Estado de la neumología pública en Cataluña: estudio comparativo entre 1993 y 2003

ResumenEl objetivo de este estudio era realizar un análisis descriptivo de la situación de la neumología pública en Cataluña en el año 2003 y comparar los resultados con datos de 1993.Se remitió un cuestionario a todos los hospitales de la red pública de Cataluña (XHUP) solicitando información sobre el número de neumólogos. También se contactó con los servicios de atención primaria (SAP) de Cataluña para conocer el número de neumólogos que trabajan en atención primaria.Se ha obtenido respuesta del 100% de los hospitales y SAP contactados. El 83% de los hospitales de la XHUP disponen de servicio de neumología, y se observa un incremento significativo en la proporción de hospitales que disponen de la especialidad respecto a 1993. La tasa de neumólogos por 100.000 habitantes para toda Cataluña es de 3,15.El grado de implantación de la neumología en la XHUP ha mejorado significativamente en el decenio 1993-2003.AbstractThe aim of this study was to perform a descriptive analysis of the state of public pneumology in Catalonia (Spain) in 2003 and to compare the results with data from 1993.A questionnaire was sent to all hospitals of the public hospitals network in Catalonia requesting information on the number of pulmonologists. To determine the number of pulmonologists working in primary care, we also contacted all the primary care services (PCS) in Catalonia.All the hospitals and PCS contacted responded. Eighty-three percent of the public network hospitals had a pneumology service. From 1993-2003, the proportion of hospitals with this specialty increased. The rate of pulmonologists per 100,000 persons for the whole of Catalonia was 3.15.The degree of implantation of pneumology in the public hospitals network of Catalonia significantly improved in the decade between 1993 and 2003

Experiments and phenomenology of electric dipole moments

The Standard Model (SM) is the best description of fundamental particles and their interactions we have to date. From this theory, all phenomena in the macroscopic world (except for gravity) can be explained, and it has successfully predicted all outcomes of particle experiments on Earth. However, cosmological observations of the early Universe yield a large imbalance between its content of matter and antimatter, which is several orders of magnitude above the SM prediction. To explain these observations, new interactions that do not respect the charge-parity symmetry must exist beyond the SM. Such interactions would induce electric dipole moments (EDMs) in known particles. In Part I of the thesis, we propose to extend the active experimental program of EDM searches to charm and bottom baryons, tau leptons, and lambda hyperons; also allowing the measurement of their corresponding magnetic dipole moments (MDMs). The EDM and MDM of short-lived particles can be accessed with a bent-crystal experiment to be installed in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), while longer-lived lambda particles can be measured at the LHCb experiment with no additional instrumentation. In Part II, an analysis of LHCb data to measure the lambda polarization in lambda c+ to lambda pi+ pi+ pi- decays, essential ingredient for the proposed measurement, is presented. In the last part of the thesis, we derive new indirect bounds on heavy quark EDMs with already available data and explore the phenomenological implications of these and other EDM limits on New Physics models, with special emphasis on extensions of the SM with colour-octet scalars.El model estàndard (SM, per les seues sigles en anglès) és la millor descripció que tenim de les partícules fonamentals i les seues interaccions. A partir d'esta teoria tots els fenòmens del món macroscòpic (excepte la gravetat) es poden explicar. A més, fins avui, el SM ha predit amb èxit tots els resultats experimentals dels acceleradors de partícules a la Terra. No obstant, observacions cosmològiques mostren un gran desequilibri entre la quantitat de matèria i antimatèria a l'Univers, molts ordres de magnitud per damunt de la predicció del SM. Per poder explicar estes observacions, han d'existir noves interaccions més enllà del SM que no respecten la simetria de càrrega-paritat. Estes interaccions, al mateix temps, induirien moments dipolars elèctrics (EDM) en les partícules conegudes, els quals no han segut observats fins l'actualitat. En la Part I d'aquesta tesi es proposa ampliar el programa experimental de cerques d'EDMs per a barions amb quarks charm i bottom, leptons tau, i hiperons lambda. Això també permetria mesurar els seus corresponents moments dipolars magnètics (MDM). L'EDM i MDM de partícules de molt curta vida es podria mesurar en un experiment amb cristalls corbats que utilitze el feix de protons del Gran col·lisionador d'hadrons (LHC), mentre que les partícules lambda, de vida mitja més llarga, es poden mesurar a l'experiment LHCb sense instrumentació addicional. En la Part II de la tesi es presenta una anàlisi de dades de l'LHCb per mesurar la polarització de la partícula lambda en desintegracions de lambda c+ a lambda pi+ pi+ pi-, ingredient essencial per a l'experiment proposat a la Part I. En l'última part de la tesi, Part III, es deriven nous límits indirectes a l'EDM de quarks charm i bottom amb dades ja disponibles de l'EDM del neutró, i s'exploren les implicacions fenomenològiques d'aquests (i altres) observables en models de nova física, amb especial èmfasi en extensions del SM amb noves partícules escalars que són octets de color

