the representation of geologic units, earth materials and geologic structures. ISO19156 elements and patterns are used to represent sampling features such as boreholes and rock samples, as well as geochemical and geochronologic measurements. Geologic structures include shear displacement structures (brittle faults and ductile shears), contacts, folds, foliations, lineations and structures with no preferred

  9. Study Protocol of the International Spinal Cord Injury (InSCI) Community Survey

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    Gross-Hemmi, Mirja H.; Post, Marcel W. M.; Ehrmann, Cristina; Fekete, Christine; Hasnan, Nazirah; Middleton, James W.; Reinhardt, Jan D.; Strom, Vegard; Stucki, Gerold

    Objective: The Learning Health System for Spinal Cord Injury (LHS-SCI) is an initiative embedded in the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Global Disability Plan and requires the statistical collection of data on the lived experience of persons with SCI to consequently formulate recommendations and

  10. Current status of SCI and SCIE publications in the field of radiation oncology in Korea

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    Kang, Jin Oh

    2007-01-01

    To investigate current status of SCI (Science Citation Index) and SCI Expanded publication of Korean radiation oncologists. Published SCI and SCIE articles the conditions of first author's address as 'Korea' and 'Radiation Oncology' or 'Therapeutic Radiology' were searched from Pubmed database. From 1990 to 2006, 146 SCI articles and 32 SCIE articles were published. Most frequently published journal was international Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, where 56 articles were found. Articles with 30 or more citations were only five and 10 or more citations were 26. Yonsei University, which had 57 published articles, was the top among 19 affiliations which had one or more SCI and SCIE articles. Authors with five or more articles were 9 and Seong J. of Yonsei University was the top with 19 articles. The investigations showed disappointing results. The members of Korean Society of Radiation Oncologists must consider a strategy to increase SCI and SCIE publications

  11. Targeting Translational Successes through CANSORT-SCI: Using Pet Dogs To Identify Effective Treatments for Spinal Cord Injury.

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    Moore, Sarah A; Granger, Nicolas; Olby, Natasha J; Spitzbarth, Ingo; Jeffery, Nick D; Tipold, Andrea; Nout-Lomas, Yvette S; da Costa, Ronaldo C; Stein, Veronika M; Noble-Haeusslein, Linda J; Blight, Andrew R; Grossman, Robert G; Basso, D Michele; Levine, Jonathan M

    2017-06-15

    Translation of therapeutic interventions for spinal cord injury (SCI) from laboratory to clinic has been historically challenging, highlighting the need for robust models of injury that more closely mirror the human condition. The high prevalence of acute, naturally occurring SCI in pet dogs provides a unique opportunity to evaluate expeditiously promising interventions in a population of animals that receive diagnoses and treatment clinically in a manner similar to persons with SCI, while adhering to National Institutes of Health guidelines for scientific rigor and transparent reporting. In addition, pet dogs with chronic paralysis are often maintained long-term by their owners, offering a similarly unique population for study of chronic SCI. Despite this, only a small number of studies have used the clinical dog model of SCI. The Canine Spinal Cord Injury Consortium (CANSORT-SCI) was recently established by a group of veterinarians and basic science researchers to promote the value of the canine clinical model of SCI. The CANSORT-SCI group held an inaugural meeting November 20 and 21, 2015 to evaluate opportunities and challenges to the use of pet dogs in SCI research. Key challenges identified included lack of familiarity with the model among nonveterinary scientists and questions about how and where in the translational process the canine clinical model would be most valuable. In light of these, we review the natural history, outcome, and available assessment tools associated with canine clinical SCI with emphasis on their relevance to human SCI and the translational process.

  12. Detector de fraude académico

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    Aranda de Miguel, Jorge

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    RESUMEN: En la actualidad, el fraude académico constituye un serio problema para toda la comunidad universitaria. Herramientas de detección automatizadas pueden ser de gran utilidad para los docentes a la hora de detectar estos casos. El objeto de estudio de este proyecto es tratar de conocer la mejor manera de resolver el problema de la detección del plagio, así como conocer y explicar las diversas técnicas conocidas que existen para analizar el lenguaje humano y lenguajes de programación...

  13. Relación entre el rendimiento académico y el autorreporte del funcionamiento ejecutivo de adolescentes ecuatorianos

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    Carlos Ramos-Galarza

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    Full Text Available En el artículo se reporta una investigación que analizó la relación entre las funciones ejecutivas y el rendimiento académico de 250 estudiantes secundarios de Quito, Ecuador. Las mediciones utilizadas consistieron en la escala para evaluar funciones ejecutivas (Efeco en el formato de autorreporte y el rendimiento académico del último año lectivo de los estudiantes. Se realizaron dos análisis: el primero de correlación sugiere que las funciones ejecutivas flexibilidad cognitiva (r = -0,18, p < 0,01, organización de materiales (r = -0,15, p < 0,01, monitorización (r = -0,22, p < 0,01, iniciativa (r = -0,24, p < 0,01, memoria de trabajo (r = -0,28, p < 0,01 y planificación (r = -0,25, p < 0,01 presentan una relación significativa e inversamente proporcional con el rendimiento académico (a mayor déficit en las funciones ejecutivas, menor rendimiento académico; el segundo análisis, basado en regresión múltiple, consideró a las funciones ejecutivas factores predictores del rendimiento académico, encontrándose una asociación estadísticamente significativa para el modelo testeado F(6,241 = 4,96, p < 0,001. El porcentaje de varianza que las funciones ejecutivas explican del rendimiento académico (r2 = 0,11 tiene relación con intervenciones realizadas previamente e invita a investigación futura en la que se realice un entrenamiento de las funciones ejecutivas para mejorar el rendimiento académico.

  14. Useful Method To Optimize The Rehabilitation Effort At A SCI Rehabilitation Centre

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    Steensgaard, Randi; Dahl Hoffmann, Dorte

    “Useful Method To Optimize The Rehabilitation Effort At A SCI Rehabilitation Centre” The Nordic Spinal Cord Society (NoSCoS) Meeting, Trondheim......“Useful Method To Optimize The Rehabilitation Effort At A SCI Rehabilitation Centre” The Nordic Spinal Cord Society (NoSCoS) Meeting, Trondheim...

  15. SciServer: An Online Collaborative Environment for Big Data in Research and Education

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    Raddick, Jordan; Souter, Barbara; Lemson, Gerard; Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr

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    For the past year, SciServer Compute (http://compute.sciserver.org) has offered access to big data resources running within server-side Docker containers. Compute has allowed thousands of researchers to bring advanced analysis to big datasets like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and others, while keeping the analysis close to the data for better performance and easier read/write access. SciServer Compute is just one part of the SciServer system being developed at Johns Hopkins University, which provides an easy-to-use collaborative research environment for astronomy and many other sciences.SciServer enables these collaborative research strategies using Jupyter notebooks, in which users can write their own Python and R scripts and execute them on the same server as the data. We have written special-purpose libraries for querying, reading, and writing data. Intermediate results can be stored in large scratch space (hundreds of TBs) and analyzed directly from within Python or R with state-of-the-art visualization and machine learning libraries. Users can store science-ready results in their permanent allocation on SciDrive, a Dropbox-like system for sharing and publishing files.SciServer Compute’s virtual research environment has grown with the addition of task management and access control functions, allowing collaborators to share both data and analysis scripts securely across the world. These features also open up new possibilities for education, allowing instructors to share datasets with students and students to write analysis scripts to share with their instructors. We are leveraging these features into a new system called “SciServer Courseware,” which will allow instructors to share assignments with their students, allowing students to engage with big data in new ways.SciServer has also expanded to include more datasets beyond the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. A part of that growth has been the addition of the SkyQuery component, which allows for simple, fast

  16. Absolutely continuous spectrum and spectral transition for some ...

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    Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Math. Sci.) Vol. 122, No. 2, May 2012, pp. 243–255. c Indian ... we also know the existence of dense pure point spectrum for some disorder thus exhibit- ing spectral .... When β varies from 1 to 0, the growth behaviour of N(R) changes from ...... Student Texts 37 (Cambridge University Press) (1997).

  17. Rasgos de personalidad y éxito académico en estudiantes de Medicina en Guatemala

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    Full Text Available El rendimiento académico es explicado por la combinación de diversos factores: institucionales, personales y sociales. Indagando entre los factores personales, se realizó un estudio transversal buscando asociación entre los rasgos de personalidad, detectados mediante el Inventario Multifásico de la Personalidad de Minnesota (MMPI, con el éxito académico en estudiantes de primer ingreso de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de la USAC cohorte 2010 (n = 433. La muestra se dividió en dos grupos: de éxito (n = 188 y de no éxito (n = 245 y se relacionaron las10 escalas clínicas o rasgos de personalidad con el éxito académico definido como la aprobación de las ocho unidades didácticas de primer año de la carrera. Los resultados demostraron que existe asociación entre el rasgo desviación psicopática y el éxito académico (OR 1.87 p = .040. La investigación evidenció además que solo el 29.8% de los estudiantes presentó un perfil de personalidad normal y el 36% de la muestra tenía elevados dos o más rasgos patológicos de personalidad. Se concluye que el rasgo de personalidad, desviación psicopática, es el único que se asoció a éxito académico en estudiantes de primer ingreso de Medicina.

  18. Cómo citar la bibliografía en los trabajos académicos

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    Navarro Laboulais, Cristina Teresa

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    Breu guia d'estil de bibliografia basada en al Manual d'estil de Chicago. Mitjançant exemples es fan indicacions sobre com referenciar diferents tipus de documents: llibres, articles de revista, treballs acadèmics, pàgines web, pel·lícules, tuits, posts de Facebook, etc. Breve guía de estilo de bibliografía basada en el Manual de estilo de Chicago. Mediante ejemplos se dan indicaciones sobre cómo referenciar diferentes tipos de documentos: libros, artículos de revista, trabajos académicos,...

  19. Desarrollo de sistema de gestión académica de centro preuniversitario

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    Castañeda Alegría, Sergio Alfredo; Castañeda Alegría, Sergio Alfredo

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    El presente informe tiene como fin desarrollar e implementar un modelo de software basado en plataforma web, tomando como caso de estudio los procesos de coordinación de la gestión académica del Centro Preuniversitario de la UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA DE LAS AMÉRICAS (UPLA), con lo que se busca informatizar los procesos académicos y administrativos de dicha coordinación. El Centro Preuniversitario de la UPLA, por ser parte de una institución educativa, necesita automatizar sus procesos de gestión...

  20. Not just quantity: gluteus maximus muscle characteristics in able-bodied and SCI individuals--implications for tissue viability.

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    Wu, Gary A; Bogie, Kath M

    2013-08-01

    Some individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) remain pressure ulcer (PU) free whilst others experience a recurring cycle of tissue breakdown. Detailed analysis of gluteal muscle characteristics may provide insights to local tissue viability variability. The study hypothesis was that SCI individuals have altered muscle composition compared to able-bodied (AB). Ten AB and ten SCI received a supine pelvic CT scan, with contrast. Cross-sectional area (CSA) and overall muscle volume were derived using image analysis. Gluteal muscle tissue type was classified at the S2/S3 sacral vertebrae midpoint, the superior greater trochanters margin (GT) and the inferior ischial tuberosities margin (IT) using the linear transformation Hounsfield Unit scale. SCI gluteal CSA was less than for AB throughout the muscle, with the greatest relative atrophy at the IT (48%). Average AB gluteal volume was nearly double SCI. Eight SCI had over 20% infiltrative adipose tissue, three with over 50%. SCI gluteal CSA and intramuscular fat infiltration were significantly negatively correlated (p SCI IT axial slices showed less lean muscle and higher intramuscular fat infiltration than more proximally (p SCI gluteal muscle characteristics were indicative of impaired tissue viability. SCI disuse muscle atrophy was anticipated; the analytic approach further indicated that intramuscular atrophy was not uniform. SCI muscle composition showed increased proportions of both low density muscle and adipose tissue. CT scan with contrast is effective for gluteal muscle characterization. This assessment technique may contribute to determination of personalized risk for PU development and other secondary complications. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

  1. Detection of Abnormal Muscle Activations during Walking Following Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)

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    Wang, Ping; Low, K. H.; McGregor, Alison H.; Tow, Adela

    2013-01-01

    In order to identify optimal rehabilitation strategies for spinal cord injury (SCI) participants, assessment of impaired walking is required to detect, monitor and quantify movement disorders. In the proposed assessment, ten healthy and seven SCI participants were recruited to perform an over-ground walking test at slow walking speeds. SCI…

  2. Autorregulación y rendimiento académico en la transición secundaria-universidad

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    María Antonieta Elvira-Valdés

    2012-01-01

    sociodemográficas en estudiantes universitarios. En esta investigación no experimental de campo participaron 172 estudiantes del Ciclo de Iniciación Universitaria de la Universidad Simón Bolívar. La autorregulación se midió mediante la Escala de Aprendizaje Autorregulado PCR (Lezama, 2005. Los resultados obtenidos sugieren niveles moderados de autorregulación en el aprendizaje, así como ligeras diferencias en cuanto al género, tipo de institución y ligera significancia entre reflexión autorregulatoria y rendimiento académico. Así mismo, las correlaciones positivas encontradas entre puntaje de ingreso e índice académico final, sugieren la asociación del rendimiento previo en el éxito académico en función de las notas.

  3. GeoSciGraph: An Ontological Framework for EarthCube Semantic Infrastructure

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    Gupta, A.; Schachne, A.; Condit, C.; Valentine, D.; Richard, S.; Zaslavsky, I.

    2015-12-01

    The CINERGI (Community Inventory of EarthCube Resources for Geosciences Interoperability) project compiles an inventory of a wide variety of earth science resources including documents, catalogs, vocabularies, data models, data services, process models, information repositories, domain-specific ontologies etc. developed by research groups and data practitioners. We have developed a multidisciplinary semantic framework called GeoSciGraph semantic ingration of earth science resources. An integrated ontology is constructed with Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) as its upper ontology and currently ingests multiple component ontologies including the SWEET ontology, GeoSciML's lithology ontology, Tematres controlled vocabulary server, GeoNames, GCMD vocabularies on equipment, platforms and institutions, software ontology, CUAHSI hydrology vocabulary, the environmental ontology (ENVO) and several more. These ontologies are connected through bridging axioms; GeoSciGraph identifies lexically close terms and creates equivalence class or subclass relationships between them after human verification. GeoSciGraph allows a community to create community-specific customizations of the integrated ontology. GeoSciGraph uses the Neo4J,a graph database that can hold several billion concepts and relationships. GeoSciGraph provides a number of REST services that can be called by other software modules like the CINERGI information augmentation pipeline. 1) Vocabulary services are used to find exact and approximate terms, term categories (community-provided clusters of terms e.g., measurement-related terms or environmental material related terms), synonyms, term definitions and annotations. 2) Lexical services are used for text parsing to find entities, which can then be included into the ontology by a domain expert. 3) Graph services provide the ability to perform traversal centric operations e.g., finding paths and neighborhoods which can be used to perform ontological operations like

  4. Académico Alberto Amarís Mora

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    Fernando Sánchez-Torres

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    Full Text Available Fragmento Con gran pesadumbre cumplo el encargo de escribir esta nota necrológica, pues el personaje de quien debo ocuparme, Alberto Amarís Mora, dejó indeleble su impronta en mi recuerdo. Por eso, además de registrar su desaparición en estas páginas, quiero rendirle un homenaje póstumo de admiración y de afectuosa gratitud. Conocí al académico Amarís Mora hace sesenta años, cuando él era médico interno titular de la Clínica Obstétrica en el Instituto Materno Infantil y yo estudiante interno rotatorio de dicha asignatura en la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Ni él ni yo imaginábamos que con el paso del tiempo iríamos a compartir juntos dificultades y satisfacciones académicas y administrativas. En efecto, más adelante nos encontraríamos desempeñando ambos funciones profesorales, él como catedrático de Pediatría y yo de Obstetricia, disciplinas muy afines, que obligaban a trabajar de consuno.

  5. Intercâmbio acadêmico cultural internacional: uma experiência de crescimento pessoal e científico

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    Indiara Sartori Dalmolin

    2013-06-01

    Full Text Available Este estudo objetivou descrever a experiência discente ao integrar um programa de mobilidade acadêmica internacional, durante a graduação em enfermagem. Trata-se de relato da vivência acadêmica em Portugal, na Universidade do Algarve, viabilizada pela Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. A experiência de intercâmbio realizada no período de seis meses, possibilitou a aquisição de novos conhecimentos científicos e culturais, inclusive inovações de tecnologias em saúde, desenvolvimento de pesquisa e vínculos acadêmicos. Como contribuições, espera-se estimular e intensificar a mobilidade internacional especialmente no âmbito da graduação, considerando a sua importância para o aperfeiçoamento da formação acadêmica e a excelência do ensino superior brasileiro por meio do intercâmbio científico e cultural no exterior.

  6. Mirroring of fibre ends for the LHCb SciFi project

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    Joram, Christian

    2014-01-01

    The relatively low light yields for tracks close to the midplane (y=0) of the SciFi tracker, in particular after radiation damage due to ionizing radiation, suggests to mirror the fibre ends. This note describes a set of tests and measurements in order to establish a viable mirror technology which combines high reflectivity with simplicity and low cost. The following technologies were evaluated: Aluminized Mylar film glued to the fibre ends, 3M Enhanced Specular Reflectance film glued to the fibre ends, Thin Film Aluminium vacuum coated on the fibre ends. The tests show that Aluminized Mylar film is a viable solution fulfilling all SciFi requirements. ESR film leads potentially to a higher reflectivity but its usability when glued to fibre ends could not (yet) be demonstrated. The Thin Film Aluminium coating disqualifies for reasons of cost and complexity without any performance gain. This report is meant as backup document for the LHCb SciFi TDR document to be submitted in February 2014.

  7. A Leitura e o Consumo de Literatura Não Acadêmica e o Profissional de Comunicação em Formação: Um Estudo Entre os Acadêmicos de Comunicação da Univali

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    Bruna Michelin Pinto

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    Full Text Available O presente estudo teve como objetivo conhecer os hábitos de consumo e leitura não acadêmica presentes entre os alunos de Comunicação Social da Univali – SC, bem como o comportamento de compra e as influências recebidas no processo de compra. Para isso realizou-se uma pesquisa quantitativa descritiva, de procedimento survey. A amostra de 143 acadêmicos foi estratificada em dois grupos - iniciantes e concluintes. Os resultados indicaram que há limitado interesse na leitura entre os acadêmicos e a comunicação de marketing possui baixo nível de impacto em suas decisões de compra.

  8. Habilidades académicas en estudiantes de nuevo ingreso a la Universidad del Zulia

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    Mariana Fernández Reina

    2015-01-01

    Full Text Available Al inicio de su carrera universitaria algunos jóvenes demuestran no poseer las habilidades académicas necesarias para alcanzar la culminación de sus estudios. Esta investigación se enfoca en diagnosticar las habilidades académicas de los estudiantes cuando ingresan a la universidad. Se plantea una investigación descriptiva, con un diseño transeccional, univariable, de campo, no experimental. La población de estudio estuvo conformada por 940 estudiantes que ingresaron al Núcleo Costa Oriental del Lago de la Universidad del Zulia en las carreras de Ingeniería, Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, y Educación, para el primer período de 2012. La muestra seleccionada fue no probabilística, conformada por 179 estudiantes. El instrumento empleado para la recolección de datos fue la escala de habilidades académicas en estudiantes universitarios, compuesta por 40 reactivos, tipo Likert, la cual alcanzó una confiabilidad alfa de Cronbach de 0,86. Según los resultados los estudiantes de nuevo ingreso poseen un nivel bajo de habilidades académicas (organización; empleo de técnicas; motivación, lo cual no les permite abordar con éxito los retos de la vida universitaria. Se sugiere reforzar las mismas a través de la práctica.

  9. Los servicios móviles de información en el marco de la biblioteca académica

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    Eder Ávila Barrientos

    2015-01-01

    Full Text Available El objetivo de este artículo de revisión bibliográfica es analizar la integración de los servicios móviles de información en las bibliotecas académicas, para esclarecer los elementos teóricos y metodológicos inmersos en la generación de servicios bibliotecarios de información innovadores. Los servicios móviles de información en las bibliotecas académicas son utilizados por las diversas comunidades de usuarios que se presentan en este tipo de bibliotecas. Los dispositivos móviles hacen posible la consulta remota de recursos digitales de información mediante la utilización de aplicaciones móviles generadas o adaptadas por y para las bibliotecas académicas. Este fenómeno ha provocado la aparición de la biblioteca académica inteligente, caracterizada por la innovación tecnológica de sus procesos y el uso de tecnologías móviles para el apoyo de las actividades académicas y de investigación en las universidades.

  10. Procrastinação académica a Matemática em alunos de Maputo: Estudos com adolescentes

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    Fulano, Celso Simão

    2017-01-01

    Tese de Doutoramento em Psicologia Aplicada A presente tese pretende contribuir para a literatura no domínio da procrastinação académica, analisando algumas variáveis que ajudam a explicar a procrastinação académica em matemática. Pretendemos explorar a perspetiva dos adolescentes moçambicanos em aspetos tais como: tarefas nas quais os alunos procrastinam com frequência, os antecedentes da procrastinação e as consequências da procrastinação académica percebidas pelos alunos. Al...

  11. Contributions of Small-Scale Community-Owned Infrastructure (SCI ...

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    Contributions of Small-Scale Community-Owned Infrastructure (SCI) and Asset ... Descriptive analysis was employed to explain access to productive rural ... for asset maintenance and replacement; support targeted value chains given the ...

  12. El plagio académico: formar en competencias y buenas prácticas universitarias

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    Alfaro Torres, Paloma; Juan Juárez, Teresa de

    2014-01-01

    El plagio académico es una práctica demasiado frecuente entre los estudiantes universitarios ya que las nuevas tecnologías, y en especial, Internet permiten realizarlo con facilidad. Se analiza el concepto de plagio desde diversos puntos de vista y se profundiza en las competencias informacionales del uso ético y legal de la información que debe ser acometido desde diversos frentes para inculcar la honestidad académica en la enseñanza superior

  13. Emotional Intelligence in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI).

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    Saberi, Hooshang; Ghajarzadeh, Mahsa

    2017-05-01

    Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) is a devastating situation. Spinal Cord Injury affects functional, psychological and socioeconomic aspects of patients' lives. The ability to accomplish and explicate the one's own and other's feelings and emotions to spread over appropriate information for confirming thoughts and actions is defined as emotional intelligence (EI). The goal of this study was to evaluate depression and EI in SCI patients in comparison with healthy subjects. One-hundred-ten patients with SCI and 80 healthy subjects between Aug 2014 and Aug 2015 were enrolled. The study was conducted in Imam Hospital, Tehran, Iran. All participants were asked to fill valid and reliable Persian version Emotional Quotient inventory (EQ-i) and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). All data were analyzed using SPSS. Data were presented as Mean±SD for continuous or frequencies for categorical variables. Continuous variables compared by means of independent sample t -test. P -values less than 0.05 were considered as significant. Mean age of patients was 28.7 and mean age of controls was 30.2 yr. Spinal cord injury in 20 (18.3%) were at cervical level, in 83 (75.4%) were thoracic and in 7 (6.3%) were lumbar. Mean values of independence, stress tolerance, self-actualization, emotional Self-Awareness, reality testing, Impulse Control, flexibility, responsibility, and assertiveness were significantly different between cases and controls. Mean values of stress tolerance, optimism, self-regard, and responsibility were significantly different between three groups with different injury level. Most scales were not significantly different between male and female cases. Emotional intelligence should be considered in SCI cases as their physical and psychological health is affected by their illness.

  14. Spinal Cord Injury Clinical Registries: Improving Care across the SCI Care Continuum by Identifying Knowledge Gaps.

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    Dvorak, Marcel F; Cheng, Christiana L; Fallah, Nader; Santos, Argelio; Atkins, Derek; Humphreys, Suzanne; Rivers, Carly S; White, Barry A B; Ho, Chester; Ahn, Henry; Kwon, Brian K; Christie, Sean; Noonan, Vanessa K

    2017-10-15

    Timely access and ongoing delivery of care and therapeutic interventions is needed to maximize recovery and function after traumatic spinal cord injury (tSCI). To ensure these decisions are evidence-based, access to consistent, reliable, and valid sources of clinical data is required. The Access to Care and Timing Model used data from the Rick Hansen SCI Registry (RHSCIR) to generate a simulation of healthcare delivery for persons after tSCI and to test scenarios aimed at improving outcomes and reducing the economic burden of SCI. Through model development, we identified knowledge gaps and challenges in the literature and current health outcomes data collection throughout the continuum of SCI care. The objectives of this article were to describe these gaps and to provide recommendations for bridging them. Accurate information on injury severity after tSCI was hindered by difficulties in conducting neurological assessments and classifications of SCI (e.g., timing), variations in reporting, and the lack of a validated SCI-specific measure of associated injuries. There was also limited availability of reliable data on patient factors such as multi-morbidity and patient-reported measures. Knowledge gaps related to structures (e.g., protocols) and processes (e.g., costs) at each phase of care have prevented comprehensive evaluation of system performance. Addressing these knowledge gaps will enhance comparative and cost-effectiveness evaluations to inform decision-making and standards of care. Recommendations to do so were: standardize data element collection and facilitate database linkages, validate and adopt more outcome measures for SCI, and increase opportunities for collaborations with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds.

  15. Treatment of Neuropathic Pain after SCI with a Catalytic Oxidoreductant

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    2015-10-01

    application. Briefly for induction of SCI in the rat, male Sprague-Dawley rats (250-275g) were anesthetized with inhaled isoflurane and body temperature was...cord have been extracted, fixed, and subsequently cryo - sectioned. Task 8: At 24, 48 hours, or 7 days post-SCI, exsanguinate a subset of the...model this MnP affords whole brain radioprotection [10, 11]. MnTnBuOE-2-PyP5+ [10]10] and MnTnHex-2-PyP5+ [3] acted as radio- and chemo-sensitizors in

  16. Modeling of biodiesel production in algae cultivation with anaerobic digestion (ACAD)

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    Morken, John [Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB), PO Box 5003, Drøbakveien 31, Aas, N-1432 (Norway); Sapci, Zehra [Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB), PO Box 5003, Drøbakveien 31, Aas, N-1432 (Norway); Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Bitlis Eren University, 13000 Bitlis (Turkey); Strømme, Jon Eivind T. [Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB), PO Box 5003, Drøbakveien 31, Aas, N-1432 (Norway)

    2013-09-01

    This study presents a model of an ecotechnology that combines algae cultivation with anaerobic digestion in order to recycle nutrients and to reduce the need for external energy. The concept is to convert organic waste into several products, such as electricity, biodiesel and organic fertilizer. It is labeled as the ACAD biorefinery. The simulation model of the ACAD biorefinery proved itself to be a powerful tool for understanding the symbioses and dynamics of the system, and therefore also a good tool for reaching political decisions. The model shows that the ACAD biorefinery could be totally independent of external energy supplies. Energy calculations indicate that more energy can be produced by combining the algae cultivation and anaerobic digestion processes. For every unit of energy entering the system in feedstock, 0.6 units of energy are exported as either biodiesel or electricity. The exported electricity accounts for approximately 30% of the total exported energy, while the remaining 70% is exported as biodiesel. By producing its own energy, the biorefinery improves its renewability and level of carbon neutrality. - Highlights: • The model combines algae cultivation with anaerobic digestion. • In the model nutrients and carbon dioxide are recycled. • Organic waste is converted into electrical power, biodiesel and organic fertilizer. • Results showed that more energy can be produced by combining the processes.

  17. Modeling of biodiesel production in algae cultivation with anaerobic digestion (ACAD)

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    Morken, John; Sapci, Zehra; Strømme, Jon Eivind T.

    2013-01-01

    This study presents a model of an ecotechnology that combines algae cultivation with anaerobic digestion in order to recycle nutrients and to reduce the need for external energy. The concept is to convert organic waste into several products, such as electricity, biodiesel and organic fertilizer. It is labeled as the ACAD biorefinery. The simulation model of the ACAD biorefinery proved itself to be a powerful tool for understanding the symbioses and dynamics of the system, and therefore also a good tool for reaching political decisions. The model shows that the ACAD biorefinery could be totally independent of external energy supplies. Energy calculations indicate that more energy can be produced by combining the algae cultivation and anaerobic digestion processes. For every unit of energy entering the system in feedstock, 0.6 units of energy are exported as either biodiesel or electricity. The exported electricity accounts for approximately 30% of the total exported energy, while the remaining 70% is exported as biodiesel. By producing its own energy, the biorefinery improves its renewability and level of carbon neutrality. - Highlights: • The model combines algae cultivation with anaerobic digestion. • In the model nutrients and carbon dioxide are recycled. • Organic waste is converted into electrical power, biodiesel and organic fertilizer. • Results showed that more energy can be produced by combining the processes

  18. 5. Neuromarketing: uma nova disciplina acadêmica?

