Modelo conceptual de un sistema de información documental

According to the conceptual model explained in this paper, a document-based information system is an information system devoted to exploit the knowledge recorded in cognitive documents. This kind of system accepts cognitive documents and information needs as inputs, and can produce informed people as output.Según el modelo conceptual que se expone aquí, un sistema de información documental es un sistema de información especializado en la explotación del conocimiento, concretamente del conocimiento registrado en documentos cognitivos. Tal clase de sistemas aceptan documentos y necesidades de información como entradas y, tras un proceso de transformación, producen personas informadas como salida

Mixed stabilized finite element methods in nonlinear solid mechanics. Part III: Compressible and incompressible plasticity

This paper presents the application of a stabilized mixed strain/displacement finite element formulation for the solution of nonlinear solid mechanics problems involving compressible and incompressible plasticity. The variational multiscale stabilization introduced allows the use of equal order interpolations in a consistent way. Such formulation presents two advantages when compared to the standard, displacement based, irreducible formulation: (a) it provides enhanced rate of convergence for the strain (and stress) field and (b) it is able to deal with incompressible situations. The first advantage also applies to the comparison with the mixed pressure/displacement formulation. The paper investigates the effect of the improved strain and stress fields in problems involving strain softening and localization leading to failure, using low order finite elements with continuous strain and displacement fields (P1P1 triangles or tetrahedra and Q1Q1quadrilaterals, hexahedra, and triangular prisms) in conjunction with an associative frictional Drucker–Prager plastic model. The performance of the strain/displacement formulation under compressible and nearly incompressible deformation patterns is assessed and compared to a previously proposed pressure/displacement formulation. Benchmark numerical examples show the capacity of the mixed formulation to predict correctly failure mechanisms with localized patterns of strain, virtually free from any dependence of the mesh directional bias. No auxiliary crack tracking technique is necessary

Recursos didácticos para el aprendizaje complejo de la geometría analítica

En la asignatura geometría analítica en Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, se implementa un modelo pedagógico enmarcado dentro de la metodología de Investigación - Acción, que promueve el desarrollo de habilidades asociadas al pensamiento complejo y capacidades que aportan a competencias profesionales. El trabajo en el espacio tridimensional exige el manejo apropiado y simultáneo de aspectos gráficos y analíticos que implican grandes dificultades para los alumnos ingresantes. Se plantea así el desafío de abrir nuevas puertas al aprendizaje, que lo potencien y enriquezcan a partir de intervenciones educativas con el uso de materiales didácticos especialmente diseñados para tal fin. Se presentan en este trabajo recursos para el aprendizaje complejo de contenidos de la geometría analítica espacial, que se integran en los diferentes escenarios de interacción e interaprendizaje del mencionado modelo pedagógico. Dichos recursos se clasifican en cinco grupos en función de las intencionalidades educativas priorizadas para su utilización: recursos para el desarrollo de contenidos, para la exploración y la experimentación, para la articulación con otros espacios curriculares, para la integración de contenidos y para promover la autonomía en el aprendizaje. A partir de una apropiada selección de actividades para su empleo, se busca potenciar la comprensión profunda de conceptos y la resolución de problemas en el espacio tridimensional que involucran a los lugares geométricos en estudio.Fil: Raichman, Silvia Raquel. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ingeniería.Fil: Totter, Eduardo. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ingeniería.Fil: Videla, D.. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ingeniería.Fil: Collado, L.. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ingeniería.Fil: Codina, F.. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ingeniería.Fil: Molina, G.. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ingeniería.Fil: Cascone, I.. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ingeniería

The Remarkable Be Star HD110432

HD110432 has gained considerable attention because it is a hard, variable X-ray source similar to gamma Cas. From time-serial echelle data obtained over two weeks during 2005 January and February, we find several remarkable characteristics in the star's optical spectrum. The line profiles show rapid variations on some nights which can be most likely be attributed to irregularly occurring and short-lived migrating subfeatures. Such features have only been observed to date in gamma Cas and AB Dor, two stars for which it is believed magnetic fields force circumstellar clouds to corotate over the stellar surface. The star's optical spectrum also exhibits a number of mainly FeII and HeI emission features with profiles typical of an optically thin disk viewed edge-on. Using spectral synthesis techniques, we find that its temperature is 9800K +/-300K, that its projected area is a remarkably large 100 stellar areas, and its emitting volume resides at a distance of 1 AU from the star. We also find that the star's absorption profiles extend to +/-1000 km/s, a fact which we cannot explain. Otherwise, HD110432 and gamma Cas share similarly peculiar X-ray and optical characteristics such as high X-ray temperature, erratic X-ray variability on timescales of a few hours, optical emission lines, and submigrating features in optical line profiles. Because of these similarities, we suggest that this star is a new member of a select class of "gamma Cas analogs."Comment: 31 pages, 9 figures, accepted by ApJ (3/20/06

