Quidditch as a collaborative sport in the scope of physical education

Los Deportes Alternativos surgen como una opción novedosa a las prácticas motrices comunes. Son actividades motrices, lúdicas y recreativas cuyo fin es satisfacer las necesidades psicobiológicas, de entretenimiento, imaginación y socialización. Además, han sido incluidos en el currículo de Educación Física, con el objetivo de hacer que el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje en la iniciación deportiva escolar sea más lúdico e inclusivo. Por ello, el objetivo de este trabajo es realizar una búsqueda de documentos relacionados con el Quidditch, para así aumentar el conocimiento relacionado con este Deporte Alternativo. La búsqueda de evidencia científica se realizó utilizando la siguiente palabra clave: “Quidditch”. Para su inclusión, los documentos debían estar publicados hasta febrero de 2023, y estar disponibles en la Web of Science como una de las bases de datos más utilizadas. Fueron incluidos o excluidos en base a criterios específicos establecidos para seleccionar los manuscritos más adecuados. Después de un análisis en profundidad, el trabajo finalmente incluyó quince manuscritos. Los resultaron mostraron que el Quidditch es un deporte en plena expansión, capaz de promover valores y actitudes deportivas, sin embargo, se debe tener en cuenta qué debe realizarse de manera correcta para prevenir lesiones, evitando choques y golpes, manteniendo en todo momento situaciones de seguridad en la actividad a la vez que se mejora la condición física. Además, los documentos científicos sobre Quidditch relacionados con el ámbito educativo son escasos, así como los documentos descriptivos sobre las normas, equipamiento, faltas y acciones del juego. Por ello, se recomienda ampliar el campo de investigación de este deporte, así como animar a la comunidad educativa a su práctica y desarrollo en las aulas.Alternative Sports emerge as a unique option to common motor practices. Alternative Sports are motor, playful, and recreational activities whose purpose is to satisfy psychobiological, entertainment, imagination and socialization needs. In addition, they have been included in the physical education curriculum, with the aim of making the teaching-learning process in school more playful and inclusive. Therefore, the aim of this work is to carry out a search for documents related to Quidditch, to increase knowledge related to this Alternative Sport. The evidence search was conducted using the following keyword: “Quidditch”. For inclusion, documents had to be published up February 2023 and be available on the Web of Science as the most used database. They were included or excluded based on specific criteria established to select the most suitable manuscripts. After an in-depth analysis, the study finally included fifteen manuscripts. The results showed that Quidditch is a sport in full expansion, able to promote sports values and attitudes. However, it may be considered that it must be done correctly to prevent injuries, avoiding crashes and blows between participants, maintaining safety situations in the activity while improving physical condition. In addition, scientific documents on Quidditch related to the educational field are scarce, as well as descriptive documents on the rules, equipment, fouls, and actions of the game. Therefore, it is recommended to expand the field of investigation of this sport, as well as encourage the educational community to its practice and development in the classroom

Detection of desirable areas for urban growth through GIS and OWA: the case of Culiacan and Navolato

Debido al crecimiento acelerado de superficies artificiales, en las últimas dos décadas se ha observado un creciente interés en los cambios de uso de suelo, lo que hace necesario establecer modelos que generen planes de desarrollo óptimo y sustentable. De este modo, se busca identificar los espacios potencialmente más aptos para acoger el crecimiento urbano mediante simulaciones geoespaciales que integran a los Sistemas de Información Geográfica y OWA (Ordered Weighted Average). Para conseguirlo, se propone una metodología de análisis de sensibilidad a los resultados para comprobar su robustez a la variabilidad de los pesos de los factores de entrada, basada en clasificación por histogramas y distancias. Las propuestas de selección muestran un considerable porcentaje de acuerdo con al área programada

Classical operators on the Hörmander algebras

We study the integration operator, the differentiation operator and more general differential operators on radial Fr´echet or (LB) H¨ormander algebras of entire functions. We analyze when these operators are power bounded, hypercyclic and (uniformly) mean ergodic.This research was partially supported by MEC and FEDER Project MTM2010-15200. The research of M. J. Beltran was also supported by grant F.P.U. AP2008-00604 and Programa de Apoyo a la Investigacion y Desarrollo de la UPV PAID-06-12, and the research of J. Bonet and C. Fernandez, by GVA under Project PROMETEOII/2013/013.Beltrán Meneu, MJ.; Bonet Solves, JA.; Fernández, C. (2015). Classical operators on the Hörmander algebras. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A. 35(2):637-652. https://doi.org/10.3934/dcds.2015.35.637S63765235

