The canarian nationalism and the insularismo of Tenerife during the democratic transition

El proceso transicional del estado dictatorial franquista hacia la democracia española permitió, tras la promulgación del texto constitucional del 1978, que la prensa, como vehículo informativo esencial y como conformadora de la opinión pública, sufriera una lenta pero imparable transformación hacia la pluralidad ideológica, y revivieran las tendencias nacionalistas pero, sobre todo, las insularistas de las islas capitalinas. Durante la dictadura, limitados por la Ley de Prensa de 1938, los medios se convierten en bocas de salida de un mismo mensaje, aquel que no era censurado por la dictadura, el que preconizaba con la nación unida, grande y libre. La transición supone, de facto, el inicio de la transformación de la prensa española porque, a pesar de que desde 1966 se contaba con una nueva ley de prensa que daba muestras de cierta libertad de información, esta seguía contando con un régimen sancionador feroz. Para corroborar la hipótesis planteada, la presente comunicación, recoge los principales rasgos obtenidos de una análisis pormenorizado y exhaustivo de una serie de hitos y acontecimientos relevantes para la sociedad tinerfeña en la prensa de la provincia durante el proceso transicional, teniendo en cuenta las peculiaridades informativas de los medios canarios.The transitional process from the Francisco Franco’s dictatorship towards Spanish democracy allowed, after the promulgation of the constitutional text of 1978, that the press, as an essential news medium and as a shaper of public opinion, suffered a slow but unstoppable transformation towards the ideological plurality, and revive the nationalist tendencies but, above all, the insularism of the capital islands. During the dictatorship, limited by the Press Law of 1938, the media became mere spokesmen of the same message, the one that was not censored by the dictatorship, the one that encouraged a “united, great and free” nation. The transition represents, de facto, the beginning of the transformation of the Spanish press because, despite the fact that since 1966 there was a new Press Law that showed signs of a certain freedom of information, it continued to have a strong penalty system. To corroborate the proposed hypothesis, this communication collects the main features obtained from a detailed and exhaustive analysis of a series of milestones and relevant events for Tenerife society reported in the province’s press during the transitional process, taking into account the informative peculiarities of the Canary Islands media. KEYWORDS Insularismo, press, democratic transition, Canary Island

International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortiu (INICC) report, data summary of 43 countries for 2007-2012. Device-associated module

We report the results of an International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) surveillance study from January 2007-December 2012 in 503 intensive care units (ICUs) in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe. During the 6-year study using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) U.S. National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) definitions for device-associated health care–associated infection (DA-HAI), we collected prospective data from 605,310 patients hospitalized in the INICC's ICUs for an aggregate of 3,338,396 days. Although device utilization in the INICC's ICUs was similar to that reported from ICUs in the U.S. in the CDC's NHSN, rates of device-associated nosocomial infection were higher in the ICUs of the INICC hospitals: the pooled rate of central line–associated bloodstream infection in the INICC's ICUs, 4.9 per 1,000 central line days, is nearly 5-fold higher than the 0.9 per 1,000 central line days reported from comparable U.S. ICUs. The overall rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia was also higher (16.8 vs 1.1 per 1,000 ventilator days) as was the rate of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (5.5 vs 1.3 per 1,000 catheter days). Frequencies of resistance of Pseudomonas isolates to amikacin (42.8% vs 10%) and imipenem (42.4% vs 26.1%) and Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates to ceftazidime (71.2% vs 28.8%) and imipenem (19.6% vs 12.8%) were also higher in the INICC's ICUs compared with the ICUs of the CDC's NHSN

Search for Higgs and ZZ Boson Decays to J/ψγJ/\psi\gamma and Υ(nS)γ\Upsilon(nS)\gamma with the ATLAS Detector

A search for the decays of the Higgs and $Z$ bosons to $J/\psi\gamma$ and $\Upsilon(nS)\gamma$ ($n=1,2,3$) is performed with $pp$ collision data samples corresponding to integrated luminosities of up to $20.3\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$ collected at $\sqrt{s}=8\mathrm{TeV}$ with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. No significant excess of events is observed above expected backgrounds and 95% CL upper limits are placed on the branching fractions. In the $J/\psi\gamma$ final state the limits are $1.5\times10^{-3}$ and $2.6\times10^{-6}$ for the Higgs and $Z$ bosons, respectively, while in the $\Upsilon(1S,2S,3S)\,\gamma$ final states the limits are $(1.3,1.9,1.3)\times10^{-3}$ and $(3.4,6.5,5.4)\times10^{-6}$, respectively

Finska tingsdomares bedömningar av partsutlåtanden givna på plats i rätten eller via videokonferens

Professionals within the judicial system sometimes believe they can assess whether someone is lying or not based on cues such as body language and emotional expression. Research has, however, shown that this is impossible. The Finnish Supreme Court has also given rulings in accordance with this demonstrated fact. There has also been previous research on whether party or witness statements are assessed differently in court depending on whether they are given live, via videoconference, or via prerecorded video. In the present study, we investigated how a Finnish sample of district judges (N=47) assigned probative value to different variables concerning the statement or the statement giver, such as body language and emotional expression. We also investigated the connection between the judges’ beliefs about the relevance of body language and emotional expression and their preference for live statements or statements via videoconference. The judges reported assigning equal amounts of probative value to statements given live and statements given via videoconference. However, judges found it easier to detect deception live, and this preference correlated with how relevant they thought body language is when assessing the probative value of the statement. In other words, a slight bias to assess live statements more favorably than statements given via videoconference might still exist. More effort needs to be put into making judges and Supreme Courts aware of robust scientific results that have been the subject of decades of research, such as the fact that one cannot assess whether someone is lying or not based on cues such as body language

Search for Scalar-Charm pair production in pp collisions at s=8\sqrt{s}=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The results of a dedicated search for pair production of scalar partners of charm quarks are reported. The search is based on an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb$^{-1}$ of pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The search is performed using events with large missing transverse momentum and at least two jets, where the two leading jets are each tagged as originating from c-quarks. Events containing isolated electrons or muons are vetoed. In an R-parity-conserving minimal supersymmetric scenario in which a single scalar-charm state is kinematically accessible, and where it decays exclusively into a charm quark and a neutralino, 95% confidence-level upper limits are obtained in the scalar-charm-neutralino mass plane such that, for neutralino masses below 200 GeV, scalar-charm masses up to 490 GeV are excluded