El Centro Psicológico Salesiano “Dr. P. Emilio Gambirasio”

El 11 de noviembre del 2007, luego de que el Centro Psicológico Salesiano (CPS) cumpliera un aniversario más de trabajo, he considerado conveniente sistematizar las actividades realizadas, los logros alcanzados y sus proyecciones futuras en el momento de dejar su Dirección

Challenges of Pluralistic Societies with Dissimilar Cultural Identities and Religious Legal Traditions: ADR and the Role of Religious Mediation and Arbitration

Summary: 1. The Challenges of Pluralistic Societies with Dissimilar Cultural Identities and Religious Traditions: from a Melting Pot to a Cultural Mosaic - 2. European Catholic Tradition of Dual Legislation and Jurisdiction: 2.1. The Development of the Religious Jurisdiction: from the Episcopalis Audientia under the Christian Roman Empire to the Homologation of Religious Decisions by a Civil Judge – 2.2. The Development of Secular and Religious Jurisdictions: from the Leges Barbarorum et Romanorum under the Principle of Personality to the Medieval Dual Jurisdiction in Europe – 2.3. Religious Minorities under Christian Rulers – 3. Muslim Legal Tradition of Plural Jurisdictions: 3.1. Muslim Empires and the Dhimma System – 3.2. Islamic Communities in Transition: from the Pre-colonial Era to the Colonial Rule – 3.3. The Exceptionality of Palestine and Israel- 4. Toward a Global World: Legal Pluralism and the Development of ADR. The Role of Religious Mediation and Arbitration: 4.1. The American Experience in Religious Arbitration: the Jewish Beth Din Courts and the Challenge of Islamic Arbitration – 4.2. Confronting the Fear of Islamic Arbitration Tribunals in the UK, Canada, and Australia - 5. Conclusions.Abstract: Most of juridical systems are historically developed from the interaction of two main legal principles: the principle of personality and the principle of territoriality. Roman Law is one of the best examples of it; its legacy channeled the growth and coexistence of religious and secular jurisdictions in the Germanic kingdoms of Western Europe. Under the principle of personality of laws, bonding individuals to their cultural or religious communities, legal pluralism was the common grounds from the Antiquity to the pre-Modern era. However, as a result of the religious wars in the Holy Roman Empire between Catholics and Protestants in the 16th and the 17th centuries, the Westphalian state model reinforced a territorial religious jurisdiction under the principle cuius regio eius religio, allowing the ruler to impose his religion on his subjects. The Muslim legal tradition developed, as well, plural juridical systems from the Dhimma System. One of them was the Ottoman Millet system that was adapted from the colonial era to the most of Middle East nation-states as a bonding personal religious law applied to non-Muslim communities. The secular paradigm of the Rule of Law, centralizing and reinforcing state and federal legislative powers, is implemented in Europe and her former colonies in the 19th century under the nation-state constitutional model, expanding worldwide the principles of territoriality and citizenship. As a result, religious legal systems are progressively confined to the private sphere. However, the secular paradigm is confronted gradually by a new development of legal pluralism, mainly as an effect of an extensive increment of global migrations; Halakha or Jewish Law, Canon Law or Catholic Law, Sharia or Islamic Law, are gaining strength as formal or informal religious ADR under the principle of Religious Freedom. Religious legal systems are becoming an innovative tool of mediation, conciliation, and arbitration accepted by some secular jurisdictions around the world, although there is a polarized debate about it. In today´s global world, which are the lessons to be learned from legal traditions and contemporary models of legal pluralism? Can religious legal systems become a tool of mediation for restorative justice preventing and exiting from violence? This article addresses this juridical and social challenge from an interdisciplinary comparative analysis

The influence of environmental distraction on cognitive abilities in ADL performance after frontal brain injured.

