Diagnóstico diferencial de las enfermedades prostáticas

Este trabajo incluye una revisión de los métodos de diagnóstico de las enfermedades prostáticas; además describe cómo podemos distinguir entre cada una de ellas, dependiendo del método de diagnóstico utilizado.This paper reviews the prostatic pathologies diagnosis methods; it also describes the way we can distinguish between each one depending on the one we use

Adaptación de la observación fenológica de AEMET a las recomendaciones de la acción Cost725 y la OMM

Ponencia presentada en: XXXIV Jornadas Científicas de la AME y el XVII Encuentro Hispano Luso de Meteorología celebrado en Teruel, del 29 de febrero al 2 de marzo de 2016

Acoustically penetrable sonic crystals based on fluid-like scatterers

We propose a periodic structure that behaves as a fluid fluid composite for sound waves, where the building blocks are clusters of rigid scatterers. Such building-blocks are penetrable for acoustic waves, and their properties can be tuned by selecting the filling fraction. The equivalence with a fluid fluid system of such a doubly periodic composite is tested analytical and experimentally. Because of the fluid-like character of the scatterers, sound structure interaction is negligible, and the propagation can be described by scalar models, analogous to those used in electromagnetics. As an example, the case of focusing of evanescent waves and the guided propagation of acoustic waves along an array of penetrable elements is discussed in detail. The proposed structure may be a real alternative to design a low contrast and acoustically penetrable medium where new properties as those shown in this work could be experimentally realized.We acknowledge financial support by Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad and European Union FEDER through project FIS2011-29731-C02-01 and -02. VRG is grateful for the financial support of the post-doctoral grant from the "Pays de la Loire". ACR is grateful for the support of the Programa de Ayudas e Iniciativas de Investigacin (PAID) of the UPV.Cebrecos Ruiz, A.; Romero García, V.; Picó Vila, R.; Sánchez Morcillo, VJ.; Botey, M.; Herrero, R.; Cheng, YC.... (2015). Acoustically penetrable sonic crystals based on fluid-like scatterers. Journal of Physics D-Applied Physics. 48(2):25501-25510. https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/48/2/025501S255012551048

Phenological behaviour of early spring flowering trees in Spain in response to recent climate changes.

This research reports the phenological trends of four early spring and late winter flowering trees in Spain (south Europe) from a recent period (1986-2012). The studied species were deciduous trees growing in different climatic areas: hazel (Corylus avellana L.), willow (Salix alba L.), ash (Fraxinus angustifolia Vahl.) and white mulberry (Morus alba L.). We analysed the response to climate and the trends of the following phenophases observed at the field: budburst, leaf unfolding, flowering, fruit ripening, fruit harvesting, leaf colour change and leaf-fall. The study was carried out in 17 sampling sites in the country with the aim of detecting the recent phenological response to the climate of these species, and the possible effect of climate change. We have observed differences in the phenological response to climate depending on each species. Sixty-one percent of studied sites suffered an advance of early spring phenophases, especially budburst on average by -0.67 days and flowering on average by -0.15 days during the studied period, and also in the subsequent fruit ripening and harvesting phases on average by -1.06 days. By contrast, it has been detected that 63% of sampling sites showed a delay in autumn vegetative phases, especially leaf-fall events on average by +1.15 days. The statistic correlation analysis shows in the 55% of the studied localities that phenological advances are the consequence of the increasing trend detected for temperature-being minimum temperature the most influential factor-and in the 52% of them, phenological advances occurred by rainfall variations. In general, leaf unfolding and flowering from these species showed negative correlations in relation to temperature and rainfall, whereas that leaf colour change and leaf-fall presented positive correlations. The results obtained have a great relevance due to the fact that they can be considered as reliable bio-indicators of the impact of the recent climate changes in southern Europe