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Session D7: Fishway with Two Entrance Locations: Understanding its importance for Iberian Barbel
Abstract
In recent years, in the Iberian Peninsula, many fish passes have been built and improved. To ensure the proper operation of these, it is essential to carry out an evaluation and subsequent monitoring, considering both biologic and hydraulic aspects. We analyze the performance of Iberian barbel –Luciobarbus bocagei (Steindachner, 1864)– in a technical fishway: pool and weir, with bottom orifice. It is located in the Josefina hydropower plant (Duero River, Valladolid, Spain). Fish ladder has two fish entrances: one in the turbine outlet channel and another in the natural river course. Both the most relevant hydraulic values (flow, velocity, volumetric energy dissipation) and biological parameters (movement pattern, attraction, entry and passage) were measured.
Biological assessment was conducted in the spawning season using PIT tag technology. The main influence on upstream movement was river discharge. There were no preferences between path selection; and ascent success and transit time were similar between two entrances.. Results highlight the importance of two access points for improve entrance and decrease migration delay
Characterization of Tajogaite volcanic plumes detected over the Iberian Peninsula from a set of satellite and ground-based remote sensing instrumentation
Three volcanic plumes were detected during the Tajogaite volcano eruptive activity (Canary Islands, Spain,
September–December 2021) over the Iberian Peninsula. The spatiotemporal evolution of these events is characterised by combining passive satellite remote sensing and ground-based lidar and sun-photometer systems. The
inversion algorithm GRASP is used with a suite of ground-based remote sensing instruments such as lidar/
ceilometer and sun-photometer from eight sites at different locations throughout the Iberian Peninsula. Satellite
observations showed that the volcanic ash plumes remained nearby the Canary Islands covering a mean area of
120 ± 202 km2 during the whole period of eruptive activity and that sulphur dioxide plumes reached the Iberian
Peninsula
Capacidad de nado de ciprínidos potamódromos ibéricos: experimentación en el canal de nado de Vadocondes
The anthropogenic alteration in fluvial ecosystems is high, mainly due to the creation of transverse
barriers (dams, weirs, gauging stations, drainage pipes, etc.), which modify their longitudinal connectivity,
causing, among other impacts, the fragmentation of the habitat. This problem affects the migrating fish,
because it can suppose a blockade or delay in their movements, reducing their habitats, threatening the viability
and abundance of their populations, even reaching their extinction. The swimming capacity of the
fish (swimming speed, fatigue time and distance traveled) is one of the factors that determine their survival.
A system that allows to establish it, in natural conditions, are the voluntary open channel flume. In the
flume of Vadocondes (Burgos) the swimming capacity has been determined, and how environmental and
biometric factors influence in the swimming capacity, of two of the main species of cyprinids potamodromous
of the Iberian Peninsula (Iberian barbel –Luciobarbus bocagei– and northern straight-mouth nase
–Pseudochondrostoma duriense–, with the aim of being able to develop adequate technical and scientific
guidelines, which guarantee an optimal and effective design of the fishways, which has a positive impact
on the conservation of their populations.El grado de alteración antropogénica en los ecosistemas fluviales es elevado, debido, fundamentalmente,
a la creación de barreras transversales (presas, azudes, estaciones de aforo, caños de drenaje, etc.), que
alteran su conectividad longitudinal, causando, entre otros impactos, la fragmentación del hábitat. Esta problemática
afecta a los peces migradores, pues puede suponer un bloqueo o retraso en sus movimientos,
reduciendo sus hábitats, amenazando la viabilidad y abundancia de sus poblaciones, llegando incluso a su
extinción. La capacidad de nado de los peces (velocidad de nado, tiempo de fatiga y distancia recorrida)
es uno de los factores que determina su supervivencia. Un sistema que permite establecerla en condiciones
naturales son los canales de nado voluntario. En el canal de nado de Vadocondes (Burgos) se ha determinado
la capacidad de nado y cómo influyen en ella factores ambientales y biométricos, de dos de las
