Personality dimensions, global and ethical perspectives and engineering students’ ethical decisions

Motivation is an important predictor of ethical awareness; however, it is not easy to assess. The goal of our study is to examine the relationship between motivation and ethical awareness in engineering students. We focus on two personality measures: person-thing orientation and spheres of control and test their association with ethical awareness using engineering scenarios that present ethical dilemmas. We predict that engineering students who score higher on the personality dimension of personthing orientation will display more ethical awareness than those who score lower. We also predict that students with a higher level of personal control will also display more ethical awareness. Two groups of students were involved in the study. Group 1 was formed by fifty-three first-year engineering students from University in the United States and Group 2 was represented by sixty-four sophomore engineering students in Engineering School in Spain. Students worked individually on case studies that presenting ethical dilemmas; they were asked to write short essays describing how they would respond to each situation. Then the essays were analyzed using an ethical reasoning and a global awareness rubric. Results revealed that 1) the context/nature of the students’ responses to the case study varied greatly, 2) personality traits and global and ethical perspective, all correlate to students’ ethical decisions as measured by their responses to the case studies scores, 3) there is an alignment between the SOC and the Global Perspective Inventory (GPI) dimensions that merits further exploration

Proyecto de Intervención en mejora de habilidades y técnicas de la gestión en el reparto de alimentos en el barrio de San Pablo

El número de personas que padecen hambre ha aumentado en los últimos años debido a la situación laboral y económica de las familias, lo que ha aumentado el número de beneficiarios. del programa de reparto de alimentos. En este se les proporcionan lotes de comida, pero estos no cubren toda la inseguridad alimentaria que tienen. Para poder dar un buen uso deben de saber gestionarlo de una forma adecuada y hacer una lista de la compra complementaria a los lotes de comida para poder llevar una dieta equilibrada y adecuada. Para ello, el presente Trabajo de Fin de Grado propone un proyecto de intervención en el que, a través de sesiones formativas, se les proporcionará habilidades y técnicas para poder gestionarlo adecuadamente. <br /

Uso del efectivo y otros medios de pago: ¿cómo está cambiando la forma en que pagamos?

Motivación. En los últimos años hemos observado un notable avance de la digitalización, en especial tras la irrupción de la pandemia causada por el COVID-19. En este contexto, es importante analizar cómo están cambiando los hábitos de pago de los consumidores a la hora realizar compras en comercios físicos, compras online y pagos entre particulares. Ideas principales. En 2022, el efectivo es el medio de pago más utilizado en España para las compras en comercios físicos y los pagos entre particulares, si bien se observa una disminución con respecto a 2019. La disminución del uso del efectivo viene motivada principalmente por dos factores: en primer lugar, por el aumento de las compras online, que limita las posibilidades de uso de este medio de pago, y, en segundo lugar, por un cambio en los hábitos de pago de los consumidores, que han incrementado el uso de medios digitales en sus compras

Propuesta de intervención basada en la libertad de movimientos y el mindfulness en educación infantil.

En este trabajo se presenta una propuesta de intervención para el segundo curso de la etapa de educación infantil, en la que se utilizan, por un lado, las provocaciones como metodología basada en la libertad de movimientos, y por otro lado, se utiliza el mindfulness como una estrategia para volver a la calma. Los objetivos propuestos para esta intervención se han basado en la pirámide del desarrollo.<br /

Quality and Applicability: Two Necessary Requirements in Instruments That Measure Creative Potential, for Use in the Classroom

Creativity is a growing demand in today’s world. Education for creativity takes hierarchy, as well as the search for ways to evaluate its promotion. This paper presents partial results of a research project aimed at the study of the promotion of creative qualities in science education. The CREA test was used as an instrument to evaluate the creativity of students. The results allow us to propose limitations of this test as a tool for a global measure of creativity. The conventional analysis could measure one of the creative qualities: fluidity. The assessment of other creative qualities could benefit from a modified analysis. Some modifications like test time, could improve the measure of flexibility and elaboration. The applicability of the CREA test may not be accompanied by quality to the extent of creative potential

