The eco-social transition in generalist television channels in Spain: Presence and Themes

La transición ecosocial es la transformación de las sociedades hacia modos de vida armónicos con la naturaleza, especialmente en el contexto actual de crisis ecosistémica. Resultan fundamentales en este proceso las dinámicas y rutinas mediáticas relacionadas con la configuración de la agenda setting, avaladas por las teorías del framing y el priming, pudiendo los medios convertirse en un referente inspirador para la sociedad, o por el contrario actuar de parapeto, tal y como asumimos en este artículo. Esta investigación analiza la presencia de temáticas de transición ecosocial en las programaciones y los principales informativos de las cadenas generalistas de televisión con cobertura estatal en España: TVE1, La2, Antena3, Cuatro, Telecinco y LaSexta. El diseño metodológico se basa, por un lado, en el análisis cuantitativo de las parrillas de programación durante cuatro semanas. Por otro lado, se han analizado los informativos de las cadenas citadas, cuantificando aquellas noticias relacionadas con temáticas que puedan favorecer la transición ecosocial, ya sea por poner el enfoque en problemáticas ecosistémicas o por presentar alternativas de la economía circular, entre otros mecanismos. Los resultados muestran que solamente las cadenas públicas difunden programas de tipo ecológico, y en ningún caso esta programación supera el 2% del total de sus parrillas. En relación con la presencia en los informativos de cobertura nacional, no alcanza el 4% de sus contenidos. Esta ínfima incidencia indica que aún queda mucho por hacer. Investigación derivada de la aplicación de Irscom (Indicador de Rentabilidad Social en Comunicación, LabCOMandalucía, Universidad de Málaga) a cadenas de televisión.The Eco-social transition is the transformation of societies towards ways of life in harmony with nature, especially within the context of the current ecosystem crisis. The dynamics and media routines related to the configuration of the agenda setting are fundamental to this process, supported by the theories of framing and priming. In this sense, the media might become an inspiring reference for society or, on the contrary, simply act as a parapet, as we indeed assume in this article. This study analyses the presence of eco-social transition themes in the programming and main news programmes of the general television channels with state coverage in Spain: TVE1, La2, Antena3, Cuatro, Telecinco and LaSexta. The methodological design is based, on the one hand, on the quantitative analysis of the programming schedules for four weeks. On the other hand, the news programmes of the aforementioned channels were analysed, quantifying those pieces of news related to topics that might favour the eco-social transition, either by focusing on ecosystem problems or by presenting circular economy alternatives, among other mechanisms. The results show that only the public channels broadcast ecological programmes, and nowhere does this programming exceed 2% of the total of their programming. In relation to the presence of these topics in the news with national coverage, it does not attain 4% of its content. This minimal incidence indicates that much remains to be done. Research derived from the application of Irscom (Indicator of Social Profitability in Communication, LabCOMandalucía, University of Malaga) to television channels.Investigación enmarcada en la aplicación del IRSCOM (Indicador de Rentabilidad Social en Comunicación, LabCOMandalucía, Universidad de Málaga) a cadenas de televisión: Proyecto UMA18-FEDERJA-187)

Wisconsin card sorting test-learning potential: Usefulness for assessing children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Gómez-Pérez, M. M., Mata, S., Serrano, F., & Calero, M. D. (2020). Wisconsin card sorting test-learning potential: Usefulness for assessing children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 50, 4230-4242, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04488-2 This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04488-2This study analyzes the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test-Learning Potential (WCST-LP) in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) versus children with typical development (TD). Its main aim was to assess: the test’s construct validity; the effect of IQ on its pretest and LP scores; and whether the WCST-LP held any relationship to cognitive/EF and social abili- ties. Participants were 105 children (43 with ASD/62 with TD). Results showed evidence of construct validity in an ASD population (improvements from pretest to posttest), that full IQ influenced pretest performance but did not affect LP, and that a relationship between LP and verbal and social abilities existed only in children with ASD. Conclusions indicate the appropriateness of the WCST-LP in ASD prognosis assessment.The research reported in this paper is funded by the Junta de Andalucía (HUM-129 & HUM-820), and the Research project (Excel- lence call, 2012) [P12-SEJ-560

Facing the Angular Stabilization of Loop-Based Artificial Magnetic Conductors Through Lumped Inductors

2017 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), 11 a 15 de septiembre de 2017, Verona (Italia)This work focuses in achieving the angular stabilization of a square loop-based AMC from a novel approach: by exploring the possibilities of introducing lumped inductors. The study is conducted considering the typical constraints an actual designer has to cope with (concerning limited size and dielectric thickness and properties). As a result, a stable AMC in the 5.8GHz band is obtained, meeting the design requirements. Due to its effectiveness, the novel developed methodology can be directly extended to enhance the angular stability of any loop-based AMC, wide spreading their application

Resolución de problemas interpersonales en niños en exclusión social: Valoración de un programa de entrenamiento