principales especies de ciprínidos potamódromos de la Península Ibérica (barbo ibérico –Luciobarbus
bocagei– y boga del Duero –Pseudochondrostoma duriense–, con el objetivo de poder desarrollar unas
directrices técnicas y científicas adecuadas, que garanticen un diseño óptimo y eficaz de los pasos para
peces, que repercuta positivamente en la conservación de sus poblaciones
Apalutamide for prostate cancer: Multicentre and multidisciplinary real‐world study of 227 patients
Abstract Objective To evaluate the efficacy and safety of apalutamide prostate cancer compared to the pivotal trials patients and to identify the first subsequent therapy in a real‐world setting. Methods The study is prospective and observational based on real‐world evidence, performed by different medical disciplines and eight academics centres around Barcelona, Spain. It included all patients with metastatic hormone‐sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC) and high‐risk non‐metastatic castration‐resistant prostate cancer (nmCRPC) treated with apalutamide from June 2018 to December 2022. Results Of 227 patients treated with apalutamide, 10% had ECOG‐PS 2, and 41% were diagnosed with new‐generation imaging. In the mHSPC group (209 patients), 75 years was the median age, 53% had synchronous metastases, and 22% were M1a. In the nmCRPC (18 patients), 82 years was the median age, and 81% ≤6 months had PSA doubling time. Patients achieved PSA90 in 92% of mHSPC and 50% of nmCRPC and PSA ≤0.2 in 71% of mHSPC and 39% of nmCRPC. Treatment‐related adverse events occurred in 40.1% of mHSPC and 44.4% of nmCRPC. After discontinuation of apalutamide due to disease progression, 54.5% in mHSPC and 75% in nmCRPC started chemotherapy, while after discontinuation because of adverse events, 73.3% in mHSPC and 100% in nmCRPC continued with other hormonal‐therapies. Conclusions The efficacy and safety of apalutamide were similar to that described in the pivotal trials, despite including an older and more comorbid population. Usually, subsequent therapies after apalutamide differed depending on the reason for discontinuation: by disease progression started chemotherapy and by adverse events hormonal sequencing
Jornadas Nacionales de Robótica y Bioingeniería 2023: Libro de actas
Las Jornadas de Robótica y Bioingeniería de 2023 tienen lugar en la Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Industrial de la Universidad Politécnica de IVIadrid, entre los días 14 y 16 de junio de 2023. En este evento propiciado por el Comité Español de Automática (CEA) tiene lugar la celebración conjunta de las XII Jornadas Nacionales de Robótica y el XIV Simposio CEA de Bioingeniería.
Las Jornadas Nacionales de Robótica es un evento promovido por el Grupo Temático de Robótica (GTRob) de CEA para dar visibilidad y mostrar las actividades desarrolladas en el ámbito de la investigación y transferencia tecnológica en robótica. Asimismo, el propósito de Simposio de Bioingeniería, que cumple ahora su decimocuarta dicción, es el de proporcionar un espacio de encuentro entre investigadores, desabolladores, personal clínico, alumnos, industriales, profesionales en general e incluso usuarios que realicen su actividad en el ámbito de la bioingeniería. Estos eventos se han celebrado de forma conjunta en la anualidad 2023.
Esto ha permitido aunar y congregar un elevado número de participantes tanto de la temática robótica como de bioingeniería (investigadores, profesores, desabolladores y profesionales en general), que ha posibilitado establecer puntos de encuentro, sinergias y colaboraciones entre ambos.
El programa de las jornadas aúna comunicaciones científicas de los últimos resultados de investigación obtenidos, por los grupos a nivel español más representativos dentro de la temática de robótica y bioingeniería, así como mesas redondas y conferencias en las que se debatirán los temas de mayor interés en la actualidad.
En relación con las comunicaciones científicas presentadas al evento, se ha recibido un total de 46 ponencias, lo que sin duda alguna refleja el alto interés de la comunidad científica en las Jornadas de Robótica y Bioingeniería. Estos trabajos serán expuestos y presentados a lo largo de un total de 10 sesiones, distribuidas durante los diferentes días de las Jornadas. Las temáticas de los trabajos cubren los principales retos científicos relacionados con la robótica y la bioingeniería: robótica aérea, submarina, terrestre, percepción del entorno, manipulación, robótica social, robótica médica, teleoperación, procesamiento de señales biológicos, neurorehabilitación etc.
