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    Bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) from Yuscarán in Eastern Honduras: Conservation and acoustic characterization for the insectivorous species

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    In Honduras, most bat inventories have been carried out with mist nets as the main sampling method, skewing knowledge towards the Phyllostomidae family, therefore the diversity and distribution of insectivorous bats is underrepresented. In order to have a more complete knowledge of the diversity of bats in the municipality of Yuscarán and mainly in the Yuscarán Biological Reserve, an inventory was carried out using the techniques of mist-netting and acoustic monitoring. The samplings were carried out between 910 and 1,827 m.a.s.l., covering agroecosystems, broadleaf forest, pine forest and urban environment. A total of 32 species of bats were registered, which represents 28% of the species diversity present in Honduras. Species belonging to five families were recorded: Emballonuridae (6.25%), Mormoopidae (15.22%), Phyllostomidae (56.25%), Molossidae (9.37%) and Vespertilionidae (12.5%). With the mist nets, a sampling effort of 7,128 m²/h was reached, which allowed the capture of 20 species and 186 individuals. Through the acoustic method, with 84 h/r, 13 species of insectivorous bats were recorded. The values of the acoustic parameters analysed from the search phase of each insectivorous species are provided, which can serve as a reference for the identification of species from Hondurans. To advance our understanding of the distribution patterns, composition, and vocal signatures of insectivore bats, we suggest the complementary use of mist nets and acoustic recorders in the inventories

    Snack intake among college students with overweight/obesity and its association with gender, income, stress, and availability of snacks during the COVID-19 pandemic

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    Abstract: Objective. To assess the determinants of snack intake among college students with overweight/obesity during COVID-19 pandemic. We hypothesized that younger and male students, those from minority background, those experiencing higher stress levels, and those with higher accessibility/availability of unhealthy snacks would snack more frequently or consume more unhealthy snack choices. Methods. This was a secondary analysis of the baseline data obtained from the Snackability trial, a trial testing the efficacy of a smartphone application for improving the quality of snack intake in US college students with overweight/obesity. Participants completed a survey on socio-demographics, stress levels, and snack patterns at the baseline visit (n=298). Analyses included correlation, Mann–Whitney U test, Kruskal–Wallis, and logistic regressions. Results. Most students were females 81.9%, 40.9% were whites, and 55.7% had a household incom

    Desarrollo de un sistema de información web de gestión de pacientes que facilite el manejo de la información en el centro teletón Región Central Juigalpa departamento Chontales.

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    El desarrollo de dicho proyecto tiene como objetivo aportar a una modernización en la institución Teletón, que permite la facilidad de manejo de información, reducir tiempos de atención, mostrar datos estadísticos para la toma de decisiones, adaptándose a los cambios y propuestas del personal que ahí labora, todo con la intención de proponer mejoras en la atención de pacientes y las diferentes áreas de atención

    Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search

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    Document recommendation systems for locating relevant literature have mostly relied on methods developed a decade ago. This is largely due to the lack of a large offline gold-standard benchmark of relevant documents that cover a variety of research fields such that newly developed literature search techniques can be compared, improved and translated into practice. To overcome this bottleneck, we have established the RElevant LIterature SearcH consortium consisting of more than 1500 scientists from 84 countries, who have collectively annotated the relevance of over 180 000 PubMed-listed articles with regard to their respective seed (input) article/s. The majority of annotations were contributed by highly experienced, original authors of the seed articles. The collected data cover 76% of all unique PubMed Medical Subject Headings descriptors. No systematic biases were observed across different experience levels, research fields or time spent on annotations. More importantly, annotations of the same document pairs contributed by different scientists were highly concordant. We further show that the three representative baseline methods used to generate recommended articles for evaluation (Okapi Best Matching 25, Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency and PubMed Related Articles) had similar overall performances. Additionally, we found that these methods each tend to produce distinct collections of recommended articles, suggesting that a hybrid method may be required to completely capture all relevant articles. The established database server located at https://relishdb.ict.griffith.edu.au is freely available for the downloading of annotation data and the blind testing of new methods. We expect that this benchmark will be useful for stimulating the development of new powerful techniques for title and title/abstract-based search engines for relevant articles in biomedical research.Peer reviewe

    Valor pronóstico de la troponina en pacientes que se presentan al servicio de emergencias con fibrilación atrial en Hospital México en el período agosto 2019 a diciembre 2021