Sexually transmitted diseases in pediatric emergency care

Determinar les característiques dels pacients diag- nosticats de malalties de transmissió sexual (MTS) a urgèn- cies i establir la freqüència en què són degudes a abús sexual. Mètode. Estudi retrospectiu fet entre el gener del 2007 i el desembre del 2011. S'inclouen els pacients menors de 18 anys diagnosticats a urgències d'MTS -infecció per Neisse- ria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, Treponema palli- dum, , virus d'immunodeficiència humana (VIH), virus del pa- pil loma humà (VPH) i virus herpes simple tipus 2 (VHS-2)-. Resultats. S'han trobat 28 pacients (6 casos / 100.000 vi- sites); mediana d'edat 15,9 anys (p. 25-75: 13,9-17,5); tots adolescents excepte 4, menors de 7 anys; 23 (82,1%) de sexe femení. Els motius de consulta són: 8 (28,6%) lesions cutànies, 6 (21,4%) secreció vaginal/uretral, 6 (21,4%) dolor abdominal, 1 (3,6%) febre, 1 (3,6%) pro- miscuïtat, 1 (3,6%) nàusees i vòmits i 5 (17,9%) infecció asimptomàtica. En 8 casos (28,6%) el motiu incloïa la sos- pita d'abús sexual (3 remesos pel pediatre i 5 per mani- festació del menor). Tretze casos (46,4%) són valorats con- juntament amb Ginecologia, 6 (21,4%) amb Dermatologia i 11 (39,3%) amb la Unitat Funcional d'Abús al Menor de l'Hospital. Es diagnostiquen microbiològicament 10 (35,7%) infeccions per N. Gonorrhoeae, , 6 (21,4%) per C. Trachomatis , 6 (21,4%) per VPH, 3 (10,7%) per VIH, 2 (7,2%) per VHS-2 i 2 (7,2%) per T. Pallidum. Una adoles- cent amb malaltia inflamatòria pèlvica presenta coinfecció per N. Gonorrhoeae i C.. trachomatis. . Finalment es diagnos- tiquen d'abús sexual 10 pacients (35,7%). Conclusions. Els diagnòstics d'MTS a Urgències es donen bàsicament en adolescents; en infants petits cal sospitar abús. Malgrat que són molt poc freqüents, és important conèixer els signes guia per poder fer un diagnòstic precoç i minimitzar-ne les conseqüències

Pores Formed by Baxα5 Relax to a Smaller Size and Keep at Equilibrium

AbstractPores made by amphipathic cationic peptides (e.g., antimicrobials and fragments of pore-forming proteins) are typically studied by examining the kinetics of vesicle leakage after peptide addition or obtaining structural measurements in reconstituted peptide-lipid systems. In the first case, the pores have been considered transient phenomena that allow the relaxation of the peptide-membrane system. In the second, they correspond to equilibrium structures at minimum free energy. Here we reconcile both approaches by investigating the pore activity of the α5 fragment from the proapoptotic protein Bax (Baxα5) before and after equilibrium of peptide/vesicle complexes. Quenching assays on suspensions of large unilamellar vesicles suggest that in the presence of Baxα5, the vesicles maintain a leaky state for hours under equilibrium conditions. We proved and analyzed stable pores on single giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) in detail by monitoring the entrance of dyes added at different times after incubation with the peptide. When the GUVs came in contact with Baxα5, leakage started stochastically, was delayed for various periods of time, and in the majority of cases proceeded rapidly to completion. After hours in the presence of the peptide, the same individual GUVs that refilled completely at first instance maintained a porated state, which could be observed in subsequent leak-in events for serially added dyes. However, these long-term pores were smaller in size than the initial equilibration pores. Stable pores were also detected in GUVs made in the presence of Baxα5. The latter pores can be considered equilibrium states and may correspond to structures measured previously in bilayer stacks. Although pore formation may occur as a kinetic process, equilibrium pores may also be functionally relevant structures, especially in highly regulated systems such as the apoptotic mitochondrial pores induced by Bax

La eficacia de la musicoterapia ante la ansiedad y el sentimiento de soledad

Anxiety and the feeling of loneliness are emotional states that individuals may experience with greater or lesser intensity. Besides non-curative pharmacological therapies, music therapy has been settling in recent years as an effective therapy to ease these disorders preventing them from becoming chronic and lead to various pathologies. This quasi-experimental research study assesses 31 individuals (28 women and 3 men, with an average age of 45,6) that receive weekly one-hour music therapy sessions during 10 weeks. In the first and the last session of each period they self-administer the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A) and UCLA Loneliness Scale which allows to know their evolution during the treatment. The results show that a 74% and a 77% of the participants experienced a significant reduction of the initial disorders, obtaining on average, a reduction of 27% and 16% of the scores initially assigned.La ansiedad y el sentimiento de soledad son estados emocionales que las personas pueden experimentar con mayor o menor intensidad. Además de las terapias farmacológicas no curativas, la musicoterapia viene asentándose en los últimos años como una terapia eficaz para paliar estos trastornos evitando que se vuelvan crónicos y deriven en diversas patologías. Este estudio de investigación cuasiexperimental evalúa la eficacia de las técnicas de musicoterapia en la mejora de los trastornos mencionados en personas que experimentan situaciones emocionales difíciles de gestionar por diversas circunstancias. Un total de 31 personas (28 mujeres y 3 hombres, con edad mediana de 45,6 años) reciben sesiones semanales de musicoterapia de 1 hora de duración, durante 10 semanas. En la primera y última sesión de cada período, se auto administran las escalas de ansiedad de Hamilton (HAS) y de soledad (Universidad de California Los Angeles, UCLA) lo cual permite conocer su evolución durante el tratamiento recibido. En total, se halla que un 74% y un 77% de los participantes han mejorado, respectivamente, en los trastornos de ansiedad y de soledad, obteniéndose en promedio, una reducción del 27% y del 16% aproximadamente de las puntuaciones iniciales antes del tratamiento.&nbsp;&nbsp