Background: Previous studies have reported errors in Activities of Daily Living (ADL) under the presence of distracting objects in dementia and brain injury patients. However, little is known about which distractor-target objects relation might be more harmful for performance. Method: We compared the ADL execution in frontal brain injured patients and control participants under two conditions: One in which target objects were mixed with distractor objects that constituted an alternative semantically related but non-required task (contextual condition) and another in which target objects were mixed with related but isolated distractors that did not constituted a coherent task (non-contextual condition). We separately analyzed ADL commission errors (repetitions, substitutions, objects manipulations, failures in sequence, extra actions) and omissions. In addition, the participants were evaluated with a neuropsychological protocol including a very specific executive functions task (Selective attention, Stimulus-Stimulus and Stimulus-Response conflict). Results: We found that frontal patients produced more commission errors compared to control participants, but only under the contextual condition. No between groups significant differences were found in omissions in both conditions or commission errors in non-contextual conditions. Scores in the Stimulus-Response conflict was significantly correlated with commission errors in the contextual condition. Conclusion: The presence of different non-target objects in ADL performance could require different cognitive process. Contextual ADL conditions required a higher level of executive functions, especially at the level of response (Stimulus-Response conflict). Application to Practice: Occupational therapists should control the presence of objects related to the target task according to the intervention objectives with the patients.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Eficacia de los tratamientos para el sobrepeso y obesidad en adolescentes

Trabajo fin de grado en EnfermeríaINTRODUCCIÓN: El sobrepeso y la obesidad infanto-juvenil son unos de los problemas de salud pública más graves del siglo XXI, sin embargo los estudios que abarcan diferentes tratamientos para solucionar este problema tienen resultados dispares con falta de uniformidad en población escogida y variables estudiadas. OBJETIVO: Analizar la eficacia de los diferentes tratamientos de la obesidad y el sobrepeso en la población adolescente de 10 a 14 años. METODOLOGÍA: Revisión narrativa. Se utilizaron las bases de datos PubMed, CINALH, CUIDEN, Cochrane library y otras fuentes como el Ministerio de Sanidad y la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS). Se realizó una revisión de los artículos publicados en inglés y español, de los últimos 5 años, que cumplieron los criterios de inclusión y exclusión. También se revisaron las referencias de los artículos seleccionados. RESULTADOS: Se revisaron 23 artículos. Las intervenciones para abordar la obesidad y sobrepeso infantil hacen hincapié en la dieta, el ejercicio y la terapia cognitivo conductual (TCC) o combinando todas ellas. Se pueden realizar de manera individual con el niño y la niña o incluyendo a la familia. En todas ellas se obtienen resultados variables más o menos destacables no solo en el peso del niño y la niña que disminuyó entre 0.01% y 8.7%, sino en el IMC-z que se redujo entre 0.001 y 5, el perímetro de la cintura (PC) entre un 0.001% y un 4%, perfil lipídico, LDL 30 ± 28.3 y el colesterol total 35± 31.7, resistencia a la insulina que descendió un punto del índice glucémico e incluso cambios en los hábitos de vida del adolescente. CONCLUSIONES: El tratamiento misceláneo, el cual abarca todas las esferas de intervención (dieta saludable, ejercicio y TCC) en el ámbito familiar es el más eficaz para conseguir una disminución notable del peso, ya que facilita cambios tanto a corto como a largo plazo además de mejorar los problemas que conlleva el sobrepeso y/o la obesidad.BACKGROUND: Child and teenager overweight and obesity are one of the most public health serious problems in the twenty-first century, however studies about different treatments to solve this problem have mixed results with lack of uniformity in target population and variables studied. OBJECTIVE: Analyzing the effectiveness of different treatments for adolescent obesity in teenagersfrom10 to 14 years old. METHODOLOGY: Narrative review. Databases such as PubMed, CINALH, CUIDEN and other sources like El Ministerio de Sanidad and World Health Organization (WHO), were revised. A review of the articles published in English and Spanish, during the last 5 years, where the inclusion and exclusion criteria was performed. References of selected articles were also reviewed. RESULTS: 23 articles were reviewed. Interventions to address children obesity and overweight emphasize in diet, exercise and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) or a combination of all of them. They can be carried out individually or along with the family. All of them have more or less remarkable results not only in the child's weight which decreased between 0.01% and 8.7%, also in BMI-z which decreased from 0.001 to 5, in waist circumference (WC) between 0.001% and 4%, lipid profile, LDL 30 ± 28.3 and total cholesterol 35± 31.7, insulin resistance decreased one point in glycemic index and even changes in life styles. CONCLUSIONS: Multimodal treatment, which includes all intervention’s areas (healthy diet, exercise and CBT) family based is the most effective way to get a significant weight decrease, because it makes easier short and long term changes. Besides, it improves overweight and obesity consequences

