Articulación “la universidad y la escuela secundaria”: interaccion GER-Escuela tecnica Fray Luis Beltran

El presente trabajo describe de manera breve el resultado de las actividades de becarios del grupo Grupo en Energías Renovables de la FaCEN A y alumnos y profesores de la escuela técnica Fray Luis Beltrán, llevadas a cabo en el marco de la Articulación entre la Universidad y la Escuela Secundaria. En este contexto, se ha logrado presentar con éxito un auto eléctrico que incorpora un sistema de carga de baterías mediante generación solar fotovoltaica. El mismo ha pasado dos instancias del certamen TécnicaMente, resultando seleccionado para la Instancia Nacional en la ciudad de Salta. Asimismo, se capacitó a alumnos del área electrónica en la aplicación de tecnología Arduino e implementación de red tipo mesh con módulos Zigbee como elementos de enlace. Por último, se presentó además ante el INET , un proyecto institucional para la instalación de un sistema fotovoltaico conectado a red para capacitar técnicos calificados en este tipo de tecnologías

Educación & Retorno post pandemia: SARS-CoV-2, autocuidado, bioseguridad, salud emocional y compasión consciente

Proyecto de continuidad del P-100 Innova-Docencia UCM/2019 (Conviviendo en positivo: educación en salud, atención consciente, compasión activa y resiliencia). Extensión en la Universidad Nacional de Villa María (UNVM, Argentina), de la intervención desarrollada online durante la fase cero del periodo de confinamiento para facilitar conexión y respuesta adaptativa frente al impacto emocional generado por la situación sobrevenida por la declaración del estado de emergencia sanitaria ante la COVID-19. En el ámbito universitario, el miedo a nuevos rebrotes que saturasen el sistema sanitario, impuso incorporar cambios organizativos institucionales y normalizar nuevas formas de agrupamiento e interacción interpersonal, con dos escenarios posibles de presencialidad adaptada. Bajo estas nuevas condiciones de bioseguridad, el retorno post pandemia al curso académico crea un nuevo escenario de aprendizaje en convivencia positiva, ante un estado normalizado de serodiscordancia, potencialmente generadora de resiliencia. En cada uno de nosotros hay recursos excepcionales para reaccionar ante este estado excepcional, del mejor modo. Desde este paradigma, el programa “Presencia ante el estrés y gestión emocional”, surge ante la necesidad de incorporar intervenciones educativas no formales e innovadoras, que ayuden a los estudiantes a tener una visión global de la situación sanitaria que estamos atravesando, a identificar y normalizar las reacciones adaptativas que estamos experimentando, y para dotar a estudiantes y docentes de estrategias eficaces que les ayuden a gestionar mejor el impacto emocional derivado por la crisis sanitaria y económica. Medidas de seguridad en el entorno académico que entran en conflicto no solo con la convivencia no segura e insolidaria en ambientes de ocio, sino con la imposibilidad de mantenerlas durante desplazamientos en medios de transporte público; lo cual genera frustración y agotamiento. La crisis económica y la necesidad de estudiar/trabajar en remoto, nos lleva a entrar en modo “multitareas”. La invasión de las TIC en nuestro modo de vida, son un arma de “distracción masiva” que alimentan estados de “atención dispersa”, cuyo resultado es mayor presión, mayores errores y menor satisfacción. Todo esto genera mayor estrés mantenido y sus efectos: miedo, frustración, ira, tristeza, angustia, soledad y ansiedad. Un antídoto podría ser, desarrollar la atención consciente y cultivar la compasión. Si de modo transversal, se logra integrar en nuestras vidas formas de lucha y resistencia activa frente a otros virus (normalizando la convivencia en serodiscordancia y las pruebas diagnósticas rutinarias, no discriminando y desestigmatizando), al minimizarse la aparición de nuevos casos con diagnóstico tardío, podremos bloquear el avance y vencer definitivamente a otras pandemias. La transmisión del VIH es posible pararla entre todas y todos: pacientes diagnosticados y medicados, con niveles de virus indetectables e intransmisibles (objetivo 2030 OMS: el fin de la pandemia SIDA)

