El Proyecto Solear. Una Actividad Flexible Interdisciplinar Dentro del Ámbito Curricular de la URV

AbstractWe introduce an activity with a flexible interdisciplinary model that results in a candidature of Universitat Rovira y Virgili to an international contest among Universities. This candidature presents a team of students from different fields, which develop a project of a detached house according criteria of sustainability and energy savings. The scenario of this action implies an additional motivation for students, since they take responsibilities on behalf of the University

SolarRacer. Design and development of an educational game for a client

Treball final de Grau en Disseny i Desenvolupament de Videojocs. Codi: VJ1241. Curs acadèmic: 2017/2018In this document is exposed the work done in the course Project Exposure (2018) at Saxion University developing an educational game for a client external to the university. This document is divided in different sections related with the development of the game. Due to the nature of the course the document also talks about the work in group and how different solutions has been developed to satisfy some necessities of the nonprogramming part of the team during the development time

Implementation of pre-exposure prophylaxis programme in Spain. Feasibility of four different delivery models

Infeccions pel VIH; Factors de risc mèdics; Profilaxi preexposicióInfecciones por VIH; Factores de riesgo médicos; Profilaxis preexposiciónHIV infections; Medical risk factors; Pre-exposure prophylaxisBackground Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is an effective and cost-effective strategy for HIV prevention. Spain carried out an implementation study in order to assess the feasibility of implementing PrEP programmes within its heterogeneous health system. Methods Observational longitudinal study conducted on four different types of health-care setting: a community centre (CC), a sexually transmitted infections clinic (STIC), a hospital-based HIV unit (HBHIVU) and a hospital-based STI unit (HBSTIU). We recruited gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBSM) and transgender women at risk of HIV infections, gave them PrEP and monitored clinical, behavioural PrEP-related and satisfaction information for 52 weeks. We collected perceptions on PrEP implementation feasibility from health-care professionals participating in the study. Results A total of 321 participants were recruited, with 99.1% being GBMSM. Overall retention was 87.2% and it was highest at the CC (92.6%). Condom use decreased during the study period, while STIs did not increase consistently. The percentage of people who did not miss any doses of PrEP during the previous week remained at over 93%. No HIV seroconversions occurred. We observed overall decreases in GHB (32.5% to 21.8%), cocaine (27.5% to 21.4%), MDMA (25.7% to 14.3%), speed (11.4% to 5.7%) and mephedrone use (10.7% to 5.0%). The overall participant satisfaction with PrEP was 98.6%. Health-care professionals’ perceptions of PrEP feasibility were positive, except for the lack of personnel. Conclusions PrEP implementation is feasible in four types of health-care settings. Local specificities have to be taken into consideration while implementing PrEP.This study has been conducted with the resources from the National AIDS Programme ant those from the participating study centers. Gilead donated the drug administered in the study. Donors had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Some authors are employed by BCN Checkpoint. BCN Checkpoint is a Community Centre run by an NGO. BCN Checkpoint did not play a role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript and only provided financial support in the form of author PC. The specific roles of this author is articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section

