The safe administration of medication within the electromagnetic scenarios of the Internet of Things (IoT): looking towards the future

This paper has focused on analyzing the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to prevent or reduce errors during therapeutic drug administration. The methodology used has included scientific literature and marketed appliances reviews and laboratory tests on radiant devices. The role of the patient has been analyzed, both in terms of compliance with the prescribed treatments and user of technical solutions designed for administering medication. In addition, it has taken into account, how a future characterized by multiple technologies designed to support our daily routines, including health care, might affect the current model of relationship between health professionals and patients. Particular attention has been given to safety risks of ICTs in environments characterized by concurrent electromagnetic emissions operating at different frequencies. Implications and new scenarios from Internet of Things or IoT, have been considered, in light of the approach taken jointly by the European Commission and the European Technology Platform on Intelligent Systems Integration – EPoSS, in their 2008 report Internet of Things in 2020: a roadmap for the future, and how the concept has evolved since then.Chapter 1. Adverse drug events. Chapter 2. ICTs in everyday life and healthcare. Chapter 3. the challenge of electromagnetic safety. Chapter 4. ICTs in health care and in the prevention of medication errors: IoT. Chapter 5. A more effective and safer alternative approach. Chapter 6. Technological proposal 7. Conclusions.N

Spain in the international urban networks around the First World War

The neutrality of Spain during First World War brought with it a significant economic growth. Then, Spain timidly joined the town planning forums of meetings, debates and exchanges that took place in the post-war European era. Some Spanish public institutions as the Instituto de Reformas Sociales, responsible for the social housing policy, and the City Councils of Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao, which tried to order their development; private institutions such as the Compañía Madrileña de Urbanización, promoter of the Madrid Linear City by Arturo Soria, and the Civic Society Ciudat Jardí in Barcelona, diffuser of the Garden City movement in Catalonia; and the first Town Planning Professor in the School of Architecture of Madrid, César Cort, attended different congresses looking for a solution to the housing problem along with the town planning extension issue. The aim of this paper is to show the Spanish town planners and technicians who participated in the international urban networks in order to consolidate the Spanish urbanism through the new technical, theoretical and legal tools that were being implemented in Europe. They also attended to proudly show some Spanish advances

A multilayered graph-based framework to explore behavioural phenomena in social media conversations

Objective: Social media is part of current health communications. This research aims to delve into the effects of social contagion, biased assimilation, and homophily in building and changing health opinions on social media. Materials and methods:Conversations about COVID-19 vaccination on English and Spanish Twitter are the case studies. A new multilayered graph-based framework supports the integrated analysis of content similarity within and across posts, users, and conversations to interpret contrasting and confluent user stances. Deep learning models are applied to infer stance. Graph centrality and homophily scores support the interpretation of information reproduction. Results: The results show that semantically related English posts tend to present a similar stance about COVID-19 vaccination (rstance = 0.51) whereas Spanish posts are more heterophilic (rstance = 0.38). Neither case showed evidence of homophily regarding user influence or vaccine hashtags. Graph filters for Pfizer and Astrazeneca with a similarity threshold of 0.85 show stance homophily in English scenarios (i.e. rstance = 0.45 and rstance = 0.58, respectively) and small homophily in Spanish scenarios (i.e. r = 0.12 and r = 0.3, respectively). Highly connected users are a minority and are not socially influential. Spanish conversations showed stance homophily, i.e. most of the connected conversations promote vaccination (rstance = 0.42), whereas English conversations are more likely to offer contrasting stances. Conclusion: The methodology proposed for quantifying the impact of natural and intentional social behaviours in health information reproduction can be applied to any of the main social platforms and any given topic of conversation. Its effectiveness was demonstrated by two case studies describing English and Spanish demographic and sociocultural scenarios.Agencia Estatal de Investigación | Ref. PID2020-113673RB-I00Xunta de Galicia | Ref. ED431C2018/55-GRCFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia | Ref. UIDB/04469/2020Universidade de Vigo/CISU

Optimism and pessimism analysis using deep learning on COVID-19 related twitter conversations

Financiado para publicación en acceso aberto: Universidade de Vigo/CISUGThis paper proposes a new deep learning approach to better understand how optimistic and pessimistic feelings are conveyed in Twitter conversations about COVID-19. A pre-trained transformer embedding is used to extract the semantic features and several network architectures are compared. Model performance is evaluated on two new, publicly available Twitter corpora of crisis-related posts. The best performing pessimism and optimism detection models are based on bidirectional long- and short-term memory networks. Experimental results on four periods of the COVID-19 pandemic show how the proposed approach can model optimism and pessimism in the context of a health crisis. There is a total of 150,503 tweets and 51,319 unique users. Conversations are characterised in terms of emotional signals and shifts to unravel empathy and support mechanisms. Conversations with stronger pessimistic signals denoted little emotional shift (i.e. 62.21% of these conversations experienced almost no change in emotion). In turn, only 10.42% of the conversations laying more on the optimistic side maintained the mood. User emotional volatility is further linked with social influence.Xunta de Galicia | Ref. ED431C2018/55-GRCMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovación | Ref. PID2020–113673RB-I00Xunta de Galicia y European Regional Development Fund | Ref. ED431G2019/06Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia | Ref. UIDB/04469/202

