Legitimation in cause of the insured in the debtors group insurance contract to claim in favor of the financial entity that the balance of the obligation be paid

La legitimación en causa tratada desde la arista de los sujetos negocialesno celebrantes (Bohórquez, 2009), quienes en puridad ajenos al contratosufren las consecuencias de su inejecución al afectarse directamente supatrimonio; se relieva como problemática en el negocio aseguraticio pormedio del cual una entidad financiera que en mutuo entrega determinadasuma de dinero, garantiza su pago a través de una póliza que ante lamuerte o invalidez del deudor, impone a la aseguradora asumir el saldode la obligación, comportando este supuesto una dificultad enorme parael asegurado que ante el incumplimiento de la prestación reseñada, seencuentra con la relatividad del contrato como principio de derechoprivado que le impide reclamar, como tercero, su ejecución(p.41).Desde esa perspectiva, se caracterizó la legitimación en causa comopresupuesto de la pretensión y requisito para la sentencia de fondo,delimitando la posición contractual del deudor-asegurado como tercerointerviniente no celebrante del contrato de seguro, que, se concluye, interesado en el cumplimiento de las obligaciones nacidas a partir deaquel procurando su indemnidad patrimonial, por ello se legitima paraobtener una decisión de fondo sobre su pedimento; como lo hareconocido la Sala de Casación Civil de la Corte Suprema de Justicia.This text focuses on the legitimation in the cause treated from the point of view of the negotiable subjects not part of the negotiation (Bohórquez, 2009), whose assets are affected by non-performance of the contract.As a problem of the insurance business, it is possible to figure out a financial institution which releases a certain amount of money as a loan ,that guarantees its payment through a policy in case of death or disability of the debtor, and that imposes on the insurance company the obligation to assume the balance. In case of non performance of the contract, the insured faces the relativity of such contract in accordance with the principle of private law that prevents a third person from claiming its execution.From this perspective, the legitimation in the cause is characterized as the cause of the claim and requirement for the judgment on the merits, defining the contractual position of the debtor-insured as the third participant non part of the insurance contract, interested in the accomplishment of the obligations arising from it , and who looks for his patrimonial indemnity, and therefore it is legitimated to a substantive decision, according to the recognition from the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Cour

Association of physical function with predialysis blood pressure in patients on hemodialysis

BACKGROUND: New information from various clinical settings suggests that tight blood pressure control may not reduce mortality and may be associated with more side effects. METHODS: We performed cross-sectional multivariable ordered logistic regression to examine the association between predialysis blood pressure and the short physical performance battery (SPPB) in a cohort of 749 prevalent hemodialysis patients in the San Francisco and Atlanta areas recruited from July 2009 to August 2011 to study the relationship between systolic blood pressure and objective measures of physical function. Mean blood pressure for three hemodialysis sessions was analyzed in the following categories: <110 mmHg, 110-129 mmHg (reference), 130-159 mmHg, and ≥160 mmHg. SPPB includes three components: timed repeated chair stands, timed 15-ft walk, and balance tests. SPPB was categorized into ordinal groups (≤6, 7-9, 10-12) based on prior literature. RESULTS: Patients with blood pressure 130-159 mmHg had lower odds (OR 0.57, 95% CI 0.35-0.93) of scoring in a lower SPPB category than those whose blood pressure was between 110 and 129 mmHg, while those with blood pressure ≥160 mmHg had 0.56 times odds (95% CI 0.33-0.94) of scoring in a lower category when compared with blood pressure 110-129 mmHg. When individual components were examined, blood pressure was significantly associated with chair stand (130-159 mmHg: OR 0.59, 95% CI 0.38-0.92) and gait speed (≥160 mmHg: OR 0.59, 95% CI 0.35-0.98). Blood pressure ≥160 mmHg was not associated with substantially higher SPPB score compared with 130-159 mmHg. CONCLUSIONS: Patients with systolic blood pressure at or above 130 mmHg had better physical performance than patients with lower blood pressure in the normotensive range. The risk-benefit tradeoff of aggressive blood pressure control, particularly in low-functioning patients, should be reexamined