La exclusión social es uno de los mayores desafíos de las sociedades modernas especialmente para una de las poblaciones más afectadas: la infancia. Crecer en ambientes desfavorecidos tiene un impacto negativo en la salud, la educación o el desarrollo cognitivo, emocional y social. Una de las áreas especialmente afectadas en estos niños es la competencia social, entendida como la habilidad del sujeto para enfrentarse a situaciones sociales problemáticas de forma exitosa. Este trabajo se centra en las habilidades de resolución de problemas interpersonales, consideradas componentes fundamentales de la competencia social. El objetivo del estudio ha consistido en determinar si la implementación de un programa de entrenamiento en habilidades de resolución de problemas interpersonales consigue mejorar dichas habilidades en niños en situación de exclusión social a través de un diseño cuasi-experimental pre-post-tratamiento. Los participantes han sido 61 niños de 7 a 12 años de los cuales 34 se sitúan en situación de exclusión. Los resultados muestran mejoras en la habilidad de generar soluciones a los conflictos y en solución de problemas interpersonales. De los resultados se concluye que el programa genera mejoras en las habilidades entrenadas en niños en situación de exclusión. No obstante, se hace necesario seguir investigando el impacto de las intervenciones breves en esta población.Social exclusion is one of the biggest challenges of modern societies especially for one of the most affected populations: children. Growing up in disadvantaged environments has a negative impact on health, education or cognitive, emotional and social development. One area particularly affected in these children is social competence - the subject’s ability to deal with problematic social situations successfully. This work focuses on interpersonal problem-solving skills, which are deemed as being quintessential components of social competence. This paper sought to determine whether the implementation of a training program for solving interpersonal problems improves these skills in children in situation of social exclusion, through a quasi-experimental pre-post-treatment design. Participants were 61 children aged 7-12, of which 34 were situation of exclusion. The results show improvements in the ability to generate solutions to conflicts and in interpersonal problem-solving skills. Based on the results, it can be concluded that the program generates improvements in the skills trained in children in situation of exclusion. Nevertheless, it is necessary to conduct further research on the impact of brief interventions in this population.Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, a través del Proyecto I+D Ref 2011- 24370Junta de Andalucía a través del Proyecto de Excelencia convocatoria de 2012, Ref. P12-SEJ-56

La Familia Telerín: Connected Learning through Transmedia

Nowadays, transmedia storytelling has shaped new ways to produce children’s content, in which the audience has an increasingly active role (Livingstone and Bovill 2013; Cortesi et al. 2015). The fruition of storytelling content through digital media allows to connect it with personal interests and school activitiesas well as to enhance the link between adults and children (Ito et al. 2013; Jenkins, Īto, and boyd 2015). The main goal of this paper is to analyze the new transmedia release of one the most successful and recognized TV cartoons all over Spain and Latin America: La Familia Telerín. Specifically, we want to discover how the cartoon was re-valued by the production company Anima Kitchen, and understand the role that transmedia storytelling played out in this regard. Adopting a digital anthropology approach (Horst and Miller 2012), our findings come from big data, a focus group and through a virtual ethnography. The findings provide us with a clear understanding about how transmedia storytelling supports social values, media skills and learning activities into the everyday life of children

Caracterización del comportamiento ocupacional de personas desplazadas por la violencia

La investigación fue realizada con el fin de caracterizar el comportamiento ocupacional de personas desplazadas por la violencia y corresponde a un estudio social de tipo cualitativo, que analiza las características y cambios  ocupacionales de una población compuesta por cuarenta jefes o cabezas de hogar, entre los que se incluyen hombres y mujeres, ubicados en el barrio Divino Niño en la localidad 19 de Ciudad Bolívar, en Santafé de Bogotá, que han sido desplazados por la violencia de zonas afectadas por el recrudecimiento de la  guerra. El trabajo se dirige a los jefes de hogar, puesto que son éstos quienes poseen y mantienen el rol de proveedor, y por la naturaleza de sus ejecuciones ocupacionales, son los que evidencian con mayor claridad los cambios ocupacionales ocurridos a partir de la experiencia del desplazamiento; sin embargo, sus familias fueron involucradas dentro de determinadas acciones desarrolladas a lo largo de la investigación, con el fin de promover la integración familiar y social y el establecimiento de canales de comunicación entre  comunidad y profesionales, en un proceso mutuo de retroalimentación. Se enumeran los aspectos que enmarcan el fenómeno del desplazamiento, las acciones nacionales e internacionales en la materia, tanto de organismos gubernamentales como no gubernamentales, y la intervención del terapeuta ocupacional en esta temática. A la luz del modelo teórico de la ocupación humana, planteado por Gary Kielhofner, se realizó un análisis detallado de sus componentes, observando la influencia de dicho fenómeno en el bienestar ocupacional de las personas afectadas, en términos de la adquisición de nuevos roles y transformación de patrones de vida, reflejados en su cotidianidad. Se encontró que los procesos ocupacionales de trabajo y tiempo libre presentan marcados cambios a raíz de la experiencia del desplazamiento, y que las consecuencias del evento generan pobres expectativas de vida frente al futuro. Se incluyen recomendaciones con el propósito de profundizaren el estudio de temáticas álgidas acordes con la realidad social del país, y en las cuales el terapeuta ocupacional debe aumentar su participación.The research was made to characterize the occupational behavior of people who migrate beca use of violence. It is a cualitative social study that examines the occupational characteristics and occupational changes of a group of 40 home heads, men and women, in the "Divino Niño" neighborhood, in Ciudad Bolívar, in Santafé de Bogotá, where they migrate because war worsened. The research was focused in home heads beca use they  have and keep the provider role, and, because of their occupational executions, they understand better the occupational changes after the experience of migration; nevertheless, their families took part in several activities, in order to promove the familiar and social integration and establishing communication channels between the community and the professionals, in a feedback process. The aspects of the migration induced by violence, the national and international politics in such matter, and the participation of the occupational therapist, are explained. According to the theoretical model of human occupation (Gary Kielhofner), a detailed analysis about its components, the influence of the migration induced by violence in the occupationl well-beíng of the victims, and the acquisition of new roles were carried out as well as the transformation of lifestyles in their daily lifes. It was observed that the occupational processes of working and free time underwent important changes based upon the experience of migration induced by violence, and its consequences gave rise less life prospects for the future. Sorne suggestions are presented to increase the study of social topics related with the national reality where the occupational therapist must participate actively

