432 research outputs found
Standardized Questionnaires for User Experience Evaluation: A Systematic Literature Review
Standardized questionnaires are one of the methods used to evaluate User Experience
(UX). Standardized questionnaires are composed of an invariable group of questions that users
answer themselves after using a product or system. They are considered reliable and economical to
apply. The standardized questionnaires most recognized for UX evaluation are AttrakDiff, UEQ,
and meCUE. Although the structure, format, and content of each of the questionnaires are known
in detail, there is no systematic literature review (SLR) that categorizes the uses of these
questionnaires in primary studies. This SLR presents the eligibility protocol and the results obtained
by reviewing 946 papers from four digital databases, of which 553 primary studies were analyzed
in detail. Different characteristics of use were obtained, such as which questionnaire is used more
extensively, in which geographical context, and the size of the sample used in each study, among
others.Universidad de Costa Rica/[834-B4-412]/UCR/Costa RicaUniversidad de Costa Rica/[326-B9-107]/UCR/Costa RicaUCR::Vicerrectoría de Investigación::Unidades de Investigación::Ingeniería::Centro de Investigaciones en Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación (CITIC)UCR::Vicerrectoría de Docencia::Ingeniería::Facultad de Ingeniería::Escuela de Ciencias de la Computación e Informátic
Animal Models of Cardiovascular Diseases
Cardiovascular diseases are the first leading cause of death and morbidity in developed countries. The use of animal models have contributed to increase our knowledge, providing new approaches focused to improve the diagnostic and the treatment of these pathologies. Several models have been developed to address cardiovascular complications, including atherothrombotic and cardiac diseases, and the same pathology have been successfully recreated in different species, including small and big animal models of disease. However, genetic and environmental factors play a significant role in cardiovascular pathophysiology, making difficult to match a particular disease, with a single experimental model. Therefore, no exclusive method perfectly recreates the human complication, and depending on the model, additional considerations of cost, infrastructure, and the requirement for specialized personnel, should also have in mind. Considering all these facts, and depending on the budgets available, models should be selected that best reproduce the disease being investigated. Here we will describe models of atherothrombotic diseases, including expanding and occlusive animal models, as well as models of heart failure. Given the wide range of models available, today it is possible to devise the best strategy, which may help us to find more efficient and reliable solutions against human cardiovascular diseases
A crowdsourcing recommendation model for image annotations in cultural heritage platforms
Cultural heritage is one of many fields that has seen a significant digital transformation in the form of digitization and asset annotations for heritage preservation, inheritance, and dissemination. However, a lack of accurate and descriptive metadata in this field has an impact on the usability and discoverability of digital content, affecting cultural heritage platform visitors and resulting in an unsatisfactory user experience as well as limiting processing capabilities to add new functionalities. Over time, cultural heritage institutions were responsible for providing metadata for their collection items with the help of professionals, which is expensive and requires significant effort and time. In this sense, crowdsourcing can play a significant role in digital transformation or massive data processing, which can be useful for leveraging the crowd and enriching the metadata quality of digital cultural content. This paper focuses on a very important challenge faced by cultural heritage crowdsourcing platforms, which is how to attract users and make such activities enjoyable for them in order to achieve higher-quality annotations. One way to address this is to offer personalized interesting items based on each user preference, rather than making the user experience random and demanding. Thus, we present an image annotation recommendation system for users of cultural heritage platforms. The recommendation system design incorporates various technologies intending to help users in selecting the best matching images for annotations based on their interests and characteristics. Different classification methods were implemented to validate the accuracy of our work on Egyptian heritage.Agencia Estatal de Investigación | Ref. TIN2017-87604-RXunta de Galicia | Ref. ED431B 2020/3
Hyperlipidemia-associated renal damage decreases Klotho expression in kidneys from ApoE knockout mice
Background: Klotho is a renal protein with anti-aging properties that is downregulated in conditions related to kidney injury. Hyperlipidemia accelerates the progression of renal damage, but the mechanisms of the deleterious effects of hyperlipidemia remain unclear.
Methods: We evaluated whether hyperlipidemia modulates Klotho expression in kidneys from C57BL/6 and hyperlipidemic apolipoprotein E knockout (ApoE KO) mice fed with a normal chow diet (ND) or a Western-type high cholesterol-fat diet (HC) for 5 to 10 weeks, respectively.
Results: In ApoE KO mice, the HC diet increased serum and renal cholesterol levels, kidney injury severity, kidney macrophage infiltration and inflammatory chemokine expression. A significant reduction in Klotho mRNA and protein expression was observed in kidneys from hypercholesteromic ApoE KO mice fed a HC diet as compared with controls, both at 5 and 10 weeks. In order to study the mechanism involved in Klotho down-regulation, murine tubular epithelial cells were treated with ox-LDL. Oxidized-LDL were effectively uptaken by tubular cells and decreased both Klotho mRNA and protein expression in a time- and dose-dependent manner in these cells. Finally, NF-κB and ERK inhibitors prevented ox-LDL-induced Klotho downregulation.