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    Eric David Cohen

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    Full Text Available Através da aplicação de técnicas neurocientíficas, o Neuromarketing busca entender como ocorrem os processos de decisão de compra. Verifica-se que há um grande movimento em torno do Neuromarketing no ambiente empresarial, apontando que o desenvolvimento desta nova área de conhecimento, bem como a sua possível autonomia, estão em desenvolvimento. Por meio de um estudo exploratório, mapeou-se a construção deste campo de conhecimento no tempo, levando à formação de uma possível nova disciplina científica e acadêmica, assim como verificar a sua origem interdisciplinar. Ademais, apresenta-se a construção de um mapa a partir de dados secundários, de modo a demonstrar a percepção da história e das contribuições potenciais do Neuromarketing, a partir de uma análise da produção científica na área. A partir de um conjunto de dados levantados, conclui-se que existe uma dinâmica de construção do Neuromarketing em torno dos diferentes atores na academia e nos negócios, levando à formulação de hipóteses quanto à maturidade desta nova disciplina acadêmica.

  19. Lifetime exercise intolerance with lactic acidosis as key manifestation of novel compound heterozygous ACAD9 mutations causing complex I deficiency.

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    Schrank, Bertold; Schoser, Benedikt; Klopstock, Thomas; Schneiderat, Peter; Horvath, Rita; Abicht, Angela; Holinski-Feder, Elke; Augustis, Sarunas

    2017-05-01

    We report a 36-year-old female having lifetime exercise intolerance and lactic acidosis with nausea associated with novel compound heterozygous Acyl-CoA dehydrogenase 9 gene (ACAD9) mutations (p.Ala390Thr and p.Arg518Cys). ACAD9 is an assembly factor for the mitochondrial respiratory chain complex I. ACAD9 mutations are recognized as frequent causes of complex I deficiency. Our patient presented with exercise intolerance, rapid fatigue, and nausea since early childhood. Mild physical workload provoked the occurrence of nausea and vomiting repeatedly. Her neurological examination, laboratory findings and muscle biopsy demonstrated no abnormalities. A bicycle spiroergometry provoked significant lactic acidosis during and following exercise pointing towards a mitochondrial disorder. Subsequently, the analysis of respiratory chain enzyme activities in muscle revealed severe isolated complex I deficiency. Candidate gene sequencing revealed two novel heterozygous ACAD9 mutations. This patient report expands the mutational and phenotypic spectrum of diseases associated with mutations in ACAD9. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

  20. Factores que favorecen el desarrollo de una actitud positiva hacia las actividades académicas

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    María Luisa Naranjo Pereira

    2010-01-01

    Full Text Available Este artículo presenta una investigación de tipo descriptivo, cuyo objetivo es analizar los factores personales que favorecen el desarrollo de una actitud positiva hacia las actividades académicas, de acuerdo con la opinión de dos grupos de estudiantes de décimo año. Ella está constituida por un constructo principal: la actitud positiva hacia las actividades académicas, y un subconstructo: los factores personales que favorecen esas actitudes. Los aspectos que integran este subconstructo son la autoestima positiva, la motivación, la comunicación asertiva y el manejo del estrés. La introducción y el referente teórico evidencian la relación que existe entre estos factores, las actitudes hacia el aprendizaje y los logros académicos de la población estudiantil. De acuerdo con los resultados obtenidos, se concluye que la población estudiantil concede importancia tanto a factores internos como externos relacionados con la motivación, y los percibe como significativos para el desarrollo de actitudes positivas hacia las actividades académicas. De igual forma sucede con el hecho de poseer una autoestima positiva, saber comunicarse asertivamente y poder manejar el estrés de forma adecuada. Se recomienda, por lo tanto, que las instituciones educativas presten especial atención al desarrollo socio-emocional del estudiantado, mediante la realización de programas que favorezcan el logro de su motivación académica, un mejoramiento de su autoestima, la habilidad para comunicarse asertivamente y el afrontamiento apropiado del estrés.

  1. Pressure Relief Behaviors and Weight-Shifting Activities to Prevent Pressure Ulcers in Persons with SCI

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    2014-10-01

    SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 14. ABSTRACT Pressure ulcers (PU) are the most costly secondary complication following an SCI. In addition to the medical costs ...Introduction Pressure ulcers (PU) are the most costly secondary complication following an SCI. In addition to the medical costs , the development of a...Prevent Pressure Ulcers in Persons with SCI PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Stephen Sprigle, PhD CONTRACTING ORGANIZATION: Georgia Tech Research

  2. People Interview: Using sci-fi to promote physics

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    2009-07-01

    INTERVIEW Using sci-fi to promote physics Robert Flack, a research fellow at University College London, talks to David Smith about science writing and the consequences for physicists of books like Angels and Demons.

  3. Le Carbonifère du Maroc central : les formations de Migoumess, de Tirhela et d'Idmarrach. Lithologie, biostratigraphie et conséquences géodynamiquesThe Carboniferous formations of Migoumess, Tirhela and Idmarrach (central Morocco): lithology, biostratigraphy and geodynamic consequences

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    Berkhli, Mostafa; Vachard, Daniel

    2002-01-01

    New biostratigraphical data based on foraminifers, algae and pseudo-algae indicate that the limestone pebbles of the channelized polygenic conglomerates of the Migoumess formation contain Late Visean (V3b γ-V3c) assemblages. That confirms the Westphalian age attributed to this formation by Hollard [Zdt. Geol. Ges. 129 (1978) 495-512]. The Tournaisian age assigned to it by palynology [C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, série II 310 (1990) 1573-1576] cannot be retained. The Tirhela formation, Late Visean and Serpukhovian (E1) in age, is coeval with the Akerchi formation [Berkhli, thèse d'État, 1999; Berkhli et al., J. Afr. Earth Sci. (accepté)]. The Idmarrach formation, mapped as a thrust sheet [C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, série II 310 (1990) 1573-1576], is dated as Serpukhovian (E1) and its thrusting is consequently post-Serpukhovian. Palaeogeographic and geodynamic consequences are listed. To cite this article: M. Berkhli, D. Vachard, C. R. Geoscience 334 (2002) 67-72

  4. Scalable Earth-observation Analytics for Geoscientists: Spacetime Extensions to the Array Database SciDB

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    Appel, Marius; Lahn, Florian; Pebesma, Edzer; Buytaert, Wouter; Moulds, Simon

    2016-04-01

    Today's amount of freely available data requires scientists to spend large parts of their work on data management. This is especially true in environmental sciences when working with large remote sensing datasets, such as obtained from earth-observation satellites like the Sentinel fleet. Many frameworks like SpatialHadoop or Apache Spark address the scalability but target programmers rather than data analysts, and are not dedicated to imagery or array data. In this work, we use the open-source data management and analytics system SciDB to bring large earth-observation datasets closer to analysts. Its underlying data representation as multidimensional arrays fits naturally to earth-observation datasets, distributes storage and computational load over multiple instances by multidimensional chunking, and also enables efficient time-series based analyses, which is usually difficult using file- or tile-based approaches. Existing interfaces to R and Python furthermore allow for scalable analytics with relatively little learning effort. However, interfacing SciDB and file-based earth-observation datasets that come as tiled temporal snapshots requires a lot of manual bookkeeping during ingestion, and SciDB natively only supports loading data from CSV-like and custom binary formatted files, which currently limits its practical use in earth-observation analytics. To make it easier to work with large multi-temporal datasets in SciDB, we developed software tools that enrich SciDB with earth observation metadata and allow working with commonly used file formats: (i) the SciDB extension library scidb4geo simplifies working with spatiotemporal arrays by adding relevant metadata to the database and (ii) the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) driver implementation scidb4gdal allows to ingest and export remote sensing imagery from and to a large number of file formats. Using added metadata on temporal resolution and coverage, the GDAL driver supports time-based ingestion of

  5. El Profesor Académico, Dr. Pablo Gómez Martínez.

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    Zoilo Cuéllar-Montoya

    2007-12-01

    Más adelante, en la misma Presidencia de la Academia del Profesor Pedro José Almánzar Vargas (1963 – 1965, fue promovido Gómez Martínez a la categoría de Miembro de Número(2,10 con el trabajo “Ilio-cisto-plastia con colgajo sero-muscular invertido y reconstrucción de vejigas funcionales” (2,11. En la sesión ordinaria de la Academia del día 12 de marzo de 1964, el Académico Correspondiente Gómez Martínez presentó el trabajo mencionado(2,12 y, en la sesión ordinaria del día 14 de mayo de 1964, en virtud de haber quedado vacantes las sillas de los Señores Académicos de Número Jaime Jaramillo Arango, fallecido en Bogotá, el 31 de julio de 1962(2,13, Manuel José Luque Guevara, retirado por precarias condiciones de salud(2,14, y Fernando Torres Restrepo, trasladado definitivamente a los Estados Unidos(2,15, la Academia, en votación secreta, eligió, como Miembros de Número, a los Señores Académicos Correspondientes Pablo Gómez Martínez, Alfredo Artunduaga y J. Hernando Hernández Garay(2,16...

  6. Perfil sociodemográfico de los estudiantes universitarios sin progreso académico y la relación entre el apoyo psicosocial con enfoque de resiliencia y el éxito académico en los estudiantes de primer año de universidad

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    Bueno Delgado, Georgina

    2005-01-01

    Esta investigación incluye tres fases: 1) Desarrollar un perfil sociodemográfico de los estudiantes de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras sin progreso académico y explorar las razones por las cuales obtuvieron fracaso académico. 2) Desarrollar un modelo de apoyo psicosocial dirigido a los estudiantes universitarios de primer año con el objetivo de evitar su fracaso académico. 3) Implantar este modelo a un grupo de 20 estudiantes de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de ...

  7. Procrastinación general y académica en una muestra de estudiantes de secundaria de Lima metropolitana

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    Álvarez-Blas, Óscar Ricardo; Universidad de Lima (Perú)

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    Se estudió la presencia de la procrastinación general y académica en un grupo de estudiantes de secundaria (N = 235) de ambos géneros pertenecientes a colegios no estatales de Lima metropolitana, para lo cual se utilizó la Escala de Procrastinación General y Académica (Busko, 1998). Sobre la base del análisis de los resultados se encontró que la procrastinación académica era mayor que la general, y no existían diferencias significativas según rol genérico y el grado de estudios. Se adjunta el...

  8. El perfil profesional y académico de los presidentes municipales del Estado de México, 2009-2012

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    Rafael Cedillo Delgado

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    Este artículo analiza el perfil profesional y académico de los ediles mexiquenses en el periodo 2009-2012. Con base en datos oficiales e información periodística, se compara su perfil profesional y académico por categoría de urbanización de los municipios, profesión, grado de estudios, género y pertenencia partidista. Los resultados muestran que la urbanización de los ayuntamientos y la filiación partidista no se relacionan con el grado académico. El nivel educativo es aceptable, pues dos ter...

  9. Adaptação, rendimento, evasão e vivências acadêmicas no ensino superior: revisão da literatura

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    Cristiane Maria Barra da Matta

    Full Text Available Resumo O início da vida acadêmica é um período de grandes mudanças para o estudante, que muitas vezes é tratado de forma infantilizada no ensino médio e se depara com as responsabilidades e exigências da universidade. O presente trabalho teve como objetivo revisar artigos, publicados entre 2005 e 2015, referentes à adaptação universitária relacionada às vivências acadêmicas, rendimento e evasão, no curso de Engenharia. Para tanto, foram realizadas pesquisas nas seguintes bases de dados eletrônicos: Biblioteca Virtual de Saúde (BVS, Scielo Brasil e Portal de Periódicos Eletrônicos de Psicologia (PePSIC.Utilizaram-se os descritores: adaptação acadêmica, vivências acadêmicas, rendimento acadêmico, evasão e engenharia. Foram encontrados 55 artigos, porém somente 16 atenderam os critérios de inclusão. A maioria dos artigos empíricos relacionados (66,7% utiliza o instrumento Questionário de Vivências Acadêmicas (QVA ou Questionário de Vivências Acadêmicas - versão reduzida (QVA-r. Dois deles (13,3% utilizaram esse instrumento conjuntamente com o Inventário de Habilidades Sociais e outros três (20,0% com o Questionário de caracterização dos estudantes. Conclui-se que os relacionamentos interpessoais podem favorecer o rendimento acadêmico e adiar a evasão, assim como os serviços de apoio aos estudantes; e constatou-se a escassez do tema em questão nos cursos de engenharia.

  10. Health care utilization and expenditures among Medicaid beneficiaries with neuropathic pain following spinal cord injury

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    Margolis JM

    2014-07-01

    Full Text Available Jay M Margolis,1 Paul Juneau,1 Alesia Sadosky,2 Joseph C Cappelleri,3 Thomas N Bryce,4 Edward C Nieshoff5 1Truven Health Analytics, Bethesda, MD, USA; 2Pfizer Inc., New York, NY, USA; 3Pfizer Inc., Groton, CT, USA; 4Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; 5Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA Background: The study aimed to evaluate health care resource utilization (HRU and costs for neuropathic pain (NeP secondary to spinal cord injury (SCI among Medicaid beneficiaries. Methods: The retrospective longitudinal cohort study used Medicaid beneficiary claims with SCI and evidence of NeP (SCI-NeP cohort matched with a cohort without NeP (SCI-only cohort. Patients had continuous Medicaid eligibility 6 months pre- and 12 months postindex, defined by either a diagnosis of central NeP (ICD-9-CM code 338.0x or a pharmacy claim for an NeP-related antiepileptic or antidepressant drug within 12 months following first SCI diagnosis. Demographics, clinical characteristics, HRU, and expenditures were compared between cohorts. Results: Propensity score-matched cohorts each consisted of 546 patients. Postindex percentages of patients with physician office visits, emergency department visits, SCI- and pain-related procedures, and outpatient prescription utilization were all significantly higher for SCI-NeP (P<0.001. Using regression models to account for covariates, adjusted mean expenditures were US$47,518 for SCI-NeP and US$30,150 for SCI only, yielding incremental costs of US$17,369 (95% confidence interval US$9,753 to US$26,555 for SCI-NeP. Factors significantly associated with increased cost included SCI type, trauma-related SCI, and comorbidity burden. Conclusion: Significantly higher HRU and total costs were incurred by Medicaid patients with NeP secondary to SCI compared with matched SCI-only patients. Keywords: spinal

  11. Effect of and satisfaction with www.elearnSCI.org for training of nurse students

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    Liu, N; Li, X W; Zhou, M W

    2014-01-01

    STUDY DESIGN: Interventional training session. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect and satisfaction with didactic training using printed text of a submodule of www.elearnSCI.org for nurse students and to assess the answers of each question. SETTING: A Peking University teaching hospital. METHODS......: Twenty-eight nurse students in two groups (14 in each) were involved. Only group A received a translated print-out of the slides from the 'Nursing management' submodule in www.elearnSCI.org for 1-h self-study before the class. At the beginning of class, both groups were tested using the self assessment...... presentation are effective methods for training the content of www.elearnSCI.org to nurse students. The training satisfaction of this submodule within the www.elearnSCI.org is favorable....

  12. ¿Puede amortiguar el Engagement los efectos nocivos de la Procrastinación Académica?

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    Marcela Paz González-Brignardello

    2013-06-01

    Full Text Available El propósito de este estudio es explorar la relación existente entre la Procrastinación Académica y el Engagement, así como el patrón de funcionamiento de ambas variables en entornos académicos, en relación al uso de estrategias de aprendizaje autorregulado, eficientes y deficientes, y el estado de los estudiantes previo a la realización de los exámenes. Todas las variables han sido medidas a través de cuestionarios de autoinforme, en una población de universitarios en modalidad a distancia/en línea. Asimismo, se postula un posible efecto de amortiguación o buffering del Engagement sobre los efectos nocivos de la Procrastinación Académica. Este patrón diferencial se analiza con mayor precisión mediante la consideración de tres perfiles de estudiantes, los caracterizados por Engagement puro, los caracterizados por Procrastinación Académica pura, y un perfil mixto de procrastinadores con niveles de Engagement medio-alto. Los resultados obtenidos corroboran, por un lado, las grandes diferencias existentes en la forma de afrontar los estudios entre los estudiantes engaged y los procrastinadores y, por otro, el claro efecto amortiguador del engagement sobre la Procrastinación Académica, observándose en el perfil mixto una mejora significativa de carácter positivo, tanto en el tipo de estrategias de aprendizaje autorregulado utilizadas, como en su estado previo a los exámenes.

  13. Estratégias acadêmicas e suas manifestações: o discurso e a prática

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    Haroldo Andriguetto Junior

    2011-06-01

    Full Text Available http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1983-4535.2011v4n3p126   O objetivo deste artigo é analisar as estratégias acadêmicas e sua prática, examinando a realidade de uma universidade comunitária em Santa Catarina. O estudo está fundamentado nos trabalhos de Baldridge, Cohen e March, Weick, Keller, Hardy, Langley, Mintzberg e Rose, Hardy e Fachin, Birnbaum, Mintzberg e Meyer Jr., que destacam diversos fatores que fazem das universidades organizações complexas, atípicas e com implicações em seu gerenciamento. Trata-se de um estudo de caso que teve como foco de análise estratégias acadêmicas relevantes no período de 2001-2008. Os dados foram coletados junto às seguintes fontes: dados organizacionais, observações não participantes e entrevistas com base em narrativas com cinco gestores. A análise revela a presença de estratégias acadêmicas emanadas da administração superior do tipo “guarda-chuva”. As principais estratégias acadêmicas, de natureza emergente, surgem por iniciativas individuais e de pequenos grupos com a influência de aspectos racionais, políticos e simbólicos. As mais destacadas conclusões apontam para um discurso da administração superior centrado na racionalidade da gestão, privilegiando modelos empresariais incompatíveis com a realidade complexa da universidade. Revelou-se uma gestão acadêmica amadora, incremental e promotora de iniciativas estratégicas emergentes, com resultados significativos para o desempenho dos programas acadêmicos e da instituição.

  14. Information filtering via biased heat conduction

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    Liu, Jian-Guo; Zhou, Tao; Guo, Qiang

    2011-09-01

    The process of heat conduction has recently found application in personalized recommendation [Zhou , Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA PNASA60027-842410.1073/pnas.1000488107107, 4511 (2010)], which is of high diversity but low accuracy. By decreasing the temperatures of small-degree objects, we present an improved algorithm, called biased heat conduction, which could simultaneously enhance the accuracy and diversity. Extensive experimental analyses demonstrate that the accuracy on MovieLens, Netflix, and Delicious datasets could be improved by 43.5%, 55.4% and 19.2%, respectively, compared with the standard heat conduction algorithm and also the diversity is increased or approximately unchanged. Further statistical analyses suggest that the present algorithm could simultaneously identify users' mainstream and special tastes, resulting in better performance than the standard heat conduction algorithm. This work provides a creditable way for highly efficient information filtering.

  15. Penetration of Action Potentials During Collision in the Median and Lateral Giant Axons of Invertebrates

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    Alfredo Gonzalez-Perez

    2014-09-01

    Full Text Available The collisions of two simultaneously generated impulses in the giant axons of both earthworms and lobsters propagating in orthodromic and antidromic direction are investigated. The experiments have been performed on the extracted ventral cords of Lumbricus terrestris and the abdominal ventral cord of a lobster, Homarus americanus, by using external stimulation and recording. The collision of two nerve impulses of orthodromic and antidromic propagation did not result in the annihilation of the two signals, contrary to the common notion that is based on the existence of a refractory period in the well-known Hodgkin-Huxley theory. However, the results are in agreement with the electromechanical soliton theory for nerve-pulse propagation, as suggested by Heimburg and Jackson [On Soliton Propagation in Biomembranes and Nerves, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 102, 9790 (2005.].

  16. Numerical analysis of dynamic force spectroscopy using the torsional harmonic cantilever

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    Solares, Santiago D; Hoelscher, Hendrik

    2010-01-01

    A spectral analysis method has been recently introduced by Stark et al (2002 Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 99 8473-8) and implemented by Sahin et al (2007 Nat. Nanotechnol. 2 507-14) using a T-shaped cantilever design, the torsional harmonic cantilever (THC), which is capable of performing simultaneous tapping-mode atomic force microscopy imaging and force spectroscopy. Here we report on numerical simulations of the THC system using a simple dual-mass flexural-torsional model, which is applied in combination with Fourier data processing software to illustrate the spectroscopy process for quality factors corresponding to liquid, air and vacuum environments. We also illustrate the acquisition of enhanced topographical images and deformed surface contours under the application of uniform forces, and compare the results to those obtained with a previously reported linear dual-spring-mass model.

  17. Mulher, maternidade e trabalho acadê Mujer, maternidad y trabajo académico Women, maternity and academic work

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    Márcia Regina Cangiani Fabbro

    2010-07-01

    Full Text Available Objetivo. Descrever a vivência do trabalho acadêmico e da maternidade das professoras universitárias. Metodologia. A investigação se realizou de dezembro de 2003 a dezembro de 2005 e se coletou informação das histórias de vida e das entrevistas reflexivas a cinco professoras de uma universidade pública de São Paulo (Brasil. Resultados. A análise dos dados compreendeu dois eixos: a história de cada "uma" e a história de todas "elas", que levou às categorias empíricas: maternidade, relações de gênero e trabalho acadêmico. Os resultados assinalaram que o trabalho proporciona a realização profissional, ao afirmarse como profissional e ao poder prover a manutenção da família, mas essa afirmação poderia ser secundária ao universo familiar e relacional que apóia as realizações individuais. Conclusão. A maternidade foi o elemento desencadeador de questionamentos do caráter mítico de mulher "realizada", o que levou a reflexionar sobre si mesmas, o trabalho e sua relação com os filhos e esposo.Objetivo. Describir la vivencia del trabajo académico y de la maternidad de las profesoras universitarias. Metodología. La investigación se realizó de diciembre de 2003 a diciembre de 2005 y se recolectó información de las historias de vida y de las entrevistas reflexivas a cinco profesoras de una universidad pública de São Paulo (Brasil. Resultados. El análisis de los datos comprendió dos ejes: la historia de "cada una" y la historia de "todas ellas", que llevó a las categorías empíricas: maternidad, relaciones de género y trabajo académico. Los resultados señalaron que el trabajo proporciona la realización profesional, al afirmarse como profesional y al poder proveer la manutención de la familia, pero esa afirmación podría ser secundaria al universo familiar y relacional que apoya las realizaciones individuales. Conclusión. La maternidad fue el elemento desencadenador de cuestionamientos del carácter m

  18. Factores relacionados con el rendimiento académico en alumnos de fisiopatología

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    Sanguinetti, José María; López, Raquel; Vieta, María Eugenia; Berruezo, Silvana; Chagra, Carolina

    2013-01-01

    Introducción: El rendimiento académico está relacionado con diferentes variables. Objetivos: Evaluar factores sociales, demográficos y hábitos, así como determinar su relación con el rendimiento académico. Material y métodos: Trabajo observacional, transversal, correlacional entre abril y noviembre de 2012. Se realizó una encuesta a alumnos de Fisiopatología, de la Universidad Nacional de Salta y se constató en noviembre quienes habían regularizado la asignatura. Variables estudiadas: edad, s...

  19. (Re)pensando a citação em textos acadêmico-científicos

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    Bessa, José Cezinaldo Rocha; Prof. Assistente II do Departamento de Letras, do Campus Avançado “Profª. Maria Elisa de Albuquerque Maia”, da universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, Pau dos Ferros, RN.

    2011-01-01

    Este trabalho tem como objetivo discutir sobre a citação no texto acadêmico-científico. Argumentamos em favor da necessidade de se reivindicar o citar em sua dimensão dialógica, partindo do pressuposto de que o olhar concebido pelos manuais de metodologia científica não dá conta da complexidade que recobre o citar no texto acadêmico-científico. Apoiando-nos em pressupostos teóricos do dialogismo bakhtiniano e em estudos de Maingueneau (1996, 2002), Charaudeau; Maingueneau (2004), Boch; Grossm...

  20. Culturas académicas: entre reinvención y contrabando

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    Kathya Araujo

    2015-03-01

    Full Text Available Sobre la base del análisis de una historia personal de desplazamiento entre academias (peruana y chilena, y la reinvención y el contrabando que toda migración supone, este artículo argumenta de qué manera frente a las nuevas modalidades de evaluación (los rankings, la búsqueda de isomorfismo de las estructuras argumentativas y las formas lingüísticas o incluso la ficción de sociologías globales, se mantienen vivas culturas académicas particulares. En este marco, la reflexión se organiza mostrando que detrás de la singularidad de los estilos intelectuales, formas de sociabilidad profesionales e incluso formas lingüísticas de cada una de ellas, lo que se revela es la manera como cada cultura académica local responde desde tradiciones diversas a desafíos político sociales distintos y con ello su rol de compromiso público y crítico.

  1. Increasing specialty care access through use of an innovative home telehealth-based spinal cord injury disease management protocol (SCI DMP).

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    Woo, Christine; Seton, Jacinta M; Washington, Monique; Tomlinson, Suk C; Phrasavath, Douangmala; Farrell, Karen R; Goldstein, Barry

    2016-01-01

    A spinal cord injury disease management protocol (SCI DMP) was developed to address the unique medical, physical, functional, and psychosocial needs of those living with spinal cord injuries and disorders (SCI/D). The SCI DMP was piloted to evaluate DMP clinical content and to identify issues for broader implementation across the Veterans Affairs (VA) SCI System of Care. Thirty-three patients with SCI/D from four VA SCI centers participated in a 6-month pilot. Patients received customized SCI DMP questions through a data messaging device (DMD). Nurse home telehealth care coordinators (HTCC) monitored responses and addressed clinical alerts daily. One site administered the Duke Severity of Illness (DUSOI) Checklist and Short Form-8 (SF-8™) to evaluate the changes in comorbidity severity and health-related quality of life while on the SCI DMP. Patients remained enrolled an average of 116 days, with a mean response rate of 56%. The average distance between patient's home and their VA SCI center was 59 miles. Feedback on SCI DMP content and the DMD included requests for additional clinical topics, changes in administration frequency, and adapting the DMD for functional impairments. Improvement in clinical outcomes was seen in a subset of patients enrolled on the SCI DMP. SCI HTCCs and patients reported that the program was most beneficial for newly injured patients recently discharged from acute rehabilitation that live far from specialty SCI care facilities. SCI DMP content changes and broader implementation strategies are currently being evaluated based on lessons learned from the pilot.

  2. Documentation of preventive care for pressure ulcers initiated during annual evaluations in SCI.

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    Guihan, Marylou; Murphy, Deidre; Rogers, Thea J; Parachuri, Ramadevi; Sae Richardson, Michael; Lee, Kenneth K; Bates-Jensen, Barbara M

    2016-05-01

    Community-acquired pressure ulcers (PrUs) are a frequent cause of hospitalization of Veterans with spinal cord injury (SCI). The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) recommends that SCI annual evaluations include assessment of PrU risk factors, a thorough skin inspection and sharing of recommendations for PrU prevention strategies. We characterized consistency of preventive skin care during annual evaluations for Veterans with SCI as a first step in identifying strategies to more actively promote PrU prevention care in other healthcare encounters. Retrospective cross-sectional observational design, including review of electronic medical records for 206 Veterans with SCI admitted to 2 VA SCI centers from January-December, 2011. Proportion of applicable skin health elements documented (number of applicable elements/skin health elements documented). Our sample was primarily white (78%) male (96.1%), and mean age = 61 years. 40% of participants' were hospitalized for PrU treatment, with a mean of 294 days (median = 345 days) from annual evaluation to the index admission. On average, Veterans received an average of 75.5% (IQR 68-86%) of applicable skin health elements. Documentation of applicable skin health elements was significantly higher during inpatient vs. outpatient annual evaluations (mean elements received = 80.3% and 64.3%, respectively, P > 0.001). No significant differences were observed in documentation of skin health elements by Veterans at high vs. low PrU risk. Additional PrU preventive care in the VHA outpatient setting may increase identification and detection of PrU risk factors and early PrU damage for Veterans with SCI in the community, allowing for earlier intervention.

  3. Conducta prosocial y autoatribuciones académicas en Educación Secundaria Obligatoria

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    Jesús Redondo

    2014-05-01

    Full Text Available Este estudio presenta los resultados sobre la relación que existe entre las autoatribuciones académicas en lenguaje y matemáticas en una muestra de 2.022 estudiantes de Educación Secundaria de 12 a 16 años. Los adolescentes fueron seleccionados aleatoriamente de 20 escuelas urbanas y rurales en las provincias de Alicante y Murcia, España. La conducta prosocial fue codificada con el Teenage Inventory of Social Skills y las autoatribuciones académicas fueron medidas mediante la Escala de Atribución Causal de Sydney (Sydney Attribution Scale, SAS; Marsh, 1984. El 17.35% de estudiantes de ESO fueron identificados como prosociales. Los chicos de 2º de ESO y las chicas de 4º de ESO presentaron la menor y mayor prevalencia puntual de conducta prosocial, respectivamente. Respecto a la asignatura de lenguaje, los estudiantes prosociales atribuyen significativamente el éxito a la capacidad, el esfuerzo y, en menor medida, a causas externas. En cuanto a la asignatura de matemáticas, los estudiantes prosociales atribuyeron el éxito significativamente más al esfuerzo y significativamente menos a causas externas, mientras que atribuyeron el fracaso significativamente más a la falta de esfuerzo. Además, los datos han permitido crear un modelo de regresión logística que permite hacer estimaciones correctas respecto a la probabilidad de éxito académico en matemáticas, en lenguaje y en todas las asignaturas aprobadas en estudiantes prosociales de E.S.O. a partir de las puntuaciones en atribuciones académicas.