The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) has been in operation since July 2014. This paper describes the second data release from this phase, and the fourteenth from SDSS overall (making this, Data Release Fourteen or DR14). This release makes public data taken by SDSS-IV in its first two years of operation (July 2014-2016). Like all previous SDSS releases, DR14 is cumulative, including the most recent reductions and calibrations of all data taken by SDSS since the first phase began operations in 2000. New in DR14 is the first public release of data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS); the first data from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE-2), including stellar parameter estimates from an innovative data driven machine learning algorithm known as "The Cannon"; and almost twice as many data cubes from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) survey as were in the previous release (N = 2812 in total). This paper describes the location and format of the publicly available data from SDSS-IV surveys. We provide references to the important technical papers describing how these data have been taken (both targeting and observation details) and processed for scientific use. The SDSS website (www.sdss.org) has been updated for this release, and provides links to data downloads, as well as tutorials and examples of data use. SDSS-IV is planning to continue to collect astronomical data until 2020, and will be followed by SDSS-V.Comment: SDSS-IV collaboration alphabetical author data release paper. DR14 happened on 31st July 2017. 19 pages, 5 figures. Accepted by ApJS on 28th Nov 2017 (this is the "post-print" and "post-proofs" version; minor corrections only from v1, and most of errors found in proofs corrected

Pedagogías emergentes : Repensando la educación desde las tic, la virtualidad y la ruralidad

Este libro es una apuesta de docentes, egresados y estudiantes de la Licenciatura en Comunicación e Informática Educativa de la Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira que, comprometidos con la formación integral del ser humano, cuestionan su papel como creadores de cuestionamientos y hacedores de respuestas contextualizadas y abordadas no solamente desde la Universidad, sino también desde el análisis y requerimientos del entorno. Así, a modo de recopilación de experiencias y reflexiones educativas que se agrupan en capítulos según afinidades temáticas, estos jóvenes docentes, egresados y estudiantes intentan develar la significación del proceso de la enseñanza y el aprendizaje desde lo crítico y lo complejo; como también desde el cuestionamiento sobre los retos y la responsabilidad social. Este libro es una apuesta de docentes, egresados y estudiantes de la Licenciatura en Comunicación e Informática Educativa de la Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira que, comprometidos con la formación integral del ser humano, cuestionan su papel como creadores de cuestionamientos y hacedores de respuestas contextualizadas y abordadas no solamente desde la Universidad, sino también desde el análisis y requerimientos del entorno. Así, a modo de recopilación de experiencias y reflexiones educativas que se agrupan en capítulos según afinidades temáticas, estos jóvenes docentes, egresados y estudiantes intentan develar la significación del proceso de la enseñanza y el aprendizaje desde lo crítico y lo complejo; como también desde el cuestionamiento sobre los retos y la responsabilidad social

Treatment with tocilizumab or corticosteroids for COVID-19 patients with hyperinflammatory state: a multicentre cohort study (SAM-COVID-19)

Objectives: The objective of this study was to estimate the association between tocilizumab or corticosteroids and the risk of intubation or death in patients with coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) with a hyperinflammatory state according to clinical and laboratory parameters. Methods: A cohort study was performed in 60 Spanish hospitals including 778 patients with COVID-19 and clinical and laboratory data indicative of a hyperinflammatory state. Treatment was mainly with tocilizumab, an intermediate-high dose of corticosteroids (IHDC), a pulse dose of corticosteroids (PDC), combination therapy, or no treatment. Primary outcome was intubation or death; follow-up was 21 days. Propensity score-adjusted estimations using Cox regression (logistic regression if needed) were calculated. Propensity scores were used as confounders, matching variables and for the inverse probability of treatment weights (IPTWs). Results: In all, 88, 117, 78 and 151 patients treated with tocilizumab, IHDC, PDC, and combination therapy, respectively, were compared with 344 untreated patients. The primary endpoint occurred in 10 (11.4%), 27 (23.1%), 12 (15.4%), 40 (25.6%) and 69 (21.1%), respectively. The IPTW-based hazard ratios (odds ratio for combination therapy) for the primary endpoint were 0.32 (95%CI 0.22-0.47; p < 0.001) for tocilizumab, 0.82 (0.71-1.30; p 0.82) for IHDC, 0.61 (0.43-0.86; p 0.006) for PDC, and 1.17 (0.86-1.58; p 0.30) for combination therapy. Other applications of the propensity score provided similar results, but were not significant for PDC. Tocilizumab was also associated with lower hazard of death alone in IPTW analysis (0.07; 0.02-0.17; p < 0.001). Conclusions: Tocilizumab might be useful in COVID-19 patients with a hyperinflammatory state and should be prioritized for randomized trials in this situatio

