Exploración de las vivencias de estudiantes universitarios/as en relación a la salud mental

[Resumen] Introducción: El logro de una universidad inclusiva que proporcione los servicios y recursos necesarios para permitir la plena participación de las personas que accedan a este ámbito de estudio es una meta por alcanzar. Cada vez son más los/las estudiantes con diversidad funcional que acceden a los estudios superiores pero todavía existen diferencias significativas en cuanto a la participación de alumnado con problemas de salud mental en este ámbito educativo. Conocer las vivencias de los/las estudiantes resulta necesario para conocer sus necesidades y así poder ofrecer respuestas a las mismas contribuyendo a que su participación y desarrollo en los estudios universitarios sea plena y satisfactoria. Objetivo: El objetivo de este estudio es explorar las vivencias de personas estudiantes de la UDC en relación a la salud mental para detectar necesidades ocupacionales en este ámbito de estudio. Material y métodos: La investigación será abordada desde una metodología cualitativa, desde un enfoque teórico basado en la fenomenología, lo que permite describir la realidad desde la perspectiva de los/las estudiantes universitarios/as. Los/las informantes serán estudiantes de la Universidade da Coruña que presenten alguna condición de salud relacionada con la salud mental. La técnica de recogida de información será la entrevista semiestructurada. Finalmente, se mantendrán los criterios de calidad propios de la investigación de metodología cualitativa de credibilidad, transferibilidad, consistencia y confirmabilidad.[Resumo] Introdución: O logro dunha universidade inclusiva que proporcione s servicios necesarios para permitir a plena participación das persoas que accedan a este ámbito de estudo é una meta por alcanzar. Cada vez son máis os/as estudantes con diversidade funcional que acceden aos estudos superiores pero todavía existen diferencias significativas en canto á participación de alumnado con problemas na saúde mental neste ámbito educativo. Coñecer as vivencias dos/das estudantes resulta necesario para coñecer as suas necesidades e así poder ofrecer respostas as mesmas contribuíndo a que a súa participación e desenvolvemento nos estudos universitarios sexa plena e satisfatoria. Obxetivo: O obxetivo deste estudo é explorar as vivencias de persoas estudantes da UDC en relación á saúde mental para detectar necesidades ocupacionais neste ámbito de estudo. Material e métodos: A investigación será abordada dende una metodoloxía cualitativa, dende un enfoque teórico basado na fenomenoloxía, o que permite describir a realidade dende a perspectiva dos/das estudantes universitarios/as. Os/as informantes serán estudantes da Universidade da Coruña que presenta alguna condición de saúde mental relacionada coa saúde mental. A técnica de recollida de información será a entrevista semiestruturada. Finalmente, manteranse os criterios de calidade propios da metodoloxía cualitativa de credibilidade, transferibilidade, consistencia e confirmabilidade.[Abstract] Introduction: Achieving an inclusive university that provides services and resources to allow the full participation of persons accessing this area of study is a goal to reach. More and more students with functional diversity that access to higher education but there are still significant differences in the participation of students with mental health problems in this education. Learn about the experiences of students necessary to meet their needs and to provide answers to them contributing to their participation and development in university education is full and satisfying. Objective: The aim of this study is to explore the experiences of UDC students in relation to mental health in order to identify occupational needs in this field of study. Methodology: The research will be approached from a qualitative methodology, from a theoretical approach based on phenomenology, which allows describing the reality from the perspective of university students. Informants will be students of the University of Coruña to present any health condition related to mental health. The technique of gathering information is the semi-structured interview. Finally, the proper criteria of quality of qualitative research methodology credibility, transferability, consistency and confirmability be maintained.Traballo fin de grao (UDC.FCS). Terapia ocupacional. Curso 2015/2016

Mutation testing and self/peer assessment: analyzing their effect on students in a software testing course

Testing is a crucial activity in the development of software systems. With the increasing complexity of software projects, the industry requires incorporating graduates with adequate testing skills and preparation in this field. A challenge in software testing education is to make students perceive the benefits of writing tests and assess their quality with advanced testing techniques. In this paper, we present an experience integrating both mutation testing and self/peer assessment –two of the most used techniques to that end in the past– into a software testing course during three years. This experience allowed us to analyze the effect of applying these strategies on the students’ perception of their manually-written test suites. Noticeably, the computation of the mutation score significantly undermined the initial expectations they had on the developed test suites. Also, the application of peer testing helped them estimate the relative quality of two comparable test suites, as we found a notable correspondence with their respective mutation coverage. Besides, a more in-depth analysis revealed that the students' test suites with more test cases did not always achieve the highest scores, that they found more readable their own tests, and that they tended to cover the basic operations while forgetting about more advanced features. An opinion survey confirmed the impact that the use of mutants had on their perception about testing, and they mostly supported paying a higher level of attention to testing concepts in software engineering degree plans.The work was partially funded by the European Commission (FEDER), the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities under the project FAME (RTI2018-093608-B-C33), the European project ASSETs (612678-EPP-1-2019-1-IT-EPPKA2-SSA-B), and the University of Cádiz

