Experiência de cooperação em Turkana (Kenya). Um olhar enfermeira

Hablar de Cooperación internacional en muchas ocasiones nos genera cierta imagen asociada con conceptos muy alejados de lo que realmente es. Lo que vamos a plasmar en esta experiencia no pretende alarmar, ni crear escenarios manipulados, ni magnificar la pobreza, la falta de recursos o la miseria humana… tan solo pretende ser fiel a una realidad tan lejana y cercana al mismo tiempo como la que narramos. Dos enfermeros y un profesor de la Universidad de Alicante (España) desarrollan en Turkana (Kenia) un proyecto de intervención Comunitaria en la que la participación de la población es el eje de su desarrollo. El principal objetivo de la intervención es la identificación de las principales necesidades de salud y la manera como la población puede responder a ellas de manera autónoma y responsable. El proyecto se inicia con la identificación de los líderes comunitarios a través de los cuales se interviene en la comunidad para iniciar el proceso de educación para la salud que dé respuesta a las necesidades de salud de ésta. Tras casi un año de intervención se han logrado objetivos clave relacionados con la higiene, la alimentación y la atención al embarazo y parto.Speaking of international cooperation on many occasions we generate some associated with concepts far removed from what really is image. What we will capture in this experience it is not intended to alarm or create scenarios manipulated or magnify poverty, lack of resources or human misery ... only pretend to be faithful to reality as far and near at the same time as we tell. Two nurses and a professor at the University of Alicante (Spain) developed in Turkana (Kenya) a draft Community intervention in which public participation is central to its development. The main objective of the intervention is to identify major health needs and how people can respond to them independently and responsibly. The project is initiated by identifying community leaders through whom are involved in the community to begin the process of health education which responds to the health needs of the latter. After almost a year of intervention have been achieved key objectives related to hygiene, nutrition and care during pregnancy and childbirth.Falando da cooperação internacional em muitas ocasiões que gerar algum associado com conceitos muito longe do que realmente é a imagem. O que vamos capturar nesta experiencia que não se destina a criar cenários de alarme ou manipuladas ou ampliar a pobreza, a falta de recursos ou a miséria humana ... só que fingir ser fiel à realidade como longe e de perto, ao mesmo tempo que nós dizemos. Duas enfermeiras e um professor da Universidade de Alicante (Espanha) desenvolvido em Turkana (Kenya) um projecto de interven-ção comunitária em que a participação pública é fundamental para o seu desenvolvimento. O principal objetivo da intervenção é identificar as principais necessidades de saúde e como as pessoas podem responder a eles de forma independente e responsável. O projeto é iniciado através da identificação de líderes comunitários através do qual estão envolvidos na comunidade para iniciar o processo de educação em saúde que responde às necessidades de saúde deste último. Depois de quase um ano de intervenção foram alcançados objectivos fundamentais relacionados à higiene, nutrição e cuidados durante a gravidez eo parto

Campbell Scale for pain assessment in Hospital Emergency Units. The case of Turkana, Kenya

Objetivo: estudiar la viabilidad de una escala de valoración del dolor que contemple rasgos conductuales que ofrezcan al personal sanitario una valoración no solo basada en la interpretación del paciente de su dolor en la zona rural de Turkana (Kenya). Método: se realizó un estudio descriptivo observacional. Se seleccionaron personas de entre 18 y 65 años pertenecientes a la cultura turkana con dolor en situaciones de urgencia, y se dividieron en dos grupos. En el Grupo 1 se aplican la escala visual analógica (EVA) y la escala con caras (FPS), y en el Grupo 2 la escala Campbell. Mediante el índice Spearman se analizó la correlación entre las tres escalas. Resultados: se estudiaron 48 adultos, 32 en el Grupo 1 y 16 en el Grupo 2. Mientras las escalas EVA y FPS mantienen una buena correlación de 0,667 entre ellas, la escala Campbell con cada una de ellas ofrece unos valores de 0,245 y 0,36, respectivamente, por tanto, no parece existir relación entre esta con cada una de las otras. Conclusiones: la valoración con escalas basadas en la asociación de un número o una cara muestran deficiencias, mientras que el resultado de un uso combinado de estas con una escala como la escala Campbell es más satisfactorio.Objective: to study the feasibility of a pain assessment scale that considers behavioural features and that can provide the healthcare staff with an assessment not only based on the interpretation of their pain by patients, in the rural area of Turkana. Method: a descriptive observational study was conducted. People between 18 and 65-year-old were selected, from the Turkana culture, with pain in emergency situations, and they were divided into two groups. For Group 1, the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and the Faces Pain Scale (FPS) were used, while the Campbell Scale was used for Group 2. The correlation between the three scales was analyzed through the Spearman Index. Results: the study included 48 adult patients: 32 in Group 1 and 16 in Group 2. While the VAS and FPS maintained a good 0.667 correlation between them, the Campbell Scale offered values of 0.245 and 0.36 respectively, with each of the other scales; therefore, there did not seem to be an association between this scale and each of the other scales. Conclusions: assessment with scales based on the association with a number or a face will present failures, while the result of a combined use of these scales with a scale such as the Campbell Scale will be more satisfactory