Hypertension is related to the degradation of dietary frying oils

[Background]: The family kitchen resembles an uncontrolled laboratory experiment, and some discrepancies in the relation between the risk of hypertension and dietary fat may be partly due to the manipulation to which the fats were subjected. [Objective]: We investigated whether deterioration in the quality of the cooking oils in the family household contributes to the risk of high blood pressure. [Design]: The study was cross-sectional. Anthropometric measurements were obtained for 1226 persons aged 18–65 y who were selected randomly from the municipal census of Pizarra, Spain. An oral-glucose-tolerance test was given to 1020 of these persons. Samples of the cooking oil being used were taken from the kitchens of a random subset of 538 persons. The concentrations of polar compounds and polymers were used as markers of the deterioration of the oils. The strength of association between variables was measured by calculating the odds ratio from logistic models. [Results]: Hypertension was strongly associated with obesity and was influenced by sex, diabetes, and age. The presence of excess polar compounds in the cooking oil and the use of sunflower oil were related to the risk of hypertension, whereas the concentration of monounsaturated fatty acids in the serum phospholipids was negatively related to this risk. These associations remained after inclusion in the models of age, sex, obesity, and the presence of carbohydrate metabolism disorder. [Conclusions]: The risk of hypertension is positively and independently associated with the intake of cooking oil polar compounds and inversely related to blood concentrations of monounsaturated fatty acids

Revista del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

Alimentación del meloncillo Herpestes ichneumon y de la gineta Genetta genetta en la Reserva Biológica de Doñana, S.O. de la Península Ibérica.Determinación de la edad en Rana perezi Seoane, 1885. Aplicación al análisis del crecimiento somático de poblaciones.Influencias ambientales en la variación del tamaño, forma y peso de los huevos de la collalba rubia (Oenanthe hispanica L.)Características de un coro de sapos corredores (Bufo calamita) en el sureste de España.Estrategias alimentarias del ciervo (Cervus elaphus L.) en Montes de ToledoDistribución de los quirópteros de la provincia de Orense (Noroeste de España).Ecología trófica del lince ibérico en Doñana durante un periodo secoDesarrollo larvario de la rana común (Rana perezi) (anura: ranidae) en charcas temporales del noroeste de la Península Ibérica.Régimen alimenticio del mirlo común (Turdus merula) en el sureste de la Península Ibérica durante el periodo otoño-invierno.Reproducción del gorrión molinero (Passer montanus) en las Islas Canarias.Relación entre la cobertura vegetal y la distribución de nidos en las colonias de pagaza piconegraPeer reviewe

A genome-wide association study follow-up suggests a possible role for PPARG in systemic sclerosis susceptibility

Introduction: A recent genome-wide association study (GWAS) comprising a French cohort of systemic sclerosis (SSc) reported several non-HLA single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) showing a nominal association in the discovery phase. We aimed to identify previously overlooked susceptibility variants by using a follow-up strategy.<p></p> Methods: Sixty-six non-HLA SNPs showing a P value <10-4 in the discovery phase of the French SSc GWAS were analyzed in the first step of this study, performing a meta-analysis that combined data from the two published SSc GWASs. A total of 2,921 SSc patients and 6,963 healthy controls were included in this first phase. Two SNPs, PPARG rs310746 and CHRNA9 rs6832151, were selected for genotyping in the replication cohort (1,068 SSc patients and 6,762 healthy controls) based on the results of the first step. Genotyping was performed by using TaqMan SNP genotyping assays. Results: We observed nominal associations for both PPARG rs310746 (PMH = 1.90 × 10-6, OR, 1.28) and CHRNA9 rs6832151 (PMH = 4.30 × 10-6, OR, 1.17) genetic variants with SSc in the first step of our study. In the replication phase, we observed a trend of association for PPARG rs310746 (P value = 0.066; OR, 1.17). The combined overall Mantel-Haenszel meta-analysis of all the cohorts included in the present study revealed that PPARG rs310746 remained associated with SSc with a nominal non-genome-wide significant P value (PMH = 5.00 × 10-7; OR, 1.25). No evidence of association was observed for CHRNA9 rs6832151 either in the replication phase or in the overall pooled analysis.<p></p> Conclusion: Our results suggest a role of PPARG gene in the development of SSc