The effectiveness of music therapy on anxiety and the feeling of loneliness: quasi-experimental study

La ansiedad y el sentimiento de soledad son estados emocionales que las personas pueden experimentar con mayor o menor intensidad. Además de las terapias farmacológicas no curativas, la musicoterapia viene asentándose en los últimos años como una terapia eficaz para paliar estos trastornos evitando que se vuelvan crónicos y deriven en diversas patologías. Este estudio de investigación cuasiexperimental evalúa la eficacia de las técnicas de musicoterapia en la mejora de los trastornos mencionados en personas que experimentan situaciones emocionales difíciles de gestionar por diversas circunstancias. Un total de 31 personas (28 mujeres y 3 hombres, con edad mediana de 45,6 años) reciben sesiones semanales de musicoterapia de 1 hora de duración, durante 10 semanas. En la primera y última sesión de cada período, se auto administran las escalas de ansiedad de Hamilton (HAS) y de soledad (Universidad de California Los Angeles, UCLA) lo cual permite conocer su evolución durante el tratamiento recibido. En total, se halla que un 74% y un 77% de los participantes han mejorado, respectivamente, en los trastornos de ansiedad y de soledad, obteniéndose en promedio, una reducción del 27% y del 16% aproximadamente de las puntuaciones iniciales antes del tratamiento.Anxiety and the feeling of loneliness are emotional states that individuals may experience with greater or lesser intensity. Besides non-curative pharmacological therapies, music therapy has been settling in recent years as an effective therapy to ease these disorders preventing them from becoming chronic and lead to various pathologies. This quasi-experimental research study assesses 31 individuals (28 women and 3 men, with an average age of 45,6) that receive weekly one-hour music therapy sessions during 10 weeks. In the first and the last session of each period they self-administer the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A) and UCLA Loneliness Scale which allows to know their evolution during the treatment. The results show that a 74% and a 77% of the participants experienced a significant reduction of the initial disorders, obtaining on average, a reduction of 27% and 16% of the scores initially assigned.Cátedra Libre Musicoterapi

Salt and Water Stress Tolerance in Ipomoea purpurea and Ipomoea tricolor, Two Ornamentals with Invasive Potential

[EN] Invasive plants pose a significant threat to biodiversity, especially under the current unstable climatic conditions. This study aimed to test the salt and drought tolerance of two ornamental species of the genus Ipomoea during germination and vegetative growth. Germination tests were performed in the presence of increasing NaCl concentrations or iso-osmotic PEG concentrations¿to mimic the osmotic stress caused by drought. Both species showed great invasive potential because of their high seed germination percentages and rapid germination under control (distilled water) and salt stress conditions, up to 200 mM NaCl. Germination and early seedling development were more affected in the presence of PEG. Subsequently, water stress (complete withholding of irrigation) and salt stress (watering with 100 mM and 200 mM NaCl) treatments were applied to young plants for three weeks, when all plants were harvested, to determine several morphological and biochemical parameters. Both species were sensitive to water deficit but relatively resistant to salt stress. Their salt stress responses were similar, based mainly on the inhibition of Na+ and the activation of K+ transport from roots to leaves and the uptake and accumulation of Ca2+; however, I. tricolor showed a slightly higher tolerance to salt stress than I. purpurea. Although I. tricolor has only been locally reported as invasive and is generally considered a `low-risk¿ species, our results indicate that it may have an invasive potential even higher than I. purpurea, a recognised invasive weed, spread into areas with moderate salinity, affecting agricultural land or natural habitats of ecological interestD.-M.M. is supported by a pre-doctoral contract from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain and R.M. by a CDEIGENT (2018/2023) grant from Generalitat Valenciana.Mircea, DM.; Li, R.; Blasco Giménez, L.; Vicente, O.; Sestras, AF.; Sestras, RE.; Boscaiu, M.... (2023). Salt and Water Stress Tolerance in Ipomoea purpurea and Ipomoea tricolor, Two Ornamentals with Invasive Potential. Agronomy. 13(9). https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy1309219813