  4. Estudio del estrés, engagement y rendimiento académico en estudiantes universitarios de Ciencias de la Salud

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    Casuso Holgado, María Jesús

    2011-01-01

    En el estudio que hemos llevado a cabo se pretende conocer el estrés académico percibido por los estudiantes universitarios así como la implicación de éstos en sus estudios (engagement académico). De igual forma, se busca analizar la posible influencia de ambos aspectos en el rendimiento académico. Finalmente se estudiarán de forma comparada estos aspectos en las distintas modalidades de enseñanza-aprendizaje que coexisten en la actualidad (titulaciones en pilotaje de EEES, titulaciones sin...

  5. A Patient with Complex I Deficiency Caused by a Novel ACAD9 Mutation Not Responding to Riboflavin Treatment

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    Nouws, Jessica; Wibrand, Flemming; van den Brand, Mariël

    2014-01-01

    fibroblasts partially rescued the complex I deficiency. Riboflavin supplementation did not ameliorate the complex I deficiency in patient fibroblasts. More than a dozen ACAD9 patients with complex I deficiency have been identified in the last 3 years, indicating that ACAD9 is important for complex I assembly...

  6. Impact of an implanted neuroprosthesis on community ambulation in incomplete SCI.

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    Lombardo, Lisa M; Kobetic, Rudolf; Pinault, Gilles; Foglyano, Kevin M; Bailey, Stephanie N; Selkirk, Stephen; Triolo, Ronald J

    2018-03-01

    Test the effect of a multi-joint control with implanted electrical stimulation on walking after spinal cord injury (SCI). Single subject research design with repeated measures. Hospital-based biomechanics laboratory and user assessment of community use. Female with C6 AIS C SCI 30 years post injury. Lower extremity muscle activation with an implanted pulse generator and gait training. Walking speed, maximum distance, oxygen consumption, upper extremity (UE) forces, kinematics and self-assessment of technology. Short distance walking speed at one-year follow up with or without stimulation was not significantly different from baseline. However, average walking speed was significantly faster (0.22 m/s) with stimulation over longer distances than volitional walking (0.12 m/s). In addition, there was a 413% increase in walking distance from 95 m volitionally to 488 m with stimulation while oxygen consumption and maximum upper extremity forces decreased by 22 and 16%, respectively. Stimulation also produced significant (P ≤ 0.001) improvements in peak hip and knee flexion, ankle angle at foot off and at mid-swing. An implanted neuroprosthesis enabled a subject with incomplete SCI to walk longer distances with improved hip and knee flexion and ankle dorsiflexion resulting in decreased oxygen consumption and UE support. Further research is required to determine the robustness, generalizability and functional implications of implanted neuroprostheses for community ambulation after incomplete SCI.

  7. Las herramientas 2.0 en la escritura académica: buscadores y diccionarios

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    Montserrat Casanovas Catalá

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    Full Text Available En este artículo se exponen algunos de los resultados de un estudio sobre el uso de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC en la escritura académica que está llevando a cabo el Grupo de Investigación en Mediación Lingü.stica (giml de la Universidad de Lleida. Dicho estudio pretende mostrar cómo se integran herramientas como los diccionarios en línea o los buscadores en el proceso de elaboración de textos académicos por parte de estudiantes universitarios.

  8. Autoestima y rendimiento académico: un estado de la cuestión

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    Rodríguez-Martín, Rosa

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    En este trabajo se hace una revisión bibliográfica profunda para explicar la relación entre autoestima y rendimiento académico en Educación Primaria. Según los autores consultados, es la familia la que inicia a los niños en la construcción de su autoestima, y más tarde la escuela, a través de la enseñanza, puede moldearla obteniendo una autoestima sana que le haga aumentar el rendimiento académico en Educación Primaria. Una autoestima positiva hará que el alumno no cese en el intento de...

  9. As ferramentas 2.0 na escritura acadêmica: buscadores e dicionários

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    Casanovas Catalá, Montserrat

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    En este artículo se exponen algunos de los resultados de un estudio sobre el uso de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) en la escritura académica que está llevando a cabo el Grupo de Investigación en Mediación Lingüística (GIML) de la Universidad de Lleida. Dicho estudio pretende mostrar cómo se integran herramientas como los diccionarios en línea o los buscadores en el proceso de elaboración de textos académicos por parte de estudiantes universitarios. This article p...

  10. El liderazgo académico, comunicación asertiva y motivación

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    Ugalde Villalobos, María Eugenia; Canales García, Alba

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    Este ensayo   destaca que el liderazgo es importante para mejorar el rendimiento académico, despertar el entusiasmo, la motivación, la comunicación asertiva   y favorecer el trabajo en equipo, el cual lo forman docentes, estudiantes y la dirección. Además, se define cómo se ejerce el liderazgo actualmente, por qué es importante,  cuál es su relación con el contexto educativo y cómo se relacionan la comunicación asertiva, la escucha y la motivación con el liderazgo académico, elementos importa...

  11. Antidepressants Are Effective in Decreasing Neuropathic Pain After SCI: A Meta-Analysis.

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    Mehta, Swati; Guy, Stacey; Lam, Tracey; Teasell, Robert; Loh, Eldon

    2015-01-01

    To systematically review and assess the effectiveness and safety of antidepressants for neuropathic pain among individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). A systematic search was conducted using multiple databases for relevant articles published from 1980 to April 2014. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) involving antidepressant treatment of neuropathic pain with ≥ 3 individuals and ≥ 50% of study population with SCI were included. Two independent reviewers selected studies based on inclusion criteria and then extracted data. Pooled analysis using Cohen's d to calculate standardized mean difference, standard error, and 95% confidence interval for primary (pain) and other secondary outcomes was conducted. Four RCTs met inclusion criteria. Of these, 2 studies assessed amitriptyline, 1 trazadone, and 1 duloxetine among individuals with neuropathic SCI pain. A small effect was seen in the effectiveness of antidepressants in decreasing pain among individuals with SCI (standardized mean difference = 0.34 ± 0.15; 95% CI, 0.05-0.62; P = .02). A number needed to treat of 3.4 for 30% or more pain relief was found by pooling 2 studies. Of these, significantly higher risk of experiencing constipation (risk ratio [RR] = 1.74; 95% CI, 1.09-2.78; P = .02) and dry mouth (RR = 1.39; 95% CI, 1.04-1.85; P = .02) was found amongst individuals receiving antidepressant treatment compared to those in the control group. The current meta-analysis demonstrates that antidepressants are effective in reducing neuropathic SCI pain. However, this should be interpreted with caution due to the limited number of studies. Further evaluation of long-term therapeutic options may be required.

  12. Implementación de la carrera académica como medio de integración del NSPT a la Universidad

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    Noemi Susana Geromini

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    Full Text Available http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1983-4535.2013v6n4p92   Con el fin de mejorar la calidad académica de su cuerpo docente, el Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado Técnico -INSPT-, como Institución de Educación Superior  no Universitaria, considera necesaria la planificación de estrategias que permitan generar espacios de pertenencia a sus docentes, que les otorguen estabilidad laboral y posibilidades de proyección, mediante el establecimiento de reglas claras e imparciales que protejan a la comunidad académica. La calidad académica se logra por medio de una clara definición de las características esperadas de los docentes y la excelencia se fomenta con procesos de evaluación continuos de todas las activida-des de la vida académica: enseñanza, investigación, extensión y gestión. La Carrera Académica, sistema que establece ingreso, permanencia y promoción de los docentes, resulta ser el recurso más adecuado para estimular la mejora continua de la tarea docente y lograr la excelencia académica, haciendo posible la integración de una institución no universitaria al sistema universitario. Mediante un exhaustivo análisis de la idiosincrasia de la comunidad educativa del INSPT, y aten-diendo a las características esperables de sus docentes, el Instituto procura adaptarse al régimen docente universitario vigente en la Universidad Tecnológica Nacional  -UTN. Para lograr este objetivo, se han analizado el Estatuto Universitario, la Ordenanza 1182 del Consejo Superior y se ha elaborado un documento que, por un lado, fundamenta la necesidad de adecuar el régimen de ingreso, permanencia y promoción docente del INSPT a la Carrera Académica de la Universidad, y por otro, propone los pasos a seguir para su implementación, con el convencimiento de que su aplicación redundará en una continua mejora de la calidad académica del Instituto. El presente trabajo tiene como objetivos, por un lado, fundamentar y describir el proceso de

  13. El plagio y su relación con los procesos de escritura académica

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    Ligia Ochoa S.

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    Full Text Available El plagio es un fenómeno que preocupa a la comunidad académica. Diversos factores explican las causas de este problema, pero uno de los más destacados se relaciona con los procesos de escritura académica. En este artículo se presentan los resultados de la investigación desarrollada sobre este factor, obtenidos a partir de entrevistas a profesores y estudiantes de la Facultad de Ciencias Humanas de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Según los docentes, el problema del plagio en la escritura se debe a la mala formación del estudiante y a los hábitos cultivados en el colegio, en donde no se enseña a citar. Los estudiantes consideran que se incurre en el plagio porque tienen problemas de escritura y porque no han recibido una formación adecuada para producir textos académicos.

  14. Ibn Tufail as a SciArtist in the Treatise of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan

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    Nadia Maftouni

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    Full Text Available Ibn Tufail as a scientist as well as an artist exposes the issues of human anatomy, autopsy, and vivisection and, thereby, could be regarded as a SciArtist. SciArt might be defined as a reciprocal relation between art and science. Followings are the kinds of these interactions: artistically-inclined scientific activities,science-minded artistic activities, and intertwined scientific and artistic activities. In their fictional treatises, Avicenna, Ibn Tufail, and Suhrawardi are traditional avatars of SciArt. This paper frames an account of SciArt, suggesting in detail Ibn Tufail’s work as a prototypical example, while Avicenna and Suhrawardi go beyond the scope of this paper. An instant of intertwined scientific and artistic activities strongly captivates the attentions to Ibn Tufail, describing human anatomy, autopsy, and vivisection in his Treatiseof Hay Ibn Yaqzan. Recognized as the first philosophical story, Hay Ibn Yaqzan depicts the whole philosophy of Ibn Tufail by the story of an autodidactic feral child a gazelle raised whom in an island in the Indian Ocean.

  15. Plagio académico en el alumnado académico de máster en la universidad de Alicante

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    Ronda-Pérez, Elena; Seguí-Crespo, Mar; Cayuela, Ana; Tauste Francés, Ana; Esteve-Faubel, José-María

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    Resulta cada vez más evidente que el plagio académico se ha convertido en un grave problema para las universidades. Tanto en la investigación como en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje se debe asegurar que la comunidad universitaria actúa con honestidad, responsabilidad, justicia y trasparencia, y el plagio va en contra de todos estos principios. Son muy escasos los estudios que el contexto universitario español han abordado este tema en alumnos de master. El objetivo de este estudio es esti...

  16. Prácticas de lectura y escritura académicas en la universidad colombiana

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    Graciela Uribe-Álvarez; Zahyra Camargo-Martínez

    2011-01-01

    Este artículo de revisión presenta el análisis de algunas prácticas de lectura y escritura académicas en la universidad colombiana, conocidas por diversos medios (bases de datos, memorias en páginas web y en cd-rom de congresos, coloquios, encuentros y seminarios). Pretende aportar a la reflexión y el diálogo académico entre profesionales de la educación, a partir de experiencias en campos problemáticos específicos. Los resultados se sustentan en el análisis de 40 trabajos de investigación (a...

  17. Nosotros los académicos. Narrativas identitarias y autodefinición en la universidad actual

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    Fardella Cisternas, Carla; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso; Sisto Campos, Vicente; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso; Jiménez Vargas, Felipe; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

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    Las transformaciones del espacio universitario a partir de los años ochenta, en Chile, revelan el ascenso de formas managerialistas de organizar la universidad y el trabajo académico. El nuevo managment, orientado por lógicas de eficiencia y mercado, promueve una cultura laboral de rendición de cuentas y, en consecuencia, una reconfiguración de las identidades académicas llamadas a adscribirse a este nuevo modelo de universidad. Este artículo presenta una investigación cualitativa realizada e...

  18. Factores asociados al fracaso académico en estudiantes universitarios de Barranquilla (Colombia

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    Katherine Contreras

    2008-01-01

    Full Text Available El fracaso académico es un problema que afrontan los estudiantes quepresentan un rendimiento académico deficiente, lo cual los lleva en pocotiempo a desertar o son expulsados del sistema educativo. Se considera que es un problema multicausal, pero para afrontarlo es necesario indagar desde los mismos estudiantes qué es lo que más los puede estar afectando.Para indagar sobre los factores asociados a este problema se llevó a cabo un estudio descriptivo con estudiantes de psicología en una universidad privada de Barranquilla (Colombia. Se entrevistó a 38 estudiantes que asistían a un programa exclusivo para aquellos con muy bajo rendimiento académico y que estaban en riesgo de salir del programa o habían sido remitidos por los profesores. Los resultados indican que los estudiantes no recibieron una orientación vocacional adecuada antes de ingresar a los estudios superiores que les permitiera analizar sus capacidades y habilidades con respecto a una carrera profesional. Además manifiestan limitaciones en sus competencias de concentración y atención, en la distribución del tiempo, en la deficiente utilización de técnicas de estudio, y en la poca asistencia a clases por la baja motivación en las actividades académicas. La relación con su familia la consideraron satisfactoria. Se observa que las acciones para reducir el fracaso deben ser emprendidas antes del ingreso a la universidad, con estrategias de estudio y afrontamiento que les brinden a los jóvenes las mejores opciones entre sus intereses y capacidades con las oportunidades que les ofrece la sociedad en la cual vivirán.

  19. Improvement in Student Science Proficiency Through InSciEd Out

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    Sonju, James D.; Leicester, Jean E.; Hoody, Maggie; LaBounty, Thomas J.; Frimannsdottir, Katrin R.; Ekker, Stephen C.

    2012-01-01

    Abstract Integrated Science Education Outreach (InSciEd Out) is a collaboration formed between Mayo Clinic, Winona State University, and Rochester Public Schools (MN) with the shared vision of achieving excellence in science education. InSciEd Out employs an equitable partnership model between scientists, teachers, education researchers, and the community. Teams of teachers from all disciplines within a single school experience cutting-edge science using the zebrafish model system, as well as current pedagogical methods, during a summer internship at the Mayo Clinic. Within the internship, the teachers produce new curriculum that directly addresses opportunities for science education improvement at their own school. Zebrafish are introduced within the new curriculum to support a living model of the practice of science. Following partnership with the InSciEd Out program and 2 years of implementation in the classroom, teacher-interns from a K–8 public school reported access to local scientific technology and expertise they had not previously recognized. Teachers also reported improved integration of other disciplines into the scientific curriculum and a flow of concepts vertically from K through 8. Students more than doubled selection of an Honors science track in high school to nearly 90%. 98% of students who took the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments in their 5th and 8th grade year (a span that includes 2 years of InSciEd Out) showed medium or high growth in science proficiency. These metrics indicate that cooperation between educators and scientists can result in positive change in student science proficiency and demonstrate that a higher expectation in science education can be achieved in US public schools. PMID:23244687

  20. An international age- and gender-controlled model for the Spinal Cord Injury Ability Realization Measurement Index (SCI-ARMI).

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    Scivoletto, Giorgio; Glass, Clive; Anderson, Kim D; Galili, Tal; Benjamin, Yoav; Front, Lilach; Aidinoff, Elena; Bluvshtein, Vadim; Itzkovich, Malka; Aito, Sergio; Baroncini, Ilaria; Benito-Penalva, Jesùs; Castellano, Simona; Osman, Aheed; Silva, Pedro; Catz, Amiram

    2015-01-01

    Background. A quadratic formula of the Spinal Cord Injury Ability Realization Measurement Index (SCI-ARMI) has previously been published. This formula was based on a model of Spinal Cord Independence Measure (SCIM95), the 95th percentile of the SCIM III values, which correspond with the American Spinal Injury Association Motor Scores (AMS) of SCI patients. Objective. To further develop the original formula. Setting. Spinal cord injury centers from 6 countries and the Statistical Laboratory, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. Methods. SCIM95 of 661 SCI patients was modeled, using a quantile regression with or without adjustment for age and gender, to calculate SCI-ARMI values. SCI-ARMI gain during rehabilitation and its correlations were examined. Results. A new quadratic SCIM95 model was created. This resembled the previously published model, which yielded similar SCIM95 values in all the countries, after adjustment for age and gender. Without this adjustment, however, only 86% of the non-Israeli SCIM III observations were lower than those SCIM95 values (P .1). SCI-ARMI gain was positive (38.8 ± 22 points, P SCI-ARMI formula is valid for an international population after adjustment for age and gender. The new formula considers more factors that affect functional ability following SCI. © The Author(s) 2014.

  1. [SciELO: A cooperative project for the dissemination of science].

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    Bojo Canales, C; Fraga Medín, C; Hernández Villegas, S; Primo Peña, E

    2009-10-01

    The article describes the SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) model for the electronic publication and dissemination of scientific journals, its origin and evolution, methodology, components, services and potential, and its implantation in Spain. It consists of thirteen participant countries with eight certified web portals, with another 5 under development and another two thematic ones. In February 2009 Scielo.org had 611 magazines and 195,789 articles of which 46% were about health sciences. Spain became a project member in 1999 and launched the SciELO web portal in 2001, as well as 4 magazines. It currently has 39 titles in the field of Health Sciences; one of which is the Revista Española de Sanidad Penitenciaria, which joined the project in 2007 and which currently has 6 issues from 2007 and 2008 available. This makes it one of the most important open access initiatives existing. The report concludes by stating that the SciELO model contributes to the development of research and science by offering an effective and efficient method of promoting and increasing the dissemination of scientific publications in Latin America.

  2. Science classroom inquiry (SCI simulations: a novel method to scaffold science learning.

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    Full Text Available Science education is progressively more focused on employing inquiry-based learning methods in the classroom and increasing scientific literacy among students. However, due to time and resource constraints, many classroom science activities and laboratory experiments focus on simple inquiry, with a step-by-step approach to reach predetermined outcomes. The science classroom inquiry (SCI simulations were designed to give students real life, authentic science experiences within the confines of a typical classroom. The SCI simulations allow students to engage with a science problem in a meaningful, inquiry-based manner. Three discrete SCI simulations were created as website applications for use with middle school and high school students. For each simulation, students were tasked with solving a scientific problem through investigation and hypothesis testing. After completion of the simulation, 67% of students reported a change in how they perceived authentic science practices, specifically related to the complex and dynamic nature of scientific research and how scientists approach problems. Moreover, 80% of the students who did not report a change in how they viewed the practice of science indicated that the simulation confirmed or strengthened their prior understanding. Additionally, we found a statistically significant positive correlation between students' self-reported changes in understanding of authentic science practices and the degree to which each simulation benefitted learning. Since SCI simulations were effective in promoting both student learning and student understanding of authentic science practices with both middle and high school students, we propose that SCI simulations are a valuable and versatile technology that can be used to educate and inspire a wide range of science students on the real-world complexities inherent in scientific study.

  3. Science classroom inquiry (SCI) simulations: a novel method to scaffold science learning.

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    Peffer, Melanie E; Beckler, Matthew L; Schunn, Christian; Renken, Maggie; Revak, Amanda

    2015-01-01

    Science education is progressively more focused on employing inquiry-based learning methods in the classroom and increasing scientific literacy among students. However, due to time and resource constraints, many classroom science activities and laboratory experiments focus on simple inquiry, with a step-by-step approach to reach predetermined outcomes. The science classroom inquiry (SCI) simulations were designed to give students real life, authentic science experiences within the confines of a typical classroom. The SCI simulations allow students to engage with a science problem in a meaningful, inquiry-based manner. Three discrete SCI simulations were created as website applications for use with middle school and high school students. For each simulation, students were tasked with solving a scientific problem through investigation and hypothesis testing. After completion of the simulation, 67% of students reported a change in how they perceived authentic science practices, specifically related to the complex and dynamic nature of scientific research and how scientists approach problems. Moreover, 80% of the students who did not report a change in how they viewed the practice of science indicated that the simulation confirmed or strengthened their prior understanding. Additionally, we found a statistically significant positive correlation between students' self-reported changes in understanding of authentic science practices and the degree to which each simulation benefitted learning. Since SCI simulations were effective in promoting both student learning and student understanding of authentic science practices with both middle and high school students, we propose that SCI simulations are a valuable and versatile technology that can be used to educate and inspire a wide range of science students on the real-world complexities inherent in scientific study.

  4. Astronomical Data Processing Using SciQL, an SQL Based Query Language for Array Data

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    Zhang, Y.; Scheers, B.; Kersten, M.; Ivanova, M.; Nes, N.

    2012-09-01

    SciQL (pronounced as ‘cycle’) is a novel SQL-based array query language for scientific applications with both tables and arrays as first class citizens. SciQL lowers the entrance fee of adopting relational DBMS (RDBMS) in scientific domains, because it includes functionality often only found in mathematics software packages. In this paper, we demonstrate the usefulness of SciQL for astronomical data processing using examples from the Transient Key Project of the LOFAR radio telescope. In particular, how the LOFAR light-curve database of all detected sources can be constructed, by correlating sources across the spatial, frequency, time and polarisation domains.

  5. SciJourn is magic: construction of a science journalism community of practice

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    Nicholas, Celeste R.

    2017-06-01

    This article is the first to describe the discoursal construction of an adolescent community of practice (CoP) in a non-school setting. CoPs can provide optimal learning environments. The adolescent community centered around science journalism and positioned itself dichotomously in relationship to school literacy practices. The analysis focuses on recordings from a panel-style research interview from an early implementation of the Science Literacy Through Science Journalism (SciJourn) project. Researchers trained high school students participating in a youth development program to write science news articles. Students engaged in the authentic practices of professional science journalists, received feedback from a professional editor, and submitted articles for publication. I used a fine-grained critical discourse analysis of genre, discourse, and style to analyze student responses about differences between writing in SciJourn and in school. Students described themselves as agentic in SciJourn and passive in school, using an academic writing discourse of deficit to describe schooling experiences. They affiliated with and defined a SciJourn CoP, constructing positive journalistic identities therein. Educators are encouraged to develop similar CoPs. The discursive features presented may be used to monitor the development of communities of practice in a variety of settings.

  6. Overview of the Scalable Coherent Interface, IEEE STD 1596 (SCI)

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    Gustavson, D.B.; James, D.V.; Wiggers, H.A.

    1992-10-01

    The Scalable Coherent Interface standard defines a new generation of interconnection that spans the full range from supercomputer memory 'bus' to campus-wide network. SCI provides bus-like services and a shared-memory software model while using an underlying, packet protocol on many independent communication links. Initially these links are 1 GByte/s (wires) and 1 GBit/s (fiber), but the protocol scales well to future faster or lower-cost technologies. The interconnect may use switches, meshes, and rings. The SCI distributed-shared-memory model is simple and versatile, enabling for the first time a smooth integration of highly parallel multiprocessors, workstations, personal computers, I/O, networking and data acquisition

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    Sep 1, 2015 ... sectional study was carried out with a questionnaire, which included the International Physical Activity ..... Ann N Y Acad Sci. ... on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism. ... European Journal of Sustainable Development.

  8. La cultura digital de los estudiantes universitarios en entornos académicos

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    2011-01-01

    Full Text Available La posibilidad de acceso a Internet determina diferencias, incomprensiones y marginalidades que trascienden hacia lo educativo. No obstante, la red está presente, su penetración ineludible define cierta extensión virtual. Estar excluido del ciberespacio demuestra marginalidad y al contrario, para quienes allí tienen hábitos de estudio las potencialidades académicas e investigativas les resultan significativas. Otro problema, además de la marginalidad, se relaciona con las diferencias entre los nativos digitales y los demás. Los hábitos, lenguajes y posiciones disjuntas determinan incomprensiones y juzgamientos apresurados. Es el caso de la cultura digital de los estudiantes universitarios, que determina formas de construcción académica no siempre acordes con la tradición de sus profesores.

  9. Hábitos o comportamientos inadecuados y malos resultados académicos en estudiantes de secundaria

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    Aguilar Valdés, Juan; Cumbá Abreu, Caridad; Cortés Alfaro, Alba; Collado, Ana María; García Roche, René G; Pérez Sosa, Dania

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    Determinados hábitos y comportamientos son más frecuentes en educandos con malos resultados académicos, por ser sus causas o consecuencias. El objetivo del actual trabajo fue identificar la relación entre los hábitos o comportamientos de vida inadecuados, con los malos resultados académicos de los alumnos de una secundaria básica del municipio Habana Vieja. Se realizó un estudio de tipo transversal, en los 1 129 alumnos de una Escuela Secundaria Básica del Municipio Habana Vieja en Ciudad de ...

  10. Estrés académico y funcionalidad familiar en estudiantes de odontología

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    Shyrley Díaz Cárdenas; Katherine Arrieta Vergara; Farith González Martínez

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    Objetivo: Asociar estrés académico y funcionalidad familiar en estudiantes de odontología. Metodología: Estudio de corte transversal en una muestra probabilística de 251 estudiantes de odontología de una universidad pública de Cartagena de Indias (Colombia). Se midieron características sociodemográficas, estrés académico (escala SISCO) y funcionalidad familiar (APGAR familiar). Se estimó ocurrencia (prevalencias), asociación entre variables (odd ratios) y análisis multivariable (regresión log...

  11. Retrieval of vertical wind profiles during monsoon from satellite ...

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    Complex EOF analysis; cloud motion vector winds; wind profiles; retrieval; monsoon. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. .... The data gaps are removed using simple linear interpolation .... retrieved via standard linear regression using the two independent ...

  12. Studies on meso-substituted free-base octamethoxyporphyrins

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    base porphyrin. These data are discussed in terms of electronic structure calculations. Acknowledgement. The authors are thankful to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi for financial support. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci.

  13. Measuring stigma after spinal cord injury: Development and psychometric characteristics of the SCI-QOL Stigma item bank and short form.

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    Kisala, Pamela A; Tulsky, David S; Pace, Natalie; Victorson, David; Choi, Seung W; Heinemann, Allen W

    2015-05-01

    To develop a calibrated item bank and computer adaptive test (CAT) to assess the effects of stigma on health-related quality of life in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). Grounded-theory based qualitative item development methods, large-scale item calibration field testing, confirmatory factor analysis, and item response theory (IRT)-based psychometric analyses. Five SCI Model System centers and one Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in the United States. Adults with traumatic SCI. SCI-QOL Stigma Item Bank A sample of 611 individuals with traumatic SCI completed 30 items assessing SCI-related stigma. After 7 items were iteratively removed, factor analyses confirmed a unidimensional pool of items. Graded Response Model IRT analyses were used to estimate slopes and thresholds for the final 23 items. The SCI-QOL Stigma item bank is unique not only in the assessment of SCI-related stigma but also in the inclusion of individuals with SCI in all phases of its development. Use of confirmatory factor analytic and IRT methods provide flexibility and precision of measurement. The item bank may be administered as a CAT or as a 10-item fixed-length short form and can be used for research and clinical applications.

  14. Vida académica de la facultad

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    Full Text Available Premio Nacional de Ciencias de la Salud "Alberto Lleras Camargo / Novedades Docentes / Año sabático / Promociones / Ingresos a Carrera Docente / En período de prueba / Cambio de dedicación / Conformación del Grupo De Asesoría y Desarrollo Pedagógico / Grupo De Gestión y Desarrollo Académico / Estado actual de los postgrados en la Facultad de Medicina / Desarrollo del componente / Comité de Ética de la Facultad de Medicina / Lanzamiento del libro «Cirugía Básica» del Profesor Rubén Caicedo / Cursos electivos.

  15. Vida académica de la facultad

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    Premio Nacional de Ciencias de la Salud "Alberto Lleras Camargo / Novedades Docentes / Año sabático / Promociones / Ingresos a Carrera Docente / En período de prueba / Cambio de dedicación / Conformación del Grupo De Asesoría y Desarrollo Pedagógico / Grupo De Gestión y Desarrollo Académico / Estado actual de los postgrados en la Facultad de Medicina / Desarrollo del componente / Comité de Ética de la Facultad de Medicina / Lanzamiento del libro «Cirugía Básica» del Profesor Rubén Caicedo / C...

  16. Vida académica de la facultad

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    Premio Nacional de Ciencias de la Salud "Alberto Lleras Camargo / Novedades Docentes / Año sabático / Promociones / Ingresos a Carrera Docente / En período de prueba / Cambio de dedicación / Conformación del Grupo De Asesoría y Desarrollo Pedagógico / Grupo De Gestión y Desarrollo Académico / Estado actual de los postgrados en la Facultad de Medicina / Desarrollo del componente / Comité de Ética de la Facultad de Medicina / Lanzamiento del libro «Cirugía Básica» del Profesor Rubén Caicedo / C...

  17. The impact of SciDAC on US climate change research and the IPCC AR4

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    2005-01-01

    SciDAC has invested heavily in climate change research. We offer a candid opinion as to the impact of the DOE laboratories' SciDAC projects on the upcoming Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

  18. Asociación entre las habilidades mentales primarias y el rendimiento académico en estudiantes de medicina de pregrado

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    Víctor Manuel Gómez-López

    2013-01-01

    Full Text Available Con el propósito de analizar la asociación que existe entre las habilidades mentales primarias cuando se ingresa a la carrera de medicina y el rendimiento académico cuando se termina el octavo semestre, se realizó un estudio observacional y retrospectivo en 121 egresados de la Licenciatura de Medicina de una escuela particular del norte de México. Las habilidades mentales primarias se consideraron como variables predictoras, en tanto el rendimiento académico se asumió como variables de resultado. El razonamiento y la comprensión verbal presentaron asociación estadísticamente significativa con el rendimiento académico, arrojando un valor de p = 0,013 y 0,029, respectivamente, por lo que podemos concluir que el rendimiento académico en estudiantes de medicina requiere principalmente del razonamiento y de la comprensión verbal.