Confiamos, y estamos seguros de ello, que el desarrollo de las jornadas sea completamente productivo no solo para los participantes en las Jornadas que podrán establecer nuevos lazos y relaciones fructíferas entre los diferentes grupos, sino también aquellos investigadores que no hayan podido asistir. Este documento que integra y recoge todas las comunicaciones científicas permitirá un análisis más detallado de cada una de las mismas
Dietary inflammatory index and all-cause mortality in large cohorts: The SUN and PREDIMED studies
[Background]: Inflammation is known to be related to the leading causes of death including cardiovascular disease, several types of cancer, obesity, type 2 diabetes, depression-suicide and other chronic diseases. In the context of whole dietary patterns, the Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII®) was developed to appraise the inflammatory potential of the diet.
[Objective]: We prospectively assessed the association between DII scores and all-cause mortality in two large Spanish cohorts and valuated the consistency of findings across these two cohorts and results published based on other cohorts.[Design]: We assessed 18,566 participants in the “Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra” (SUN) cohort followed-up during 188,891 person-years and 6790 participants in the “PREvencion con DIeta MEDiterránea” (PREDIMED) randomized trial representing 30,233 person-years of follow-up. DII scores were calculated in both cohorts from validated FFQs. Higher DII scores corresponded to more proinflammatory diets. A total of 230 and 302 deaths occurred in SUN and PREDIMED, respectively. In a random-effect meta-analysis we included 12 prospective studies (SUN, PREDIMED and 10 additional studies) that assessed the association between DII scores and all-cause mortality.[Results]: After adjusting for a wide array of potential confounders, the comparison between extreme quartiles of the DII showed a positive and significant association with all-cause mortality in both the SUN (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.85; 95% CI: 1.15, 2.98; P-trend = 0.004) and the PREDIMED cohort (HR = 1.42; 95% CI: 1.00, 2.02; P-trend = 0.009). In the meta-analysis of 12 cohorts, the DII was significantly associated with an increase of 23% in all-cause mortality (95% CI: 16%–32%, for the highest vs lowest category of DII).[Conclusion]: Our results provide strong and consistent support for the hypothesis that a pro-inflammatory diet is associated with increased all-cause mortality. The SUN cohort and PREDIMED trial were registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT02669602 and at isrctn.com as ISRCTN35739639, respectively.Supported by the official funding agency for biomedical research of the Spanish Government, Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), through grants provided to research networks specifically developed for the trial (RTIC G03/140, to R.E.; RTIC RD 06/0045, to Miguel A. Martínez-González) and through Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), and by grants from Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC 06/2007), Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria–Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (Proyecto de Investigación (PI) 04-2239, PI 05/2584, CP06/00100, PI07/0240, PI07/1138, PI07/0954, PI 07/0473, PI10/01407, PI10/02658, PI11/01647, P11/02505, PI13/00462, PI13/00615, PI13/01090, PI14/01668, PI14/01798, PI14/01764), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Recursos y teconologia agroalimentarias(AGL)-2009-13906-C02 and AGL2010-22319-C03 and AGL2013-49083-C3-1- R), Fundación Mapfre 2010, the Consejería de Salud de la Junta de Andalucía (PI0105/2007), the Public Health Division of the Department of Health of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia, Generalitat Valenciana (Generalitat Valenciana Ayuda Complementaria (GVACOMP) 06109, GVACOMP2010-181, GVACOMP2011-151), Conselleria de Sanitat y, PI14/01764 AP; Atención Primaria (CS) 2010-AP-111, and CS2011-AP-042), and Regional Government of Navarra (P27/2011).). Drs. Shivappa and Hébert were supported by grant number R44DK103377 from the United States National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
3er. Coloquio: Fortalecimiento de los Colectivos de Docencia
Las memorias del 3er. Coloquio de Fortalecimiento de Colectivos de Docencia
deben ser entendidas como un esfuerzo colectivo de la comunidad de académicos de la División de Ciencias y Artes para el Diseño, en medio de la pandemia COVID-19, con el fin de:
• Analizar y proponer acciones concretas que promuevan el mejoramiento de la calidad docente en la División.
• Proponer acciones que permitan continuar fortaleciendo los cursos con modalidad a distancia (remotos).
• Ante un escenario que probablemente demandará en el mediano plazo, transitar del modelo remoto a un modelo híbrido, proponer acciones a considerar para la transición de los cursos.
• Planear y preparar cursos de nivelación de conocimientos, para cuando se transite a la impartición de la docencia de manera mixta o presencial, dirigidos a los alumnos que no hayan tenido oportunidad de desarrollar actividades relevantes para su formación, como prácticas de talleres y laboratorios, visitas, o alguna otra actividad relevante