El “Aprendizaje Basado en Equipos (TBL)” aplicado a la Ciencia Política

[EN] Like other disciplines of social sciences, political science learning has traditionally been based on the individual student work, and the magisterial teaching, farthest from the work most characteristic group of science experimental laboratory whose practices were the groupware a need inculcating in students from an early age the ability to work in groups In this context new teaching and learning techniques emphasize autonomous student learning at individual and group level in parallel, such as the "Group Based Learning" (commonly known as TBL for its acronym in English). This article applies and compares the traditional methodologies of lecture and group-based learning on a sample of 50 undergraduate and double degree in political science and law. The results indicate that the TBL methodology develops more skills in students beyond the simple acquisition of knowledge more intensively than traditional methodology but generates certain problems such as conflicts among students.[ES] Como otras disciplinas de las ciencias sociales, el aprendizaje en ciencia política y de la administración ha estado tradicionalmente basado en el trabajo individual del alumno, y en la docencia magistral por parte del docente, más alejado de los trabajos en grupo más característico de las ciencias experimentales cuyas prácticas en laboratorios hacían del trabajo en grupo una necesidad inculcando en el alumno desde sus primeros años la capacidad para trabajar en grupos En este contexto nuevas técnicas de enseñanza-aprendizaje ponen énfasis en el aprendizaje autónomo del alumno de a nivel individual y grupal de forma paralela, como el denominado “Aprendizaje Basado en Grupos” (comúnmente conocido como TBL por sus siglas en inglés). Este artículo aplica y compara las metodologías tradicional de clase magistral y de aprendizaje basado en grupos sobre una muestra de 50 alumnos de grado y doble grado en ciencia política y derecho. Los resultados indican que la metodología TBL desarrolla más habilidades en el alumno más allá de la simple adquisición de conocimientos de forma más intensa que la metodología tradicional aunque genera determinados problemas como la conflictividad entre el alumnado.García Rivero, C.; Barberà, Ó.; Martín Cubas, J. (2016). El “Aprendizaje Basado en Equipos (TBL)” aplicado a la Ciencia Política. En In-Red 2016. II Congreso nacional de innovación educativa y docencia en red. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/INRED2016.2016.4324OC

Livestock management at the Late Iron Age site of Baltarga (eastern Pyrenees): an integrated bio-geoarchaeological approach

Despite the important role of livestock farming amongst Iron Age communities living in mountain regions, there is little information about livestock management, and particularly stabling practises, breeding systems, and grazing/foddering patterns. The study of the ground floor of Building G in Tossal de Baltarga has provided valuable insights into these important issues and has given us a better understanding of the social and economic patterns involved in all these livestock activities. It revealed the existence of a stable from the Late Iron Age, thanks to unique in situ finds of the stabled animals, including four sheep, a goat, and a horse, in addition to a range of organic remains preserved by fire and penning deposits. It is the first documented to date in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula. Through an integrated bio-geoarchaeological approach, combining a range of analytic procedures, including osteology, dental microwear, stable isotopes, phytoliths, dung spherulite analyses, and thin-section micromorphology, for the first time, this study has provided new, high-resolution evidence of livestock management strategies. Specifically, the research shed light on animal penning and feeding practises, revealing variable herbivorous regimes between species, the practise of seasonal movements, and the possible use of fodder as the main dietary regime of the animals stabled there. At the same time, the Baltarga case-study illustrates an indoor production unit that could reveal possible private control of some domestic animals in the Pyrenean Late Iron Age.Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature. LC is currently supported by a Ramón y Cajal contract (RYC2019-026732-I-AEI/10.13039/ 501100011033). CM has the financial support of the Secretaria d’Universitats i Recerca de la Generalitat de Catalunya and European Social Fund (ESF) “Investing in your future” (2022 FI_B2 00070). The funding for this research has been partially provided within the framework of the projects “Control, gestión y explotación del territorio en la Hispania romana”, PID2021-122879OB-I00, MICIN, and “PATCA-3”, Generalitat de Catalunya, 9071-55/2022

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Truthful implementation and preference aggregation in restricted domains

In a setting where agents have quasi-linear utilities over social alternatives and a transferable commodity,we consider three properties that a social choice function may possess: truthful implementation (in dominant strategies); monotonicity in differences; and lexicographic affine maximization. We introduce the notion of a flexible domain of preferences that allows elevation of pairs and study which of these conditions implies which others in such domain. We provide a generalization of the theorem of Roberts (1979) [36] in restricted valuation domains. Flexibility holds (and the theorem is not vacuous) if the domain of valuation profiles is restricted to the space of continuous functions defined on a compact metric space, or the space of piecewise linear functions defined on an affine space, or the space of smooth functions defined on a compact differentiable manifold. We provide applications of our results to public goods allocation settings, with finite and infinite alternative sets

Recerca sobre criteris de planificació, programació, disseny arquitectònic i factors de sostenibilitat dels centres d’allotjament d’empreses de referència