Role of age and comorbidities in mortality of patients with infective endocarditis

[Purpose]: The aim of this study was to analyse the characteristics of patients with IE in three groups of age and to assess the ability of age and the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) to predict mortality. [Methods]: Prospective cohort study of all patients with IE included in the GAMES Spanish database between 2008 and 2015.Patients were stratified into three age groups:<65 years,65 to 80 years,and ≥ 80 years.The area under the receiver-operating characteristic (AUROC) curve was calculated to quantify the diagnostic accuracy of the CCI to predict mortality risk. [Results]: A total of 3120 patients with IE (1327 < 65 years;1291 65-80 years;502 ≥ 80 years) were enrolled.Fever and heart failure were the most common presentations of IE, with no differences among age groups.Patients ≥80 years who underwent surgery were significantly lower compared with other age groups (14.3%,65 years; 20.5%,65-79 years; 31.3%,≥80 years). In-hospital mortality was lower in the <65-year group (20.3%,<65 years;30.1%,65-79 years;34.7%,≥80 years;p < 0.001) as well as 1-year mortality (3.2%, <65 years; 5.5%, 65-80 years;7.6%,≥80 years; p = 0.003).Independent predictors of mortality were age ≥ 80 years (hazard ratio [HR]:2.78;95% confidence interval [CI]:2.32–3.34), CCI ≥ 3 (HR:1.62; 95% CI:1.39–1.88),and non-performed surgery (HR:1.64;95% CI:11.16–1.58).When the three age groups were compared,the AUROC curve for CCI was significantly larger for patients aged <65 years(p < 0.001) for both in-hospital and 1-year mortality. [Conclusion]: There were no differences in the clinical presentation of IE between the groups. Age ≥ 80 years, high comorbidity (measured by CCI),and non-performance of surgery were independent predictors of mortality in patients with IE.CCI could help to identify those patients with IE and surgical indication who present a lower risk of in-hospital and 1-year mortality after surgery, especially in the <65-year group

Hyperoxemia and excess oxygen use in early acute respiratory distress syndrome : Insights from the LUNG SAFE study

Publisher Copyright: © 2020 The Author(s). Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.Background: Concerns exist regarding the prevalence and impact of unnecessary oxygen use in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). We examined this issue in patients with ARDS enrolled in the Large observational study to UNderstand the Global impact of Severe Acute respiratory FailurE (LUNG SAFE) study. Methods: In this secondary analysis of the LUNG SAFE study, we wished to determine the prevalence and the outcomes associated with hyperoxemia on day 1, sustained hyperoxemia, and excessive oxygen use in patients with early ARDS. Patients who fulfilled criteria of ARDS on day 1 and day 2 of acute hypoxemic respiratory failure were categorized based on the presence of hyperoxemia (PaO2 > 100 mmHg) on day 1, sustained (i.e., present on day 1 and day 2) hyperoxemia, or excessive oxygen use (FIO2 ≥ 0.60 during hyperoxemia). Results: Of 2005 patients that met the inclusion criteria, 131 (6.5%) were hypoxemic (PaO2 < 55 mmHg), 607 (30%) had hyperoxemia on day 1, and 250 (12%) had sustained hyperoxemia. Excess FIO2 use occurred in 400 (66%) out of 607 patients with hyperoxemia. Excess FIO2 use decreased from day 1 to day 2 of ARDS, with most hyperoxemic patients on day 2 receiving relatively low FIO2. Multivariate analyses found no independent relationship between day 1 hyperoxemia, sustained hyperoxemia, or excess FIO2 use and adverse clinical outcomes. Mortality was 42% in patients with excess FIO2 use, compared to 39% in a propensity-matched sample of normoxemic (PaO2 55-100 mmHg) patients (P = 0.47). Conclusions: Hyperoxemia and excess oxygen use are both prevalent in early ARDS but are most often non-sustained. No relationship was found between hyperoxemia or excessive oxygen use and patient outcome in this cohort. Trial registration: LUNG-SAFE is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT02010073publishersversionPeer reviewe

The immunogenetic diversity of the HLA system in Mexico correlates with underlying population genetic structure

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