Expansión Residencial Periurbana de la Zona Metropolitana de Toluca: Caso de Estudio Calimaya, Chapultepec y San Antonio la Isla en el Periodo 1990-2015

Además, guiada por el interés en las problemáticas territoriales resultantes de la expansión urbana de la Zona Metropolitana de Toluca, particularmente en los municipios de Calimaya, Chapultepec y San Antonio la Isla, en la presente tesis se profundiza en el proceso de expansión residencial en áreas periurbanas desde 1990 a la actualidad, en particular a través del análisis del desarrollo de conjuntos urbanos para sectores sociales altos, medios y de interés social derivados de las políticas de vivienda y sus tendencias.La presente Tesis constituye la culminación del Doctorado en Urbanismo de la Facultad de Planeación Urbana y Regional de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, desarrollada a través de una Beca Doctoral del CONACyT. Esta resulta una instancia significativa en el proceso de formación académica e investigación, en la cual se intenta capitalizar los conocimientos adquiridos acerca del territorio con la finalidad de lograr una visión integradora de su complejidad, organización y ordenamiento

Teamwork Competence Professor s Self-Assessment, a Study Case in the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

Teamwork Competence Professors Self-Assessment, a Study Case in the Universidad Politecnica de Madri

Influencia del Subsistema de Aprovisionamiento de Recursos Humanos en el Desempeño Laboral de los trabajadores de la Empresa Alternativa Constructiva (ALCONS) Del Municipio de Matagalpa, año 2015

La temática abordada en esta investigación trata acerca de “el Sistema de Administración de Recursos Humanos y el Subsistema de Aprovisionamiento aplicado en las empresas del Municipio de Matagalpa, año 2015, enfocándose en la influencia del Subsistema de Aprovisionamiento de Recursos Humanos en el Desempeño Laboral de los trabajadores de Ferretería ALCONS del Municipio de Matagalpa año 2015. Esta investigación se realiza con el propósito de conocer cómo se aplica el proceso de Aprovisionamiento y como está influenciado en el Desempeño de los trabajadores de Ferretería ALCONS del Municipio de Matagalpa, año 2015. El estudio será de gran importancia para Ferretería ALCONS, ya que le permitirá realizar mejoras en cuanto al ingreso de personal a la organización, y contar con talentos humanos capacitados y con conocimientos acorde al cargo para que de esta manera la empresa mejore su productividad y obtenga el éxito deseado. Al mismo tiempo conocer los factores que afectan el desempeño de los empleados. Se considera necesario que la empresa preste mayor atención al proceso de Aprovisionamiento de personal, ya que la empresa está obviando parcialmente este paso tan importante para la organización, y esto se logró comprobar puesto que no hay un Departamento de Recursos Humanos que esté al pendiente, del elemento más importante para toda empresa, como lo es el trabajador. Esta actitud es considerada un factor negativo para la productividad de la empresa ya que no se conoce a profundidad sobre el individuo, es decir el trabajador pueda que no cumpla los requisitos para el puesto, más sin embargo esta en el puest

NuFIT: Three-Flavour Global Analyses of Neutrino Oscillation Experiments

In this contribution, we summarise the determination of neutrino masses and mixing arising from global analysis of data from atmospheric, solar, reactor, and accelerator neutrino experiments performed in the framework of three-neutrino mixing and obtained in the context of the NuFIT collaboration. Apart from presenting the latest status as of autumn 2021, we discuss the evolution of global-fit results over the last 10 years, and mention various pending issues (and their resolution) that occurred during that period in the global analyses

Soft Skills: A Comparative Analysis Between Online and Classroom Teaching

Currently the Spanish universities are making a great effort to effectively incorporate the development and assessment of generic skills in their training programs. Information and communications technologies (ICT) offer a wide range of possibilities but create uncertainty among teachers about the process and results. It is considered of interest to conduct a study to analyze the extent to which social skills like commitment, communication and teamwork are acquired by students and teachers. It seeks to ascertain the influence of the learning context, online or classroom training, in the development of these personal skills among the participants in the sample. For this study two universities have been chosen, Universidad a Distancia de Madrid (UDIMA) offering online training environment, and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) with classroom training modality. A total of 257 individuals, 230 students and 27 teachers have answered the survey called Evalsoft. This instrument was designed in the project with the same name by a research team from Universidad Complutense of Madrid (UCM). Some interesting conclusions can be highlighted: it is in the online context where there are higher levels of commitment and teamwork than in the classroom modality; teachers have higher social skills that students and these improve with age. Sex and the training program appear to influence these social skills