  19. A Structured Clinical Interview for Kleptomania (SCI-K): preliminary validity and reliability testing.

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    Grant, Jon E; Kim, Suck Won; McCabe, James S

    2006-06-01

    Kleptomania presents difficulties in diagnosis for clinicians. This study aimed to develop and test a DSM-IV-based diagnostic instrument for kleptomania. To assess for current kleptomania the Structured Clinical Interview for Kleptomania (SCI-K) was administered to 112 consecutive subjects requesting psychiatric outpatient treatment for a variety of disorders. Reliability and validity were determined. Classification accuracy was examined using the longitudinal course of illness. The SCI-K demonstrated excellent test-retest (Phi coefficient = 0.956 (95% CI = 0.937, 0.970)) and inter-rater reliability (phi coefficient = 0.718 (95% CI = 0.506, 0.848)) in the diagnosis of kleptomania. Concurrent validity was observed with a self-report measure using DSM-IV kleptomania criteria (phi coefficient = 0.769 (95% CI = 0.653, 0.850)). Discriminant validity was observed with a measure of depression (point biserial coefficient = -0.020 (95% CI = -0.205, 0.166)). The SCI-K demonstrated both high sensitivity and specificity based on longitudinal assessment. The SCI-K demonstrated excellent reliability and validity in diagnosing kleptomania in subjects presenting with various psychiatric problems. These findings require replication in larger groups, including non-psychiatric populations, to examine their generalizability. Copyright (c) 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

  20. Ertapenem-associated neurotoxicity in the Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) population: a case series.

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    Patel, Ursula C; Fowler, Mallory A

    2017-09-06

    Context Ertapenem, a broad spectrum carbapenem antibiotic, is used often in Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) patients due to increased risk factors for multi-drug resistant (MDR) infections in this population. Neurotoxicity, specifically seizures, due to ertapenem is a known adverse effect and has been described previously. Other manifestations such as delirium and visual hallucinations have rarely been reported, and no literature, to the best of our knowledge, specifically describes these effects solely in the SCI population. Findings Four cases of mental status changes and hallucinations in SCI patients attributed to ertapenem therapy are described. Onset of symptoms began between one and six days following initiation of ertapenem and resolved between two to 42 days following discontinuation. Based on the Naranjo probability scale, a probable relationship exists between the adverse events and ertapenem for three out of the four cases. Possible overestimation of renal function and hypoalbuminemia may be contributing factors to the noted adverse reactions. Conclusion/Clinical Relevance The cases described highlight the importance of recognizing ertapenem-associated hallucinations in SCI patients. The population is particularly vulnerable due to risk factors for MDR infections necessitating ertapenem use, possible overestimation of renal function, and a high prevalence of hypoalbuminemia.

  1. A Strategy Study on the SCI List of Nuclear Engineering and Technology

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    Yi, Ji Ho; Lee, Yoo Jin; Jeong, Jo Enn [Korea Atomic Energy Reserch Institute, Daejeon (Korea, Republic of)

    2014-10-15

    The number of papers published in SCI (Science Citation Index) journal is used as a standard for evaluating the level of science technology and a comparative ranking among countries; thus, the journal of the Korean Nuclear Society (KNS), in the SCI. For the SCI, there are 3,750 journals of core (standard) and 4,824 journals of expanded versions; however, NET belongs to the expanded version. As of January 2014, only 12 Korean journals were listed in the SCI core journals and 90 journals were listed in the expanded version. In order for NET of KNS to grow as an international journal, it must be listed in the SCI. With a view to pursuing this goal, it is imperative to undertake the following efforts. First, many good papers should be attracted. That is, the publication of invited papers should be promoted, and a special edition should be issued with the inclusion of prestigious scientists in Korea and overseas who are able to raise the If. Also, a contributor should be given direct and indirect incentives, and above all, academic personnel should be actively involved. Second, internationalization of the journals is needed. In other words, the authors, editors, and reviewers should be more international. In particular, the activities of foreign editors should be fortified. Third, promotion should b reinforced. That is, an independent web site of NET should be operated, and in particular, a paper submission system should be composed scientifically. Fourth, the society system should be improved. In other words, for many good papers to be submitted, an institutional improvement is required to revise the regulations under which the results of a citation analysis can be reflected and to strengthen the activities of the editing committee.

  2. A Strategy Study on the SCI List of Nuclear Engineering and Technology

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    Yi, Ji Ho; Lee, Yoo Jin; Jeong, Jo Enn

    2014-01-01

    The number of papers published in SCI (Science Citation Index) journal is used as a standard for evaluating the level of science technology and a comparative ranking among countries; thus, the journal of the Korean Nuclear Society (KNS), in the SCI. For the SCI, there are 3,750 journals of core (standard) and 4,824 journals of expanded versions; however, NET belongs to the expanded version. As of January 2014, only 12 Korean journals were listed in the SCI core journals and 90 journals were listed in the expanded version. In order for NET of KNS to grow as an international journal, it must be listed in the SCI. With a view to pursuing this goal, it is imperative to undertake the following efforts. First, many good papers should be attracted. That is, the publication of invited papers should be promoted, and a special edition should be issued with the inclusion of prestigious scientists in Korea and overseas who are able to raise the If. Also, a contributor should be given direct and indirect incentives, and above all, academic personnel should be actively involved. Second, internationalization of the journals is needed. In other words, the authors, editors, and reviewers should be more international. In particular, the activities of foreign editors should be fortified. Third, promotion should b reinforced. That is, an independent web site of NET should be operated, and in particular, a paper submission system should be composed scientifically. Fourth, the society system should be improved. In other words, for many good papers to be submitted, an institutional improvement is required to revise the regulations under which the results of a citation analysis can be reflected and to strengthen the activities of the editing committee

  3. Felicidade, bem-estar subjetivo e comportamento acadêmico de estudantes universitários Felicidad, bienestar subjetivo y comportamiento académico de estudiantes universitarios Happiness, subjective well-being and the academic behavior of university students

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    Full Text Available Este estudo teve como objetivo determinar índices de felicidade e bem-estar e sua relação com o comportamento acadêmico, em uma amostra de 252 estudantes universitários dos últimos períodos de diversos cursos e diferentes instituições de educação superior. Os sujeitos foram solicitados a responder a um questionário composto de perguntas sobre dados biográficos e escalas sobre o sentimento de felicidade, satisfação e bem-estar subjetivo, avaliações de vários aspectos de suas vidas, de sua universidade, de sua formação e comportamento acadêmico. Os resultados mostraram que estes estudantes avaliam sua satisfação, bem-estar e felicidade de modo bastante positivo. De modo geral eles estão satisfeitos com a faculdade e com o próprio rendimento acadêmico, embora se preocupem um pouco com a garantia de sucesso profissional que a formação recebida lhes possa oferecer. A principal hipótese foi confirmada ao se encontrar coeficiente de correlação múltipla significativo entre as medidas de bem-estar subjetivo e o comportamento acadêmico-universitário.Este estudio tuvo como objetivo determinar índices de felicidad y bienestar y su relación con el comportamiento académico, en una muestra de 252 estudiantes universitarios en los últimos períodos de diversos cursos y diferentes instituciones de educación superior. Los sujetos fueron solicitados a responder a un cuestionario compuesto de preguntas sobre datos biográficos y escalas sobre el sentimiento de felicidad, satisfacción y bienestar subjetivo, evaluaciones de varios aspectos de sus vidas, de su universidad, de su formación y comportamiento académico. Los resultados mostraron que estos estudiantes evalúan su satisfacción, bienestar y felicidad de modo bastante positivo. De modo general ellos están satisfechos con la facultad y con el propio rendimiento académico, aunque se preocupen un poco con la garantía de éxito profesional que la formación recibida

  4. The Impact of Health Behaviors and Health Management on Employment After SCI: Physical Health and Functioning.

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    Meade, Michelle A; Reed, Karla S; Krause, James S

    2016-01-01

    Background : Research has shown that employment following spinal cord injury (SCI) is related to health and functioning, with physical health and functioning after SCI frequently identified as a primary barrier to employment. Objective: To examine the relationship between employment and behaviors associated with the management of physical health and functioning as described by individuals with SCI who have been employed post injury. Methods: A qualitative approach using 6 focus groups at 2 sites included 44 participants with SCI who had worked at some time post injury. Heterogeneous and homogeneous groups were created based on specific characteristics, such as education, gender, or race. A semi-structured interview format asked questions about personal, environmental, and policy-related factors influencing employment after SCI. Groups were recorded, transcribed, and entered into NVivo before coding by 2 reviewers. Results: Within the area of behaviors and management of physical health and functioning, 4 overlapping themes were identified: (1) relearning your own body and what it can do; (2) general health and wellness behaviors; (3) communication, education, and advocacy; and (4) secondary conditions and aging. Specific themes articulate the many types of behaviors individuals must master and their impact on return to work as well as on finding, maintaining, and deciding to leave employment. Conclusions: Individuals with SCI who are successfully employed after injury must learn how to perform necessary behaviors to manage health and function in a work environment. The decision to leave employment often appears to be associated with secondary complications and other conditions that occur as persons with SCI age.

  5. Publishing datasets with eSciDoc and panMetaDocs

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    Ulbricht, D.; Klump, J.; Bertelmann, R.

    2012-04-01

    Currently serveral research institutions worldwide undertake considerable efforts to have their scientific datasets published and to syndicate them to data portals as extensively described objects identified by a persistent identifier. This is done to foster the reuse of data, to make scientific work more transparent, and to create a citable entity that can be referenced unambigously in written publications. GFZ Potsdam established a publishing workflow for file based research datasets. Key software components are an eSciDoc infrastructure [1] and multiple instances of the data curation tool panMetaDocs [2]. The eSciDoc repository holds data objects and their associated metadata in container objects, called eSciDoc items. A key metadata element in this context is the publication status of the referenced data set. PanMetaDocs, which is based on PanMetaWorks [3], is a PHP based web application that allows to describe data with any XML-based metadata schema. The metadata fields can be filled with static or dynamic content to reduce the number of fields that require manual entries to a minimum and make use of contextual information in a project setting. Access rights can be applied to set visibility of datasets to other project members and allow collaboration on and notifying about datasets (RSS) and interaction with the internal messaging system, that was inherited from panMetaWorks. When a dataset is to be published, panMetaDocs allows to change the publication status of the eSciDoc item from status "private" to "submitted" and prepare the dataset for verification by an external reviewer. After quality checks, the item publication status can be changed to "published". This makes the data and metadata available through the internet worldwide. PanMetaDocs is developed as an eSciDoc application. It is an easy to use graphical user interface to eSciDoc items, their data and metadata. It is also an application supporting a DOI publication agent during the process of

  6. Búsqueda de patrones de rendimiento académico mediante técnicas de análisis multivariante. Aplicación a 1º E4

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    Rúa Vieytes, Antonio

    2001-01-01

    Full Text Available A partir de técnicas estadísticas de análisis multivariante se ha podido constatar la existencia de una estructura subyacente dentro del conjunto de todas las asignaturas cursadas por los alumnos de 1º de E4. Esta estructura queda plasmada a través de cuatro factores básicos e intrínsecos a la licenciatura cursada (Factor Cuantitativo, Factor Lingüístico Humanístico, Factor Empresarial y Factor 2º Idioma. Asimismo, a partir de estos factores y mediante un análisis de conglomerados se han encontrado ocho tipologías o patrones de comportamiento de los alumnos en relación con su rendimiento académico, a saber: buen rendimiento académico, situaciones atípicas, rendimientos académicos pésimos, rendimientos académicos malos, rendimientos académicos que destacan en alguna faceta y rendimiento académico normal.

  7. Cuidados paliativos em oncologia pediátrica na percepção dos acadêmicos de enfermagem

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    Tuani Magalhães Guimarães

    2016-06-01

    Full Text Available RESUMO Objetivo: Conhecer a percepção dos acadêmicos de enfermagem sobre cuidados paliativos em oncologia pediátrica. Métodos: Pesquisa exploratória, abordagem qualitativa, desenvolvida em 2014, na Escola de Enfermagem de uma Universidade Federal no Rio de Janeiro. Realizada entrevista semiestruturada com vinte acadêmicos do último período da graduação. Na análise dos dados emergiram duas unidades temáticas: percepção dos acadêmicos quanto aos cuidados paliativos em oncologia pediátrica e quanto à atuação da equipe profissional. Resultados: Para os acadêmicos, os cuidados paliativos em oncologia pediátrica estão relacionados ao controle de sinais e sintomas, conforto, apoio, promoção da qualidade de vida e bem-estar. Por outro lado, alguns entendem que o cuidado paliativo tem como objetivo prolongar o tempo de vida. Percebem a necessidade da atuação da equipe multiprofissional junto à criança e sua família. Conclusão: A complexidade e os múltiplos aspectos envolvidos no cuidado paliativo exige que o mesmo seja abordado durante a graduação dos Enfermeiros.

  8. Hydrogeological characterization and assessment of groundwater ...

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    In this perspective, assessment of groundwater quality in shallow aquifers in vicinity of the ... contributes about 60% of the total wastewater that gets discharged from ...... tern and effective groundwater management; Proc. Indian. Nat. Sci. Acad.

  9. Mujer y ciencia: Políticas de igualdad y excelencia académica

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    Quintanilla Fisac, Miguel A.

    2008-10-01

    Full Text Available We must avoid the waste of women along academic career. Several countries, such as Spain, are trying out affirmative actions in order to avoid it. These policies are compatible with and adequate scientific policy based in academic excellence and merit standards.La pérdida de mujeres a lo largo de la carrera académica es una constante que debemos evitar a toda costa. En diferentes países, incluido el nuestro, se están poniendo en marcha políticas de discriminación positiva para evitarlo. Estas políticas son compatibles con una adecuada política científica que se base en criterios de mérito y excelencia académica.

  10. Autorregulación, metas y rendimiento académico en bachilleres con disposiciones resilientes y no resilientes

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    José Concepción Gaxiola Romero

    2013-01-01

    Full Text Available Existen factores de riesgo que afectan el rendimiento académico de los adolescentes de bachillerato; éstos pueden ser contextuales e individuales. La resiliencia implica la superación de los riesgos que se enfrentan. A partir de lo anterior, el objetivo del presente estudio fue probar un modelo hipotético general de ecuaciones estructurales en dos grupos de estudiantes de bachillerato, uno de resiliencia y otro de no resiliencia, con el fin de evaluar el impacto que tienen las variables contextuales, las metas, y la autorregulación sobre el rendimiento académico. Previo consentimiento informado, se aplicaron instrumentos validados y los datos se probaron en dos modelos de ecuaciones estructurales. Los resultados muestran diferencias en el impacto de las variables contextuales de riesgo en ambos grupos sobre el rendimiento académico.

  11. Pediatric SCI/D caregiver mental health and family dynamics in Colombia, South America.

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    Doyle, Sarah T; Perrin, Paul B; Nicholls, Elizabeth; Olivera, Silvia Leonor; Quintero, Lorena Medina; Otálvaro, Nadezda Yulieth Méndez; Arango-Lasprilla, Juan Carlos

    2016-01-01

    This study examined the connections between family dynamics and the mental health of caregivers of youth with spinal cord injuries/disorders (SCI/D) caregivers from Colombia, South America. It was hypothesized that lower family functioning would be associated with poorer caregiver mental health. A cross-sectional study of self-report data collected from caregivers through the Hospital Universatario Hernando Moncaleano Perdomo in Neiva, Colombia. Thirty caregivers of children with SCI/D from Nevia, Colombia who were a primary caregiver for ≥3 months, providing care for an individual who was ≥6 months post-injury/diagnosis, familiar with the patient's history, and without neurological or psychiatric conditions. Caregivers' average age was 41.30 years (SD = 10.98), and 90% were female. Caregivers completed Spanish versions of instruments assessing their own mental health and family dynamics. Family dynamics explained 43.2% of the variance in caregiver burden and 50.1% of the variance in satisfaction with life, although family dynamics were not significantly associated with caregiver depression in the overall analysis. Family satisfaction was the only family dynamics variable to yield a significant unique association with any index of caregiver mental health (satisfaction with life). If similar findings emerge in future intervention research, interventions for pediatric SCI/D caregivers in Colombia and other similar global regions could benefit from including techniques to improve family dynamics, especially family satisfaction, given the strong potentially reciprocal connection between these dynamics and caregiver mental health. The degree of disability resulting from SCI/D can vary greatly depending on the severity and level of the lesion, though permanent impairment is often present that profoundly impacts both physical and psychological functioning. Very little is known about the impact of pediatric SCI/D in developing countries, despite the high rates of

  12. SciSpark: Highly Interactive and Scalable Model Evaluation and Climate Metrics for Scientific Data and Analysis

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    National Aeronautics and Space Administration — We will construct SciSpark, a scalable system for interactive model evaluation and for the rapid development of climate metrics and analyses. SciSpark directly...

  13. Integração ao ensino superior e satisfação acadêmica em universitários

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    Acácia Aparecida Angeli dos Santos

    Full Text Available O presente estudo teve como objetivos avaliar a integração e a satisfação acadêmica em universitários e analisar sua relação, conforme o curso e a etapa de formação. Participaram 203 estudantes dos cursos de Psicologia (n=76 e Odontologia (n=127 de uma universidade particular, sendo a maioria mulheres (n=158. Foram aplicados um Questionário de Vivência Acadêmica (QVA-r e uma Escala de Satisfação Acadêmica (ESEA. Os resultados mostraram que os estudantes apresentaram níveis de integração e de satisfação superior à média. Foram detectadas diferenças entre os cursos relativas às variáveis focalizadas e correlações entre as dimensões. É possível afirmar que a integração e a satisfação, apesar de compartilhar aspectos comuns, avaliam construtos diferentes, ambos importantes para a compreensão do fenômeno complexo e multideterminado da vida acadêmica.

  14. Rendimiento académico e interacción sociocognitiva de estudiantes en un entorno virtual

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    Ana Borgobello

    2016-06-01

    Full Text Available Resumen El objetivo de este estudio fue el análisis del rendimiento académico vinculado con las características de interacción sociocognitiva en un entorno virtual, en un curso con diseño híbrido o blended learning de nivel universitario. El caso sostuvo un diseño multi-método basado en una estrategia ecológica observacional y un cuestionamiento a mediciones tradicionales de rendimiento académico. Se analizaron los clics –entradas en distintas zonas del entorno- realizados en la plataforma para navegar en el entorno, los mensajes escritos en foros, las respuestas a un cuestionario sobre hábitos y opiniones y las calificaciones obtenidas en exámenes regulares. Los tres ejes de análisis fueron: 1 relación entre uso de la plataforma con calificaciones académicas, opiniones y hábitos; 2 construcción de perfiles de sujetos a partir de análisis de clases en relación a las variables anteriores; 3 características de los mensajes escritos en foros de cinco sujetos con alto y bajo rendimiento académico general. Los resultados muestran que 1 hubo diferencias significativas en las calificaciones y el agrado por utilizar la plataforma; 2 se distinguieron tres clases: uso bajo, medio y alto de plataforma con preferencias distintas en recursos, agrado al utilizarla, entre otros; 3 hubo diferencias notables en el contenido de los mensajes, especialmente en lo no estrictamente cognitivo.

  15. Solid-state NMR of the Yersinia pestis outer membrane protein Ail in lipid bilayer nanodiscs sedimented by ultracentrifugation

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    Ding, Yi; Fujimoto, L. Miya; Yao, Yong; Marassi, Francesca M.

    2015-01-01

    Solid-state NMR studies of sedimented soluble proteins has been developed recently as an attractive approach for overcoming the size limitations of solution NMR spectroscopy while bypassing the need for sample crystallization or precipitation (Bertini et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108(26):10396–10399, 2011). Inspired by the potential benefits of this method, we have investigated the ability to sediment lipid bilayer nanodiscs reconstituted with a membrane protein. In this study, we show that nanodiscs containing the outer membrane protein Ail from Yersinia pestis can be sedimented for solid-state NMR structural studies, without the need for precipitation or lyophilization. Optimized preparations of Ail in phospholipid nanodiscs support both the structure and the fibronectin binding activity of the protein. The same sample can be used for solution NMR, solid-state NMR and activity assays, facilitating structure–activity correlation experiments across a wide range of timescales

  16. Thermodynamics of information processing based on enzyme kinetics: An exactly solvable model of an information pump.

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    Cao, Yuansheng; Gong, Zongping; Quan, H T

    2015-06-01

    Motivated by the recent proposed models of the information engine [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 109, 11641 (2012)] and the information refrigerator [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 030602 (2013)], we propose a minimal model of the information pump and the information eraser based on enzyme kinetics. This device can either pump molecules against the chemical potential gradient by consuming the information to be encoded in the bit stream or (partially) erase the information initially encoded in the bit stream by consuming the Gibbs free energy. The dynamics of this model is solved exactly, and the "phase diagram" of the operation regimes is determined. The efficiency and the power of the information machine is analyzed. The validity of the second law of thermodynamics within our model is clarified. Our model offers a simple paradigm for the investigating of the thermodynamics of information processing involving the chemical potential in small systems.

  17. Nanotoxicity: how the body develops a way to reduce the toxicity of carbon nanotubes.

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    Riehemann, Kristina

    2012-07-09

    The interaction of nanoparticles with cells and organisms are often the focus of biomedical, material, and environmental research. This article highlights a paper by Yuliang Zhao, Chunying Chen, Ruhong Zhou, and co-workers (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2011, 108, 16968), which brings a new aspect to the discussion about purpose and mechanisms underlying the reaction of an organism with nanoparticles. The interactions of carbon nanotubes with cells were investigated with regard to the defense mechanisms of the body against foreign materials developed during evolution. Such mechanisms are not only important for nanotoxicity research, but also for targeting nanoparticles in medical applications. The cited article thus gives a new focus to an important aspect of nanotechnology, which will determine the application aspects of this technology in future: the approach of biological systems to nanosized particles. Copyright © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

  18. Representing continuous t-norms in quantum computation with mixed states

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    Freytes, H; Sergioli, G; Arico, A

    2010-01-01

    A model of quantum computation is discussed in (Aharanov et al 1997 Proc. 13th Annual ACM Symp. on Theory of Computation, STOC pp 20-30) and (Tarasov 2002 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 35 5207-35) in which quantum gates are represented by quantum operations acting on mixed states. It allows one to use a quantum computational model in which connectives of a four-valued logic can be realized as quantum gates. In this model, we give a representation of certain functions, known as t-norms (Menger 1942 Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 37 57-60), that generalize the triangle inequality for the probability distribution-valued metrics. As a consequence an interpretation of the standard operations associated with the basic fuzzy logic (Hajek 1998 Metamathematics of Fuzzy Logic (Trends in Logic vol 4) (Dordrecht: Kluwer)) is provided in the frame of quantum computation.

  19. Intramolecular electron transfer in single-site-mutated azurins

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    Farver, O; Skov, L K; Pascher, T

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    . Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 86, 6968-6972]. The RSSR- radical produced in the above reaction was reoxidized in a slower intramolecular electron-transfer process (30-70 s-1 at 298 K) concomitant with a further reduction of the Cu(II) ion. The temperature dependence of the latter rates was determined......, lambda = 135 kJ mol-1 for the reorganization energy was derived. When Trp48, situated midway between the donor and the acceptor, was replaced by Leu or Met, only a small change in the rate of intramolecular electron transfer was observed, indicating that the aromatic residue in this position...... is apparently only marginally involved in electron transfer in wild-type azurin. Pathway calculations also suggest that a longer, through-backbone path is more efficient than the shorter one involving Trp48. The former pathway yields an exponential decay factor, beta, of 6.6 nm-1. Another mutation, raising...

  20. Solid-state NMR of the Yersinia pestis outer membrane protein Ail in lipid bilayer nanodiscs sedimented by ultracentrifugation

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    Ding, Yi; Fujimoto, L. Miya; Yao, Yong; Marassi, Francesca M., E-mail: fmarassi@sbmri.org [Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (United States)

    2015-04-15

    Solid-state NMR studies of sedimented soluble proteins has been developed recently as an attractive approach for overcoming the size limitations of solution NMR spectroscopy while bypassing the need for sample crystallization or precipitation (Bertini et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108(26):10396–10399, 2011). Inspired by the potential benefits of this method, we have investigated the ability to sediment lipid bilayer nanodiscs reconstituted with a membrane protein. In this study, we show that nanodiscs containing the outer membrane protein Ail from Yersinia pestis can be sedimented for solid-state NMR structural studies, without the need for precipitation or lyophilization. Optimized preparations of Ail in phospholipid nanodiscs support both the structure and the fibronectin binding activity of the protein. The same sample can be used for solution NMR, solid-state NMR and activity assays, facilitating structure–activity correlation experiments across a wide range of timescales.

  1. Conformational dependence of a protein kinase phosphate transfer reaction

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    Labute, Montiago; Henkelman, Graeme; Tung, Chang-Shung; Fenimore, Paul; McMahon, Ben

    2007-03-01

    Atomic motions and energetics for a phosphate transfer reaction catalyzed by the cAMP-dependent protein kinase have been calculated using plane-wave density functional theory, starting from structures of proteins crystallized in both the reactant conformation (RC) and the transition-state conformation (TC). In TC, we calculate that the reactants and products are nearly isoenergetic with a 20-kJ/mol barrier, whereas phosphate transfer is unfavorable by 120 kJ/mol in the RC, with an even higher barrier. Our results demonstrate that the phosphate transfer reaction occurs rapidly and reversibly in a particular conformation of the protein, and that the reaction can be gated by changes of a few tenths of an angstrom in the catalytic site [1]. [1] G.H. Henkelman, M.X. LaBute, C.-S. Tung, P.W. Fenimore, B.H. McMahon, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA vol. 102, no. 43:15347-15351 (2005).

  2. Simple molecular model for the binding of antibiotic molecules to bacterial ion channels

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    Mafé, Salvador; Ramírez, Patricio; Alcaraz, Antonio

    2003-10-01

    A molecular model aimed at explaining recent experimental data by Nestorovich et al. [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99, 9789 (2002)] on the interaction of ampicillin molecules with the constriction zone in a channel of the general bacterial porin, OmpF (outer membrane protein F), is presented. The model extends T. L. Hill's theory for intermolecular interactions in a pair of binding sites [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 78, 3330 (1956)] by incorporating two binding ions and two pairs of interacting sites. The results provide new physical insights on the role of the complementary pattern of the charge distributions in the ampicillin molecule and the narrowest part of the channel pore. Charge matching of interacting sites facilitates drug binding. The dependence of the number of ampicillin binding events per second with the solution pH and salt concentration is explained qualitatively using a reduced number of fundamental concepts.

  3. A Method to Design Synthetic Cell-Cycle Networks

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    Ke-Ke, Miao

    2009-01-01

    The interactions among proteins, DNA and RNA in an organism form elaborate cell-cycle networks which govern cell growth and proliferation. Understanding the common structure of cell-cycle networks will be of great benefit to science research. Here, inspired by the importance of the cell-cycle regulatory network of yeast which has been studied intensively, we focus on small networks with 11 nodes, equivalent to that of the cell-cycle regulatory network used by Li et al. [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101(2004)4781] Using a Boolean model, we study the correlation between structure and function, and a possible common structure. It is found that cascade-like networks with a great number of interactions between nodes are stable. Based on these findings, we are able to construct synthetic networks that have the same functions as the cell-cycle regulatory network. (condensed matter: structure, mechanical and thermal properties)

  4. Adaptación de la Escala de Satisfacción Académica a la Población Universitaria de Córdoba

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    Leonardo Adrián Medrano

    2013-08-01

    Full Text Available La satisfacción académica constituye un constructo clave que explica en parte el ajuste académico, la integración social., la persistencia, el éxito académico y la satisfacción general con la vida, por parte de los estudiantes. Aunque en el ámbito internacional se han construido diferentes instrumentos para medir la satisfacción académica, en nuestro medio no se dispone de escalas que permitan evaluar este constructo. El objetivo principal del presente trabajo fue adaptar una escala de Satisfacción Académica a la población local de estudiantes universitarios. Para ello participaron 258 estudiantes de diferentes carreras y se realizaron estudios de estructura interna y consistencia interna utilizando análisis factorial exploratorio y coeficiente Alfa de Cronbach (α, respectivamente. Los resultados obtenidos sugieren una estructura interna unidimensional que explica un 49% de la variabilidad de respuesta, así como una elevada homogeneidad (α = .84 de la escala. Aunque los resultados iniciales son alentadores deberían realizarse estudios psicométricos complementarios.

