Decision Tree Ensemble Method for Analyzing Traffic Accidents of Novice Drivers in Urban Areas

Presently, there is a critical need to analyze traffic accidents in order to mitigate their terrible economic and human impact. Most accidents occur in urban areas. Furthermore, driving experience has an important effect on accident analysis, since inexperienced drivers are more likely to suffer fatal injuries. This work studies the injury severity produced by accidents that involve inexperienced drivers in urban areas. The analysis was based on data provided by the Spanish General Traffic Directorate. The information root node variation (IRNV) method (based on decision trees) was used to get a rule set that provides useful information about the most probable causes of fatalities in accidents involving inexperienced drivers in urban areas. This may prove useful knowledge in preventing this kind of accidents and/or mitigating their consequences.his work has been supported by the Spanish “Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad” and by “Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional” (FEDER) under Project TEC2015-69496-R

La renovación de contenidos en asignaturas de comunicación y su impacto en el marco emocional del aprendizaje: un caso de estudio en narrativa audiovisual.

Este artículo analiza las bases y la evolución de la Narrativa Audiovisual como asignatura fundamental de la carrera de comunicación audiovisual. Es el resultado de un proyecto de investigación orientado hacia un replanteamiento general de las asignaturas universitarias, que trata de investigar la docencia y sus resultados, a la vez que pretende introducir un nuevo paradigma centrado en el ser humano. Se analizan los marcos de referencia más habituales y se propone un nuevo planteamiento.This paper analyzes the foundations and evolution of Storytelling as a fundamental subject in Communication university degree programs. It is the result of a research project focused on a general rethinking of university subjects, which is teaching and research results as well as to introduce a new paradigm centered on the human being. The most common reference frames are discussed and a new approach is proposed.post-print337 K

El profesorado de apoyo y las barreras que interfieren en la creación de apoyos educativos inclusivos

The attainment of inclusive educational support requires a common response to diversity for the whole centre, which generates spaces that ensure the presence, participation and socio-educational achievement of all students. The general objective of this study is to analyse how educational support is developed from the framework of action of inclusive education in a territory from the Region of Murcia. For this purpose, a descriptive, non-experimental and mixed research was carried out using a questionnaire in which 23 support teachers participated. The results show a dissociation in the tasks of the support teachers towards the regular classroom, a largely individualised attention outside the regular classroom towards the students who receive support, and a lack of coordination and joint work on the part of the support teachers and the regular classroom teachers. It is concluded that the transformation of the barriers that hinder the establishment of inclusive support systems into facilitators for inclusion, can be determined by the existence of a more flexible curriculum, teacher training in inclusion and the reformulation of teaching roles towards more collaborative profiles.La consecución de apoyos educativos inclusivos precisa de una respuesta a la diversidad común para todo el centro, que genere espacios que aseguren la presencia, la participación y el logro socioeducativo de todos los estudiantes. El objetivo general de este estudio es analizar cómo se desarrolla el apoyo educativo desde el marco de acción de la educación inclusiva en una comarca de la Región de Murcia. Para ello, se llevó a cabo una investigación descriptiva, no experimental y de corte mixto, a través de la utilización de un cuestionario en el que participaron 23 docentes de apoyo. Los resultados evidencian una desvinculación en las tareas del profesorado de apoyo hacia el aula ordinaria, una atención, en gran medida, individualizada y fuera del aula ordinaria hacia el alumnado que recibe apoyo, y una falta de coordinación y trabajo conjunto por parte de los docentes de apoyo y los docentes de aula ordinaria. Se concluye que la transformación de las barreras que dificultan el asentamiento de sistemas de apoyo inclusivo en facilitadores para la inclusión, pueden venir determinadas, por la existencia de un currículo más flexible, la formación docente en inclusión y la reformulación de los roles docentes hacia perfiles más colaborativos

Pomegranate Extract Improves Maximal Performance of Trained Cyclists after an Exhausting Endurance Trial: A Randomised Controlled Trial

The efficacy of pomegranate (Punica granatum) extract (PE) for improving performance and post-exercise recovery in an active population was equivocal in previous studies. In this study, a randomised, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, balanced, cross-over trial with two arms was conducted. Eligibility criteria for participants were as follows: male, amateur cyclist, with a training routine of 2 to 4 sessions per week (at least one hour per session). The cyclists (n = 26) were divided into treatment (PE) and placebo (PLA) groups for a period of 15 days. After physical tests, the groups were exchanged after a 14-day washout period. Exercise tests consisted of endurance bouts (square-wave endurance exercise test followed by an incremental exercise test to exhaustion) and an eccentric exercise drill. The objective was to assess the efficacy of PE in performance outcomes and post-exercise muscular recovery and force restoration after a prolonged submaximal effort. Twenty-six participants were included for statistical analysis. There was a statistically significant difference in total time to exhaustion (TTE)(17.66–170.94 s, p < 0.02) and the time to reach ventilatory threshold 2 (VT2)(26.98–82.55 s, p < 0.001), with greater values for the PE compared to the PLA group. No significant results were obtained for force restoration in the isokinetic unilateral low limb test. PE, after a prolonged submaximal effort, may be effective in improving performance outcomes at maximal effort and might help to restore force in the damaged muscles.Actividad Física y Deport