Search for WZ resonances in the fully leptonic channel using pp collisions at s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

A search for resonant WZ production in the ℓνℓ'ℓ' (ℓ,ℓ'=e,μ) decay channel using 20.3 fb-1 of s=8TeV pp collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment at LHC is presented. No significant deviation from the Standard Model prediction is observed and upper limits on the production cross sections of WZ resonances from an extended gauge model W' and from a simplified model of heavy vector triplets are derived. A corresponding observed (expected) lower mass limit of 1.52 (1.49) TeV is derived for the W' at the 95% confidence level.Peer Reviewe

Charged-particle multiplicities in pp interactions at root s=900 GeV measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

22 páginas, 4 figuras, 1 tabla.-- et al.(ATLAS Collaboration).-- arXiv:1003.3124v2The first measurements from proton-proton collisions recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC are presented. Data were collected in December 2009 using a minimum-bias trigger during collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 900 GeV. The charged-particle multiplicity, its dependence on transverse momentum and pseudorapidity. and the relationship between mean transverse momentum and charged-particle multiplicity are measured for events with at least one charged particle in the kinematic range vertical bar eta vertical bar 500 MeV. The measurements are compared to Monte Carlo models of proton-proton collisions and to results from other experiments at the same centre-of-mass energy. The charged-particle multiplicity per event and unit of pseudorapidity eta = 0 is measured to be 1.333 +/- 0.003(stat.) +/- 0.040(syst.), which is 5-15% higher than the Monte Carlo models predict.We are greatly indebted to all CERN’s departments and to the LHC project for their immense efforts not only in building the LHC, but also for their direct contributions to the construction and installation of the ATLAS detector and its infrastructure. All our congratulations go to the LHC operation team for the superb performance during this initial data-taking period. We acknowledge equally warmly all our technical colleagues in the collaborating Institutions without whom the ATLAS detector could not have been built. Furthermore we are grateful to all the funding agencies which supported generously the construction and the commissioning of the ATLAS detector and also provided the computing infrastructure. The ATLAS detector design and construction has taken about fifteen years, and our thoughts are with all our colleagues who sadly could not see its final realisation. We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; Yerevan Physics Institute, Armenia; ARC and DEST, Australia; Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Austria; National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan; State Committee on Science & Technologies of the Republic of Belarus; CNPq and FINEP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC, and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic, and Committee for Collaboration of the Czech Republic with CERN; Danish Natural Science Research Council and the Lundbeck Foundation; European Commission, through the ARTEMIS Research Training Network; IN2P3-CNRS and Dapnia-CEA, France; Georgian Academy of Sciences; BMBF, HGF, DFG and MPG, Germany; Ministry of Education and Religion, through the EPEAEK program PYTHAGORAS II and GSRT, Greece; ISF, MINERVA, GIF, DIP, and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; FOM and NWO, Netherlands; The Research Council of Norway; Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland; GRICES and FCT, Portugal; Ministry of Education and Research, Romania; Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and State Atomic Energy Corporation “Rosatom”; JINR; Ministry of Science, Serbia; Department of International Science and Technology Cooperation, Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic; Slovenian Research Agency, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Slovenia; Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Spain; The Swedish Research Council, The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; State Secretariat for Education and Science, Swiss National Science Foundation, and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; National Science Council, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; The Science and Technology Facilities Council and The Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America.Peer reviewe

