Hábitos de alimentación saludable en la Educación Infantil

La redacción de este trabajo recoge una fundamentación teórica sobre una problemática de hábitos alimentarios que afecta de forma considerable a las personas. A través de una propuesta didáctica, enfocada para llevarse a la práctica en el aula de Educación Infantil, se intenta concienciar desde edades tempranas de lo beneficioso que puede ser seguir una correcta alimentación. La propuesta didáctica se ha llevado a la práctica con un total de nueve actividades distribuidas en ocho sesiones, todas ellas enlazadas bajo una metodología globalizadora.The writing of this work includes a theoretical foundation on a problem of eating habits that increasingly affects the population. Through a didactic proposal, aimed at putting it into practice in the nursery school classroom, we try to raise awareness from an early age of the importance of following a good diet. The didactic proposal was carried out with a total of nine activities distributed in eight sessions, allof them linked under a globalizing methodology.Departamento de Didáctica de las Ciencias Sociales y ExperimentalesGrado en Educación Infanti

Estudi, anàlisi i propostes pròpies en relació a la crisi energètica que viu la humanitat en l'inici del segle XXI

La societat actual precisa de grans quantitats d’energia per al seu manteniment i desenvolupament. Aquesta energia s’obté de recursos ja disponibles a la natura, especialment dels anomenats recursos no renovables. Entre aquests podem destacar-ne el petroli, el gas natural, el carbó i l’urani. Aquests recursos, que són la base del nostre progrés, malauradament resulten finits i són altament contaminants. En aquest treball s’analitzarà, primerament, els consums d’energia, les reserves energètiques existents i l’evolució a curt termini que ens espera. En segon terme, s’estudiarà l’evolució soferta per tres variables que tenen relació directa amb la crisi energètica que està patint la humanitat en l’inici del segle XXI: el GDP per càpita, el consum d’energia per càpita i la intensitat energètica. Aquestes variables s’analitzaran en tres grups de comparació: l’anomenat TOP 15 que integra als països més emissors de gasos d’efecte hivernacle durant l’any 2010, la Unió Europea dels 28 i, finalment, Espanya i Catalunya. Per concloure el treball, i a partir d’un ampli anàlisi del segon bloc, es presentarà una hipòtesi plausible orientada a la reducció, per a l’any 2050, de les emissions de gasos d’efecte hivernacle en un 60% respecte a les emeses durant l’any 2010 a Espanya i Catalunya

Social perspectives towards biobased products and textiles

This study explores and compares stakeholders’ perceptions of biobased products over the last few years. Three groups of stakeholders are included: consumers, the business-to-business market, and public procurers. The main research method consists of a qualitative analysis of some of the results obtained in a series of surveys in Europe-wide projects with the aim of understanding the behaviour, motivations, and concerns of stakeholders related to biobased products. The aim is to gather up-to-date information on the opinion of society from the perspective of the different actors on this type of product, focusing on textiles, in order to make a series of proposals to favour their inclusion in the market, while at the same time answering which are the most influential aspects when it comes to favouring or complicating the access of bioproducts to the market. The document compiles information from multiple sources and years (2014–2020) and, together with the most current and available information (2021), is processed in such a way that the information can be compared across years and stakeholders, allowing to observe the evolution over time of societal perspectives and the variation in opinion according to stakeholder. The results are presented according to three themes: (1) level of awareness, (2) product information, and (3) benefits, drivers, and barriers. The main findings indicate a general lack of awareness of biobased products, as well as several divergences in terms of the best methods to promote market access for biobased textiles

Effect of a multicomponent exercise program and cognitive stimulation (VIVIFRAIL-COGN) on falls in frail community older persons with high risk of falls: study protocol for a randomized multicenter control trial

Cognitive function; Falls; FracturesFunción cognitiva; Caídas; FracturasFunció cognitiva; Caigudes; FracturesBackground Falls represent important drivers of intrinsic capacity losses, functional limitations and reduced quality of life in the growing older adult’s population, especially among those presenting with frailty. Despite exercise- and cognitive training-based interventions have shown effectiveness for reducing fall rates, evidence around their putative cumulative effects on falls and fall-related complications (such as fractures, reduced quality of life and functional limitations) in frail individuals remains scarce. The main aim of this study is to explore the effectiveness program combining an individualized exercise program and an executive function-based cognitive training (VIVIFRAIL-COGN) compared to usual care in the prevention of falls and fall-related outcomes over a 1-year follow-up. Methods This study is designed as a four-center randomized clinical trial with a 12-week intervention period and an additional 1-year follow-up. Three hundred twenty frail or pre-frail (≥ 1 criteria of the Frailty Phenotype) older adults (≥ 75 years) with high risk of falling (defined by fall history and gait performance) will be recruited in the Falls Units of the participating centers. They will be randomized in a 1:1 ratio to the intervention group (IG) or the control group (CG). The IG will participate in a home-based intervention combining the individualized Vivifrail multicomponent (aerobic, resistance, gait and balance and flexibility) exercise program and a personalized executive function-based cognitive training (VIVIFRAIL-COGN). The CG group will receive usual care delivered in the Falls Units, including the Otago Exercise Program. Primary outcome will be the incidence of falls (event rate/year) and will be ascertained by self-report during three visits (at baseline, and 6 and 12 weeks) and telephone-based contacts at 6, 9 and 12 months after randomization. Secondarily, effects on measures of physical and cognitive function, quality of life, nutritional, muscle quality and psychological status will be evaluated. Discussion This trial will provide new evidence about the effectiveness of an individualized multidomain intervention by studying the effect of additive effects of cognitive training and physical exercise to prevent falls in older frail persons with high risk of falling. Compared to usual care, the combined intervention is expected to show additive effects in the reduction of the incidence of falls and associated adverse outcomes.The present study is funded by a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (PI20/01546). Funder Agencies do not play any role in the conducting of the study. Instituto de Salud Carlos III,PI20/01546,Alvaro Casas-Herrer

