Comprehensive Sex Education and Gender Perspective in Biology Teacher Training: an analysis from the students' point of view

El presente artículo analiza la mirada de lxs estudiantes del profesorado de Ciencias Biológicas de la Universidad de Buenos Aires sobre los modos en que están presentes/ausentes la Educación Sexual Integral (ESI) y la perspectiva de género en la oferta académica. En particular, indaga en las miradas que tienen lxs jóvenes entrevistadxs en torno a sus experiencias como estudiantes a lo largo de la formación general (licenciatura y profesorado). Se nutre de un corpus de seis entrevistas en profundidad realizadas a fines de 2017 a jóvenes que transitaban las materias relativas al bloque pedagógico.Este trabajo se enmarca en el proyecto de investigación Transversal y con contenidos propios: Educación sexual con enfoque de género en la formación docente inicial y fue realizado conjuntamente por un equipo de investigación de Ciencias de la Educación y otro de Didáctica de la Biología, ambos anclados en la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA).This article offers an analysis of the University of Buenos Aires Biology Teacher Training students' views on the presence/absence of Comprehensive Sex Education and gender perspective in the offered program. In particular, it explores the views that the interviewed subjects have about their experiences as students throughout their general training (Bachelor’s Degree and Teacher Training). It is based on a corpus of six in-depth interviews carried out with advanced students. They were analyzed using the constant comparative method. We found that the interviewees identify recent actions to incorporate this perspective, though only in some subjects of the education track and by some specific teachers. They also demand more hours of classes on CSE and gender perspectives, as well as content on human anatomy and physiology.Fil: Grotz, Eugenia. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Centro de Formación e Investigación en Enseñanza de las Ciencias; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Plaza, María Victoria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Centro de Formación e Investigación en Enseñanza de las Ciencias; ArgentinaFil: González del Cerro, Catalina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Centro de Formación e Investigación en Enseñanza de las Ciencias; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Gonzalez Galli, Leonardo Martin. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Centro de Formación e Investigación en Enseñanza de las Ciencias; ArgentinaFil: Di Marino, Luis. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Centro de Formación e Investigación en Enseñanza de las Ciencias; Argentin

Towards a large-scale quantum simulator on diamond surface at room temperature

Strongly-correlated quantum many-body systems exhibits a variety of exotic phases with long-range quantum correlations, such as spin liquids and supersolids. Despite the rapid increase in computational power of modern computers, the numerical simulation of these complex systems becomes intractable even for a few dozens of particles. Feynman's idea of quantum simulators offers an innovative way to bypass this computational barrier. However, the proposed realizations of such devices either require very low temperatures (ultracold gases in optical lattices, trapped ions, superconducting devices) and considerable technological effort, or are extremely hard to scale in practice (NMR, linear optics). In this work, we propose a new architecture for a scalable quantum simulator that can operate at room temperature. It consists of strongly-interacting nuclear spins attached to the diamond surface by its direct chemical treatment, or by means of a functionalized graphene sheet. The initialization, control and read-out of this quantum simulator can be accomplished with nitrogen-vacancy centers implanted in diamond. The system can be engineered to simulate a wide variety of interesting strongly-correlated models with long-range dipole-dipole interactions. Due to the superior coherence time of nuclear spins and nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond, our proposal offers new opportunities towards large-scale quantum simulation at room temperatures

American Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society consensus statement on intraluminal measurement of gastrointestinal and colonic motility in clinical practice

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/73395/1/j.1365-2982.2008.01230.x.pd

Vampires in the village Žrnovo on the island of Korčula: following an archival document from the 18th century

Središnja tema rada usmjerena je na raščlambu spisa pohranjenog u Državnom arhivu u Mlecima (fond: Capi del Consiglio de’ Dieci: Lettere di Rettori e di altre cariche) koji se odnosi na događaj iz 1748. godine u korčulanskom selu Žrnovo, kada su mještani – vjerujući da su se pojavili vampiri – oskvrnuli nekoliko mjesnih grobova. U radu se podrobno iznose osnovni podaci iz spisa te rečeni događaj analizira u širem društvenom kontekstu i prate se lokalna vjerovanja.The main interest of this essay is the analysis of the document from the State Archive in Venice (file: Capi del Consiglio de’ Dieci: Lettere di Rettori e di altre cariche) which is connected with the episode from 1748 when the inhabitants of the village Žrnove on the island of Korčula in Croatia opened tombs on the local cemetery in the fear of the vampires treating. This essay try to show some social circumstances connected with this event as well as a local vernacular tradition concerning superstitions

Pay for performance – motivation to succeed in Advanced Trauma Life Support courses – a question of background or funding?