Tuberculosis treatment adherence and fatality in Spain

Background: The adherence to long tuberculosis (TB) treatment is a key factor in TB control programs. Always some patients abandon the treatment or die. The objective of this study is to identify factors associated with defaulting from or dying during antituberculosis treatment. Methods: Prospective study of a large cohort of TB cases diagnosed during 2006-2007 by 61 members of the Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR). Predictive factors of completion outcome (cured plus completed treatment vs. defaulters plus lost to follow-up) and fatality (died vs. the rest of patients) were based on logistic regression, calculating odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI). Results: Of the 1490 patients included, 29.7% were foreign-born. The treatment outcomes were: cured 792 (53.2%), completed treatment 540 (36.2%), failure 2 (0.1%), transfer-out 33 (2.2%), default 27 (1.8%), death 27 (1.8%), lost to follow-up 65 (4.4%), other 4 (0.3%). Completion outcome reached 93.5% and poor adherence was associated with: being an immigrant (OR = 2.03; CI:1.06-3.88), living alone (OR = 2.35; CI:1.05-5.26), residents of confined institutions (OR = 4.79; CI:1.74-13.14), previous treatment (OR = 2.93; CI:1.44-5.98), being an injecting drug user (IDU) (OR = 9.51;CI:2.70-33.47) and treatment comprehension difficulties (OR = 2.93; CI:1.44-5.98). Case fatality was 1.8% and it was associated with the following variables: age 50 or over (OR = 10.88; CI:1.12-105.01), retired (OR = 12.26;CI:1.74-86.04), HIV-infected (OR = 9.93; CI:1.48-66.34), comprehension difficulties (OR = 4.07; CI:1.24-13.29), IDU (OR = 23.59; CI:2.46-225.99) and Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) OR =.54;CI:1.07-11.77). Conclusion: Immigrants, those living alone, residents of confined institutions, patients treated previously, those with treatment comprehension difficulties, and IDU patients have poor adherence and should be targeted for DOT. To reduce fatality rates, stricter monitoring is required for patients who are retired, HIV-infected, IDU, and those with treatment comprehension difficulties

The anomalous chiral Lagrangian at order p8p^8

We derive the order $p^8$ Lagrangian of odd intrinsic parity for mesonic chiral perturbation theory, and provide the resulting operator basis in the supplementary material. Neglecting the non-zero singlet trace, we find $999$ operators for a general number of quark flavours $N_f$, $705$ for $N_f=3$ and $92$ for $N_f=2$. Our numbers agree with those obtained through the Hilbert series approach in the literature. Including a singlet trace, as needed for the physical case of $N_f=2$, instead yields $1210$ operators for a general $N_f$, $892$ for $N_f=3$ and $211$ for $N_f=2$

The anomalous Lagrangian in ChPT at NNLO

The anomalous Lagrangian in mesonic Chiral Perturbation Theory, of odd intrinsic parity, is determined to next-to-next-to-leading order thereby completing the order $p^8$ Lagrangian. A schematic view of its construction with the MINIBAR package for Mathematica is presented and the final operator count is discussed for a general number of light quark flavours as well as for the physical cases $N_f=2,3$. The number of operators in our explicit construction of the Lagrangian basis is consistent with the number derived using the Hilbert series in the literature.Comment: 6 pages. Contribution to EPS-HEP2023 (21-25 August, 2023, Hamburg, Germany

Validación del código kratos para el cálculo estructural

El objetivo de esta tesina es el análisis y estudio del código Kratos, aportando nuevas mejoras para facilitar su uso y por otra parte la validación de él mismo con ejemplo

Validación del código kratos para el cálculo estructural

El objetivo de esta tesina es el análisis y estudio del código Kratos, aportando nuevas mejoras para facilitar su uso y por otra parte la validación de él mismo con ejemplo

Using the MGGI Methodology for Category-based Language Modeling in Handwritten Marriage Licenses Books

© 2016 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.Handwritten marriage licenses books have been used for centuries by ecclesiastical and secular institutions to register marriages. The information contained in these historical documents is useful for demography studies and genealogical research, among others. Despite the generally simple structure of the text in these documents, automatic transcription and semantic information extraction is difficult due to the distinct and evolutionary vocabulary, which is composed mainly of proper names that change along the time. In previous works we studied the use of category-based language models to both improve the automatic transcription accuracy and make easier the extraction of semantic information. Here we analyze the main causes of the semantic errors observed in previous results and apply a Grammatical Inference technique known as MGGI to improve the semantic accuracy of the language model obtained. Using this language model, full handwritten text recognition experiments have been carried out, with results supporting the interest of the proposed approach.This work has been partially supported through the European Union’s H2020 grant READ (Ref: 674943), the European project ERC-2010-AdG-20100407-269796, the MINECO/FEDER, UE projects TIN2015-70924-C2-1-R and TIN2015-70924-C2-2-R, and the Ramon y Cajal Fellowship RYC-2014-16831.Romero Gómez, V.; Fornes, A.; Vidal Ruiz, E.; Sánchez Peiró, JA. (2016). Using the MGGI Methodology for Category-based Language Modeling in Handwritten Marriage Licenses Books. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICFHR.2016.0069

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