Recerca sobre criteris de planificació, programació, disseny arquitectònic i factors de sostenibilitat dels centres d’allotjament d’empreses de referència: tres casos a estudi: Barcelona Activa–Glòries, Procornellà, Tecnocampus Mataró–Maresme.Preprin

Impact of time to intubation on mortality and pulmonary sequelae in critically ill patients with COVID-19: a prospective cohort study

Question: We evaluated whether the time between first respiratory support and intubation of patients receiving invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) due to COVID-19 was associated with mortality or pulmonary sequelae. Materials and methods: Prospective cohort of critical COVID-19 patients on IMV. Patients were classified as early intubation if they were intubated within the first 48 h from the first respiratory support or delayed intubation if they were intubated later. Surviving patients were evaluated after hospital discharge. Results: We included 205 patients (140 with early IMV and 65 with delayed IMV). The median [p25;p75] age was 63 [56.0; 70.0] years, and 74.1% were male. The survival analysis showed a significant increase in the risk of mortality in the delayed group with an adjusted hazard ratio (HR) of 2.45 (95% CI 1.29-4.65). The continuous predictor time to IMV showed a nonlinear association with the risk of in-hospital mortality. A multivariate mortality model showed that delay of IMV was a factor associated with mortality (HR of 2.40; 95% CI 1.42-4.1). During follow-up, patients in the delayed group showed a worse DLCO (mean difference of - 10.77 (95% CI - 18.40 to - 3.15), with a greater number of affected lobes (+ 1.51 [95% CI 0.89-2.13]) and a greater TSS (+ 4.35 [95% CI 2.41-6.27]) in the chest CT scan. Conclusions: Among critically ill patients with COVID-19 who required IMV, the delay in intubation from the first respiratory support was associated with an increase in hospital mortality and worse pulmonary sequelae during follow-up.The study was supported in part by ISCIII (CIBERESUCICOVID, COV20/00110), co‑funded by ERDF, “Una manera de hacer Europa” and Donation pro‑gram "estar preparados". UNESPA. Madrid. Spain David de Gonzalo Calvo acknowledges receiving financial support from Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII); Miguel Servet 2020: CP20/00041), co‑funded by the European Social Fund (ESF), “Investing in your future”. JdB acknowledges receiving financial support from Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Miguel Servet 2019: CP19/00108), co‑funded by European Regional European Social Fund (ESF), “Investing in your future

Staging Parkinson's Disease Combining Motor and Nonmotor Symptoms Correlates with Disability and Quality of Life.

Introduction: In a degenerative disorder such as Parkinson's disease (PD), it is important to establish clinical stages that allow to know the course of the disease. Our aim was to analyze whether a scale combining Hoehn and Yahr's motor stage (H&Y) and the nonmotor symptoms burden (NMSB) (assessed by the nonmotor symptoms scale (NMSS)) provides information about the disability and the patient's quality of life (QoL) with regard to a defined clinical stage. Materials and methods: Cross-sectional study in which 603 PD patients from the COPPADIS cohort were classified according to H&Y (1, stage I; 2, stage II; 3, stage III; 4, stage IV/V) and NMSB (A: NMSS = 0-20; B: NMSS = 21-40; C: NMSS = 41-70; D: NMSS ≥ 71) in 16 stages (HY.NMSB, from 1A to 4D). QoL was assessed with the PDQ-39SI, PQ-10, and EUROHIS-QOL8 and disability with the Schwab&England ADL (Activities of Daily Living) scale. Results: A worse QoL and greater disability were observed at a higher stage of H&Y and NMSB (p < 0.0001). Combining both (HY.NMSB), patients in stages 1C and 1D and 2C and 2D had significantly worse QoL and/or less autonomy for ADL than those in stages 2A and 2B and 3A and 3B, respectively (p < 0.005; e.g., PDQ-39SI in 1D [n = 15] vs 2A [n = 101]: 28.6 ± 17.1 vs 7.9 ± 5.8; p < 0.0001). Conclusion: The HY.NMSB scale is simple and reflects the degree of patient involvement more accurately than the HΨ Patients with a lower H&Y stage may be more affected if they have a greater NMS burden