Conclusion: Our results suggest that hyperlipidemia-associated kidney injury decreases renal expression of Klotho. Therefore, Klotho could be a key element explaining the relationship between hyperlipidemia and aging with renal disease.This work has been supported by grants from FIS (Programa Miguel Servet: CP10/00479) to JAM and ISCIII (Programa de Estabilizacio´n) and PI10/00234
to LMBC. Fundacio´n Conchita Ra´bago to CS and ARN. Ministry of Science (SAF2012/38830) and Sociedad Espan˜ola de Nefrologia to CGG. ISCIII and FEDER funds
PS09/00447, Sociedad Espan˜ola de Nefrologia, ISCIII-RETIC REDinREN/RD06/0016, Comunidad de Madrid/CIFRA/S2010/BMD-2378 to AO, and ISCIII-Redes RECAVA
(RD06/0014/0035) REDINREN (RD12/0021/), European Network (HEALTH F2-2008-200647), Euro Salud EUS2005-03565, cvREMOD, Fundacion Lilly, FRIAT and ISCIII
fund PI10/00072 to JE. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript
Breast Cancer Detection by Means of Artificial Neural Networks
Breast cancer is a fatal disease causing high mortality in women. Constant efforts are being made for creating more efficient techniques for early and accurate diagnosis. Classical methods require oncologists to examine the breast lesions for detection and classification of various stages of cancer. Such manual attempts are time consuming and inefficient in many cases. Hence, there is a need for efficient methods that diagnoses the cancerous cells without human involvement with high accuracies. In this research, image processing techniques were used to develop imaging biomarkers through mammography analysis and based on artificial intelligence technology aiming to detect breast cancer in early stages to support diagnosis and prioritization of high-risk patients. For automatic classification of breast cancer on mammograms, a generalized regression artificial neural network was trained and tested to separate malignant and benign tumors reaching an accuracy of 95.83%. With the biomarker and trained neural net, a computer-aided diagnosis system is being designed. The results obtained show that generalized regression artificial neural network is a promising and robust system for breast cancer detection. The Laboratorio de Innovacion y Desarrollo Tecnologico en Inteligencia Artificial is seeking collaboration with research groups interested in validating the technology being developed
Magnetic fields inferred by Solar Orbiter: A comparison between SO/PHI-HRT and SDO/HMI
Context. The High Resolution Telescope (HRT) of the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager on board the Solar Orbiter spacecraft (SO/PHI) and the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) both infer the photospheric magnetic field from polarised light images. SO/PHI is the first magnetograph to move out of the Sun–Earth line and will provide unprecedented access to the Sun’s poles. This provides excellent opportunities for new research wherein the magnetic field maps from both instruments are used simultaneously.
Aims. We aim to compare the magnetic field maps from these two instruments and discuss any possible differences between them.
Methods. We used data from both instruments obtained during Solar Orbiter’s inferior conjunction on 7 March 2022. The HRT data were additionally treated for geometric distortion and degraded to the same resolution as HMI. The HMI data were re-projected to correct for the 3° separation between the two observatories.
Results. SO/PHI-HRT and HMI produce remarkably similar line-of-sight magnetograms, with a slope coefficient of 0.97, an offset below 1 G, and a Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.97. However, SO/PHI-HRT infers weaker line-of-sight fields for the strongest fields. As for the vector magnetic field, SO/PHI-HRT was compared to both the 720-second and 90-second HMI vector magnetic field: SO/PHI-HRT has a closer alignment with the 90-second HMI vector. In the weak signal regime (< 600 G), SO/PHI-HRT measures stronger and more horizontal fields than HMI, very likely due to the greater noise in the SO/PHI-HRT data. In the strong field regime (≳600 G), HRT infers lower field strengths but with similar inclinations (a slope of 0.92) and azimuths (a slope of 1.02). The slope values are from the comparison with the HMI 90-second vector. Possible reasons for the differences found between SO/PHI-HRT and HMI magnetic field parameters are discussed.Sección Deptal. de Óptica (Óptica)Fac. de Óptica y OptometríaTRUEBMWi - Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (Alemania)AEI/MCIN/10.13039/501100011033Ministerio de ciencia e innovación de EspañaInstituto Astrofísico de Andalucía (España)Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España)Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (Fondos FEDER)Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES) (Francia)CSIC (Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) (España)pu
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The Research Journey as a Challenge Towards New Trends
The academic community of the department of Risaralda, in its permanent interest in evidencing the results of the research processes that are carried out from the Higher Education Institutions and as a product of the VI meeting of researchers of the department of Risaralda held in November 2021 presents its work: “The journey of research as a challenge towards new trends”, which reflects the result of the latest research and advances in different lines of knowledge in Agricultural Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences and Technology and Information Sciences, which seek to solve and meet the demands of the different sectors.