Oxidative stress status in an institutionalised elderly group after the intake of a phenolic-rich dessert

The present study was supported by a grant from Hero España S.A. M. C. R.-T. and J. L. Q. are recipients of a ‘Ramón y Cajal’ contract from the Ministry of Science and Technology and the University of Granada, Spain. We also thank the Fundacio´n Se´neca of the C.A.R.M. (Murcia, Spain) for the fellowship of J. G.-A.The elderly population undergoes a series of physiological and sociological changes common to old age with a high probability of suffering degenerative illness and malnutrition. A dessert rich in phenolic compounds has been designed by using concentrated juices of grape, cherry, blackberry, blackcurrant and raspberry with the aim of it being used as a complementary food in adulthood. In the present study, we investigated the effect of the intake of this dessert (a jar of 200 g daily for a period of 2 weeks), with an antioxidant activity equivalent to ten servings of fruits and vegetables, on several markers of oxidative and antioxidant status in DNA and plasma in a group of elderly individuals. Non-smoking institutionalised elderly subjects were recruited from a pool of volunteers in an old-age home in Murcia (Spain). Twenty-two subjects (six men and sixteen women) participated in the study. The study was designed as a randomised intervention trial with a period of 2 weeks. At days 1 and 15, blood samples were collected to analyse total antioxidant capacity, biochemical parameters, antioxidant vitamins, LDL peroxidation, and DNA damage in peripheral blood lymphocytes. The conclusion of the present study is that a 2-week intervention with our dessert enriched with natural polyphenol compounds in elderly individuals does not give enough time to find changes in the antioxidant and oxidative status. Also, the view that the marked antioxidant ability of polyphenols in vitro does not translate to analogous effects in vivo was confirmed. Moreover, a highly oxidative stress status during ageing was confirmed, together with the need to perform follow-up nutritional studies to improve this situation

Habilidades psicológicas fundamentales en las Luchas Olímpicas

El presente estudio tiene como objetivo analizar las posibles diferencias en determinadas habilidades psicológicas fundamentales para el rendimiento deportivo en practicantes de luchas olímpicas a nivel competitivo (96 luchadores/ as del programa nacional de tecnificación deportiva en las categorías cadete y juvenil de la Federación Española de Luchas Olímpicas). El estudio examina igualmente la relevancia de las variables sexo del deportista y su nivel competitivo (Élite o Amateur) en dichas diferencias. A través de la aplicación del Inventario Psicológico de Ejecución Deportiva (IPED), adaptación del PPI de Loehr, se obtienen diferencias estadísticamente significativas en Nivel Motivacional, con puntuaciones superiores de las mujeres, y en Autoconfianza donde los luchadores de nivel Élite promedian puntuaciones superiores a los Amateur, tanto en hombres como en mujeres

Establishment and characterization of a sperm bank of Mediterranean seabass Dicentrarchus labrax (L., 1758) stock

Con el objetivo de conservar los recursos genéticos de la lubina Dicentrarchus labrax (L., 1758), se ha creado un banco de esperma con 42 machos de una población mediterránea. Se determinaron las características del esperma –concentración, motilidad y duración de la activación– que resultaron adecuadas para la fertilización artificial. La variabilidad genética de las lubinas procedentes del medio natural fue analizada mediante un conjunto de 10 loci microsatélites. A partir del genotipo de estos marcadores se obtuvo la huella de ADN de cada individuo con fines de identificación y estudios de paternidad. El análisis conjunto de todos los individuos permitió determinar los registros de las variables genéticas de este grupo. Los resultados muestran unos niveles altos de variabilidad genética representativos de una población natural y acentúan la importancia de este grupo como reservorio de esta especie en términos genéticosWith the aim of the conservation of the genetic resources of the European seabass Dicentrarchus labrax (L., 1758), a sperm bank of 42 males from a Mediterranean population has been established. The sperm characteristics –concentration, motility and duration of fertility– were assessed, and they proved suitable for artificial fertilization. The genetic structure of the original seabass broodstock from the wild was assessed by means of a set of 10 microsatellites. These genotype markers make it possible to obtain genetic fingerprinting from each individual for identification purposes. The population structure and genetic variability parameters found agree with those of natural populations from the same species, confirming its wild origin and enhancing its value as a genetic resource for the species in terms of genetic variabilityInstituto Español de Oceanografía. El proyecto RZ03-022 en el que se enmarca este trabajo ha sido financiado por el Programa Nacional de Recursos y Tecnologías Agroalimentarias, del Plan Nacional I+D+i del MCY

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Papel actual del acetato de ulipristal en el tratamiento de los síntomas asociados a los miomas uterinos. [Current role of ulipristal acetate in the management of uterine fibroids.]

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