Mobilitat Sostenible al 22@

El 22@Barcelona és el projecte de transformació més important de la ciutat de Barcelona en els darrers anys i el de més gran abast d'Europa d'aquestes característiques amb una inversió pública del pla d’infraestructures de 180 milions d'euros. Tenint en compte la importància dels efectes de la mobilitat en les ciutats: sobre l’ús de l’espai públic, el nostre nivell de vida, la qualitat de l’aire, el soroll, la imatge... està clar que la construcció del sectors 22@ ha d’anar acompanyada per un Pla de Mobilitat Urbana adequat a les seves característiques. L’objectiu d’aquest projecte és fer possible una mobilitat més sostenible, segura, equitativa, integradora i eficient als sectors 22@ i, conseqüentment, al Poblenou. Partint de la informació sobre l’escenari actual obtinguda gràcies al Pla de mobilitat urbana de Barcelona i el Pla de Mobilitat Sostenible per al Poblenou i tenint en compte els canvis que es preveuen en les infraestructures (al Pla Especial d’Infraestructures del Poblenou), i en l’ordenació del territori (per 22@barcelona), es fan una sèrie de propostes de millora: la implantació de l’Àrea Verda, de zones 30 i d’una web de Carpooling, i l’extensió de sistemes que ja funcionen actualment com són el Bicing i el Carsharing. Se n’avalua la viabilitat econòmica i s’estudien els efectes esperats en la mobilitat en termes de demanda, oferta i eficiència del transport. Finalment, es realitza un estudi de l'impacte ambiental del projecte en conjunt. Donat que l’objectiu del projecte és el de disminuir aquest impacte, la viabilitat de les propostes depèn principalment del grau d’assoliment d’aquest objectiu en relació a la inversió necessària per a posar-les en pràctica

Barcelona Film Diverse: young glances and voices for cultural diversity

Mitjans, Xarxa d’Educadors i Comunicadors (http://www.mitjans.info) es una asociación formada por profesionales de la comunicación y la educación, además de colectivos y personas preocupadas e interesadas por la comunicación mediática y su incidencia social y educativa. Como asociación que se preocupa por el presente y el futuro de los medios y la comunicación social lleva a cabo diferentes acciones de coordinación e intervención social, entre las que se encuentran el proyecto Film Divers a Barcelona y la red europea YEFF! (Young European Film Festival-for cultural diversity). Ambas inciden en dos premisas cruciales de las sociedades del siglo XXI: el pleno desarrollo de la competencia comunicativa (comprensiva y expresiva) de las personas en cualquier tipo de sistema de símbolos y soporte tecnológico y la gestión autónoma y colectiva del factor intelectual que caracteriza nuestras cotidianidades. Los media son considerados como parte del entretenimiento, información e inspiración de los jóvenes de hoy en día. No obstante, todavía se percibe una gran falta de comprensión e interpretación crítica hacia éstos, ya sea a nivel estético, técnico o, incluso, de exposición de contenidos. El analfabetismo audiovisual es una realidad palpable en nuestras sociedades. Por otro lado, se constata que los jóvenes en situaciones de riesgo de exclusión social difícilmente tienen la oportunidad de acceder al campo de la producción audiovisual, sea profesional o amateur, y que, además, no son representados en igualdad de condiciones en los discursos mediáticos predominantes. Por ello, tanto desde la red europea YEFF! como desde el proyecto Film Divers a Barcelona, se anima a los jóvenes a utilizar el audiovisual como medio de autoexpresión y diálogo entre grupos culturales y sociales distintos. Se trata, pues, de ofrecer a los jóvenes el apoyo y acompañamiento necesarios para que puedan producir obras audiovisuales sinceras y permanentemente descubridoras. Film Divers a Barcelona nace a partir de la búsqueda de subvenciones para el proyecto europeo YEFF! en el que Mitjans participa como representante y futura entidad coordinadora del Estado Español en el que se presentarán diferentes producciones audiovisuales realizadas por jóvenes amateurs. En concreto, Film Divers a Barcelona se ha llevado a cabo a partir del diseño de una serie de talleres audiovisuales en cuatro barrios de Barcelona: dos del centro de la ciudad (Raval y Casc Antic) y dos de la periferia norte (Trinitat Vella y Torre Baró). Todos estos barrios tienen la característica de tener fuertes componentes de diversidad cultural. Casi la totalidad de los talleres se enmarcaron en espacios de educación no formal porque interesaba trabajar, sobre todo, la interacción y participación activa de los y las jóvenes con su entorno más inmediato y realidades cotidianas. En total, se desplegaron simultáneamente, entre febrero y junio de 2005, ocho equipos de trabajo y participaron en los talleres unos 40 jóvenes de la ciudad. La oportunidad merecía plantearse una investigación acción del proceso y un estudio de caso cuyas conclusiones podemos presentar en la presente comunicación. En la búsqueda de dar la oportunidad a jóvenes de expresarse y manifestar su opinión sobre los problemas sociales y culturales de su entorno (y que, en muchas ocasiones, coinciden con las grandes cuestiones sociales de nuestros tiempos), se optó por subvertir el proceso de producción audiovisual tradicional convirtiendo a los receptores pasivos en emisores activos. Otorgándoles autonomía en sus voces y sus miradas, comprometiéndolos con la comunidad y corresponsabilizándolos de un espacio de creación colectivaMitjans is an association of Communication and Education professionals, persons and collectives worried about and interested in Media Literacy and its incidence in the society. Nowadays, Mitjans is working on two related projects: Barcelona Film Diverse and YEFF! (Young European Film Forum for cultural diversity). On one hand, both encourage young people to learn film language and aesthetic principals of film and television while encouraging them to develop their voice. On the other hand, both ask the entrants to reflect on the experiences and perception of the issues of cultural diversity from their individual point of vie

