Disfunción familiar y bajo rendimiento académico en adolescentes de una institución educativa pública de Villa el Salvador, Lima-2022

El presente trabajo de investigación tuvo como objetivo general determinar la relación entre la disfunción familiar y bajo rendimiento académico en adolescentes de una Institución Educativa Pública – Villa El Salvador, Lima 2022. El tipo de estudio fue descriptivo de alcance correlacional de corte transversal. La muestra estuvo conformada por 129 estudiantes de segundo grado de nivel secundaria de un centro educativo nacional ubicado en el distrito de Villa El Salvador. La prueba utilizada fue Cuestionario de evaluación de la Disfunción Familiar en Adolescentes entre 12 y 15 años. Los resultados obtenidos indican la existencia de una correlación directa y fuerte entre la disfunción de la familia y el bajo rendimiento académico (rho=.680) así como un p valor inferior a 0.05 confirmando la hipótesis alterna

Iron and chromium doped perovskite (CaMO3 M = Ti, Zr) ceramic pigments, effect of mineralizer

Solid solutions Ca(DxM1−x)O3 (M = Ti, Zr and D = Fe,Cr), have been studied as ceramic pigment in conventional ceramic glazes using 0.5 mol/mol of NH4Cl as flux agent by solid state reaction and by ammonia coprecipitation route. Ca(CrxTi1−x)O3 compositions obtained without addition of NH4Cl as mineralizer, produce pink color in glazes at low x but CaCrO4 crystallizes when x increases, producing undesired green colors. The crystallization of chromates can be avoided using NH4Cl as mineralizer, giving a complete solid solution that produce pink color in glazes at low x and dark blue shades at high x. Coprecipitated sample produce blue colors at low x and at low temperature than ceramic sample (1000 °C instead 1200 °C for CE sample). Cr4+ ion acts as red chromophore, but at higher x values (blue samples) Cr3+ ion entrance affects the color. Ca(FexTi1−x)O3 system crystallizes perovskite CaTiO3 and pseudobrookite Fe2TiO5 together with rutile as residual crystalline phase, glazed samples change from a yellow to a pink color associated to the increase of pseudobrookite with firing temperature. Ca(FexTi1−x)O3 and Ca(CrxZr1−x)O3 systems crystallize perovskite CaZrO3 and zirconia (ZrO2) in both monoclinic and cubic polymorphs, but iron or chromium oxides are not detected in the powders. Coprecipitated sample stabilises cubic form. The solid solution is not reached completely in these samples and is not stable in glaze

New chromium-calcium titanate red ceramic pigment

Synthesis and characterization of a new chromium- calcium titanate red ceramic pigment is described in this communication. The pigment is based on the solid solution of chromium (IV) in calcium titanate and was characterized as red-brown pigment in a CaO- ZnO-SiO2 transparent glaze used for ceramic tiles (1080oC). XRD, UV-Vis-NIR spectroscopy and CIE-L*a*b* techniques of characterization have been employed. The L*a*b* valour of the optimal pigment with 0,015 mol/mol of chromium fired at 1100oC with a soaking time of 3 hours and 5% weight added to the transparent glaze is 59.3/12.5/9.5. Likewise 5%w. addition of NHCl used as flux agent increase b* and decrease L* valour (L*a*b*=45.2/15.3/5.3)

Photocatalytic Glazed Tiles

A parent glass in the SiO2–CaO–ZnO–B2O3–K2O–Al2O3 system, deposited and processed by the monoporosa firing method (1085 °C), was coated using a sol–gel procedure and by serigraphy with silica, bismuth oxide, zirconia, and anatase with thermal treatment at 600 °C. The photocata- lytic activity of the samples determined by degradation in the Orange II dye test shows that a first-order reaction according to the Langmuir- Hinshelwood model is followed. From the UV-Vis-NIR results the band gap calculated is around 3.5 eV for the parent glass and that with a silica coating, and slightly lower for the other coatings. The needle-shaped microstructure of the parent glass shows the best photocatalytic results in agreement with the literature. The preserved zircon microstructure can explain the relatively high results for the silica coating, which unexpect- edly showed better results than both the anatase and tetragonal zirconia coatings. Finally, the interaction with the parent glass can explain the relatively high results of the bismuth oxide sampl

Palliation with Oesophageal Metal Stent of Pseudoachalasia from Gastric Carcinoma at the Cardia: A Case Report