Personality characteristics in specialist and generalist intimate partner violence perpetrators

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is one of the most common types of violence against women. Although personality disorders have been associated with IPV, perpetration research regarding personality according to the classification specialist/generalist IPV perpetrators is scarce. The general aim of this study was to describe personality in a large sample of IPV Spanish male perpetrators considering their classification (special ist vs. generalist). Participants were 1093 men convicted of IPV crimes whose ages ranged from 18 to 76 years old (M = 40.15; SD = 10.32). Of them, 554 men were classified as specialist perpetrators and 539 men were classified as generalist perpetrators. Participants completed questionnaires regarding sociodemographic and violence aspects as well as the Spanish version of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory III. Generalist perpetrators showed higher means in nearly all the personal ity disorders scales compared to specialist perpetrators. Prevalence rates in the majority of personality disorders were lower than 5%. Higher scores on the avoidant, histrionic, and self-defeating scales and lower scores on the aggressive, borderline, and drug dependence scales were related to being a specialist perpetrator. This study contributes to a better understanding of personality among generalist and specialist perpetrators.Consejería de Economía y Conocimiento, Junta de Andalucía, Grant/Award Number: Project: B-CTS-493-UGR18Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion, Agencia Estatal de Investigación. Gobierno de España, Grant/Award Numbers: Project: PID2019-111565GB-I00, Project: PID2019.110041GB/AEI/10.13039/50110001103

Diseño y desarrollo de prácticas coevaluables y autoevaluables para la etapa de prueba del desarrollo de software

La prueba del software es una etapa clave en el desarrollo de programas. A pesar de su importancia, y que el coste asociado a defectos en los programas está en relación a su complejidad, esta fase no suele recibir la atención necesaria. En estudios de ingeniería del software, las actividades de diseño y programación tienen una presencia dominante, provocando que los alumnos puedan ver la prueba de software más como una carga que como un beneficio. En este artículo, presentamos una experiencia para hacer más conscientes a los alumnos del valor de desarrollar pruebas de calidad, usando técnicas y herramientas especializadas en comparación con una generación de pruebas manual y sin guías. Para ello, diseñamos unas prácticas que enfrentan la percepción del alumno sobre la adecuación de sus pruebas contra una evaluación automática basada en la prueba de mutaciones (técnica indicativa de la capacidad de detección de fallos de la batería de pruebas). Como resultado, la práctica cumple su objetivo, pues se observa un descenso de las valoraciones subjetivas que los alumnos otorgan a sus propios conjuntos de pruebas (autoevaluación) y a los de sus compañeros (coevaluación) tras conocer un resultado más objetivo como el de la prueba de mutaciones.Software testing is a key phase in the development of programs. Despite its importance, and the fact that the cost associated with software defects increases as programs become more complex, this phase often does not receive the necessary attention. In the context of software engineering studies, design and coding activities have a predominant presence; as a result, students may tend to see software testing as a burden rather than a benefit for the final quality of the product. In this paper, we present the experience carried out to try to raise student awareness about the value of creating quality software tests, using specialized techniques and tools in comparison with manual and unguided development. To this end, we designed a practice that confronts the student’s perception of the adequacy of their tests against an automatic assessment based on the technique known as mutation testing (which is indicative of the fault detection ability of the test suite). In general, the practice meets its goals. We observe a decrease in the subjective assessments regarding their own test suites (self-assessment) and regarding those of their peers (co-assessment) after knowing the more objective result of mutation analysis.Este trabajo fue realizado con la ayuda del proyecto de innovación docente de la Universidad de Cádiz con código: sol-201700083450-tra

Morphological evolution in the migrating dune of Valdevaqueros (SW Spain) during an eleven-year period

Located in Tarifa, near the Strait of Gibraltar, the migration of Valdevaqueros dune was controlled by sand extractions for building purpose. As the Spanish Shore Act was approved in 1988, the sale of sand was forbidden and the dune started to move forward, burying the leeward pine wood and the only road to Maspalomas village. Consequently, six topographic levellings have been taken during the last eleven years. Sedimentary granulometries and meteorological features were taken into account. D50 values have been calculated for dune foot, windward and dune top. Wind speed threshold is estimated above 15 km/h. East winds are responsible for dune movement, whose advance rate has reached very high values (over 18 m/year). Slope and volumetric changes have been determined, providing a clearer explanation of the dune evolutio

