Mito o realidad? Influencia de la ideologia en la percepcion social del acoso sexual = Myth or reality? Influence of ideology in the sexual harassment perception

El acoso sexual se ha convertido en un problema de gran importancia en la actualidad social, que sin embargo está invisibilizado. El objeto de este trabajo se centró en indagar posibles factores que influyen en la percepción social del acoso. En un primer estudio, 177 participantes leyeron un escenario de acoso sexual donde un jefe acosa a una trabajadora. Posteriormente contestaban las medidas de interés. En un segundo estudio 65 participantes leyeron un escenario, donde un profesor acosa sexualmente a una estudiante, y después contestaban las medidas de interés. Los principales resultados mostraron que los participantes que toleraban más el acoso, poseían más mitos hacia el acoso sexual y actitudes sexistas, atribuían una mayor culpabilidad a la víctima y percibían la conducta como menos acosadora. Estudios como este podrían ayudar a crear una mayor conciencia social acerca del acoso sexual, con el objetivo de poder detectar e intervenir sobre tales situaciones. Sexual harassment has become an issue of great social importance today. However, it is an invisible problem. This study aimed to investigate possible factors that influence the social perception on sexual harassment. In the first study, 177 participants read a sexual harassment scenario where a boss performs sexually harassing behavior towards a female worker. Then, participants answered the interest measures. In the second study, 65 participants read a harassment scenario where a teacher performs harassing behavior towards a student, and after that, participants answered the interest measures. Main results were that the more tolerance toward sexual harassment, myth acceptance and sexist attitudes had the participants, the more they attributed blame to the victim, and perceived the behavior as less harassing. Studies like this could help to create a bigger social conscience about sexual harassment, with the aim to detect and prevent this situation

Ni-Ga no soportado como catalizador para la hidrogenación de CO2 a presión atmosférica

Debido al continuo aumento de las emisiones de CO2 y su efecto negativo desde el punto de vista mediambiental y de salud, se debe proponer acciones encaminadas a su control. Es de interés la captura y conversión química obteniendo productos de valor añadido. Destaca la hidrogenación de CO2, a partir de H2 renovable con catalizadores que permitan la hidrogenación en condiciones suaves de operación; concretamente en esta contribución se muestran los resultados obtenidos con un catalizador Ni/Ga sintetizado y caracterizado en el grupo de investigación PROCAT del Departamento de Ingeniería Química de la UMA, analizando la capacidad hidrogenante en función de la velocidad espacial, relaciones de alimentación H2/CO2 y la Temperatura, obteniéndose conversiones en torno al 40% y selectividades a CO del 95%.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tec

Movimientos sociales y acceso a bienes y servicios. Propuesta de marco analítico a partir de un análisis comparado de casos: confrontación política de personas desocupadas (Argentina) y ocupación de vivienda (España)

This work is the result of collaboration between researchers from two Academic Units of Social Work located in Spain and Argentina. The overall objective is to explore the analytical frameworks and empirical objects of research projects linked to social movements developed in both countries. Specifically, two phenomena that lead to social mobilization, unemployment through the territorial expressions of the unemployed (Córdoba, Argentina) and housing through the occupation of buildings by people who are evicted (Seville, Spain) are compared. The work includes the description of the cases in each country, and the nuclear concepts of analysis, community social innovation in the Spanish case of occupation of housing and political confrontation in the case of Argentina. Finally, we discuss some conclusions that present the proposed dimensions for an analytical framework that responds to the relationship between social movements and access to assets and services.Este trabajo es fruto de la colaboración entre investigadoras de dos Unidades Académicas de Trabajo Social situadas en España y Argentina. El objetivo general es proponer un marco analítico que permita explicar el resultado de la acción de movimientos sociales en el acceso a bienes y servicios, concretamente a partir de la comparación dos fenómenos que provocan movilización social, el desempleo a través de las expresiones territoriales de las personas desocupadas (Córdoba, Argentina) y la vivienda a través de la ocupación de edificios por parte de personas desahuciadas (Sevilla, España). El trabajo incluye la descripción de los casos de cada país, y los conceptos nucleares de análisis, la innovación social comunitaria en el caso español de ocupación de vivienda y la confrontación política en el caso de Argentina. Finalmente se discuten unas conclusiones que presentan las dimensiones propuestas para un marco analítico que responda a la relación movimientos sociales y acceso a bienes y servicios. 