Geofluid behaviour in successive extensional and compressional events: a case study from the southwestern end of the Vallès-Penedès Fault (Catalan Coastal Ranges, NE Spain)

The structural position of the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous carbonates located in the central part of the Catalan Coastal Ranges corresponds to the southwestern end of the Vallès-Penedès Fault. This fault was reactivated at different times during successive extensional and compressional events and several generations of fractures and cementations were formed

El futuro del hábitat: repensando la habitabilidad desde la sostenibilidad. El caso español

La capacidad de nuestras sociedades de alcanzar y mantener en el tiempo unas condiciones habitacionales coherentes con el derecho a un hábitat digno, está inevitablemente vinculada a la integración del reto de la sostenibilidad a los mecanismos de generación de nuestras viviendas, barrios y ciudades, pues depende directamente de los recursos disponibles y de la capacidad de emisión de residuos. En base a este vínculo, se propone un despliegue del concepto de edifi cación sostenible, mediante la transposición de la defi nición de desarrollo sostenible formulada por el informe Bruntland, que permite establecer los eslabones que vinculan la satisfacción de necesidades humanas con el uso de recursos, revelando que la edifi cación sostenible debe abordar el cierre de los ciclos materiales en la consecución de su objetivo principal: dotar de habitabilidad. Bajo este enfoque, se analiza el concepto actual de habitabilidad en relación con el impacto ambiental, y argumenta la importancia de redefinirla como una demanda social de disponibilidad de las condiciones precisas para satisfacer las necesidades socialmente reconocidas; una nueva concepción de la habitabilidad que obliga a exceder el ámbito doméstico para abarcar la escala urbana, y que deviene variable para dar respuesta a las diferentes demandas sociales presentes hoy en día. // The ability of our societies to reach and maintain housing conditions consistent with the right to decent habitat is inevitably related to the integration of the sustainability challenge into the mechanisms for housing, neighborhood and city generation, since it directly depends on both available resources and the production of waste. Based on this relation, the sustainable building concept is thoroughly explained through the transposition of the sustainable development definition proposed by the Bruntland report, which allows the linkage of human needs satisfaction with the use of resources. In this way, sustainable housing should address the last phase of material cycles in order to reach its main goal: provide habitability. Under this perspective, this paper analyzes the current concept of habitability in relation to the environmental impact and discusses the importance of redefi ning it as a social demand for the precise conditions to meet socially recognized needs. This new conception of habitability transcends the domestic domain to reach out urban spheres, thus generating variables to satisfy today’s social demands.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version

Peritoneal carcinomatosis index as a predictor of diaphragmatic involvement in stage III and IV ovarian cancer.

Objective: To analyze the surgical outcomes and diaphragmatic involvement in stage III and IV ovarian cancer. Patients and methods: All patients with stage III-IV ovarian cancer between January 2013 and January 2016 were included. The outcomes of interest reviewed were as follows: surgical (complications, mortality), peritoneal carcinomatosis index (PCI), rate of complete resection, and disease-free interval and survival. Results: Fifty-seven patients were included, 38 (67%) with diaphragmatic involvement; in 10 cases (18%), diaphragmatic resection was required. Optimal cytoreduction (OCR) was obtained in 49 cases (86%). The PCI was 10 in 31 cases (54%). Respiratory complications occurred in 10 cases (18%) and mortality in 3 (5%). Disease-free survival rate in 3 years was 53%, being 87% in cases without diaphragmatic involvement. The overall survival rate in 3 years is 46%, 83% in the cases without diaphragmatic involvement and 27% in cases with affectation (p 0.05). In cases of OCR, 3 year survival rate was 65%. In the multivariate analysis for the overall survival of cases with OCR, the only independent prognostic factor found was the operative PCI. A strong correlation was found between the total PCI and the diaphragmatic PCI (p 0.001). With a PCI 10, virtually all cases will present diaphragmatic involvement (p 0.05). Conclusion: The tumor burden is different in stages III and IV of advanced ovarian cancer and the PCI is an effective method to quantify it. The PCI constitutes an independent prognostic factor for the advanced stages of ovarian cancer. A PCI 10 constitutes a useful prognostic factor of the affectation and forces the surgeon to thoroughly review both diaphragms