  5. Autorregulación, Resiliencia y Metas Educativas: Variables Protectoras del Rendimiento Académico de Bachilleres

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    JOSÉ CONCEPCIÓN GAXIOLA ROMERO; SANDYBELL GONZÁLEZ LUGO; EUNICE GAXIOLA VILLA

    2013-01-01

    En México, el rendimiento académico de bachillerato es deficiente, por lo que es necesario estudiar sus variables predictoras para mejorarlo. El objetivo del estudio fue medir las trayectorias entre las variables autorregulación, resiliencia y metas educativas en el rendimiento académico de estudiantes de bachillerato, ante la percepción del comportamiento de riesgo de los amigos y la percepción del ambiente escolar de riesgo. Se entrevistaron 120 estudiantes de bachillerato con el más bajo a...

  6. MicroRNA-146a Contributes to SCI Recovery via Regulating TRAF6 and IRAK1 Expression.

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    Wei, Jinsong; Wang, Jiafeng; Zhou, Yulan; Yan, Shouquan; Li, Keshen; Lin, Hongsheng

    2016-01-01

    MicroRNA-146a participates in spinal cord injury (SCI) recovery. Until recently, how miRNA-146a participates in SCI remained unclear. In this study, we tried to explore the roles of miRNA-146a in the recovery of SCI using a rat model. The expression of the probable target genes of miRNA-146a (including IRAK1 and TARF6) as well as proinflammation cytokines were measured until 7 days after surgery in the three groups (sham group, SCI group, and miRNA-146a antagomir injection group). Also, the animals' motivations were estimated using Basso Beattie Bresnahan (BBB) during the whole experiment. A luciferase assay was performed to demonstrate that miRNA-146a could directly target the mRNAs of IRAK1 and TRAF6 . Our experiments indicate that miRNA-146a inhibits proinflammatory cytokine secretion by suppressing IRAK1 and TRAF6 expression in the SCI model. In contrast, miRNA-146a may be upregulated by inflammatory mediators via the IRAK1 / TRAF6 pathway in the spinal cord. As a negative feedback element, miRNA-146a could make sure that the expression of IRAK1 - and TRAF6 -mediated genes was under tight control. Thus, miRNA-146a may serve as a novel therapeutic target for SCI interventions.

  7. Estrés académico, "engagement" y resiliencia en estudiantes de enfermería.

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    Berzosa Honrado, Raquel

    2017-01-01

    El estrés académico tiene una alta prevalencia actualmente. Esto es relevante, puesto que altos niveles de estrés repercutirán negativamente en la salud y en el rendimiento académico. Además, diversos análisis han señalado que en los estudiantes de Ciencias de la Salud estos niveles son más elevados. Por lo tanto, se hace necesario analizar el estrés en alumnos de Enfermería, así como variables que influyan sobre los mismos. Conocer dichos resultados orientaría hacia actuaciones preventivas y...

  8. Natural pomegranate juice reduces inflammation, muscle damage ...

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    Peer review under responsibility of Alexandria University Faculty of Medicine. ... Alexandria Journal of Medicine 54 (2018) 45–48 ..... Brocklehurst's textbook of geriatric medicine and gerontology. 7th ... Adv Biomed Res. ... Ann N Y Acad Sci.

  9. Hydrophilic C terminus of Salicornia europaea vacuolar Na /H ...

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    2014-08-08

    Aug 8, 2014 ... Soil salinity caused, particularly by NaCl, is a major abi- otic stress worldwide. ... sodium, plants have developed several adaptive mechanisms including accumulation of ..... and pH-dependent manner. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.

  10. Neuroinflammatory contributions to pain after SCI: roles for central glial mechanisms and nociceptor-mediated host defense.

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    Walters, Edgar T

    2014-08-01

    Neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury (SCI) is common, often intractable, and can be severely debilitating. A number of mechanisms have been proposed for this pain, which are discussed briefly, along with methods for revealing SCI pain in animal models, such as the recently applied conditioned place preference test. During the last decade, studies of animal models have shown that both central neuroinflammation and behavioral hypersensitivity (indirect reflex measures of pain) persist chronically after SCI. Interventions that reduce neuroinflammation have been found to ameliorate pain-related behavior, such as treatment with agents that inhibit the activation states of microglia and/or astroglia (including IL-10, minocycline, etanercept, propentofylline, ibudilast, licofelone, SP600125, carbenoxolone). Reversal of pain-related behavior has also been shown with disruption by an inhibitor (CR8) and/or genetic deletion of cell cycle-related proteins, deletion of a truncated receptor (trkB.T1) for brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), or reduction by antisense knockdown or an inhibitor (AMG9810) of the activity of channels (TRPV1 or Nav1.8) important for electrical activity in primary nociceptors. Nociceptor activity is known to drive central neuroinflammation in peripheral injury models, and nociceptors appear to be an integral component of host defense. Thus, emerging results suggest that spinal and systemic effects of SCI can activate nociceptor-mediated host defense responses that interact via neuroinflammatory signaling with complex central consequences of SCI to drive chronic pain. This broader view of SCI-induced neuroinflammation suggests new targets, and additional complications, for efforts to develop effective treatments for neuropathic SCI pain. Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  11. Edited volumes, monographs and book chapters in the Book Citation Index (BKCI) and Science Citation Index (SCI, SoSCI, A&HCI)

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    Leydesdorff, L.; Felt, U.

    2012-01-01

    In 2011, Thomson-Reuters introduced the Book Citation Index (BKCI) as part of the Science Citation Index (SCI). The interface of the Web of Science version 5 enables users to search for both 'Books' and 'Book Chapters' as new categories. Books and book chapters, however, were always among the cited

  12. Evaluación del rendimiento académico de estudiantes universitarios en la modalidad presencial y virtual

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    Fernando Pablo Ñaupari Rafael

    2014-06-01

    Full Text Available Objetivo: Evaluar el impacto de la modalidad presencial y virtual en el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes de la Universidad Continental. Método: Investigación de naturaleza descriptiva y transversal, utilizó un diseño descriptivo comparativo, comparando índices vinculados al rendimiento académico, en una muestra de estudiantes de la modalidad presencial y otra de la modalidad virtual de la Universidad Continental, de las carreras de Administración, Contabilidad, Derecho, Ingeniería de Sistemas e Ingeniería Industrial. El recojo de datos utilizó la técnica del análisis documental, a través de las actas promocionales del ciclo académico 2013-I. Resultados: En la modalidad presencial, 10,7% de los estudiantes alcanza un promedio superior a 14,5 mientras que 33,1% obtiene promedios menores de 10,5. Además, casi la mitad de los estudiantes presentan un índice de aprobación inferior a 80%, es decir, aprueban menos de 8 asignaturas de cada 10 que cursan. En la modalidad virtual, 9,6% alcanza un promedio superior a 14,5, mientras que 55,7% obtiene promedios menores de 10,5. Además, casi el 70% de los estudiantes presenta un índice de aprobación inferior a 80%, es decir, aprueban menos de 8 asignaturas de cada 10 que cursan. Conclusiones: El rendimiento académico de los estudiantes de la modalidad presencial y la modalidad virtual es bajo, caracterizado por un promedio desaprobatorio menor de 10,5 y un índice de aprobación bajo. De ellas, la modalidad virtual presentó un rendimiento académico de 69,5%, y la modalidad presencial un 45,8%.

  13. Differences in the use of everyday technology among persons with MCI, SCI and older adults without known cognitive impairment.

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    Malinowsky, Camilla; Kottorp, Anders; Wallin, Anders; Nordlund, Arto; Björklund, Eva; Melin, Ilse; Pernevik, Anette; Rosenberg, Lena; Nygård, Louise

    2017-07-01

    To use valid subjective reports sensible to cognitive decline is vital to identify very early signs of dementia development. Use of everyday technology (ET) has been shown to be sensitive to differentiate adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) from controls, but the group with subjective cognitive impairment (SCI) has not yet been examined. This study aims to investigate and compare self-perceived ability in ET use and number of ETs reported as actually used in a sample of older adults with SCI, MCI, and older adults with no known cognitive impairment, i.e. Older adults with MCI (n = 29), SCI ( n = 26), and controls (n = 30) were interviewed with the short version of the Everyday Technology Use Questionnaire (S-ETUQ) to capture self-perceived ability in ET use and number of ETs used. To generate individual measures of ability to use ET, Rasch analysis was used. The measures were then compared group-wise using ANCOVA. The numbers of ETs used were compared group-wise with ANOVA. Controls versus SCI and MCI differed significantly regarding ETs reported as used, but not SCI versus MCI. Similarly, in ability to use ET, controls versus SCI and MCI differed significantly but not SCI versus MCI. The significantly lower numbers of ETs reported as actually used and the lower ability in SCI and MCI groups compared to controls suggest that ET use is affected already in very minor cognitive decline. This indicates that self-reported ET use based on the S-ETUQ is sensitive to detect changes already in SCI.

  14. El burnout académico: delimitación del síndrome y factores asociados con su aparición

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    Carmen Cecilia Caballero Domínguez; Christian Hederich; Jorge Enrique Palacio Sañudo

    2010-01-01

    El artículo presenta una revisión de los principales conceptos del síndrome de burnout académico, su evolución y su delimitación conceptual con otros trastornos como depresión y ansiedad, así como también una revisión de los modelos teóricos del burnout en el ámbito laboral para su aplicación en el ámbito académico. Además, se contextualizan las variables asociadas a su desarrollo y sus consecuencias en el rendimiento académico y en la salud mental de estudiantes universitarios.

  15. El burnout académico: delimitación del síndrome y factores asociados con su aparición

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    Caballero Domínguez, Carmen Cecilia; Hederich, Christian; Palacio Sañudo, Jorge Enrique

    2010-01-01

    El artículo presenta una revisión de los principales conceptos del síndrome de burnout académico, su evolución y su delimitación conceptual con otros trastornos como depresión y ansiedad, así como también una revisión de los modelos teóricos del burnout en el ámbito laboral para su aplicación en el ámbito académico. Además, se contextualizan las variables asociadas a su desarrollo y sus consecuencias en el rendimiento académico y en la salud mental de estudiantes universitarios. The articl...

  16. The use of ketamine in cancer palliation

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    painful, like touch and pressure, may become painful (allodynia), or the patient may ..... This is analogous to the modern multi-agent chemotherapy of cancer. After remission ... pain, morphine tolerance, and their interactions. Proc Natl Acad Sci ...

  17. Plenum of the All-Union Committee on the Study of Rheumatism and Diseases of the Joints at the Presidium of the Academy of Medical Sciences USSR - USSR

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    .... The report on the prophylaxis of rheumatism was submitted by Active Member of the Acad. Med. Sci. USSR, Prof. A. I. Nesterov (Moscow). Experience shows that the streptococcus plays the principal role in the development of rheumatism...

  18. Environmental impact on morphological and anatomical structure of ...

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    Apr 19, 2010 ... other one is non anthropogenic Topcider park (green area). Tansy was growing on ..... of different plants affected by motor vehicles exhaust. J. Islamic. Acad. Sci. ... on experimental gastric ulcer in rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol.

  19. Rusia en el Proceso de Bolonia: Compatibilidad, competitividad y movilidad académica

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    Edgar Demetrio Tovar García

    2014-05-01

    Full Text Available El presente artículo describe la inclusión de Rusia en el proceso de Bolonia. Además de la revisión bibliográfica, la descripción de los eventos y sus resultados con respecto a dos objetivos primordiales de la Declaración (compatibilidad-competitividad y movilidad académica son evidenciados y ejemplificados con información obtenida por medio de entrevistas a informantes clave, 35 estudiantes (entre ellos líderes estudiantiles y 12 profesores (entre ellos jefes de departamento de dos de las universidades moscovitas más grandes. Los resultados indican que el proceso de Bolonia en Rusia es incipiente, caracterizado por incredibilidad sobre la calidad de la educación superior rusa, corrupción, y baja movilidad académica.

  20. Revisión entre iguales y escritura académica en la universidad: la perspectiva del estudiante

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    Alfonso Vargas Franco

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    Full Text Available Este artículo presenta los primeros resultados de una investigación que tuvo como objeto documentar los puntos de vista (representaciones, grado de conciencia, actitudes, opiniones que tiene un grupo de estudiantes, desde una perspectiva émica (una perspectiva del informante, del estudiante, que también es autor del texto, sobre la escritura académica, sus roles de autor y lector y los procesos de revisión entre iguales, en una secuencia de aprendizaje de resúmenes, reseñas y artículos académicos, en un aula universitaria. El corpus está constituido por una entrevista concebida como grupo de discusión, grabada y transcrita siguiendo el modelo del análisis del discurso, pero el estudio más amplio (Vargas Franco, 2013 describe y analiza entrevistas en profundidad y los textos académicos objeto de la revisión entre pares. El estudio de corte cualitativo-etnográfico arroja como resultados que la revisión entre iguales es más compleja de lo que parece, pero que puede resultar beneficiosa para que los estudiantes se apropien de las convenciones dominantes de la escritura académica, facilitando su proceso de integración en una nueva comunidad discursiva y cultural.

  1. Valproic Acid Arrests Proliferation but Promotes Neuronal Differentiation of Adult Spinal NSPCs from SCI Rats.

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    Chu, Weihua; Yuan, Jichao; Huang, Lei; Xiang, Xin; Zhu, Haitao; Chen, Fei; Chen, Yanyan; Lin, Jiangkai; Feng, Hua

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    Although the adult spinal cord contains a population of multipotent neural stem/precursor cells (NSPCs) exhibiting the potential to replace neurons, endogenous neurogenesis is very limited after spinal cord injury (SCI) because the activated NSPCs primarily differentiate into astrocytes rather than neurons. Valproic acid (VPA), a histone deacetylase inhibitor, exerts multiple pharmacological effects including fate regulation of stem cells. In this study, we cultured adult spinal NSPCs from chronic compressive SCI rats and treated with VPA. In spite of inhibiting the proliferation and arresting in the G0/G1 phase of NSPCs, VPA markedly promoted neuronal differentiation (β-tubulin III(+) cells) as well as decreased astrocytic differentiation (GFAP(+) cells). Cell cycle regulator p21(Cip/WAF1) and proneural genes Ngn2 and NeuroD1 were increased in the two processes respectively. In vivo, to minimize the possible inhibitory effects of VPA to the proliferation of NSPCs as well as avoid other neuroprotections of VPA in acute phase of SCI, we carried out a delayed intraperitoneal injection of VPA (150 mg/kg/12 h) to SCI rats from day 15 to day 22 after injury. Both of the newborn neuron marker doublecortin and the mature neuron marker neuron-specific nuclear protein were significantly enhanced after VPA treatment in the epicenter and adjacent segments of the injured spinal cord. Although the impaired corticospinal tracks had not significantly improved, Basso-Beattie-Bresnahan scores in VPA treatment group were better than control. Our study provide the first evidence that administration of VPA enhances the neurogenic potential of NSPCs after SCI and reveal the therapeutic value of delayed treatment of VPA to SCI.

  2. Relación del burnout y el engagement con depresión, ansiedad y rendimiento académico en estudiantes universitarios

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    Carmen Caballero Domínguez

    2015-01-01

    Full Text Available Objetivo: Analizar las relaciones entre burnout y engagement con ansiedad, depresión y rendimiento académico en estudiantes universitarios de programas de salud. Materiales y métodos: El diseño fue observacional, correlacional, multivariado; la muestra, aleatoria y estratificada, de 802 estudiantes de programas de salud de universidades de Barranquilla. Instrumentos: MBISS, UWES-S, STAI e Inventario de Depresión de Beck. Resultados: El análisis de las correspondencias múltiples entre las variables evidenció un factor conformado principalmente por las dimensiones de Vigor, Absorción, Dedicación e Ineficacia Académica, cuyo extremo negativo se relacionaba con bajo engagement y altos niveles de burnout, ineficacia académica, depresión y de ansiedad de rasgo y de estado; el extremo positivo, con alto engagement, buen rendimiento académico y baja ineficacia, depresión y ansiedad de rasgo y de estado. Conclusiones: En la muestra estudiada, el burnout y el engagement académicos se identificaron relacionados como polos extremos y opuestos de un mismo continuo multidimensional, en el que tanto el polo del burnout como el del engagement se configuran por valores esperados de las variables estudiadas pero opuestos al del polo contrario.

  3. Las “Lecciones Académicas” de Evangelista Torricelli

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    Rosa María Herrera

    2013-04-01

    Full Text Available En las Lecciones Académicas (“Lezioni accademiche”, Torricelli a la manera divulgativa dibujó un boceto de bastantes de sus ideas científicas, algunas novedosas, como la circulación general de la atmósfera. El estilo culto e irónico, pero informal, que utilizó le permitió exponer conceptos que de otra manera, dadas las circunstancias, hubiera sido casi imposible. En estas notas muestro algunos ejemplos.

  4. APPS en el rendimiento académico y autoconcepto de estudiantes de ingeniería

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    Mawency Vergel Ortega

    2015-11-01

    Full Text Available La investigación fue realizada en la Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander de la ciudad de Cúcuta, Colombia, durante el I-2014, comparó dos métodos de enseñanza, a través de un grupo prueba donde estudiantes de ecuaciones diferenciales utilizan aplicativos móviles como la calculadora HD, wolfram alpha-powered apps, y un grupo control que recibió clases sin ayuda de aplicativos. Su objeto fue determinar la influencia del uso de apps en el rendimiento académico de estudiantes de ecuaciones diferenciales en ingeniería. A través de un enfoque cuantitativo, de tipo campo, una entrevista, un diario de observación y test de autoconcepto y ansiedad como instrumentos junto a resultados en evaluaciones, permitieron observar mejora en el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes, percepción positiva hacia las ecuaciones diferenciales, mejora en niveles de autoconcepto y disminución en puntuaciones de ansiedad. Palabras claves: Aprendizaje, tecnología de la información, Ecuaciones diferenciales, Educación superior, rendimiento académico          

  5. La Inteligencia Emocional como predictora del Rendimiento Académico: el contexto pluricultural de Ceuta

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    Federico Pulido Acosta

    2015-12-01

    Full Text Available Este trabajo tiene como objetivo fundamental conocer los predictores dela Inteligencia Emocional (IE y el Rendimiento Académico (RA del alumnado de la ciudad de Ceuta, para lo que se contó con 1186 participantes, de 9 centros educativos distintos, que reflejan la pluriculturalidad de la ciudad; de los cuales, el 57.8% son mujeres y el 42.2% varones, y el 58.9% de cultura/religión musulmana y el 41.1% cristianos. Como instrumentos de evaluación se emplearon una adaptación propia del MSCEIT (Test de Inteligencia Emocional de Mayer, Salovey y Caruso, 2009 y las calificaciones de los alumnos. Los resultados obtenidos reflejan niveles medios de Rendimiento Académico, y medio-altos en IE, actuando como predictores del primero las variables sociodemográficas de edad, género, cultura/religión y estatus socio-económico-cultural. Los predictores de la Inteligencia Emocional son la etapa y el estatus. Por otra parte, muestran que existe relación entre Inteligencia Emocional y Rendimiento Académico, actuando cada una como principal predictor de la otra.

  6. Computing Beyond the Church-Turing Limit

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    Jones, Robert

    2009-05-01

    Dershowitz and Gurevich claim to have proven the Church-Turing theorem starting from a set of 4 reasonable postulates. (Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, vol. 14, num. 3, Sept. 2008, pg. 299) But their postulate II assumes fixed vocabulary. Humans, however, change their vocabulary words (and concepts) over time. My Asa H artificial intelligence also changes its vocabulary. (Trans. of the Kansas Acad. of Sci., vol. 109, no. 3/4, pg 159, 2006, www.bioone.org/archive/0022- 8443/109/3/pdf/i0022-8443-109-3-159.pdf) Their postulate I excludes nondeterministic transitions between states. I don't know how often humans flip a coin but my Asa H does employ random transitions under certain circumstances. Perhaps humans and Asa H go beyond the Church-Turing limit. (Trans. Kansas Acad. of Sci., 108, 3/4, pg. 169, 2005)

  7. Research progress from the SCI Model Systems (SCIMS): An interactive discussion on future directions.

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    Boninger, Michael L; Field-Fote, Edelle C; Kirshblum, Steven C; Lammertse, Daniel P; Dyson-Hudson, Trevor A; Hudson, Lesley; Heinemann, Allen W

    2018-03-01

    To describe current and future directions in spinal cord injury (SCI) research. The SCI Model Systems (SCIMS) programs funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) during the 2011 to 2016 cycle provided abstracts describing findings from current research projects. Discussion among session participants generated ideas for research opportunities. Pre-conference workshop before the 2016 American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) annual meeting. A steering committee selected by the SCIMS directors that included the moderators of the sessions at the ASIA pre-conference workshop, researchers presenting abstracts during the session, and the audience of over 100 attending participants in the pre-conference workshop. Group discussion followed presentations in 5 thematic areas of (1) Demographics and Measurement; (2) Functional Training; (3) Psychosocial Considerations; (4) Assistive Technology; and (5) Secondary Conditions. The steering committee reviewed and summarized discussion points on future directions for research and made recommendations for research based on the discussion in each of the five areas. Significant areas in need of research in SCI remain, the goal of which is continued improvement in the quality of life of individuals with SCI.

  8. Letramentos acadêmicos e multimodalidade em contexto de EaD semipresencial

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    Fabiana Komesu

    2012-07-01

    Full Text Available De uma perspectiva teórica enunciativo-discursiva, este artigo tem como objetivo discutir o processo de constituição do texto em contexto digital, de maneira particularizada, por meio da problematização de modos e recursos semióticos atualizados na produção acadêmica do universitário que utiliza computador com acesso à internet no processo de Educação a Distância (EaD semipresencial. Interessa investigar como o modelo de letramentos acadêmicos pode ser articulado ao estudo da multimodalidade, considerando-se que em ambiente eletrônico o universitário tem, por hipótese, acesso “ilimitado” a todo e qualquer texto, não apenas ao chamado “verbal”, comumente atribuído ao elemento gráfico. O conjunto do material é formado de textos produzidos por alunos do Curso de Pedagogia semipresencial da Universidade Virtual do Estado de São Paulo (UNIVESP no ano de 2010.Palavras-chave: Escrita. Letramentos. Discurso. Educação a distância. Internet.

  9. La administración educativa y su influencia en el rendimiento académico de los alumnos del nivel secundario en Puno

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    Quispe Sairitupa, Míriam Edith

    2011-01-01

    La tesis titulada "La Administración Educativa y su Influencia en el Rendimiento Académico de los Alumnos del Nivel Secundario en Puno" se desarrolló en la ciudad de Puno en el año lectivo 2009, con ocho instituciones educativas del nivel secundario. El objetivo fue determinar la influencia que ejerce la administración educativa en el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes del nivel secundario de la ciudad de Puno, así como establecer el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes cuya direcci...

  10. Características psicológicas y desempeño académico en universitarios de profesiones de pronta ocupación

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    Angélica Riveros; Tomás Humberto Rubio; Julieta Candelario; Mariana Mangín

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    El rendimiento académico hace evidentes contrastes entre las condiciones que enfrentan los alumnos y estados de bienestar y malestar psicológico. En México las principales razones de la deserción escolar son económicas, la necesidad de la inserción temprana en el campo laboral y bajo desempeño académico. El propósito del presente trabajo fue identificar los factores que impactan la salud mental y su relevancia respecto del desempeño académico de alumnos de administración y con...

  11. The CanPain SCI Clinical Practice Guidelines for Rehabilitation Management of Neuropathic Pain after Spinal Cord: screening and diagnosis recommendations.

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    Mehta, S; Guy, S D; Bryce, T N; Craven, B C; Finnerup, N B; Hitzig, S L; Orenczuk, S; Siddall, P J; Widerström-Noga, E; Casalino, A; Côté, I; Harvey, D; Kras-Dupuis, A; Lau, B; Middleton, J W; Moulin, D E; O'Connell, C; Parrent, A G; Potter, P; Short, C; Teasell, R; Townson, A; Truchon, C; Wolfe, D; Bradbury, C L; Loh, E

    2016-08-01

    Clinical practice guidelines. To develop the first Canadian clinical practice guidelines for screening and diagnosis of neuropathic pain in people with spinal cord injury (SCI). The guidelines are relevant for inpatient and outpatient SCI rehabilitation settings in Canada. The CanPainSCI Working Group reviewed evidence to address clinical questions regarding screening and diagnosis of neuropathic pain after SCI. A consensus process was followed to achieve agreement on recommendations and clinical considerations. Twelve recommendations, based on expert consensus, were developed for the screening and diagnosis of neuropathic pain after SCI. The recommendations address methods for assessment, documentation tools, team member accountability, frequency of screening and considerations for diagnostic investigation. Important clinical considerations accompany each recommendation. The expert Working Group developed recommendations for the screening and diagnosis of neuropathic pain after SCI that should be used to inform practice.

  12. Spinal cord injury (SCI) rehabilitation: systematic analysis of communication from the biopsychosocial perspective.

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    Hartley, Naomi A

    2015-07-02

    Communication is powerful predictor of health-related quality of life and overall well-being, yet its role in promoting rehabilitation outcomes in spinal cord injury (SCI) is rarely mentioned. This article systematically analyzes and synthesizes literature from multiple disciplines according to a biopsychosocial perspective, providing an evidence base for clinical practice and clear direction for future research. Systematic literature review and analysis, incorporating mapping to International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) codes. In total 4338 entries were retrieved from CINAHL, PsychInfo, Medline, PubMed and SpeechBite databases for the period 1990-2014. A total of 115 treatment and observational studies (quantitative and qualitative) detailed aspects of communication according to structure, function, activity, participation and environmental factors; evident of the complex interactions between communicative function with daily living after SCI. Communication is a relative strength in SCI, key to empowerment, independence, social interaction, and well-being, yet its potential to enhance SCI rehabilitation outcomes remains largely underexplored and untapped. Through elucidating interactions between communication and functioning, the adapted ICF framework affords clinicians and researchers insight into areas of intervention most likely to result in widespread gains. Conscious consideration should be given to the role of communication, within an integrative, strengths-based, multidisciplinary approach to clinical practice and future research. Implications for Rehabilitation Communication fosters empowerment, independence and greater participation in life roles; recognized as a powerful predictor of health-related quality of life and overall well-being. The ICF framework elucidates influences to communicative function, and components which are influenced by communication, providing valuable insight for clinicians and researchers

  13. Looking at Life. Study Guide. Unit A2. ZIM-SCI, Zimbabwe Secondary School Science Project.

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    The Zimbabwe Secondary School Science Project (ZIM-SCI) developed student study guides, corresponding teaching guides, and science kits for a low-cost science course which could be taught during the first 2 years of secondary school without the aid of qualified teachers and conventional laboratories. This ZIM-SCI study guide presents activities…

  14. [Analysis on acupuncture literature in Science Citation Index (SCI) periodicals in 2007].

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    Gao, Liang; Tian, Li-xin; Guo, Yi

    2009-06-01

    To grasp the international developing tendency of acupuncture research and provide some references for promoting acupuncture and moxibustion internationalization process, the articles about acupuncture in Science Citation Index (SCI) periodicals in 2007 were retrieved by adopting the retrieval tactics on line in combination with database searching. Results indicate that 257 articles about acupuncture had been retrived from the SCI Web databases. These articles were published in 125 journals respectively, most of which were Euramerican journals. Among these journals, the impact factor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 25. 547, is the highest one. It is shown that the impact factors of the SCI periodicals, in which acupuncture articles embodied are increased, the quality of these articles are improved obviously and the types of the articles are various in 2007, but there is obvious difference in the results of these studies due to the difference of experimental methods, the subjects of these experiments and acupuncture manipulations. Therefore, standardization of many problems arising from the researches on acupuncture is extremely imminent.

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    Jul 17, 2012 ... niger revealed a karyotype (Figure 1a) formula of 24 metacentric + 32 ..... ancestral karyotype as it evolved into new lines (Winkler et al., 2004) and are .... biological explanation of karyotypic fission theory. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.

  16. Data supporting Al-Abed et al., Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2016,

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    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — Data files representing each of the Figures and Tables published in Al-Abed et al., Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2016, 3, 593. The data file names identify the Figure or...

  17. Benchmarking nacional e internacional de programas académicos de especialización en gerencia de proyectos

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    Presenta el estado actual de la formación en programas académicos de especialización en gerencia de proyectos y afines, a nivel regional, nacional e internacional; desde una perspectiva global, antes que discriminatoria de la situación actual por países o continentes, bajo una alternativa metodológica, sistemática y rigurosa; que permita orientar, considerando las especificidades académicas, institucionales y regionales de las instituciones de educación superior, los (re)diseños curriculares ...

  18. O virtual e os novos paradigmas da publicação acadêmica

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    2012-02-01

    Full Text Available O presente artigo analisa as vantagens técnicas das publicações acadêmicas realizadas pelo suporte virtual, em decorrência da dinamicidade das interações intelectuais próprias da dimensão da Internet. Através do enfoque teórico de Pierre Lévy, um dos principais filósofos da dita “Cibercultura”, apresentamos as mudanças de perspectivas epistemológicas operadas pela difusão planetária da Internet e de que maneira tal transformação influenciou no processo de editoração dos periódicos acadêmicos, envolvendo de forma mais precisa a participação plena da comunidade intelectual em torno do processo de realização do veículo de difusão de conhecimento.

  19. Académica Maria Mélida Durán Merchán - Académico Miguel Trias Fargas

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    MARÍA MÉLIDA DURÁN

    Una de las secciones especialmente nostálgicas pero a su vez más trascendentales es esta de Obituarios en la revista “Medicina”. Acostumbra ser uno de los nichos literarios de la prolífica y versátil pluma del Académico Efraím Otero o de la pulida pero algo menos abundante del también Académico Zoilo Cuéllar.