Nickel and Palladium Complexes with New Phosphinito-Imine Ligands and Their Application as Ethylene Oligomerization Catalysts

Phosphinito-imines, a new class of P,N donors, are readily generated by reaction of bulky arylamide anions [R2CONAr]− (R2 = Me or t-Bu; Ar = 2,6-i-Pr2C6H4) with chlorophosphines ClP(R1)2. In solution, free phosphinito-imines exist in equilibrium with the corresponding amidophosphine tautomers, containing a nitrogen-bound P(R1)2 group. However, reacting the tautomer mixtures with metal precursor complexes, such as NiBr2(dme) or PdCl2(cod), selectively affords stable phosphinito-imine complexes MX2(P-N) (M = Ni, Pd) in excellent yields. These complexes are diamagnetic and exhibit square-planar structures in the solid state, but in solution, the Ni derivatives exchange with a small amount of the corresponding high-spin tetrahedral isomers. On treatment with MMAO or DEAC, NiX2(P-N) complexes become active ethylene oligomerization catalysts, affording mainly butenes along with smaller amounts of hexenes and octenes. The activity and the selectivity of these catalysts depend on the structure of the phosphinito-imine ligand and the cocatalyst used. When activated with DEAC, complexes containing the P(i-Pr)2 moiety are extremely active, achieving TOFs over 106 mol C2H4/mol Ni·h and high selectivity for butenes.Junta de Andalucía P09- FQM507

Assessment of the sensitivity and specificity of serological (IFAT) and molecular (direct PCR) techniques for diagnosis of leishmaniasis in lagomorphs using a Bayesian approach

Leishmaniasis, caused by Leishmania infantum, is a vector-borne zoonotic disease that is endemic to the Mediterranean basin. The potential of rabbits and hares to serve as competent reservoirs for the disease has recently been demonstrated, although assessment of the importance of their role on disease dynamics is hampered by the absence of quantitative knowledge on the accuracy of diagnostic techniques in these species. A Bayesian latent-class model was used here to estimate the sensitivity and specificity of the Immuno-fluorescence antibody test (IFAT) in serum and a Leishmania-nested PCR (Ln-PCR) in skin for samples collected from 217 rabbits and 70 hares from two different populations in the region of Madrid, Spain. A two-population model, assuming conditional independence between test results and incorporating prior information on the performance of the tests in other animal species obtained from the literature, was used. Two alternative cut-off values were assumed for the interpretation of the IFAT results: 1/50 for conservative and 1/25 for sensitive interpretation. Results suggest that sensitivity and specificity of the IFAT were around 70–80%, whereas the Ln-PCR was highly specific (96%) but had a limited sensitivity (28.9% applying the conservative interpretation and 21.3% with the sensitive one). Prevalence was higher in the rabbit population (50.5% and 72.6%, for the conservative and sensitive interpretation, respectively) than in hares (6.7% and 13.2%). Our results demonstrate that the IFAT may be a useful screening tool for diagnosis of leishmaniasis in rabbits and hares. These results will help to design and implement surveillance programmes in wild species, with the ultimate objective of early detecting and preventing incursions of the disease into domestic and human populations

Actitudes hacia la inmigración a nivel regional en Europa en tiempos de crisis

A partir de la crisis financiera de 2008, ha habido un auge de partidos nacionalistas en Europa que incluyen medidas antinmigración en sus programas. En este estudio se analiza la relación entre el estatus socioeconómico y el sentimiento antiinmigrante a nivel regional, mediante análisis de regresión geográfica. Para ello usamos datos de los primeros años de la crisis financiera, cuando la mayoría de los países de Europa estaban comenzando a experimentar sus consecuencias a nivel económico, social y político. Este trabajo confirma empíricamente la idoneidad del análisis espacial para mostrar la existencia de diferencias regionales en el sentimiento anti–inmigrante. A partir de ahí cabría cuestionar la validez general de las comparaciones realizadas hasta el momento entre países o entre macro–regiones para explicar tales actitudes. La información aportada en el nivel regional puede ser útil para identificar regiones prioritarias donde implementar políticas de integración para reducir las actitudes negativas hacia los inmigrantes

Anatomía Comparada del Aparato Genital Masculino de Mamíferos Domésticos. Herramienta de Aprendizaje Virtual para Veterinarios, Biólogos y Médicos

Esta aplicación es una herramienta útil para estudiantes y profesores de diferentes campos. Permitirá conocer y estudiar el aparato genital masculino, señalando gráficamente la estructura a memorizar, ver su contenido teórico y autoevaluarse