Risk factors for symptomatic retears after arthroscopic repair of full-thickness rotator cuff tears

Background: Factors affecting a rotator cuff symptomatic retear after arthroscopic repair have yet to be clearly identified, since they usually influence the surgical decisions. Methods: Consecutive patients with full-thickness tear of the supraspinatus who underwent arthroscopic repair were retrospectively analyzed. Cases of symptomatic retear, defined as Sugaya type IV and V on magnetic resonance imaging, associated with intensive pain and/or functional impairment were identified at follow-up. The patients with no symptomatic retear were selected as the control group. Information from potential risk factors of symptomatic retear, including depression and subacromial corticosteroid injections, was extracted from the medical records. The statistical analysis included multivariant logistic regression. Results: The symptomatic retear rate was 9.5% in 158 patients. Patients in the symptomatic retear group were more likely to be smoking, to have massive tears, a short acromiohumeral distance, and moderate to severe fatty infiltration. They also had had more frequently subacromial corticosteroid injections and depression. However, following the multiple logistic regression analysis, only massive tears and moderate to severe fatty infiltration remained significantly associated. Similarly, in relation to the study hypothesis, both corticosteroid injections (odds ratio [OR] 6.66, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.49, 29.81; P =.013) and depression (OR 8.26, IC 1.04, 65.62; P =.046) were significantly associated with symptomatic retear risk. Conclusions: This study found support for the hypothesis that both depression and corticosteroid infiltration before surgery are independent risk factors for symptomatic retear after arthroscopic repair of rotator cuff

A Method for Estimation of Population-Densities of Ice Nucleating Active Pseudomonas-Syringae in Buds and Leaves of Mango

Active ice nucleation strains of Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae have been associated with a necrotic disease in mango trees growing in Málaga (southern Spain). In this paper a simple multiple-tube test is described to estimate the number of active ice nucleation bacteria associated with plant tissues and, also from suspensions of isolated bacterial strains.Peer reviewe

Temporal variations in meibomian gland structure—A pilot study

Purpose: To investigate whether there is a measurable change in meibomian gland morphological characteristics over the course of a day (12h) and over a month.Methods: The study enrolled 15 participants who attended a total of 11 study visits spanning a 5-week period. To assess diurnal changes in meibomian glands, seven visits were conducted on a single day, each 2h apart. For monthly assessment, participants attended an additional visit at the same time of the day every week for three consecutive weeks. Meibography using the LipiView® II system was performed at each visit, and meibomian gland morphological parameters were calculated using custom semi-automated software. Specifically, six central glands were analysed for gland length ratio, gland width, gland area, gland intensity and gland tortuosity.Results: The average meibomian gland morphological metrics did not exhibit significant changes during the course of a day or over a month. Nonetheless, certain individual gland metrics demonstrated notable variation over time, both diurnally and monthly. Specifically, meibomian gland length ratio, area, width and tortuosity exhibited significant changes both diurnally and monthly when assessed on a gland-by-gland basis.Conclusions: Meibomian glands demonstrated measurable structural change over short periods of time (hours and days). These results have implications for innovation in gland imaging and for developing precision monitoring of gland structure to assess meibomian gland  health more accurately

CuGaS2 and CuGaS2–ZnS porous layers from solution-processed nanocrystals

The manufacturing of semiconducting films using solution-based approaches is considered a low cost alternative to vacuum-based thin film deposition strategies. An additional advantage of solution processing methods is the possibility to control the layer nano/microstructure. Here, we detail the production of mesoporous CuGaS2 (CGS) and ZnS layers from spin-coating and subsequent cross-linking through chalcogen-chalcogen bonds of properly functionalized nanocrystals (NCs). We further produce NC-based porous CGS/ZnS bilayers and NC-based CGS–ZnS composite layers using the same strategy. Photoelectrochemical measurements are used to demonstrate the efficacy of porous layers, and particularly the CGS/ZnS bilayers, for improved current densities and photoresponses relative to denser films deposited from as-produced NCs.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version

Plant sources of galanthamine: phytochemical and biotechnological aspects.

Galanthamine, an Amaryllidaceae type alkaloid, is an AChE inhibitor marketed as a hydrobromide salt for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, poliomyelitis and other neurological diseases. Although the chemical synthesis of galanthamine has been successfully performed, plants are the main source of its production. The phytochemical and biotechnological aspects of plants currently used for galanthamine production, namely Leucojum aestivum, Narcissus ssp. Ungernia victoris and Lycoris radiata, are summarized in the present paper