    Puede ser esta sección de igual manera la semilla biográfica para aquellos ilustres médicos colombianos que por esta Institución pasaron, que llamamos “necrológica”, para darle un toque menos fúnebre y más alegre, pues destaca lo mucho de positivo que tuvo la vida de quien se escribe.

    Nos duele hacerlo hoy sobre María Mélida Durán Merchán, a quien me costó trabajo dejar de decirle “de Rueda”, en referencia a su compañero de tantas luchas y padre de su hijo Marcelo, el urólogo de Marly, Manuel Rueda Salazar.

    Y repito que siento consternación al hacerlo pues su edad distaba mucho de la de aquel personaje a quien se refería el Académico Laurentino Muñoz al conversar con su amigo Germán Arciniegas, un par de intelectuales a quienes la senectud no quitó vitalidad alguna. Vio pasar a algún conocido que rondaba en los cien años y dijo: “¿no es ese el que murió el año pasado?”...

    MIGUEL TRIAS FARGAS

    Nacido en Barcelona, Cataluña, el 9 de agosto de 1924, llegó el doctor Trías a Colombia a muy corta edad; se graduó como médico en la Universidad Nacional de Colombia y se especializó en Cirugía del Tórax en importantes instituciones de Inglaterra y Francia.

    Ejerció con brillo dicha especialidad en los Hospitales San Carlos, Santa Clara y San José de la ciudad de Bogotá, así como en la Fundación Shaio, a cuyo nacimiento contribuyó. Su trascendental labor en la Asociación Pro Bienestar de la Familia Colombiana, Profamilia, que dirigió desde 1973 hasta 1994, y en la Fundación Pro Derecho a

  20. Does the CDC Definition of Fever Accurately Predict Inflammation and Infection in Persons With SCI?

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    Trbovich, Michelle; Li, Carol; Lee, Shuko

    2016-01-01

    Background: Pneumonia and septicemia have the greatest impact on reduced life expectancy in persons with spinal cord injury (SCI). Fever is often the first presenting symptom of infection or inflammation. Thermoregulatory dysfunction in persons with SCI may preclude a typical febrile response to infection or inflammation and thus delay diagnostic workup. Objective: To determine the core temperature of persons with SCI in the setting of infection or inflammation and the frequency with which it meets criteria for the CDC definition of fever (>100.4°F). Methods: Retrospective review of hospitalized SCI patients over 5 years with a diagnosis of infection or inflammation (DI), defined by serum leukocytosis. In this study, 458 persons with paraplegia (PP) and 483 persons with tetraplegia (TP) had 4,191 DI episodes. Aural temperatures (T au ) on the day of DI, 7 days prior, and 14 days afterwards were abstracted from medical records. Main outcome measures were average T au at DI, frequency of temperatures >100.4°F at DI, and average baseline temperatures before and after DI. Results: Average T au at DI was 98.2°F (±1.5) and 98.2°F (±1.4) in the TP and PP groups, respectively, with only 11.6% to 14% of DI resulting in T au >100.4°F. Baseline temperatures ranged from 97.9°F (±0.7) to 98.0°F (±0.8). Conclusion: SCI persons with leukocytosis infrequently mount a fever as defined by the CDC, and baseline temperatures were subnormal (100.4°F is not a sensitive predictor of infection or inflammation in persons with SCI. Clinicians should be vigilant for alternative symptoms of infection and inflammation in these patients, so diagnostic workup is not delayed.

  1. SCI Hospital in Home Program: Bringing Hospital Care Home for Veterans With Spinal Cord Injury.

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    Madaris, Linda L; Onyebueke, Mirian; Liebman, Janet; Martin, Allyson

    2016-01-01

    The complex nature of spinal cord injury (SCI) and the level of care required for health maintenance frequently result in repeated hospital admissions for recurrent medical complications. Prolonged hospitalizations of persons with SCI have been linked to the increased risk of hospital-acquired infections and development or worsening pressure ulcers. An evidence-based alternative for providing hospital-level care to patients with specific diagnoses who are willing to receive that level of care in the comfort of their home is being implemented in a Department of Veterans Affairs SCI Home Care Program. The SCI Hospital in Home (HiH) model is similar to a patient-centered interdisciplinary care model that was first introduced in Europe and later tested as part of a National Demonstration and Evaluation Study through Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and School of Public Health. This was funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation and the Department of Veterans Affairs. The objectives of the program are to support veterans' choice and access to patient-centered care, reduce the reliance on inpatient medical care, allow for early discharge, and decrease medical costs. Veterans with SCI who are admitted to the HiH program receive daily oversight by a physician, daily visits by a registered nurse, access to laboratory services, oxygen, intravenous medications, and nursing care in the home setting. In this model, patients may typically access HiH services either as an "early discharge" from the hospital or as a direct admit to the program from the emergency department or SCI clinic. Similar programs providing acute hospital-equivalent care in the home have been previously implemented and are successfully demonstrating decreased length of stay, improved patient access, and increased patient satisfaction.

  2. The Small Carry-on Impactor (SCI) and the Hayabusa2 Impact Experiment

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    Saiki, T.; Imamura, H.; Arakawa, M.; Wada, K.; Takagi, Y.; Hayakawa, M.; Shirai, K.; Yano, H.; Okamoto, C.

    2017-07-01

    Hayabusa2 is a sample return mission of JAXA launched on 3 December 2014. Hayabusa2 is the successor of Hayabusa, which returned samples from the asteroid Itokawa to the Earth. Although the design of Hayabusa2 follows that of Hayabusa, the former is equipped with some new components. The small carry-on impactor (SCI) is one of those components. The SCI is a compact kinetic impactor designed to remove the asteroid surface regolith locally and create an artificial crater. One of the most important scientific objectives of Hayabusa2 is to investigate the chemical and physical properties of the internal materials and structures of the target body, asteroid Ryugu. Hayabusa2 will attempt to observe the resultant crater with some scientific instruments and to get samples from around the crater. High kinetic energy is required to create a meaningful crater, however, the impact system design needs to fit within strict constraints. Complicated functions, such as a guidance and control system, are not permitted. A special type of shaped charge is used for the acceleration of the impactor of the SCI in order to make system simpler. Using this explosion technique makes it possible to accelerate the impactor very quickly and to hit the asteroid without a guidance system. However, the impact operation will be complicated because the explosive is very powerful and it scatters high-speed debris at the detonation. This paper describes an overview of the SCI system, the results of the development testing and an outline of the impact experiment of the Hayabusa2 mission.

  3. Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy | Indian Academy of Sciences

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    Author Affiliations. Pavel Ambrož1 Alfred Schroll2. Astronomical Institute of the Acad. Sci. of the Czech Republic, CZ-25165 Ondřejov, The Czech Republic. Kanzelhöehe Solar Observatory of the University of Graz, A-9521 Treffen, Austria.

  4. Beautiful dynamics / Jüri Engelbrecht

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    Engelbrecht, Jüri, 1939-

    2004-01-01

    1995. aastal tähistati füüsika alase teadusliku artikli, mis kirjeldab teatud tüüpi statsionaarset lainet ja pani aluse solitoonikale, 100. aastapäeva. Varem ilmunud: Proc. Estonian Acad. Sci. Phys. Math., 1995, 44, 1.

  5. Genetic diversity analysis of stress tolerant rice (Oryza sativa L.)

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    MD.Farid Islam

    2012-10-23

    Oct 23, 2012 ... The size (in nucleotide base pair) of the amplified band for each. SSR marker was determined based ..... Yield gaps, yield losses and constraints to ... in the red winter wheat regions of the United States. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.

  6. Sobre el plagi acadèmic a Europa. Un enfocament analític basat en quatre estudis

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    Vanja Pupovac

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    Full Text Available Amb el desenvolupament de les tecnologies de la informació i la comunicació (TIC, el plagi esdevé un problema cada cop més greu en la comunitat acadèmica. Segons els estudis sobre el plagi acadèmic elaborats en universitats de quatre països europeus diferents, l'índex de plagi entre els estudiants és considerablement alt i els estudiants majoritàriament passen per alt o permeten el plagi per la manca de coneixement, la manca de conseqüències o simplement perquè les TIC fan que el plagi sigui fàcil de cometre. Les conclusions dels estudis que es presenten en aquest article indiquen que cal introduir polítiques estrictes contra el plagi a les universitats. Pensem que s'hauria de captar l'atenció del públic sobre el problema del plagi, que s'hauria de debatre en altes esferes i que s'haurien d'aplicar mesures efectives contra el plagi. L'abast del plagi entre estudiants i les seves actituds envers el plagi reben influències de l'entorn cultural i també per l'escenari acadèmic. En comunitats multiculturals, com ara la comunitat europea, és necessari investigar i comparar el comportament acadèmic a diferents països per a establir estàndards equivalents en l'ensenyament arreu d'Europa. Text complet (PDFDossier complet (PDF

  7. El papel de la procrastinación académica como factor de la deserción universitaria

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    Angélica Garzón Umerenkova

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    Full Text Available Se presenta una revisión teórica sobre las tendencias en el estudio de la procrastinación académica y lo que estas pueden ofrecer a la comprensión de la deserción universitaria. La procrastinación es aplazar aquello que debe ser hecho y está asociado con un fallo auto-regulatorio en el comportamiento de la gestión del tiempo. Inicialmente, se define qué es la deserción universitaria, las variables y modelos teóricos de los que se ha partido para su explicación y se presentan las principales cifras sobre deserción y cobertura universitarias. Posteriormente, se presentan los modelos de autorregulación académica desde los cuales se ha abordado el estudio de la procrastinación y, finalmente, se definen los principales hallazgos y perspectivas de intervención sobre la procrastinación. Para fomentar el aumento de la retención, es conveniente, además del estudio de las variables tradicionales asociadas a la deserción universitaria, incorporar nuevas variables que aporten elementos conceptuales a la explicación y prevención del fenómeno. Este es el caso de la procrastinación académica. Se muestra en este documento que hay evidencias de la asociación entre alta procrastinación y bajo rendimiento académico de los estudiantes, que es una competencia que se puede evaluar en los procesos de entrada a la universidad, que es posible entrenarla con éxito y que su mejora, abordada dentro del contexto del aprendizaje autorregulado, acarrea no sólo beneficios académicos sino que también ayuda a mejorar la calidad de vida de los estudiantes.

  8. Impact of SciELO and MEDLINE indexing on submissions to Jornal de Pediatria.

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    Blank, Danilo; Buchweitz, Claudia; Procianoy, Renato S

    2005-01-01

    To evaluate the impact of SciELO and MEDLINE indexing on the number of articles submitted to Jornal de Pediatria. Analysis of total article submission, submission of articles from foreign countries and acceptance figures in the following periods: stage I - pre-website (Jan 2000-Mar 2001); stage II - website (Apr 2001-Jul 2002); stage III - SciELO (Aug 2002-Aug 2003); stage IV - MEDLINE (Sep 2003-Dec 2004). There was a significant trend toward linear increase in the number of submissions along the study period (p = 0.009). The number of manuscripts submitted in stages I through IV was 184, 240, 297, and 482, respectively. The number of submissions was similar in stages I and II (p = 0.148), but statistically higher in Stage III (p SciELO indexing was associated with an increase in Brazilian manuscript submissions to Jornal de Pediatria, whereas MEDLINE indexing led to an increase in both Brazilian and foreign submissions.

  9. Discurso de Orden Pronunciado por el Académico Dr. Efraím Otero-Ruiz, durante la posesión del Académico.

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    Señores Académicos, señoras, señores:

    (Santafé de Bogotá, marzo 19 de 1998


    Como un "Fenómeno del Niño" y con el ímpetu emocional de esas sagas cíclicas que nos recordara
    vívidamente "Cien Años de Soledad" se repite, a los ocho años, una ceremonia en que dos de sus
    actores son los mismos, sólo que con orden inverso. Esta vez un hombre salido de las filas académicas, sin otro mérito que su capacidad de reconocimiento y afecto, tiene como honroso encargo pronunciar el discurso de orden en la posesión de José Félix Patiño como Presidente de la Academia Nacional de Medicina para los dos últimos años del milenio, rodeado de una dignísima Junta Directiva y sucediendo a otro hombre de cualidades eximias, que ha dirigido uno de los cuatrienios más ilustres por
    los que haya pasado la corporación.

    En esa otra época, 1990, fue un académico ya cargado de honores y de merecimientos quien pronunciara gallardamente el discurso de orden durante el acto de mi posesión como Presidente, en el paraninfo de la Academia Colombiana de la Lengua.
    Denominador común era y sigue siendo el mutuo bagaje de una amistad ininterrumpida de más de
    cuarenta años, que es el que me lleva a pronunciar estas palabras, cargadas como nunca de admiración, de respeto y de cariño.

    Porque la nutrida votación que llevó al académico Patiño a salir electo con el 95% de los votos,
    fenómeno casi nunca antes visto en los anales de nuestra venerable Academia, no es sino la expresión
    unánime de confianza por un hombre que, ya alcanzada la "edad bíblica" --como él mismo
    lo dijera en sus vivaces memorias del año pasado- conserva la chispa de su infatigable intelecto,
    siempre ávido para enseñar y aprender; y mantiene la integridad física y el ánimo del cirujano de

  10. Características psicológicas y desempeño académico en universitarios de profesiones de pronta ocupación

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    Riveros, Angélica; Rubio, Tomás Humberto; Candelario, Julieta; Mangín, Mariana

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    El rendimiento académico hace evidentes contrastes entre las condiciones que enfrentan los alumnos y estados de bienestar y malestar psicológico. En México las principales razones de la deserción escolar son económicas, la necesidad de la inserción temprana en el campo laboral y bajo desempeño académico. El propósito del presente trabajo fue identificar los factores que impactan la salud mental y su relevancia respecto del desempeño académico de alumnos de administración y contaduría de la Un...

  11. LAS AULAS DE ACOMPAÑAMIENTO ACADÉMICO: Soporte de Aprendizaje e Integración Académica en la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.

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    Ordóñez Torres, Costanza; Jaramillo Correa, Carolina

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    Las Aulas de Acompañamiento Académico implementadas en la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana desde el año 2016 son una de las estrategias de la Universidad encaminadas a fortalecer el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes en áreas básicas, a disminuir las tasas de deserción producto del fracaso académico y a propender por la apropiación de conocimientos y competencias que asegurarían los aprendizajes en áreas más complejas. Esta presentación se centrará en los factores asociados al fenómeno ...

  12. Experimental Model of Spinal Cord Injury (SCI in rats: management guidelines Modelo Experimental de Lesión de Médula Espinal (SCI en ratas: guías de manejo Modelo Experimental de Lesão Medular (SCI em ratos: diretrizes de manejo

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    Asdrubal Falavigna

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    Full Text Available Surgical experiments with laboratory animals are necessary for medical research. These studies aim to clarify the mechanism of disease, investigate the action and efficacy of new drugs or biological markers, as well as develop and enhance new therapies and apply new techniques. Regarding the models of spinal cord injury (SCI, there are several different methods that address the handling of the animals, especially concerning the use of analgesics, antibiotics and pre- and postoperative management. The lack of uniformity and standardization among the studies does not allow the understanding of the model of SCI or the proper handling of the paraplegic animals, hampering the adequate interpretation and comparison of results. The goal of this study is to establish a standard protocol on the handling of animals subjected to experimental models of SCI.La realización de experimentos quirúrgicos con animales de laboratorio son necesarios para la investigación médica. Estos estudios tienen por objeto aclarar el mecanismo de las enfermedades, investigar la acción de nuevos medicamentos y marcadores biológicos, así como desarrollar y mejorar nuevas terapias y aplicar nuevas técnicas. En cuanto a los modelos animales de lesión de la médula espinal (SCI, existen varios métodos diferentes que abordan el cuidado de estos animales, especialmente en relación con el uso de analgésicos, antibióticos y manejo pre y post operatorio. La falta de uniformidad y estandarización entre los estudios no permite la comprensión del modelo de SCI o el manejo adecuado del animal parapléjico, lo que dificulta la interpretación y comparación adecuada de los resultados. El objetivo de este estudio es establece un protocolo estándar de manejo de animales sometidos a modelos experimentales de SCI.Experimentações cirúrgicas em nível laboratorial com o uso de animais são necessárias para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa médica. Estes estudos têm o objetivo de

  13. Estrategias de aprendizaje y rendimiento académico en una Institución Educativa de Magdalena 2014

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    La investigación titulada, “Uso de las estrategias de aprendizaje y el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes del VII ciclo del nivel secundaria de la I.E. Francisco Bolognesi de Magdalena 2014”, cuyo objetivo fue determinar la relación que existe entre el uso de las estrategias de aprendizaje y el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes del VII ciclo del nivel secundaria de la I.E. Francisco Bolognesi de Magdalena 2014, como un aporte al análisis, descripción y explicación ...

  14. La trascendencia del logos universitario: diálogo educativo/ diálogo académico

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    Full Text Available A partir de la propuesta hermenéutica de Hans-Georg Gadamer, se reflexionó sobre la trascendencia de los diálogos educativo y académico en el ámbito universitario. Se puso énfasis en el intercambio de argumentos como elemento que instaura y renueva el sentido humanista y científico de la sociedad académica, y al mismo tiempo confiere a sus miembros identidad, legitimidad y presencia histórica. Finalmente, se dio cuenta de la importancia del debate cotidiano de nociones y concepciones entre investigadores, profesores y alumnos, para configurar una comunidad plural, defensora de la libertad de pensamiento y consciente de los modelos que sustentan sus interpretaciones.

  15. The minor C-allele of rs2014355 in ACADS is associated with reduced insulin release following an oral glucose load

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    Hornbak, Malene; Banasik, Karina; Justesen, Johanne Marie

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    -aged Danish individuals (nACADS=4,324; nACADM=4,337). The T2D-case-control study involved a total of ~8,300 Danish individuals (nACADS=8,313; nACADM=8,344). Results In glucose-tolerant individuals the minor C-allele of rs2014355 of ACADS associated with reduced measures of serum insulin at 30 min following...... an oral glucose load (per allele effect (beta)=-3.8% (-6.3%;-1.3%), P=0.003), reduced incremental area under the insulin curve (beta=-3.6% (-6.3%;-0.9%), P=0.009), reduced acute insulin response (beta=-2.2% (-4.2%;0.2%), P=0.03), and with increased insulin sensitivity ISIMatsuda (beta= 2.9% (0.5%;5.2%), P...

  16. Letramento acadêmico: uma perspectiva etramento portuguesa = Academic literacy: a Portuguese perspective

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    Adriana Fischer

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    Full Text Available Os modos de constituição letrada de alunos universitários, no meio acadêmico, é foco deste trabalho, realizado em Portugal, no ano de 2006. Os dados que integram as análises advêm de entrevistas orais semiestruturadas realizadas com alunos do curso de Letras da Universidade do Minho. São selecionadas as falas de quatro alunas, a fim de se proceder a discussões específicas e coerentes ao objetivo proposto: analisar como alunos constituem-se sujeitos letrados no meio acadêmico. A teoria do letramento como prática social direciona as discussões e análises dos resultados advindos das falas vivas das alunas. Em acréscimo, abordagens relativas ao letramento acadêmico são decisivas para a compreensão das práticas letradas nesse contexto social. Na perspectiva das quatro alunas/sujeitos da pesquisa, experiências anteriores ao ingresso no curso de Letras e,principalmente, as diversas formas de interação no meio acadêmico interferem no uso, no domínio da linguagem e na formação como professoras. Das falas das alunas emerge uma tensão constante entre ser aluno e ser professor, o que indica uma constituição letrada emconflito, no que tange ao ensino de língua em Letras.Current analysis deals with modes of literate constituency of undergraduate students in an academic environment. Study hasbeen undertaken in Portugal in 2006. Data for analysis hailed from half-structured interviews with students in a Language and Literature graduation course at the University of Minho, Portugal. Samples of responses by four students were selected for specific discussions and with the proposed objective of this study, or rather, to analyze the way students constitute themselves as literate subjects in the academic environment. Literacy theory as social practice guided thediscussions and analyses of results from the interviews. Approaches related to academic literacy are crucial for the understanding of the literate practices in this social

  17. Estilos educativos parentais, autoconceito e desempenho académico

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    Satúrio-Pires, Catarina de Almeida de

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    Dissertação de mestrado apresentada ao ISPA -Instituto Superior Dando uso a diversas questões psicossociais que debatem as consequências dos padrões actuais de educação dos pais relativamente aos seus filhos, este trabalho tem por objectivo aferir de que forma os estilos educativos parentais (autoritário, autoritativo, permissivo e negligente) tal como percebidos por pais e filhos, influenciam as diferentes dimensões do autoconceito e o desempenho académico das crianças. Para o efeito, foi...

  18. Enhancing health care professionals' and trainees' knowledge of physical activity guidelines for adults with and without SCI.

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    Shirazipour, Celina H; Tomasone, Jennifer R; Martin Ginis, Kathleen A

    2018-01-11

    Health care providers (HCPs) are preferred sources of physical activity (PA) information; however, minimal research has explored HCPs' knowledge of spinal cord injury (SCI) PA guidelines, and no research has examined HCP trainees' PA guideline knowledge. The current study explored HCPs' and trainees' initial knowledge of PA guidelines for both adults with SCI and the general population, and the utility of an event-based intervention for improving this knowledge. Participants (HCPs n = 129; trainees n = 573) reported guideline knowledge for both sets of guidelines (SCI and general population) immediately after, one-month, and six-months following the intervention. Frequencies determined guideline knowledge at each timepoint, while chi-squared tests examined differences in knowledge of both guidelines, as well as knowledge differences in the short- and long-term. Results demonstrated that HCPs and trainees lack knowledge of PA guidelines, particularly guidelines for adults with SCI. The results further suggest that a single event-based intervention is not effective for improving long-term guideline knowledge. Suggestions are made for future research with the aim of improving interventions that target HCP and HCP trainees' long-term guideline knowledge for adults with SCI and the general population.

  19. Treinamento desportivo: perfil acadêmico dos líderes de grupos de estudo brasileiros

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    Hudson Fabricius Peres Nunes

    Full Text Available Resumo Este estudo objetivou caracterizar o perfil acadêmico dos professores líderes de grupos de estudo brasileiros que desenvolvem pesquisas na subárea de treinamento desportivo. A metodologia usada foi a pesquisa descritiva dos currículos acadêmicos encontrados no banco de dados da Plataforma Lattes, tendo em vista que os dados quantitativos foram interpretados a partir da análise qualitativa das informações. Os resultados revelam que os grupos estão vinculados principalmente a universidades da Região Sudeste, a maioria dos líderes é doutor e a prevalência da produção científica está relacionada à preparação orgânica, pedagógica, psicológica e desportiva dos atletas.

  20. Thermodynamics of information processing based on enzyme kinetics: An exactly solvable model of an information pump

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    Cao, Yuansheng; Gong, Zongping; Quan, H. T.

    2015-06-01

    Motivated by the recent proposed models of the information engine [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 109, 11641 (2012), 10.1073/pnas.1204263109] and the information refrigerator [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 030602 (2013), 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.030602], we propose a minimal model of the information pump and the information eraser based on enzyme kinetics. This device can either pump molecules against the chemical potential gradient by consuming the information to be encoded in the bit stream or (partially) erase the information initially encoded in the bit stream by consuming the Gibbs free energy. The dynamics of this model is solved exactly, and the "phase diagram" of the operation regimes is determined. The efficiency and the power of the information machine is analyzed. The validity of the second law of thermodynamics within our model is clarified. Our model offers a simple paradigm for the investigating of the thermodynamics of information processing involving the chemical potential in small systems.

  1. Secondary structure and phylogeny of Staphylococcus and Micrococcus 5S rRNAs.

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    Dekio, S; Yamasaki, R; Jidoi, J; Hori, H; Osawa, S

    1984-01-01

    Nucleotide sequences of 5S rRNAs from four bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus Smith (diffuse), Staphylococcus epidermidis ATCC 14990, Micrococcus luteus ATCC 9341 and Micrococcus luteus ATCC 4698, were determined. The secondary structural models of S. aureus and S. epidermidis sequences showed characteristics of the gram-positive bacterial 5S rRNA (116-N type [H. Hori and S. Osawa, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 76:381-385, 1979]). Those of M. luteus ATCC 9341 and M. luteus ATCC 4698 together with that of Streptomyces griseus (A. Simoncsits, Nucleic Acids Res. 8:4111-4124, 1980) showed intermediary characteristics between the gram-positive and gram-negative (120-N type [H. Hori and S. Osawa, 1979]) 5S rRNAs. This and previous studies revealed that there exist at least three major groups of eubacteria having distinct 5S rRNA and belonging to different stems in the 5S rRNA phylogenic tree. PMID:6735981

  2. Cloning, expression and characterization of a mammalian Nudix hydrolase-like enzyme that cleaves the pyrophosphate bond of UDP-glucose.

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    Yagi, Toshihiro; Baroja-Fernández, Edurne; Yamamoto, Ryuji; Muñoz, Francisco José; Akazawa, Takashi; Hong, Kyoung Su; Pozueta-Romero, Javier

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    A distinct UDP-glucose (UDPG) pyrophosphatase (UGPPase, EC 3.6.1.45) has been characterized using pig kidney ( Sus scrofa ). This enzyme hydrolyses UDPG, the precursor molecule of numerous glycosylation reactions in animals, to produce glucose 1-phosphate (G1P) and UMP. Sequence analyses of the purified enzyme revealed that, similar to the case of a nucleotide-sugar hydrolase controlling the intracellular levels of ADP-glucose linked to glycogen biosynthesis in Escherichia coli [Moreno-Bruna, Baroja-Fernández, Muñoz, Bastarrica-Berasategui, Zandueta-Criado, Rodri;guez-López, Lasa, Akazawa and Pozueta-Romero (2001) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98, 8128-8132], UGPPase appears to be a member of the ubiquitously distributed group of nucleotide pyrophosphatases designated Nudix hydrolases. A complete cDNA of the UGPPase-encoding gene, designated UGPP, was isolated from a human thyroid cDNA library and expressed in E. coli. The resulting cells accumulated a protein that showed kinetic properties identical to those of pig UGPPase.

  3. An algorithm for modularization of MAPK and calcium signaling pathways: comparative analysis among different species.

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    Nayak, Losiana; De, Rajat K

    2007-12-01

    Signaling pathways are large complex biochemical networks. It is difficult to analyze the underlying mechanism of such networks as a whole. In the present article, we have proposed an algorithm for modularization of signal transduction pathways. Unlike studying a signaling pathway as a whole, this enables one to study the individual modules (less complex smaller units) easily and hence to study the entire pathway better. A comparative study of modules belonging to different species (for the same signaling pathway) has been made, which gives an overall idea about development of the signaling pathways over the taken set of species of calcium and MAPK signaling pathways. The superior performance, in terms of biological significance, of the proposed algorithm over an existing community finding algorithm of Newman [Newman MEJ. Modularity and community structure in networks. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006;103(23):8577-82] has been demonstrated using the aforesaid pathways of H. sapiens.

  4. Twenty-first century vaccines

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    Rappuoli, Rino

    2011-01-01

    In the twentieth century, vaccination has been possibly the greatest revolution in health. Together with hygiene and antibiotics, vaccination led to the elimination of many childhood infectious diseases and contributed to the increase in disability-free life expectancy that in Western societies rose from 50 to 78–85 years (Crimmins, E. M. & Finch, C. E. 2006 Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 103, 498–503; Kirkwood, T. B. 2008 Nat. Med 10, 1177–1185). In the twenty-first century, vaccination will be expected to eliminate the remaining childhood infectious diseases, such as meningococcal meningitis, respiratory syncytial virus, group A streptococcus, and will address the health challenges of this century such as those associated with ageing, antibiotic resistance, emerging infectious diseases and poverty. However, for this to happen, we need to increase the public trust in vaccination so that vaccines can be perceived as the best insurance against most diseases across all ages. PMID:21893537

  5. Procrastinación en Estudiantes Universitarios: Su Relación con la Edad y el Curso Académico

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    Anna Rodríguez Camprubí

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    Full Text Available El propósito de esta investigación es descubrir si la procrastinación académica disminuye a lo largo del tiempo, y si esta disminución se explica por el factor edad, por el factor curso, o por una combinación de ambas variables. Se administró la Procrastination Assessment Scale Students (pass a una muestra de 105 alumnos universitarios, que se dividieron en cuatro grupos independientes en función de si eran menores o mayores de 25 años y del curso académico que hacían. Los resultados indican que el nivel de procrastinación solo depende de la edad y no del curso de los alumnos, y amplían el conocimiento empírico sobre procrastinación académica en la universidad.

  6. Académico Joaquín Silva Silva (1917-2003

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    Zoilo Cuellar Montoya

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    En 1984, la Escuela Milítar de Medicina lo exaltó a la honrosa categoría de Profesor Emérito y, de 1976 a 1994. la Asociación Colombiana de Facultades de Medicina (ASCOFAME lo tuvo como miembro de su Comité de Educación en Cirugía General. En 1989, durante la Presidencia del Académico Jorge Cavelier Gaviria, ingresó a la Academia Nacional de Medicina ...

  7. Ranking Business and Economics Journals in South America Using the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO)

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    Alexander, Jennifer K.; Pradenas, Lorena; Parada, Victor; Scherer, Robert F.

