Adherence to supportive periodontal treatment in relation to patient awareness

To evaluate the risk profile of noncompliant patients in relation to adherence to supportive periodontal therapy in order to identify factors associated with this profile, and be able to prevent the abandonment of perio- dontal therapy. Ma

Selective Change Driven Imaging: A Biomimetic Visual Sensing Strategy

Selective Change Driven (SCD) Vision is a biologically inspired strategy for acquiring, transmitting and processing images that significantly speeds up image sensing. SCD vision is based on a new CMOS image sensor which delivers, ordered by the absolute magnitude of its change, the pixels that have changed after the last time they were read out. Moreover, the traditional full frame processing hardware and programming methodology has to be changed, as a part of this biomimetic approach, to a new processing paradigm based on pixel processing in a data flow manner, instead of full frame image processing

Isolated Fe(III)-O Sites Catalyze the Hydrogenation of Acetylene in Ethylene Flows under Front-End Industrial Conditions

[EN] The search for simple, earth-abundant, cheap, and nontoxic metal catalysts able to perform industrial hydrogenations is a topic of interest, transversal to many catalytic processes. Here, we show that isolated FeIII¿O sites on solids are able to dissociate and chemoselectively transfer H2 to acetylene in an industrial process. For that, a novel, robust, and highly crystalline metal¿organic framework (MOF), embedding FeIII¿OH2 single sites within its pores, was prepared in multigram scale and used as an efficient catalyst for the hydrogenation of 1% acetylene in ethylene streams under front-end conditions. Cutting-edge X-ray crystallography allowed the resolution of the crystal structure and snapshotted the single-atom nature of the catalytic FeIII¿O site. Translation of the active site concept to even more robust and inexpensive titania and zirconia supports enabled the industrially relevant hydrogenation of acetylene with similar activity to the Pd-catalyzed process.This work was supported by the MINECO (Spain) (Projects CTQ2016-75671-P, CTQ2014-56312-P, CTQ2014-55178-R, and Excellence Units "Severo Ochoa" and "Maria de Maeztu" SEV-2016-0683 and MDM-2015-0538) and the Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca (Italy) (FFABR 2017). M.M. thanks the mineco for a predoctoral contract. Thanks are also extended to the Ramon y Cajal Program (E.P.) and the "Suprograma atraccio de talent-contractes postdoctorals de la Universitat de Valencia" (J.F.-S.). A.L.-P. and J.F.S. also thank fBBVA for the concession of a young investigator grants.Tejeda-Serrano, M.; Mon, M.; Ross, B.; Gonell-Gómez, F.; Ferrando-Soria, J.; Corma Canós, A.; Leyva Perez, A.... (2018). Isolated Fe(III)-O Sites Catalyze the Hydrogenation of Acetylene in Ethylene Flows under Front-End Industrial Conditions. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(28):8827-8832. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b04669S882788321402

Biomarkers predictive value for early diagnosis of stroke- associated pneumonia

Stroke-associated pneumonia; SAP; Diagnostic accuracy; BiomarkersNeumonía asociada al accidente cerebrovascular; NAA; Precisión diagnóstica; BiomarcadoresPneumònia associada a l'accident cerebrovascular; Precisió diagnòstica; BiomarcadorsTo confirm the diagnostic accuracy of candidate biomarkers in stroke‐associated pneumonia (SAP), we prospectively enrolled ischemic stroke patients with NIHSS ≥ 10 on admission from March‐2016 to August‐2017. Blood samples were collected at baseline, 24 and 48 h after stroke onset. Biomarkers (MR‐proADM, suPAR, SAA) were determined by immunoassays. Regarding biomarkers, MR‐proADM at 24 h (P = 0.04) and both suPAR and SAA at 48 h (P = 0.036 and P = 0.057) were associated with pneumonia. The combination of SAA > 25.15 mg/dL and suPAR> 3.14 ng/mL at 48 h had 80% sensitivity and 95.8% specificity when both biomarkers were above the cut‐off. The evaluated biomarkers represent promising tools to be evaluated in future large, prospective studies on SAP. An accurate SAP diagnosis by thorax CT might help to reduce variability in such studies.This project was partially funded by the ISCIII project PI14/00971. The ITRIBiS project (Improving Translational Research Potential at the Institute of Biomedicine of Seville) has the registration number REGPOT-2013-1. Cooperative Cerebrovascular Disease Research Network (INVICTUS+) (RD16/0019/ 0015). AB is supported by a Juan Rodes research contract (JR16/0008) from Instituto de Salud Carlos III

