The Engagement of the Social Networks in the ACB Basketball League

We currently live in a technological age, and in continuous growth. Within this age, social networks have emerged as a way of communicating and creating value in branding. Sports clubs have adapted their way of communicating with their fans and have made social networks an indispensable tool for their daily communication. The aim of the present study is to analyze how the position in the ranking affects the engagement of the social networks of 18 basketball clubs that make up the Endesa ACB League during match days 16 to 34. Specific formulas were used in study to analyze social networks of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. The results show great variability of engagement results as well as a positive correlation between the ranking in the table and engagement on the different social networks, with Instagram having the highest correlation of all the social networks.Iundenia, Centro de Formacion de Tecnicos Deportivos CIF B-18905760 18013708startup Football Connection (FOOC) 4.073.37

Ejercicio físico basado en descansos activos sobre la función cognitiva y la competencia matemática en estudiantes universitarios de grado

A review of the literature has demonstrated the impact of active breaks (AB) on students’ cognition and academic performance. Despite the evidence, undergraduate students seem to remain passive during the lessons as the teaching is mostly traditional and revolves around the teacher. To break with this tendency in the university context, we included physical activity (PA) breaks during lessons. This study aimed to observe the acute effect of AB on the students’ attention and mathematical competence. A total of 25 undergraduate students (Mage = 23.36, SD = 1.98) participated in this study and performed an intervention under two conditions: i) control condition and ii) active-break condition. Results revealed that after receiving an AB (15 minutes) of moderate intensity students’ attention was improved. More specifically, participants were faster at D2 and their math tasks results improved.La literatura ha demostrado el impacto de los descansos activos (AB; active breaks en inglés) en la cognición y el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes. A pesar de la evidencia, los estudiantes universitarios parecen permanecer pasivos durante las lecciones, ya que la enseñanza es mayoritariamente tradicional y gira en torno al profesor. Para romper con esta tendencia en el contexto universitario, incluimos pausas de actividad física (AF) durante las clases. Este estudio de casos cruzados tiene como objetivo observar el efecto agudo de los descansos activos en la atención y la competencia matemática de los estudiantes. Un total de 25 estudiantes de grado (Medad = 23,36, DE = 1,98) participaron en este estudio y realizaron una intervención bajo dos condiciones: i) condición de control y ii) condición de descansos activos. Los resultados muestran que los estudiantes mejoraron su atención después de recibir una sesión de descanso activo (15 minutos) de intensidad moderada. En este sentido, los participantes fueron más rápidos en D2 y mejoraron sus resultados en la tarea de matemáticas

On the use of British standard 7910 option 1 failure assessment diagram to non-metallic materials

This paper provides a structural integrity assessment methodology for the analysis of non-metallic materials. The approach uses the British standard 7910 option 1 failure assessment diagram, originally proposed for the fracture-plastic collapse assessment of metallic materials. The methodology has been applied to 60 fracture specimens, combining 12 different materials and covering polymers, composites, and rocks. The results obtained validate the proposed assessment methodology and demonstrate its safety for the materials analysed here.The authors of this work would like to express their gratitude to the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness for the financial support of the Project MAT2014-58443-P: “Análisis del comportamiento en fractura de componentes estructurales con defectos en condiciones debajo confinamiento tensional”, on the results of which this paper is based

A focal plane processor for continuous-time 1-D optical correlation applications

This chapter describes a 1-D Focal Plane Processor, which has been designed to run continuous-time optical correlation applications. The chip contains 200 sensory processing elements, which acquire light patterns through a 2mm ×10.9μm photodiode. The photogenerated current is scaled at the pixel level by five independent 3-bit programmable-gain current scaling blocks. The correlation patterns are defined as five sets of two hundred 3-bit numbers (from 0 to 7), which are provided to the chip through a standard I2C interface. Correlation outputs are provided in current form through 8-bit programmable gain amplifiers (PGA), whose configurations are also defined via I2C. The chip contains a mounting alignment help, which consists of three rows of 100 conventional active pixel sensors (APS) inserted at the top, middle and bottom part of the main photodiode array. The chip has been fabricated in a standard 0.35μm CMOS technology and its maximum power consumption is below 30mW. Experimental results demonstrate that the chip is able to process interference patterns moving at an equivalent frequency of 500kHz.Junta de Andalucía 2006-TIC-2352Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación TEC2009-1181

Percutaneous Treatment of Mitral and Tricuspid Regurgitation in Heart Failure

Heart failure has become a real epidemic condition related to poor outcomes despite advances in medical therapies. Prevalence of significant mitral and/or tricuspid regurgitation is high in patients with advanced heart failure. Novel transcatheter techniques have recently emerged as a minimally invasive alternative in patients deemed high-risk for surgery or inoperable. Among them, MitraClip® system is thus far the first device that received regulatory approval and gained widespread clinical application, especially in patients with functional mitral regurgitation. Furthermore, first experiences with new devices for percutaneous mitral and tricuspid valves repair, and transcatheter mitral valve prosthesis have been increasingly reported. Percutaneous therapies for valvular heart disease have therefore become one of the most promising fields in the present and future of interventional cardiology and heart failure

No es tronco todo lo que reluce: a propósito de un caso

Acute Aortic Syndrome (AAS) is a clinical situation including several entities, all of them characterized by a common clinical presentation, the extravasation of blood outside the true aortic lumen. The most common AAS (80%) variant is Aortic Dissection, produced because of an intimal tear and typically located in the ascending thoracic aorta. This entity presents a mortality close to 40-50%. We hereby present the case of a patient with a very illustrative ascending aortic dissection, both from the cardiac image and clinical the points of view.El Síndrome Aórtico Agudo (SAA) es una situación clínica que engloba varias entidades, todas ellas caracterizadas por una presentación clínica común, que consiste en la extravasación de sangre fuera de la verdadera luz aórtica. El SAA más frecuente (80%) es la Disección Aórtica, producida como consecuencia de un desgarro intimal, y típicamente localizada en la aorta torácica ascendente. Esta entidad presenta una mortalidad cercana al 40-50%.

