Exercise, quality of life and depression in elderly of Huelva

Presentado en EDUHEM 2018 - VIII International conference on intercultural education and International conference on transcultural health: The Value Of Education And Health For A Global,Transcultural World, Cognitive-Crcs.The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between physical condition level, quality of life related to health and the degree of depression of a sample of people over 60 years old that engage physical activity in social centers of Huelva. A total of 66 elderly people aged between 60 and 87 years with an average age of 69.71 (SD=6.1) was evaluated. Of these, 80.3% were women (n=53) and 19.7% male (n=13). The results indicate that strength has a very significant correlation with Physical Role, Physical Component, Social Function, General Health, Emotional Role and Vitality (p<.005) and a significant correlation with Body Pain and Mental Component (p<.05). Statistically significant differences are observed between strength and normal and severe depression categories (F(2)=4.286; p=.018). Relevant conclusions of the investigation found that strength is the only physical quality that correlates with the two major components of health related quality of life, Physical Component (PCS) and Mental Component (MCS); and elderly people with severe depression levels have lower strength values than older people without depression

Revisión teórica sobre la aplicación de programas de mindfulness en el sistema educativo español

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo principal investigar acerca de una serie de programas de mindfulness aplicados al sistema educativo español así como analizar y extraer los resultados que se derivan de ellos. El diseño del estudio trata de una revisión teórica siendo la variable independiente el mindfulness y las variables dependientes cada uno de los aspectos estudiados en los programas en los diferentes planos de la persona (mental, físico y social). Los resultados de esta revisión detallan que todos los argumentos son favorables en relación a los beneficios que tiene la aplicabilidad del mindfulness en las aulas y tan sólo dos de los programas resaltan algunos inconvenientes que tiene su puesta en práctica. Las conclusiones que se derivan de este estudio sobre las mejoras encontradas en la práctica de la atención plena, plantean la posibilidad de introducirlas en el currículo escolar mediante un enfoque global e innovador. Para ello, es fundamental un cambio de mentalidad y una buena formación por parte de los maestros de Educación Física, donde se dé importancia a todos los dominios de acción motriz, pero en especial al de la introyección motriz

Towards next generation coordination infrastructures

Coordination infrastructures play a central role in the engineering of multiagent systems. Since the advent of agent technology, research on coordination infrastructures has produced a significant number of infrastructures with varying features. In this paper, we review the the state-of-the-art coordination infrastructures with the purpose of identifying open research challenges that next generation coordination infrastructures should address. Our analysis concludes that next generation coordination infrastructures must address a number of challenges: (i) to become socially aware, by facilitating human interaction within a MAS; (ii) to assist agents in their decision making by providing decision support that helps them reduce the scope of reasoning and facilitates the achievement of their goals; and (iii) to increase openness to support on-line, fully decentralised design and execution. Furthermore, we identify some promising approaches in the literature, together with the research issues worth investigating, to cope with such challenges. © Cambridge University Press, 2015.The work presented in this paper has been partially funded by projects EVE (TIN2009-14702-C02-01), AT (CSD2007-0022), and the Generalitat of Catalunya grant 2009-SGR-1434Peer Reviewe

Ciudadanos, apátridas, exiliados y migrantes: la diáspora ecuatoguineana de la Comunidad de Madrid

Historic structural conditions from colonialism, power political structures coming from franquismo, and current processes of capital globalization are factors explaining that Equatorial Guinea has become a postcolonial country expelling refugees and migrants to is former colonial metropole (Spain) since its independence in 1968. This migratory movement is an example in which we can observe how postcolonial structural conditions linking sending and receiving countries and social networks affect current refugees and migrants’ dynamics as well as the development of postcolonial transnational relationships. Based on ethnographic research done with refugees and migrants from Equatorial Guinea settled in the Madrid metropolitan region, this article describes and analyzes how these factors affect their modes of incorporation and adaptation to this host metropolitan area while maintaining social and cultural relationships with their home societies.Condiciones histórico-estructurales vinculadas al colonialismo, la pervivencia de estructuras de poder heredadas del franquismo y los actuales procesos de globalización del capital son algunos de los factores que explican que Guinea Ecuatorial continúe siendo un país expulsor de refugiados y migrantes desde su independencia en 1968. Y que España, como antigua metrópoli colonial, sea el país receptor de gran parte de su diáspora. El origen y el desarrollo de ésta no hace más que incidir en la asociación que en los estudios migratorios y transnacionales se ha establecido entre condiciones estructurales tanto en países expulsores como receptores con los modos de incorporación de refugiados y migrantes en los lugares de asentamiento, con el desarrollo de redes sociales y de relaciones transnacionales poscoloniales. A partir de investigaciones etnográficas llevadas a cabo con migrantes y refugiados ecuatoguineanos asentados en la región metropolitana de la Comunidad de Madrid, este artículo describe y analiza cómo estos factores afectan sus modos de incorporación y adaptación a esta región metropolitana, así como el mantenimiento de relaciones sociales y culturales con sus sociedades de origen.Historic structural conditions from colonialism, power political structures coming from franquismo, and current processes of capital globalization are factors explaining that Equatorial Guinea has become a postcolonial country expelling refugees and migrants to is former colonial metropole (Spain) since its independence in 1968. This migratory movement is an example in which we can observe how postcolonial structural conditions linking sending and receiving countries and social networks affect current refugees and migrants’ dynamics as well as the development of postcolonial transnational relationships. Based on ethnographic research done with refugees and migrants from Equatorial Guinea settled in the Madrid metropolitan region, this article describes and analyzes how these factors affect their modes of incorporation and adaptation to this host metropolitan area while maintaining social and cultural relationships with their home societies