Subwavelength grating bimodal waveguide for refractive index sensing

[EN] Periodic subwavelength structures supporting two TE modes are presented as high performance sensors with bulk and surface sensitivities of 1375.5nm/RIU and 6.138nm/nm, respectively. A complete theoretical study is provided by numerical expressions and FDTD simulations.Torrijos-Morán, L.; García-Rupérez, J. (2019). Subwavelength grating bimodal waveguide for refractive index sensing. OSA Publishing. 1-2. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/177803S1

Single-channel bimodal interferometric sensor using subwavelength structures

© 2019 Optical Society of America. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic reproduction and distribution, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modifications of the content of this paper are prohibited.[EN] A novel configuration of photonic sensors based on a single-channel bimodal interferometer is proposed. The design consists of a subwavelength grating (SWG) periodic structure supporting two dispersive TE-like modes that interfere at the output to create fringes in the transmission spectrum. Dispersion relations of the bimodal periodic structures have been computed in order to study the sensing performance, obtaining a theoretical bulk sensitivity of ~1300nm/RIU and a surface sensitivity of ~6.1nm/nm. 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Design of slow-light-enhanced bimodal interferometers using dimensionality reduction techniques

[EN] Interferometers usually require long paths for the ever-increasing requirements of high-performance operation, which hinders the miniaturization and integration of photonic circuits into very compact devices. Slow-light based interferometers provide interesting advantages in terms of both compactness and sensitivity, although their optimization is computationally costly and inefficient, due to the large number of parameters to be simultaneously designed. Here we propose the design of slow-light-enhanced bimodal interferometers by using principal component analysis to reduce the high-dimensional design space. A low-dimensional hyperplane containing all optimized designs is provided and investigated for changes in the silicon core and cladding refractive index. As a result, all-dielectric single-channel interferometers as modulators of only 33 mu m(2) footprint and sensors with 19.2 x 10(3) 2 pi rad/RIU.cm sensitivity values are reported and validated by 2 different simulation methods. This work allows the design and optimization of slow light interferometers for different applications by considering several performance criteria, which can be extended to other photonic structures. (C) 2021 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing AgreementEuropean Commission (FEDER Valencia Regional Government 2014-2020); Spanish Government (PID2019-106965RBC21-PHOLOW); Generalitat Valenciana (ACIF/2019/009, AVANTI/2019/123, PPC/2020/037)Torrijos-Morán, L.; García-Rupérez, J. (2021). Design of slow-light-enhanced bimodal interferometers using dimensionality reduction techniques. Optics Express. 29(21):33962-33975. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.425865S3396233975292

Comments on “Efficacy and safety assessment of acupuncture and nimodipine to treat mild cognitive impairment after cerebral infarction: a randomized controlled trial"

Carta el editor de BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, en la que los autores muestran los resultados de aplicar apucuntura y nimodipina en el tratamiento del deterioro cognitivo leve en personas que han sufrido un infarto cerebral.Letter from the editor of BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, in which the authors show the results of applying apuncture and nimodipine in the treatment of mild cognitive impairment in people who have suffered a cerebral infarction.peerReviewe

College Graduation work in Spain and Cuba: Comparative analysis in Studies of Humanities

Pretendemos mostrar aquí los resultados de la investigación comparada realizada al modelo real de Trabajos Fin de Grado y Trabajos de Diploma presentados en el curso 2012-2013 en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Oviedo y en la Facultad de Humanidades de la Universidad de Oriente. Una investigación centrada en un primer paso en comparar los modelos de ambos sistemas educativos y localizar los puntos comunes para a partir de ellos poder formular en el futuro sendos modelos informatizados aplicables para cada uno de ambos sistemas.The paper wants to show the results of comparative research on the actual model of Final Graduation Works presented during 2012-2013 in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Oviedo and the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Oriente. The research is based on a first step in comparing the educational systems of both models and find common points. And the final objetive will be, in the future, get two separate computer models applicable for each one of the two systems

Comment on "Assessment of bone mineral density in male patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by DXA and quantitative computed tomography"

Valoración de los datos de la tabla 2, del trabajo "Assessment of bone mineral density in male patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by DXA and quantitative computed tomography", publicado en 2016. Esta precisión se hace por los profesores del Departamento de Enfermería, de la Universidad de ExtremaduraAssessment of the data in Table 2, from the work "Assessment of bone mineral density in male patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by DXA and quantitative computed tomography", published in 2016. This precision is done by the professors of the Department of Nursing, the University of ExtremadurapeerReviewe