II Congreso Luso-Extremadurense de Ciencia y Tecnología. Libro de resúmenes

La Facultad de Ciencias de la Universidad de Extremadura, en estrecha colaboración con la Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia de la Universidade de Évora, ha organizado el II CONGRESO LUSOEXTREMADURENSE DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGÍA, que se ha celebrado los días 18 y 19 de octubre de 2018 en el Edificio del Parque Científico y Tecnológico de Extremadura (FUNDECYT-PCTEX). Esta edición ha apostado especialmente por los investigadores en formación, dándoles preferencia para presentar los resultados de sus comunicaciones en comunicaciones orales. El presente Libro de Resúmenes recoge los resúmenes de las 67 comunicaciones orales y 69 en formato póster.The Faculty of Sciences of the University of Extremadura, in close collaboration with the Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia de la Universidade de Évora, has organized the II LUSOEXTREMADURENSE CONGRESS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, which was held on October 18 and 19, 2018 in the Building of the Science and Technology Park of Extremadura (FUNDECYT-PCTEX). This edition has opted especially for researchers in training, giving them preference to present the results of their communications in oral communications. This Book of Abstracts includes the summaries of the 67 oral communications and 69 in poster format.Universidad de Extremadur

Changes in severity, mortality, and virus genome among a Spanish cohort of patients hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2

Comparing pandemic waves could aid in understanding the evolution of COVID-19. The objective of the present study was to compare the characteristics and outcomes of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in different pandemic waves in terms of severity and mortality. We performed an observational retrospective cohort study of 5,220 patients hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 infection from February to September 2020 in Aragon, Spain. We compared ICU admissions and 30-day mortality, clinical characteristics, and risk factors of the first and second waves of COVID-19. The SARS-CoV-2 genome was also analyzed in 236 samples. Patients in the first wave (n¿=¿2,547) were older (median age 74 years [IQR 60–86] vs. 70 years [53–85]; p¿<¿0.001) and had worse clinical and analytical parameters related to severe COVID-19 than patients in the second wave (n¿=¿2,673). The probability of ICU admission at 30 days was 16% and 10% (p¿<¿0.001) and the cumulative 30-day mortality rates 38% and 32% in the first and second wave, respectively (p¿=¿0.007). Survival differences were observed among patients aged 60 to 80 years. We also found some variability among death risk factors and the viral genome between waves. Therefore, the two analyzed COVID-19 pandemic waves were different in terms of disease severity and mortality

Socio-cultural, historical, political and economic dimensions of health and medicine

Health is one of the most important areas of human development and, along with quality of life, occupies a prominent place in the academic world, being studied from various theoretical perspectives and from different scientific disciplines. These studies try to explain, from the micro to the macro, what it means and what elements are involved in the health of individuals in particular and of society in general. However, given the diversity of perspectives, there is no consensus on the definition of health. At the beginning, the study of health focused on biomedical research into disease. This approach has shown its limits in understanding health in its most complete dimension, as defined by the World Health Organization as early as 1946 : “ health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity ” ( preamble to the WHO Constitution, 1946 ). This “ positive ” orientation of health is later taken up as a universal human right ( Declaration of Human Rights, art. 25 ), being considered today not only a right, but also a value in itself, an aspiration and a social demand....Peer reviewe

31 visiones actuales de la transparencia

Treinta y una aportaciones de autores nacionales y extranjeros sobre la transparencia de las instituciones públicas y de los sujetos obligados por la Ley 19/2013 de 9 de diciembre y el derecho de acceso a la información pública

El fenómeno del dopaje desde la perspectiva de las Ciencias Sociales Odile

En este libro se recoge una selección de las comunicaciones presentadas en el IV Congreso Internacional ‘Deporte, Dopaje y Sociedad’ que se celebró en Madrid del 26 de febrero al 1 de marzo de 2014 y que fue organizado conjuntamente por la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid y la Agencia Española de Protección de la Salud en el Deporte. Los textos están escritos en español, francés e inglés y abordan el estudio del fenómeno del dopaje desde el ámbito especifico de las Ciencias Humanas y Sociales a través de disciplinas como Historia, Derecho, Sociología, Psicología, Economía, Ciencias de la Información y otras disciplinas relacionadas