Frame-Based Phone Classification Using EMG Signals

This paper evaluates the impact of inter-speaker and inter-session variability on the development of a silent speech interface (SSI) based on electromyographic (EMG) signals from the facial muscles. The final goal of the SSI is to provide a communication tool for Spanish-speaking laryngectomees by generating audible speech from voiceless articulation. However, before moving on to such a complex task, a simpler phone classification task in different modalities regarding speaker and session dependency is performed for this study. These experiments consist of processing the recorded utterances into phone-labeled segments and predicting the phonetic labels using only features obtained from the EMG signals. We evaluate and compare the performance of each model considering the classification accuracy. Results show that the models are able to predict the phonetic label best when they are trained and tested using data from the same session. The accuracy drops drastically when the model is tested with data from a different session, although it improves when more data are added to the training data. Similarly, when the same model is tested on a session from a different speaker, the accuracy decreases. This suggests that using larger amounts of data could help to reduce the impact of inter-session variability, but more research is required to understand if this approach would suffice to account for inter-speaker variability as well.This research was funded by Agencia Estatal de Investigación grant number ref.PID2019-108040RB-C21/AEI/10.13039/50110001103

Towards next generation coordination infrastructures

Coordination infrastructures play a central role in the engineering of multiagent systems. Since the advent of agent technology, research on coordination infrastructures has produced a significant number of infrastructures with varying features. In this paper, we review the the state-of-the-art coordination infrastructures with the purpose of identifying open research challenges that next generation coordination infrastructures should address. Our analysis concludes that next generation coordination infrastructures must address a number of challenges: (i) to become socially aware, by facilitating human interaction within a MAS; (ii) to assist agents in their decision making by providing decision support that helps them reduce the scope of reasoning and facilitates the achievement of their goals; and (iii) to increase openness to support on-line, fully decentralised design and execution. Furthermore, we identify some promising approaches in the literature, together with the research issues worth investigating, to cope with such challenges

Desarrollo y elaboración de recursos didácticos on line para fomentar el autoaprendizaje interactivo y la autoevaluación en Química Farmacéutica con el apoyo del Campus Virtual

En este Proyecto de Innovación Docente se ha pretendido de manera general optimizar las alternativas ofrecidas en el Campus Virtual, mediante el diseño, elaboración y evaluación de actividades didáticas on-line que permitan que el Aula Virtual se convierta en un apoyo activo en el proceso enseñanza-aprendizaje en la asignatura de Química Farmacéutica II. Se ha llevado a cabo la elaboración de cuestionarios interactivos de autoevaluación que permitan al alumno conocer la adecuación de los conocimientos adquiridos, y al docente poder realizar un seguimiento rápido de cada alumno

Evaluación de la usabilidad de un sitio web educativo y de promoción de la salud en el contexto universitario

El objetivo del estudio fue la evaluación de la usabilidad del sitio web www.unidadsalud.es, dedicado a la promoción y formación en materia de salud, empleando una metodología mixta, con expertos y usuarios. Los resultados obtenidos muestran los errores detectados y su gravedad. Los resultados proporcionan mejoras que pueden ayudar a la implementación y mejora de la web para que sea un lugar de referencia en materia de salud, a través de la actividad física. Usability evaluation of an educational website and promotion of health in the university context Abstract The objective of this study was to evaluate the usability of www.unidadsalud.es website dedicated to the promotion and formation in health, using a mixed methodology, with experts and users. The results show the errors detected and its severity. The results provide improvements that can assist in the implementation and improvement, to be a landmark in health through physical activity

Current situation of the teacher training in outdoors activities by physical education teachers. A qualitative study with experts in Andalusia

El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar la situación actual de la formación en actividades en el medio natural según el profesorado de Educación Física. Los datos de la investigación procedieron de entrevistas semiestructuradas realizadas a nueve docentes expertos en la formación del profesorado. Los resultados del estudio indicaron que la formación es escasa e insuficiente, tanto en la formación inicial como en la permanente. Sin embargo, se apostó por incrementar su desarrollo y mejora con fórmulas y formatos como la educación al aire libre, con sus salidas y estancias en plena naturaleza. Éstas nos permitieron abordar los diferentes contenidos curriculares de manera más activa. El pilar de esta mejora se basó en el aprendizaje experiencial que hace que el alumnado y profesorado estén mucho más implicados en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje. La información ofrecida en este artículo puede ser de interés para establecer estrategias que favorezcan la mejora de la formación e investigación en el bloque de contenido actividades en el medio natural.The aim of this study was to analyze the current situation of training outdoor activities as Physical Education teachers. The research data came from semi-structured interviews with nine experts training teachers. The results of this study indicated that training is limited and insufficient. However, it was decided to increase its development with formats such as outdoor education, with their stays in nature. These allow us to address the different curricula more actively. The cornerstone of this improvement is based on experiential learning that makes the students and teachers are more involved in the teaching-learning process. The information provided in this article may be of interest to develop strategies that promote improved training and research the outdoor activities