Objective: To correlate students’ performance with their professional background and motivation to take part in Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) courses. We base our analysis on the self-determination theory that differentiates intrinsic (ambition to perform by individual itself) from extrinsic motivation (incentive by external stimuli).Design: We present a non-blinded, monocentric, non-randomized descriptive study of 376 students taking part in an ATLS course at one course site in Germany. Part of a two-day ATLS course are two written tests; we correlate test scores with background information provided by the students in a questionnaire of 13 items (age, sex, adress, board certification, specialty, subspecialty, position, hospital level of care, hospital operator and hospital participation in trauma network, motivation, funding source, condition of funding).Setting: The students were recuited at the BG Trauma Center Ludwigshafen (Germany), a large 528-bed trauma center and one of 13 ATLS course sites in Germany.Participants: 449 ATLS course students taking part in ATLS courses at the above-mentioned course site from February 2009 to May 2010 were sent a questionnaire asking for their background. All 449 course students were eligible to participate. 376 (83.7%) questionnaires were returned, pre- and post-test results of all students aquired and included into our calculations. 312 (83%) were male and 64 (17%) female. The majority (59.3%) of recruited students came from trauma surgery, 21.8% from anesthesiology, 8% from general surgery, 4% from abdominal surgery, 0.5% from vascular or thoracic surgery each and 5.9% from other specialties.Results: Neither age, sex, subspecialty, hospital level of care, hospital operator, or hospital participation in trauma network played a role with respect to motivation or test results. The high degree of intrinsic motivation of consultants (92.3%) had no impact on their test results. Anesthesiologists were higher motivated (75.6% intrinsically motivated) in contrast to all surgical colleagues (63.6%), which showed significant differences in the pre- (89.8% vs. 85.3%, p=0.03) but not the post-test. Of all 13.6% students who were self-payers, 94.1% were intrinsically motivated; the 86.2% whose course fee was accounted for were less likely to be intrinsically motivated (63.9%). Sponsoring however did not have a negative impact on test results. Conditional funding (sponsored only on passing both tests) was detrimental to motivation: 0% of these individuals were intrinsically motivated and they scored significantly lower (82.5%) than all other students in the post-test (86.9%, p=0.002). Overall, intrinsically motivated students overtopped extrinsically motivated students in the post-test (88.0% vs. 83.4%, p<0.001).Conclusions: ATLS course participation is not compulsory for medical doctors in Germany. Intrinsic motivation to take part in these courses is a key prerequisite to increase performance, irrespective of the background of the students. Intrinsically motivated students are ready to invest into their education and vice versa. Conditional funding (course fee only sponsored on passing the course) evokes no intrinsic motivation at all and causes worse results

Aprotinin Prevents the Development of the Trauma-Induced Multiple Organ Failure in a Chronic Sheep Model

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Is dopexamine superior to dopamine in the treatment of multiple trauma patients--a prospective, double-blind, randomised study

BACKGROUND: The goal of this prospective, randomised, double-blind clinical trial study was to assess the effects of dopexamine hydrochloride on organ failure, inflammatory mediators and splanchnic oxygenation in blunt multiple trauma patients at high risk of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS).METHODS: We performed a prospective randomised controlled trial on 30 consecutive blunt multiple trauma patients with ISS&gt;or=16, age 18-60 years and initial blood pressure &gt;or=120 mmHg initially admitted to our level I trauma centre. Patients were randomised to treatment with dopamine (n=15) or dopexamine (n=15) for 48 h after admission. Outcome in terms of mortality, MODS, splanchnic perfusion, complications, duration of stay was statistically analysed.RESULTS: Dopexamine treatment was associated with impaired organ function and an increased duration of ventilation and ICU stay compared with patients who received dopamine treatment. The acute inflammatory response was increased in the Dopexamine group while a decreased pHi and MEGX formation and increased serum lactate levels were measured.CONCLUSIONS: The indication to use dopexamine hydrochloride appears questionable. In the absence of an antiinflammatory effect, dopexamine demonstrated a disadvantageous ICU course in regards to the organ function and the duration of treatment. In addition, a decreased pHi and MEGX formation suggested a deterioration of splanchnic oxygenation.</p