Design of a case management model for people with chronic disease (Heart Failure and COPD). Phase I: modeling and identification of the main components of the intervention through their actors: patients and professionals (DELTA-ICE-PRO Study

Background Chronic diseases account for nearly 60% of deaths around the world. The extent of this silent epidemic has not met determined responses in governments, policies or professionals in order to transform old Health Care Systems, configured for acute diseases. There is a large list of research about alternative models for people with chronic conditions, many of them with an advanced practice nurse as a key provider, as case management. But some methodological concerns raise, above all, the design of the intervention (intensity, frequency, components, etc). Methods/Design Objectives: General: To develop the first and second phases (theorization and modeling) for designing a multifaceted case-management intervention in people with chronic conditions (COPD and heart failure) and their caregivers. Specific aims: 1) To identify key events in people living with chronic disease and their relation with the Health Care System, from their point of view. 2) To know the coping mechanisms developed by patients and their caregivers along the story with the disease. 3) To know the information processing and its utilization in their interactions with health care providers. 4) To detect potential unmet needs and the ways deployed by patients and their caregivers to resolve them. 5) To obtain a description from patients and caregivers, about their itineraries along the Health Care System, in terms of continuity, accessibility and comprehensiveness of care. 6) To build up a list of promising case-management interventions in patients with Heart Failure and COPD with this information in order to frame it into theoretical models for its reproducibility and conceptualization. 7) To undergo this list to expert judgment to assess its feasibility and pertinence in the Andalusian Health Care. Design: Qualitative research with two phases: For the first five objectives, a qualitative technique with biographic stories will be developed and, for the remaining objectives, an expert consensus through Delphi technique, on the possible interventions yielded from the first phase. The study will be developed in the provinces of Almería, Málaga and Granada in the Southern Spain, from patients included in the Andalusian Health Care Service database with the diagnosis of COPD or Heart Failure, with the collaboration of case manager nurses and general practitioners for the assessment of their suitability to inclusion criteria. Patients and caregivers will be interviewed in their homes or their Health Centers, with their family or their case manager nurse as mediator. Discussion First of a series of studies intended to design a case-management service for people with heart failure and COPD, in the Andalusian Health Care System, where case management has been implemented since 2002. Accordingly with the steps of a theoretical model for complex interventions, in this study, theorization and intervention modeling phases will be developed.This research was carried out with the support of one research grant, awarded by the Regional Health Ministry of Andalusia (Exp. 0222/2008

Estudio DRIFTs-MS in situ de la oxidación de CO en condiciones subestequiométricas de oxígeno con un catalizador bimetálico Ni-Ce

El interés en la reducción de uno de los principales contaminantes atmosféricos como el monóxido de carbono hace que se hayan propuesto diversas técnicas para su eliminación. Actualmente, la oxidación catalítica a baja temperatura presenta gran interés, siendo los catalizadores soportados que contienen metales nobles, como Pt o Pd, los más estudiados. Los catalizadores bimetálicos Ni-Ce no soportados con alta área superficial han mostrado una importante población de vacantes de oxígeno, en comparación con sus equivalentes materiales soportados; mostrando un rendimiento considerable en la reacción de oxidación de CO, con prácticamente conversión completa por encima de los 460K. La actividad catalítica mejorada está relacionada con la presencia de la solución Ni-Ce-Ox que favorece las dos rutas involucradas en el mecanismo de oxidación de CO.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Combining methane clumped and bulk isotopes, temporal variations in molecular and isotopic composition, and hydrochemical and geological proxies to understand methane’s origin in the Ronda peridotite massifs (Spain)

