Consentimiento y responsabilidad penal médica.

El tema es el consentimiento y la responsabilidad penal médica. En la vida social contemporánea, se presentan conflictos que ponen en cuestión los llamados derechos que un individuo tiene a su vida, a su integridad corporal, a su libertad frente a las figuras penales que protegen dichos bienes jurídicos, es decir, situaciones en la que el sujeto consiente, da su consentimiento para que se lleven a cabo, actos objetivamente típicos en contra de esos bienes

Chronic Pancreatitis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: An Uncommon Association

The association between systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and chronic pancreatitis (CP) is extremely rare. Up to now, only six cases have been reported. We report the case of a young woman who presented her first episode of abdominal pain and hyperamylasemia at the onset of SLE and developed chronic calcifying pancreatitis after a two year period

Evaluation and assessment of professional skills in the Final Year Project

In this paper, we present a methodology for Final Year Project (FYP) monitoring and assessment that considers the inclusion of the professional skills required in the particular engineering degree. This proper monitoring and clear evaluation framework provides the student with valuable support for the project implementation as well as for improving the quality of the projects, thereby reducing the academic drop-out rate. The proposed methodology has been implemented at the Barcelona School of Informatics at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech. The FYP is structured around three milestones: project definition, project monitoring and project completion. Skills are assigned to each milestone according to the tasks required in that phase, and a list of indicators is defined for each phase. The evaluation criteria for each indicator at each phase are specified in a rubric, and are made public both to students and teachers. Thus, the FYP includes an exhaustive evaluation method distributed throughout the whole project implementation, thereby facilitating project organization for the student as well as providing a clear and homogeneous assessment framework. The methodology for the FYP organization, assessment and evaluation was launched and piloted over two semesters. We believe the experience to be general in the sense that it has been conducted as part of an ICT engineering degree, but may easily be extended to any other engineering degree.Postprint (author’s final draft

Connexin 43 plays an important role in the molecular mechanisms implicated in ischemic preconditioning

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Evaluación del Trabajo de Fin de Grado

Los Proyectos de Fin de Carrera (PFC) se han evaluado tradicionalmente a partir de una memoria y de una presentación pública. Esta evaluación, en general, la realiza un tribunal formado por varios profesores, que juzga de forma integral el proyecto a partir de la documentación entregada y de su presentación pública. Para poner la nota final los centros no disponen, en general, de unos criterios claros y precisos, por lo que cada tribunal usa su propia experiencia previa para decidir la nota de cada proyecto. Los Trabajos de Fin de Grado (TFG) substituyen en los nuevos planes de estudios de las ingenierías a los antiguos PFC. La evaluación de los TFG debe considerar, de forma explícita, tanto las competencias específicas como las genéricas, y es necesario que existan criterios claros sobre la forma de evaluarlas. Para avanzar en este sentido, el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación y la Agencia para la Calidad del Sistema Universitario de Catalunya financiaron en 2008 y 2009 el proyecto “Guía para la evaluación de competencias en los Trabajos de Fin de Grado y de Máster en las Ingenierías”. Esta guía es, en realidad, una guía para ayudar a que cada centro/titulación defina su propio procedimiento de evaluación del TFG. En este trabajo se presenta una implementación de las propuestas contenidas en la guía y se define una metodología para evaluar los TFG a partir de las competencias que se trabajan en la titulación de Grado en Ingeniería Informática de la Facultat d’Informàtica de Barcelona. La metodología puede ser fácilmente replicada o adaptada para otros centros y otras titulaciones, lo que puede facilitar la realización de su propia guía de evaluación de los TFG.SUMMARY -- Final Degree Projects (FDP) have traditionally been evaluated from a project report and a public presentation. This assessment is generally performed by a panel of several teachers who judg comprehensively the project from the documentation provided and analyze the public presentation. In general, schools do not have clear and precise criteria to set the final grade, as each panel uses its own previous experience to decide the mark of each project. The Bachelor Degree Thesis (BDT) replaced the former FDP in the new engineering curricula. Evaluation of FDP should consider explicitly both specific and professional skills, and clear criteria on how to assess competencies is required. To advance in this issue, the Ministry of Science and Innovation and the Quality Agency for the University System in Catalonia funded in 2008 and 2009 the project "Guía para la evaluación de competencias en los Trabajos de Fin de Grado y de Master en las Ingenierías". This guide is actually a guide to help each school / degree to define its own procedure for assessing the BDT. This paper presents an implementation of the suggestions contained in the guide and defines a methodology for assessing the BDT considering the professional skills trained in the Computer Engineering Degree from the Barcelona School of Informatics. The methodology can be easily replicated or adapted for other centres and degrees, which can facilitate the realization of its own guidance for the BDT evaluation

Stories and construction of memory in total conflicts

El artículo reflexiona sobre la manera en que los testimonios se transforman en relatos y éste en el cimiento de la construcción dela memoria en tres guerras totales: la Guerra Civil Americana, la Guerra de la Triple Alianza y la Primera Guerra Mundial. Dado que se cumplieron o se están cumpliendo siglo y siglo y medio de esos eventos históricos, con cantidad y variedad de acontecimientos, bibliografía,filmes y homenajes diversos regionales, nacionales e internacionales,el planteo reviste gran interés.El testimonio directo de algunos diarios y cartas de personas involucradasen dichos conflictos, aquí relevados, ejemplifica el impacto y la importancia que tuvo esa situación límite para la construcción dela memoria comunitaria y la unidad y coagulación nacional.The article reflects on the way in which testimonies are transformed into stories and this is the foundation for the construction of the memory in three total wars: the American Civil War, the War of the Triple Alliance and the First World War. Given that a century and a century and half of these historical events have been or are being fulfilled with a number and variety of regional, national and international events, bibliography, films and tributes, this proposal today is very current. The direct testimony of some diaries and letters from people involved in these conflicts, here reveled, exemplifies the impact and importance that this extreme situation had for the construction of community memory and national unity and coagulation.Fil: Lescano, María José. Universidad de Granada; EspañaFil: Torres, Rayen. Universidad Argentina de la Empresa; ArgentinaFil: Casas Silva, María Romina. Universidad Argentina de la Empresa; ArgentinaFil: Llamazares, Ana María. Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero; ArgentinaFil: Bossoer, Fabián. Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero; ArgentinaFil: Nieto, Eduardo Hernando. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú; PerúFil: Cagni, Horacio Carlos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero; Argentin

Integrative genomic analysis of methylphenidate response in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Methylphenidate (MPH) is the most frequently used pharmacological treatment in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, a considerable interindividual variability exists in clinical outcome. Thus, we performed a genome-wide association study of MPH efficacy in 173 ADHD paediatric patients. Although no variant reached genome-wide significance, the set of genes containing single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) nominally associated with MPH response (P < 0.05) was significantly enriched for candidates previously studied in ADHD or treatment outcome. We prioritised the nominally significant SNPs by functional annotation and expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) analysis in human brain, and we identified 33 SNPs tagging cis-eQTL in 32 different loci (referred to as eSNPs and eGenes, respectively). Pathway enrichment analyses revealed an over-representation of genes involved in nervous system development and function among the eGenes. Categories related to neurological diseases, psychological disorders and behaviour were also significantly enriched. We subsequently meta-analysed the association with clinical outcome for the 33 eSNPs across the discovery sample and an independent cohort of 189 ADHD adult patients (target sample) and we detected 15 suggestive signals. Following this comprehensive strategy, our results provide a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms implicated in MPH treatment effects and suggest promising candidates that may encourage future studies