Urban coral reefs: Degradation and resilience of hard coral assemblages in coastal cities of East and Southeast Asia

© 2018 The Author(s) Given predicted increases in urbanization in tropical and subtropical regions, understanding the processes shaping urban coral reefs may be essential for anticipating future conservation challenges. We used a case study approach to identify unifying patterns of urban coral reefs and clarify the effects of urbanization on hard coral assemblages. Data were compiled from 11 cities throughout East and Southeast Asia, with particular focus on Singapore, Jakarta, Hong Kong, and Naha (Okinawa). Our review highlights several key characteristics of urban coral reefs, including “reef compression” (a decline in bathymetric range with increasing turbidity and decreasing water clarity over time and relative to shore), dominance by domed coral growth forms and low reef complexity, variable city-specific inshore-offshore gradients, early declines in coral cover with recent fluctuating periods of acute impacts and rapid recovery, and colonization of urban infrastructure by hard corals. We present hypotheses for urban reef community dynamics and discuss potential of ecological engineering for corals in urban areas

Uso de la inversión de onda completa (FWI) en coordenadas generalizadas para zonas de topografía irregular

Full waveform inversion (FWI) has been recently used to estimate subsurface parameters, such as velocity models. This method, however, has a number of drawbacks when applied to zones with rugged topography due to the forced application of a Cartesian mesh on a curved surface. In this work, we present a simple coordinate transformation that enables the construction of a curved mesh. The proposed transformation is more suitable for rugged surfaces and it allows mapping a physical curved domain into a uniform rectangular grid, where acoustic FWI can be applied in the traditional way by introducing a modified Laplacian. We prove that the proposed approximation can have a wide range of applications, producing precise near-surface velocity models without increasing the computing time of the FWI.La inversión de onda completa (FWI) ha sido usada recientemente para estimar parámetros del subsuelo, tal como modelos de velocidad. Este método sin embargo, tiene diferentes inconvenientes cuando se aplica a zonas con topografía abrupta debido a la aplicación forzada de una malla cartesiana sobre una superficie curvada. En este trabajo, presentamos una transformación de coordenadas simple que posibilita la construcción de una malla curvada. La transformación propuesta es más apropiada para superficies abruptas y permite mapear un dominio físico curvado a una malla rectangular uniforme, donde la FWI acústica puede ser aplicada de la manera tradicional introduciendo un Laplaciano modificado. Nosotros sugerimos que la aproximación propuesta puede tener un amplio rango de aplicaciones, produciendo modelos de velocidad precisos cerca a la superficie sin incrementar el tiempo de cómputo

Comparing Class II MHC DRB3 Diversity in Colombian Simmental and Simbrah Cattle Across Worldwide Bovine Populations

The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) exerts great influence on responses to infectious diseases and vaccination due to its fundamental role in the adaptive immune system. Knowledge about MHC polymorphism distribution among breeds can provide insights into cattle evolution and diversification as well as population-based immune response variability, thus guiding further studies. Colombian Simmental and Simbrah cattle’s BoLA-DRB3 genetic diversity was compared to that of taurine and zebuine breeds worldwide to estimate functional diversity. High allele richness was observed for Simmental and Simbrah cattle; nevertheless, high homozygosity was associated with individual low sequence variability in both the β1 domain and the peptide binding region (PBR), thereby implying reduced MHC-presented peptide repertoire size. There were strong signals of positive selection acting on BoLA-DRB3 in all populations, some of which were poorly structured and displayed common alleles accounting for their high genetic similarity. PBR sequence correlation analysis suggested that, except for a few populations exhibiting some divergence at PBR, global diversity regarding potential MHC-presented peptide repertoire could be similar for the cattle populations analyzed here, which points to the retention of functional diversity in spite of the selective pressures imposed by breeding.Incluye referencias bibliográficas

A practical implementation of acoustic full waveform inversion on graphical processing units