Search for direct production of charginos and neutralinos in events with three leptons and missing transverse momentum in √s = 8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

Aad, G. et al.A search for the direct production of charginos and neutralinos in final states with three leptons and missing transverse momentum is presented. The analysis is based on 20.3 fb−1 of s√ = 8 TeV proton-proton collision data delivered by the Large Hadron Collider and recorded with the ATLAS detector. Observations are consistent with the Standard Model expectations and limits are set in R-parity-conserving phenomenological Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Models and in simplified supersymmetric models, significantly extending previous results. For simplified supersymmetric models of direct chargino (χ˜±1) and next-to-lightest neutralino (χ˜02) production with decays to lightest neutralino (χ˜01) via either all three generations of sleptons, staus only, gauge bosons, or Higgs bosons, (χ˜±1) and (χ˜02) masses are excluded up to 700 GeV, 380 GeV, 345 GeV, or 148 GeV respectively, for a massless (χ˜01).We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWF and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF, DNSRC and Lundbeck Foundation, Denmark; EPLANET, ERC and NSRF, European Union; IN2P3-CNRS, CEA-DSM/IRFU, France; GNSF, Georgia; BMBF, DFG, HGF, MPG and AvH Foundation, Germany; GSRT and NSRF, Greece; ISF, MINERVA, GIF, I-CORE and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; FOM and NWO, Netherlands; BRF and RCN, Norway; MNiSW and NCN, Poland; GRICES and FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; MES of Russia and ROSATOM, Russian Federation; JINR; MSTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZˇS, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SER, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; NSC, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey.Peer reviewe

Measurement of the production cross section of prompt J/ψ mesons in association with a W ± boson in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Aad, G. et al.The process pp → W ± J/ψ provides a powerful probe of the production mechanism of charmonium in hadronic collisions, and is also sensitive to multiple parton interactions in the colliding protons. Using the 2011 ATLAS dataset of 4.5 fb−1 of s√ = 7 TeV pp collisions at the LHC, the first observation is made of the production of W ± + prompt J/ψ events in hadronic collisions, using W ± → μν μ and J/ψ → μ + μ −. A yield of 27.4+7.5−6.5 W ± + prompt J/ψ events is observed, with a statistical significance of 5.1σ. The production rate as a ratio to the inclusive W ± boson production rate is measured, and the double parton scattering contribution to the cross section is estimated.We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWF and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF, DNSRC and Lundbeck Foundation, Denmark; EPLANET, ERC and NSRF, European Union; IN2P3-CNRS, CEA-DSM/IRFU, France; GNSF, Georgia; BMBF, DFG, HGF, MPG and AvH Foundation, Germany; GSRT and NSRF, Greece; ISF, MINERVA, GIF, DIP and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; FOM and NWO, Netherlands; BRF and RCN, Norway; MNiSW and NCN, Poland; GRICES and FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; MES of Russia and ROSATOM, Russian Federation; JINR; MSTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZˇS, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SER, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; NSC, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, the Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America.Peer reviewe

Jet energy measurement with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

The jet energy scale (JES) and its systematic uncertainty are determined for jets measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 7 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 38 inverse pb. Jets are reconstructed with the anti-kt algorithm with distance parameters R=0.4 or R=0.6. Jet energy and angle corrections are determined from Monte Carlo simulations to calibrate jets with transverse momenta pt > 20 GeV and pseudorapidities eta 50 GeV after a dedicated correction for this effect. The JES is validated for jet transverse momenta up to 1 TeV to the level of a few percent using several in situ techniques by comparing a well-known reference such as the recoiling photon pt, the sum of the transverse momenta of tracks associated to the jet, or a system of low-pt jets recoiling against a high-pt jet. More sophisticated jet calibration schemes are presented based on calorimeter cell energy density weighting or hadronic properties of jets, providing an improved jet energy resolution and a reduced flavour dependence of the jet response. The JES systematic uncertainty determined from a combination of in situ techniques are consistent with the one derived from single hadron response measurements over a wide kinematic range. The nominal corrections and uncertainties are derived for isolated jets in an inclusive sample of high-pt jets