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    ANÁLISIS DEL USO DE LA BANCA VIRTUAL APLICADO A LOS COLABORADORES DEL COMPLEJO TECNOLÓGICO PARA LA GESTIÓN AGROEMPRESARIAL - SENA - CAUCASIA

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    Virtual Banking in Colombia has had a challenge that consists of achieving that bank users adapt to carry out their transactions through the digital channels developed by them; this, in order to improve the quality of the service, avoiding congestion in the physical offices and, in turn, time, optimizing care costs. The pandemic caused by COVID 19 has become a digital challenge for world society, this health crisis forced people to fit into the digital world to continue carrying out their daily activities without exposed to health difficulties, for the banks this situation was presented as a opportunity for their clients to implement the use of virtual channels to perform your usual transactions. This article analyzes the degree of use that virtual banking has in the midst of the health crisis, the study includes the working population of the Center for Agro-business Management SENA (CTPGA) of the municipality of Caucasia - Antioquia, Colombia. During this mixed qualitative research and quantitative, the population studied demonstrated the use of virtual channels to carry out transactions such as utility payments, transfers between accounts, as well asthe purchase of items through different platforms, it is also noteworthy that a minority of the population studied, equivalent to 7.6%, is resistant to these changes and he still distrusts the use of these digital channels to carry out his transactions.La Banca Virtual en Colombia ha tenido un desafío que consiste en lograr quelos usuarios de los bancos se adapten a realizar sus transacciones a través delos canales digitales desarrollados por los mismos; esto, con el fin de mejorarla calidad en el servicio, evitando congestiones en las oficinas físicas y, a suvez, optimizando los costos de atención. La pandemia provocada por el COVID19 se volvió un reto digital para la sociedad mundial, esta crisis sanitaria obligó a laspersonas a encajar en el mundo digital para seguir realizando sus actividades diarias sinexponerse a dificultades de salud, para los bancos esta situación se presentó como unaoportunidad para que sus clientes implementaran el uso de los canales virtuales pararealizar sus transacciones habituales. El presente artículo analiza el grado de uso que tienela banca virtual en medio de la crisis sanitaria, el estudio comprende a la población laboraldel Centro para La Gestión Agro empresarial SENA (CTPGA) del municipio de Caucasia– Antioquia, Colombia. Durante esta investigación mixta, de carácter cualitativoy cuantitativo, la población estudiada demostró usar los canales virtuales para realizartransacciones como pagos de servicios públicos, transferencias entre cuentas, así comola compra de artículos a través de diferentes plataformas, también es de resaltar que unaminoría de la población estudiada, equivalente al 7,6% es resistente a estos cambios yaún desconfía del uso de estos canales digitales para realizar sus transacciones

    Body weight impact of the sugar- sweetened beverages tax in Mexican children: A modeling study

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    Dendritic Cell‐Mediated Cross‐Priming by a Bispecific Neutralizing Antibody Boosts Cytotoxic T Cell Responses and Protects Mice against SARS‐CoV‐2

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    SARS-CoV-2 B.1.351 and B.1.167.2 viruses used in this study were obtained through the European Virus Archive Global (EVA-GLOBAL) project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 653316. SARS-CoV-2 B.1 (MAD6 isolate) was kindly provided by José M. Honrubia and Luis Enjuanes (CNB-CSIC, Madrid, Spain). The authors thank Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal (CISA)-Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agrarias (INIA-CSIC) (Valdeolmos, Madrid, Spain) for the BSL-3 facilities. Research in LAV laboratory was funded by the BBVA Foundation (Ayudas Fundación BBVA a Equipos de Investigación Científica SARS-CoV-2 y COVID19); the MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (PID2020-117323RB-I00 and PDC2021-121711-I00), partially supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF); the Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII) (DTS20/00089), partially supported by the ERDF, the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC 19084); the CRIS Cancer Foundation (FCRISIFI-2018 and FCRIS-2021-0090), the Fundación Caixa-Health Research (HR21-00761 project IL7R_LungCan), and the Comunidad de Madrid (P2022/BMD-7225 NEXT_GEN_CART_MAD-CM). Work in the DS laboratory was funded by the CNIC; the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement ERC-2016-Consolidator Grant 725091; MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (PID2019-108157RB); Comunidad de Madrid (B2017/BMD-3733 Immunothercan-CM); Atresmedia (Constantes y Vitales prize); Fondo Solidario Juntos (Banco Santander); and “La Caixa” Foundation (LCF/PR/HR20/00075). The CNIC was supported by the ISCIII, the MCIN and the Pro CNIC Foundation and is a Severo Ochoa Center of Excellence (CEX2020- 001041-S funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033). Research in RD laboratory was supported by the ISCIII (PI2100989) and CIBERINFEC; the European Commission Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (grant numbers 731868 project VIRUSCAN FETPROACT-2016, and 101046084 project EPIC-CROWN-2); and the Fundación CaixaHealth Research (grant number HR18-00469 project StopEbola). Research in CNB-CSIC laboratory was funded by Fondo Supera COVID19 (Crue Universidades-Banco Santander) grant, CIBERINFEC, and Spanish Research Council (CSIC) grant 202120E079 (to J.G.-A.), CSIC grant 2020E84 (to M.E.), MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (PID2020- 114481RB-I00 to J.G-A. and M.E.), and by the European CommissionNextGenerationEU, through CSIC’s Global Health Platform (PTI Salud Global) to J.G.-A. and M.E. Work in the CIB-CSIC laboratory was supported by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (PID2019-104544GB-I00 and 2023AEP105 to CA, and PID2020-113225GB-I00 to F.J.B.). Cryo-EM data were collected at the Maryland Center for Advanced Molecular Analyses which was supported by MPOWER (The University of Maryland Strategic Partnership). I.H.-M. receives the support of a fellowship from la Caixa Foundation (ID 100010434, fellowship code: LCF/BQ/IN17/11620074) and from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 71367. L.R.-P. was supported by a predoctoral fellowship from the Immunology Chair, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria/Merck.S