This work would not have been possible without the help of each of the teachers, researchers and authors who presented their articles that make up each of the chapters of the book, to them our gratitude for their commitment, dedication and commitment, since their sole purpose is to contribute from the academy and science to scientific and technological development in the search for the solution of problems and thus contribute to transform the reality of our society and communities. We also wish to extend our
gratitude to the institutions of the Network that made this publication possible: UTP, UCP, UNAD, UNIREMINGTON; UNISARC, CIAF, Universidad Libre, Uniclaretiana, Fundación Universitaria Comfamiliar and UNIMINUTO, institutions that in one way or another allowed this work to become a reality, which we hope will be of interest to you.Preface............................................................................................................................7
Chapter 1. Technologies and Engineering
Towards a humanization in Engineering using soft skills in training
in Engineers.............................................................................................................11
Omar Iván Trejos Buriticá1, Luis Eduardo Muñoz Guerrero
Innovative materials in construction: review from a bibliometric
analysis....................................................................................................................27
Cristian Osorio Gómez, Daniel Aristizábal Torres, Alejandro Alzate Buitrago,
Cristhian Camilo Amariles López
Bibliometric review of disaster risk management: progress, trends,
and challenges.........................................................................................................51
Alejandro Alzate Buitrago, Gloria Milena Molina Vinasco.
Incidence of land coverage and geology, in the unstability of lands
of the micro-basin of the Combia creek, Pereira, Risaralda....................................73
Alejandro Alzate Buitrago, Daniel Aristizábal Torres.
Chapter 2. Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Training experience with teachers teaching mathematics using the
inquiry methodology ...............................................................................................95
Vivian Libeth Uzuriaga López, Héctor Gerardo Sánchez Bedoya.
Interpretation of the multiple representations of the fears associated
to the boarding of limited visual patients in the elective I students’ written
productions and low vision ...................................................................................113
Eliana Bermúdez Cardona, Ana María Agudelo Guevara, Caterine Villamarín Acosta.
The relevance of local knowledge in social sciences............................................131
Alberto Antonio Berón Ospina, Isabel Cristina Castillo Quintero.
Basic education students’ conceptions of conflict a view from the peace
for the education....................................................................................................143
Astrid Milena Calderón Cárdenas,Carolina Aguirre Arias, Carolina Franco Ossa,
Martha Cecilia Gutiérrez Giraldo, Orfa Buitrago.
Comprehensive risk prevention in educational settings: an interdisciplinary
and socio-educational approach ............................................................................163
Olga María Henao Trujillo, Claudia María López Ortiz.
Chapter 3. Natural and Agricultural Sciences
Physicochemical characterization of three substrates used in the deep
bedding system in swine .......................................................................................175
Juan Manuel Sánchez Rubio, Andrés Felipe Arias Roldan, Jesús Arturo Rincón Sanz,
Jaime Andrés Betancourt Vásquez.
Periodic solutions in AFM models........................................................................187
Daniel Cortés Zapata, Alexander Gutiérrez Gutiérrez.
Phenology in flower and fruit of Rubus glaucus benth. Cv. Thornless
in Risaralda: elements for phytosanitary management .........................................199
Shirley Palacios Castro, Andrés Alfonso Patiño Martínez, James Montoya Lerma,
Ricardo Flórez, Harry Josué Pérez.
Socio-economic and technical characterization of the cultivation of
avocado (Persea americana) in Risaralda..............................................................217
Andrés Alfonso Patiño Martínez, Kelly Saudith Castañez Poveda, Eliana Gómez Correa.
Biosecurity management in backyard systems in Santa Rosa de Cabal,
Risaralda................................................................................................................227
Julia Victoria Arredondo Botero, Jaiver Estiben Ocampo Jaramillo, Juan Sebastián Mera Vallejo,
Álvaro de Jesús Aranzazu Hernández.
CONTENTS
Physical-chemical diagnosis of soils in hillside areas with predominance
of Lulo CV. La Selva production system in the department of Risaralda.............241
Adriana Patricia Restrepo Gallón, María Paula Landinez Montes, Jimena Tobón López.
Digestibility of three concentrates used in canine feeding....................................271
María Fernanda Mejía Silva, Valentina Noreña Sánchez, Gastón Adolfo Castaño Jiménez.
Chapter 4. Economic, Administrative, and Accounting Sciences
Financial inclusion in households from socioeconomic strata 1 and 2 in
the city of Pereira ..................................................................................................285
Lindy Neth Perea Mosquera, Marlen Isabel Redondo Ramírez, Angélica Viviana Morales.