    2012-01-01

    Access to published research for knowledge creation and education in the administrative science disciplines in South America has been enhanced since the introduction of the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO). Although SciELO has been available as an online journal indexing and publication service since 1998, there have been no…

  8. Estilo cognitivo y logro académico Estilo cognitivo e rendimento escolar Cognitive Style and Academic Achievement

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    Omar López-Vargas

    2011-04-01

    Full Text Available El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo explorar las relaciones entre el estilo cognitivo, el aprendizaje autorregulado y el logro académico, en diferentes niveles del proceso de aprendizaje. La revisión de la literatura especializada indica que existe una estrecha relación entre el estilo cognitivo del estudiante y la capacidad de regulación de su aprendizaje con el desempeño académico en general.Este artigo explora as relações entre estilo cognitivo, aprendizagem auto-regulada e rendimento escolar com diferentes níveis de aprendizagem. A revisão da literatura mostra uma relação estreita entre o estilo cognitivo do aluno e a capacidade de regular a sua aprendizagem com o desempenho acadêmico.The aim of this article is to explore the relationships that exist between cognitive style, self-regulated learning and academic achievement at different levels in the learning process. The review of specialized literature suggests there is a close relationship between academic performance in general and a student's cognitive style and ability to regulate learning.

  9. Relación entre la lecto-escritura, el desempeño académico y la deserción estudiantil

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    Olga Lucía Uribe-Enciso

    2014-01-01

    Full Text Available El objetivo del presente estudio es determinar si existe relación entre la competencia lecto-escritora de los estudiantes de primer año en una universidad privada de Bucaramanga, su desempeño académico y su permanencia durante el primer año de estudio. Se tomó una población de 350 estudiantes que ingresaron en el segundo semestre del año 2011 para participar en la investigación. Se emplearon cuestionarios y entrevistas para indagar la opinión de los estudiantes y docentes acerca de las habilidades lectoescritoras y su relación con la vida académica. Adicionalmente, se consultaron bases de datos institucionales, los puntajes de la prueba nacional SABER 11 y el puntaje obtenido en la prueba institucional de ingreso que evaluó la producción escrita de un texto argumentativo. Los resultados muestran una relación entre la competencia lecto-escritora, el desempeño académico y la tasa de deserción estudiantil, hallazgo corroborado por la mayoría de los docentes entrevistados. Sin embargo, los estudiantes desertores declaran que dicha competencia no es fundamental en el éxito académico. El estudio demuestra la necesidad de implementar acciones de acompañamiento a la población estudiantil universitaria para prevenir la deserción temprana por factores asociados al bajo rendimiento académico causado por un bajo nivel de desarrollo en la competencia lecto-escritora.

  10. VijayRaghavan, Prof. Krishnaswamy

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    VijayRaghavan, Prof. Krishnaswamy Ph.D. (Mumbai), FNA, FNASc, FRS, FTWAS, Foreign Assoc. (US Natl. Acad. Sci.) Council Service: 2007-2009. Date of birth: 3 February 1954. Specialization: Developmental Biology, Genetics and Neurogenetics Address: Secretary, Department of Biotechnology, Block 2, CGO Complex, ...

  11. Simultaneous Monitoring of Vascular Oxygenation and Tissue Oxygen Tension of Breast Tumors Under Hyperbaric Oxygen Exposure

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    28. Alagoz, T., R. Buller, B. Anderson, K. Terrell , R...and oxygenation Ann . New Acad. Sci. 838 29–45 Chapman J D, Stobbe C C, Arnfield M R, Santus R, Lee J and McPhee M S 1991 Oxygen dependency of tumor

  12. DMPD: Targeting bacterial endotoxin: two sides of a coin. [Dynamic Macrophage Pathway CSML Database

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  13. Fulltext PDF

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    Proc. Nilt. Acad. Sci., VoL 45, pp.578-S81,1959. ~. , !' Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star,. Biggest puzzle from afar. How unlike the other ones,. Brighter than a trillion Suns. Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star,. How I wonder what you are! - George Gamow.

  14. A faster and more reliable data acquisition system for the full performance of the SciCRT

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    Sasai, Y.; Matsubara, Y.; Itow, Y.; Sako, T.; Kawabata, T.; Lopez, D.; Hikimochi, R.; Tsuchiya, A.; Ikeno, M.; Uchida, T.; Tanaka, M.; Munakata, K.; Kato, C.; Nakamura, Y.; Oshima, T.; Koike, T.; Kozai, M.; Shibata, S.; Oshima, A.; Takamaru, H.

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    The SciBar Cosmic Ray Telescope (SciCRT) is a massive scintillator tracker to observe cosmic rays at a very high-altitude environment in Mexico. The fully active tracker is based on the Scintillator Bar (SciBar) detector developed as a near detector for the KEK-to-Kamioka long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment (K2K) in Japan. Since the data acquisition (DAQ) system was developed for the accelerator experiment, we determined to develop a new robust DAQ system to optimize it to our cosmic-ray experiment needs at the top of Mt. Sierra Negra (4600 m). One of our special requirements is to achieve a 10 times faster readout rate. We started to develop a new fast readout back-end board (BEB) based on 100 Mbps SiTCP, a hardware network processor developed for DAQ systems for high energy physics experiments. Then we developed the new BEB which has a potential of 20 times faster than the current one in the case of observing neutrons. Finally we installed the new DAQ system including the new BEBs to a part of the SciCRT in July 2015. The system has been operating since then. In this paper, we describe the development, the basic performance of the new BEB, the status after the installation in the SciCRT, and the future performance.

  15. A faster and more reliable data acquisition system for the full performance of the SciCRT

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    Sasai, Y., E-mail: sasaiyoshinori@isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp [Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601 (Japan); Matsubara, Y.; Itow, Y.; Sako, T.; Kawabata, T.; Lopez, D.; Hikimochi, R.; Tsuchiya, A. [Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601 (Japan); Ikeno, M.; Uchida, T.; Tanaka, M. [High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, KEK, 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801 (Japan); Munakata, K.; Kato, C.; Nakamura, Y.; Oshima, T.; Koike, T. [Department of Physics, Shinshu University, Asahi, Matsumoto 390-8621 (Japan); Kozai, M. [Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (ISAS/JAXA), Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-5210 (Japan); Shibata, S.; Oshima, A.; Takamaru, H. [College of Engineering, Chubu University, Kasugai 487-8501 (Japan); and others

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    The SciBar Cosmic Ray Telescope (SciCRT) is a massive scintillator tracker to observe cosmic rays at a very high-altitude environment in Mexico. The fully active tracker is based on the Scintillator Bar (SciBar) detector developed as a near detector for the KEK-to-Kamioka long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment (K2K) in Japan. Since the data acquisition (DAQ) system was developed for the accelerator experiment, we determined to develop a new robust DAQ system to optimize it to our cosmic-ray experiment needs at the top of Mt. Sierra Negra (4600 m). One of our special requirements is to achieve a 10 times faster readout rate. We started to develop a new fast readout back-end board (BEB) based on 100 Mbps SiTCP, a hardware network processor developed for DAQ systems for high energy physics experiments. Then we developed the new BEB which has a potential of 20 times faster than the current one in the case of observing neutrons. Finally we installed the new DAQ system including the new BEBs to a part of the SciCRT in July 2015. The system has been operating since then. In this paper, we describe the development, the basic performance of the new BEB, the status after the installation in the SciCRT, and the future performance.

  16. Measuring depression after spinal cord injury: Development and psychometric characteristics of the SCI-QOL Depression item bank and linkage with PHQ-9.

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    Tulsky, David S; Kisala, Pamela A; Kalpakjian, Claire Z; Bombardier, Charles H; Pohlig, Ryan T; Heinemann, Allen W; Carle, Adam; Choi, Seung W

    2015-05-01

    To develop a calibrated spinal cord injury-quality of life (SCI-QOL) item bank, computer adaptive test (CAT), and short form to assess depressive symptoms experienced by individuals with SCI, transform scores to the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) metric, and create a crosswalk to the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-9. We used grounded-theory based qualitative item development methods, large-scale item calibration field testing, confirmatory factor analysis, item response theory (IRT) analyses, and statistical linking techniques to transform scores to a PROMIS metric and to provide a crosswalk with the PHQ-9. Five SCI Model System centers and one Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in the United States. Adults with traumatic SCI. Spinal Cord Injury--Quality of Life (SCI-QOL) Depression Item Bank Individuals with SCI were involved in all phases of SCI-QOL development. A sample of 716 individuals with traumatic SCI completed 35 items assessing depression, 18 of which were PROMIS items. After removing 7 non-PROMIS items, factor analyses confirmed a unidimensional pool of items. We used a graded response IRT model to estimate slopes and thresholds for the 28 retained items. The SCI-QOL Depression measure correlated 0.76 with the PHQ-9. The SCI-QOL Depression item bank provides a reliable and sensitive measure of depressive symptoms with scores reported in terms of general population norms. We provide a crosswalk to the PHQ-9 to facilitate comparisons between measures. The item bank may be administered as a CAT or as a short form and is suitable for research and clinical applications.

  17. Rasgos Complejos y Rendimiento Académico: Contribución de los Rasgos de Personalidad, Creencias de Autoeficacia e Intereses

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    MARCOS CUPANI

    2014-01-01

    Full Text Available El objetivo de este trabajo consistió en explorar la contribución de las facetas de personalidad, creencias de autoeficacia e intereses que carac - terizan a los estudiantes adolescentes con alto y bajo rendimiento académico en diferentes áreas del conocimiento. Mediante la implementación de un análisis discriminante, los resultados de este estudio indican que las tres medidas con - sideradas contribuyen de manera significativa a explicar, según el dominio, entre un 23% y un 50% del rendimiento académico. Se espera que la información aportada ayude a investigadores y profesionales del ámbito educativo a compren - der cuál es el patrón psicológico que facilita el éxito académico.

  18. Effects of Early Acute Care on Autonomic Outcomes in SCI: Bedside to Bench and Back

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    2017-12-01

    the current recommendations for acute SCI.15 Earlier in the course of this patient population, high-dose methylprednisolone was used at the discretion ...Principal component analysis: a review and recent developments. Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci 2016;374: 20150202 CrossRef Medline 33. Linting M...grade 3 injury with super- imposed discrete foci of intramedullary T2 hypointensity attributed to the presence of macroscopic intramedullary

  19. SciTil Detector for the PANDA experiment at FAIR

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    Suzuki, Ken; Gruber, Lukas; Brunner, Stefan; Marton, Johann; Orth, Herbert; Schwarz, Carsten; Scitil/Panda Collaboration

    2014-09-01

    The PANDA experiment at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) is a fixed-target experiment installed in a antiproton storage ring (HESR) in the energy range of 1 GeV to 15 GeV. FAIR is being build on the area of the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany. The universal PANDA detector together with the HESR enables to study fundamental questions of hadron and nuclear physics, e.g. gluonic excitations, the physics of strange and charm quarks and nucleon structure. The SciTil detector is a barrel time-of-flight detector and is a relatively new subcomponent to the system. The demand arose in order to provide a securer event tagging at the event rates of 20-100 MHz instantaneous event rate, to improve a particle identification capability of relatively low momentum particles, and to allow a faster track finding with pattern recognition. The beam test of the SciTil prototype detector in January 2014 showed a promising result. We report the status and outlook of the project.

  20. SciFi - A large Scintillating Fibre Tracker for LHCb

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    Quagliani, Renato

    2016-01-01

    The LHCb detector will be upgraded during the Long Shutdown 2 (LS2) of the LHC in order to cope with higher instantaneous luminosities and to read out the data at 40MHz using a trigger-less read-out system. All front-end electronics will be replaced and several sub-detectors must be redesigned to cope with higher occupancy. The current tracking detectors downstream of the LHCb dipole magnet will be replaced by the Scintillating Fibre (SciFi) Tracker. Concept, design and operational parameters are driven by the challenging LHC environment including significant ionising and neutron radiation levels. Over a total active surface of 360 m2 the SciFi Tracker will use scintillating fibres (Ø 0.25 mm) read out by Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs). State-of-the-art multi-channel SiPM arrays are being developed to read out the fibres and a custom ASIC will be used to digitise the signals from the SiPMs. The project is now at the transition from R&D to series production. We will present the evolution of the design a...

  1. Formación académica, valores, empatía y comportamientos socialmente responsables en estudiantes universitarios

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    Arango Tobón, Olber E.; Clavijo Zapata, Sandra J.; Puerta Lopera, Isabel C.; Sánchez Duque, José W.

    2014-01-01

    El objetivo de la presente investigación fue determinar la relación entre la formación académica, la empatía, los valores y comportamientos socialmente responsables de estudiantes de primero, quinto y décimo semestres de varios programas académicos de la Fundación Universitaria Luis Amigó. Se empleó un enfoque empírico-analítico, de diseño no experimental, tipo descriptivo y correlacional. Los instrumentos con los que se recolectó la información fueron el Cuestionario de Auto-atribución de Co...

  2. Educación para la sostenibilidad: la formación académica de arquitectos y urbanistas

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    Rosa María Chacón

    2012-01-01

    El propósito de este trabajo es analizar las relaciones entre sostenibilidad y educación superior en lo referente a la formación académica de arquitectos y urbanistas. La metodología utilizada se basa en el análisis teórico del desarrollo urbano sostenible, los eventos internacionales en el marco del decenio de la educación para la sostenibilidad y su relación con la educación superior y con las competencias esperables en la formación académica de arquitectos y urbanistas. Se concluye con una...

  3. Educación para la sostenibilidad: La formación académica de arquitectos y urbanistas

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    Chacón, Rosa María; Pampinella, Beatriz Graciela

    2012-01-01

    El propósito de este trabajo es analizar las relaciones entre sostenibilidad y educación superior en lo referente a la formación académica de arquitectos y urbanistas. La metodología utilizada se basa en el análisis teórico del desarrollo urbano sostenible, los eventos internacionales en el marco del decenio de la educación para la sostenibilidad y su relación con la educación superior y con las competencias esperables en la formación académica de arquitectos y urbanistas. Se concluy...

  4. Comunidades virtuales para promover la innovación académica universitaria: UNA realidad

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    Mayela Coto Chotto

    2016-03-01

    Full Text Available Los nuevos avances en las tecnologías para la información y comunicación (TIC y los enfoques pedagógicos modernos crean nuevas oportunidades para diseñar ambientes innovadores de aprendizaje. Sin embargo, a pesar de los esfuerzos significativos que se realizan en las universidades para cambiar la naturaleza del aprendizaje, el modelo tradicional de educación es todavía ampliamente utilizado, y constituye una de las principales razones la inadecuada preparación de los académicos para enfrentar estos nuevos retos. Este artículo muestra los resultados preliminares de una iniciativa que se desarrolló en la Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (UNA mediante el proyecto “Comunidad de Práctica Virtual para la Innovación Académica en las Sedes Regionales de la Universidad Nacional”, el cual pretende promover un cambio cualitativo en la práctica docente de los académicos de las sedes regionales con el desarrollo y la aplicación de estrategias pedagógicas innovadoras y las TIC, creando a la vez condiciones para lograr un mayor grado de comunicación y compañerismo entre los docentes de las sedes regionales. El proyecto buscaba explorar un cambio en el enfoque de desarrollo profesional, de una formación tradicional a un aprendizaje en la práctica, utilizando para esto las estructuras conceptuales de las comunidades de práctica.

  5. Sobre a Produção Acadêmica Reichiana Relacionada à Área Educacional

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    Sara Quenzer Matthiesen

    Full Text Available Resumo A produção acadêmica em Universidades brasileiras que vincula Wilhelm Reich a diferentes áreas, produzindo novos conhecimentos em torno e a partir de suas ideias, tem crescido nos últimos anos, demonstrando que, para além da prática clínica, é possível identificarmos outras possibilidades de conhecimento de suas ideias articulando-as à Educação. Objetivando identificar as dissertações de mestrado e teses de doutorado que têm explorado suas ideias articulando-as à área educacional, essa pesquisa teórico-bibliográfica constatou que, dentre uma centena de produções acadêmicas produzidas entre 1979 e 2012 sobre o tema, 39 estão relacionadas à área educacional, sendo 29 dissertações de mestrado e 10 teses de doutorado. Analisados pelas categorias: “Ideias reichianas para a educação”, “Ideias reichianas e a educação de educadores”, “Ideias reichianas no cotidiano escolar”, “Ideias reichianas e a educação sexual” e “Aplicação das ideias reichianas em diferentes áreas da Educação”, os resultados desta pesquisa revelaram que este autor é um dos referenciais utilizados para se pensar temas educacionais contemporâneos no campo acadêmico brasileiro, demonstrando o quanto suas ideias podem contribuir para a formação e atuação de educadores.

  6. Violencia Escolar y Rendimiento Académico (VERA: aplicación de realidad aumentada

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    Full Text Available En la actualidad, dos son los problemas que de forma más notable comprometen el clima escolar en los Centros de Educación Secundaria: la violencia entre alumnos y el bajo rendimiento académico. Ambos aspectos, son tratados en múltiples trabajos de investigación, de donde se extraen datos que apoyan la existencia de una relación, cuanto menos compleja, entre la violencia escolar y el rendimiento académico. De la necesidad de crear nuevas herramientas para evaluar la convivencia escolar y su relación con el rendimiento académico; surge el desarrollo del recurso que presentamos: VERA-Nivel I. Se trata de un videojuego de realidad aumentada, que nos permite recabar información detallada sobre las formas de interacción que tienen los alumnos y con quién, y también, acerca de las habilidades cognitivas que poseen. Además, una de las ventajas que ofrece el uso de realidad aumentada es la posibilidad de analizar las interacciones de los alumnos con sus propios compañeros, en el contexto real del aula. De forma paralela, la aplicación nos permite recompensar conductas no violentas. La aplicación VERA-Nivel I no solo se limita al ámbito educativo, sino que puede y debe ser generalizada a otros contextos en los que proceda el mismo objeto de evaluación.

  7. Forces. 'O' Level Study Guide. Unit 1. ZIM-SCI, Zimbabwe Secondary School Science Project. Year 3.

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    The Zimbabwe Secondary School Science Project (ZIM-SCI) developed student study guides, corresponding teaching guides, and science kits for a low-cost science course which could be taught during the third year of secondary school without the aid of qualified teachers and conventional laboratories. This ZIM-SCI study guide is a five-part unit…

  8. USA

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    http://www.systime.dk/ungdomsuddannelser/almen-studieforberedelse/usa-en-grundbog-i-politik-og-okonomi.html......http://www.systime.dk/ungdomsuddannelser/almen-studieforberedelse/usa-en-grundbog-i-politik-og-okonomi.html...

  9. currículo académico

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    Róger Martínez Castillo

    2006-01-01

    Full Text Available El sistema de desarrollo socio-económico dominante, con sus políticas neoliberales y enfoques mercado-céntricos contribuyen a agravar los problemas socio-ambientales. No hay conciencia política de que el propio modelo de desarrollo vigente es el que genera la degradación socio-ambiental. Este tipo de temas no ha sido fácilmente comprendido o aceptado en el ámbito educativo formal, debido a la resistencia de la educación oficial para integrarlos en sus marcos académicos. Ante la crisis socio-económica y ambiental que vive nuestra sociedad, la educación ambiental representa una opción viable a la problemática general, para promover cambios sociales, nuevos conocimientos, permitir la participación ciudadana y un desarrollo sustentable, que estimulen una sociedad más justa, democrática y solidaria.

  10. Riesgo familiar total en familias con escolares según rendimiento académico Risco familiar total em famílias com escolares conforme aproveitamento acadêmico Total family risk in families with schoolchildren according to academic performance

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    CAROLINA LUCERO ENRÍQUEZ GUERRERO

    Full Text Available Este artículo presenta los resultados del estudio cuyo objetivo fue establecer las diferencias en el riesgo familiar entre dos grupos de familias: con niños escolares de alto rendimiento y niños de bajo rendimiento académico en un centro educativo distrital de Bogotá. Metodología: estudio descriptivo comparativo transversal con un componente analítico y abordaje cuantitativo; la muestra fue de 186 familias, durante abril a julio de 2007. Los resultados muestran predominio de familias nucleares en ambos grupos (65%, relación inversa entre el riesgo familiar total evaluado por el instrumento RFT 7-70 y el rendimiento académico del escolar de la familia, es decir que las familias que registraron riesgo alto (9% y medio (31% en mayor proporción son familias con escolares de bajo rendimiento académico, frente al predominio del riesgo familiar bajo (78% en las familias con niños de alto rendimiento. Se aplicó t de student para diferencia de medias y se encontró asociación (P = 0,02 entre el riesgo familiar total alto y el bajo rendimiento académico del escolar. En conclusión, estos resultados sugieren principalmente que se deben priorizar los factores de riesgo que determinan mayor riesgo familiar en familias con escolares de bajo rendimiento académico y dar atención de salud integral con enfoque familiar e intersectorial, y participación activa de la comunidad. Continuar investigando en posibles asociaciones entre salud individual, prácticas de salud, educación, ambiente socioeconómico y psicoafectivo de la familia y el logro educativo de escolares en familias con niños en edad escolar.Este artigo apresenta os resultados de um levantamento que objetiva estabelecer as diferenças no risco familiar entre dois grupos de famílias: com crianças escolares de alto aproveitamento acadêmico e crianças escolares de baixo aproveitamento acadêmico em um centro educativo distrital de Bogotá. Metodologia: levantamento descritivo

  11. Riesgo familiar total en familias con escolares según rendimiento académico Total family risk in families with schoolchildren according to academic performance Risco familiar total em famílias com escolares conforme aproveitamento acadêmico

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    CATAÑO ORDÓÑEZ NHORA

    2009-12-01

    Full Text Available Este artículo presenta los resultados del estudio cuyo objetivo fue establecer las diferencias en el riesgo familiar entre dos grupos de familias: con niños escolares de alto rendimiento y niños de bajo rendimiento académico en un centro educativo distrital de Bogotá. Metodología: estudio descriptivo comparativo transversal con un componente analítico y abordaje cuantitativo; la muestra fue de 186 familias, durante abril a julio de 2007. Los resultados muestran predominio de familias nucleares en ambos grupos (65%, relación inversa entre el riesgo familiar total evaluado por el instrumento RFT 7-70 y el rendimiento académico del escolar de la familia, es decir que las familias que registraron riesgo alto (9% y medio (31% en mayor proporción son familias con escolares de bajo rendimiento académico, frente al predominio del riesgo familiar bajo (78% en las familias con niños de alto rendimiento. Se aplicó t de student para diferencia de medias y se encontró asociación (P = 0,02 entre el riesgo familiar total alto y el bajo rendimiento académico del escolar. En conclusión, estos resultados sugieren principalmente que se deben priorizar los factores de riesgo que determinan mayor riesgo familiar en familias con escolares de bajo rendimiento académico y dar atención de salud integral con enfoque familiar e intersectorial, y participación activa de la comunidad. Continuar investigando en posibles asociaciones entre salud individual, prácticas de salud, educación, ambiente socioeconómico y psicoafectivo de la familia y el logro educativo de escolares en familias con niños en edad escolar.This article presents the results of a study whose objective was to establish the family risk differences among two groups of families: one with schoolchildren that show high academic performance and children that show low academic performance in an educational center in Bogotá. Methodology: cross-sectional comparative study with and

  12. T-1025 IU SciBath-768 detector tests in MI-12

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    Tayloe, Rex; Cooper, R.; Garrison, L.; Thornton, T.; Rebenitsch, L.; DeJongh, Fritz; Loer, Benjamin; Ramberg, Erik; Yoo, Jonghee

    2012-01-01

    This is a memorandum of understanding between the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) and the experimenters of Department of Physics and Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter, Indiana University, who have committed to participate in detector tests to be carried out during the 2012 Fermilab Neutrino program. The memorandum is intended solely for the purpose of recording expectations for budget estimates and work allocations for Fermilab, the funding agencies and the participating institutions. it reflects an arrangement that currently is satisfactory to the parties; however, it is recognized and anticipated that changing circumstances of the evolving research program will necessitate revisions. The parties agree to modify this memorandum to reflect such required adjustments. Actual contractual obligations will be set forth in separate documents. The experimenters propsoe to test their prototype 'SciBat-768' detector in the MI-12 building for 3 months (February-April) in Spring 2012. The major goal of this effort is to measure or limit the flux of beam-induced neutrons in a far-off-axis (> 45 o ) location of the Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB). This flux is of interest for a proposed coherent neutral-current neutrino-argon elastic scattering experiment. A second goal is to collect more test data for the SciBath-768 to enable better understanding and calibration of the device. The SciBath-768 detector successfully ran for 3 months in the MINOS Underground Area in Fall 2011 as testbeam experiment T-1014 and is currently running above ground in the MINOS service building. For the run proposed here, the experiments are requesting: space in MI-12 in which to run the SciBath detector during February-April 2012 while the BNB is operating; technical support to help with moving the equipment on site; access to power, internet, and accelerator signals; and a small office space from which to run and monitor the experiment.

  13. T-1025 IU SciBath-768 detector tests in MI-12

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    Tayloe, Rex; Cooper, R.; Garrison, L.; Thornton, T.; Rebenitsch, L.; /Indiana U.; DeJongh, Fritz; Loer, Benjamin; Ramberg, Erik; Yoo, Jonghee; /Fermilab

    2012-02-11

    This is a memorandum of understanding between the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) and the experimenters of Department of Physics and Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter, Indiana University, who have committed to participate in detector tests to be carried out during the 2012 Fermilab Neutrino program. The memorandum is intended solely for the purpose of recording expectations for budget estimates and work allocations for Fermilab, the funding agencies and the participating institutions. it reflects an arrangement that currently is satisfactory to the parties; however, it is recognized and anticipated that changing circumstances of the evolving research program will necessitate revisions. The parties agree to modify this memorandum to reflect such required adjustments. Actual contractual obligations will be set forth in separate documents. The experimenters propsoe to test their prototype 'SciBat-768' detector in the MI-12 building for 3 months (February-April) in Spring 2012. The major goal of this effort is to measure or limit the flux of beam-induced neutrons in a far-off-axis (> 45{sup o}) location of the Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB). This flux is of interest for a proposed coherent neutral-current neutrino-argon elastic scattering experiment. A second goal is to collect more test data for the SciBath-768 to enable better understanding and calibration of the device. The SciBath-768 detector successfully ran for 3 months in the MINOS Underground Area in Fall 2011 as testbeam experiment T-1014 and is currently running above ground in the MINOS service building. For the run proposed here, the experiments are requesting: space in MI-12 in which to run the SciBath detector during February-April 2012 while the BNB is operating; technical support to help with moving the equipment on site; access to power, internet, and accelerator signals; and a small office space from which to run and monitor the experiment.

  14. La biblioteca académica 2.0: Innovación en México

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    Lizbeth Berenice Herrera Delgado

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    Full Text Available La Biblioteca 2.0 (B2 ha sido objeto de atención y difusión, de una discusión entre los medios electrónicos, cobijada por el marco informal de los bloggers bibliotecarios o “bibliobloggers2”. En el presente trabajo se cavila sobre la B2 y su innovación desde el entorno académico y su contexto en México. Ejercicio que pone de manifiesto por un lado el rol que juega en las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC, mientas que por el otro lado se cuestiona su papel al interior de las Unidades de Información. Conjugando entonces las propuestas que componen a la B2, estudiando los tipos de innovación que existen y vertiendo finalmente una opinión acorde al contexto mexicano es que surge así la concepción de las bibliotecas académicas mexicanas 2.0.

  15. La biblioteca académica 2.0: Innovación en México

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    Lizbeth Berenice Herrera Delgado

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    Full Text Available La Biblioteca 2.0 (B2 ha sido objeto de atención y difusión, de una discusión entre los medios electrónicos, cobijada por el marco informal de los bloggers bibliotecarios o “bibliobloggers1”. En el presente trabajo se cavila sobre la B2 y su innovación desde el entorno académico y su contexto en México. Ejercicio que pone de manifiesto por un lado el rol que juega en las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC, mientas que por el otro lado se cuestiona su papel al interior de las Unidades de Información. Conjugando entonces las propuestas que componen a la B2, estudiando los tipos de innovación que existen y vertiendo finalmente una opinión acorde al contexto mexicano es que surge así la concepción de las bibliotecas académicas mexicanas 2.0.

  16. Estratégias de aprendizagem e desempenho acadêmico: evidências de validade

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    Katya Luciane de Oliveira

    Full Text Available O objetivo deste estudo foi verificar a validade fatorial de uma escala de estratégias de aprendizagem, bem como explorar sua validade concorrente em relação ao desempenho acadêmico de estudantes. Participaram 815 crianças do Ensino Fundamental de escolas públicas e privadas dos Estados de São Paulo e Minas Gerais. A Escala de Estratégias de Aprendizagem foi aplicada coletivamente. Para a operacionalização dos objetivos, recorreu-se à análise fatorial exploratória. Os alphas de Cronbach do instrumento e das três subescalas revelaram índices aceitáveis de consistência interna. A análise de variância apontou diferenças estatisticamente significativas entre o desempenho acadêmico e a pontuação na escala. Os dados foram discutidos em termos de suas possíveis implicações para a área de avaliação psicoeducacional.

