La situación laboral de los jóvenes españoles. Una perspectiva nacional, autonómica y europea

This TFG expounds a detailed study on young people´s situation in the Spanish labour market during recent years that serves to try to understand how a high youth unemployment rate was reached during the Great Recession. According to this purpose, we compare the main aspects that characterize young people´s employment situation with adult population´s one, and examine their reality at a different territorial levels. This study allows us to affirm that the crisis has aggravated young people´s situation more than the adults’ one, despite of their greater academic training. The circumstances of the young canaries are worse than those of the national average, and these, in turn, than those of the European´s one, being one of the causes the legislative framework. Having more academic training grants labour advantages, even though it does not guarantee an adequate job.En este TFG se desarrolla un estudio pormenorizado de la situación laboral de los jóvenes españoles en los últimos años, que sirve como base para tratar de entender cómo se llegó a alcanzar, durante la Gran Recesión, una tasa de paro juvenil tan elevada. Con este fin, se comparan los aspectos fundamentales que caracterizan la situación laboral de los jóvenes con los de la población adulta y se examina su realidad a distinto nivel territorial. Este estudio permite afirmar que la crisis ha agravado la situación de los jóvenes más que la de los adultos, a pesar de su mayor formación. Las circunstancias de los jóvenes canarios son peores que las de la media nacional, y estas, a su vez, que las de la media europea, siendo una de las causas el marco legislativo. Tener mayor formación otorga ventajas laborales aunque no garantiza un empleo acorde a la misma

Percepción de los estudiantes de Comunicación Social sobre la dicotomía ciencias/letras como marco de reflexión para incentivar la difusión de las ciencias

Nowadays, science journalism shares its role with other message transmitters. Moreover, it is a minority professional option. To find out the origin of this situation, we start from the proposal that Spanish universities train in a dichotomous academic structure, Science/Letters. In this academic structure, students in one branch of knowledge receive little training on the knowledge of the others. We analyze whether this academic organization influences the perception that Social Communication students have of the experimental sciences, nature, health, humanities and social sciences. To verify it, we surveyed journalism and audiovisual communication students. We used a printed questionnaire structured in open, dichotomous and scale questions. Then we applied descriptive statistics to the obtained data, which allowed us to verify that future journalists not only entered the undergraduate studies considering themselves Letters students, but they went through it without modifying that self-perception. One conclusion is that it is urgent to rethink the prevailing training to open it towards an integrative inter and transdisciplinary pedagogical conception, and to improve the presence of sciences on the news agenda.El periodismo científico comparte hoy su función con otros emisores de mensajes. Se suma que es una opción profesional minoritaria. Para averiguar el origen de esta situación partimos de que las universidades españolas forman en una estructura académica dicotómica ciencias/letras, en la que los estudiantes de una rama de conocimiento reciben escasa formación sobre los conocimientos de las otras. Analizamos si esta organización académica influye en la percepción que los estudiantes de Comunicación Social tienen de las ciencias experimentales, de la naturaleza, de la salud, de las humanidades y sociales. Para ello encuestamos a estudiantes de Periodismo y de Comunicación Audiovisual utilizando un cuestionario impreso estructurado en preguntas abiertas, dicotómicas y en escala. Luego aplicamos estadística descriptiva a los datos obtenidos, lo que permitió comprobar que los futuros periodistas no solo ingresan en la carrera considerándose de letras, sino que avanzan en ella sin modificar esa autopercepción. Una conclusión es que urge replantear la formación imperante para abrirla a una concepción pedagógica inter y transdisciplinar integradora que mejore la presencia de las ciencias en la agenda informativa

Balance y perspectivas del Registro de Paisajes de Interés Cultural de Andalucía

El Convenio Europeo del Paisaje (Consejo de Europa, 2000), en vigor en España desde el 1 de marzo de 2008, detalla en su capítulo II (‘Medidas nacionales’) una serie de obligaciones para los distintos estados firmantes entre las que relacionan (art. 6) la identificación y cualificación de paisajes, mediante el análisis de sus características (caracterización) y la consideración de los valores particulares que les atribuyen las Partes y la población interesadas (en nuestro caso, sus valores como patrimonio cultural).El Registro de Paisajes de Interés Cultural de Andalucía (R-PICA) es un cuerpo de datos homogéneo y normalizado que recoge una completa y diversa información sobre áreas territoriales que han sido seleccionadas por ser depositarias de valores patrimoniales, culturales e históricos, que han participado y son testigos actuales de su formación como un paisaje cultural reconocible y significativo de Andalucía. Con la primera caracterización de cobertura regional de una selección de paisajes culturales, más de 100 por el momento, se habrá consolidado una metodología innovadora con la que se consigue la integración de diferentes fuentes de información y disciplinas científicas

Análisis de las necesidades formativas d los estudiantes de Traducción e Interpretación (Tel) de alemán en el contexto actual y apuntes para una nueva metodología docente

Memoria ID-222. Ayudas de la Universidad de Salamanca para la innovación docente, curso 2019-2020

Análisis de las necesidades formativas de los estudiantes de Traducción e Interpretación (TeI) de alemán en el contexto actual y apuntes para una nueva metodología docente

Memoria ID-222. Ayudas de la Universidad de Salamanca para la innovación docente, curso 2019-2020