    Effectiveness of a strategy that uses educational games to implement clinical practice guidelines among Spanish residents of family and community medicine (e-EDUCAGUIA project):A clinical trial by clusters

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    This study was funded by the Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias FIS Grant Number PI11/0477 ISCIII.-REDISSEC Proyecto RD12/0001/0012 AND FEDER Funding.Background: Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) have been developed with the aim of helping health professionals, patients, and caregivers make decisions about their health care, using the best available evidence. In many cases, incorporation of these recommendations into clinical practice also implies a need for changes in routine clinical practice. Using educational games as a strategy for implementing recommendations among health professionals has been demonstrated to be effective in some studies; however, evidence is still scarce. The primary objective of this study is to assess the effectiveness of a teaching strategy for the implementation of CPGs using educational games (e-learning EDUCAGUIA) to improve knowledge and skills related to clinical decision-making by residents in family medicine. The primary objective will be evaluated at 1 and 6months after the intervention. The secondary objectives are to identify barriers and facilitators for the use of guidelines by residents of family medicine and to describe the educational strategies used by Spanish teaching units of family and community medicine to encourage implementation of CPGs. Methods/design: We propose a multicenter clinical trial with randomized allocation by clusters of family and community medicine teaching units in Spain. The sample size will be 394 residents (197 in each group), with the teaching units as the randomization unit and the residents comprising the analysis unit. For the intervention, both groups will receive an initial 1-h session on clinical practice guideline use and the usual dissemination strategy by e-mail. The intervention group (e-learning EDUCAGUIA) strategy will consist of educational games with hypothetical clinical scenarios in a virtual environment. The primary outcome will be the score obtained by the residents on evaluation questionnaires for each clinical practice guideline. Other included variables will be the sociodemographic and training variables of the residents and the teaching unit characteristics. The statistical analysis will consist of a descriptive analysis of variables and a baseline comparison of both groups. For the primary outcome analysis, an average score comparison of hypothetical scenario questionnaires between the EDUCAGUIA intervention group and the control group will be performed at 1 and 6months post-intervention, using 95% confidence intervals. A linear multilevel regression will be used to adjust the model. Discussion: The identification of effective teaching strategies will facilitate the incorporation of available knowledge into clinical practice that could eventually improve patient outcomes. The inclusion of information technologies as teaching tools permits greater learning autonomy and allows deeper instructor participation in the monitoring and supervision of residents. The long-term impact of this strategy is unknown; however, because it is aimed at professionals undergoing training and it addresses prevalent health problems, a small effect can be of great relevance. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02210442.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe

    Empirical investigation to explore potential gains from the amalgamation of Phase Changing Materials (PCMs) and wood shavings

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    The reduction of gained heat, heat peak shifting and the mitigation of air temperature fluctuations are some desirable properties that are sought after in any thermal insulation system. It cannot be overstated that these factors, in addition to others, govern the performance of such systems thus their effect on indoor ambient conditions. The effect of such systems extends also to Heating, Ventilation and Air-conditioning (HVAC) systems that are set up to operate optimally in certain conditions. Where literature shows that PCMs and natural materials such as wood-shavings can provide efficient passive insulation for buildings, it is evident that such approaches utilise methods that are of a degree of intricacy which requires specialist knowledge and complex techniques, such as micro-encapsulation for instance. With technical and economic aspects in mind, an amalgam of PCM and wood-shavings has been created for the purpose of being utilised as a feasible thermal insulation. The amalgamation was performed in the simplest of methods, through submerging the wood shavings in PCM. An experimental procedure was devised to test the thermal performance of the amalgam and compare this to the performance of the same un-amalgamated materials. Comparative analysis revealed that no significant thermal gains would be expected from such amalgamation. However, significant reduction in the total weight of the insulation system would be achieved that, in this case, shown to be up to 20.94%. Thus, further reducing possible strains on structural elements due to the application of insulation on buildings. This can be especially beneficial in vernacular architectural approaches where considerably large amounts and thicknesses of insulations are used. In addition, cost reduction could be attained as wood shavings are significantly cheaper compared to the cost of PCMs
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