Fibromyalgia has a larger impact on physical health than on psychological health, yet both are markedly affected: The al-Ándalus project

We acknowledge Elsevier and the Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism for publishing our scientific article: Segura-Jiménez, V., Álvarez-Gallardo, I. C., Carbonell-Baeza, A., Aparicio, V. A., Ortega, F. B., Casimiro, A. J., & Delgado-Fernández, M. (2015). Fibromyalgia has a larger impact on physical health than on psychological health, yet both are markedly affected: The al-Ándalus project. Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, 44(5), 563-570. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.SEMARTHRIT.2014.09.010Objectives: To characterize a representative sample of fibromyalgia women based on a set of relevant factors known to be related to this disease. To distinguish specific factors of the disease from other symptoms that might also exist in non-fibromyalgia women. To test whether fibromyalgia affects more severely physical or psychological outcomes. Methods: A total of 459 fibromyalgia women vs. 214 non-fibromyalgia (control) women from southern Spain (Andalusia) took part in this cross-sectional study. Several instruments were used to assess tenderness, impact of fibromyalgia, fatigue, health-related quality of life, mental health and cognitive performance. Results: Overall, fibromyalgia women showed a worse status in pain, fatigue, health-related quality of life, depression and anxiety than controls (P<0.01). In general, the observed associations presented very large effect sizes (Cohen’s d from ~1 to ~5.5). No differences between fibromyalgia and controls were observed in cognitive and memory performance, except for delayed recall, but the observed effect size was low (~0.25). The effect size observed for the global physical component (~3.3) was larger than that for the global psychological component (~1.3), all P<0.001. Conclusions: Our results reinforce the understanding of fibromyalgia as a polysymptomatic distress condition with pain as its main symptom. Our findings support that fibromyalgia seems to have a greater impact on physical than on psychological outcomes, though both are largely affected

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The hidden microbial ecosystem in the perennial ice from a Pyrenean ice cave.

Over the last years, perennial ice deposits located within caves have awakened interest as places to study microbial communities since they represent unique cryospheric archives of climate change. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the temperature has gradually increased, and it is estimated that by the end of this century the increase in average temperature could be around 4.0°C. In this context of global warming the ice deposits of the Pyrenean caves are undergoing a significant regression. Among this type of caves, that on the Cotiella Massif in the Southern Pyrenees is one of the southernmost studied in Europe. These types of caves house microbial communities which have so far been barely explored, and therefore their study is necessary. In this work, the microbial communities of the Pyrenean ice cave A294 were identified using metabarcoding techniques. In addition, research work was carried out to analyze how the age and composition of the ice affect the composition of the bacterial and microeukaryotic populations. Finally, the in vivo effect of climate change on the cellular machinery that allow microorganisms to live with increasing temperatures has been studied using proteomic techniques

Basketball and emotions: a systematic review

El deporte es una actividad en la que las emociones alcanzan una elevada intensidad e importancia. Sin embargo, existen pocas evidencias de esta relación. En el presente trabajo, se realizó una revisión sistemática de los artículos de investigación que relacionaran baloncesto y emociones con los objetivos de describir los tópicos publicados en esta línea, analizar la importancia de las emociones en este deporte y proponer líneas de investigación en esta temática. Se realizó la búsqueda en la base de datos Web of Science (WoS) entre 2008 hasta 2017 empleando las siguientes palabras clave: “basketball” y “emotion”. Tras la revisión sistemática de cada documento, se seleccionaron 22 artículos que fueron categorizados para analizar su contenido. Entre los resultados, se destaca que la mayoría se focalizaban en los deportistas, competición y rendimiento. Más de una docena de variables emocionales han sido estudiadas entre las que destacan el liderazgo o el estado emocional. Se confirma la relativa escasez de investigaciones sobre la temática. Se propone aumentar el número de investigaciones, especialmente en las categorías de formación y en los entrenadores.Sport is an activity in which emotions reach a high intensity and importance. However, there is little evidence of this relationship. In the present work, a systematic review of the research articles that relate basketball and emotions was carried out with the objectives of describing the topics published in this line, analyzing the importance of emotions in this sport and proposing lines of research in this subject. We searched the Web of Science (WoS) database from 2008 to 2017 using the following keywords: "basketball" and "emotion". After the systematic review of each document, 22 articles were selected that were categorized to analyze their content. Among the results, it is highlighted that the majority focused on athletes, competition and performance. More than a dozen emotional variables have been studied, with special focus on leadership or emotional state. The relative scarcity of research on the subject is confirmed. It is proposed to increase the number of researches, especially in the training categories and in coaches.Grupo de Investigación EMOTION, Universidad de HuelvapeerReviewe

Empleo de herramientas de simulación con fines docentes para desarrollar prácticas de sistemas altamente distribuidos

El objetivo de este proyecto consiste en mitigar los problemas existentes para ejecutar aplicaciones distribuidas en las prácticas de la asignatura Programación de Sistemas Distribuidos. Para ello proponemos el uso del simulador SIMCAN, el cual ha sido validado contra arquitecturas reales. Concretamente, se propone adaptar este simulador, desarrollado en el contexto de la investigación, para fines docentes. Seguidamente, se utilizará la versión adaptada de SIMCAN en las prácticas de la asignatura Programación de Sistemas Distribuidos, del grado de Ingeniería de Computadores de la FDI/UCM