In serpentinised peridotite and ultramafic rock systems, methane (CH4) origin is frequently considered abiotic, but variable microbial and thermogenic components can also exist. Typically, the origin of CH4 is studied using bulk, 13C/12C and 2H/H isotopic composition, molecular gas composition, occasionally radiocarbon (14C), microbiology and geological context. Recent advances in CH4-clumped isotope methods have yielded novel insights into the formation of CH4: nonetheless, their interpretation in natural gas samples is often uncertain and requires additional research. Here, we study the origin of the gas released in hyperalkaline (pH > 10) springs in the Ronda Peridotite Massifs (southern Spain), combining bulk and clumped CH4 isotopes with molecular gas composition, hydrochemical (Total Organic Carbon and Platinum Group Elements in water), geothermal and geo-structural data. Five springs analysed in 2014 have been re-examined for changes in gas chemistry over time, and three newly discovered gas-bearing springs are analysed for the first time. Regardless of whether springs have microbial or abiotic isotopic fingerprints, we find that bulk CH4 isotopes are fairly stable over a seven-year period. This suggests that the CH4 source(s) or postgenetic processes (such as oxidation and diffusion) have not undergone significant temporal changes. Major variations in H2 and CH4 concentrations in certain springs may be the result of changes in gas pressure and migration intensity. Paired CH4 clumped isotopes (Δ12CH2D2 - Δ13CH3D) were analysed in two bubbling springs, where the presence of CH4 can be interpreted as non-microbial based on 13C enrichment, absence of 14C, and the presence of ethane and propane. However, these isotopes are in disequilibrium, which prevents the quantification of the gas formation temperature. Within the Δ12CH2D2 - Δ13CH3D diagram, the data lie within both the microbialgenic zone, suggested by previous authors, and the abiotic zone that results combining data from laboratory gas synthesis and other natural gas samples. Therefore, attributing a microbial origin to CH4 based only on clumped isotopes is less definite than previously assumed. The amount of Total Organic Carbon appears to be correlated with the origin of CH4, as it is higher in 13Cdepleted CH4 samples and lower in 13C-enriched samples. Palladium (Pd) and Rhodium (Rh) dissolved in water (the more soluble Platinum Group Elements) can be a proxy for the chromitite ore deposits contained in plagioclase tectonite layers throughout the investigated area, which may act as catalysts for abiotic CO2 hydrogenation. Clumped isotope disequilibrium and the reported absence of diffuse CH4-bearing fluid inclusions in the peridotites appear to rule out high temperature gas genesis in post-magmatic inclusions. These observations, along with the moderate temperatures at the base of the peridotite massifs and the consistent occurrence of gasEuropean Regional Development Fund (FEDER)Junta de AndalucíaUniversidad de MálagaFunding charge open access: University of Malaga / CBU

Experiments on zebrafish using mini robot fish prototypes to identify stressors

This paper describes the behavioural tests carried out with real fish to study their behaviour and stress against the different prototypes of mini-robot fish with the aim of identifying stressors and reducing them when designing future robots for aquaculture.Peer Reviewe

Role of ACE2 genetic polymorphisms in susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 among highly exposed but non infected healthcare workers

We aim to evaluate the role of single-nucleotide polymorphisms of the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 in susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection. We included 28 uninfected but highly exposed healthcare workers and 39 hospitalized patients with COVID-19. Thirty-five SNPs were rationally selected. Two variants were associated with increased risk of being susceptible to SARS-CoV-2: the minor A allele in the rs2106806 variant (OR 3.75 [95% CI 1.23-11.43]) and the minor T allele in the rs6629110 variant (OR 3.39 [95% CI 1.09-10.56]). Evaluating the role of genetic variants in susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection could help identify more vulnerable individuals and suggest potential drug targets for COVID-19 patients.This work was supported by Instituto de Salud Carlos III: [grant number AC17/00019,COV20/00349,PI18/00154,PT17/0019]; Merck, Sharp & Dohme: [Ref IISP 59181].S

Clinical Learning Environment And Graduating Nursing Students’ Competence: A Multi‐Country Cross‐Sectional Study

The purpose of this study was to explore nursing students’ perceptions of their final clinical learning environment and its association with their self‐assessed competence, satisfaction with nursing education and turnover intentions at graduation in six European countries. A multi‐country comparative cross‐sectional study was conducted with nursing students (n = 1,746) from the Czech Republic, Finland, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain using the Nurse Competence Scale and the Clinical Learning Environment and Supervision scale. Nursing students’ overall perceptions of their final clinical learning environment and supervision were positive in all the countries studied. The correlation between the students’ perceptions of their final clinical learning environment and competence was statistically significant and positive. Satisfaction with the nursing programme and clinical practicum and no consideration of career change were related to positive perceptions of the final clinical learning environment. Highlighting the importance of the supervisory relationship and pedagogical atmosphere, nursing students’ positive perceptions of the final clinical learning environment and supervision contribute to a better level of self‐assessed competence and satisfaction with the nursing programme and clinical practicum, leading to lower turnover intentions.</p