245 research outputs found
La telemedicina en los medios de comunicación españoles: prensa generalista y especializada = Telemedicine in the Spanish media: general and specialized press
Resumen: La e –salud es la aplicación de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) al ámbito sanitario, siendo una de sus ramas más importantes la telemedicina, entendida como el uso de las nuevas tecnologías para aplicar asistencia sanitaria a distancia. El objetivo de este trabajo es conocer qué imagen ofrece la telemedicina bajo las teorías del ámbito de la comunicación de la agenda setting y el framing. Para ello se ha realizado un análisis de contenido a lo largo de cinco años (2010-2015) en prensa española generalista y especializada (El País, El Mundo, ABC, Diario Médico y Gaceta Médica). Los resultados reflejan que la telemedicina no tiene una gran cobertura informativa, está más ubicada en secciones distintas a las de salud y que los principales temas con los que se la vincula son los avances y, por otro lado, aspectos del ámbito político, dominando un enfoque de posibilidades futuras.Palabras clave: Telemedicina, E-salud, Prensa, Agenda-setting, FramingAbstract: E-health is the application of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to the field of healthcare. One of the most significant branches is telemedicine, which is the use of new technologies to provide healthcare remotely. The purpose of this paper is to establish what image telemedicine has, using the theories of agenda setting and framing, both of which come from the area of communication. To do so, a content analysis of the Spanish press was carried out over 5 years (2010-2015), using both general and specialist press sources (El País, El Mundo, ABC, Diario Médico and Gaceta Médica). The results show that telemedicine is not widely covered in the media and features more often in sections other than health. The main issues which it is linked to are: developments in telemedicine and, on the other hand, input from the world of politics, with particular emphasis on the future possibilities for telemedicine.Keywords: Telemedicine, E-health, Press, Communication, agenda-setting, Framing doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.20318/recs.2016.319
Pattern selection in a lattice of pulse-coupled oscillators
We study spatio-temporal pattern formation in a ring of N oscillators with
inhibitory unidirectional pulselike interactions. The attractors of the
dynamics are limit cycles where each oscillator fires once and only once. Since
some of these limit cycles lead to the same pattern, we introduce the concept
of pattern degeneracy to take it into account. Moreover, we give a qualitative
estimation of the volume of the basin of attraction of each pattern by means of
some probabilistic arguments and pattern degeneracy, and show how are they
modified as we change the value of the coupling strength. In the limit of small
coupling, our estimative formula gives a perfect agreement with numerical
simulations.Comment: 7 pages, 8 figures. To be published in Physical Review
Disorder-induced critical behavior in driven diffusive systems
Using dynamic renormalization group we study the transport in driven
diffusive systems in the presence of quenched random drift velocity with
long-range correlations along the transport direction. In dimensions
we find fixed points representing novel universality classes of
disorder-dominated self-organized criticality, and a continuous phase
transition at a critical variance of disorder. Numerical values of the scaling
exponents characterizing the distributions of relaxation clusters are in good
agreement with the exponents measured in natural river networks
Extending Qualitative Spatial Theories with Emergent Spatial Concepts: An Automated Reasoning Approach
Qualitative Spatial Reasoning is an exciting research field of the
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning paradigm whose application often requires
the extension, refinement or combination of existent theories (as well as
the associated calculus). This paper addresses the issue of the sound spatial interpretation
of formal extensions of such theories; particularly the interpretation
of the extension and the desired representational features. The paper shows how
to interpret certain kinds of extensions of Region Connection Calculus (RCC)
theory. We also show how to rebuild the qualitative calculus of these extensions.Junta de Andalucía TIC-606
Point-occurrence self-similarity in crackling-noise systems and in other complex systems
It has been recently found that a number of systems displaying crackling
noise also show a remarkable behavior regarding the temporal occurrence of
successive events versus their size: a scaling law for the probability
distributions of waiting times as a function of a minimum size is fulfilled,
signaling the existence on those systems of self-similarity in time-size. This
property is also present in some non-crackling systems. Here, the uncommon
character of the scaling law is illustrated with simple marked renewal
processes, built by definition with no correlations. Whereas processes with a
finite mean waiting time do not fulfill a scaling law in general and tend
towards a Poisson process in the limit of very high sizes, processes without a