Uso de la opción 1 del diagrama de fallo propuesto por la British Standard 7910 en materiales poliméricos y compuestos

En este artículo se establece una metodología para realizar evaluaciones de integridad estructural de materiales poliméricos y compuestos. El planteamiento se basa en el uso de la Opción 1 del Diagrama de Fallo (FAD) recogido en la British Standard 7910, originalmente propuesto para el análisis de la fractura -colapso plástico de materiales metálicos. La metodología se ha aplicado a 33 probetas de fractura, combinando 7 materiales diferentes, integrando polímeros y materiales compuestos. Los resultados obtenidos validan la metodología de evaluación propuesta y demuestran que es segura para los materiales analizados

Interacción y difusión de los productos KIKS

KIKS, acrónimo de Kids Inspire Kids for STEAM, es un proyecto de la Unión Europea, dentro del marco del programa Erasmus +, que cuenta con la participación de organismos educativos de España, Finlandia, Hungría y Reino Unido. Su objetivo es la promoción de las disciplinas STEAM (Science, Tecnology, Engineering, Art y Mathematics) en Secundaria; y su filosofía, fomentar el interés, la motivación y creatividad de estos estudiantes por el aprendizaje de las STEAM. Para ello KIKS trata de constituir e impulsar una comunidad educativa, integrando diversos equipos de estudiantes de los países participantes. Ellos son los encargados de elaborar, bajo la supervisión de sus profesores, tareas STEAM; y de contribuir a su difusión entre sus homólogos internacionales. Todo para conseguir atraer a nuevos estudiantes, logrando así una mayor implicación de los mismos en el aprendizaje de las STEAM. La naturaleza de estas materias hace que estas tareas requieran la puesta en juego, por los estudiantes, de un conocimiento multidisciplinar, requiriendo, además, por la idiosincrasia del proyecto, diversas habilidades personales. Los resultados más reseñables del proyecto, así como información sobre los talleres, cursos de formación y actividades STEAM realizadas en el mismo pueden consultarse en www.kiks.unican.es. Este póster pretende informar sobre las líneas generales de KIKS y ejemplificar la pluralidad de tareas realizadas

Towards a new classification of galaxies: principal component analysis of CALIFA circular velocity curves

We present a galaxy classification system for 238 (E1-Sdm) CALIFA (Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area) galaxies based on the shapes and amplitudes of their circular velocity curves (CVCs). We infer the CVCs from the de-projected surface brightness of the galaxies, after scaling by a constant mass-to-light ratio based on stellar dynamics - solving axisymmetric Jeans equations via fitting the second velocity moment $V_{\mathrm{rms}}=\sqrt{V^2+\sigma^2}$ of the stellar kinematics. We use principal component analysis (PCA) applied to the CVC shapes to find characteristic features and use a $k$-means classifier to separate circular curves into classes. This objective classification method identifies four different classes, which we name slow-rising (SR), flat (FL), round-peaked (RP) and sharp-peaked (SP) circular curves. SR are typical for low-mass, late-type (Sb-Sdm), young, faint, metal-poor and disc-dominated galaxies. SP are typical for high-mass, early-type (E1-E7), old, bright, metal-rich and bulge-dominated galaxies. FL and RP appear presented by galaxies with intermediate mass, age, luminosity, metallicity, bulge-to-disk ratio and morphologies (E4-S0a, Sa-Sbc). The discrepancy mass factor, $f_d=1-M_{*}/M_{dyn}$, have the largest value for SR and SP classes ($\sim$ 74 per cent and $\sim$ 71 per cent, respectively) in contrast to the FL and RP classes (with $\sim$ 59 per cent and $\sim$ 61 per cent, respectively). Circular curve classification presents an alternative to typical morphological classification and appears more tightly linked to galaxy evolution.Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRAS (Minor changes), 123 pages, 19 figures, 87 Tables (containing the basic properties of the 238 E1-Sdm galaxies; the five main Principal Component Eigenvectors; the five main Principal Components - PC_i; the Multi-Gaussian Expansion models - MGEs; the circular velocity curve models and their uncertainties

Percutaneous Treatment of Tricuspid Regurgitation

Tricuspid valve regurgitation is one of the most common valvular disorders and moderate to severe tricuspid regurgitation is consistently associated to an increased morbidity and mortality. From an etiopathological perspective, tricuspid regurgitation can be classified in primary, due to the organic disease of any of the valve components, or secondary, as a result of tricuspid valve annulus dilatation, adverse right ventricular remodeling and tricuspid valve leaflet tethering. Despite its poor prognosis, most patients with tricuspid insufficiency are managed conservatively and only those with concomitant left heart valvular disease do finally go surgery in the real-world setting. In fact, outcomes of conventional surgery in patients with isolated tricuspid regurgitation are poor and this approach has not proven yet any survival benefit over stand-alone medical therapy. Given this unmet need, new transcatheter techniques have been developed in the last years, including leaflet plication, percutaneous annuloplasty and valve implantation in either the tricuspid position (orthotopic implantation) or in a different position such as the vena cava (heterotopic implantation). These techniques, with promising outcomes, are seen as an interesting alternative to open-heart surgery given the much lower periprocedural risk