We present an 82-year-old woman with a 3-month history of progressive dysphagia and a normal initial upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. The diagnosis of pseudoachalasia was suspected by oesophageal manometric and barium swallow studies, and confirmed by biopsies revealing an intestinal type carcinoma of the stomach at a repeated endoscopy. In view of the history of heart disease, diabetes, and old age, this patient was treated by a partially covered Ultraflex self-expanding metal stent (Boston Scientific, Natick, MA, USA) placed into the oesophageal body with no direct complications and obtaining the relief from dysphagia. During the 11-month follow-up she was treated for an iron deficiency anaemia due to reflux oesophagitis with ulcerations in the oesophageal body and died from myocardial infarction. According to the localization of the cancer, the old age, and the presence of comorbidities, we should recommend the insertion of a partially covered self-expanding metal stent as a reasonable palliative treatment in selected subjects with pseudoachalasia

Photocatalysts in ceramics

Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) are oxidation processes based on sufficient concentrations of hydroxyl radicals to degrade dissolved organic compounds present in water or those that are dispersed in air to mineral forms or at least toharmless organic compounds. It is a safe and clean technology and, in certain processes, solar radiation can be used as process initiator. Titanium oxide is currently the reference as photocatalytic material, given its high activity, relative stability, low cost, and low toxicity. In this study, the use of ‘ceramic’ photocatalysts (ceramic composites) in treatment processes for specific pollutants in urban environments (VOCs and NOx ) and waste waters (persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) organic compounds) is analysed, as well as their use ‘in ceramics’ on glazed ceramic tiles as substrates for photocatalytic layers or photocatalytic glaze

Obtención de pigmentos cerámicos de perovskita CaTiO3 dopada con cromo y vanadio por descomposición metal-orgánica (MOD)

The Metal Organic Decomposition (MOD) route based on the chelation of a solution of metallic salts (usually nitrates) by policarboxylic acid (oxalic and citric), applied to the synthesis of ceramic pigments based on chromium and vanadium doped CaTiO3 perovskite, is presented in this paper. MOD synthesis allows preparing ceramic inks using the raw emulsioned materials directly or the nanostructured charried powders at 500ºC dispersed in DEG, and also stable ceramic pigments in glazes when the particle size and crystallization are sufficiently. In the CaTiO3 perovskite 20% molar modified with vanadium in the Ti position, ceramic inks using charried powders produce adequate orange shades and the fired powders at 1000ºC produce adequate orange colours in glazes. Samples of 1.5 molar addition of policarboxylic acids show the best pigmenting properties. In the case of CaTiO3 perovskite 1% molar modified with chromium in the Ti position, ceramic inks using charried powders produce adequate pink shades and the fired powders at 1000ºC produce adequate pink colours in glazes. Samples of 0.25 molar addition of policarboxylic acids show the best pigmenting propertie

DIMETER: a haptic master device for tremor diagnosis in neurodegenerative diseases

In this study, a device based on patient motion capture is developed for the reliable and non-invasive diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases. The primary objective of this study is the classification of differential diagnosis between Parkinson's disease (PD) and essential tremor (ET). The DIMETER system has been used in the diagnoses of a significant number of patients at two medical centers in Spain. Research studies on classification have primarily focused on the use of well-known and reliable diagnosis criteria developed by qualified personnel. Here, we first present a literature review of the methods used to detect and evaluate tremor; then, we describe the DIMETER device in terms of the software and hardware used and the battery of tests developed to obtain the best diagnoses. All of the tests are classified and described in terms of the characteristics of the data obtained. A list of parameters obtained from the tests is provided, and the results obtained using multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural networks are presented and analyzed

Spanish cardiac catheterization in congenital heart diseases registry. First official report from the ACI-SEC and the GTH-SECPCC (2020)

Introduction and objectives: The Interventional Cardiology Association of the Spanish Society of Cardiology (ACI-SEC) and the Spanish Society of Pediatric Cardiology Working Group on Interventional Cardiology (GTH-SECPCC) introduce their annual activity report for 2020, the starting year of the pandemic of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Methods: All Spanish centers with cath labs and interventional activity in congenital heart diseases were invited to participate. Data were collected online, and analyzed by an external company together with members from the ACI-SEC and the GTH-SECPCC. Results: A total of 16 centers participated (all of them public) including 30 cath labs experienced in the management of congenital heart diseases, 7 of them (23.3%) dedicated exclusively to pediatric patients. A total of 1046 diagnostic studies, and 1468 interventional cardiac catheterizations were registered. The interventional procedures were considered successful in 93.4% of the cases with rates of major procedural complications and mortality of 2%, and 0.1%, respectively. The most frequent procedures were atrial septal defect closure (377 cases), pulmonary angioplasty (244 cases), and the percutaneous closure of the patent ductus arteriosus (199 cases). Conclusions: This report is the first publication from the Spanish Cardiac Catheterization in Congenital Heart Diseases Registry. The data recorded are conditioned by the COVID-19 pandemic. Diagnostic cardiac catheterization still plays a key role in this field. Most interventional techniques have reported excellent security and efficacy rates