Defining and validating a feature-driven requirements engineering approach

[EN] The specification of requirements is a key activity for achieving the goals of any software project and it has long been established and recognized by researchers and practitioners. Within Software Product Lines (SPL), this activity is even more critical owing to the need to deal with common, variable, and product-specific requirements, not only for a single product but for the whole set of products. In this paper, we present a Feature-Driven Requirements Engineering approach (FeDRE) that provides support to the requirements specification of SPL. The approach realizes features into functional requirements by considering the variability captured in a feature model. It also provides detailed guidelines on how to associate chunks of features from a feature model and to consider them as the context for the Use Case specification. The evaluation of the approach is illustrated in a case study for developing an SPL of mobile applications for emergency notifications. This case study was applied within 14 subjects, 8 subjects from Universitat Politècnica de València and 6 subjects from Federal University of Bahia. Evaluations concerning the perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, effectiveness and efficiency as regards requirements analysts using the approach are also presented. The results show that FeDRE was perceived as easy to learn and useful by the participants.This research work is cofounded by the Hispano-Brazilian Interuniversity Cooperation Program (HBP-2011-0015), the MULTIPLE project (TIN2009-13838) and the FPU program (AP2009-4635) from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, and the ValI+D program (ACIF/2011/235) Generalitat Valenciana. Copyright 2014 Carnegie Mellon University. This material is based upon work funded and supported by the Department of Defense under Contract No. FA8721-05-C-0003 with Carnegie Mellon University for the operation of the Software Engineering Institute, a federally funded research and development center. NO WARRANTY. THIS CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INSTITUTE MATERIAL IS FURNISHED ON AN “AS-IS” BASIS. CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY MAKES NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, AS TO ANY MATTER INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR PURPOSE OR MERCHANTABILITY, EXCLUSIVITY, OR RESULTS OBTAINED FROM USE OF THE MATERIAL. CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY DOES NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND WITH RESPECT TO FREEDOM FROM PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT. This material has been approved for public release and unlimited distribution. Carnegie Mellon® is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by Carnegie Mellon University. DM-0000867. This work was partially supported by the National Institute of Science and Technology for Software Engineering (INES11), funded by CAPES, CNPq and FACEPE, grants 573964/2008-4 and APQ-1037-1.03/08 and CNPq grants 305968/2010-6, 559997/2010-8, 474766/2010-1 and FAPESB. The authors also appreciate the value-adding work of all their colleagues Loreno Alvim, Larissa Rocha, Ivonei Freitas, Tassio Vale and Iuri Santos who make great contributions to the Scoping activity of FeDRE approach.De Oliveira, RP.; Blanes Domínguez, D.; González Huerta, J.; Insfrán Pelozo, CE.; Abrahao Gonzales, SM.; Cohen, S.; De Almeida, ES. (2014). Defining and validating a feature-driven requirements engineering approach. Journal of Universal Computer Science. 20(5):666-691. https://doi.org/10.3217/jucs-020-05-0666S66669120

The relationship between patient empowerment and related constructs, affective symptoms and quality of life in patients with type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

IntroductionThe aim of this systematic review is to assess the relationship between patient empowerment and other empowerment-related constructs, and affective symptoms and quality of life in patients with type 2 diabetes.MethodsA systematic review of the literature was conducted, according to the PRISMA guidelines. Studies addressing adult patients with type 2 diabetes and reporting the association between empowerment-related constructs and subjective measures of anxiety, depression and distress, as well as self-reported quality of life were included. The following electronic databases were consulted from inception to July 2022: Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, and Cochrane Library. The methodological quality of the included studies was analyzed using validated tools adapted to each study design. Meta-analyses of correlations were performed using an inverse variance restricted maximum likelihood random-effects.ResultsThe initial search yielded 2463 references and seventy-one studies were finally included. We found a weak-to-moderate inverse association between patient empowerment-related constructs and both anxiety (r = −0.22) and depression (r = −0.29). Moreover, empowerment-related constructs were moderately negatively correlated with distress (r = −0.31) and moderately positively correlated with general quality of life (r = 0.32). Small associations between empowerment-related constructs and both mental (r = 0.23) and physical quality of life (r = 0.13) were also reported.DiscussionThis evidence is mostly from cross-sectional studies. High-quality prospective studies are needed not only to better understand the role of patient empowerment but to assess causal associations. The results of the study highlight the importance of patient empowerment and other empowerment-related constructs such as self-efficacy or perceived control in diabetes care. Thus, they should be considered in the design, development and implementation of effective interventions and policies aimed at improving psychosocial outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes.Systematic review registrationhttps://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42020192429, identifier CRD42020192429

The Occurrence or Fibrillary Glomerulonephritis in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus May Not Be Coincidental: A Report of Four Cases

Although clinical presentation of fibrillary glomerulonephritis is similar to most forms of glomerulonephritis, it is usually difficult to make the diagnosis. Clinical manifestations include proteinuria, microscopic haematuria, nephrotic syndrome, and impairment of renal function. A diagnosis of fibrillary glomerulonephritis is only confirmed by renal biopsy and it must comprise electronmicroscopy-verified ultrastructural findings. We report four cases between 45–50 years old with documented type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and arterial hypertension. All patients were found to have fibrils on kidney biopsy. The differential diagnosis of fibrils in the setting of diabetes mellitus is also discussed