Uretris masculina. Aspectos clínicos, microbiológicos, epidemiológicos y terapéuticos en 299 pacientes

In 1983 two hundred and ninety nine patients with urethritis were studied; nongonococcal cases accounted for 81.0% of the total; sexual promiscuity was common even after the onset of urethral symptoms; several mistakes were detected through analysis of the therapeutic approach, namely: prescription of antibiotics that are not indicated in the management of urethritis and overuse of aminoglycosides; although clinical grounds exist for suspecting UNG it is still advisable to perform a urethral Gram stain on every patient with urethritis; in this series results of Gram stain and selective culture for Neisseria agreed 95.8% of the times. Several aspects of the urethritis problem deserve further research in the Colombian milieu.En 299 hombres con uretritis estudiados en 1983, predominó claramente la forma no gonocócica (81,0%); se halló que es frecuente la promiscuidad sexual, incluso después del comienzo de las manifestaciones clínicas. Un análisis del enfoque terapeutico permitió detectar varios desaciertos, entre ellos el uso de antibióticos que no están indicados en la uretritis y el abuso de aminoglicósidos; aunque hay bases clínicas para sospechar la uretritis no gonocócica se insiste en la conveniencia de hacer un frotis teñido con gram en todo paciente con uretritis; a este respecto se demostró una concordancia del 95,8% entre el examen directo y el cultivo para Neisseria. Se plantean algunos puntos que ameritan futura investigación

Cuatrocientos setenta y siete casos de uretritis masculina

During 1985 the author studied 477 men with clinical and laboratory evidence of urethritis; 49 (10.3%) were diagnosed as gonococcal urethritis while 428 (89.7%) had the nongonococcal form; these findings agree with those from previous series; the fact that the patients were included irrespectively of the history of previous antimicrobial therapy suggests that a proportion of the nongonococcal cases could be of the postgonococcal modality.En el año de 1985 se estudiaron, desde el punto de vista del laboratorio, 477 casos de uretritis masculina; 49 de ellos (10.3%) fueron de uretritis gonocócica (UG) y 428 (89.7%) de uretritis no gonocócica (UNG). Estos resultados concuerdan con los obtenidos en series previas; se discute la importancia de la UNG y se plantea la posibilidad de que muchos de los casos de esta entidad sean de la modalidad postgonocócica (UPG)

Análisis del comportamiento a compresión de un laminado [0,90,0,90] de tejido no ondulado mediante un modelo 3D de elementos finitos

VI CONGRESO NACIONAL DE MATERIALES COMPUESTOS. Celebrado en Valencia, 27-29 de junio de 2005.El presente trabajo está dedicado al análisis numérico del comportamiento a compresión de un laminado [0, 90]a de tejido no ondulado o non-crimp fabric (NCF). Para ello se ha realizado un modelo tridimensional de elementos finitos del laminado a nivel mesoscópico en el que se han modelado los constituyentes del material, mazos de fibras y paquetes de resina, como entes homogéneos, sin considerar la microestructura que caracteriza a cada uno de ellos. Los resultados obtenidos con este modelo muestran que el mecanismo de fallo a compresión de un laminado de NCF está asociado a la curvatura que presentan los mazos de fibras en este tipo de materiales compuestos, como consecuencia del curado. En efecto, en la zona en que dicha curvatura es máxima aparecen deformaciones tangenciales de diferente signo cuya diferencia crece a medida que la carga de compresión aplicada aumenta hasta que llega un momento en que el material no es capaz de soportarlo y se produce el fallo.Unión Europea (FALCOM) G4RD-CT- 0069

Prediction of in-plane stiffness properties of Non-Crimp Fabric laminates by means of 3D Finite Element analysis

Non-crimp fabric (NCF) composites are constituted by differently oriented layers of ideally unidirectional fibre tows. However, a slight waviness always appears in the tows. The applicability of the General Laminate Theory (GLT) to obtain the stiffness properties of NCF laminates is elucidated in this paper. For this purpose, a 3D finite element (FE) model of the representative unit cell (RUC) of a single NCF lamina has been carried out to obtain its apparent stiffness properties, which are employed, along with the GLT, to determine the stiffness properties of the laminate. These properties are compared with those obtained from the FE model of the RUC of the whole laminate for several configurations with different stacking sequences, fibre contents and crimp angles. Finally, predictions are compared with existing experimental results. The numerical results achieved validate the use of the GLT in NCF composites, once the lamina properties have been calculated taking into account the internal structure of these materials

Records of the Crowned Eagle (Urubitinga coronata) in Moxos plains of Bolivia and observations about breeding behavior

The Crowned Eagle (Urubitinga coronata, Accipitridae) is a globally endangered raptor, endemic to central and southern South America. Little is known about this species in Bolivia and no nesting or prey data have been reported for the country until now. Between 2007 and 2011, we detected Crowned Eagles in four different locations in Moxos Savannahs of Beni Department, Bolivia. We observed an active nest of Crowned Eagle on 23 November 2007. The nest contained a nestling and it was placed on a living tree approximately 13 m in height and approximately 8 m above the ground. This nest was empty during September and October 2008, but contained another nestling on 15 November 2009. These represent the first breeding records for the Crowned Eagle in Bolivia. Prey remains at the nest observed included two nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) and two six-banded armadillos (Euphractus sexcinctus). The minimum number of individual Crowned Eagles in the surveyed area was seven. Our observations of family groups, juveniles and two nestlings confirm the breeding of Crowned Eagles in the Moxos plains. Ectoparasites and uncontrolled burns may threaten the northwestern Bolivian population of the endangered Crowned Eagle.Fil: Berkunsky, Igor. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto Multidisciplinario sobre Ecosistemas y Desarrollo Sustentable. Grupo de Ecología Matemática; Argentina. Proyecto de conservación de la Paraba Barba Azul; BoliviaFil: Daniele, Gonzalo. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo; Argentina. Proyecto de conservación de la Paraba Barba Azul; BoliviaFil: Kacoliris, Federico Pablo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo; Argentina. Proyecto de conservación de la Paraba Barba Azul; BoliviaFil: Faegre, Sarah Kelly. University of Washington; Estados UnidosFil: Gandoy, Facundo Ariel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo; ArgentinaFil: González, Lyliam. Paraíso Travel; BoliviaFil: Díaz Luque, José Antonio. Proyecto de conservación de la Paraba Barba Azul; Bolivi

