Sport event to raise awareness of physical disabilities and sensory disorders

En este trabajo de fin de grado vamos a encontrar una propuesta didáctica, dirigida al profesorado y alumnado de tercer ciclo de Educación Primaria, para la realización de una pequeña jornada deportiva con su respectiva aportación al desarrollo de las competencias básicas, objetivos, contenidos y demás puntos para tener en cuenta en este ciclo, recogidos en el Área de Educación Física de la Orden de 17 de marzo de 2015, por la que se expone el currículo básico correspondiente a la Educación Primaria en Andalucía. También dispone de una justificación y contextualización en la que se recogen datos y conclusiones de algunos trabajos, realizados anteriormente por otros autores, en los que se trata esta misma temática con intención de justificar la necesidad de la creación y aplicación de esta jornada deportiva, y la explicación de la elección del ciclo en el que se van a desarrollar. Esta jornada está basada en actividades en las que los pequeños participantes vivirán cómo es el mundo desde la perspectiva de las personas con las distintas discapacidades físicas y sensoriales más comunes, es decir, el alumnado realizará varios juegos sin disponer de su visión, otros a desarrollar sin audición, otros tantos con la ausencia de una extremidad, etc. La intención con la que esta jornada ha sido creada es la pretensión de que el alumnado logre comprender las dificultades y obstáculos con los que tienen que lidiar las personas que poseen esas discapacidades para crear una concienciación y un respeto. Además, intentar lograr una adaptación de las necesidades, no solo por parte del alumnado, sino de toda la comunidad educativa

Análisis empírico del papel de las competencias generales en el marco de los estudios superiores

En plena implantación de los nuevos planes de estudio de acuerdo al EEES, las universidades se enfrentan a un nuevo modelo educativo basado en competencias: competencias específicas y competencias generales. Las competencias específicas están asociadas a la adquisición y desarrollo de conocimientos de un área en particular, mientras que las competencias generales son transversales al plan de estudios y definen capacidades, habilidades y/o aptitudes que el alumno debe desarrollar para aplicarlas a lo largo de su carrera profesional. El objetivo de este trabajo es proporcionar una guía al docente sobre las posibles mejoras para tratar el mayor número de competencias generales satisfactoriamente. Concretamente, se ha analizado la manera en la que los docentes están promoviendo y desarrollando las competencias generales con el objetivo de detectar carencias, mejoras y necesidades. El análisis se ha realizado sobre el profesorado de la Titulación de Graduado en Ingeniería del Software de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Experiences in Teaching Veterinary Public Health across Latin-America and Europe: the SAPUVETNET III Project

Experiences in Teaching Veterinary Public Health across Latin-America and Europe: the SAPUVETNET III Project SAPUVETNET III (n. DCI-LA/2008/75) is the third phase of a series of projects, co-financed under the EU ALFA programme, aimed to support a VPH network constituted by Faculties of Veterinary Medicine of 12 Latin-american and 6 European countries in addition to various collaborating institutions/organizations both at national and international level (http://www.sapuvetnet.org). The project envisages the development and the implementation of a common VPH curriculum, through the use of innovative teaching methods, mainly based on problem solving approach. The authors present here some teaching material developed by the project as an example of new strategies/approach for teaching VPH: case studies, videos and self-learning programme on meat inspection/food hygiene, an Interactive Manual on VPH, as well as e-conferences on upcoming VPH issues. Project partners use a mail-list and distance learning platforms (e.g. Moodle, Colibri) to organize teaching activities. A Journal, “Una Salud/One Health/Uma Saúde”, is also published and distributed both as hard copy or .pdf through the web. Didactic tools produced by the SAPUVETNET projects have been and/or are being tested and used by the partner faculties and other teaching institutions, both for under and post-graduate courses. Teaching material by SAPUVETNET is distributed according to Creative Common criteria and policy (http://creativecommons.org/). It can be freely circulated and distributed, it can be used for distance learning and can be modified/adapted to the local context at each country/geographical area, even outside Latin-America and Europe. Teaching products produced under the SAPUVETNET projects are available at the URL http://www.sapuvetnet.org, or can be obtained from the project co-ordinator(s) and/or the contact persons at the partner Faculties/Universities. The Authors would like to acknowledge all participants/collaborators/partners of the current and previous SAPUVETNET projects who greatly contributed –in different moments and at different levels- to the development of the teaching tools herein described

Treatment with tocilizumab or corticosteroids for COVID-19 patients with hyperinflammatory state: a multicentre cohort study (SAM-COVID-19)