A Free App for Diagnosing Burnout (BurnOut App): Development Study

Background: Health specialists take care of us, but who takes care of them? These professionals are the most vulnerable to the increasingly common syndrome known as burnout. Burnout is a syndrome conceptualized as a result of chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. Objective: This study aims to develop a useful app providing burnout self-diagnosis and tracking of burnout through a simple, intuitive, and user-friendly interface. Methods: We present the BurnOut app, an Android app developed using the Xamarin and MVVMCross platforms, which allows users to detect critical cases of psychological discomfort by implementing the Goldberg and Copenhagen Burnout Inventory tests. Results: The BurnOut app is robust, user-friendly, and efficient. The good performance of the app was demonstrated by comparing its features with those of similar apps in the literature. Conclusions: The BurnOut app is very useful for health specialists or users, in general, to detect burnout early and track its evolution.This work was supported by project PID2020-113614RB-C22, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. JV is a Serra Húnter fello

Fluid-rock interaction control on fault reactivation: A review of the Montmell-Vallès Fault System, central Catalan Coastal Ranges (NE Iberia)

Structural inheritance is a key factor controlling the tectonic evolution of the central Catalan Coastal Ranges. Up to two periods of tectonic inversion (one positive during the Paleogene and the other negative during the Neogene) affected a previously well-developed Mesozoic extensional basin system and characterized the Cenozoic evolution of the area. In this scenario, tectonic fault inversion is often observed along the Montmell-Vallès Fault System. Fault reactivation shows differences along strike from NE to SW and appears decoupled from surface to depth due to its kinked-planar geometry and the change of fault dip from >60° to 30° in depth. The ability of the Mesozoic faults to be reactivated appears also influenced by changes in the mechanical properties of the inherited fault zone. Whereas the deeper and less dipping panels of the major faults are reactivated in the entire zone (contractional during the Paleogene and extensional during the late Oligocene-Neogene), the upper and highly dipping parts of the faults only show local reactivations. The observations indicate that fault dip, the indirect role of hosting lithologies (granites and siliciclastic metasediments versus carbonate rocks) on fault rocks, the indirect role of mineral precipitation and cementation product of fluid circulation, and the direct role of the mechanical properties of the resulting fault rocks (gouge versus cemented breccias) significantly control the fault reactivation. Upper crust low angle fault segments are easily reactivated during contractional deformation but not during the extensional one. Conversely, the segments with a high-angle dip are more easily reactivated during the extensional deformation but not during the contractional one. In the study area, this resulted in the formation of footwall short-cuts developed during the Paleogene compression and extensional short-cuts occurred during the Neogene extension. On the other hand, reactivation is effective in areas where granites and siliciclastic metasediments characterize the host-rock, and non-cohesive fault gouge forms the pre-existent fault core. Instead, fault reactivation appears restricted or even prevented where the host-rock includes thick carbonate successions, and the pre-existent damage zone is formed by highly cemented and cohesive breccias

Semicarbazide-sensitive amine oxidase / vascular adhesion protein-1 activity exerts an antidiabetic action in Goto-Kakizaki rats

n this study we have explored whether the bifunctional protein semicarbazide-sensitive amine oxidase (SSAO)/vascular adhesion protein-1 (VAP-1) represents a novel target for type 2 diabetes. To this end, Goto-Kakizaki (GK) diabetic rats were treated with the SSAO substrate benzylamine and with low ineffective doses of vanadate previously shown to have antidiabetic effects in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. The administration of benzylamine in combination with vanadate in type 2 diabetic rats acutely stimulated glucose tolerance, and the chronic treatment normalized hyperglycemia, stimulated glucose transport in adipocytes, and reversed muscle insulin resistance. Acute in vivo administration of benzylamine and vanadate stimulated skeletal muscle glucose transport, an effect that was also observed in incubated muscle preparations coincubated with adipose tissue explants or with human recombinant SSAO. Acute administration of benzylamine/vanadate also ameliorated insulin secretion in diabetic GK rats, and this effect was also observed in incubated pancreatic islets. In keeping with these observations, we also demonstrate that pancreatic islets express SSAO/VAP-1. As far as mechanisms of action, we have found that benzylamine/vanadate causes enhanced tyrosine phosphorylation of proteins and reduced protein tyrosine phosphatase activity in adipocytes. In addition, incubation of human recombinant SSAO, benzylamine, and vanadate generates peroxovanadium compounds in vitro. Based on these data, we propose that benzylamine/vanadate administration generates peroxovanadium locally in pancreatic islets, which stimulates insulin secretion and also produces peroxovanadium in adipose tissue, activating glucose metabolism in adipocytes and in neighboring muscle. This opens the possibility of using the SSAO/VAP-1 activity as a local generator of protein tyrosine phosphatase inhibitors in antidiabetic therapy