Exploring how us popular culture changes first year students' identities and how it fosters their motivations to enroll in the english teacher training program at UNAB, Casona

Tesis (Profesor de Inglés para la Enseñanza Básica y Media)Este estudio social fue conducido para poder comprender los roles que juega la cultura popular estadounidense en las motivaciones que los estudiantes tienen al matricularse en la Carrera de pedagogía en inglés en la UNAB, campus Casona y el impacto que esta tiene en las identidades de los alumnos. El área de este estudio no ha sido explorada previamente en el contexto chileno; sin embargo, los resultados proporcionados por la investigación pueden facilitar la comprensión por parte del campo pedagógico con respecto al fenómeno causado por la cultura popular estadounidense. Las preguntas de jerarquización fueron aplicadas para así poder reducir el número de estudiantes que se someterían a la siguiente etapa -entrevista semi estructurada. Para esta etapa, dos de treinta y cuatro estudiantes de primer año de la carrera Pedagogía en Inglés en UNAB, Casona fueron seleccionados. A pesar de que aquellos estudiantes pudieron haber tenido más de una razón para estudiar dicha carrera, fue posible apreciar como la cultura popular estadounidense cambió las identidades y motivaciones que los alumnos tenían al momento de decidir estudiar Pedagogía en Inglés en la Universidad Andrés Bello, campus Casona.This social study was conducted in order to comprehend what roles US Popular Culture plays in the motivations that students have to enroll in the English Teacher Training Program (ETTP) at UNAB, Casona, and its impact on students’ identities. This research area has not been explored before in the Chilean context; however, the results provided by this study might help the English pedagogical field understand the phenomenon caused by US Popular Culture. Ranking questions were applied in order to reduce the number of students who would undergo the next stage - semi-structured interview. The main participants of this qualitative study were two students out of thirty four from first year of the ETTP at UNAB, Casona. Even though, first year students might have had several reasons to study in the ETTP, it was possible to see how US Popular Culture changed the participants’ identities and motivations before and when making a decision to study English pedagogy at UNAB, Casona

Synthetic Photoswitchable Neurotransmitters Based on Bridged Azobenzenes

Photoswitchable neurotransmitters of ionotropic kainate receptors were synthesized by tethering a glutamate moiety to disubstituted C2-bridged azobenzenes, which were prepared through a novel methodology that allows access to diazocines with higher yields and versatility. Because of the singular properties of these photochromes, photoisomerizable compounds were obtained with larger thermal stability for their inert cis isomer than for their biologically activity trans state. This enabled selective neuronal firing upon irradiation without background activity in the dark

Manipulating the alpha level cannot cure significance testing

We argue that making accept/reject decisions on scientific hypotheses, including a recent call for changing the canonical alpha level from p = 0.05 to p = 0.005, is deleterious for the finding of new discoveries and the progress of science. Given that blanket and variable alpha levels both are problematic, it is sensible to dispense with significance testing altogether. There are alternatives that address study design and sample size much more directly than significance testing does; but none of the statistical tools should be taken as the new magic method giving clear-cut mechanical answers. Inference should not be based on single studies at all, but on cumulative evidence from multiple independent studies. When evaluating the strength of the evidence, we should consider, for example, auxiliary assumptions, the strength of the experimental design, and implications for applications. To boil all this down to a binary decision based on a p-value threshold of 0.05, 0.01, 0.005, or anything else, is not acceptable

Synthetic Photoswitchable Neurotransmitters Based on Bridged Azobenzenes

Photoswitchable neurotransmitters of ionotropic kainate receptors were synthesized by tethering a glutamate moiety to disubstituted C2-bridged azobenzenes, which were prepared through a novel methodology that allows access to diazocines with higher yields and versatility. Because of the singular properties of these photochromes, photoisomerizable compounds were obtained with larger thermal stability for their inert cis isomer than for their biologically activity trans state. This enabled selective neuronal firing upon irradiation without background activity in the dark

CAPPRIC Study—Characterization of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Spanish Adults Managed in Primary Care Settings

The real burden of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in non-hospitalized patients is largely unknown. This is a 3-year prospective, observational study of ambulatory CAP in adults, conducted in 24 Spanish primary care centers between 2016–2019. Sociodemographic and clinical variables of patients with radiographically confirmed CAP were collected. Pneumococcal etiology was assessed using the Binax Now® test. Patients were followed up for 10 ± 3 days. A total of 456 CAP patients were included in the study. Mean age was 56.6 (±17.5) years, 53.5% were female, and 53.9% had ≥1 comorbidity. Average incidence of CAP was 1.2–3.5 cases per 1000 persons per year. Eighteen patients (3.9%) were classified as pneumococcal CAP. Cough was present in 88.1% of patients at diagnosis and fever in 70.8%. Increased pulmonary density (63.3%) and alveolar infiltrates with air bronchogram (16.6%) were the most common radiographic findings. After 14.6 ± 6.0 days (95% CI = 13.9–15.3), 65.4% of patients had recovered. Hospitalization rate was 2.8%. The most frequently prescribed antibiotics were quinolones (58.7%) and β-lactams (31.1%). In conclusion, one-third of CAP patients did not fully recover after two weeks of empiric antibiotic therapy and 2.8% required hospitalization, highlighting the significant burden associated with non-hospitalized CAP in Spain

CAPPRIC Study-Characterization of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Spanish Adults Managed in Primary Care Settings.

The real burden of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in non-hospitalized patients is largely unknown. This is a 3-year prospective, observational study of ambulatory CAP in adults, conducted in 24 Spanish primary care centers between 2016-2019. Sociodemographic and clinical variables of patients with radiographically confirmed CAP were collected. Pneumococcal etiology was assessed using the Binax Now® test. Patients were followed up for 10 ± 3 days. A total of 456 CAP patients were included in the study. Mean age was 56.6 (±17.5) years, 53.5% were female, and 53.9% had ≥1 comorbidity. Average incidence of CAP was 1.2-3.5 cases per 1000 persons per year. Eighteen patients (3.9%) were classified as pneumococcal CAP. Cough was present in 88.1% of patients at diagnosis and fever in 70.8%. Increased pulmonary density (63.3%) and alveolar infiltrates with air bronchogram (16.6%) were the most common radiographic findings. After 14.6 ± 6.0 days (95% CI = 13.9-15.3), 65.4% of patients had recovered. Hospitalization rate was 2.8%. The most frequently prescribed antibiotics were quinolones (58.7%) and β-lactams (31.1%). In conclusion, one-third of CAP patients did not fully recover after two weeks of empiric antibiotic therapy and 2.8% required hospitalization, highlighting the significant burden associated with non-hospitalized CAP in Spain