Objectives: The objective of this study was to estimate the association between tocilizumab or corticosteroids and the risk of intubation or death in patients with coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) with a hyperinflammatory state according to clinical and laboratory parameters. Methods: A cohort study was performed in 60 Spanish hospitals including 778 patients with COVID-19 and clinical and laboratory data indicative of a hyperinflammatory state. Treatment was mainly with tocilizumab, an intermediate-high dose of corticosteroids (IHDC), a pulse dose of corticosteroids (PDC), combination therapy, or no treatment. Primary outcome was intubation or death; follow-up was 21 days. Propensity score-adjusted estimations using Cox regression (logistic regression if needed) were calculated. Propensity scores were used as confounders, matching variables and for the inverse probability of treatment weights (IPTWs). Results: In all, 88, 117, 78 and 151 patients treated with tocilizumab, IHDC, PDC, and combination therapy, respectively, were compared with 344 untreated patients. The primary endpoint occurred in 10 (11.4%), 27 (23.1%), 12 (15.4%), 40 (25.6%) and 69 (21.1%), respectively. The IPTW-based hazard ratios (odds ratio for combination therapy) for the primary endpoint were 0.32 (95%CI 0.22-0.47; p < 0.001) for tocilizumab, 0.82 (0.71-1.30; p 0.82) for IHDC, 0.61 (0.43-0.86; p 0.006) for PDC, and 1.17 (0.86-1.58; p 0.30) for combination therapy. Other applications of the propensity score provided similar results, but were not significant for PDC. Tocilizumab was also associated with lower hazard of death alone in IPTW analysis (0.07; 0.02-0.17; p < 0.001). Conclusions: Tocilizumab might be useful in COVID-19 patients with a hyperinflammatory state and should be prioritized for randomized trials in this situatio

Identification of heavy-flavour jets with the CMS detector in pp collisions at 13 TeV

Many measurements and searches for physics beyond the standard model at the LHC rely on the efficient identification of heavy-flavour jets, i.e. jets originating from bottom or charm quarks. In this paper, the discriminating variables and the algorithms used for heavy-flavour jet identification during the first years of operation of the CMS experiment in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, are presented. Heavy-flavour jet identification algorithms have been improved compared to those used previously at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. For jets with transverse momenta in the range expected in simulated $\mathrm{t}\overline{\mathrm{t}}$ events, these new developments result in an efficiency of 68% for the correct identification of a b jet for a probability of 1% of misidentifying a light-flavour jet. The improvement in relative efficiency at this misidentification probability is about 15%, compared to previous CMS algorithms. In addition, for the first time algorithms have been developed to identify jets containing two b hadrons in Lorentz-boosted event topologies, as well as to tag c jets. The large data sample recorded in 2016 at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV has also allowed the development of new methods to measure the efficiency and misidentification probability of heavy-flavour jet identification algorithms. The heavy-flavour jet identification efficiency is measured with a precision of a few per cent at moderate jet transverse momenta (between 30 and 300 GeV) and about 5% at the highest jet transverse momenta (between 500 and 1000 GeV)

Particle-flow reconstruction and global event description with the CMS detector

The CMS apparatus was identified, a few years before the start of the LHC operation at CERN, to feature properties well suited to particle-flow (PF) reconstruction: a highly-segmented tracker, a fine-grained electromagnetic calorimeter, a hermetic hadron calorimeter, a strong magnetic field, and an excellent muon spectrometer. A fully-fledged PF reconstruction algorithm tuned to the CMS detector was therefore developed and has been consistently used in physics analyses for the first time at a hadron collider. For each collision, the comprehensive list of final-state particles identified and reconstructed by the algorithm provides a global event description that leads to unprecedented CMS performance for jet and hadronic tau decay reconstruction, missing transverse momentum determination, and electron and muon identification. This approach also allows particles from pileup interactions to be identified and enables efficient pileup mitigation methods. The data collected by CMS at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV show excellent agreement with the simulation and confirm the superior PF performance at least up to an average of 20 pileup interactions

Search for heavy resonances decaying to a top quark and a bottom quark in the lepton+jets final state in proton–proton collisions at 13 TeV

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Evidence for the Higgs boson decay to a bottom quark–antiquark pair

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Pseudorapidity and transverse momentum dependence of flow harmonics in pPb and PbPb collisions

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Non-Standard Errors

In statistics, samples are drawn from a population in a data-generating process (DGP). Standard errors measure the uncertainty in estimates of population parameters. In science, evidence is generated to test hypotheses in an evidence-generating process (EGP). We claim that EGP variation across researchers adds uncertainty: Non-standard errors (NSEs). We study NSEs by letting 164 teams test the same hypotheses on the same data. NSEs turn out to be sizable, but smaller for better reproducible or higher rated research. Adding peer-review stages reduces NSEs. We further find that this type of uncertainty is underestimated by participants