Internal marketing strategies as a competitive advantage for the company
Mobilautos SAS de Dosquebradas........................................................................303
Inés Montoya Sánchez, Sandra Patricia Viana Bolaños, Ana María Barrera Rodríguez.
Uses of tourist marketing in the tourist sector of the municipality of Belén
de Umbría, Risaralda.............................................................................................319
Ana María Barrera Rodríguez, Paola Andrea Echeverri Gutiérrez, María Camila Parra Buitrago,
Paola Andrea Martín Muñoz, Angy Paola Ángel Vélez, Luisa Natalia Trejos Ospina.
Territorial prospective of Risaralda department (Colombia), based on
the SDGS...............................................................................................................333
Juan Guillermo Gil García, Samanta Londoño Velásquez.
Chapter 5. Health and Sports Sciences
Performance evaluation in times of pandemic. What do medical
students think?.......................................................................................................353
Samuel Eduardo Trujillo Henao, Rodolfo A. Cabrales Vega, Germán Alberto Moreno Gómez.
The relevance of the therapist’s self and self-reference in the training
of psychologists.....................................................................................................371
Maria Paula Marmolejo Lozano, Mireya Ospina Botero.
Habits related to oral health which influence lifestyle of elder people
in a wellness center for the elderly in Pereira 2020. .............................................387
Isadora Blanco Pérez, Olga Patricia Ramírez Rodríguez, Ángela María Rincón Hurtado.
Analysis of the suicide trend in the Coffee Region in Colombia during
the years 2012-2018 ..............................................................................................405
Germán Alberto Moreno Gómez, Jennifer Nessim Salazar, Jairo Franco Londoño,
Juan Carlos Medina Osorio.
Hind limb long bone fractures in canines and felines...........................................419
María Camila Cruz Vélez, Valentina Herrera Morales, Alba Nydia Restrepo Jiménez, Lina
Marcela Palomino, Gabriel Rodolfo Izquierdo Bravo.
Prevalence of overweight and obesity in children in the rural and urban
area of Risaralda....................................................................................................439
Angela María Álvarez López, Angela Liceth Pérez Rendón, Alejandro Gómez Rodas,
Luis Enrique Isaza Velásquez.
Chapter 6. Architecture, Design and Advertising
The artisan crafts of Risaralda, characteristics, importance, and risks
within the Colombian Coffee Cultural Landscape, CCCL....................................457
Yaffa Nahir Ivette Gómez Barrera, Javier Alfonso López Morales
Canagliflozin and renal outcomes in type 2 diabetes and nephropathy
BACKGROUND Type 2 diabetes mellitus is the leading cause of kidney failure worldwide, but few effective long-term treatments are available. In cardiovascular trials of inhibitors of sodium–glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2), exploratory results have suggested that such drugs may improve renal outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes. METHODS In this double-blind, randomized trial, we assigned patients with type 2 diabetes and albuminuric chronic kidney disease to receive canagliflozin, an oral SGLT2 inhibitor, at a dose of 100 mg daily or placebo. All the patients had an estimated glomerular filtration rate (GFR) of 30 to <90 ml per minute per 1.73 m2 of body-surface area and albuminuria (ratio of albumin [mg] to creatinine [g], >300 to 5000) and were treated with renin–angiotensin system blockade. The primary outcome was a composite of end-stage kidney disease (dialysis, transplantation, or a sustained estimated GFR of <15 ml per minute per 1.73 m2), a doubling of the serum creatinine level, or death from renal or cardiovascular causes. Prespecified secondary outcomes were tested hierarchically. RESULTS The trial was stopped early after a planned interim analysis on the recommendation of the data and safety monitoring committee. At that time, 4401 patients had undergone randomization, with a median follow-up of 2.62 years. The relative risk of the primary outcome was 30% lower in the canagliflozin group than in the placebo group, with event rates of 43.2 and 61.2 per 1000 patient-years, respectively (hazard ratio, 0.70; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.59 to 0.82; P=0.00001). The relative risk of the renal-specific composite of end-stage kidney disease, a doubling of the creatinine level, or death from renal causes was lower by 34% (hazard ratio, 0.66; 95% CI, 0.53 to 0.81; P<0.001), and the relative risk of end-stage kidney disease was lower by 32% (hazard ratio, 0.68; 95% CI, 0.54 to 0.86; P=0.002). The canagliflozin group also had a lower risk of cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, or stroke (hazard ratio, 0.80; 95% CI, 0.67 to 0.95; P=0.01) and hospitalization for heart failure (hazard ratio, 0.61; 95% CI, 0.47 to 0.80; P<0.001). There were no significant differences in rates of amputation or fracture. CONCLUSIONS In patients with type 2 diabetes and kidney disease, the risk of kidney failure and cardiovascular events was lower in the canagliflozin group than in the placebo group at a median follow-up of 2.62 years
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