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    Este trabajo es un estudio observacional y retrospectivo, en el cual se incluyó pacientes de los 18 años en adelante quienes asistieron al servicio de emergencias del Hospital México entre agosto del año 2019 y diciembre del año 2021, a quienes se les documentó el diagnóstico de FibA en el expediente digital y se les realizó al menos una medición de Tn. Se buscó la presencia de eventos cardiovasculares mayores (eventos cerebrovasculares, infarto agudo de miocardio, embolismo a cualquier parte y/o muerte) en los 30 días posteriores a la consulta donde se documentó el biomarcador. Un 12% de los pacientes que elevaron hs-TnT por encima del percentil 99 presentaron algún evento vascular mayor (MACE por sus siglas en inglés) y 4% fallecieron (por cualquier causa). El evento cardiovascular mayor más común fue el infarto agudo de miocardio (5 casos) correspondiente a un 8.7% de los casos con elevación de hs-TnT mayor al percentil 99. El evento menos común fue el embolismo sistémico, presentándose solo un evento dentro de la muestra en el plazo de 30 días. Tras hacer el análisis estadístico la única variable que presentó una relación significativa fue la presencia de cualquier evento vascular mayor a 30 días (p=0.049), dado que el IAM corresponde a la mayoría de estos eventos se presume que en una muestra más grande este también podría tomar relevancia estadística, más consideraciones sobre este punto que se discutirán en la sección de análisisUCR::Vicerrectoría de Investigación::Sistema de Estudios de Posgrado::Salud::Especialidad en Medicina de Emergencia

    Caracterización de la pesca artesanal de las comunidades de Mateare, Masachapa y San Francisco Libre, julio-septiembre 2016

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    Tesis (Ing. Acuícola)-Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua, LeónEl presente trabajo tiene por objeto caracterizar la pesca artesanal de los sectores de Mateare, Masachapa y San Francisco Libre conforme al censo nacional de pesca y acuicultura llevado a cabo durante los meses de junio a septiembre, aquí se pretende determinar el promedio de edad en que oscilan los pescadores artesanales de las comunidades, el promedio de faena que realizan y relacionar los volúmenes de captura, tiempo de faena e ingreso mensuales de los pescadores de las comunidades. Las edades promedio en que oscilan los pescadores en Mateare es 36 años, Masachapa 31 años y para San Francisco Libre 28 años. En Masachapa vemos que al mes los pescadores faenan en promedio 23 días en temporada alta y 17 en temporada baja, obteniendo un volumen de captura promedio de 7,149.6 lb en temporada alta y 804 lb en temporada baja, generándole un ingreso mensual de C15,512coˊrdobasentemporadaaltayC 15,512 córdobas en temporada alta y C 1,376.4 en temporada baja. Por otra parte, en Mateare vemos que al mes los pescadores faenan en promedio 26 días en temporada alta y baja, obteniendo un volumen de captura promedio de 768.7 lb en temporada alta y 318.1 lb en temporada baja, generándole un ingreso mensual de C6,455.5coˊrdobasentemporadaaltayC 6,455.5 córdobas en temporada alta y C 2,762.2 en temporada baja. En cuanto a San Francisco Libre vemos que al mes los pescadores faenan en promedio 23 días en temporada alta y baja, obteniendo un volumen de captura promedio de 1,322 lb en temporada alta y 534 lb en temporada baja, generándole un ingreso mensual de C6,093coˊrdobasentemporadaaltayC 6,093 córdobas en temporada alta y C 2,116 en temporada bajaUNAN-LEÓ

    Bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) from Yuscarán in Eastern Honduras: Conservation and acoustic characterization for the insectivorous species

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    In Honduras, most bat inventories have been carried out with mist nets as the main sampling method, skewing knowledge towards the Phyllostomidae family, therefore the diversity and distribution of insectivorous bats is underrepresented. In order to have a more complete knowledge of the diversity of bats in the municipality of Yuscarán and mainly in the Yuscarán Biological Reserve, an inventory was carried out using the techniques of mist-netting and acoustic monitoring. The samplings were carried out between 910 and 1,827 m.a.s.l., covering agroecosystems, broadleaf forest, pine forest and urban environment. A total of 32 species of bats were registered, which represents 28% of the species diversity present in Honduras. Species belonging to five families were recorded: Emballonuridae (6.25%), Mormoopidae (15.22%), Phyllostomidae (56.25%), Molossidae (9.37%) and Vespertilionidae (12.5%). With the mist nets, a sampling effort of 7,128 m²/h was reached, which allowed the capture of 20 species and 186 individuals. Through the acoustic method, with 84 h/r, 13 species of insectivorous bats were recorded. The values of the acoustic parameters analysed from the search phase of each insectivorous species are provided, which can serve as a reference for the identification of species from Hondurans. To advance our understanding of the distribution patterns, composition, and vocal signatures of insectivore bats, we suggest the complementary use of mist nets and acoustic recorders in the inventories.</jats:p
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