Flujo vaginal. Etiología en una unidad intermedia de salud

We studied 584 low income women in order to determine the etiology of their discharge; bacterial vaginosis (nonspecific vaginitis) was found to be most prevalent (34.8%) followed by cadidiasis (9,4%) and trichomoniasis (4,5%); there were also mixed infections (7,2%). Candidiasis, trichomoniasis and mixed infections, but not bacterial vaginosis, were significantly more frequent in pregnant women. We stress the feasibility of diagnosing bacterial vaginosis by applying easily determined criteria.En una serie de 584 mujeres que consultaron por flujo vaginal a una Unidad Intermedia de Salud se halló que la entidad más frecuente era la vaginosis bacteriana (vaginitis inespecífica o por Gardnerella vaginalis) con un 34,8% seguida por la candidiasis (9,4%) y la tricomoniasis (43%); hubo también infecciones mixtas (7,2%); la candidiasis, la tricomoniasis y las infecciones mixtas, pero no la vaginosis bacteriana, fueron más frecuentes en mujeres embarazadas; se hace énfasis en la facilidad de diagnosticar vaginosis bacteriana en el laboratorio corriente con base en criterios de muy fácil determinación

Prevalence of Sjogren's syndrome in the general adult population in Spain: estimating the proportion of undiagnosed cases

To estimate the prevalence of Sjogren's syndrome (SS) in the adult Spanish population we performed a population-based multicenter cross-sectional study. Cases were defined by the American-European Consensus Group criteria proposed in 2002. A total of 4,916 subjects aged 20 years or over were included. The estimated prevalence of SS (including primary and secondary forms) in the adult population in Spain was 0.33% (95% CI 0.21-0.53). Extrapolating to the total population of the country aged >= 20 years (around 37.7 million persons), there would be around 125,000 cases of SS in Spain. Considering only primary SS, the estimated prevalence was 0.25% (95% CI 0.15-0.43) or 1 person in 400. The prevalence of primary SS in Spain is comparable to that reported in other European studies with a similar design and diagnostic criteria. Based on these results, primary SS could not be considered a rare (orphan) disease. Only 50% of cases had already been diagnosed with SS prior EPISER 2016 study, confirming the existence of a non-negligible proportion of undiagnosed cases in the general population

Semi-analytic solution on non-regularized unfolding stress in composite beams employing a series approximation based on legendre polynomilas

Unfolding is one of the main causes of failure on composite beams including curved parts in their sections, such as L-beams, T-beams or C-beams, it being in many cases the critical criterion in the sizing of this kind of beams. This failure mechanism is caused by the interlaminar normal and shear stresses. Regularized interlaminar stresses are predicted in a very accurate way with current methods, but typical edge effects make those regularized stresses inaccurate with errors even by 100%. An illustrative example is the joint of a straight and a curved beam, as in the section of L-beams, where the compatibility between the two beams modifies the stress distribution which become significantly different to the regularized stresses. This study presents the fundamentals and the results of a novel semi-analytic method that predicts in a very accurate way the non-regularized stresses in 2D composite laminates of constant thickness and treated as a sequence of several constant-curvature beams. This method is a powerful tool to predict the unfolding failure in composite beams containing curved parts in their sections, with the same or better accuracy than using finite elements

Recuperación de un puente metálico en Tuy

This paper explains the repair and recicle of a metalic bridge in steel. The new bridge has a pedestrian use because these one is situated inside of the village.En este articulo se expone el proyecto de reparación de un puente metálico situado sobre el río Tripes en Tui, provincia de Pontevedra, que estaba seriamente dañado, procediendo a su recuperación para el tráfico peatonal. al quedar enmarcado dentro de la trama urbana de la ciudad

OpenFog-Compliant Application-Aware Platform: A Kubernetes Extension

Distributed computing paradigms have evolved towards low latency and highly virtualized environments. Fog Computing, as its latest iteration, enables the usage of Cloud-like services closer to the generators and consumers of data. The processing in this layer is performed by Fog Applications, which are decomposed into smaller components following the microservice paradigm and encapsulated into containers. Current state-of-the-art container orchestrators can manage hundreds of simultaneous containers. However, Kubernetes, being the de facto standard, does not consider the application itself as a top-level entity, which limits its orchestration capabilities. This raises the need to rearchitect Kubernetes to benefit from application-awareness, which refers to an orchestration method optimized for managing the applications and the set of components that comprise them. Thus, this paper proposes an application-aware and OpenFog-compliant architecture that manages applications as first-level entities during their lifecycle. Furthermore, the proposed architecture allows the definition of organizational structures to group subordinated applications based on user-defined hierarchies. This logical structuring makes it possible to outline how orchestration should be shaped to reflect the operating model of a system or an organization. The proposed architecture is implemented as a Kubernetes extension and provided as an operator.This research was funded by the project PES18/48 funded by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and by the PhD fellowship granted under the frame of the PIF 2022 call funded by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), grant number PIF22/188