Aproximación y análisis de las características perceptivas y comunicativas de personas con Trastornos del Espectro Autista y cómo estas influyen en su creación e interpretación del arte. Un estudio de caso con adolescentes

El presente trabajo es un acercamiento a las características perceptivas específicas de personas neuroatípicas, como son las personas con Trastornos del Espectro Autista (TEA) y análisis de las mismas con respecto a su influencia tanto en la interpretación como en la producción artística, creando una base informativa para un posterior desarrollo de una buena práctica de Educación Artística en este contexto. Partiendo de sus intereses restringidos y apoyándonos en sus cualidades como pensadores visuales, se lleva a cabo un estudio de caso de un adolescente con autismo, con el fin de facilitar una vía de comprensión hacia el mundo comunicativo, imaginativo y perceptivo de personas con autismo, conocimientos imprescindibles para cualquier acción educativa con personas con TEA (Riviére 2007, Bogdashina 2007). A su vez, tratar de visibilizar la extraordinaria percepción sensorial de este colectivo a través del Arte. El estudio vienen a demostrar que las personas con TEA perciben la realidad de una forma notablemente diferente y que frecuentemente presentan procesos creativos distintos a las personas neurotípicas. Se ha constatado que el sujeto de estudio neuroatípico, interpreta arte y produce gráficamente de una forma significativamente diferente a los sujetos de estudio neurotípicos. El arte ha resultado ser una válida herramienta a través de la cual poder conocer aspectos tanto personales como perceptivos del sujeto autista sin comunicación verbal

On a Special Copy of Caroline Lamb\u27s Glenarvon Recently Discovered in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek

This essay analyses a recently discovered copy of the first edition of Lady Caroline Lamb\u27s Glenarvon in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek at The Hague filled with annotations and corrections apparently in the hand of its author. This copy shows many of the extensive revisions eventually implemented in the second edition of the novel. Some changes indicated in this special copy were not adopted, however, and a note on the punctuation in a hand not the author\u27s raises the question of whether others edited the work, especially the punctuation. The essay shows how, working with great skill to minimise the labour of resetting type, Lamb appears to have made her text less vulnerable to charges of indecency, blasphemy, and animus towards friends and relations. However, it also shows that the novel\u27s major themes remain substantially unaltered, while the transgressions of Lamb\u27s protagonist, Lady Calantha, are excused as the result of ineluctable passions. The consistency of the substantive alterations and the inconsistency of the punctuational changes suggest that Lamb probably had the final word on revisions

Falls in Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease

Falls in Parkinson__s (PD) and Huntington__s disease (HD) are common. 50 % of moderately affected PD patients sustained two or more falls during a prospective follow-up of 6 months. During a 3 month period 40 % of HD patients reported one or more fall. Many falls resulted in minor injuries and 42 % of PD patients reported a fear of future falls. A different study on quality of life in PD showed that quality of life scores were significantly related to fear of falling in PD. In order to predict future falls several clinical tests and risk factors were studied. However, it proved difficult to identify future fallers and asking for prior falls was the best predictor of falls in the near future in PD. Analysis with quantative measurements in HD patients showed that an increased medio lateral trunk sway and a decreased stride length were associated with an increased fall risk. Based on the findings in these studies and on a literature study, the thesis concludes with a proposal for a multidisciplinary intervention program to prevent falls in Parkinson__s disease.UBL - phd migration 201

The influence of the phosphorus and calcium content of feeds on growth, feed conversion and slaughter quality, and on the chemical, mechanical and histological parameters of the bone tissue of pigs.

In a 2 X 4 factorial experiment on 96 individually housed pigs, 2 calcium/phosphorus ratios (1.3 and 1.9) and 4 phosphorus levels (0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7% total P) were tested. The influence of the treatments on growth, feed conversion and slaughter quality was measured. The experiment showed the 1.3 Ca/P ratio to be more favourable than the 1.9 ratio. A P content of 0.6% was sufficient for good growth and favourable feed conversion. The quality of the bone tissue, for which the specific response resistance to distortion and breaking was used as a standard, was close to maximum when P in the feed was 0.6%. The strength of the whole bone, measured as the bending moment for distortion and breaking, was greatest when P was highest; mineralization of the bone also showed a further increase when the P content in the feed increased from 0.6 to 0.7%.During the experiment only a few cases of leg weakness were noted; these occurred throughout all the experimental treatments. On the basis of the results, the P and Ca requirements for optimal growth and feed conversion for the modern Dutch pig are 0.6% and 0.78%. More of these minerals in the feed may, however, increase deposition in the skeleton. (Abstract retrieved from CAB Abstracts by CABI’s permission