finite mean tend to another class of distributions, characterized by double
power-law waiting-time densities. This is somehow reminiscent of the
generalized central limit theorem. A model with short-range correlations is not
able to escape from the attraction of those limit distributions. A discussion
on open problems in the modeling of these properties is provided.Comment: Submitted to J. Stat. Mech. for the proceedings of UPON 2008 (Lyon),
topic: crackling nois
Synchronization, Diversity, and Topology of Networks of Integrate and Fire Oscillators
We study synchronization dynamics of a population of pulse-coupled
oscillators. In particular, we focus our attention in the interplay between
networks topological disorder and its synchronization features. Firstly, we
analyze synchronization time in random networks, and find a scaling law
which relates to networks connectivity. Then, we carry on comparing
synchronization time for several other topological configurations,
characterized by a different degree of randomness. The analysis shows that
regular lattices perform better than any other disordered network. The fact can
be understood by considering the variability in the number of links between two
adjacent neighbors. This phenomenon is equivalent to have a non-random topology
with a distribution of interactions and it can be removed by an adequate local
normalization of the couplings.Comment: 6 pages, 8 figures, LaTeX 209, uses RevTe
Development of FeO/YSZ ceramic plates for cryogenic operation of resistive-protected gaseous detectors
We present a ceramic material based on hematite (FeO) and zirconia
stabilized with yttria at 8% molar (YSZ), that exhibits stable electrical
properties with transported charge and that can be tuned to the resistivities
necessary to induce spark-quenching in gaseous detectors (
cm), from room temperature down to the liquid-vapor coexistence
point of nitrogen (77 K). It, thus, allows covering the operating temperatures
of most immediate interest to gaseous instrumentation. The ceramics have been
produced in a region of mass concentrations far from what has been usually
explored in literature: optimal characteristics are achieved for FeO
concentrations of 75%wt (LAr boiling temperature), 35%wt (LXe boiling
temperature), and 100%wt (room temperature). The nine order of magnitude
enhancement observed for the electrical conductivity of the mixed phases
relative to that of pure FeO is startling, however it can be
qualitatively understood based on existing literature. Plates of 4 cm x 4 cm
have been manufactured and, prior to this work, operated in-detector at the LXe
boiling point (165 K), demonstrating spark-free operation. Preliminary results
obtained for the first time on a spark-protected amplification structure
(RP-WELL) at around the LAr boiling point (90 K) are now presented, too
Self-organized criticality and synchronization in a lattice model of integrate-and-fire oscillators
We introduce two coupled map lattice models with nonconservative interactions
and a continuous nonlinear driving. Depending on both the degree of
conservation and the convexity of the driving we find different behaviors,
ranging from self-organized criticality, in the sense that the distribution of
events (avalanches) obeys a power law, to a macroscopic synchronization of the
population of oscillators, with avalanches of the size of the system.Comment: 4 pages, Revtex 3.0, 3 PostScript figures available upon request to
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Impact of non-invasive mechanical ventilation (niv) in critical patients with influenza (H1N1) PDM09
The use of non-invasive mechanical ventilation (NIV) in patients with influenza A (H1N1)pdm09 admitted to intensive care units (ICU) has been controversial
Utility of a thematic network in primary health care: a controlled interventional study in a rural area
BACKGROUND: UniNet is an Internet-based thematic network for a virtual community of users (VCU). It supports a virtual multidisciplinary community for physicians, focused on the improvement of clinical practice. This is a study of the effects of a thematic network such as UniNet on primary care medicine in a rural area, specifically as a platform of communication between specialists at the hospital and doctors in the rural area. METHODS: In order to study the effects of a thematic network such as UniNet on primary care medicine in a rural area, we designed an interventional study that included a control group. The measurements included the number of patient displacements due to disease, number of patient hospital stays and the number of prescriptions of drugs of low therapeutic utility and generic drug prescriptions by doctors. These data were analysed and compared with those of the control center. RESULTS: Our study showed positive changes in medical practice, reflected in the improvement of the evaluated parameters in the rural health area where the interventional study was carried out, compared with the control area. We discuss the strengths and weaknesses of UniNet as a potential medium to improve the quality of medical care in rural areas. CONCLUSION: The rural doctors had an effective, useful, user-friendly and cheap source of medical information that may have contributed to the improvement observed in the medical quality indices
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