En red-damos: Tejiendo experiencias de transformación educativa

28 páginasEste libro nace de las experiencias de docentes de diferentes niveles educativos, quienes realizan aportes a la comprensión y aplicación de diversos medios didácticos para el favorecimiento del aprendizaje en sus estudiantes. En este contexto, se busca que los principales lectores sean colegas docentes de latitudes y contextos variados, pero con similar entusiasmo por intervenir en su ejercicio pedagógico.Primera edició

Bovine Tuberculosis in Doñana Biosphere Reserve: The Role of Wild Ungulates as Disease Reservoirs in the Last Iberian Lynx Strongholds

Doñana National Park (DNP) in southern Spain is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve where commercial hunting and wildlife artificial feeding do not take place and traditional cattle husbandry still exists. Herein, we hypothesized that Mycobacterium bovis infection prevalence in wild ungulates will depend on host ecology and that variation in prevalence will reflect variation in the interaction between hosts and environmental risk factors. Cattle bTB reactor rates increased in DNP despite compulsory testing and culling of infected animals. In this study, 124 European wild boar, 95 red deer, and 97 fallow deer were sampled from April 2006 to April 2007 and analyzed for M. bovis infection. Modelling and GIS were used to identify risk factors and intra and inter-species relationships. Infection with M. bovis was confirmed in 65 (52.4%) wild boar, 26 (27.4%) red deer and 18 (18.5%) fallow deer. In the absence of cattle, wild boar M. bovis prevalence reached 92.3% in the northern third of DNP. Wild boar showed more than twice prevalence than that in deer (p<0.001). Modelling revealed that M. bovis prevalence decreased from North to South in wild boar (p<0.001) and red deer (p<0.01), whereas no spatial pattern was evidenced for fallow deer. Infection risk in wild boar was dependent on wild boar M. bovis prevalence in the buffer area containing interacting individuals (p<0.01). The prevalence recorded in this study is among the highest reported in wildlife. Remarkably, this high prevalence occurs in the absence of wildlife artificial feeding, suggesting that a feeding ban alone would have a limited effect on wildlife M. bovis prevalence. In DNP, M. bovis transmission may occur predominantly at the intra-species level due to ecological, behavioural and epidemiological factors. The results of this study allow inferring conclusions on epidemiological bTB risk factors in Mediterranean habitats that are not managed for hunting purposes. Our results support the need to consider wildlife species for the control of bTB in cattle and strongly suggest that bTB may affect animal welfare and conservation

Cross-disease Meta-analysis of Genome-wide Association Studies for Systemic Sclerosis and Rheumatoid Arthritis Reveals IRF4 as a New Common Susceptibility Locus

Objectives: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are autoimmune diseases that share clinical and immunological characteristics. To date, several shared SSc- RA loci have been identified independently. In this study, we aimed to systematically search for new common SSc-RA loci through an inter-disease meta-GWAS strategy. Methods: We performed a meta-analysis combining GWAS datasets of SSc and RA using a strategy that allowed identification of loci with both same-direction and opposingdirection allelic effects. The top single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were followed-up in independent SSc and RA case-control cohorts. This allowed us to increase the sample size to a total of 8,830 SSc patients, 16,870 RA patients and 43,393 controls. Results: The cross-disease meta-analysis of the GWAS datasets identified several loci with nominal association signals (P-value < 5 x 10-6), which also showed evidence of association in the disease-specific GWAS scan. These loci included several genomic regions not previously reported as shared loci, besides risk factors associated with both diseases in previous studies. The follow-up of the putatively new SSc-RA loci identified IRF4 as a shared risk factor for these two diseases (Pcombined = 3.29 x 10-12). In addition, the analysis of the biological relevance of the known SSc-RA shared loci pointed to the type I interferon and the interleukin 12 signaling pathways as the main common etiopathogenic factors. Conclusions: Our study has identified a novel shared locus, IRF4, for SSc and RA and highlighted the usefulness of cross-disease GWAS meta-analysis in the identification of common risk loci