Recently, Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) has gained more attention in the exploration geophysics community as a data fitting method that provides high-resolution seismic velocity models. Some of FWI essential components are a cost function to measure the misfit between observed and modeled data, a wave propagator to compute the modeled data and an initial velocity model that is iteratively updated until an acceptable decrease of the cost function is reached. Since FWI is a wave equation based method, the computational costs are elevated. In this paper, it is presented a fast Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) FWI implementation that uses a 2D acoustic wave propagator in time and updates the model using the gradient of the cost function, which is efficiently computed with the adjoint state method. The proposed parallel implementation is tested using the Marmousi velocity model. The performance of the proposed implementation is evaluated using the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860 GPU and compared to a serial Central Processing Unit (CPU) implementation, in terms of execution time. We also evaluate the GPU occupancy and analyze the memory requirements. Our tests show that the GPU implementation can achieve a speed-up of 26.89 times when compared to its serial CPU implementation.Recentemente, a inversão de onda completa (FWI, sigla em inglês) ganhou maior atenção na comunidade de exploração geofísica como método de ajuste de dados, que fornece modelos de velocidades sísmicas de alta resolução. Alguns dos componentes essenciais do FWI são uma função de custo para estimar a diferença entre os dados observados e os dados modelados, um propagador do campo de ondas acústicas para os dados modelados e um modelo de velocidade inicial, que é atualizada de forma iterativa. Como o FWI está baseado no método da equação da onda, as exigências computacionais de execução são altas. Neste artigo apresentamos uma implementação rápida do FWI acústico 2D em tempo em uma unidade de processamento gráfico (GPU, sigla em inglês). Esta implementação utiliza um propagador da equação de onda e atualiza o modelo de velocidade, utilizando o gradiente da função objetivo, que é calculada de forma eficiente usando o método do estado adjunto. Proposta de implementação paralela é testada utilizando o modelo de velocidade Marmousi. O desempenho da implementação proposta é avaliada usando uma GeForce GTX 860 e comparada com uma aplicação de série em, um único processador, em termos de tempo de execução. Avaliamos também a quantidade de recursos utilizados pela GPU e analisamos os requisitos de memória. Os testes mostram que a implementação em GPU pode conseguir uma taxa de aceleração de 26.89 vezes quando comparada com uma implementação serial do processador.Recientemente, la inversión de onda completa (FWI, por sus siglas en inglés) ha ganado una mayor atención en la comunidad de exploración geofísica como un método de ajuste de datos que provee modelos de velocidades sísmicas de gran resolución. Algunos de los componentes esenciales de la FWI corresponden a una función de costo para medir la diferencia entre los datos observados y los datos modelados, un propagador de onda para obtener los datos modelados y un modelo de velocidad inicial que es actualizado iterativamente hasta llegar a un valor deseado de la función de costo. Como la FWI es un método basado en la ecuación de onda, el costo computacional de su implementación es elevado. En este documento presentamos una implementación rápida de la FWI 2D acústica en tiempo sobre una unidad de procesamiento gráfico (GPU, por sus siglas en inglés). Esta implementación usa la ecuación de onda acústica para modelar la propagación y actualiza el modelo de velocidades usando el gradiente de la función de costo, el cual es calculado eficientemente usando el Método del Estado Adjunto. La implementación paralela propuesta es probada usando el modelo de velocidades Marmousi. El desempeño de la implementación propuesta es evaluado usando una GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860 y comparado con una implementación serial sobre un procesador, en términos de tiempo de ejecución. Adicionalmente, se evalúa la cantidad de recursos usados por la GPU y se analizan los requerimientos de memoria de la implementación. Las pruebas muestran que la implementación sobre GPU puede alcanzar un índice de aceleración de 26.89 veces si se compara con la implementación serial sobre el procesador

Association of physical function with predialysis blood pressure in patients on hemodialysis

© 2014 Abreo et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.Background: New information from various clinical settings suggests that tight blood pressure control may not reduce mortality and may be associated with more side effects. Methods: We performed cross-secti