Un raig de llum pels pacients amb el càncer més mortífer

Premis Pharmanews-Fedefarma 2016De tots els tipus de càncer que hi ha, el de pulmó és el que causa més morts a l’any en tot el món. Hi ha diferents teràpies, però recentment la immunoteràpia s’ha potenciat considerablement després del descobriment d’anticossos que actuen sobre els receptors CTLA-4 i PD-1/PD-L1 de les cèl·lules

Over-representation of foreign students within the group of students with special educational needs

El trabajo que presentamos forma parte de una investigación que pretende estudiar la posible sobrerrepresentación de alumnos con antecedentes de migración dentro del colectivo de escolares con “necesidades educativas especiales” en el sistema educativo italiano.Con el desarrollo de una etnografía en diversos centros escolares de una ciudad del sur de Italia y en contacto con las administraciones educativas y su producción normativa, pretendemos dar algunas explicaciones a esta aparente desproporcionada representación. Después de presentar un conjunto de datos estadísticos del contexto internacional nos detenemos en los detalles de las estadísticas generales para Italia. A partir de ello describimos quiénes son los sujetos de “educación especial” en el sistema escolar de este país y presentamos los discursos de un grupo de profesorado y de técnicos con el fin de explicar las probables causas de esta sobrerrepresentación.  This work is part of a research that seeks to investigate the possible overrepresentation of students with a history of migration within the group of students with “special educational needs” in the Italian education system.With the development of ethnographic research in various schools of a city of Southern Italy, and in contact with school administrations and ministerial regulatory production, we intend to provide some explanations for this apparently disproportionate representation. After presenting a set of statistical data from the international context, we dwell upon the details of general statistical data for Italy. From this, we then move on describing who is the target group of “special education” in the school system of this country, and presenting the speeches of a group of teachers and technical experts, in order to explain the possible underlying causes of this overrepresentation

A software tool for monitoring legal minimum lenght of landings: Case study of a fishery in sourthern Spain

Herramienta de interés para el control y la gestión de pesqueríasThe regulation of minimum legal size(MLS) of catches is a tool widely applied in the management of fisheries resources, although the MLS does not always coincide with the length at first maturit(LFM). The optimization of this management tool requires a series of quality control in fish markets and transportation. A software application has been developed to make the control of the landings of several target species easier and faster. In order to test and make this tool operational,six species of commercial interest were selected: four species of fish hand two species of bivalves. It is proposed to estimate the proportion of illegal specimens in the studied lot from the proportion of illegal individuals found in the samples taken from this lot.The input data for the application are the minimum legal size(MLS) of the species and the total length(TL)of each specimen sampled. The out put data is a statistical summary of the percentage of specimens of size less than the legal minimum(TL<=MLS)within different confidence intervals(90%,95% and 99%). The software developed will serve as a fast,efficient and easy to manage tool that allows inspectors to determine the degree of compliance on MLS control and to make a decision supported by statistical proof on fishing goods