  17. Evaluación a Académicos Universitarios en Francia. Interpretación de Distancias con un Caso Mexicano Evaluación a Académicos Universitarios en Francia. Interpretación de Distancias con un Caso Mexicano

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    Rosalía S. Lastra B.

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    Full Text Available Una controvertida temática universitaria es la forma en que el sector público promueve el reconocimiento de los académicos a través de programas de pago al mérito, consistentes en verificar la “productividad académica”. En la búsqueda de experiencias en países con sistemas educativos connotados, se emprendió la exploración del caso francés. Aunque en éste no se practican dichos programas, los elementos encontrados sobre clasificación de académicos permiten reflexionar sobre los distintos retos de una comunidad consolidada y los de otra en consolidación, dados sus respectivos fundamentos contextuales, estructuralesy actitudinales. Su convergencia está en la búsqueda de “excelencia” y en la preocupación por determinar bajo qué circunstancias y con qué decisiones se logran mejores resultados. Después de las generalidades del sistema francés, se presentan reflexiones sobre distanciasencontradas con un grupo mexicano al percibir la evaluación para ingreso de nuevos académicos, pertinencia del académico multifuncional y tipo de estímulos, finalizando conconsideraciones institucionales.A controversial university issue is the way that the public sector promotes the recognition of some of the prominent efforts of academia, through programs of merit pay, consistent in the verification of “academic productivity”. In search of the experience in countries with renowned educational systems, the exploration of a French case was undertaken. Although in France these programs are not in operation, the elements found regarding the academic classification system may allow for established deliberations on the different challenges faced by a consolidated academic community and those of another in the process of consolidation, considering their respective contextual, structural and attitudinal fundamentals. Their convergence is focused on the search for “excellence” and in that concern to determine under what circumstances and

  18. SciNews: Incorporating Science Current Events in 21st Century Classrooms

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    Middle school students are instructed with the aid of textbooks, lectures, and activities to teach topics that satisfy state standards. However, teaching materials created to convey standard-aligned science concepts often leave students asking how the content relates to their lives and why they should be learning it. Conveying relevance is important for student learning and retention, especially in science where abstract concepts can often be incorrectly perceived as irrelevant. One way to create an educational link between classroom content and everyday life is through the use of scientific current events. Students read, hear, and watch media coverage of natural events (such as the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan), but do not necessarily relate the scientific information from media sources to classroom studies. Taking advantage of these brief 'teachable moments'--when student interest is high--provides a valuable opportunity to make classroom-to-everyday life associations and to incorporate inquiry based learning. To address this need, I create pre-packaged current event materials for middle to high school teachers that align to state standards, and which are short, effective, and easy to implement in the classroom. Each lesson takes approximately 15-30 minutes to implement, allowing teachers time to facilitate brief but meaningful discussions. I assemble materials within approximately one week of the regional or global science event, consisting of short slide shows, maps, videos, pictures, and real-time data. I use a listserv to send biweekly emails to subscribed instructors containing the current event topic and a link to download the materials. All materials are hosted on the Arizona State University Education Outreach SciNews website (http://sese.asu.edu/teacher-resources) and are archived. Currently, 285 educators subscribe to the SciNews listserv, representing 36 states and 19 countries. In order to assess the effectiveness and usefulness of Sci

  19. Autoeficacia y procrastinación académica en estudiantes de una universidad nacional de Lima Metropolitana, 2017

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    La presente investigación surgió ante el planteamiento de la problemática general: ¿Cómo se relaciona la autoeficacia con la procrastinación académica en estudiantes de la escuela de radio imagen de una Universidad Nacional de Lima Metropolitana? El objetivo del presente estudio fue establecer la relación entre la autoeficacia y la procrastinación académica en dichos estudiantes. La investigación es de tipo aplicada, no experimental y correlacional. La muestra fue no probabi...

  20. Análisis de la Productividad Académica de Profesores del Área de Ingeniería

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    Acevedo, Diofanor; Montero, Piedad M; Duran, Marlene

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    El objetivo de este trabajo fue analizar la productividad académica y la percepción de calidad en la enseñanza de los profesores de planta de cuatro áreas de ingeniería de una Institución Universitaria en Colombia. La productividad académica en Colombia, se refiere a las publicaciones de artículos científicos, ponencias, premios, patentes, producciones técnicas y dirección de tesis de postgrado. Se analizaron documentos institucionales y se aplicaron dos cuestionarios, uno a profesores y otro...

  1. Factores que inciden en el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes de Ingeniería Industrial, 2017

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    La tesis doctoral titulada “Factores que inciden en el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes de Ingeniería Industrial”. Expone una aproximación teórica a los conceptos asociados al rendimiento, por lo que se centralizó en determinar la relación que existe entre los factores que se relacionan con el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes. Se analiza la temática de la educación superior desde diferentes ramas del conocimiento, que de una u otra forma, han provocado el proces...

  2. A cable-driven locomotor training system for restoration of gait in human SCI.

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    Wu, Ming; Hornby, T George; Landry, Jill M; Roth, Heidi; Schmit, Brian D

    2011-02-01

    A novel cable-driven robotic locomotor training system was developed to provide compliant assistance/resistance forces to the legs during treadmill training in patients with incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI). Eleven subjects with incomplete SCI were recruited to participate in two experiments to test the feasibility of the robotic gait training system. Specifically, 10 subjects participated in one experimental session to test the characteristics of the robotic gait training system and one subject participated in repeated testing sessions over 8 weeks with the robotic device to test improvements in locomotor function. Limb kinematics were recorded in one experiment to evaluate the system characteristics of the cable-driven locomotor trainer and the overground gait speed and 6 min walking distance were evaluated at pre, 4 and 8 weeks post treadmill training of a single subject as well. The results indicated that the cable driven robotic gait training system improved the kinematic performance of the leg during treadmill walking and had no significant impact on the variability of lower leg trajectory, suggesting a high backdrivability of the cable system. In addition, results from a patient with incomplete SCI indicated that prolonged robotic gait training using the cable robot improved overground gait speed. Results from this study suggested that a cable driven robotic gait training system is effective in improving leg kinematic performance, yet allows variability of gait kinematics. Thus, it seems feasible to improve the locomotor function in human SCI using this cable driven robotic system, warranting testing with a larger group of patients. Copyright © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

  3. SciDAC Center for Gyrokinetic Particle Simulation of Turbulent Transport in Burning Plasmas

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    Lin, Zhihong [Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)

    2013-12-18

    During the first year of the SciDAC gyrokinetic particle simulation (GPS) project, the GPS team (Zhihong Lin, Liu Chen, Yasutaro Nishimura, and Igor Holod) at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) studied the tokamak electron transport driven by electron temperature gradient (ETG) turbulence, and by trapped electron mode (TEM) turbulence and ion temperature gradient (ITG) turbulence with kinetic electron effects, extended our studies of ITG turbulence spreading to core-edge coupling. We have developed and optimized an elliptic solver using finite element method (FEM), which enables the implementation of advanced kinetic electron models (split-weight scheme and hybrid model) in the SciDAC GPS production code GTC. The GTC code has been ported and optimized on both scalar and vector parallel computer architectures, and is being transformed into objected-oriented style to facilitate collaborative code development. During this period, the UCI team members presented 11 invited talks at major national and international conferences, published 22 papers in peer-reviewed journals and 10 papers in conference proceedings. The UCI hosted the annual SciDAC Workshop on Plasma Turbulence sponsored by the GPS Center, 2005-2007. The workshop was attended by about fifties US and foreign researchers and financially sponsored several gradual students from MIT, Princeton University, Germany, Switzerland, and Finland. A new SciDAC postdoc, Igor Holod, has arrived at UCI to initiate global particle simulation of magnetohydrodynamics turbulence driven by energetic particle modes. The PI, Z. Lin, has been promoted to the Associate Professor with tenure at UCI.

  4. Measuring anxiety after spinal cord injury: Development and psychometric characteristics of the SCI-QOL Anxiety item bank and linkage with GAD-7.

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    Kisala, Pamela A; Tulsky, David S; Kalpakjian, Claire Z; Heinemann, Allen W; Pohlig, Ryan T; Carle, Adam; Choi, Seung W

    2015-05-01

    To develop a calibrated item bank and computer adaptive test to assess anxiety symptoms in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI), transform scores to the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) metric, and create a statistical linkage with the Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)-7, a widely used anxiety measure. Grounded-theory based qualitative item development methods; large-scale item calibration field testing; confirmatory factor analysis; graded response model item response theory analyses; statistical linking techniques to transform scores to a PROMIS metric; and linkage with the GAD-7. Setting Five SCI Model System centers and one Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in the United States. Participants Adults with traumatic SCI. Spinal Cord Injury-Quality of Life (SCI-QOL) Anxiety Item Bank Seven hundred sixteen individuals with traumatic SCI completed 38 items assessing anxiety, 17 of which were PROMIS items. After 13 items (including 2 PROMIS items) were removed, factor analyses confirmed unidimensionality. Item response theory analyses were used to estimate slopes and thresholds for the final 25 items (15 from PROMIS). The observed Pearson correlation between the SCI-QOL Anxiety and GAD-7 scores was 0.67. The SCI-QOL Anxiety item bank demonstrates excellent psychometric properties and is available as a computer adaptive test or short form for research and clinical applications. SCI-QOL Anxiety scores have been transformed to the PROMIS metric and we provide a method to link SCI-QOL Anxiety scores with those of the GAD-7.

  5. Does spirituality facilitate adjustment and resilience among individuals and families after SCI?

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    Jones, Kate; Simpson, Grahame Kenneth; Briggs, Lynne; Dorsett, Pat

    2016-01-01

    The purpose of this scoping review was to investigate the role of spirituality in facilitating adjustment and resilience after spinal cord injury (SCI) for the individual with SCI and their family members. METHOD-DATA SOURCES: Peer reviewed journals were identified using PsychInfo, MEDLINE, CINAHL, Embase and Sociological Abstracts search engines. After duplicates were removed, 434 abstracts were screened applying inclusion and exclusion criteria. The selected 28 studies were reviewed in detail and grouped according to methodological approach. Of the 28 studies relating to spirituality and related meaning-making constructs, 26 addressed the adjustment of the individual with SCI alone. Only two included family members as participants. Quantitative studies demonstrated that spirituality was positively associated with life satisfaction, quality of life, mental health and resilience. The utilisation of meaning-making and hope as coping strategies in the process of adjustment were highlighted within the qualitative studies. Clinical implications included recommendations that spirituality and meaning-making be incorporated in assessment and interventions during rehabilitation. The use of narratives and peer support was also suggested. Spirituality is an important factor in adjustment after SCI. Further research into the relationship between spirituality, family adjustment and resilience is needed. Higher levels of spirituality were associated with improved quality of life, life satisfaction, mental health, and resilience for individuals affected by spinal cord injury. Health professionals can enhance the role that spirituality plays in spinal rehabilitation by incorporating the spiritual beliefs of individuals and their family members into assessment and intervention. By drawing upon meaning-making tools, such as narrative therapy, incorporating peer support, and assisting clients who report a decline in spirituality, health professionals can provide additional support

  6. PAVE PAWS Early Warning Radar Operation Cape Cod Air Force Station, MA. Record of Decision

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    Effects of Electromagnetic Super-high Frequency Fields]. Moscow, Medicina (In Russian) (English Translation in NASA Rep. TT-F-633). Guy, A.W...Baselines. Ann. New York Acad. Sci., 247: 425-432. Tjagin, N.W., 1971. [Clinical Aspects of Super-high Frequency Irradiation]. Leningrad, Medicina , pp

  7. A Professional Mode of the Transformation of Sci-tech Achievements in Scientific Research Institutions of Tianjin City

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    Full Text Available There are too many scientific research institutions in Tianjin, and the scientific research activities are very active. The transformation of Sci-tech achievements is badly in need of a set of suitable and standardized mode, and how to establish this kind of mode is an important problem faced by researchers of Tianjin Sci-tech development. Based on analyzing the situation in Tianjin research activities, the paper proposes a way to solving this problem--the professional mode of the transformation of Sci-tech achievements, illustrates the connotation of the professional mode, and describes the implement environment and the specific operation progress. According to the characteristics of factors in Tianjin, such as society, government, market, industrial technology and so on, the paper designs the professional mode of the transformation of Sci-tech achievements, which is suitable for the characteristics of Tianjin, and which plays an important role in promoting the development of the productive force in science and technology of Tianjin.

  8. Redes académicas al interior de las escuelas chilenas: Un estudio exploratorio utilizando Modelos Exponenciales de Grafos Aleatorios (ERGM

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    Diego Palacios

    2016-12-01

    Full Text Available El artículo analiza las redes académicas que se producen al interior de aulas chilenas entre estudiantes de Tercer Año Medio (K-11 en distintos tipos de establecimientos, a través de Modelos Exponenciales de Grafos Aleatorios (ERGM. A partir de un modelo analítico que incorpora variables endógenas (reciprocidad, conectividad simple, popularidad, actividad, triangulación y variables exógenas (género del estudiante, nivel socioeconómico, capital cultural, capital social, se observa que el efecto más importante para explicar las redes académicas se produce por variables endógenas (especialmente por la reciprocidad y triangulación por sobre el componente exógeno, lo que podría indicar que las relaciones microsociales académicas se configuran, a lo menos en parte, independientemente de las características de los estudiantes. Asimismo, los resultados indican la existencia de relaciones complejas al interior del aula, y algunas diferencias interesantes entre los cursos respecto del efecto de las variables sociales y culturales, lo que podría indicar que algunos patrones de distinción social son relevantes en las interacciones académicas al interior del aula

  9. Inteligencia emocional y rendimiento académico en estudiantes universitarios de Farmacia y Bioquímica en Huancayo

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    Iris Carrasco Díaz

    2013-06-01

    Full Text Available Objetivos: Determinar el grado de relación entre la inteligencia emocional y el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes de la carrera profesional de Farmacia y Bioquímica de la Universidad Peruana “Los Andes”. Métodos: Es un estudio con diseño descriptivo correlacional, para ello han participado 150 estudiantes del 1° al 9° ciclo a quienes se les aplicaron el Inventario Emocional de BarOn, Inventario de Coeficiente Emocional (I-CE que permitió conocer su inteligencia emocional, asimismo se recopilaron los promedios ponderados al final del semestre 2012-II de cada estudiante para medir el rendimiento académico. Resultados: Los estudiantes que presentaron una inteligencia emocional promedio o adecuado fue (X2= 183,33 y p= 0,00 81 (54%; los que presentaron una capacidad emocional bajo son 45 (30%; en cuanto a los componentes; intrapersonal presentaron una capacidad emocional adecuada o promedio es 95 (63%, siendo la más alta en relación a los demás componentes; seguido de adaptabilidad 89 (59%, manejo de estrés 86 (57%; interpersonal 76 (51% y estado de ánimo 74 (49% quienes presentaron una inteligencia emocional promedio o adecuado; los estudiantes que alcanzaron una baja capacidad emocional fueron en los siguientes componentes: adaptabilidad 56 (37%; interpersonal 41 (27%; intrapersonal 36 (24%; estado de ánimo 40 (27% y 32 (22% en manejo de estrés. El rendimiento académico promedio semestral es de 12,34 categorizado como regular para 98 (65% de estudiantes. Conclusiones: Se determinó que existe una correlación significativa entre la inteligencia emocional con el rendimiento académico, (r=0,403 (p≤0,01. En relación a los componentes intrapersonal, interpersonal, adaptabilidad manejo de estrés y estados de ánimo presentan también una correlación significativa (p≤0,01 con el rendimiento académico.

  10. Impact of Health Behaviors and Health Management on Employment After SCI: Psychological Health and Health Management.

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    Reed, Karla S; Meade, Michelle A; Krause, James S

    2016-01-01

    Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between employment and psychological health and health management as described by individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) who were employed at least once following injury. Methods: A qualitative approach used 6 focus groups at 2 sites with 44 participants who were at least 10 years post SCI. All had been employed at some point since injury. Heterogeneous and homogeneous groups were delineated based on specific characteristics, such as education, gender, or race. Group sessions followed a semi-structured interview format with questions about personal, environmental, and policy related factors influencing employment following SCI. All group sessions were recorded, transcribed, and coded into conceptual categories to identify topics, themes, and patterns. Inferences were drawn about their meaning. NVivo 10 software using the constant comparative method was used for data analysis. Results: Narratives discussed the relationship between employment and psychological and emotional health and health management. Four themes were identified: (1) adjustment and dealing with emotional reactions, (2) gaining self-confidence, (3) preventing burnout, and (4) attitudes and perspectives. Most themes reflected issues that varied based on severity of injury as well as stage of employment. Conclusions: Individuals with SCI who are successful in working following injury must determine how to perform the behaviors necessary to manage their health and prevent emotional or physical complications. The emotional consequences of SCI must be recognized and addressed and specific behaviors enacted in order to optimize employment outcomes.

  11. Local delivery of FTY720 in PCL membrane improves SCI functional recovery by reducing reactive astrogliosis.

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    Wang, Junjuan; Wang, Jiaqiu; Lu, Ping; Cai, Youzhi; Wang, Yafei; Hong, Lan; Ren, Hao; Heng, Boon Chin; Liu, Hua; Zhou, Jing; Ouyang, Hongwei

    2015-09-01

    FTY720 has recently been approved as an oral drug for treating relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis, and exerts its therapeutic effect by acting as an immunological inhibitor targeting the sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) receptor subtype (S1P1) of T cells. Recently studies demonstrated positive efficacy of this drug on spinal cord injury (SCI) in animal models after systemic administration, albeit with significant adverse side effects. We hereby hypothesize that localized delivery of FTY720 can promote SCI recovery by reducing pathological astrogliosis. The mechanistic functions of FTY720 were investigated in vitro and in vivo utilizing immunofluorescence, histology, MRI and behavioral analysis. The in vitro study showed that FTY720 can reduce astrocyte migration and proliferation activated by S1P. FTY720 can prolong internalization of S1P1 and exert antagonistic effects on S1P1. In vivo study of SCI animal models demonstrated that local delivery of FTY720 with polycaprolactone (PCL) membrane significantly decreased S1P1 expression and glial scarring compared with the control group. Furthermore, FTY720-treated groups exhibited less cavitation volume and neuron loss, which significantly improved recovery of motor function. These findings demonstrated that localized delivery of FTY720 can promote SCI recovery by targeting the S1P1 receptor of astrocytes, provide a new therapeutic strategy for SCI treatment. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  12. Implicación académica en matemáticas: percepcion de metas docentes y processos autorregularorios en estudiantes de bachillerato

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    Martha Leticia Gaeta González

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    Full Text Available Profundizar en el estudio de los procesos personales y contextuales que inciden en la implicación académica de los estudiantes se considera necesario, ante el bajo rendimiento en muchos contextos académicos, principalmente en el área de matemáticas. En este estudio se analizaron los procesos de autorregulación del aprendizaje y la percepción de metas docentes en relación con el enfoque de aprendizaje y el rendimiento académico en matemáticas, en estudiantes de bachillerato. Participaron 231 estudiantes, entre 16 y 18 años de edad. El plan metodológico incluyó un análisis de regresión de los datos obtenidos mediante tres instrumentos: el Inventario de Procesos de Autorregulación del Aprendizaje, el Cuestionario de Percepción de Metas Docentes y el Inventario de Procesos de Estudio. Se encontró que la autorregulación del aprendizaje incide positivamente en el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes, la percepción de las metas docentes contribuye indirectamente y el enfoque de aprendizaje media este proceso.

  13. Prácticas de lectura y escritura académicas en la universidad colombiana (Scholarly Reading and Writing Practices at Colombian Universities (Pratiques académiques de lecture et d'écriture à l'Université colombienne (Práticas de leitura e escrita acadêmicas na universidade colombiana

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    Graciela Uribe-Álvarez

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    Full Text Available ResumenEste artículo de revisión presenta el análisis de algunas prácticas de lectura y escritura académicas en la universidad colombiana, conocidas por diversos medios (bases de datos, memorias en páginas web y en cd-rom de congresos, coloquios, encuentros y seminarios. Pretende aportar a la reflexión y el diálogo académi- co entre profesionales de la educación, a partir de experiencias en campos problemáticos específicos. Los resultados se susten- tan en el análisis de 40 trabajos de investigación (algunos de ellos se reseñan en los que es posible identificar: 1 Temática, 2 Institución, 3 Población sujeto, 4 Situación problemática, 5 Reconocimiento de los marcos teóricos de referencia y explici- tación de la metodología, 6 Presentación de resultados. Esta revisión, enmarcada en la investigación interinstitucional finan- ciada por Colciencias ¿Para qué se lee y escribe en la universidad colombiana? Un aporte a la consolidación de la cultura académi- ca, busca exponer las problemáticas que, de manera particular, han reconocido los diferentes investigadores y sus grupos con el propósito de mostrar cómo esta investigación interinstitucional acoge inquietudes e interrogantes, en relación con los procesos lectores y escritores, en la educación superior.AbstractThis review paper presents the analysis of certain scholarly reading and writing practices at Colombian universities, as found in various databases and proceedings of congresses, colloquia, seminaries, and meetings that are available online or on CD-ROM. It aims to contribute to the academic dia- logue among educations professionals by putting forward experiences in specific fields. The results are based on the analysis of 40 research papers, some of which are summa- rized, that allowed identifications of: 1 Topic, 2 Institution, 3 Population subject, 4 Situation of the problem, 5 Rec- ognition of theoretical framework and methodology made explicit, 6

  14. Factores determinantes del rendimiento académico en el grado de Arquitectura Técnica de la Universidad de Alicante

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    Mora García, Raúl Tomás; Céspedes López, María Francisca; Pérez Sánchez, Juan Carlos; Pérez Sánchez, Vicente Raúl; García González, Encarnación

    2015-01-01

    El rendimiento académico de los estudiantes universitarios está influenciado por una gran diversidad de factores y es uno de los elementos que influye principalmente al abandono de las enseñanzas universitarias. Conocer los factores que pueden estar interviniendo en el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes puede resultar de vital importancia para mejorar el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje y la calidad universitaria. En esta investigación se pretende determinar los posibles factores que in...

  15. 1H, 15N, and 13C resonance assignments of the third domain from the S. aureus innate immune evasion protein Eap.

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    Herrera, Alvaro I; Ploscariu, Nicoleta T; Geisbrecht, Brian V; Prakash, Om

    2018-04-01

    Staphylococcus aureus is a widespread and persistent pathogen of humans and livestock. The bacterium expresses a wide variety of virulence proteins, many of which serve to disrupt the host's innate immune system from recognizing and clearing bacteria with optimal efficiency. The extracellular adherence protein (Eap) is a multidomain protein that participates in various protein-protein interactions that inhibit the innate immune response, including both the complement system (Woehl et al in J Immunol 193:6161-6171, 2014) and Neutrophil Serine Proteases (NSPs) (Stapels et al in Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 111:13187-13192, 2014). The third domain of Eap, Eap3, is an ~ 11 kDa protein that was recently shown to bind complement component C4b (Woehl et al in Protein Sci 26:1595-1608, 2017) and therefore play an essential role in inhibiting the classical and lectin pathways of complement (Woehl et al in J Immunol 193:6161-6171, 2014). Since structural characterization of Eap3 is still incomplete, we acquired a series of 2D and 3D NMR spectra of Eap3 in solution. Here we report the backbone and side-chain 1 H, 15 N, and 13 C resonance assignments of Eap3 and its predicted secondary structure via the TALOS-N server. The assignment data have been deposited in the BMRB data bank under accession number 27087.

  16. Socialización del conocimiento académico con el uso de tecnologías de información y comunicación (TIC

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    Rixio Nava Muñoz

    2007-09-01

    Full Text Available Este estudio está orientado hacia el conocimiento de los enfoques y tendencias, que en la actualidad interpretan muchos autores con respecto a la socialización del conocimiento académico y su relación sistemática respecto al uso de la tecnología de la información y comunicación. En el desarrollo del estudio se utilizó una metodología de carácter descriptivo cuya modalidad esta contemplada como proyecto factible. Asimismo, se mencionan literalmente las teorías que soportan y fortalecen los avances en el uso de las tecnologías dentro de las instituciones universitarias como estrategias funcionales y operativas para el intercambio de información académica e institucional. Los resultados revelan que de acuerdo a las tendencias y enfoques interpuestos por los autores consultados, se determina el soporte de esta tecnología para la socialización del conocimiento académico, situación analizada en función de la alta producción académica y capital intelectual en las instituciones de educación superior que escasamente puede ser transferida de manera estandarizada con el fin de establecer un proceso de socialización del conocimiento académico efectivo. En conclusión, debe preverse la estandarización en la transferencia sistemática de información institucional, en pro de asumir un proceso interactivo y efectivo para el suministro del conocimiento académico de la sociedad en general.

  17. Intervención psicoeducativa para disminuir el estrés académico en estudiantes de primer año de Medicina

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    Yanet Díaz Martín

    2015-04-01

    Full Text Available Se realizó un estudio de intervención en estudiantes de primer año de la carrera Medicina, en el período de noviembre de 2012 a enero de 2013, con el objetivo de implementar una intervención psicoeducativa para disminuir el estrés académico en ellos. Se utilizó un muestreo intencional puro, donde se escogieron 19 estudiantes del año y carrera referidos, con edades comprendidas entre los 18 y 22 años de edad y que presentaban síntomas y conductas asociadas al padecimiento de estrés académico. Para la etapa diagnóstica y de evaluación final se utilizó el Inventario SISCO del Estrés Académico, al cual se le hizo una normalización sociocultural. Los estresores encontrados, los síntomas y las estrategias de afrontamientos desadaptadas mostraron la necesidad de diseñar y aplicar la intervención educativa. Los estudiantes presentaron antes de la intervención un predominio del nivel moderado de estrés académico, con dificultades con sus estrategias de afrontamiento. Posterior a la intervención realizada predominó el nivel leve y mejoraron las estrategias de afrontamiento enfocadas a la solución del problema, el manejo del estrés académico

  18. Autoeficacia en escolares adolescentes: su relación con la depresión, el rendimiento académico y las relaciones familiares

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    Iris X. Galicia-Moyeda

    2013-05-01

    Full Text Available Las relaciones familiares son estimadas como elementos mediadores en diferentes tipos de autoeficacia; no obstante existe poca evidencia sobre la mediación de las relaciones familiares con la autoeficacia académica. Con respecto a ésta última se ha reportado su relación con la ansiedad y poco se ha documentado el vínculo con la depresión. En este trabajo se explora la relación entre la depresión, la autoeficacia académica, la dinámica familiar y el rendimiento académico. Participaron ochenta alumnos de educación secundaria, divididos en dos grupos en función de sus puntajes del Inventario de Depresión de Kovacs: en uno de ellos se incluyeron los que fueron identificados como deprimidos severos y en el otro, los que se diagnosticaron sin depresión. A ambos grupos les fueron aplicadas dos escalas: Clima Social en la Familia y Autoeficacia. Los resultados revelan una relación inversa entre depresión y autoeficacia total. La cohesión familiar correlaciona positivamente con la autoeficacia total y con el factor de autoeficacia académica en los sujetos sin depresión, en tanto que en los sujetos deprimidos severos las relaciones familiares conflictivas correlacionan de manera negativa tanto en el factor de autoeficacia social como en la autoeficacia académica.

  19. Measuring pain phenomena after spinal cord injury: Development and psychometric properties of the SCI-QOL Pain Interference and Pain Behavior assessment tools.

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    Cohen, Matthew L; Kisala, Pamela A; Dyson-Hudson, Trevor A; Tulsky, David S

    2018-05-01

    To develop modern patient-reported outcome measures that assess pain interference and pain behavior after spinal cord injury (SCI). Grounded-theory based qualitative item development; large-scale item calibration field-testing; confirmatory factor analyses; graded response model item response theory analyses; statistical linking techniques to transform scores to the Patient Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS) metric. Five SCI Model Systems centers and one Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in the United States. Adults with traumatic SCI. N/A. Spinal Cord Injury - Quality of Life (SCI-QOL) Pain Interference item bank, SCI-QOL Pain Interference short form, and SCI-QOL Pain Behavior scale. Seven hundred fifty-seven individuals with traumatic SCI completed 58 items addressing various aspects of pain. Items were then separated by whether they assessed pain interference or pain behavior, and poorly functioning items were removed. Confirmatory factor analyses confirmed that each set of items was unidimensional, and item response theory analyses were used to estimate slopes and thresholds for the items. Ultimately, 7 items (4 from PROMIS) comprised the Pain Behavior scale and 25 items (18 from PROMIS) comprised the Pain Interference item bank. Ten of these 25 items were selected to form the Pain Interference short form. The SCI-QOL Pain Interference item bank and the SCI-QOL Pain Behavior scale demonstrated robust psychometric properties. The Pain Interference item bank is available as a computer adaptive test or short form for research and clinical applications, and scores are transformed to the PROMIS metric.

  20. Hábitos saludables y rendimiento académico en escolares de 8 a 10 años

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    Peiró Giner, Sara

    2017-01-01

    En este trabajo se analizan hábitos saludables como horas de sueño, actividad física y ocio sedentario, en un grupo de 100 escolares de 3º y 4º de Educación Primaria, evaluando su asociación con el rendimiento académico. La información se obtuvo mediante un cuestionario para padres e hijos. Los datos revelan unos hábitos adecuados en relación a las horas de sueño y realización de actividad física extraescolar, que tienen efecto en los resultados académicos. No hay un consumo excesivo de telev...

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