A Novel Halophilic Lipase, LipBL, Showing High Efficiency in the Production of Eicosapentaenoic Acid (EPA)

Background: Among extremophiles, halophiles are defined as microorganisms adapted to live and thrive in diverse extreme saline environments. These extremophilic microorganisms constitute the source of a number of hydrolases with great biotechnological applications. The interest to use extremozymes from halophiles in industrial applications is their resistance to organic solvents and extreme temperatures. Marinobacter lipolyticus SM19 is a moderately halophilic bacterium, isolated previously from a saline habitat in South Spain, showing lipolytic activity. Methods and Findings: A lipolytic enzyme from the halophilic bacterium Marinobacter lipolyticus SM19 was isolated. This enzyme, designated LipBL, was expressed in Escherichia coli. LipBL is a protein of 404 amino acids with a molecular mass of 45.3 kDa and high identity to class C b-lactamases. LipBL was purified and biochemically characterized. The temperature for its maximal activity was 80uC and the pH optimum determined at 25uC was 7.0, showing optimal activity without sodium chloride, while maintaining 20% activity in a wide range of NaCl concentrations. This enzyme exhibited high activity against short-medium length acyl chain substrates, although it also hydrolyzes olive oil and fish oil. The fish oil hydrolysis using LipBL results in an enrichment of free eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), but not docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), relative to its levels present in fish oil. For improving the stability and to be used in industrial processes LipBL was immobilized in different supports. The immobilized derivatives CNBr-activated Sepharose were highly selective towards the release of EPA versus DHA. The enzyme is also active towards different chiral and prochiral esters. Exposure of LipBL to buffer-solvent mixtures showed that the enzyme had remarkable activity and stability in all organic solvents tested. Conclusions: In this study we isolated, purified, biochemically characterized and immobilized a lipolytic enzyme from a halophilic bacterium M. lipolyticus, which constitutes an enzyme with excellent properties to be used in the food industry, in the enrichment in omega-3 PUFAs

MEGARA-GTC stellar spectral library – II. MEGASTAR first release

MEGARA is an optical integral field and multi-object fibre-based spectrograph for the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio CANARIAS that offers medium-to-high spectral resolutions (FWHM) of R ≃ 6000, 12 000, 20 000. Commissioned at the telescope in 2017, it started operation as a common-user instrument in 2018. We are creating an instrument-oriented empirical spectral library from MEGARA-GTC stars observations, MEGASTAR, crucial for the correct interpretation of MEGARA data. This piece of work describes the content of the first release of MEGASTAR, formed by the spectra of 414 stars observed with R ≃ 20 000 in the spectral intervals 6420–6790 Å and 8370–8885 Å, and obtained with a continuum average signal-to-noise ratio around 260. We describe the release sample, the observations, the data reduction procedure and the MEGASTAR data base. Additionally, we include in Appendix A an atlas with the complete set of 838 spectra of this first release of the MEGASTAR catalogue.This work has been supported by MINECO-FEDER grants AYA2016-75808-R, AYA2016-79724-C4-3-P, RTI2018-096188-BI00, AYA2017-90589-REDT and has been partially funded by FRACTAL, INAOE, and CIEMAT

Una experiencia de abordaje grupal de conflictos laborales desde los servicios de salud mental.

La experiencia de tratamiento grupal en personas con conflictos laborales, desarrollada en los Centros de Salud Mental del Área 10 de Madrid a través del trabajo con cinco grupos consecutivos, en el periodo comprendido entre 2003 y 200